Boss sniffed the air. He lost track of the humans after a while. The car moved way too fast for him to keep up. He knew which general direction they went in so he was heading that way.
He paused for a while and looked behind him. There was nothing but a long road behind him. It felt weird to be a loner again. Ever since the pack started, all he has wanted was to be alone again but now that he was, all he wanted was to be with his pack.
He never understood why they hated him. They randomly yelled at him and told him to get lost. He thought about it for a while but he couldn't figure out why they would kick him out so suddenly. He didn't even have time to make a mistake to get kicked out.
Maybe it was because he got Bull killed. Bull was a tank and one of Boss's good friends. Bull connected Boss to his pass in a way. Plus, Bull was the only zombie Boss recruited for the pack. Everyone else was recruited by Scar, the smoker, or Craze, the insane jockey. Girl pretty much started the pack so she recruited herself.
Girl…The thought of her made Boss sad. He loved her and now she hated him. He even risked his and everyone else's lives to save her and she hated him.
Was that it? Was that reason? Did she hate him because he risked everyone's life for her? She was the type of zombie to get upset over something like that. That must be it then. She hated him for being so selfish.
What about the rest of the pack. They surely wouldn't hate him for that. They understood the risks before they all went to rescue Girl. They wouldn't let Girl brainwash them into hating Boss so quickly would they? It must be something else then because Girl wouldn't force her opinion on others.
Boss sighed but then leapt in the direction the car went, trying to forget about his past. No point in worrying about it now. He was a loner now and there was no way he was going back. Should he go back to being called Hunter? No, there still might be other hunters who go by that.
After a while, Boss finally caught up to the car. The humans were no longer by it but Boss could hear shooting not too far away. The humans must be close. He could easily follow their scent to their location.
He followed one of the human's scent through a maze of cars, down a ramp and then up a hill and across a billboard when he saw them. He smiled. He thought they would have been much farther ahead then this. The zombies must be slowing them down a lot.
His thoughts were interrupted when a charger knocked him over. He let out a growl and was back on his feet in an instant.
"Hey watch it." Boss growled at the charger, who then turned around angrily.
"I would shut my trap if I were you." The charger said. "You smell of the newborn place. Well newbie, this area ain't for you. This is where the skilled zombies live, humans come through here often." He said and then jumped off the billboard and then onto a roof and charged a human who had fallen behind.
Boss growled. "I'm not a newbie! I just lived there for a long time!" He snarled but then laughed when the charger got gunned down and killed.
"Guys, I hear a hunter." One of the humans said.
Boss stopped laughing and quieted down. The humans could hear him. He needed to be more cautious.
"I don't hear nothin'." Another human said.
"Well maybe if you'd shut up, we'd be able to hear something once and while." A third human said.
Boss sighed and then ignored their bickering. He would attack but they were much too close together. He watched them move through the building and in and out of its rooms. They were moving really slowly, no wonder he caught up to them so quick.
Boss then heard a soft crying. Who the heck would be crying now? A human surely wouldn't be so dumb and a zombie wouldn't draw so much attention to itself.
"Guys, I hear a witch!" A human said.
"Shh. Lights off and sneak around it." The female human said.
A witch. That must be a zombie. Boss had never heard of it before. He snuck ahead of the humans, who were going more slowly now, and went to investigate this 'witch'.
He saw a sitting figure. It was making loud moaning and crying noises as it cried into its hands.
Boss poked the witch. "Are you alright?" He asked but the witch stood up and snarled at him.
"Leave me you ugly creature! We're nothing but ugly things!" She snarled and then sat back down, still crying but slightly more agitated.
Boss frowned. He never thought he was ugly. He was confident with who he was. "He what gives you the right to say that?" He asked the witch but when she didn't reply, he clawed her.
"I HATE YOU!" She snarled at Boss, her claws flailing wildly. "I HATE ME! I HATE ALL OF US! I HATE EVERTHING!" She roared out multiple things she hated before sitting back down, now growling and crying.
"Guys I see the-." The human never got to finish his sentence because the witch let out and ear piercing scream and attacked him, knocking him down and tearing into the screaming person.
Boss leapt back and hid as he watched the witch almost kill the human. She was killed before she could. She was so powerful….Too bad she just ran at them in the open.
"Damn…Something pissed that witch off before we even got here. It's not like them to just attack so fast." The human who got attacked said as his pack helped him up.
"Other zombies probably pestered it. Let's just get a move on." The other human said.
Boss growled as he saw the humans were still really close together. He just needed one of them to fall behind.
"There is a hill back there that the humans will have to go down. They won't be able to get back up." A female voice said.
Boss turned around and saw a female hunter sitting on a car with her legs crossed and she was looking at her nails. She looked up at Boss and gave him a toothy smile. "You can pounce the last one to down. Its pack won't be able to save it." She said and hopped off the car.
"Why don't I just let a different zombie do that and then take its meal?" Boss asked.
The female hunter laughed. "You really are a newbie huh? Well, here zombies won't give up a meal like they would where you come from. We got rules too. If you make a kill, it's yours and if someone else tries to take it, it's a fight to death for it." She said and strode past Boss.
Boss growled. "I'm not a newbie!" He growled. He was the most skilled zombie where his old pack was.
The female hunter laughed again except this time it was more like a chuckle. "Well in the real zombie world you are. You don't know the ways here. You're a softy." She smirked and then crouched down. The humans were starting to head down the hill.
"I am not!" Boss said shouting and attracting the attention of the humans. They shot at the female hunter who swiftly evaded and then watched as they all went down the hill at the same time.
"Thanks a lot." She mumbled as she watched the humans run through the shallow river at the bottom of the hill. "I'll have to wait until Smasher comes for another opportunity." She mumbled and then jumped down the hill and stealthily followed the humans.
"Smasher?" Boss asked and followed her.
The hunter sighed. "He's the tank that lives around here." She whispered.
"Oh." Boss mumbled as he followed her. "What's up with these witches?" He asked after a period of silence.
She sighed. "They still fully remember their human life. That's why they cry. They mourn the loss of their other life. Don't try to talk to them, they'll just yell at you. They hate us but they hate humans more for still being humans. That's why they attack them."
"Oh okay." Boss mumbled. "My name's Boss. What's yours?" He asked. He would like to know what to call this hunter.
"Lux." The female hunter said. She smiled and then let out a quiet laugh. "I was expecting you to say your name was Hunter. That's what most newbie hunters say their name is."
"I've said I wasn't a newbie." Boss said.
"No, it just means you were in a pack before. Trust me; there is so much you haven't learned yet." Lux said. "That's how most of us got our names. We were in a pack and then left, realizing we were better off alone. That charger you were talking to earlier, he was a newbie too. He was the newest one around here until you showed up. He still had a lot to learn." Lux said and snickered. "His name was Chargy. Yeah he must have made it up on the spot. He tried to fit in so bad but it ended up killing him. So just stick with me and learn the ways here. You'll be fine."
Boss nodded. "Okay." He whispered quietly, the humans weren't too far ahead. "Wait, you saw me talking to him?" He asked Lux.
"Yeah, I also saw you run around the cars. I was watching you, seeing if you were clever enough to save."
Boss smirked. "So I guess I was then huh?" He asked smugly.
"No, just cute enough." Lux said with a flirty grin and then hopped into a nearby tree. The humans were now walking up a hill to the amusement park.
"Wait. What?" Boss asked. He was caught off guard by Lux's sudden flirtatious behavior.
Lux ignored him as she watched the humans walk up the hill. "Five, four, three, two….now!" She shouted and right as she finished talking, a tank, who Boss guessed was Smasher, came running out of the trees and towards the humans.
"TANK! BACK DOWN THE HILL!" One of the humans shouted. The humans began to run backwards and shoot at the tank.
One of the humans tripped and the tank picked him up and threw him aside, into the trees where Boss and Lux were. Lux roared and pounced the already dazed human.
"If a human comes, pounce it!" Lux ordered as she tore into the screaming human.
One of the humans came running towards them but Smasher grabbed it and sent it into the trees opposite of Boss. That human then got snared by a smoker who was hiding in those trees.
"Fire in the hole!" The female human shouted and threw one of the deadly fire bottles at the tank.
It hit the tank and the liquid inside burst all over him and on the ground. The tank roared and then ran past the humans and into the water at the bottom of the hill.
"Ellis!" The female human shouted and ran towards Lux and the almost dead human. Boss was going to pounce the female but the other human was with her.
The human shoved Lux off of the human she was on and Lux quickly leapt away instead of attacking again. The human got up and then slowly followed its pack to where the human who was getting snared was.
"Why didn't you pounce her?" Lux asked once the humans were far enough away.
"She had her other pack mate with her, I would have gotten killed." Boss growled.
Lux smiled. "Good job. First rule of living here. Save yourself before you save others." She said as she watched the humans run up the hill and out of sight. "But don't be afraid to save others if your life isn't in danger. It will make great alliances." She said.
Boss smirked. He looked down the hill and saw Smasher floating in the water below. He was dead. "Well that's a shame." Boss mumbled, remembering Bull's death.
Lux shrugged. "It happens. Oh and by the way, when a tank helps you make a kill, you eat as much as you can then get out of the way if the tank lives. If you made the kill by yourself, the tank won't go for it if it's not really in any pain. If it is, run." Lux said.
Boss nodded. So much to learn, so little time.
Author's Note: Alright, here is the first chapter of the sequel! Yeah I've figured out the plot and characters for this story. Scar and the rest of the pack will still be in this story, they will have their own problems. Boss is now in the Dark Carnival area. He'll probably lose track of the survivors (which are the L4D2 survivors) because I want this whole story to take place in Dark Carnival. (For Boss at least.) So yeah... I'll get the next chapter up ASAP