Left 4 Dead 2

by Colonel Liam

The green flu continues to spread, changing the people it infects into monsters, the south of America was unprepared and thus fell just a quick as the north, now handfuls of survivors remain desperately seeking refuge in a world where they have been left 4 dead, join Coach, Ellis, Nick and Rochelle as they journey to New Orleans in hope of finding salvation.

2. Chapter 2 The Hotel

Authors notes: I think I did a good enough job of introducing our 4 characters, as I did used the left 4 dead wiki to get the information on them so hopefully it was accurate, with that being said its time to get into the main content, starting with the beginning of Dead Center, so please enjoy :)

Chapter 2: The Hotel

DEAD CENTER

Prices aren't the only things being slashed

The group had various facial expressions as they descended the staircase in order to get back downstairs, looking worriedly at the other people in the group the women pushed the door open once they were all together exposing a long corridor in front of them that was swarming with infected people, stumbling around mindlessly as they currently didn't seem to pay any mind to the 4 of them. "Hope you 3 know how to fight you don't look it" the man in the suit said raising his pistols as the closest infected suddenly looked up at them and began growling before screaming and charging forward, with 2 precise shots the suit downed the attacking infected, the other 2 in view also taking notice as they stood up, the man in the suit taking down the second with 2 more shots. The woman fired exploding a hole through the 3 infected stomach dropping it dead, she looked down at the gun and then back up clearly unnerved by having to kill someone, "dude those zombies are real I knew those books were non fiction" said the mechanic as the football man stepped out into the corridor looking around, "you here about them but until you see them..." the woman said nervously as the football man put a hand to her shoulder. "Its them or us little sister, we need to defend ourselves and this is how we do it" he said giving a reassuring smile as her hands shook slightly, "check the rooms might be something useful" the mechanic said walking forward into the corridor. He swung around decapitating a infected with his crowbar, the woman stood motionless as the men began to fan out taking down infected and searching the rooms for anything they could use, she closed her eyes and mentally told herself that she had to shoot in order to survive, she sighed before joining the football man in a large room on the right where he blasted away any infected in sight. The woman and the man both took notice of a large table in the room that had a large map of the states on it, both of them walking forward to have a read shocked by what they saw, the map was covered in black X's meaning the areas where they were are overrun, only one area of the map was circled red, New Orleans miles away from where they currently were.

"Hey young'un, suit take a look at this" he said as the 2 men came back to join them all by the map, the mechanic whistled as he was shocked by all the X's that there was on the map while the man in the suit simply frowned, "folks I think New Orleans is the last city standing" the football man said studying the map, "Jesus the whole countries fallen" the suit said, "Jesus look at all those X's man, we don't have a lot of options left" the mechanic said as the woman stared at the map saddened. "I worked for a news station we heard about the east coast... but shit, didn't know it was this bad" she said. "We need to try and get to New Orleans" the football said walking away and checking the room next door, "alright it sounds like a plan... whether its good or not, well I guess we will find out" the woman said, the mechanic suddenly smiled as the football man returned not finding anything of usefulness, "man I haven't been to New Orleans in a dogs age, come on this is gonna be fun" he said walking back out into the corridor as the others followed him. He proceeded down the corridor, not hearing or seeing any signs of infected for the moment as the corridor came to a dead end out a window by some elevators and turned left to continue on, he jumped back in shock as he found himself staring straight at a mutilated corpse on the ground, blood all over the floor and walls as the corpses insides had been ripped out and spilled all over the floor. "Jesus Christ that's awful" he said looking away sadly as the others also saw the body and were equally as shocked, the man in the suit not showing his shock as much as the others, "there was reports that some of these things mutated" the woman said horrified as the body had a look of pure pain etched on its lifeless face. "God damnit the elevators are out" the mechanic said, checking the elevators only to see they had run out of power, suddenly they all froze the woman having a look of terror on her face as growling could be heard from somewhere nearby, some of it was low down in pitch while others growls were higher, "what the hell is that noise, is somebody beating a horse or what" the man in the suit said as they all looked around them scared and confused.

"From the sounds of it, its about to get a whole lot worse" the football man said looking down the corridor in the direction they clearly needed to go, "come on people, lets find the stairs and get out of here" he said raising the shotgun he held as he walked forward the growling continuing for a moment longer before stopping entirely, the suit and mechanic following the first man down the corridor as the woman looked back the way they had come for a moment. She nodded as she moved on, wanting to get out of here as quickly as possible, the men approaching a section in the corridor before suddenly one of them burst open, the flames from the room engulfing the corridor and blocking their way forward, "damn the fires spreading" the football man said as the mechanic spotted a door to their immediate right. "We cant cut through here" he said opening the door, the group walked into the next room closing the door behind them as the fire raged on in the corridor, they paused as groaning and what sounded like gurgling could be heard from nearby, "what the heck is that?" the football man asked as it continued for a moment longer before abruptly stopping, "that is not a happy noise" said the mechanic. The football man, turning to see a ledge around the outside of the rooms they could use the walk past the corridor engulfed in flames, "we can get around the fire out here" he said smashing open the window with the butt of his shotgun, he gasped looking down, one wrong step would be their last, "everybody keep your shit tight" he said as he stepped out and began to carefully walk along the ledge. The woman and mechanic and finally the man in the suit following him, the room next to them burning furiously as suddenly an infected engulfed in flames smashed through the window causing the woman to yelp in shock, the infected screamed in agony as it tumbled down the side of the building with a horrific splat once it hit the bottom. The man in the suit looking in the burning room, "50 beds in one room what a shitty hotel" he remarked as the football man smashed a window further up going back inside, "check the rooms for anything useful" he said as the woman and mechanic smashed separate windows checking other rooms on their floor for anything of value.

The suit smashing a window of the room next and walking inside, spotting a first aid kit fully intact laying on a bed, picking it up and strapping it to his back he jumped back in shock raising his pistols as bloated figure stood before him, groaning and gurgling, the figure was large and fat and was covered in boils, its one open eye glowing a deep orange, he stared at it warily as it continued to stand there staring back. "Hey football man is this a relative of yours?" the suit asked, the woman entering the room and gasping in shock at the bloated figure before her, "be careful they call those ones boomers I think... for obvious reasons" she said pointing her gun warily at the figure, "so that's a boomer huh, you know its sad to see a eating disorder get out of control like that" the suit said. The figure bellowed as it begun to stumble forward the mechanic opening a door next to it and looking shocked, "holy shit kill it!" he yelled smashing the bloated figure with his crowbar, he wished he hadn't of done so as the figure exploded, showering them with green bile that hindered their vision, "god damnit this stuff sucks!" he yelled as banging and screaming began to occur around them the woman and suit stumbling back on to the ledge wiping their eyes free of the bile. They looked shocked as infected began to rush at them from the way they had come, "they're coming" she said as she nervously opened fire dropping infected as did the man in the suit, the mechanic grunting as infected charged him from behind swinging his crowbar and removing limbs and causing huge dents in greyed bodies, "sweet Jesus these things move like greased lightning!" football man shouted gunning down infected that were chasing after his colleagues. The group holding off for a moment as the green bile began to evaporate off of the clothes and bodies of those covered by it the last of the horde dropping dead as the woman blasted a hole through its head, "god damn, that's some messed up shit" the mechanic said kicking what was left of the corpse of the bloated infected, "we don't wanna be shooting those things while they are close, the bile they spread attracts zombies to those covered by it" the woman explained as the rest of the group nodded their understanding.

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The group made their way back inside where they came to a doorway with a flight of stairs, "everyone back down the stairs" football man said leading the way down as an infected was bashing its way through a door below them, they looked in shocked as it caved in the door engulfing the corridor in more flames that had been behind it killing the infected as it did so. "Ok im not walking through that... lets find another way through" the man in the suit said as the woman noticed the room next to them wasn't full of flames, "we can get back out to the ledges this way" she said, she lead the way through the room smashing the window out and stepping back onto the ledge leading the way forward. They got back onto the ledges, they used them to get past the room filled with fire, "i was down here covering a news story, im from Cleveland" the woman explained, "yeah well how do you like our city soo far?" the mechanic asked as they got back into the corridor beyond where the fire had been previously, "well... its lively" she said nervously as she walked down the corridor, they came to a large lobby area, filled with infected, "take em out" the football man said as he began blasting holes in infected with his shotgun. The others joining him as the mechanic could here the growling again this time very close by, he looked ahead to a room on the right, raising his crowbar as he slowly walked in, looking around and not seeing anything weird from the off, the growling was very loud now, he shot around as a large ear piercing scream occurred from behind him, he yelled a hooded figure pounced on top of him and began to tear away at him trying to rip him apart. He yelled as his shirt was torn slightly as he fought with the infected on him before it was smacked off of him by the football man, who realigned his aim and shot the creature right through the chest a large gaping hole right through it as it collapsed blood pooling underneath it, "easy there fireball lets get you up" the suit said helping the younger man to his feet who grunted holding his chest which had sustained a few cuts. "I think they call those ones hunters, they prefer to wait until someone is alone before striking them down" the woman said as the football man stood over the body of the hunter grunting, "alright then people, lets get the hell out of this building before we run into something even worse" he said walking back out to the lobby area as the suit disinfected and bandaged the mechanics small injuries. "Thank Jesus this elevator is still working, I aint walking back down thirty flights of god damn stairs" he said as he motioned for everyone to join him in the elevator, "thank god lets get the hell out of here" the woman said as the 2 other men from their party entered the elevator as the football man pushed the button for the ground floor, the doors closed as the lift began to descend down to the bottom.

End Chapter

Authors notes: sorry i haven't uploaded in a while, but as you all know a lot is going on in the world right now so its hard to find time to get stuff done, but for now here is chapter number 2 and chapter number 3 shouldn't be too far off but i cant make any promises, i just want to wish that everyone stays safe with everything going on and will try to keep this story coming as much as possible, thanks for reading and i will see you all in the next one.

Goodbye