• tab The wind was wild, whirling through the trees like a tornado ripping everything to shreds. The dusty old cabins were being torn apart as boulders rolled down the craggy cliffs of Camp Catacomb. The camp counselor shrieked in horror as she rocked back and forth in the basement, waiting for the horrible storm to end.

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    tab Reiko looked out the foggy window of the taxi, then back at his notebook. His blond hair was sparkling and his green eyes reflected his calm, cool, and collected personality. Sitting next to him, he saw his best friend Sean.
    tab “What on Earth are you writing?” questioned Sean, his purple eyes glaring. “Sixteen-year-old boys don’t need diaries! Are you writing about yourself, again?”
    tab Reiko closed the book, showing his puppy-dog face, “It’s not a diary! It’s a collection of everything I do, ‘cause if I die, I want people to know my great accomplishments!” Reiko combed his hair back and smiled at himself in the mirror.
    tab “You do realize it’s a hopeless cause. Your hair will get messed up as soon as you walk outside in this weather! Not to mention, it’s Camp Catacomb, there’s nobody to impress!” chuckled Sean, “My brother Dewey told me all about it!”
    tab “I wouldn’t trust him! He’s the person who ran away screaming from a girl-scout camp! I mean, honestly! I would’ve taken some cookies before I left!” Reiko shouted triumphantly.
    tab “You’re just angry that you’re named after a girl!” hissed Sean.
    tab “Hey boys, you’re at yer camp!” exclaimed the taxi driver, “I’ll let ya’ find yer own way back!” he shouted.
    tab “What do you mean?” asked Sean.
    tab “You’ll find out soon enough!” stated the taxi driver as he tossed the boys’ luggage onto the muddy road. He drove away laughing like a madman, leaving the two boys staring after him in confusion.
    tab The forest lay all around them, in a giant mess. No cabins were spared from the horrible storm. Reiko looked around the campsite, “Where is everybody?” he asked.
    tab “I dunno’,” whispered Sean as he started toward the remnants of the counselor’s cabin. He started pulling off the branches and rocks, and tossed them onto Reiko’s feet. “Maybe they’re in here.” He motioned for Reiko to help, his dark brown hair flitting around his face.
    tab A woman with frizzy black hair popped out of the cellar doors. “If you want to come in here, you have to sing the camp song!” she shouted as she frantically glanced around her surroundings. She tugged at her fringed hair, ”Well, maybe not, there’s not much left of the camp.” She pushed her hair back behind her ears and she gaped at the boys.
    tab “Do you want something, lady?” asked Sean.
    tab “Well, she’s looking at me, maybe she wants to ask me the question!” supposed Reiko, winking.
    tab “Um, well, it’s obvious that I need some help *hic* unburying the remnants of the camp,” she sobbed, holding her face in her hands, “Could you call a rescue team, or maybe the police?”
    tab “Nope! I have no signal!” shouted Reiko, gleefully.
    tab “How would you know?” asked the lady skeptically, “You never looked at your phones!”
    tab “Well, this camp is in the middle of nowhere,” answered Sean, thoughtfully.
    tab “So there would be no signal out here!” said Reiko.
    tab Lightning crackled in the distance, causing the lady to quickly dive onto the ground. The trees began to rustle unnaturally. The boys hid behind the counselor’s cabin.
    tab A muddy hand slowly emerged from the bushes, followed by a decaying arm. Then, the head with four strands of hair and a dangling eyeball followed. The creature was fully emerged from the bushes, it’s head cocked to one side.
    “Wangero?” it asked.
    tab “Um, no. I’m Sean!” hearing a human’s voice, the creature ambled over to Sean and looked at him; hope lighting its eyes. “No! S-E-A-N!”
    tab “Brains? Please?” it inquired politely.
    tab Sean sighed and walked behind the cowering woman. “Are you Wangero?” he asked her.
    tab “Y-Yeah.” She whimpered.
    tab The creature shifted its gaze to Reiko. “I used to be a pretty boy like you! I had luscious moss-green hair that flowed like beautiful ocean waves during a tsunami!” sighed the zombie. “It reached a decaying hand out to Reiko, “Oh how I miss those days! Do you happen to have any brains?”
    tab “Nope! He’s fresh out!” replied Sean, helping Wangero to her feet.
    tab “Bob? Is that you? I haven’t seen you in ages! And yet you haven’t changed a bit!” slurred Wangero. “How have you been? Your skin looks a little spotty.”
    tab “Maria, is that you?” asked Bob.
    tab Wangero glared at the zombie, “And who is this, Maria?” Wangero asked, saying the name, “Maria” with vehement venom.
    tab “Who, is she? Uh…I don’t know, I just forgot your name for a moment, that’s all,” corrected Bob, smoothly, as his left eye fell to the ground and rolled to Wangero’s foot. “I stumbled at the lake where the boy drowned and crawled all the way over to this camp to check on you” he said, “that storm was pretty bad, so I was worried.”
    tab Wangero smiled and took Bob’s hand, dragging him to the two boys who were staring in disgust. As soon as he got close to Sean, Bob’s eyes became unfocused and slobber began to fall in long, gooey strings from his mouth.
    tab “Brains…” mumbled the zombie, staring at Sean with such intensity that Sean shrieked like a little girl, who just saw Big Bird get hit by a semi, and ran behind Reiko.
    tab “Oh yeah!” shouted Reiko, “I got this water from my mother! I bet you’d like it!” he opened the vile and threw it at Bob. The creature leaped for Sean trying to get to his brains. A sizzling sound came from the undead creature and it screamed and writhed in agony.
    tab “What did you just do?” shouted Sean, “that can’t be normal water!”
    tab “It’s not, my mom said it was holy water from grandma.” Said Reiko, his eyes as round as saucers. “Did I kill him?”
    tab “No, Reiko, he’s smiling and puking rainbows! He’s a zombie for crying out loud!” Sean shook his head back and forth, then grabbed a stick and started poking the corpse. It’s eyes rolled to the back of it’s head and it’s tongue flopped out of it’s mouth. “See, it just stuck its tongue out and rolled its eyes, it’s fine!”
    tab He walked over to Wangero and placed his hand on her shoulder, “I’m sorry that it had to be this way,” he said motioning towards Bob, “He’s been alive because he loves you.”
    tab “I know,” whimpered Wangero, “but I never really liked him…” she cast her eyes to the ground. “What time is it?”
    tab Sean pulled out his cell-phone. “Eleven thirty-two P.M.” His mouth dropped and his eyes widened.
    tab “What’s your problem?” asked Reiko.
    tab “I have five bars of reception out here!”
    tab “YOU WHAT?!?” roared Wangero.
    tab “Let’s ditch her!” whispered Reiko.
    tab “Right! Let’s go!” shouted Sean.
    tab Wangero stood in place watching the boys sprint forward, away from the forest. An evil smile crept across her features, causing her to look like a monster. (Little do they know,) she thought (that they have fallen right into my trap!) Maniacal cackling escaped from her lips as she walked after the boys.