A/N: HELLO EVERYBODY! How are you doing? I know I know, since chapter 9 ( I think) i haven't got any time to write this little but still satisfactory (AT LEAST TO ME(wow sorry about the caps, too lazy to write all that again)) space where I can "talk" directly to you, my so loved and admired readers (I really admire you guys and girls, I mean, I would never be able of keep reading such a "long" fanfiction). Anyway, today I have for you a "special" chapter, mainly because the POV. Yeah, a character briefly mentioned in last chapter. Hope you like it!
Kaori
The plan is simple: just getting the attention of the horde, drive them away from the school, keep them hunting us all around the city and, finally, trick them out of the city. Of course, it was far easier said than done. And even if we were able of fooling the copperjaws, those nasty could still sense and find it anyway. But the Commander, no, the entire group is relying on us.
"How longer should we wait?" asks my dear Edmond, always so impatient.
"Only a little more, honey."
Currently we are waiting behind a fence to the horde to get close enough from the city. I swear I have never seen so many of them together, and I have dealt with hordes in the past, but not one this numerous. They advance pretty fast to be Copper Ones, and that intrigues me. Anyway, they cross the imaginary line I made, so it's time to start.
"Okay guys, let's do this. Mary…"
"Yeah I know, go hide and make sure the horde sticks together. Good luck." She said, before she goes running to a car and hiding in the back of it.
Now, we stand up, letting the copperjaws see us. And they do, judging for their suddenly slight grow in the volume of their growls. But just in case, the four of us wave our arms in the sky and shout them. I always enjoyed calling them bastards and remember all their family, I guess it is a good, and (why not?) healthy way to make catharsis. Of course my father would had never agreed, he was much more disciplined and aligned with the orthodox way of doing things, but unlike him, I was no military.
Those guys are right in front of us, and they would eat us right away if the wooden, with vines all over it fence weren't to stop them. It is not really that big, and inevitably they will overpass it, however, we will make it worth. The first copperjaw gets stuck in it, just in front of me, so I raise my handy axe and blow away its head with it. Before the mutilated part fall to the ground, there are already four more Copper Ones. While I slash the brain of one, my love stabs another one through the eye with a shiv, Robert smashes with his deadly improved two-by-four and Carolina makes a hole in one's face with her spear. Now, more than six of them get to the fence and start to push, making it creak. We continue holding our ground, killing them in the place, making a wall of bodies between the incoming ones and us. But they are too many, and the fence is not that strong, and breaks down. We begin to retreat, and I shot a Copper One who was getting too near with my shorty, blowing up its head.
Running in the streets, we are driving them away from our fortress, leading them through the borderlines of the old, covered by plants city. To not lose them or them ignore us, we began running slow, but those fuckers are, somehow, faster than most of the copperjaws, so we accelerate up to the perfect pace to keep out of their reach but near enough to keep them engaged. After ten blocks, I give the signal of stopping, so we do. With an advantage of half a block, we manage to reach the marked corner. We jump over the two cars strategically positioned and take a moment to recover the breath.
"Puta madre! Those fuckers are too quick!" says, gasping, Carolina. And I couldn't agree more. I hoped the fence would last a little longer, but their number was too high for it.
Things are not looking good. They are frickingly fast, their number is astonishing, and we could not get far enough. And in top of that, we haven't even make a third of the planned way to drive them out.
I pass my forehand for my brow, taking away some sweat, product of the running. I look at my partners. Edmond's face is covered by tiny drops of sweat, but I still find it gorgeous. Robert is sitting down, breathing heavily with his eyes closed. The most unaffected seems to be Carolina, who is keeping an eye in the approaching copperjaws. I turn the head and look at them. Fuck. They are really near, so I make the rest of them to stand up and get ready. I already know that we can't hold our position for too long, and each time we had to run, we would last even less in the next stop, I have to do something!
I look around, desperate, expecting to find something that could help us fight the Copper Ones. But before I could figure something out, they reach us. Instead of circling the cars, they just walk to them and try to grab us with their hands. Edmond and I get up in the cars, one on each one, and attack them in the heads. Carolina takes care of those who are between the two cars with her spear, and Robert waits until they start to pass by the car, he will give us enough time to get the fuck out.
Suddenly, the cars begin to move, so we jump out and run again, while Robert kills a couple of copperjaws and then follows us. The next checkpoint is in a gas station, right in the middle of the city, which means we have to run twenty blocks more. I wonder if Robert will be able of making it, he seems exhausted. And with reason, running around with a wooden plank with deadly, sharp metal stuff in the end must not be easy.
We are already by the first half, and then I trip over and fall hard to the concrete, stamping my forearms to it. The group stops while my love helps me to get up, I thank him and we carry on. Both my forearms and ankles hurts, but we must continue. The horde is like breathing on us, and we are tired. These mother fuckers shouldn't be so fast. Something must be wrong.
Finally, we get to the gas station. I can barely breathe, and my companions look just like me. And Robert is too damn pale, I'm afraid he could not be able of continuing running. While them sit and lie down to maximize the few moments of rest, I look back to the horde. They are in our same block, and they are getting closer too fast. We cannot wait any longer.
"Guys!" I say, with a drowned voice. "They are coming, c'mon now, let's get going."
"I… I need water" says, barely audible, Robert, who is in his knees. I go to him, get from my fanny a water bottle and handle to him. He opens it and drinks like there is no tomorrow.
"And I can't hold like this much more" whispers Edmond.
"Yeah… me either…" gasps Carolina
They seem awfully exhausted, and they sweat it's all over their respective shirts and clothes. I am probably the same, but refuse to take a look.
"We cannot make it…" Whispers my dear, crestfallen. He looks at me, with his log color eyes. "I think we shall stand."
"Are you crazy?!" says Robert. "We will die!"
"But at least we would have driven away the horde from the school." replies Carolina. "I agree with Edmond: there's nothing we can do about this."
Robert seems upset. Just like me. How couldn't I, being about to die? At least, I will die knowing that my dead meant something to the group. We would die saving our friends. We will die like heroes, just as the demigod martyrs the Commander talks about. I can do that. The copperjaws are in the corner, in front of us. Instead of coming to us, they stop for a moment, like they were sensing something. Then, they turn, taking a street that leads to the fortress.
"No! They sense them! We gotta…"
Carolina and my dear stand up and run towards them trying to call their attention. But their effort is futile: they are marching like an army of death to the school, making no case to my friends.
I help Robert get up and, with our last efforts; we run, join the others two and surpass the horde. We stop at thirty feet from them. None of the four of us is in condition to carry on much more, but somehow we must alert the Commander. We don't know where could be Mary, or if she still alive, so it rests on our shoulders this mission. But we can't make it. Somehow, the copperjaws are faster than usual, and they would catch us before we get to the fortress. There is only one thing to do. I give my fanny to Carolina, who seems to be slightly less exhausted than all us. I take out my shorty.
"Okay guys, hear me up: I will stay and give you some time, but you need to get to the school and warn the Commander, got it?"
"What?! No! I will never let you to die!" shouts Edmond, with a horrified expression in his face. I get near and whisper in her ears "Don't worry; we will see each other again". Then I kiss him passionately under the light of the moon and the stars, which were looking so beautiful in such a horrible night.
I advance a feet towards the horde and shot two of them who were in the front. I shot a third one in the chest, making it fall. I pass my empty gun to Edmond.
"Give it to the Commander, you all will need it. Now go!"
"Thanks, Kaori" whispers Carolina.
"Yeah, thanks" says Robert, saluting with a nod.
"But Kaori…" starts Edmond.
"Fucking GO!"
With tears in his eyes, he put my shorty in his pocket and goes with the others to the fortress. I turn around and slash the head of a silent copperjaw who was just next to me. "Die with honor" once said my dad. I like to think he would be proud. Yeah, he is.
I start slashing their heads wildly, at a rampage. They scratch me, but I don't care. My kill count reaches fifteen before they bite me in the right shoulder and pushes me to the ground. Then I see how one of them jumps high in the air, and lands on me. I swear I see him smile. It open its mouth, letting me see his sharp jaws, and ends me.
A/N: Hello again! Thanks to all of you for reading so much of my story, thank you for taking time of your day to read a fanfiction of some weird guy on the internet with terrible grammar and questionable sanity. okay okay, I better stop or I will begin to tear bending (any avatar fan?) So yeah, thank you thank you thank you, specially to you 17headlines (a really weird user name if you ask me lol), for all that support and well, review. About reviews, please please please! I want to improve people! If you take 5 (five, only five) minutes to do a mini- review about my chapter/s pointing out what did you like and what did you not, you would be helping me A LOT. Okay, that's all I guess, again, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and don't forget to review! Ciao!
