I do not own any of the characters of Left for Dead or the game…..if I did I would not have left Bill die and I would be making one uber bad ass movie

on a side note please review, i need to know ppl are reading

"Ellis get up"

"10 more minutes mama"

"Wake up ya moron!"

Nick applied a quick kick to Ellis' ribs.

"Ow, why'd you have to go and do that for!"

"Hey man I need my sleep so you get next watch, now get up and don't you even think about playing that guitar."

"Aw shucks Nick, there ain't no one around for miles!"

"I swear if you play that guitar I'll kill you myself now keep an eye out for anything, the binoculars are over there and don't use the nightvision unless you hear something, Rochelle gets next shift so when you start to feel sleep you wake her up."

"Alright alright, don't get yer panties in a twist"

Nick rolled his eyes and crawled into his sleeping bag while Ellis drank some cola. Ellis was looking out the window and smiling at the moon. All things considered the past few days had gone pretty well. They had encountered no hordes, 1 witch, 2 chargers, 4 jockeys, 3 hunters, 2 smokers and not one tank or boomer. Sticking to rural areas was a good idea. Sure there were less safe houses but hell there was less of a need for one. The cities were overrun, best to avoid them, and the military…. They were more harm than good. They were convinced that immune survivors were also "carriers". That just being around a carrier was enough to infect everyone around them. Ellis was reading some graffiti about the military shooting survivors that were immune or shipping them off someplace where they were never seen from again. Ellis took another swig from his coke and chuckled, if he and Keith had told their teachers that graffiti would one day be the main information source he wouldn't have spent so much time in detention. One of Coaches snores broke his thoughts.

Ellis turned to look at his ragtag family. Rochelle had the bed in the attic, it seemed right since she was the only woman in the group. Nick had a spot besides her and coach was on a futon they had found on the ground. Ellis grinned when Coach let out a particularly loud snore and simultaneous fart. Right now they were in a farm house somewhere in Texas, they were going west to get as far away from ground zero as possible, maybe find a boat and go to an island. The farmhouse had been abandoned and Ellis spent the whole day yesterday barricading the place with Coach, Nick said he could use guns not hammers. It was zombie proof but not tanker proof. Tomorrow they were going to go around Austin, maybe find another cow and have a BBQ. Ellis' mouth watered at the thought of fresh ribs, right now all they had was oreos and Pringles. Ellis heard a can clatter in the distance, he got the night vision out and the hunting rifle. There by a tree was a rolly polly boomer. Every zombie for half a mile would rush this place. Granted there weren't many but still. Ellis got the hunting rifle out thanked God for the full moons and silencers, took aim and pulled the trigger. Said boomer splattered all over the place. Boomers were the most fun to shoot, the least fun were the children zombies, you don't see many because the kids usually get trampled by the hordes, but the few you do see break your heart.

The rest of the night was uneventful, two of three wanderers that were easily taken care of. In the morning everyone got up and started packing. Ellis entertained them with stories that he'd picked up from the graffiti one night, apparently Chicago Ted had teamed up with Zoey's group and were making their way to Canada. He also told them the story about when his friend Dave accidentally ordered male midget strippers for Keith's bachelor party. Coach and Nick nearly wet themselves.

"Alright guys before we go on the road I need to lay out the plan, we're running low on fuel and ammo, Jimmy Gibbs jr. isn't gonna run on Keith stories so we have to make a little trip to a town outside of Austin. We got a couple of molotovs, two pipe bombs, and some ammo. I need someone to carry the sack while we fend anything and everything off. Ellis you have to keep at least one hand free to protect your right side. Rochelle you get the left, Nick front and me back. We clear."

"Crystal" said Rochelle

"Hey Nick ain't that the name of the stripper you told me about?"

Nick kicked Ellis "shut up!"

On the drive over Ellis prayed a few hail mary's, praying never hurt. They stopped the car just outside of town and got their things together. Ellis got a duffel bag and backpack, he held and ak-47 in one hand and a katana at his side. They walked toward the town keeping an eye out for smokers or hunters on roofs. Ellis kept quite there were a few wanderers to his left, he nudged Rochelle who took them out with her gun. She had recently equipped them with a silencer so there wasn't a chance of alerting anymore zombies. Usually Ellis found himself reading the graffiti for information but he noticed a few signs that didn't resemble CEDA's bullshit or the government.

As of June third 2010 the agents of Eden have provided new healthpacks, medicine, ammo, lasers, silencers and weapons to all safe houses in the area. We have also built 15 new safe houses and put mini-machine guns in various locations. Grab a map from below to find the nearest safe house where there will also be food and water available. There are also a few radios where you can contact EDEN, they will send rescue. Ellis jogged to the sign and the others followed, bellow was a stack of papers, he found a map with a pamphlet attached to it and gave it to coach.

"What the Hell is Eden?"

Everyone turned to Ellis, they new about his habit of reading all the graffiti around him.

"I don't know exactly what it is, but I've seen some messages on the walls between survivors that say 'I'm going to Eden or we'll meet up in Eden."

"Maybe we should go to Eden. " Rochelle said while reloading

"We'll figure that out later, right now we need supplies, let's have a look at this here map."

"Alright, well this maps a lot of help," everyone gathered around coach to have a look "the red areas are danger areas, CEDA evac centers, areas of religious worship, and hospitals. Purple is last known area where witches where seen, blue is doors where they corralled tanks, boomers and chargers."

"So if we stick to the path and we don't run into, smokers or hunters we'll be safe."

Ellis picked up the bags and followed the group. Everyone kept quiet and he resisted the urge to break the silence with one of his stories or jokes. He hated the somber atmosphere of overrun cities and the silence that was the worst, he'd take coach's farts over the silence any day. They passed a shoe store and that reminded him that they needed new shoes. He nudged Nick and motioned towards the store.

"Thank God, I can't handle these shoes anymore. Suit's not comfortable either."

"I need new tennis shoes, these are torn to shit."

They walked in through a broken window and searched the isles for their sizes. Nick took of his shoes and replaced them with some the same black tennis shoes that coach was grabbing. Ellis found some clean socks and tossed his to his team members.

"That's loads better, I never knew clean socks felt this good. You know since this apocalypse happened I have dreams of showers and laundry mats. Ellis honey can you hand me those boots over there?"

"yes, Ma'am"

"alright fellas we gotta move"

Coach led the team down an alley towards a gas station. They filled up a few gasoline canisters and put them in the duffel bag.

"Alright the map says that there is a safe house in a gun store about three blocks from here."

"These agents of Eden are more help than the government"

"AAAeeerg!"

Everyone froze in their spots and looked around for the smoker. The snake like tongue shot out and wrapped itself around Nick, Coach grabbed him while Ellis swung his katana down. Rochelle aimed and fired at the smoker hiding behind a trash can. Everyone covered their mouths as a billow of smoke rose from the smoker. Tears flooded Ellis' eyes as they walked through the noxious gas. They were blinded for just a moment when a boomer came into their line of sight. Nick shot it but not in time the mutated zombie had expelled its stomach contents onto Rochelle.

"Run goddammit run!" yelled coach.

Ellis looped the duffel bag onto his elbow grabbed Rochelles hand while she tried desperately to see through the bile and ran. Nick was shooting as many as he could and keeping them from Rochelle and Ellis who was beheading anything that came within two feet of her.

"I can help! Tell me where to shoot."

"To your right!" yelled coach who was bludgeoning a mime with a baseball bat"

"You guys are slower than my grandmother, move your asses before anymore come!" Nick ran ahead mowing down the rest of the horde with his AK-47.

"I can see some shapes now" Rochelle said as she shot at a spitter before it could regurgitate on them.

"Woah! That was one lucky shot!

"What happened?"

"You got a spitter with bile still in your eyes."

"You sound a little too surprised hun"

"Come on" Nick grabbed Rochelles hand and ran, Coach was jogging toward another street when they heard the roar of a tank.

"Y'all better run, Nick hand Ellis the grenade launcher."

"There's only one shot"

"Give it to Ellis, You know he's the only one who's ever managed to pull it off!"

Ellis dropped his bags while Nick tossed him the weapon. The ground started shaking as the tank came closer. Ellis stood on top of a car and waited for the charger while his family hid behind a hummer. Rochelle clung to Nick who cleaned off her face while Coach nervously bit his lip. They didn't have to wait long for their guest who burst through tossing a car and starting an alarm.

"Shoot him!"

Ellis took aim and waited for the tank to toss a rock or a car. It picked up a Jetta and tossed it at Ellis.

"Duck"

He dodged it but jumping onto another car and took his shot just as the tank was less than five feet away. It was a direct hit that blew off everything above the tanks shoulder.

"Fuck Yeah"

"Rochelle hun, I hope you can see again cause that alarm is gonna bring hell for us."

"I can shut it off"

"No Ellis don't!"

Ellis ran toward the car the tank had knocked over about 40 feet away. He could already hear some zombies roaring when he reached it. He opened the hood reached in and pulled on some wires. The alarm stopped but the damage was already done.

"We got a horde coming but there's going to be less coming cause of this"

"Good now pick up the bag and run we gotta haul ass"

Ellis turned to pick up his bag when the first surge of the horde came out. Nick threw a Molotov and ignited them plus a nearby building.

"Run!"

They tried to stick as close together as possible without getting into each other's line of fire. Ellis was hacking through as many zombies as he could while the rest of the team was shooting them back. Coach threw a pipe bomb and nick shot another spitter. In the midst of all that chaos Ellis saw an arrow with a safe house symbol above it.

"Safe house is this way" while he ran ahead clearing a path with his katana Rochelle threw another Molotov. Ellis reached the arrow only to find a chargers hand was wrapped around him.

"It's got me!" Ellis beat at the chargers arms while it pummeled him into the ground, literally. Ellis felt a few of his rib break, and tried to breath. "shoot it!"

Rochelle aimed with her shot gun and blew the chargers head off. Flesh and brain matter splattered across Ellis' shirt.

"Come on get up Ellis, we can't do this without you"

Rochelle pulled Ellis up.

"I ain't gonna lie I'm hurting real bad"

"Come on let's get outta he…." Rochelle was cut off by a hooded figure that had launched itself at her. The hunter started slashing at her chest ripping through her shirt and skin. "Get it off of me! Get it off!" Rochelle let out a blood curling scream and Ellis felt her blood splash across his face. He tried to knock the hunter off but it had its claws in her, its claws were literally in her, embedded between her ribs. Rochelle coughed up blood and Ellis hacked at the hunter finally decapitating it. Rochelle was bleeding out and Ellis tried to find the strength to pull her and himself up. Coach and Nick ran toward them, Coach pulled Ellis up and Nick carried Rochelle. He tossed another Molotov and dragged Ellis towards the safe house sign. They finally saw it, about a block down the street. When another horde came up blocking their path. Coach threw another pipe bomb and Nick tossed a Molotov after it. They were three houses away when another horde appeared. That was also when a hooded figure leapt above them and landed on a car with a growl. Another hunter and a horde.

One thought occurred to Ellis "we are fucked"