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Chapter 11: It's Getting Worse Hunter!
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"Fire in the hole!" Zoey yells as she throws a pipe bomb into the wave of newly arriving infected. Zoey, and all the others, were fighting off wave after wave of infected while their getaway vehicle was being lowered. Alex and Rose were down among the infected,dropping as many as they could. My parents, Beth and Elizabeth, and all the others were on the top of a small one story building. Ezekiel and Francis were blocking the door up.

I am watching from the sidelines, on top of a tall building away from the action I desperately wanted to join. I had to find a good opportunity to jump in, if I jumped in too hastily, I could get shot by a stray bullet, and the infected would tear me to pieces. I see Zoey begin reloading and find my chance, I jump straight into the group of infected Zoey was just unloading into and begin doing work.

"Hunter, you're back!" I hear Zoey yell at me.

I give a happy yelp to tell her I had heard her, and then I unleash my endless rage.

"Carnage, destruction, anarchy, death! Oh! Soon it all will be mine!" I yell as I tear the infected apart. I see a hostile Hunter attempting to circle around and catch the survivors off guard. I vault off of a common and jump straight into him using my good shoulder. He does a backflip and lands cleanly. He snarls at me and I return the favor. After that,we jump for each other. He was obviously going for my jugular, a very primitive tactic. He had no intelligence in his eyes. The Hunter lifts its claw to attempt to slash at my throat. I dodge it and then, rather swiftly, I grab the arm and kick off of his chest. Effectively pulling the arm out of its socket. In his immense pain as he tries to desperately get his arm back into place, I run up and jam my claws right into his eye sockets. I hear him whine pathetically and then I begin to slice. I cut through bone, flesh, and more as I gave him a very sloppy lobotomy. He falls on the ground, and bleeds out. And I head back to the action.

I run up and dive straight back into the infected, however, this time I was side by side with Rose. I look at her and she smiles and turns to quickly end a common. I let out a laugh and continue on my rampage.

"TANK!" I hear Louis yell. I turn to see a Tank punch straight through a chain link fence. I jump straight for it.

"Hunter, No!" I hear many of the survivors yell. I didn't care, this Tank would regret crossing me! I stop to stand my ground and I am joined by Alex and Rose. We would fight it together.

As the Tank comes up to deliver a mighty punch, Alex runs right up and catches the fist in his hand. I could tell he was struggling to keep the fist in place, however, it didn't stop Alex from delivering his own punch right into the Tanks' stomach. Alex quickly backs off as the survivors begin laying down suppressive fire on the Tank. This gives Alex enough time to get a solid steel pole from inside. He steps on it, turns it, and steps on it again. And it makes a nice spear. He then ties his katana to the other end and runs back out to join us. While he was doing that, I had jumped on the Tanks back and was clawing at the muscles capable of allowing him to lift his arms. The muscles were too thick and strong for me to cut into very far though, and I am eventually thrown off. However, at that moment Alex came back and used the katana side of his staff to slice at the Tanks chest, he then spins it around and starts aiming for the eyes. He gets one, but the Tank grabs the pole and throws it off into the distance.

"He can't see as well anymore, we have an advanta-" Boom!

Alex was struck with a piece of concrete by the Tank, he was out cold. Rose, in a rage, runs at the Tank and begins to circle around it. She was able to dodge a few punches, but not all of them. She goes flying straight through a garage door.

"Rose, Alex!" I yell in a rage. I look at the Tank and yell, "You want to fight seriously?" I take off my hoodie. "Then let's fight seriously!" I run at the Tank full speed, I duck under one of the Tanks punches and athletically kick the Tank right in its lower jaw, breaking it. I kneels over in pain, but mostly ignores it as it runs in a fury towards me. I jump up above it as it tries to smash the ground in front of me and I give him a very strong kick, it was enough to get the Tank to fall on it's back.

"Now, DIE!"

I yell the last part as a shriek. The Tank wasn't made to ever be on it's back, it couldn't strike anything on its chest if it was on it's back, and couldn't get up if anything was on its chest either. I jump up on the Tank, and begin clawing at its chest.

Using my claws, I am able to begin peeling away at the Tanks skin, I get through the skin and right to the ribcage, I pry it open with much effort, the Tank screaming a rather pitiful scream. I begin to tear out the Tanks organs, starting with the lungs. The Tank begins to shake due to it having a stroke due to the sudden loss of all oxygen to the brain. I tear out the stomach, intestines, liver, everything. The last thing I pull out is the heart.

Everything goes silent around me. The infected were all dead, the survivors were just watching me, but I didn't know that. I begin to laugh maniacally, uncontrollably even. After I had finished my laughing, I look at the still-beating heart in my hands, and I take a bite out of it.

Zoey runs quickly to wake up Rose. She runs into the garage she flew into and finds her quickly, already getting back up.

~~~~ (This signifies a P.O.V change. Don't expect these very often.)

"Rose, you have to stop Hunter!"

"What's happened to him now?" I say worryingly.

"He killed the Tank by himself, but now he's losing himself again!"

"Oh no!" I say as I run past her to go outside.

I see Hunter holding the Tanks heart, he was surrounded with blood and gore, getting into the dirt and grass. As I watch him, he takes a bite out of the heart! And it wasn't his first one!

"Hunter!" I yell as I run towards him. He looks towards me with his usual face he has when he's losing it, an unsettling smile and bulging eyes. I run up and embrace him. He laughs as I do so, blood oozing out of his mouth and onto my cheek and shoulder.

"Find yourself Hunter! Find yourself!" I whisper into his ear.

His breathing slows down gradually, and his laughter dies out. He passes out in my arms. He was getting worse everyday! I just wish I could do something but all I knew what to do when he got like this was how to calm him down! I begin crying as I watched him sleeping in my arms. This was the only time he looked peaceful! Like how he was when he met me...

I have a dream.

I see myself, gone insane and killing my friends, my family, leaving Rose for last. I can hear Rose begging for mercy, but all I do is laugh and raise the Katana of the now murdered Alex, and cut her head off.

I wake up with a scream, and realize that I was in a bus.

"Welcome back, Hunter." Louis says as I wake up. He was sitting right across from me. "Lucky this was a bus huh? If it wasn't we probably would have had to leave someone behind!" I smile at him and nod. Zoey comes over and hands me a cup of hot chocolate.

"Here, it's starting to get cold, need to stay warm, right?"

I just stare at her for a few seconds when I realize I should reply to her. "Oh, uh... yeah! Thanks, Zoey."

"Don't mention it Hunter."

I look at the drink and think, "What is hot chocolate?" I take a small sip and it burns my tongue. I would have to drink it slowly. I look out the window at the wilderness quickly passing us by. I had never seen trees this big before!

"Do trees always get this big?" I ask Francis, who was looking out the same side behind me.

"Nah, only certain kinds. These are called pine trees, they get very tall because that way they can get more sun."

"Read that out of a history book? I've never heard you sound so smart before Francis!" Bill said from the front. He was giving directions to Ezekiel, who was driving.

"Ah shut up old man! I'm still waiting to see if your beard is infected, but maybe I won't take the chance and get rid of it while you're sleeping tonight!"

"If my beard is gone by tomorrow, I'll kick your ass Francis."

I laugh and return to looking out the window, we were entering an off ramp and going onto the freeway now. We see a store, and we decide to stop and scavenge.

"Man, this place has everything!" I hear Louis say as we look around.

"And, it's so far out of the way it hasn't had most of its stuff taken yet." Zoey says.

I take Roses hand and lead her to the clothes. She needed new clothes, she had been wearing the same hoodie since we met, and it reeked of blood (my fault) and other such unrecognizable scents. We find a black hoodie with a giant print of a red rose in the front. It was perfect for her, after that, we find some nice black pants and some black shoes.

After I had found some clothes for her, she grabbed my arm, laughing, and took me to the men's clothing to pick me out an outfit. She finds a denim jacket with a cloth hood stitched in on the inside. With that, she finds a new pair of tan khakis, and nice brown shoes. I pick out a nice dark grey undershirt and put on the denim jacket. I zip to up and the finish putting on the rest of my clothes. After we were done admiring our fashion sense, we went to go find the others.

We found Zoey drooling over shampoo.

"Do you guys KNOW how long I've gone without a shower? They didn't have any working showers back at the base!"

We nod and decide to go find Francis.

We find Francis arguing with Bill over a display of various rifles.

"I'm telling you gramps, this gun is better."

"Son, I am a war veteran. I know my guns, and that gun is most definitely NOT worth it!"

We smile at their usual antics and go see where the others are.

We find Beth and Elizabeth in the children's section. Beth and Liz were picking out coloring books and small toys to keep Liz occupied when traveling. I find a red children's rucksack and give it to Liz so she can hold all of her stuff.

"Like I said Hunter, you are really good with kids!"

"Oh you!"

Ezekiel is in the electronics section mourning over how there is no more electricity, he used to be a computer technician.

We find Mom and Dad looking through clothes like we were, trying to find a good jacket for the colder weather.

Alex is in the literary section looking at a few books. He has a few under his shoulder, and I walk over and pick out a book that I think would be interesting to read in my free time.

"'Eragon'... does this look good to you Alex?"

"Oh yes, it's a very interesting fiction."

"Fiction?"

"As in, make-believe."

"Oh."

I tuck the book into a backpack and the proceed to take it. As I walk around the store, I pick a first aid kit, beef jerky, a hunting knife, a hunting rifle, ammo, a stronger scope, a pillow, and a backup handgun. Rose does the same.

Once we were done looking around we exited and went back to the bus, we would have a few minutes to have a private conversation.

"I'm glad I found you, Rose."

"Hmm?" She says questioningly.

"You are the only person who can control me when I lose myself, thank you."

"You wouldn't even be insane if I hadn't gotten hurt in our plan to get me into camp."

"I am at fault for that! It was my plan, it wasn't your fault that it went wrong. It's mine."

"You say that, but I know that it's my fault you're so unhinged and unpredictable."

"Rose..."

"It's my fault you were tortured for 3 months. My fault that you can't control your actions, it's my fault for messing up your head!"

"Those burdens are mine to bear, but I can handle it!"

"You call what you did to that Tank a few hours ago handling it?! You are getting worse Hunter! Soon, I might not be able to stop you!"

"What happened to the Tank... I did that for you! He hurt you, so I hurt him harder!"

"Hunter, you ate half of its heart!"

"Well, yeah but-"

"Do you call that sane?!"

"Well no, but-"

"You looked at me, like you were going to kill me! That's how you always look when you change, and I just hope I can still calm you down before you act on your insane urges! I love you, but I don't like what I've done to you!"

"YOU DIDNT DO-" I calm myself. *sigh* "You didn't do this to me, the scientists did. I'm insane because of them, because I made you try to enter the compound."

Tears were in her eyes. "But, Hunter..."

I put my hand up to her mouth to shut her up."It's not your fault, and it never will be. The blame is on the man with the plan, not the people who follow it out perfectly."

She looks at me and wipes the tears from her eyes. "Okay, Hunter."

I give her a hug just as the rest of our group begin piling in. I sit back in my chair and fish my book out of my bag, I would read this until we reached out destination.

(A/N): I am seriously glad people are enjoying this story of mine, it's nice to see! Also, remember that questions you ask in the reviews or in PM's to me could appear in the authors notes at the end of each story! The next chapter will be about a little adventure Alex has, and will be in his P.O.V as well!

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