Matt woke to hear a screaming noise. "Rain," he said slowly. No answer. "Rain," he said a bit more

louder. When he got no answer he got up only to hear a gun shot. He ran outside to see Rain trying to fight

off a lot of zombies that looked like they were soldiers while marching. "Help me!" Rain yelled. Matt, not

really caring about himself, ran up to Rain and grabbed her arm and started to run toward the woods. She

followed and yanked her arm free so she could run better.

They stopped underneath a huge walnut tree to try and catch their breath. Matt heard a noise and looked

up. It took a moment for his eyes to focus, but when they did he could see some movement in the tree. The figure

looked down at him and lowered his hand down to him. Matt turned to Rain and showed her the dark clothed

figure. She looked up at him before even daring to take their hand. She reached up, but being to short, she didn't

even touch their hand.

Matt moved forward and helped by lifting her up. She grabbed his hand and pulled herself up. When she

safely up the figure turned around to face Matt. Matt looked away and saw the zombies crashing through the

woods after them. Matt looked back at the clothed figure and grabbed his hand and pulled himself up beside Rain.

The figure took what looked like a wine bottle and stuck a thing of cloth in the opening at the top and

caught fire to it. He waited a bit and then threw it to the closest zombie and blow it up. The other zombies were

blown away from the blast and the guy jumped out of the tree and nodded for Matt and Rain to follow. Matt

hopped down and helped Rain down. They ran after the figure and followed him underground.

When they were at what seemed like a door he stopped them. Rain looked up at Matt like asking 'What do

we do now?' Matt just looked back at the door and the figure trying to open it. The door finally opened with a

small beep. The figure took off his mask and it showed a man with short dark brown hair with a round sort of

face.

"Josh Bland," he said and holding out his hand to shake Matt's hand, "Ex- Navy Seal." Matt took his hand

and shook it. "Matthew Addison" He said. Josh turned toward Rain and held out his hand. She took it and said,

"Rain Ocampo (Spelling?)," she said shaking his hand as well. "Squad member," she said simply.

"Very nice to meet both of you. Do you know what those things are out there?" Josh asked getting to the

point.

"Yeah," Rain said, "those things are people that has become infected with the 'T-virus'."

"Do you know how to kill them?" Josh asked. "Of course I do," Rain said, "Shoot them in the head or

breaking their necks will work too."

Matt stood simply out of the way, not really wanting to get involved. Soon a woman that had long brown

hair walked up too them. Bland and the woman look like they were the same age.

"Josh, they need sleep," she said.

"Yeah you're right, Kristy," he said nodding, "We're going to move to a new site tomorrow and you need to

rest. Kristy, show them to the sleeping quarters," and Kristy nodded for Matt and Rain to follow her. She showed

them to a room with seven beds. Matt took the one beside Rain and looked over at her before falling into a

restless sleep.

(Matt's Dream)

Matt and Rain where on the train going into the hive and Rain was laying helplessly by the door. Matt made a swift movement to keep Rain from falling out of the door. She was weak. Matt could see that. Suddenly the licker burst through the door and threw Matt to the other side of the train. Matt looked up just in time to see the licker grab Rain and started to eat her.

(End)

Matt woke in a cold sweat and quickly looked over at Rain, only to see she was sleeping peacefully. Matt

laid back down to go back to sleep. He soon fell into a deep sleep.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Author's Note: Okay this is the third chapter done. Wow. That was really fast. This chapter was for my older brother, who is going to ship out to Japan (spelling?) right after Christmas. I also put on of his best friends in there too. Thanks for all the reviews and yes, there will be romance. See ya.

Earth's Rain.