Disclaimer: I own nothing from the games or movies, just Savannah.
Sorry it has taken so long to update schooling has swamped me with work the past few weeks, and I will be having an Advanced Math final in the near future, so if it comes unattended to again that will be why.
Thanks you to Lost Vanity for editing this chapter and too all my reviewers. Hope you enjoy :)
Savannah heard a clunking noise from the outside of the Hummer. She looked to the back seeing K-Mart opening one of the doors.
"K-Mart, what are you doing?" K-Mart jumped when Savannah talked, but looked over to her.
"I keep hearing something." She answered climbing out of the vehicle. Savannah rolled her eyes also getting out of the yellow Hummer.
"It's not exactly a great idea to be alone if you hear something strange." The brunette looked over at K-Mart, "Could be a zombie, and you aren't armed with a weapon." Saying this Savannah tossed a 9MM CZ-USA 2075 RAMI Semi-Automatic hand gun to her, "Now you're a little a safer." K-Mart sent a smile her way, but then a loud 'caw' was heard along with the blonde's scream.
Claire woke with a jolt as the other two girls shut themselves back into the vehicle. Savannah and Claire both looked around from the windows seeing thousands of crows surrounding every vehicle of their convoy.
"Holy shit." Savannah said lowly.
Claire picked up her walkie talkie bringing it to her mouth. "Carlos?"
"I see them...Everyone stay in your trucks."
"What's going on?" Chance said from another line.
"Just stay in the trucks. Roll up the windows and keep quiet." Claire answered looking over to Savannah then back at K-Mart.
"Are you ok?" K-Mart nodded, she was freaked out by the hundreds of crows staring right at them. She placed her hand over the gun Savannah had given to her just moments ago. One of the crows landed on the hood of the hummer, and K-Mart leaned up to get a better look.
"What's wrong with their eyes?" she asked.
"They've been feeding on infected flesh." Claire stated, and Savannah grabbed her Desert Eagle XIX DE44BN magnum handgun.
A few moments later the crows were swarming above them as if something had set them off. Everyone stayed silent as they waited to see what exactly the birds were doing.
"Come on, Claire we've got to get moving. I don't think being killed by a horde of infected crows is exactly the way we all want to die!"
"I'm thinking here, Sav."
"I don't think there is much to think about. We have a clear path right there!" Savannah pointed to the left of them.
"Fire it up. Let's get out of here." The Hummer jolted forward as Claire slammed her foot on the accelerator.
"Claire!" K-Mart squealed when she looked out the back of the hummer. Claire and Savannah both looked to where K-Mart had pointed.
"Damn it!" Claire yanked the steering wheel to the right turning them in the direction of Otto's bus. Savannah picked up the walkie talkie that lied between her and Claire.
"Mikey, Carlos, we have to evac the bus," she called through.
"You got it."
When all the other vehicles got there a grated walk piece was placed between the bus and Mikey's truck. Mikey and Savannah took charge of shooting the crows that came closest to their team. Claire and Carlos guided the children into the truck as Betty, L.J., and Otto were keeping the crows from entering the bus via the windshield. One of the teens aboard the convoy fell from the walkway, and was instantly attacked by the many crows. Claire dropped the grating and got in the truck with Savannah while Carlos was continuing to shoot the birds.
"L.J., hurry up!" Savannah yelled to him. L.J climbed into the back of the truck after receiving one of the kids that was left on the bus from Betty. Betty then shut the back of the bus sacrificing herself and Otto.
"BETTY, NO!" L.J yelled out as Claire held onto him. They all watched as the crows began attacking Betty, but had to look away, "Betty!"
Carlos ran over telling them to go as he shut the doors of the truck. He then grabbed one of the girls who also fell as they were getting the kids in the truck running with her. The crows caught up to him, but as he waited for the violent pecking they felt nothing. He turned around seeing some sort of shield protecting him, and it wasn't anything solid, or something he could see either. There was a woman with choppy, untamed hair in a tan duster to his side, and then suddenly the fire from the flamethrower spread to all the crows leaving black ash to fall from sky. Carlos ran to the woman just as she collapsed catching her in his arms.
Savannah was the first to open the back of the truck running over to Carlos, and the strange woman he held. Claire wasn't too far behind her, and studied the woman that had seemed to save them. It was a mystery of how she did it, but relief was the only thing Savannah could feel right now as the kids and her team had been spared their lives.
"Who is this woman, Carlos?" Claire asked first. A little more bitter than she wanted it to come out. She didn't know who this woman was, and didn't know if she could be trusted around the many people they had tried so hard to keep alive.
"Her name is Alice. Another Raccoon City survivor I had met when the infection spread throughout the city." He picked her up cradling Alice to his chest, "She saved many of us from death. Then we broke her out of a research facility in the mountains. I owe her my life." Savannah's eyebrows rose at that statement.
"Lay her down in the Hummer. She would be more comfortable in there. We'll get K-Mart to look after her." Savannah injected, smiling at Carlos before she walked away from them. She hurried to the Hummer grabbing a composition notebook and pen from the glove compartment, and climbed on the top of the yellow vehicle.
Infection has now seemed to spread to wildlife. There is nothing out there that cannot be infected from the T-Virus. Not even marine life will be safe to eat now unlikehow it used to be a few months ago. I don't know how much longer we survivors can survive in this world. Foodis growing scarce, and there is shit for a water supply. It is quite a burden on Claire and I, trying to scratch up enough food for more than thirty people, and then trying to keep them alive. Now that we lost Betty and Otto, we are short two more able bodied men to help, and two of our dearest and closest friends. I don't know how much longer any of us are going to be able to continue the way we are, but I hope by some miracle we are able to outlast the infection. We are outnumbered by the infected, and there isn't going to be enough bullets to kill every single last one of them
"What are you doing, Sav?" Mikey asked sitting beside her. She looked over to his bright blue eyes as she shut her journal slowly. The boy was barely nineteen and should be out living his life. Not defending it from the infected. Savannah let out a sigh running a hand through her hair that she let loose from its ponytail.
"Just thinking. Once again trying to get ideas." she laid back on the roof of the hummer crossing her arms behind her head.
"Got anything?"
"Nadda. Would be nice to actually have a plan instead of just riding along in our cars hoping there will be enough gas to keep us going."
"Yeah a plan would be nice." Mikey laid beside Savannah smiling at her, "But at least we all have each other for company. It would get a bit lonely out here. Everyone out there isn't much for company anymore." That emitted a giggle from Savannah.
"You're always so optimistic, Mikey. You remind of Chris when he was your age. Ambitious and always looking at the brighter side of things no matter how bad it gets."
"Do you have any hope that he's..."
"No, I don't. I have no hope of ever seeing him again. I can't keep hanging onto the thought that he may still be alive. I just never say anything to Claire because she wants to believe Chris is still out there waiting for us to rescue him."
"You know what would be nice right now?"
"A nice cold glass of sweet tea." Mikey let out a loud laugh.
"I was thinking an ice cold beer, but sweet tea sounds great, too."
"And nice barbeque to go along with that beer and tea. Some chicken and steak with a side of potato salad."
"Now that sounds like the perfect day to me, Sav."
Savannah sat up giving Mikey a pat on his leg, "I think I am going to go walk around for a bit before sundown. Talk to you later, Mikey."
"See ya, Sav. Don't do anything rash either!" he called as she started walking away. He could see her middle finger shooting up at him letting another laugh ripple from his body.
"Where is she going?" Claire asked leaning on one of the doors of the vehicle.
"For a walk. I think I interrupted her train of thinking. She's becoming more distant. I can see it in her eyes, there's an emptiness growing within her."
"It's been getting worse as the months go by, and not seeing Chris. She has a thread of hope left, but once it's gone, she will be, too."
"You know what I think, Claire?" Claire looked to Mikey with a questioning look egging on to continue.
"I think you should make more time for her to express her feelings to you, and not to me. You are like her sister, and she needs to hear what you think rather than what Carlos, K-Mart, and I think. Just think on that for awhile." Once Mikey said this he parted ways from Claire heading back to his truck for some sleep. Claire looked around spotting Savannah sitting on top of one of the buildings that the sand had built up to. She watched the brunette writing in her journal, and Claire just shook her head going back to the hummer. The sun was setting too, and she knew Savannah would be in Carlos's truck tonight since he was also out patrolling the area.
Author's Note:As pointed out to my editor(Lost Vanity) I do need to speed this up because it's true y'all are wanting some Chris/OC. It will be coming soon I already have the next chapter written so my editor did read my mind ;) Stay tuned for the next chapter.