HELLO EVERYONE~~~~~~~
Sorry I haven't updated in so long, I'm going to try and get everything back on track.
I have not died, haha.
I've been slow updating this due to being sick and because of christmas passing, december is
An extremely hectic time for me. But I am back! :D
Disclaimer
Left 4 Dead is property of Valve.
Florentina, Arina and Arista are property of me~
Surviving with you is the last thing I needed - Chapter Fourteen.
"Oh Nick, just don't get caught up in your thoughts during a zombie horde." Rochelle quickly added as she turned the corner from him. "I'll try Ro.. I'll try." he whispered as he got up. "you. we are leaving. so get ready now or we will leave you behind." Rochelle coldly said to Arista as she walked passed. "Way to be a bitch." she replied to Rochelle, "Me? a bitch? Sorry, but that's not me." Rochelle replied, giving Arista the middle finger as she walked away.
"Woah, Rochelle. you're such a badass." Coach said, suprised at how Rochelle reacted. "Fed up with her attitude, so why bother being nice to her? Sorry Arina.." She replied, "It's fine. I don't blame you.. honestly" She said in a quiet tone, not wanting Arista to hear. With that, they were just waiting on Nick to turn the corner, so Ellis could bash open the door and get some action on.
Turning the corner, Nick eyed up Florentina who was next to Ellis, still jumping in excitement, His eyes than examined Arista, who was standing against the wall, waiting to leave, The look on her face was cold and angry. He knew talking to her would not be the best idea to do right now. "Cap, you can open the door now, I'm ready" Nick spoke, with no emotion in his voice. As Florentina heard him speak, shivers went down her spine. Her eyes than looked over to him, as she examined his face, she could she no emotions at all, He just looked so cold. She felt guilty about his lack of emotion, but was snapped out of the thought as she felt someone place their hand on her shoulder. "Hey, let's go beat some zombies up." Rochelle said, giving Florentina a smile. "OH BOY! I can't wait" Florentina, said in an over-excited tone. Her guilty feeling went away as she slid out of the doorway behind Ellis, "I hear one of those fat guys" Ellis commented as he began running forwards. "I think he's inside one of the bathrooms, so be careful everyone!" Rochelle commented as she strayed from the bathroom stalls. She was right, the boomer was inside one of the bathrooms, waiting for the survivors to go in there, but none of them did, which caused the boomer to begin follow them towards the stadiums entrance. "He's dead" Arina called, as she was able to shoot the boomer before it could vomit everywhere. "Aye, Nice shooting" Ellis complimented, as he shot his way through a small wave of zombies that had gathered by the entrance. "Thanks." Arina said with a small smile. "Makes me sick.."Arista quietly said as she rolled her eyes at the talk. Nick just ignored the comment and carried on shooting anything that got near him or his team mates.
"Woah, look at this place." Coach said, as he began running closer to the stage, with a impressed look on his face. "Midnight Riders have the best concerts ever." Ellis said, as he stood next to Coach. "I'm going to look for supplies" Florentina shouted as she ran up the stairs to the back. "Good Idea, Let's all look around and see what we can find and also what we can use to signal some form of rescue" Nick suggested, as he watched Florentina run up towards the back. Coach and Ellis searched on the stage, occasionally singing into the mic, which caused a few giggles from the others. Rochelle and Arina searched around the staging area, Nick decided to look around near Florentina and Arista, just decided to stand around and watch everyone. "I found medikit's up here" Florentina shouted down to everyone, as she waved one of the medikits in the air. On the stage, Coach and Ellis had found some guitars they could use as weapons, some adrenaline shots and lot's of ammo. Rochelle and Arina had found quite a few pipebombs and some molotov's and Nick had found a few some defib's on two large stands. As everyone signalled where the item's were, they began looking for a way to signal for help. "Hmm, Aye think we could use the Concert as our signal, Coach.." Ellis pondered, as he began looking at the controlls on the stage. "Boy, that is a brilliant idea.. we could turn the lights on and everything, I'm sure if a helicopter was to go passed, it would know there were survivors down here." Coach happily replied, giving Ellis a thumbs up to his idea.
At the back, Florentina was looking at some controls that were infront of her, "These seem to be the controls for the lights.. we could use this to signal some help!" Knowing this could be a good plan, she began to head back down to the others, to discuss the plan, but bumped into Nick on her way down. "Oh.. Sorry" She quietly said, not giving him any eye contact as she slipped passed him and headed down the stands. Watching her head down, he noticed her movement had gotten faster, like she wanted to just get away from him, "What..." was the only thing that could escape Nick's lips as he followed her down. "So.. the plan?" Rochelle asked, giving Ellis a weird look. "Well, me and Coach here got a brilliant idea! we can use the concert as our signal!" Ellis said confidently, "Wow. that's actually not a bad idea." Rochelle nodded. "Yeah! That idea is awesome and the light controls are only up there" Florentina piped in, as she got to the group. "Well that's sorted.. but now we need to think of where to hide out, because there will be a lot of zombies.." Coach said, a little concerned at his thought.
As everyone decided to argue over spots where they could hide out, Arista decided to go up the stands and switch the lights on. "You've messed with the wrong girl.. specially you, Florentina.. I hope you die." She said with a cold tone, licking her lips, she turned the lights on. But none of the others had noticed, they were still too busy trying to find somewhere to hide out, "we should stay on the stage! the ammo is here and with all of us, all the directions are secured!" Rochelle said, as she thought her idea was the best. "But what about the medikits?" Ellis asked, "Look, we have enough medikits right now, I'm sure we won't even need those ones!" She added, still sticking to her idea. Without their knowledge, Arista had snuck towards the controls that start the music and decided to press the controls. The music began to play, causing everyone to quickly jump back, "The hell?" Nick said, confused at what was happening. "Who turned the music on?" Arina asked, looking around. "Wasn't me." Arista spoke, as she was now standing back in the spot she was originally at. Before they could ask further questions, the sounds zombies were getting louder and closer. "Oh god, I forgot about them! QUICK EVERYONE. THE STAGE" Rochelle shouted, as she hurried onto the stage. As they all ran to the stage, a smoker quickly caught Florentina around the waist and began pulling her back. "Help it's got me!" She shouted, trying to struggle out. But the sounds of the music was too loud for them to hear her screams. "Excellent.." Arista spoke, with a grin on her face.
"Holy shit, this horde is HUGE." Ellis shouted, as he began bashing zombies around the head with a guitar. As Nick swang around to knock back the zombies that were attacking his back, he suddenly noticed Florentina being dragged back into the hallway that led to the saferoom. "Fuck, Tina!" He shouted as he raced after her, Arista was about to run after Nick, but was stopped by Rochelle, who had grabbed her t-shirt. "You. Stay the heck away from them." She shouted, as she threw Arista behind her on the stage. The frustration in Arista was growing, but so was the infection. She could feel herself becoming one of the zombies. "Just you wait Rochelle.." She whispered as she hid behind a speaker. "I hear a tank!" Coach shouted, as the horde slowly died down. The ground began shaking harder as the tank was bolting towards them, from the stands above. "Throwing a molotov!" Ellis shouted as he threw the molotov towards the stands, catching the tank. "I wil kite the tank, you guys shoot at it, while keeping the zombies off me!" He then commanded as he ran passed the tank, grabbing it's attention. "Ellis!" Arina shouted as she watched him kite the tank around. "He'll be fine! Just shoot that thing!" Rochelle shouted to Arina, as she unloaded her AK47 ammo onto the tank, While Coach was sniping any zombies that were trying to attack Ellis and Arina was incharge of killing any incoming zombies.
As Nick got into the hallway, he noticed the smoker was just dragging Florentina, she looked in pain from the tongue being wrapped around her tightly. "You've messed with Florentina enough, you bastards!" Nick raged as he ran quickly towards the smoker, making sure his gun was loaded, he began shooting at the smokers head, making sure he didn't hit Florentina. Killing the smoker, it;s body slammed to the floor, and a big puff of smoke surrounded the area. Falling to her knees, Florentina began regaining her breath, ignoring the dangers of what a enclosed hallway could bring. "Are you ok?" Nick said, as he kneeled down, infront of Florentina. "I'll be alright, just lack of breath from being gripped so tightly... But thanks.." She replied, keeping her eyes to the floor. "It's nothing..really" Nick awkwardly said, as he got up. "I guess we should go back to the others." Nick said, as he began to head back towards the stadium, Florentina slowly picked herself up and began sluggishly following him, keeping a distance of at least half a foot. As Nick got closer to the stadium, the sounds of a dying tank could be heard, as he entered the stadium, Ellis was standing on top of the Tank, looking extremely proud of himself. "Dayum, I kited that tank good." He praised himself, giving everyone a grin. "You did good!" Rochelle commented, as she gave him a thumbs up. "Hey Nick! You missed it!" Ellis said as he jumped off the dead tank. "I had some business to take care of, A smoker grabbed Florentina and dragged her all the way back near to the saferoom." He replied. Florentina emerged from the hallway and waved at everyone, "I'm alright, Thanks to Nick. If only the music wasn't so loud, then you would have heard me." She said, giving everyone a concerned look. "It's fine, Luckily one of us were able to see you!" Coach said as he began reloading his guns.
They all began reloading their guns, as they knew; another horde was not far off. The Midnight Riders began playing again and the lights were switching about, they knew the next wave wasn't too far off again. "Let's stick to the stage again" Coach said, everyone nodded, knowing the stage was the safest place to hide out in. Ellis and Arina took the front, Rochelle and Florentina took the right side, while Nick and Coach took the left. It wasn't long until the stadium began filling up with a ton of zombies, this time there was more. "Holy damn.. We need to stick close and watch eachothers back, if we want to stay alive!" Ellis yelled, as he shoved back a boomer. Everyone knew he was right, Nick hated when Ellis was right. He always thought Ellis was either too happy or too dumb to ever be right. "Long neck bitch!" Coach yelled, as the spitter spat some goo at them, "Stay out of the goo" Rochelle warned, as the goo managed to land in the middle, missing everyone. Everyone sighed, thanking that they were not in the middle, The horde itself looked like it was never going to die down, the amount of zombies that came out from every direction was worrying. As the goo in the middle died down, creating a small hole in the process, they all got closer, mostly to gather some more ammo for their weapons. "This horde is draining my ammo so quickly, when is it going to finish?" Florentina moaned, wishing it would all stop. "I know right.. Where do they come from?" Rochelle replied with an annoyed tone. The others wondered that as well, where did they all come from? it was like they instantly appeared or came from some machine. The splattering of zombie guts flew around the stadium for a good hour, it wasn't long after that, when the horde died down. Thinking it was all over, the gang caught some breath and rested for a while.
But the rest was interrupted, when the ground violently moved, but this time, more violently. The angry growls of two tanks could be heard, They sounded very close to them, extremely close. A rock flew straight towards them, but smashed into one of the speakers.
"Holy shit! Two tanks?" Nick shouted, as he quickly picked his gun off the floor and began spraying bullets in the line of the thrown rock. The others followed suit, but they all split into a small group, Nick, Coach and Rochelle took on the tank that was infront of them, while Ellis, Arina and Florentina took on the second tank, that was rushing out from the hallway. Ellis took the reign in kiting this tank and Nick did the same with the other tank, The rest began shooting. Ellis seemed to be doing well with his tank, but Nick was having trouble kiting the tank around the stands. Because the tank seemed to have advantage in this area, so Nick was trying to get off the stands, but with special infected lurking about, he had no idea where to kite. Suddenly, Arista had appeared infront of Nick, "I'll save you from the tank" She spoke as she began shooting at it with pistols, But the tank wasn't interested in her at all, It wanted Nick. Florentina looked over to the others and witnessed the scene, "Oh for christ's sake.." She mumbled, not paying attention to the rock that was flying towards her. "FLORENTINA!" Ellis shouted as he quickly jolted towards her, pushing her to the side, the rock flew passed them both. The shouting of Ellis, alerted the others to see what had happened, Rochelle and Coach were proud of Ellis, While jealousy boiled up inside him. Picking her up, Ellis took Florentina's hand and began running to the stage, Arina was closely behind them, spraying a large amount of bullets at the tank.
"See Nick, she isn't good for you at all!" Arista spoke, trying to block the tank from reaching him. The tank had finally realised what she was doing and used one of his giant hands to slap her out the way. Coach and Rochelle didn't bother seeing if she alright, they kept their focus on the tank, who still kept his attention on Nick. Back on the stage, Ellis threw Florentina behind him as he began shooting the tank, with the aid of Arina. None of them saw Arista get slapped by the other tank, because they were too focused and the music was getting louder again. Nick ran after Arista, as her body hit the floor, she tried getting up, but her left foot was twisted. She just sat there, though she couldn't feel any pain from the twist, she acted like her foot was in agony. As Nick got to the light switchboard, he could see Arista by the corner, He ran over to her and knelt on both knees. "Let me fix that for you.." He quietly said, as he got his healthkit out. wrapping a bandage around her foot, Nick had forgotten his surroundings, which meant he had forgotten about the tank that was making it's way up to him.
Ellis's tank had finally been killed, wiping the sweat off of his head, Ellis turned around, about to ask Florentina how she was, when he noticed her bolting up the stands, towards Nick. "FLO, WAIT!" he shouted, this time grabbing Arina's hand, they began chasing her. "You Son of a bitch!" Florentina shouted, as she kept her eyes on Nick, giving him one awfully cold look. "Nick watch out!" Rochelle called, as the tank was about to throw a rock. "NICK?" Coach shouted. No one of them could get through to him, he was still busy bandaging Arista, "NICK!" with that call of his name, he quickly turned his head to the sound of the voice. Florentina had pushed him down to the ground, hoping the tanks rock would avoid them. "What are you doing? Get off me, Florentina!" He shouted, trying to push her off. "You'll be kill! you fucking idiot! YOU HAVE A TANK ON YOUR BACK." she screamed at him. The sound of the rock was heard, as it collidied with the floor, causing Nick to freeze. Ellis and Arina paused, because of the derbis that flew about, but they quickly began shooting at the tank, who was still pretty much alive, Luckily Ellis was able to grab it's attention. "Tanks seem to love meh." He chuckled as he forced it to follow him to the stage. With Arina, Coach and Rochelle behind him, Ellis knew he was in safe hands.
Back up by the light switchboard, Florentina pushed herself off Nick. "Are you ok?" She asked, as she began to sweep dust off her clothes. Nick had no respond, instead he remembered Arista. He used his knees to crawl over to her. "Arista? Are you ok? the rock didn't hit you did it?" He quickly questioned, placing his right hand on her forehead. "Ignore me, for her? fucking jerk" Florentina slammed, picking up a small rock on the ground, she threw it at his head. He ignored the rock and instead was too focused on Arista, "I'm fine Nick.. I didn't get hit by it." Arista replied, sounding sweet. "Oh thank god." He chuckled, helping her sit up. As Florentina got up, she walked close to Nick and within a second, she kicked his back. "Thanks for nothing, you ignorant son of a bitch." She screamed. Flicking her hair, she headed down the stairs, towards the others. In pain, Nick's body went into his lap, Arista wrapped her arms around him, "You bitch!" She spat at Florentina. She got no verbal response, except the middle finger.
Meeting up with the others, she was silent. Picking up some ammo, the sounds of a helicopter could be heard. "Rescus here!" Rochelle rejoiced, the frowns on everyones face lifted. The helicopter flew into the stadium, hoovering over by the left. "Quickly everyone!" Coach shouted, as he began running towards it. Ellis noticed Florentina was just standing there, staring over at Nick who was now carrying Arista towards the Heli. "Flo we have to go, I am not leaving you behind!" He said, as he took her hand. "What no!" She screamed, trying to slap his hand away. "I AM NOT LEAVING YOU." he shouted. With that, he quickly sweeped Florentina off her feet, "But Ellis-" Before she could say anymore, Ellis gave a nod. The others had all successfully made it into the heli, looking over, Rochelle saw the scene between Ellis and Florentina. "She didn't.." She said, with a frown. "What?" Nick asked, curious at what Rochelle was commenting on, As he was looking at Arista's foot. "Florentina! She looked like she didn't want to be rescued." She added, that reply made Nick stop what he was doing. "No way.. Why would she?" He asked, getting more curious. "I don't know.. Maybe because of the way you acted towards her saving your life?" Coach added, as he began munching on a chocolate bar.
"I think I would have known when someone saves my life!" Nick defended himself, not believing a word of what Coach said. "She pushed you on the floor, to avoid the tank's rock." The unexpected voice of Ellis's was heard. Ellis was now visible to everyone, with a Florentina over his shoulder. Ellis slid Florentina off his shoulders and placed her in the helicopter, climbing in after her; he closed helicopters door.
As the helicoptor began ascending to the skies, a silence loomed over. The team was split into three, Nick and Arista were on one side, the rest were on the other and Florentina sat in the middle, keeping her head down on the helicopters floor. "She looks sad" Ellis quietly said to Rochelle, who couldn't help but worry about Florentina. "I can see why, She saves her ex's life and get's no thank you" Rochelle replied, giving Arista a cold look. "I blame her, why does she have to be here.. No offense to you, Arina.." Ellis spoke out, forgetting Arista was Arina's sister. "It's fine." Arina insisted, giving Ellis a simple smile.
Over in the other corner, Nick was simply viewing the world outside the helicopter, Arista had her head resting on his chest, his hand was placed on her head, running his fingers through her hair while she slept. As he moved his eyes to look at the others, he could see the anger that was visable on their faces, That anger was towards him. As he turned his head back to look outside, a sound of laughter was heard. Nick quickly looked to where the source was coming from, It was Florentina. "Hey, are you ok?" Coach asked, concerned at why she was laughing. "I'm.. Fine.. I just can't.. how dumb I've been. Thinking Nick even gave a flying fuck about me..!" She laughed, keeping her back faced to Nick. "I think she's gone crazy" Ellis said, as he moved over to Florentina and forced her into a hug. "Everything will be alright!" He comforted. "Will it?" She whispered, her voice cracking as she kept her head in his chest. Rochelle was soon next to Florentina, joining the hug. "Girl, you know we love you." She said, "Damn straight!" Coach added, as he smiled at the hugging. "You guys are the best, I am so glad I'm with you all." Florentina said as she lifted her head up. "Woah, Hold on here. I do give a fuck about you, Flo" Nick's voice suddenly boomed, making everyone jump unexpectedly. Pushing herself away from the hug, Florentina jerked her body around, giving Nick a stare full of confusion. "Then why?" She asked, keeping her eyes locked onto Nick. "Why do you constantly go back to her? She has caused nothing but trouble, She lies so much. How can you trust that." She asked, tears formed in her eyes, making them glisten. Nick said nothing, he couldn't, Florentina was right; This women who was resting on his chest right now was a liar, was the main cause of the fights that had been going on. But Nick felt some form of attraction to her, like her lies would keep him interested. "I may have hated you before, But I don't now. But just so you know, I hate her" The tone of Florentina's became cold, colder than it had ever been before, It caused a small shiver to go down Nick's spine.
"What's going on?" The voice of a tired Arista said as she began rubbing her eyes. Moving her eyes down towards the tired girl, Florentina gave a look of disgust and jerked her body back round to face Rochelle. "Nothing is happening, you go back to sleep." Nick comforted, stroking her hair some more. "Son of a bitch" Florentina spoke, loud enough for Nick to hear. "Hey, it will be alright. You have us. The best thing to do is Ignore any feelings you feel for Nick and just keep your focus on surviving." Rochelle spoke, giving Florentina a small smile. "Yeah! I need you to help bust some zombie ass with me!" Ellis grinned, hoping his cheeriness would help, It did, a small chuckle left the lips of the now smiling women. "Thanks guys.." She grinned. "What have I done.." Nick thought, listening to the chuckles that came from the opposite side. He hated how everything had gone, How his relationship with Florentina kept going down, why does he keep making such stupid mistakes. Thinking about it, Florentina was right, She had saved him back at the stadium and now he had no chance of ever thanking her. Sighing he closed his eyes, hoping to try and get some sleep, maybe this was just all a dream, well he hoped it was.
This chapter isn't that good. But it is longer!
Next will be swamp fever, woo! SWAMPY GOODNESS.
I have no idea what is going to happen. I haven't drafted up anything for it yet, I will be today.
So expect the next chapter out soon! :3
Also expect more drama?
IDK, but I'm sure there will be, because I love drama too much. ;~;
Lavh you all.