Plague of the Dead | Book 3 | Plague of the Island

for being called out for what you are,” he said coldly.
Laura lunged at him, red in the face. He walked away from her.
“Stop it, both of you,” Kent said clearly talking to Holland and Laura. “You’re power hungry idiots and I’m sick of it.”
“Is this for real?” Holland asked. “You’re going to side with him?” He said pointing to Daniel. “I was just trying to set order to this place. My actions were wrong I admit but what kind of leader is he? He didn’t punish her for doing an unauthorized run.”
“He also didn’t punish you for the one you did after you first got here,” I said.
Holland looked at me surprised I knew.
“That was different,” He said, “the rules weren’t set up yet.”
“But you were only doing it to try and get power and ended up almost getting killed,” Gerald stated flatly. “You seem to forget who had to bail your ass out. Lucky someone found you at all.”
Holland opened his mouth to speak but no words came out. He was silenced before he began.
The fight had caused all of us to be distracted so it was easy enough for Diana to strike. She moved amazingly fast for having turned into a zombie.
She took a swift bite out of Holland’s neck. The blood from his neck sprayed everywhere. It landed on Laura’s face and she let out a scream.
Diana growled at Laura and lounged at her before any of us had a chance to react. Diana took a big bite out of her arm and then the side of her neck.
Daniel grabbed his knife and put it through Diana’s skull.
Gerald took care of Holland and Laura.
I looked and saw Molly. She was covered in her own blood, standing in shock from the bite in her chest.
Tears in her eyes, she looked at us and whispered, “I’m sorry.”

Chapter 10
We were all in shock from what had taken place. It had happened so fast. My head was spinning from the thought of it. Daniel, Kent, and Gerald stated they would clean up the bodies. Luther went to check on Phoebe and Brian.
I lost the contents of my stomach on the beach. I sat and cried for what felt like hours. My eyes stung and my chest hurt from the force in which the tears left my body. After I got myself together a bit, I headed back to my shack to be with Lasa. I was shaking as I walked the few feet of beach to the front door.
Lasa asked about the screaming and the look on my face. I’m sure my face had to be red from the crying and having thrown up. I told her the truth of what happened. She began to cry, and I fought the urge to cry again with her. Instead, I sang to her until she fell asleep.
Daniel came in and told me Luther had inspected Diana’s body. No bites were found on her. Not so much as a scratch. He didn’t understand what had happened.
I was thinking about what he said when Lasa suddenly asked, “was it the fish?” She must have woken up because of our talking.
“What?” Daniel asked confused.
“They went fishing,” I told him remembering what Lasa had told me. “One of the fish they caught looked like a zombie. The one Diana ate looked fine though right?” I asked Lasa.
Lasa nodded, “I think so.”
“How would a fish turn into a zombie?” Daniel asked.
I shrugged as I had no idea. But I also had no idea how eating a fish could’ve caused Diana to turn in the first place. Especially if it was healthy.
After Lasa went to sleep, Daniel and I walked over to the rec building to visit Luther. We wanted to talk to him about what Lasa had said regarding the fish.
He was as baffled as we were. He asked Brian about it since he was still awake.
“Oh, the zombie fish?” He asked, “Yeah, it looked just like a zombie. Its scales were all dead looking and its eyes looked unfocused and crazy. It was biting at the air. It also had pus coming out of it.”
Chunks were rising in my throat at the thought of such a sight. I must have turned green or something because Brian quickly looked at the ground.
“Sorry” he muttered under his breath.
“It’s okay,” I told him.
Luther walked him to the other room to put Brian to bed.
“Maybe the ocean is contaminated,” he suggested when he came back. “But that doesn’t make sense. I’m guessing Diana didn’t get it cooked all the way through. No more eating fish though, we can’t take the risk.”
We nodded in agreement though it would put a strain on our already tight food resources.
We had another strain and that was the number of eyes and ears we now had. We had lost four of our camp and we needed them to help keep us safe.
Phoebe was let out of quarantine earlier than she probably otherwise would’ve been. She was feeling fine though, and we needed all the help we could get. All adults were put on rotating watch shifts, except me. Luther was still worried about mine and the baby’s health.
I was put in charge of taking care of Brian and Lasa as well as the food duty.
The next few days were very rough. I tried to teach and entertain the kids in the rec room as best I could. This was also as I continued to do surveys of our supplies. I’d finally figured out Laura’s system, but I was right about us being seriously low of food. Even with having four less mouths to feed, we were dangerously low. Without being able to fish, it caused the situation to be even more dire.
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