Zombie-Matrix

I ran around the edge of the dumpster and ducked behind it just as the whatever it was - it was tall, skinny like an actual toothpick and had twelve arms - and I don't even know, but my best guess was that the thing was demonic. That or some sort of forest elf creation. God only knew what those things did in their spare time. Then again, if it was a forest elf creation, then... what was it doing in the middle of the city? And why was it chasing us? A second later, Dex jumped over the back of the dumpster and crash landed next to me. I looked over at him and rolled my eyes. "You're..." I waved a hand indistinctly at his face, "bleeding." "O

"Your plants are always dying," he said, laughing. He looked over at the now completely wilted sunflower on her windowsill and shook his head. "At least I try. When was the last time you even cooked dinner for yourself?" She rolled her eyes at him and grabbed the dead plant from the windowsill. She walked over to the garbage and threw the thing away. It was depressing, really, that she couldn't even keep a plant alive. She kept intending to water the thing, but she kept forgetting and getting distracted. He walked over to her fridge and opened the door. About a half second later, he slammed it shut again. "You don't even have food in your f

Leighton watched as he ran off, playing the hero yet again. She smacked her hand to her forehead, shut her eyes and groaned. "I swear to the gods, if we live through this, I'm going to slap him." She stood there for a moment, trying to figure out what to do. Usually, she would have just started throwing as many electric bolts at the thing as she could possibly gather, but the risk of attacking the beast and accidentally hitting Ryan instead was too great. So she was left with no other option than to stand there, to watch and curse him and his idiotic need to constantly be the knight in shining armor. The longer she watched, the angrier she g

Ryan turned to Leighton and whispered, "I'm going to distract it. When I do, you run. You got that? Run. Get as far away from here as fast as you can." Without waiting for her response, he ran towards the monster.  He started running circles around the thing, drawing its attention towards him. It reached out with one of its monstrous claws, attempting to knock him down, but each time it just barely missed him. When the monster finally struck him, he didn't see it, only felt it. It stopped him in his tracks instantly and hit him with such force that it felt like all the air had been knocked out of him. The monster struck at him agai