Rain continued to pour as the creature soared towards Melanie extending its tongue towards her. Connor stumbled and fell onto his side, letting out an accidental shot as he made contact with the ground. The bullet caught the creatures tongue between its teeth and Melanie ducked under and rolled forward as the creature flew over Melanie and landed before the elevator, its tongue hung uselessly out of its mouth. "Good shot Connor" Melanie said between breaths as she got up, watching the creature.

"Yeah, no problem." He said, scrambling away on his hands and knees. Raymond stood up and braced himself with the hand rail.

"Whatever that thing is and was I don't really care about. But if it's trying to kill us, we'd better kill it first." Raymond said checking the ammo in his gun. "Even if it does have a weak spot we might not be able to find it in time. But if we shoot it enough, I'm pretty it's going down."

Melanie turned her head towards Raymond keeping her eyes on the monster. "That's the problem, I'm not sure if we have enough ammo to do that." Melanie also said checking her ammo quickly. Connor stood up next to the edge of the building to the right of Melanie and Raymond.

"I just want that thing dead, I don't care how." Connor said aiming his gun at the creature. The monster hissed and rushed towards Connor.

"Watch out!" Raymond and Melanie screamed as all three of them let out a shot with their handguns. The creature got hit in its right fore and hind legs and tripped. Connor dove to his left and rolled as the creature slid on its side into a bar of the hand rail, snapping its back. Connor stood up quickly and dashed towards the others glancing back.

"Is it dead?" Connor said as he turned around next to Melanie.

"I don't know," said Raymond walking towards the others. "But I think it's ironic how confident you were in your fists alone a while back."

"Shut up man, I get it." Connor shot a look towards Raymond.

"Yeah, it's not dead" Melanie said backing up slowly. The creature turned its head toward them and pulled it self into its stomach. A stream of blood flowed out of its mouth as it let out a shriek and pulled it self toward them, letting its legs drag uselessly. The sound of a few roaring car engines came in from a distance and started getting louder.

"It's slow now, let's just keep moving and think of a way to kill it." The three of them split up and started walking around the roof, keeping away from the slow moving monster.

"Can't we just shoot it again?" Connor asked aiming his gun at it.

"I'd rather try to keep all the ammo we can." Raymond suggested limping quickly away as it started toward him.

"But this isn't getting us anywhere we cou-"a loud screech and crash interrupted Connor and the building shook. "What the fuck?" he said as more screeching and crashing occurred below them. Screaming followed short after from the streets but ended abruptly.

"Check out what it is you guys." Melanie said taking a shot at the creature pulling its attention away from Raymond.

"Alright but we still gotta kill this thing." Raymond said limping towards the railing with Connor.

"Don't worry that thing is too slow to catch us anymore." Melanie said with a deep sigh "But if it does get to us some how, it's gonna tear us apart." She said backing to the opposite railing. Connor and Raymond peered over the rail; there was a small pile up of three or four cars and trucks that seemed to have been trying to evade the undead. They all ended up colliding with the building; the passengers seemed to have died either on impact or by the undead roaming the streets. The ones roaming on the streets seemed to have gained a bit more than the lightly scattered ones a while ago.

"Looks like there were other survivors looking for a way out, but ended up how we could have been." Raymond called out to Melanie.

"Those could blow any minute, the cars are wrecked, and there should be a good bit of fuel leaking out." Connor called to Melanie. Melanie looked at the two of them.

"We could be able to use that some how if it was on fire. Not sure how we would get this thing dow-"The creature leapt with its front arms toward Melanie. She ducked and rolled forward and the creature landed on the railing. "That's it, if we get it to jump at us, we could send it into the wreckage and blow it up if we could light the fuel." Melanie panted, running toward them.

"I'm not sure if shooting it will work, usually only works in the movies." Raymond stated as he looked over the railing at the wreckage.

"Well, we could get lucky somehow you know? Everything else today has gone so well." Connor said leaning against the rail.

"Or something else could spark it. But that only happens in the movies also. For some reason, everything has to explode in movies." Melanie turned toward Raymond. "This feels like a movie in it self, I just hope we can find a way out of this damn city and find out what happened here."

Connor turned around and screamed "Duck!" the three of them turned and ducked as the creature leaped over the three of them. Scraping its claws on the rail and falling over the edge.

Raymond stood up slowly "Holy shit that has to have been the scariest thing to happen to me today." Raymond said in a serious voice. Connor lowered himself to a sit and extended one leg.

"I'm going to have to record that in my scare book." Connor stated with a deep sigh. Melanie stood up and looked over the edge.

"That thing is still very well alive, but it should be wounded pretty badly." Melanie said quietly. The creature was on its back on top of a car in the pile up, squirming vigorously. "It shouldn't be a problem to us anymore unless that thing is damn strong." As Melanie said that, a piece of rubble from the building dislodged and landed on the creature, silencing it instantly. "And there it goes… Finally, but unfortunately for us we still have to get off of this roof." She said in a hollow voice.

"The only opening I can still see is the greenhouse next to us. Three stories tall, with the story top two stories the actual greenhouse and the lower portion made of concrete walls. It's pretty safe unless some of those things got in through the doors." Raymond said heading over to the rail overlooking the greenhouse. Melanie and Connor followed close behind.

"We're gonna have to figure out a way out of there too." Connor said climbing onto the railing and sitting on it with his legs over the edge. Melanie also climbed onto the rail and sat on it.

"Looks about fifteen to twenty feet away, with one story to spare it should be plenty of room. If we don't make it, we'll either die from hitting the ground or all those things in the alley. How will the glass hold up?" Melanie asked studying the alley and buildings. Raymond steadily sat on the rail and swung his legs over the rail.

"Well to my knowledge, it should be strong enough to withstand a hurricane or two. So as long not more than one of us jumps or stays on one pane at once. We should be alright; if not there are a lot of plants in there to break our fall." Raymond said setting himself on his feet resting on the edge of the building and holding himself with the railing behind him.

"If it's the only option we have, we should take it. I should be the lightest so I'll go first just in case." Melanie said as she copied Raymond's stance. "Here goes everything!" Melanie said and pushed herself off from the ledge.