Whoot Whoot! New chapter! Who's excited? I am!
Moving on, I got this chapter up fairly quickly (I mean compared to how long I thought it would take me) and I'm proud of myself. I hope you guys enjoy it but, again, not too much interesting stuff happens which is disappointing. Do not despair though! Because I promise that excitement is coming you're way very quickly (or however long it takes for me too get the next couple of chapters up), Yes indeedy. On another note, this is my 25th chapter! Round of applause for me not giving up or being lazy like I usually do with Fanfics! *clap clap*. And a round of applause for you lovely people who have put up with my fanfic for 25 chapters! On another, another note, I'm not quite sure when I will have the next chapter up. I've got an extreme amount of assignments due soon, along with my dad's birthday and a plethora of other parties to attend. Don't fret though! I'm looking forward to writing the next chapter so much that I'll probably be typing as they cut the cake!
In any case, I hope you enjoy this chapter!
"Smile" Feliciano called out, holding the camera in front of him.
Gilbert looked up from the shelves and raised an eyebrow "What's that?"
"A camera?"
"Yeah, but where'd you get it?" Gilbert asked, turning back to the shelves.
The Italian nation shrugged and smiled sheepishly "I found it on one of them, the ones behind the counter. Anyway, smile!"
Rolling his eyes slightly, he shoved some cans into his bag and turned to face Feliciano again, giving his biggest grin. "Beautiful!" Feli chimed as he took the photo.
"Can I see?"
"Nooo!~ You'll make me delete it." Feliciano cried, lifting the camera out of his reach.
"Fine, Fine. But you better not put it up on facebook" Gilbert replied.
Both of them laughed and Feliciano realised that they were finally alone and he could voice his questions. "Hey Gil, how's the- umm"
After a few moments he seemed to realise what Feliciano was asking and lifted up his shirt to show it "I'm not quite sure, I feel pretty bad but I haven't had any urges to eat you're brains yet. So I think we're okay" laughing awkwardly as he spoke..
Feli bent down to get a better look at the bite, it was repellent to say the least. Dark purple and green bruising surrounded the festering wound. Skin that Gilbert hadn't removed hung from the edges and the whole thing smelt putrid, so much so that Feliciano was surprised Lili or Lovino hadn't noticed. Though, it wasn't like the smell was anything new. He cringed when Gilbert laughed, it really didn't seem like a laughing matter to him but he pulled himself up and smiled anyway. Feliciano had decided that he wouldn't let him see how worried he was. "Okay but if it gets any worse y-"
"I've got the Petrol" Lili called as she and Lovino entered, interrupting the conversation.
Dumbstruck by the sudden change in atmosphere he stood still for a few moments before holding up the camera. Lili's eyes lit up and she ran over to him, "Where did you get that!"
"Found it."
"Does it work?" She asked reaching out to it. Feliciano nodded in return and she smiled even wider "Please can I take some photos? Please Feli! I'll give you all my beans for a whole week."
"Sure, as long as you don't break it and- " he handed it to her and moved to stand beside the other two "You have to take a picture of us!". Lili nodded eagerly holding the camera in front of her and Lovi groaned as he was pulled into a hug by his brother. Feliciano poked out his tongue, Gilbert gave another grin (and held two fingers up behind Lovino's head, which thankfully went unnoticed by the nation) and Lovino smiled a little because, after all, it wasn't everyday that you could get you're picture taken.
"Three, Two, One…" Lili held up her fingers for the counter, positioning the camera just right and "Say Apocalypse!" a bright flash filled the room briefly as she took the photo.
"Next time" Lovino whined "You should listen to me and fill up truck before it gets to empty so we don't have to walk so far every fucking day!"
"But Lovi it's so nice out here and you always used to like going for walks." Feliciano smiled at his brother, genuinely enjoying on the empty road, away from anything dead.
"That was before the world ended and I had places to be." he huffed in response.
Feliciano swung an arm around his brother, offering a half-hug "You shouldn't worry about Antonio to much. He'll be fine". He got a elbow to the ribs and glaring in return, and laughter from the other two.
"Don't worry Lovino. We aren't far from the truck." Gilbert said, stopping his laughs.
After about two minutes, Feliciano saw the familiar red of the truck poked through the tree line on the horizon but he noticed something else. Under the chatter around him, he could hear something odd. It wasn't another voice or the rumble of a car, it was too musical for that. He stopped walking and tried to focus on it. It wasn't singing either… humming. Someone was humming.
He looked up, past the others (who were telling him to hurry up) but not quite as for as the truck, and saw a figure amongst the trees. "The dead don't hum" he said quietly, signalling for them to be quiet and to follow him as he moved to the side of the road. Luckily, despite their confusion, they did what he said.
"The hell are you doing Feli?" Lovino asked as he crouched down next to him.
"There's someone out there"
"What do you mean?" Lili asked, peaking over the bush.
"I saw someone up ahead".
Gilbert went to stand up, but was pulled down quickly "What's the big deal, we'll just kill it."
"It's not a Rotter though. Their alive."
"Why would you say that?" Lili asked, still looking out to the road.
"I heard humming."
"Humming?" Gilbert questioned, "I can't here any".
"Well I did, can we just wait until they go past us?"
Lovino sighed and sat down " I suppose so, I need a rest anyway."
They waited for a while and no one came past, but Feliciano still refused to go back on the road and suggested they make their way to the truck through the bushes. Eventually they all gave in and agreed. One by one, Lovi, Lili and Gilbert began to hear the humming. It was a light, almost cheerful tune and from they pitch they could tell it was a lady humming, or possibly a child.
Warily they continued to walk through the bushes, avoiding rustling them as best they could. Coming around the corner they finally saw the source of the noise. A small heavily-clothed kid was skipping across the road, with a smile on his face and a gun in his hand. Even more alarming were the two figures in the distance that were by the truck.
"Fuck. What do we do?" Lovino asked looking between his group and the child.
"Shoot him" Gilbert said, reaching for his gun and earning a light slap from Lili.
"We can't shoot them, their a child."
"They'd shoot us though, If we went up there to the truck and were fighting with those two, They'd shoot us." Feliciano added, slightly perturbed that he'd talked himself into shooting a kid so easily.
Lili looked, wide-eyed, from Gilbert to Feliciano "You can't be serious."
Gilbert nodded as he pulled out his gun "We aren't going to let them take our truck and if we leave the kid when we go there, they'll come up and shoot one of you guys and I am not going to let that happen" he placed his hand on Lili's shoulder "I'm not gonna kill the kid though, just stop them from shooting us." She forced a smile, still visibly disturbed, and nodded.
Lovino and Lili both looked away, but Feliciano, despite his eyes being cringed almost all the way closed, found it impossible to look away. He heard Gilbert stop breathing as he steadied the gun and Feli braced himself for the noise. He looked over to the child, praying that their arm or leg wouldn't accidentally be stopped from working. Even in the apocalypse, that kid was two young to loose one.
Feliciano felt suddenly conflicted, his mind screamed for him to stop Gilbert. He had an overwhelming feeling that he was missing something, but that couldn't be right could it. It was just a kid, a kid with a gun, a gun that could put a bullet in any one of his friends. It was so bundled up in clothes that Feliciano couldn't even tell if the child was a boy or a girl, he supposed it didn't matter. The child spun around when it reached the edge of the road and Gilbert narrowed his eyes.
Abruptly, Feliciano's hand flew up and pushed the gun to face the ground, his body moving before he even realised why it had. "What the hell!" Gilbert growled at him, but Feli ignored him and stared at the child. It was indeed covered up, but besides a large pair of goggles it's face wasn't, and just above those goggles he could see an oh-so-familiar set of eyebrows that very few people in the world were cursed with.