Authors Note: Its my first thing, and I'm sure its crap. So tell me what I did that was not so crap and ill

work on it!

I do not own Left 4 Dead. But I do own a Legend of Zelda shirt. I only claim the characters and story.

But not the L4D characters like the Tank and such.

DAY 1: OUTBREAK

"Wake up it's time to leave!" Yells my mother across the house.

"The schools are closed mom!" I shout back at her. She comes into my room asking

"Now where did you hear that?"

"There's this infection going around that people say makes you go crazy." I tell her still face down in

my pillow.

"Let me see." She says reaching for my radio, and turns it to the right station. It says

"Schools on the eastern side of Michigan are to remain closed due to strange infection until military

personnel inform otherwise." She looks at me then the radio then back to me and says

"Oh... Well I still have to go to work so make sure there no parties unless I'm called about it. And don't

bother Pete please? He just got back from one of his gigs and hes just wore out."

A few hours after she leaves I get up and put my blue jeans and LoZ shirt on and check the

news on the computer again. This time it says to arm yourself and not leave the house unless necessary.

Just then I realize how cold it is in my house and find my gray and black hoodie out of my closet and

take my sword out and carry it to the desk. Then decide better of it and just strap it to my back so I'm

not carrying it around if shit hits the fan. I decide to call one of my friends about the news. On the 3rd or

4th ring he picks up and sounds like he slept in more than I did when he groans

"Whaaat?" at me. I say

"Dude its Justin. Did you see the news yet?"

"Oh... Hey Juce, and no not yet... Why did someone crash into your house again?"

"No man this time its even cooler. Just look on the internet about it." After a few minuets of taping

sounds he almost yells into the phone "WHOLY SHIT!!"

"I know man ain't it just awesome?!" "Yeah dude this sounds like the kinda crap that happens in Left 4

Dead! Wait a minuet I think I just heard something in the living room." I say mockingly

"Get your BB gun man!" He hung up.

I went and woke Pete up saying

"Dude... Dude wake up!! Come look at the news!" He grumbled a couple of times before getting up

and following me to the computer. After squinting at the screen for a few seconds he said "Well... That

explains the sword doesn't it."

"Yeah now we gotta find something for you!"

"I don't really think that's necessary." Right after he finished saying that last word a high pitch scream

cut through the air and was cut off almost instantly making us both jump and almost scream ourselves...

"Ju-Ju-Justin... Go... Go check it out."

"What!? Your the full grown person here"

"Well I'm not the one with the sword alright?"

"Fucking fine then." I put my boots on because it was very snowy out, and put my snow jacket over my

hoodie. Before opening the door I remembered to take out my sword.

I walked out the door and down the steps to the drive way almost slipping on the ice and falling into

Pete's car which still had his piano setup inside, and shakily walked down the driveway. When I was off

the driveway and on the sidewalk I heard a shriek from behind me that sent chills down my spine more

than the cold did. I quickly turned on the spot as something jumped into the air trying to get on top of

me but impaling its face on my sword. As it died I just stood there looking into the hooded face of my

friend whom I had just talked to not ten minuets ago. I wondered why I wasn't having one of those

panic attacks that you hear people have when this kind of thing happens, and took my sword out of the

stomach of the thing and cleaned the blood off on its hoodie, and ran into the house. Pete asked

"What the hell was that yell?" I just looked at him and said "We have to call mom...Right...Now." He

quickly took the cellphone out of the pants he had changed

into and looked through his address list muttering "Robin... Robin... Robin... HA!" He quickly called

her but got the message saying

"We're sorry but there are no lines available. Please try at a different time." We both just looked at each

other.

"Try calling Beth sense she moved out it might be different!" The same message every time we

tried. We decided to go to moms work place and tell her what happened and if we could, find

somewhere safer. But first we had to get Pete's things out of his car, and while we where doing that a

man covered in blood and vomit tried to bite us. I somehow managed to get him down without any

injuries to me or Pete. After he got all his things out and we where on our way we saw terrible things .

There where people that looked like they shouldn't be alive at all but walking just fine somehow. And

other groups of people mobbing and ripping other people to pieces then eating them, or just skipping

the ripping to pieces bit and just eating them alive. We had to try to not vomit in the car so that Pete

wouldn't crash into something. When we got to where my mother worked, a office in a small part of a

big campus, it was deserted, empty, devoid of all moving things, mom not being anywhere in sight. We

decided to look through the buildings just in case. We decided to start with the closest building and

work our way down. When we were on our 2nd building and walking down a hallway spattered with

blood stains but no bodies, I heard loud coughing and then a sort of spitting sound. When I turned to

look at what the noise was. Pete was gone. I called for him but all I got was silence. I started to walk

down the hall to. where I last saw him but before I got to the door he was in front of, a tall figure

stepped out and a small cloud of smoke followed it. It screamed I ran. As I ran something wrapped

around my leg and pulled me down, it started dragging me back when I got on my side and started

cutting at it. I missed the 1st and 2nd time but on the 3rd try I cut straight through it and it went limp. The

rest of it went back into the mouth of the figure which I could now see clearly. It wasn't Pete thankfully.

I tried to stand up as it started charging me and tackled me to the ground again coughing the whole

time. The sword flew from my hand and landed a few feet away, it tried to pin me to the ground and

bite my face but I got one of my hands out from under it and punched it in the face, setting it off

balance I took my other hand out from under it as it tried to eat me again. I grabbed its head and tried to

push it away but ended up making it go at an odd angle with a loud snap, it went limp and released a

huge amount of smoke, setting off the fire alarms. I thought to myself

"Pete's...Dead. I know he is and so is mom... Beth might still be alive but I'm gonna end up like this guy

if I don't leave soon."

When I got outside I saw from a distance a huge crowd of people... Or zombies, running towards the

building. I decided it must be the fire alarm and ran without a second thought knowing that if I got far

away enough from the building I might not get attacked. As they got closer I could hear animalistic

screaming that I thought could never be made by a person. When I was far away enough from the

building that I thought I was safe, I carefully and silently as possible went into a building that I

assumed where the dorms because... Well it said that's what it was. The front room was a hallway with

stairs and doors that had different numbers and letters on them, and one that said cafeteria. on them and

and elevator. I moved a couple of chairs in front of the door I came in. I realized how wore out I was,

and that there was a very human sounding cry coming from the door that said cafeteria. I silently

opened the door and walked in and stopped to look around. The room had a snack bar a few tables and

just looked like a small cafe, I saw the back of what looked like a woman in a ripped up tank top and

shorts in the middle of the room and called

"Miss! Miss are you okay?" She started growling when I spoke and looked up and around and saw me.

Her eyes where glowing blood red and I new she wasn't human anymore, but she didn't attack me. I

resisted the urge to turn on the spot and run and slowly stepped back, I called

"Are... Are... Are you n-n-not like th-th-them?" She growled as I spoke but when I finished she

stopped. I decided to be quiet around her and started to quietly walk towards the snack bar on the other

side of her, she watched me the whole time but never got up, I made it to the snack bar and loaded

things I might need for a trip to somewhere.... I had no clue where yet but I knew it was going to be far

from here .I had a really dumb idea then but couldn't tell it was dumb because of the amounts of

adrenaline pumping through me. I slowly and quietly walked towards her and noticed her giant claw

like fingers. I kept walking towards her and when I was arms length from her I crouched down to eye

level, looked her dead in the eye. And held a candy bar in front of her. She looked at it then at me, then

back at it again realizing what I meant, she took it from me and sat there looking at it. I took out

another one and, getting her attention, opened it. She did the same some how with her giant claws, I bit

into mine and she bit into hers. She looked at the candy bar then me, and took another bite out of hers.

Feeling accomplished for some reason I stood up and headed back to the snack bar to get a few bottles

of water. After I was done with that I turned around and nearly jumped out of my skin. She had got up

and started following me with half a candy bar, she was really really skinny for some reason. I realized

what was happening and nearly kicked myself but had another not so stupid idea.

"If this is possible... Then this means they can be domesticated! And that there might still be some

human left in them!"

I walked past her and she watched me the she went over to the snack bar looked over and took another

two candy bars, one for now I assumed because she finished hers and one for later. But she came up to

me and handed one to me. I was dumbfounded, this was insane! Well... The whole thing was insane

with the whole zombie thing. But this was just indescribable! Unless theirs more than one kind of

zombie, like what had attacked me and Pete in the other building down the way. Or what his friend had

turned into. I didn't want to see what other kind was out there. But before all that, I had to find

somewhere to sleep first I decided. I took the candy, nodding in thanks, and motioned for her to follow

while putting it in one of my pockets. I walked out of the cafeteria and into the lobby with her right

behind me, I thought it might be smarter to sleep on a higher floor in case we where found by the

zombies. I was beginning to feel dizzy and thought it was just me being tired. I went to the top floor

,checking behind me to make sure she was still there periodically, and when we got to the top I told her

to stay there. I assumed that she understood so I checked all the rooms to make sure there where no

infected people or bodies that could get up. I only found one zombie who had no clue I was there and

he was easy to get rid of. But most of the rooms had blood in them and when I found one that didn't, I

went back to get her. When I got back she looked like she was about to start crying again but stopped

when she saw me coming, I beckoned her to follow and she did. When we got back to the room I

picked out I was about to fall over, I hardly managed to open the door and lock it once we were in. It

was a small room that had a bathroom, a window that showed most of the campus, but it was dark and I

couldn't see much, and a bunk bed, I somehow managed to get her to understand what I was about to

do before taking off my sword and falling backwards into the bed and falling asleep before I hit it.