Jessica Marks - Abbie Davis (young adult books to read TXT) 📗

Chapter 1

  I’m in a dark room with no exit. The room is a cylinder with a small opening at the top. I’m all alone with no way to contact anyone.

  You might be asking how I got in here. The thing is, I don’t even know how. All I remember is my name, how to fight, and my best friend’s name. So before I tell you what had happen in the past two days, you might want to know my name. It is Jessica Alicia Marks and I fight Zombies. So this is what I remember.

  My best friend, James Duncan, and I were headed to school. Our school was also our headquarters. We went to New Orleans Academy for Gifted Kids. Everyone who went did the same thing .

“I wonder what we’re going to do today,”I wondered out loud.

“Don’t know,”James said,”But I hope it’s riffle shooting.”

“Why? So you can show off?”I mocked.

  We laughed and kept walking. We were a mile away when someone attacked. We were both trying to fight back but when a needle was stabbed into my arm, I blacked out.

  I woke up a few minutes later in this dark room with no memory of my past except for this day. I was lying on the floor next to a picture of me and James and my knife. In a hurry I picked up both of them and put the knife to my belt. I started to scan the room trying to figure out how big it was. That’s when I heard a voice.

“So you’re the great Jessica Marks,”said a strong powerful voice,”You’re just a stupid teenager.”

“So,”I snapped,”And I’m not stupid. Now show yourself and fight me.”

“No,”said the strong manly voice,”Instead let’s watch you swim.”

  With that the room started to fill up with water. Trying to stay alive, I jumped on the wall stabbing it with my knife. It didn’t work, so I fell six feet of water. I was really glad that I was a strong swimmer. The water continued to climb, until it got to ten feet deep. After a few minutes of swimming, in ten feet of water, the water drained. So I sat there wet and tired. I looked up to the opening in the top and saw a zombie girl.

“Hey,”I called up,”Can you send me a towel?”

  The girl disappeared and came back with two towels and a basket. She lowered them both to me and waited for me to unhook it. After I dried off, I opened the basket. In it was fruit, fresh water, and a letter. I opened the letter and it read:

  Hi, I’m Lindsey. I’ll be taking care of you. So if you get out, please don’t kill me. I know what you are, but I won’t tell. I will help you escape.

From,

  Lindsey

  After finishing an apple, I looked up and saw she had disappeared. I looked at my left ankle and saw a zombie bite birthmark. Then it came back to me that I was a North American zombie person or one of the members of the zombie people tribe. They were the people who kept the the zombie population down. They never used guns, but were good with knives and hand objects. They also were good at mixed martial arts.

    My dad was the chief of the tribe. Since he was died, it was me now. I just couldn’t tell anyone who I was. I sat there still trying to figure a way out of the room.

“Where’s Jessica?”said James from somewhere above me.

“James!”I yelled,”I’m down here!”

“You’ll never find her,”the same voice said.

   I also found out the room was sound proof. So I sat there as my friend argued. I looked in the basket and found a blue and green bouncy ball. So I just sat there throwing the ball.

“Jessica,”said a zombie like female voice.

“Lindsey,”I said looking up.

“Towels and basket,”She said lowering the hook,”The room is thirty feet high.”

“Thanks,”I said putting the basket on the hook.

  Lindsey took the basket and disappeared. So I got up and tried to make a plan on how I was going to get out. In frustration I threw the ball as hard as I could at the wall and making it shot back almost knocking me out.

“You are the greatest prize I have ever caught,”The voice said,”You will become my pet.”

“I’m not a prize!”I screamed,”I’m also going to get out of here!”

“We will see,”said the voice.

  After that the room started to fill with smoke. Then I fell on the ground into a deep sleep.

 

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   I woke up the next next day to a loud siren. I had to cover my ears it was so loud. I started to curse after they turned it off. I had to say five words in the ancient language of the zombie people. So since y’all are caught up this is what’s happening right now.

“Jessica,”The voice said,”There’s no need to curse.”

“Well then don’t do that again,”I shot back,”Are you trying to make me go death?”

  He laughed and didn’t answer me. Than this human boy showed up, with Lindsey standing right beside him. He was motioning to someone and then threw a rope down to me.

“Climb up,”He said.

  Without hesitation I start the climb. When I reached the top they gave me my things and gave me a shot. In a few minutes I remembered everything.

“Layne, Where’s James?” I asked the boy I had saw a few minutes ago.

“No one knows,”He said.

“Ms. Marks,” said Mrs. Phyllis, our spanish teacher,”You need to make a plan before the alarms go off again.”

  I looked around and saw who all we had. Slade, Layne, Lindsey, Mrs. Phyllis, and me had about three hours before the alarms went off to find James. So I told them we would break up into teams of two. Layne and Slade went one way. Lindsey and Mrs. Phyllis went the other. Leaving me by myself. So I put my bouncy ball up and grabbed an axe from my bag, and head out to find my partner. I just had one thing on my mind and it was that I was going to find that man.

Chapter 2

I should have went the other way, since this way had an army of zombies. I had to fight my way through half the army before I started to hear gun shots. So I climbed up a ladder and swinged from the lights like they were vines. When I made it at the end of the hall, I was hoping to see James but instead I saw Mrs. Olivia. She went missing three years ago. She was dragged off by a zombie. She pointed her gun at me ready to shoot.

“Woe, don’t shoot,”I told her,”It’s me, Jessica Marks.”

“Duck,”She said.

   So I did and she shot two bullets into a zombie’s head. She then showed me how she been trying to get free and asked me what was my plan. So I gave her the run down on it.

“So you’re by yourself,”She said,”Isn’t that stupid.”

“We were trying to find my partner,”I said,”Do you know where he might be?”

  She did and showed me the way. When we got there we had only an hour left. We also met up with the others there. When Olivia saw Lindsey, she shot her in the head. The cool thing was Lindsey healed instead of died. Olivia didn’t try to shoot her again.

   James was in a cage and chained up to a wall. I picked the lock to the door and chains. Layne handed him his rifle and James shot Lindsey in the head.

“Don’t shot her,”I said,”She is helping us.”

“They weren’t the only ones,”She said,”Layne chopped off my head as well.”

   I gave him a dirty look and he didn’t say anything about it. We only had thirty seconds before they knew we were gone. We started to run for the door to our left. As we got to the closest door the alarms went off.

  We ran out but we were not safe yet. Zombies were everywhere and some had a club. That was when I knew where we were at. The old grounds of the zombie people or Delhi, Louisiana. It’s been eight years since I was here. I stayed here from once I was born till eight years old. I was sixteen now and I knew this town better than anyone. I also knew where the people of the zombie’s tunnels were located.

“Follow me,”I said running to a bolder five feet to my right.

   Everyone followed me without any questions. Once I reached the rock, I tapped it twice and the tunnel opened. Everyone piled in and I shut the door before they could follow us. James turned on the flashlight on his rifle 22 and I got out a lantern and lite it. Everyone looked at me and motion me to lead the way.

   We walked down a slope that was lower than the subway and sewers. When things started to straighten out, I felt like I had a lot of explaining to do, but no one just didn’t asked the questions. So we just walked in silence till we got to a huge room where tribe meetings were held. I lite the torches and we all took a seat for some needed rest.

“Jess, Where are we?”James asked,”Is there something you're not telling us?”

“We are in one of the tunnels of the people of the zombies,”I said,”I use to come down here with my dad till the accident.”

“OK,”Layne said,”So how are we going to get out of here then. There’s only one tunnel.”

“You got to know the code,”I said.

   I sang the tune to the song “Just around the Riverbed” and more doors opened up. Layne looked and started to something, but stopped when James bet him to it.

“So which one is the way to New Orleans?”He asked.

“All of these tunnels lead up to Delhi,”I told them,”So…”

   Everyone looked at each other and it seemed like it was all over, but I knew it was not. Mrs. Phyllis started to give a spanish lesson. I didn’t listen to it, because I open my ancient language book and began to read. As I read I noticed James looking over my shoulder trying to read it.

“You know to read this book you go to know the language,”I said,”I could teach you it, if you want me to.”

“How do you know it?”James asked,”It’s like three thousand years old.”

“My dad taught me,”I said,”I also could speak it when I was little. P.S. it’s only four hundred years old.”

   He rolled his eyes and called me a know it all, but said if we get out of this he he would like to. So he went back to listening to Mrs. Phyllis’s teaching. I kept reading about the ancient stories of my family name.

 

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  After a few minutes we went down a tunnel to my old home. When we got there it was roughly three pm. I unlocked the door and let everyone in. Everything was the way we left it when I was eight.

   I showed everyone around and let them make themselves at home, while I went to the training room. I found a picture