Her form was slender almost s an hour glass one could say. She hid fearfully behind Rush uncertainty and a hint of fear etched on her face. The front of her body was covered in gore and blood the skin that Keith could see was a pale white sheen unlike the man she was hiding behind his skin was light grey.

As his vision panned down Keith saw her hands. The fingernails were replaced by grotesque knife like claws blackened and jagged the skin around the base of the nails was a dark red. And spread part way up the fingers the sight sent a chill up Keith's spine.

"Tracey I suggest you take a shower you look like some kind of zombie there's a fresh change of warmer clothes waiting for you by the stall. Oh by the way this is Keith he will be attempting to not murder us…" Rush said in his usual sarcastic tone as he gestured to Keith with a sway of his head.

Tracey looked nervously at him Keith didn't like Tracey at all. As with all infected he responded to her nervous look with a glare. Seeing his unfriendly glare she bolted past him and in to the bathroom by the garbage can.

"Well Kane I have to go get a new change of clothes from the second floor watch Tracey for me and the woman" Rush said.

"Gotcha hey where are they anyway?" Kane asked as he scanned the floors above him. "Well their probably off with that corpse eating I'll get the wounded one for you" Rush said with somewhat indifference. Kane could tell that Rush really didn't care what his women did as long as they came back to him.

"Oh lovely just what I want to hear about women eating a corpse" Kane said sarcastically even though he masked his disgust with sarcasm Kane knew Rush could see through it as clearly as he did with the nights blackness. Rush chuckled before responding. "I'll get her down here she's gunna be Kinda skittish and maybe a little scared so be gentle and get that bullet out of her arm. Keith please don't shoot her again" Rush said as he put two fingers in the corners of his mouth and let out a sharp whistle.

"See ya" Rush said as he crouched down on to his haunches and leaped about 30 feet above Kane and his companion with an inhuman scream he climbed and leaped his way to the second floor with ease. A few seconds later Rush's mate arrived. Even though wounded she was still very agile holding her shoulder with a hand.

Kane cautiously approached. He wasn't sure how the girl would react to him trying to pull a bullet out of her arm. The woman's face that Kane could see had blood on it mostly on the cheeks and mouth. The hooded shirt she was wearing was also stained with gore and looked ghoulish. The pants she was wearing were cargo pants much like Rush's but hers were more frayed with bits of thread hanging off the edges of the cloth.

After cleaning the wound and bandaging it and digging out the bullet with his machete Kane felt he had done all he could. "There you go I'd avoid Keith if I were you" he said as he slowly backed away the infected woman looked at her arm and then turned to Kane. offering a loud inhuman hiss as a thanks it unnerved Kane somewhat he started to question if it was the right thing to aid Rush but then again what choice did he have he didn't want to travel alone.

The bandaged woman looked at her arm once more her mouth bloody. And then ran up to the nearest wall and jumped over it which was no small feat the wall itself was about 30 feet high. Well it wasn't so much a wall it was more like a balcony attached to the second floor.

As Kane walked back to where Keith was standing from where he had treated the woman he was met with a glare."You see that Kane? She wasn't even grateful why do you insist on helping those... those things?" Keith asked as he slipped his revolver back in to its holster.

Kane looked at his lifelong friend with distain. He didn't like how Keith hated the infected although it was understandable. "They're not things Keith their people like you and me why are you having such a hard time with me helping my comrades?" Kane asked as he pulled the goggles from his head and placed them inside his trench coat pocket.

Keith glared at Kane he didn't understand how Kane could not see the answer was right in front of him."Kane! God damnit! They're not people for god sakes you've seen them their eyes they are emotionless cold uncaring merciless they may have once been people but not anymore. Their killers their scum! Why can't you see that! Why?" Keith snarled his voice full of anger. But also pain from the claw marks in his chest.

As Keith finished saying this Kane noticed Tracey standing behind Keith. Her undergarments replaced by a sweat shirt with a hood and some slightly worn pants. The shirt was grey the pants were a tan color. Tracey looked at Keith the crimson glow of her eyes offset by sadness by Keith's rant.

As Keith noticed Kane's stare he slowly turned around his eyes full of fear. As his Gaze landed on Tracey his face went pale his eyes widened in horror the sight of her knife like claws was utterly horrifying and sent a chill through Keith's soul.

He knew this woman before him was infected. But he was frozen with fear he summoned all his will power and with a grunt punched her right in the face as hard as he could right in the cheek sending her staggering backwards. "Keith stop!" Kane said as he yanked his friend back by the shoulder. Keith turned to Kane rage etched on his bearded face. "What is wrong with you Kane? They are not people they are murders! Why can't you understand that?" Keith said shortly after ripping Kane's hand off his shoulder.

Kane went to say why he but stopped himself. In truth he had no answer as to why he trusted 2 infected one obviously a cannibal.

Rush stepped lightly as he made his way to the clothes shop. Even though he knew there were no enemies in the mall, his animalist instincts told him to be as quiet as possible. He felt slightly vulnerable being shirtless having his face exposed.

Normally he was cloaked in darkness the thing that went bump in the night. Being bruised and in plain sight in the middle of a well lit walk made him nervous.

After entering the clothe store and putting more duck tape on his new attire Rush stretched his arms inside the sleeves of his new hoodie getting comfy. After he was comfortable in his new shirt and bullet proof vest his stomach started growling and hurt as well.

"Oh man… I got to find something to eat I'm gunna kill over!" Rush said his stomach growling louder. As he held his stomach he smelled the familiar scent of blood. Not the dark diseased blood like the infected no… it was fresh, healthy.

As Rush pulled the hood over his face he began salivating heavily. He sniffed the air eagerly checking the direction of the feast he smelled the hunter grinned happily exposing his razor sharp teeth as he sprinted through the mall floor he was on. Searching for the scent of food

He stopped. Sniffing the air the scent growing ever stronger at the end of a darkened walk way in front of him he saw about 6 figures. Crouched over a carcass of what appeared to be a man. He let out a low guttural growl as he crouched down on to his haunches. He then leaped forward clearing the 40 feet between him and the food and the figures as well. He landed near the bloody mess the strangers had been feasting on.

A scent entered his nose the sweet familiar scent of his mates mixed with blood. He greeted them with a yelp like sound mixed with the sound of his claws grating on the tile floor. The girls in front of him greeted him with smiles on their faces.

"Hi honey" the female hunter to Rush's Right said in the infected language. Which anyone else would have perceived as a series of yips, growls and yelps."Hello Sasha, how are you?" Rush asked.

The huntress before him whipped some blood away from her mouth before replying. However her face was covered in blood from the feast. "I'm Fine Thanks for asking! How are you Hun?" Sasha said rather happily as she stuffed some fresh leg meat in to her mouth, Adding more blood to her already red lips and chin Also adding more gruesome blood stains to her hoodie. "I'm fine" Rush replied as he stuffed a large chunk of flesh in to his mouth savoring the taste slowly before swallowing. "So how are you Diva?" he said as his gaze turning to the female hunter near the back of the group. She was slightly smaller than the others. Her face was also bloody but to a lesser extent than the rest of the group."I…I'm fine…" she replied hesitantly.

"How's your back doing you okay?" Diva asked her voice less threatening then other of Rush's mates. After stuffing another mouth full in to his mouth he replied as he swallowed.

"Yes just a little sore. Hey where is seria?" Rush asked as he realized that she was not with the group. Diva thought a moment placing her now bloody claw like finger against her lower lip.

"Well after she got hurt she went to watch those…um…" her speech failed her as she tried to find the words but couldn't. "Oh I know what you mean I think I know where she is also don't worry diva I'm fine". Rush said as he pulled a shin to his lips and began eating it like corn on the cob.

After reaffirming the bond between himself and his women through eating with them and a few purring sessions among other things Rush took his leave so he could go see what Kane was up to. However as he was about to leave he thought of something Kane hadn't gotten a prober interdiction to his girls.

Just as he was about to ask if they wanted to go meet Kane Rush was interrupted. "Rush can I go see the man with the coat? He smells nice…"Honey asked as she stood up from the carcass. As he pondered her request Rush stood up. He had eaten his fill of the kill his stomach was full and he was in a good mood albeit a bit sleepy. He layed a bloody finger on his chin thinking "please?" the other 5 women said at the same time doing their best to butter up Rush. The bloody hunter chuckled lightly before replying. "Alright he's been through some stuff so be on your best behavior! No biting or disemboweling" Rush said.

The huntress's purred in unison signaling their approval. The purring was similar to a cat but deeper, more savage.

"Hey Rush?" Sasha asked as she finished stripping the meat off a finger. "Where'd you get this yummy food? Also who is that man out there with the thingy that makes loud noises and hurts my ears?" Sasha asked Rush it seemed the concept of guns was still new to her.

Rush smiled slightly exposing the faintest hint of a razor sharp grin underneath his lips."Sasha that is my new companion Kane he is an okay guy also the food is from one of those death angels. Also I don't know Kane to well he smells like food so don't eat him" Rush replied cheekily teasing Sasha about her eating habits even though they all shared it.

"Y'know I think we should wait until tomorrow to meet with Kane I smelled him he's stressed real Bad" Rush said as he stretched lazily.

As I rounded the corner of a darkened walk way I heard strange sounds like voices. But something was wrong they didn't sound human the words they seemed to say were impossible to understand. Like a half language it was sort of like a bunch of yips, yelps and growls. As I rounded another corner I saw it the most horrific sight I've ever seen seven hooded creatures crouched over what appeared to be a man. It was an awful sight the man's chest was opened and guts were strewn around there was so much blood… I cringed trying desperately not to throw up or alert these things to my presence.

Nancy stood there in the middle end of the darkened walkway she tried as hard as she could to avoid vomiting. But it was getting harder the sight of the mutilated carcass of a man was something she hoped to never have to see again.

To her horror she realized she was in plain view she quickly hid behind the corner. After a few seconds she slowly peaked her head out from behind the corner. She was already sweating like a pig. She watched the hood wearing creatures carefully she saw one was standing he looked to be a young man he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt. It was black but also bloody bits of flesh and gore clung to the fabric. Her gaze slowly drifted to his hands they were horrific the fingernails had become claws slightly blackened. The claws were bloody like in a cheap horror movie.

She watched with growing nausea as the young man crouched down on to his haunches and using his claws, quickly severed a whole arm off the carcass and grinned at the limb before quickly stuffing it in to his sweat shirt pocket it didn't fit and about half of it hung out like a grizzly trophy.

"Oh god I can't fight all those things! I got to get back to Keith he will protect me with those nice strong arms of his…" Nancy thought her terror temporarily gone from her mind as an image of her beloved husband filled her mind's eye.

She was snapped back to reality as a low growl filled her ears she broke out in waves of sweat. The growl was deep low, savage."Oh god…" she said very quietly her fear made her freeze.

Rush looked around as another low growl emanated from the back of his throat he had smelled something that smelled like food even though he was full he wouldn't pass up the chance to get a meal.

His women hissed menacingly as the second growl from their mate entered their ears and the echoed through the darkened walkway.

Rush and his mates were bloody as hell they looked like they had slaughtered a large farm animal.

Rush stalked down the walkway in front of him he was low to the ground almost on his stomach, his women stayed back by the food. As he smelled the air with his sensitive nose he caught the familiar scent of healthy flesh. He continued to stalk down the path drool began to slowly drip from his lips which were now twisted in to a rather evil looking grin.

Nancy was glued to the corner as the growling grew closer to her hide out. On the inside she was screaming her mind chained with unshakeable fear.

She watched with what could be described as panic as Rush slowly stuck his head around the corner. He looked left and then started to sniff the air as he turned his head north. Nancy was so close she could see him and smell his warm breath. His Eyes were covered by a somewhat bloody hoodie the area around his mouth had blood on it and sharp teeth protruded from underneath his lips. The hunter's face was twisted in to a slight snarl as if it was expecting a fight.