Seraphina's Revenge: A Rebirth In The Apocalypse Novel-Chapter 65: Familiar Hall, Unfamiliar Dead

The moment the Hummer got to the bottom of the hill leading up to the main campus, shit had officially hit the fan.

Hordes of zombies congregated on each side of the road, their bodies swaying to a rhythm that only they could hear. They didn’t move forward when they heard the sound of the Hummer, but they didn’t retreat either. It was like they were studying the car; what potential threats might be in there, what potential food.

Either way, it didn’t bother Sera. "Keep going," she said to Lachlan, nodding her head up the hill.

When the Hummer started to go up the road, Noah grunted from the back seat. "Am I the only one to think that this was a bad idea?" he demanded, looking out the window just as a bobble-headed zombie appeared millimetres away from the glass.

He flinched and leaned back, but the zombie only tilted its head to the side as started at him until the Hummer got out of reach.

"Says the man who wanted to save a whole bunch of humans with weapons and the ability to look after themselves," Sera sneered, her eyes narrowing on the wall of zombies in front of her. Letting her creature out just a bit, she let out a very toothsome smile and watched as the zombies fled.

"That’s because humans need to stick together at the end of the world," replied Noah, slumping back in his seat when the path cleared up.

Sera ran her tongue over her teeth, making sure that they were back to normal before she spoke again. "And those zombies are smarter than the average bear," she said as they continued up the main road. The dorms were up just a little bit more. Hers were on the left while the all-guy dorms were to the right. The co-ed dorms were more in the middle, but she wasn’t interested in hitting up all the dorms right now.

Her hall would be enough.

"What do you mean?" demanded Noah, his eyes narrowing.

"I mean that you don’t see these zombies walking into cars like you do on TV. They know that it would take more effort than reward to try to break in. Or did you forget that the glass is tinted so that we can see out, but they can’t see in?"

Sera rolled her eyes as she pointed her finger to where she wanted to be dropped off. "There are probably less zombies by the cafeteria entrance," she said, showing the back way in. "I’ll start there and head up by myself."

"You know I don’t like you out of my sight," grumbled Lachlan, already feeling the creature stirring inside of him at the very thought that she would be gone.

"I know," replied Sera softly. She looked over at him and placed her hand on his thigh. "But you have your friends to find, and I don’t even know what dorm they were talking about scouting out. You figure all that out and then meet up with me. It won’t take me any time at all to get everything I need. I’ll be fine."

Noah snorted at their conversation but was at least smart enough to stay silent as Lachlan stopped the car. Sera was right. There were no zombies anywhere to be seen, but that didn’t mean that Lachlan’s skin wasn’t crawling.

"Ten minutes," promised Sera. "That’s all. I’ll meet you right back here and then we can go back home and cook dinner, okay? Ten minutes."

"Right here?" demanded Lachlan, his words starting to become slurred as he tried to speak.

"Right here."

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The moment Sera opened the door to the cafeteria, she wished that she could have turned right back around and left.

Twenty, maybe 30 women were milling about, and the stench of fear was enough to turn even the creature’s stomach. Some of them were badly injured, clearly having gone a round with one of the undead, while the others were organizing things in multicolored notebooks.

"Sera!" shouted a voice from the other side of the massive room. Sera turned around just in time to get hit by Jodie, her old roommate. The bigger girl wrapped her arms around Sera like she was never letting go as she started sobbing.

"You’re here," she gasped, backing away just enough to make sure that Sera wasn’t going to die from lack of oxygen. "I thought you were killed. I looked all over for you, but now you are here. Where did you come from?"

The stream of words washed over Sera, but her expression didn’t change. Jodie might not be a zombie yet, but she had taken the Country M vaccine, not the Country N one. And Sera didn’t know what that might mean for the future.

"Outside," she replied instead, pointing to the glass doors she had just opened. "There are no zombies out there."

Well, there were, but not ones that you could see.

"We can’t go out there," announced another woman. She was probably in her early 20s, her blond hair perfectly curled and not a smudge in her makeup. "Anyone who tried was torn apart."

Sera shrugged her shoulders. "I don’t know what to tell you. I’m just here to grab some stuff from my room and then I am leaving."

"You have to take us with you," said another woman, walking over to where Sera, Jodie, and the blond stood. "You have to save us."

Sera blinked rapidly before shaking her head and wiggling out of Jodie’s death grip. "I can’t save anyone," she said at last. "If you want to survive this, then you are going to have to learn to save yourself."

With those parting words, Sera walked across the hall to the dorm entrance of the cafeteria.

About ten women rushed forward to try and stop her, but Sera was faster. With a quick yank, the door was opened and closed firmly shut behind her.

Letting out a sigh of relief, Sera walked down the corridor before she hit the first wave of zombies. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

One let out a roar, its mouth open in challenge even as its hair was falling off its ballon sized head in chunks. Sera simply looked over at it and bared her teeth.

The zombies scuttled off, and Sera continued to walk to her dorm, smiling to herself as zombies disappeared almost the moment they saw her.

Alpha, purred the creature inside of her. They know they won’t win.

Sera nodded her head and opened the door to her room. It was exactly how she left it, not like she was expecting anything else. Dropping to one knee, she opened her closet door and grabbed her go bag.

The moment she stood up, she heard a sound behind her before a blinding wave of pain struck her on the back of her head, causing her to stagger forward.