ZERO HOUR

Chapter 3

Few minutes before

the crash.

My head hurts.

I felt my cheeks pressed against a cold, dusty surface, " What the hell?!" I squinted my eyes and flung from the floor. "Why am I in a classroom?"

Seeing Barb unconscious on the floor brought me back to my senses, I remembered falling asleep after the earthquake.

"Barb, get up!"

I kept nudging him untill he woke up and sat with his eyes still closed, "Mom, five more minutes."

I slapped his shoulder in annoyance, "You're not in your house, dummy."

He stood up in a jolt, eyes widened.

"Dude?! What happened?"

"I don't know either, I just woke up."

We're not alone in the room, there were 10 more students in slumber. Barb was brought to his right mind and walked to the door. Wondering, I stood up and followed him as I brushed the dust off my uniform.

"Aaahhh!!!"

"Stay away from me!!"

"s**t!!"

"Help!!"

We stopped upon hearing the screams from outside, "I think there's trouble out there."

Barb seemed petrified upon gawking in the window, "Dude what's going on?" I shoved him aside to see what made him startled,

"What the f**k?!" I exclaimed,

Everything is in chaos, the blood gushing from dead bodies pooled in the concrete, there were piles of cars that clashed and people were scrambling from left to right. Some weird looking students were walking ponderously, they were in groups and were somewhat chasing after those screaming students.

They seemed to be attacking them, one girl was caught up with those weird students and they all gathered to her direction. It's hard to see what happened to her.

Don't tell me-

"f**k! Are they killing each other?!" Barb screamed,

I took the mop and removed it's head, leaving the pole for self defense. "Something's wrong with those people."

He nodded and took the baseball bat on the table, " Is it possible? T-That they were,"-He shivered by the thought-, " no, they're not zombies... no way..."

Strange things has been happening, we can't neglect the possibility.

"What if they are?" I said, " We should be ready, I should've known those movies can come in handy."

"Gideon," he called,

I was trying to turn my phone on but it won't though it was fully charged the last time I checked. "Hmm?"

"Hey, what's happening to Frank?"

I turn to see what Barb meant, Frank was one of our classmates who also went to hide in this classroom and was unconcious a while ago.

Barb was hysterical, "Oh no, this doesn't look good."

Frank was convulsing violently on the floor, his face turned purplish as he spurted white foam, his iris turned white, "Don't f*****g tell me he's turning into some crap."

We slowly walked towards the door, without making a sound. "Let's get the hell out of here before everyone else become like him."

Just like what I predicted, everyone else started convulsing like him, they crawled untill they were able to stand up and launched themselves to us.

"f**k it, run!" I pushed Barb out of the door, "Lend me your bat."

Frank was the first one to attack but I smacked his head with the bat, "What the?! H-How did I-"

I was able to crush his skull in one hit, his brain scattered and blood squirted from his severed head. The guy fell on the ground, dead!

"I didn't mean to be that harsh!"

"Gideon! Let's go!"

We ran through the corridor without looking back, I'm sure the remaining guys were after us.

Barb and I halted and gasped for breath, we almost reached the exit of the builing. In a distance was a figure before the glass door, desperately waving at us. "Here, faster! Come with me" We quickly followed the student outside, "to the bus!"

There were few tudents mounting the bus in a haste, "Fast! Before those zombies reach us!" those zombies approaching from the hallway aren't far.

We hopped to the moving bus but the student was left outside, "f**k! The zombies are here!"

"Close the damn door!"

"Let's go! Step on the gas!"

The zombies arrived before he could get to the bus, he tried to fight them but he's outnumbered. "s**t! Let's help him!"

Someone suddenly hauled me in with the bus door closing. "Let's get out of here!"

"Are you nuts ?! What about that guy?!" I exclaimed,

"It's his fault for being slow!" Jiselle shot back,

Barb stood up from the car's floor and grabbed me to sit on one of the bus seats, but I remained firm. "We could've saved him!"

Jiselle averted my gaze and crossed her arms, she sat like no one just died if front of her

"What's the use? He's dead now for sure!"

I just stared at her, dumbfounded.

How could I fall for such an evil woman?