Just an amateur writer barely posting their first few fictions.

When there is a limitless number of worlds, what could happen next? Well you probably figured it out with the chapter name but if you didn't, I'll tell you what's going to happen in the next few chapters. The undead, lots of undead. We won't be directly following Aurora I'll leave whatever is going to happen next to your imagination. We'll go to futuristic stuff later after this portion of the story.

"Dialogue"

*Thought*

Even if you don't like this chapter, comment and criticize please.

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         A half-Asian/half-Caucasian woman ran down the countryside road. She had short hair that barely past her neck. The pavement was filled with cracks and holes. A few cars were left on the road, stripped of all machinery and components. A forest lay on each side of the road.  The woman wore torn jeans, a discolored black and white jersey, a jacket over that jersey, and a pair of worn-out sneakers. On her back was a black backpack and she carried a 9 mm pistol in her right hand.

         It was dusk time, the horizon was colored crimson red. The woman was drenched in sweat and covered in dirt. Her jersey was splattered with blood. She got behind a car and sat down. Unzipping her backpack, she took out a canteen and drank a few sips of water. Not long after, she heard faint footsteps approaching her place. She placed her backpack and canteen to her left. Both of her hands were on her gun. The footsteps got louder and louder, making her heart beat faster. Taking no chance, she stood up with her pistol aimed. Her gun's barrel pointed right between the eyes of a Latino man.

         "Carlos?" she asked.

         "Lucy?"

         Her shoulders slumped as she sighed a breath of relief.

         Carlos was a brown-skinned man. He was older than Lucy, being about forty, and stood at the height of 5' 10". Lucy was three inches smaller. He had a thick, brown leather jacket, a long-sleeved brown shirt, a pair of brown boots, jeans that weren't as ripped like the ones Lucy had, and a leather belt. He had a blue backpack larger than the one Lucy had and a machete sheathed in his left hand.

         "You're lucky I didn't accidentally kill you right now", he spoke with a Spanish accent.

         "Well then, that makes us both lucky then."

         Lucy grimaced.

         "No one else with you?" she asked.

         "I'm afraid that we are the only one's that made it out of camp. I saw Bob, Jimmy, and Mary get eaten. Joseph was eaten while he was napping and Sally was mauled by ten of them."

         Lucy would be crying if this happened earlier in the outbreak but her eyes are cold and her heart is frozen. The grotesque sights of her parents and brother being eaten alive steeled her heart.

         "Let's get going, we shouldn't be out at night."

         "Alright señora."

         As they started walking, Lucy couldn't help but notice a crowd of limping figures appearing out of the forest and following behind them on the road.

         "Carlos, get in the car now!" she yelled silently.

        Carlos turned around before being forcefully pushed into a red car stripped of it's tires, engine, and wiring. The seats were taken out and the two were forced to lay down on the metal floor of the car. Carlos was on the bottom and Lucy was on top.

         "Shh. You aren't bleeding or anything right?"

         Carlos shook his head.

         Lucy had her mouth over Carlos's mouth as two figures were close to the car sniffing the air. No scent of blood reached their noses but they got closer to the car itself, peeking into the car itself. The glass panes were gone and nothing stopped the figures from ravaging the two right now except for the fact that the figures were blind.

         Lucy could see the jaw of the figure dislocated. This person was a man once. He was only in his underwear when he turned. Probably one of the first since most hair had fallen out, maggots infested one of his eye sockets, his skin was pale green, his tooth blackened with cavities, his gums rotten brown, and bones sticking out on his right arm.

         The other figure was one that Lucy can recognize.

         *Bob . . .*

         Bob was a nice but quiet man. He was very helpful in the group. He supported Lucy whenever he can. He was the person who kept giving hope to everyone, telling us that we will make it through. There was no leader in the group but Bob acted just like one.

         Now Bob had half his face torn off, his right eye was gone and fresh blood streamed down his body from his face. His brain was visible from his right eye socket. His nose was missing, half of his body was eaten, his intestines nearly fell out on the right side of his body and his rib cage was shown. He was infected, reanimated by the virus.

         The Reanimation Virus was what the government called it. It all started two years, Lucy was just a freshman in college. When the virus hit her city she had to sacrifice everything to survive. All her friends didn't make it, her family neither. The horrors she had seen in that city with the population of five million, she still gets haunted by those nightmares. In those nightmares, she could only see her friends and family tearing her apart. Ripping out her right arm, eating all the flesh off of her left leg, that wasn't the worse part. Her would be torn open, her intestines ripped out, chewed and eaten. Her stomach would follow at the end of her intestines. She can still recall the bloody pink color of her intestines. She could see her rib cage, the whites of her bones, being painfully broken off from her skeleton as blood squirted onto the faces of her half-eaten friends and family. She couldn't breath as her lungs were taken out, her heart was still pulsating as it was pulled out of her body. The horror you could see on her face as her brother drank the blood from her heart to only then proceed eating her heart bite by bite. The mouths of her deceased friends and family moved.

    "Why did you live while we died?" was what they said.

         Her nightmares only haunted her but now she can add the faces of Bob, Jimmy, Mary, Sally, and Joseph, her now recently deceased companions. She can already hear their wails.

         (A/N I guess I should probably put a mature tag.)

        Luckily, the two past on. Dozens of the same rotting corpses limped forward, perhaps a hundred or two. Lucy's heart paced itself as she remained still. Nearly two hours past by as the last of the limping figures was gone from sight.

         Lucy removed her hand from Carlos's mouth as he grinned.

         "I never expected you to be on top señora."

         "Shut up before I punch you."

         "Aye, I was just kidding. I'm getting old but I still can make these jokes can I?"

         He chuckled as Lucy got out of the car.

         "They're getting riled up, I wonder why?"

         The sky was dark and the car wasn't the best choice to rest in.

        "So know of a place where we can stay for the night?"

         "Well I do remember that there was a farm somewhere around here. There was a barn. It's in very good condition considering that two years have past when all this happened. That place should be safe when we clear it."

         Lucy nodded as she let Carlos take the lead.

         They moved down the countryside road, slowly following the horde that past them. Soon, the two moved onto a different road, a dirt road this time. After thirty minutes, they reached the end of the forest and into a field. The field was a plot of land used for agriculture, now only weeds, grass, and other vegetation grew on the field. Far in the distance was a farmhouse. It was charred, burnt down months ago. The barn was behind the farmhouse. It was dark. Fall was ending and winter was coming. Lucy can see her breath in the air.

Stolen novel; please report.

         "I left all of my warm cloths at the camp, damn it!" she exclaimed.

         Carlos took off his leather jacket and put it on Lucy.

         "Take my coat, I wouldn't be a man if I let a lady freeze would I?"

         Lucy thanked him as they neared farmhouse. Inside the farmhouse, the two could only find freshly killed zombie in the burnt down farmhouse. The freshly killed zombies had gaping holes on their bodies which were quite odd. The holes were cleanly cut.

         "Looks like someone was just here", Lucy can only explain.

         She took out her sidearm, checking the number of bullets left in her clip.

         "I only got five bullets left, you still got your gun?"

         "I ran out of bullets when I was fighting for my life, but I still got my handy machete!"

         Carlos unsheathed his machete as they went around the farmhouse. A spectacle met them.

         A neon blue light shone on the right side of the barn. Their eyes were so adjusted to the dark that they weren't able to see the figure well.

         "Aliens?" Carlos said half-jokingly.

         "Who's there?"

         Lucy yelled but the light moved around in its place before making it around the barn.

         "Wha- Follow it Carlos!"

         "I'm to old to be running around so much!"

         The two made their way around the barn to its entrance. The two saw the light enter the barn. The two followed but when they tried opening the doors, the doors didn't budge.

         "The person locked us out!"

         "It still could be an alien!"

         "You're too old, you're getting delusional."

         Carlos only laughed.

         *It must have been a glow stick or something*, was what Lucy thought.

         "So how do we get in?" Carlos asked.

         Lucy peeked into the gap and saw the blue light at the back of the barn.

         "The door is made of wood", she looked around and with a stroke of luck, she found an ax on a pile of hay, partially corroded from blood but still good enough.

         "Carlos, you're strong right? Break the door down with this ax", she said handing the ax over to him.

         "Treating the adults like this, I have to worry about how the world will turn out after this."

         She stood around as Carlos whacked the door repetitively. At the forest line that surrounded the farmland, Lucy couldn't help but swear she saw figures moving. They were a bit far away but they were closing in, a large number of figures.

         "Carlos, you still have your flashlight? If so, give it to me."

         "Alright", he set down the ax as she unzips his backpack, "It's running on my last batteries so don't use it for so long."

         "I just want to scan the tree line."

         "That's dangerous, you can attract the infected!"

         "I think that blue light already attracted that horde from earlier."

         The flashlight switched on. It was quite powerful and lit up the forest line. Lucy didn't like what she saw.

         "Oh dear . . ."

         The tree line was half a mile across and was a bit far from the barn, but the number of infected already reached a hundred and still rising.

         "Carlos, would you hurry up?!"

         Lucy held her gun up and turned off the flashlight to conserve its batteries.

         "Almost through!"

         On what was supposed to be the last swing, the ax cut through the wooden door but a loud clang reverberated on the swing. Carlos picked away at the wood to find the door had steel at the opposite end.

        "Lucy! The door has steel on the other end!"

         She couldn't help but grit her teeth angrily.

         *I shouldn't be surprised considering how this barn was in pristine condition.*

         "If the doors won't work than hit the wall beside it! The walls of the barn is still made of wood!"

         Carlos started swinging but time and time again, he hit steel. Lucy got out her knife from her backpack.

         For first reanimated corpse that got close, Lucy decided to use her knife first until things get hectic.

         Five of the infected closed in.

         "It was nice knowing you señora but there must be steel surrounding the inside of the barn."

         Lucy discharged one round into the head of another undead corpse while slowly stepping back.

         "Well at least go down fighting!"

         Carlos was just sitting down with his back on the right barn door. He was exhausted and looking just a bit pale.

         "How about we just knock?"

         "That will never work!!"

         She shot two more rounds. She decided to keep the last two for the last case scenario.

         "We can try!" Carlos said with a smile.

         Lucy scoffed at him and went to the left barn door. She made three swift knocks and decided to jokingly ask to enter.

         "Can you help us please? May we come in?" she said with her highest pitch voice in the most girly way possible.

         She believe there wouldn't be a reply but surprisingly there was.

         "Ah! So she isn't like Monster Woman!"

         "Huh?"

         (A/N You probably may or may not figured out who that was but I will say that I do not intend to have romance between the two unless something comes up and changes my mind.)

         The barn door swung open as a person stepped into the open. His right hand was raised with a gun glowing neon orange-red? And his left wrist had a watch or something around it glowing neon blue.

         Lucy stepped back several times in surprise before falling down. She looked up at the zombie ready to bite her head off before the person discharged his weapon firing a red laser of some sort completely disintegrating the head of the zombie, leaving a clean circle as the body fell down beside Lucy.

         "Eh?"

         The same continued for the next several shots. Zombies soon had gaping holes in their bodies and head as this laser cut a clean hold six inches in diameter on the part it lands on.

         "Tch! There's so many I think my weapon will run out of charge if I handle them one by one."

         His gun or whatever it was went from a orange-red color to a crimson red color.

         "Safety off?" the gun said? In a robotic voice.

         "Authorized", the person off.

         "That was just safety?" Lucy yelled as the person fired a continuous stream of a crimson red laser across the tree line, cutting all the trees in half and disintegrating the entire horde.

         Lucy stared silently as Carlos started laughing heartily.

         "Told you señora, you just have to knock!"

         The person walked to Lucy as she sat on the earth. He extended his hand to her and she slowly grabbed his hand. She still stayed silent and still on the earth, her mind only asking *Who is this guy?*

         The man smiled at her, making her heart warm.

         "Hello there, I'm Doctor Aurora Lumen."

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Damn! I said I wouldn't have romance between the two! Nope! It's just gratitude! Yep! She is only thankful! Ignore the part where Lucy's heart felt warm. On a totally unrelated note, crushes is not considered romance to me unless the other partner is romancing with the other person.