Hey, guys! :D Long time no see! :D Lol no that long. XD Well, anyway, I bet that you're all excited for the sequel! X3 And as for those of you who are first timers reading my stories, go read The New Kids In Town first, cause this is its sequel! :3 Now, remember guys, this one is going to have more of a serious tone to it! :o But don't worry, comedy lovers! I've got a new story that's going to be up soon for all of the funny chapters that didn't quite make it into the main story! But as for this one, you can expect more of the romance aspect, more of the darker kind of themes, and…fight scenes! Yes, you got it, fight scenes! Lol I love writing fight scenes. XD But no fight scenes in the first chapter. :P Also, we're welcoming a few new OCs into our cast! Two who belong to TwilightSymphony, one new one from Scorpion123456, and one that I made myself! ^^ As of now, there are still a few open spaces for OCs, but the info on that will be in the author comments after the chapter. :3 Anyway, let's get going, guys! It's sequel time!
Disclaimer: Disclaimer: I don't own Left 4 Dead or Left 4 Dead 2 or the characters in Left 4 Dead 2 in any way, shape, or form! I only own Taunter and Noir, the personalities that I have given to the already existing special infected, and the plot of the story. Commander of the Rabbids owns Sam. Sorrowsnow owns Calli. Zipper Whippersnapper owns Jeffry. Foxstar-Nikiu owns Valery. Coheed17 owns Claire. Breaking Ground owns Mike. Scorpion 123456 owns Clawer and Healer. TwilightSymphony owns Cole and Gina.
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"Are you sure that you need to go?" Taunter asked as the group stood at the entrance to the city, ready to bid farewell to Claire.
"Yeah, I should probably get going," Claire smiled at them. "Markus has been waiting too long for me to get back to the other town. I don't want to keep him waiting."
"Well, we'll see you around then," Valery said, waving. "Make sure to come visit, okay?"
"Yeah, and when you visit, Markus can come, too!" Calli added.
"Thanks, guys," Claire grinned. "We'll I'll see ya!" She waved as she left, and everyone in the remaining group waved back to her.
"Well, looks like we're one person down, then," Boomer frowned.
"It's okay, she said that she'd come visit," Taunter smiled. "So, what do you guys wanna do now?"
"I say that we go to the pool again!" Calli said almost immediately. "We haven't been there in a while!" Everyone else thought that that was a good idea, and so, they all headed off towards the pool.
"We'll see if Hunter can actually manage to get onto one of those floaties this time," Smoker chuckled, lighting a cigarette.
"It's not my fault that those things hate me," Hunter grumbled in response.
"Hey…does anyone smell smoke?" Sam asked out of the blue.
"You might just be standing too close to Smoker," Mike replied. The others paused for a moment, wondering if it really was just Smoker.
"No, I smell it, too," Valery said. "And I'm standing the furthest away from him."
"Can anyone tell where it's coming from?" Boomer asked, curious as to where the smoke had originated.
"Look up there," came a small voice, and they saw Jeffry pointing up to the sky. There was a thin trail of smoke drifting across the light blue ceiling above them. They followed the smoke's trail with their eyes, trying to see where on the ground it stopped.
"Hey…wait a second…" Calli said, realization dawning over her face. "That's the rec center! Someone's burning down our pool! Come on, maybe we can still put out the fire!" Calli dashed ahead of everyone else, and the rest of them had to jog in order to keep up with her as she ran down the road. It didn't take them long to get there. And the rec center was indeed up in flames. The fire was huge, and there was no way that anyone was going to put it out now.
"No!" Calli shouted. "Aw, come on! Why the pool? WHY?"
"Well, there was a pool near that amusement park, remember?" Smoker walked over to her. "In that hotel lot."
"Yeah, but that pool was full of dead people!" Calli pouted. "I liked this pool! Who would burn it down?"
"Well, whoever it was, it doesn't matter. No more pool time for us," Boomer frowned, looking disappointed. Everyone was quiet for a moment, and during that silence, they suddenly heard an unfamiliar voice from behind them, from up on one of the building roofs.
"Do you seriously think that I care if there are other Infected down there, Noir?" it said. "Just watch the fire! Have some fun for once." The group on the ground turned, looking up at the roof that the shout had come from. There were three figures up there, and none of them looked familiar at all. But because they were talking in complete sentences and making sense, that proved that they weren't Commons.
"Hey!" Calli shouted up to them. "Are you the ones who started this fire?" One of the figures on the roof, a boy with fiery red hair, came over to the ledge to talk with the group below.
"Yeah, I started it," he replied. "Pretty cool, huh?"
"No, it's not cool at all!"
"No…?" the boy honestly looked like he didn't get Calli's logic at all.
"Hey, who are you guys anyway?" Smoker called up to him. "We've never seen you around here before."
"The name's Cole," the boy called down. "The quiet ones back there are Gina," he indicated the girl behind him, "and Noir," he pointed towards the boy sitting on the other side of the roof. "Though ya might not be able to see 'em while you're standing down there."
"Why did you burn down the rec center?" Smoker questioned him.
"I just felt like it, I guess," Cole shrugged. "It looked pretty burnable to me."
"You can't just burn down stuff because they seem burnable!" Taunter called up to him, annoyed. "I mean, we really liked that place!"
"Well, I guess that I just-" Cole paused upon glancing down and getting a look at Taunter. "Whoa. Hey there, beautiful. How come you're hanging around with those guys? Why don't you come up here?"
"Ew, no!" she shook her head. "Go away!"
"You're not really good at that flirting stuff, are you?" came a quiet question from up on the roof.
"Shut up, Noir," Cole turned around for a moment, then turned back to the group below. "I mean, I can try, can't I?"
"No. You can't," Hunter called up to him bluntly. "I wouldn't have a problem with knocking you out if you said something like that again."
"What? Are you her boyfriend or something?"
"N-No!"
"Well then, I see no problem with it."
"Well, I've got a problem with you!"
"Geez, possessive much?" Cole laughed.
"He's just trying to keep me away from creeps like you!" Taunter shouted up to Cole.
"Yeah! Exactly!" Hunter agreed.
"So…you guys aren't staying here…right?" Smoker asked, interrupting the argument.
"We heard that there were survivors here," Cole replied.
"You're too late for that," Sam told him. "The survivors are long gone."
"Well, whatever," Cole shrugged. "This seems like a good town anyway. Lots of stuff to burn, you know?"
"No, no, no, you are not staying here!" Calli refused.
"Free country, you know?" Cole smirked, rolling his eyes. "Maybe some of that paint that got all over you went to your brain or something, but you should know that we can stay wherever we want. And we're just the first three to get here."
"First three?" Mike asked, seeming as unenthused as the others on the ground. "Does that mean that there's more of you?"
"Yeah," Cole said as if it had been obvious the entire time. "Anyways, you guys should probably head on out of town."
"Why?" Boomer asked.
"Because we're here. This is our territory, now," Cole replied, once again seeming like he thought that the answer should have been obvious. "So…yeah. Go away."
"You can't just kick us out!" Taunter shouted at him, even more irritated now. "We've been here longer!"
"Well, fine, you can stay," he replied to her. "But everyone else has to go."
"Are you serious?"
"Guys, this isn't going to get any better. Let's just go," Smoker said quietly to his group. "We'll just stay away from these guys, and there won't be a problem."
"But that guy's a total jerk!" Calli said. "I mean, come on, we have to get rid of him now!"
"For once, I actually agree with you," Hunter said, in accordance with Calli's opinion. "I don't want those guys here."
"Seriously guys, those Infected up there aren't Commons," Smoker continued to try to convince them to leave. "We don't know what they're able to do yet, so we should just leave and try to avoid them. We can't start a fight. Even though we outnumber them, we could be seriously outmatched."
"Yeah, and maybe if we just ignore them, they'll go away," Boomer added. "We'll just stay in the alley for a while, and maybe when we come out, they'll be gone."
"Fine," Calli finally said. After a bit more of discussion, everyone decided that going back to the alley would be the best thing to do. Cole didn't say anything as he watched them leave, unable to think of any sort of snarky comment. He stood on the roof, just watching as they turned the corner.
"Geez. I…really don't like those guys," Cole shook his head. "Except for that one girl. She was-"
"Yeah, yeah, we get it," Noir cut him off, sitting on the other side of the roof and brushing some silvery blonde hair out of his face. "We're both aware of your little crush, Cole."
"Well, you're as apathetic as ever," Cole rolled his eyes.
"You don't even know what apathetic means, do you?"
"I know what it means! Right, Gina?" Cole turned to the girl who was also on the roof. The girl, Gina, shrugged, seeming to not really know whether he was right or not.
"Either way," Cole picked up talking again. "I seriously don't want those guys around. They even had a Sniffer with them. Ugh. I hate Sniffers. We're going to have some major extermination work to do if they won't leave."
"What if they try to fight back?" Noir asked, still not turning around from where he sat on the edge of the roof. "I doubt that you can make all of them burst into flame."
"Just you wait and see. They've got no idea what's coming to them," Cole turned a bit, taking a look out at the city. "Heh. This town…this is our town, now."
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Lol semi-dramatic ending XD Anyhoo, I have an announcement! We need some OCs for the bad guys! We can still take one or two more for the good guys, but we really need bad guys, since right now it's fourteen vs. three lol XD So, anyway, I'm accepting OCs! Now, for people who already have an OC in the story, you can have up to TWO OCs, okay? So, if we don't get any from anyone else, I'll be asking you guys for help lol XD Now, for the newbies, here are the OC rules. Your OC, first of all, has to be a Special Infected. Common Infected are boring. :P Also, please please please try to think of your own original type of Infected! If you're thinking forever and STILL can't think of anything, I guess that taking an already existing one would be okay, but please try your hardest to think up your own, first! Also, you'll have to choose which team they're with. Thirdly, they may have a pairing, just tell me who they might like if you would like them to have a pairing. But most of the characters in the story area already taken lol XD Anyway, here's the OC chart!
Appearance:
Age (as in, how old they look):
Personality (I need a really detailed description here! Please include fears, tendencies, everything!):
Special Abilities/Traits (include not only what they can do, but also how they attack the survivors):
Past (as in, an explanation from their past as to why they became the kind of Infected that they did):
Likes:
Dislikes:
Crush (only if you want one):
Any other extra info about them:
If you need an example, here's one for my character, filled out already.
Name: Taunter
Appearance: Short-ish brown hair, bangs partially covering glowing gray eyes. Pale skin, bloodstains, all that other zombie stuff. Wears the slightly ripped up and worn out remains of denim jeans, a blue t-shirt, and a gray hoodie jacket that zips up the front.
Age: 17
Personality: Fairly friendly, and really gets along with people she knows well. She doesn't trust strangers very much, but warms up to people quickly. Uses sarcasm. A LOT. Can be a bit dense sometimes. Laughing, laughing, LOTS and lots of laughing. She's scared of heights and flaming Infected puke. Or pretty much anything that's on fire. Has a pretty upbeat attitude most of the time, but can be serious when she needs to be. Though she'll probably just end up laughing again…
Special Abilities/Traits: She has a defense mechanism that forces her to laugh whenever she feels like she's in danger. Once she feels more comfortable and safe, the laughing will calm down. She's a fast runner, but will usually walk everywhere because she's lazy. :P She's a fast runner, but isn't able to jump as well as the Hunter, usually resulting in her crashing into walls when Hunter wants her to jump up somewhere. She has a fairly good sense of smell, but once again, not nearly as good as Hunter. She at the moment doesn't have much experience fighting the survivors, but is able to call the horde over by laughing really loud. ._.
Past: Taunter, before she was infected, was the kind of person who would always laugh at people whenever anything bad happened to them. Thus, she is cursed with having to laugh whenever she's in danger. ._.
Likes: Her friends, creeping out survivors with crazy laughing, calling the horde on survivors, playing pranks on people, trying out new things, NOT going up into high places, and trying to find new ways to have fun, among other things.
Dislikes: Fire, heights, the survivors shooting at her (well, duh), extreme boredom, the Common Infected, being near Boomer when he pukes, and a few other things as well.
Crush: Hunter :D (cause he's full of awesome sauce)
Extra Info: Even though she doesn't try to, she gets herself into trouble a lot. She also has trouble sneaking around when there are survivors nearby because she'll always end up laughing anyway.
Okey dokey, send in your OCs! :D Also, if you're planning on sending in a new OC, please look at the questions at the end of each chapter in the first story and answer those, too! ^^