Last of us: Wounds
BANG! BANG!
Two bodies fell to the ground before two distraught children who weeped for their dead parents.
"Why?" Mary asked as tears continued to fall down her face. The house door then burst open and Bill and Frank appeared both armed with rifles and came running into the living room and saw the bodies of people who had been living as neighbors to them for years.
"What happened?" Bill asked with a confused and worried look on his face. He got no response from the children and was left in confusion as to what was going on.
"They got bitten," Jake replied leaving it to settle in on the two men.
"Jesus," Frank said in shock, Bill said nothing but just looked away from the children.
"They said they want us to go to Boston and stay with Joel," Jake said simply.
"Are you kidding? After they got bit on the was there, it's too dangerous," Frank protested.
"Frank," Bill said in a quiet voice.
"What?" Frank replied but Bill said nothing and had a sombre expression on his face.
"We're going to leave to tomorrow," Mary said.
"It's too dangerous, I'll go with you," Frank said and Bill finally looked up from the floor.
"Frank," Bill said in a louder voice "A word," Bill said and the two men walked into the kitchen "Look I know it's sad Michael and Aisha are dead but you going with them to Boston means almost certain death for you. If these kids want to go to Boston let them, without they're parents they weren't going to survive long anyways," Bill explained and Frank could say nothing recognising the truth in his words "I think it's best if we just leave them for now and let them decide what they're going to do," Bill said and Frank nodded in response and the two walked out of the house.
The next day
It was early in the morning especially for the two children, they didn't sleep that night, yesterday's events playing over through their head whilst they laid awake all night. Eventually the two got out of bed and prepared all they would need on the trip and put them into their two backpacks.
"You have everything?" Jake asked with stillness in his voice.
"Yeah what about you?" Mary asked mirroring his tone and Jake just nodded in response "Let's go then," Mary said and the two then walked out of the house and took a long look at the place they had spent all their lives up until now.
The two made it out of the town and were now on the road their dad told them would lead straight to Boston. It was quiet so far, no sign of infected or people no sign of danger. It was strange the twins were on edge but the lack of danger so far worried them even more. A loud roar was then heard in the distance and the twins looked at each other with fear and then they began walking faster. They heard it again, louder.
"I'm scared," Mary said.
"And you think I'm not," Jake replied as the two were close to a jog with the pace of their walking. The roar sounded extremely close now and the two turned to see an infected twice the size of a normal man.
"Bloater," Mary whispered.
"Run," Jake said and the two children began running as fast as they fearful of what fate would await them if they were caught by that monstrosity. They ran not even sure if the bloater was still following them but they ran away, Jake turned back to check and it was. The next thing he saw was the bloater throw something in their direction "MARY MOVE!" Jake shouted but it was too late, spores had already spread around her "MARY!" Jake shouted and he held his breath and ran into the spores and grabbed his sister as she was coughing from the spores entering her system. Jake tried pulling his sister out of the cloud of spores but she was then lifted off the ground. The cloud of spores then cleared so he could see that the bloater had Mary in it's grasps.
"JAKE RUN!" Mary shouted just before she was ripped apart by the bloater her body now headless with blood pouring from the neck. Jake was in shock but he saw two runners approaching and remembered his sister's words and ran for his life with the runners still chasing him. He ran trying his best to keep the infected away from by firing shots of his pistol at them and one did fall but the other evaded his shots. The second runner was now close and it jumped for Jake, the infected now on top of Jake trying to sink it's teeth into him and was able to get a bite in his arm. Jake then reached for his pistol and then shot the runner twice in the stomach and pushed it off of him. The boy then noticed the blood oozing of out his arm as he realised what had happened.
"Oh no oh no," Jake said as he starred in horror at the bite mark on his arm "Is this it Am I going die?" Jake thought as he continued to stare and the wound. He was awakened from his thoughts when he heard the distant roar of the bloater. He had ran a good distance from the creature but he didn't feel safe out in the open anymore so he entered a house a little off the road and slumped in the corner off the living room, gun in hand shaking with fear. "I don't want to... die," Jake thought as he starred at the shaking gun in his hand. His head began to feel heavy he couldn't think properly anymore and his head fell to the floor of the room.