A/N: well guys, Salty is now dead. I hate to be that guy to killing characters off, but there is an old saying: 'there is no peace without sacrifice'. Now there are 28 of them left alive, and only half of them will make it out alive by the end of this survival war. We will skip ahead to where the guys take off to another state, and one surprising appearance from my good friend Agent M1911.
Humphrey, Carez, and Luis carried lifeless Salty to the clearing and buried him as well with the others. 8 members gone in the last four days, they were running out of time. "Uh, guys, what happened to our other jeep?" Hager asked as everyone packed up and headed into their vehicles. "We lost when we went to save Lake and David in the city" Humphrey answered. "How could you lose a jeep?" He asked again.
"We didn't lose it, something destroyed from the air?" Luis spoke out, climbing into the back of the moving van. "Well that's nice to know" Hager said as he climbed into the moving van with Luis, Alberto, his son, and 6 other gang members. "So where to now?" CJ asked Humphrey before climbing into the other jeep. "Missouri" CJ climbed into the driver's seat of the RV and started the engine. He drove down the dirt road and headed into an interstate that went east.
Everyone in the convoy watched as they drove by the ruins of Denver. Cesar looked out the window and gave a small child wave goodbye as they drove away.
As they were driving down the interstate, the same satellite view watched the group drive the down the road. Then it moves over to the forest, where it zooms in the clearing of forest where the group buried the dead. The screen then switches into inferred and shows the bodies red, and moving. That's when a red dot on the top of the screen blinks red.
6 hours later. . . .
The group made their way across Kansas; they finally make it to the edge of Missouri. CJ was driving down the road, with the sun setting in the horizon. It was almost hard to see with the sun shining in the wolves' faces. The road was empty and nothing but field all around.
"I always dreamed of driving down the country like this, just not fighting for my life with flesh-eating mother fuckers infecting the whole god damn world." Lake said as he sat in the passenger seat looking at the passing country side. As the convoy was moving down the road, one of Alberto's gang members was driving the school bus, and then he sees something in the coming up to them from the right side, something big.
"What the fuck is that?" He asked in his Hispanic accent. Right out of nowhere a huge, muscular creature jumps on the right side and picks up the bus from the side, lifts it, and throws it far ahead in front of the convoy, crashing then exploding.
CJ, Luis, Humphrey, and Shakey stop their vehicles and were scared to death from the bus crash. "Holy shit" Shakey said, jumping out of the van and seeing the bus in flames, with no one coming out of the wreckage. Hager, John, Jade, and Susie run out to see the creature from Jasper city. "Oh, not this bastard again" All four of them said at the same time.
The creature roared and charged at the convoy again. Humphrey, Kate, Carez, Luis, Reba, Janice, Shakey, CJ, Clark, Alberto, Garth, Lilly, Lake, and David, come out as well and draw their guns. The creature jumped to the side as everyone fired at it. The thing still kept coming at them, no matter how much they shoot.
"This thing is strong!" Garth shouted backing away from shooting the creature with his AK. Then it knocks Garth, Humphrey, Luis, Reba, and Lilly to the side into the field. Then it turns its attention to everyone else. "Shit" Kate says in fear and shaking. Right when the creature begins to charge again, a bullet shot right into the middle of its chest, leaving a huge hole. Everyone looks around for the source of the gunshot, only to see a white male wolf jumping from top of the RV.
The white wolf lifted his XM67 assault rifle and fires another round into the creature's head, making it stumble backwards. After that, the wolf fires one more round and the creature falls back and die on the field near the guys. The white male wolf just stood there with everyone staring at him, including Susie. She thought her mind was playing tricks with her; the wolf looks exactly like, Matthew.
He had the body, eyes, face, traits, and height of Matthew. "You guys okay?" The wolf asked. He had the same as Matthew's voice, but a slight deeper. "Yeah, thanks for saving us . . . ." He said. Humphrey walked up to him and tried to get him to say his name. "Oh, sorry my friend, the names Shigeru" Shigeru said shaking Humphrey's paw.
"You a survivor too?" Humphrey asked him. "Yes, I heard about a radio broadcast just a few hours ago about safety in Washington D.C" Shigeru said. "What a surprise, we were heading on our way there when this thing came out and took out half of our group in matter of seconds" Kate said behind him and pointing to the burning bus with half of their group dead.
"I'm really sorry about your lost. I was just heading around here trying to look for my brother. He's really great at hunting, he lived in Jasper city, and he and I lost our parents to bear attack many years ago. When the virus came by, it killed my mother in law. But before she died, she told me that my twin brother was still alive. So I went to go find him since then." Shigeru finished.
"Well I hope you find him soon. You need a ride with us?" Humphrey offered him. "Yes, please. I haven't gotten to sit down the last 10 miles I walked." Shigeru answered. "CJ, Shakey, Luis, get back to cars and let's get moving again." Humphrey ordered as he and Kate climbed into the Jeep as everyone else went into their cars. "Alberto, let's go" Hager told him, who was kneeling down and saying a prayer to his dead homies, before standing back up and getting into the RV.
CJ started the RV and started driving again with everyone else behind him. Now Humphrey, Kate, Lilly, Garth, CJ, Clark, Reba, Janice, Shakey, Luis, Alberto, Hager, Susie, Jade, Carez, John, Lake, David, and new member Shigeru were the only ones left alive. The continued down the road for another 3 hours before stopping in the middle of the road, where it looked safe to camp out for the night.
Garth set up a fire pit in the middle of the camp, while Shakey brought out meat from the RV's fridge and cooked it over the fire. Everyone was sitting around the fire eating, telling stories and jokes and laughing. "So Shigeru," Humphrey spoke to him, who was sitting and watching the fire. He looks up. "What's your story, before the world went to hell?" Humphrey asked. "Well, I went to a university to study electronics; I'm really good now with computers. I got the top award for best electronic knowledge. I ever have a year book from last year when I was there." Shigeru said pulling out a big book from his back pack.
He flipped through the pages and showed everyone photos of his friends, his girlfriend, and the events he went to and places he went for vacation. That's when Lilly saw a photo of him with someone. "Hey Shigeru, who's that?" He looked at the page and pulled out the picture and handed it to her. "It's my brother, 3 months before the outbreak happened" He said. Lilly looked at it carefully and that's when her eyes widen. "Oh my god, your Matthew's brother?" she gasped. Everyone was shocked.
"Yeah, he is, wait how you know him?" he asked. "He was in our group and was Susie's boyfriend and my friend back in Jasper city." John spoke out. "Oh great, you guys met him. Where is he?" Shigeru desperately asked.
Everyone looked at each other with guilty faces and looked back at Shigeru, whose smile started to fade away. Humphrey spoke out "He's dead"
A/N: wow what a shocker for that chapter?
