The world is a strange place... sometimes it can bring love and joy, but sometimes, when you aren't looking, the world will turn its back on you.

My world was torn away from me in the blink of an eye, everything I ever knew was ripped away from me.

My name is Josh Cameron, and this is my story...

A loud ringing sound blares through the hallways as students file into their classes. It's just another boring day at another boring school. I walk into math just wishing that I could leave already and head on over to football.

"Good morning students! I hope you did your homework last night, it will count as a quiz grade today."
Well shit my laziness will be the death of me today, I never even attempted to do that assignment.

"Uh, Ms. Smith, can I go to the restroom for a moment?" I ask hoping I can get my work done there so I don't fail this class again. I'm actually one of the top students in my grade, I'm just a lazy fuck who hates work.

"Fine, go ahead Josh, but hurry back!" the teacher says.

I hurry on out into the hallway, books in hand ready to rush through my work in hope to get atleast a passing grade.

I reach the bathroom door, but before I can open it, a blood curdling scream emits from the girls bathroom. Now I know it's against school policy for me to enter the girls bathroom, but this sounds serious enough that I have to just say "Fuck the rules."

I rush into the girls room just in time to see... "What in the living hell?!" There was what appeared to be what was left of a torn up student eating another girl on the bathroom floor!

"Wha... What the fuck!?" What the hell is happening? What is this thing? Without thinking I jump into action and tackle the mangled student off the girl on the floor. The dead-looking creature turned its head towards me and began trying to bite me!

"I have to kill this thing" is my only thought as I held its head to the ground. I look into a stall and see a plunger with a metal handle that looked like it could do some real damage. I leaped off the creature and rushed for the plunger, then returned to the creature, new weapon in hand.

I begin beating the crap out of the thing but it doesn't even flinch, it just keeps coming at me! I finally turn the plunger around and plunge it into the thing's skull (see what I did there?)

"Yeah! Take that motherfucker!"

That's when I remember the girl on the floor. I turn around... only to find that the girl is now standing just inches behind me, trying to bite me just like the other creature. "Oh shit!" Is all I can say before it leans on me and knocks me to the ground. I hold its neck at bay just inches from my neck, but I can't hold it forever. I reach for the plunger and began beating the second creature's skull in.

I push the body off of me and sprint out into the hallway where I see all of hell being released in the school. Those creatures are everywhere, students are running for their lives, it looks like a straight up apocalypse out here. I realize what exactly is going on when I turn the corner towards the exit. Students are being eaten alive right in front of my eyes, and whats worse is that when they die, they don't stay down for long. The corpses of the students who were unlucky enough to get themselves killed are rising up and attacking those still alive!

"Josh! Get in here now!" I hear a voice yell at me from down the hall. My best friend Austin's little sister Amber is in the security office's doorway waving at me with a horrified look on her face. I rush into the room as dozens of undead creatures stumble behind me. I slam the door shut just as the first walker (I think that is what I'm going to call them) runs into the glass panel beside the door.

"Shit that won't hold forever, we need a barricade." I state as I look around the small room for something that could work as a blockade. "What about this?" Amber asks. "Perfect, you just saved our damn lives." I say in excitement as I see what she is pointing at. On the opposite side of the room is a large metal desk with a bunch of files on top of it.

"Ok on the count of three I need you to push, got it?" I tell her in a calm tone knowing the must be scared shitless by the situation at hand.

"Got it." She tells me. "Ok here we go, three, two, one!" We begin pushing the desk towards the glass panel just as its starting to crack near the floor. We get the desk propped up at just the right angle to where the desk it covering the entirety of the panel.

"Josh, what's happening?" Amber asks nearly breaking down into tears. The poor kid, shes only twelve and shes already seen more shit than any man should ever see, much less an innocent kid.

"Shit, um..." is all i can reply before I hear the hinges on the door starting to bend. We don't have much time left in here.

"We need a weapon, search the room and find me something useful please." I demand as we start frantically searching the room. Then I remember one very crucial fact about the room we're currently in. This is the school's security room, there just might be a gun or at the very least some sort of taser we can use.

"Found something!" Amber shouts as she opens a cabinet in the back of the room. Inside the cabinet has to be the single greatest thing I have ever seen in my entire life, the thing that could save both of our sorry asses. Inside the cabinet is a lone revolver with two boxes of ammo.

"Damn, I've never been so glad to live in this shitty town." I mumble to myself. My town has an extremely high crime rate so its no wonder that the school would keep such a thing inside the premise. The walkers finally break through the door and start stumbling towards me one or two at a time.

"Shit! Get behind me!" Is the last thing I yell to Amber before bringing up the gun and firing at the first walker. If I learned anything from my experience in the bathroom, its that the only way to kill one of these things is to destroy the head. The first bullet hits home right between a walker's eyes. I watch in disgust as it falls to the ground with a soft thud. I bring the gun up again and shoot the remaining five rounds into the walkers behind it, each bullet hitting home with extreme accuracy which is strange considering I've never shot a real gun before.

"Ok lets run!" I yell as I pocket the remaining ammo boxes. I reload as quickly as possible then grab Amber and run out the door only to be stopped in my tracks by what looked to be at least fifty walkers. "Shit shit shit..." I have no idea where to run until Amber pulls me down a narrower hallway that leads straight to an exit.

"Ok go go go!" I scream as we run for the door. There are two or three walkers in the hallway that notice us coming, but they soon drop dead as I unload into them. We reach the door only to find its jammed. To make things worse we are at a dead end with fifty or so walkers coming up on our asses.

"Amber... look at me" I say calmly as I get in on one knee and look at her sorrowfully. "I need you to stave brave and help me with this or... bad things will happen. You understand me?"

"Y-Yes I do" She says weakly pushing back tears. "Good now help me push this door as hard as you can ok?" We begin pushing the door as hard as humanly possible while the walkers get ever so closer to us. When the walkers are only a couple of feet from grabbing us the door flys open with a final push. Sunlight pours in and we run out.

The parking lot is very close by so I grab Amber by the arm and make a full sprint to my truck. When we finally arrive I fumble for my keys as hundreds or maybe thousands of walkers begin to swarm in around us. Amber starts screaming when she realizes whats happening around us, but luckily I get the passenger door open and toss her inside without even getting her consent. I jump into the driver's seat and start the engine. The truck comes to life with a loud roar as I press as hard as I can on the gas pedal. We speed through the parking lot, running through several walkers on the way. I can see a few students who were lucky enough to make it out of the gym with sporting equipment for weapons running towards the truck waving us down. I pull up next to them as I lower the window and yell at them to get in. The five of them hop in the back of the truck as I speed out of the parking lot onto the abandoned road outside the school.

I drive in silence for about ten minutes, thinking about what I just went through and if it could all be real. When we finally reach the highway, I can see what looks like hundreds of burned down or abandoned cars piled up on the road. Walkers are everywhere and faint screams can be heard in the distance. I being slowly maneuvering through the cars and walkers, the students in the back fighting off any that tried to climb aboard.

"Holy shit..." Is all I can say when I reach the end of the highway and see a burning Miami in the distance. My home... gone, burnt to a crisp, destroyed by those damned creatures.

I wipe a tear away from my eye and floor it towards Miami not knowing I was driving into the heart of hell itself.

Author's Note

Wow, first chapter and this is already getting really fun to right!
Just to clear a few things up, there are a few things about the story that you should know

1. The earth in this story is in the same universe as The Walking Dead, so all rules from that show apply to the earth section of this story, such as how everybody has the disease and if they die from anything except being shot in the head, they will become a walker.

2. The first two or three chapters will take place on Earth, after that however, the story will transition over to the MLP section.

I really, really hope you enjoy this story as I hope to continue it for a while down the road. :)