9. Zombies inside

In just a second, the patient was devoured by the zombie. The soldier couldn’t kill it because everyone had panicked already. The survivors run to a different side of the room. August was pushed at the door because he was very shocked by what happened.

“Open this door! Let us go!”

“Zombies! They are coming!”

“Open up!”

The survivors kept on banging on the door. August tried to push the man in front of him. He used force until he reached the side and he fell down on the ground. He took a deep breath and stood up again. He blinked and saw his companions were still above the court. They were all scattered inside. He decided to walk to the hallway connecting to the other side of the Coliseum. There were survivors running from that direction. But he didn’t let them push him again.

August saw that Carla and Nicka were nearing him when he was about to go to court again.

“Carla!” he shouted.

“August? Where are you?!” Carla shouted back.

August tried looking at the wave of people. He saw her outside and was already fighting a zombie.

“Shit!”

“Ate Carla!” Nicka cried.

“System, knife.”

A knife came out of August’s hand. He approached Carla and stabbed the head of the zombie. Then he took Nicka who was sitting on the floor.

“Are you both okay?” he asked. He saw that there were bodies on the ground already. And some of it was slowly moving. August gave Carla and Nicka a knife.

“W-We need to get out of here!” Carla exclaimed.

“System. Map.”

The map came out in front of him. There were five entrances to the coliseum, two for the viewers or fans, one above if the seats were located upstairs, one for VIPs, and one for employees.

“August! Let’s go!”

“Follow me!”

August walked to the back of the Coliseum. Carla and Nicka then followed him. But he noticed that Joseph and Leo were still above. He stopped and looked around.

“What’s wrong?”

“Leo and Joseph.” August saw Leo staring only at the court. He could see the shock in his eyes, while Joseph was already going down. August called for both of them. Luckily, they noticed him and immediately went to them.

The five of them went to the back of the Coliseum. Usually, the soldiers never let them go there. But the soldiers were ignoring them already. The screams were becoming louder. The soldiers were already firing at the zombies.

“Where are we going?” asked Joseph.

“We need to get out of here and get Jude.”

“Where is he?” Carla said.

“He is outside—” August suddenly stopped when he realized that Jude was not at the entrance anymore. He was running away from the Coliseum. Because of the noise, zombies began to flock to the building. “We need to move faster!”

They run and run until they get out of the building. They all stopped running.

“Wait! Are we going to leave them there?” Carla stopped.

“We cannot do anything for them, Carla. What we need to do is save Jude!” August answered.

“B-But they will turn.”

“The soldiers are inside. They can save them all,” Joseph said.

Carla looked at the door as they went out. Soldiers were running inside. There were some survivors going out too. She sighed.

“Okay. Let’s go!”

The five of them ran again. The soldiers had barricaded the place with steel. He could see the zombies from other places that were already going into the building. August blinked and saw Jude going to the highway. He stopped at a place and saw that there were zombies nearing him.

“Let’s go!”

August runs faster. The road was already cleared. The soldiers removed the cars and put them on the other side of the road. It also served as a barrier against the zombies near the coliseum. August saw Jude from afar. He was standing in the middle of the road, while looking at the zombies ahead.

“Jude!” Leo shouted.

Jude looked at them. He ran back to them. He was gasping for air.

“Jude! What happened to you?” asked Carla.

August frowned when he saw that Jude had bruises on his face. “What happened to you?”

“We don’t have time. There are zombies coming!” Nicka said. She was looking around.

More zombies were going in different directions. August blinked, and the map showed up. And it was true, more zombies were coming to them because of the noises at the coliseum. There were soldiers firing outside, too. The doors were already opened, and the rushing survivors came out.

“There! Let’s go to the cars!” Carla pointed at the cars on the other side of the road.

They immediately went there and climbed up. There were zombies inside the cars too, pounding the windows. But that was the least of their concerns. When they were already on the roofs of the cars, August saw on the other side that there were zombies coming toward them.

“Shit! We need to find a safe place!”

“Mission completed. Go to this building for safety,” the system said. Then August saw a building just in front of them with a red flag above. But the problem was that there were zombies on their way.

“Is there any other way?!” August exclaimed. But the system did not answer him. He grunted and shook his head.

“W-We are going to die,” Nicka cried. Carla went to her and hugged her.

“No. We are not.”

August sighed. “We need to get there.” He pointed at the building. It was a fast-food chain that had two floors. “There are no zombies inside.”

“How do you know that?” Joseph asked. “And how can we go there? Can’t you see that!” He pointed at the zombies already crawling in front of them.

“System, weapons.”

Then there were weapons that came out of nowhere again. They were taken aback when they saw it and looked at August.

“This is the second time. You should probably explain something to us,” said Leo. “Are you a magician?”

“Shut up! We don’t have time for that! Get your weapons now!” said Carla.

They all get weapons. “I will get their attention, and you all go to that building no matter what!” August said. Then he went the other way.

“That’s dangerous!” Jude said. “Shit!” He went to Augustand helped him make some noise by shooting the zombies.