"WHY DON'T YOU JUST GIVE UP" The voice came from nowhere. It was a rough, angry voice.

"Why won't you just die." Came another voice, but it sounded like a boy. No. No. No, not again not again. The room lit up with glowing fire red walls.

"YOU'RE FRIENDS ARE DEAD. YOUR ARMY IS DESTROYED. JUST JOIN US ALREADY. YOU WERE MEANT TO." The voice came from a dark figure that was standing in front of what looked like a throne.

"To think that I have come this far to just give up and join you." The voice can from a crouched figure in the middle of the room in front of the throne.

"You who killed my friends. You who forced me to kill my parents. You who have took so many lives!" The crouched figure stood.

"Rachal. Rachal! It's ok. Its ok Rachal. It was just a bad dream"

The Survival

Chapter 1

"Hello, I am Fallmite, and I am one of the leaders here." There were about fifty kids made up of boys and girls from the ages of eight to eighteen. All of their faces looked nervous but also relieved of a great weight, that they have been struggling to hold after so long out there. Two years without a home.

"I do have to say it looks like you people have been through hell and back. You are welcome to stay as long as you want to, but you will be organized into scavengers, fighters, farmers and engineers, depending on where your skills lie. If you wish to leave you can do so at any time, just make sure you tell one of the leaders please. This here is Iceman. He will show you to your rooms. Tell you the rules and answer any questions you might have." I said as I pointed to my old friend next to me.

"Follow me to you new homes." said Iceman.

As he hurried the newcomers to their new homes, I walked off the stage, behind the tattered curtains was Supha-nan waiting for me. He was short with light brown hair, brown eyes, and a wide smile. He was wearing a black suit that seemed to be a little big.

"I hate speaking in front of an audience. What's with the suit?" I asked him.
"Same, the elephant was washing the balloon. But the big spoon man wants the square" I think he said that this was all he had.
"After all these years we have been friends, I still can't understand you half the time." "Thats why you're a triangle."
"So what do you want Noah?" His face turned from a smile to a frown in a heartbeat.
"I told you not to call me that anymore. We made a pact." He growled

"I know. I'm sorry. It's just that lately I've been thinking about the past more and more. Does it still bring back memories of the way it used to be before all of this?"
"Yes, and even before this place."
"Do you still miss them?"
"Yes, they were family, of course I miss them. I even miss my bitchy ex-girlfriend."

There was a long pause. Supha-nan had not gotten one inch taller at all during the last year and a half. He was still a little shorter then me.
"We spotted another group of eaters in the city, Jack the man wants you to take care of these square eating pineapples."
"Ok, I will round up a team."

We each had a flashlight, and a protein bar. Out of the five of us Philip was the best fighter but only when he had his back against the wall did he turn into a fearless fighter. He was almost sixteen with dark blond hair and dark blue eyes, he used a big hammer to fight with. Frank is a good fighter, but is clumsy with his bigger body. He was black with a strange silver eye color, he fought with a hoe that he turned into a spear, he was seventeen. Jack was as tough as nails but he is not good around others, he also doesn't following any "stupid" order given. He was the rich cocky, sixteen year old white kid. He had blond hair and brown eyes, he fought with a hatchet. Tiffany is a weaker fighter in closed spaces, but very deadly with her dagger in an open area, she is also good with kids. She had brown hair with blue eyes, and just turned eighteen years old, some people at Fallen call her the sexy apache. All we need to do was go into the city and kill some freaks, and hopefully we find someone. I just hope that they don't get hurt, theres been so many that have fallen...

The town was in total ruins from a tornado that had happened last year. Rubble and debris covered almost everything. For some stand reason the freaks have just keep coming, like there being drawn here. The air had a strange feel to it. Almost like the air was on fire, but with a strong electrical current mimicking lightning going off, but it also felt cold. Not as in dead cold, but as in a cold chill of excitement. The others the others could feel it to.

"The air here feels alive." Frank said worriedly

"Indeed. Stay alert." I replied with a little worry in my voice.

As we marched down the street in a circle formation. Two in front, two on the sides and one watching the back. We were headed to the downtown, warehouse section of the city. Jacob had got reports from our scavengers, and scouts that more infected had entered the area.

Suddenly a huge heat wave hit, then it reversed as the temperature dropped dramatically. The hairs on my body stood up. We then heard a terrifying roar in the distance where we are heading. We all froze wondering what could case a roar that loud.

"W-what was that!?" Philip said terrified

"I don't know." I spoke with a little fear.

"I'm going back." Said Jack

"It sounds like a roar from the movies." Said Tiffany with some amazement, but mostly fear.

"Jack we stay together. And we will run if we have to, but right now we have a job to do."

"Haha, you running! Now I would pay to see that." Frank said jesting

"You're not exactly in running shape either."

Something feels off, that roar sounds familiar, but why? Come on get focused on the now. I could feel the air in front of me returning to normal as I started to get my focus back. I started to get a chill in my back. Why is the air behind me still cold? I hear crackling sounds that sounded like ice.

"O-My God!" Tiffany almost screamed. I spun around and Jack was frozen!

A freak charged us out of no where, following an icy path the ended at Jacks feet, but his hands were surrounded with an icy glow.

"Shit!" I mumbled under my breath, as I unshelled my sword.

This isn't normal, freaks can't run and they don't control ice. A steady grip of fear gripped me as I readied my sword, and stepped in the freak's path.

"Help Jack, if he stays in that icy shell for long he will die." I said with fear in my voice
"On it." They replied.

Its just one freak. How hard could it be. I took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. I swung my sword in a downward arch to end this fight quickly. Cling. There was a burst of pain on my right forearm. I looked up at his knife, imbedded under my right forearm! He did not have one before. Then the freak brought his other hand toward my rib cage with another knife forming in his hand. This fight just got very bad. A searing pain pierced my ribcage, I could feel the knife coming out as the freak backed up for his next attack. I need to draw away the freak from the rest of them.

"Head toward the roar with Jack! NOW!" I said with all the courage I could muster.

The roar would have distracted the freaks keeping them safe to help Jack and hid

"You're hurt badly you need help!" Said Tiffany

"No, you need to run, I will find you. Now go!" I said as they got Jack out of the his icy shell but he was not moving.

The freak gave an angry hiss as his prey was escaping. He started moving toward my friends and I steeped in his path.

"Come on buddy I'm right here." I said to the freak.

.

Then the freak stopped and looked confused like someone was talking to it. Freaks can't talk, their mind is to decomposed by the sickness. I took this time to switch my sword to my left hand so I could at least swing. The freak stepped forward picking up speed into a charge. I looked at the freaks knifes, it looked like it was covered in ice. The sharp pain in my arm and rib cage got worse as I lifted my sword again. There was an exchange of blows, none of mine hit him, and none of his hit, but I was covered in blood from my two stab wounds. My blood. A sudden gasp of fear and despair grabbed hold of me, as the freak prepared for his next attack. If this goes on any further I will die, but that was the plan wasn't it? The others were gone now.

"Behind you is an alley go there." A whisper came from nowhere. I suddenly felt my fight or flight system kick back into gear, with my fear tuning into adrien. I turned around and ran toward the alleyway. The alley was too small to fight alone with a sword but it would be a good funnel for... Fire! Down at the end of the alley way was a door. As I reached the door the monster began a ferocious hissing sound and started to charge down the alley. I opened the door then closed and locked it from the inside. A second later the freak was ferociously started banging on the door.

"Hello." Came a small scared voice that of a frightened child.

"I'm not one of them. You can come out."
"Can you help me find my friends."
"Ok, I will help you find your friends after we are safe from this one here." The door started to groan, as the pounding got louder and louder. The girl came down from a hanging light on the ceiling. She had dark blue hair, big brown eyes, and a short dress, that was as blue as her hair, but striped with yellow like a dandelion. There were white scales on the top and bottom of her dress with a white bow in the middle of her chest. Why does she look familiar? No time for that Fallmite stay focused.
"Do you have any bug spray or hair spray?" I asked her.
"What's that? O you're h-hurt, I can heal you."

"Not right now, after this freak is dealt with you can." I said not paying attention to her words. There were shelves of items, but they where only full perfumes and other junk.

"Check the back of any spray bottles to see if they are flammable, i'm going to find a lighter."
"Ok" she said in her small scared voice. I headed for the front counter. There were; cigarettes, cigars, Alcohol, gum, a few candy bars, and a lighter! "Will this work?" She said holding a bottle in front of me.

"Yes it will not we are in business." She handed me a bottle of hairspray GUTS that's the name on the bottle.

"Stand back its going to get hot in here." I told her.

I lit the lighter and sprayed the hairspray over the flam. WOOSH! The hairspray turned into a flamethrower.

"YES!"

Haha we can win.
"Ahh" the blue haired girl said "...Fire magic..." I turned to the door from which I had entered and locked, it was now frozen and it was starting to crack. The pounding on the door stopped.
"Stand behind me"
"Ok"

There were now cracks that engulfing the entire door. I readied the hairspray can and the lighter. CRACK! The door shattered like glass, the wood encased in ice. The freak was now had an icy glow surrounding his body. He gave a howl of victory as he lifted his frozen knife's.

"Stop it. Please, just stop it." Cried the girl.

The freak charged. Twenty feet. Fifteen feet. Ten feet. Five feet. I turned on the lighter and let the hairspray loose. WOOSH! The hairspray lit. There was what sounded like a scream coming from the freak but it was gurgled. About thirty seconds went by then I turned the lighter and hairspray off. Standing in front of me was the freak but burnt to a crisp, his knifes now gone. I picked up my sword that I dropped to use the hairspray. I swung it at the burnt freaks head and decapitated it. Then the roar came again but louder. Closer. I staggered forward and stumbled into a wall with my head getting light as the temperature soared then dropped drastically. All adrenalin had faded, the pain in my arm and side escalated as my vision started to turn dark. I could feel that something is trying to leave my body as my vision was now completely black. As more and more of whatever it was getting out the pain eased with every second. I was now surrounded by darkness, as I couldn't move any parts of my body, as the pain was now completely gone.

"Not yet, its not your time." I could hear a whisper pierced the silent blackness that I was in. The whisper sounded like a man. Right as the whisper ended I could feel a force push what ever was trying to escape back into my body with, the searing pain that had disappeared return. The pain came back with such a force that my mind just shut down.

As I came too my I felt pressure on my arm and ribs where I was stabbed. Slowly my vision came back, I could see the girl with the blue hair sitting opposite from me. I could feel my back against the wall that, I think, I collapsed into. She was resting against one of the store shelfs, her head in her knees. I could hear her crying. She was crying softly as if trying not to cause attention to herself.

"ahem." I cleared my throat softly as my mouth tasted as dry as a desert. She looked up from her knees with tears streaming down her face.

"Hey there is no need to cry you'll be okay." I said while trying to get up. As I stood up the blood rushed out of my head as the pain in my arm and side strengthened as every vertebra straightened. The pain was so intense that by body tyred to rejected my commands to move.

"You're badly hurt still, I tried to heal you but it didn't it didn't work." The blue haired girl almost cried.

"Thats ok you did your best. Did you give me any drugs while I was out?" With every word came more pain.

"No, I could not find any." She said as she cleared tears from her eyes

"Ok… Behind the counter over there there is some drinks that contain alcohol. Can you bring me one of them please?"

"Ok." She said and left.

I moved my left hand over my wounds, there where now banges covering the wounds.

As she returned she handed me a bottle, of whiskey

"Thanks." I said as I took the bottle from her hands and opened it up. As the drink went down my throat it tasted like fire. Only two full gulps thats all it took.

"Why did you need the alcohol? There's nothing to drink for." She asked

"Well it numbs pain, but only for a price." I said as the whiskey taste was disappearing.

"What's the price?"

"Well the price is different for everyone… What's your name?"

"It's Wendy, can we go find my friends now?" She asked with some fear in her voice.

"Give me a second." I said as the whiskey did its job.

"Ok, do you know where your friends are?"

"They are in that direction." She pointed to where the roar came from before I passed out.

"Good thats where my friends are too hopefully.". We exited the building though the front door toward the source of the roar. It was now evening. Wow I was out for a few hours, well that would explain why I am hungry. The I took out my protein bar and was just about to take a bite of it., but I heard a growl from behind me that came from Wendy's.

"Here take this I don't need it." I said while handing it to Wendy and she scarfed it down like she hadn't eaten at all today. I finally noticed a tattoo on her right shoulder.

Several minutes of walking passed, and neither of us were able to find our friends. In this day and age, you are almost certain to die without friends, or a team to help you. We were in the downtown area now, which was full of shops, but now it was just a bunch of rubble.

"This used to be a very busy area with people and cars everywhere. Now there is just rubble."

"What happened?" She asked

"A tornado." But thats not what she meant. I knew she meant the people, the families, the friends. Gone, all gone. I started to tear up a little. Be strong, you can do this. I gave a sigh of relief. The tears gone.

"How old are you?"

"I don't know" she said in a small voice

She looks about fifteen years old. But a part of her body would disagree. "Come on. You must know your own age." I persisted

"Help! Someone! please help me!" We heard someone yell.

"I don't want to die!". came the voice again, it was a woman's voice

"Come on we have to hurry."

The Cry for help came from down the street and around the intersection. We ran toward the Cry after we turned the corner we halted.

"Theres dozens of them." I said

The freaks trapped the person inside a circle about three rings deep.

"Stay here. If I don't come back find your friends and mine without me."

"b-bu-but, theres so many you can't take them on by yourself, and your still hurt." Wendy stuttered.

"These freaks are normal. Unlike the one earlier, and besides the person in there will help me."

"I can help too." She said in a scared voice

"No, I can't let you get hurt or let you die. Just stay here, and stay safe." I said as I ready my sword in my left hand to charg.

"But I can't just let you die either." She said in a more firm voice

"Stay here and watch your back." I said while taking the first step forward.

"A man who won't die, or risk his life for something is not fit to live." I muttered to myself, as I took my first steps of my bull rush.

"Arms X vernier." I heard from behind me as I charged forward.

I ran faster and with less effort was needed to run, what was this? I was on the freaks in seconds. The first three fell in half at there wast. I was stronger! How is this possible?! I asked myself as I stabbed another one in the back. Before it hit the ground with a wet thud I chopped another three down. There was now a gap into the middle of the circle, I took it. There was a blond woman in the middle, she had a wipe but it was glowing blue and orange.

"Wow."

She was wearing a short skirt and a tank top, that looked almost like a cheerleader uniform. The uniform was outlined by a white strip encompassing the rest of the blue clothing. She was very pretty with her golden blond hair that was in a messy fray. She also had tons of scratches on her arms and legs. I now stood between her and most of the freaks.

"When I say go I am going to charge though you need to stay on my ass until we are out, there is a girl waiting around that corner stay and protect her." as I pointed in the direction of where I came

"Right." She said in a firm voice that was used to battle.

Why does she seem so familiar too. I attacked the way I came. Three swings and three more down. First from shoulder to waist, waist to shoulder than across the chest.

"Now" She ran past me glowing in a yellow glow.

The freaks were slow but they still had the numbers. There were about fifteen of them. They didn't attack right away. They stood there studying me as they formed five lines that where three deep. At once they attacked like a group of ants attacking their prey.

As I braced for the attack, as fear started to grip me. Why am I risking myself for someone who will properly just run off. And why don't I just run back to Wendy and leave. No. I can not let innocent people die, not anymore.

As the first freaks got into rang I charged, and ran over four of the firteen and killed another three with my sword. I was now behind the lines the freaks formed before with a huge gape in the middle. My sword was now a nasty greenish reddish color. There were twelve left. I charged them again and again. Ten, eighty, five, one, zero. I looked down, there where dead freaks everywhere. My shirt was covered in blood and guts as was the ground.

"Hupf!" I fell to my knees, and my vision blurred, as the adrenalin and whisken wore off as the pain returned in full force. There was a scream. I forced myself up. The blooded rushed out of my head, as I staggered forward. Dissly I turned around. The two girls had their backs against a wall of a destroyed building, and were surrounded by freaks. They were coming from everywhere, heading toward the girls. Dozens of them. Why didn't they run!

"Wendy stay back. Open gate of the Lion! LEO!" yelled the blond

A handsome man appeared from nowhere in a black suit with orange hair and yellow glowing hands!

"Wendy, Lucy, stay back."

"Arms X vernier" Wendy yelled

As the freaks went in for the kill I lost sight of them. ROAR! There it was again, it was so loud that my all I could hear was a ringing, as the tempchar rose then dropped dramatically.

"No. no. NO! I will not let you take them too!"

Blood rushed to my head. The dissent was replaced with a burning burst of anger and hate. With the pain from my wounds, gone as I gave a fierce battle roar as I charged. There was hundreds of freaks now around them. Where did they all come from? The air was ablaze with fire, electricity, ice, water, dirt, light, dark and space. The air felt very strange. The air was moving like how the solar system moves around the sun, but their was also like a black hole pulling the solar system apart. As I hit the first freak the first five rows disappeared into ash.

"Not gonna die."

As I cut some more down they were frozen, burnt, or electrified, others were turned to stone or just fell apart. But most of them just, disappeared.

"Gonna stand and fight."

My sword was changing to a different color every time I hit a freak, it was like a rainbow of color, but with every color imaginable. The air around me felt alive, powerful.

I was no longer in control of my body. It was frightening, but the power was immense, so much power. I was just stabbing and slashing my way through the horde of freaks. My sense of time had vanished. "Gonna stand and fight forever!"

Suddenly my vision went dark and I could no longer hear the outside world, but I knew I was still fighting the freaks in a sort of blood rage.

"You will join us eventually and lead us to victory."

A voice came from the darkness. The voice had a raspy tone to it, like someone with a really sore throat. The voice also had a creepy feeling to it. But unlike the whispering man from earlier.

"Who are you?" I replied

"I am one of many. You know us. You're killing us as we speak and you have reseted our control for so long. How you were able to do it we can not comprehend, but you will join us in the end. And finish destroying the ones you love, like you have with you parents!" The voice faded away with an evil laugh.

My body felt heavy, my anger and hate gone. My vision came back I had control over my body. There were dead, all dead. The dead bodies of freaks everywhere, dozens of them on the ground. I turned around to see the two girls running at me with a look of fear on their faces and in their eyes. I smiled.

"Ahahah" I laughed.

They only had some cuts and bruises on them. They were fine, safe for now. I took a stepped toward them and fell to my knees. As the pain from my injuries retuning.

"Never keep your head down. Its a sign of weakness and exhaustion and it also leaves you open to attack." The voice came from the back of my mind, from a memory.

I raised my head. The girls where only about a hundred feet away from me now. The air was dead. There was nothing in the air any more, no more energy. No more life. I tried to stand but fell to my stomach. My limbs could not move, would not move. My vision was vanishing again, but this time my mind was failing me too. My vision was now gone. Nothing was trying to leave now. But the pain was still fading anyways.

"Hey. Hey, stay with us. You are not leaving us yet!" came a girl's voice

"Move over let me heal him." Wendy said frantically

There was a burst of pain thought out my body. I was dieing I had failed. failed myself. I had failed the only goal I had. "Better to die fighting on your feet than live on your knees." The voice came from nowhere and yet everywhere. Another memory. With that small almost meaningless memory I took comfort. The pain, now gone as I blanked out.