Henry's first sign that there was something wrong was the canoes, the plastic were gone with only some strange residue on the ground. He decided to leave the goop on the ground alone and carefully made it to the lodge.
Instead of going straight inside he thought safer on a day like today look through the windows first.
Inside all of his coworkers were wandering around the lodge, stumbling, bumping into everyone and random objects that were clearly in the way but they payed them no mind. This wasn't entirely odd, could be that someone broke out the booze, they were all horrible drunks, but the look on their faces' said a different story. There was nothing in those faces, no emotion, no intelligence, just nothing.
Henry ducked under the window, years of video games and horror movies told him exactly what this was but he didn't believe it.
"Zombie Apocalypse? Really? But what else could it be? I need to get another look."
He popped back up to get another look. As he looked around he saw something very large move in the background. "Oh please no, not him." Tom, his boss a huge muscle bound brute. Not the smartest guy, but as zombie that doesn't matter much.
As Henry scanned the room one last time his eyes locked with Tom's and then something happened that caused him to jump back. There was a change in Tom's face from the vacant stare to one of recollection and then another change which sent Henry running. He's seen that look before, it's the same look that Tom gives before devouring a burger.
"Crap, crap, crap! I need things, weapons, where do I get them? Right the tool shed."
He made it to the shed, it looked like he wasn't being followed. Maybe they couldn't figure out the door, he gave himself five minutes. He busted down the door and looked around to see what he had to work with.
"Let's see shovels, nice but not the best, axes, a little awkward in cramped spaces, machetes, there we go these will work just fine, and what's this? A crowbar, ah yes this is perfect. Now that I've got weapons I'm not sure how infectious these zombies are so I need to cover up."
He grabbed a coat, a safety mask, and some safety glasses (glass). After got himself geared up he sat there thinking of his plan of attack.
"Well going through the front door is probably suicide. The back door is going to be much better. What to do?" Just then he leaned back and hit a ladder. "What? Ah that will work."
He grabbed the ladder and set it up against the lodge. He climbed up it and went up to the nearest window to see if there was anything near it. He decided that it was safe enough and broke open the window. As he went in he saw some movement in the hallway. He got a good grip on the crowbar and looked out the hallway and some the form of someone. They were facing backwards so he couldn't see who they were. He quietly made his way out of the room, walked behind them, brought the crowbar up, and then brought it down on the base of head. It produced a sickening crack and the body dropped to the ground. He left it there and didn't want to see who it used to be.
"Ugh I'm not going to get the drop on all of them, I need something better. Wait there's that old M1 Garand in the office up here, I know it still works."
He made his way to the office without seeing any more zombies, got the gun, and made his way to the main room. He peeked out behind the corner and did a quick head count, all of the remaining eight employees were here. He made his way to the staircase hoping to take them by surprise, as he raised the rifle he got a surprise of his own.
"Hello Henry, why don't you come down here." said a very sickly and distorted voice, he was barely able to make out that it was Tom's.
"I'm sorry Tom I can't do that."
"Why not? We are having a great time here, come join us."
"You know I really can't I've got things to do."
"Order you to come down here or you're fired!"
"Well in that case I quit!"
With that he quickly lined up a shot on Tom's head. He pulled the trigger and the thing that was once Tom dropped to the ground missing something rather vital. After that all of the other zombies made a rush up the stairs and a short while they too were on the ground.
"I can't believe this is happening, just don't think about it. In any case I figure I should get rid of these bodies and then start settling in for the long haul."
