Chapter 4: Into the Darkness

The group all peered in through the door but only Troy had actually entered the station "Oh god, I thought I would be used to that smell by now but geez, this is like a thousand dead rats in a very small box."

The others finally got a whiff of what Troy had been smelling a couple of people went to go and vomit before returning to the door, "alright is everyone ready to go in" James said while holding back the urge to chuck all over everyone.

Troy continued to go in the station he noticed things were out of place like the pot on the statue in front of him was tipped forward and the ladder leading to the second story was down all these things worried him, Was somebody already here or are they still here, "Be on you're guards you never know what lies in the dark."

The group started into the station and as they did everyone started to look for a light switch, "Where is this stupid light switch, I've been here only a handful of times and all those times the lights were.. Heh heh on." Ean said to himself as he flicked on the lights. "And Ean said let there be light." he chuckled letting everyone know it was him.

"Alright, thanks but that's the least of our problem's... the computers already been logged into... a couple of times even, so there was definitely people here but were they cops or something worse."Troy said frantically typing on the computer to see who and when these people logged in

James, Jacob, and Ean all looked around the room to see if they could find anything else that might be useful until now they couldn't wait to get to the police station and now they couldn't wait to get out fearing that something or someone had already been here and they didn't leave the place in good shape.

"Sniff Sniff Do you guys smell smoke, like from up stairs." James said heading towards the ladder,

"Hey be careful we don't know what's up there, give me a second and I'll go with you." Troy said turning of the computer than walking towards the ladder.

Bang The door near the receptionist's desk was being banged on Bang it happened again, "The hell was that" Ean said raising the shotgun, and the others were at the ready too

James was on the second floor though so he really couldn't get a clear view of the door, and Troy was on the ladder so he was screwed if something decided to come bursting out that door.

Jacob was the closest to the door which meant he had the great pleasure of opening the door, he reached out hesitantly of course and grabbed the doorknob all of the civilians stood back, then Jacob flung open the door and jumped aside so he could see what would come out but all he saw was pieces of red gore flying in every which direction and he heard a loud thunderous boom from Ean's shotgun.

Luckily Ean wasn't just trigger happy he blew apart Marvin Branagh, a cop that he had met only a couple of times while he was in the academy, But this Marvin looked to have been dead for a while now so needless to say the Marvin Ean shot was a zombie or a very lucky man who did not die from lack of blood.

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Troy and James continued down the hall where they had smelled the smoke, and noticed that a lot of things in the station had been tampered with so they moved along cautiously hoping that what ever was near the source of the smell was gone or human.

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The group was standing in the lobby to the station waiting for James and Troy to get back they had told them to stay here just incase they needed to run away they could do so through the front door,

Ean was getting impatient though he couldn't help but wonder if something had already gotten them, maybe from behind so they didn't have a chance to let out a shot, or maybe there was a fire and they were frantically trying to put it out before it could spread to other parts of the building.

"This is boring, I'm going to go explore some adjacent rooms maybe there are some survivors hiding under desks or in closets or something." Jacob said as he started walking to the door nearest the entrance,

"No stay here we can't afford to keep splitting the group up like this." said the thin man from earlier he looked more scared then ever now,

That made Jacob think about what Troy said about him needing everyone and not being able to do this alone so he stopped and turned back to the group to wait for the other two to return.

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They finally reached the door which led to the source of the smell and that had the both of them a little worried and relieved since it didn't look as though there was any fire bellowing out from under the door, so Troy reached out to touch the door knob and see if it was hot,

"It's cool not at all warm"Troy looked at James with a strange and confused look on his face "so this couldn't have been recent but it still smells a lot like smoke."

"Maybe the ventilation system is clogged up so the smell is just lingering in the building," Said James staring up at the vents in the roof "this is an old building so it could also just be the way it was designed."

Troy then flung open the door gun at the ready scanning the hall to see what was inside, "Ummm, I don't remember this being here." He said pointing at the helicopter that was stuck in the floor and walls.

"What happened here why we where away this is unreal." James said with a confused look on his face.