Sorry for the short chapter guys, I haven't had a lot of time to write this week…
"It's your turn to go get dinner!" I shouted back at Sean, my anger boiling inside.
"No! I swear to god I did it last time, it's your turn." Sean screamed at me.
"You guys have been arguing forever! Just someone goes get dinner!" Sid interrupted.
Sean and I agreed to both go, the more the merrier… Sean and I headed out, prepared for whatever this damned city could throw at us. We soon left the building in search of food. We left the building as quietly as we could so we would not alert any of those Walkers.
We were walking along, tension high. We couldn't find anything. We were about to turn around and head back on an empty stomach, but Sean blurted, "Hey… Did you hear that?" My heart skipped a beat as we turned to see another Walker. My head was zooming, I didn't know what to do other than reaching for my gun. I grabbed my Colt and aimed for the head. Sean stopped me and he sliced the creature's head in half with one swift movement. The creature's head was in two places, one on the body one the ground. I stumbled for words, "No problem." Sean said with a smirk. As we turned to run back to camp, we were greeted by a head count of 7 more of those things. Sean and I knew we couldn't hold off 7 of these things. We couldn't shoot them because we didn't want more, so that left us with one option, to run. We sprinted away at top speed. But faced with a choice. Stay together and keep the horde together, or split up and separate the horde. We split up at a fork in the road. Sean went on the right side, I went to the left side of the fork. The spring trees that were planted in the sidewalk were in the way. I tripped on a root that had broken through the sidewalk and came rocketing down to the pavement and landed on my gun. It made a sound that alerted the creatures. I panicked and got up as fast as I could and ran to an old dumpster and hid behind it, hoping the smell would throw them off. I noticed that they relied heavily on their sense of smell.
I thought the creatures had passed, but distracted in thought, I didn't notice that a few that was hiding in the shadows as if they were intelligent. I passed by still distracted and was pounced. I felt my knee bend wrong and I felt it pop, a sharp pain was noticeable from left knee. I looked and was greeted by the horrible roar of the creature 5 inches away from my face. Instinct kicked in and I jabbed the thing in the liver, shoving it off balance. I reached for my Colt fast and unloaded a clip into its head. I dropped the clip and pulled a combat knife. Jumping on the other one I stabbed it through the eye, causing a deafening banshee scream. I was pummeled by another one and it tore a gaping hole in my thigh, I looked down and I could see my bone. I let out a scream of pain, and fear.
I lay there, accepting my imminent death. When one of the creatures came and leaned over me I saw in what felt like slow motion, a bullet zooming through the things head.
"Thank me later!" Sean said in a joking manner.
I looked up covered in the things blood and slowly got up, thanking Sean.
"Thanks..." I said graciously.
"No problem, we gotta get back. Sun is setting…" Sean replied.
We started to run, but I couldn't my knee and my thigh was too badly injured. Sean had to run back while acting as my support. We made it to the Nutricorp building before night time. When we got back to the building Sid was asleep, so we decided to go to sleep too.
The night time was the worst I couldn't sleep at all, the pain coming from my knee was keeping me up. It took me almost 5 hours but I finally slept.
My dream was the worst. The loud sound of helicopter blades rotating came to stop and were replaced by the sound an explosion. I was on the helicopter for some reason, and all of a sudden I heard a zzt. I asked Sid what that was but he said it was nothing to worry about. Then all of a sudden the helicopter rotor stopped, the blades flew off and we were free falling, spiraling out of control just like the heli that we came here in. Smoke filled the aircraft cabin and we were completely blinded. While falling, I felt my body fly out of the helicopter and right before the blade flew off, my left arm, and parts of my chest were ripped off. We landed explosively. I only heard the screams of pain from Sid and then they stopped, silence. I lay there, almost passed out, then everything went black. In what seemed like an eternity, visuals came back. But I didn't awake. I was laying in the road next to a crashed helicopter, in a pool of my own blood. I slowly shifted my head to the right and I saw my left arm. My arm was lying on the ground in a puddle of blood. I tried to call for help but I couldn't. I mouthed the words but sound wouldn't come out of my mouth. I only heard the gunfire from Sean's revolver. There were two Walkers marching right to me. Sean tried to drop them all but he didn't make it in time. More and more came, like a never ending horde. I felt my limp body being grabbed at, then a pain resonating from the absences of my left arm took over my thoughts. I could only focus on that. With one of his last bullets, Sean shot a police officer with an M4 strapped on his back. After killing him, Sean took the gun and dropped the rest of the Walkers. He looked over to me and a face of sadness and regret fell over him. He kneeled down, and said, "I-I'm sorry, buddy, you've been bit." Tears began to roll down his face. Before I could stop him, he pulled the trigger. A flash of light awoke me.
"What the hell was that?!" I shouted as I awoke, then remembering the pain from my leg.
"What was what?" Sean asked calmly.
"I just had the strangest dream..." I said, sitting up. I told them both what happened as I got up to take some antibiotics and painkillers. After I told them we had breakfast, which was an orange. It wasn't much but it was enough to keep me going. When I was ready to go scavenging I saw that there was a bunch of Walkers at the door trying to get in. We all got up to go out we took our knives and opened the door we all killed the creatures one by one. Then we all left to go searching.
"So why exactly did Sean shoot you in your dream?" Sid asked.
"He said it was because I was bitten, I think that's how you get infected," I told them.
"Maybe, but I don't want to test it out. And it was just a dream y'know." Sid said jokingly.
"Anyways… While you were out napping, Sid and I came up with a plan for what we are doing now." Sean said.
"I call it my 'What now?' Plan." Sid interrupted.
"Ok? So what are we gonna do now?" I asked.
"Well, Sid and I decided that since there aren't many military supplies in this city, we think we should head to Ari City Military Base," Sean told me.
"The place we were going to? Y'Know… Before the crash..." I asked
"Yeah, that place…" Sid told me.
"We can't! What about the General? What about Grayson and Barbara?" I shouted.
"Ian, look… There is no way the General survived the crash, and if Grayson or Barbara survived this long I think they can last a little longer!" Sean replied.
"How do we even know they're still alive? The notebook was covered in blood that could mean they're dead." Sid said.
"How do we know that it could be the creature's blood?" Sean argued.
"Didn't you read it! It was the guy's blood!" I said, angry.
"Y'Know what? I'm leaving! If you guys are gonna borderline murder 3 people, I don't want to be in this group."
"Ian wai-" Sean called. But I was already walking out the door. They ran after me but I was long gone.