Fractured Fairy tale- Zombie Cinderella
Ella Corbon and her boyfriend Caleb
Charming were enjoying a beautiful spring day outside on a beach. Today was a
very special day for Ella because she was at the wedding of her father, Henry
Corbon, and his fiancé Lady Annica Tremaine. She sat watching as he placed the
ring on her finger, they said their vows and had their first kiss as husband
and wife. Ella could not be happier, now she has a mother figure again, two
step sisters close to her own age, and a loving boyfriend she one day hoped to
marry. All was perfect in Ella’s world. She was sitting with her new family
watching television in their living room when an emergency news broadcast came
on. The broadcast explained a new disease that has been discovered and how
mutants were forming because of it, they called them zombie-humanoids. All men
of age were being called to go to special training to learn how to fight these
creatures.
Ella watched her father and Caleb
get packed and get ready to go. She was scared and knew the outbreak was
getting worse.
“El,” Caleb
said hugging her tightly, “I will be fine I promise.” He smiled. Ella wasn’t
sure but nodded slowly, giving him a small smile. She hugged her dad and
watched them leave.
A few months
went by and by now the outbreak had gone worldwide, Ella learned to fight and
protect her home and family.
“Cinderella,”
called out her step sister Anastasia, “Come in here and clean the table, its
filthy!” Ella, now called Cinderella, was forced to cook, clean, and cater to
every whim her step sisters and step mother wanted. She went into the kitchen
and saw the table covered in dirt and grass from the lawn outside, she sighed
and started brushing it off.
“Cinderella!”
Snapped Lady Tremaine, “We need to go out and get food, as well as a few other
things, lets go.”
Ella hated
when they needed to go outside, her step sisters and step mother covered her in
blood and other things to draw the zombies out of hiding to attack Ella before
the rest of them would go into the area so they were not in danger. Ella grabbed
her guns and got ready to venture out. Some time went by with no problems, they
were a mile from their house when Drizella, her other step sister, screamed
seeing a rat. The zombies were drawn to noise and Ella knew they had heard the
scream, she grabbed her pistol and got ready. Not long after the scream zombies
came running out towards Ella, she fired her gun time after time shooting and
killing the zombies. She saw a few others on their way when she recognized one,
it looked just like her father. He was still in his soldier uniform, as he got
closer she could read the name on the jacket, “Corbon.” She knew it was her
father but she also knew she had to kill him. She brought her gun up slowly and
fired, twice, he fell to the ground in a slump and didn’t get up, she started
crying and fell to the ground. Her grief did not last long in order for her to
kill the remaining zombies.
“Such a
shame Cinderella,” said Lady Tremaine sarcastically, “Henry was such a
determined man, sad to see him brought down so easily.”
“Don’t you
dare speak of my father like that!” Ella was angry, not only did she just shoot
her father, she knew that Lady Tremaine had never loved him. Her anger
subsiding for a few moments as she thought about Caleb, he had been shipped off
with Ella’s father. She began to worry and wonder if her love was dead or
alive.
A few weeks
went by and no sign of Caleb, Ella had gone out alone to get away from her
“family”, she had her guns and other various weapons for protection. She was
wandering through the forest when she tripped and dislocated her shoulder, she
cried out as the pain shot through her arm and chest. She popped it back into
place and zombies started flooding her way, she tried firing her gun but it
jammed, Ella decided it would be better to run then try and take on the zombies
in close contact. While running she lost one of her shoes but did not stop to
grab it, she fled as fast as she could until she was able to duck into a
building to hide. The zombies all went about their business, except for one.
One zombie stared at the shoe and picked it up, Caleb, who had also been turned
when their squad was attacked on the plane headed home from battle, had been
searching for something; or rather someone he felt was missing. Caleb grabbed the
shoe and knew he had to find the girl who lost it, he kept it with him and went
off to find her.
A few months
went by and Ella and her family were still for the most part getting by,
Drizella had gone out alone at night to meet up with a boy and was found dead a
couple days later. She had already begun turning. Caleb was still in search of
the girl who fit the shoe. He wasn’t sure why but he knew deep down she meant
something to him.
“Cinderella
lets go. Come, come.” Lady Tremaine said pulling her out of bed, “ We need to
loot the mall and see what’s left, come on up, get up.” Ella rolled her eyes,
she knows there hasn’t been anything in the mall for months, and they are
setting her up to die.
“No way, you
know there isn’t anything left at the mall, hasn’t been for months. I am not
going out there.” She got up and walked to the other room, Lady Tremaine was
right behind her. She tried convincing Ella to go out but she stood her ground,
“you want to go out so bad go without me. I’m staying.” She sat down and
started making some bread balls to cook over a small fire.
Ella decided
to go out one night alone and see if she can find food or drinks; she was armed
and ready just in case. She had cleaned her gun and made sure it worked. She
was just coming out of a house with some bottled water and some Kool-Aid
pouches for little kids. Either way it was something to drink. She was
traveling home when she hit a pipe with her foot and caused it to clank against
a wall; she tensed up knowing what that could mean for her. She waited but
nothing happened. She went about her day and got home without a problem, she
made sure to hide some of the extra water to keep for herself. She didn’t take
all of it, but since they treated her so poorly, she didn’t exactly feel awful
either. She decided she didn’t want to take the abuse anymore, she packed a few
necessities and waited until night.
Night fall came and it was
peaceful, Ella decided to venture out and go off on her own, she was making
sure she kept quiet. A few hours had past and she was getting closer to the
next town over, she had plenty of food and water left and the sun had started
to rise. An animal startled her but she remained quiet. She watched as the
animal scampered off and ducking under a tin sheet lying beside a building. The
animal was too filthy to identify but it moved causing the tin sheet to slide
down and create a crash when it hit the ground. Ella tensed and thought she was
alright so she kept walking. A few moments went by and it was peaceful, she was
calm and relaxed. A little too relaxed, she sneezed not even thinking about
trying to stay quiet. Zombies began flooding in all directions and she watched
as they surrounded her. She fought for as long as she could, only a few remained.
She used her knives to kill the others, all but one. This zombie was not
charging at her, but instead calmly looked at her with something in his hand.
Ella stood there and looked as the zombie reached its hand out and she saw her
shoe.
She wasn’t sure what to do but she
took the time to reload the gun and she watched carefully with her finger on the
trigger. The zombie was calm and slowly started walking towards her, she tensed
but something about the calm way he was walking she wasn’t attacking him. He
was a few feet from her when she finally recognized him, it was her boyfriend Caleb.
Ella let him get closer and closer until he was reaching out to hand her the
shoe. Ella took it without thought, she smiled and said thank you. Caleb gave a
weird, distorted half smile and grunted. Caleb took Ella by the hand and pulled
her close, Ella was lost in thought and was just happy to see Caleb again even
zombie Caleb. She smiled and didn’t even fight it. She missed her love and it
was obvious that he missed her as well. Caleb ended up killing Ella that day,
but they lived the rest of their lives together, forever.
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