Robbie Shapiro was your average looking student; well nerd would be more accurate. He had a full jewish afro, thick black rimmed glasses and fairly pale skin. The only thing that wasn't average about him was the fact that he carried around his best friend Rex. Robbie was a ventriloquist but Rex wasn't just a puppet to him, he was so much more.

Even though Rex was his best friend he could often be mean to Robbie and it was because of Rex's latest outburst that Robbie was traipsing through the halls of Hollywood Arts. Robbie was staring at the lockers along his route back to his locker, where he was ordered to place Rex. He was taking his time to do this, not just because he wanted to spend more time with Rex, but also to avoid seeing her with him. It hurt him to see her with another person after she knew how he felt.

"Walking slower than a snail won't help you avoid them, sooner or later you'll see them again" Rex explained shattering the silence that Robbie had become accustomed to.

"Yeah, well you didn't have to make it worse by insulting them" Robbie squeaked back at him.

"You loved it Rob" Rex taunted him, knowing perfectly well how Robbie felt about the situation.

"It did feel good to see his face, but Cat just looked so hurt" Robbie pondered aloud, looking into the distance.

"Man up, Curly Sue, you know you'll have to get rid of him first before she'll even consider you. Not that she ever will" Rex goaded him.

"I'm not even sure I want her any more" Robbie explained.

"What you gone of girls now. Don't think your luck will be any better with the men though" Rex jeered.

"Look, even if that is what I meant you and I both know there isn't a problem with being gay!" Robbie retorted, slamming Rex into his locker that he had reached only seconds before.

Robbie leaned his head against the locker, letting out a long breath as he thought about his relationship with Cat. His head was jumble up on her to say the least. Even after everything that had happened between them, she still remained as sweet as ever to him. He felt sort of bad that he had been trying to put some distance between them.

He was snapped out of his thoughts by the sound of a panicked voice. He reluctantly lifted his head off of his locker to see what had caused the commotion. He was met with the sight of Lane and Helen confronting a man who had stumbled in through the main doors. There was something off about the man. His head was angled downwards so that his hair covered his eyes and the man was slightly hunched over. His skin had a slightly strange tinge to it and there were droplets scattered on his tattered clothes.

"This is school property and you need to leave immediately" Helen ordered loudly at the man.

At the sound of her voice the man cocked his head towards her and started to amble forwards at a steady pace. Helen took a few steps back as the man continued his steady march forwards. Lane moved in between Helen and the strange man giving the man a steady glare.

"You have to leave immediately. This is your final warning!" Lane declared to the man.

The man seemed unaffected by the speech, other than to slightly increase his pace of walking. When he was within arm's reach of Lane, Lane gave him a rough shove and the man tumbled backwards a fell to the floor. Lane quickly reached into his pocket and retrieved a bottle of hand sanitizer. He started rubbing it in and turned to face Helen.

"Well I think he'll be on his wa..." Lane started when he suddenly felt a pressure around his ankle. He looked down to see the man grabbing it with a strong grip.

The man dragged himself closer to Lane using his arm. Without pause the man opened his jaw wide and the sunk his teeth into the back of Lane's ankle. There was a brief calm as the man's teeth failed to break through the skin of Lane's ankle, but when they did a fountain of blood covered the man's face. Lane let out a bone shattering scream as he fell to his knees.

Helen look horrified as the scene unfolded in front of her. She swiftly moved forward and kicked the man in the chest with strength that Robbie had not known she possessed. The man rolled away from Lane and lay limply on the ground. Helen knelt beside Lane and tried to talk to him, but all Lane seemed to do was cough up blood on the floor. Splatters of the blood fell on Helen. Soon he collapsed on the floor and Helen moved to take her phone out.

Before she could more than look at her phone, Lane rose standing tall above Helen. A look of relief passed across her face as she opened her mouth to talk to Lane. Before more than a syllable fell from her tongue Lane had descended upon her and had tore through her shoulder with his teeth. Helen let out a soul wrenching scream and clutched at her wound. The sound seamed to rouse the original man and now he descended upon Helen too.

"What the hell?" Robbie whispered to himself, as he slowly slunk back down the hallway.

As soon as he was out of ear shot Robbie began to sprint towards his previous class. By the time he reached the door he was wheezing and struggled to gather his breath before he moved to open the door. As soon as he did he stumbled towards where Cat was sat.

"Mr Shapiro you took far too long out there. Now take a seat before you disrupt the class any further" the teacher instructed.

He ignored the teacher and instead grabbed Cat's arm and pulled her out of her seat. Cat quickly yanked her arm from his grip and shuffled closer to James. Once she was securely in his arms Cat glared slightly at Robbie. The teacher had walked up behind Robbie now and placed an arm on his shoulder.

"Take a seat Mr Shapiro, or I'll have no choice but to give you detention" the teacher ordered.

Robbie shrugged off his hand and took a step closer to Cat.

"We need to go now!" Robbie told her, projecting every bit of urgency he could muster into his voice.

"Why should I believe you? You haven't spoken to me properly in weeks and then you demand me to do something" Cat shouted, tears forming in her eyes as she buried her head in James' shoulder.

"Look, just trust me we're in danger and need to go now" Robbie urged.

"What are you talking about dude?" James questioned pulling Cat in closer from fear of what Robbie had said. He knew that Robbie wouldn't say something like this unless it was true.

"Yes, Robbie please explain yourself" the teacher requested.

"Well when I went to put Rex in my locker there was a strange man there. Lane and Helen tried to get him to leave, but he attacked Lane. Then Lane ended up attacking Helen and I think they killed her. SO that is why we need to leave!" Robbie urged putting an edge in his voice.

"Mr Shapiro, please stop messing around and take..." The teacher began, only to be interrupted by the tannoy.

The electric crackle caused all the children to turn their heads towards the device. The classroom fell silent as they all waited with baited breath for the announcement to happen. After a few short moments, although it felt like an eternity to everyone in the room.

"This is vice-principal Dickers... this is an announcement to everyone inside the school... everyone needs to evacuate immediately," his voice dropped suddenly, "get back... all teachers lead your pupils out quickly, NOW!" the tannoy fell silent except for the static that indicated the mic was still on. "no, stay away... please don't do this.. AAAHHHH!" The sound of a crunch was clearly audible in the eerie silence the reigned over the class.

Whilst the class remained frozen and processing the information, Robbie yanked on James and pulled him, and by extension Cat from the classroom. James looked Robbie dead in the eyes and it appeared the announcement has gotten to him as his previous bravado had gone and his eyes seemed to have sunk in his head. The announcement had gotten to Cat worse and it seemed the announcement had caused he body to give up. She began to fall to the ground and James was too distracted to even notice. It was then that Robbie swept in and prevented her from connecting with the floor.

Cat let out a barely audible squeak, but it was enough to rouse James from his stupor. Robbie handed Cat to him and quickly scoped the hallway. He could begin to hear the students in the classrooms begin to move as the news sunk in.

"We need to leave before everyone panics and runs for the exit. If we don't move now we'll be crushed" Robbie instructed as he began to walk down the hall. He felt better once he heard the shuffle of two sets of feet behind him.

As he came upon the entrance where he witnessed Lane and Helen get attacked he began to slow his pace and edge closer to the wall. As he reached the corner of the lockers he put his hand up to stop Cat and James. He peered cautiously around the corner. His eyes fell immediately on the blood stained floor causing his stomach to turn slightly. What puzzled him was that Helen was not on the floor where she should have been. Instead she was walking around with Lane and the other man, they slowly mulled around underneath the tannoy.

Robbie knew it was too risky to try and sneak past the so he decided that they would need to go back and find another way out. Robbie began to walk back and indicated for the others to follow. Just as they began to turn back, the door of a nearby classroom burst open and students began to clamber over each other to get out. Robbie realised the immediate danger that they would cause.

Thinking quickly Robbie grabbed Cat and James and pulled them back towards the main entrance. Instead of heading straight for the door he pulled them off to the side and dragged them towards the Janitor's closet. Before Robbie could open the door he felt a tug on his arm. The man from earlier had grabbed Cat who began screaming her head off. Just as the man was about to sink his teeth into Cat's arm James dived in and threw his arms over Cat.

Blood burst from James' arm covering all three in a shower of blood. James immediately began to choke. Cat began to scream out James' name whilst trying to force the man off. Other students forced their way past ignoring the commotion. Robbie knew he had to act if he was to save either of them. Know he wasn't strong enough to rip them man of he decided of another tactic.

Robbie ran at the trio and threw his body with all his might at them. All four of the tumble to the ground, the force causing them all to separate. The man began to get up but James pinned him to the floor. Robbie noticed them struggle and rolled over to help as best he could. By the time he had gotten to them the man was about to bite James again.

It was then that Robbie noticed that his tackle had opened a few lockers next to the pair. He quickly charged the man and forced his head in between the locker and its door. He then proceeded to slam the locker repeatedly on the man's head with as much force as he could muster. Blood spurted from the man's head and filled Robbie's mouth. The copper taste of the blood causing him to retch. Robbie looked down at the man and saw that his head had caved in.

He felt someone place a hand on his shoulder and he looked up to see the look of concern on Cat's face. The look broke him from his blood rage and he took stock of the situation. Due to the influx of students pushing towards the exit the attacks had increased and there seemed to be more of the creatures roaming the hall.

Robbie grabbed Cat and James had lead them into the janitor's closet. James was bleeding profusely at this point and Robbie had to prop him into a sitting position against the wall. As soon as he was content that James was ok he moved to push the shelves in front of the door. In the short time that took Cat had crawled into James' lap, who was now stroking her hair as she cried openly into his shirt.

"Robbie I need your help" James wheezed, looking at Robbie, his eyes showing that he had resigned himself to the inevitable.