This War of Mine: Apocalypse:

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Season 1

Episode 1 Part 3

The low growling of the various walking corpses that blocked the only path forwards seemed to sound repeatedly without end. A group of three people, two men and a woman, observed them from their hiding spot, the three had been at the shopping mall at the same time by pure chance and ended up teaming up together when this all started, and now they were trying to reach their cars in the parking lot, only to find it swarming with the corpses.

The first man was Marin, he actually worked at the shopping mall, running a repair shop, he was thirty-nine and had long brown hair and a full dark brown beard, both with grey in them, as well as brown eyes behind small, square glasses, he also had fair skin and a regular build, he was slightly taller than the other man. He was clad in Khaki pants, a white shirt and black sneakers.

The second man wore black pants, a grey T-shirt and white sneakers, he was twenty-seven with shaved brown hair and dark blue eyes, he was well built and had fair skin as well as a rugged jaw covered with stubble, he was also just above medium height. His name was Marko, a fireman who had been on his lunch break from the station across the road when things all went to hell.

The woman was the youngest at twenty, wearing white knee length shorts, a black tank-top under an unbuttoned pink blouse and white flats. Her name was Zlata and she had short black hair and dark brown eyes as well as a few moles dotting her face, she was also slender and fair skinned.

As they watched what could only be described as a horde before them, Zlata whispered.

"Okay, so what are we gonna do?"

Marko shook his head. "Our cars are over there, but how are we gonna get to them without those things seeing us and trying to make us their next meal."

Marin shook his head. "Not going to be easy, that's for sure...especially since..."

He tried to think of a delicate way to put it, but the fourth man who just joined them, shook his head.

"I know what you're going to say, and you're right, I'm not that fast." He said with a thick accent. "We'll just have to think of something."

The fourth man was called Boris, a tall muscular middle aged man with a strong square build, brown eyes with short brown hair, fair skin and wearing dark grey pants, a black tank-top and black boots.

"Looks like someone already has." Marko remarked.

They followed his gaze to see another man, around twenty-seven standing on a high level of the parking lot. He had long brown hair and intense green eyes, he had an athletic build and scars on his forehead, he was fair skinned and had a look of danger around him. He was wearing cargo pants, a grey tank-top with a white flannel shirt over it and black boots.

"I saw him earlier." Zlata whispered. "I think his name's Roman."

It was at that moment Roman noticed them too...he narrowed his eyes and then shook his head before gesturing for them to get ready. Confused they watched until they saw he had somehow managed to get his hands on firecrackers.

As they watched he lit several of them and threw them as far as he could until they began to ignite and the noise drew the attention of the walking corpses. Seeing now what he was doing they took their chance, as did he and while the corpses were distracted, they raced across the parking lot until they reached their cars.

"I don't know who you people are, but we've gotta get outta here." Roman remarked quickly.

Zlata nodded. "Yeah, c'mon, we're better off going together, there's safety in numbers right."

"Maybe, let's just go." Roman replied.

With that they quickly got in their respective cars and started them up, just in time as the monstrous creatures heard and saw them and began shambling back towards them. Wasting no time they drove out as fast as they could and soon they too were making their desperate escape.

Mara bit her lip as she sat in Eli's car. It had been roughly a week or just over a week since they had escaped. They had just been driving, no real destination in mind and changing their direction whenever they ran into a group of those walking corpses, which they had begun to call Walkers.

'I still can't believe that, even with all this chaos, we somehow managed...' Mara thought to herself, managing a small smile.

In the short time they had known each other, they had become a couple. It seemed rushed true, but with everything that was happening, there was no time for the usual form of courtship, the fact Eli had saved her life certainly played a big part in Mara's part of them being a couple.

"Urgh, fuck, dammit!" Eli suddenly yelled.

Mara jumped at that, it was this issue that was giving her pause. While they had become a couple and while they had indeed shared good times in their short relationship, she was scared of Eli's sometimes explosive temper.

"Wh-what is it?" She asked cautiously.

Eli shook his head. "We're gonna have to stop, somewhere soon, close...We're running on empty."

Mara tensed at that, without the car they'd be stuck, vulnerable to any Walkers that could be roaming around. But they had no time, as such Eli quickly pulled off the road and up through a winding dirt road until they reached a clear on top of a hill, overlooking a nearby city. They got lucky and just made it, parking as the car finally ran out of gas.

Exiting the car, Eli shook his head while Mara prepared herself.

Sure enough Eli growled. "Urgh, fuck, of all the..."

She shook her head, looking around. "Eli, please, what if there's Walkers nearby, they'll hear."

"I...yeah." He sighed and nodded.

The clearing looked pretty large, almost like an abandoned campsite.

"We need more people here." Eli said suddenly.

"What?"

He turned to her. "Look at this place, if we had more people, set up some defences...we could stay here, at least for a while, a camp to stay in and at least have some chance of...surviving."

Mara nodded slowly, surprised yet hopeful. Eli had a good point, but it certainly depended on other people arriving. Then, as if called by her thoughts, they heard another car approaching and they tensed, waiting expectantly. Sure enough, at that moment a car pulled up to the clearing and a young man got out, he was young, around twenty, with short red hair and hazel eyes.

"Are you two alright?"

Eli narrowed his eyes. "Out of gas, who the hell are you?"
"Niko." The young man replied. "I'm almost out myself."

Eli and Mara shared a look and then, readying themselves, shared their thoughts with Niko who was surprised, but then smiled and nodded, agreeing with them. They began setting things up, hoping to stay in the area and make it safe, hoping for others to arrive.

They stopped however and were immediately on guard when they heard footsteps, the nearby bushes rustling, someone, or something was coming.

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