As Felix jumped out of the vehicle he checked the surrounding area. It was the outskirt of the city, a few block like houses and a church nearby. On the other side of the street there were only trees. The team shaped into the usual formation that they learned on the base before. Felix unlocked the safe of his gun and switched on the flashlight of his gun. Roberta and Harry were standing on his sides.

He switched on the headphone on his head and listened to the short briefing.

"Okay people listen up! We got the intel that the ghouls are in one of these buildings so we'll split up into 4 men groups and search each building. After you finished come back out here. Have a safe flight people!"

With that each of the groups began running to one building. Felix had his friends with him and another guy named Bloke. They just got to know each other before starting this little trip.

The building they picked was pretty overrun, it's windows mostly smashed and the walls were full with graffities. They reached the metal door which was the main entrance. It had a big window on the other, but it wasn't clear to see through because the glass was distorted on purpose. Felix saw the light bulb in the hall hanging on a wire which was obviously it's power source. They were staying right next to the entrance on either side with Felix and Harry on one while Bloke and Roberta on the other. Roberta made eye contact with Felix then reached for the door knob and pushed the door open.

As soon as the door was open, Felix rushed in followed by Harry then the others. The hall was quite small with a concrete stairs that went up and down too. There were mailboxes on the wall. The floor was a bit slippery with blood and the walls weren't completely clean either. Felix checked the stairs heading downwards and saw a metal fence blocking the basement. "Good, one way less" thought he and moved forward.

There were a few flats on this floor, so they wanted to check them out first. Splitting to two-two groups, they checked them all but didn't found anything living in there. They were either completely abandoned or had a nasty looking body somewhere.

"Sir, we found clues that suggest that there are ghouls in this building." checked in Harry through his radio which was attached to his shoulder.

"Roger. Proceed with caution." came the answer, and they did as they were told. They moved cautiously through the building because they didn't want to draw attention as long as they could. However the ghouls were normally pretty slow and easy to deal with, it was easily overwhelming if there was a big amount of them. And that's wasn't enough. They were more than zombies you see in movies, those brainless puppets couldn't even figure out how to use anything. Ghouls were more intelligent in a sort of way since they could use tools they had when their lives ended.

Felix reached into his backpacks side-pocket and grabbed a C4. He placed it on the bottom side of the stairs heading upstairs. This was only a precaution they learned from other veteran marines. They told them that this tactic not once saved their lives when they had to fall back. The charge had to be activated via remote and so it would seal down the only exit of the building. Of course this wouldn't stop the ghouls completely since they can easily climb through the broken windows, but at least it slowed them down so that the squad could grab some air.

They moved up the stairs while covering each other. There was a window in the turn of the stairs and the street lamp's light crawled into the stairway and showed a bit of the next storey too. A few of the ghouls could be seen just standing around. Some of them had something in their hands like a magazine or a kitchen knife. What was in common between the ghouls is that they were all bloody and most of them had teared up clothes. They didn't notice the squad yet. The silence of the night was still undisturbed luckily, it looks like that they were the first group that met ghouls on this mission.

Felix signaled his teammates to kill them silently if possible. They nodded their heads and draw their knives that were resting on their thighs till now. The squad flowed into the hallway and slowly approached the monsters. Roberta was the first to strike a nice kill, and her ghoul dropped to the ground with a hole in it's head. The next victim was Harry's quickly followed by Felix's.

Bloke was just about to stab his own when they heard a gunshot. It came from one of the other houses but was loud enough to wake up the ghouls. All of them held their breaths in hope that the monster in front of Bloke isn't going to turn around but they weren't that lucky.

The ghouls turned around surprisingly fast. It roared loudly, but not for long because a knife cut its throat and fell to the ground too. Sadly the alarm already went out for the other monsters around, so there was no reason to remain silent anymore. They all pulled out their guns.

Howls and growls could be heard from upstairs and from the rooms around them too.

Roberta and Felix crouched facing the direction of the stairs. They didn't have to wait for long, they saw bodies walking down the stairs. All of them had a dead look in their eyes which was focused on the soldiers in front of them.

Felix opened fire with everybody else following him. The bullets rained upon the ghouls tearing their bodies apart. But this didn't stop the always since they didn't feel any pain they had to damage the bodies until they were unable to move. They learned that shooting the head is the most effective method, but nobody cared about that in the combat. They just wanted to send these monsters back to the pits of hell they crawled out of.

They shot them like there would be no tomorrow but after one died, there were always two more standing in it's place. It looked hopeless. There was just too many of them! Where were they coming from?!

"We have to get out from here!" shouted Felix to his comrades and began to walk towards the stairs heading down while maintaining the fire on the monsters so none of them would be able to break through. His team followed him with the same tactic.

Everything went well until a ghoul coming out from one of the flats got his hands on Bloke. Bloke couldn't react fast enough and because of this the ghoul was able to bite in his shoulder and neck. He screamed out in pain, and shot it with his pistol what he just drawed. He was bleeding really badly.

"Oh shit, oh shit..." he murmured as he tried to follow the others.

"Bloke!" yelled at him Harry when he saw what happened. He ran back to Bloke, and grabbed under his right arm and slightly lifted him to help him reach the stairs. "We got a wounded over here!"

Felix and Roberta were still shooting and changing clips alternately but they were running low on ammo and chance to survive this trip too.

Somehow they managed to run down downstairs back to the hall but they must not stop here. The ghouls were moving after them faster and faster as time went by.

"I'm going to detonate the C4!" shouted Felix to the others who were still shooting the monsters that peeked around the corner of the stairs. "Get the hell out of here!"

All of them ran to the entrance, well most of them since Bloke wasn't in a good shape. They knew he didn't have any chance surviving, he was infected. But the couldn't just leave him there like that.

Roberta ripped the doors open and they ran outside. The cold air hit them in the chest, they just realized how hot it was back there. After they walked a few meters away from the entrance Felix pressed the ignition button of the bomb. The whole building shaked and they heard the breaking of the concrete structure.

"Hah, thats for you, assholes.." said Bloke as he turned around. He froze when he saw the barrel of a pistol that was aimed right between his eyes.

"Sorry son, but you were bitten." was the only words their captain spoke and the he blew up the head of Bloke. His brain splattered on everybody near him including Felix, Harry, and even the captain himself.

AN: I hope you liked it, please leave a review if you did it really helps a lot. I think there is only one chapter left before our next big journey :)