It had felt like hours, but was only minutes since Ema, Stuart, Vanessa and Cara had begun walking through the endless woods, trying to find the road again and also find a way out. The sun was beaming down on them, and Vanessa's pouch of water was to last them and nobody knows how long for.
"So, how'd you get that water anyway?" Cara asked
"I always carry it with me, just incase I get a little thirsty" Vanessa replied, "You want some?"
"I'm ok just now... I'm just too paranoid to take my attention off trying to hear those men, or even see them"
Vanessa sighed, "Being paranoid over it will drive you crazy"
Stuart turned around, "I'm keeping look-out Cara, you don't have to be so nervous"
"But it's my life in the balance here... if those men come, we're just all strangers to one another, no one's going to sacrifice themselves to save another" she replied, "It's really every man for himself"
Ema stopped and looked at her, "Don't think that like, okay? No one else is going to die"
/
She buried her head in her hands and cried, Francine had just lost her daughter, and watched her brains get blown out and fall to the ground dead and she couldn't even do anything to save her. In her arms was Abby, her other teenage daughter who was sobbing also. Harry just sat on a log, pale and shocked.
"I can't believe she's dead..." Abby whimpered.
Nobody replied to her, everyone just sat in silence, which helped them hear the rustle in the bushes, alerting the trio. "Ssssh," Harry whispered, "Don't move". As he, his wife and daughter looked around, they could see nobody around.
"It's probably just a squirrel" Francine said, but as she finished her last word, a sudden force was pushing into her throat, as Dane stood behind her, a line of barbed wire digging deep into her throat as she struggled to get free, but blood was pouring out. Harry grabbed Abby away as in moments, Francine's throat was cut open and she dropped onto the dirt. With their footsteps rushing away, father and daughter never looked back and blocked out the sound of Dane's laughing behind.
/
James and Lucas had been running through the woods since the road, and hadn't stopped. The boys felt guilty for leaving the wounded Jenny behind, and even heard her scream before she was murdered, but just couldn't go back for her, otherwise they'd all die.
"How are we going to get the fuck out of these woods," Lucas sighed, "It's like we're going around in circles"
"We're not, we're going the right way, just all the woods look the same!"
"Fuck man..." Lucas sighed again
He then turned around, to see four people walking a little distance from them, Ema, Vanessa, Cara and Stuart. "Hey look, there's the other people that were on the road"
"Can we trust them?" James asked
"They are in the same situation as us! C'mon", he tapped James and the two began running towards the other four, who seen the duo in the corner of their eyes.
Cara waved her hand for them to go faster, and then the boys reached the four. "You guys ok? You hurt"
"We're fine, just trying to find a way out" James replied
"Just like us then, huh?" Vanessa spoke
Stuart sighed, "Can we just get moving? We don't want to linger around and give those fuckers time to shoot us in the brain"
Ema nudged him, "Don't moan at them Stuart, there just like us... Trying to survive". She then took a step forward as did James and Lucas, her foot touching a patch of grass that caved in, she fell down into a trap, a 10ft pit, accompanied by James and Lucas.
"Shit, you guys ok?" Cara panicked, looking down at the pit gasping.
"Ow, my fucking head..." James groaned, as he had hit it hard off the side. "Get us the hell out of here!"
"We're going to have to find some rope and pull you guys out" Stuart said
"Hurry, please!" Ema pleaded.
/
Stuart, Vanessa and Cara rushed around the forest, looking for a rope or anything that would help carry the trio out of the pit. But as Cara turned a corner, a fist slammed against her face, causing her to fall down and hold her bleeding nose. Above her stood Ray, smirking in delight. He raised his shotgun at her, as his finger went to pull the trigger, Stuart tackled him to the ground, the bullet shooting the ground right next to Cara.
"Shit!" she screamed as Vanessa helped her stand up.
"Yeah, shit" a voice said
The girls turned around and seen Dane, also smirking. He grabbed Vanessa's throat and threw her to the side, before turning his attention to his grunting father who was struggling with Stuart, who was punching him repeatedly in the face. Dane ran over, pulling out a tribal knife from his holster and stabbing it into Stuart's back, who screamed as Dane then kicked his stomach and he fell on the ground.
"Give me that fucking knife!" Ray snapped.
He snatched the knife off his son and sat on a struggling Stuart, raising the knife, he lunged it downwards on his face as the blade tore through his eyesocket, instantly killing him as blood oozed out. Ray wiped his sweaty forehead as Dane looked back at Cara and Vanessa and seen them gone.
/
Trying to grab the dirt, Ema couldn't hold onto anything.
"There's no use doing that, there's no roots here to hold onto" James told her
Lucas grunted, "Where the fuck is your boyfriend? He better not of ditched us!"
"He wouldn't of done that..." Ema replied
"You know him better than we do"
"Yeah, I do, so get your fucking facts right before you speak!" she snapped.
As Lucas just ignored her comment, Ema turned back around, still trying to pull herself up out of the pit.
"How about we give you a boost up?" James suggested, "You stand on our shoulders and pull yourself up.. It could work"
"It will work!" Ema replied.
James and Lucas walked over to her and bent down, as she held onto the mud and put a foot on one of each of their shoulders, as the boys then stood up, making her go further and further up the pit. Her hands then grasped the edge, as after a few grunts, Ema managed to pull herself up out of the pit.
"It worked! Now go find your boyfriend!" Lucas shouted.
But she didn't reply.
"Ema?" James shouted up.
A man's face then peered over the pit, Garth. He held the unconscious Ema in his arms, but as he seen the boys in the pit, he threw her on the ground next to him.
"Shit... shit! Fuck off you asshole!" Lucas screamed
Garth calmly searched through his jacket, before pulling out a small satchet of something. He opened it up and began pouring a liquid down on the pit, that also touched James and Lucas.
"What is that?" Lucas asked
"It's petrol..." James whimpered, he then looked up at Garth, "Don't man! Please!"
But as Garth pulled out a box of matches, both boys looked up at suspense, as Garth lit a match and threw it downwards. James and Lucas threw themselves back as the match hit the grass in the bottom of the pit and flew up in flames. They both screamed as the fire spread quickly and then landed on their petrol-covered skin, setting them a light. Garth watched from above as James and Lucas both burned slowly alive, their painful screams a pleasure to his ears. And as their screams stopped, he grabbed Ema's hair and walked off, dragging her along the ground behind him.
Players out: Claire, Jenny, Chris, Francine, Stuart, Lucas, James 7/12