"JASON! ASHLEY!" He screams spinning and panicking as he jumps up from a deep sleep. The fire cackling, the wind howling, the leaves bristling in the winds, and a faint moan in the distance, but growing louder every second. Ryan climbs up into the tree to get a better look at the noises and his heart pounding in his chest, his body becomes cold with fear.
"RYAN RUNNNNN" a female voice screams amidst the loud moaning and groaning as he quickly realizes it's Ashley, but where is Jason? Paralyzed with fear Ryan can't move, his mind goes blank, everything around him goes quiet, he can't move, can't hear, can't breathe.
"Ryan we need to move now!" She screams as the dead get closer, there silhouettes dancing in the flames, there screams echoing through the woods, "BOOM" a loud gunshot goes off, and suddenly Ryan's back.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, WE NEED TO LEAVE!" She screams angrily, as the two sprint towards the van. "BOOM, BOOM, BOOM" three loud gunshots echo throughout the woods, as Ryan can't help but think could that be Jason? Why isn't he with Ashley, where did they go?
"Ashley, where is Jason?" He asks in a panicked voice as the gunshots continue ringing.
"I- I don't know" she says as the engine starts up.
"Well we can't just fucking leave without him!" Ryan protests as he opens the door
"RYAN!" She screams " if we don't leave now, we'll never make it out of here. We'll come back and look for him, I promise" she gets out as tears fill her eyes.
"AHHHHHHHH" a faint scream in the distance causes Ryan to jump out of the truck, sprinting back in the direction of the scream. He stops dead in his track as he watches Jason get surrounded and taken down.
"HELP MEEEE! HEL-" the screaming stops as more zombies come out of the woods and surround the body.
"Ryan we need to go now!" Ashley screams trying to pull him into the van, but Ryan won't move, her screams getting the attention of the zombies, who stand up and walk in there direction.
"Ryan please! We need to leave" she pleads, tears filling her eyes as she finally gets him in the van.
"WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU TWO GO?!" Ryan screams punching the roof of the van. "I WAKE UP TO YOU TWO GONE, NOW MY BROTHERS DEAD" his voice cracking, tears streaming down his face.
"We were out scavenging supplies, an- and they came out of nowhere" she chokes out going quiet, looking away from Ryan. "We got split up, he told me to run, he said to get back to the campsite and make sure you were Okay"
"No! No! NOOOO!" Ashley yells hitting the steering wheel, turning the key in the ignition, but nothing happening. She places her head on the steering wheel and begins to sob.
"Ash, we need to go back and get him!" Ryan says softly as he rubs her shoulder comfortingly
"Ryan, he's gone. We watched him go down with our own eyes, we would be risking our lives for a corpse" she snaps angrily.
"Well if you're not going to help, I'll do it my damn self!" He says loudly loading his handgun and grabbing his bag. "I'll be back in one hour, if I'm not, you know what to do" he says before taking off down the road, the flames dancing against the trees, the sounds of the undead filling the air. His heart pounding in his chest as he approaches the spot he saw Jason go down,
"You didn't think I would let you go by yourself did you?" He hears Ashley whisper behind him.
"We need to distract them so I can go see if that's Jason!" He says as he looks through his bag, and finds a flare gun. "Use this, once they're away from the corpse I'll make a run over, you wait here, do you understand?" He asks grabbing her hand.
As Ashley loads the flare gun, they hear footsteps behind them, "get down now" he whispers as they see a persons legs emerge from the woods and fire into the group of the dead, one by one the bodies drop.
"No sign of the man or woman, continuing sweep of the area, Alpha 5 out" the man disappears back into the woods. Ryan turns to Ashley and glares angrily, before sneaking onto the road. "Please don't be Jason, please" he pleads softly under his breath as he comes to the body.
"ITS NOT HIM! ITS NOT HIM" he exclaims excitedly as he runs back to the spot Ashley was in, but she's gone. "Ashley? Ashley!" He spins in a circle, panicking. "Where are you?"
"Goodnight asshole" a mans voice says behind Ryan as he hits him with the butt of the gun, knocking him out cold. "We've got them sir".