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Chapter 3: looking for supplies.
Time skip 2 weeks. 9:34am
"Alright let's go and remember be careful and keep an eye out for any undead." I told the others. "Check where you go if it's door closed knock on the door and listen for any undead inside. Even if you don't hear any undead enter the room carefully and quietly and look at every possible place for them to be at even if it's very unlikely for them to be there and don't let your guard down." "I hear you."/"Ok"/"Right." the others told me. "Then let's go guys."
We all are armed with weapons that I bought over the past two years. A machete or a mace with a knife or trench spike to use if we lose our main weapons. I also have a crossbow to use on the latter if there is any undead in the yards of the houses that we will be checking for supplies and survivors. The ones we are checking for now are the ones to the left, right and behind the House for now. Not all of us are going Jack and Dawn is stay behind to watch the House and make sure no one will take over the place without us knowing. We have two way radios to stay in contact with the House.
We started with the one to the left side of the House. We put the latter up and I climbed up with the crossbow at ready. There while there were no undead in the yard there is a shed so I kept a eye on it when I went over the fence while telling the others it was clear. I kept a look out for any undead to come out of the house which one did and I killed it before it could alert any others in the building. The rest of the group got over the fence. "Sam you stay out here and keep an eye out for any undead that may come out of the house or the shed" I told him. "Ok, Will do Ash." He said to me. "Good lets go in and clear the place out." And inside the house we went. "Let's clear the place left to right and watch out for any Zoms. If I'm right there should be no more than 4 more Zoms here but the front door may had been left opened or the Wilsons may have let in infected without knowing the danger. Don't let your guard down and till the place is clear. If there is any closed doors leave them be we will check the rooms later when any other undead found in the house is dead." I ordered the others.
We started on the ground floor checking room by room and closing the doors if the room has one or more to limit were any undead we may have missed can be. We found and killed three undead on the ground floor. One of them was not the Wilsons meaning there may be more than two on the first floor. "Ok, let's go up and clear the rest of the place. Remember stay on guard and listen for any more undead." We went up the stairs slowly not to make any sound to alert the undead that may be on the 1st floor. When we reached the top of the stairs I looked to check and come face to face with a undead. When I saw it I immanently reacted and hit it with my mace killing it. It fell to the floor with a thump witch made another come out of a room and alerted the rest that are here with a loud moan. "Shit! Back down stairs now!" I yelled knowing that there was no need to be quiet any more with the moan being so loud. So we ran back down stairs and waited for the undead to come down after I warned the others to look out for any that may be on the ground floor. "Stand ready and be ready to kill them all. Let them come down the stairs they may slip and hit the floor so hit them on the head to kill them." I order the rest of the group. Four undead started to come down the steps and one of them slipped and caused the one in front of it to fall down the steps as well. Jack and I killed them while Matt and May killed the other two. We waited and no more come so we went back up the steps and checked the 1st floor finding no more. After checking the house ones more we returned to the backyard and find Sam with a dead Zombie on the ground. "You were right to have me keep an eye on the shed Orion. And I'm happy I did." He said. "Just as well you did." "So the place is clear?"He asked. "It's clear. Now let get all the supplies we can find, seal the place from the undead, and get back to the House." I told them "got it Ash." said Jack.
Time skip 1 hour and 47 minutes. 11:57am
"Well we got everything we could use Ash. But why are we doing this? You said we have about two years of food."Sam asked me. "Because that's two years of food for one person not seven people. For seven people it's a little more than four months." I told him and the others who were listening to us. "What! four months of food!" He said shocked. "Yes four months. More people means the food is being eaten faster. That is why I'm having us do this so that we don't run out of food." "Just great so we will die from hunger." Sam said looking depressed. "Not true we just have to be careful with what we have and make sure we don't run out." I told him to get him out of it which didn't work. "So? Even if we do that and go out to look for more we will run out sooner or later when the food in the area runs out or goes bad." He told me. "So you are just going to give up? This is not a game. This is survival, not something you can do and give up on when it gets too hard." I said almost yelling at him. "So! We all are dead one way or another. Why not just kill ourselves and not have to deal with this anymore?" "You are acting like a idiot. Just because we have four months of food does not mean we are dead."I told him angry. "It's not just the food it's the zombies out there too. Even if we manage to have a constant supply of food those things can kill us even if we just get bitten one time." "Even then that does not mean you can't do anything to help others before you die from the bite." "Yes it does. They will kill you so you will not turn on them." "I will not do that just because they are bitten only if they ask me to." "Maybe not you but other people will. And even if that does not happen then you will die from the virus and turn in to a zombie." "So? Even if that happens I will kill many undead as I can before killing myself before I turn." "You are insane! Even if you do that there still will be millions of Zombies out there." "Maybe so but there will be less than before in the area that I'm in when it happens." I replied.
"That's it I can't take it anymore!" He yelled running out of the room. The yell caught me off guard and I said" Idiot. He may have alerted the Zoms outside." I said running after him with the rest following a minute later. I ran after him and he ran to one of the weapon rooms which is on the ground floor (the 2nd one is upstairs in case the undead get in the House) and before I got in there I hear and puff and a thud of something hitting the floor. When I got in I saw that he killed himself witch made me freeze in place and say. "Oh hell you have to be kidding with me.". The others ran in and saw him a minute later. "W-what the...he actually did kill himself?" May asked not believing it. "Yes. Yes he did." "But why did he do it?"Jack asked weakly. "He did it because he could deal what was happening. The stress of it all overwhelmed him the amount of food we have not being the amount what he that it was drove him over the edge."
Time skip 6 hours. 7:03pm
We buried Sam in the backyard with a wooden cross marking the spot. I knew the fact that Sam killed himself hasn't hit the others but will sooner or later and it will do so hard. I mourned the lost of a friend while the others looked on before Dawn started to cry softly witch set off the rest. They did the same but thankful quietly. I guided them back in were they went their rooms or something to get their minds off of what happened. I went to my room to think about what happened earlier. 'Jesus I was not expecting that to happen so soon. Sam killing himself this quickly was out if the blue. I have no doubt that it has made the others understand the fact of what we are dealing with because I don't think it as hit them and till now.' I thought to myself.
Time skip 3 hours. 10:39pm.
I was getting ready to go to bed when Dawn came in to my room. "Yes Dawn? Is there anything you need?" I asked her. "Can I sleep with you tonight?"(No. I will not be going THAT far.) She asked me. "I can't sleep without seeing Sam dead on the floor.""Ok. But only for the next few days Dawn. You will have to come to terms with this. You can't push aside all the time and hope it will go away." I answer to her question as i hugged her. As we got ready to go to sleep she asked me." Why are you not saddened by what Sam did?""I'm Dawn. The reason that I didn't show it was for the five of you." I told her. "What do you mean?" She asked. "You all were in a state of shock. If I haven't there was a chance that at least one of you would have done something foolish, like run out to the street or doing the same thing he did." "Oh." She said. "I don't know about you but I for one want to go to sleep and be ready to deal with tomorrow. For I believe it will be a very busy day dealing with the aftereffects of Sam killing himself. We can finish this in the morning. " I said to Dawn. "Ok. Orion." She replied. So the two of us went to bed. As I lay on the bed listening to Dawn falling asleep I thought' tomorrow will be a pain to deal with. And I'm not looking forward to it.' Before I fell asleep.
trying to stay alive
Note. I'm not going to take this story to a M rated I will keep it rated T so if there is anyone who are hoping for something like that. Sorry but it's not going to happen go to other stories for anything like that for it will not be happening in this one.
update 11/22 a small addition to a sentence.
