Revealed

Higgy stopped dead short and BJ looked round. Trying to pinpoint the location of the scream they had just heard.

"Oh no." Higgy muttered. "GUYS!" She called, turning on her heel and beginning to run through metal boxes searching for anyone from the rest of the group.

"Stupid. Stupid." She cursed herself for splitting them up. Finally, she found Spam.

"Who screamed?" Spam asked, clearly as worried as Higgy. "I don't know." They ran towards where they had left Mel and DL.

Morlena screamed as the Licker leapt for her, tongue lashing forward. She dodged again and brought her sword forward slicing into its flesh.

The Licker roared again and turned to slice back with its tongue to which Lena turned sharply and brought her katana down, slicing straight through the tongue. The flesh fell to the floor abandoned. Jo looked at it and back at Lena, who gave her a grin.

"Well that's unexpected." was all Jo could say. Morlena looked back at the Licker and got back into a decent fighting stance.

When they reached the entrance of the room, where they had left Mel and DL, all they saw was DL kneeling in front of Mel, who had tears sliding down her cheeks and her hand was covering her mouth, trying to muffle her sobs.

"What is it, Mel?" Higgy asked as Spam ran up to her. DL turned to look at her friend. "I've been asking her that since she broke down. She won't say a word."

Spam began whispering quietly to her and all Mel did was nod very slightly. "Oh God." Spam hugged Mel. It was obvious she had worked it out.

"For God's Sake! Just tell us what's going on!! MEL?!" Mel looked at the floor. "Spam?!" Spam just turned the tears welling up in her eyes.

"It was Lena."

"Well come on. We've got to find her. Come on people!"

"Higgy, you know as well as I do, that if we do, it will probably just be a cold body on the floor." Spam said rationally.

"Yeah, but maybe not." Spam looked at Mel, who looked back at her and nodded, that slight spark of hope reappearing in her eyes.

"Okay first, we need to find out where she is." Higgy took a long breath and shouted at the top of her lungs. "LENA!!" For a moment there was nothing but then Mel stood up and stood beside her and they shouted together. "LENA!!!!" Within a minute they were all screaming at the top of their lungs for Lena. Okay, probably not the smartest move but at that point they really didn't care; they just wanted to find their friend before she ended up like the others.

Lena's head jerked at the sound of her name being shouted.

"Over here!!!" she started to scream before the Licker came at her again.

Mel almost collapsed with relief at the sound of her best friend's voice and started to run in between the boxes. "Mel!" Higgy shouted after her, but she didn't listen she just kept running. The others took off after her.

"Right, that's it buddy." Lena said, lunging at the Licker and surprising it as she twisted round and thrust her sword deep into its brain and down towards the spinal cord. She thrust all the way to the hilt and the Licker roared, screeched and squealed as it fell to the floor and became motionless. Lena pulled her sword out and turned to find Jo gone.

"Oh shit." She raised her bloody sword, turning slowly around, looking for Jo. She was nowhere to be seen. So she proceeded cautiously towards the open box an where Jo had been standing. She saw the wires sticking out from the side of the box, dripping and oozing sticky liquids. "Ew." Suddenly she was spun round by a pair of hands and her katana clanged to the ground. She was thrust into the box. The door was locked and there was a beep as the process was started all over again. The process to create a new Licker.

She tubes stabbed themselves into her arms and legs and Lena screamed but it was muffled by the metal surrounding her.

Mel arrived where they had heard Lena from and stopped at the sight of the huge zombie thing, dead, on the floor. She looked around there was no sign of Lena anywhere.

Higgy and the rest of the group found themselves coming to a stop behind Mel and looking at the huge body on the floor.

"What the?" Higgy was shocked, it was huge, twice the size of a fully grown lion.

"It's a Licker." Jo said, coming up behind them.

"A wha...?" BJ asked.

"A Licker, a more advanced kind of the zombies."

Spam looked at her suspiciously. "How do you know this?"

"I..."

"More importantly, where's Lena?" Mel cut in.

"I don't know. I saw her fighting with it and came to find you guys."

"Hmm..." Spam gave her another suspicious glare and walked up to Mel.

"Come on. Let's have a look around." She said, placing a hand on her shoulder. Mel nodded and they proceeded forward.

All the friends came running when BJ shouted for them. They approached the large steel box and looked inside through the small window, to see Lena inside, tubes sticking into her arms and legs. She was very pale, paler than usual. She was obviously dead. Mel's tears began to fall and DL studied the box. "Wait a second..." DL mused.

"What is it?" Spam asked, coming over to her.

"The Licker couldn't have locked this, too fiddly, and a regular zombie couldn't have either, not enough intelligence. Whatever or whoever did this was human."

"You're saying whoever did this was one of us?"

"Yeah that's what I'm saying."

While they were discussing this, Jo was picking up a long menacing spike off the floor. It was part of the box which had been destroyed by the Licker when it escaped. She wrapped her fingers around the long piece of metal and moved silently behind the group and slowly approached Higgy. She raised the spike and Higgy turned as she brought it down, grabbing it. "Sod off."

Okay so theres the 10th Chapter, I need one more idea for a death please give me ideas in your reviews thanks. Slayya