Infected

Chapter 11: Anger

There was a knock on the door. I hesitated, then said,

"Come in."

Ryan came in. "Hiya, cain! Want an apple?" ryan asked, closing the door and sat on the bed with me. "N-no thanks, ryan." I said. Ryan shrugged and ate the apple. "Should I tell ryan? He's young...but I don't want him to tell ava either." I thought. I sighed, it's settle, I'm going to tell ryan, but tell him not to tell anyone else either. "Ryan." I said, looking at him. "Yes, cain?" ryan said, swallowing the last of the apple. "Raven...he's been...infected." I said, looking down. Ryan's ears went down and his smile faded. "Wh-what?" ryan said. "B-but...no...he's..."

"Listen, I want you to keep it from everyone else, especially for ian and rai."

"What, why?"

"Raven doesn't want his last moments to be full of sadness and despair...he want everyone to be happy until...it happens..."

"Full of pain and despair...I understand but, ian needs to KNOW cain!"

"You have no idea how much I want to tell ian and rai but, I don't want raven to be disappointed."

"Rai? I thought they hate each other. Remember the fight back at the prison?"

"To tell you the truth, raven and rai are best friends. If rai finds out raven is infected, he's going to lose it."

"Oh...I see..."

"Remember, don't tell anyone until it happens...not even ava."

"Ava? I thought you trust her. Don't you?"

"I do. I love her too, but like I said, raven doesn't want his last moments to be full of pain and despair."

Ryan looked down. "I get it...I won't tell anyone...for raven's sake..." ryan said, smiling at me. I smiled back and gave him a ruffle on the head. After that conversation was over, ryan didn't tell anyone about raven's bite. Good, but what scared me the most is the day raven turns, and how rai reacts.

The next morning...

I woke up first. I looked around and noticed that raven is gone. "Crap...crap..." I said, faintly looking around the room for him. I noticed he was still asleep on the couch. I sighed in relief. I got up and decided to go to the bathroom. When I finished doing my business, I looked in the mirror and noticed that someone was behind me. I quickly turned around and saw infected raven. How!? Raven was sleeping on the couch! Raven lunged at me and tried biting me. I started screaming and yelling,

"HELP! IAN! RAI! AVAAA!"

Then, raven bit my neck and hands,

"NOOO!"

*GASP!*

I woke up, drenched in sweat. A nightmare? A really bad nightmare? I wiped the sweat from my forehead. "Good morning, sleeping beauty." ian said, chaffing. "Morning..." I said, panting. "Are you okay dude?" lakey asked. I quickly nodded my head. Then, ava woke up. She yawned, cutely. "Morning, sis!" ryan said, hugging her. "Morning, where's raven?" ava said, looking around to notice that raven isn't on the couch. My eyes widen. "Raven is asleep in the other room. Want to go wake his lazy tail up and tell him that we need to move?" ian asked, packing the large black bag with water bottles and food, from the prison lakey got for us. "Sure!" ava said, getting up and walked to the room from the left. I nervously got up and felt a tug on my arm. I looked to my left and ryan asked me, whispering,

"It's time?"

Just before I could answer,

"RAVEN!? RAVEN!"

We all turned and ran to the bedroom raven was sleeping. Ian bust through the door, "Oh my god!" he yelled. I ran in and saw raven trying to bite ava. "AVA!" ryan and I yelled. Ian quickly grabbed a nearby chair and hit it at raven, nonstop. Finally,

*CRASH!*

With one final strike, ian finished infected raven off. Blood, painted the walls and windows. Rai began to hyperventilate. "No...No...ra-raven..." rai breathed heavily. "Are you alright?" I asked ava, worried. She was trembling in fear, she nodded her head as she grabbed onto me and burst into tears. I embraced her and turned to rai, who walked to raven's dead body. "When...how...why..." he said, falling to his knees and tears constantly falling. Lakey placed a hand on his shoulder and said, "It's alright, rai. He's in a better place..." he said. I looked down, god I feel awful! I took ava off of me and walked to rai. "Rai...there's something you should know..." I said, looking at ryan, who was looking back at me, worried. "Wh-whatever it is...safe it..." rai sobbed, covering his eyes. I hesitated, then I said,

"I...I knew about raven's bite wound."

*Silence*

"D-dude...what did you say?"

I heard lakey say. I took a deep breath and sighed,

"I knew about raven's bite. He told me yesterday. He told me to keep it from you guys because he didn't want his last moments to be full of pain and despair. You guys had no idea how much I wanted to tell you, but I didn't want raven to be disappoint-"

Suddenly, rai got up and punched me right in the face. I fell on the floor, wailing in pain as my nose started to sting. "You knew...you knew all this time and yet you didn't bother to TELL us!?" rai yelled, walking to me and grabbed my bandana. I gasped as he slammed me onto the wall, chocking me. "Rai! Let him go!" ian cried, running to loosen the grip around my neck. I continued to choke and gag. Lakey ran to help as shadow, ryan, and ava watched in horror. "Dude! Let him go! You're killing him!" lakey screamed. "NO! This fox kept something from us that we SHOULD'VE known since yesterday!" rai yelled, choking me harder. My feet were off the ground as my face started to turn blue, darker than my fur color. I placed my hands on rai's wrists.

"P...ple...please..."

"SHUT IT!"

Rai used his knees to kick me in the stomach. I coughed up blood as he threw me on the ground. Ian and lakey were trying to hold rai back, but the red and light red cat shook them off of him. I gasped for air and coughed. I weakly got up and rai grabbed my head and threw me onto the wall.

"URGH!"

I grunted loudly, landing on my stomach again. Rai started to walk to me. I started to crawl away, desperately, but lakey ran in front of him.

"RAI! KNOCK IT OFF!"

Lakey yelled, holding out his arms. "Out of the way, lakey. I need to teach that NOBODY a lesson." rai growled, claws popping out of his fingertips.

"Don't you think cain at least TRIED to prevent this from happening!? Beating the hell out of cain won't bring raven back! If raven was alive right now, do you think he'd actually WANT you to do this to cain!? He helped us escaped for god's sake!"

Lakey yelled. Rai calmed down a little. I still was crawling away, but soon turned back around. I was panting, blood dripping from my nose. I tried so hard not to cry, I was also trembling. Rai's claws went back into his fingertips as he turned to me. I recoiled, but he turned away. Ava and ryan helped me up, "Are you alright?" ava asked. I didn't say anything, nor did I say a word when we drove out of the unwanted house, leaving raven there.