A/N The majority of this chapter is in Anna's point of view. Hope this doesn't change things up to much for you guys.. It wont be a regular thing.. Well i mean unless you guys like being put in the characters view every now n then.. Eh well i better shut up before i babble even more.. Enjoy!

Chapter V: A Bump in the Night


A single cloud drifted across the light blue sky above us, peaceful and ignorant to the death and destruction that was just below it. I really wish i was a cloud. I wouldn't have any worries, just the breeze to carry me on; no hardships or heartbreak, no killing and death... just bliss. But then again, if i were a cloud, i guess i wouldn't have my Elsa, now would I. I stared over at her laying beside me, the grass swaying slightly in the breeze between us. She was smiling with her perfect white teeth and her icy-blue eyes never left mine, her long platinum blonde hair swaying ever so slightly in the breeze over her dark blue shirt. I scooted closer to her until my head was on her shoulder and we were touching our noses, grinning like kids in a candy shop.

The meadow is quiet enough that i can hear her soothing heartbeat when i listen close enough. She reached up to my cheek and her cool skin sent shivers down my back when it made contact. Her skin always does that to me and i love it! So, i push my face further into her touch. She's always been so loving with me, i mean she's been like the sister i never had. The really hot sister i never had. I mean if she were my sister, id probably still love her like i do now, but thats not the point here. The point is that she's never left me. She's always kept her promises and always had full trust in me to have her back, which i do.. even though i prefer the front. Ha! I made a pun. Or is it just a joke? I don't know, but back to my story.

My eyes are closed when i hear a loud noise in the distance. I open them to see a petrified Elsa looking at me with widened eyes and her mouth slightly opened. She dropped her hand, scooting closer to me as we sit up, both of us scanning the tree lines. Another noise, but this one was closer to us. Its some kind of screeching sound I've never heard before. Given the look on Elsa's face, she never has either. Suddenly, her face hardens and she gets to her feet. I follow her up and she grabs a pistol seemingly out of nowhere, but i don't really notice because i'm to focused on the trees swaying back and forth in the wind. The anticipation of something happening is killing me when i see some movement to our left. "They're on our right," i hear Elsa say behind me. We are back to back now facing our threats head on. "There's one on our left too." I say pulling up a handgun where i have no clue came from but i'm too focused on the threat in front of me to question it. "They're boxing us in, Anna." Im to focused on a disturbingly deformed human face i could barely make out in front of me. Its black eyes staring at me with a piercing gaze; a widened snarl on its mouth. It looked like the mouth stretched out farther and it had no hair. It had clothes, though, and from what I could see it used to be human. It looked like one of the infected, but different. Im not sure how different, though. Its face, bloody and teeth barred. Another screeching noise to my right where we originally heard it unglued me from my single target. "You're right, i see them. What do we do, Elsa?!"

"Just give me a second!" she said over another screech which seemed to be the attack order. What we thought was three became ten, and what we thought they were wasn't even close. The dead sprinted out of the wood line directly at us from three different directions; all whaling in high pitched yells.

I thought i heard Elsa shooting over the screaming so i started shooting, too, taking down the first two easily with head shots, the next was was smarter and bobbed back and forth avoiding my shots at the last seconds. "Come on you bastard," shot, "stand," shot,"still!" I finally hit it above the right eye, sending it to the ground. I turned right, shooting one that was a mere ten feet away, using my last bullet. "Im out!"

"Me too!" I heard Elsa say. The remaining three circled us, watching us with hungry eyes a measly ten or fifteen feet away. All at once, they bolted towards us snarling. Elsa interlocked her arms with mine and i felt her as we both kicked at the same time, knocking two of our attacker away momentarily as she unlocked our arms and jutted her fist up into the jaw of our third. She had her spiked knuckles on, which i hadn't noticed before, but damn did those things do some damage. The thing fell back blood dripping from under its jaw and started circling us again with its partners.

"Back pocket," Elsa said not taking her eyes off of the threat. I felt up her leg, and up her butt to her back pocket and grabbed the handle that protruded from it. A knife with a short, fat blade came out. If i knew Elsa, she was brandishing her own blade right now, making it look more badass than i could ever pull off. They screamed at us again, charging and folding their arms back behind them. I felt Elsa thrusting keeping her attacker off her as i did the same, going for the throat and parrying its arms as it threw itself at me. Both of it's hands grabbed my shoulders, trying to pull me into its chest, but my knee soon got in the way of that, knocking the thing back with a thrust to the gut. My leg came up and my foot met its face head on. Ha! Another pun-joke-thingy.

It fell to the ground, stumbling back up feet away. I realized mine and Elsa's arms had unclasped, and i turned to see her fighting off the other two. they were both on top of her, her arms only keeping them at bay for the moment. "Anna! Help me!" She screamed at me. I never heard her voice riddled with such despair. I tried taking a step towards her, but the thing i had just knocked down grabbed onto both my legs holding me back as it smiled a disgusting, evil yellow smile; it's eyes irises black as the night sky.

I stabbed at its head, looking for purchase but only succeeding in jabbing the knife deep into its shoulder. It pulled on my legs as I went forward, trying to break free and the next second I felt grass on my face. It started crawling up the length of my body fast and when it got to my neck, I rolled us over, grasping the handle jutting out of its shoulder. I pulled hard on it, finally pulling it free and bringing it down, pushing it through the soft tissue of its nose and into its brain. The things body went limp. I turned to where Elsa was and she was under one of them, hands holding it back by the neck, while the other was in a leg-choke hold position. I ran to her, stabbing the one between her legs in the back of its skull and pulled it off her, as she snapped the others neck. I helped her up and as soon as she was on her feet, I was on the ground. She had tackled me and wrapped her arms around before I knew it. I reciprocated the hug, wrapping my arms tightly around her.

"I thought I lost you!" She said.

"Me!?" I said as she brought her head up to look at me. "You were the one who took on two of those motherfuckers by yourself! God, Elsa, I hate leaving you alone. I mean, throughout that whole thing i thought i lost you. Have you ever seen those.. things before?"

"No, i haven't, but thank God your alright." She said

I felt the sting of tears brimming my eyes and i tried to hold them back, but it was no use. I let them flow, showing how scared i was of losing what was most precious to me. Elsa rolled us over, holding me close. When she got on her back i buried my face into the crook of her neck, crying like a baby. She rubbed circles on my back comforting me as i let out my feelings of near-loss onto her silky smooth skin. "Hush now. Everything's okay, Anna. See?" She put her hands on the sides of my face lifting it to see that, indeed, she was as perfect as the day I fell hopelessly in love with her. I leaned forward and pecked her lips just to be sure and resumed burying my face into her shoulder.

Everything went deadly quiet, allowing me to hear Elsa's heart beat. Its soft and rhythmic beat soothing my nerves. After a minute, her heart rate picked up and fast. As second before I had planned to look up at Elsa and see what was wrong, she rolled us over, letting out a cry of pain. I didn't see what was wrong until I looked over her shoulder another one of those infected, mutated things was biting into the back of Elsa's neck. Further back, The pack we had just taken down had gotten back up and stood in a line a few yards away.

I grabbed a Elsa's blade that she had dropped right by us when we collapsed together.. Well I mean she tackled me, but that aside, I slammed the blade sideways into its head which seemed to do the trick, because its eyes rolled back slightly and its arms and legs went limp. I knew Elsa only had hours left.. But I had to try and keep us alive to at least spend those last moments with her. I rolled us over again and sprung up to defend us with everything I had left. All at once they charged again, lunging from every direction. I slashed and stabbed as much as I could, trying to get a lucky hit to their heads, but I knew there were too many. There was no way I could take on ten of these super-infected by myself. A flash of blonde hair and Elsa had brought one down stabbing at its head and neck wildly, getting up to stand beside me yet again.

We were surrounded. The two we killed were just to test us. This was the final attack.

The leader of the pack screamed into the air, prompting the rest to join him in a head on charge. Three came at me one going for my right arm, another found after my legs and the last, going for my neck. I looked over at Elsa and she was running, so I decided to join her in an exodus of the field. They gained on us fast, but our tight cornering saved us from multiple lunge attacks. The jeep came into view, finally and as soon as we got to it, Elsa reached on the top and grabbed her M4, instantly bringing it to the ready, firing like a mad woman at the things head only a couple hundred yards away. She was missing them, left and right, firing wide. Her vision was already starting to get blurry. I went to my side, grabbing my SCAR-H off my side and took aim. I fired shot after shot, all going wide and hitting them in the shoulders or chests, or even missing them completely.

They were only about a hundred yards when I heard Elsa scream,"Run!" So I started running, slowing down expecting to see Elsa next to me, but when I spun around, she was at the jeep hunched over on her knees. I ran back to her just before the infected had reach the ten yard mark, she couldn't see, and could barely breath. I shoved her into the passenger seat of the jeep, shutting the door, ran over to my side, and got in and locked the doors. I fumbled with the keys, sliding them into the ignition and turning. The engine roared to life, only spluttering out a second later. I tried and retried the keys, even as I heard them starting to beat on the windows.

Elsa looked at me with her now bloodshot eyes and panting heavily, "Anna, I love you."

"You are not going anywhere so don't you even START talking like that... But I love you too, Elsa." She looked at me, even with the window banging ugly monsters that used to man, she looked at me.

"You'll always be my Anna." She lifted a weak hand up to rest on my cheek.

"Always and Forever, Els'. Im never going anywhere." I said, turning to turn the keys quickly back and forth. This time i was successful in damning the tears and kept my composure for her. Her door was ripped off and three or four pairs of hands drug her out of the jeep slamming her on the ground.

"NO! ELSA!," I screamed in vain. My door came off and more hands grabbed my wrists and ankles, dragging me out to where I was in front of Elsa . They threw me down, face planting on the ground. The taste of copper in my mouth and a throbbing pain in my forehead weren't helping the situation when two of the infected grabbed me and sat me up on my knees holding me in a position where I could see Elsa lying in front of me. Her head was bleeding and she was sitting in the same position I was, staring daggers at the infected behind me. I thought they would've ate us by now or at least bitten us. The alpha came forward, stepping in between us. He looked over at Elsa who had her head back thanks to one of the bastards holding her down by her hair. The alpha reached forward and ran his dirty fingers through Elsa's platinum blond bangs that hang to the sides of her face. He then went behind her and looked at me in the eyes, giving me an devilish grin. He reached around Elsa's head and grabbed her chin, whipping it back around with a faint *crack* of bone on bone from inside Elsa's neck.

He just looked at me and I looked down at Elsa. "No. No! NO! ELSA!" the Alpha clicked his tongue a few times and the ones that had been holding her started to rip her stomach open and they started eating her flesh,blood spewing everywhere around them. I wasn't watching. I was looking down, two rivers of tears running down my face. "Elsa, no..." I said sobbing uncontrollably.

The grip on my wrist and back tightened as the Alpha approached me. Another hand yanked my hair back, forcing me to face him. "Sister is dead. Now you die with her." He seamed to whisper quietly, much in contrast to what I thought. He stood up after kneeling before me smiling and staring into my eyes. He brought his dirty hand up and gripped my hair, pulling me further toward Elsa and slammed me down again next to her. I looked at her, tears blurring my vision at the sight of her now lifeless, beautiful eyes. I couldn't help but sob. "Elsa," I sobbed "I-i l-l-love you." He reached around my head grabbing onto my chin. With all the strength I had left, I screamed. "I LOVE YOU!"


I screamed as I quickly sat up, my eyes shot open in the process. My entire body was sweaty, but cold at the same time. A stand of hair hanging near my mouth stuck there by drool. I pulled it away and looked around the dimly lit room. A small cluster of three candles by the head of the mattress being the only light in the room besides the early midnight moon shining in through the windows. I remembered last night and looked beside me, checking to make sure Elsa was okay. "Perfect as an angel." I whispered to myself. The light of the candles gave Elsa's skin a glowing look and contrasted with the other side of her that was illuminated by the blue-ish white lighting of the moon. A pang of sadness hit me in the gut when I remembered the scene I had seen so many times unravel back into my mind again. She was still sleeping, so I laid down, my head going on her shoulder.

One of her arms came around my waist seconds afterwards. She mumbled silently in her sleep and I cuddled close to her after hearing a possessive, "My Anna." From the older girl. She was still asleep, and I wasn't going to leave her upon any circumstances. She looked so beautiful and peaceful. "Well, I'm not sleeping for a while..." I whispered into Elsa's shoulder. I breathed in and her lavender scent caught me off guard. I breathed in heavily, lavender dominating my senses now. I closed my eyes, focusing solely on it. Elsa was taking care of me even when she was unconscious. My body seemed to relax from the tense state i didn't know it was in. I nuzzled into Elsa's neck. "I'm never leaving you... I promise." I whispered as a i felt a single tear roll down my cheek and onto Elsa's smooth skin. I looked at her face for a short while, relishing in her presence. My eye lids started getting heavy. "Goodnight, my love." I whispered to her sleeping form. I drifted off into a dreamless, yet peaceful sleep soon after.

A/N Phew! That was a hard chapter to write.. How'd you guys like it? More 1st person chapters along the road, or no? Hope it was enough for you guys n gals to enjoy it.. As always, favorite if you liked it, follow if you wanna know when I update. Review and tell me what you thought, things you liked disliked, ideas, etc. Thanks!