And here we have another chapter that is almost a month later after chapters 3-5 were uploaded. I hope you guys like this one. I have to say that I do.
In this chapter a new character is introduced and then from there you all will LOVE the ending. I know I do. I swear that it's just so adorable! School is starting soon for the Flea and myself soon, so this may be the last chapter yall get for awhile. I'm going to be VERY busy this year. After all, I'm a junior this year. J
Enjoy it and review!
With love, SanctusEspiritus37
"Josh, why did you have to react like such a bastard?" a pause then the snarl. "Why did you have to jerk the fucking RV across for no bloody reason?" Jakobi looked to Embry and shrugged very slowly and carried on sniping out of the window with a soft growl. "Just keep driving. She has to be around here somewhere." he growled quietly and Josh turned back to the rifle and carried on looking back and forth for both Infected and Anfisa. The Hunter was sitting on the top of the RV to let the wind bound around his hood sniffing away and let out a howling noise to try and locate his daughter. He wanted to know where his daughter was, where she'd run off to because he loved his daughter and he didn't want her hurt.
Embry was still sitting there and playing his game. He did not feel as if what his father had done had been right, but it was not possible to go back inside. He was just going to have to sit there and deal with the fact that a girl he admired had disappeared. All of the fighting that was going on inside the RV was starting to get to the boy. He narrowed his eyes and then stood up, walking over to where his father was standing. "You snapped at Anfisa, Dad. She wouldn't have run off if you had not been a bit more kind to her. It's not her fault that you were thrown on top of her. Besides, why are you so angry about it?" the boy asked.
"He's a soldier, Embry, being kind isn't on his mechanical to do list." Nira commented as she turned around in her seat to look at him. Josh merely grit his teeth and stared ahead. "You wouldn't understand." he said simply before he pulled down the rifle and simply reloaded before putting it back against the window and set his knee back against the couch. Well if it got to them that much kick him out and Josh would walk. "Why don't we all shut up, stop pointing fingers and start looking." the Witch replied as she walked to the front and silently looked out of the window, pushed the door open and leaned against the side to catch the scent of her daughter on the wind.
"Just because he's a soldier does not mean that he has the right to get mad at someone for something that was not even her fault." the boy huffed. He was angry that his father seemed to blame Anfisa for everything bad that had been going on. The girl had done nothing wrong aside from being in the wrong place at the wrong time. When his father spoke to him, his brows shot up. "I wouldn't understand? You're right! I wouldn't understand anything since you won't tell me anything!" And most likely to everyone's surprise, the boy suddenly shot from where he had been sitting and right out the door of the slow moving RV. He was angry at his father.
"Embry, Embry don't it's dangerous out there!" Josh called but when the boy ignored him Jake quietly slung the rifle over his back and then leaped out with Josh right behind him. Nah, it wouldn't be Josh to find the kid it would be Jake to find him this time around. "Embry, Embry wait!" Damn kid. Running around without a weapon was suicide, running around alone was also extremely stupid and Jakobi wasn't going to risk the young boys life. Nira was silently driving still, the Hunter on the roof and the Witch in the doorframe would keep it safe.
Embry did not care what his father yelled after him. Josh never said anything to the boy at all. Not even when something was wrong with him. He was angry and he felt the need to just go out and vent. However, as he just continued to run farther and farther from the RV, the more anger built up in the boy's veins. He was angry now. In fact, he was sure that he had never felt such anger before in his life. However, he came to a screeching halt when a spitter came around a tree, her throat bulging out dangerously. Her head cocked to the side and she studied the boy for a moment. Embry stood stock still, fear coursing through him as it replaced the anger.
Josh never did tell his boy anything, not about himself anyway. If something was wrong, he didn't tell Embry it. There was no need, too much shit going on, too much going on. When Embry was ill Josh did his best to comfort him, but his wife had been the one to care for the boy. That wasn't an excuse. Of course Josh wasn't the one to find the boy this time because he wasn't as quick as he used to be which unfortunatley was the bad side. The man who did find him however, was younger and in his prime for physical fitness. When he saw the spitter, Jake silently skidded to a halt and stared at the spitter while she stared at Jake, pulling free the rifle and stepped forwards to grab Embry by the collar and yank him backwards... Jake never wanted children.
Just because Jake never wanted children did not mean that he would never have children. Just as the young man pulled Embry back away from the hostile spitter, something was shifting in the shadows. Embry's eyes widened and suddenly there was the light from a muzzle flash and there was a good sized whole in the bloated stomach of the spitter, her lifeless body falling down onto the ground. Embry turned roughly and he looked up to see a young woman, no older than twenty-two years old. She grinned lightly in satisfaction as the acid poured out of the spitter and began to sizzle on the dirt. She had a decent body, her breasts were two sizes bigger than Anfisa's, and she had a rather slim waist. Her hips gracefully supported her frame and her legs were long but perhaps a bit muscled. Her long blond hair was in complete dreadlocks. She was balancing a rifle on her shoulder and her white teeth flashed a grin in Jake's direction. "What the hell are ya' city slickers doin' out 'ere?"
Jake looked down at Embry with a glare and when the newbie showed up he silently pulled his rifle up and watched her with a frown. "We were heading towards the Sanctuary, it's close by but we're searching for someone. Wears a hoodie like a jumper." A Hunter. His hand rested on Embry's shoulder and it was useless trying to wiggle out of his grip because it was iron without harm. "What're you doing out here?" Jakobi prompted as he watched her, looked her over silently with a frown. With the Spitter down the man wasn't all that hypersensitive to what was around him but still he still wanted to get back to the RV and bloody quickly. She did have a good body.
"The name's Sawyer. A lot o' people just call my Sassy." the woman said, sarcasm dripping in her voice before she went over to look the boy over quietly and she ruffled his hair. "I live 'round these parts. Takes some time to get used to all these zombies." the woman stated and soon she was taking in the sight of the young man and the boy. "The Sanc? Well, you guys are out o' luck. The entire settlement has moved west." she placed her hands on her hips before she heard the trees creak. Anfisa jumped down from the branches and she looked Jake and Embry over. "What's going on?"
"Jakobi, I'm pretty sure he can introduce himself. Nice to meet you Sawyer." A gesture to the boys hair she'd just ruffled and silently kept his rifle resting in one hand and scratched his ear. "Moved west? You're joking. It's taken us weeks to get here" Just to find the entire bloody thing had moved again. Jakobi made the noise of ultimate dispair "Please tell me they didn't move far? I don't think I can stay in that RV for very much longer." he muttered quietly and when Anfisa jumped down Jake hammered his forehead with his hand. "There you are. Welcome back. And to be honest I don't know what's going on."
"Yep. The entire settlement picked up and moved west. I think they went to San Fran?" Sassy said, looking between the girl that had just come out of nowhere and now over to the boy that was now looking around for his father. Embry had been angry. Now he was just wanting to get back to his father and apologize. Sawyer scratched the back of her head and she said. "It's a good thing that they did move west. As far as I know, radiation was all over the place." she nodded. Anfisa sat down and she studied the man. That was when she heard the noise of someone coming from the direction of the RV, no doubt that Josh had finally caught up.
Jakobi rubbed her face. "Thank you, Sassy." he said lightly as he glanced over when Josh did finally come spilling out of the undergrowth. Damn his age. Just... Damn it. Behind it scampered the Hunter, having caught his daughters scent and when he found her the beast leaped forwards quietly and wrapped his arms around her with a quiet whine. He'd missed her. After a moment or two he pulled back and sat down on his haunches next to her. "What will you do? Are you just going to... carry on wondering around alone?"
"You're very welcome." the woman said and it seemed as if she was going to turn back and go home. However, she froze when the Hunter came out of nowhere and tackled Anfisa and started to whine. Her eyes widened and she motioned to him with her rifle. The second that she did, Anfisa erupted into a fit of growling, her eyes narrowing. She did not take it lightly when someone threatened to hurt her family. In fact, she often got very agressive when the Witch or Hunter was threatened in any manner. Embry moved from where Jakobi was holding him and he ran over to his father, his arms going around his waist. He really was sorry for what he'd done. Sawyer shrugged. "Dunno what I'm gunna do."
"No shooting, don't shoot it or you'll piss them off. That's Daddy, okay? Daddy." he pointed at the Hunter. "Daughter." he pointed at Anfisa. "Don't shoot whatever you do... You'll get used to it eventually." he nodded. The Hunter quietly whined and sat down next to her, silently trying to squash a spider that was crawling underneath the leaves before he leaped up and growled at it, chest to the floor and watched it, crawled after it and Jake made a noise. "Umm, darlin? I think you need to go get back your father…" he said, the Hunter ignored him and carried on going. Then he turned to Sawyer. "Well, ya'll could come along with us if you wanted... I mean, I dunno, it's dangerous to stay out here alone an' all…" Jake said slowly. When he ran over Josh said nothing and when hugged Josh very slowly stroked the top of Embry's head with his gaze on the new woman before going down to him with a soft sigh, kneeling down on one knee to look the boy over. "Are you okay?"
Nothing could piss Anfisa more than someone going and trying to kill either of her parents. She tended to be more protective over the Witch since her mother did not move too much, and even more so now since she had lost her will to kill someone if they got too close. Anfisa watched as the Hunter disappeared into the shadows and she snarled softly before she launched herself after the male. Geez. He was always running off, wasn't he? Sassy was surprised about the entire ordeal. "Daddy? That THING is her father? What sort of mixed up hell is this? How is he not trying to kill her?" Sawyer had never come across someone that had been raised by zombies, much less one that was the actual daughter of one. Embry nodded at once. "Oh. I'm fine." he wrapped his arms around his waist again and he just hugged his father tightly.
The Witch wouldn't kill if provoked now, the Hunter would nom on their throat if he had to. "Yeah... It's a long story but the point is as long as you don't piss him off, or point a gun at the next Hunter or Witch that you see then you'll be fine. Trust me, he's still trying to get over it." Jakobi jerked his thumb at Josh who had his arms lightly resting on Embry to make sure he was still there. The Hunter was still running after that spider, he caught it eventually and watched it climb up a rock before he stuck his tongue on it. Now... That was just disgusting. "Anfisa was born out of the mating of a Witch and Hunter, I don't know either but somehow it's possible."
Anfisa shivered when she caught sight of the Hunter and before he could eat the poor spider, she caught hold of his hoodie and she began to drag his sorry butt back towards the RV. They did not have enough time to wait while he began to hunt down every single little bug in the entire forest. Not just that, Anfisa did not feel like running after him that much. Sassy blinked once or twice and then she just shook her head. "Sure. I'll pretend to believe that. The zombies can't have babies." At least she did not think that they could. When Anfisa began to drag the Hunter by the small group of people, Sassy made up her mind. "Sure. I'll come with yall." she mused. It was going to be interesting.
"You haven't seen the amount of time they... um... Get it on. It's not nice to listen to." he said, looking back towards the daughter and father before he nodded and sheathed his weapon. "Back this way." he said as he started walking back towards the RV. The Hunter whined when she yanked him away, leaving the little bug to crawl away and his tastey meal and then went back with her, nibbling impaitently at his own navy jumper. When the others started maing their way back, hand resting on Embry's shoulder and sighed tenderly with his shotgun in the other hand. When they trailed behind, he merely stepped over a log and blinked quoietly before he stopped and listened. The others were ahead and Josh knew there was something around. The grip on the boys shoulder increased tenfold and he pulled the shotgun off his shoulder. His gaze swam across the room, brow raising. He heard it before he saw it, suddenly swinging Embry around to take the brunt of what could only be described as a barf ball smacked the back of his jacket. Now. That wasn't very nice. Josh hated spitters just as much... AS HE HATED CHARGERS! "Op, Karma Charger." He hated karma chargers. Swinging Embry once again out the wall and shoving him aside while the charger just grabbed and slammed him into the dirt. "JAKE!" Josh hated chargers.
"Well, I guess that I have been fairly warned." Sawyer stated as she began to make her way alongside Jake. She was starting to find the little band interesting, so when she caught sight of the RV and the Witch standing in the door, her brow raised. However, she had not tried to go and shoot her at least. She was staying pretty relaxed. When Josh was grabbed by the charger and then began to be beaten into the ground, it was not Jake that came to his rescue. Anfisa screamed and she jumped up onto the back of the beast, pulling a combat knife from seemingly nowhere and she stabbed it down into the beast. The charger let Josh go and roared as it tried to pry the girl off of it's back. It finally found purchase on her hoodie and it threw her into a tree. Anfisa whined somewhat, but she looked at Josh. "Get yourself and Embry out of here!"
The Witch turned towards them and instead of screaming and attaching and trying to scrap them to death, she turned and walked inside paitently and Jakobi made a motion, quietly walked in first and looked around. "Nira, we're heading to San Francisco. The Sanctuary is gone." he said as he watched her. Nira was standing up, paitent, watching them and when Sawyer walked in the woman looked startled. The Hunter was already ahead again, grabbing the Witch by the neck with his teeth and dragged her into the back room. Josh simply lay there for a second before he picked himself upright shurgging off his jacket as the spitter acid burnt through and to the skin, turning his shotgun on the beast before he called. "Take it." and he tossed it across. She was at a tree, not being slammed into the ground again so that was a good thing. Then he had no choice but to turn and grab Embry to stumble back towards the RV. No. Stupid Karma Chargers always caught him off guard.
Well, now he would not have to worry about the Karma Charger. It was now more focused on trying to kill the girl in front of it. She scrambled up the trunk of the tree and jumped over the zombies head. As Embry and Josh hurried back to the RV, Sawyer held the door open for them. "Hey. Where's the creepy girl? You didn't leave her alone back there, did ya?" the country girl raised a brow. Embry had just heard what Jake had said. "The Sanctuary is gone? That means that we now have to go somewhere else?" Crap. That meant that they were going to be trapped on that RV for awhile longer. Just before the door shut, a shotgun was thrown inside and Anfisa scrambled inside, a bit of blood marked her skin. She sat up and looked around. "Well then."
"Don't comment." Josh said as he dived inside after making sure Embry went first. Nira had already started pullling away when Anfisa leaped inside and the RV screeched away instantly down the almost man made road with a deep sigh. "We can't get rid of her." Jake teased as he looked at her and Josh was standing in the middle of the RV shrugging out of his shirt with a wince and looked over his shoulder down at the burn marks the acid had left with a flinch. Damnit, it hurt. "Yeah, sorry kid, we're stuck in here for a while longer." said Jakobi as he frowned and ran his hand through his hair.
"I just want to get out of here." the poor boy said with a bit of a sigh and he sat down, closing his eyes. Oh well. Aside from the obvious drama, Embry was wanting nothing more than to sleep. Sleep sounded like a very nice alternative to doing nothing aside from just sitting there and collecting dust. Anfisa studied Jake for a moment or so before she stretched out and she laid down on the couch, staring up at the ceiling. It sucked to be her and she knew it. Well, at least Josh and Embry had made it back to the RV without much of a problem. She closed her eyes and she smiled ever so gently.
Jakobi wrinkled his lips. "You're telling me." he mumbled quietly before he went and sat down. When Josh stopped jigging up and down the man turned on her and for a second it looked like he was going to beat the shit out of her but instead Josh stepped forwards and leaned down and wrapped his arms around her and hugged her quietly to his chest with an almost silent sigh only feelable on bare skin. "Thank you. Thank you. I am sorry." he murmured softly. Nira just blinked at them through the mirror, but said nothing on it. Josh didn't seem to mind the fact she could stab him in the stomach, but he owed her an apology and a break. He needed to learn to trust again, and now he knew it.
