HELLO THERE EVERYONE! No you aren't dreaming, it is a new chapter! Exciting stuff right? After nine days, (it think It's been nine days and I think that's the longest break I've had) I finally updated! The reason it took so long was partly because of school, but mainly because I just lost all my inspirations. But BAM! IT CAME BACK! I'm all inspired and junk! Also I just go a laptop, so I will be able to write at school, during maths and stuff, so chapters will hopefully get uploaded quicker. And this whole paragraph so far has been a whole lot of pointless nothing hasn't it? Well I would like to say thankyou to everyone who has read this far in my story. Because I know it's not amazing, I literally cannot express how happy it makes me, and I would love more constructive criticism if you have it!~ Jeeez, I rant a lot. I'm going to stop now or it will be longer than the rest of the chapter. So; enjoy!

"Be careful everyone" Ludwig warned as the group began to run into the forest "those things are out here, so we have two things to worry about". Gilbert gave concurrent grunt and pulled out his gun to be on the safe side, Feliciano and Lili followed him and pulled their own out.

"Where do we go?" Feli exclaimed, trying to ignore the shadows that lumbered closer to the group as they ran through the trees.

"There's a river up ahead and then a highway, we can get a car there. Hopefully. It's our best shot anyway"

"We left a car on the highway! It's how we got here, we can use that one" Lili said as the footsteps and voices behind them also began to close in.

"Perfect W-" A gunshot interrupted Ludwig's sentence "..shit. Shit!" Feliciano glanced behind him as more shots flew past the group, long enough for him to trip over a root in front of him and face-plant the ground. He let out a small cry which stopped the others. "Fuck! Feliciano!" Ludwig ran over and pulled Feliciano to his feet. Lili let out a scream when a Rotter wrapped it's arms around Ludwig's shoulders.

Less than two seconds later it had a hole in it's head and Gilbert kicked it off the man "Not my brother. Not fucking likely". Ludwig managed to give him a small smile of gratitude before a dangerously close bullet set them all off running again.

He glanced behind them again, not as long but long enough to see how close their attackers were, close enough to see the malice in their eyes. "How much further?" he asked voice cracking slightly, apparently more scared than he was letting himself believe.

"Not much" Ludwig said "But we need to speed up or we wont even get into a car"

"Better not be" Lili hissed as she pushed a Rotter of her and to the ground. If he hadn't been running for his life, surrounded by the undead with no idea if he would make it to the next day, Feliciano would have stopped and laughed at the unfitting harshness in her voice. Instead he just ran faster.

A face flashed in the shadows beside him but it wasn't slow and evadable, it was alive. The man grinned at Feliciano, as though this whole situation was the most hilarious thing he'd ever seen. A small yelp escaped his lips as the man pulled out a gun, he backed into a tree and his body froze up. This is it, after all of this, after everything, this is how I die. He watched as the trigger was pulled, he clenched his eyes shut and his breath hitched, waiting for the impact.

It took a few seconds for his brain to recognize it was still alive and notice the second gunshot, from behind him instead of towards him. His eyes opened and the man was on the floor behind him, that didn't make sense…where did the bullet go? He didn't think it was too important though, he wasn't dead and he just needed to keep running so he spun around. There's the bullet.. Gilbert was clutching Ludwig around his shoulder and Lili was shooting at the oncoming crowd.

He wanted to scream and stop and cry and break down and yell at the people, but Gilbert glared at him and the group began to run again, a lot slower this time as Ludwig tried to keep up. We're nations right? A bullet wont hurt him, it'll be fine? Yes that's right, it's still fine. But something nagged at him, and it only worsened when he noticed the whispers between the two Germanic nations "You've got to Gilbert.." he heard Ludwig say between the gunshots.

"No he doesn't" he growled, unsure what they were talking about but he knew from the tone of Ludwig's voice he didn't like it. They both looked over to him and the sadness on Gilberts face made Feliciano's stomach flip.

"You guys wont be able to get away with me hobbling like this." Ludwig breathed out through the pain

"You're a nation Ludwig! It's just a bullet, you'll be fine!"

"They are going to catch us Feli!" Gilbert said, trying to sound angry but his sadness still shone through

"And if they do, they'll feed us to those things, and it wont matter if were nations"

"No" Feliciano said angrily, latching a hand around Ludwig, "No. That's stupid and I wont let you. No."

"Make sure he find Romano. Make sure he's safe" Ludwig said to his brother.

"No" Feliciano repeated tightening his grip, before his middle three fingers bent and pain shot through his hand causing him to yelp and release it. Gilbert let go at the same time and Ludwig's body hit the ground roughly. He spun around and jumped at the body, but was pulled back and slung over gilberts shoulder. "GO BACK! GO BACK! LET ME GO! GO BACK!" He screamed repeatedly, kick and punching into Gilbert's sides as tears sprung from his eyes.

Feliciano's eyes found Ludwig's and they were different than he had ever seen them. They were full of sadness and fear, he couldn't bare to see him like that. The men reached the nation and Feliciano let out desperate shrill cry, searching for some miracle to come along and praying that Ludwig would just get up and run to them. He got one last look into the deep blue, before the attackers blocked it from view. Ludwig had smiled at him, his eyes had settled to acceptance of his fate, and he had called out to Feliciano " Don't let it stop you Smiling."

He dropped his head quickly when the man disappeared and cringed as a gunshot echoed amongst the trees, louder and more violent than any other that night. The hands around him tightened at the sound, and the body carrying him broke into a run. Feliciano was sure they'd covered enough ground to get away, but he wasn't sure that he wanted to anymore. His cries to go back had stopped but he continued to thrash violently at Gilbert, who took it in stride.

Feli wasn't quite sure how long they continued to run, it could have been ten minutes or ten hours but when he was finally lowered to the ground he curled up and sobbed into his knees.

"I don't think we can keep going, we need to stop. It's dark and those things are still around. We can get to the car tomorrow" Lili said softly, and he barely heard the words over his sobs.

"Ludwig.." Gilbert choked out "he said..there was a river, maybe we could find something there". Feliciano was lifted from the ground again, however more gently and carefully this time and they began to search for the river. It took about 3 minutes for the sound of rushing water to meet him and soon after that he was laid under a bridge.

"This isn't really safe for us all to sleep out here" Lili mumbled.

"It's the best we can find, and I think we all need to sleep. So we'll just have to risk it" Gilbert lay down beside Feliciano. "Night Feli. Night Lili"

There was a small scuff as Lili laid down next to them "Night guys."

Feliciano didn't sleep at all that night. He wondered if there was anyone who would stop when a good person would anymore. He wondered if there was anyone who was a good person anymore. He wondered if he was a good person anymore, or if he ever had been. He wondered if he would ever be able to smile again. He didn't think so.