
Awww . . . my cold weather zombie flick is already being taken by “Snow Dead.” Damn I need to get moving forward on all my ideas before they all get stolen. I actually do have some written work on most of these stories which have been lost or deleted by accident. Yet their development continues. “Winter Blood” needed some type of treatment written and I decided it should start in Ann Arbor, Michigan and rest should be an effort to get to the fabled city of Detroit. So I took all the characters I wanted, and cut those down by more than half. Then I just wrote whatever I could which would not force me to ever actually see Detroit. This is what came of it . . .
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STEVE and ANN are investigating strange noises in the empty room of the university. They think the worst. That the undead have entered their hiding place and are looking for food. In their panic shoot first, injuring what turns out to be, MICHAEL who is republican guard.
The two other officers, LEO and EDWARDS don’t react with guns. They react by helping their fallen friend. Grabbing whatever it was they came to get, they patch up their friend and rush him to the SUV.
STEVE and ANN follow as well as hidden suvivors JAMES and LINDA. They all jump into the SUV, and almost manage an escape. But the undead have heard the shots and force their SUV off the road.
The seven try to excape by foot, but undead come from all sides and they are forced into a sewer drain. ANN is bitten, but they all manage to get into the sewer.
The onslaught continues in the sewer until ROLAND, DAVID, MITCH, and KENJI show up. They are undead but can think. They manage to dismember the feral undead.
ROLAND the leader agrees to take them all back to the city, but they must kill ANN for food. EDWARDS agrees and ANN is drained of blood much to the fear of the other survivors.
STEVE freaks and grabs MICHAEL’s gun and bag. There is a standoff, but it is interrupted by more undead. This time there are too many. STEVE is bitten, but manages to excape down the sewer. MICHAEL and MITCH are killed by the undead, but everyone else escapes and block off that part of the sewer. The undead trio agree to take the four living and uncontaminated back to the city through the sewers as promised.
In another part of the sewer, STEVE finds a strange device which electroctures him when he turns it on. When he awakes he rezlies he is dead. Angry and upset he screams. His screams are echoed by the screams of the other undead. He rezlies the undead empathize with him and it has something to do with the device, which fits neatly around his head.
Almost back to the city, ROLAND, DAVID, and KENJI sense the emotions of STEVE, knowing his utter hatred for all of them. Questioning EDWARDS they realize the device the guards took from the university was a headband they were developing to try and control the undead. But they found only the undead could control the undead and the project was abandoned.
Seeing STEVE has gone mad, ROLAND and KENJI turn back to find and destroy STEVE, before he can mobilize any army of the dead to lead. Blaming himself, for following the law, EDWARDS goes with them. LEO, JAMES, and LIND follow DAVID back to the city.
As EDWARDS, ROLAND, and KENJI head back into the tunnels, EDWARDS discovers more about ROLAND and KENJI. They are some of the very few undead who have managed to keep their sanity for so long, partily due to their loyalty to their families still living in the city. But all this is background to the barrage of attacks by undead STEVE though their journey to find him.
At the university they find the halls full of undead who are swarming like bees in a honeycomb. KENJI is killed ROLAND injured, and EDWARDS bitten as they attempt to find where STEVE is located. The two are brought to STEVE who wants to drain them both himself before sending all the undead to attack the city so he may increase the size of his undead army and rule the city as it’s king forever.
He is interrupted by ANN, who doesn’t want him to continue on becoming this crazy undead leader. But rages flare and STEVE accidently causes one of his undead to kill her. ROLAND uses this distraction to behead STEVE. But before the undead can pounce on EDWARDS, ROLAND tosses the device on EDWARD’S head, killing him instantly. When EDWARD awakes he find he is now in control of the less consious dead. Rule of the undead colition is also given to him by ROLAND, who requests to be behead now that he is useless.
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So that’s pretty much the whole story. It’s a world where the undead have been around for a few years. People are managing to survive by working as a community in the Detroit compound and making deals with those undead who can think. And let’s not forget that most of the dead that have lost thier mental facilities freeze for the winter. It’s a work in progress, so go poke holes in the treatment.