Untold

By: esmtz

"That was too fucking close!" Nick sighed as he leaned against the wall with his back.

"Yeah you said it." Louis replied before looking at Zoey who was shaking, "Zoey, are you ok?" he asked worriedly.

"The poor girl's in shock. I don't suppose y'all saw yer teammate die a few years ago did you?" Coach asked as he went over to her and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Not exactly. All we saw was that three tanks had backed him into a corner after he had gone to restart a generator." Louis replied.

Francis snorted.

"I fucking hate generators. They always end up giving us problems." Francis said.

"Zoey, its ok…" Louis said going up to her as tears started falling from her eyes.

Zoey wasn't the only one shaken. Ellis hadn't seen anyone he knew die right in front of him so he was shaking just as badly as she was.

"Holy shit…" Ellis whispered as his legs gave out underneath him; his eyes wide and completely terrified.

"It's not so easy watchin someone die is it, Ellis? Yer friend had it easy considerin Ro went a much worse way." Coach told him as he gently squeezed Zoey's shoulder.

Zoey started crying as she turned around and hugged Coach. Nick sighed as he moved away from the wall and went towards Coach.

"Coach, is it even a good idea for us to even stay here for a bit?" Nick asked, "I don't know about you, but once it starts raining I don't think it's going to let up anytime soon."

"Yeah wouldn't want to get stuck here with all them zombies out there. Ok soon as we're all healed up we'll be on our way again." Coach replied as he awkwardly hugged Zoey back.

"Where are we goin to go, Coach? I reckon just about everywhere is full of zombies." Ellis said swallowing as he looked up at him.

"Well actually yer friend's idea about goin to an island wasn't a bad idea, but problem is how are we goin to get there and how are we supposed to survive without food and shelter?" Coach frowned slightly as he looked at Louis, "Anybody got an idea?"

"I remember reading something on a wall of a safe house that supposedly said that there was an island that had all of that on it. That was when Bill came up with the idea in the first place." Francis replied.

"You didn't tell us that." Louis said looking at him.

Francis snorted.

"That's because I didn't like the idea at the time."

"Well here's another problem for you; where exactly is the island?" Nick asked glaring at Francis.

Francis shrugged.

"Hell if I know. This was a few years ago."

"Nick, never mind we'll figure out where the island is later." Coach said quickly cutting Nick off before he could respond, "All we need to worry about right now is gettin out of here."

Ellis watched as Nick, Coach, and Francis grabbed a health kit from the table next to the safe room door and started patching themselves back up. He kept his eyes on Nick and swallowed.

'He can't…I wouldn't be able to forgive mahself if he…' Ellis thought feeling scared for Nick's safety, 'Zoey and Jake were right. I hafta talk to him.'

Ellis slowly stood up and walked towards Nick. Nick didn't even have to look up to know who had come towards him as he sighed.

"What now, Ellis?" Nick asked as he continued stitching a wound that was on his arm.

"C-Can we talk?" Ellis asked nervously.

"If it's about before I don't want to talk about it. What's there to say anyway? 'I'm sorry' isn't going to change anything, Ellis and for once you need to know that." Nick said as he looked up at him.

"I know that it's not goin to, but I don't know what else to say to get you to forgive me. I know how badly I screwed up when I took off that I didn't even consider thinkin that y'all still needed me. If I could get rid of the pain that yer feelin I would, but I can't. You have every right to be angry with me and I don't blame you if you really hate me, but I just wanted you to know that if I could trade places with Rochelle, I would for you." Ellis told him.

Nick snorted shaking his head.

"Somehow I doubt that you would." Nick replied coldly.

Ellis looked at him hurt before going over to sit next to Zoey who was sitting next to the door they had entered and barred shut.

"I'm sorry that he's still mad at you." Zoey said as soon as he sat down.

Ellis shook his head.

"I didn't think he was goin to forgive me. Nick always made sure that Ro would be the first helped if she was hurt. He's just been in so much pain and I'm the one who caused it." Ellis replied looking down at the floor with his fists clenched at his sides.

"Ellis, it's not your fault. You weren't there." Zoey told him as she looked at him sadly.

"That's why it makes it mah fault. I could have been there to help, but instead I was at a bar ordering a lot of beers just cause I was upset that he took care of her before me. This whole time I had been blamin and hatin Ro for Nick not likin me, but now I see why he doesn't. It ain't her fault. None of it is. It was all mine for bein too fuckin selfish all the damn time." Ellis replied shaking his head sadly, "Rochelle was right. I have become a burden to him."

Zoey didn't know what to say as she looked away after a few seconds. Ten minutes passed and Coach stood up and looked at everyone else.

"Alright y'all ready?" Coach asked.

"Ready as we're ever going to be." Louis replied.

Before they left the safe house, they all quickly grabbed a weapon and pain pills and headed on out. Ellis, being the last one, found an adrenaline in the bathroom and quickly pocketed it before following right behind. Coach had been right that the safe house was near the evac center. In fact the moment they got outside they immediately found themselves in front of a huge outdoor stadium. The stage, which was used by bands, was in front of them and as they looked around the bleachers were almost circling the stage area. Past the stage was nothing but open water. Nick snorted.

"It figures we have to go through this again!"

"I wonder if the Midnight Riders ever played here." Ellis said looking at the stage.

"Boy, they had to of come by here seein as they did do a few tours." Coach replied.

Ellis felt something wet hit his face making him look up.

"I think it's already startin to rain y'all." Ellis said seeing as most of the sky was now dark.

"We better make this quick then." Louis said.

"Um, guys? Where do we call for help?" Zoey asked looking around.

"Don't worry I got it." Francis replied as he found it on a table that was on the stage, "Uh, hello?"

"How much do you want to bet that the stupid pilot is a zombie?" Nick asked the moment Francis finished talking to the guy and walked back towards them.

"If he is someone's gunna hafta fly the helicopter once we kill him." Coach said.

"Has anyone here even flown a helicopter before?" Zoey asked.

No one responded.

"Well, I guess the big guy's gunna do it then." Francis said.

"What makes you think I am, boy?" Coach glared at him.

"Well, for one I hate helicopters and two I don't trust anyone else here to fly it." Francis replied looking at him.

"What the hell makes you think I can?"

"Uh, cause you know more then the rest of us?"

Coach noticed that everyone had their eyes on him making him sigh.

"Alright fine, but ONLY if he is infected."

"Wait, how's the pilot gunna be able to know where we are if it starts rainin real hard?" Ellis asked.

"Simple. We start up the music." Francis replied as he got on the stage again and went to start the music.

"I'm really starting to hate concerts." Nick said just as the rain started to come down and lights went on.

"How long did the pilot say it was going to take him before he can get here?" Zoey yelled out as soon as Francis got off the stage again.

"Uh, ten minutes I think."

"FRANCIS!"

"What? I could barely hear him over the static."

Zoey sighed.

"Y'all I can barely see a damn thing out here!" Ellis yelled.

"We don't have time for this, Ellis! Just shoot whatever zombies you can see!" Nick yelled.

"Try to steer clear of the water y'all and stay together!" Coach yelled.

"They're coming, boys!" Zoey yelled as she was barely able to see the normal infected run at them.

Ellis started to panic as he looked around for Nick.

'Shit how am I supposed ta know if Nick's in trouble or not?'

Ellis felt the infected start to attack him from behind. He turned around and shoved them away.

'This is bad. What if I shoot someone?'

Ellis barely heard someone yell out for help. He turned towards the direction he heard it from and saw that a jockey was riding Zoey and was steering her way from everyone else.

"Get this disgusting thing off me!" Zoey yelled.

Coach and Louis went after her while Francis and Nick tried to kill the zombies that ran after them.

"No you know what? I really hate the rain." Francis said having to shove zombies away so he could get a better shot at the ones attacking Coach and Louis.

"I'm getting sick and tired of hearing all the things you hate, Francis!" Nick said shoving and killing the zombies that were surrounding him and went to help out Zoey.

"No, NO!" Francis suddenly yelled as a smoker's tongue wrapped around him allowing more zombies to surround and attack him.

Barely able to see it through the rain, Ellis ran towards the bleachers and shot at it until it died in a puff of smoke. Francis quickly got up and both he and Ellis quickly killed all the ones that had surrounded him.

"Thanks, kid." Francis told him.

Ellis nodded.

"Hey did you guys get that freakin jockey?" Francis yelled out.

"Yeah, but we have a bit of a problem over here!" Louis yelled back.

Ellis and Francis watched as the regular infected ran in the direction the others were at.

"Looks like someone got puked on." Francis said.

"Goddammit!" Nick yelled as he killed the boomer that had vomited on Coach and Zoey and it's puke now went all over him as well, "Disgusting shit!"

"Nick!" Ellis yelled as he ran in the direction of his voice.

"Hey, kid! Wait!" Francis yelled.

Ellis hadn't seen or heard that a hunter was nearby. It was at the last second when he saw it and moved back. He wasn't fast enough, however, so it's claws managed to dig right into Ellis's right leg. Ellis screamed as he fell to the floor and before the hunter could pounce on him, Francis shoved it away and killed it. He then turned and looked down at Ellis's leg and winced.

"Aw shit this is bad." Francis said.

Ellis clutched tightly to his leg as he grit his teeth tightly against the pain.

"Ellis?"

Ellis thought he heard Nick call out his name, but he shook his head and thought that it was just his imagination.

"Kid, you need to get up!" Francis said helping him to stand up.

Ellis turned white when he felt the ground start to shake signaling that a tank just showed up.

"TANK!"

Ellis could barely make out its form and saw that it was headed for the others. His eyes went wide when he realized that Nick still had the smell of boomer vomit all over him.

"Francis, please go help them out!" Ellis told him.

Gunshots were being fired and Francis wondered if they did need help or if he should just stay with Ellis. He looked at him for a few seconds before asking.

"Will you be ok?"

"Yeah, just go!"

"Ok."

Francis lowered Ellis so he could sit on the ground before running to help out with the tank. Ellis heard another boomer explode and more zombies started running their way. He tried to stand up on his own, but ended up collapsing in pain from his leg. He looked at it and saw that a lot of blood was coming out of the huge cut.

'Dammit, Nick needs mah help. Get up!' Ellis thought biting his lip hard as he tried to deal with the pain.

Ellis slowly got up, holding on to the wall for support, as he saw the tank and the others come back into view. They were all on the bleachers and the tank was catching up to them pretty quickly.

'NO!' Ellis thought wide eyed when he saw it right in front of Nick and the regular infected were right behind him; stopping him from going anywhere.

With one swing from its arm, it sent Nick flying towards the stage. Ellis felt his heart stop beating for a few seconds when he saw Nick hit his head against the edge of the stage and then fall to the floor motionless.

"NICK!" Ellis screamed.

The tank roared as it went after Zoey and Coach who were still trying to kill it along with Louis and Francis. Ellis sat back down on the floor, got on his stomach, and then started trying to crawl towards Nick. He was at least grateful that the smell of the boomer's vomit got the attention of the majority of the infected so the only ones he had to watch out for were the specials, but so far he didn't see any near him. The rain clearly wasn't stopping, but suddenly he was able to see more of his surroundings and instead of making sure everyone else was ok, he kept making his way towards Nick. As soon as he reached him, he collapsed right next to him; trying to catch his breath. He then moved so he could be hovering on top of him and put two fingers against Nick's neck to feel for a pulse. Ellis sighed with relief when he found one and laid his head against Nick's forehead.

"Thank god yer alive, Nick." Ellis said.

Ellis then turned to see how the others were doing and saw that they had killed the tank and were now having to fight off more zombies. He turned his attention back to Nick; surprised that the zombies hadn't been attacking either one of them. Ellis swallowed as he leaned closer to Nick.

"I love you, Nick and I'm sorry for everythin." Ellis said as he cupped Nick's face in his hands and kissed him on the forehead.

The ground started shaking again and Ellis already knew what he had to do. He took out his adrenaline and injected it into his leg. With all his strength he picked up Nick and carried him to where Coach was at, still on the bleachers, shooting at the zombies.

"Coach!" Ellis yelled.

Coach looked at him and then at Nick worriedly.

"Is he alright?"

Ellis nodded.

"Yeah, just please get him out of here!" Ellis said.

"Boy, what on earth are you doin? Get up here!" Coach yelled as he grabbed Nick and pulled him towards him.

Ellis looked down making Coach look down at his leg and wince.

"I'm usin an adrenaline. Once the feelin's back I wont be able to walk or run. Coach, look after him for me ok?"

Coach would have said something, but instead his eyes went wide and all he could yell out was 'look out!' Ellis screamed the moment the tank hit him (his hat fell off) and Nick's eyes immediately shot open. He sat up and was horrified to see that the tank was hitting Ellis away from them.

"NO!" Nick screamed as he pulled away from Coach and jumped down from the bleachers.

"Boy, get back here! Aw shit! Y'all shoot the tank!" Coach yelled to the others who had just finished off killing the zombies that were in their way.

"ELLIS!" Zoey screamed as they also started shooting at it.

Nick picked up Ellis's gun that was on the floor and started shooting at it.

"GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM HIM!" Nick yelled as he ran towards it.

Ellis rolled on the floor and gasped in pain when he came to a stop. He clutched his chest tightly as he slowly tried to sit up. He looked behind him and saw that he was very close to the water and then he turned his attention to the oncoming tank and sighed.

'Guess it's now time for me to apologize to Ro too.' Ellis thought.

Ellis was surprised when he heard Nick yelling out to him making him look up and saw that Nick was desperately trying to stop the tank from killing him.

"Ellis, move!" Nick yelled.

Ellis smiled at him slightly one last time before the tank got close enough to hit him and with one hit Ellis was out cold before he even hit the water.

"ELLIS!" Nick screamed.

Author's notes: Wow now this is the longest chapter I have ever written. Thanks again for the reviews as once again I was inspired to write this even sooner then a week. Don't worry Ellis isn't the character I was planning on killing off, but it'll look like he is in the next chapter. This chapter along with the next one is what I've been planning since a few chapters ago so now I know where I'm going, not really sure how to end the story, but at least for the next two chapters I know what I want. Still not sure if I want to kill off another character. I've been thinking either Zoey or Louis. Not Francis since I did already kill him off twice and I don't really want to do that again. Anyway I love and appreciate the reviews! ^_^