Hi all this is chapter 2.
I hope you like it; it's a more getting into the story chapter so bare with me! it will get better!
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Chapter 2
They crawled through the long drainage system they had found their way into, wet patches surrounded their knees down to their ankles as they slugged through water. "How much longer is this stupid thing?" Nick hissed back at Aurora who was at the back of the pack.
Aurora was intimidated by the young man causing her to swallow hard. "Not too much longer."
"I tell you what though ya'll; I'd rather be down here then up there." Ellis' voice chuckled through the drainage systems.
Rochelle rolled her eyes while following behind Coach. "How far away from a safety zone are we Aurora, sweetie?"
"Five… towns over… we have to go across a river though." Aurora replied nervously.
Coach had finally gotten to the end of the drainage system as he carefully climbed out of the hole in the wall and onto the floor feeling his legs cramp at being straight. "It feels like we've been crawlin' for hours." Coach yawned loudly, stretching as he did so.
The others did the same while waiting for Aurora to open up the locked gate, she looked up at the cage type door that was above them, she couldn't exactly reach them and the metal bars that stuck out weren't very sturdy; suddenly she felt herself lift off the ground she was slightly confused until she looked down and saw Ellis had put her onto his left shoulder so she could reached the padlocks. She felt herself blush while placing both keys into the padlocks and unlocking them; she gave one heave and pushed it open hearing it crash onto the grass around it. "Thanks Ellis." She said quietly while he helped her climb up onto the ground.
She dusted herself off as quietly as possible then had a quick glance around the area, she turned around to see how the others were going when she saw a blur of Nick before he grabber her around the throat and pinned her up against the tree. "You almost get us killed like that again and I won't hesitate shooting you!"
Aurora held onto his strong arms which were firmly around her neck. "Nick, get off her!" Ellis called out pulling back on his shoulders.
Nick dropped her immediately; he turned around pushing Ellis away from him. "I get that you want to get in her pants but she almost killed us out there!"
"Nick, stop it! She told you to wait and you ignored her!" Rochelle snapped standing in between the two males.
Coach shot his weapon causing them all to cover their heads; he reloaded while staring at them. "May I remind you we aren't surrounded by walls anymore?"
Nick growled staring at them for a moment, he turned around and began walking off quietly; Ellis bent down to Aurora as she sat on the ground holding her neck. "You right darlin'?"
She looked up at Ellis noticing how close he was to her she blushed and looked away. "I'm fine."
"You'll have to mind Nick sweetie, he finds it hard to trust anyone but himself." Rochelle spoke looking down at the young girl while holding her weapon tightly. "I apologise."
"We got to keep moving, it won't be long until those things are over running this place." Coach called out heaving his gun over his shoulder and walking after Nick, Rochelle following after.
Ellis placed his hand out for her sending her a sweet smile; she took his warm hand into her cooler ones as he lifted her to her feet. "Thank you… Ellis."
"No problem Rora' let's go before they leave us behind." He grinned taking his gun in hand and following after the others.
The forest looked different to what it did during daylight, Aurora stumbled after the survivors quietly trying to keep her eyes peeled in the darkness that was the night; she wasn't used to this like the others were so she stumbled over twigs and sticks until she fell over a large tree root hitting the ground with a large thumb. The others quickly turned around pointing their guns towards the noise. "Just me." Aurora groaned placing her hands firmly on the ground; she felt something squishy on the ground and frowned.
"What's up Rora?" Ellis whispered shining his flash light on her, she was sitting on her legs looking down at her hands; the front of her was now covered in fresh red blood, she started shaking immediately at the blood on her.
"Oh god." She managed to get out before quickly getting to her feet before attempting to brush of the blood in her panic. "Get it off!"
"Shit they are feeding around here!" Coach said in a low voice pulling Rochelle over to Nick so they were standing in a group. "Ellis, keep Aurora quiet!"
Ellis quickly grabbed her around the waist pulling her back against his chest and whispered into her ear. "You need to stay quiet darlin' just think of somethin' else."
Aurora nodded wide eyed, her heart was beating uncontrollably but she had to stay quiet, she was with people now that she needed to help, he gently pulled her over to the group; Coach kept his gun ready keeping his eyes sharp. "This is a feeding ground and we walked right into it."
"Stupid girl has done it again!" Nick hissed over towards Aurora.
"Please Nick, how could she have known?" Rochelle growled back feeling the need to mother the younger ones. "We need to stay sharp."
"We need the quickest way out of this forest." Coach said in a voice barely audible. "Where is that, Aurora?"
"Um… Left from the position we're at." Aurora answered pointing in the direction she meant.
Coach nodded before turning to his group. "Stay quiet, stay together, keep your eyes and ears peeled and you know when lights off." He turned around and quietly made his way towards where Aurora had told him to go.
Ellis took a firm hold of her hand and quietly followed after Coach, they moved silently through the bushy forest in pitch black; Coach took a step forward and heard a 'splash', he shined his small flash light down to his foot and a gasp actually escaped his lips. Pools and pools of blood covered the once grass filled area with flesh here and there, limbs thrown around like garbage, Ellis quickly pulled Aurora into him shielding her eyes so she didn't panic and make noise. "Holy shit… We need to get out; this smell is going to attract them here."
"Unless they've already fed." Aurora whispered from her position in Ellis' chest, he had his arms around her back and the back of her neck keeping her into him. "Kyle said… that they were dragging people away with them… still alive and screaming…" A loud roar rumbled through the area echoing to their position, Aurora clutched onto Ellis in her terrified state. "He knows I'm not there anymore..."
"We need to get to the next safety house ASAP, move out." Coach said quietly heading through the pools of blood hearing it slush and squash under his feet.
The group ran through the forest as silently as possible, the smell of blood was heavy and the night air was cold, Aurora held onto Ellis' hand tightly with her gun held tightly in the other. "Stop!" She said suddenly pulling on Ellis' hand making him stop, the others turned to look at her with a confused expression on their faces. "There is a short cut through this way."
"Are you sure?" Coach asked glancing back at the new girl.
"I used to use it to get to the village next to us; guy I used to like lived there…" She let out a quiet uncomfortable laugh looking between them.
"But do you remember it?" Ellis asked in a slightly irritated tone feeling the slightest jealously about this 'guy' even though he had only just met her.
She nodded while keeping an eye on her surroundings. "I have a photographic memory… I'm just really nervous… and when I'm nervous I can't remember things as well as normal."
"Lead on then sweetie." Rochelle nodded at her encouragingly.
She tried her best to calm herself down so she could lead them to the next town as fast as possible, she then moved silently through the forest dodging the trees and bushes that stuck out from the ground; it was surprisingly and scarily quiet in the forest normally there were stragglers around but here there was no one. Ten minutes later she had led them out of the forest and behind a large log that had fallen down years ago, covering them but still allowing them to see the town.
Coach popped his head up to look at the town, infected roamed eerily around the area, he got back behind the cover of the log and looked at each of them. "They are walking around, see if you can spot the safety house from here."
"It's three houses down then four across." Aurora replied looking back at Coach. "They set one up the same time we did…"
"Is there a back way?" Rochelle asked looking over the large old tree log.
"No."
"Bet I can kill more then you Nick." Ellis smirked looking down towards the thirty-five year old.
"You're so on." Nick growled pulling his gun up before sending a smirk back towards the young twenty-three year old.
"Let's go then!" Ellis wooed jumping up over the log before shooting his Silenced Submachine Gun at infected.
Rochelle rolled her eyes at the boys before turning to face Aurora. "Yes they are always like that; stay close and only shoot the ones you think you can hit."
Aurora nodded in reply, she took in deep breaths and shut her eyes for a moment to mentally prepare herself, she then opened her eyes and realised everyone was already out and running towards the safety house shooting infected down where they stood; she quickly scrambled over the log running after the others. "Ten!" Ellis called out sending a smirk to Nick.
"Thirteen." Nick replied smugly taking his eye away from his scope to look at him.
A loud grunt sounded through the small town causing them all to turn towards the noise. "Shoot the charger!" Coach yelled turning around holding his gun and shooting an infected in the head, blood splattered all over him.
"Rora' don't let a charger grab ya' darlin', it'll crush you." Ellis called out to Aurora turning around to look at her, but he couldn't see her. "Aurora?"
A loud crash was heard as a puff of dust flew up behind them, they turned to look as Aurora came running towards them, the charger growled and charged after her, it pulled back its large bulky arm throwing it forward crashing into Aurora's back, she flew forward before hitting the ground and rolling a few times. "Ouch." She groaned but quickly pushed herself up and continued running towards the group who were now shooting the charger.
Rochelle pulled out the large axe which was hoisted over her back spinning it in her hand before standing at the ready in a batting like position. "Alright this party is OVER!" She spoke swinging the axe as hard as she could slicing through the large mutilated infected.
It fell to the ground with a thud, Rochelle smirked at it from her standing position above it, a common infected ran at her with its mouth open she turned and let out a gasp; a bang sounded and it fell to the floor just in front of her, blood coming from its fresh head wound. They turned to see Aurora holding the Magnum Pistol in both hands out in front of her with her eyes wide. "Nice shot!" Ellis grinned at her patting her on the back.
Loud roars echoed through the town bringing them back to reality, Coach turned to the direction the safety house was in. "Get to the safety house now!"
The group quickly ran towards the safety house with the sounds of the infected catching up to them fast, they quickly jumped inside the house as Coach slammed it shut securing it tightly; Ellis was laughing lightly while pulling himself up off the ground. "We are good!"
Rochelle looked at Aurora who was panting on the floor beside her. "Thanks for what you did out there sweetie, nice shooting."
Aurora nodded as best she could from her position, her back hurt and she was puffed from running the whole time. "They made a supply place here too… I'll go open it." She groaned pulling herself up and slowly making her way down the hallways.
She pushed open the door after unlocking it with her large set of keys, she hated what had happen and couldn't even quite wrap her mind around it; she pulled her shirt slowly over her head. "Hey Rora' I gotta…" Ellis stopped in the doorway while she dropped the blood covered shirt on the floor.
She glanced over her shoulder at the young man from Savannah. "Yes?" She asked sweetly while looking at him.
He looked at her for a moment until he noticed the large bruise quickly showing itself on her back. "Charger got you good!" He said making his way towards her.
"Mm." She sighed trying to see behind herself but failing.
"I ever tell you about the time my buddy Keith wanted to know what it would be like in a snowstorm? See, he ain't ever seen real snow, only snow we get is from the ice we see at the rink, so he just figured he make do with the machine when it went to dump its load. See he'd just lay under it, man. It took us two hours to dig him out, yup, lost two fingers and a thumb to frostbite" Ellis spoke while stopping just behind her, Aurora cocked an eyebrow at him before turning around and facing him.
"Keith did some weird things." She said placing her hands onto her hips.
"Like the time me and Keith made a homemade bumper car ride with ridin' mowers in his backyard? Mower blade wounds over ninety percent of his body. I didn't run him over either; he somehow managed to fall under his own." He chuckled at the memory while Aurora let out a small laugh, he grinned back at her. "You're the first person to laugh at that one!"
"Kyle and I did some pretty weird things as well." She replied undoing the button and zipper on her jeans before pulling them down leaving her in nothing but her bra and undies. "Like that time he thought it'd be funny to shot an apple of my head with a crossbow… he missed see." She pulled her bra strap too the side to show the circle like scar.
Ellis looked at her for a moment before clearing his throat and turning around. "Keith would have loved to meet you."
"It's was more Kyle seeing how gullible I was." Aurora replied letting out an enchanting laugh. "…I miss him."
He stayed quiet for a moment while she did too causing him to turn around and face her; she was looking down at the ground biting her bottom lip. "He aint dead darlin' we'll find him."
"I keep begging myself to please wake up, but I can't." She took a deep breath and held it for a moment; Ellis hesitated before pulling her into him and hugging her tightly.
Coach walked into the room setting his eyes on the half naked new girl and his team mate hugging. "Man Ellis, you couldn't even talk to that Zoey chick but you can do that already?"
Ellis pulled away and laughed uncomfortably. "She was sad it was a hug, aint nothin' more."
"Is there something you wanted, Coach?" Aurora asked walking over toward the new pile of clothes.
He noticed the bruise on her back. "Charger got you good!"
"You two… you come from the same area don't you?" She asked glancing back at the well rounded, dark-skinned man.
"Dam straight!" Ellis grinned looking over at Coach who was grinning back at him.
"I could go for a BBQ bacon burger." Coach said suddenly turning his attention back to Aurora.
"Okay I'll see what they stocked here." Aurora replied quietly as she bent down to pick through the clothes on the floor.
"And a large order of fries, and... ...an orange soda with no ice and a...piece of hot apple pie." Coach went on rubbing his belly and licking his lips. Aurora nodded silently while pulling out a pair of jeans and a baggy black top and resting them over her shoulder. "I like this one!" He grinned, nudging Ellis suggestively.
She walked over to the large silver door before placing her hand on it and looking back at the two boys. "It seems no one here survived."
Coach walked up to the young girl and placed his large rough hand onto her shoulder. "It takes awhile to kick in… But we'll look after ya'." He patted her gently before turning and exiting the room. "Behave young un'!"
"Who was Zoey?" Aurora asked pulling open the fridge like door as the cold air quickly engulfed her skin in goose bumps.
"Oh… Um real pretty girl we ran into." Ellis replied rubbing the back of his neck.
Aurora walked into the 'fridge' type room grabbing what she needed to help feed them. "So you liked her?"
"First girl around my age I had seen in ages, I might have gotten' a little carried away." He laughed out uncomfortably leaning up against the wall.
"What happened?"
"We crossed paths; their fourth member sacrificed himself for them. Enough about that it was awhile ago now!"
"Okay…" Aurora replied walking out of the fridge type room with her hands full.
Ellis walked quickly over to her and took of items from her to help; he sent her a sweet smile. "This whole zombie apocalypse thing can drive ya' insane."
Aurora took a bottle of water and opened the lid slowly, she let the water run over her hands to get off the dry blood. "I can see that…"
"Oh hey! You said you had one of those photographic memories?" He asked watching her wash her hands.
"Oh… yeah…" She let out an uncomfortable laugh before drying her hands on an old towel. "Yeah it's nothing amazing…"
"Are you kiddin'!"
"Um, no… It means I can remember things I've read or seen easily, also meant the other kids would tease me and my brother was my only friend, he used to make me run his stupid 'special ops' courses so he had someone to beat." She frowned at the thought before looking back up at Ellis. "I'm sounding insane and spiteful." She sighed slowly pulling on the new pair of jeans.
"I don't mind listenin' Rora' specially if I get to learn more about you."
"I love Kyle a lot, even though some of the things he put me through were hell." She pointed to another circle like scare around near her hip. "He shot me when we were playing moving targets, he said the gun wasn't loaded but looks like he fooled me."
"Ha! Keith shot himself in the foot once." Ellis chuckled while looking at the scar; he watched her put on the two-sizes-too-big black shirt and then begin cooking the food.
"Not surprised… Kyle defiantly made me handle pain well and he looked after me when the other kids were horrible, but other then that my family was pretty boring, my mum was a high school teacher, my dad was a shop owner and my sister was a bitch, I shouldn't say that though because she's half dead… man was she pissed I was immune; I could tell that too cause she bit me when she started getting sick just to make sure that I was really immune and she couldn't infect me."
"She sounds like a doll!"
"They were scared… They knew what was coming for them... and it was scary."
"Why didn't ya'll try and get to the safety zones before it hit?"
"It was too late for us, we were surrounded by town that Kyle told us went down, he knows I'm immune but he doesn't know I'm still alive."
The two spoke until Aurora had prepared the food, she had made everything Coach had asked for besides the orange soda to which she had to give him something else. Coach wouldn't stop hugging her and praising the lord for bringing her to them, they then ate and set up to rest while day was upon them; things were going to get much worse soon.
Okay so this chapter was to set things up, next chapter will be better I promise!
Next chapter will be longer too! I just wanted to set it up a little, find more out about Aurora and things!
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