Rush's animalistic nature got the best of him and he began growling. His muscle in his legs began to arch he was prepare to make a kill. He screeched as he leaped out from under the tarp it fluttered as he did so. He flew through the air with ease as he landed on his prey the one called Sam."Run run away!" she called to her friend but penny was frozen with sheer Terror her eyes wide.

As Rush began to try and tear his prey's throat out Tracey looked away for some reason she just couldn't bear to watch him make a kill.

She covered her face with the tarp and her clawed hands as Rush's growling echoed through the streets. Rush pinned Sam's arms down and quickly dispatched the prey with a quick bite to the throat blood sprayed from her neck arteries as he death wail echoed through the streets.

Penny was scared out of her skin her eyes were still wide she turned pale an unholy chill ran up her spine as she watched this hooded creature stand up from her dead friend.

As Rush got to his feet blood dripped off his muzzle and attire he heard a faint gasp. His head instantly jerked to the direction in which the sound had emanated from.

There he saw a young woman her eyes covered with glass's she was dressed in blue jeans and a jacket made of fine black leather her eyes were locked on him. He crouched down and growled menacingly the young girl took a step back and Rush took a step forward he was about to leap forward and crush the girls throat when a yip entered his ears.

He looked behind him and saw Tracey she was standing up her claws dangling at her hips.

Her red glowing eyes locked on the food a famished look etched on her face. Rush gesture to the corpse with a point of a clawed, bloody finger. Tracey slowly walked over eyeing the girl slightly before turning to the food. "What?" Penny though as he watched her body seemed to not want to move.

Rush stood up and looked at penny his face twisted in to a snarl. He screeched loudly causing penny to let out the scream of terror she had been holding in it was almost as loud as Tracey's. She then bolted off in to the desolate streets her cries of fear echoing through the streets.

Rush quickly crouched down next to his companion she looked Famished but made no attempt to eat. He let out a bewildered yelp sound. Why wasn't she eating? He thought to himself.

But after a moment Tracey's hunger got the best of her and began ravenously feeding tearing at the food like there was no tomorrow. Rush tried to eat but Tracey pushed him back sending him flying backwards like a rag doll.

He let out an angry growl as if to say "give me some". Tracey responded with a loud growl as she fed Rush shrugged and waited his turn he wasn't about to fight for food with a friend with 5 inch long claws.

The survivors point of view.

Zoë's arm throbbed as bill Louis and Francis made their way in to a safe room. Bill closed the steel door."Here let me patch you up" bill said as he pulled the med kit from his back a genuine look of concern etched on his face.

"Damn I've never seen a hunter drag someone before you alright Zoey?" Louis asked as bill pulled up Zoë's sleeve and began pouring hydrogen peroxide in to the teeth marks in her flesh.

She winced in pain the medicine frothing in the wound."I'm fine Louis" she replied calmly. Francis sat in the corner his eyes full of worry."What's wrong Francis?" Zoey asked as bill bandaged the wound with gauze.

The bikers face was etched with concern as he raised his head to his companion."It's nothing" he said trying to sound tough like his usual self.

But he wasn't fooling anyone."Seriously Francis what's wrong?" She asked as she walked over to him her sniper rifle strapped to her back.

The biker sighed."I feel bad because…." he looked away almost as if he was ashamed."Because of what?" she pressed him for an answer by now the whole group had crowded around him. "Because… I couldn't stop it alright?" he replied reluctantly.

Zoey looked at him with an eye brow raised."Francis you don't need to feel bad this happens all the time whys it bothering you?" she asked as bill and Louis backed up slightly giving the biker some space.

"Well it's just when you stopped screaming I though you died… and your important to me I guess…" he said as he looked away clearly embarrassed at showing that he cared.

Zoey smiled."You're just a big softy aren't you?" she teased her smile turning in to a grin. "Shut up Zoey!" Francis said as he glared at her.

"Oh come on I was kidding! You don't need to worry about me Francis I'm fine" she said as she patted the bikers shoulder.

Rush awoke from his rather pleasant sleep. He awoke but did not move he was still as a corpse as his eyes strained to see in the almost blinding light of the safe room.

After a few minutes his eyes adjusted and he realized it was dawn. He heard a faint sigh and he listened."Well guess I should get up" he though as he stood up his legs arched as usual.

He slowly walked past a sleeping Kane and his friends. He then opened the door and closed it silently.

Once out side he saw that his women had kindly moved the mutilated corpse he had been eating the day before so he would have some food the next morning."That was nice…" he said in the infected language quietly.

After eating his fill he dragged the gruesome carcass away as to not scare his new found companions.

He then remembered Tracey hadn't eaten in a few days."Damn she's gunna need some grub oh well back to the food!" he said to himself.

As he made his way back to the carcass he noticed his women hadn't come running or hug tackled him like usual how peculiar.

When he got back to the carcass he greeted the headless wreck with a grin."Hi mike how's your head?" he said as he laughed holding his sides."Oh come on chap stiff upper lip…" he snickered and burst in to laughter he always did have a sick sense of humor.

"Well buddy I need your arm hope ya don't mind it's going to a good cause… "He said almost sounding like a news reporter getting a good scoop on a headline story. He kneeled down and quickly began severing an arm off.

"Wait... didn't I do this yesterday? Yea I did… whatever happened to that arm I brought back before meeting Kane? Eh no use crying over spilled appendages" Rush said in the infected language chuckling to himself.

After severing the arm he stuffed it inside his shirt pocket and walked off back to the safe room. As he walked down the walk way he smelled the air a sickly scent hung in the air.

"Hmm something's off…" he muttered to himself as he slipped his arm through the safe room door's bars and pulled up the steel rod that blocked the door.

As he walked in he placed the rod back in its place making sure the door was secure. As he stepped quietly over a sleeping Keith he noticed Nancy was looking at him her eyes fearful as usual.

He gave her a ghoulish grin his mouth bloody. She turned pale and fainted Rush put his hands over his mouth barely able to hold back his snickering.

He heard a faint tortured crying emanating from the room next to the one he was in. His snickering had gone away almost instantly as he entered the room he saw Tracey still covered in sheets.

She sat cross legged her claws layed on her lap she rocked back and forth as she cried pitifully. Rush kneeled down next to her. She abruptly whirled her head around and met him with gasp.

"Hey easy Tracey it's me your buddy Rush" he said giving her a big bloody smile. She smiled back "Got you something to eat" Rush said as he pulled out the arm it was rather bloody and a little cold. Tracey eyed the appendage with a famished look but then abruptly looked away.

"Oh come on your hungry and there nothing else to eat now eat up!" Rush insisted as he held the limp in his hands.

Tracey shook her head in protest no way she was eating that. "Oh well guess I'll…" Rush said as he tore off a chunk of flesh and quickly stuffed it in Tracey mouth.

The young witch glared at him then swallowed and opened her mouth like she was going to say something but something else entirely happened.

Her red glowing eyes glazed over with malice as she stood up and threw her arms behind her. Then she emitted a bone chilling scream and ripped the appendage out of Rush's clawed hands almost taking them off."There you go…" Rush said triumphantly.

"What the raptor Jesus was that?" Kane exclaimed as he was jarred awake by a god awful noise."Oh, hey Kane" Rush said calmly as he walked in to the room his attire bloody as usual.

"What's happening?" Kane said as he got to his feet his gloved fists wrapped around his shotgun."Oh I got Tracey some breakfast" the infected said as he sat down on a nearby chair.

"Kane! What was that?" Keith said as he stood up his revolver clutched in his hands his eyes dim with sleepiness Nancy hid behind him. "It's Tracey Keith" Kane said quickly.

"Who?" Keith asked a he raised an eye brow."Remember the girl you punched and then I punched you because you punched her" Kane replied."Oh yea…wait! Why is she still in here?" keith almost yelled."Oh calm down she's harmless!" Rush said to Keith as Tracey growled loudly in the other room as she ate her breakfast.

"See! Harmless" The hunter said sounding rather cheery. "Well… fine but if she goes nuts there's gunna be hell to pay" Keith said as he sat back down on the floor his wife hiding behind him. Kane turned his attention to Tracey she was sitting cross legged and appeared to be eating something but what? "Hey Rush what's she eating anyway?" Kane asked his sleepiness beginning to wear off."Oh it's a big rat!" the hunter replied as he gave Kane a bloody grin.

"Seriously" Kane said he was in no mood for rush being a smart ass. The infected's grin quickly faded as Kane's face turned in to a serious look."I don't think you want to know" Rush said plainly as he began picking dirt out of his claws. "I'll be the judge of that" Kane replied.

As he peered in to the room Tracey was in he got a feeling of dread which he promptly ignored. As he looked over her shoulder he saw a severed arm already half eaten bone tendons and muscle hung off the mutilated appendage.

Kane jerked backwards his head was spinning and be grabbed a nearby bucket and began violently vomiting how could someone eat someone else? It was a question Kane didn't want an answer to.

"Told you" Rush said as Kane continued to vomit violently almost puking up all of his guts. "Kane what's wrong what did you see?" Keith asked as he moved over to the bucket."Oh god Keith she's… she's eating a freakin' arm!" Kane blurted out in between dry heaves. "What? No way in hell!" Keith says as he walks in to the room.

To his shock and horror it is an arm he calmly walks out of the room the shredded remains of his coat jiggling as he walks. Without saying a word he plops down on his knees and begins vomiting in to the bucket just as violently as Kane.

The hunter sitting in the chair next to the bucket tries to hold back his snickering but before too long he's holding his sides laughing hysterically.

"OH my god! You guys act like you have never seen this before oh my god ha-ha!" Rush said his sides arching his clawed hands wrapped around his chest.

"Enough!" Nancy said as she stood up her face etched with hatred at the hunter. She quickly moved at Rush and slapped him across the face with that distinctive slap sound causing his head to jerk to the right.

Slightly shocked at the attack he slowly turned his head back to its forward facing position. He let out a growl his cheek stinging."What was that for?" he asked his voice slightly agitated.

"That right there is my husband the man I love and I hope to grow old with and then die I won't have a hood wear punk like yourself be laughing at him for tossing his cookies over something that causing people to do that she's eating a human arm for Christ sakes! " Nancy said her voice stern a glare on her face.

Rush thought a moment his arms crossed over his chest."You got a point Blondie it's just I don't have much to laugh about these days all doom and gloom ya know?" Rush replied the stinging in his cheek fading quickly.

"Oh I know it's been awful since the infection started!" Nancy said her glare turning in to a friendly smile.

"My names Rush by the way" the hunter said his tone relaxed. "I'm Nancy nice to meet you Rush!" the blonde replied her ice blue eyes lighting up.

She extended a hand but Rush didn't shake it."Trust me that would now be a good idea…" Rush said at the gesture. "Why?" the nurse asked as she pulled the hand back.

The infected grinned and lifted up a hand exposing the claws that were now his fingernails dried blood coated them mixed with dirt.