Morning came quickly, I woke up with a pain in my back, I've rarely slept on the ground. I slowly sat up and rubbed my eyes. I looked over to where Kaoru was sleeping and saw that he was gone. I slowly stood up and walked out the tent, when I was outside I saw people working. Martian is chopping fire wood; Jerry was making breakfast with Frank. Mackenzie, Becca, and another blonde girl that looked like she could be a sister of Mackenzie were washing clothes, but I didn't see Kaoru anywhere. I started to get worried; I found Andy and walked up to him.

He looked at me. "Ah so you're awake, that's great." He smiled. "You probably wondering where your brother is. Well here at our camp everyone has chores to do, and your brother and Scotty chose to do huntin. Would you like to join them?"

I slowly nodded my head yes, if only I knew what I've gotten myself into.

"Scotty, come here boy, got another hunter for you."

Scotty appeared from behind the RV, with Kaoru following him. I signed in relief, he was safe. Scotty and Kaoru walked up to Andy and me.

"Hikaru would like to join you and Kaoru out on the hunt, is that ok?"

Scotty nodded. "Yep, let me get him a weapon first." He looked at me. "We don't use guns, because they're too loud, they'll draw in walkers. So we use bow and arrows and stuff like that."

Scotty then. Went back behind the RV and about two minutes later returned with a crossbow.

I smiled at the sight of the crossbow. "Awesome."

Scotty gave me the crossbow. "Andy will teach you how to use it, then we'll be on an our way."

I nodded still looking at the crossbow.

Andy took me a little ways away from camp and put a target up. He then walked over to me and helped me aim the crossbow. "Ok just hold it right there, then pushed the trigger."

I pushed the trigger and the bow hit the target.

"Good job now pull the string and put an arrow back in."

I did what Andy said.

"Good now aim it and shoot it on your own."

I aimed and shot the crossbow and it barely hit the target.

"You got the hang of it, now keep trying till you hit the center, then we'll switch to the bow."

I kept shooting the crossbow and listening to Andy's pointers, about five minutes later I hit the center three times in a row.

"Wow, you're a fast learner kid, I'm impressed. "He took away the crossbow and gave me the bow and arrow, and a bag of arrows. I out the bag on my back and took a hold of the bow.

"Have you shot a bow and arrow before?"

I nodded. "Yah, when I was like in sixth grade at camp, but I was pretty good at it."

"Ok show me what you got."

I got an arrow, placed it on the string and pulled it back. I aimed it a let the string go, bulls eye.

Andy was speechless.

"Told you I was good, and I haven't shot one in three years."

"Will I don't think you need any more training with that, so you with that, so you ready go hunting?"

"Yep, but I want to use the crossbow."

Andy gave me the crossbow and took back the bow and arrow. We walked back to where Scotty and Kaoru were.

"Wow that was quick, you just beat Kaoru by two minutes, were you guys hunters?"

"No." We replied.

"Oh, then how do you guys know how to shoot so easily?"

"We don't know." Kaoru started.

"We're just naturals." I finished.

"Ok." Scotty picked up his bow. "Let's go."

We started to walk into the forest; Kaoru had a bow and arrow and took an arrow out of the bag.

Keep an eye out for any animals we can eat. Don't really worry about walkers, they don't come this far up the mountain, but I still wouldn't let my guard down."

We've been walking in the forest for about forty-five minutes and saw nothing. We decided to talk a break for a bit. Scotty went to go to the bathroom, Kaoru and I sat on a rock waiting for him.

"I know hunting takes a while, but I didn't know it would take this long." Kaoru sighed.

"Yah it is, but isn't it fun, just being out in nature like this. We never got to do this." I smiled while looking at the nature.

Kaoru started to look at the nature and smiled also. "Yah, it is nice being out here."

"Kaoru look."

Kaoru looked what I'm pointing at and saw a buck.

"Woah, it's so beautiful." He said in amazement. "To bad we have to kill it."

"Yah, but we need food." I get my crossbow and hopped off the rock.

Kaoru followed and we quietly made our way closer. I aimed the crossbow at the deer, guilt started to set in. Kaoru looked at me and he could tell I was having second thoughts.

"I know, I feel bad about this but like you said, we need food."

I nodded and aimed at the deer and shot it. The arrow hit the deer in the throat and it fell to the ground. I walked to the deer and pulled the arrow out of its neck and whipped the blood off before I reloaded the crossbow. Kaoru walked up next to me

"Wow it's bigger up closer. It can feed the whole group." He said.

Scotty finally was done going to the bathroom he walked back to where we were and saw that we weren't sitting on the rock.

"Hikaru, Kaoru?"

"We're over here." Kaoru waved him over.

Scotty walked up to us and saw the deer. "Holy crap, you took down that deer." He looked at the neck. "And with one arrow, sweet."

I stayed with the deer while Scotty and Kaoru hunted for squirrel. When they came back they had five squirrels, and Kaoru shot all of them. It was about one or two by the look of the sun, so we headed back to camp. When we got back to camp we noticed one of the members digging lots of holes.

Scotty looked confused. "What's Gus doing?"

"Gus?" We asked.

"Yah, that's Gus, you didn't meet him yesterday, but why is he digging all those holes?"

Gus was a thin man, about in his early mid twenties. He wore a baseball cap, a red shirt with a flannel covering it, and wore blue jeans. He had brown hair, stubble, and brown eyes.

Scotty walked up to Frank who was watching Gus with worry.

"What's wrong with Gus?" Scotty asked.

"I don't know, he said he had a dream that warned him about something. We tried to get him to stop, but he wouldn't listen. We tried to give him water, which he refused to drink." Frank replied. He looked over at us. "Good you got a lot. Scotty will you help me take it and get dinner started. Hikaru, Kaoru can you keep an eye on Gus and I know you guys don't really know each other that well, but can you try to stop him?"

We nodded; Scotty took the squirrels from Kaoru and helped Frank with the deer. We looked over at Gus.

"What do you think is makin him dig?" I asked.

"Frank said it was a dream he had, but why does he need to dig hole though?"

We walked over to Gus.

"Hey you're Gus right?" I asked.

He kept digging.

"I'm Hikaru and this is my brother Kaoru."

Gus stopped digging and looked at me. "What do you want?"

"The entire group is worried about you."

"Why does it matter, it's not like I'm hurting anyone."

Mackenzie walked up next to us. "Ok, Gus I'm just going to say it because they aren't. You're scaring people, especially my sister."

"Can you just leave me the hell alone?"

I walked closer to him. "Gus just take a break and maybe later I can help you."

He glared at me. "And what if I don't."

I tried to grab the shovel, but he pulled it away and tried to hit me with it. I dodged it and kicked him down and put his arms behind his back.

"Calm down, just calm down."

Gus calmed down, Andy ran up to us.

"What happened?" He asked.

"Gus wouldn't stop digging when I tried to stop him, and when I tried to hit me."

"Let me take care of him."

I got off Gus and Andy helped him up.

"Gus why were digging holes?"

Gus looked confused. "I...I don't remember. I had a dream, but I don't remember."

"Come on let's get you some water."

Andy took Gus to get water and Mackenzie, Kaoru and I walked back to camp. Night came and it was time for dinner. Everybody was sitting at the campfire passing the food around.

"I'm going to go to the bathroom." Mackenzie's sister Meckenna said while getting up.

"Don't fall in big sis." Mackenzie teased.

Meckenna stuck out her tongue and went into the RV.

Gus looked at me. "Hey, uh, Hikaru right?"

I nodded.

"Um thanks for stopping me back there."

Meckenna opened the door to the RV. "Hey we're out of toilet paper."

We laughed, then we heard her scream. We turned around and saw a walker biting Meckenna's arm. Everyone's smiles disappeared.

"Meckenna!" Mackenzie screamed.

Then we heard more groans, we looked and saw more walkers coming. Mackenzie got up and ran over to her sister. The walker then bit Meckenna's neck. Mackenzie killed the walker with a bat, Meckenna fell to the ground, Mackenzie kneeled down next to her. Everyone grabbed a weapon.

"I remember what my dream was about." Gus said.

I took me four hours to type this because I was getting distracted watching Netflix, it was a pain T-T. Anyways I hope you enjoyed this chapter and the next chapter will have more action, I promise, please F&R. Until next time.-HH1957