I was running away. My breath was running out and it was getting harder to breath with each breath I toke in. I was being chased by a hunter, and it wasn't giving up till it got me. I had ran out of bullets in my gun and was now unarmed. The only thing I could do was run away. But even though I sprinted as fast as I could, I could hear the hunter getting closer and closer towards me. All of a sudden, I felt weight collapse on me and a loud snarl. I hit face first on the ground. I rolled over and looked onto the face of the hunter that was chasing me. Its ripped blood stained black coat was covering its body while the shadows were covering the top half of its face, but I could still see the blood covering around its mouth. It snarled at me as I raised my clawed up hand in defense. But it hardly did any good as it toke a slash at my chest.

I woke up suddenly breathing hard. I looked to my left and saw Wane and Nathan, both sleeping. I looked to my right and saw the dark forest that lied beside us. My breathing slowed down as I realized it was only a dream. No hunter was going to get me, not with my friends beside me in our new stolen car. "Bad dream Hunter?" Harry asked keeping his eyes on the road.
"Yeah" I confirmed "bad dream". I looked outside again and asked to see the sun beginning to rise "where are we?"
"I saw a sign that said we're near the village of En Marais"
"never heard of it". I never did hear about it, we were traveling into an unknown place. Who knows what might happen. Maybe we'll get lucky and find a couple of survivors, maybe all we'll find is infected. Either way, we were going to get though this and get to that bus stop. Suddenly I heard a loud crunching sound in the front part of the car outside. It startled me so much I jumped and hit my head on the top of the car's roof. I felt the pain but I was afraid of something different. "What the hell was that!" I shouted grabbing the MP5 off the floor.
"Don't worry about it" Harry laughed "It was only a lone infected". I gave a loud sigh of relief before putting down the submachine gun. That thing scared the shit out of me, but now it was laughable. "And don't worry, this has plowed though rows of zombies while you guys were asleep". This was a great feeling, I felt like we were invincible for the moment. I grabbed a blood stained blue backpack and unzipped it. Inside was food and medicine. I grabbed a small box of salted crackers and ripped the top open. Seeing the food now made me realize just how hungry I was. I tore the plastic open and started eating like an animal. The taste of those crackers was like heaven at the moment. I shoved hand full after hand full into my mouth just eating like mad. "Hay hay hay!" Harry shouted like he couldn't believe what I was doing "crumbs man, don't waste them crackers". I stop shoving the food into my mouth to stop and look around, and sure enough, I saw dozens of crumbs scattered on my lap, on my shirt, on my coat, and on Wane's lap. I laughed a bit before picking up the crumbs and shoving them into my mouth. Harry was right, don't waste food, who knows when we'll find another box of good crackers. I then slowly ate the crackers in a civilized matter while Harry drove us to the En Marais village. I was holding the cracker box up in the air finishing the last cracker and ready to dump the crumbs and remaining salt into my mouth when suddenly the car sounded like it was dying. "Oh come on!" Harry shouted as the car started dying "no not now!" Then the car engine stopped running and the car started slowing down until it came to a complete stop.
"What's wrong?" I asked hopping that Harry would know what to do.
"I don't know man" Harry said opening the driver door. I looked out and saw the sun was starting to rise. "Get everyone up, I'm taking a look". Harry then bent down and I saw him take apart some wires tied to each other. I then shock Wane and Nathan awake.
"Are we there already?" Nathan asked still sounding sleepy
"no" I said plainly "we've got car trouble, get outside and watch out for infected". I then reached over on shook Casey awake.
"five minutes" Casey moaned still half asleep
"no" I said gently "now"
"five" she repeated "minutes". I then shook her harder and said not as kindly as earlier
"up...now". Casey then looked back at me with a bit of anger, then confusion as she saw that we weren't moving I guess.
"What happened?" She asked looking around
"car trouble" I answered "get your gun and patrol the car". Casey then grabbed her semi automatic shotgun and stepped out of the car. I then toke my MP5 and also got out of the car not bothering to close the door, if we need to run and the car was fixed, we'd get in faster. If we had to run and the car was still broken, we'd have more time to grab some stuff before retreating. I looked ahead and saw that Harry was already working under the hood of the car. Casey was walking around on the right side of the car, Nathan was patrolling the left side of the car while Wane was running to the ditch. "Wane!" I shouted wondering what he was doing running for the ditch "where you going!"
"Got to take a piss!" He shouted back
"fine!" I shouted "just make it quick and watch out for infected out in that field in front of you!" All around us I see tall crops that were dying, they were long past harvesting time. Even so, they could provide cover for the infected.
"Hunter" Harry shouted from under the hood of the car.
"What?" I asked "you find what was wrong?"
"I think so" Harry said "now get on the drivers side of the car, go inside, and find the two ripped wires near the gas pedal". I climbed in the car and looked near the gas and brake pedals. There I saw two exposed wires.
"Now what?" I asked
"put them together". I did that and the engine tried to start but failed. I tried again but with the same result. "Ok" Harry said frustrated with the result "that wasn't the problem". I then stepped out of the car looking at the dying corn field again. I could now hear some rustling in the left field.
"Wane" I said loudly "can you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Wane asked still standing towards the left field taking his piss. Meanwhile the rustling was getting louder and louder.
"I think I hear rustling in the field in front of you" I said. Wane then began walking towards the car when suddenly he turned around and I could see some of the rows of corn moving. "Get back!" I shouted before several explosions occurred. Suddenly the first few rows of the corn field blew up and sent dirt, crops, and pieces of the infected flying in every direction. Blood flew in the air and the rustling noise was replaced by falling bits of dirt and gore. "Huh" I said plainly but confused. Didn't even have to fire a single shot and we got rid of them. Guess we'd have to thank the people who set those mines back there.
"What the hell was that!" Nathan shouted breaking the silence obviously as confused as the rest of us.
"Mines I think" I said still surprised at the event that just toke place. I mean, how weird was this? At that moment the car started again.

"I got it" Harry shouted slamming the hood down "Casey's driving now, I'm going to sleep". With that, everyone jumped back into the car. Me, Wane and Nathan back in the spots we had last time while Harry and Casey switched places.
"I've never seen you drive Casey" I said "you think you can handle this?"
"Yes" Casey said as the car started going forwards "I'm kind of insulted that you'd think that". Hopefully Casey knew how to drive good enough to not get scared and swerve off the road when we encounter the infected. We were going a steady speed when I asked Nathan
"so you and Harry used to steal cars?" Nathan nodded his head and said
"you remember all that stuff at my house?" He asked. Of course I remembered, he had a big flat screen T.V, a surround sound entertainment system, all the gaming conceals, piles of games. Other then electronics he also had dirt bikes, quads, and all that good stuff. He even bought me a 750cc dirt bike for my last birthday, the last one I had before the infection.
"Yeah" I said "I also remember that bike you got me"

"Yeah" Nathan said "me and Harry got the money for all those things by stealing cars and selling them"

"So what else don't I know about?" I asked "there's got to be something that I don't know about everybody here"

"Not anything important" Casey said "unless you want to know something minor"

"Same here" Wane agreed

"Not at the moment" I said uninterested. The view of the country side slowly changed the farther we went. Soon it changed from farms to wet marshes. I looked inside all of the backpacks and noticed along the trip that we only had one half bottle of water and a couple small grape juice boxes. "Casey" I said noticing a house not too far from the road "pull over". Casey obeyed and pulled to the side of the road. I grabbed my MP5 and pulled the bolt back.

"What are you doing Hunter?" Casey asked as I opened the door passenger door and stepping outside.

"We're low on liquid" I answered "I'm going to check that house for anything"

"I'm coming with you" Wane said grabbing his handgun

"Me two" Nathan said grabbing his submachine gun before I shouted

"No!" Wane, Nathan and Casey looked at me with a startled look while Harry jumped up and started looking around for any sight of danger "you stay here Nathan, you stay and protect Casey and the car"

"What about me?" Harry asked

"You stay here as well" I said "You're tired and we don't know if you're fit for battle"

"Got that right" Harry said before falling back asleep. While Wane was stepping out of the car I heard Nathan say

"Yeah, just cause I'm black huh"

"It has nothing to do with that Nathan" I said annoyed at his comment. What did it matter if he was this colour or that? "You and Casey watch the car, you're kind of like the support group without really supporting us"

"I don't get it" Casey said

"Just stay with the car" I said a bit annoyed "and don't come to the house, we'll meet back here when me and Wane are done searching the house". With that said, Wane and I then walked to towards the house not knowing what to expect.

Authors notes: This chapter is a lot shorter then the other chapters, but I promise that the next chapter is going to be epic