AN: Sorry for the wait. I recently got Dark Souls 2 and Skyrim and I was playing the hell out of them so it's completely my fault for taking so long. This chaper was supposed to be out over two weeks ago.
-Review response-
TheWalkingDead: Thanks for the review. I am glad that you're enjoying the story. And 7.5 out of 10? As an amateur writer I'll take that rating with pride. I hope you stick around.
thedarkpokemaster: You'll see...
cutiepie: Someone steals the spotlight :(
Supernova1219: Yeah I agree. I'll look for a way to extend the lengths of chapters when we hit Hershel's farm. Thanks for the praise, I really appreciate it. On the side note I may be starting a side project that focuses on Clementine through AJ's memories. Look out for the name "Through his eye's" in the future if I decide to do it.
CRed1988: You wonder what happens next? I guess you'll have to read it to find out ;)
Worker72: Hm I wonder why people couldn't look past that. I was okay with Clementine not being playable because I really liked Javier's character. I have also planned to do that.
Mircoss: That's a really good idea but she won't do that until she gets AJ back.(And when they get there the Erickson kids will be facing there own problems.)
MedicusAestus: I know and I'm sorry. You'll get it soon though.
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About 3 second passed at this time and Sandra and Lee were already on their feet. The man's eyes fixated on two of them and his face twisted into a feral snarl before he let out a bloodthirsty cry that made Sandra step back in fear. He raised one of his hands and hit the window with a hammer fist strike, sending spider web cracks through the glass.
It continued to strike the glass ruthlessly with each blow making the cracks grow larger.
"What the hell is wrong with him!?" Lee said.
"I don't know!" Sandra said with panic evident in her voice.
Sandra did not know what was going and she didn't have much time to think because that glass wasn't going to hold much longer.The man stepped back from the glass and yelled savagely at the two of them and arced its body forward.
Sandra knew what it was getting ready to do. The fucker was planning to ram into the glass...!
"Sandra the gun!" Clementine's voice rang out from behind.
Sandra's eyes glanced around the room and saw the the shotgun leaning on the couch closest the the sliding door. Sandra cursed at herself for panicking and stepping back because she had increased her distance between her and the firearm.
She made a mad dash for the gun and just before she got to it, the guy charged into the glass shattering it. Shards of glass dug into its flesh drawing blood. However it didn't seem not register the damage that it received.
Sandra was close enough to grab the gun but there was no way she was going to get the chance to shoot it while being this close to the guy. Deciding to not to risk it she instead drew her hammer and readied herself for the imminent attack
Then with an awkward twitch of its head it screamed loudly before charging straight at her with its arms spreaded wide.
To Sandra's credit, she reacted fast to the freak's rapid advance and swung her hammer with all of her strength.
THWACK!
The sound of flesh and bone being split filled the air.
Sandra's swing hit home.
The freak's head snapped to the left as Sandra's hammer made contact, sending a short sputtle blood on to her face and the wall nearby.
She raised the hammer again and readied for another swing but suddenly the man's fist shot forward blindly in an upwards arc, striking her just above her gum line. The punch had her seeing stars and knocked her down to the floor.
Clementine watching the scene unfold infront of her made her mind race.
This wasn't supposed to happen. She was caught off guard by the sudden appearance of this...thing.
The gun was safely hidden away and she couldn't risk leaving them to fend for themselves. Lee was already banged up from the crash and Sandra was already at the mercy of this thing. If she disappears now they could both be in serious danger. But what could she do in this small body?
She was already at Sandra's side with her screw driver drawn. She thought back at the manner of attack it used. It tried to rush down Sandra and it would have succeeded if she hadn't reacted fast enough. Even so, Sandra was still within range of its counter attack. While it wasn't very precise or coordinated, it still had a lot of power behind. Enough to knock the daylights out of Sandra.
With this in mind she came up with a plan. She decided that she would use the thing's momentum against it. When it comes at her she duck to the right making it miss its charge. With her being a small target she could avoid its initial attack and counter with one of her own. She knew that she wasn't going to be able to land a decisive strike to end the this thing because of the height difference between them so instead she was going to do the next best thing.
She was going to cripple him. The most dangerous thing that the guy had going for him was his speed. Just how fast could this fucker going to move with a screw driver in between his knee joint?
Recovering from the previous attack, the freak's eyes found her standing to the left of Sandra's downed form. It growled while barring its teeth at her. However before it could attack her Lee moved. He rushed over to the guy with an awkward limp and pulled him into a headlock before he could take a step towards the two girls.
It reacted violently by thrusting around like a caged animal in Lee's grip while pulling him around the room, knocking him into furniture and other household appliances.
Clementine had to abandon her previous plan because she couldn't get an opening. If she did, she would risk stabbing Lee because of the erratic movement. With the freak distracted Clementine went back to Sanda and tried to pull her back to reality. She held Sandra head and looked straight in her eye. He eyes lacked clarity and she but the did react to her touch.
"Come on Sandra, you have to get up!!"
Meanwhile Lee was still trying to keep the freak at bay.
"I need you to calm the fuck down!" Lee tried to reason to with no avail. This person's human side had deteriorated long ago and what was left this feral creature that hid behind a human face.
Suddenly Lee felt pain flair in his lower abdomen and the wind nearly get knocked out of him as the man's elbow crashed into his ribs. Lee's grip loosen at the sudden pain and it seemed to notice this. Now with renewed efforts it tried to free it's self thrashing more violently. Lee tried to tighten his hold only for the man to throw his head back, hitting Lee on the ridge of his of his nose.
It made his eyes water and he felt a warm liquid trickle down past his lips.
The freak felt Lee's grip loosen once more and wrestled itself free. It started to turn to face Lee but before it could turn around completely and unload on Lee, he shoved him away to put some distance between them.
However luck seemed to be in Lee's favor because the small coffee table in the livingroom was directly behind the freak. It's footing was awkward because Lee had shoved it mid-step so one of its legs were no longer planted on the floor and the other was against the coffee table. Because of this, it didn't have any room to recover so it fell backwards crashing into the T.V. stand making the T.V. to fall on it.
This of course didn't do much damage but instead served to slow it down.
Lee took a few moments to think looked and around the room for a weapon. To his dismay the shotgun was knocked away and was no where in sight. It was probably under something but he had no time to look for it.
"Lee!"
He heard Clementine call out and turned to face her. She was holding Sandra's hammer her hand and threw it at him with a underhand throw.
Lee caught it and turned to face the aggressor that was that was no longer underneath the T.V.
It stood on both legs with its arms forced down to it's sides in a barely contained manner. It's fist were clenched so tightly that its fingernails dung into the palms of its hands, making blood flow freely between its fingers. It's chest rising and falling with greatly labored breathing and saliva dropped from its mouth making it appear even more feral.
With all these thing stacked up one could say that this thing was royally pissed.
With a loud scream it bolted at Lee.
Lee rised the hammer and with a battle cry his own, swung it downwards once it was in range and the freak did the same.
CRACK
Lee's swing hit reached it's target before before the man's did. It partially had to do with Lee being taller and that meant that the guy's fist would have to travel a bit further before it could reach it's target. It also had to do with that the hammer offered a little more range than one's fist.
It's own fist sailed past it's intended target striking nothing but empty air.
Once Lee's attack hit, its legs seemed to give and fell back like a sack of bricks.
Lee stepped foward and adopted an offensive posture just incase it wasn't over. He looked at the guy's downed form and saw that his chest didn't show any sign of breathing and eyes stayed halfway open staring at nothing.
He was dead.
After verifying this, Lee turned and to look at the two girls. Sandra was thankfully on her feet with some help from Clementine.
"You guys okay?" He asked.
"...Yeah, did you get him?" She said while nursing her face.
"Think so."
Sandra shifted her gaze to the guy on the ground.
Upon closer inspection Sandra saw his eyes start glaze and turn that awful milk white color followed by a twitch of its hand.
"Lee look out!"
A low groan escaped it's lips and it started to push itself for Lee.
!
Sudden Lee felt his legs shift position. Before he could even react he found his foot planted firmly on the monster's chest effectively pinning it to the floor and haulting further advances.
Lee rised the hammer and brought it down multiple times on the monster's skull.
SQUELCH!
The monster's skull gave way and the hammer got stuck within it. With a pull Lee released it from its prison along with brain matter and bone fragments that followed.
Looking at the sight before her, Sandra felt stomach churn and slouched over. Right before emptying the contents of her stomach.
-Chapter end-
AN: In this chapter I wanted to show off how dangerous the viral is and its unpredictability. As you saw, close range combat is not advised. These things have a considerably high pain tolerance so if the damage that is inflicted on them that isn't fatal it will continue to push forward. They will rapidly advance towards survivors making the window to shoot it small. The chances of winning a one on one with a viral is are low because it's body is operating at 100% capacity so this thing with catch you if you try to run and will hit much harder than you if you decide to fight it. Also notice how it prioritized getting itself free rather than reach blindly at its attacker? These things aren't very smart but they aren't dumb either.