keep it together [zan]

From day one of the zombie apocalypse, Vinnie knew he was going to make it. He'd been the best at the  zombie games and all the first person shooters. Not to mention he'd seen Zombieland a billion times and he'd memorized the rules, too. So when the zombies began invading camp, it was like a dream come true for Vin. He was quite excited at the start. But as the days progressed and campers started dying off, Vin started to realize how serious this actually was. It wasn't just another video game. It was life now.

The day before he watched a girl get stomach ripped out and eaten by the zombies. He'd cringed and nearly thrown up and wished he hadn't seen it. It was definitely horrible and not a joking matter. Everything was different when it was a game or it was real life. Vinnie had been patrolling the cabins as the area around the cabins was no longer safe and they had to protect some of the youngest campers. He was planning on getting some kind of compound like fence up around the cabin courtyard anyways at some point.

As the co-cabin leader of Hermes stood foolishly, lost in his thoughts, he didn't notice a few zombies creeping up on him. Only at the last second did he hear them. But it was too late for Vin. Before he stuck a dagger through its skull, a beast got a bite out of Vinnie's arm. Blood splurted everywhere and a fiery pain was raging on his left side. Vinnie let out an angry growl and stuck the dagger into its face. The zombie dropped to the ground with a thud.

Vinnie brought his arm up to the light where he could see it and look at it better. There was too much blood to get a proper look at it, but from what he could see, it was really bad. Desperately, Vin took out a small tin of ambrosia and chewed off a piece. He knew it couldn't stop the process of changing, but at least it'd help with the pain. At the longest minutes of his life, he began to feel better and the edge was taken off his pain. Now all that was left was this throbbing, numb feeling in his left arm.

He knew he was changing into one of them as he stumbled into the courtyard, searching wildly for his girlfriend. He could smell the blood now and it was making him sick and hungry at the same time. The son of Hermes fell to the ground of the courtyard and retched, leaving the contents of his stomach on the ground. He wiped his mouth with the hand dripping blood and he got an amazing wiff of his own scent. His stomach growled angrily and Vinnie just got up and sprinted as fast as he coudl to Faye.

"Faye!" He shouted. It was already getting hard to speak. "Faye," he said getting to where she was and dropping to his knees. "Faye you have to help me," he whispered. Tears began to form in the older boy's eyes as he felt an organ shut down in his body. He was dying already. "Faye, I need you to do soemthing for me. You're not gonna like it, but it has to be done."