Chapter 29 The office building
Authors notes: 29 here we go
Francis grumbled to himself as he lead the way through the office building countless infected and dead bodies everywhere which he gunned down as he pushed through most of them not even realising the survivors were there before being shot down. His arms still stung from the earlier attack but he wasn't gonna let some cuts and scratches stop him from getting to the airport as he approached a flight of stairs next to a elevator realising the elevator was out of power. "Sorry Bill we gotta take the stairs, the elevators out" Zoey said with a giggle as the man in question grunted his displeasure at the notion of the stairs, "mother jumped" he cursed. They began to defend the staircase winding round to the other direction as they descended to the floor below, infected grumbling mindlessly as they stumbled about the various office cubicles.
The group pushed through the room around the desks being sure to blast away any infected in their path as they made it across the room to the next set of stairs Bill cursing once again as they descend to an even lower down floor. Surprisingly this floor had no commons in it at all, however a haunting sound of crying suddenly became audible as Bill stepped in the room, "shh there's a witch near here... lights off" he whispered strongly as the lights of their various weapons went off. Zoey however was not so sure, while the crying sounded familiar it didn't sound like the typical crying of a witch, "I don't think that's a witch, we should check out just to be sure, it doesn't sound like one" she said the 3 men looking at her surprised.
"Zoey every crying woman we have come across has tried to rip our throats out, I'm not gonna go looking for one now just cause you have a feeling" Francis said angrily as the woman looked at him appalled. "Are you kidding me Francis we have to be sure, what if that's just a young girl scared and alone... we have to do something..." she said as she was cut off by Bill putting a hand over her mouth turning her towards him. "Zoey I know your intentions are good kid but we can't take the risk, even with this much firepower a witch is a witch, if we take the risk and it is a witch we could be putting ourselves in serious danger" he said, "now come on enough chatter we need to move on now" he said as Zoey looked at him angrily. "Come on Zoey he's right we have to stick together" said Louis putting a reassuring arm on the young woman, "Louis... you of all people should understand" she said pushing his arm off and storming forward annoyed at the appalling attitudes of her 3 cohorts.
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The group had made it to the ground floor of the office building where thankfully the crying of the woman was much quieter meaning she was back upstairs and they seemed to have gotten past her. "Alright the storage building is right across the street" Bill said before suddenly putting his hand up to silence any chit chat. He could here the groaning of a boomer from somewhere nearby, he then motioned for his team to follow him out the back way where they would go round the back of the building to a side alley to get out onto the Main Street. Once they reached the alley they could see infected crawling all over the Main Street as well as a alarmed car in the middle of the road, "shit what do we do now" Louis said as Bill drew a pipe bomb and lit the fuse with his cigarette.
The grenade was thrown and every infected in the immediate area was drawn to the loud beeping device, soon after that it exploded showering blood mist and body pieces into the air. Thankfully the alarmed car hadn't been hit, and it seemed the boomer had been hit by the pipe causing its upper body to explode, "alright let's get to the that safe room" he said. The group advanced out onto the Main Street a tall green gangly figure hiding next to the alarm car suddenly screamed as it shot its tongue around Zoey causing her to yelp. Francis fired causing the creature to exploded and release its captive, they watched in horror as its body bounced back onto the car, which suddenly began emanating a horrid alarm as many angry screams and shouts suddenly emanated all around.
"God damnit Francis!" Bill cursed as the biker in question looked sheepishly helping the young woman of the group to her feet, as many dark shadows began to charge from the office building. "Holy shit, here they come!" The biker shouted as the whole group fired, slowly backing up to the storage building where Francis tossed a Molotov once they were inside sealing off the entrance to the building as the infected were engulfed in flames. "Yeah, take some of that you sons of bitches" he said colicky as Zoey pulled him into the safe room where she shut the door behind them sitting down on a wooden box. "Any zombie fight you can crawl away from means you won it" he said as the woman shook her head in disbelief at the attitude of the confident biker man she was now allies with.
End chapter
Authors notes: will keep these coming as fast as I can with minimum errors apologies in advance for any long delays as I'm very busy with work and learning to drive right now, thanks for reading and I will see you all again soon.
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