Chapter 2.
I thought that it was strange that Murphy was blue, but the pace they go at is completely different than mine, and their thought process as well. "So I have been meaning to ask Ziggs, how do you know how to use that knife so well?" Doc asks me looking at my hunting knife. "Well I picked it up over the years, and my mother got me to take some self defense classes when I was younger," I say looking at the ground, "Where is your family?" He ask looking at me with some concern, I know he was curious but that hit a spot of sadness, "Don't know, could be dead, or alive, we got split up at the beginning." A twinge of sadness hits saying it aloud. "Maybe we'll find them on the road," Addy says flashing a smile back at me.
Warren stops us as we're on top of the hill looking over a horribly managed road. A wagon train of cars are in the process of being ambushed. Vasquez suggest we wait it out, and claim some of the supplies from the Victors of the battle but immediately shot down, "Okay Ziggs can you give us a distraction, divert their attention away from the group." she says and I smile, "Okay," I say getting my guns out, "Do you want it loud, or silent?" I ask her, "As loud as you can get it." She says looking at me with a smile. "got it!" I say rushing in. I shoot straight at one of their weapons knocking it out of their hands, "Yo punks over here." I yell getting their attention more and the others strike.
The others strike crossing them out one at a time, that really confused me. Flanking them left and right. I get my knife and cut one of the guy's arms,legs, and then the eye, just deep enough to kill. At the end of the fight we head for the truck and are welcomed past, I stick in the back with the sick and Addy. Trying to comfort them the best I can, if there was one thing I knew, it was when someone was dying. We get out of the back and report to Warren.
"Addy can you go, I don't think it would be good if both of us left them alone." I say and she nods, "Got it, make sure they are comfortable." she says smiling heading to Warren. "Excuse me do you have any food I could have." A woman says with strife, these guys wouldn't last long. "Of course," I say digging through my bag and finding a few saltines, "Sorry it's not much but it's something." I say handing it to her and she accepts it. "Thank you." She says.
A minute later Addy comes back up. "You okay?" she asks me, locking eyes with me, "I'm fine, just trying to relax, how about you?" I ask her, she shrugs, "Could be better, we're about to move, and Murphy is back here with us." She says smirking at the last statement. "So what happened to you and 10K last night." She says leaning in so no one would hear anything, "It was just a kiss!" My face flushes red as my voice hits a new octave. Murphy gets on and we start moving. "Come on girl." he says and I see Cassandra running, she stumbles a bit but we pull her up onto the truck. 'Everyone is here' I think to myself as I stare at her. She wasn't all there, but I could see she was under Murphy's control somehow.
My eyes open wider when I see two bandits in dirt bikes come from behind, "Huddle up everybody, get small." Addy screams as they start to pass shoot one of the Caravan men in the head. 'This can't be good' I think looking at the tires. I grab my gun and aim for them, shooting three times, two miss, and one manages to just barely hit the rim. Cassandra is gone and our truck slows down almost to a complete hault. "Everyone okay?" I ask and they seem to nod. Murphy gets up and runs to Doc and that other guy. Wrecker I think.
Me and Addy follow him, "Doc get up," He yells at him, "I'm fine.." I interrupt him, "Blasters, we need to move." Spotting them and being this close could've been a death sentence to us. My legs freeze up, I try to move but they wouldn't listen. I hear Murphy scream at Addy to start the car. Murphy holds his hands out trying to stop the blasters from hurting, "MUrphy it won't work their brains don't work like regular Z's," I finally break free and help Doc and Wrecker up. "Got it!" Addy yells beckoning us forward and I run for the back and get my gun out. When We all get onto the truck, it moves faster than I thought it could.
"Ziggs you okay?" Warren asks me, "Could be better, a lot better." I say getting out of the back. "We could use someone up there to help 10K" She locks eyes with me, "Yeah I can help up there," I smile at her, "How about you?" I follow her up to the middle of the cars, "Tired. Thanks for asking," She says heading to the Custer. I head to 10K, "Those blasters are worse than I thought." I jump up on the car. I hear a growl from behind, "Ziggs watch out!" 10K yells as I'm knocked down by a Blaster. I try and grab one of my guns with my free hand but it's just out of reach.
'My knife,' I think pulling it from my belt. Pushing the Blasters back I stab my knife into its eye. As I get up, I see them runoff. "Are you alright!" 10K ask me, "Yeah just seeing double." I smile at him, grabbing my guns and dusting my legs off. "They'll be coming back 10K." I say to him, he shifts for a second and looks at the sick section of the truck. "I wanted to say sorry about last night," He says turning to me. "Hey you're fine, and to let you know it was a pretty good kiss." I say shrugging. The train wagon stops at an area similar to a parking lot. The car the bandits took was there and so was Cassandra.
10K and Doc run over to here, seeming to not get through to her and Doc pulls an ax out of her leg area. Like there was no tomorrow, she ran to Murphy. "Not a good chat?" I ask 10K, he shakes his head. I hear an engine rave and notice Cassandra and Murphy are gone from the group. "That was rude." I cross my arms. My feet shake a little as the train wagon starts again probably going after the car. "Can I see your gun for a sec?" I ask looking behind us. "Sure," He hands me the gun and I look through the scope, "The sick truck has Z's and a lot of them!" I say handing him the gun and grabbing my pistols.
I reach it along with 10K, "Addy," I say holding out my arm along with 10K. "Thanks," she says accepting our hands, we run past Doc's car, "You three run I got this." he says getting out by car window. The he eye came running first, Doc tries shooting it down and he manages to knock it off the Wagon Train, "Damn it! I think I might of gotten it" He yells running alongside of us. we start to slow down and Warren heads to the front, "Doc hand me your gun." Addy says holding her hand out, he gives it to her. "Zeke I give you mercy." She says that and shoots Zeke in the head. The moves faster more Z's and blasters approaching us, 'This can't be good.' I think, I hear the Cars horn blast. "Everybody off." Vasquez says jumping off, 'Time to follow suit.' I jump off as the others do, landing on my side.
"That was fun." I say sarcastically while getting up. " I agree with ya kid, never jumped out of a vehicle in my life and here I am, just jumped out of two." He says dusting his pant leg off. I hold Doc's arm back for a second, "I have a question to ask you doc," I say falling back a bit, while the group head to a car, "what is it kid?" He asked me, "Well, those people survived the fallout too but they had radiation sickness, I was wondering why don't I?" I ask him looking more confused than normal. "Don't know kid but I would count you lucky." He says walking off.
10K and Vasquez get the hitch and I stick with Warren, checking the engine. "Ziggs, can you take inventory, just to make sure we have enough." She says looking at our supplies, "Yeah of course," I say walking to our supplies. Just by looking at all of it combined, there wasn't much. Maybe two, to four days worth of water. Our food situation was not better either, maybe if we rationed it to bare minimum, four days at most. The only thing we were good for was medical supplies.
I get up putting the supplies on the truck. "So how is it?" She asks me getting out of the driver's seat. "We have a few days of food and water, medical is alright but we may need to stop and get more." I say looking at the truck, "How about that?" I point to it, "May have just enough fuel to take us to Minneapolis." She says wiping her forehead off. "We'll stop at the next town get some supplies." She says getting into the car again and starting it up, I hopped on the back of it.
If they told me when I was in school about their being a zombie apocalypse I would of taken gym seriously. The truck stops in a small town called west ST. Paul. "Okay, let's split up, meet up here an hour with whatever you can find, 10K you and Ziggs, Me and Addy, Vasquez and Doc." She says heading off left with Addy. "Okay let's go." I pull my knife out, if anything was going to happen, I was prepared. I head to a two story building, that seemed to have been abandoned a long time ago.
Looking through the building I find ammunition for a revolver, a box of stale crackers and a lighter. "This place is a bust Ziggs let's just.." I pull a book case from the wall and find a bag, with enough rations for a week, and one shotgun and two handguns. "Nice how did you know they were there." He says sitting next to the window. "Well if I was going to hide something I would either hide it in plain sight or in a place nobody would suspect." I say looking out the window, "Ziggs your cheek," He wipes his across my right cheek and clears off blood. "Oh sorry. When did that happen" I say covering my cheek with my sleeve, for a moment there is a bit of tension. But like the night before he kisses me, with no time to react I let it happen.
I push away for a second and smile at him, "That was good," I say leaning forward and kissing him on the cheek, "But.." I say locking eyes with him, "But what?" He ask me, "We have to get the supplies and we already spent half our time in here looking for supplies." I say grabbing the bag of supplies and heading down stairs. "So wait if we didn't have to get supplies you would've kept going?" He asked looking at my face, "Maybe, I mean you.." He kisses me again making me drop the bag, and grab his waist. My brain races with one million thoughts as I look at him. He pulls me closer and smiles, "How much time do we have?" He ask me.
"Maybe five minutes," I say letting go of him. Trying to hide the blush in my cheeks I look outside that window, "Z five o'clock." I say pulling out my hand gun. "May I do the honors." I look at him and he smiles and nods. One bullet to the eye kills them every time. We head to the truck, supplies in hand, waving at Addy and Warren. "No talking about what happened right?" He asked whispering in my ear and I nod. 'No need for them to know.' I think to myself. I hand Warren the bag of supplies, "All we could find." I say sitting in the back of the truck with 10K. "We were the last group." I say smiling at him, "Yeah, yeah we were." He says putting his hand over mine.
Authors Note~
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