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Post by wingzero7x on Dec 29, 2010 16:35:27 GMT -5
Just putting a story idea in solid form.
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Post by wingzero7x on Jan 2, 2011 17:58:08 GMT -5
The Year is 2012...the time said to be when mankind would face its destruction. Many religions believed this day to come sooner or later. Some believed the ocean's would swallow us, or the earth would crumble beneath our feet. Great fires would engulf the land, arctic blizzards would chill the earth. Meteors, Asteroids, Alien Invaders, Nuclear Holocausts, Droughts, so many possible demises mankind had feared possible. However in the year 2012, none of the aforementioned dooms came to pass, no, one much worse and all the more terrifying came. The dead rose from the grave, an event caused by mans ignorance. Now the fate of humanity rests in the sole ability of its ability to survive. This brings our story to the city of Temecula, a peaceful area in Southern California just a day before the uprising. We follow a young man named Jaden, a man whom had struggled all his life to find his purpose in life, to find joy. Soon he'll find his purpose, joy however may never come.
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Post by wingzero7x on Jan 8, 2011 0:59:43 GMT -5
Jaden laid in his single sized bed, the sun beating on his eyelids meant it was almost noon. He opened his eyes and let himself roll to a sitting position at the edge of his bed. He rubbed his eyes and stared at the clock, 10:35, he stood up and rolled his arms to loosen out his limbs. Jaden moved through his home back down the 1st floor, just like he did every day on his summer break, he poured himself some cereal and opened his laptop. Standing over his counter he checked all the latest news updates, facebook, email, yahoo.news, then he tuned himself to some youtube while he finished his breakfast. He caught a glimpse of his friend Eddy on the couch, he had decided to crash here after he wandered to his house drunk and decided to give his pal a place to crash. The moaning that followed was a sure sign of the hangover. Jaden smirked and cleaned up his meal and shut down his computer. He walked over from the kitchen to the living room and took a seat at the couch next to Eddy. "Rise and shine buttercup." Jaden said as he clicked on the T.V.
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Post by wingzero7x on Jan 8, 2011 18:26:20 GMT -5
There was a report on the news, something about a fabled doctor who found the so called discovery of the millenia, the internet had been raving about it as well, I didn't really care. Eddy sat up and rubbed his head. I handed him a waterbottle and 4 asprin, he gladly accepted. I returned to the tv and changed the channel, discovery, comedy central, cartoon network, finally i settled on spike tv, they were showing Boondock Saints, a personal favorite of mine, in fact I even had the guns they used in the second movie Boondock Saints II: All day Saints. My friends and my ex called them a waste of money, but I had nothing much to save for, I was starting my ROTC's 2nd year soon and was on my way to dedicating myself to 10 years of service, I felt like enjoying my life. Enjoying myself meant stocking up on top line swords, knives, guns, rifles, crossbows, and learning how to make novelty weapons and explosives. I was my own army so to speak. Eddy enjoyed my hobby and had joined me in collecting items, when he wasn't partying, getting drunk, or getting laid, sometimes all of the above. Eddy continued rubbing his head, "Man I gotta cutback on the booze....erp!" I shot him a straight look, "Puke on my couch and I will make you lick it up." Eddy knew me, he knew I wouldn't, but he knew I could. Eddy took deep breaths, and watched the television, "Heh, I love this movie. I remember when you told me it would be worth doing what these guys do, go all vigilante." I had thought about it once, but it wouldn't go well, all that would happen is me killing a few bad guys then end up in the same cell as them. Eddy looked at the clock on the tv, "Man I'm hungry, wanna order a pizza?" I smirked, Pizza was always good. Eddy dialed it in as we continued watching the t.v. We waited for the pizza and played games and watched t.v. for a good 4 hours, then there was a knock on the door. I stood, still in my night sweats and shirt I checked the door, only two people it could have been, Mom and Dad were on vacation in Hawaii so the only two people it could have been was either Jason or Christina, I hoped to God it wasn't the latter. Christina was a friend trying to cheer me up since my brother Tristin died, the reason I didn't want to see her is the fact that I like her, I just don't want to ruin a good thing. Trintin died 7 months ago, since then he'd been burried and remembered, my parents and sister took it hard, I took it hard, but we knew he was somewhere better. He left behind a wife and child, they live in the apartment complex down the street, to be close to family, I made a promise to myself to always be there for them, to myself and Tristin. I looked through the peephole, it was Jason. I unlocked the door and opened it. A flash of steel erupted through the gap, I snatched the wrist holding the stiletto knife with my right, my left snatched the machete I had at the corner of the door and held the point at my attacker, Jason. Jason smirked, and I smirked back, "Nice to know you're still on your toes." Jason commented, we both withdrew our weapons. "Yeah well some things never change." He followed me in and joined me and Eddy on the Couch. Jason, Eddy, and I had been doing things like that to train each other for years, never came in handy, yet, but always be prepared, that was out motto. Be prepared for anything.
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Post by wingzero7x on Jan 11, 2011 12:57:19 GMT -5
The boys moved there attention to their hobby outside, training with their weapons. Jaden carried over 20 knives and other assorted throwing weapons along with his two katanas he wore on his back, he also hefted a 120 pound compact bow, Eddy was a big type with big weapons, in which he quotes "Bow Chicka Bow Wow", he carried a longsword on his back and an assortment of 4 tomahawks on his belt, along with a personal favorite of his, a Cold Steel Natchez Bowie Knife he wore on his belt as well, Jason handled a Naginata staff and wore a crossbow on his back, Jason also carried an array of knives, though he favored in carrying an array of styles of butterfly knives. We laughed at each other with how serious we took our hobby, half the items we carried were illegal. They spared with their weapons and challenged eachother with our throwing weapons on the target they'd set up, this went on for 2 hours straight, by the time they were done they were soaked in sweat and their muscles were worn. Jaden panted as he fell into his lawn chair, "So, what should we do now?" A giggle slipped out from a guest now standing at the fence, Christina, "Well you could take a shower, get dressed, and treat a few girls to a drink?"
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Post by wingzero7x on Jan 20, 2011 23:58:45 GMT -5
Jaden was glad he wasn't facing her as his face flushed and his cheeks warmed, Jason couldn't help but smirk at my reaction. Eddy walked over to her, his legs moved heavily after our little spar, "Well is that an invitation to us all?" Christina walked passed him waving under her nose, "Shower first." Jason laughed, they both went into the house to clean up, I only had two showers, so mine would have to wait, Christina took the seat next to me. "So how are you?" She opened happily.
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Post by wingzero7x on Jan 23, 2011 3:23:27 GMT -5
"I'll live..." Jaden said, "You?" Christina frowned a little, "Works a bitch, apartment rent just went up, my friend won't let me help him..." Christina stared at him with a hint of yearning. He shied away as always, but...maybe, maybe he should open up some more. "Maybe your friend's ready to crack out of his shell." Christina's smile returned, Jaden smiled back. Funny, he wouldn't think about opening up to her, he wanted to avoid getting close at all possible, but the minute she came into his presence, she's all he wanted to be with. Jaden caught a smirk through the window to his right, Jason and Eddy were peeping on them. Jaden pulled and aimed his bow at the pair, locked and loaded, Eddy and Jason ducked out of sight. Christina laughed.
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Post by wingzero7x on Jan 24, 2011 21:26:53 GMT -5
The Stampede was a western themed bar, a fun place but mind you the cigarette smoke. Jaden and the boys were joined by Christina, Sara, and Michelle at the pool table. 4 hours had passed the clock to around midnight, beer and food and laughter smothered all their worries. Jason was on his last shot on the 8-ball, 50$ of Jadens money depended on him missing. Crack. Thunk. No luck. Jaden slouched as he pulled out his wallet and produced a 50$ bill. Jason happily snatched it and left to buy a round of beer. Christina put her hands on Jaden's shoulders, "Too bad, just have to win it back another time." "Yeah, still having fun at least." "So you have fun loosing money?" A voice chuckled from behind. Jaden looked over to see a bald headed man and short cut hair man with a goatee, both wearing biker jackets, no idea who they were. "Well I'm up to take some of you're money." Jaden hefted his poolstick and twirled it so he could hand it to the man. "Na, how bought we make it interesting." Jaden set down the stick and crossed his arms. "That board..." The man pointed at the dart board behind Jaden. "One throw, closest one to the bullseye, say 300$?" Jaden smiled and nodded, Eddie tried to hide his smirk, Jason could see the jist of what was going on from the bar as he got the beer. Christina stepped in front of Jaden, that motherly figure look on her face. Jaden lifted his finger to her chin and smiled, "Don't worry..." The bald headed man stepped to the 10ft line marked on the floor with tape, a metal tipped dart in hand. They watched closely at the mans form, he was pro. The music in the bar drowned out the heavy breathing they all had from anticipation, Jason just now rejoining them, a pitcher of beer in hand. The man aimed and flicked his arm forward, the dart on a decending path to the board, and sank to the outer line of the bulls eye. He cheered and whooped victory nearly guaranteed. Jaden was already walking passed him, now passed the line. "You ain't walking on me are ya?" The man presenting himself aggressively. Jaden stopped about 20ft from the board, and drew his Rajah II folding knife and chucked it straight at the board. The Knife rotated straight on an axis, passing not an inch from the bald mans ear and sank into the board, the tip landing straight into the bulls eye. The bald headed man's face turned pale, then red as he saw he had lost. He clenched his fists, then reached in his jacket- "That better be your wallet..." Jaden produced his second Rajah II he had in his left pocket, "Cause I can make that shot again if you really want me to." The man froze, his friend staring at him intensely. The bald headed man produced three Benjamins and scampered off out the door.
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Post by wingzero7x on Mar 13, 2011 16:06:23 GMT -5
Jaden smirked as he picked up his money. Cody and Eddi were patting him on the back when Christina walked up to him. "Was that really necessary?" Jaden gave that look 'as a matter of fact', "I can't throw a dart to save my life, a knife..." Jaden twirled his knife and folded it into his pocket in a single motion, "Well thats another story." Christina shook her head and smiled. Jaden retrieved his knife and they're night of partying continued plus a minor reprimand by the bar owner. All six of them were tipsy and were cut off well before they left. A short taxi ride later and they were all at Jaden's house again. Eddi was being led by Sara with his arm leaning on her shoulders; he was so drunk that he was being a little too friske with her, however so was she with him. They disappeared somewhere in the house soon after. Story was simmiliar with Jason and Michelle, they passed out on the couch. Jaden was too drunk to really care, only it was he who had Christina leaning on him to stay standing, "I got work tommorrowwwww...." She wasn't 'all there' so to speak. Jaden led her upstairs to let her sleep in his bed. His memory ended there...
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Post by wingzero7x on Mar 18, 2011 1:51:44 GMT -5
Jaden opened his eyes with a heavy sigh, his mind swam in a sea of aches and confusion. Last night was a blur, how he got home, where everyone was, how he got undressed...Jaden something warm to his left, his eyes fought to focus as he jerked his head right, his brain rocking in his skull. Warm air washed over Jadens face, the breath of a woman. Christina was in bed with him, and was dressed just as much as he, which wasn't that much. "Oh shit..." he whispered.
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Post by wingzero7x on Mar 19, 2011 23:06:34 GMT -5
Jaden snuck out of his room and left her to sleep, and to try to remember last night, as well as what he would do next. Moving down the stairs, each step dropped heavily and caused a jolting pain in his head. He made his way to the kitchen and poured himself a tall glass of water. The water sprang up the morning duty; Jaden made his way to the restroom, then turned around after he found Eddi and Sara in the bathtub el natural, he turned to go the upstairs bathroom, on his way up he noticed Jason and Michelle on the couch, still sleeping. All through his morning motions he tried to remember what happened last night. He got glimpses, she confronted him about them trying to be together...he wouldn't talk about it...she reminded him he would be gone in 3 years...that maybe they could try to hold on to each other...when he tried to leave, she embraced him...with a mixture of broken emotions and the booze...they let themselves subside to their emotions. Now Jaden had to decide whether to hold on to it or...no...he made things clear enough for himself last night...he felt something deeper...his head still hurt like hell. Jaden crashed onto the couch beside Jason and Michelle. Jason and Michelle were actually dating, it was a my friends friends friend type dating, but he noticed they were compatible...maybe he should try the same. Jaden clicked on the t.v. as he drank some more water...Jaden sat down the glass. A single tone rang from the t.v. Jaden read "EMERGENCY BROADCAST: TUNE INTO YOUR LOCAL NEWS FOR UPDATE"..."What the fuck?"
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Post by wingzero7x on Mar 31, 2011 17:55:31 GMT -5
I flipped the channel to the channel 11 news and instantly their was chaos, "...the dead are walking!" Gunshots echoed around the reporter, his hair and makeup glistened with sweat. "Just this morning their have been reports of this! As you can see..." The camera paved over to a angry mob. I felt my heart compress...they were...moaning, bloody, walking people...it didn't take long to see, these people are dead. "...They are attacking the living! We have been overrun! Military is overwhelmed! Oh my God!..." Gunshots rang out again, the deathcry of a man out of screen cried out. This is my final broadcast! This is happening everywhere, nowhere is safe! Board up your doors and arm youself!..." The man was crying, "Honey I love you, God help us... O.K. thats enough lets go!..." The camera fell and the sounds of quickened running faded out, then suddenly the screen was back to the reporter running with his cameraman filming him from behind...a playback...oh my God. I looked over at the time on the screen "7:13 AM" I looked at the Cable Box clock "12:49 PM". This had been going on for 5 hours... I ran to the front door and looked out the side window, the street was empty. "Jaden what the fuck are you so jumpy about? Its just a movie" I turned around to face Jason getting off the couch. He was right, it could just be...no that was the morning news. "Look at the date." It was this morning. I went over to my laptop and powered it up, it looked for a WI FI signal, it found one, good it still worked. My Internet opened up to Yahoo mail. "Tiger Woods father to 4 more children?" Nothing. Jason leaned over my shoulder, "See it was just a prank..." I hammered the keys and got onto youtube. Top 20 videos..."Zombies rise, End of the World, Dead have come, Judgment Day..." 5 minutes in we watched videos from home camera's, there were zombies walking around, completely engulfing the streets, for the first time we saw people chased, swarmed, and devoured before our eyes. God bless youtube. We saw people going Guncrazy, shooting zombies like crazy...I looked over at Jason and he looked at me, we said in unison "Holy Shit" The video showed men opening fire upon zombies, they didn't even react until they were shot in the head. Jason started chuckling, I smiled, I knew what he was thinking Jason ran upstairs. Eddi limped out of the bathroom in his boxers, "Waz goin on?" I rolled my eyes, bad timing to have hangover. "Michelle fill him in." Michelle had been in a trance, trying to understand it all, she snapped out of it and tried explaining things to Eddi. I popped up Google, blogs popped up fast, I searched for some kind of "Sightings Blog". Sure enough there was one already. California, 70% sightings... the Red shading marking sightings however...it stopped just in front of...Shelby's house...Tristen's wife. I popped my phone up and hit her speed dial. 3 rings and then her voicemail. I tried again. No luck. I looked at my phone, 4 messages. 2 from my mother, 2 from Shelby. I opened them up. Mom: "Jaden we're safe. California is infected! Call me. I love you" Mom: "Jaden please be safe. I know you to well to run. Stay safe, do what you do best. Your father and I love you." Shelby: "Jaden I don't know what's going on. The Apartment Manager has us locking our doors, the power is out here. Please what's going on?" Shelby: "Jaden please come get me and Marry! I hear moaning in the corridor and screaming. There are gunshots. JADEN MY BATTERY IS DYING! Please get me!" Shit...Shit...they were there already. My mind raced. What do I do, what do I do? "Jaden?" I looked at the stairs, Christina was standing in my shirt on her, she had a concerned look on her face. Eddi was cursing a storm with Michelle and Sara. I looked straight at Christina, something woke up in me then, something I kept buried in my soul for a long time. My real me. "Jason! Eddi! Arm UP!"
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Post by wingzero7x on Aug 22, 2011 13:49:40 GMT -5
Jaden started up the stairs to Christina when Eddi called him, "Jaden what are you?..." Jaden shot him a look that Eddi knew well, "YOU HEARD ME! These things are at Shelby's, we need to go get here, so get up here and arm up!" Snapping to it like a trained soldier Eddi bounded up for the stairs. Jaden stood with Christina as Eddi sped past them. Christina was confused, in shock, Jaden held her in her arms, "Something's happened, the girls will fill you in but I need to get Shelby." Jaden kissed her forehead and started climbing the stairs, Christina reached out and grabbed his arm. "Jaden..." She stared at him for a moment, "What happened...was it...a mistake?" Jaden understood what she meant by it, "No." he favored her a quick smile before running up the stairs to his room, where his armory was, where he prepared for something like this to happen ever since he was a kid.
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Post by wingzero7x on Sept 19, 2011 20:08:47 GMT -5
The room was right next to his, modified by the three who currently rustled through the rows of stacked items. Each wall mounted weapons from the last 100 years of design. The West wall housed various shotguns and pistols, South wall held rifles and automatics, West wall held full battle ready close quarter weapons such as swords, maces, spears, knives, and other sharp weapons designed for combat. The North wall held three tall cabinets stocked with enough ammo to last 6 months of combat. In the center of the room were rows of gun racks displaying more rifles and shotguns as well as equipment such as scopes and cleaning gear. A work bench stood at the end of these rows. The three men donned personally crafted and prepared gear: Each wore a Dragon Skin bullet proof vest, urban camo pants, steel toe combat boots, as well as custom designed arm guards that sported light steel plates on the outside of the biceps and the top forearm and finished off with combat gloves. Their weapons from the day before, cleaned and sharpened, decorated themselves individually. They looked like real soldiers, only they didn't belong to the USA, they were soldiers by their own design. Jason helped Eddi tighten the straps on his arm guard, "Jaden, the reports we saw earlier said they were attracted to sound, so should we avoid firearms?" "Yes but we should be fine with silenced so lets stick with Red Jacket models." That was fortunate for them, half of their models were Red Jacket models with silenced systems built in including internally suppressed AK-47's and Saga Shotguns. The other half would be too dangerous. Eddi chuckled and shook his head, "Listen to us...LOOK at us, are we seriously doing this? I mean this is really happening?" Jaden kept himself buisy as he loaded up a Suppressed AK, "Think about it when we've got a foothold on the situation. Sure we were expecting it to be the Koreans or Russians to invade, but this is no different, if we don't get moving people will start dieing." Jason patted Eddi to insure his gear was solid, "No Jaden it IS different, they don't fire back but I looked at those reports closely, these things are a virus, blowing them up and shooting them sprays this virus all over. And you saw the news footage, law enforcement with assault rifles and pistols were overrun, these things don't fear a gun firing at them." Jaden stopped moving realizing he wasn't breathing enough, he paced his breath and calmed his erratic heartbeat, "We need to get to Shelby, she said they were already there, but..." Jaden thought about the three girls downstairs, about the neighboors in his coldesack, his neighborhood. Eddy... "Eddy, your construction site is just a mile from here right?" Eddy was a construction worker when he wasn't out drinking, a rather good one at that. "Yeah, what of it?" Jaden organized a diagram on the work to bench using bullets and magazines, he made a representation of his coldesack of 8 homes, "I need you to go off and collect the lumber from the yard, then at the end of the coldesack," Jaden slapped down a magazine blocking off the entrance of the coldesack, "I need you build a barricade. Jason and I will handle Shelby." Eddy paused, blank face, fighting his nerves he nodded, "You got it." Jason opened a chest by the gun rack; it was filled with helmets and masks. Jason rummaged through it till he stumbled upon something promising, "Jaden catch." Jaden threw out on hand to snatch the object out of the air; it was a paintball mask. "These will keep the blood out of our eyes and mouth and they leave us our peripheral vision to work with." Jaden nodded approvingly. A few more snaps and clacks and the 3 men were ready to go, "We should get Gramps in on this as well." Jason nodded while Eddi rolled his eyes and expressed his annoyance of how 'I wish that old geezer would croke already'. Gramps was short for Jack Greeves, Sgt. Greeves in his early years. He was the paranoid weapon otaku that got Jaden started on his battle gear when he was only 7. Guy always said, 'War is imminent, and we the citizens will be the ones to fight'. Gramps was 74 years old and had a drill Sgt. attitude but the heart of a grandfather, Eddi received more of the drill Sgt. than most though.
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Post by wingzero7x on Oct 10, 2011 20:28:44 GMT -5
"I'm sure he's already got a grasp on the situation, though, why hasn't he contacted us yet?" Jaden pondered. Jason peered out the window facing the streets, he could see Gramps's house from there. All seemed quiet, but best be cautious, Jason dialed up Gramps on the house phone, 2 rings then an answer, "Who the hell is it?" Jason sighed in relief and signed Jaden and Eddi a thumbs up. "Its three little rascals preparing for war you old geezer." Jason replied. Jaden felt a little calmer knowing his mentor was still kicking. Though his urgency to get moving led him to rushing Jason to hurry up. Jason settled they would meet in the street and discuss things. Jaden, Eddi, and Jason all marched down the stairs in their gear, the girls looked up at them in aww. They swapped information while the boys prepared, Christina was obviously concerned along with Michelle, Sara, less obvious. "You three know what the hell you're doing?" She prodded directly at Eddi. Eddi rolled his eyes, "No we LARP every day casting imaginary spells and- NO SHIT! The hell you think we have this gear for?" Sara's calm blank face melted to worry as well. Eddi quickly regretted his outburst and moved to comfort her. Jason moved over to Michelle and shared some words as well as Christina approached Jaden. "How is all of this possible?" Jaden searched his thoughts for answers, he found none and shook his head. Christina held him close. Jaden wanted to do just that, hold her, lockdown his house to keep her safe, but he had a duty to accomplish. He placed his hands on her shoulders and stared at her with reasuring eyes. "I'll be back, I'll be fine." Jaden had no grand speech to give, no action hero catch phrase, just those words. He backed away from her as Eddi and Jason moved past him and out the front door. "Lock the doors behind us, and stay upstairs till we come get you." Jaden didn't wait for an answer and ran out the door, just in time to miss Christina's rolling tears. Jaden moved his way to the car when Eddi called out to him; Jaden then followed his arm pointing to the end of the coldesac. A tall figure walked down the street, jogging cloths, an MP3 hanging out of his ears. He walked sluggishly, footsteps half dragging, his figure standing awkwardly, arms hanging dead at his sides. Jaden had seen enough images to see this...thing...was not human. In greater inspection they could see the wound on his arm in the shape of a bite mark, blood already coagulated. The figure let out a sound like a slow exhaled moan, followed by a quick inhale through the teeth sound. Then Jaden finally noticed, it wasn't alone, 3....5....9 of them followed the being at the end of the street. This was Jaden's first encounter, with a Zombie.
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