Authors note

Ok I'm just gonna jibber jabber in this bit just to explain a tiny bit of what my oc's look like. But I will describe them a bit more throughout the story. This is just a quick look at their appearance.

Zara

Zara is average height 17 year old British girl. She isn't skinny but not fat either. With her long brown hair and Hazel eyes she has a kind glow to her. You would tend to find her wearing a once white zipped hoodie and skinny jeans. Around her neck she wears a silver rose necklace, given to her by her Mum, covered by a silk scarf wrapped around her neck with the two ends dangling across her chest. She also wears black fingerless gloves and a beanie.

Noah

Noah is Zara's 10 year old brother. With lighter hair and brown eyes he is shorter than other kids his age but that doesn't change the amount of bravery that comes with this young boy. He wears a moss green jumper and jeans. Like his sister he wears a necklace around his neck but instead of a silver rose on a chain it is a wooden bird attached to a cord given to him by his Father. He also wears a beanie on his head.

Chapter One

Relaxed, yet cautious, Warren's eyes were fixed on the road heading towards a small town they could see in the distance. With 10K and Addy in the back of the pick-up truck and the others in the passenger seats, not a word was said as they were all in a world of their own. With rain starting to fall Doc caught a group of Z's from the corner on his eye, mindless and usual they wandered the terrain. "Kid!" He shouted.

Without replying 10K stood up and aimed his gun at the Z's head. Three bullets and the four Z's were down. With a cheeky smile on his face he returned to his seat not bothered by the rain. "Everyone be on their toes!" Warren order approaching the beginning of the town border. "We don't know how many Z's are in here." Entering the town their attention was however drawn to a series of gun shots and devilish sounds of angry Z's. It seemed that they were not alone.

Panicked and scared Kira ran behind her daughter towards a deserted town in hope of finding something, anything, for her son who was laying lifeless in her arms. With the bullet wound in his shoulder getting worse and blood seeping through the recently placed dressing she picked up speed, sprinted past the town border, through a collection of crumbling houses, heading towards the local hospital that was visible from her position.

Seeing several Z's head towards them, Zara pulled up her gun ready to stop them in their path. Determined to get her brother to safety she navigated around the unfamiliar town hoping to get to the hospital as quickly as possible.

Reaching the hospital door Zara swung it open only to be greeted by a hoard of Z's swiftly turning their head towards the three of them. With her hand on her Mum pushing her back she bellowed, "Run!" And with that they ran through the now familiar path littered with fallen Z's. With her Mum and brother now in front of her she turned her back to kill as many Z's as she could. One by one they fell. Running backwards however caused Zara to fall. Hitting her head on the gravel bellow. Conscious yet dizzy she tried to keep the Z's off her. Unable to focus she thought she was about to die. Covering her face in fear she waited for death.

Yet that was not what happened. Hearing several swift gun shots she moved her arm from her face and saw the Z's dropping before her.

10K got into position on the roof of a nearby building. Any second later and the girl would have died. Counting his kills under his breath he continued to watch out for his other team mates making sure that he had their back.

Doc ran over to the fallen girl whilst Addy went to get the mother and child. Leading them into an old abandoned house the others followed behind them. "10K! Get to us when you can!" Warren shouted at the boy still on the roof. Nodding his head he stood up and started to jump roofs heading to the house.

Once inside Addy help put the boy on the wooden table in the living room. The older woman with tear filled eyes began to beg in a British accent. "Please help him. Please!"
Without being asked twice Doc went to inspect the limp boy on the oak table. "What's his name?" He asked.
Hearing panic in her mother's voice the girl answered for her. "Noah...His names Noah."
Doc looked back at the boy who was now slightly conscious. "Hi Noah my names Doc and I'm going to help you get better."
The young boy nodded his little head. "Where's... Mummy and... Zara?" He asked breathlessly. That question caused the now named women to get into the boys view.
Looking up at the people before her Kira asked," please... Can you help us?" Warren looked in her teary eyes. "Let's wait for 10K and we'll talk then."

Five minutes later they heard rustling coming from the kitchen area. Guns at the ready the waited for whatever caused that noise to come round the corner.

10K's head swung around the corner and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. "Damn it kid you scared the crap out of us." Doc explained. Slightly smiling he entered the room and joined the others.
"10 did you manage to get a look at the hospital?" Addy asked looking at Noah.
"Doesn't look raided just full of Z's" he replied and looked towards the person on the table, "What happened?" Kira began to answer the question everyone wanted to ask.

"We were just on our way back to our camp when we saw a group of smugglers rummaging around. Without them noticing Zara climbed a tree and began to shoot. As predicted they shot back. Thinking they were all... You know dead... We walked back to our camp. However one was still alive and he blindly shot his gun hitting Noah in the process before he died... Please you've got to help us." She begged.
"We'll help. We'll move out when we have a plan but don't worry, we'll help your son."

Moving into the other room, with Doc and Noah still in the living room, they began to put together their plan. "Ok," Warren began, "were going to pick up whatever we can find. Addy you go with 10K, Kira and Zara and I'll go with Vasquez (did I get his name right?) and Murthy. You guys will take the left side of the hospital and we'll take the right. From what I can tell there are three floors. So it should be a quick go in, kill Z's, get medicine and come out alive sort of thing, we'll set of soon."

Now alone in one of the rooms in the house Zara pulled her hat off her head and hissed in pain as she tenderly touched the bump beginning to form on her head. Not hearing him enter she jumped as 10K began to speak. "I... Um saw you hit your head back there."

"Yeah, just a little bit though. It doesn't hurt that much"

Without replying 10K pulls out his water bottle and handed it to Zara. "Here, put this on the bump. It's still cold so it'll slow down the swelling." Accepting the bottle she smiled and placed it on her head.

"So, 10K huh? I've never met someone called 10K. Is it an American thing?" She asked trying to make conversation.

"Nah, it's the number of Z's I plan to kill. I'm almost at 5,000 at the moment." He replied with a proud expression on his face. "You're from England right?" Zara nodded," how did you get to America?"

"Well three years ago my family and I went to America for a holiday. I had never been to America before so I was really excited. On the last day, we were heading back to the airport and... You know IT happened. Zombies and stuff. Well we couldn't leave. So we jumped from place to place just trying to survive," her expression began to shift," It was going well, surviving and stuff, but then my Dad got hurt and um Mum had to... Yeah." Staring blindly at the floor she remember the scene from four months ago replaying in her head.

Feeling that he should say something he sat next to her, "I know what it's like... To have to mercy someone you love. When the Z's first appeared I had to mercy my Pa. My Mom died years before." 10K then joined Zara in looking thoughtlessly towards the carpet. "All of us here have lost someone. But, just remember the ones who are still around. That tends to keep us from giving up hope."

Minutes later Warren appeared in the door way. Causing the two teens to look up. "Get ready, were leaving in five." Giving back his bottle and standing up Zara heading to the door before turning back to look at 10K. "Thank you by the way." 10K followed her to the living room where they went over the plan again and prepared to get ready.

Authors note

Hope you enjoyed it please leave a review it'll help so much. I was planning on having 10K and Zara in a relationship but not a lovey dovey relationship but more of a close friend relationship. Whatcha think? Please let me know :3