They had no idea that on the day of their arrival itself on their fantasy Island, God has planned something else, so terrible and deadly that had no escape and if anyhow they did, they were to remember this for the rest of their lives as a horrifying dream they lived once.
Tom was having a walk with Harry on the smooth sandy beach chilling out, having drinks and enjoying the scenary while Juliet and Peter were clicking pictures of themselves, their friends and the lovely environment around them and Alex, Sherlin and Peter were sitting beside them on the beach mat having snacks and gossiping.
The beach was crowded with thousands of people. As far as one's gaze fell, one could see people enjoying the Sun, children playing with their friends and families, couples clicking selfies and enjoying their precious moments together, more people shaking their bodies and enjoying in the chilly ocean water on their favourite music trying to match their body moves with the rhythm of the music and so on. The whole environment was filled with utmost joy, happiness, and laughter all around.
They were relaxing and enjoying at the beach altogether when suddenly they heard a loud screaming noise coming from afar and in a while, getting closer and closer.
Harry looked up in a manner to find out the source of the noise looking in its direction when he saw people running wildly as if their lives were in great danger and screaming on top of their lungs.
Seeing this, the rest of his friends too stood up and they were all baffled as they were unable to understand what was going on.
They were too getting frightened wondering the cause of this behaviour of the people. Alex and Tom hurriedly ran some distance in the direction of wild running mob as to see what was the real cause behind all this.
What they saw left them frozen in their place. There were two scary, man-like brutes growling loudly with dark coloured blood oozing out their rotten-like bodies from everywhere and they were wobbling stretching their hands forward trying to catch any of the wildly running people to bite them off.
Behind those two, there were two more similar creatures at some distance behind them feasting on a partial living man's body whom they had caught and pulled down on the ground and started biting off his body everywhere. The man was crying in extreme pain.
Seeing them not return, rest of the friends followed the way Alex and Tom went through. After a bit of searching them in the crowd ,they finally were able to see them standing frozen looking in the direction of horrifying creatures.
They themselves were stunned with horror when their gaze fell on the terrifying 'things' at some distance tottering towards them getting closer and closer with each passing moment. For some instance, they were all bewildered with terror not knowing what to do. It was loud screaming and crying voices all around there and people were running breathlessly in random motion to save their lives.
Suddenly Tom got his consciousness back and without losing a single moment more, he furiously turned back and shouted on top his voice causing Alex and his other friends who were still startled, regain their consciousness.
"Run" it was the only word that came out of Tom's frightened voice as loud as he could at that moment. All of them started running as fast as possible towards their hotel which was a bit far from from there.
It was a complete chaotic situation all around there made up of terrified men and women along with their puzzled and frightened children and families and friends crying and running back towards the hotels and restaurants or any built structure they could see at that moment which were now not very far from them in order to save their lives.
Meanwhile, those two dreadful 'creatures' who were feasting on the living man's body left him after some time and they too started to follow their 'mates' ahead of them trying to get their hands on the running people.
Harry looked back for a moment while running as to see how much they were ahead of the 'living dead people'. He was aghast at the sight once again. Along with the four 'deadly beasts', the man on whom they were feasting few moments ago, was standing on his feet and looking similar to those brutes with major portion of his body cut off from itself and dark red coloured blood was dropping on the ground from everywhere of its body.
Harry was stunned at the sight and a loud screaming sound came automatically from his mouth which led all the other friends stop and look in its direction. They were all terrified at the sight. At that moment they all realised that the terrifying creatures were the 'Zombies' in real which they had seen only in the movies and video games till now and they had no idea that those nightmares which they saw sometimes during sleep will turn into reality one day and that they would have to face them in real.
The last man which turned into a zombie few moments back too started wobbling and chasing peoples like his 'mates' were doing. Everyone noticed that It did not feel any pain even when it had almost it's half body eaten out by his 'mates' few minutes back and now he was trying to get a hold on anyone running ahead of him like the other zombies were trying to do.
Two of the Zombies were coming in the direction in which Tom and his friends were running trying to reach their hotel building while other three zombies were tottering after running people at some distance from the other two.
It was stampede all around.
At some distance from those three zombies, Tom's gaze fell upon a child of about 6 years of age standing there and crying for his parents as he had been lost in the crowd. Quickly, He turned his head in the direction of those three zombies and found them tottering towards the child with their gaze on the crying boy. Tom didn't think for a moment and started running towards the boy. All of his friends were observing this situation and a moment after, Harry also started running after his friend.
The child was screaming on top his voice in fear seeing the 'monsters' coming at him. One of the zombie was about to catch the boy when Tom lunged at the boy from 5ft apart and dropped on the ground holding the boy with him. As he tried to rise on his feet again, he found his one leg trapped between the bloody hands of a zombie trying to pull it and have a slice of it. A feeling of fear ran across his whole body. At this moment, Harry reached there but had no idea what to do to save his best friend and a 6-yr old boy.
Tom was continuously struggling and kicking trying to get his leg free from the monstrous clutch along with holding the boy. While other two zombies were approaching him and were almost there. Harry moved his head around in order to find anything useful when his gaze fell on a piece of wooden log lying on the ground nearby. Without losing a single moment, he picked it up and swung it as hard as could at the zombie's hand which were holding Tom's leg. The next moment, one hand of the Zombie got seperated from his body and dropped on the ground while the zombie itself fell on the ground due to the striking force. At once, Harry helped Tom stand up and started running along with Tom carrying the child in his arms narrowly escaping the other two zombies as they were just about to catch them.