Chapter 28

"Oh look houses" Ellie excitedly says. God im exhausted from all this walking. "Those may be safe, we'll cheak them out". We walk to a house. Ellie and Maria ready there guns and i slowly open the door. I peak in. No sign of people. The house is completely empty. "Think its okay". We all walk in. Ellie closes the door. "So whats the plan" "Uh we crash here for a bit then uh i don't know" Maria says. I look around. Sleeping on the cold hard dirty floor,awesome. "Well its not very safe if someone could just walk right in" "Lets go to the basement and just board that up so its safe and we can stay down there". We all walk down the stairs to the basement. Maria stands at the door for a few seconds then opens it. Its pretty dark down there the light from upstairs streaming in when the doors open. I pull a flash light out of my bag and turn it on. Ellie does the same thing. Maria closes the door and now were in darkness. I shine the light around the room. A dirty old mattress and some tote boxes. Most likely empty. I sigh. "How we gonna secure this place. "Ill go look for wood and something and one or both of you guys look for nails and a hammer" "Okay" me and Ellie both say. I sit my backpack down but still have my gun. We all go upstairs. "Be careful" I say as Maria walks away to go outside. Shes a very tough women. "Why did this have to happen" Ellie says. "I don't know Ellie" She sighs. "Welp lets go find some nails and a hammer". She starts walking away humming. If there was a hammer and nail here it would be long gone. I walk into the kitchen Ellie is already looking around. "Nuttin" She says turning around looking at me. "I figured". Ellie slams one of the doors shut hard making me jump. "Something on your mind Ellie?" "Im just sick of those piece of shit guys ruining everything" "Well everything happens for a reason" "Thats total bullshit" Ellie says slamming another cabnit door. Maria walks in. She carrying some wood boards and has a hammer attached to her pants. "Look what i found girls" "Awesome" Ellie says and starts heading out of the kitchen. We follow her to the basement. We get to the basement and i close the door. "Wait, we nail this door shut and we can't get out" Ellie says. I almost slap myself in the face i didn't even think about that. "Were gonna starve" Ellie says. "Shes right" "We will hunt for food lots of food just enough for a couple days then we will nail the door shut and when we wanna leave we can just rip the boards off" Maria says. "Sounds like a plan" Ellie says. She grabs her bow and starts heading to the door. "I'll go with her Maria you stay" "Okay" I follow Ellie out.

Im awaken by a hard blow to the face. I groan in pain and my vision comes clear. Theres three guys standing before me. I realize im tied to a chair. "We were gonna kill you but you look like a good contender to be one of us" The guy closest to me says. "Im not gonna become one you assholes" Thats get me another punch to face. "You know what would be funner" The one guy says looking at the other guys. "Torturing him" "I like that idea" I glare at them. "Fine i don't care torture me all you want i can take pain" "We'll see" He takes a knife and stabs it into my thigh. I try not to flinch or groan in pain i stare at him with cold dark eyes. "Well damn this ain't gonna be no fun if your gonna hide your pain". He pushes me hard and the chair and i fall to the ground. Him and his buddies laugh and i hear them walk out. Fuckin assholes.

I walk over the body of the two guys i just shoot. With a bad arm and im still a good shot. I searched their bodies and grabbed what i could. I look around. Where has Joel gone off to. Wheres Maria, Maria obviously was here if im still alive. I start heading to the town. I carry the molotov bomb in my hands that one of the bandits was carrying. I see the town some houses burnt down and dead bodies everywhere. Jesus christ. I hear voices. Oh shit. I duck down. I peak up and a group of three guys are standing there talking. I look down at the molotov. Should i do it? What the hell why not. I throw it and instally they all light on fire i hear there screams of pain. I look up when there screams stop and i see there bodies on the ground on fire. I hear a door fly open and i duck down. "What the hell" a guy says. "Who the fuck did this" Another says. I peak up a little and theres about four guys there looking around. I duck back down again. Another molotov would be nice. I look at my gun. Gotta take care of these guys someway. I peak up aiming my gun and shoot. It hits one guy in the head. I instally duck down. "Find this fucker" one guy shouts. I peak up and shoot again it hits a guy in the shoulder. "Ow fuck" "There he is" I duck just as a bullet flys past. I peak up and there ducked behind things. I notice a molotov being thrown in the air and i move avoiding the bullets and duck behind something else and it explodes into fire right where i was just at. I shoot my gun as a guys about to throw another one and it explodes catching him on fire. Two more. "Fuck you asshole" One of them shouts. One ducks up to shoot his gun and i shoot him before he can shoot and he drops dead. One left. "You killed my friends asshole" "You did the same thing" i shout back. I don't know if all the towns people are dead or if they are just hiding. All the guys that helped fight are dead. I shoot my gun but it misses. I duck down as a bullet flys past. Damn it one shot left. He leans out to shot his gun and i shot him right between the eyes. I stay ducked for a few seconds before i stand up. I look around. Another 7 bodies to add to all the bodies laying around. I guess ill search the houses. I cheak bodies as i make my way to the houses. I pick up a backpack. Joel's backpack. oh man. I shove things in it and put it on. I may have lost my big brother. I walk into the house the guys came out of. Don't remeber whose house this was before. I walk to a door and open it. I see a guy on the ground tied to a chair. "Joel?!" I run over to him and look down at him. "Tommy!?" He says shock written all over his face. I get a knife and cut the rope. I help him up. I notice his thigh bleeding and his face covered in red bruises. "Im fine" He says. I hand him a rag and he pats the blood on his thigh. He drops the rag. "Im so glad to see you" He hugs me.