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Chapter Ten- Ghost Town

Humphrey POV

As we are going through the forest of Utah I start to think that this is gonna be a long journey because we are near the northern edge of Utah and we are heading to the Grand Canyon. We all have weapons and we are traveling single file. The order of our line is Zane, Yasmin, Garth, Lilly, Me, Kate, Parsalece, then Buck.

"Hey, can we stop and rest." I hear Lilly say. Then Zane stops and looks back and says, "Sure. A rest wouldn't hurt." So we all sit down and drink some water. "So any idea where we are?" Kate asks. We all look at Zane. "Why are you looking at me? I have no idea. All I know is we are heading south." he says.

I look around then back at Zane. "How much longer are we gonna be walking?" I ask. He looks up at the sky then back at me. "About 2 more hours. That will leave us about an hour to set up a camp and some sort of defenses." he says. I nod and relax. All of us must have fallen asleep because when I wake up we have about an 2 hours left till dark.

I get up and wake Zane. "Hey we fell asleep." I say. Then he shoots straight up. "We what?!" he asks. I look at him. "We all fell asleep." I say again. He looks around then stands up and wakes everybody. "What time is it." Garth asks.

"I don't know, but this is camp for the night. We fell asleep for about an hour." Zane says. Garth nods. "So what are we gonna do for food?" Buck asks getting up. Zane looks around. "Um... I guess we need to hunt. Ok here is what we do. While some of us stay back to set up defenses the others will go hunt." Zane says. Zane, Me, Yasmin, Kate, and Flare stay behind to set up defenses while Garth, Lilly, Eelon, Buck, and Parsalece go hunt.

After we watch the hunting group leave we get to work with the defenses. Zane and I went to look for sticks and logs. After about half an hour of looking we return to camp with 6 logs and plenty of long strong sticks to sharpen and set up around our little perimeter. As we are doing this I hear a stick snap behind he and I whirl around.

When I whirl around I see a human that I don't recognize. "Who are you?" I ask. When I do this she tackles me and starts choking me. "Help..." I manage to rasp out. Then in a flash Zane is tackling the wolf off me and fighting like crazy. I sit up holding my neck. Kate comes over to me to make sure I'm ok. I nod then look at Zane and the other wolf fighting.

Then I see another un known wolf jump in the fight. I think Zane is in trouble. Then I see one of the wolves get thrown out of the fight and slammed into a rock. Then I hear a shout of agony. I look to see Zane pinned to the ground with a cut running across his chest. When I think it's over I see Zane lunge forward grabbing the other wolf's neck and jerking down.

The other wolf's neck was ripped open and was bleeding like crazy. I watch as Zane stands up, but is on the ground again as the second wolf that Zane had slammed into the rock gets up and attacks Zane. Zane must have been tired of fighting because he ended this one fast. He spun around grabbing the other wolf's head in his jaws and snapped his neck.

He stands up. There is blood dripping from his chest. "Are you ok?" I ask. He nods and walks past me. I watch him to make sure that he is ok. Then Yasmin and Flare come back with some wood for a fire. When Yasmin sees Zane she drops the wood and runs over to Zane. "Oh my gosh. What happened? Are you ok?" she asks in a panic.

"Yes I'm fine, and what happened is I was fighting those two." Zane says pointing at the 2 dead wolves. Yasmin nods and sits down next to him. About 30 minutes later The hunting group returns with 2 elk. Soon we are all eating to our delight. After we ate it was dark. So we all decided to go to bed. Late that night I awoke to footsteps. I looked around and saw Eelon laying down.

I decided to ask in the morning so I closed my eyes and fell asleep. As I slept I would hear things.

(The Next Morning)

Zane POV

I awoke the next morning after a very bad sleep last night. I kept waking up do to the pain in my chest from the cut I received in the fight yesterday. I was the first to wake up so I quietly git up and went to find water. After about 5 minutes of searching I found a small pond of crystal clear water. I filled up the 2 bottles I had, and decided I would bring the others here to fill theirs.

When I returned Garth was the only one up. "Why didn't you wake the others?" I ask. He looks at me. "I didn't wake them because when they saw you were gone they would have freaked." he said.

I nod and say, "Thanks." He looks around. "Ok now I'm gonna wake them." Garth says. I nod and walk over to Yasmin and wake her. "Hey, we gotta get moving." I say to her. She groans and rolls over. I laugh and get an evil thought. I get one of my waters and find a cup. After I do that I fill the cup and splash her with it.

She jumps up and shrieks. I try to stifle a laugh to make it not so obvious that it was me who did it, but I can't. I drop on the ground laughing. She looks at me, and I can see she's mad, but I can't help to laugh harder. She walks over to me and slaps me. I stop laughing and look at her. When I look at her she breaks out laughing.

I soon start laughing again. I look at the others and see they are laughing too. "Well... What a way to wake up huh." I say. After are laugh we grab our stuff and start out. As we walk Yasmin comes up to me and walks next to me leaning her head on my shoulder. I put my arm around her and realize she is still wet from earlier.

I smile thinking about it. Soon we walk into a big open field. I look around to see about 4 crawlers. We quickly, but not so quietly pick them off. Now I realize we drew the attention of other crawlers. It is a good thing them are slow. As I am thinking this we round a corner and see 3 crawlers running at us at a fast rate. I react fast and pull out my pistol quickly dispersing them.

I look at the others and see they are all shocked at how quickly those crawlers were. "How did they move so fast?" Kate asks. I shrug and look back just in time to see the jaws of a crawler snag my arm. I shoot it in the head and look at my arm. Garth walks up to me and looks at my arm. "Um... Are you gonna be ok?" he asks.

I look at him then at my arm. "Well, considering I survived it the last time I think so." I say. He nods and we continue on. Along the way we have to kill about 40 crawlers that get too close. After about an hour of walking we come to an old town. I look up at the sky to see its about an hour till dusk. I see a small building and head over to it. Once we are inside we check it out and it turns out to be safe.

As we set up I look at my arm and see the bite has turned purple. I forget about it and get back to work. After about 2 hours of working the sun has gone down and we settle in and talk. As we are talking we hear strange things. I get up and walk over to the boarded up window and see a crawler and something else.

It looks like a wolf, but I can see through it. I realize what it is. I look back at the group then sit down. "Guys we may be in trouble." I say. Eelon looks at me and asks, "What do you mean trouble?". I look at him then at the window. "Well... There are crawlers and... I think there are ghosts too." I say. When I say this They look at me in surprise.

"GHOSTS!" they all say in unison. I nod and tuck myself into a corner with Yasmin. "Well lets try not to think about it and get some sleep." I say. they all agree and do the same as me.

Later that night I wake up and see 4 ghosts in the room. My eyes widen and I look around to see everyone else is awake too. I look at Garth. He nods and I look at everyone else. They all nod too. When I am sure we all agree we all jump up and dash outside to see more ghosts and crawlers. "Son of a bitch!" I say. then we all take off to the end of town and to to woods.

Once we are there we hear howling. I look around to see shadows moving in the distance. We take off running as fast as we can. As the shadows get closer and closer, we run faster and faster. It was no use. As we sped up they sped up too. Soon two wolf things jumped in front of us. "Who are you and what are you doing in our woods?" one of them asks.

"No time for introductions. We are running from that town back there." I say. "Ok." the other one says. "Not to be rude, but what are you?" Lilly asks. The one on the right starts laughing. "We are wolf-crawler hybrids." the one on the left says. Our jaws just drop. "How?" I ask. The one on the right gets a strait face and looks at me.

"Well isn't it obvious. A crawler and wolf mated." he says. "Well... That's um..." I say. "Yes we know it's odd." the one on the left says. Then they notice the bites I have. "How did you get all of these bites?" one of them asks. I look at them. "Well we were attacked awhile back and I kinda got eaten alive." I say. They look at me in shock. "And you survived? How?" they ask. I shrug. Then the one on the right sees the new one.

"How did you get this?" he asks pointing at it. I look at him. "On the other side of town we were moving through that opening and some were running and after I killed them I turned around to talk to my friend and when I turned back towards the crawlers one of them bit me." I say. They nod. "Ok now may we know your names?" I ask. They nod and look at me. "I'm Dexter." the one on the right says. "And I'm Buzz, short for Buzzard." the one on the left says.

We tell them who we are and where we are going and they decide to come with us. "For now though lets go to our cave and get some rest." Buzz says.

Well there you go. Chapter 10. Hope you enjoyed.

Until next time. Have a great day.

Later. Mountainboy out.