Kate seemed to want the kids and I seemed to not want them! Kate could offer them a better life and I would be on the road. Kate insisted and the kids took to her better than to me…

I left them in their fortress called an old gun shop. Kate had food and weapons to hold off an army, especially an army of Zombies…

Besides I really knew that a Grim Reaper of the Zombies had no business dealing with kids. It was just nice for a few days though…

I left as the kids slept and Kate locked the door behind me. I could feel her looking out the barred window as I walked away. I never looked back…

I was on my way to a Doctor building that seemed to house some men in military uniforms. If trouble does not find me then I will look for trouble…

Stryker

As if in answer to what next? We come across a woman named Kate! Kate is all you could ask for in a mother type woman and how she survived all this time I do not understand. I have suspicion that she is a gift from god or something. For I see no way that she survived, being as sweet and wonderful as she is with everyone…

Then I got to see he in action and I am here to tell you, she can kick some Zombie ass! Sorry for doubting her…

She is like two different people in one. One is a sweet lovable huggy woman. Two is a ninja fighting machine of the utmost skill… 🙂

So here is her story about the beginning of the Zombie World. Oh and her eyes are green also…

Hi my name is Kate and I have been asked to tell you what I was doing the day that Zombies took over…

I was in a park enjoying life as the Zombie virus hit. I had recently lost my whole family, two kids and a husband in a car wreck. I was in the hospital having my tonsils out and for an older person that is hell. Well my hell turned into something worse and while my family was on their way to see me they were hit by a drunk driver and all were killed. The drunk driver survived though. (Oh I found him after the Zombie Virus and put a bullet between his eyes! I will not tell you if he was a Zombie or not?)

I got up early and was enjoying the sunrise. It was a beautiful day but as I relished the sun falling on my face and I actually had a good thought or two instead of wishing to die like my family was…

I heard a shuffling sound, like someone dragging their foot through wet grass…

I turned around and looked behind me as I sat on the park bench and what did I see? But a damn Zombie with one eye hanging out of its socket, one arm missing and a leg that was dragging behind it as it came to get a meal…

I looked at its good eye and it started to moan and with that twenty others came out from behind the trees and bushes and they all started to moan…

Something told me that this was no joke and I got up from the bench. I have a carry permit for little bubba as I call it. It is a 5 shot 32 magnum H&R. I said head shot Kate and I walked calmly out of the park and went back to my car where the rest of my ammo was kept. I head shot 5 Zombies as I left. When I got to the car, I reloaded and by the time the box of ammo was empty, I had dead Zombies all over the place. I looked across the street and saw a gun shop and I took a stroll to see if it was open. I had two shells left…

The door was open and inside was two Zombie’s eating a human, or what was left of a human. I told them to keep eating and I would be with them in a second. I liked my little H&R and 32 magnum is a sweet round so I decided to keep that gun. I reloaded the gun and saw that the shop had 20 boxes of shells for the little gun and I put them all in a canvas bag. I looked over the counter and saw that the Zombies where happily eating and I grabbed a 12 gauge riot gun with a sling, that held 8 rounds of 3 inch magnums and took 12 boxes of oo buckshot shells.  Tried out the shotgun in the two munching Zombies and satisfied with the results, I left the gun shop. I closed the door and left it unlocked as someone else may need to get in…

I felt like I had a purpose in life again and staying alive was that purpose. So I built myself a secure hideout in the gun shop near my home, because the neighborhood was familiar to me. I have had to shoot almost as many humans as Zombies, because humans get all weird in the head. It seems that mainly psychos survived…

Now I met you guys and I know why I was picked to survive. These two precious kids need a mom and that is a better job for me than being alone. Now I have someone worth living for again. The kids Emma and Clyde are about my children’s age, or the age they would have been…

No – I am done crying and am cried out! Now I have two kids again and I am damn if anyone or anything is going to take them from me now…

Kate

I watched the two children sleep that night and as I do not sleep, at least in the sense that you need sleep, I kept an eye out for Zombies and idiots that are worse than Zombies…

They ate a huge amount of food before bed time, but as food is not an issue in this world. Stores are still full of canned goods and they seem to last forever. The Zombie Virus hit so fast that 99% of the population was Zombiefied within a few hours. Food for billions left for a hundred thousand? The wild animals have flourished as they do not become Zombies and a normal Zombie can not catch them. So lots of good rabbits to eat…

I had been thinking back to the time before the Zombies and the world the way it is. I had to really do some figuring as I have not wandered for awhile what year it was…

3014 AD is the year and I was born in the year, 1959 AD! I lived through the original Zombie War of 2012 AD and then the Zombie God War of 2019! Then the earth went through a period of time with out any humans, until the gods replanted the seed in 2076. I was allowed back to my home planet in 2088 and have been here ever sense. I watched the world repopulate a a tremendous pace and things were good until the resurrection by Black Witches of a man named Zighile Comstock in the year, 3001. Zighile was the reason for the original Zombie War of 2012 and the reason that Zombies were so plentiful on earth…

With his uprising, the Zombies came back to a world that had forgotten all about these Zombies. We had finally healed after the centuries of death and destruction in the past. Then my job became prevalent again and I was called into action to help the world against the greatest virus that ever has hit the Universe. The Zombie Virus…

I know walk the earth and am looking for Zighile and his entourage as I walk this earth, I collect stories as a hobby of what happened to people, the day that the Zombie Virus came back…

The virus is a little different this time, but there is no weakness in it except the fact that Zombies act really weird when it rains. The Zombies outside in the rain, stop and stare open mouthed at the sky as if they are in a trance. As you read when Emma told her story, her parents were found doing just that staring at the sky. Zombies inside a building do not care if it is raining…

So I am 1055 years old and looks like another thousand years for me at this pace. In the Zombie God War of 2019, I was recruited so to say and became a Grim Reaper! I really had very little choice in the matter and to save my existence in this Universe, I had to take the powers of a Reaper on and make them my own. I was the first human to ever become a Reaper and it has been a huge undertaking to get acceptance in the Reaper world and Universe. After a about a thousand years they kinda like me now and they accept me. It does not hurt that I am the most powerful Reaper in existence and that kinda keeps everyone away from me…

I had sidekicks at one time and I have outlived them all. It gets lonely at times living forever. For a Grim never dies, well except the one I killed and that was the first Grim to have ever died. The rest of the Reaper’s do not talk about that one time. It kinda makes them nervous…

So I sat and look at the kids and wonder now that I am a daddy, what do I do?

We then meet Kate and her story is next…

Stryker

PS: Maybe I will tell more later about my thousand years on earth and what I have seen! Maybe…

Emma and Clyde were from a Mormon family in the past. Their parents were Zombies and they were found by a group of wandering scum humans that took them encase they became useful as barter or bait. Well it seems that the bait was their allotment in life and that is when I came along…

Here is their story as told by Emma, for Clyde does not talk anymore…

We woke very early on our farm as we always do. It was raining and I knew that even though it was early it was still later than when we usually get up. You see we had chores to do and you never miss chores…

I woke Clyde and we got dressed and went down from the hey loft that we slept in to see what was up with mom and dad…

We stepped out side the barn loft and found mom and dad looking at the sky as it rained. They just stood there with their heads back and water was running out of their open mouths as their mouth was filled up…

I went and shock them and they did not respond or move. They just stared at the sky…

I took Clyde who was crying and we went into the house. We stared out the windows of the kitchen and watched them. It rained all day and as night came it still rained. I could see my parents breathing and the water was what they breathed. It looked like the devil had taken over our parents and it dawned on me that I would have to do something as I am the oldest…

I got dads double barrel shotgun down from the place over the fireplace. I knew where he kept the shells and I loaded the gun and sat in the hallway waiting. I knew that they, who ever they are my parents, would come inside sooner or later and I had to be ready if what they are is what I think they are…

My thoughts slid to the tales that we told each other, me and the other kids I knew. The stories of Zombies and devils…

I was deep in thought when Clyde who was hanging on to my leg as I sat, squealed…

In the door way was dad and mom just behind him. The rain had stopped and they woke up. Dad kept breathing out and water would flush from his lungs as he walked right toward Clyde and I. I tried to speak, but was frozen at the sight of my dads eyes…

They were white as an old persons eyes that sits on the street corner and begs for money because he is blind…

Dad moaned and then I heard and saw mom, she matched dad and she moaned as she smelled the air. They both smelled the air like something good was for dinner…

I knew how to fire a shotgun and was taught well by my dad. My dad also said if the devil ever takes anyone by the hand, then you must remove the devil by any means possible…

I looked at dad and said, “Sorry Dad!” Kaboom dads head came off at the shoulders. I knew that Zombies and devils only died if you shot them in the head…

Mom did not stop and I cocked the trigger on the second barrel and as she shuffled closer and closer I said, “Sorry Mom!” Kaboom and mom was laying on the ground next to dad and they were both as dead as a horse fly in poison…

Clyde never talked again after that, a few days later these guys came by the house and took us. They said that either we be good or they would feed us to the Zombies. I heard them talking about how we might be good for barter, trade and or bait for Zombies and such. We stayed quiet as they were a lot bigger and they did feed us some food and that was good…

Now you found us and we are going to stay with you!

Emma

I walked into the valley and entered into the Big City! The city was quiet for a huge city and it seemed that they understood that something new had arrived. Something different had arrived…

I walked the streets and could feel the eyes of humans and Zombies following me as I walked. Then everything woke at the same time. A little boy and girl ran across the street in from of me and with that, a thousand Zombies poured into the streets to get a taste of fresh meat…

The fresh meat (boy and girl) were trapped by a mass of Zombies and I knew that I better do something about this situation, or we will have two less humans on earth. I was disappointed in what I saw. I saw humans hiding and not coming out to help…

In fact I saw humans running and realized that they threw these kids out as bait so that they could get away. Adults using children as bait…

Then I got mad and when I get mad, life is worthless to me. I decided to save these kids and then I would torturer the scum that used them as bait…

I cracked my neck as I twisted it around a few times and popped my knuckles. Then took my sword instead of my gun and as the sword came unsheathed, I heard the song it sang as it knew blood was coming and souls were to be taken…

The Zombies in front of me never knew what hit them! I slaughtered Zombies and let the sword drink of their blood as I fought to reach the kids and protect them. When I reached the kids they latched onto my legs and I proceeded to let my sword get drunk on Zombie blood. When all the Zombies lay on the ground as shriveled up husks of dried Zombie meat. My sword was happy and I put it away…

I looked at the kids and said, “My name is Stryker! What is you name?” They looked at me and just stared, then the girl said, “My name is Emma and my brother is Clyde! Are you a good guy?”

I thought about her question and in response I said, “I use to be the bad guy, but now I am the good guy!”

That seemed to satisfy her and she took my hand and her brothers hand and said, “We go with you!” I smiled…

So next the story of Emma and Clyde…

Stryker

I came upon the big city and I sit here contemplating the last few days of travel. It bothered me that Benny had to meet his maker in the way he did. His demise was not from a Zombie, it was from a group of humans who are worse than Zombies…

It seems that Zombies are better than some humans after all. For a human that kills for no reason is true scum…

I see signs of life all along the roofs of the buildings in the big city. I see all the signs of death in the streets of the big city, I watch the struggle for dominance happening in the big city. I was right there was many more humans alive in the big city…

I have my thoughts on that and I really think that small towns fared poorly because everyone is trusting. In a big city everyone is aloof from each other. Trust is not high on the list in a big city. So it looks like the people who run from a first sign of issues fared the best in this world…

Even though it has been almost two months since the start of the Zombie Virus. I could hear gunshots like firecrackers pops in the distance as humans struggled to end the madness that was constantly threatening their survival…

I guess it is time to tell you a little bit about me…

You all know I am Stryker. You also know that I am a Grim Reaper of the Zombies. You know that fun loving guy who collects souls with a passion from all people that die on our earth. Well I am a soul collector of the Zombies. I specifically collect Zombie souls that have been tainted with Zombie death. These souls must be kept separate from other souls and that is my job. Now in the case like a few days ago that I removed human souls from really bad humans! Those souls are tossed into the bag with the Zombie souls and believe you me, that is torment that makes hell seem like a Disney Land…

Other words you do not want me collecting your soul unless you are a Zombie. For you see I collect Zombie souls to help the Zombie out, my place for Zombie souls is better than living in a Zombie body on earth, but that does not hold true for a human soul…

I can feel the the Zombies in the city and there are millions of them. The human souls number in the 10,000+ but that is dwindling daily and unless I interfere, there will be not but a few humans left in less than a year…

But I am the only Reaper of the millions and millions that wander the Universe, who cared to take the job of collecting Zombie souls. The rest are collecting human souls and stay away from this earth. Yes Reapers can get the Zombie virus, it is not easy but it happens and then you have a very bad Grim Reaper. That can change the flow of the Universe…

I know all this for I use to be just a human and as time went by and the world changed into the worse case scenario. I fell into powers that exceeded what a human can endure. To recover from this situation, I had a proposition given to me and I was offered a Grim Reaper job…

Oh by the way! Yes I have a Grim Reaper Sword in place of the Grim Reaper Scythe. It was given to me when I was still almost human…

Hmm, guess it is time to wander into the big city and stir a little water, to see what comes up from the bottom…

Stryker

I was walking along a country road and came upon Benny. Benny was laying by the side of the road and was in the beginning stages of turning to a Zombie. It looked like he had a bout 20 minutes before he was to become a full fledged Zombie…

I gave him some water and I sat with him and listened to him talk…

Benny said:

I was just walking along this road and a black pickup truck pulled up. They smiled and all seemed cool. Then someone hit me over the head from behind. I woke as they were injecting me with something. They laughed and said, “There that will teach you to try to walk in out territory! Now you can walk as a Zombie!” Then they broke my leg and drove off. Benny said that they just left…

I looked around as Benny talked to me and tried to see if anyone was still around. I saw something that looked like a tailgate on a pickup truck and it was black and it was way down the road in the trees…

I kept an eye out for them and listened as Benny continued…

Benny gave me his name and told me about how he had to kill his family as they all turned to Zombies. He said that he felt that he would meet them now and he wanted to me to finish him before he was a Zombie…

I promised him that in a few minutes I would finish him and after that I would find the guys and finish them, but I would make it painful for them what they did to him…

Benny started to sweat and shake. I knew he was in the final stages of the virus. It is a very fast virus and you have no doubt if you are infected or not within minutes after getting it…

It was almost dark and started to rain. As the lightning flashed and the thunder crashed, I shot Benny between the eyes as he thanked me. I made sure that my gun fired as a huge thunder sounded. I wanted the guys to not know I was coming…

Oh yes for your information! I have really good eyesight and I can see twice as far at least as a normal human. So this truck was a long ways off and I walked for a little bit before I came upon it. I stepped into the woods as the rain fell and the thunder crashed again and again. The lightning would light up the woods and all became clear as daylight. Then it would flash off…

During one of those flashes I saw a man taking a pee in the woods. I followed him back to there tent. I watched him step over trip wires and such. Then I made my way into the camp. It was a fairly permanent camp and after I had looked inside the truck and saw needles and a vile of blood, I knew I had the right guys…

I walked the perimeter and checked out was anyone else around and after being satisfied that all were in the tent. I went to make a visit…

Like I said, I am really just a Grimm Reaper for Zombies, but in this case I made an exception. What they did was wrong and they were worse than a Zombie…

I carry a little treat for cases like this. The cases of course that piss me off. I pulled the pin on a grenade and tossed the grenade into the tent. I counted to myself as I walked away and stepped behind a huge tree. I said 3 and then a huge Kaboom…

I stepped out from behind the tree as the rain decided to stop. One last lightning flash gave me all that I needed to know. The grenade worked very well…

I tossed another grenade into the truck as I left and that finished off that den of crap! I don’t drive, I just walk! For walking is safer than driving…

Now it is time to get to the big city…

Stryker

PS: Rest in peace Benny…

As I said Dawn, liked the wussy Rodger! I don’t blame her because everywhere I go I kill everything that is a Zombie. I left Rodger and her, standing within the fence he built and poring alcohol on themselves. They also drank a mite to much and I figured that before long they would pickle themselves to death… 🙂

They deserved each other as they both think that Zombies need to be coddled and cuddled. They watched in horror as I left town, down the main street that they could see down to the end and I shot Zombies until I had to reload 5 times. Then it started to rain and I stayed another hour and head shot Zombies all over the small town. I broke into a gun store. (God Bless America with her gun stores everywhere!) Then I reloaded my ammo supply with several thousand 9mm hollow points. Then I waved goodbye again as they were still staring in horror at me. Then I shot Zombies all the way out of town. As a parting gift, I shot his ex girlfriend in her wedding dress…

It takes all types and those two will not survive much longer…

My next stop is a huge city and there I bet I find more than just a few left alive. In fact I am hoping to find someone that understands what happened and why this happened…

Good to be back alone again. I was signing that song, “On the Road again!”

Stryker

Before Rodgers story: Dawn it seems did not appreciate my cold hearted approach to killing Zombies. I think the turning point for her was when we came upon a orphanage and all the kids were Zombies. I cleaned it out and we went on our way. Dawn exploded at how I could be so cruel and unforgiving to even Zombie babies…

I figured that all that is happening in the world just became my fault and I can handle that. The fact is that the Zombie Virus does not care who you are and babies are no exception…

So when we met Rodger, a mild mannered only kill Zombies if you have to and run away, kinda guy. I knew that Dawn would be a lot happier with him…

So here is his story,,,

Hi! My name is Rodger,

And I have been asked to tell you what I was doing when the world turned Zombie…

I remember the morning that it all started and I woke in a ditch by the side of the road. I had been drinking with my buddies and we really tied one on. I remember that I woke with a bottle of vodka laying on my stomach. It would slosh a little bit out every time I breathed. I was soaked in vodka to say the least. We had been celebrating my upcoming wedding…

I laid there for a few minutes and tried to get my bearings. Oh my head hurt and the fact that I did not want to move and the fact that I was covered in vodka fumes, saved my life…

I was looking up out of the ditch, when I saw a whole parade of people shuffling by me. They were not really walking and they looked like they had been in a battle and lost. There was eyes hanging out of sockets and arms missing and what ever…

I was sure that I had drank too much and that my mind was blown from the alcohol. I laid there as this gruesome sight of people passed by. They never looked at me once, but I saw them sniffing the air as they walked continually. They passed by and my hangover had left me real quick. I then peeked over the edge of the ditch as silently as I could and watched the group go down the street…

Then I saw a woman running across the street in front of them and they started to moan and groan and shuffle after her. They got her pinned against a building and the next thing that I knew. They ripped her in pieces as they consumed her like a delicacy. They just were not very delicate bout how they ripped her apart alive. She screamed for two minutes and it looked like she did not shut up until they ate her head. OMG…

I heard a noise and I fell into the ditch real fast and laid still. I opened my eyes just a peek and I had a person looking at me and sniffing. He was smelling me. I was soaked in vodka and he moaned a noise like I stunk or something and shuffled away. I then realized that I had to get going and at the same time I realized that this was a Zombie Attack…

I grabbed the vodka bottle that had been laying on me and I spotted another bottle full a little farther away. Then I saw my friend who was with me last night. Or I should say, I saw his arm and I recognized the ring on his finger. The rest of him was just some very clean picked bones. I will never forget the skull and it looked like they had licked even the blood off the skull. It was almost white in color. In the hand that was left it held his bottle of whiskey that he was drinking…

I quickly poured the remainder of the bottle of vodka that had been on my stomach, over my head. It was cold! But I needed to make sure that I stunk like something a Zombie does not like…

I took the second bottle and got up to run. I started for my home and I then realized that my girlfriend was at home and I wondered if she is okay…

I ran down the street and then a bunch of Zombies saw me. So I ran to the side of the road and hid in a trash can. I poured more vodka on me and waited. The Zombies came to the trash can and after they smelled the vodka they lost interest in what they wanted. The vodka worked…

I then ran to my house. I opened the door and standing there was my girlfriend and she had on her wedding dress, but she was not in the mood to get married. She was hungry and started to come after me. Then she stopped and smelled the air. I poured a little more vodka on my head and she moan and grimaced. She shuffled past me and left the house. I was just glad I did not have to kill her. I am not sure that I could…

Well I liked my house so much that I built a tall reenforced fence around my house and stocked up on a ton of food. I found no one else alive yet and I try to kill Zombies as a last resort. They were all human at one time…

I guess that is it…

Rodger

I went about my way after I killed a few thousand Zombies in Dawn’s town. She really had no heart to kill could not bring herself to kill all the people she knew. She was all alone and wanted to have company and I told her that she could follow along until she found someone she wanted to stay with…

I realized that I was just too much of a cold blooded killer for her and that everything died around me eventually. I haven’t told you much about me, but I am like the Grimm Reaper for Zombies. That is good enough info about me for now…

So we wandered on to another town and I could tell that Dawn was very glad to meet Rodger. He was just a normal Zombie killing guy and well, I killed them for fun and well it was my job, You see?

Next time lets have Rodgers story…

Stryker