Infested

Chapter 4

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The doors to the children's secret hideout burst open. Frightened children aimed makeshift guns at the unknown intruder.

"Calm down." Said Double D, holding a grief stricken Ed. Everyone crowded around the grief-stricken duo, assaulting them with questions of what happened at Ed's house. But Sarah wouldn't wait her turn. Pushing everyone aside, she stormed straight up to Double D and shouted "Where's Jimmy?"

Double D gulped. This was the moment he dreaded, explaining to Sarah that Jimmy killed himself, he hadn't thought of that whilst dragging depressed Ed and the carcass of Jimmy.

"He killed himself, when he found out Ed killed your parents in self defense." Double D reported.

Sarah stared back at Double D with disbelieving eyes. She was to shocked to say a word.

"His…Body…out…there." Double D slurring the words as if he was drunk, he really was bad at being the bearer of bad news, even worse at SHOCKING news. Sarah didn't wait for anything else. She bolted out of the door, a large turbulence of wind knocking down everything in it's wake. A massive cry tore into the ears of the kids, followed by uncontrollable sobbing. Ed joined in with his baby sister, the siblings mourning over their losses. Double D, his emotions spent, walked up to Nazz, holding her ears in pain.

"Nazz, could you comfort Ed and Sarah, I've no patience to spare."

"Sure, dude"

Double D walked out into the night. The junkyard suddenly a welcoming home as twisted metal reached for him as if asking for a hug. He thought his emotions were spent, but when thoughts drifted to his father, warm tears rolled down his cheeks. He willed himself not to cry, but to figure out the answer to the question that plagued him ever since the day started, what is going on? He sat down on a weather beaten car door.

What is going on thought Double D. Suddenly worms came into his mind, the large ugly worms that he saw and other kids reported about.

"Our worm population never looked like that" Double D wondered out loud "Where could they have come from?"

His mind suddenly thought of an answer, the comet. It seemed highly unlikely but a lot of things seemed highly unlikely today. Suddenly, a bright purple fire caught his attention. Double D tracked it down with his eyes until he was staring at the comets resting place. When the wind turned his way a jumble of unutterable patois blasted his ears. This only cemented his belief, the comet had to do with this one way or another, it seemed too irrefutable to deny. The young boy marched into the hideout and yelled "Friends, we storm the forest tonight!"

The forest was too quiet. Dressed in hardcore military Camo, the children looked part of the forest. They walked past dense shrubs as they adjusted their custom made helmets, and kept their weapons to their chests. Sunlight reflected off of weapons they stole from the Peach Creek gunshop, their makeshift guns too weak for what they considered were the dawn of a bloody war. A strange being popped out of nowhere behind Jonny, a creature with a black elongated and impossibly huge build. The panic-stricken boy letting loose with his Uzi, bright blue blood escaping the ugly holes being ripped into his head. Pretty soon, gunshots were peppering the green brush. The creatures attacked mercilessly with things that looked vaguely like spears, double bladed at each end. The tables turned on the kids almost immediately. Double D watched in unmatched horror as his comrades fell before him. Eddy's head rolled towards him almost nonchalantly, the bone chilling look in his empty eyes, blaming him for everything. Double D felt a piercing pain his chest as a double bladed spear emerged, squirting blood horrendously. When it left him he fell to the forest floor, gasping for breath admist the screaming pain. With what strength he had left, he raised the rifle shot the beast's head which disappeared in an explosion of blue. A malicious figure came from the brush admist the chaos, his bleached white skull with a haunting grin, the chains on his wrists clanking together, his black trench coat that stood against the sunlight. He gave Double D a mocking glance before a bright fireball popped in his hand

In a sinister voice he said "Here's a taste of what's to come!" and hurled the flame towards him as Double D woke up.

In the morning the breakfast should have been cheery but it seemed to drag on. When they were in the forest they moved as one, but one of them was to distracted.

"Double D, pick up the pace!" whispered an annoyed Kevin

Double D didn't respond. Eddy came up to him

"Dude, you all right, you seemed distant during breakfast, everything alright?"

Double D was debating with himself in his psyche, was his dream just a result of severe paranoia, or a warning?

"Nothing, I'm just deeply concerned is all"

That was a HUGE understatement. He was practically on the brink of going insane. And would only get worse when they reached the comet

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Not exactly a cliffhanger but, you know. Sorry about the large gap between these chapters but a promise it won't happen again. Speaking of updates, the official system for me is

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