Part 10- Conclusion and Summary

Ashley felt groggy... a lack of sleep and fatigue wore on her. She felt dizzy and began to cough. As she licked her lips, a strange taste entered her mouth. She looked into the mirror and saw her lip had blood on it, but no cut was visible...she passed out and the car swerved from the road.
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Minutes later, Ashley opened her eyes... Through glazed eyes she watched her hand reach for the door's handle, and she released herself from the vehicle. She slumped into the trees, hungry...
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This is the final part of "Infected Parkside" It will simply be a quick overview of what happened to each character, just for clarity sake. Not technically an obituary, rather than a summary...so here goes.

Courtney Cornell- She got infected with low grade solanum before the story even began by Garrett. Because this story differs from other zombie accounts, the solanum virus actually began to evolve and transform humans into zombies much faster than the initial infection. This amount of time allowed Courtney to, as an RA to the Ranger Hall, interact with many people before death and reanimation. Originally, she was the first zombie and died in the dead of night while doing RA rounds on the 4th floor, and reanimated just hours later. She happened to follow Avery from the bathroom into his room and then murdered/ infected him. She then went and infected Emily Evenson in Parts 2 and 3. And she also infects her loving boyfriend(hahaha), John Nelson in part 5. Her first appearance is in Part 2 and her character ends in part 8 via fire, she causes the explosion that knocks Garrett into a daze before Ryan dies.

Emily Evenson- She was infected by Courtney in part 2 (which is also her first appearance). She assists in the infection of Alex St. John and flocks with the group of featured zombies. She is last seen in part 8, she is destroyed by a flaming bed post that horseshoes her head and forces her onto the ground.

Sam Schwartz- She first appeared in Part 2 alone in her room. She is either rescued or condemned by Ryan Montross and was infected by a zombie just outside her window. She then went to meet Ryan M. and infected him as well. She also assisted in the assault of Alex St. John and was eventually shot in the head in part 8.

Kyle Weis- Garrett's roommate and initially a main character. He appears in part 1 as a living character but gets bitten after a valiant fight against several of the undead. In an effort to not worsen the scenario he attempts to stab his heart to end his life before death and reanimation. But he misses and punctures his lung, he then tries to
escape by crawling to the elevator (where he bleeds to death) which arrives on the 4th floor after Ryan and Karl leave Garrett and Ashley for a scouting mission in part 7. Garrett then takes the blade from Kyle and later uses it to kill Mike in part 9.

Karl Gfall- Ryan Scanlan's roommate. He carries a classic 8-shot revolver, which leads us to believe that he is a classic fighter...with style. Anyways, he first appears in Part 2 when he arrives in Comm. Arts. He dies in part 7 after many zombies pick him clean. His death scene actually spans over 2 parts after he charges into a heroic attempt of destroying a large mass of the undead. He never reanimates due to the consumption of his brain.

Mike Benson- First appears in part 2 as he has a comedic struggle with coins and a vending machine revolving around a Snickers. He kills Victor Bittorf (a zombie) in part 4. In part 5, Garrett dreams of mauling Mike Benson in his sleep, this is foreshadowing towards Garrett actually killing Mike and going insane by part 9. In part 7 Mike Benson expresses true fear by screaming and thrashing his arms wildly, he also busts his nose by tripping. In Part 8, he is blasted in several pieces by Garrett's shotgun shells and is thought to be dead. Turns out that in part 9 when Garrett is leaning on his stomach to better aim that Mike is still alive and Garrett ends his misery by breaking Kyles steak knife in the inside of his skull.

Ashley Todd- Ashley first appears in part 4 exiting a room with John. She escapes when Emily and Sam attack Alex. She finds Garrett and Ryan on the 4th floor landing and remains there with Garrett. She witnesses a major downfall in Garrett's sanity as he breaks down in his sleep. Her and Garrett's in-story relationship is questionable and open for debate as it is not specified any other way. (I only include this because I got yelled at for a having a love interest in the story which was never my intent). Ashley ends up escaping in Karl's vehicle in part 9. In Part 10, she realizes that she gets infected and slumps into the woods.

Ryan Scanlan- Garrett's neighbor and partner through the story. He enters by saving Garrett's life at the beginning of part 3, but his opening scene is in part 2. He also watches Karl, his roommate, plunge into battle and in to death. Of all characters, Ryan kills the most zombies and gets injured the least before he ends up killing himself after being bitten in the parking lot in part 9.

John Nelson- Appears in part 4 with Ashley and is bitten by Courtney soon after in part 5 at the same time Alex is bitten. He is destroyed by part 8 by a bullet to the head. He is the subject of example when a transformation and inter-workings of a zombie are explained.

Ryan Montross- He first appeared in part 2 while smashing through Sam's window. Sam later bit him in Brickstone Eatery and as he began to reanimate, Karl killed him in part 3.

Alex St. John- Was first introduced in part 4. He was bitten with John in part 5 by Sam and Emily. He was set on fire by a flaming mattress and got pinned under a vehicle which exploded in part 8.

Garrett Radant- Garrett is opening main character first introduced in his dorm room in part 1. Before the story began Garrett slipped Courtney a vial of Solanum in an act of spite of Parkside. He plans on justifying his “murder” by claiming that the undead were killing more people than he was because they were already dead to begin with. Garrett in part 2 robs Guns 'n Gadgets and using the weapons to being his assault on Parkside. Ryan and Garrett first meet in Part 3 when Ryan saves him from a mass of zombies. In part 4 it is only in memory that Garrett appears. In part 5, Garrett meets with Ashley and after Ryan and Karl leave, he has a dream about killing Mike and breaks his hand. In part 6 we start to see that Garrett is psychologically losing it. He is then part of some comical dialogue in part 7. In part 8 he starts the onslaught of zombies in the parking lot and kills Mike. In Part 9, he finishes off the last of the zombies and goes completely insane and blood thirsty during this fight. He then retreats to his room and types a cryptic message to those who find him. He kills a police officer after laughing maniacally and then commits suicide.
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Here a few allusions that I put into the story...just some interesting things that you may not have noticed:
~In Part 4, ALL of the flashbacks actually happened. Some of them are altered for the sake of literary technique.
~At the same flashbacks in Part 4, The order of events is what happened from first to last in real life and also, the characters that go missing until Garrett is alone typing are the characters that die in that order. Kyle, Karl, Ryan and then Garrett.
~In Part 9, when Garrett touches Ashleys lips, he smears blood on them, Solanum infected blood.
~I really have had a dream where I beat the crap out of Mike, I retold it for this story.
~I apologize to Ashley for infecting her friends and later her, not the common thought that I was going to shoot her before Ryan came back.
~Burning the contents of my room made me quite satisfied. Hence my flaming mattress, I also find that quite funny. Flaming Mattress...Lulz.


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