Arielle Pearson's Story

(OOC: I might make guy character if no one else joins. But I'll wait a little bit)

Mary had been about to respond when a hand burst through a gap between the boards. Dropping the board and nails she began to beat it back with the hammer screaming, "This is a banhammer and I am using it upon you, therefor you are banned!" The zombie seemed fairly unimpressed with Mary's attempt at wielding administrative power and continued doing what it was doing. "Cheryl assist me!" Cheryl the shotgun sat impassively on the floor were she had left it. It did not assist her. "Oh, right, forgot." Releasing the hammer, Mary ran over to the weapon and jammed the end between the boards and fired twice. The hand retracted as its owner was propelled backwards.

I looked up into the sky. It had been such a beautiful morning, one that I would've enjoyed with my brother and parents, playing soccer or swimming laps up and down the pool, that's if...if they were...alive. But I tried to stay positive, I had no idea how this so-called "disease" was going to end, but I wanted to stay fierce so I could defeat those zombies once and for all. I smiled thinking of that family photograph in my bedroom, one where I was the center of attention, and my brother stood beside my left, my brothers friend, Tom and parents on my right. Oh, the good old days...
I was holding a spear in my strongest and capable hand, my left, and a dagger in my right. I had been trying to run away from my town and into a near-by one, maybe where some humans would be, ones from our kind. A bunch of zombies had started to form a group. They were strong and capable of destroying a single human. Although I had as much strength as them, they would probably spilt my bones in half. I raised my spear with force, located a target and finally threw my spear at one of the leaders. Her gruesome face fell straight onto the road, her brunette hair was blood-stained - not only from eating the humans but also from the spear wound.
I started running, the town was a few steps away, I bolted toward it. "Ahh!!" They gained on me and was about to tear my leg apart...I couldn't get them away from me. One made me trip. I knew it was the end. That's when I heard the call! Another human life-form! I finally got the urge of power to wrestle them off me and shoved the dagger straight into their heart.
I ran toward justice. I had no other way but to go through the door, there was no other entry. I had to remain calm. A bunch of zombies had already formed in the entrance. I threw a spear and hit one of them. "MARY!! HELP ME!!" I ran up the stairs...
"Shoot! Girl! Don't worry!" I called back to the girl, she was human! I threw a few of them aside on fell down the stairs colliding into the one behind it. This was a good time to run. I pushed past them, as each fell. I finally reached the door and shut it before any more had come inside. "Well...That was pleasant, wasn't it..." I smiled at the two girls inside the room.

Looking over to see her new ally in trouble, Mary did not hesitate. She dropped the now empty shotgun and picked up a chainsaw from a nearby display. Starting the thing without too much difficulty, which in of itself is somewhat astonishing, and began to slice at the zombie holding Arielle. Mary then turned just in time to see a boy dash through the mob and slam the door behind him. "Strange," she thought, "I could have sworn I locked that."

"Well...That was pleasant, wasn't it..." In response Mary shrugged, tossed the chainsaw aside, and extended a hand to the newcomer. "I suppose, though I was never one for 'defend the objective' games. The name's Mary, by the way."

Mary had no idea what Reece was laughing about, she had been completely serious. She didn't take offense, she just found it odd. To his questions however she had some sort of pseudo-answers. "Well these are clearly some sort of viral zombies, they're all here because they used to live here, though I suppose some of them could have wandered in from neighboring areas depending on how widespread the outbreak is. Speaking of people who used to live here, I think one of those one's at the door was my physics teacher..." Mary paused looking at the door before suddenly snapping back to the present. "He was kind of a jerk anyway. But more importantly the fact that we don't have it indicates one of these things are true: One; the virus is passed through exchange of bodily fluids, biting, scratching, that stuff. Two; We are immune. or Three, there are actually two strains of the virus, an airborne one that we're immune to, and a fluid one that we're not. Also, just a heads up, the government, if there still is one, will eventually get wise and probably firebomb the whole place, so if you guys had any quests you needed to accomplish while we're still here I suggest you make haste." After this rather long-winded speech, Mary sat back against the wall and awaited her companions' reactions.

"So, anyone got food. If we're staying in here, we need supplies, right? A torch would be perfect too. I can't see much in here..." Mary shrugged, she hadn't brought any food but she didn't know if Arielle did. Then her attention was drawn to the front door, which seemed to be on the verge of collapsing. "Crud! Girls, grab a weapon, they're breaking down the door! Get ready to fight some more zombie butt!" Mary pulled herself to her feet and ambled over towards the back of the store. "I'll be right back." she called over her shoulder. As she walked she scanned the shelves, she was now certain that this was a hardware store, looking for a weapon, the chainsaw was too heavy for her taste. No, no, no, needs to be plugged in, ooh look at you." This last comment was directed at a medium sized sledgehammer. Grabbing the sledgehammer of the shelf Mary ran back to the front of the store just in time to see several zombies pouring in through the front door and hear Reece yell "What now?!" With a bemused smile Mary commented "A protagonist's work is never done." before calling to the two. "There's an emergency exit in the back. It'll set off an alarm though so you might want to figure out were we're going before you open it."