After all the walking the survivors did, and of course running, it wasn't too long before they were to reach the watch tower. Coach, who was leading the way, was now following Nick, along with Rochelle and Ellis. But despite all the sleep Zoey had gotten, she was still lacking behind; in fact, she was the one that was right at the back of the pack, kind of like a lone wolf, but lone wolf's always have a mysterious beauty to them, and Ellis could certainly see that. He wanted to talk to her so much, but why was it so difficult? Was it because Nick humiliated him earlier? Or was it just because he would stutter and Zoey would understand how he felt about her? And the only woman he could speak to without hesitating was Rochelle, and that's exactly who he went to.

"Uh, Ro?"

"What's up Ellis?"

"I know this might seem a bit stupid 'n stuff, but, err, you think I should go 'n talk to Zoey or summit.

Y'know, to keep her company and all?"

"I don't see why not, I mean, earlier she did say your adventures and stories about Keith are interesting, I'm pretty sure you could lift her spirits"

"Really?"

"Sweetie, there's nothing a girl likes more than being in a sweet conversation with an interesting boy" Rochelle explained.

"I-I'm, uh, interesting?"

"Well, you may be to her, now go on! You ain't gonna change anything by talking to me"

"Thanks man" Ellis replied, he was just about to run off when something else more important occurred to him "Uh, one more thing, what happens if she asks how old I am? What happens if she's like only a 18 year old teen or somethin' and I'm like 23?" he panicked.

"Well whatever you do, don't lie to her, tell her the truth"

"Okay, oh and what shall I say?" he asked again. Rochelle heavily sighed.

"Just ask her how she's doing and other stuff similar to that! Now go!" she quickly said shooing him off. So, just like Rochelle said, Ellis took her advice and waited for Zoey to catch up so he could walk alongside of her. Ellis had a mixture of emotions crazily bouncing around in him, there was so many he wasn't even sure if some of them were even real. But the main ones he felt were: Excitement, Nervousness, Embarrassment and Love. He took a moment to think of what exactly what he would say if anything had backfired.

"Uh, hey Zoey, um, how you feelin'?" he nervously asked. Zoey looked at him calmly, yet she was somewhat surprised that he had just suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

"I'm good..."

"Uh, you sure? You, um, don't look it to me"

"Well..." she stopped and paused. Ellis was eagerly waiting for her response, instead she just shook her head "it's nothing"

"Um, okay... uh, by the way, I jus' wanna say sorry about, well y'know, earlier"

"Sorry for what?"

"For humiliating you of course, well actually it was Nick but, I still wanna say sorry"

"But, you didn't humiliate me, not to be rude but you were the one that was humiliated"

"Heh, I, um... I knew that" he stuttered. Unfortunately, talking to her was harder than he expected, guess he didn't really have back-up plan after all. But he wasn't ready to give up yet. "So Zoey, where do ya come from?"

"Pennsylvania"

"Oh shit man, really?" Ellis surprisingly said "Man! Must have been real scary livin' there"

"Scary?"

"Well, yeah, I mean, it must have been scary coming from a place where wolf men, vampires and other terrifying creatures live and shit"

Zoey paused a moment to think, Pennsylvania didn't seem scary, but that's when something else clicked into her mind, "Don't you mean Transylvania" she corrected him.

"Oh yeah! Damn, I always get them two mixed up" he laughed at himself.

Then, just as Zoey was going to open her mouth to ask a question, something interrupted her, it sounded like a sad, emotional, female cry. "Is that a Witch I hear?" she stated. Nick nodded, but since it was during the day, he knew it would be a wandering Witch. He sent a quick gesture for the others to quietly follow him, and so they did, as they silently crept around abandoned cars and wrecked buildings, the crying finally got louder and clearer, and the special infected was in sight. "I can hear her cry... but where is she?" Zoey asked. Ellis looked surprised.

"... She's right there..." he responded, pointing to where she was.

" But that's a normal Zombie"

"... But it ain't, that's a Wanderin' Witch... "

"You mean, they walk?" she enquired in shock. Ellis shook his head and confirmed.

"... You ain't seen one of 'em before?..."

"No, only the sitting ones"

"... Well, these ones only wander durin' the day and they're more difficult to startle, but they wander anywhere so they're kinda hard to avoid" Ellis explained. As the survivors stealthily jogged around the mutated infected, it stayed completely calm and un-affected by their presence. Fortunately, the path they followed led them into an alleyway, and where there is an alleyway there is always a ladder of some sort that they could get them to safety on the roofs.

Despite the fact it was during the day, inside the alleyways, it was dark and seemed like it was night-time. Graffiti had nearly taken over all the brick-walls that they had passed, and not just the art type, there was all other sorts like warning signs and jokes. The most popular ones that Zoey had came across the most was 'NONE OF YOU WILL SURVIVE' and 'CEDA SUCKS' another one she happened to come across, which in fact was one of her favourites was 'GOD IS DEAD'. She wasn't an atheist or anything, she just happened to find it funny in a strange way. Not knowing why, she ran her fingers across the rough and cold, brick surface; strangely, she could feel the sadness, it was like she was experiencing what the walls had saw, and to be honest, it wasn't a pretty sight. They had finally nearly came to the end of the long alleyway when until they spotted ladders that led to the rooftops, Ellis quietly observed what Zoey was doing until they both heard Rochelle's voice. "Up these ladders, we'll be safer on the rooftops" she said, whilst climbing up and following Nick, the others done exactly what she had said and then Coach spoke "That's it... that's the watch tower" he said. They all looked up into the centre of the city "Now all we have to do is get to through the gates"

"Gates?" Nick curiously asked

"Yeah, but when we open it, an alarm will go off"

"You didn't say anything about an alarm Coach,"

"Yeah, well at least it didn't take us 4 hours to get here; anyway, once we get up there, I presume there will be a Safe-Room or something inside of it" Coach explained.

"That's cool, but, can we at least take a 5 minute break now or somethin', I'm all bummed out 'cause of that walking?" Ellis asked.

"We can't stop now boy, beside, the sooner we get up there, the sooner we can find Zoey's friends-"

"That's if they're there" Nick rudely butted in.

"Hey man, have you ever noticed we haven't ran into any infected yet, apart from that crying bitch?" Ellis stated, completely changing the subject.

"Yeah, maybe when the army bombed they got rid of all of them" Nick presumed.

"Maybe so, but I'm sure we'll find that out once we trigger the gate alarm, these infected have the hearing of a hawk... or is that eagle?" Rochelle said.

"I'm pretty sure it's a hawk Ro, but then again nearly every bird has fantastic hearing" Ellis tried to correct her.

"Hey guys, I just wanted to say that I agree with Coach, and I think we should keep on moving" Zoey nicely, but impatiently said. Coach nodded his head in agreement, and once again led the way.

As the survivors trotted along the flat, concrete, cracked rooftops, they came across a hole in one of the roof's, and surprisingly they could hear the sounds of moaning infected, Coach dropped down the hole first, then Zoey, then Rochelle, and then Ellis and Nick. They all got their weapons out at the ready, waiting to kick some infected ass. Zoey reloaded her pistols and held them both out in front of her; she steadily walked down the hallway whilst crouching down. As she walked down the hall, she passed a room with no door on it; she didn't think much of it and continued walking. Unexpectedly, a pale white, blood covered zombie sprinted out of the room and went to attack her. Zoey panicked for a second; lucky for her Rochelle was behind her holding a frying pan and just before it managed to reach Zoey... SPANG! Over the head. The limp and lifeless body fell to the ground twitching and groaning, just to be sure it was actually dead, Zoey used her pistol and sent a bullet into its skull; parts of the brain and blood spewed out onto the carpet and created a massive, bloody puddle that stained on the floor. "Like, thanks" she said, showing her gratitude. "No problem sweetie," Rochelle welcomed her. They continued walking; now actually checking all the rooms that they had passed.

Eventually, more infected started showing up, it was just like when Zoey had to fight her way through a series of apartments to get to Mercy Hospital. "You know what, this reminds me of the time when me, Francis, Louis and Bill had to travel through a series of apartment rooms to get to this hospital" Zoey told them. Straight away Ellis was interested, not only because she was speaking, it was also because she was telling a story, just liked to do.

"Seriously, what happened when ya got there?" Ellis asked

"I can't remember everything since it was ages ago, but I do remember that we had to get to the rooftop to wait for the helicopter that was coming to rescue us, but while we were waiting we had to fight like 2 Tanks and several huge hordes of zombies"

"Must have been hard, considering you were on a rooftop" Rochelle added

"Yeah, we had to be really sure we didn't fall off, despite the fact zombies were coming from everywhere, cornering you and Tanks can just throw you over the ledge" Zoey said, almost laughing "But the funniest thing about it all was when Bill trapped a hunter in a doctor's office, the stupid hunter kept on trying to get out, every time it pounced at the door you could hear it shout in pain 'cause it kept on pouncing head-first into the door, so basically you could say it was unaware it was head-butting itself" she laughed.

"That's pretty cool, but, who's Bill?" Nick asked. Suddenly, Zoey's laughter quickly faded into silence, you could tell by how quickly she reacted it was a sad silence. A saddened frown invaded her cheery smile, her whole facial expression changed from happy and full of life to sad and heartbroken. She stopped walking and slowly looked down at the fluffy blue carpet that covered all the rooms and hallways of the apartment.

"... Just this guy..." she quietly replied. At first Ellis thought this Bill guy might have been her boyfriend which had been infected or something like that, that was until he put more thought into it. He eventually remembered Louis saying something after he killed a Tank 'That was for Bill!' or something similar along the lines of that, then he remembered the room beside the generator, it had a body of an old man inside of, he was dressed exactly like a veteran he recalled reading one of the golden badges which was pinned to his green jacket. It read:

'This badge is awarded to:

Bill

For bravery, courage and

Excellent leadership skills'

Ellis figured out not to say anything, in case he would upset Zoey even more, so he figured he would wait until Nick, Coach and Rochelle weren't around so he could comfort and talk to her in private. "Guys, I reckon we should keep on movin' ahead" Ellis said, shooing them off to carry back on walking.

It wasn't long until they had exited out of the apartments and got to the gate which Coach had told them about. "Great, we're here, now all we need to do is sound the alarm, fend off the zombies and get up into the tower"

"There's probably a control panel inside the tower, so don't forget that we have to switch the alarm off and close the gates when we get inside" Zoey added. They all nodded and Nick walked towards a wall. On the wall was a switch mounted onto it, Suit examined the switch, and on it was a big lever with a red handle, he read what was on it "Pull Lever to activate gate" Nick, carried out the instruction and pulled the lever "Okay guys, i've pulled the switch get ready!" he warned. The other survivors took notice of his caution, knowing they'd be in for a hell of a fight, but it's not like they haven't done this before, plus having an extra member on the team for a while increased their strength as a group.

All of a sudden a big clunk came from the gate as it started to process open, it wasn't anything bad, it was just the fact the gates hadn't been opened for quite a while. It wasn't too long before the ear-piercing screams of the infected could be heard, and just by the sounds of it, they didn't seem that too far away. They all had their weapons out at the ready, and when the sight of the first zombie came around the corner, they were all prepared. It was almost as if it were out of nowhere a huge... I mean, immense horde of zombies came after them; Ellis swung out his axe and decapitated several infected, 15 at the most, and he kept on doing this, however the gate was only a quarter of the way open, still not enough for them to get through. Zoey however remembered that she had something, she felt her pocket and inside of it was a spare pipe bomb, and she was pretty sure that it was an essential time to use it. "Throwing a pipe bomb!" she yelled as she tossed it into the air. The device beeped and a small red light flashed on and off, the infected straight away withdrew their attention off the lively survivors and quickly onto the destructive weapon. A massive horde surrounded the pipe bomb as soon as it hit the ground, unlucky for them they didn't know what it would do next, the beeping of the weapon started to get faster and faster, until... BOOM! The bomb exploded. Zombie's bodies flew everywhere along with blood and guts and hit the ground. It seemed like time flew by, and the gates were now ¾ quarters of a way open, it was enough for them to fit through the gate, almost immediately after the survivors turned around green, a deformed, tall, long-necked woman wearing a bra, blue ripped, tight, skinny jeans with almost no jaw popped from around the corner of the tower, green liquid ran down the woman's mouth and just before Zoey had a chance to get closer to examine the beast, it spat green liquid from out of its mouth and straight onto the ground where Zoey's feet were.

Zoey cried out in pain, and fell to the ground, now lying in the acid she was standing in, Coach ran up to it and shot it several times before its limp and lifeless body knocked down to the ground, acid also surrounding her corpse. Ellis rushed over and was the first to help Zoey; he lifted her up off the ground whilst the acid faded away into the cement "Hey, you alright girl?" he asked.

"Yeah... ugh, what the hell was that thing?"

"They're called Spitters 'cause they spit acid out at 'cha, you ain't ever seen one before?"

"Nope" she replied, shaking her head.

"Shit, that's a surprise; we've seen a load of 'em before..."

"I've never seen one in my life..."

"Well, the main thing is that you're still alive, burns like hell don't it, and you think you'll be able to walk considering that acid knocked you down into it?"

"Hey, it's gonna take a lot more than that to take me down," she said. Ellis smiled at her knowing that what she said would be true. Just as they were about to carry on walking Rochelle called for them to hurry up, so they walked up the 30 flights of stairs, climbed up several ladders that lead them to a hatch door, and before they knew it, they were into the top of the tower.