The Mask of Chaos

Ch 1 A Boy's Downfall

Today is... the third? I don't know anymore. It's been weeks since I last been in Beecher's hope. I still haven't found my father's rotting corpse wandering the earth nor the man named they call Seth. I'm starting to lose hope. I'm beginning to think this was all for nothing.

Jack Closes his book and contemplates how he's gotten here. All the towns he saved, All the times he ran, All of the... Sacrifices he made.

A loud Gunshot is heard not too far from where Jack is standing. He Packs up all of his camping equipment before stomping out his campfire and mounting his horse, riding to where the shot was heard.

Jack arrives at the Location to see a broken-down, abandoned Barn with two men assaulting and robbing an injured man right outside the Barn's doors. Both men are wearing black ski masks and Black jackets with grey shirts underneath; While the wounded man is wearing a striped blue and green shirt, Jack hitches his horse to a nearby tree and starts walking towards the men, Nonchalantly.

"Howdy, Seems yall having quite the party here."One of the bandits takes out and aims his gun at jack.

"Woah!, Careful where you're aiming that thing."Jack slowly puts up his hands, stopping midway.

"Yo Mike!, Seems we got another fucking hero here."The bandit holding the injured man at gunpoint laughs while jack scoffs.

"If you knew me, mister, you'd know I was no hero." The bandit named Mike Turned his attention to Jack; Jack didn't see at first that the bandit was holding a shotgun.

"Yo, shut the hell up and drop that pretty bag of yours."Jack looks down to see his bag hanging next to the right side of his hip.

"As you wish" Jack slowly takes off his bag from his right shoulder and starts to put it down.

"Hey, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!"Jack points behind the two men; both bandits quickly turn around; Jack then draws his gun from his holster and shoots them in the head. The wounded man quickly sighs with relief.

"Thank you so much; I nearly thought I was a goner there."Jack quickly examined the man."He had a black eye on his left with blood coming from the eyelid and a bloodstream running down his mouth.

"You're welcome; Say, what did they want from you?"The man sighed

"A While ago, I was with my group, we were scavenging for some food to eat, but those bandits caught up to us and kidnapped my entire group; I... tried to save them, I think you know how that played out, But that's why you gotta help me!"Jack thinks about it for a few moments before nodding his head.

"Alright, where are they?"The man smiles and starts heading to another part of the woods.

"I'll show you the way, but we got to hurry before they-"The man gets shot in the head with his body falling to the ground, Catching Jack off guard.

"HOLY SHIT!"As soon as Jack says that, he immediately gets two bullets shot through him, One through his shoulder, Another through his abdomen. Jack runs to take cover on the side of the Barn; He holds his wounds with his stomach and peaks his head out to see a dozen or more bandits shooting at him; He withdraws his head from the sight and checks the chamber of his revolver to see he only has one bullet left; He holsters his gun and whistles for his horse.

The horse runs out of the woods and stops right next to Jack; Jack mounts his horse and starts heading toward the woods; as Jack starts to ride out to the woods, he gets reshot through his abdomen, and the bullet goes right into the horse's head making jack tumble down the short hill into the woods.

Jack, barely conscious, starts crawling toward his horse's corpse.

"He's over there; Find him!"A woman yells out from afar, prompting jack to crawl faster. Now at his horse's pouch, he takes out a bottle wrapped around in a brown string; he takes the cork out from the top and drinks it, giving him enough energy to slowly stand up and start running.

Jack felt like he had been running for hours; he hadn't heard any voices for a while now, so he stopped and sat down, catching his breath.

"So this... is dying... great."Jack felt that night was near falling and started to get up again when he heard groans coming from deep in the woods; he saw multiple undead coming for him in each direction. He began to run, past the undead, nearly avoiding getting bitten. Jack's vision started to blur, and his legs began to give out; just then, he saw a metal gate with a building behind it not too far from him and started yelling like a madman.

"HEY, OVER HERE!"Jack repeated the phrase just as he got close to the gate; his legs finally gave up, and Jack blacked out. He opens his eyes one more time to see he's being taken inside the entrance; then, Jack finally passes out.

He awakens to find himself looking at the bottom of a mattress; he starts to take a look at his surroundings before he hears the click of a revolver's hammer. Jack looks in the direction the sound came from to see a child no older than 5, pointing a gun at him.

"Don' ."The child says as Jack puts up his hands.

"Ok, You got me."

This story is pretty experimental. I don't know how I came up with it; I just did, so... I hope you enjoyed it? Cause I didn't

P.s which ending for season 4 should I do? Cause Idk.