Left 4 Dead: The Beauty and the Witch
"When all this started, I thought I was going to be lonely, I thought I would never be the same again and that I would have to live with nothing or nobody. Then I met her, that day in the woods…I will never forget. The way she did not run, the way she helped me get better. The way; she put her arms around me.
This is the story of me, Alice, a girl who has been consumed by this horrible infection and has lost almost all human feel. This is the story of how, I have helped the world develop. This, is the story how, I fell in love with, a girl called Zoey."
Two months after the confrontation
"Good god, how many times have we been sent out on patrol in these bloody swamps, what's the point anyway…" Francis moaned to himself as he, Louis, Bill and Zoey walked briskly through the mud.
"The point is Francis, ever since the last humans have rejoined and created a huge outpost, we have to be out here to find more people. You never know when another ones going to pass by."
Zoey looked back to her never-ending moaner of a colleague and answered him. "Not to mention we're being paid a far wad of dollars for this." Bill added with a grin. Zoey sighed with disgust. "And another thing…We've practically killed all the zombies in this swamp, which makes it even more boring. And you know we've killed them, because you can smell the rotting bodies." Francis added with another moan.
There was no denying that the smell of dead flesh floated through the air. Even though graveyards had been set up for the zombies that could be recognised by an old relative, the swamps had obviously been left untouched. With every step she took, Zoey could feel the bodies that had sunken in the mud below them.
"Oh just stop complaining, all of you…" Louis finally spoke with annoyance. "Shut up druggy." Francis smirked. "You have never stopped calling me that since the helicopter crash two months ago, have you?" Louis rolled his eyes. "Nope." Francis laughed.
Zoey ignored their cruel antics. She turned her gun flashlight back and forth in search of shadows, to see if anyone was out there. She then caught a glimpse of something on the floor; it was just another dead body, but fresh. It was the body of a dead Witch. She ran over to it and picked it up; with a quick search, she found nothing on it.
"Not her. This is the same swamp we crashed in, I know it is, but where is she?" Zoey thought to herself. "Why do you always search every Witch body we pass now? You've been doing it ever since the crash." Bill came over to her and asked. She looked back to him. "Oh…I just…nothing." Zoey dropped to body and continued walking. Bill shook his head and followed again. Louis and Francis had ignored the whole scene and just followed.
Meanwhile, unknown to them, movement was not far from them. It had been following them for quite awhile. Its eyes kept on Zoey the whole time. It tried to keep as quiet as it could. As it kept moving, the more times it felt like it was going to get to her, though it still knew that it had to guide Zoey away from the others.
Then it hit it. It picked up a stick, and threw it behind them all and crashing on the other side. Louis heard the noise and detached off, not informing anyone else. It then picked up a stone, and threw it just below Bill's view. It hit another bush, and Bill wondered off.
"…Hey, where are you going?" Francis followed Bill as he walked off. Zoey had not heard the commotion and continued walking. The thing in the bush grinned to itself and continued to follow Zoey beside her in the bushes.
After some time, Zoey heard her friends shout. "Zoey! Zoey! Where are you?" She turned and saw they were not there. She sighed and then began to walk back but she stopped when she saw something fly across from the corner of her eye.
She turned back around to see nothing, but then she looked down to see something on the ground. She crouched down to see it read Zoey and Alice xxx
Zoey picked it up in shock, turned it around and saw the picture of her and the Witch, Alice. She had never forgotten that day, and that is why she only bothered to keep coming back to the same swamp. Not for the money, or the humans, for a friend. She looked around in desperation; she then saw something move in the bush.
She cautiously walked over to the bush; she pulled it back with a gun to see a Witch sitting in the bush, looking up at her with a smile. However, the gun took away the smile and it backed away slowly. Zoey realised and dropped the gun.
"No Alice, I won't shoot you." Zoey said with a smile. The Witch stopped and smiled again. It came back and scribbled into the mud You Remember! Zoey laughed.
"Of course I remember! I would never forget that day…" Zoey gave Alice a big hug and passed her back the photo. "It's nice to see that you've kept it in good condition." Zoey and Alice looked to the photo. They sat in silence for a while, and then Zoey stood up, bringing Alice up with her. "Right, let's go home. Zoey then tried to walk away, but Alice kept her still. Zoey looked at her and then realised her mistake.
"Oh yeah…" Zoey realised that if she took Alice as she was, she would be shot. Therefore, Zoey took her red jumper off and put it on Alice, pulling up the hood to cover her face and pulling the sleeves up to cover her hands so they couldn't see the nails. She then tried to walk again, but Alice held her back once more. Zoey looked at the worry on Alice's face. She smiled "I obviously wasn't going to leave you here was I?" She then pulled Alice along.
They made their way back to the team who had called a 4x4 to take them back. "Come on…let's go home…who's that?" Louis asked. Zoey quickly thought up something. "A girl in shock, now come on lets go!" Zoey jumped in with Alice and strapped in. Bill, Louis and Francis shrugged at each other then jumped in. They were then driven off back to Camp Sidelock, the last human resistance on earth.
[Authors Note: Hi Guys! Long time no see! Yeah, I got a load of replies on L4D – With Love and Respect, so as I promised, I will now continue with a full story. This chapter was quick just to get the story started, but all the chapters after this should be relatively long and detailed.
What the story is based around, if you have not already guessed, is a Witch with some human conscience left in her lives secretly with Zoey in the last human residence on earth, Camp Sidelock. Will she be discovered? Will she survive? Will there be a full on Zoey/Witch Romance? Well you are going to have to read on to find out!]