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

I’m at 103 in Dunn,”James said,”Do you know where that’s at? Everyone is here and we are all alright.”

“Yes, I do,”I answered,”That is the old workshop. Why?”

  I heard talking in the background then heard a preppy voice of my old foe. I was going to scream if she lied to me. She better not have done anything to them are I promise that I will cause her so much pain it will kill her.

“Oh Miss Marks,”She said,”It is good to talk to you. I just hope you join us. Your friend is so rude like you. So hurry if you want to save them. My father has a bone to pick with you. I also hope your daddy will be ok here all alone. Bye.”

“Amanda, don’t you break this,”I said,”What about my dad?”

  She broke it after that and I was enraged. I looked at my friends and family. They looked at me like they were waiting for me to give them the order. I hope Amanda is ready for this because she has hit my last nerve with this one. I face them with a evil grin in my eye.

“Let’s go save the others,”I said with my knife in hand.

Chapter 10

 “The triplets and I will go left,”I said,”Macy, Layne, Slade, and Luke go right. If anything happens report to the tunnels.”

  It was six p.m. and the zombies seem to gain some smarts while we were gone. Amanda was outside organizing them as we sneaked past them. I wanted to throw my knife at her, but the triplets told me I could do that later if we survived this night.

   I unlocked the door and we walked into the building. I flashed back and forth from the days I had spent with my dad wondering around the town. I was going to murder the person who would do that to a little girl and make sure he knew what it felt like. Then Kylee appeared and hugged my leg as she was shaken with fear.

“Help me,”She said into my left leg.

“Stay quiet,”I whispered to everyone,”What’s wrong this time, Kylee?”

“Weird man chasing me,”She said pointing behind her.

   As if it was his sign to enter, a familiar guy appear from where Kylee had ran from a few minutes ago. It was my dad, but he wasn’t a zombie. I started to cry and we ran to each other, both shock to see the other here. He wrapped me into a hug as I let my tears run down my face. He smelt like brownie’s and apples, the way he had always did. It was nice to be in his arms again and not fighting this battle alone.

“Jessica Alicia Marks,”He said holding me at arm's length and looking at me,” You’ve grown up so much. I thought I would never see you again.”

“Is it really you?”I asked looking into his green eyes to see the pain of that day was still there.

“It is,”He said simply,”Someone found a way to do it. The same cure that can be injected in…”

“Can be applied again to take away the cure,”I finished,”The unbalanced chemicals used would be enough to delet it out a second time around.”

   The triplets and Kylee looked at me, like they never show me like this. I turned to them and said that I pay attention in science and had cure samples in my bag. I just had to find a way to inject it into the next victim. My Dad joined us along with Kylee, since she didn’t want to be left alone in here. So we started to look for the prisoners.

 

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  We got all the trieb kids out but we couldn’t find James anywhere. It was now ten p.m. and I sadly only had five things of the cure left that I didn’t mess with. I had five containers of the ones I had experimented with and used them as grenades. I had the whole group here minus Macy, since she had gotten injured and decided to stay with everyone else. My dad had explained how we were going to be quick and make as soundless as we could.

“James,”I heard down the hall, two doors to my left to be correct,”It looks like your friend doesn’t care about you,”Amanda said.

“You don’t know her like I do,”I heard James defend me,”She is twice as good as you. Also she will never give up until she has achieved her mission. You will never beat…”

  He got cut off and that was when we all found a hiding spot. I was hanging from the ceiling when the two she-demons, or Amanda and Kay, walked out talking about something. I noticed that Amanda was wearing shorts that revealed a zombie bite mark on her right ankle. She was also speaking spanish and right then I wished I payed more attention to Mrs. Phyllis’s lessons in class. They had stopped under me as they continued on with their conversation as my grip failed me.

  I had fell onto the Amanda and kicked Kay in the head. I stood up and said “Oops” as I really didn’t mean to do it. I was glad I did though because they did deserve it. They were knocked out and my friends gave me thumbs ups along with some applause. We took them into the room the room they had came out of and tied them up to two chairs.

“She’s spanish,”I said,”I should have known that since she was always in my face.”

“What do you mean by that?”Jasmine asked.

   I pointed to her ankle and they saw what I meant by it. I looked around the room and saw poor James was locked up in the same spot and across from him was Mrs. Phyllis, Lindsay, trying to eat Mrs. Olivia all chained up in this cage thing.

“Sweeties,”Dad started.

“I’m picking the locks,”I said getting started with James’s outer one.

  I was almost done when I was taken by someone. I tried to fight them off but nothing had worked. I looked up next to my face and saw a needle with the ZO3 cure in it. The stranger had his arm around my throat and moved the needle to my neck. I struggled to get away but nothing worked and his grip just got tighter as I tried.

“Weapons,”He ordered as I realized it was the same voice from before,”Down and free those two as well.”

“Why…”Dad started to say and come after him to get me.

“Don’t,”I croaked,”Finish the mission. I’ll be okay. Daddy, get them out of here. I’ll be fine by myself.”

   That was when an army of zombies came in the room and surround me and their master. I felt the needle go into my neck and I tried not to scream but I did anyways. He injected me then let me go to his ‘pets’. His army then took turns biting me. When they parted I was bitten twenty-five times on my right shoulder and it was bleeding badly and in pain. I layed there crying my eyes out as I thought it was all over for me.

   Then out of nowhere I watched James transformed into a dragon and free everyone that was still locked up. Lindsey had bitten Mrs. Olivia but nothing had happen to her but she did give her a dirty look. My dad was holding me, when the darkness finally took a hold of me.

Chapter 11

   I felt cold laying there and I saw episodes of my life pass by. The one that stung the most was when my grandmother told me a story of my great grandfather, Randel Marks. She always told me his tales the same way.

“My father was the strongest of all the Marks,”She said.

  This was the story of when he was bitten, she had told me it a few days after my father’s death. I was sitting next to the pound drawing the ducks. When she said those words I knew it was going to be an awesome story. The story went like this:

  My grandfather and great grandfather was out doing a trapping job. Yes, they were the pest control at the time. They just finished packing their things up, when they heard a scream. They ran all the way to my house, since they knew it was my mother who had scream. I was just a baby at the time and my dad was out with Ace at the vet. My mom and me were cornered by three zombie mutts. My mother didn’t have her knife and I was still the defenseless child. My grandfather took one out with a mouse trap and a can of plant killer. So that left one for both of them. My great grandfather was fighting his when my grandfather’s took advantage of him being distracted and bit him. My grandfather got it off and destroyed both of them. The thing was he didn’t turn into one but died a few years later to a heart disease he had gotten from smokers.

  My grandmother always said that I had the gift but I never really believed her. Right now though I really hope she was right or it is bye bye Jessica.

“Jess, baby,”I heard my dad say,”Wake up. You’re safe now. Please wake up.”

“Daddy,”I said waking up,”I guess Grandma was right on it.”

“She’s alright,”He said hugging me,”It looks like she was. I’m glad you do as well as that, Princess. Just don’t do anything like that again, Promise me that much.”

“Yeah, I promise,”I said noticing we were underground,”Did James turned into a dragon or was that just me?”

“I did,”James said proudly.

   He then went ahead and explained how he could but I didn’t listen to a word he was saying. I was jus tin wonder on how I was still here but hey I’m not complaining about it at all. It was around four in the morning and my arm felt like an Arcanine bit it with some type of fire comp thing. When my dad noticed I was staring in the distance, he came over to where I was. He sat with me and looked at the wall I was staring at.

“Do you remember when I first brought you done here,”He said,”You were so energetic and sang the cutest little song. How did it go. I’m Jessica, the bravest of the brave. The strongest of the strong. The…”

“Best leader of leaders,”I said remembering it,”No one can touch me. I’m the baddest of the bad. So watch out here I come. Zombies aren’t going to know what hit them.”

  We laughed and I laid