Straight From Hell (long) (560 hits)
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Submitted by Shaun_Rocks (View user info) at 2005-03-25 18:26:15 EST
Adam was sitting in his dorm room with nothing to do as usual. This was his first year at college and he hated it. The classes themselves weren't so bad, but it was his fellow classmates that he couldn't stand. There was just such a total lacking of any intelligence in most of them.
And then there was the town itself, the little shit hole of a town that Adam was now a resident of. Lincoln Illinois; one of the most culturally devoid and mundane places Adam had ever seen. "Pretty ironic that such a crappy place be named after one of the best presidents..." Adam sometimes pondered.
During the first week or so of school Adam met one of the only seemingly smart and normal girls at the school, Georgia Romero. The two had started dating, and after a few days she told him that she loved him. Adam found this pretty odd but it turned out that Georgia's past relationships had all been pretty crappy and she was glad that she had met someone as great as he was. Adam kind of just went with this, never really giving her a straight reply back.
"Just fuck 'em and leave 'em, that's what you oughta do!" Adam's moron of a roommate told him. Although Adam never asked him for his advice, Brad just had a way of always adding his opinion to things.
"I think she wants me to say it back, but I don't think I want such a heavy commitment..." Adam commented to himself.
This was starting to irritate Georgia. She really wanted Adam to tell her that he loved her but whenever she brought it up he would avoid the topic. She was starting to get rather clingy to him as well. It didn't take very long for Adam to realize that she was not as "normal" as he thought, far from it in fact. The constant calls to his room and cell phone in the middle of the night, her following him around whenever he went out, and then there were the messages, if not threats being left on his door warning anyone else from getting close to him. Needless to say, Adam was feeling pretty sorry that he had ever met her.
"Man, she must be straight from hell..." Adam's friend Joe told him when Adam showed him the notes. Joe was the only other person at that school that Adam felt he could talk to about things, the only other person who Adam thought wasn't a complete moron.
"You just gotta sit down with her and make sure that you get it through her head that you don't want to be with her anymore, and do it soon."
"Well some of my friends from back home are coming to visit for the weekend..." Adam told him.
"All the more reason to get it done with as soon as possible." Joe told him
"Alright...alright, I'll get it over with. Thanks Joe."
"No Problem, and good luck." Joe said as Adam walked out of his room.
Adam headed over to Georgia's dorm and made it perfectly clear to her that he no longer had any interest in being with her. She was about to interrupt him, no doubt ready to express her undying love for him, but he stopped her, "That's not how I feel." He blatantly told her. "I have some friends coming to visit this weekend, are we going to be alright?" Tears were rushing to her eyes but she just nodded her head towards him and looked away. "Okay, take care of yourself. I'll see you around." Adam walked out of her dorm thinking that could have gone better but all in all it was for the best.
* * *
"Man this town is a piece of crap! Why did Adam decide to go here?" Ben said to Nick as they drove past the "QIK 'N' EZ."
"I mean look at that place, "qik 'n' ez." The worse part is I doubt anyone here even knows that is spelled wrong."
"HAHA, whatever man it's almost seven o'clock, lets just try to find his school. Give him a call." Nick suggested.
Ben pulled his cell phone out of his pocket and dialed Adam's number.
"Hey Adam...yeah, were driving around this stupid town and we have no idea where your school is....ok...dude, giving us a street intersection doesn't help because we don't know this town...wait, wait shut up a second I have an idea, we're gonna start honking the horn and you tell us when you can hear it."
Ben reached across Nicks arm and started slamming on the horn.
"You hear this?" He yelled into the phone, "Alright....bye. He's going to walk out to the main street "Kickapoo," yeah I know, and look for us."
The two friends drove up and down Kickapoo Ave. until finally spotting Adam. He said hi to his friends and jumped into their car. A few minutes later they all pulled into the dorm buildings parking lot and headed inside. Once inside, Adam introduced his floor mates to Ben and Nick and thusly, a long night of drinking ensued.
* * *
Adam found himself waking up the next day in the middle of the schools rec room. He slid himself over to the couch and had a seat. Just then, Brad and another student that Adam didn't recognize started fighting. Adam just kind of sat and watched, thinking rather lowly of his roommate for starting a fight with someone who was so obviously ill. Brad was lying on top of the poor kid, using his left arm to cover the kids mouth shouting, "You surrender yet bitch!" Adam thought the kid would just give up to get the big moron off of him, but instead he opened up his mouth and bit a piece of Brads forearm clean off. If Adam wasn't awake before he certainly was now, "You Fucker!" Brad shouted, and started to repeatedly punch the kid in the face.
Adam decided it was time to get involved; he moved over to the two and pulled Brad off of the kid. Brad was still shouting at him, but while Adam held back his roommate, one of the other spectators called an ambulance and the paramedics took the other kid to a nearby hospital. After being calmed down a bit and being reassured by Adam that he "kicked that guys ass," Brad headed to the on-campus medic to get his arm taken care of.
* * *
Nick woke up the next day with a hangover to top all hangovers...and in someone else's bed. He knew it wasn't Adam's room because of all the "Hello Kitty" posters. Nick started to sit up, felt everything rush to his head, lied back down for another ten minutes, and then finally sat up again.
"God I hope this isn't going to turn out like spring break last year..." Nick muttered to himself as he picked up his clothes and wondered where the usual occupant of this bed was.
"Hey there hot stuff!"
Nick didn't want to turn around. He could tell just by that booming voice that who (or what) ever was behind him was not someone he wanted to knowingly have fucked... or touched for that matter. He needed to find a way out of there fast.
"Hey...baby (shudder), do you have any lingerie?" Nick asked.
"Oooh yes I do! I'll go get put it on!" The beast growled back at him as she left the room.
"Alright" Nick thought to himself, "The front door is out of the question, I gotta find a way outta here!" He started looking around the room, and then spotted the window. Nick was way past rational thinking as he picked up her laptop and threw it through the unlocked window. He carefully climbed out of the window and onto the very rickety fire escape. "I don't know how the hell this thing is supposed to support a whale..." Nick muttered to himself, but then saw that the said "whale" had come out of the bathroom...naked...to see what had broken. Nick saw this terror, weighed his options, and jumped off the balcony. As soon as he hit the ground he started running.
* * *
Ben woke up with a shooting pain in his back. As he tried to roll over, the pain just became more intense. Finally he was able to sit up and realized that he was lying on an Xbox controller. As soon as he sat up there was an instant pain in his head, obviously the reason for why he was sleeping on someone's floor, and lied back down, screamed, threw the controller across the room, and then lied down again.
"You better hope that controller still works." Ben heard a vaguely familiar voice say. "I'm Joe, I doubt you remember but we met last night in Adam's room, I'm not quite sure how you ended up in here though."
"Yeah I'm sure the controller's fine. Wait, I know you...you were on that "young marksman" show on ESPN a few years ago. Damn you can shoot! Is that the rifle you used?" Ben shouted pointing in the corner of the room. "What happened to you man, how the hell did you end up in this shit hole of a school?" Ben asked eagerly.
"Heh thanks, yeah that's it. Actually I got in a car accident right before I was supposed to go pro, my arm got pretty fucked up and they said I couldn't hold a rifle straight enough to do the distance shooting anymore. This shit hole school was the only one that would give me enough financial aid so that I could afford school." Joe responded to him.
"Shit that sucks," Ben agreed, "Well it was nice meeting you, but I should probably go find out what happened to the rest of my friends last night. See you later."
Ben gave Joe a nod in return to his wave as he walked out the door. "Nice guy..." he thought to himself as he headed back towards Adams room.
* * *
Nick suddenly came rushing around the corner and crashed right into Ben. Nick explained what he remembered from last night and the nightmare he woke up to this morning.
"I guess that would explain why you'd be running around in nothing but your underwear holding your clothes while it's forty degrees outside..." Ben told him.
Nick just laughed as he got dressed and the two sat down outside of Adam's door waiting for him.
"Damnit dude, I just remembered Adam mentioned something about swimming practice today." Ben said, "C'mon, lets go walk around this town. Heh, I bet if we had enough time we could actually take it over."
The two walked out of the dorm building and headed down Kickapoo Ave. towards the QIK 'N' EZ. On their way, Nick noticed a family riding down the street...in a tractor. He just shook his head and continued walking.
A few minutes later the two arrived at their destination, the QIK 'N' EZ.
"If your business has three or more words misspelled in the title, then you must be a redneck." Ben muttered as he stared at the sign.
* * *
ATTENTION SWIMMERS: Practice Cancelled
"Too many of the swimmers have called in saying that they are sick, so you all can take the weekend off." Adam read off the sign posted outside of the poolroom. He just shrugged and headed back to his dorm.
"Where the hell are you guys?" Adam spoke into his cell phone as he walked into his empty dorm.
"We were bored so we walked over to the QIK N EZ, we'll be back at your place in a couple minutes." Nick replied.
"Alright, see you then."
* * *
Adam decided to wait outside for his friends to return. Just as he noticed Ben and Nick headed towards him, Adam spotted Brad staggering in his direction. "I guess that moron isn't feeling to well..." Adam mumbled without thinking much of it.
"Hey fucker," Ben yelled, "So what are we gonna do in this glory hole today?"
"Yeah," Nick added carrying a couple bottles in a plastic grocery bag, "And what ever happened to that psycho girlfriend of yours?"
"If you guys really want to meet her then I guess we can go by there later, after she gets out of practice." Ben reluctantly offered.
"Alright man, what are we gonna do right n...Hey...isn't that your roommate?" Nick said.
"Yeah, I don't know why he's headed towards us, I thought he would be getting drunk with some of his idiot friends or something..." Adam remarked.
"He doesn't look too good...is he sick?" Ben questioned.
"He wasn't when I saw him start fighting this kid earlier toda..Holy Shit!" Ben yelled as he watched Brad grab onto one of his friends and literally bite into his neck. Ripping the flesh from the bone and devouring it.
The three friends immediately ran over to the two and pulled Brad off of his victim. Adam was checking on the kid who was obviously dead at this point. At first Brad did nothing, but then he attempted to bite into Nick the same way he did the other kid. Nick narrowly avoided the teeth as Ben punched Brad firmly in the head. Brad hit the ground hard, his skull bouncing off the concrete...and he instantly started to rise. The three were shocked as Brad apparently wasn't the slightest bit fazed by the blow. Nick grabbed his plastic bag and swung it directly into Brad's head, shattering the bottles.
Brads body went limp and he fell flat to the ground.
"What the fuck was that!?" Ben shouted.
"BEN! GET THE FUCK DOWN!" Joe yelled from a few feet behind the group as he raised his rifle and fired two rounds at the now standing corpse that Brad had attacked. The first shot hit the atrocity in the chest, and the second nailed him square in the head, sending bits of brain and skull out the other side of its head; the body instantly dropped.
"Whoa..." Ben said with a slight quiver in his voice as he rose.
"Joe what the hell is going on here?" Adam asked and suddenly looked away as he heard a shriek of terror from off in the distance.
"Well..." Joe began but was cut off by his roommate Marty holding a bloodstained baseball bat.
"Do you guys believe in zombies?"
"No."
"No."
"You can't be fucking serious..." Nick started to ask in disbelief.
"Well neither do I" Joe said, "But I believe in my own two eyes, and what I saw were fucking zombies."
"Well that would explain why that other kid bit Brad this morning and now why Brad bit this poor bastard just now..." Adam thought out loud.
"God damnit..." Ben muttered at this unbelievable and yet real happening.
"I think we want god on our side right now." Marty commented, "So we agree that those things are zombies, right? And we've all played enough video games to know that you gotta cause enough damage to the brain to take them down, right?"
The three only looked at him, still in disbelief.
"RIGHT?" Joe said sternly.
"...Yeah..we know man..." Ben finally muttered.
"Yeah..." The other two reluctantly said.
"Alright then, is there anyone else around here that you want to get?" Joe asked.
"No way man," Ben said in a hurry, "lets get the fuck out of he.."
"Shut up, Ben" Adam said, "We need to go get Georgia. I gotta make sure she's ok."
"Oh come on man, I thought you said she was nuts and you couldn't give two shits about her?" Nick questioned.
"I know man, I just have to know if she is ok." Adam said, almost under his breath.
"Alright, we'll head over to the girls dorm. And this" Joe said holding up his rifle, "is the only one of these, so we should use it only when we need to. Lets go."
The group of five guys, headed out towards the girls dorm, grabbing whatever they could along the way to use as weapons. When the group arrived, Nick was holding a crowbar he stole out of Brad's car and Adam had a large, heavy chain in one hand; Ben was the only one who was still unarmed.
"Fuck man, I'm not going up there without a weapon." Ben said.
"Ah Ben just shut the hell up and stop being such a wuss." Nick commented.
"Fuck you man, it's easy for you to talk, you got a fucking crowbar." Ben argued.
Joe was obviously getting frustrated but before he could say anything, Marty interrupted.
"Hold up man, it's alright. I have an idea." He said as he ran into the bathroom.
"Where the hell is he going?" Adam muttered...
Moments later Marty ran out of the bathroom with a plunger in one hand.
"Here you go Ben."
...All four guys just stared at Marty.
"And what exactly am I supposed to do with this?" Ben asked, surprisingly calmly.
"You plunge them in the head." Marty replied like it was nothing.
"Plunge them in the head...oh, ok. I see...you're a moron. That's it. If it's so simple then why don't you take the plunger and give me your baseball bat?" Ben suggested.
"Yeah right, what the hell would I do with a plunger?"
Ben was about to yell at Marty but Adam stepped in. "I hate to interrupt this, but I would like to get upstairs and find Georgia."
"Alright, gimme that fucking plunger." Ben said, waving an argumentative white flag.
"This is gonna get pretty ugly," Joe warned, "I hope you're all ready to do this."
"Let's go" Adam bluntly said, not giving the others a chance to back out. "She's on the third floor..."
The group started making their way up the stairs, Nick took the lead holding his crowbar at the ready. As the guys climbed higher up the stairs they started to hear music. The higher they got the clearer the heavy metal music was.
"Here we are, third floor." Nick said getting ready to push the door open. "Ready or not..." Nick said as he shoved the door open.
"Defunct the strings"
"Of cemetery things"
"With one flat foot"
"On the devil's wing"
"Crawl on me"
"Sink into me"
"Die for me"
"Living Dead Girl"
"Well that's reassuring..." Ben remarked about the music.
There wasn't a single person in sight as the group made their way through the door.
"Her dorm is around that corner." Adam informed his friends.
Ben watched from the back of the group as Nick turned the corner, heard a loud yell, and then blood splattered into his view. Ben, fearing the worst, pushed his way past Joe and rounded the corner to find Nick...pulling his crowbar out of an incredibly fat, formerly female zombie.
"Fucking whale..." Nick muttered.
"Oh shit Nick, I thought you were about to bite it...wait, sorry, bad wording." Ben smirked.
Nick gave Ben a look with a slight smile and the group continued down the hallway.
"Here it is." Adam said pointing at room 3-28. "Joe and Marty, stand watch out here? The three of us will go in."
The group nodded to him and Adam pushed the door open. There was blood all over the floor and back wall.
"Georgia, are you here?" Adam called out.
Something in the corner started to move. It was Georgia, or at least it used to be. She slowly got up and started staggering towards the three friends.
"Haha, is this your girlfriend?" Ben asked with a chuckle.
"She's cute." Nick laughed.
"Does she like to go to the movies?" Ben asked joining in on Nick's laughter.
The laughter stopped suddenly as the three guys turned at the sound of a gunshot.
"Will you fuckers hurry up in there!?" They heard Marty scream in at them under baited breath. "They came out of fucking no where!"
Ben and Nick rushed out of the dorm room to help their friends while Adam stayed inside to take care of Georgia. As she slowly approached, he let his heavy chain hang loosely for a brief second before he gave it one sharp swing above his own head and then whipped it directly into Georgia's head. There was a distinct snapping sound and Georgia's head was resting on the corner of her own shoulder for a moment before her body went limp and she fell to the ground.
*** Meanwhile ***
"Here it is." Adam said pointing at room 3-28. "Joe and Marty, stand watch out here? The three of us will go in."
After those three entered the dorm, Marty leaned over to Joe, "We both know she's dead right?"
Joe looked at him and nodded slightly. The room across the hall suddenly opened and a group of zombies staggered out towards the two friends. Joe raised his rifle and shot the lead ghoul in the head as Marty ran up and swung his bat into the skull of another. Then he turned and jabbed a second one with head of his bat.
"Will you fuckers hurry up in there!" Marty screamed at the other three under baited breath. "They came out of fucking no where!"
Nick rushed out first to see Joe smash one of the atrocities in the head with the butt of his rifle and then gave it a follow-up hockey-style crosscheck to the face.
Ben rushed out just in time to find a zombie mere inches away from Marty, without giving it a second thought, Ben charged at the thing and "plunged it in the head" with his plunger. The thing staggered back against the wall and before it could lunge itself at Ben, Ben shoved the blunt end the plunger directly into its eye.
"I can't believe this thing fucking worked..." Ben muttered referring to the blood stained plunger. Just then he noticed Marty throw his entire body at a zombie that was just about to take a bite out of Bens neck. The two wrestled around on the ground for a moment until finally Marty got the leverage he needed to hit the zombie with one shattering blow to the skull with his bat.
Adam walked out of the dorm room with a bleak look on his face. He saw Nick pulling his crowbar out of one ghouls skull, Joe was standing over three separate corpses holding his rifle which now had a few dents in the butt of it, and Marty leaning against the wall holding his freshly bloodied baseball bat. Then he saw Ben with one foot on a zombies face and his hands wrapped tightly around the plunger that he was desperately trying to remove from the things eye socket. Adam couldn't help but smile at this sight.
The group headed back down the stairs and outside.
"Alright, now can we get to my car in the parking lot and get the hell out of here?" Nick asked.
"Yeah lets go." Adam said.
The group made their way to Nick's car and was about to get in when Ben noticed that Joe and Marty weren't coming in.
"What are you guys waiting for, lets go." Ben casually questioned.
"Sorry guys but were not coming." Joe said.
"What?" Adam asked, rather confused.
"We're staying here, I have an uncle in the Hell's Angels, they're coming here and were going to join up with them." Joe told them.
"Oh wow, that's awesome. Alright well, take care of yourselves." Nick told them.
The three said their respective goodbyes to Joe and Marty, Nick and Adam got inside the car, Ben walked up to Marty, whispered a very subtle "Thanks" into his ear and then got in the front passenger seat of the car. The engine started and the car pulled out. The three looked back to see Joe and Marty standing behind them waving.
"Actually Joe...that's not all true..." Marty solemnly commented after the car drove out of site.
"What? How do you mean?" Joe asked, now looking at his roommate... his friend.
Marty lifted his arm to reveal a bite right below his elbow.
"Shit..." Joe said.
"I'm staying here with you until your uncle comes, but then...you know what you are gonna have to do..." Marty told him.
Joe looked at his friend; he was about to say something but instead just nodded very slightly.
"Alright"
* * *
"Alright" Nick said as he drove, "We have to find someplace safe and deserted."
"How about a shopping mall?" Adam said.
"It's been done." Ben smirked.
"Whatever, we obviously don't want to rest anywhere near here, so lets figure it out later." Nick said as he turned the radio on and waited a second for it to come to life.
"Heh, suiting..." Ben muttered at the quick drum roll intro of the song.
"That's great, it starts with an earth-quake, birds n' snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid.."
The three friends drove off towards the setting sun, letting the music blast out of the speakers.
"Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its"
"own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the"
"reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright"
"light, feeling pretty psyched."
"It's the end of the world as we know it"
"It's the end of the world as we know it"
"It's the end of the world as we know it"
"And I feel fine"
User Reviews
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2006-11-14 10:46:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Shaun_Rocks (user info) at 2006-11-13 22:28:32 (#)
Ranking: 2
Who the fuck is Shaun_Rocks?
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2005-03-29 01:47:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I read it all. I thoroughly enjoyed this.
This was not After the Pandemic, horse fucker.
Jew.
Submitted by olivia_tremor_control (user info) at 2005-03-26 01:07:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
maybe im the only one who had enough spare time to read it all (okay okay i skipped like a paragraph), but it was good
Submitted by Shaun_Rocks (user info) at 2005-03-25 22:51:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Munkeypants, you think I should repost it as two or three seperate pieces?
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-03-25 21:56:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Oooooh honey. You need to do seperate posts for something that long.
Poeple here tend to have ADD.
I can't read all that right now. But have this +2.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2005-03-25 18:47:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
You're supposed to put 'After The Pandemic' before the title, son.