ALONE: Zeus and I

By Daltin Weeks

My dog Zeus and I have been left all alone in the midst of the zombie apocalypse. At thirteen and my parents taken from me by a horde, I had to find my sisters and I had no other choice but to survive. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: TJ Weeks
• Release date: Nov 11, 2017
• ISBN: 9781545162132

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Acknowledgments

I’d like to take the time to thank Karen Dziegiel for all of her hard work going through each of my books. I would like to thank my Dad for pushing me to write and teaching me the things that I need to be taught.

Most of all, I’d like to thank all of my fans for pushing my work out there.

Chapter one

THE NIGHT blows bitter cold on this early October night, so there is no chance of going outside and finding something to do. We live off the beaten path on a back county road and are surrounded by big pine and oak trees. Going out in the woods searching for animals and maybe catching a deer running through or a few hogs was one of my favorite things to do; especially at night.

I decide to settle for playing Call of Duty Advanced Warfare and being lazy with my husky Zeus by my side.

I had gotten Zeus when he was just pup and I was only nine; he is four years old now and never leaves my side. He has the normal Husky markings and has one blue eye and one brown one. I was at the age where I was growing like a weed, Mom says. I have dark brown eyes and Dad keeps my head shaved like his. I am lanky and smaller than most kids my age, but I know I will be hitting a growth spurt soon and hopefully filling out.

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I already have a hundred kills on my game and the other team has sixty-five. My team and I are winning the game. I sit up from my bed and am about to make one of the final kills to win it all when all of the sudden the power cut out. I jump up and throw my arms in the air. I can’t believe that the power went out at the moment I’m about to take that guy out.

Really! Yells Dad.

I drop my controller on my bed and carefully start heading to open my bedroom door. I can see the flashlight beams going back and forth down the hall, then I hear the door slam and Dad cussing as he goes outside to check the breakers, suddenly we hear Dad scream. Zeus my dog starts barking.

Dad! I yell with no answer returning.

I feel my way down the dark hall with my Siberian husky by my side.

Hey Mom what is going on? I ask her.

I don’t know sweetie stay here. Mom tells me pulling on her jacket and grabs her flashlight.

We hear a loud moan and Mom hurries to check it out. She runs out of the door and closes it behind her to go check on Dad. After about thirty minutes, Mom or Dad didn’t come back. I am worried and not sure what to do at my young age of thirteen.

Zeus starts running frantically around the living room and then starts whining. I walk through the kitchen into Dad’s office past his desk full of papers, his lap top still open and look out of the window, there are people walking in my front yard, in fact, they are everywhere. 

My parents are nowhere to be seen. I back out of the office and sit in the living room try to decide what I need to do. I have to calm Zeus down since he is bouncing back and forth from the floor to the couch and makes circles around me.

I soon build up the courage and decide to take a look out of some other windows. I walk to the door that was in the kitchen and bend down to peek from the bottom. My eyes rise just above the bottom of the window and there are what looks like hundreds of people walking around. Zeus jumps up and pushes the curtain out of the way and makes noise with his paws across the door. Some of the people turn their attention towards us. I pull him down quickly by his collar and turn to sit on the black and white tiled floor.

I muster up a bit of my confidence again and control my breathing. I slowly push myself up on my trembling knees and whisper to Zeus to stay. I push the white curtain up with the top of my head and rise just far enough to see outside. I look over to Zeus’s dog house and see my Mom and Dad lying on the ground. Men and women surround them pulling at their clothes and throwing them behind them ripping their skin away from their bodies with their teeth.

I am scared by what I was seeing.

Could this be happening? I think out loud.

This is when I need them most and they are being torn apart by a mass of people. This is when I need Dad, he knows about this, how could he have let himself get stuck like that?

Zombies! I look at Zeus  

He tilts his head one way and then the other, looking at me as if I am crazy and then jumps back up on the door to see what I was talking about. He sees the same as I and starts whining again. The feasting men and women turn their heads toward us so I pull Zeus down and sit back against the door again.

My anger gets the best of me, I jump up and take off running with tears in my eyes back to my room. I grab the only thing that I could think of, my pocket knife given to me by my Dad and put it in my pocket. This was it, just me and my dog; Alone!

Zeus and I slowly, quietly, and carefully make our way outside and go towards the zombie horde that is surrounding my Mom and Dad, I am not sure what I am going to do except stick them with my knife. They take notice of us quickly since Zeus lets out a bark. I run back towards the house with Zeus right behind me, I close the white wood door, lock it and run back to dad’s office. I lift the heavy double paned window with all the strength I have in my scrawny arms, as Dad calls them.   

All of the zombies are now walking towards the house, I let the window go and it drops down hard without the wooden stick under it Dad used to prop it up with. We go to the