Chapter 4: Lloyd and Kva
Raine and the others walked slowly down the bloodied and trashed up road. There was what sounded like a loud cheer, not far from the group and of course all of them went over to investigate.
Being the assassin she was, Raine went ahead. Her form disappeared in the darkness as she ran silently and gracefully through the alleyway. A flickering light appeared near the end of the alleyway, and just before she was close enough to the light to bask in it, Raine had moved up against the wall and slowly inched closer and closer to the light.
"That was so cool Lloyd. Changing into your metal panther form and slicing zombies in two. It was amazing. I wish I could transform like that too." Kva said happily.
Lloyd frowned at his student, "No, you don't."
"Brother?" A monotone, but feminine voice.
"Raine? What are you…? How did you get here?"
"From the cheering I heard, anyone could have found you."
Lloyd chuckled while scratching the back of his neck, "Yeah…well…it was Kva after all."
"Sorry…it kinda slipped…" Kva said looking to the ground sadly.
"Well, don't let it happen again…I don't know what I'd do if you died." Leon said standing at Raine's side.
"Leon!" Kva said happily.
Kva ran over to Leon and gave him a hug, "I'm glad you're safe."
"Ok, you two. It's not the time to…"
There was a soft groaning noise from the other end of the alleyway, the way everyone had just come. Although the others were already out of the narrow passage, they still waited for the on coming danger.
People screamed in horror. Some who were driving either crashed or quickly stopped, got out, and ran. A young girl around the age of eight had been separated from her mother and in fear took shelter inside her mother's car, which had almost recently crashed.
She tried to hold her tears, but they wouldn't stop. She cried out for her mother, but no one came, not even another adult. Before long everything went silent except for the moans of the "monsters" outside.
They sensed something near them. Something that wasn't infected, and immediately they went for the car with the little girl wanting to tear her flesh apart and taste the sweet red liquid that seemed to seep out of everyone else that they sunk their teeth and nails into.
The young girl couldn't help but let out a scream as the car shook slightly and the zombies crowded around. Tons seemed to be around the car, but before they even broke the windshield, some had left and walked away.
The larger group of X-Men and mercenaries (Mostly X-Men) had stumbled upon this large group of zombies. Behind them were a bunch of bodies of the zombies that had hoarded towards them from the alleyway.
"Great. I guess they don't ever give up, huh?" Amber said shrugging.
She took shadow from the zombies that had walked under the street light and made a shadow minion. Her shadow minion was tall about six feet tall in size with demon like wings.
Mentally the shadow manipulator controlled the minion while trying to keep away from the nails and teeth of the zombies. Gambit, on the other hand, was helping her, by throwing cards that he had lit on fire at the zombies and watching as the explode.
"Yahoo! This is better than Mardi Gras!" Gambit said happily, throwing more cards from his deck at the zombies.
"Hey, Gambit. You still have your Queen of Hearts?" Amber asked.
"Didn't I already tell you that I save the lucky lady for last?"
"Yeah, but I felt like asking. Thanks for helping me out."
"You mean protecting you. Oh, and when we survive this…I expect a little something in return for this."
"Ok…I'll buy you a shock collar." Amber said jokingly.
"So you can shock da Gambit when he's bad?"
"Either that…which doesn't sound right at all and you might enjoy that a little too much…"
"You bet!" Gambit said, interrupting Amber.
"Or…I'll give you to Kitty so she has someone to go shopping with!"
"You wouldn't dare…"
"Wanna bet?"
Gambit didn't say anything else. Amber sounded too serious. When all the zombies were lying on the ground dead, Amber went to the car that they seemed to be looming over.
"Hey, there's a kid here!" Amber said lifting her out of the car.
The young girl instantly kicked and screamed when she was lifted into the air. She had been traumatized by the whole ordeal and couldn't understand why she was being help. No one had helped her before. They left her in the car to die.
"Are you ok? Where are your parents?" Amber asked trying to comfort the young girl.
"I-I'm fine…" She had said shyly, "Mommy left me…when those scawy (Scary with a W instead of an R) monster came…please don't weave me."
Amber hugged her tightly, "It's ok. We'll protect you. Just stick with us and you'll be safe. Ok?"
The young girl nodded.
"So what's your name? How old are you?"
"My name is Tiffany. I'm this many years old." The girl held up six fingers.
"Your six?"
"Uh-huh."
Amber looked at the others. This young girl in a way was like her. Abandoned by her family and left to die. Amber held the girl in her arms while walking.
"You can't take her with us…" Gambit said, "You didn't even ask if we wanted her with us."
"I don't care what you want. She's just a little kid. I'm not going to leave her here. Like me…she was abandoned…left to die…in a way sh is like me…and like me she will survive…if you have a problem with that then you can leave."
Gambit sighed, "You're really attached to her aren't you?"
"Yeah, I can't just leave such an adorable girl behind."
Tiffany giggled at Amber's comment and looked around. There was nothing but chaos and destruction. Everywhere they had went. Nothing seemed to change.
The group was not alone. Deep in the shadows, slowly behind their trail, was one of their own. This one was different. This one was a zombie. Who could it be? Is it Evan? No. It's someone else.
End of Chapter 4