Left Alone (Slight Violence)

[OctoberNights]

The crunching of the leaves was the only thing heard for miles as the horse galloped in the forest, a girl riding it.
"Whaaaa!" She screamed as the horse suddenly stopped and stood on it back legs. The girl fell off. She sprang up quickly and grabbed the reins of the horse before it could run off.
"Whoa girl, calm down." She said to the horse. She walked forward to see why the horse stopped and found herself looking at a small agitated river. She sighed.
"Danica you stupid girl!" she said to herself. "Pay attention next time." Danica grabbed the reins of the horse, and began walking with her along the river.
"Well, horse," she began,
"I've had you for a couple of weeks now, I think you need a name." The horse only snorted. As she walked along the river, Danica started muttering possible names when she thought of one she liked and said it out loud,
"Cloud!" She looked at the horse, who obviously didn't care.
"Well Cloud, I think we should start to get to know each other." she said, still looking for a way to cross the river.
"I'm 16 and originally from New Jersey. Well, I don't even know if we've left yet." Danica lightly laughed at that.
"I was a freshman in high school when this all started. This... mess. You see, when all this started, no one in New Jersey really cared. It was all the way across the state in Washington. Hell, me and some of my friends even started making jokes of how could it would be, a zombie apocalypse.
"But when it started getting closer, that's when everyone realized how bad it was getting. Especially when it hit in North Virginia. But before that everyone was starting to pair off in groups. I was alone at first, until my one friend Mike had a fight with his friends. We kinda started hanging out more, then after being sick for a while Joe came back and started sticking with us. And finally came Bailey. She didn't have a group and was my friend since 6th grade. And there was are group, two freshman, one sophomore, and one senior. And that was school. Everyone was in their own groups and hardly anyone talked to one another unless you were in the same group." Danica sighed and brushed some of her blonde hair out of her face.
"That was school..." she sighed. She stopped talking and continued walking with her horse. Only stopping when Cloud wanted to drink or eat grass.
"Well, we're here." she said as they came upon a fallen tree..
"I'll go first." she said to the horse. She carefully walked across the tree, hoping it wouldn't roll as she crossed.
"There!" She said when she was over.
"Come on Cloud!" she said. Danica was still holding the reins over the river and tugged on them to encourage Cloud to come over. Cloud slowly started walking on the tree.
"There we go. Almost there. You can do it girl!" Danica said encouragingly to the horse as she crossed. It was going well until at the end, Cloud slipped and panicked. She partly fell in river and pulled herself out, nearly dragging Danica when she tried to run away.
"Calm down Cloud!" she said, trying to keep from running. Cloud soon calmed down after dragging Danica a couple of feet.
"Well, let's go!" Danica said, hoping back on Cloud. "I saw a sign before the river that said there was a town a couple of miles from here. Everything seems to be going gre-... Never mind!" Danica said slightly worriedly as she saw what looked like six or so zombies heading towards her and Cloud...
I know the first part isn't much, but I have more planned for this story. Should I continue?

[OctoberNights]

Bump...

[Cynthia]

I love it so far!

[Mrs. House]

Cool!

[OctoberNights]

Thank you ^~^
(@Hawaii5-0 I love your story ^~^)

[Mrs. House]

Thanks...... I think yours is better, though.....

[OctoberNights]

No, I like yours a lot more ^~^
Continued...
Danica slowly reached down and felt for her gun, only to freeze when she realized it was no longer there. It must've fallen with some other things when Cloud freaked at the river. She pulled back on the reins, making Cloud slowly back up. She started looking around, and quickly found what she was looking for, a tree with a large, low hanging branch. She led Cloud slowly away, with the zombies still walking towards them. With all her strength, Danica broke the branch, and set it so it was evenly balanced on Clouds back and in front of Danica. With one hand on the branch, and one hand on the reins, she tugged the horses reins so she would walk faster away, and Danica made her turn around. Giving Cloud a hard tug of the reins, Cloud ran full speed towards the center of zombies. It was over quickly. All zombies were either fallen or decapitated. Danica made sure to circle around and trample the zombies before continuing on. A few feet forward Danica pushed the branch off of Cloud's back. Walking away, she looked down at her horse. Her beautiful white pelt with light gray spots was now also spotted with blood and mud.
"Oh Cloud," Danica said, "Maybe we'll find a ranch somewhere in this town. Get you all cleaned up." she patted the horses head.Her luck seemed to be turning for the better when she spotted a field with a barn and a stable ahead.
"Let's go!" she said happily to Cloud, who seemed to take the hint and walked faster towards the stable.
"Here we go!" Danica said, jumping off when Cloud was still walking forward. She started looking around. There didn't seem to be a house anywhere near. Just a barn, a stable, and a few chicken coops close by, and a manual water pump which meant a well close by. No animals though.
"Zombies..." she muttered seeing how empty the place was. She found a bucket near the horse stable, and walked to the water pump. First thing first, she filled her water bottles and then the bucket. Heaving it up, and trying not to spill it, she walked backed to where Cloud was eating some tall grass next to barn. She took a was cloth she found next to the bucket, dipped it in the bucket and started to wash Cloud. She didn't like the cold water at first, but continued eating. It wasn't long before practically all the blood and mud was gone.
"It's not a proper wash, but at least all the mud and blood is off." Danica said. She looked at the sky. It was starting to become purple, and the sun was setting. It was gonna be dark soon. Danica led Cloud into the stable and tied her up, then stealing hay from the barn, made a makeshift bed right outside Cloud's stall.
"Hmm, I never finished my story earlier did I?" Danica asked, half to Cloud, half to herself.
"You're probably wondering why, when I talked so much about groups, I'm no longer in one? Well, it was the summer after it all started. Joe had graduated and got his drivers license. There had been more reports of zombies now. Turns out there wasn't much success containing this entire thing. Heheh, guess when the first zombie was sighted in New Jersey, they made a joke anout who it was to make people feel better. Hehehe, they joked it was some guy from the Jersey Shore. Vinny the Situation or something like that. I never really watched the show, or liked it for that matter.
"Well, it made some people laugh. Others, who were big fans of the show, freaked out. That was the only slightly funny thing that happened. Then there was a wave of zombies, and things got worse. It turns out me and all my friends had family in other states, and well, our parents wanted to know how they were. My older sister was married and living in Texas, and my little sister had gone and left without a word. I still don't know what happened to her. Bailey was an only child, Joe had an older brother in Arkansas and Mike's little brother and sister were to young to go anywhere. The rest were cousins, grandparents, etc so we would go see how my sister an Joe's brother were first. And so we be..gan our jour..ney..." Danica started yawning.
"I'll tell you the rest in the morning." Danica said to Cloud, who seemed to be asleep. She stretched out and fell asleep looking at the beautiful night sky through the open stable door.
Danica jolted awake when she heard Cloud stomping around and neighing. She got up and tried to calm her down.
"What's wrong girl?" she asked when she heard something shuffling around. She saw a zombie walking towards her. She picked up the bucket which she had brought in the stable with her. She quickly hit the zombie in the head with it causing it to fall down. She was going to impale it when she felt something bite down on her shoulder and leg. She freaked out, and quickly spun around hitting both zombies. She quickly forcefully hit all three zombies in the head. She fell against the wall, too afraid to look at where she had been bitten. What if I was bit? WHAT IF I WAS BIT!?!? was the only thing that ran through her head as she slowly looked left at her shoulder...
Cliff hanger...

[Mrs. House]

Nooooo cliff hanger!!!!

[OctoberNights]

Yesss cliff hanger XP

[OctoberNights]

Continuing...
Danica jolted awake, heart racing. She started shivering when she remembered her dream, and slowly looked at her shoulder. She sighed with relief. It was only a dream. Just to be careful she looked at her leg. She laid back down, but couldn't sleep. With a sigh, she sat up and looked around. Cloud was still sleeping, and the sun was only rising. She walked out of the stable and took her bag with her. Looking around she sat against the wall of the stable. She closed her eyes, and when she opened them she wasn't outside, but in a bed in a house. An elderly woman was a few feet away reading a book. Danica slowly sat up and looked around. Slowly she met her own eyes in a mirror on a dresser, but didn't recognize herself. Her hair was down, she had a bandage over her eye, a few cuts on her face and her arm in an ace bandage. It took a moment, but she soon realized it was her. The woman looked up at her.
"Oh, you're awake. You had us scared." Danica looked at her, not sure what to say.
"I'm Maria. And I know your name, Danica. We found your wallet when we found you."
"We?" was the only thing Danica could get out.
"Yeah," Maria said. "me and the other towns people. Well, what's left of us." Danica watched as Maria slowly took a platter of food of the dresser and put it in front of her.
"Where's Mike, Joe and Bailey?" Danica asked. Maria looked at her confused.
"Who?"
"You know," Danica said.
"The people who were with me." Maria stared at her confused.
"There was no one with you. We saw you walking out of the zombie hold. Me and my husband were there, and he freaked out and shot you. Thought you were a zombie." Danica stared at her confused. Maria sighed. "The place where we keep our zombies. Better than trying to kill them all." At that moment it all came back to Danica. She, Mike, Joe and Bailey had just arrived in this town. At first they all thought it was deserted when Joe thought he heard noises coming from a small church. They slowly walked forward and Joe opened the doors. They walked in, but before they did Danica dropped her stuff outside the door. At first they heard and saw nothing, until the doors shut. Mike quickly ran back and tried to open them.
"Damn! They must automatically lock on the other side."
"There has to be another way out." Bailey, said trying to optimistic. That's when they heard the moans. They could make out slow moving people through the low light the windows were giving. Slowly they all back towards the door.
"Danica," Joe said.
"Where's your bag? We might need that knife I gave you." Danica sighed.
"I left it outside." Joe cursed under his breath.
"Why would we need Danica's knife? We have guns?" Bailey asked, pointing hers forward.
"To try and unlock the door." Mike said, firing a shot. The zombies started coming closer.
"Danica!" she looked over as Joe called her name, throwing her a gun. Quickly she undid the safety and fired at one in front of her. It wasn't long before they were running low on ammo.
"We have to make these shots count!" Joe said. They were more spread out now, but there were still many zombies.
"In this light? Yeah right!" Bailey said, making another shot.
"Someone has to run forward and see if we can get out." Mike said, re-loading.
"That's dangerous! What if someone gets shot, bitten, or killed!?" Joe said.
"We're gonna die anyway if we just stand here and waste out ammo!" Danica said.
"We should at least try! I'll go!" she started walking forward when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Danica..." Joe said looking her in the eyes.
"I'll be fine." she said.
"It's you guys we should be worrying about.
"Be safe." Joe said, hugging her. He let go, and Danica rushed forward. She wasn't far ahead when she felt zombies starting to swarm. It was a good thing she was wearing layers of clothes. She felt bites, but none of them got through. She started beating them of with her fists and guns when soon she at the other side. She quickly turned around and shot the zombies around her to give herself more room. She heard more shots which weren't hers which comforted her a little. She inched along the wall when she felt a door handle and quickly opened it a little. She felt a rush of cool air.
"I found a door!" She screamed as loud as she could, hoping her friends might have heard her. She opened the door and rushed out when she felt a strong stinging pain on the side of her head and blacked out.
Danica screamed as she awoke, still sitting against the side of the stable, but the sun had risen more. It wasn't the first time she had that dream, the memory of that fateful day, but every time she did the pain was the same. Quickly she grabbed her bag and pulled out a water bottle and drank some. She still had one hand in her bag and felt something fall towards it. She gripped it and puled it out. It was the knife Joe gave her. It wasn't anything special. Just a black knife that flipped out. The only difference; it had her and Joe's initials scratched in. She let a few tears slip out before standing up, bag on her back, and wiping them off. She walked back in the stable and untied Cloud who was eating some hay.
"Come on girl." she said leading her forward.
"We have to move forward." Danica hoped on Cloud's back. She felt her stomach rumble and reached in her bag. She grabbed two granola bars out of a box of them she had found awhile ago and started eating. She looked down at Cloud as she rode her. From the moment she found Cloud alone tied to a random post in a field she knew she wasn't a regular horse. Her pelt was too groomed and looked like it rarely got dirty. And she already knew how to jump tall objects and commands. Danica patted Cloud's head.
"I bet you were a show horse. Probably always got first place." She talked to Cloud as if she could understand. it wasn't long before they came upon a sign covered in ivy. Danica jumped off and walked forward leading Cloud with her. She pulled the ivy off and read the sign out lout.
"Morris Town. 247 dead and counting. 15 Miles" Danica laughed seeing someone had crossed of "People Living Here" and put "Dead there instead.
"We are definitely going here." she said, jumping back on Cloud's back.

(Sorry if it's long. A lot of speaking in this part ^^")