The Last of us: An unexpected fate
The moment Joel was impaled, Ellie rushed down to his side.
"Move," he murmured as he pushed her aside and rose his tightly gripped revolver. He shot rapidly with a tiring arm at the hunters coming in small numbers. With blood smeared all around them, Ellie heaved him off the iron rod and, in agony, he slowly and painfully dragged himself through the doorways and towards Callas. More hunters seemed like they appeared from nowhere and started to open fire. Joel and Ellie hid behind masses of cabinets and drawers as they attempted to save them selves. Blood from Joel's torso was spattered everywhere as he tried his hardest to keep quiet. Eventually, Ellie put a shot in the first hunter's head and he came to the floor with a crash, unfortunately attracting the attention of more hunters as they cautiously made their way towards the room Ellie and Joel were stuck in.
Joel accidentally gave away his position by moaning in pain which drove the second, forth and fifth hunters towards him. He suddenly bagged them each in the stomach as he tumbled over and his sight went dimmer.
"JOEL!" Ellie screamed as she hurtled towards him. "We've got to get through this Joel, your the last person I have!" She shook him once, and then twice. His eyes were a second from closing when he heard the screaming of Ellie, "Stay the f*** away!" The loud shots from the guns rang in his head as he felt the life inside him fade.
"C'mon! Don't die on me now Joel!" Ellie yelled as she ran over and heaved him up off the ground.
"Ellie.." His voice was hoarse and croaky, "Callus...now" he mumbled under his voice as blood gushed out from his wound making it extremely difficult for him to walk. Ellie put his arms around her and started to haul him closer to Callus.
"Oh sh**!" A hunter cried as they drew closer to the horse. Callus whinnied with fear as Ellie fearfully shot the hunter and he fell to the ground with a crash. Ellie helped Joel onto the horse then heaved herself on as well. "Ride..Callus.." Joel mumbled under his dying voice as the horse began to gallop forward to an unknown destination.
They came to a sudden stop when a crowd of infected came running down the hills towards them.
"CALLUS! GO!" Ellie screamed as the runners and clickers hurtled towards them. As Callus galloped on, Ellie sat backwards and pulled out her 9mm revolver. Her shots came to a halt when she realised that she had wasted all her ammo on the hunters. "Damn hunters took it all out of me.." She mumbled as the infected grew closer and closer.
About 10 minutes passed until they came to a stop in front of a newly built cabin. "Okay, I think we lost 'em!" She said as Joel slowly nodded to agree.
"Hrng!" He groaned in agony, "Search the house, Ellie.. See what supplies you can find." He murmured as she sat there on the back of the horse looking at the ground.
"Joel! There is no fu****g way I am leaving you alone!" She whisper-shouted. Joel looked meaningfully at her and she reluctantly agreed.
"Be careful in there.." He croaked as she carelessly walked into the cabin.
Although the front door was clearly unlocked, Ellie decided to go through the back window that had been left open. She quietly scrambled through the window and silently made her way through towards the cupboards. Crouched on her haunches, she searched each and every single drawer, cupboard and cabinet. Still searching, Ellie's hopes of finding anything dropped down to next to none until she searched the bathroom cabinet... Paracetamol, bandages.. Everything she seemed to need to patch up Joel's torso. It seemed her luck had run out when the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs grew louder.
"Who are you and why are you in my fu****g house!?" A strong western voice spoke as a dark figure stormed down the stairs with a semi-automatic pistol in hand.
Ellie felt that she needed to go but she had frozen in terror just from the look of this girls eyes. Ellie's mind began to fill with all sorts of thoughts as she stared into the beautiful eyes of the girl. She looked to be about 15, however, her voice seemed far too old for her looks. Angry and frustrated, she snapped another clip into her gun. She held it high and aimed at Ellie's head.
"NO WAIT!" She heard her voice cry out in terror. She lowered the gun slightly and suddenly stood silent and still. Her eyes focused on Ellie's and she hesitated before slowly walking closer to her, gun still half-raised. Ellie, still frozen, gazed deeply into her sparkling, electric blue and maroon purple eyes. She dropped the gun and held out hier hand. At this point, Ellie was almost flat on the ground. 'Who the hell is this kid?' She thought as she took her hand and she helped her on to her feet. "Wh-who..." She struggled to get her words out as she attempted to speak to the girl.
"Hi.." Her words came out before Ellie's and she slowly put her hand up and waved. Both she and Ellie were stood frozen, almost wide eyed yet only Ellie was shocked with the ways she was feeling. The feeling Ellie suddenly had was like butterflies in her stomach because she was not only crushing on a compete stranger but also she felt that Joel was all alone out there on the horse with god knows what out there with him.
"Joel..." She mumbled as she remembered how the infected were chasing them everywhere. Her mind was a jumble.
"Uh... Hi! My name's Cassius... A-Are you alright?" She asked confused after a long awkward silence. "Um, you've been still for quite a while now.." Ellie almost completely forgot about Joel and started to slowly make her way towards Cassius. She hugged her and thanked her for not shooting her. "Uh, h-hey there.. Are you okay!?" She nodded and broke away.
"When I f-first saw you," Ellie started stuttering, "I thought you where a ruthless killer... Now I see you u-up close... I think... uh... No, never mind..." Ellie was stuttering and tripping over her own tongue.
Cass was confused as Ellie tried to speak; they heard a far away gunshot and she stumbled backwards, tripping over her gun. Falling on her back, Cass slammed onto the floor and groaned in sudden pain. Ellie felt a lurch go through her stomach as she thought the gunshot was not that far from where they were. She hesitated before running over to Cassius and gently grabbing her arm to help her up.
"No don't! Don't touch me!" Her temper had snapped and all rationality was gone,s he didn't know this girl so why should she trust her? She was feeling more and more anger build up in her body before reaching behind her and briskly seizing the pistol, loading it and holding it up directly in front of Ellie's eyes. At the barrel of the gun, Ellie felt her blood pump faster and faster until there came a huge bang. She saw the other girl had shot the heavy light at the top of the room. The cables hung riskily as it swung back and forth. Ellie was paralysed with fear and couldn't move her body when the light fell. She darted out of the way just in the nick of time. She stumbled around until she remembered about Joel.
As time passed by, the nature filled wilderness seemed to dim more and more and began to look grey and fuzzy to Joel. He could feel it inside him, his life fading away right in front of his eyes. Ellie heard a loud thud come from outside. Joel slid off the horse and Ellie rushed through the front door and to his side. "Oh, no..no..no..no! This can't be happening!" Ellie screamed as she grabbed the bandages and tightly wrapped them around him. "JOEL! C'mon stay with me on this one Joel, don't give it up! You're the last person I have, you.. Can't leave me!" She sobbed as she tightly gripped his shoulders. Joel lay on the ground, hopelessly trying to fight for life. Lost in his own lifeless body, he felt colder and colder until his breathing had slowed greatly. His thoughts ran all over and he finally gave it up, 'Well, I didn't expect it to end this way...' He felt the blood rushing all around his body and the slow beating of his heart..stop...
