Chapter 9 : Quest for the Ultimate Gift, part 4 : The Port.

After walking for about a hour and silently, and me and Maxwell keep looking for that gift, and we finally arrived at the port. A jet just fly past us and dropping some bombs into a group of zombies in the port. "The bombing run must have been started, we need to hurry." Lieutenant Frank said to us.

We tried to looking for a functional boat to escape, but most of the boat sank or hit by bombs from the jets, we saw a lots of body near a sinking boat. "Hmm, these bodies aren't the bodies of zombies, it's the body of the civilians. The military must think they're the zombies, we need to get out from here fast!" Lieutenant Frank said before running.

We followed him to keep looking for a boat, and keep dodging the bombs dropped by the military, a bomb hit a building and the rubble fall in the front of us, "This way." Lieutenant Frank said as he turned to an alley.

We stopped for a while to take a breath, "Hey, Alex, look!" Maxwell pointed to a green box with red ribbon placed near a white door.

Maxwell POV

I walked toward the box and picked it up, this must be the gift we're looking for, I put it to my backpack and walked back toward the group. "Listen, I remembered there's my boat not far from here, we could use it and escape from here." Lieutenant Frank explained and smiled.

"Follow me." He said to us.

We followed him to the exit of the alley, "Look, over there!" Sophia pointed, she was pointing to a white boat.

"Good, there's the boat I meant, now let's go." Lieutenant Frank said to us.

We cleared the way from the zombies by shooting at them, after moments of running, we arrived the white boat. It was a large white boat, the lower body was covered by dirt and clams, I read the ship's name. "S.S. Cheapskate? What kind of name is that?" I asked while holding my laugh because of the boat name.

"Don't judge by the name kid, this cheap old fella of mine has traveled everywhere in the last 10 years, and I'm still sure we can used it." Lieutenant Frank answered.

"This is yours? Wow, how old it is?" Alex asked.

"Yes kid, she's about 23 years old if you count from this year, anyway she's the fastest boat in 90's, my dad gave me it when I was 19." He smiled.

"And now, looks like we need to rise that bridge over there. It's blocking our way to open water." Sophia pointed to a bridge.

We make our way to the bridge and start the generator to rise the bridge, when Alex started it, it was so loud and attracted the zombies around the block. "They're attracted to...!" Alex said in a almost unheardable voice.

"They're attracted to what?" I asked while closing my ears.

"They are. Attracted. To. Loud noise!" He repeated in louder voice.

"We need to get back into that boat now!" Lieutenant Frank shouted.

We run to the boat while shooting the zombies that chasing us, after we arrived Lieutenant Frank quickly rushed to the boat's deck to start the engine, meanwhile we keep shooting the zombies to defend the boat. "Please baby, don't let me down." I heard the Lieutenant said that from the cabin.

After we almost run out of ammo, Lieutenant Frank manage to get the old boat engine started and we sailed away to the bridge, but the bridge suddenly stopped in halfway on rising. "We must restart the generator! Or we going to be trapped in here." Lieutenant Frank said to us.

After he docked the boat near the bridge, he got out from the deck, "Alright, who wants to go?" He asked.

"I'll go." Alex said as he walked away.

"Wait!" I grabbed Alex shoulder, "I'll come with you." I said to him.

"Great, now let's go." He smiled.

We jumped off the boat and running to the generator to restart it, "Maxwell, cover me while I restarted it." He said to me.

"On it." I answered.

I shoot some zombies that approached us, when I down to my last clip, Alex kick start the generator and it running once more. "Good, now let's get back to the boat." He said to me.

I shoved some zombies on my way back to the boat, a jet just flew past us and dropped a bomb, "Maxwell look out!" Alex tackled me to the ground. We both were hit by the bomb, I was thrown to the ground, my head were dizzy and my vision is blurry. My ears filled with a aching sound from the explosion, I rolled a few times in the ground. Once I stopped rolling, I saw Alex lying not far from me. Still conscious, he groaned in pain and clutching on of his legs.

I tried to got up and help him, but two arms grabbed me by the collar of my hoodie and I was lifted into the air. I struggled to get off from the grab, kicking my legs in the air. Once my vision returned to normal, I realized I was grabbed by a zombie. It growled at my face, showing me it's sharp teeth and spitting some saliva to my face. So this is it, looks like this is the end, of me. Eaten alive by a zombie in the port of Capital City. Well, I'm gonna miss everyone I ever know. I closed my eyes as the zombie opened it's mouth to bite me.

But, it never happen. It's head was shot a few times by someone, it dropped to the ground as well as I. Someone held out a hand to help me, I looked up and saw a black figure holding out a hand to help me. Once I got a clear look, well I could tell who it is, "Come on." Sophia smiled.

I grabbed her hand a she pulled me up, "Thanks, for saving me." I thanked her and shook her hands.

"Don't mention it. Now go help Alex, he's wounded pretty bad there." He pointed to Alex, who was busy shooting some zombies with his pistol while clutching his left leg.

"Alright."

I ran to Alex and bent down to help him, "You came at the right time Maxwell." He said to me.

"Yeah." I replied.

I grabbed his arms between his armpits and dragged his body to the boat while the others hold the zombies off, when I dragged him, I carefully inspected him silently. His left leg is wounded and has a large red cuts all over it, it was bleeding pretty badly and left some blood trail along the road.

"Hey Maxwell, over here!" I snapped out of my thought and turned to the voice, Sophia was waving her hands at me, she was already near the boat. She approached me and helped me dragging Alex to the boat. Once we reached the boat, we set Alex to sit on one of the crates on the front side of the boat. Lieutenant Frank quickly sped his boat away from the port, and to the open ocean.

"Phew, that was close." Alex wiped his forehead.

"Well, glad we could escape that port." Sophia commented.

I sat on the crates beside Alex, he turned and smiled to me, "It's a good thing we got that gift." He whispered to me.

"Yeah." I replied, "I wonder what mom and dad gave to me and that is so special."

"I dunno, must be very special." He replied, "Or powerful."

I chuckled, "And hey, thanks for saving me back on the port. Sorry if I made you hurt yourself because of me."

"It was nothing Maxwell." He gave me a low chuckle, "And sorry to ruined your clothes as well."

"No need to worry, I still have dozens of them back home." I quickly inspected him again, ruined right hand glove, the left sock and lower short is covered in blood, and the hoodie was a bit dirty.

"So, is it hurt?" I asked him.

"Well a little bit, but once it treated it will be fine."

'Wow, is he that strong to hold that such of pain? He must be lying.' I thought, "So, where are we going Captain?" Sophia asked to Lieutenant Frank at the deck.

"We're going to an evacuation center at a beach near a farm, there's gonna be some medic we could use to treat Alex." He answered.