She began to see a violet coloured liquid seeping out of Cassey's wound...
Purple liquid was flowing from the girl and on to the ground. Ellie breathed a huge sigh of relief as she watched the girl's face finally relax. Both Joel and the woman stared at her, they were astonished by what they may have just witnessed.
"E-Ellie? What the hell was that?" Joel said as his eyes widened. Ellie looked back at him and put her hands up immediately, shaking her head.
"Oh! N-no, that wasn't me. Must've been her healing finally kicking in."
"H-how!?" The woman yelled, startling everyone and racing towards the girl. "The poison was made from aconite and gold!?" She gently caressed Cassey's head with her fingertips.
Cass groaned and began to reply to everything. "I... Ain't no normal wolf..." She let out a small, pained chuckle as she started to sit herself up again.
A faint mumble came from outside the cabin and then a growl. Joel suddenly shut his mouth and everyone went silent. They heard clicks coming from the distance and saw the head of a runner walk past the window. No one moved, no one made a single sound. The clicking came closer and the heads of 3 clickers and a stalker went past. Joel, as slow as possible, reached for his gun. The holster, thankfully, made no noise but when he started to load it the small, almost silent, sound of metal clinking together attracted the clicker's attention. They stumbled there way into the cabin, stopped, and clicked. One started to slowly make it's way towards Joel and Cassius, Ellie was beginning to feel more and more scared by the second as she watched the clicker tumble towards her. Ellie felt her body jerk forward but immediately stopped herself. She felt as if she was completely unable to move, and so did Joel. All four people were frozen still, Joel, Ellie and even the woman and Cassius, as the clicker made its way towards them, Ellie jerked again but this time her body stopped its self, not her mind.
They were worried, all three, but none of them felt capable to protect themselves. The clicker became aware of Cassey's presence as her body could no longer take the stress and passed out. As soon as its foot lightly tapped her, it went berserk. Cassey's 'plan' had worked; she suddenly sprang up and tripped the clicker up. She shouted to everyone to get out.
"Guy's run! Get out of here! There's a back door through the bedroom, I don't care just get out!" Ellie was starting to notice the anger in her voice as she watched her stand there getting herself ready for a fight. Bloaters roared as they stomped up the hills and the clicker scrambled around, trying to get up. The clicker rolled about on the floor and, in turn, tripped Cass.
"Guys! RUN!" She yelled almost at the top of her voice from their feet. They all ran, Ellie, Joel, but the woman, her mother, stood in the door way and said, "Cass, I know I should've said this earlier but, me and you, we are immune to the cordyceps… Goodbye, try not to get yourself killed!" Cassey's eyes widened as she paused before scrambling to her feet and looking back at the closed door where they had left. She struggled to process what she had just heard and, before she knew it, was throttled by infected, left, right and centre.
The infected were barking and grasping for whatever flesh they could find, managing to lay many bites over her and leaving large chunks of her flesh missing.
Her thoughts ran in all different directions, how could her mother just turn up and tell her they're immune!? 'This has all just got to be a dream... Right?' She thought to herself while the infected piled on top of her snarled, biting at her. Her anger built up again and suddenly there was a bright burst of red light. The infected were sent flying across the room and the wolf girl rose from the spot she was in. Her eyes were pure black and her teeth had turned into fangs. She snarled like a wolf would and yelled, "STAY AWAY FROM MY FRIENDS! LEAVE THEM THE HELL ALONE!"
Ellie, Joel and his mother turned round when they heard the scream. They looked towards the cabin and saw a red light bursting out of it. Ellie thought it was an explosive of some sort and worried about her. They heard another scream and Joel said softly to Ellie, "Ellie... Let's go, she'd want us to get as far away from here as possible."
The light was getting bigger and brighter. The cabin suddenly exploded and pieces of wood were sent flying everywhere. Ellie, Joel and Cassey's mother covered their heads and faces with their hands and closed their eyes, waiting for the falling debris to stop. Ellie wanted to rush over there and see if Cass was okay but Joel immediately stopped her by grabbing her by the arm as they started to walk in the other direction, heading for the tree Callus was positioned at.
"I know Ellie, I'm sorry but I can't let you go down there... God knows what kind of infected survived the blast..." Joel cooed as he released his grip on Ellie's arm.
"I-It's okay... We only just met..." Ellie sniffled a bit before walking slightly in front of the other two, making her way to Callus before them and hopping on to his back. Joel and Cassey's mother reached the horse, Joel patted the stallion and stroked at his mane.
There was no sign of infected now... or Cassius...
