Last Day

"Elly!Kyle!" Mike yelled stopped by an abrupt punch.

"Shut up!Do you /plan/ to attract a horde?"Alex hissed through clenched teeth.

"Sorry." Mike re-filled his empty gun.

Almost a day ago a tank had attacked them in the apartment then chased them into some small town with houses that looked like graveyards.

Alex sighed,"Do you think we'll ever find them?"

"Who knows? They've probley been killed by a hun'er er somethin'." Mike shot a group of infected and a smoker who lashed its tounge at him.

"Careful Mr.Tough Guy;you don't wanna break a nail."

Kyle glared at Alex. "Come on...we've got to find the others." The dark skinned boy with blonde hair walked forward.

Alex fell in step behind him but continued to look back. *They're out here somewhere. I can feel it.* Alex promised.

Kyle got off the table he slept on that night. They spent half the night finding the safe house and now they could only wait. Wait for the other two laggers and helicopter. Then they'd be safe and I could forget about my past of killing humans and zombies.

"Atleast I can finally walk right,"Kyle grumbled snatching a health pack and re-loading his gun we found in the safe house.

"Well,you're actually lucky that jockey didn't take you for a ride before we made it in here."I joked but had a serious face.

Kyle nodded and looked outside the safe room door. I even heard a group of zombies yell at each other. "They're fighting over a wrapper." The boy turned around and slid down the wall.

"Hey,"I whispered,"They'll come. I mean,they /have/ to come,right?"

My words seemed to make him worry more. "The helicopter will come before they do and they'll die out there." Kyle wimmpered through cuffed hands.

I knew they would but I had to keep him on sturdy feet. "No they won't. You know they can fight off anything,"I said confidently.

He raised his head."Yeah,just like Alex can kill a hunter."

Alex raced past a building. A spitter had stalked them like a freaking creep and now it was chasing them.

"Take a right,Alex and I'll go left!" Mike yelled over the spitter's hissing.

As he looked back he saw the spitter's busted jaw and too low shorts. That's what gives you a boost of get-the-hell-outta-there-before-that-things-kills-you energy. A wad of acid that splattered everywhere when it hit the ground zipped past me blocking my run way. I reached for my crowbar but a bullet hit it before the thing could hit me.

It was Mike who saved me then killed it with one more bullet. "Now,Alex,are we going to make a loud monkey noise to see if Elly or Kyle can hear it?" His voice went up until he finished.

"No,"He grumbled and pushed Mike away. *Why couldn't I have gotten paired up with Kyle? Better yet,Elly?* Alex reached for the gun Mike threw to him in the acid;only touching it with his pinky. "Burning goo s**t!" He yelled and shook his hand wildly.

Mike's small laughter was all he could do before Alex pushed him down.

"Come on we've gotta find the others. I mean,somewhere's there's a safe house."

Mike staggered up from the impact. "Mhm. I doubt we'll reach by sunhigh,though."

Alex looked up. Only gray clouds covered the sky. No sun only clouds. "Before midnight atleast,"Alex begun walking again in any direction beside back where they came from. Every time a special infected got in there way it slowed them down. Thank God there hadn't been any hunters yet. Two common infected ran at them but they

were easily killed. One punch to the chest is the most damage they had time to do.

"Where's the rest?" Alex heard Mike whisper. That made Alex freeze. He knew that common infected came in groups but that was only two.

"A horde..."His voice sounded deep and worried. Alex jumped three cars before he heard Mike run after him. He couldn't face anoter horde! The last time he was put down by seven common infected and Mike had killed the tank alone. Alex's foot kicked a car that had red lights on. Its alarm buzzed off and the only thing he heard from then on was the battle call of a horde.

Mike ran faster. "RUN,ALEX! NOW!"

The boys ran and dodged trash cans as much as possible. Soon the red door came in sight. They were safe! But they were a long distance apart and the starting of the horde had made it here just in time to kill two 14 year old boys.

"S**t s**t s**t s**t s**t." Alex whispered and shot at a jockey that jumped around histerically.

"Specials!"Mike yelled and shot a spitter and three common infected.

Alex's gun ran out quick. "What the hell,Mike!" He yelled kicking a commons gut.

"Sorry I-" Mike was cut off with a yowl from a hunter. Mike looked at Alex who had froze. "Alex! Run! I'll fight 'em off until you get to the safe house!"

Alex wearily looked at the horde who continued to grown instead shrink. Little did he know his sneakers were slapping the ground in long strides toward safety leaving his friend.

I heard screaming and stood up looking out the window. Almost 70 feet away two zombies were attacking what looked like a horde.

"They've made it!" Kyle yelled. He had stood up and was watching over my head.

Focousing my vision I realied it was Alex and Mike. Alex was running toward the safe house while Mike shot and then ran two feet before shooting again. I opened the door with my shot gun and yanked a adrenaline from the table.

Mike stole the adrenaline from my hand. "Oh hell no,last time you drove us into some sorta lake!"

"How'd ya know I took qdrenaline?"I growled.

"Simple math really,I just no-" He was cut off by Alex's squaling for help.

"You're here!" I pushed him aside and took the adrenaline from Kyle by surprise,stabbing it into my leg.

Kyle sighed as he handed me the machette off the table and frowned like he just comitted a murder. Before I went haywire I took it from him and ran outside.

Approximently,3seconds later I had both gun and machette in hand. Shooting special infected and slicing common infected's heads off. I watched a hunter jump infront of me. A male. He pinned me to the ground but my machette had handly dandly stabbed its middle. It whimppered as common infected slapped my face. Standing up,killing the common with my fists,I used my leg to dislodge the dead hunter.

Mike's strangling cry made my head turn slowly. My eye twitched as I saw the smoker strangle him to death. With both hands on the machette I held it in the air and made an indian battle call. I took long strides and sliced the tounge of the smoker. It was heading away but I threw the large knife at it. The machette went threw its head and the body fell limp.

Behind me I heard one hunter leap away in fear. I grabbed the machette and turned around to Mike who put his hands infront of him.

"Wow,easy girl. I'm a living human." The black boy stepped back.

That's when I raised the machette like a harpon and ran passed him into a charger. The large infected grumbled and raised a meaty hand. It seemed unharmed by the impact of the machette. It grabbed my waist and ran me into a brick wall. Soon I realized I was going to be crushed to death since it continued to lift me up the brutely slam me into concrete.

The adrenaline was gone and I kept yelling,"God damn it,Mike! Kill this son of b***h!"

When the charger had dropped dead ontop of me I blacked out. How typical.

~~

My eyes shakily opened. I was on a hard,black surface in a helicopter. Kyle was hunched over with a new shirt on. It was black with a cross on the back. Alex and Mike were playing War with cards they found.

"You're up!" Alex yelled as he placed his card down.

"War!"Mike yelled before taking the cards from the middle.

Kyle lifted his head from his hands. His black bangs were moved to the side revealing beautiful,green eyes. "Thank God,too. You've been asleep for two days."

I hugged him and felt different green eyes sadly burn in my skin. "What took these guys so long?" I asked noticing the safe house /just/ disapear.

"I think they had zombie problems themselves,"Alex joked returning to his game. "War!" He yelled and slapped Mike with the cards from the pile.

"They're being stupid,"Kyle explained.

I chuckled and stood up feeling the pain in my body. "Well,the first thing I'm doing when we get to safety is a massage.By a /real/ human!"

Kyle looked at me with sorrow. "We'll still be friends,right?"

Before I could answer Mike looked at me and stood up. "That hunter you killed might've done most of that damage but the charger slammed you...fiercly."He sat back down re-adjusting himself

I froze. I killed a hunter! My eye twitched and I felt sick. "I've gotta sit down."

Alex jumped up and led be to seat farthest away from Kyle and Mike. "Stay awake,Elly." He reached around my shoulder for the breathing mask but I was already out. I was leaned on Alex's shoulder.

"Guys! She passed out!" Alex called holding me to him.

Kyle stood up and carefully walked over. "Again? Just do what we did last time. Carefully put her on the floor." The taller boy grabbed me by the waist and carried me over to seat.

Alex glared and heard a man growl from the other side of the door. "Sorry." He called but instead on an answer all he got was the pilot groaning then watching a figure bust out of the room. Holo sockets,pilot hat,and rotting flesh.

"Holly s**t!" Kyle called running at the zombie pilot.

Alex grabbed his pistol and shot the pilot;not caring if he shot Kyle as well.

The pilot fell to the ground dead.

"Alex! You shot the freakin' pilot!" Mike yelled at him and pushed him back toward the wall.

Kyle ran into the pilot's room.For what reason? They never knew. " Guys. We're going down."