"You sure that there's still stuff left inside that store?" Jesse questioned. Benji gave a disgusted scoff, as if a lowly commoner spoke to an ever powerful God. Needless to say, it added the growing dislike of Benji.
"I'm sure there's still stuff. Don't ask such a stupid question next time." He spitted out. After that not much was said until the wind blew pleasantly, dragging out leaves and spraying them before the forecast filled with gray again. The group shuddered as another cold breeze swayed again.
"Damnit, seems like it's gonna rain," Ryan shivered as the cold brushed against his clothes. "Is there like a hunting department or something inside?"
"I don't know, I haven't searched through all of it." Benji replied.
The clouds above got gray and grayer as it rapidly advanced. Soon, it had started sprinkling as the reached outside the barricaded store. The store's front entrance was completely closed and seemed to be barricaded from the inside. "It seems that people must've blocked it out firm the inside." Bonnie noted as she inspected the hardly transparent black glass doors, large objects blacking behind.
"There's probably another entrance somewhere around the building, let's look for it!" Jesse added. They walked around to the alley in a back, where two walkers were rummaging through the garbage as rats attempted to escape.
"There's two of them! There's two of them! Get rid of them get rid of them-" Ryan shut him up by placing his hand over his mouth while Benji backed away. Bonnie pulled out a knife and slowly walked up to the closest Walker and stabbed the former man quickly in the eye, bringing him down as Jesse grabbed her back and bashed the other one that went after Bonnie, not stopping until it wasn't moving anymore.
"Alright kid, calm down." Ryan muttered as Benji kept babbling into his hand. When he let go Benji immediately went on a tirade about his safety.
"Oh my god! How can you expose me to this mess, and to actually get me this close to those disgusting bags of decay?"
"Ryan's right, calm the hell down and stop being such a pussy." Bonnie announced. "No ones always gonna protect your little spoiled ass and you have to realize that we could leave you anytime we wanted. You actually have to work for what you want, got it?"
Benji recoiled back at the new command. "Yeah, I understand, don't have to be so angry about it." He murmured.
"The doors open, and the lights are on! Seems that someone is inside!" Jesse said, as she peeked through the open door.
"Good thing too, the rains getting harder and harder." He said, as the rain went from a light sprinkle to a more easy shower and progressed from there. The four quickly got inside as the showed went to a heavy pour before they shut the door.
They were inside the back, the warehouse of the store, where they kept everything they needed when products went low, there was plenty of food, but it seems that much of the disposables seemed to rot away already. They covered their noses at the smell of the rotten fruits and other foodstuffs, until they encountered a familiar smell of rotten flesh.
"Hey, there might be walkers, watch out." Ryan whispered as he drew out a 9mm pistol. He lead the group around the corner of a giant shelf where they saw the entrance to the butchery, and the herd of walkers eating the leftover meat.
"Shit, I thinks there's like 7 or 8 of those things. Should we go loud or keep it quiet?" Ryan asked.
"Best we go loud, if we go quiet they'd might find us and they'd overrun us. I'll take point." Bonnie moved up to the front of the four, and drew out her pistol. She aimed down and shot it, a single suppressed fhwip hit a walker in the outmost part of the butchery entrance. The other walkers turned and saw Bonnie and immediately dragged themselves towards the group.
"They're all coming towards us!" Benji worried. The walkers began hissing and groaning as the group began to huddle a bit back to avoid them. Bonnie fired three more rounds, the first two hitting another Walker in the chest and head, but missed the third.
"Could use some help!" Bonnie gritted. Ryan aimed down his pistol and fired two rounds, going directly towards the herd. He manage to bring one down, but they still kept coming.
"They're getting closer, do something!" Benji pleaded as he hid behind Jesse, who had her bat out just in case things got close. Both Ryan and Bonnie fired great deals of their magazine in a somewhat desperate attempt to ward them off. They manage to blow the heads of two but then Ryan's magazine was empty.
The three walkers got close enough to swing their hands and began trying to claw at Bonnie and Ryan. A walker had began attacking Ryan while he tried fending it off, he manage to ho!d it back by the hands and pushed it away, before pistol-whipping the thing directly against its head, causing it to spasm uncontrollably until he stomped it out of its misery.
The two attacked Bonnie, but she managed to hold off one of them while Jesse attacked the other before it went to Ryan. Jesse swung down her bat as hard as she could and killed it, falling to the floor unmoving and bleeding a blackish bile. Bonnie put her pistol under the chin of the one attacking her and blew its brains out, falling down instantly.
The three caught their breath as Benji had his back against the wall, trembling with fear.
"Jesus Christ I am definitely not ready for this life." He whispered lowly enough so that no one would hear him. They began walking towards the door that lead inside the supermarket and saw that most of the shelves where toppled to be low enough to see anyone taller than 6', that a good amount of food was still left around the store, and that it wasn't as big as it looked from the outside.
There was only about two walkers that could be seen, a fat one with recently dirty food stains and s smallish Female former employee, still stuck in uniform. Bonnie brought out her M21 and picked them off, the loud sound echoing off the buildings dimly lit insides.
"That wasn't as hard as I thought." Bonnie commented as she picked up her shells for reuse later on.
"'That wasn't as hard as I thought'? We nearly died back there!" Benji called out.
"Yeah, we nearly died back there, not you." She said, pointing to herself and Ryan and Jesse. "So you better hope that there isn't more here."
"Hey Bonnie, I see that the doors are barricaded with shopping carts and a bunch of those plastic bins. You want us to remove them?" Jesse notified.
"No, leave them be, we won't be staying for long. Just a quick search for non perishables and water, if there's juice or alcohol that's fine too but water is a priority."
"Yeah, speaking of water, the rain's really pouring down outside." Ryan pointed out to the window far above the door as rain splattered with might and quantity. "Seems that it isn't lightening up anytime soon, we might be flooded inside."
"He's got a point Bonnie." Jesse added. "It's like a monsoon outside."
Bonnie surveyed the area again to find a good spot to rest, and she did.
"There's a small camping section over there. If there's tent displays we'll be staying in there and stuff."
The group walked over to inspect the camping section more closely, and to their luck,there was two large tent displays, empty but used by the previous survivors.
"Me and Jesse will take the bigger tent. Ryan and Benji, you'll take the smaller."
"Why the smaller tent?" Benji whined.
"Because you're small and I say so." Ryan looked justly disgruntled at the fact that he had to share the tent with Benji. The group set down their little supplies and began searching the store for leftover supplies. After an hour, they brought all the supplies they could and placed them near their little campsite, pitting them neatly into a pile. One such supplies where walkie talkies near the camping sections, and an array of other Survival gear and equipment that was a must have for them.
"We have some time before it's dark, so feel free to explore the store and do whatever. Stay away from the bodies and always check in on the walkie talkies every 10 minutes, understand?" Everyone nodded and they began exploring the store to pass the time, avoiding the dead bodies and hoping that the rain outside would stop for their journey to continue.
A/N: when I wrote the majority of the story it was real cold and raining and stuff so I made it the weather for this chapter, Isn't that interesting? (I accidentally stepped in a huge and deep puddle, and it soaked through my socks And I haven't been feeling that hot since. But hey, more time to write!) Kinda rushed the end, by I figured that it's good enough.
No new OCs yet, just some action and stuff. Next story update will be the new SYOC, which will be Star Wars again.
Take care - Big Bravo