Author's Note: Well here's chapter 2! I will try to post a new chapter once every week. If I get enough positive reviews, I'll post a new chapter more often.
Chapter 2: Survival
Vincent took a drink out of a bottle of soda then put it into his backpack. He checked the time. It was 10:42 P.M. Cautiously, he opened the safe room door at the back of the kitchen. The door led to an alley with a few infected. To the left was a dead end. Vincent quietly knocked several of them out before some of them noticed him and started running towards him. "Ah shit." grumbled Vincent.
He backed up against the wall at the end of the alley and dumped several shotgun shells on them. After they were all dead, Vincent slowly walked out of the alley. He then heard a growl. Vincent pointed his gun to the left, then to the right. "That's strange, no one's there." he thought.
The growling got louder. Vincent slowly looked up and saw a hooded figure on top of the building across from him. With a snarl, the figure leaped towards him. "HOLY-" gasped Vincent as he quickly brought up his shotgun and fired like hell.
The figure landed in front of him, dead. Vincent examined the body and saw the claws and the lack of eyes on its face. He sighed a breath of relief. "If that guy had gotten me..." he mumbled to himself.
Vincent heard the sounds of a horde coming and quickly reloaded his shotgun. The horde came out of the alley by the building the hooded figure was on. Vincent waited for them to charge him, then fired until his shotgun ran out of ammo. He had gotten most of them, but about three were still charging him. Vincent pulled out a magnum and calmly shot each one in the head. He quickly reloaded his shotgun then holstered his magnum. Suddenly, he saw some helicopters in the air. They were flying towards the skyscraper in the distance. "Hmm, maybe they're evacuating people over there." Vincent said to himself.
He walked down the street in the direction of the skyscraper, keeping his gun close to him. After about five minutes of silence, he saw people running towards the direction of the skyscraper while some police officers were blocking off parts of the street. "What's going on here?" Vincent asked a nearby officer."It's not going to be long until this place is overrun. We're cutting off the street to delay them for as long as possible. You better get yourself to the evacuation center at that skyscraper over there." replied the officer.
Just as the officer finished his sentence, a car flew towards them in the air. Vincent quickly dove to the side to avoid being hit. The officer wasn't so lucky. The car turned him into a mass of blood and meat. Vincent stood up and saw the remaining officers firing at a horde. There was something big at the back of the horde, but Vincent couldn't tell what it was. He quickly ran off with the other people towards the skyscraper. He saw most of them were unarmed, but a few had pistols. Vincent ran with the mass of people until they came to a grinding halt. They had ran towards a horde. He saw several more of the hooded figures, like the one he killed earlier, pounce on people and began ripping them to shreds. Quickly, Vincent looked around and saw another alley. He left the people to deal with the horde and ran into the alley. It was empty, save for a single infected which Vincent knocked out with the butt of his shotgun. He turned around the corner and walked slowly, ignoring the screams of the people. As Vincent neared the end of the alley, he saw an infected staring at him across the street.
This infected was different from all the others Vincent had met. It was taller and skinnier than all the other infected he had encountered and it had a long tongue protruding out of its mouth... At least that's what Vincent thought it was. It seemed to generate its own cloud of dark smoke. The infected saw him, and Vincent felt the long tongue wrap around him tightly and felt himself being dragged towards the infected. "FUCK! I AIN'T GOING DOWN LIKE THIS." he screamed. Vincent managed to regain part of his balance and did something the infected never expected him to do. He ran and charged head-first into the infected. Stars buzzed around him, but Vincent also felt the tongue loosening its grip enough for Vincent to aim his shotgun at the infected's head. He fired and it exploded a cloud of smoke. Vincent coughed, but he started laughing. "Take that...you zombie bastard..." he managed to wheeze out.
Leaving behind the body, Vincent continued down the street in the direction of the skyscraper. The screams were most distant now, but it soon stopped. "Must mean they're all dead." Vincent thought. He heard some more screaming, but this one sounded inhuman. He turned around and saw the horde that the people ran into earlier charging at him. Vincent realized he still had that bomb-looking device from the McDonald he stayed in earlier. He took it out. "I hope this thing is really a bomb." he whispered to himself.
Vincent threw the device at the horde. It made a beeping sound as it went. The device landed somewhere behind the horde and Vincent saw all of them running towards it. The beeping grew more intense, then he saw an explosion. None of the infected were left standing. The blast radius had taken all of them. Vincent laughed. "I hope I find more of those." he grinned. He started running towards the skyscraper again.
Fifteen minutes passed. Vincent panted in exhaustion, but he was not far from the skyscraper now. There was only one road separating him from the building It was littered with many cars. Vincent crossed through them. He then saw a military Humvee. "Hmm there must be something inside there." he thought.
Vincent opened the back of the Humvee and found some more ammo for his shotgun and two more of those explosives, which he put into his backpack. There were also many different guns there and something more interesting. "OH...MY...GOD..." he gasped.
There was a RPG launcher in the Humvee. "Too bad I can't carry it with my other things." Vincent sighed sadly.
He heard more screaming, which means a horde was coming for him. Vincent turned around and saw the biggest horde he has ever seen coming towards him. "There must be at least almost a hundred coming towards me..." he grumbled.
He saw some of the infected being flung aside. "What is that?" he wondered.
Vincent saw a huge gorilla looking like infected coming towards him. Vincent gasped, "Holy shit, zombie on steroids. My guns are all but useless against that..."
His eyes lit up with an idea. He quickly pulled out the RPG launcher from the truck and aimed it at the tank of an infected. He waited for it to close in a few more feet, then pulled the trigger. Vincent fell back as the missile flew towards the tank. There was a huge blinding explosion. Vincent covered his eyes. When it faded, he saw that the tank-like infected had been blown to chunks. The explosion had also taken out at least a third of the horde that had been charging towards him. The infected stood there as if dumbfounded for a second, then resumed charging. Vincent quickly looked in the Humvee and found a machine gun. He picked it up, grunting from the weight and aimed it at the horde. He let loose a barrage of bullets and never stopped holding the trigger until every single one fell. The last one fell right before Vincent heard a *click*.
He dropped the gun and walked towards the building. Three helicopters flew away from it, but he was sure there was another one up there. He opened the door to the building. There were many people inside. There were people lined up in front of the elevator, so it was still working for now. There were also a few police officers trying to keep the people calm as they evacuated. Everyone stared at him for a second, then resumed what they were doing when they noticed he wasn't infected. He sat down in a chair away from everyone else. The line was long, and Vincent didn't feel like standing around all day. He decided to use the stairs to get to the top of the building, but before he reached them, a officer blocked his way. "Sorry pal, but if you want to evacuate, you got to get in line like everyone else." he said.
"Bullshit, why can't I take the stairs?" Vincent replied back in frustration.
The officer replied in a harsh tone, "Because I said you can't. Now get in line like everyone else."
He shoved Vincent away hard. Vincent stared back with fiery anger in his eyes, but he sat back down. He quickly checked the ammo on his shotgun and magnums, then pulled out a wrapped burger and started eating it. "Might as well eat right now while I got a chance." he thought to himself.
When he finished the burger about halfway, he heard screaming. A woman, bleeding terribly, ran in panicking. "THEY'RE COMING! THEY'RE COMING!" she screamed. The people started panicking and banged on the doors on the elevator. The officers moved in to try to calm them down, but to no avail. Vincent looked out the window and saw a horde coming towards the building. Vincent saw that the officer that blocked his way earlier was too busy trying to calm the crowd to notice him. Vincent quickly ran to the stairs just as soon as the horde reached the building and broke through the glass.
He saw not one, but three of those tank-like infected enter the building. Vincent quickly absorbed his shock and ran up the stairs as fast as he could. He was about halfway up the building when he looked down and saw some of the infected entering the stairs. Vincent took out one of the explosives he had and dropped it all the way to the bottom. He didn't have time to watch the explosion and quickly continued up.
After about five minutes of running he reached the roof. There was one last helicopter, but it was already taking off. He saw it was empty, except for the pilot who was a middle-aged looking man. "WAIT! WAIT!" Vincent screamed at the top of his lungs.
He quickly ran towards the helicopter and jumped up to try and reach it but it was just out of his reach. "Sorry kid, you should have gotten here earlier." the pilot laughed evilly.
Vincent screamed in anger. He pulled out the other explosive he had gotten from the Humvee. "FUCK...YOU!" Vincent roared.
He threw the explosive and it landed in the helicopter. Vincent dove behind cover and saw the pilot look behind him just as it blew up. The explosion set the helicopter ablaze and it crashed into the streets below. Vincent looked down and saw the wreckage. He also saw many, many infected surrounding the building. He turned around and heard banging. The infected were already up here with him, trying to break down the rooftop door. "Well... say hello to your worst nightmare, you zombie bastards." Vincent said with a tight grin.
The infected burst through the door and Vincent fired his shotgun.
