We awoke the next morning buried under three foot of snow. All through the night I kept poking a hole through the snow surface so that we could keep fresh air flow. We were insulated well and about mid morning the blizzard stopped. Then we dug ourselves out of the huge drift we were in…
The sky was clear and the air was crisp. You could see forever as far as the eyes could see. The ice extended endlessly the way we had come and I realized as I turned around from the frozen sea, that I was correct and had seen a steeple of a church. There also was a bell tower and it was all surrounded by a huge stone wall. We were and had been all night, on land and had set up camp right next to an old Monastery…
After packing everything together and digging out the snow mobiles. We made our way to the Monastery and stopped at what looked like the front gates. The gates were made of hammered steel and were huge. I called out and heard no answer. Ben looked at me and I said lets walk around the place and see if there is another entrance…
About half way around we found a door open. It was standing open with several feet of snow deposited inside the doorway. We knew from that, that the door had been open all night. We walked in silence and all that could be heard around us was the panting of the dogs and my coarse breathing from exertion. Ben the Zombie did not breath except to talk, so Ben was silent as a mouse…
We proceeded down empty hallways and after awhile we started to let our guard down a little bit, we seemed to be the only ones around. But a nagging feeling kept me alert as something just did not feel correct. That is when we heard a moan. A Zombie moan…
Zombies like Ben are so different from Zombies of the risen dead that Ben is like still normal. But a risen dead Zombie which as I explained a long time ago, is a long dead and decayed person risen from their grave. Or it is a Zombie that is risen from dying and their brain is dead from other reasons. These are the Zombies that the movies are made from. These Zombies are really scary because they are just plain sick and slimy…
We found a door that lead to a set of huge stone stairs, that went down into the bowls of the Monastery. We opened the door all the way and the moans were amplified twenty fold. It sounded like we had a bunch of Zombies in the lower levels…
I looked at Ben and him at me and we both agreed that locking the door would be the best idea. Then we heard a chant and it was in English, Greek and Russian mixed…
So after gathering what weapons we would need we silently descended into the depths of the Monastery…
Dogg lead the way and I was glad to let the little attitude take the lead. He could change very fast into one big ass Bear when needed and that would be a blessing, if what I think was down here was down here. We leveled out into a long hallway under the whole Monastery and the hallway was lined with doors. Each door had at least one or more moaning risen dead Zombies behind it. It looks like they locked up the Zombies as the caught them. But where was the live people? The moaning sounds from the Zombies seemed to be in tune with the chanting that happened on a regular basis…
Then we heard another chanting at the end of the hallway. It was from the very last door on the left. I looked in through the window of bars in the door and saw a monk sitting on the bed in the room. He was holding his head in his hands and would look up every few minutes and chant in a mixture of languages. As he looked up this time and started to cry out his chant! I told him to shut up…
He froze as he heard my voice and then he saw me in the window of bars. He just looked at me and I opened the door as the key was still in the lock from the outside. (All the doors were that way.) Then the monk fainted and fell on the floor. I gotta tell you that was just plain strange…
Then we found out why the monk was in a cell instead of out running around like a good monk should be doing. Most likely this is why he fainted also. He was petrified that something would wake up and we discovered later that his rhythmic yelling for help was what kept the creature at bay???
With the stopping of the Monks chanting so awoke the beast…
Before I could react to a noise in the hallway! Dogg changed into a Bear in a split second. I heard at the end of the hallway that we had come in at a terrible roar of what must have been a huge Zombie. I had a image in my mind of the few giant Zombies that we have met so far and I knew that this might not be good. Dogg/Bear pulled our door shut and Ben, Rex and I were trapped for the moment. Then something exploded outside or door and Dogg/Bear roared and some Zombie roared as they collided in front of the door. The wall around the door cracked as the stones took tremendous impact and understand that these walls are 4 to 5 feet thick in solid stone and brick…
The battle outside the door lasted about 15 minutes and then the two battlers moved down the hallway away from our door. I was then able to open the door and we all stepped out into a crumbling hallway full of blood and guts. All I could see was Zombie parts everywhere and in the middle of the hallway, halfway to the stairs was a little Dogg. He looked mighty pleased with himself and ran to Ben, to get a hug. Ben gave him a huge hug and we grabbed the monk and got ourselves out of that basement area. We left the Zombies for now…
Dogg was wagging his tail and looking at me as if he was waiting for me to say, “Good Boy!” Okay fine, he is a good boy and he whooped the big bad Zombie all by himself. It was – well it was like we never even got to pull our swords or fire our guns…
I am writing this from the library at the Monastery and there seems to be only one living soul left amongst the monks. His name is Sergy and he has been a monk for 25 years. He said that all the others in the basement were monks or buried saints and such just a few days ago. He said that there is several types of Zombies amongst the mess and that no one cared what Zombies where put with what Zombies. He said that they could not bring themselves to killing Gods creatures, but after a lengthy stay in that cell and chanting to his almost demise to keep the huge Zombie under control, he has come to the conclusion that Zombies need to be killed and is sorry for trying to save the Zombie souls…
I asked him how many were in the basement and he said around three hundred Zombies in all. Then he talked about the strange man and a little girl that appeared at their front gates and that is when all the Zombie issues started…
It seems that our Sergy had a vision about us while he had fainted and he talked with Vitaly about our mission. Vitaly asked him to help us and take care of his dog. Rex took to Sergy very strongly and they are best friends now. It looks like Vitaly is with us anyway, even though he died…
We are going to stay a few nights here and regroup, plan things out and let me see if I get a bearing on what we need to do…
We later found Sergy in the basement with Dogg and Rex killing Zombies. We found him as he chopped the head off the last one. Dogg grabbed a head of one of the Zombies as it was still chomping at everything around it and Dogg went to play. Rex followed him, I guess – to see what Dogg was up to…
Sergy was looking at us and said that he was practicing and he needed to catch up to our pace. So he decided to cleanse the Monastery of Zombies. He then said that he is sure that God will forgive him, as even a saint would not want to be left as a disgusting Zombie. Then he looked at Ben and said, “Present company excluded!” Ben said, “I understand!”
Once again I was think about Dogg killing the big Zombie and now Sergy, Rex and Dogg killing the rest. It dawned on me that Russia was defiantly a different country. Instead of Zombies trying to kill us, Zombies are going to fear us, before it is over. I could sense a change in the wind. This country was use to hardship and a bunch of Zombies were not going to stop this country in its tracks…
So tomorrow I will write and tell you of our plans that we have and get everyone caught up on what we are doing and how we will do it. Damn! There goes Dogg with a Zombie head and Rex is trying to take it away from him. Sergy is chasing them and Ben is chasing Sergy. I gotta go and we have to burn all these bodies. This is a place of God and we need to leave it in good shape before we leave…
I also see there is a shortwave radio… Hmm!
Stryker
The Zombie Source Code!