Zed returns from his first year at Mountain College alongside his girlfriend Addison and their friends Eliza and Willa. Over the academic year Zed concentrates on earning a starting spot on the football squad while Addison pours herself into cheerleading, each of them training with an eye on separate summer intensives: Zed intends to attend a football camp to secure the coveted first-string role and Addison plans to go to a cheer camp to strengthen her bid for cheer captain. Their commitments leave the couple and their circle short on time together, and they set out on a road trip to reach their respective camps as summer begins.

As they drive toward the lakeside route that will split them toward different programs, a sudden surge of strange electromagnetism interferes with Zed's Z-Band. The bracelet--an implanted device designed to emit pulses that regulate zombie impulses--glitches, and Zed calls out as the pulse fails. The car skids; the vehicle veers off the highway and slams into a ditch amid a stretch of scrubland far from cell service. The four teenagers climb from the wreck and survey the area. With their phones dead and daylight dwindling, they split up to look for help: Zed walks toward a cluster of pines; Addison and Willa take the scrub closer to a ruined road sign; Eliza follows a faint dirt trail.

Zed's path leads him to a group he has never seen before. They move at daylight and hunt with a sunlit confidence; they call themselves Daywalkers. Their leader--tall, composed, with a streak of defiant color in her hair--introduces herself as Nova. Zed approaches cautiously; Nova's followers surround him, weapons ready but wary. Nova questions where Zed is from and why his Z-Band is sparking. Zed explains the malfunction; Nova studies the band, then relaxes when she sees that Zed means no harm. A tense exchange of explanations follows as they circle the topic of a dwindling supply of Blood Fruit, a red, nectar-rich crop the monsters depend on. Nova and her Daywalkers have been tracking the fruit's decline, and Zed listens as she describes elders who pressure her to secure as much fruit as possible before the next harvest.

Addison's route brings her into a shaded clearing where a different faction waits--vampiric figures who move with measured calm. Their leader, Victor, greets her with a cool appraisal. Victor's group tends to the Blood Fruit orchards and relies on the fruit in a way that mirrors the Daywalkers' dependence. When Addison asks about the sealed gates she sees in the distance, Victor narrows his eyes and reveals that their elders have locked down access to protect what remains. He speaks of elders' threats and of measures taken to keep outsiders away. Addison, trying to keep her voice steady, explains she and her friends are stranded and requests assistance. Victor tells her to hold while he confers with his group.

The Daywalkers and Vampires converge separately on the same orchard at the top of a hill south of the ruined highway. Nova's patrols and Victor's foragers both arrive to find heavy iron gates welded shut and a dead hush across the rows of stunted Blood Fruit trees. They test the locks and cuss at the rust. Anger rises; Nova accuses Victor's elders of hoarding the fruit, and Victor accuses Nova's people of letting the trees die through mismanagement. Tensions escalate when both leaders realize their elders demand the orchard remain sealed until a ritual can take place--an edict neither Nova nor Victor endorses. A skirmish threatens, and the two groups bristle, but a sudden tremor from underground interrupts them: a pulse of energy ripples through the soil, and everyone staggers. The pulse harms not only the humans and monsters nearby but also destabilizes the remaining Blood Fruit trees; leaves fall and small branches wither.

Unable to open the gates and unwilling to part immediately, the Daywalkers and Vampires retreat to nearby shelter: Rayburn, an abandoned summer camp with boarded cabins and a stone mess hall. They set up cautious perimeter watches and begin to divide the camp's communal spaces. Nova takes the mess hall; Victor and his close advisors claim the cabins. The two leaders trade accusations about who left the tree roots to die. Zed, Addison, Eliza and Willa arrive at Rayburn separately and find a charged atmosphere. The teenagers act as intermediaries. Eliza, who understands the mechanics behind Z-Bands and the fragile politics of human-monster interactions, tries to broker a calm; Willa keeps watch for scouts from either side. Zed and Addison use their rapport with both parties to urge a truce, reminding Nova and Victor that the orchard serves them all.

As the groups set up camp, Nova and Victor experience similar hallucinations: sudden, shared visions of moonlit soil and a low hum beneath their feet. The visions pull at them in identical ways--a sense that the Blood Fruit's roots are reaching for something, that two stones could bring balance. Nova and Victor confide in one another about the visions during a night when they find themselves alone at the edge of the lake. Their conversation loosens the initial antagonism. They compare their elders' instructions against what they have seen and start to suspect that an external force--one tied to the orchard's failing roots--is manipulating the elders and the factions.

By daylight the next morning, the energy surges continue and grow more pronounced. Small electrical arcs crackle across metal and Zed's Z-Band flares unpredictably whenever the tremors strike. The pulses affect not only Zed and the other zombies but also werewolves and other night-dwelling creatures that wander near Rayburn. A young werewolf scout that had been tracking the orchard collapses mid-transformation; the Daywalkers and Vampires combine efforts to stabilize him, using cooling leaves from the Blood Fruit plant and a ritual touch that both groups know through oral tradition. The pulses appear to be causing more than mechanical disruptions; they are destabilizing physiology.

The groups convene a hesitant council in the mess hall. Elders from both the Daywalkers and the Vampires arrive by way of angry emissaries. The elders bring demands: lock down the orchard entirely, keep outsiders away, and sacrifice expedience to tradition. Nova and Victor argue against an immediate lockdown; they propose investigating the roots and the moonstones referenced in their visions. The elders respond with outrage. Voices rise into shouting. In the mêlée that follows, a careless torch--carried by an elder from the Vampires as a sign of authority--drops and ignites spilled oil near the exterior storage. Flames erupt along the wooden siding of the mess hall and climb to the orchard's nearby dry underbrush. Everyone scrambles to douse the blaze. Daywalkers form a line to pass water, Vampires use their clothing to beat at smoke, and the teenagers grab buckets. Despite frantic efforts, gusting wind fans the fire and a swath of the orchard catches. Half of the nearest Blood Fruit trees flame and collapse into charred trunks and collapsing root systems.

The fire consumes the outermost rows and scorches root networks that have survived the decline. No people or monsters die in the flames; those present pull neighbors free from falling beams and burning brush. A young Daywalker loses her hand when she slaps at the flames and the charred limb contracts; the group binds her stump and vows to get medicinal herbs from the remaining orchard. The elders realize the blaze has cost them territory and control. They step back from the burned area and accuse one another of sabotage. Nova and Victor stand amid the smoke and watch as blackened ash reveals exposed root stubs. As the fire dies, the surviving leaders and teenagers sift through the scorched earth to determine the cause of the surges and the tree deaths.

Eliza kneels and probes the soil. She follows darkened threads of root into the earth and sees that the roots have receded around discolored stones--small, moon-etched rocks that pulse faintly when their surfaces are touched. Victor recognizes one of the stones from his people's lore: a moonstone traditionally kept in vampire shrines that is said to harmonize the orchard. Nova finds a second stone with a complementary etching. When she holds both stones close, they emit a low vibration and a warmth that travels down into the root channels. Eliza hypothesizes that failing moonstones are tied to failing roots; Zed's malfunctioning Z-Band might simply be reacting to the same electromagnetic distortion caused by dying root networks. The teenagers move methodically through interviews, comparing what elders say with the hardware they find. They conclude that the dying roots are generating the energy surges--a feedback loop of decaying biological conductivity and trapped geomagnetic currents.

Nova and Victor convene a private discussion about combining their moonstones. Each leader faces resistance from their elders, who have long kept the stones as treasures and symbols of power. The elders insist on maintaining separation and demand ceremonial dominance. Nova and Victor resist. They agree, in front of both camps, to attempt to place their moonstones together at the central root channel in the orchard. Addison, though she is growing pale from repeated exposure to the surges and the exertion of the last two days, volunteers to assist with the placement. She and Zed walk the blackened rows as groups form a protective perimeter. Addison complains of ringing in her ears and a draining fatigue, the pulses making her limbs feel heavy; nevertheless she steadies her hand and steps forward.

The mission to unite the stones becomes a sequence of obstacles. Elders position themselves to block access; Nova deflects a charge from a grizzled elder using a Daywalker staff, and Victor fends off an attempt by another elder to seize the moonstone. The teenagers act as intermediaries again--Eliza runs diagnostics on the moonstones' conductive seams while Willa and Zed hold off hostile elders by forming a physical barrier. At one point a group of Vampires surges into the central clearing, and a skirmish breaks out: Victor shoves an elder back to prevent him from striking Nova; Nova cuts a rope to release a fallen beam trapping a Daywalker youth. No one intends to kill, and no one dies; the confrontation is a raw, violent tangle of limbs and curses that ends when both leaders raise their voices and call a cessation.

With the battleground quiet, Nova and Victor step into the hollow where the root network pulses faintly. They set both moonstones on a scarred knoll. For several tense seconds nothing happens. Zed grips his Z-Band as it emits a stuttering light. The moonstones begin to hum in concert; a sound like wind through leaves rises from the ground. The hum deepens into a low, resonant tone that travels along the exposed root channels. Roots shudder and then, slowly, green shoots push past charred bark. Blood Fruit trees that had been skeletal begin to swell with sap. The energy surges subside as the moonstones' frequencies synchronize and the geomagnetic currents stabilize. The orchard responds: buds swell, fruit oozes a crimson sap, and a fresh scent of loam rises. The attendees gasp and cheer as the immediate danger ceases.

The sudden healing does not persuade all the elders. Some step forward and denounce Nova and Victor for flouting protocol. They accuse the leaders of risking the people and the traditions for a stunt that undermines authority. A clash of words rises, and a slender band of elders from both factions threatens war against those who would break custom. Nova steps between them and Victor matches her stance. The teenagers watch as their mediation yields a fragile truce: Nova and Victor broker a plan that the moonstones remain in joint guardianship and that both groups share stewardship over the rejuvenated orchard. The elders jeer at this compromise, but they do not launch a fresh assault. Instead they retreat to deliberate, leaving the newly allied Daywalkers and Vampires to tend the regrowing trees.

As the groups prepare to depart Rayburn, Zed, Eliza and Willa inspect the orchard's roots and map where the moonstones' frequencies intersect. Eliza confirms that the dying roots caused the electromagnetic surges and that the moonstones' union has corrected the path of those currents. The tangible evidence--the regrowing fruit and the silenced pulses--reassures everyone present. Nova and Victor exchange contact promises: they resolve to maintain correspondence and to coordinate future harvests. Nova asks Victor to send scouts to a northern grove; Victor requests that Nova instruct a Daywalker contingent on root care. They clasp forearms in agreement.

The fire's damage leaves scars across the orchard and the burned rows will take time to regenerate; those trees will not fruit for a season. No person or monster dies in the recorded events; the casualties are limited to the half of the orchard that burns and to the wounded--scorched trunks, a Daywalker with an amputated hand, and several bruised bodies. The elders remain infuriated and issue veiled threats of renewed hostilities should either leader step out of line, but for now both factions turn their energies to repair. Addison, still lightheaded from the earlier strain, accepts Zed's arm and they walk the rows together. She tells him she wants to value time with him more than chasing titles. He nods and says he feels the same.

When the groups finally begin to disperse, Nova and Victor agree to stay in touch and to meet again at predetermined intervals to monitor the orchard's recovery. The Daywalkers march north along the ridge while the Vampires take the lower valley toward the coastal road. Zed, Addison, Eliza and Willa load the repaired but battered rental into a cleared lane and prepare to head back toward civilization and their summer camps. Before they leave, the new guardians watch the orchard for a final moment; the trees glimmer with new buds and the moonstones pulse in quiet harmony.

At the shoreline that evening, as the sun sets beyond the orchard and ocean, the group witnesses an uncanny column of water rising from the sea: a spiraling water spout that coils into the sky and glows faintly with the same moonstone frequency. Nova and Victor stand apart and watch the spout roil over the horizon, both of them acknowledging with steady faces that the phenomenon suggests further mysteries. They exchange a final word and part ways. Zed and Addison climb into their car; the teenagers accelerate onto the road, bound for separate camps but with plans to reunite. Rayburn falls silent as the guardians tend the newly healthy roots. The film's final recorded moment shows the water spout dwindling into mist above the ocean while Nova and Victor stand at the edge of the shore, their silhouettes framed against the night, and the camera cuts away. No central character dies in the ordeal; the orchard survives after regrowth, and the two leaders promise ongoing cooperation as the story closes.

The ending of ZOMBIES 4: Dawn of the Vampires shows the Daywalkers and Vampires coming together in celebration after successfully uniting their moonstones, which restores the blood fruit orchard and heals the monsters. Zed and Addison reflect on their unusual summer and plan to spend more time with friends and family in Seabrook. Nova and Victor, the young leaders of the Daywalkers and Vampires, say goodbye as they return to their cities, and the film closes with a dramatic water tornado emerging from the ocean.

In the final sequence of ZOMBIES 4: Dawn of the Vampires, the story unfolds with the key characters working to resolve the crisis threatening both the Daywalkers and Vampires. After a series of challenges, the young leaders Nova (Daywalkers) and Victor (Vampires) manage to unite their respective moonstones. This act is crucial because the moonstones connect all monsters, and their separation had caused the blood fruit orchards to die, which in turn endangered the survival of both groups.

As the stones are placed safely together, a storm brews overhead, and rain begins to fall. This rain revitalizes the blood fruit roots, symbolizing the restoration of life and balance. The healing of the orchard also stops Zed from becoming a zombie permanently, indicating a personal victory for him as well as a communal one. The groups realize that their fates are intertwined through the moonstones, and Nova and Victor declare that they will annually bring their stones together at camp to maintain harmony.

The Elders of both factions acknowledge Nova and Victor's readiness to lead, marking a significant moment of acceptance and unity between the two formerly hostile groups. The film then shifts to a celebratory scene where Daywalkers and Vampires come together joyfully, symbolizing peace and cooperation.

Meanwhile, Zed and Addison, who have been central to bridging the divide, reflect on their strange and eventful summer. They express their intention to spend the rest of the summer in Seabrook with their friends and family. Alongside Willa and Eliza, they head back together, reinforcing the theme of friendship and community.

The final moments focus on Nova and Victor's farewell as they return to their respective cities. Their hug is interrupted by a dramatic natural phenomenon--a huge tornado of water shooting out of the ocean--leaving the story on a suspenseful note, hinting at future challenges or adventures.

In terms of character fates:

• Zed is saved from a permanent zombie fate and returns to his community, ready to continue his life with renewed hope.
• Addison remains by Zed's side, committed to their friendship and shared future.
• Nova and Victor emerge as leaders who have successfully united their people, accepted by their elders and ready to guide their communities.
• Willa and Eliza continue as close friends, supporting Zed and Addison.

This ending scene-by-scene narrative highlights the resolution of conflict through unity, the restoration of life through cooperation, and the personal growth of the main characters as they embrace leadership and friendship.

Yes, Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires does have a post-credit scene. After the main story concludes with Zed and Addison helping the younger generations of vampires and daywalkers work together to open the gate to the bloodfruit orchard, the post-credit scene hints at a greater threat looming on the horizon beyond the current vampire-daywalker conflict. This sets up potential future challenges or new antagonists for the franchise, though the exact nature of this threat is not revealed in detail.

The post-credit scene serves as a teaser, suggesting that while the immediate conflict is resolved, the story universe will expand with new dangers, maintaining suspense and anticipation for possible sequels.

Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires (2025) is generally considered a family-friendly Disney Channel musical with themes of friendship, acceptance, and unity, suitable for children and parents to watch together. However, there are some elements that might be potentially objectionable or upsetting for very young children or sensitive viewers:

• Supernatural themes involving vampires, zombies, and daywalkers, including mild fantasy conflict and tension between groups.
• Some scenes may include mild peril or danger, such as characters getting hurt or being in risky situations, though these are handled lightly and without graphic violence.
• The portrayal of vampires is stylized and non-threatening, with no typical horror elements like blood or fangs shown prominently; the tone remains light and comedic rather than scary.
• There may be some emotional moments related to friendship struggles and identity, but nothing intense or traumatic.
• The movie contains musical numbers and teen drama, which some viewers might find cheesy or cringey, but these are not harmful content-wise.

Overall, the film maintains a bright, upbeat tone typical of Disney Channel musicals and avoids graphic violence, strong language, or mature themes. Parents of very young or sensitive children might want to be aware of the fantasy conflict and mild peril but can expect a safe, family-oriented experience.

In the movie ZOMBIES 4: Dawn of the Vampires (2025), the dog does not die. There is no mention or indication in the available plot summaries or detailed descriptions that any dog character dies during the film.

The story focuses on Zed, Addison, and their friends encountering new groups--the Daywalkers and Vampires--and working together to save their communities by uniting their moonstones and restoring the blood fruit orchards. The narrative ends on a positive note with celebrations and reconciliations, without any tragic events involving pets or dogs.

Therefore, based on the current information, the dog survives throughout the movie.