Gabe backed away slowly out of fear, eying the frail infected. The type he was looking at- and pissing off- could tear people apart in seconds; one of his old survivor buddies was ripped to shreds just for looking at one the wrong way.
The infected continued her growling, until she finally went ape shit.
Seeing this infected running at him, he decided to make a break for it. He spun around, only to see one of the massive, hulk-like infected. It began to run at him, propelling itself along with its arms.
Shit, he thought for the second time in ten seconds.
Ben had never really been a bad person. But a god damn apocalypse could bring out the best, and worst in people. He found that he was a natural thief, and had taken to looting stores for the thrill of it. He was in the middle of one of his looting sessions when he found a Molotov cocktail.
With a smirk, he thought im'a have some fun with this!
As he grabbed his third bottle of whiskey from the bar counter, he heard an ear shattering screech. It sounded like it was coming from the roof of the building behind the store he was in. Before he could even decide whether to investigate this or not, he heard one of the mammoth infected.
That enough had made him want to run- his friend Dalton had been crushed by one when it launched a car into the air. He still wasn't completely over it.
He decided to go investigate, even if it would be the death of him. He readied his two M1911 colt pistols, and walked into the alley behind the liquor store.
As soon as he stepped out, he knew he had made a mistake.
Gabe jumped. He didn't even look over the edge of the building- he just took a leap of faith.
What death could be worse than being smashed and shredded at the same time, anyways? He thought, as he plummeted to the ground.
The building had been five stories tall- he fell two then smashed his stomach into the railing of a fire escape, sending him flipping into a dumpster. His stomach felt like it was on fire, but there was no time to waste. He hopped out of the dumpster just in time to see the beast climbing down the wall, punching its fists into the wall to make spots for it to hold on to as it climbed. At the same time, he saw the pissed-off woman one running straight out a door down the alley.
At that exact second, a Hispanic man stepped out of the door to his side.
"FUCKING RUN!" Gabe exclaimed.
Ben took a second to process what the man with brown hair had said- until he looked down the alley. He looked the other way and followed the man as he ran through the back alleys of the city, dodging dumpsters and destroying infected with his ak-47. He turned a corner just out of Ben's view, and started screaming.
Gabe could only hope the Hispanic man was following him, as if he wasn't he was probably already dead. Shooting the infected as he ran, he rounded another corner and shot at yet another infected.
But this was an infected he hadn't seen before- it was wearing a hoody and sweat pants, crouching down and growling at him.
Shoot first, ask questions later, he thought. Shooting at it, he realized this was no normal infected. It jumped with lightning speed at him and started clawing at his already burning stomach. The pain was unbearable, his started screaming helplessly.
As if a gift from God, the other man rounded the corner and kicked the infected off of him. He took the pistol in his right hand and shot the infected execution style.
"Thank you," Gabe managed to gasp as he rose from the ground.
"No time for thank-you's, we've gotta move bro!" The man took Gabe's arm around his shoulder and they entered the building to the side of them. The man took out a glass bottle and Gabe looked at him as if he was crazy, having one last drink before he died.
But to his surprise, the man lit the rag in the bottle on fire with his lighter and tossed it out the door. The bottle exploded into flames, engulfing both of the infected. The frail infected was burnt to a crisp, the massive infected had to have a few rounds from Gabe's rifle to the stomach before it went down.
Gabe smiled through the pain, "Well that was exciting!"