“Thought you hated taco?”

“This dog? Ohh no I love this dog, Yes my boy taco!”

Terrance petted his dog then stood up and walked to the font window.

Looking around the area, seeing the reservation in total chaos.

Every house was affected by the outbreak.

Other than houses being on fire, people were being ripped apart in the roads.

Gunshots rang out across the reservation. People were fighting the undead.

“Okay i'm going to grab some nails and boards from outside and board up the front and back doors the down stairs doors will also have to be boarded up but we will eventually get around to it.” Terrance said, closing the blanket that covered the window.

“I will help.” Shane said, standing up from the couch.

“You were already in before you could volunteer, anyone else?”

Molly and Retia walked to the kitchen to find candles. While Debbie sat on the couch. And shook her head no.

“Looks like it's just me and you again.” Terrance looked at Shane and they walked to the front door.

“ Last time you were straight blacked out and no one wanted to back your ass up I watched you get surrounded, I had to help.” Shane laughed and patted Terrance on the back while he was putting on his shoes.

“Yeah we sure got our asses handed to us that night. Let's try not to get killed.” Terrance opened the door, then began walking outside.

In Stealthy manner they couched and moved as fast as they could trying to stay as small as they could so as to not be noticed by anyone or anything.

Terrance and Shane walked behind the house where a small shack was filled with the supplies.

They opened the front plywood doors.

The Shack was stacked with odd supplies, more less junk that accumulated over time. From old electronics to old motor parts, home repair items and tools, old quad.

Terrance started going through the black tool box. pulling out nails and then three hammers.

“Right over there Shane in the back to the right hand side there should be some boards, load up as much as you can, then I will help load more.”

Shane got to work and Terrance helped him once he couldn't fit anymore on himself.

“Damn only a few more boards, maybe a few logs for the fire?”

“Sure but honestly, That should be enough for now. Tomorrow we will figure out what to truly do.” “Alright.”

Terrance and Shane walked back to the house’s back door and walked inside.

“Just keep on the shoes, we're going to be hammering and using nails so you might wanna keep them on.”

“Sounds good.” Shane continued to put the boards down. And took some of the fire wood to the fireplace.

Terrance picked the best boards for the front door and began hammering them on the door.

The one side of the board slipped and Molly caught it.

“Thanks.” Terrance said to Molly and continued hammering in the nails.

Retia stood leaning on the wall. “So how are we going to get outside?”

“ Well, the way I see it, if one or two people go out they can take the back of the house windows that haven't been covered up yet or we just pull the boards down and get the fuck out of here.”

“Right.” Retia slams another shot. And turns and walks back to the couch to sit next to Debbie who was watching the black screen on the tv screen.

“Anything good on.”

“Well I was just thinking about where my mother and father are. They were out in town, oh I hope they are ok and safe at home now.” Debbie put her face into her hands.

“I wonder what's the status of the town and how they are reacting to all this.” Retia looked at Debbie who was sitting in a Black hoodie and sweatpants.

Scared and panicked.

“Look, your parents are smart. I'm sure they are ok by the way, didn't your dad serve in the war?”

“Yeah he was Sgt. till the helicopter crash that sent him home.”

“See your dad survived that.” Debbie looked up at Retia. “ Thanks and sorry about saying I was gonna stab you like your bf did.”

“Dont worry about it, I Stabbed him back anyway.” Retia took another drink and watched Terrance, Molly and Shane carry boards and tools to the back door.

The house was lit by candle light and the fireplace.

Retia lit a smoke and pulled the ashtray closer. “Can I get one off you?” Debbie asked.

“Here.” “thanks.” “don’t mention it, I thought you didn't smoke.”

“I used to, this is the first one in years.” “ and back in the truck?” “oh i waas just doing that to be a bitch.”

They both laughed.

“Well the doors are shut.” Terrance walked back to the living room. Molly and her brother Shane walked in With a truck battery and 500 watt power inverter.

“What's the device and battery for?”

“Well we had picked this up a while ago for the power outages that have been happening recently. These keep the tv and wifi on.”

They hooked up the devices and turned on the tv and wifi. It didn't connect

“Well the TV has no wifi signal.” “ I will have to look for the DVD Player if we're going to watch anything.” Molly mentioned.

“Well shit, so what, we're just going to sit in Darkness and candle light?” Retia looked at them.

“Well it's better we stay inside till tomorrow, in the daylight we will look around. ” Terrance looked in a closet.

“One thing we could do is arm ourselves with weapons other than the one pistol Retia has and the one shotgun and ax I have.”

“Kitchen knives can I?” Shane asked and looked at his older sister.

“Yea there in the big cupboard.”

Shane walked into the kitchen. Which was cleaner than the rest of the house.

Shane noticed a bag of weed on the counter and rolled a joint. Then stuck it in his pocket.

Opening the big Cupboard he picked out a meat cleaver and a Large kitchen knife.

Terrance walked into the kitchen, grabbed his bag of weed and papers then walked back out to the living room with Shane.

Terrance grabbed a seat next to Retia and Molly and started to roll his joints.

Shane and Debbie sat on the second couch.

“Fuck yeah some good weed.” Retia said as she smelled the bag of weed.

“Yeah some B.C pink kush.”

“Nice you still smoke Molly?”

“No.” “ Last time I Smoked was a Year ago.”

Terrance got up and opened the closet and found a Radio which he plugged in and listened to the alert update. Terrance returned to his seat and sparked up a joint.

“Reports of massive geo storms are sweeping the Globe with the recent event of the Moon leaving our solar system.”

“Holy shit!” Retia said aloud smoke leaving her mouth. “So it's true!” Molly opened mouth and the words came out. “ The moon is gone.”

“New reports that the military has been mobilized to aid in the efforts of saving the general public, Rescue stations and forts have been set up and put in place for all of the general public, here is a list of the nearby rescue stations. Brooks, Frozen Lake, Rocky mountain, Strainwright.”

The announcer was cut off by Shane, “Rocky mountain is a Like a five hour drive”

“Ssshhhhhh!” “If you cannot make it to these stations please remain inside and stay away from the infected. The military will try to save the rest of the public once we start to control the situation.”

“Are we gonna go? WE Should GO!” Shane said.

“ No we're not going anywhere tonight we're staying put.” Terrance puffed his joint and shut off the broad cast when it started to repeat itself.

“Why did you shut it off?” “We heard it already, we know what we know, for now let's just worry about here and how are all you doing anything I should know?”

“Ummm..” “What's it Retia?” “What are we gonna do for the washroom if the power’s out?”

“Right, and you're in luck. I do have a Generator in the shack. I will go get it and start it up.”

“You wanna come along?” “naw you got it.”

Terrance smirked and shook his head. And loaded his shot gun then slung the shotgun around his back.

“I will come along.” Shane got up and walked to the stairs following Terrance to the back door and Terrance opened a smaller window and they climbed out.

They walked along the deck and quietly walked to the shack. “Holy fuck look!” Shane whispered.Terrance looked where Shane was pointing and seen A huge horde of zombies breaking windows and surrounding his cousin's house.

“Ohh Fuck!” Terrance watched as they broke down the door and entered, shots rang out from inside the house. “ NOooo.” Terrance grabbed Shanes sweater “ There's too many.”

Shane stopped resisting. “ Cousin Warren would have come running to our aid plus you got a gun.”

Terrance looked at Shane. “ Alright, we gotta do something.”

Terrance opened the shack and grabbed some boards and twisted some old cloth round the tops of two boards. Then Terrance picked up his metal red gas can and poured gas on the tops. He closed the can and picked up an emergency flare and stuffed it into his pocket. “Now let's get on the quad.” They walked over to an old Honda quad and started it up with a pull cord.

The quad started up beautifully for an old quad.Terrance got on and put the gas can on the front of the quad.

Shane sat on the back bars and Terrance drove both carrying a board.

Terrance stopped at the drive way. “Alright, let's light them up.” They both lit up the boards.

Terrance drove the quad towards his cousin Warren's house. shots were still being fired from inside. “ The size of a small pow wow.” “ what?” “the size of the crowd, of the undead.”

“Right.” The wind wasn't helping the situation. Terrance pulled up the quad and the crowd noticed the torches they threw at the undead. Terrance threw down the gas can in front of them and tossed the activated flare beside the can and drove off. Just far enough away to watch the shambling crowd walk toward them. Terrance started to shoot his Shotgun. The

Shots Pummeled the Undead the slugs chopping some undead to the point of crawling. Then he loaded his shotgun again. And passed it to Shane. “Shoot the can once were far enough.” The undead all walked towards them.

Terrance started up the quad and drove it while Shane aimed the Shotgun at the Gas can and Flare and once the Line of Undead reached it He shot. The explosion killed many undead.but started a fire that blew across the Field. Engulfing the undead Crowd.

Terrance drove towards the community hall. “Where are we going?”

“We can’t bring the dead back with us, we gotta slip them up.” “ Got it.”

They drove down the dirt roads kicking up dust behind them. Till finally they came to the crowd of buildings.

Terrance stopped at the hall. “It looks like…. No one is here. I wonder?” “wonder what?” “if there is any supplies inside.” They hooked up the hondas old winch.

“Alright here goes nothing.” Terrance geared into reverse and pinned the throttle. The old quad sped off. Then the winch broke off the quad.

The quad came to a halt. “Fuck sake well there goes that idea.”

Then the door opened. “ Terrance, Shane what the fuck are you both doing?”

“We were trying to get in.” “Did you try opening the door?”

“Well smiley we.” “It doesn't matter, both of you get in here. shit’s crazy out there.”

Terrance looked at Shane and they both walked in.

The hall was packed with people.

Smiley walked ahead of them. The hall had tables and chairs. People filled all the chairs and tables.

“This isn't good.” Terrance whispered to Shane. “ I Know it's bad we came here.”

“Smiley, we gotta go.” “ Nonsense, I need your help as the community safeguard.”

“Well that's the thing.”

Then loud banging on all the walls started to happen. Around the building.

“What did you do?”

“We were tryna get away, we thought no one was here.”

“ How many are out there?” “ many.. Well there are quite a few.”

“ A number!”

“Like 900 undead.” “MY GOD.” Smiley looked at the main door. And started to run back to it.

Terrance and Shane followed. Smiley got to the door and placed a wooden board on the door.

He tried to hold it back but the force of the undead overwhelmed the metal doors and busted them down and caught Smiley under the doors.

“Ahhhhh, Shane screamed, then passed the shotgun back to Terrance and ran back into the hall.” Terrance aimed the shotgun then shot one of the undead eating Smiley and followed after Shane.

The Undead Flooded in shambling towards the survivors and the people screamed and frantically tried to escape. Toppling over tables, people threw chairs into the undead. Shots rang out and smoke filled the air.

But like a tidal wave the undead pushed through the crowd of survivors and started to attack. Biting into the closest person.

Those that fought for their lives tried to escape. Terrance and Shane fought their way to the back of the hall’s second entrance. Terrance used the butt end of the gun and pummeled an undead attacking a woman. Shane stabbed an Undead attacking an old man. Those that weren’t hurt or being attacked started Piling out the back entrance people ran in every direction.

Terrance and Shane got out and shut the doors behind them. No shots, no more screams came from inside, but the hall was full of the undead and the otherside of the building was swarmed.

People ran for the dirt road and booked it for the townsite; some ran into the Trees.

Terrance and Shane ran as fast as they could run.

Then came to a halt to breathe. “Remember when we had to pick your drunk ass up from this road?”

“Yeah, yeah, I do, I pissed myself.” “hahahaha.” “Yeah, laugh it up.” Shane said to terrance.

“Look, Warren's house looks alright.” Then Terrance turned Shanes head to see the reservation on fire. “ This fire is our doing.” “What are we gonna do now?” Shane looked at Terrance.

“One thing to do, Run to the fire hall and run the Truck unit, Save the reservation.”

Terrance continued down the road. In a light jog.

Shane followed. Then drops of rain started to fall from the sky.

“Well, there comes the rain.” “yeah.” Try to stay dry.”

The fire hall was still a five minute jog. Shane and Terrance continued down the reservation dirt road.

From the trees a voice called out in the night. Hidden in the bush a woman stepped out.

“Terrance, Shane! Where are you going?”

“To the fire hall, we need to put some of these fires out. We're going to use the truck.”

“No, don't go that way, They're all dead, it's a horde of them in the thousands.”

“Really the fire hall. thousands of undead?”

“Put your hands up!” Terrance put his hands up and looked at the five guys that came out the bushes with sks rifles and shotguns.

“Hello guys.” Terrrance said. “Shut the fuck up!” “Wait, Axel, aren't we gonna work together?” Shane asked the group.

“Fuck no were taking all your shit then were going. Give us the shotgun.”

Terrance handed them the shotgun. “ Knife too.” Shane handed him the knife.

“There you go my girls, you're free to leave next time it's your asses.” Axel said then slapped Terrance in the ass. Terrance shook his head. And walked away the group laughed at them. “ Hope to see you again Terrance.” Axel yelled to them.

Terrance and Shane continued down the road. “Fucken convicts, we will have to find new weapons at the station.”

“But there are thousands of undead.” “Dude dont believe that crack head.They just wanted to rob us for fucksake.”

“Sorry.” “No, it's just that shotgun was a gift from my dad.”

Terrance and Shane continued down the dirt road to the hall. “ Ohh fuck.” “no way..” “ The Crack whore wasn't lying.” Thousands of undead were in the distance coming from the City road. “What do you think?” “ It was that gas station explosion.” Terrance scanned the hall.

The fire hall was clear. “Let's get moving.” Terrance and Shane ran to the entrance of the hall.

Once inside they Grabbed fire axes and the keys to one of the fire units.Terrance started up the fire truck and Shane opened the fire hall door. “Hey, where are you two going?”

“Franklin is that you?” Terrance called out.

“Yeah it's me, I thought they fired your ass over a failed drug test.” “Well i'm back on duty the reservation is on fire. And you got a massive horde of the undead coming your way.”

The old man Franklin looked out the hall's bay door. “Well son of a gun. You're right.”

“Tell you what, come along with us Franklin. Help us run the Engine.”

“Yeah sure let's go.” Franklin opened the passenger side door and got in.

“Where’s your dad nowadays Terrance?” “ last I heard they are barricaded in their house.”

“I’m sure the old man still has his good aim, man he was a good hunter in our time, he was able to smack a deer across the field iron sight.” Terrance started the fire engine. And drove out the Front hall door down the dirt road to the town site.

Pulling up they stopped at the house that was about to be caught in the flames.the people came running to the fire engine when it pulled up. “ Alright old man, get in the back and show that newbie how it's done!” Terrance pulled a radio for the speaker phone from the interior roof.

“ People back up were here to fight the fire!” Terrance called out on the speaker phone.

Shane and the old man used the water cannon and blasted the flames stopping the fire.

“Return to your homes. The Undead are coming, you must hide and stay quiet.

The fire engine drove away while people cried and held up arms in the air in disapproval.

There were still houses to be saved. They pulled up to the three houses on fire they were in a row. The old man blasted the fire with the water cannon, saving the three houses.

People came from the woods and cheered the fire crew on as they drove away from the house’s that were now saved from the fire. .

Terrance and Shane pulled the truck back up to his house. Parking it right in front of his front door blocking the entrance. They climbed out and used the back door porch window to get old man Franklin inside. Shane followed in and Terrance looked back at the Shack. Then turned and Climbed in after Shane.

Terrance followed Shane and Franklin back to the living room. Where Retia is Passed out on the couch. Molly is drunk and Debbie is gone.

“Where’s Debbie?” “She Left?” the drunk Molly replied. “Where?” Shane questioned Frantically.

“ She went to her home looking for her mom and dad.”

“Fuck!” Shane Cried out. “ Fuck, Fuck, Fuck……. FUCK!”

“ Settle down Shane, we can’t stay here anyway we will go find her or drop you off with her!” Terrance looked at Molly. “Go where there is no where to go.” Molly replied.

“The Place with the Biggest doors.” “the court house?” Shane answered. “ No, the Band office.” Terrance replied.

“But first.” Terrance then sat down on the couch next to Taco and the passed out Retia. Terrance began to roll a joint, Then Terrance sparked it up. Taking a huge puff.

End of Chapter 002 Field of the Dead written by Travis Willier copyright 2022