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Divided

(Rin POV)

"Stupid, playboy ass mother fucker. Who does he think he is, running off like that. In the middle of the night? Stupid! Dumbass! Jerk! Cute…" I froze at the sudden change.

Was it because we kissed?

No. Bullshit. I refuse to acknowledge that it happened.

"Lies. You know you liked it," my brain countered.

I huffed and ignored the voice in my head.

It did have a point though.

I always thought Alek was good looking but- No he was actually beautiful, like naturally beautiful, model worthy. But he was too good at talking, persuasive as hell. He made you want him. At least that's what I thought before I got to know him.

All of us slowly got to know and trust one another. Most of us left together from the expedition group in the beginning, however some we picked up along the way.

Alek led us out.

I don't know why he picked me to leave that group. I know why he chose everyone else. Emmet, Cassius, his former girlfriend Katelin, Mayumi "Mom:, but not me. I was a dick to him during the Expedition days. He would always be joking around with a group of guys, acting stupid and foolish, and he would always try to pick on me. Of course i wouldn't let him, and I'd tell him off. And it would always go like that.

Until one day he came to me in the middle of the night. I won't ever forget it. He came into my tent, his electric blue eyes shoned with clear worry and care, his dark hair that was normally swept back and luschious was a mess, his face had dirt on it. He was wearing all black, from head to toe.

And he told me we had to leave.

I didn't believe him.

Not until the others came to convince me. But it took them a long time. I thought it was a joke, that he was playing a prank on me. But when the others wanted to leave me behind with the group, Alek adamantly refuse.

d to leave without me.

I knew then he was serious.

I had gathered my things and headed out with them.

They became my new family that day. A Family that would grow and shrink as we travel east by ourselves, never turning back. Not when we lost a team mate or when the expedition was slaughtered the next day of our departure. No we pressed onward, determined to find a safe haven to finally sleep peacefully, to never have to constantly look over our shoulders, to finally relax.

The crisp cool air hit me hard suddenly, whipping my ponytail around like a ragdoll. It was getting closer to winter, Pretty soon, it would snow and progress would be slower than it already was. That is, if anyone could find anyone.

I trudged along the road that led to town, the one where everyone went too to gather supplies. It was a simple normal thing to do. The most basic of all the job we had. Get food, water, supplies to use. That's it. Should have been back in like 4 hours tops.

NOPE!

Only Alek came back.

My chest suddenly ached at the mention of him.

Ashamed at the sudden feeling, I shook my head and focused on the others, Lance, Cassius, Mom, Mae, Emmet

Aww, sweet little Emmet. He was young, maybe 15, quiet little boy, but he had a thing with his hands. He could take anything apart, computers, little toys, anything. But he only did it when something was bothering him. When he was fine and calm, he would get all bright eyed and be smiling. Just don't waive any knives, swords, well anything with a blade for that matter. It terrified him. He wouldn't say why. That's too say, he stayed away from Alek when he had his swords drawn.

Oh, I'm sorry. His KOPIS.

I could almost hear him saying, "It's a Kopis Rin, there's a HUGE difference in a sword and the ancient greek blade. This is meant for slashing and cutting open while-". He could go on and on about how Greeks were far more superior than any other race. How they created everything, best military, yadda yadda… It was fun to argue with him about it. He would get soooo defensive, creating excuses on to counter anything you had to say. Greek Stubbornness I swear...

Anyways, Emmet was unnaturally brilliant at guns. Due to his small stature and size, he always carried a small pistol, but god did he know how to use it. When I asked him why he liked guns so much he said, " The development leading to the gun, revolutionized the way we conducted military strategies, attacks, and to be frank, war itself. It was the spearhead to the economic prosperity that we used to live in as children. However, with no more bullets being made, guns are our greatest advantage that should be used scarcely as ammunition isn't being made thus if we use it far too much we will lose our greatest advantage that we have over the undead hordes that plague our world. Thus the gun is the sole greatest thing that we could have ever developed and made into being."

And he walked away after that, cradling his pistol in his arms.

Little Emmet, always so sweet and watchful. Nothing escaped him.

I was always a bit protective of him. He was youngest of the group yet he was by far the smartest of us all. Always a sweet heart.

But he was missing….

They all were…

Well except Mom who was at home probably having a mental breakdown since everyone was out in the town missing, and the only two who returned: one left in the middle of the night to find the others and didn't come back and the other left to find the him and the others. She felt bad for Mom. For Mayumi.

She was their mom of sorts. Always keeping an eye on everyone, making sure everyone ate, had water, was okay after a fight, keeping the peace. She was our doctor and healer it seemed. All in all she was our mom. Always taking care of us. I knew she was worried as hell but I knew something was wrong. Something had happened to everyone… and It was up to me to figure it out.

I shouldered my backpack, keeping my brass knuckles on and ready, my knife in my pocket and my gaze forever watchful for anything of any sort of threat…

I pressed onward for what seemed to be hours when in reality it was probably just an hour or so. I finally got to see the actually town itself, small buildings, homes, cars, less trees, the standard small town. It actually looked like it could be pretty nice place to live in.

I walked deeper into the street, into the heart of the city, no undead in .

Strange…

I walked through what I assumed was downtown, when I heard it.

"Please don't! I have a fam-"

Then the voice screamed.

That awful scream… that scream that you screamed when faced with death itself. I hated hearing it.

I rushed forward and turned the corner. I was immeadiately faced with a horde of undead. Easily 100 or so. All converging on a small group of people behind a Van, and ontop of it was…

"Lance?"

Lance fired his machine gun into the horde as they closed in on a man and two women, taking down at least 6 or 7 of them.

Lance gave Rin a pleasant smile but one that was tired and forced, "Rin! Get Alek out! Hes under those bodies!"

Rin could see him.

Alek was underneath a lot of dead bodies, he was moving however. I think he was anyways. He might just be-"

"Fuck off you mangly Bastards!"

He fired his gun some more, drawing the undead away from the family. But it was too late, the man was being eaten alive while the two women were engulfed into the hordes mass. You couldnt see them. But you could see their blood shooting everywhere. The horde hadn't noticed Rin yet, but it wouldnt be long… Rin saw Alek trying to figure out what to do, he hadn't see her it seems, but the undead clearly saw Lance. And they were closing in.

"Run little girl, get the others out!"

He turned to Alek then, who had just gotten out from underneath the bodies, " Alek! Run! GO! The Farmhouse!" and one of the undead grabbed his feet and yanked him into the horde.

I could hear Alek's scream, his cry of anger but I saw him run… He would never run… he NEVER ran… Why now?!

I shook her head and turned to Lance.

The main portion of the undead were focused on the 3 people being eaten it seemed, not many were around Lance, I could save him if i was fast enough.

I dashed forward, and impaling my knife into the skull of the first undead I saw, an old dead guy.

I pushed him aside and dashed through the loosely scattered group of undead surrounding him but they were closing in fast.

LAnce fired into the midst of them, killing a few, but they seemed endless. More and more kept coming, filling their ranks.

I punched and stabbed my way to Lance, yanking him to his feet and pushing our way back the way we came.

"Nice job sweetheart," he said as he shot ahead of them, clearing a path, while I hit any that got too close.

They were almost free when one from behind Lance wrapped around him from behind and ripped into his neck. Tearing open his muscles and arteries in his neck, Lance spasmed once before falling straight down to the floor, Rin pushed out of the crowd as they leapt onto him, tearing him apart.

"LANCE! NO!"

I couldn't help but watch my friend get eaten alive, the flesh eating beasts tear open his skin and eat his insides. I threw up all over the concrete and ran back the way I came.

"No no no no no no no…" I muttered as I ran.

This couldn't be happening. Not Lance. Not my friend. WHY!?

I ran down the sidewalk away from the undead horde in the main courtyard of the town. Away from Lance. Away from the undead. I turned into an alleyway on my right, perhaps I could get somewhere else and find someone I knew. I ran throught the alleyway, taking another right and came into a street, probably on the other side of the courtyard or just at a different angle.

"Rin?"

I turned to the direction of the voice, my hands shot to the ready.

My eyes widdened at who it was.

"Cassius?!"

(Emmet POV)

"This is stupid Emmet, lets just go to the center of the town and see if we see anyone we know! Alek will probably be their." Mae said, for what was the millionth time.

"Emmet!" she said again.

"Hmm?" I said as I continued to inspect the radio on the abandoned police car.

"Are you even listening to me?!"

I opened the top of the radio, curious to why it was not running, Battery maybe? No unlikely. It had to be knocked out of place if anything. Judging by how badly the front of the police car was damaged and by how fucked the inside was, the radio was probably just hit and shaken up. Simple inspection and it should be easy to fix. Always a simp-

"EMMET!"

I turned towards Mae, her nostrils were flaring, her eyes were widened, her stance was tense. She seemed upset.

"Hmm?"

"I truly hate you sometimes!"

"Why?" I said scratching the top of my head.

"You still weren't listening! We need to go-"

I tuned her out again and continued to work on the radio. I looked inside, moved a few piece to see if they were still connected and not damaged. I poked the battery carefully, it shook. I knew it. I was about to put it back into place when a hand connected with my face.

"You ARENT LISTENING ANYMORE!"

I rubbed my face, "Ow… Why did you do that?"

Mae's nostrils did that flaring thing again. Strange anger thing. Kind of was annoying. She should get that looked at. A fly could get up there and get stuck.

Mae was staring at me intently.

"Uhhh… I wasn't listening. Did you know your nostrils-"

"EMMET! I don't care about my damn nostrils! Lets just get home please! Why are we fucking with a damn radio! Who is even alive around here anyways!" Mae said with an almost whine.

I rubbed my hands together, " Its a nice radio…"

Mae stared at me dumbfounded, "We are here not because the radio could help us find the others but because its nice?!"

I blushed.

Mae turned away and began walking off.

"Mae!" I called out.

"Nope!"

I sighed and followed her. There was a horde here and she was too impulsive.

Interesting nostrils though… he had to look into that.

END OF CHAPTER 2! Different POV's! Everyone is divided, no one can find anyone, uh oh! I hope you guys liked this! I still need more OC's guys! Keep them coming! Need more and more! REVIEW! TELL YOUR FRIENDS OF THIS!

-Jules Le Invicta