Abandoned

[Amber Pierce]

Amber stood outside of Grauman's Chinese Theater. On the ground in front of her, maps advertised the homes of various celebrities. Amber reached down and picked one up. Opening it, she considered heading for Lucille Ball's house.

Something on the ground caught her eye. It was a pamphlet advertising Hollywood ghost tours. Well, she certainly didn't want that.

Setting her bag beside her, Amber sat down on the sidewalk and tried to evaluate her course of action. She was tired. And she was hungry. She was really sick of living on crackers and granola bars. She wanted to find real food somewhere. There had to be some. And survivors, there had to be survivors in this town. She was on the other side of the country from her home, had no idea if her family was alive, and there were zombies everywhere.

Well, this was great. Things were coming along so well.

Amber looked around. She'd always heard that the theater was in a lousy part of town, and it looked like it had been lousy before the outbreak. She needed to find herself a hotel....hide out in one of the rooms for a little while. Maybe that would give her time to sort out a better plan than sitting on the street.

Pushing herself off the ground, Amber opened the map and saw the Roosevelt Hotel marked. She'd head there after all. It was the original plan she'd been going with all along. And it was better than no plan. Shouldering her bag, she headed off down the street.

[Kody Stahl]

Since Kody had split from the remaining members of his fellow NYU students who had come out to Hollywood on a trip he had remained rather alone and every time he had gone to a place he had known or off to look for somebody he knew out here in California he had either been met by a dead body or a zombie or nothing at all...his luck was shit to say the least.

His parents haad been Hollywood; hell Beverly Hills had been his sandbox growing up but there was nothing to show for it now. The fresh faced romantic comedy actress which served as his God Mother had been MIA and he had had to shoot his God Father in the head after he had nearly had his brains eaten...yeah things were not going well to say the least.

Kody really wasn't asking for much all he really wanted to do was get back to New York and find his parents...all he wanted was to go home.

So he had taken to just walking...walking and filming that was really the only thing he felt he had control of and he would do his best at it. It wasn't long until he found himself outside of Grauman's Chinese Theater. The heater brought back tons of memories many of those involving his mother who had taken him to a million of her movie premiers there but that was a time far off now.

Panning around the area with his camera Kody documeneted the utter disaster that had become of such a historic building and as he was filming he caught sight of soemthing...no correction someone. A someone who didn;t seem to be sluggishly walking along looking for brains a someone who appeared to be a living breathing someone!!!

"HEY!" Kody called out shutting off the camera for the moment as he shouldered his travel sack and made his way towards the retreating form. He knew that in the new zombie world it wasn;t a safe move to just walk up to anyone but he really was far too glad to see another non zombie person he didn't muchly care!

[Amber Pierce]

Amber traced a route along the map with one finger. She didn't know a damned thing about Hollywood. So she was completely alone save for ravonous cannabalistic zombies in a city she knew nothing about and couldn't find her way around in.

Well, that was certainly every kid's dream.

Amber frowned. Every now and then, she wondered if she might not have been better off to have been eaten in one of the attacks she'd survived.

"HEY!"

Amber spun around. There was a man not far away from her. She was now torn. On one hand, she was thrilled to see another living human being capable of speaking, but she knew that there were some bad people running around in the zombie infested world. She had no idea what this one might be. Amber debated her course of action...and decided. She turned and ran in the opposite direction-but miscalculated all of the trash laying around. She tripped over an overturned garbage can and fell to the ground, cringing as she realized her chance of escape had just fallen short.