Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Short Story Challenge Response

Mukashi mukashi...*
*Once upon a time, in a far away land...

Here is the tale of the Great Dance, and the awesome people who channeled their power into defeating the zombie horde.

The zombie horde had carefully planned their attack and on a bright sunny day in April they launched their offensive. Outbreaks of the zombie virus were everywhere, and the human population was terrified and helpless. And paranoid.

You see, the zombies weren't you usual brain-eating shamblings messes. They looked pretty normal, and could imitate the emotions they had seen in their human prey. Which was pretty much limited to sadness, horror, and pain.

As these hordes ate away at the remaining bastions of humanity, a cry went out across the land for the brightest, toughest, and bravest to come together to find a way to defeat the horde. The message was carried from safe house to safe house, whispered about so quietly it was like the twitter of a passing bird. They came from all over- different countries, different continents. They spoke different languages and did their hair different and had different unique talents. But everyone knew that a gathering of this many great people was completely awesome.

Naturally, the security at this meeting was tight. Everyone had to pass stringent anti-zombie tests, and we're not talking about answering some stupid questions, either. This naturally took a long time, so there were a lot of people standing in lines, waiting for their turn.

All of a sudden, a woman named Lisa shouted. She ran across the room and tackled a young man standing in one of the aforementioned lines. At first people were scared- was she a zombie, trying to eat his brains? But no, Lisa had just recognized her twue wuv, Chester and was so excited she forgot everything else. Once it was explained, everyone started smiling and laughing, glad to see the two reunited. Some one even broke out some crazy dance music, and order disintegrated as everyone started dancing.

Well, almost everyone. Like Cylons, some zombies had infiltrated the gathering. They watched in amazement as the humans celebrated Lisa and Chester's twue wuv. They had never seen such happy dances before! Overwhelmed, their zombie minds couldn't take such awesome and the evil zombie infection lost as the awesome infected their bodies. The zombies started twitching and shaking, and while some just thought it was a new type of dance, a few of the nerdy fighters recognized what was happening.

Immediately, they threw open the doors. "Spread the happy dance!" they yelled. The remaining humans did. They tangoed and twisted through the zombie horde, their awesome dance moves created a kind of safety dance, protecting them from the zombie virus, as well as curing their infected friends. As the former zombies became human again, they joined in.

And so the zombie horde was defeated and everyone lived happily ever after!



Love and shurikens!
~Anne

P.S. I forgot to mention in my comment that I am also a ballerina secret agent veterinarian

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

1st comment, w00t.
This is amazing, putting Tracy the unicorn and my shitty story to shame. I am completely impressed. Anne, I think you win hands down, nothing Greg or Elizabeth could put together could top this.

Anonymous said...

Frank has broke the rules by swearing in his comments, and turning this into a non-PG blog now. The shame I have for my brother. Is it down to Anne and I, who was tricked into this, as the last of those that can follow rules?? Convene the assembly of punishment! There is another that needs to lose their hand!

Anne, good job of following rules and great story.

Anonymous said...

That was hilarious.
I approve : )

Anonymous said...

Bill, in response to your criticism of Frank, I have to disagree. While I am shocked and disappointed at his use of profanity (I at least thought he had a larger vocabulary!), it can still be considered PG. Consider that following link:
http://www.mpaa.org/FlmRat_Ratings.asp

But perhaps Liz should judge, since that rule is for her benefit.