Pastel Meltdown

confusion of thy actions is a miracle sent from hell

“Guards remove yourselves right this instant,” Celestia ordered. Without hesitation, the guards got off of Bill and went back into formation.

Bill ignored this and as soon as he was free, he ran after the road flare yelling ‘no’ over and over again.

The guards took it as a threatening act and chased him again trying to tackle him, Bill managed to grab the flare and throw it into the water just as the guards tackled him a second time.

********** Moments earlier **********

The three survivors managed to catch sight of Bill as he got up into a standing position, guards flocking back to the white horse. They didn’t know what that meant, but regardless, Francis made an attempt to go out there and shoot everything in sight before Zoey stopped him.

In a hushed tone he said: “Hey, why are you stopping me from saving Bill?!”

She just shushed him and pointed towards the group again. They saw something that none of the three had expected, Bill threw the flare into the water.

They kept staring for a short while longer before Francis spoke up, “The fuck is he thinking? Old man’s lost his mind, and that’s saying something.”

Zoey silenced him before whispering. “We need to get a closer look, maybe if we could hear what they were saying, we could see why he threw it. If worst comes to pass, you can make a game out of how many of ‘em you can shoot.”

Francis huffed out of irritation but otherwise complied. “So how we gonna get closer then, Zoe?”

“I don’t know” She sighed depressingly.

Louis decided it was a good time to pipe in. “Well, I don’t know ‘bout y’all, but I think that patch of grass is tall enough to hide us,” Louis pointed over to some nearby unkempt grass.

“Great then, Einstein. Care to tell us how we’re gonna get close enough to hide there?” Francis sneered at him, grasping his shotgun’s handle in the process.

Louis looked to be in thought for a minute before speaking up. “Well.. we could probably just crawl over to the grass. I mean, they’re pretty distracted with Bill right now.”

Seeing as this was their only choice, the other two nodded to Louis and decided to crawl across the dust inlaid road.

As they got closer the voices became clearer and clearer.

“.....-old on! Your guards may have nearly killed you all when that flare started!”

“Explain yourself stranger, what was that thing for!? Why did it light up like that?” One of the guards said as he got his spear closer to Bill’s chest.

The survivors were ready with their weapons, waiting for when things would go south. Suddenly, a loud ‘boom’ was heard and the guard flew back, unconscious. Upon the place where the guard once stood, was a bright jagged light almost as tall as Celestia. It started to stretch and made a look of a crumpled paper with a hole being made in it.

A strange looking zombie stood forcing the hole open. Bill saw this and backed away at a brisk pace yelling: “Get back! Get back if you want to live!”

Most of which did as Bill had said, but a few of the cockier guards stood their ground and surrounded the undead mutation. It fell to the ground through the opening and screeched in anger before taking sight of the living beings near it.

The creature got to its feet and slowly started shuffling towards the guards. Still confident, the guards responded with a verbal warning. “Stay where you are monster! Do as we say, or else!” The guard yelled. The mutant just ignored this and continued for the guard that had spoke up.

The guards started to look uneasily to one another as the head guard tried to stay his ground. Once the undead monster was close enough, the guard took the chance and lunged his weapon into the creatures heart, where it stopped moving. For a moment, the guards had thought it was no big deal and they worried for nothing; Until it started moving again, hand on the spear where it was impaled.

The creature ripped it out of its chest along with its own heart and continued its motion towards the guard. The guards were now nervously backing away from it, Bill decided to speak up while they were doing so “Could use my gun about now if you don’t mind!” Bill turned towards a large patch of grass where the survivors were hiding.

They got the message and promptly jumped to their feet, tossing Bill his m16. Bill grabbed it out of the air and rushed towards the slow moving zombie. He stopped a few feet from it and with a ‘click’ his safety was off. Aiming down the sights he shot the undead with a semi auto shot to the forehead causing it to fall to the ground, dead.

“Well, looks like nowhere is safe now for sure,” Bill muttered aloud as he stared down at the corpse.

Before any kind of response could be made, a small group of regular zombies started to run through the open portal. A good twelve zombies made it through while another had its head severed when the portal closed on it.

Bill started to make a backwards run as he shot at them. The survivors ran to him to give him covering fire as he was the only one close enough to get targeted by the zombies.

Francis was the first to get in range and ran straight for the crowd of zombies, shotgun in his right hand. He threw his arm forward and slammed the barrel of the gun into the lead zombies face; Before he pulled the trigger and sent three zombies to their deaths.

Two zombies broke away from the others the survivors were fighting and went straight for the guards, whom were trying to look tough and stay in front of all the “civilians”. They started getting nervous and antsy when the two zombies got so close so fast. They stabbed them in the chest just like before and the rest of the guards tried to help. This was a huge mistake; The first zombie fell down to the ground and they retracted their weapons from the undead. As soon as they did this it started crawling frantically and jumped onto the nearest guard and started chewing up his face. With a scream of pain, the guard fell to the ground, a bullet came flying and hit the zombie in the head shortly after; While it was distracted eating the guard’s brain.

The other zombie, the guards managed to hit a spear straight in its head, killing it for sure; After retracting their spears, they went in and kept stabbing the zombie to make sure it was dead. By the time they stopped, it wasn’t even recognizable of what it used to be, now it was just a pile of meat.

The zombies stopped their assault upon them and it went quite fast.

Celestia spoke up after a few minutes of silence. “You four will explain everything to me at the castle, understood?” She glared at each of the four survivors and then stopped and faced Bill.

Bill looked at his fellow comrades for a minute before turning back to Celestia and speaking up. “Yes, of course, I wouldn’t think of anything better now that things have changed.”