Peace. That’s all that can be said of the surrounding area.

It was a cool autumn day in the city of Montreal, situated in Quebec, one of the few cities that was ‘back in working order’

It had been five years since the world was plunged into complete hell. The skies where filled with the smoke and ashes, made of what used to be the known world.

The way the world was plunged into complete chaos was not by the nuclear holocaust that was expected by the human populace of earth, it was neither by the also growing fear of global warming.

What nearly annihilated all of mankind was not thought about any sane human of the twenty first century, although, it would be a lie to say that nobody was prepared for it. People had fantasized about these creatures. Yes, creatures. Though, it would also be a lie not to state that these monsters in which are being mentioned, where indeed, once human.

Know, that although we where in an age where great leaps in technology where being made to be used to protect us, but, we where still almost destroyed indefinitely due to the lost connection of with our ancestral genes. With our way of life, we had lost our sense of survival. Though some had found it, others took time before they recaptured it, or others just couldn’t do it, and sadly, those where the many that became our enemy. But, of course, there are hundreds of stories that other people, if you ask, could tell you how their sons, daughters, husbands, wives, friends and other members of their family ‘joined’ the enemy.

You must be asking yourself, what is this enemy of which keeps on being mentioned. Well, if it where another time in our world, you would probably dismiss it as a insane person’s view of an Armageddon, but it has something we where forced to adapt too, or die from it.

Zombies. Yes, that’s what we fought against, thrived to survive from, promised ourselves to rid these walking plagues from our earth so that our grandchildren could grow up without fearing the dark, or having a cold sweat envelope their bodies at the sound of the howling wind.

Zombies are what ruined all of our lives, but did more than Abraham Lincoln, or Dr. Martin Luther king Jr. or any other person who fought for equal rights, respect for every man.

That was mankind’s great advantage over their undead aggressor. To work together, as one effective killing machine against the hordes of living corpses that riddled our lands. We dismissed each others ethnic background, our skin color, and our social backgrounds.
All of us worked together for one dead set cause, and that was to retake what was so abruptly taken from use, and be able to make a road that would lead us to a day where we would never have to fear anything.

And, that’s where we are now. Cities are being rebuilt, people are being housed and taken care of, governments are being reestablished, and new maps of the world are being redrawn. Heck, even the stock market was starting to make a comeback.

But, I’m not here to talk about the present, but the certain individuals from the past that helped bring withering countries out of the darkness, giving them a torch to light up their way for the future of fighting these horrible beings.

Though, these individuals where not a government branch, nor where they even any sort of militia. They where average people, leading, back then, normal jobs, but, when the sirens rang, and the blood curdling screams, and the moans of the undead broke the serenity of ever day living, these people did what they where preparing for, and we owe them everything.

As Churchill once said about the pilots that fought over Britain during the battle of Britain “never was so much owed by so many, to so few”

My name is Cody Grail; I’m twenty-eight, and a government historian, based on recording and storing information that could be used in case any such thing should happen again.

I was proposed to take first hand accounts of how these few people prepared, survived, and fought the zombie threat, whilst helping and training others.

It was a report that others in my position would kill for, but I was given it, and godamn it, I’m going to do one hell of a job.