Here is the next chapter. Sorry about the wait. I have been busy.

Chapter Nine- Gotta Go

Garth POV

I heard a lot of noise coming from the back. So I go to check it out. When I get back there I see Zane beating the hell out of Dec. "What the hell is going on in here?" I ask loudly. Zane looks at me. Then he looks back to Dec and drops him on the floor. I walk over to Dec and drag him out. Once I get back to the others they see Dec.

"What happened to him?" Flare asks. I look at him. "I guess he pissed Blake off." I say. (Garth and Yasmin are the only ones that know that 'Blake' is Zane.) "Wait...Blake did this?" Kate asks. I look at her and nod. I drop Dec on the floor and sit down. "So what happened that made Blake do this?" Eelon asks. I look at him confused and shrug.

Then Blake(Zane) and Yasmin come out. We all look at Blake. He looks at all of us. "Why are you all staring at me?" he asks. I look at him then look down at Dec. "Oh that. He crossed the line." he says. We all look at him confused. Then he looks at me then Yasmin. I nod then she nods. Then Blake looks down. "Ok before I tell you what happened there is something you should know." he says.

Then Eelon stands up. "What do we need to know before you, a stranger tells us what happened to one of our people?" he asks strongly. Blake looks at him. "Ok stop with the attitude. I am not a stranger to any of you." he says looking at Flare. "And Flare when you saw the bite marks what did you think?" he asks. Flare looks at him. "Well my first thought was you were Zane, but he died so I just thought you liked to bite yourself." he says.

Blake looks at him with a shocked face. "Who in the world bites themselves, besides crawlers?" he asks. They all shrug. "Flare. Your first thought was half correct. I am Zane, but am not dead." he says. They all just sit there in shock. "Holy cow! We all thought you were dead." they all say. "Ya I get that. So do you guys wanna know why I did that to Dec?" he asks pointing to the wounded Dec.

We all nod. Then he sits down with Yasmin next to him. "Alright here goes" he said.

Zane POV

(Flash Back)

Dec had just walked in. "Hey there beautiful." he says walking up to Yasmin and wrapping his arms around her.

When he does this my heart feels like it was just pulled out and stomped on. As I begin to walk out Yasmin elbows him in the rids. "Stay away from me! How many times do I have to tell you. I will never go out with you." she says.

As Yasmin catches up with me I see Dec grab her. I turn around and punch him right in the jaw. "She said leave her alone." I say. After he recovers from th shock of the punch he gets up in my face.

"What are you gonna do about it?" he asks. "If you don't get out of my face I'll show you." I warn. Then he goes over the line. He backs up and kisses Yasmin. I snapped when he did that.

I reached out and grabbed his neck and pull him back. "Don't ever do that again." I say angered. Then he buys him a one way ticket to hell. He kicks me in the balls. I stand up and slam him into the floor.

Then I pick him up by the neck and push him into the wall. As I rear my arm back to punch him I feel something grab my arm. I look to see Yasmin. She shakes her head no.

So I release him. I watch him get up. After he gets up he punches me and knocks me into Yasmin. I hear her whimper in pain. I look at Dec and grab the back of his head and slam his face into a table.

Then I pick him up and slam his face into my knee.

(End Flash Back)

"Wow. So Dec kissed you?" Kate asks. Yasmin looks at her and nods. "How was it?" she asked. Yasmin gives her a look of disgust. "Why would you ask that?" Yasmin asks in anger. Kate shrugs. "I just asked a question no need to get mad." she says. Yasmin stands up. I quickly grab her and push Kate back as she stands up.

"Yasmin calm down." I say looking at her. She just keeps looking at Kate. Then I look back just in time to see Kate smack me hard. Leaving 3 large gash marks. I stumble back holding my face. I see Humphrey grab Kate and Eelon grab Yasmin. After I recover from the shock of the slap I walk over to Yasmin and take her to the roof.

Once we got to the roof Yasmin looked at my face. "How bad is it?" I ask. She looks at me. "Well it's not good." she says. I look at her and smile. "What are you smiling about?" she asks. "Nothing. Was just thinking about us." I say. She smiles at this and kisses me. While we are kissing we hear Buck say, "There you two lovers are."

I break the kiss and look at him. "What do you want?" I ask slightly irritated. He looks at me. "Well uh... We need to leave." he says. I look at him. "Why do we have to leave?" I ask. He gives me a nervous look. "Well..." he says as the others come running up to the roof closing the door quickly behind them. "Crawlers...Inside the...Hotel we need to...Leave now." Garth pants out.

"What!? How did they get in?!" I ask in shock. "We don't know." Eelon says. "Where do we go?" I ask. They all shrug. Then Parsalece steps up. "We can go to the Grand Canyon. It will be easy to defend if we get attacked." she says. I nod. "But how do we get there? The semi is almost out of gas." I say. "Then we walk." Parsalece says.

We all nod and head down stairs careful not to draw the attention of the crawlers. After we have our weapons we head back to the roof to get ready. Once we are ready we climb down the ladder and begin walking.

That's the chapter. Thanks for reading. Again sorry about the wait.

Later. Mountainboy out.