Chapter 2 - The Suburbs

With a small effort everyone is able to pitch in and move the car out of the way. You can now hop the curb in your own vehicles and pass around the fallen tree in the road.

After the car has been moved you hear the shatter of glass from the direction of the house The other two had gone to inspect. You see one form slumped on the porch outside the front window to the house. A second blood covered female is at the window and follows the same path as the first. She flips ass over tea kettle and lands on the porch as well. The first one is shakily trying to get to its feet.

As everyone piles back into the cars and takes off around the tree the zombies have risen and are shambling towards the cars. One glances off Andrew's car and leaves a red blood splotch on the hood.

As you are able to continue up the road you see far more chaos on this side of the tree. A few houses are engulfed in flames and there are cars coated in copious amounts of blood. Trails of blood streak away from the vehicles and often lead to what you can only assume at one point was a human being, the bloody mess that is left behind isn't very telling.

A few blocks over you see a man run out of a house, and a zombie shambles just behind him, looking back he doesn't even see the one in front of him as it wraps it's arms around him and bites down on his face. His screams trail off to a slight moan before going silent.

As it turns out Kel's home, that you are going to, is just down the street from Peter's destination. As you turn onto that block there is an eerie silence. Few lights are on in the area and from the outside Kel's house looks dark and dormant. Up the street Peter's girlfriends house has some of the internal lights on.

Distant screams, and intermittent gunfire, have become a droning background noise in these suburbs.

Kel approaches the house with whoever will follow and help him get his family. He gave a brief description of the layout of his house so everyone knew where to find things, and where to be careful. The general layout is like this:



As you move up into the entry area, getting ready to enter the house, the lights are all out upstairs. You don't immediately hear or see anything out of the ordinary.

Peering in through the windows everything looks calm and quiet. All the lights are out, but things look to be in order and undisturbed.

John, Howard, and Kel enter the dark house. Trying the light switch doesn't seem to do anything. The power seems out in the house here. The living room is all in order and the house is incredibly quiet. You can still hear the distant chaos of the other areas of the suburbs.

Jacob stands watch out front for anything unusual, but so far this entire street seems dark and desolate, except for the other house down the street where you still see lights on.

Annette gives Howard a long hug and takes the pistol, My father was actually a cop for 40 years, I can at least shoot this thing, she says as she drops the clip out of the pistol and checks the ammo. Just be safe, please.

As Kel reaches the stairs there seems to be no lights on downstairs either, but you hear something moving around down there. You can't tell what just yet.