Setting: R**** H*** High School

It is 2:00 pm when panicked voices over the intercom announce a school-wide lockdown, effective immediately. This is not a drill, and the voice says as much. Your class has been caught in the media center, and all exits are quickly locked. You all huddle in a back room of the media center, your reactions ranging from tense to frightened. At 2:10 the intercom crackles on with the voice of the principal, who announces in a grim tone that there are multiple shooters closing in on the school and that under no circumstances should anyone leave the room or building. He specifically instructs teachers to stay away from windows and to keep students away from them as well.

You and your class wait for hours with no news. Trapped in the center of the school, you are situated in an unfortunate deadspot, and the school wifi is down, so no phones can get a signal.

At 7:24pm, a loud crash is heard, followed by the lights flickering. Less than half of the lights turn back on, casting some areas of the room into hazy shadows. The rest of the school is similarly affected. It seems as if the power has been damaged. A few minutes after you heard the crash, you distantly hear pounding on the media center doors. Tentatively, a brave student is elected to venture out and check to see what the problem is.

"Oh my god...."

A few of you, huddled back in the room, ask what is happening. When he doesn't respond, you all rush out of the room to see what had happened. What you see shocks you into silence like your brave classmate.

The doors are smeared with blood. Through the red-tinted glass, you can make out figures biting and ripping apart a sobbing young boy, who stops struggling before your eyes. After a few more moments, the figures cease their violence and walk away, leaving the boy motionless and limp against the door. You continue to stare in shock, unable to believe what had happened, when the impossible happens yet again that day. The boy's limbs tremble and shake before finding the floor. He pushes himself to his feet, blood pouring out of his wounds, and walks away, his left arm dangling limply, only a string of flesh keeping it attached. The arm falls off as he lurches out of sight.

You and your classmates murmur to one another, one word in particular being passed around.

"Zombies..."

[Matt]

"At least there aren't any shooters..."
I'm not sure if it's good or bad that we are in the media center... Many exits, but many entrances. Also, no running water, food, or weapons. Maybe in the back rooms I can find something.
Matt hurries off toward the back rooms, a perplexed expression on his face. Hopefully no one would be dumb enough to open the doors before he could find a working weapon.

[Irene]

"Well, this will be interesting."
Irene warily eyes the other set of doors, the ones leading to the Humanities hall, making sure there were no zombies potentially able to creep up behind everyone.
We need to figure out how these zombies react, as well as their limits and capabilities. But first we'll need weapons, so we can secure other important sections of the school. The gym probably has stuff we can work with.
Irene stands and ponders for a bit, wondering if she could possibly outrun the slow moving zombies outside.

[Ben]

You are in the music technology room. Your teacher has moved you all away from the wall of windows looking out towards the drop-off circle and parking lot.. You could've been surfing the internet if the wifi was working. Similarly, the computers in the room were useless without wifi access to the network accounts. You don't feel particularly safe considering the amount of windows in the room.

About a half an hour passes with silence, until repeated knocks and thumps build up on the windows. Through the closed blinds you see several figures pressed up against the windows, blocking the light and smearing some red substance at some places they touched. Your teacher keeps you away from the windows regardless. You hear several screams and half of the figures at the window walk off. Someone outside screams "KEEP RUNNING!", and several car engines start throughout the next few minutes and you hear them drive off. Your teacher instructs the class to stay put and looks out the window. He peers out for a few seconds through the closed blinds before quickly moving towards the side and running from the window, shouting "They're gonna hit the window!". You hear it quite clearly now, the engine of the car accelerating towards those windows. And the figures still standing by them.

[Irene]

I should probably make a run for it now. Before too many zombies trickle in...
"Guys, please let me in when I come back. I'll have some weapons hopefully."
Irene cautiously opens the door and peeks around. She hears screaming and heavy footsteps climbing the stairs.
Great timing. They shouldn't be able to catch up to me though with that kind of speed.
Tensing her leg muscles, Irene suddenly starts sprinting towards the gym.

[Kate]

Kate looks around, noting that people were starting to spread out. With a slight shake of her head and a sigh, she picks her backpack up and jogs to catch up with Matt.
"Hey, care if I tag along with you?"

[Zoe]

Zoe watches Irene until the doors slam shut again and then drifts back towards the center of the media center.
Maybe I should get out of here. It'll be harder to survive when I'm worrying about everyone else, too
"Guys, I'm going to go see what's going on. Watch the door and be careful. I'll see if I can find any weapons in the classrooms."
She slowly pushes open the door and, after a quick head check, darts out of the media center and heads towards the classrooms.

I like birds

[Shreya]

Should I run after her too?
Shreya slowly creeped forward looking left and right for any zombies which may be lurking about,
The screaming and heavy footsteps seem to be closer than ever, just as she is about to make a run for it a zombie shuffles by her.
Well I guess making a run for it is out of the question
Slowly she turns the the corner and feels a doorknob.
Thank god
She twisted the doorknob and let herself in quickly closing the door behind her.

Hi

[Zoe]

As she sorts through the old boxes in the back room, Zoe hears the door shut behind her. She spins around, trying to peer through the dark to see who--or what--entered the room.
"Hello?"
She slowly reached behind her, her hand groping the counter top for anything even remotely resembling a weapon, anything she could use to defend herself.

Amanda
I watch my friends and classmates leave one by one and contemplates what to do next.
I could go join Zoe now...or tag up with Christine and head out....I could always hide around here and stay put...
"Christine, you wanna go look around?"
I look around the room for Christine before finding her pondering something in the corner

[Matt]

"Yeah sure, Kate. Here, take one of these." He hands Kate a microphone stand and picks one up for himself. "These are light, strong, and we can use them to defend ourselves. Better than nothing anyways..." Matt swings the stand experimentally a few times.

[Ailise]
Ailise crouches under a desk in the corner of the yearbook lab. She has decided to just sit there avoiding contact with everyone outside especially the zombies.

|David|
David awakens after apparently being knocked out... In a room, alone...

"Hello?"
Suddenly Shreya feels someone hit her over the head, as she drifts away she hears someone exclaim
"Oh schniztels!"

Maybe I should just lay here and cry until this all passes over. There isn't much I can do.

Tyler lays down and cries for six hours.

[Irene]

While sprinting, Irene notes that the zombies must not have reached this part of the school-- since the air still smelled fairly normal. If there had been zombies, these hallways would've reeked with the smell of blood and decaying flesh. Slowing down to a stop as she reached the gym doors, Irene knocked on the door.
Hopefully someone will notice...
Banging louder on the door, she stops once she spots the teacher inside jogging slightly towards the door. Irene waits until it opens and quietly slips inside.

[Zoe]

Zoe squinted at the person in front of her.
"Crap! Shreya! Hey, Shreya, wake up!"
She shook Shreya's shoulder, trying to get her to wake up. She had no way to defend both of them if the zombies found the room. She tried to wake Shreya up for a little longer and then shook her head.
I have to get out of here.
Zoe grabbed the only box with weapons and then slipped quietly to the door. It opened with a soft creak and then Zoe was gone, leaving Shreya alone in the black back room.