Blog Number Two.

Week 2:
This week was all about Izzy. Main character number two Where she is now, it has been about a day since the school shootings happened.
She does'nt get much action in this chapter. This is mostly her calling her family. making sure they are all alive. the world has begun its decent into the zombie apaocalypse after all.
Her family consists of her mother, who is currently in Taiwan, for work porposes, her sister, Olive, off to collegd, and her dad, a truck driver who is half way across the country.
Her mom answers the phone despite the fact that it was about two in the morning for her.


“No, I swear,”my voice hitched “I watched people get shot yesterday, Mom. Right in front of me. They just-they just died...and-and they didn't stay dead. Some of them came back, and they were laughing and ate other kids, the ones that did stay dead. Them ate them- and I don’t know what to do. Connor almost turned into one. He had the bug and we all thought he was going to die but, when we pulled it off it was like he died, but then he came back and he was fine. I and don’t want you or Olive or dad to turn into one of those.”

This is part if Izzy's conversation with her mom. This is right after she told her mom the secret to the Undead. The people that die and come back.


I now relise i shoudl probably explian the Zombies a little better.
my zombies are'nt infected by sickness. these are caused by a a parasite scarab like bug that attaches to the base of one's neck. the bug, once attached, extends tendrils into the back of the neck until it connects with the brain stem. it sits there waiting, until there is a sharp pain. pain sends signal through the nerves to you brain. the bug takes this oppertunity to take the mind over. once this happenes, whatever the person was before is gone. the bug turns the once human into a flesh craving monster.
The bugs dont know how to deal with the pain. once the bug attaches the pain stays in that constant state. luckily the bug is the one that feels the pain. the only way it knows how to deal with this is to make the human host luagh. laughing can pbe a pain reliver, so the bug's use this to it's full extent.
the longer the bug is on the human, the smarter it gets. the smarter, faster and stronger the human host gets. and so does is craving for raw flesh.

Anyway so thats how the zombies work.

This week I also worked a little on my second 20% since im doing two... kinda.

Rosetta Warlock:
(I'm thinking of just naming the book Rosetta Warlock.)

"

The bone chilling wind cut through the boy like a dagger. Slicing down to his very marrow, the freezing night unimpeded by the layers of clothing the boy wore.

The monster licked its lips. a warm meal would be much welcomed in this desolate wasteland.Slowly, the beast stalked after its new found prey.

The boy buried his head deeper into his hood and trudged through the snow. While the screaming of the wind was muffled by the scarf, he could still hear it loud in his ears.

A noise to his left. No there wasn't a thing there. He turned back to his struggle through the snow that seemed to have no end.

His prey was moving slowly in the snow. Not like him. He could move so fast the child would never knew he was hurt before he died, but what was the fun in that?  Picking up his pace, the monster broke into a run,until he was only a few feet behind the boy. As he slowed down, the creature rose up on two legs, his face shrank, arms became more proportional, and tail vanished until he looked human. No one would ever have been able to tell what he really was. "

This is the beging to Rosetta Warlock. It's just giving you an idea about the monsters.

This is my first blog about My 20% project titled, "The Laughter of the Undead"


Info you might need to know.
the title of the story is
"The Laughter of the Undead"

This story is basically about a school shooting, that leads to the zombie apocalypse in their area. Which, as you can imagine, brings about many, many complications.

The three main characters in the order they appear.

Connor Storming:
15 year old sophmore. one of the most known kids in his school, and does several of the sports offered at his school. he tends to hang out with the wrong kind of people, but not in way you normally think of. Not smokers and kids that do drugs. He hangs out with the kids that bully other kids, but he's blissfully clueless.
He's kind of a jerk at first without noticing it.
Connor has black-brown hair and blue/grey eyes.

Izzy Dawson:
Izzy is also a fifteen year old sophmore, but she is in a completly diffrent boat as connor. She's the one that sits in the corner readin without talking to anyone. the one who walks alone in the hall ways, and the one that jerks target.
Izzy has light brown hair that curls into tiny little messy ringlets all arounf her head, earning her the cruel nick name "Frizzy" She has freckles that peper her nose and cheeks and hazel eyes verging on green.

Levi Graves:
Levi is a 17 year old junior.The best way I can think to put this is that Levi is the oppisiste of connor. While all the sports fan worship connor making him practically famous, Levi is infamous as king of the goths. Every one thinks of his as the one thats been expelled three times. He has an absolutly horrible homelife and terrible father. Levi almost never goes home, and tends to stay with his best freind Alec, who is more like a brother to him. Most of the people he goes to school with are scared of him, beacuse a partially false reputation proceeds him.
Levi has dyed black hair, two lip peircings and always wears black eyeliner, making him look more intimadating than he actually is.


Week 1:

This week in my story, I was working on Levis second chapter. Levi is the third main character, and I was going over what happened with him on the morning to the attach. I already told what happened to the other two.

What happened to Levi was diffrent for a number of reasons. Firstly, because he was the most in danger of getting killed. The other two also were, but him more so. Levi knew the shooter. They were freinds. Until the shooter barged into the class room and killed Levi's teacher and several fellow students.

It also took longer for Levi to learn about the zombies or Undead as i call them in the book.

Levi' was also diffrent because he tried to save some one else. The other two never had the chance, but Levi risked his life for someone that had hated him a moment before. She did end up dying, but he made the effort.


"It's amazing how someone, who turns out to be a murdering maniac, can be your friend for three years, and you have no idea what he really is. Also, amazing that I could be standing here, over a ådozen terrified eyes fixed on me, and be having a normal conversation with a kid holding a machine gun that he just used to murder our teacher and at least four other students. Crazy."
-Levi


This is a short quote from Levi while he was talking to his ex-freind the shooter. This qote shows how he can be sarcastic even in a situation like this.

" “Mandy,” I whispered as quietly as I could. She nodded eyes wide, “I'm going to stand up and distract him, I need you to crawl around the desks as quietly as you can, then make a brake for the door, and find somewhere to hide.”

“Won't he shoot you?” she asked her voice quivering. Apparently, she didn't hate me enough to not care if I got shot.

“Let me handle that. As soon as I stand, start crawling and stay out of sight, okay?” she nodded, looking as if she wanted to cry. I put a finger to my lips again and stood.

When he saw me, Zach swung the barrel of the gun around to face me and I put my hands up. I could 
feel my heart pounding in my ears. "

This excerpt is showing how heroic Levi can be, even if it fails. I think, even though he thinks Mandy hates him, that Levi doesnt hate any one enough to be a jerk in this kind of situation.