Disclaimer: I own nothing.
10. Death
Noah held his bat just a little tighter as he heard the banging of the Evo on the other side of the thin barricade between them.
He knew he was going to die.
His barricade was too thin and his weapon too low grade to do any real damage to the creature determined to break him open like a coconut to get to the good stuff inside.
But, God help him, he wasn't about to open the door and let himself be murdered. Not without a fight.
So he took a deep breath as the thin plywood caved in with an ominous crack and braced for the imminent attack.
The first thing he saw as the crack widened was teeth. Sharp and dripping with something he didn't even want to think about.
As the bulbous head pushed itself further through the gap and towards its prey, Noah heard the raspy panting of its breath and felt the heat it was generating in the tight space between them. The smell was strong and sickening to the point where it nearly made him gag, but the blonde kept himself steady and didn't take his eyes off the predator.
Just as he raised his bat to bludgeon the beast as hard as he could, the creature made a sound that startled Noah back against the wall he'd been pressed to only moments before.
The Evo's head was jerked back out the way it had come along with half the wall as something attacked his attacker. Noah waited only a moment before rushing out the way the Evo had come so as not to be cornered again should the creature return.
What he saw as he exited shocked him even more than the Evo event itself had.
It had been weeks since he'd seen another human, since the Event had killed off most of the population and turned the remaining few into Evos.
Yet there was another boy, a raven haired and dark skinned teen, whose red jacket was the most eye catching thing in sight.
And Noah just couldn't stop staring. The other teen was currently teasing the creature that had been attempting to eat him from the branches of a tall tree only feet away from his house.
He looked fearless in the face of the monster and his taunting only faltered when his eyes landed on Noah.
For a moment they're eyes locked and Noah forgot all about the horrors of the last few months of his life.
Suddenly his world was chocolate brown laced in blue and felt like it had stopped spinning entirely.
His breath rushed out of his lungs as their gazes broke away from each other and the other teen accidentally slipped down to a lower branch on the tree.
Before the Evo had a chance to take advantage of his mistake the raven haired teen jumped the rest of the way to the ground with a grace that surprised the blonde watching him.
Even more surprising was the rate in which the other teen got to him, even with the Evo at his heels.
Regaining his bearings, Noah sprinted off in the direction that other teen pointed to and was quickly running along side him and as far away from their pursuer as he could be.
"I'm Rex." The other teen greeted between pants.
Noah nearly tripped in surprise.
They were running for their lives and this guy was introducing himself?
Still, he barely missed a step before replying. "I'm Noah."
The other teen flashed him a megawatt smile before signaling a turn onto a side street.
Still not looking nearly as afraid as Noah did, Rex kept talking.
"I knew I saw someone salvaging in this area, but I couldn't figure out where you were holed up at until I saw that Evo scratching at your door."
The pair made a sharp turn around a corner street and Noah almost kept going straight until Rex grabbed him by his wrist and swung him towards a gap in the wood fence that lined the street they were on. In an instant Noah found himself pinned beneath Rex with a hand over his mouth as the other teen looked through a small hole in the wood.
The blonde froze as he heard the huffing and scratching of the Evo on the other side as it paused to sniff look at either of the directions they could have gone.
Noah was sure they were moments away from being discovered, but the Evo turned it's back on them and headed away from them instead.
Still the pair waited a beat, then two, before letting out a sigh and looking at each other.
Noah couldn't help but blush as he noticed just how close his savior was and just how strikingly handsome he was too.
Still hovering over him, but no longer covering his mouth, Rex whispered into his ear.
"Not that this isn't extremely hot and everything, but I think we need to put more ground between us and that thing before night fall."
Noah nodded, still speechless, and took the hand Rex offered to help him to his feet.
He had a feeling that maybe he wasn't going to die that day after all.
Even if his heart had skipped more than one beat within his chest at the sight of the teen in front of him.
Sorry for the lateness again! This prompt was harder than I expected! I'll try and catch up within the next couple of days! Please read and review!
PS: The next couple of chapters will be set in the same universe as this one, but still keeping to their individual prompts.
Yours truly,
Lacy Fairgold