I woke up in a cell and looked around. I was alone. Peering through the bars I could see Alex lying in the cell opposite of me.
"Alex! Alex wake up!" I yelled at him. Lucky for me he's a light sleeper and woke up with just me yelling.
"Codi! What happened? Last thing I remember we beat that monster in the hotel garden," Alex said.
"Wish I could be more helpful but that's all I remember. I think we're back at the police station in Shepherd's Glen," I said. "Is there a way out over by you?"
"Not that I can see. I'll look around more," Alex said.
The longer we sat in that cell the more I felt sick to my stomach. I feeling trapped. At some point I just couldn't take it anymore I threw up in the corner. The twin doors opened and large man in uniform walked in.
"Deputy Wheeler," Alex said.
"Well, well. Back in the world of the living." Wheeler said pointing a shotgun at Alex. I guess he thinks Alex is the most dangerous, he's not wrong.
"How did we get here?" I asked covering my nose to avoid the smell of the vomit.
"I put you guys here. I haven't quite made up my mind about you two yet." he said.
"Wheeler, c'mon you know me. Let me out!" Alex demanded.
"You won't be going anywhere until I get some answers. Start talking!"
" I don't know. Last thing I remember we were in a greenhouse talking to Mayor Bartlett." I jumped in.
"Sam Bartlett? That lunatic? Where is he? I got a couple questions I'd like to ask him about what's been going on around him." Wheeler said in disbelief. Like I'd lie trapped in a room with my own vomit.
Alex tried lying about him being passed out drunk. Wheeler saw right through that.
"Well you're not going to be able to ask him anything. He's dead." Alex said now telling the truth. He really is a terrible liar.
"Dead? Shit. You better start telling me what you're up to Alex. I wanna know right now!" Wheeler demanded waving the gun around near Alex's face.
"I'm just trying to find my brother and her sister Natalie, okay? I thought the mayor might know something. His son is missing too."Alex explained.
"A lot of people are missing, but that doesn't give you the right to kill a man."
"We didn't kill anybody!" I yelled.
"Then what happened to mayor Bartlett?" Wheeler asked smugly thinking he had his smoking gun.
"You wouldn't believe us if we told you," I said sitting down on the bed in my cell. I already had monster blood on me, dust from the bed wouldn't hurt.
"Young lady I can believe a lot. You just have to trust me."
"It was some kind of creature, but worse than the others. It came to life out of the goddamn tree! That's what killed him. And that's the truth I swear," Alex said.
"We should get moving. I'm not sure its safe here anymore follow me," Wheeler said opening Alex's cell and then mine.
We ran through the police station halls to the chief's office. We ran into some monsters with saws for head that split apart down the middle. Wheeler held them off as we ran. With the door locked we picked up some supplies lying around the office.
"Alex! Codi! Wheeler! Come in. I'm on my way to the sheriff's station. Something's after me!" we heard Elle on the radio.
"Elle, head to the parking lot behind the station. We'll meet you there," Alex responded back to her.
"Okay, clear a path through the lobby and break down the barricaded. I'll cover you. Okay?" Wheeler told us. We nodded and took out our weapons.
A monster separated us from Wheeler as it crashed through the ceiling. We ran into five of those saw monsters in the lobby. You knew they were about to charge when they heads split and the crouched. The police station was in bad shape but at least there was still some ammo lying around. On the bad side we had to take out more monsters to get to it.
By the time we reached the garage and killed the schism, named after the great schism of 1043,there was still no sign of wheeler. Alex opened up the locker that contained some health drinks and ammo and then opened the garage door.
There was Elle just as she said she'd be. She was sitting in a police car when the same monster that separated us from Wheeler jumped in front of her and flipped her car. Then the monster charged at us.
I was faster than Alex so I dodged its attacks and kept the monster busy while Alex attacked its most vulnerable side. The female side. I honestly just thought that side was for ballet or something.
With the monster dead we helped Elle out of the car. Schisms were closing in from all sides.
"Quick the sewers, we'll be safer there." Alex said.
Elle climbed down first, then me and finally Alex who shut the manhole just before a Schism could get him.