Username: Tomo2000
Character's Name: Agatha Moore
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Weapons: Metal Pipe, Nail Gun
Pockets(9/10): x40 nails, x1 Small Food, x2 Bottle Water, x1 Flashlight (with batteries).
Descriptions: (If you notice, Agatha is the missing sister of Tom, one of the main characters from the original) School, again. After the term had returned, it was the same seemingly endless loop of boredom for the next ten weeks; sleep, wake up, go to school, go home, repeat. Agatha didn't have too many friends at school, so it wasn't like she went purely to see her friends. Then, one day during the third week of term, everything went to shit. Agatha is rather short; 5 foot 4 inches, and has long, black hair.
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"Get lost, bitch," the girl yelled, pushing Agatha. Her friends laughed at Agatha's misery, ripping through her bag, pulling out books and sheets of paper. "Stop that!" Agatha yelled, trying frantically to get past the bigger girl of the group. These girls were just the kind that you want to fall off the face of the Earth; the bitchy, stuck-up type. They had all come from rich families, and liked to pick on other girls. They were the main bullies of this school.
The bigger girl, Samantha, grabbed Agatha by the arm when she went to charge her and, effortlessly, tossed her away. Agatha hit the concrete and rolled, scrapping her elbows and knees in the process. The girls mocked her as they continued going through her books, most likely for anything they could use against her later. They were near Agatha's next class; Manual Arts or, as it was commonly called, Metal Works. It was just a class to build little tiny nic-naks. Most people saw it as a class where minimum effort was required to pass, while Agatha enjoyed making the tools to the best of her ability.
"This page has a heart on it!" one of the girls yelled, waving a folded piece of paper in the air. On the verge of tears, Agatha knew what she had to do. She got up and went to charge Samantha again, but, when Samantha went to grab her, skidded through the gap between her legs, her short size allowing her to manage this feat. The other girls looked at her in shock, but were too slow to react when Agatha regained her feet, snatched the paper from Caitlyn's hand and kept running.
"After her!" Caitlyn demanded Samantha, and the girls chased her towards the workshop. Agatha, being a rather sporty girl, reached the workshop much faster than the other girls, who, apart form Samantha, probably hadn't run since the cross country last year.
Agatha quickly stumbled into her class, which, since it was first recess, was completely empty, and instinct took over, and she searched the workshop for a suitable weapon. Agatha didn't even know where the idea came from, but she was sure that, if she didn't defend herself, the other girls would beat her black and blue. Again.
A metal pipe was sitting beside the teacher's desk, probably for opening the rusted door to the storage room. Agatha picked it up in both hands, finding it surprisingly light, and waited.
-- An hour later --
The metal pipe now sat on the principle's desk, with small blood stains visible on the heavier end of it. Agatha sat on a chair facing the principle and the school-based police officer. "You know that this is assault, right?" the police women said, writing down information from Agatha's school file.
"They started it!" Agatha cried desperately. Cristine, the police officer, just frowned. "Regardless of who started it, you were the one who took the most drastic measure. It goes beyond self defense in this case, I'm afraid."
Agatha fought to keep tears away. "Look," Cristine said, "If you're lucky, and since you're under eighteen, you might, and I emphasise MIGHT, be able to just get off with a warning, and maybe a small fine of some description. If not, you may be sent to Juvy."
Juvy was the term for the school where kids who had broken the law went to. If anything, it should be the four girls that had jumped her rather than her needing to go but, regardless, Agatha wasn't in any position to argue in her defense. "Go to class, okay?" Cristine said, "This'll take a few hours to even get to any decisions, so the best you can do is continue your studies and hope for the best."
At least this class was Manual Arts, one of her more favorable classes. The teacher was absent, however. Something about being sick with some kind of really bad flu. Come to think of it, lots of people were getting sick recently...
Then, suddenly, the door burst open and Cristine stumbled in, bleeding from the leg. "Something's wrong!" she said, ripping off her sleeve to stop the blood gushing from her leg. Everybody suddenly panicked. Agatha quickly ran to see what had happened to Cristine. "One of the teachers.." she said, looking sickly pale and breathing heavily, "Was looking.. really bad.. I asked if they needed help, and.. and he fell over. Then, when I went to help pick him up, he lurched forwards and bit me in the leg.."
Agatha and her brother had seen enough movies to know what was going on at this point. "How many more were there?" she asked Cristine. Cristine just shook her head; "Lots."
Cristine shifted her bleeding leg, crying in agony as she did so, and took her pistol out of her holster. "Listen," she said, handing the gun to Agatha, "I know what happens next. I turn into one of them... I'd like to remember my last memory of being human, rather than being a monster."
Agatha nodded, and cocked the small pistol. "Thanks." Cristine said. Then a gunshot shook the entire room.
Agatha's hands shook violently, but she knew that she had to find her brother and get out of the school. She ejected the clip in dismay, only to find that there were two bullets left. She quickly searched Cristine's smiling body for any more bullets, but only found a flashlight. Then she realized what she could use.
Her and one of her acquaintances from class, Andrew, both heaved the metal pipe to open the storage room door open. The rusted hinges creaked as the door slowly opened outwards. Metal and wood lined the walls of the room, with tools scattered in small boxes around the floor. Agatha had been in here many times, and knew what she was looking for.
Near the back of the store room was a gas-operated nail gun. It wasn't one of the cord ones, so it would be easy to carry around and use in self defense. Agatha had seen High School of the Dead, a Japanese anime in which an entire town quickly becomes infected while the main characters are at school, and that had sparked this idea.
Her brother wasn't at school, and said he was going to be hanging with a few mates at.. either the mall or the shopping center. Agatha cursed herself for not remembering which, but decided it was most likely that he'd be at the mall, so, once she cleared the school, that's where she'd go.
There was a scream, and Agatha woke up, her makeshift bed and pillow drenched in sweat. She heard the found of distant running footsteps, and then they stopped, and the sound of ripping flesh began. Agatha, when searching the mall, had managed to close the shutters of a news agency before the entire mall had become infected, which was just a bit over a day ago. Cristine's gun lay beside her, the clip empty, a memorabilia of complete safety, and things before they got worse.
Since she had remained completely silent, no zombies had managed to find her inside the news agency, and most people had died before getting this close. Agatha's stomach growled, and she opened the last item of food she managed to find in bags of her fellow students. She had managed to find a can of spaghetti and two bottles of water from backpacks outside her class, but searching any others may have been costly.
Completely disregarding the plastic fork attached to the side of the can, Agatha opened the can and ate with her hands, too hungry to waste a few seconds to take the plastic fork out of its plastic packet. The zombie that had awaited Agatha's arrival now sat outside, a nail through its neck, laying in a large bloody pile. It was a complete fluke that Agatha had got it in the jugular. It was even more of a fluke that zombies could either suffocate and bleed to death. Agatha's just lucky that they are still physically human, and not super-human, like in some movies.
She knew she had to leave soon, maybe jump to another small shop nearby. She still had a few dozen nails left and her trusty metal pipe. It was just a matter of time before she either worked up the courage or her hunger worked it up for her.