The journey for guns ended almost as soon as it began. "Damn," said danny as he peered down the railroad tracks. "What is it?" said eric, crouched behind the bushes danny crawled over to dustin and eric " their about forty fucking zombies on the damn tracks," said danny, eric looks up ahead "damn, cant we ever get a break." Oddly enough there was a sudden explosion down the tracks. The three get knocked off their feet by the force of the blast "what the hell was that," asked eric, wide eyed. Danny got up and crouched behind the bushes yet again "there gone, the zombies where blown to bits," said danny, dustin and eric crouched next to danny "do you see who did it," said dustin. Danny shook his head and stood up "are you ok," he said, dustin and eric look at each other "yeah were ok," said dustin. Walking onto the remainder of the railroad tracks danny and eric suddenly froze "hey what's going on," said dustin. Out of the line of view dustin doesn't see the some odd number of guns aimed at them.
Prepared to fire, the soldiers took careful aim towards the three. Suddenly gunfire filled the air. Slowly shuffling behind danny, eric, and dustin where an assortment of fresh and old zombies, with expert aim the soldiers managed to shoot all of the zombies without wounding the teens. Later on as the soldiers escorted the three friends to a military checkpoint the soldiers looked at them with grudging respect. One soldier in particular walked beside them and asked, "how have you three managed to survive this long with no guns?" Danny looked at the soldier with a stern gaze "we had these," he said as he removed the battle-axe and sword from their sheaths. The soldier laughed at them and said "you mean to tell me you fought zombies and lived with a bunch of show swords and axes," with a long feral growl danny quickly jabbed the axe underneath the laughing soldier's throat "yeah, we did now I suggest you cut the bullshit and get moving, its getting darker and trust me you don't want to be caught out side at night with these things."
The soldier's face went from joking to serious in no time "id advise you to remove that axe before I but a bullet into you," he said with a menacing voice. Sadly for the soldier his commanding officer was standing behind him when he said this "solider," said the officer, the soldier immediately stood at attention "sir," said the soldier with a salute. "These boys have probably been through hell and back and yet you on the other hand are a freshy from boot without a lick of experience," said the officer with a stern gaze at the soldier.
"Damn I'm exhausted," said dustin, not realizing it all three began to feel the effects of their long day seep into them light fog over a lake. "Don't rub it in," said eric with a grimace." "Both of you be quiet, don't you see where and who were with," said danny "for right now were safe so don't be too content these types of luck never last long." The group of soldiers and the three friends reached their base in a matter of minutes. Bodies of dead soldiers and zombies alike littered the ground "damn zombies came at us from nowhere," said a burly soldier walking off to the left of danny "we started with fifty men and lost twenty in the firefight." Danny nodded "Eric over there, the one with the blonde streaks, lost his whole family first out," with a nod toward dustin he said" his family is missing and mine has disappeared."
The soldier nodded "you must be some tough guys to fight with just swords and axe," danny nodded and showed the axe to the soldier " it wasn't easy but we managed," said danny. The soldier looked at danny and his friends and said "Its all too true for a lot of us now, huh soldiers?" The soldiers around him nodded and said in unison "yes sir." Arriving at the main command the three friends where escorted to the commanding officer to recall their story. Several hours later the friends finally managed to get some sleep. As fitful and nightmarish as it was they knew they needed it for the real nightmares ahead.
