Chapter two!
No mercy
It was nightfall on the rooftops of Fairfield. Everything was quiet, and only one human was awake. Bill sat thinking, he was keeping watch while the other three survivors slept soundly. Since the infection took hold of the city, it was unsafe anywhere you went. And yet looking at the stars, you wouldn't know anything was different. Bill was beginning to drift off to sleep when a loud shriek woke him with a start. "HOLY SHIT" he screamed, and with a swift movement, he threw the hunter backwards and began pumping it full of lead from his shotgun.
"that's how we took them down in 'nam" he smirked slightly, then looked round in surprise to see the others standing staring at him expectedly.
"what's all the noise about bill?" Louis asked "can't a guy get some sleep in the middle of a zombie apocalypse?" He grinned in a goofy fashion.
"Well, not sitting around now we're awake, lets get going!" Francis yelled!
They all gathered round the table and grabbed a weapon, and a health kit. Then made for the door leading downstairs. Opening it with force, Zoey started shooting at the infected at the bottom of the stairs. Suddenly, a boomer came charging round the corner, and started up the steps. After shooting it quickly, the survivors became covered in a green icky gloop which smelt really bad. Louis and Zoey began feeling sick instantly. Round the corner charged a bunch of zombies, and they began attacking everyone covered in the boomer's remains. Once they had recovered, and cleaned up, they made their way down and through the rooms, taking care of any infected in the way, and picking up a Pipe bomb and a Molotov from the rooms beyond the doors. They kept going until they reached a hole in the floor.
"Erm, where from here?" Zoey puzzled, "down there? That's suicide."
"what other choice do we have?" Louis and bill murmured.
So down they jumped, and before they could regain the balance, what looked like a pink rope shot through the air and tied up Francis and began reeling him in. The rope it seems, was the tongue of a smoker, and it was slashing at Francis with more and more aggression. Running at top speed, Zoey hit the Francis in the stomach with the gun, and the shock wave that shot through him was enough to make the smoker release him. A few quick pistol bullets later and the smoker was lying dead on the floor.
"nasty habit that!" Louis laughed to himself.
Continuing through the buildings, they came to the door leading outside and a low growling told them a hunter was nearby. They decided on the spot to try and outrun it. So they charged towards another part of the alley, and as soon as they started to move, Louis was pounced, and the hunter was tearing at his shirt and flesh on his chest. A speedy and well-timed head-shot from Francis was enough to silence the shrieking, and help Louis to his feet. They kept walking through the alleys for a while until it came to an opening which led out onto the street. A helicopter shot overhead which blared "any survivors to mercy hospital for evacuation please" through the speaker-phone.
The loud noise was enough to startle a nearby woman crying on the ground. She shot up, and ran straight for Bill, her face contorted and demonic. She instantly pushed him to the ground, and started slashing him, while the others were opening fire on her, the bullets seemed to have little effect. Louis, in a final attempt to save Bills life, ran up behind her and slammed the barrel of his gun into the the back of her head, and fired a shot. She turned for a second, and made to move for him, until he shot again, and the impact of the bullets was simply too much for her to take, and she finally fell dead to the floor.
"Holy Crap, what the hell was that?" Zoey screeched as she helped Bill to his feet."
"A witch from the seventh circle of hell" Bill yelled as he regained balance and started using his med-kit to heal himself.
"Witch, awesome name for her!" Louis smiled
"I hate witches" Francis grimaced.
They all laughed, and ran to the end of the street, where they headed downstairs to the subway, and they ran into a room at the end of the area, where they slammed the iron-clad door closed and barricaded themselves inside. They sat for a while and discussed what they had seen, and after a meal, (Mostly Freeze-dried food) from a cupboard hanging on the wall, they settled down in some sleeping bags, and praised the Government for finally doing something that had actually made the lives of the survivors easier. They had put in areas they could have a decent sleep without fear of infected beings getting at them, and together, they dozed off, and had the best nights sleep in a while.
Authors notes: ok so thats the end of chapter two. As you can see, I tried to stick to the first level of no mercy as firmly as I could, but I decided the helicopter would give them a reason for heading to mercy hospital, and so would be more useful in the midst of battle, and give a good enough reason to startle a witch.
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