Chapter eight:
AN:
I wasn't going to put this but I think people would appreciate it if I did.
As I have warned there is some scary parts and this chapter holds one of the main scary parts though not all will find it scary and I'm doing my best to keep the scray parts from making it a horror story. There obviously will be more scary parts as we go along but I won't be putting warnings for each one. You have been warned.
Mello.
"How are we going to arrange the sleeping arrangement now?" Matt suddenly asks.
Mello and Near pause at this.
How are they going to arrange their sleeping arrangements now!?
There are only two beds and they can only fit two people comfortably.
"I'd rather be caught dead by the beasts before I even think of sharing a bed with Linda." Mello growls.
Near starts to twirl his hair. "I am with Mello, even I will not be able to even be able to stand the thought of sharing a bed with Linda."
Matt rubs the back of his head with a 'ha ha' look on his face. "Guess I'm the only one who can stand her enough to share a bed with her." He says then lowers his hand to his side only to glance to Near then to Mello. "Seems you two will be sharing the other bed."
Mello growls turning with an angry glare and is about to retort to this when Matt continues.
"I'm sure you two are both civil enough to simply share a bed." Matt says wording his words carefully to make it seem like a challenge.
Mello's eyes narrow slightly and snorts slightly as he turns away. "Fine I'll do it." He says slightly crossing his arms over his chest.
Matt smiles and slightly fist pumps the air doing it fast then going back to how he was before so Mello doesn't catch him. He got the two rivals to agree, Near not saying anything had the red head taking it as silent agreement, to share a bed. He is sure that they are well on their way to becoming closer so at some point they'll no longer be rivals. He is only trying to speed things along.
Linda is finally calming down from her hyperness. She turns to the males panting slightly and her eyes shine with happiness. "Oh man it's so awesome to finally know I'm not alone!" She goes to jump hug them with her eyes closed happily as she has her mouth open as if saying 'yay!'.
The three boys quickly move out of the way standing away from the bed, that the bed that Mello and Matt shared one night with Matt and Linda going to be sharing it now, as Linda lands on the bed they were sitting on a moment ago.
"Can we take her outside and get rid of her?" Mello quietly hisses to the other two.
"We need to survive, the more we go out especially after so soon not only will we risk the beasts finding this place but also risk our chances of survival." Near sighs not objecting to getting rid of Linda. "We need a good plan." He adds not going into detail as Linda gets up.
Linda turns to them with a smile. "What are you talking about?" She asks.
"We are just discussing some ideas on what to do next. Whether we should head out or stay here." Near responds.
"Yeah and it'll be better if we stay here. I would rather not run into those horrible monsters." Matt says with a slight whimper of fear.
"I'm with Matt. Let's try to stay away from those icky scary beasts." Linda whines.
"This place is only a temporary hide out." Mello says crossing his arms over his chest. "We need to get moving as soon as possible." He points out. "The longer we stay here the more likely we are to be found." He uncrosses his arms slightly. "The knives only work to stop those still in human form that have not become full on beasts judging by what an experience with me and Near while being out there gathering food." He adds. "We must keep moving as much as possible."
Near nods in agreement.
"Well we have enough food to support us for a while. We can officially start moving when it runs out." Matt says.
"Food!" Linda jumps happily. "Let's eat!" She rushes to get some food.
The three boys either roll their eyes, shake their heads or sigh at Linda as they are starting to feel the annoyingness they thought they were free from when they thought it was just them three.
This is going to be a looooong night.
They stay in their temporary home with Matt and Linda distracted by the T.V. that works though probably not for long as it's probably the already scheduled shows that were already put up to run at certain times.
Mello and Near on the other hand debate on strategies from what to do, how they will survive, places to look for possible clues on how to possibly defeat the beasts and such on.
As time goes on they begin to get tired so they switch off the T.V., switch the light to the dim light for as they sleep or try to.
Near also puts the engraved knife he was playing with last night away.
Matt and Linda settle down into the bed closest to the main area as Linda, who is on the opposite side of the side of the bed facing Mello and Near, is soon asleep.
Mello and Near also settle into their bed with Near on the side of the bed facing Matt and Linda.
Matt stays awake for a little longer and he rolls so his back is to Linda as he looks to Mello and Near.
Near shows that he obviously has no problem sharing a bed with Mello as is comfortably on his side not hanging by the edge. He falls asleep at some point.
Mello is having a little trouble as he hangs closer to the edge on his side.
Matts eyes begin to close sleepily and just before he falls asleep he smiles seeing Mello roll over.
Mello sighs softly as his mind reminds him of their, him Near and Matt, first night as survivors. He then rolls over to face Near. He blinks as he sees Near's peaceful sleeping face facing in his direction. He watches Near sleep for a little bit and finds himself being lulled into sleep by it. He is soon asleep. He isn't sure how long he's asleep before he groans as something wakes him up. He opens his eyes half way wondering what or who woke him up.
There's some noises that sound like some of the monsters are around the entrance area.
His eyes widen as he slightly slowly sits up. He glances towards the entrance area.
Near also starts to awaken as Mello gets up. He blinks and looks up to Mello getting up as the beats go quiet. He starts to sit up as the beasts start to make noises again. He and Mello share a look then Near gets up.
They stay quiet as they wait to hear what the beasts will do.
Matt and Linda begin to awaken and they sit up as Matt wakes first then Linda.
Matt yawns a little loudly and Mello shoots forward covering Matt's mouth as he kneels beside the red head. The red head is confused at first then he noticies the sounds making his eyes widen.
"W-What's going on?" Linda stutters in fear.
"Shut up." Mello hisses as he releases Matt.
They are now all silent listening to the noises of the beasts outside waiting to hear what the beasts will do.
The beasts hang around the entrance way then there's a roar only for the beasts to quickly move away.
The four stay silent a minute or two after then they relax with a sigh of relief.
"We can't stay here any longer. It's getting too dangerous." Mello says as he turns on the brighter light with Near turning off the dimmer light.
"We should get going as soon as possible." Near agrees coming back to them as Matt and Linda get up.
"But what about all the stuff we need her?" Matt asks holding back a whimper as he doesn't want to face the beasts.
"We'll go out and grab a backpack and use them to carry what we need only." Mello says.
And so the four of them sneak out into the city to find some backpacks.
They creep along through the alley way after they get out of their temporary hide out.
Near who is in the lead peers around the corner to check for any enemies. "Clear." He says and takes the lead as they carefully sneak into the streets to get to a store with backpacks.
They get into a store and begin looking around till they find the backpacks.
Mello grabs a dark brown bag, Matt grabs a green and black army colored bag, Linda grabs a purplish pink bag and Near grabs a light grey bag. They make sure as best they can that it won't set off the alarm then they leave sneaking back luckily not running into any enemies.
As Near closes the door behind them Mello stands like a leader in the main area then Near joins them.
"We need only the things we will need to survive." Mello says. "Nothing more."
Near also joins in. "Make sure each of you have a simple kitchen knife though I think Mello is the only one who needs to grab another. They can give us a little longer time to escape if we use it on those who are still human but are still enemies. The main thing we need from here is food so we'll split it between the four of us."
Mello slightly clenches his teeth but joins with the other three in getting food splitting it between themselves so no one is carrying a much heavier load than the others; but they give the heavier and or things they won't really eat to Linda in hopes that if they can out run her then they don't really lose anything.
They do this and at some point things start to get heated between Linda and Mello in a bad way.
"You are uselessly stupid I swear." Mello growls. "Don't you know we can't take this with us since it will not last long enough!? We need to only take the food that will last!"
Linda makes a pouting noises. "You are so mean! I was only grabbing the food like we are supposed to!"
Mello groans in annoyance. "Ugh. You're so stupid. I've just had enough of you and your useless annoying stupid self." He partly growls.
Linda glares at Mello who glares a death glare back.
Matt and Near are off on the sidelines pausing at what they are doing only to turn to watch this all happen.
Linda moves a few steps forward towards Mello.
"Should we stop them?" Matt asks as they just keep watching things go on but he turns to Near pretty much in the middle of when he's speaking.
Near responds. "Probably." And as he in the middle of speaking Matt turns back to watching the two along with Near.
But neither probably move to do anything as they watch things unfold.
Linda raises a hand to slap Mello but Mello grabs her wrist stopping her as they seem to be having a glaring contest.
Before things get too heated in a bad way Matt steps forward.
"Ok guys lets take it easy. Aren't we supposed to be doing something?" Matt swears if this was an anime he would have a nervous sweat drop on his head.
Mello growls but releases Linda moving away from her muttering then speaks up after he's done. "Everyone ready?" He glances around at the others once they got the food that would last more than one night and are closing their bags.
The others nod and they leave with Near switching off the light as well as closing the door behind them after they leave.
Matt and Near push a nearby dumpster so that way the legs holding it up are not on the entrance but the dumpster is still overtop in a way that it's not touching the entrance but still keeping the place Near used to live at with A and BB cannot be opened unless the dumpster is moved.
With that they leave heading out into the streets.
"We should probably not stay in town for too long. We need to keep moving since staying in one place for a while puts us in more danger." Near says as they walk along the street.
"Let's leave town today. We have a good amount of food for now." Mello says and they head towards the edge of town while still listening for any sounds of enemies.
It's too eerily quiet and it sends them into high alert.
They walk past an alley way that they don't pay attention to then a minute or two after there is a growl making them pause only to look behind themselves.
There stands a beast seemingly glaring at them.
They turn and run the direction they were walking before.
Up ahead two more beasts step out only to turn to spot them.
Near takes the lead turning into an alley way with the others following.
Linda ends up in the back as she tries her best to keep up as Near leads them through the maze of alleys.
As they keep running with the beasts chasing them she finds the three males are much more fit then she is as she begins to fall behind.
"Guys!" She calls out reaching towards them feeling exhausted.
But they don't hear her.
She trips and falls scraping her knee only to hurry to get back to her feet. She scrambles to her feet and begins running whimpering at the pain. She turns as it's the only way to go only to slow to a stop finding herself out on the main road again but no sign of the three males. "Guys?" she calls out fearfully. She turns about to go back into the alley to find them only to end up facing a beast. Her eyes widen in terror and suddenly before she can even have a chance to annoy the beast said beast grabs her opening her mouth wide almost to the point of it hurting to be so widely open tilting her head back. She tries to get her frozen in terror stiff body to struggle as tears stream down her face.
The beast leans over her opening its own mouth only for something big and round like a big egg or something to be dropped into her mouth.
She struggles and tries to push the slimy egg like thing out but the beast holds her until the egg like thing is forced very very painfully down her throat into her body as her tears fall like waterfalls.
The beast releases her and she falls to her knees crying at the searing pain as she hunches over holding her stomach as she feels something seeming to have a small explosion inside herself then not long after she blacks out then all she can do is watch what her body is seeing as she can no longer control it.
Meanwhile…
Mello, Matt and Near stop and are panting though it's mainly Mello and Matt panting. They had escaped the alley way then ran along the road for only half a minute before they turned into another alley only to turn into a dead end area s they stop to take a break since they lost the beasts.
Matt glances around only to notice something. "Hey guys where's Linda?" He asks.
The other two glance around as they all realize that they have lost track of Linda before they even planned on losing her.
"She must have fell behind." Mello says.
"Or she took a wrong turn but either way she's most likely beast food now." Near says.
"Why did you take us into a dead end alley area?" Mello growls turning to Near with a demanding glare.
"Because I knew we had lost the beast but had we not turned we would have been much more easily caught." Near explains.
Mello growls slightly. "Yeah? Well if you had been wrong we would have been beast food along with Linda."
Near looks to Mello. "I like you and everyone else may not know everything on everything however I know what I'm doing when it comes to escaping in these streets." He reminds Mello.
Mello's eyes narrow slightly. "Yeah? Well we can survive out on our own. Don't think of yourself as high and mighty because we can survive without you!"
"Mello!" Matt takes a step forward slightly wide eyed and doesn't want them to fight though he believes Mello's earlier fight with Linda still has him a little riled up.
"Well then lets go." Near says turning towards the fence with no gate and the fence is too high to climb. He jumps onto the green box of sand for the winter when things get icy. He then leaps onto a board resting against a box knocking over a barrel that was holding it there in turn knocking over the board but using that second time frame, before the things fall, to jump. He puts a hand on the top of the fence and swiftly moves himself up; without having to flip himself as he skillfully balances on one hand swinging his legs over. He's not sitting on the fence with his arms at his sides and his back to the other two. He turns to look to them. "Are you coming?" He asks.
"Show off." Mello growls and he moves forward jumping onto the box of sand. He then jumps up onto a barrel that falls as Mello isn't able to jump in time. He falls but lands well enough only to hurt for a second as he wasn't high up when he fell. He growls then gets up only to see Near still sitting there watching them over his shoulder.
"I know Mello can do it." Near says in encouragement as he kind of feels like he is giving them some kind of lesson on street survival.
Mello goes for it again this time he uses the box that now has nothing on it to jump up. He reaches up and grabs onto the top of the fence as his arms are just long enough to reach it. He puts his feet on the flat wood of the fence as he gets his other hand onto the top of the fence. He uses both his scrambling feet that are trying to get a grip and his arms to pull himself up onto the top of the fence now sitting beside Near.
Near smiles at Mello. "I knew you could do it." He says.
Mello glances to Near unsure now if he should be angry that Near seemed to already know he would make it or if he should be feeling something better that Near believed in him being able to do it. He goes with neither and just jumps down onto the ground on the other side of the fence landing on his feet.
Near turns back to Matt. "Your turn." He says.
Mello moves out of the way enough that if the other two jump down then he won't be jumped on. He glances slightly down as he thinks. He thinks about their journey so far and he finds himself looking closely at each time he has seen a different Near than he expected as he begins to wonder if his view on Near was way off. He blinks coming back to reality when he hears scrambling. He turns and sees Matt is trying to get up but Near is having to help pull him up as Matt must have been unable to find a way to grab onto the top of the fence. He turns away as Matt gets up onto the fence then after Near gives a few encouraging words to the red head him and Near hop down.
The three continue on their way only to start running as they hear a beast growl behind them only to have three beast growls.
The three beasts chase them as they exit the city heading out into the countryside.
The three find the beasts are generally nipping at their heels since they've been running a lot though Near stays in the lead with Mello behind him then Matt behind Mello though they aren't in a straight line.
"There!" Mello says loudly as he spots a mostly white building that is obviously abandoned.
They race towards it trying to pick up the pace.
Near opens the door that opens inward and makes sure the other two dash inside only to follow them in. He turns and quickly tries to close the door but the beasts bang against it together making it a fight against Near and the three beasts.
Mello and Matt quickly move to help Near push the door closed as they join in the struggling.
The two groups continue to push as the beasts try to get their legs and bodies in through the door while pushing to try to get it open meanwhile the three males are pushing against the beasts to close the door without being grabbed by the beasts.
The three males feel their hearts pound in fear and slight adrenaline.
The beasts are starting to push them back as they are getting close to getting inside.
Then Mello, Near and Matt start to make progress as they push as hard as they can. They finally slam the door shut as the beasts retract their legs before they are slammed by the door.
Mello finds the lock clicking it closed now that they have the door closed.
The three males stop their pushing and slide down the door to sit with a small sigh of relief as they take this moment to rest after pushing so hard.
Once they are a little rested they glance around to see where they have ended up.
"Where are we?" Matt asks in a gasp.
"What the hell is this place?" Mello says as he slightly slowly gets to his feet.