A/N: Sorry for the long wait everyone but I haven't really been on the computer lately not to mention with Halloween being in two days and I still have stuff to do such as shopping. I've been working on a Halloween party and luckily I'm almost done. Anyway, on with the story and sorry for the long wait.
Chapter 11: The First Guardian
Alex slowly went forward into the swamp after spending hours getting there. The smell here is by far worse then the airport back in New York. Probably due to the combination of what Alex could only guess as dead bodies and just the swamp smell itself. Alex continued through the thick mucky water until she tripped on something. Before she fell all the way into the water, she managed to grab onto part of a tree with her nails and stop the decent down. Alex quickly got back to her feet and looked to see what she had tripped on. She couldn't find anything and so she held her breath and closed her eyes as she reached into the water. She hit something metal about two feet down but she couldn't lift it with one hand. "Curse my curiosity." Alex said as she reached down into the water with both hands, her face just barely touching the dark liquid, and lifted the heavy thing out of the water. Alex wiped the muck off her face and looked at what she is holding and then grew confused. "What is a sewage pipe running through here for?" Alex looked around for a second to try and figure out why the pipe is where it is but she couldn't seem to figure it out and so she continued. She continued forward and saw that the trees started to make a tunnel.
"This is so not on my enjoy to do list." Alex slowly made her way into the tree tunnel and then saw many eyes appear. "Creepy enough." Alex said as she walked and soon she found a light at the end of the tunnel. "Finally, some light." Alex rushed toward the end of the tunnel and when she got to the end, she found that it isn't any lighter then it was when she got here. Alex shook off the disappointment and continued on her way.
Sitting on a tall tree that looks a lot like a throne is a zombie like woman with blood all around her mouth. The only thing that covered her is what looks like the top of a ripped shirt and some pants. "That girl refuses to listen to him. Go my dears and give her a welcome." The woman said in a acidic bubbly noise.
Alex trudged her best through the water and finally found a decent rock to sit on to rest. "Whatever it is, is a long way in." Alex said breathing, her legs tired of moving through the thick water. Just then she heard screaming of some kind and looked around but didn't see anything. Alex took in a deep breath and tried to stay calm and focused. 'Ok what ever it is, come get me.' Alex stood and waited for something to attack and then she saw something on the ground moving. She raised her claws into the air and back and then shot forward sending nails flying toward the thing and once her nails hit, the thing stopped. She was then tackled by some behind her and she threw it off. Alex stood up and got mud thrown into her face. Alex quickly wiped the mud off her face and then saw a zombie running toward her. Then more mud was thrown in her face and Alex got hit and so she threw her hand forward. Alex knew she hit whatever was there as she could feel something wet on her hands and what she didn't splash when she hit and so she knew it wasn't water. Alex wiped mud off her face and then saw something below her and she kicked it backward a bit and then stabbed it. Soon more and more zombies came running toward her. "How do they run so fast in this muck?" Alex prepared herself and then started throwing nails in random directions to hit as many zombies as possible before they reached her and then hit the ones that got close. After about twenty minutes, Alex had finally finished off the rest of the zombies and then more came running at her but stopped suddenly. This confused Alex and worried her at the same time. Then something tall came out of the darkness. "What's going on?"
"You, you're the problem." Alex once again grew confused by this. "I see no point in them attacking you any longer and so I stopped them from attacking. You're a strong willed zombie and that won't be tolerated by him." The zombie said.
"What are you talking about?" Alex asked and then realized what the woman zombie was saying. "You know where he is don't you?" Alex asked getting angry.
"Yes I do but unless you get past me, you won't have a chance of knowing who he is." The thing then spit acid at Alex which Alex managed to dodge.
"SO you're one of the guardians." Alex said and then rushed toward her but then she disappeared behind some trees. "Get out and fight you coward." Then a sharp claw ran down Alex's back which made her wince and then she was kicked into the water.
"Coward am I?" Then she started to repeatedly scratch Alex while she is in the water. Once final scratch and then she spit all over Alex and then walked away. "You had no chance." The zombie woman then walked away.
Alex could feel the acid seeping into her skin painfully but soon there was no pain at all. Alex slowly stood up and out of the water. "I'm not finished with you yet." Alex said, now out of breath and then quickly rushed over to the zombie and grabbed her by the neck as she was about to spit. "Where is the next guardian?" Alex asked squeezing harder.
"You can barely beat me, you have no chance against the next but I'm ordered to tell, so I will." The zombie woman said through her choking. "The next clue to getting to him is through hard weather that is as deadly as he is. The golf ball sized hail will be the worst of you're problems." The zombie said.
"Texas?" Alex asked and the zombie nodded. "Thanks." Alex then through the zombie to the ground and then stomped on her face breaking the zombies skull. "You won't be bothering anyone again." Then a zombie rushed Alex and got cut in half, it's blood sizzled into nothing. The rest of the zombies in the area fled as fast as they could. Alex then scratched a tree and from the looks of it, the tree melted which is odd. She quickly cut the trees away and found buildings behind them. "That explains so much." Alex then looked at her claws and smiled. "Acid claws, I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not." Alex shook herself out of her thoughts and then focused. "One guardian down, two to go, so that thing had better watch it, because I'm coming for him." Alex then ran off.
A/N: Once again sorry for the long wait. I hope you enjoyed the chapter; please review and thanks for all the reviews.
