The Dead World/Issue 107

''"hey Ricky!!" Annie practically screamed as she jumped on to his back while he chuckled and tried not to fall over by the extra weight now on his back before he turned and gave her a smile to match hers.''

''Annie had recently moved in because she was out of work but he didn't really mind. Although she had only been in his home two days and she had already got on his nerves with her questions on how to use stuff but that he could handle.''

"morning sis" he said to her making her smile even more before finally getting of his back to walk into their kitchen to make her breakfast while Ricky just returned to looking down at a bunch of mechanic parts he was meant to be fixing.

He currently had a job as a mechanic which he had recently got and because he was so determined not to get fired, he was always fiddling about with extra bits like the parts he was now just to keep his mind focused on what his job was.

However before either of them could start talking again there was frantic knocking on the door making them share a confused look before Annie went off to answer the door leaving Ricky to go back to his work until....

''"RICKY!!!" Annie screamed causing him to jolt up quicker than you could say a letter and rush to the front door where he currently saw Annie trying to push some crazy man off of her making him confused but he soon pushed his confusion aside and ran forward to her before kicking the crazy man off her.''

''"what the hells wrong with you man?!!" Ricky demanded as Annie ran off to call 911 but the man didn't respond and instead just began moving towards Ricky again making him shocked as he was sure he had kicked the man really hard but the way he was reacting it was like the kick had no affect on him....''

"police? please come quick we have a emergan-" Annie started but she was cut off when the phone when a load of gunshots were heard from the front and she turned to see Ricky diving to the floor as the man was repeatedly shot several times in the chest until he was finally shot through the head.

"oh....my....god" she said raising her hand to her mouth in shock while a couple of policeman came into the room and made double sure the man was dead before raising their guns at Annie and Ricky who both raised their hands in defense.

''"did either of you two get bitten?" the policeman asked making them confused but they decided not to question what the policeman meant and just shook their heads to show they hadn't been bit.''

"then I suggest you get yourselves to the local shopping mall with all the supplies you can carry, all the recently dead patients in the world have suddenly came back into crazy, murderous monsters" the police man told them while gesturing to the dead man on the floor which was currently been taken away from the house but both of them were just speechless.

''"what is it, what's causing all this?" Annie asked on instinct. She had been training to be a nurse so she had the habit of trying to solve things or needing to know everything but sadly the police man just shook his head.''

''"we have no idea what it is but we're working on it, just get to the shopping mall...." the police man told them one last time before he exited the house and continued going down the street with his friends leaving Annie and Ricky to look each other in shock.''

''"get your things, we'll take the car and head over there, ok?" Ricky asked Annie as if he was the older one out of the two of them but that's how it always was. Despite Annie being the eldest Ricky was always the more mature one. Thankfully she just nodded and rushed off to her room to do just that leaving Ricky to do the same.''

''A little while later, the two of them had packed their stuff into the cars and got into the front of it with Ricky at the driving seat. However before he started the engine Annie gripped his arm causing him to turn and look at her scared face.''

''"whatever this is you promise to not let me turn into one of them, yeah?" Annie asked looking him in the eyes hoping he would be able to keep this promise but he just sighed and gave her a simple nod before beginning to drive the car making her bite her lip.''

''She knew when he was like this he wouldn't promise anything and to be honest he was right to do so. Him being the more mature one he knew he couldn't be sure he would be able to protect her but she wasn't as mature as him, she had always been hoping for fantasies to come true and things like that.''

She just wished neither of them turned into one of these monsters....

Sitting in the room, still looking at Jamie who was starting to wake up slightly, Ricky bowed his head as he closed his eyes, a single tear escaping down his cheek due to him thinking about what was soon going to happen.

Thinking about never being able to see his sister Annie again....

Looking back down to the bite mark on his arm, Ricky felt himself getting sicker and sicker quickly which made him prey to whatever god there was to let them escape before he turned, for Jamie's sake.

Meanwhile said teen was now fully awake mostly as he grabbed his head, obviously having a big headache from being knocked out by that crazy doctor but soon he was ignoring this and began calling out for Ricky.

"ugh, R-R-Ricky?!!" Jamie asked nervously as he looked around through his blurry vision but soon enough his fears were pushed aside when he saw Ricky against the wall looking down but still alive and began moving over to Ricky's side.

"t-thank God, I t-thought you were g-gone then...." Jamie started but trailed off when he had reached Ricky and saw what Ricky was looking down at, a bite mark on his arm making Jamie take a couple of steps back before sliding down to the floor against the wall.

"o-oh g-g-god your BIT!!" Jamie exclaimed in shock and finally Ricky looked back up to Jamie trying to give a small sad smile but instead he began coughing and doubled over in pain as he felt like someone was putting the sun near him due to him heating up greatly.

"yeah....got bit when we were attacked by them zombies" Ricky told him but Jamie just simply nodded, now speechless causing Ricky to sigh as he looked back down to the floor, closing his eyes again as he tried to think of what to say, what was there to say?

"Jamie, I know its going to be hard but when I die.....your going to have to put me down" Ricky said softly and as calmly as he could although Jamie just stayed quiet making Ricky open his mouth to say something else but instead he just let out a lot of coughs and doubled over again, holding his chest as the heat rose through his body.

Sighing when his coughing stopped, Ricky leaned back against the wall and breathed hard as he knew his time was nearly up. He felt his body beginning to shut down and he could barely keep his eyes open causing him to eventually give up and let his eyes close although he was still alive....just.

"I k-k-know" Jamie finally said quietly and Ricky nodded giving a small sad smile before coughing a little bit more, some blood going down his chin before he wiped it away with his hand and settled into a comfortable position against the wall.

"just promise to look after Annie for me will you?" Ricky asked in a whisper that made his voice sound like he was barely able to speak which he was but Jamie failed to notice and just nodded nervously before speaking a couple of minutes later.

"I-I promise" Jamie stated but when he finally turned to look at Ricky he saw Ricky had his head bowed and his eyes were closed, as well as the fact Jamie could see by his chest not moving that Ricky wasn't breathing.

Showing Ricky had passed away....

Sitting in her RV, Annie looked down at the bible in her hands in thought before sighing and laying it back on the table. She was trying to pass the time by getting herself to believe in the hope of going to Charleston but it wasn't working. She just couldn't convince herself.

However as she got up she felt a shiver go through her which made her narrow her eyebrows in thought, confused as to what it was. For some reason she felt like something very important had been taken away from her but she couldn't figure out what it was.

Shrugging it off, she walked over to the little kitchen the RV had and opened one of the cup boards, getting out a bottle of water before she opened the cap and took a sip of it, coughing a little at the taste but she still drunk the liquid down.

Because they didn't have anywhere proper to hold their supplies any more the group's food and drinks were always tasting a little horrible when they were eaten/drank but the group had to live with it and were just thankful they had supplies in the first place.

"hey Annie can I ask you to look at Maria, she's tripped up and has a small cut on her finger" Emily said making Annie wince slightly at the thought of the young girl being hurt but she soon shrugged off this thought and put the bottle back in its place before turning to Emily.

"sure thing" Annie said warmly as she looked down to give the little girl a smile which Maria returned as she sat down on the sofa while Annie got out the med kit and began looking through it for a bandage.

"hey Annie" Maria said causing Annie herself to look up just as she found the bandage and give Maria another smile as she put the med kit away and walked over to where she was sitting on the sofa.

"yeah?" she asked curiously kneeling down in front of Maria as Annie lifted up the cut finger gently and tried to ignore Maria's little wince as Annie began wrapping the bandage around the finger.

"do you think Ricky would be able to build something for me?" Maria asked and Annie would've let out a small laugh to this question knowing she had previously told Maria that Ricky was a mechanic before all this.

However instead of laughing, Annie again felt a small shiver go through her which Emily noticed herself but Maria seemed oblivious to as she waited for Annie's answer. Although the woman was just getting more and more confused as to what she was feeling.

"why don't you ask him when he gets back" Annie finally answered and Maria nodded smiling brightly while Annie focused on putting the bandage on Maria's finger. Shrugging off the "shivers" as being cold.

Walking down the corridor with his hands above his head while Kate walked behind him, her machine gun pointed to his back and his crossbow strapped to her own back just in case he tried anything, Will had no idea where they were going.

"so Ricky and Jamie are still alive then?" Will asked breaking their silence, he just hoped to get her guard down but she didn't answer him. Instead she just nudged his back with her machine gun to tell him to keep moving, however through this Will was able to work out just how far the machine gun was away from his back.

"why did you capture us then, don't I get a right to know since your obviously going to kill us?" Will asked but this time Kate smirked as she shook her head and even though he was facing away from her he could tell she had something different in mind for them than death.

"no, I plan to use you as test subjects for making my cure, I obviously need to test it once I have made it so I need to have someone bit, that obviously isn't going to be me" Kate stated coldly while Will sighed cursing himself as he should've worked out that's what she had planned.

"and what about those dead doctors and nurses, you know the recent ones, I bet you shot them didn't you?" Will asked and this time she glared at him, letting her guard down as she got angry at him.

"yes I did because they were getting in my way, I should've killed them a long-" Kate started to shout but before she could finish Will suddenly turned around and grabbed the machine gun pointing it away from him as she fired it, making a load of noise and bullet holes in the walls.

However before he could do anything else, she hit him right in the neck making him choke as he grabbed it on instinct allowing her to regain control of her gun and kick him down to the floor before pointing said gun down at him.

"you know you aren't worth it, I have the other two anyway so I can just leave you here to DIE" Kate said coldly, smirking as she did because she noticed some of the zombies coming down the corridor, drawn by the noise.

"I'd wish you luck but....I don't really care" Kate spat, quickly thinking back to what leg he had grabbed when he was kicking the supply room door before she lifted up her own leg and brought it down hard onto Will's "bad leg" causing him to scream out in pain as he reached down and gripped it, feeling as if one of his bones had broken.

"I'll leave your crossbow and arrows here just to pay you back for putting my...."friend" down" Kate said in a cruel joking manner as she slipped his crossbow off her back and left it a few feet away from him before walking off, ignoring his yells of calling her a bitch as she turned the next corner.

Another pain in the backside out of her way.

Tears in his eyes, Jamie looked over to Ricky's body which was still leaning back against the wall as if Ricky was just resting but Jamie knew otherwise. Jamie knew Ricky had died and he also knew Ricky would soon come back as a zombie.

Shaking his head, Jamie tried to push these thoughts away as he got up and focused on what he had to do, he had to make sure Ricky didn't come back as one of them. He just had too because Ricky didn't deserve it.

Walking over to Ricky shakily, Jamie gave Ricky's leg a little nudge with his foot just to make sure Ricky was still dead and hadn't reanimated yet before he sighed and crouched down slightly as he gently laid Ricky down on the floor so Jamie could do the job.

However just as Jamie finished laying Ricky on the ground and was starting to get up, a Zombified Ricky suddenly shot up and grabbed Jamie's arm before trying to pull it down to its mouth while Jamie screamed and tried to get his arm away before he too got bit.

"g-g-get off!!" Jamie yelled as he used all the strength he had to pull his arm away while using one of his legs to kick at Ricky's head but due to the awkwardness in Jamie's position he couldn't get a good hit at Ricky's head.

Beginning to let some of his tears flow, Jamie completely lost it and in anger began kicking Ricky's dead arm and eventually caused it to snap and nearly brake off, allowing Jamie to free his own arm.

After this, Jamie continued to cry as he raised his leg and quickly as well as repeatedly brought it down on Ricky's head sending blood and guts all over the surrounding floor as well as on Jamie's shoe but he failed to notice as he continued to kick the head in as if it was a simple fruit.

Finally Jamie broke down in more tears as he backed away from Ricky's now completely dead body and fell against the walls, sobbing into his self hug as he tried to push out the thoughts of what just happened and tried not to look at the body.

Thinking, what had he just done?....

Speed walking down the corridor, Kate kept her gun at her side as she searched through her pockets with her free hand for her office key before finally reaching the door and leaning her machine gun down against the wall and pushed the key into the lock.

Once she had unlocked the door she entered the office, accidently leaving her gun behind in the corridor as she began practically shoving things off her desk as she looked for certain things, picking up her clip board and the few medicines she hadn't got already before smiling to herself.

She was finally going to make the cure she thought to herself as she made double sure she had picked up everything before shoving her hands into her pockets to make sure nothing feel out while walking out of the room and was about to head down the corridor towards where Jamie and Ricky were being held but found herself face to face with Will who was pointing his crossbow at her, her gun near his feet.

"well....this is a surprise" Kate commented as she raised her hands giving him a fake smile as if to ask for his mercy although inside she knew he wouldn't kill her. He was a "good guy" and she had been able to see that as soon as she saw him on the cameras.

"where's the room your holding my friends?!!" Will demanded, his face emotionless as he glared fully at her which made her kind of thankful that looks couldn't kill, other wise she would be dead five times over.

"down that way and its the third door on the left" Kate honestly said and with his answer, Will didn't give her enough time to do or say anything else as he fired his crossbow, sending an arrow straight into her chest making a shocked Kate grab where her heart was before she fell to the ground.

Smiling that she was now dead, Will strapped his crossbow to his back and picked up the machine gun she had left on the floor before firing it at the ceiling, already drawing a few zombies to the scene who had quickly spotted "food" laying on the floor dead.

"enjoy your meal" Will told them coldly as he threw the machine gun to the floor and began walking down the corridor leaving his former arrow buried in the dead Kate's chest which would soon be devoured by the zombies who had heard the "dinner bell".

However as he got closer and closer to the door Kate had told him was the right one, Will began hearing crying which he recognized as Jamie's causing Will to become panicked as he practically speed walked the remaining distance to the door before beginning to pick lock the door using his last remaining arrow.

After finally getting it open, Jamie opened it and found Jamie leaning against the wall crying causing Will to look further around the room and soon found Ricky's body on the floor with no head remaining.

"holy shit" Will exclaimed quietly as he walked into the room crouching down in front of Ricky's body but soon had to turn his head and try not to be sick at the sight. He had got used to this by now but when you found one of your friends with literally no head left you tend to nearly be sick.

"h-h-he got b-bit and I had to k-kick his h-head in to k-k-kill him" Jamie said shakily as he hugged himself further, rocking himself gently while Will just sighed and closed his eyes, bowing his head respectively for a few moments until he finally he turned and looked at Jamie.

"lets go kid" Will said softly patting his shoulder and Jamie quickly nodded, wiping his tears away as he allowed Will to help him up before the two began walking out of the hospital, heading towards the nearest exit.

The events of today beginning to go through their head over and over as they tried to take it in but never mind how much they tried they couldn't forget all the events that had happened. They didn't even know how they would be able to break the news of Ricky's death to Annie....