Chapter 2: It's a Long Way To The Top

"Emmett Lee, nice to meet you all," said the young Doctor-To-Be, as he pushed his sleeked brown hair to the side. All the survivors were sitting in an abandoned janitor's room.

"I've studied medicine for four years now, and I'm 21 years old."

"Rilo Carter, I'm 18 and I just moved to Raccoon city from Phoenix, Arizona. Lucky huh? Do you think it's just here, or do you think this thing has spread other places too?" asked the red head from the diner.

"Who knows really, my name is Peter Harper. I've been in the RPD for a few years now; my 25th birthday was two days ago. What a present huh? This bite won't stop bleeding!" the cop said. He had his arm wrapped in a bandage, supplied by Emmett.

"Is there enough pressure on it?" asked Emmett.

"What, you think I'm an idiot?" Pete spat

"Look, I'm just trying to help you." Emmett defended himself as politely as he could.

"Look maybe we should go look for some sort of weapons, or supplies." I suggested.

"I'll go" Wade volunteered

"No, your not going alone, I'll go with you." I added.

"No, I don't want you to get hurt." Wade said

"Don't play that card with me, someone has to go with you, and I'm volunteering."I fought back.

"….Fine, we won't be long." Wade said to the others.

With that, we disappeared out the Janitors closet door, into the darkness.

"There must be a generator around here somewhere." I said

"Probably in the power room" Wade said

We passed by several empty stores that had once been the main attraction to teens and their wallets, but saw no stores that would supply us with weapons, and supplies, but then again, not many places in malls supply young people with weapons and ammo.

"Look a security office!" I shouted quietly

"Let's check it out"

The door opened after a few kicks, but once inside we immediately checked for anything useful.

I pulled open a nearby drawer.



"Wade! There's a handgun in here, and a few boxes of ammo." I said as I grabbed the gun to him.

"Great take it!" he said

"I've never shot a gun before, you take it." I said, handing the gun to Wade

"Ok, if you're sure."

We checked around for a little while longer and found nothing useful. Once outside into the main section of the mall we decided to split up to look for the power room. Wade with the gun, and me empty handed. When I began to notice how dark the mall was I began to regret giving my only means of self defense away to Wade.

I passed by several doors, but most of them were locked. Finally I came across a white door with the words Power Room marked in Red. I immediately tried the handle, and luckily it opened. The room was pitch black. I stepped and felt along the nearest wall for a switch to turn the power on, until I felt the power box along the far corner. I opened it up and started to flip switches.

Suddenly it was as if a presence was in the room with me, but I couldn't see anything, and the mall was abandoned. Plus Wade was on the opposite side of the mall, so I continued flipping switches.

After what felt like hours of flipping, I hit the magical switch, and all the lights turned on. Finally I could get out of there.

But when I turned around I knew I wasn't alone, there walking towards me was a member of the undead. And even as I knew that I had time to run, my feet wouldn't move, I just stared into the face of the decaying creature. Unable to move or breath I began to panic, and I tried once again to run, but it was too late, it was too close. It grabbed me by the shoulders, and tried to bite into my flesh. I screamed for help, but I figured by the time someone came for me, it would be too late.

The zombie flared with a feverish rage, trying its absolute hardest to get me. My energy was running low, and I started to give up. I was going to die, and I could do nothing about it.

But just then a gunshot whizzed past my shoulder, and the hungry zombie fell to the floor. I looked at the dead zombie in shock. I looked up expecting to see Wade, but I got an even bigger surprise then that. A tall boy that looked about my age stood at the power room doorway. He had the same auburn hair color as me, and the same confused look on his face. I had never seen him before, but for some reason I knew that we must have met before.

"Are you Ok?" the mystery boy asked.

"Yeah…who are you?" I asked still pretty shocked from the struggle.

"My names Asher, Asher Knox, nice to meet you Willa"

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