How to Make a Zombie: War of the Servers

By Jose Jaime Herrera

It has been two years since a calamity brought planet Ad Drins empire to ashes under a shower of lime-green stew. Now all that remains is mutated wastelands, anarchy, and bands of survivors who can do nothing but helplessly watch as Ad Drin slowly dies.

Nineteen-year-old Hera Kila Ka has made it his mission to warn others of the impending doom. As he attempts to convince the people to escape to the safety of the T' nian Isles before the tendrils from another lime-green cloud hit the ground, he encounters seventeen-year-old Star Cassidy, who begs him to lead her away from danger. With their city now destroyed, Hera takes it upon himself to protect Star. They begin a journey across the land in which they must battle mutant life forms intent on doing everything in their power to destroy not only them, but the rest of the galaxy. Now that the pair face a life-and-death struggle, things only become more complicated when Hera realizes he feels more for Star than he ever imagined.

In a post-apocalyptic future world, chaos reigns as two unlikely partners race against time and determined enemies in order to save themselves and their world from annihilation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Apr 17, 2013
• ISBN: 9781475985153

Jose Jaime Herrera

We all know these are supposed to be in the third person, but it’s about me, so I’m writing the damn thing the way I see fit. No changes. I was born on November 18, 1987, to Denise Garcia and Hector Jaime Herrera of Kingsville, Texas. I have a twin brother, Hector Caesar Herrera; an older sister, Soliel Leigh Pilgrim (deceased); another sister, Elasha Leigh Pilgrim; and a little brother, Juan Diego Herrera (deceased). My twin brother and I joined the military shortly after high school in 2006, as did most of our friends. He went into the marines as I went into the army, where I still am today. I deployed to Afghanistan in October 2011, and I have had the time of my life. I have read twenty-eight books there, and I am an avionic mechanic. Aircraft are reliable when deployed but break more easily stateside. A few months after I deployed in 2010, I heard an apocalyptic song and thought, Damn, that is a hell of a song. I want to write a book. So I did. I started this book, but downrange I started another before turning back to this book. I felt I should write the backstory before I started to write about the future. I have already written a book of three morbid stories. The longest one falls into the backstory; the others are in the present time. I will publish them when I find them. I’m currently working on the second installment of the War of the Servers series. Servers is the second book. It will be out shortly after this one, and I will then work on the third book of the series. Then I can go back to the one I started downrange and continue the saga. This is my first book, so bear with me on it. I wrote a book because I want to entertain folks with a story line I have had in the works since I graduated high school. So enjoy, and look for the other books in the War of the Servers series: How to Make a Zombie, Servers, War of the Servers, and The Four Emperors. ?

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iUniverse rev. date: 4/9/2013

Contents

About the Author

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Epilogue

About the Author

We all know these are supposed to be in the third person, but it’s about me, so I’m writing the damn thing the way I see fit. No changes.

I was born on November 18, 1987, to Denise Garcia and Hector Jaime Herrera of Kingsville, Texas. I have a twin brother, Hector Caesar Herrera; an older sister, Soliel Leigh Pilgrim (deceased); another sister, Elasha Leigh Pilgrim; and a little brother, Juan Diego Herrera (deceased).

My twin brother and I joined the military shortly after high school in 2006, as did most of our friends. He went into the marines as I went into the army, where I still am today. I deployed to Afghanistan in October 2011, and I have had the time of my life. I have read twenty-eight books there, and I am an avionic mechanic. Aircraft are reliable when deployed but break more easily stateside.

A few months after I deployed in 2010, I heard an apocalyptic song and thought, Damn, that is a hell of a song. I want to write a book. So I did. I started this book, but downrange I started another before turning back to this book. I felt I should write the backstory before I started to write about the future.

I have already written a book of three morbid stories. The longest one falls into the backstory; the others are in the present time. I will publish them when I find them. I’m currently working on the second installment of the War of the Servers series. Servers is the second book. It will be out shortly after this one, and I will then work on the third book of the series. Then I can go back to the one I started downrange and continue the saga.

This is my first book, so bear with me on it. I wrote a book because I want to entertain folks with a story line I have had in the works since I graduated high school. So enjoy, and look for the other books in the War of the Servers series: How to Make a Zombie, Servers, War of the Servers, and The Four Emperors. 

Prologue

Life is so simple for us we wake up, comb our hair brush our teeth and if we are lucky we wake up in time to catch the morning commute. We have become a conformist species reliable on technology to cook our food, wash our clothes even make sleeping outdoors like we took a piece of home with us.

But what happens if our norms are taken away from us in a blink of an eye. In truth we can speculate all we want right books make TV shows of men and women trying just to survive.

It is a great idea to see man turn from civilize to an animal in one night. More notorious then out forefathers who founded civilizations. But we will never know how it will turn out will we; we are a species of little interest to go extinct. We are big, we are to smart, and we are to strong that we even cause ourselves damage just opening a jar of our favorite jam.

We are no one special we have too many delusions on destiny, we make stories paint into the sands, while others take it by on foot. But what if our destiny was already written for us, to die out no matter how we try to survive. Could you be do brave to try to save it, even if it takes you own life. If you go the world doesn’t stop spinning and flowers keep blooming.

One man cannot do it alone even with enough weapons or friends by his side. It alone most come from determination. The blood on your knuckles and sweat on your brow.

Being so this is a story of just that a story of a young man Hera Kila’ Ka. He’s just like every man and women; weak and uncertain on how life will take him. Only a simple event can change his destiny and those around him. And with his careless attitude and childlike sense of adventure he will find out why his world and worlds of the Milky Way just up and died one morning.

Enjoy and keep reading the next books, you never know the world might just end.

Chapter 1

Ad’ Drin, August 22, 3577, 2056 Hours

Hera looked up to the night sky. The lime-green haze slowly changed into crimson red, as it had every night for two years now. The calamity destroyed the first human empire and brought it to ashes under a shower of Lime-Green Stew. All that remained was anarchy: decaying city-states and occupied bands of survivors, slowly watching Ad’ Drin die.

Death came in lime-green clouds that exploded into life with four small ships on every human world, in the confederacy as well as arc worlds. This unique energy fell in tendrils, touching random spots on the planet. All it touched fell dead, rotted, or in most cases changed life, turning into mutants or bringing the dead to life.

Hera picked at a small cut on his right forearm. He gazed back at the small city, one of the few remaining on the south end of the continent. A small lime-green cloud sat over the ruined city. Hera could see small lines begin to condense