Hello, hello hello all!

How are you guys doing? I hope you all are well as I am. Just chilling and writing this story. Though I have been reading more and more of FanFiction over my vacation, and it feels good. Definitely some good stories out there, one I particularly like is Return of the Eds by Streggae, he definitely caught my attention with the way he put the mystery around the Eds and their and how he steadily releases information about that event, though I would like to see some fighting scenes sooner or later, he definitely does an excellent job at having the Eds implementing back into high school, especially good character development.

Give him a look over if you like, you guys probably won't regret it. But he does have some errors in his writing, so don't go all grammar nazi on him, it is small, I believe he said he wasn't American and I give him a slide because of that.

And that is pretty much eat, I did read some Purgatory stories and they were good, uhh, can't recall them to well but the author took the death of each character and put a twist in how the story is told and even made a sequel of sorts to that story that was a little confusing, but still good.

But what is really frustrating me are these EddKevin stories. It is not that I am against homosexuality, you love who you love is what I say, but just so many of them that I wonder what has happened to the other stories. I really would like to see different pairings or something new, I don't really read them so you can call me on bullshit with that, but I don't generally read yaoi parings or pairing I don't find interesting. Just would like to see something else that isn't romanced based really, like add some mystery, add some action, add some horror, do something different, experiment, something! But enough rambling on, let's get on with outbreak Chronicles, it has been a while.

See you guys at the end!

Chapter 2: The Task At Hand

Green eyes met brown eyes. The younger and older leader were in a stare down. One with information and the other seeking it.

"Eddward, no. You guys aren't prepared for them." Shaun said with a determined voice. In the first days, he seen children die, children who were the mantle of this world taken out by monsters both dead and alive. He refused to let these young ones, so capable of surviving for three years, suddenly throw their life away for revenge, even if they had every right to.

Obviously, Eddward Silver did not like that answer. "I've rested enough, tell me where he is. I have friends of mine that are in his custody-"

"Then they might as well be dead then." Shaun gave the cold truth; he knew that man all too well.

"No! They are not dead! Just tell me where they are! I can rescue them! I can do something! Once Techlin comes back, me and him will go!" Edd exclaimed towards the man. His friends were waiting, his family needed him more than anything.

Shaun gave him a leveled expression. "Even if I did know, I wouldn't tell you. His camp is hidden. No idea where it is. My agent told me they moved around a lot. The best I can give you is the location of their old camp an-"

"Splendid. Tell me where it was-" Shaun held up a hand to stop the boy and gave an aggravated look.

"Let me finish," Shaun said sternly. "I won't give it to you for free, if you are so hopeful of your friends being alive. Then you won't like the state they are in. But I need something done around here, you personally could help, along with that Nazz girl. You do what I ask, then you get your location."

"Are you serious?! The time wasted-"

"No buts dammit!" Shaun rose to his full height and made the boy jump back a little. "My settlement, my rules, or do you rather prefer Eddy to be taken off of support. I don't want you guys needlessly die. We are running low on medical supplies as it is, your friend is taking up those resources that can be used for my people."

Shaun saw the fear in him. He did not hate the kid, and didn't want to pull that card. "You need to calm down, besides, I don't want to send you and your friends off to your death. Too many already died because of me, too many have already died because of him." He referred to the man that has caught Edd's rage.

Ed backed down. He himself knew what Shaun must be going threw. His settlement may have survivors, but everyone lost something along the way in the three years. Once seeing him calm down, Shaun took a breath, sat down, and went to explain the details.

"This is a five man job, I will be sending you with people I trust fully. Leaving in an hour or so. Like I mentioned, your friend has taken up a lot of our medical supplies, and we were low even before you guys came. So we need some more medicine. Five miles out from here is a hospital, but it may have been ransacked but that is not so likely. Luckily, there are some pharmacies here and there that you can go to, but more chances of those being looted and cleared out. Along with medicine, get anything you find of use, all of it counts." Shaun explained.

Edd absorbed the details and nodded. "Who will be in charge?"

"Finn Lane. I trust him more than anything to do this mission right. Go by his orders. I am going to look for him to give him the details. Want to tag along?" Sheun inquired of the Leader.

"I must check up on Nazz, tell her this, so no." Eddward Silver declined. Shaun nodding understandingly.

The two left the office, lights turned off. They were outside and went their separate ways. Shaun told him to meet at the eastern gate in two hours and be ready.

"Hello there," The doctor said kindly. He took a seat on the right of Nazz and gave a kind wrinkled smile. He was dressed fully from head to toe in white gear. There was dried blood on him. Nazz knew it was Eddy's. "I see you are one of the newcomers. I am Ted, the head doctor here."

"I'm Nazz." Her voice was hoarse. She hasn't spoken in a while. Ted, old and with a dark skin tone had an obvious hispanic air to him. There was a slight accent in his voice.

"Very nice to meet you Nazz, I see you are friends with the boy we have been operating on for the past three days." Nazz nodded and Ted smiled a little more. His graying mustache went up. But he sighed heavily, and Nazz saw that he grew a little older with that single moment as he laid sorrowful eyes on the young lady.

"I have bad news and good news regarding to him." Nazz's heart skipped a beat and she looked down. Her blonde strands of hair fell forward and covered her face up. Ted spoke nonetheless, she had to hear it.

"He will live, yes. He has made a miraculous recovery. No matter what, he just refused to die. Very strong will indeed. It will take a while for all of his wounds to heal," Then his tone went grave. "But there are some things better to be seen than said."

Ted pat her on the back and told her to follow him. Nazz did with much hesitance, her legs cracked from being still for hours. They walked to the door and Ted opened it. Nazz saw Eddy for the first time since that night, covered in blood, and near death.

Now Eddy was in a bed, the one seen in hospitals, with IVs, heart monitors, and other medical tech by him. The Marksman slept peacefully with bandages all over his being Only his face was unmarked but it was peaceful and Nazz saw his nostrils flair from the intake of breath. Nazz moved close to him, being at the head of the bed and still at the door. Ted behind her with that crestfallen look.

She went to the corner and stopped with horror taking her features. Eyes wide, mouth agape, and a fresh tears to spill. For in front of her was Eddy, but his left arm and right leg was no where on him. "We did all we could, but those parts could not be saved. Not with our equipment." Ted spoke with a sadden tone, as he patting the girl on the back and she turned and cried in his shirt. No longer caring for the blood. She cried tears of joy, yet she couldn't help a few tears of grief come as her friend slept peacefully, unaware that two of his limbs were gone forever.

Techlin spoke up after the sounds ended. "Anyone have a flashlight or something?"

"I do," Janice said. "she turned on the source of light. It was one of those big lights, that can can light up the abyss. Luckily, it lit up the entire room in a dim light. It seemed to be some office of the store owner.

"This office is big." The old black guy said.

"You can say that again Bill." Wade said as they looked around. Techlin looked at the door, the object he knocked down was a three section file cabinet. Looking around, the room had a desk, the sole window on the right of the room and left to the door was boarded up tightly. Besides that, the file cabinet was all that filled the room.

Techlin moved to the desk while Wade and Bill worked on the window, Janice sat the light on top of the file cabinet barricade at angle to still cover the entire room; she headed Techlin's direction. Techling saw nothing of real interest as he stood in front of the desk. Paperweight to the right, a stapler, and then he saw some blood, a lot of dry blood that took up most of the desk and the chair was behind the desk was broken into pieces. Techlin got his spear out as a bad smell took to his senses. Something

Janice gave him a pat and motioned for her to take the left side and he the right. Nodding, they both moved, her weapon was drawn and ready as they rounded the desk and saw a dead body, but one that has been dead for more than a year as it was nothing but bones, hollowed eyes, with some skin still around on the body. There was hole in the skull. The two sighed and Janice said she was going to help the other two and Techlin was left with the body.

Nonetheless, the boy saw two things of interest on the dead body that the girl didn't catch or care about. One was a simple journal, there was dried blood on the floor so when he picked it up, it took some bits and pieces of it with it. Techlin dusted it off and flipped the pages. Some had blood at the edges and on the pages, as if they were coughed on it. The entire thing was full of written words. The Fighter was curious and pocketed it for later use. Next was the most surprising thing: a gun.

"Wow, this is in good condition." Techlin thought as he picked it up and examined it. He saw it was custom made firearm. It had one long silver barrel, and when he compared it to his revolver, he saw it was twice the size of the barrel. The grip was a black leather but at the butt was just metal for a good bashing. The chamber is what made Techlin look at it again. It was not like any he has seen before. It was flat and sticking to the right. Messing with it a little, he saw that once you fire, it will go through to the left. Techlin saw it held the same ammunition as his revolver, it seems. The iron sight was a point at the end of the barrel that was circular. A strange gun indead.

"Still cool enough to take." Techlin stated and placed it in his own personal bag that he took with him, placing it in there and headed to his group.

"-and that is the only way." Wade finished.

Janet shook her head. "No way, what if one of us breaks our ankle or leg or arm?!" She whispered excitedly.

"It is just two stories, at much of a drop." Bill stated and Janice looked towards the old man. Shocked. His bones may crack if they drop.

"Shut it old man, you could easily get hurt. I mean, your bones!" Janice said. Techlin was confused on what they were talking about and asked.

Wade answered. "The wood here is rotten, and breakable. Much noise should be heard, but if we take it off, we can just jump down." The idea was crazy.

"Let's do it." Techlin wanted out and being in this room was not helping him at all. Janice looked at him dumbstruck.

"Janice," Said girl turned to Bill who had that knowing smiling. "just do it, we need to get back before sundown anyway. Being stuck in this room would not help us. Especially with that many dead."

The girl looked at them all before sighing and saying all right. The three got to work on the wood as it slide off the nails that once held it down and they laid it on the floor. There was one layer of wood luckily, so when they undid one, they saw the light of day and smell of fresh air mixed with dead flesh. They moved and moved and all the wood was off, the room was flooded with natural light and Janice got her flashlight, turning it off. The alleyway it led into was empty and the sounds of the dead out front was loud in all their ears. Techlin went first, landed easily and quietly. He caught all their stuff and placed them down gently, little noise being made. Finally, Wade jumped down, so did Billy who didn't much cracked any of his bones as they had thought. Then Janice.

"Jump." They all said in whispers as they heard the dead all around them. Janice shook her head a few times. Techlin reassured her that he would catch her. Janice stood there with sweat coming down her forehead before she put one leg at the window,she lowered herself and let go, but her weight shifted back. She gasped as she realized she was going to hit the ground back first. Techlin, as he promised, caught her and when she opened her eyes and saw a grinning Techlin, she blushed before being getting out of his arms. They had grabbed their respective bags and headed down the alley,away from the horde.

Edd walked into the place deemed as the Sanctuary's hospital. Just an apartment, really. Edd wondered if Eddy was alright, but he had to inform Nazz of the plan, then Techlin will know once he comes back as well. Hopefully, it would be before he departs on this mission. Eddward Silver said hello to the desk attendant, who was reading a book and he asked for Eddy Johnson's room. She gave him 142, just to the left once he enters the hallway. He thanks the male attendant before heading towards said room.

He has not visited Eddy nor been to the hospital unless it was to get Nazz to their room. After seeing his one of his closest friends in such a state, he avoided seeing him, not until he knew he was fine. Nazz did keep him updated on everything that occurred. He had expected to see Nazz in her usual seat, but this time it was empty. He was confused. He was going to turn back until he heard a sniff, it was very faint, but in the deaf silent hallways, it was noticeable. Edd preferred to stay out of people's business, yet he knew he couldn't afford the time to look for Nazz all over; he had no idea where the blonde could have gone. So he sought the sniffling, quickly ask where his friends was and leave with apologies.

He saw the numbers of the room go by.

137

138

139

The sniffling was louder.

140

"Eddy's room." The boy thought.

141

Eddy's room was ajar and Ed saw a doctor and a tuff of blonde hair crying into the doctor's uniform. Edd was going to ask the question until he laid eyes on Eddy's sleeping, bandaged form and the two stumps that were his left arm and right leg.

"Eddy…" Edd said breathlessly as he moved towards his brother's form. How he was sleeping peacefully. How he was just a one arm, one leg man. Nazz stop her crying as she saw Eddward looking at Eddy.

She thought, "He must feel ten times worse than I do." Nazz thought as she looked towards the teen that she called her leader.

"Double D…" Nazz whispered as her tears silently streaked down her voice.

"Don't worry Nazz,"Edd never looked towards her, only kept staring at Eddy in his incomplete form. "don't worry Eddy. I may not be able to give your arm and leg back, but I'm going to stop him. I'll find that man. I'll rescue our friends. I'll make sure him and every last of his associates suffer for what they done to us, for what they done to you."

Edd had his fist clenched tightly; the nails bit down into his skin as blood trickled and knuckles whitened. His own small amount of tears came as the same thoughts of revenge came to him. How his hatred took form. Nazz saw that glint, that glint of murder, that glint of death by his hands approaching.

"Nazz," The blonde jumped a little from his voice. It was cold. Too cold. "I'll be gone tonight on a mission, but when I get back, Techlin, you, and I are going to find them. We will get our revenge."

Eddward Silver walked out the room, his thirst for blood unquenchable until he saw it from the one-arm man, his rage unsettled until he lay over the beaten body of the one-arm man, his crave for the hunt of his prey has just began. He was the Hunter, and this was his War.

AND DONE!

Yep done, done with Chapter 2. I hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I loved writing it. I really love this chapter simply because it settled the groundwork for the next chapter while also having that flair of "shit is about to go down" once Edd gets to the one arm man.

WOOOWOWooo this is going to be fun. Though these updates are ehhhh still with my tough school work. I'll see if I can get it out, no promises, just saying.

So with that, I leave you all do.

Stay safe, Happy Holidays, Good Evening, Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Night, Happy New Year, all that jazz

JohnTheMoon, out!