Everything went dark – Prologue

She hugged her knees into her chest, hoping that it would all go away. Her eyes were red and irritated from all the dust, and from crying. She looked up at her parents, her mother gave her a sign to be quite. After a long day they had finely managed to find a place they could be safe – for now.

She looked around and realized that they were hiding in an old house, it was hard to tell what room they were supposed to be in. The walls where falling apart, and the roof had huge holes in it and didn’t shield them from the rain.

Suddenly she could hear something that came closer. She tried to sneak a peek at it, and to her surprise it was one of them. It looked like it was supposed to be a man, she couldn’t define his age – All this clothes were ripped, and most of his skin were gone from his face. The skin that was left had a gray tone to it, and he had many bloodstains all over his body. The most terrifying sound came from this monster. His moans were sending chills down her spine.

In the distance she could see a car coming closer. It looked like a military car, and she thought for just a moment that they would be rescued. As the car got closer she could see two soldiers inside the car. They stopped just about 10 meters away from them. Before any of her parents could stop her she started waving at the soldiers and screamed for help.

Both soldiers had their rifles ready and were now aiming directly at them. Before the soldiers could do anything else, the zombies came out from their hiding places. The soldiers had to shoot the zombies, as they were getting closer to their vehicle.

Her dad looked at her with his eyes wide open, he knew what was going to happen next. He quickly grabbed his wife’s hand and yelled “RUN!”. She saw a little crack in the wall, and decided to run through that. She knew in the back of her mind, that her parents couldn’t run the same direction, but she had to try and get away.

The noise made more of the zombies follow them, and suddenly there where a horde after them. She looked behind and saw her parents far behind her. “Run to the wall!” Her mother yelled at her. She looked straight up and saw that the wall was not that far away. Tears began to fill her eyes and it was difficult to see anything.

She knew that they would help her if they could see that she wasn’t a zombie. The sound of a car behind them became clearer as most of the zombies were shot by the soldiers. They still ran towards the wall for safety. The car was in position from their left, and one of the soldiers took an aim at them. Suddenly there were gunshots, but she didn’t feel anything. She looked down expecting that her legs couldn’t carry her anymore, but they just kept running. She looked behind her, as she was getting closer to the wall.

Both her parents were down on the ground, and not moving at all. Tears began to roll down her checks. At the same moment her hands touched the front gate, her eyes were begging for help to be saved. The man at the gate looked at her with a strange look. He turned around and looked at what could be his lieutenant.

“We have been ordered to kill everyone outside, so kill her” He said with no emotions in his voice, without even looking at her. The first man turned around and looked straight at her and mumbled “I’m sorry”. He took up his rifle and aimed at her, there were a big flash of light – And then suddenly everything went dark.

This is the prologue of a story I'm currently working on, please leave a comment with any criticism that you might have :)