Okay peeps, ninth chapter, hope you all enjoy it.

Traitors

'I must be a bad leader.' Higgy thought, 'Only a bad leader would have let eight of friends die and one get hurt without doing anything about it.' She watched as with tears in her eyes as Morlena covered her friends' bodies with blankets and BJ helped DL shakily to her feet, to which her knees buckled and BJ caught her before she fell down again. Spam was sitting in the corner, Mel comforting her, as she cried. None of this had got to her until now, not even Em and DK's deaths. Jo was grabbing all the equipment she could carry.

Higgy looked away from her and back to DL, as this happened Jo looked up and narrowed her eyes, remembering her promise to avenge Kat.

They set off as a group, Mel had, when coaxed away from Spam by Higgy, got some directions for the exit and now they were on their way.

As they turned corners and followed corridors, according to Mel's instructions, they came across an office, on the right. They entered it and found some filing cabinets, Mel asked Spam gently to help check through some of the files and she nodded. BJ peered round the door, to check if anything was coming.

"Oh My God." Mel muttered and Spam approached her and looked over her shoulder at the file she was reading and gasped slightly. Higgy looked at her expectantly and Mel motioned to her.

"What is it?" she asked, approaching the two girls.

"There's an antidote."

"What?"

"For the zombie virus, the one that DL is infected with, there's an antidote, we can cure her."

"Where can we find this antidote?"

"Apparently in the labs..." Mel got out the map, she had printed off back with Spam earlier. "Which are here." She pointed to a place on the map. "If we take a slight detour we go straight past them."

"Alright, let's go." Higgy approached DL and BJ to tell them the news and Spam told Lena.

"Do we have any other info on this 'antidote', Mel?" DL asked, looking over from where Higgy and BJ were helping her along.

"What do you mean by that?" Mel asked. "It's a cure, plain and simple."

"Oh for God's sake! Okay, let's start with the basics...where did it come from?"

"Presumably it was made by the same people who made the virus; you know in case in should be needed."

"Okay, got that. How will it be administered?" Mel looked at her and raised her eyebrows slightly. "What?! I want to know! Cause I'm not having loads of needles and crap stuck in me okay!"

"Well actually it probably will be by needle cause according to this..." She held up the documents from the file, "you need quite a large dose. Not the kind of dose that could be taken in tablet form. Besides in needs to be delivered directly into blood stream because that's where the virus is."

"OH No Way!"

"You're still having it." Higgy said, glancing at DL.

"Aww, Higgy." DL moaned, knowing Higgy usually would give in if she moaned, if only to get her to shut up. Usually.

"Look DL!" Higgy said, starting to get majorly pissed at her friend. "You're having it whether you like it or not, alright! Now, enough with the questions lets just all try and get there in one piece."

Mel bit her lip. "Mel! Tell me! Where the hell are we?!" Higgy glared at Mel as her voice still echoed around the large room. Echoing off all the large metal boxes.

"I'm sorry Higgy, I don't know."

"Well find out!" She lowered her voice and looked her straight in the eye. "We don't have a lot of time." A single tear trickled down her cheek and splashed on the floor. Higgy turned to the rest of the group. "Split up. Find any clues that might help Mel work out where we are." The group nodded and Lena, Spam and Jo began to fan out across the room. Mel knelt down on the floor studying the maps and plans she had of the Hive. BJ stood, with DL, leaning against her. Higgy approached them. "BJ, go help the others." She nodded slightly and followed after Spam. "DL. I want you to stay here and help Mel."

"But Higgs..."

"Please?" Higgy asked, almost feebly. She nodded. "Thank you." They embraced. "I'll be back soon." DL nodded and went to sit by Mel.

Lena walked among the large metal boxes, her katana clutched in her right hand.

A hand reached out from the darkness and the fingers grabbed the large metal bolt and pulled it back with a loud bang noise.

Lena's head snapped round when she heard the noise. She looked into the darkness where it had come from and gripped her sword with both hands. "Who's there?" she asked, raising her sword. Jo walked out from the shadows. Lena sighed and lowered her sword.

"Jesus Jo, you scared the shit out of me."

"Oh did I? Sorry."

"What was that noise?"

"Oh I would think that was a Licker being released."

"A what now?"

"A licker. They're basically the zombies only much, much worse.

Morlena looked stunned. She opened her mouth to say something, but closed it again when nothing came out. Jo moved out of the way and Morlena stared back into the gap between the crates where Jo had come from and gulped slightly as a deep growl came from the darkness.

"Jo." Suddenly a Licker leapt from the darkness, heading straight for Morlena. Morlena screamed and ducked out of the way. The creature turned and roared. Jo just very casually covered her ears. "Lickers. Always so noisy." She sighed.

"Why you little?!" Lena screamed and went to slice at her with her sword but the Licker was ready for Round 2.

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