Chapter Seventeen

Dark is the Swamp

Dead it seems

But alive with secretes..it gleans?

"Fuck barely three lines in and I'm coming up blanks. Hey Jackie got any ideas?" The mongrel yawn and only curled itself up and began to sleep. Edward yawned himself, not wanting to go to bed just yet he felt his body get tired and his eyes starting to get heavy that was until he heard screaming from the next room over.

"Will you keep that damned tinkering to a minimum you blasted Brotherhood cunt."

"Fuck you ghoulie I'm doing basic matience on my gear so piss off, better yet go get feraled." And that became a screaming match, which as before Edward would enjoy hearing the BoS girl getting yelled at before not as the cost of his sleep.

A whore screams

A dead woman moans

Anger flows through her body

Hatred grows in her mind

Bitter Enemies

Now sharing clothes of allies

He smirked at that one as door slams shut, with a final bitch throw out. Edward got up from his bed roll and watched as the BoS soldier girl, Nicole her name was just spout out an angry rant. Edward started to snicker at the girls pain.

"Who does that stupid ghoulie bitch think she is!" she screamed.

"I'd be quiet if I were you." A voice said calmly and coldly. Nicole turned and saw it was the doctor, she was sitting in a land chair holding her weapon and looking out to the swamp, next to her was someone holding her hand. Young man he did the same.

"Oh and whys that." Nicole shot back.

"Well you could alert something to our presence. I understand you and the good doctor Elenore-"

"Don't call it by its name, it's not even a person." Nicole spat.

"That was a bit rude." Aisen said.

"I don't care if it's rude!" Nicole's voice began to rise, how can these people even think that ghoul of all things is a person and deserves respect! She may be leading this operation but it didn't mean she had to like it, the only reason why she came along was to ditch the Brotherhood.

"Alright come down lady, Helena's right though. We don't know what's out here and we don't want it attacking us while we sleep. For all we know there's a tribe of raiders wearing ghillie suits approaching us with spears." Just as soon as Aisen said that a spear flew out of the tall grass and just missed the trio. There was yelling coming from the swamp. Helena turned to look at Aisen and gave him a look that said 'really!' He shrugged his shoulders. "Oh well um I hope that a meteor doesn't or does come down and crush them?"

"We're under attack!" Nicole called out.

Therion jumped out of his bedroll he hear the yelling, when he got to the window he saw it. Raiders were coming out of the swamp. They wore a suit made of reed and dirt, carried weapons, highly primitive ones at that. Spears, clubs, a few had pipe weapons as well, mostly revolver and revolver. They were screaming in a tongue that Therion had never heard before which if he had to guess was some bastardization of english, or some other language as it sounded rough and unnatural. He went for his weapon, sniper rifle and opened his window. None of the raiders noticed him and he took aim, boom. Ones head exploded, then another and another. For a moment this terrified them before a spear landed and almost hit him in the head. He ducked behind cover rushing for his Nine millimeter when suddenly a man climbed into his room. Therion raised his weapon and was prepared to fire but he had to roll out of the way as the man brought down a club made from bone. It nearly smashed into his leg, surely with enough to break it. When Therion aimed again the man swung his club knocking the gun out of his hand, causing it to fire. Hitting a wall to an adjacent room. Seeing no other option Therion rolled out of the way one last time before rolling over the primitive spear. Seeing no other option Therion picked up the spear and thrusted into the Raider. The man screamed in agony and the scream only grew louder when Therion pulled it out as he saw the tip was hooked and it pulled out its far share of gut and other meat. "Fucking gross."

"Gaagh." The raider screamed at the top his lung and raised his club. "Dei Dri Landar." Therion calmly thrusted the spear one last time piercing the man heart.

A bullet came through wall almost hitting Cynthia, she screamed in fear but gathered her medical supplies. She was certain there be many wounded, possible dead after this attack and she wanted to help save as many as she could. She had some healing balm as well as a few disinfectents and leaves that could numb the pain. She was tempted to take a weapon for self deffense but felt wrong. Hurting others while trying to heal some felt...evil in a way so didn't take a single weapon as she ran out of the room. The whole area was in a panic, luckily it wasn't hard to tell who to advoid as the bandis or whatever were because all of them wearing some sort suit made from the swamp plants. Cymthia stayed in the shadows hidden waiting for someone know need some help and it didn't take long. A man, she didn't know fell the ground, an arrow in his shoulder. Cynthia rushed towards him and pulled him away from the battlefield. "God shit!"

"It's going to be fine. The arrow didn't go deep." She pulled out the arrow and with one hand she put some pressure on the wound with the other.

"AAHHHH!" He screamed. Cynthia shuddered at his cries but only took a deep breath. She grab some whisky from her bag. She poured the liquid over the man's wounds and he screamed even louder yet she kept going. When she was sure it was disinfected enough she gave him some of it to drink which he did as if a baby sucking on his mothers tits. He winced at the pain but it was dulled enough. The battle was coming to an end, luckily. The raiders lost this fight many of their fighters were dead or dying. A few tried to grab the wounded only to be gunned down. That actually disturbed Cynthia a little bit to be honest. Just seemed cruel but she had no tears to shed, she was sure her eyes would water soon enough at those she could not save.

"You Brotherhood lady help me move him inside. He needs to lie down in some place clean...er." Nicole glared but sighed and helped pick him up and the two went back into the Motel.

Walker watched as the Brotherhood girl helped the medic, it was strange to watch and almost like a sign of the end but he did nonetheless if anything out of a curiosity of why such a person would help another.

A/N Sup