Beside The Dying Fire/Issue 1

Beside The Dying Fire
This Is Issue 1 of Beside The Dying Fire

Issue 1
"Well kids we learned that the world has changed and that people aren't playing by the same rules as before"- David Sohti

My Name is Ken Myers. I used to go to Stone mountain High school. My parents died and my sister is my legal guardian. My older Brother left to college last year. When i left for school one friday little did i know my life was going to change forever.

"so how's your girl doing ken" Ben asked." I wish i knew she has been acting wierd all day I keep asking her whats wrong but she won't tell me" I said. We entered David Sohti's class. He is my favorite teacher because he lets us do whatever we want in class.The kids that were present were Kyle Hatch, Philip Held, Joey Longarm, Tom Buroni, and Felix Cald." Ken sit down your late" Said Sohti." sorry sir my sister lost her licencse and i had to drive her to her work" I replied. At that moment the p.a. turned on and   the principal said an announcment " Children and Teachers this is not a drill, we have a code red emergency, several crazy people are trying to break into the school, everyone hide under your desk's and teachers lock up the rooms, remember this is not a AHHHHH". Mr. Sohti told us to get under our desks. Ben asked me if I heard the principal scream or if that was his imagitation. At that moment Sohti grabbed the remote and turned the T.V. he turned to the news and the next words shocked us to the bone "People of america i have some horrific news, there is a disease that is growing rampent that might explain the recent missing people, A plague has broke out that makes the dead reanimate and most of the victims are covering the streets we advise everyone to stay indoors, may God protect you america". When he finished talking Sohti went to the room in the back of the class opened it and came out with a couple of bats and a pistol. He loaded up the pistol and handed each of us a bat. He jokingly said " thank goodness i coach baseball". He told us that we were going to get to the top of the roof and wait for help.

He opened the door and led us to the stairs. One of the security guards turned around and his flesh was very pale and he had a wound on his neck. Sohti shot him in the heart and jumped up when the guard got up and attacked him. He got the guard off of himself and shot the guard in the head. He opened the stairs and what i saw shocked me, one of the infected things was on top of my girlfriend and she was trying to get him off. Without thinking I slammed the bat into the back of the things head and kept hitting. After the things head was busted in two i helped my girlfriend up and asked her if she was okay. She nodded yes and we walked up the stairs with the rest of the class and when we reached the roof we were all schocked. A security guard was shooting at a bunch of infected people on the ground. When he heard us he turned around and pointed the gun at us. "Put down your damn bats and you Sohti give me your fucking gun then go back down the stairs and bring me all the cafeteria food, then you will all leave and get out of this school" the guard said. We all put our bats down and Sohti slowly walked towards the guard. The next couple of seconds were surprising. Sohti pistolwhipped the guard and slammed him into a pipe then the guard grabbed his knife and stabbed sohti in the leg. Then he grazed Sohti's arm with a bullet, then Sohti pulled the knife out of his leg stabbed the guard in the chest and pushed him off the bridge. He then asked Ben to get him some supplies from the nurse's station And me and my girlfriend to get some food from the cafeteria. While we were walking to the cafeteria I asked Karen what was wrong, she told me that her family fell prey to the infected things. I hugged her and said that I'm her new family and that if we stayed together neither of us would fall prey to the things. After the three of us returned with the supplies Ben said that he was going to go to his house to see if his family would be safe. Sohti warned him that would be dangerous. Ben then said that his families saftey comes before his and left."Well kids we learned that the world has changed and that people aren't playing by the same rules as before" Sohti said. We then stared at the sun set and wondered if help would ever come.