We drove through our once proud city, killing zombies inside our bus. *tck-tck-tck. TURR!* The bus halted.
"Aw Sh_" Francis cussed, I managed to cover my sister's ears before he did.
"Don't worry, we're close to our house, if it's not on fire." My father said. We walked up the street to our thankfully not burning house. Some zombies were inside and some of our food was looted. We quickly killed the zombies and got what was left of our food. I searched my looted room to find some of my clothes gone.
"Please don't be gone, please don't be gone." I prayed as I went though piles of clothes. I found it, my grandfather's Vietnam Veteran hat.
"Whew. I thought it was gone." I sighed putting my grandfather's cap on my head. I quickly got dressed in more comfortable clothes. I put on my white tee shirt, dark green jacket, black jeans and black and white sneakers.
"Big brother." My sister called. I turned around to see my sister wearing different clothes too. A White Cami, pink jacket and jeans skirt.
"You alright Claire?" I asked.
"Someone took my toys." She cried.
"Oh don't worry Claire," I said, I glanced around the room. "Here's your favorite teddy." I spied the little white bear in the corner.
"Oh, Snuggie!" My sister exclaimed. My father said to bring a back pack full of clothes, lots of water, preserved foods and he also told us to have a belt on to carry things. I allowed my friends to borrow my belts but it wouldn't fit on Al. (Bill is 12, Cory is 11, Ace is 12, Amy is 12, Josh is 12, Ron is 12, Al is 10 and Claire is 8) "Don't worry I'll put it in my gym bag." Al said. My father obtained some pain pills and Nick looted some Adrenaline shots. I grabbed an adrenaline shot.
"So what exactly does this do?" I asked.
"It gives you temporary pain relief, not as much as pills, but makes you go fast for a small amount of time." Cory explained.
"Cool." Al said putting it in his bag.
"To all who can hear this! Go to the Airport for evacuation! I repeat go to the airport for evacuation!" a voice in a helicopter called.
"Kinda feels like dejau vu." Louis commented.
"Dejau who?" Ace asked.
"Dejau vu, a word meaning:'This has happened before.'" Cory explained push up his glasses.
"Shut you Albert-" Ace began.
"Someone call?" Al asked. (his real name)
"Alright everyone stop! We have an evac center to get to!" Rochelle and Amy screamed.
"They're right." Nick said.
"Now if anyone wants to be zombie food stay here. And if you want to live let's go to the airport." Coach said. We all readied ourselves and moved out.
"The airport is just a few miles up. We can make it within a day." Ellis announced.
"If we're not dead." Keith added.
"We're not gonna die, we already have experience." Nick said.
"Yeah we do but the kids don't." Zoey announced.
"No matter what, we gotta make sure the kids are on that evac vehicle first before us." Coach said.
"Agreed." Rochelle said.
"*Cough* *cough* *wheeze*" a voice coughed.
"Hear that?" Josh asked.
"Yep." I replied, holding my gun.
"He needs to take a cough drop." Cory commented.
"That's a Smoker." Francis said.
"A what?" Ace asked.
"A special infected that can grab you with it's tongue and either dangle you and choke you, make you stuck and have infected attack you or pull you close to it's body and claw you." Louis explained.
"What does it look like?" Amy asked.
"It's tall, has smoke coming out of it's body and has a long tongue that looks like-" Coach began.
"Fruit by the foot!" Claire yelled shooting at the Smoker. After missing a few times she killed it.
"Fruit by the foot?" I asked.
"What? It's tongue looks like it." she explained.
"Now that I think about it, it does." Ellis commented.
"I won't be having that in awhile." Zoey sighed. We traveled around around three miles and we got closer to the airport. Our parents introduced us to the infected, we took minimal damage while our parents protected us.
"Un-huh-uh." a voice cried. Cory froze and turned white. After all he would never forget that cry.
"Witch." I whispered.
"Don't shoot her, go near her, or shine your flashlight on her." Nick said. We carefully walked around the Witch.
"Hehehe." the Witch began to laugh.
"What the heck?" Ellis asked.
"Why is she laughing? She's not supposed to laugh." Zoey said.
"Hunter!" Francis yelled. He quickly shot and killed it.
"Gr...Gr..." The Witch began to growl.
"We're not even near her." Nick said.
"GR!" another growl that sounded similar to the Witch's surfaced.
"What was that?" Louis asked. A hooded figure jumped from the building behind us, but it wasn't a Hunter. It was shorter than a Hunter, had longer claws, it's jacket was cut just below the shoulders, it was female, had grey skin and short silver hair that resembled the Witch's.
"What is that?" I asked.
"I don't know. I think it's a new infected." Francis replied. It jumped at me and began to claw.
"AH!" I screamed. It's claws were stronger the Hunter's, it cut my skin open and removed some of my muscles.
"Bill!" Ellis screamed. He quickly killed the new infected on me.
"Gr! *GROWL* AH!" The Witch attacked my father and knocked him down.
"KILL IT~! HURRY!" He yelled. Everyone began to shoot the Witch and killed her.
"Come on Ellis." Louis said helping him up.
"Let me heal you." Ace said putting gauze around my stomach.
"You alright Ellis?" Zoey asked healing my father.
"Well I'm still alive and in one piece." Ellis replied.
"I can't take this anymore!" Claire yelled falling to her knees.
"Claire?" I called out.
"Blood. Everywhere, I don't want to see more. Especially blood from my friends and family. Make it go away. Make this nightmare go away!" She screamed.
"Claire, calm down." Ron comforted.
"It's too much for a young child to take." Amy said.
"Claire, don't worry. We're gonna get out of here then we'll be safe and the world will go back to normal." I comforted.
"Please. I can't stand it. I'll go mad." She cried.
"Why on earth did the Witch attack us?" Al asked.
"I have a theory." Cory said.
"Let's hear it." Keith replied.
"I think it's a cross between the Hunter and Witch. It looks like the Hunter and Witch plus has similar attacks. The claws are stronger than a Hunters' but however it looks like it can't leap as well as one." Cory said.
"Ok, so it's a cross infected. What should we call it?" Rochelle asked.
"You want to name the thing that tries to kill us?" Amy asked.
"Yeah, we do that." Zoey replied.
"Fem-Hunter?" Ace suggested.
"Winter!" Ron yelled.
"Butcher." Claire said.
"Butcher sounds good." Rochelle said.
"Makes sense...Ow." I said slightly moving.
"You gonna be ok Bill?" Francis asked.
"It's likely but it will take some time for the muscles to heal." Cory said.
"Let's hope he's ok. I don't want to lose another Bill." My mother said looking down.
"Let's take it a little slow so Bill can catch up." Amy said.
"You sure you're gonna be ok William?" Ron asked.
"Yeah, I'll be ok Ronald." I laughed. We used our real names with each other when we want to make a joke. We walked slowly toward the airport, Claire's sanity slowly being torn apart, my pain slowly fading and Cory turning pale every time he heard a Witch. We walked up a hill, exhausted.
"The airport!" I screamed. I noticed helicopters evacuating people.
"Let's go!" Ron yelled. My father quickly scooped me up and put me on his back and used Adrenaline. Claire used Adrenaline as well.
"Wait don't leave! WE need to be evacuated!" Keith screamed. The some of the helicopters left but one empty one with the pilot waving at us. I was happy, we were gonna get out of here.
"AH!" Claire screamed just as we were going to get into the helicopter. I turned my head in horror as Claire was grabbed by a Smoker.
"Claire!" I screamed, I got off my fathers' back and tried to kill the Smoker. Then I heard the noise of stomping feet.
"THE HORDE!" The children of the survivors screamed jumping out of the helicopter. We were all about a few feet away from the helicopter.
"We need to leave!" the pilot screamed.
"NO! NOT WITHOUT OUR KIDS!" Ellis screamed, trying to get out.
"We have to! Attention! Hawk 5 moving out!" He yelled into the radio. I killed the Smoker that had my younger sister and helped her.
"Claire!" I screamed embracing her.
"Bill." She said hugging me back. I held her hand as we ran back to the helicopter. *WHIRL* *WHIRL* The helicopter started taking off.
"NO!" we screamed. Our parents were panicking inside.
"THROW DOWN AMMO! PIPE BOMBS! HEALTH KITS! ANYTHING TO HELP THEM!" I heard my father scream. I watched in complete horror as our parents were being evacuated, then they left. Things like ammo and health tossed to the ground.
"Bill, what...What just happened?" my sister cried. I stood there a few moments.
"We're left for dead." I replied.
