What if they were real

What if they took over

Their bloodshot eyes

Their lust for flesh and blood

Their pail faces and diseased bodies

They would come to kill

They would come to take over

What if they were here

What if you were their next victim

I want to listen

I want to listen to the beats and rhythms

I want to hear

I want to hear the amazing instruments playing

I want to watch

I want to watch the bands playing and the singers singing

I want to travel

I want to travel and watch bands play and spread the news about music

I want you to understand

I want you to understand the amazement of music

Life is like the rhythm of a song

That stays in your head

And changes every time you listen to it

And ends with a slow ending

 

When something disrupts that rhythm

It could all be lost in your mind

But it never fades

If you hear it again

 

You might forget about it

And you might not like it anymore

But when you hear that rhythm once more

It will stay with you forever

 

 

 

• 

It is Winter
Moving into Spring
In the background

Windy skies and
Thawing lakes
With the snowy mountains behind them

 A pack of arctic wolves
Hunting in the snow
Leaving prints in the icy ground below them

 Taking a break
Drinking from the lake
Noticing something in the distance

 Everything goes silent
The wolves creep around
Behind the hill

 Stalking their prey
Waiting to attack
The helpless animal

January 27, 2015

Dear Total Combat PaintBall,

 

Hello my name is Eric. I am an 8th grader at Old  Town Academy. I have been going to Total Combat Paintball for many years now and I love it. My school is having its fourth annual gala on April 25 and we are trying to raise money. It is our biggest fundraiser of the year and I would really appreciate it if you could help us raise money. If you could just donate some paintball gear or gift cards it would really help. Thank you for taking the time to read this letter, I really appreciate it. Our address is 2120 San Diego Avenue, San Diego, CA 92110. Or you can reach our front office at 619-574-6225.

Sincerely,

Eric Zamora

We had no time to think, he came rushing at us with the chain in his hand. He swung the massive weapon, with a killer look in his eye. His bloodshot eyes staring straight into ours, we all froze. We were ready to fight back and stop running every time we saw him. I looked over at Nico and Cole, the people I had been surviving with. Cole was outraged at what happened and yelled out in rage charging the psycho, Nico and I behind him ready to fight.

Before this we were looking for everyone we could find in the hotel to save them from a giant psycho that was killing everyone. Many people and friends have already died and now we were looking for Maelee. We found her and watched the psycho kill her right in front of us. And this is where were at now. We were all standing behind cole as he charged the giant. I realized I still had a gun from when the police officer died. I pulled it out, not knowing how to use it very well. I took out the clip noticing that we only had eight bullets left. I put it back in and cocked it, trying to get used to the feeling of aiming it. I had to do something to help him fight. Nico jumped in to help him bring the giant down. I looked down at the gun, my hands shaking while holding it. I didn’t want all of us to risk our lives in a fight we might not win. I didn’t care anymore I didn’t want to see anyone else die. I moved closer and aimed my gun.

Nico and Cole were struggling to even keep him still. I didn’t want to take a risk of hitting either of them with a bullet. I started to kick him hoping to make a difference, he finally got tired and fell to his knees. I put the gun to his back and blew a hole straight through his chest. He fell to the floor with a thump and didn’t move. We started to walk out of the room thinking it was over, when I heard Cole yell from behind me. I turned around and the psycho had him by the leg. He got up with and puled out his axe. Cole was on the ground, not able to do anything. He swung the axe and I closed my eyes not wanting to watch someone die again. I heard a loud thud as the axe landed, I opened my eyes in horror of what I saw before me.

Nico was laying on the floor with an axe in his head and Cole was on the ground in shock that he wasn’t dead. We looked at each other without saying any words, and walked out of the room. We didn’t mention anything that had just happened and walked on in silence. It was so hard trying to deal with everything that had happened so far. I just wanted to leave and forget about this place. I was sick and tired of all of the deaths and screams of people dying. We both tried to forget about everything that has happened, all of the killing, the chopping of peoples heads and limbs, and all of the people suffering that we had to watch. It needed to end and I planned to do exactly that. We walked down the hallway in silence on our way to get more people and bring this psycho down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hurry while Cole was in a constant struggle going up against that huge killer.

Nico rushed in and began helping cole while I snuck around him to get a better shot. I tried to aim for his head but I couldn’t get a clear shot. I aimed and shot him in the back. He screamed out in pain. We didn’t stop attacking while he was down. He struggled to get up with Cole pinning him against the floor. He let out a long roar and lashed out with his giant arm. He knocked Cole off of him and was attacking us once again. I thought to myself ” This guy is unstoppable, how will be able to save everyone and get out of here alive?”

I let off a few more shots but this maniac just wouldn’t go down. Cole also wasn’t giving up anytime soon. He didn’t stop attacking ever since he started. He wanted this all to be over more than any of us.

 

 

“Why did you bring me here? I didn’t even do anything!” I demanded. I was yelling at the police officer that brought me and 10 other prisoners to a hotel. We were being forced to do community service at a hotel with over 50 floors. The hotel was dark and creepy. Everything was dusty and destroyed. I thought to myself “How are we going to get this done?”

We started cleaning up the hotel, everyone on a different floor. The prisoners were Cole,  Jake, Josh, RT, Autumn, Maelee, Nico, Tom, Chris, and me. We were shipped in a bus from Los Angeles to this hotel in San Diego. I was working when Chris came up to me and said that he found a secret room on the first floor. He thought we could somehow escape through there. Nico and I followed him, the room led to a very long hallway and at the end of it was a dark room where a light, barely visible, was flickering. A very uncomforting disguting smell came from the room. We walked through the dark hallway passing doors on both sides of us, shocked at what we found at the end of it.

My heart started beeting faster and faster, feeling like it was going to explode out of my chest. What we found at the end of the room was a pile of dead bodies. Every body had its eyes ripped out of its head and there lips stitched together. Blood was all over the floor and the stench was unbearable. All of us were too shocked to move. Then suddenly Chris turned around and sprinted through the hallway and went through a door. We called his name but he didn’t slow down. Nico and I split up and went through different doors to try and corner him. We met in a hallway with an elevator. Chris was waiting at the trying to get to the third floor. The elevator made it to the first floor and blood starting coming out of the bottom of the door.

The doors opened and there stood a man about seven feet tall with blood all over himself and a dead pesron in his arms. He dropped the body and pulled out a long chain with a giant hook attached to it. Chris turned and ran, afraid that he could lose his life any moment now. The giant man swung the hook right into Chris’s chest. He screamed in agony, his blood splattered on the wall. The man dragged him along the floor, held him by the neck and slammed his head against the wall until he was dead. The body was dragged into the elevator and they were gone.

I was completely still, trying to comprehend to what had just happened. I looked over at Nico, his face was pale and he looked like he was going to throw up. I tried to talk to him but he wouldn’t respond. He turned and barfed on the floor and almost passed out. We realized we had to tell the others. We ran upstairs and told the police officer to follow us. I showed him the room full of dead bodies, he had the same facial expression we did. Next we showed him the elevator. Blood was still all over the floor and on all of the walls. He noticed how serious this was and pulled out his gun. He pushed the button on the elevator to investigate the other floors. The numbers of the floors were counting down, we were terrified that he might show up in the doorway again.

It reached our floor and the door opened. There was no one there but blood was all over the place. We were about to walk in when we heard a loud bang coming from the air duct above us. The police officer aimed his gun up where there was a hole in the ceiling. He shot up three times in hopes of hitting something. We thought it was just nothing and were about to proceed on when a chain with a hook came down and hooked the officer in the throat. The blood in his mouth made a gurgling sound and he was pulled up. We heard several shots go off then silence. About ten seconds later a body fell through the hole in the ceiling. It was the police officer, his eyes were missing and his stomach was sliced open.

I grabbed his gun and we sprinted out of their and started gathering everyone to get out of there. We got Rt first and were going to go up one floor when we ran into the psycho. He pulled out an axe he had behind his back and ran after us. Nico and I busted through a door and locked it behind us. Rt didn’t follow he kept running. We waited for almost 30 minutes then finally left the room. We cautiously walked down the hall and turned around a corner to find Rt’s body headless hanging from a rope. We knew he might have died but i never thought it would be this horrible to see. I tried to ignore it and pressed on to find the others. Next we found Cole, explained everything that happened and that we needed to find some sort of weapons to defend ourselves. Next time that psycho came after us we’d be ready.

We didn’t see the killer on that floor and went up one more. While walking up the stairs I started thinking about everything that’s happened. I couldn’t get the gruesome images of dead the dead bodies I’ve seen out of my head. I started daydreaming about what we had all been through. I realized how crazy all of this was and started questioning myself if this whole thing was just a dream. None of this could be real it all seemed impossible. I woke back up into reality to the sound of someone screaming my name. I looked up and saw the killer. He grabbed me by the throat, I could feel his grip getting tighter and tighter. I was gasping for breath when I saw Nico behind him swing a huge pipe at the back of the giant’s head. It landed with a crack, he dropped me I landed trying to get air back into my lungs.

The blow the killer took to the head knocked him down and we were able to get away. The next person we needed to get was up three more floors. This endless stair climbing made my legs feel numb. I wanted to take a break, but we had to get everyone as soon as we could.. We made it to the next floor and sprinted through the hallway trying to outrun that psycho and get a head start. We were yelling out to anyone on that floor, a high pitched scream came from the room ahead. We tried to get there in time but when we opened the door it was too late. The giant had her by the hair and was taking the eyes out of her head while she was still alive. Cole looked outraged. He was fed up with everyone that has died and all of the horrible things that have happened to us. He yelled out in rage charging the giant with Nico and I standing behind him ready to fight.

 

1.Where were you when you were drafted? San Jose

2. What was your position in the army and what did you do? Short Circuiting the supply system and providing supplies for his unit.

3. What was the weather like in Vietnam? Hot and wet or hot and dry. They could get a foot of rain in 5 minutes.

4. Were you scared about going to Vietnam? ” I was at first but learned how to deal with it.”

5. How long were you in Vietnam? One year