Chapter 14: Who you really are!
A giant shout out to Kiersten for helping me with the future of this fic :D
They had all decided they were now heading towards the car store and it wasn't long away, it would take forty five minutes on foot.
The infected seem to hate the heat from the sun, there bodies seemed to react to temperatures, Axel had noticed that since it had gotten hotter, less infected have been spotted roaming the streets.
Axel's gaze was brought to Corin, he and Ellis seemed to be slightly more used to the sunlight better than Axel and Carley were, the teen figured it was because they grew up in Savannah of course.
It was then that Axel started to remember there final days in New York.
The day before they left they were still at there high school, there friends saying good bye and giving them presents, tears were seen in many faces. Axel was surrounded by his many full of friends, most of them female but there were about 8 males.
The girl in front of him was 5ft 6, pitch black hair with red highlights and she wore a black corset with chains and a red and black chequered mini skirt, her blue eyes glimmering with sadness. Axel knew in three days she was leaving too but that didn't change anything.
"Why do you have to go?" She cried; "I'm sorry Marriet, I'm being moved down to Savannah" Axel softly smiled. "But we'll all miss you" A brunette spoke from the back of the small crowd.
The teen quickly smacked himself out of the day dream and back into reality, but then just before he could he remembered something, if Marriet left three days afterwards and the infection wasn't reported to have hit New York until five days later there's a chance she and some of the others could be alive, he grinned cheek to cheek.
Axel could now see the bright red car store; he kept his little faith of finding a car hidden because he didn't bring anyone down.
It wasn't long before they reached the car store, A LOT of cars were gone and the once clear glass showing off the new model cars were smashed and the cars had obviously been stolen but one car stood out.
It was a dark green land rover that looked completely untouched; Axel was confused at why no one had touched it! It would be the perfect vehicle! It could go on multiple terrains outside the city so they could get miles away from any crowd of infected! But then the case with the gas brought to his mind, if they were miles away there would be no way to get gas or any fuel source…
The group stepped towards the land rover, Ellis reached out to grab the door handle when as soon as he did the car alarm began to go off, it echoed through the streets for what seemed like miles!
"SHIT!" The hick called.
"NOO!" Axel screamed, "We were so god dam close!" Axel continued.
The hoards of infected came rushing towards the car lot, "Come on everyone! Ellis try and sort out the car!" Nick commanded. Ellis imminently smashed the car window and released the lock and swung the door open, dived in then locked the door behind him then began to attempt to hot wire the rover.
There was a discarded Machete on the front of a car and Axel ran and dived for it, "Axel what are you doing?" Carley called.
"What does it look like?" Axel frowned, a large amount of the infected had now entered the grounds and now attacking the survivors, the car alarm was still roaring loudly attracting more every second.
Axel wildly swung the machete, his anger increasing with every swing, the frown on his brow getting tighter and tighter…
The teen then began to almost scream with every swing, his volume increasing with the strength increasing into his swings, the thoughts of everyone he knew being turned into mindless zombies or being eaten alive by them.
The situation was finally getting to him and it brought out his anger that, he had held inside after all of the bullying and torture was now being ventilated into these swings.
Blood was being splattered all over him, it felt like he had just jumped into a shower in full clothes and still hadn't jumped away. The once shining metal of the Machete coated in crimson anger.
Then suddenly the car alarm cut at a sudden stop and a cheering Ellis could be faintly heard under the now loud and snarling from the monsters.
I'm hoping you'll understand, now let go of my hand!
I'll still be with you on the sunrise, just give me this one moment to unleash my feeling and bring hell to hell its self…
Axel was still hacking and slashing at the infected rushing to get a piece of his flesh, the commons soon stopped.
Axel was panting, his face as red as the sun from anger. He released control of his arms and they flopped down and he kept a soft grip on the machete as his arms were left dangling, "Axel?" Carley and Corin called running towards him.
Corin grabbed his hand and gently led him off the car, "Axel you ok?" Corin asked, "Come on Axel what were you thinking!" Carley frowned.
Axel simply wrapped his arms around Corin and lay his head on the taller teen's shoulder, "Come on you three in the car!" The conman called, the teens dived into the back seats of the rover, and Nick sat in the driver's seat and Ellis in the opposite.
Axel was in the centre seat in the back, he returned to resting his head on Corin's shoulder even while they put there seat belts on.
Nick pulled the car back and started to drive.
They didn't know how long they would be on the road for, nor did the care, it was just a moment's piece one again, an atmosphere of peace and hard worked bodies was floating around the vehicle…
Nobody wanted it any other way…