Authors notes: so after that fast paced action from the last chapter things calm down a bit but i can assure you it wont stay that way for very long, now the survivors continue their journey through the subway in hopes that they will get to the hospital, with the hunter still following them.
Chapter 12 The subway and quiet convo's
Finally satisfied that the deathly woman was not following them, the survivors stopped running and all leaned against the wall catching their breath, "damn man that was way too damn close for my liking" said Jake finally standing from his hunched over position against the wall. "This is messed up, first things that leap from large distances and have sharp claws, then large fat things that vomit on you and attract the horde, and now girls that cry and have razor sharp claws and rip you to shreds, just what sort of mutations are going on in this infection?" said Whitaker. Sam and Jake remained silent as Whitaker finally sighed, "sir i have no idea what to say and that's a first for me" Rick finally said and for a minute their was silence as no one dared to speak or move. Finally Sam was the one who broke the silence which surprised the 3 men, "ok so now we have established that we cant trust anything that cries can we get a move on please?" she asked her tone loud but sad all the same, Whitaker nodded as they all stood and slowly began to walk down the tunnel again.
Jake was now on point and he swept his shotgun both directions as he continually checked the dark corners making sure nothing was going to jump out at them, they had been walking for another 3 minutes before a door on the left sighed appeared, "this must lead back out into the main subway tunnel" he said to the others. "Lets get back out there" said Whitaker and Jake slowly turned the handle and pulled the door open, sweeping his flashlight both ways, even with the flashlight he could only see about 3 feet in front of him as the tunnel now was pitch black. "Come on this way" he whispered as Sam shut the door one they were all out in the tunnel, they then began walking, Jake up front with his close range shotgun and Sam at the back with her very long range hunting rifle. They were looking all around them making sure nothing snuck up behind them and that nothing came charging at them from the front, they were surprised to find it appeared that there was nothing in this tunnel with them except the darkness.
"Now that we have a chance maybe we should talk about our not so friendly friend that's following us" said Rick and they all sighed being bored of the creature following them "how do you its still following us" said Sam, "I don't but up until back at the subway that thing had been following us since we met it, the point being that this 'hunter' is very persistent and that makes it dangerous" he finished and they all knew he was right. "What are we supposed to do, every time we try and kill the fucker he either jumps away or he gets other infected to take the bullets for him" said Jake, "maybe the best way to kill this thing is to catch it off guard" said Sam and that perked up all of their interests. "Ok so what are the chances that this thing is still following us..." Rick barely finished when a screech broke out and they shot their eyes forward as several common infected came charging out of the darkness at them.
Jake raised his shotgun and blasted a woman who lunged at him, her head exploded in a foul explosion of blood mist and brain matter her body slumping to the floor never to move again, he then shot several more before is comrades began to fire as well. Sam aimed through her scope and drew a sharp breath as she pulled the trigger the bullet piercing the infected's skull but not making as much mess as the shotgun, soon enough the standoff was resolved and the survivors quietly reloaded their weapons as they now stood over a pile of corpses puddles of blood forming underneath them. They all took a moment to look around and wait to see if anymore infected were alerted by the noise of the shoot out, after a minute or 2 they heard no more noise and decided that it was best for them to move on.
"Ok so this hunter, has anyone noticed anything interesting about it?" Rick asked and the others looked at him confused, "has anyone been close enough to it to notice anything about it, you know potential weaknesses?" he said and they all understood now. It was then that Sam was taken back to her first encounter with the hooded monster, "well when i first encountered it, it ended up less than a few yards away from me" she started, "go on" Whitaker said as they waited patently as they continued down the tunnel, "but i don't think i noticed anything that looked like it could've been a weakness" she finished and the 3 men scowled. For once they just wished that something would be easy for them, instead they were stuck discovering more mutations in the infected and stuck with a mutant monster harassing them getting them into all sorts of trouble.
They then froze when they heard an ominous, quiet but very familiar growl behind them, they didn't even need to turn around to realise who made the noise, non the less Sam turned around and shone her flashlight back down the tunnel but the rather short range cone of light revealed nothing. "Well looks like its found us again" Rick whispered, "lets keep moving i want to get the hell out of this tunnel now" said Whitaker as they began walking again, Whitaker was now at the back and Sam in front of him, he decided it was best the young girl was kept away from the danger. They continued walking for 5 more minutes before up ahead further down the tunnel, there was light, it wasn't the brightest light but it couldn't only mean one thing, "looks like we've reached the next station" said Jake.
After two more minutes they were at the mouth of the tunnel they were now in and Jake peaked round the corner to look at the station they had now reached, he then frowned when he spotted quite a large group on infected along the platform, "looks like we are gonna have to do a bit more shooting" he said to the others as they now quietly and carefully made their way into the station climbing up onto the platform. The closest infected then noticed the presence of others and then looked up, its undead red eyes staring down the survivors before suddenly the infected man screamed and ran forward only to be bought down by shotgun pellets piercing its cold undead skin spraying its blood across the floor. Then a chorus of screeches ran out as the rest of the common infected were disturbed by the death of the fellow infected, Sam began to fire her hunting rifle piercing the brains of several attackers however she gasped as an attacker slammed into her side knocking the rifle from her grasp. She did the only thing she could and quickly pulled the katana out of the sheath on her back before jumping up and swinging the sword, there was a sickening slicing sound as the attackers head fell to the floor, his body flopped down as blood began to erupt from the open wound where its head once rested on its shoulders. She turned around and watched as her colleagues dispatched the remaining infected, their bodies fell to the floor as sickening wet sounds occurred to the bullets entering their bodies.
Finally the station was clear of any living infected and the survivors simply grimaced at the blood bath around them, large pools of red blood now appearing under the now dead infected, "can we get going" said Sam and they began to walk down the platform before stopping. The tunnel ahead was now blocked by a train and unlike the previous station it didn't look as though this one had a service tunnel, "looks like we have got to find another way to the hospital" said Whitaker as Jake led the way out of the platform. They ascended the stairs now in the main lobby of the station and dispatched any common infected that stood before them, they now slowly crept to the entrance of the station and Whitaker peered outside. The street before them was riddled with crashed and burning cars and corpses with their blood spilled out across the floor around their decaying bodies, Sam couldn't help but gag at the sight, it was going to be a while before she got to a point where she was ok with all this death and destruction, and that wasn't necessarily a good thing.
They then noticed a sign across the road and saw the familiar word hospital, "well at least we know we are still going in the right direction" said Jake, they took a moment to look all around them before their eyes fell over a small building located directly next to the subway station. They noticed the small building had barred windows and all but one door boarded up, they then noticed the white painted house symbol on the wall next to the door, "think we should check in their for supplies?" said Rick and Whitaker nodded. They quietly made their way over to the small building and closed the door once they were inside, they then looked around at the building they now resigned in, it looked like some kind of storage place with shelf's staked with old tools except now the sour, rank odor of death lingered in the air. They then noticed a large table down the far end of the room that had various, useful looking objects on it, they looked on the table on it was a large pile of ammo and a box full of lighters. "Well this stuff should be useful" said Sam smiling as they began to scavenge ammo for their various weapons, placing their findings in their bags, "what about lighters shouldn't we take some?" said Jake "we should take one each, never know if we might need them. They then each took a lighter before they all sat down on the various chairs scattered around, "we rest here for a minute, then we get back out there and continue on our way" said Whitaker...
The subway was now devoid on all non infected life, the witch had now returned to the spot where her fiance died and was now sobbing merely meters away from her dead partners corpse, she then heard a scuffle and she gasped as her head shot up, she looked all around but couldn't find anything. She then looked in her fiance's direction before snarling and returning to sobbing, then she heard several scuffs before her head finally rose, she looked around again and then back in her partners direction. She was almost surprised to find the sheet lying on the floor the figure underneath it gone, she was confused 'was there someone there, or had she just imagined seeing something'? she finally lowered her again and resumed her blissful, tortured crying. A shadow lit up by the flames burning furiously walked around the heaving woman and took off into the darkness in the direction of the survivors, the subway was now a dead zone the only sound audible being the woman's sobbing echoing off the walls.
End Chapter
Author's note: well that's another one done, next one should be coming out soon although i cant give you an exact time, if anyone has any suggestions on what i could do better or any suggestions for future chapters let me know, that's it for now and ill see you all in the next one.
