Chapter 15

A man walked towards the house and pushed the door opened and looked around before smelling the air, "hmm… the Shifter was here not too long ago" he walked out and slammed the door before following his scent. 'I'll find you Shifter and when I do our time shall come'.

Aaron's POV

I sat in the back of the truck and held Anna in my arms as we drove down the road, everyone else but Adrian and I were sleep. I saw a gas station in the distance and got Adrian's attention before saying "we can get some gas there" he nodded and sped up a little, we reached it and we hopped out except for Elena. "I'll fill it up you can get some supplies from inside" I nodded and walked in and looked around, it was empty so I helped myself to the chips and drinks before grabbing a few bags and filling them up with food and drinks.

"Well well if it isn't the Shifter" I turned around and saw a tall man, he was African and had a scar going across his eyes which were red. "Who are you" "Subject Alpha" I glared at him and grabbed a fire hydrant and smashed it making a smoke cloud before running and jumping out the window, "ADRIAN LET'S GO NOW" I yelled putting the bags in the truck and grabbing my gun and shot at him as he walked out. We began moving but he sprinted after us before extending his tongue and wrapped it around my arm and pulled me out, I stood up but received a punch in the face before being picked up and slammed on his knee and I felt one of my ribs break.

"I will give you a choice you can help me infect the whole world and we'll rule it and your friends survive or I kill all of you, I'll find you and make your choice by then" he ran off and I shot my spiked hand out and stabbed him in the back and pulled him back and got to my feet, "the hell you think you're going big shot" I charged at him blade extended and slashed across his chest sending him flying. "You'll regret that" "hey big shot SHUT UP" I grabbed a tree and ripped it from the ground and threw it at him knocking him into the gas pumps and shot them making it explode, "burn in hell" I turned and got back in the truck and sat down and let my body regenerate.

ALL POV

"Damn I didn't expect Alpha to be able to find him so fast" Adrian said as he turned down another road while watching out for any special infected, "so what is he exactly" Aaron asked "an infected with all of the others abilities, power of a Tank, speed of a Witch, the vomit of a boomer, acid of a Spitter, the ability to control infected like when a Jockey jumps on your head and controls you, if an infected has it he has it but only has the original eight infected abilities not yours".

He nodded and felt his chest as his ribcage was fixed before looking up at the moon, "hey" "yeah" "do you ever think this whole thing was… the rapture" "what do you mean" "all the infected were the ones that were meant to go to heaven and God's just forgotten about the rest of us" "no seeing how I've seen children in the bases and last I checked the ones too young to tell right from wrong automatically go to heaven (AN: that last part is actually true) so I think that he's left a few good people down here to help others find their way to safety you know" he sighed and looked at Anna and stroked her hair and smiled. "Yeah I know besides as long as Anna's still with me I will never lose hope", they continued driving for a while before everyone woke up. "Hey are we almost there" Laura asked "not yet we should be approaching the safe house in a little bit" "there's a safe house" "yeah it's big and roomy with food and drinks but it's locked down only I along with Alex and Miguel have access to it", they passed around the foods and drinks to everyone and eventually stopped so Adrian could switch seats with Aaron and get some sleep.

He began driving again and looked at the open road before seeing something on the road, "the heck is that" he stopped and got out before walking towards it and nudged it with his foot. It shifted a little bit before looking at him and stared for a while before it let out a long groan and got up, it towered over him and it walked around him smelling his scent. "So you're the Shifter huh" "what are you" "an infected known as a contagion" "a what" "I can infect people but can also kill infected by injecting them with a deadly toxin trouble is it's my own blood so I have to be careful about how much I inject or I'll pass out from blood loss" "oh are you friendly or are you gonna try to kill me" "its pointless seeing how one of your characteristics is developing a cure for my toxins" he pulled down the scarf covering his mouth and opened his mouth revealing his long fangs then took his gloves off revealing long claws, "do you remember me" "no" "of course you don't Aaron tell me what do you know of your Father" "he was a good man nice caring kind and strong why" "I was within the same platoon as your Father we met when you were a little guy I believe you were ten and Anna wasn't born yet and even then you were almost the same as him and he told me if I ever found you to watch over you and Anna and give you this" he reached in his pocket and gave him a slip along with a necklace with a case on it. He opened it revealing a picture of him and his Father and he opened the slip and read the letter.

'Aaron I just want to tell you I'm glad I had a son like you and even though I won't be able to meet Anna tell her I love her, and do whatever needs to be done to protect her no matter what. Your Mother will probably become depressed with my death but don't worry about her just worry about Anna ok, and in case you don't know this man's name is Alan he's part of my platoon and I agreed to have him become your Godfather you'll like him I know you will. Love, Dad '.

He put the slip in his pocket and motioned Alan to the truck and he got in the driver's seat instead, "I'm driving" he sighed and hopped in the back .

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