Infected
Chapter 25: Remedy
The next morning, Clarity and I walked out of the abandoned house and walked back to hers. We fought some infected along the way. Clarity promised me that she'll teach me how to use a gun but honestly, I didn't want to know. "Hey cain?" clarity said to me. "Yeah?" I replied.
"Wanna hear a joke?"
"Why?"
"Because it's awkward when it's quiet."
"Fine...only one."
"How do porcupines kiss each other?"
"Hmm...how?"
"Very Carefully."
"...Hehe...Haha...that's actually pretty funny."
Finally, clarity and I made it back. He opened the gate for us and we went inside. "Clarity! Cain! You made it back!" leo said, hugging his cousin. Clarity hugged the brown bear back and we went inside to unpack the food that was in our bags. Clarity took out he two guns that were in her bag and helped me unpack. "You two seem close. What happened on the trip?" leo asked. Clarity and I looked at one another and shook or heads. "Nope! Nothing happened!" I quickly said, grinning. "Yep! Absolutely nothing!" clarity added. Leo picked up one of the guns and replied, "You didn't use any ammo?" Clarity walked from me and started to stuff the fridge with water. "Nope! We were lucky when those guys didn't take our bags." she replied. I started to put my jacket down when suddenly-
*BANG!*
Startled, I turned around and my heart sunk. Leo had shot Clarity. Clarity looked in shock as her arm was bleeding heavily. She took her left arm, fell to her knees, and fell on the ground. "CLARITY!" I screamed from the top of my lungs. I looked at leo, who smirked evilly and said to me, pointing the gun at me and said,
"Looks like I don't need you two anymore."
I quickly ducked as leo fired. It missed, I didn't know how many bullets were inside of the gun, but I had to dodge as many as I could. "You can't dodge these bullet's forever, cain!" leo said, shooting at my tail. I moved it and I slipped on the floor. I turned around an leo stepped on my tail to keep me from moving. I yelped as the gun was met with my face. I froze, staring into Leo's dark eyes, pleading for him not to kill me. "Why? Leo? Why?" I asked, my ears flattening against my head. "Because," leo grinned, putting his finger on the trigger and answered,
"The world is full of thieves and liars. You can't trust anyone. Because of you and clarity stealing food from those wolves, I don't need to worry about stealing anymore stuff. As soon as I kill you, I'll make sure your friends won't see your corpse in this house ever again."
I shut my eyes, waiting for the inevitable...
*Click!*
I opened my eyes and leo looked at his gun, confused. Is it empty? I looked at clarity's gun that was lying on the table. Leo noticed clarity's gun. We looked at each other, and I kicked Leo's leg off of my tail. He didn't care as he lunged for clarity's gun. I tackled him to the wall and punched his face. He did the same to me, but I dodged his blow. Leo used his leg to kick me off of him and I fell beside clarity. Leo grabbed Clarity's gun and aimed at me. I ducked once more and missed. I made my way to the exit of the kitchen, but Leo shot near my foot. I fell down, searching for any injuries on my foot. I was going to get up until leo kicked my stomach, making me fall down again. "AGH!" I grunted and held my stomach. I slowly got up again until...
*BANG!*
"KKKKKKKYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Leo aimed at my tail and shot it. I screamed in pain, holding my delicate tail with my hand. Tears welled up as leo aimed for my head. "Goodbye Cain." leo growled.
*BANG!*
I flinched, leo didn't shoot me. The bang came from behind him. His shoulder was leaking blood as he fell on the floor. I gasped as I saw Clarity holding another gun. She panted, dropping the gun and plopped onto the ground. "Cl-clarity!" I cried, getting up and ran to the light orange fox. I put her in my arms and shook her. "Clarity! Please! Clair!" I pleaded, moving her dyed blue hair strand out of her face. "Clarity..." I whimpered. Then, clarity coughed. She opened her eyes and looked at me with her brown eyes. "Ca...cain...?" she weakly said. I placed my forehead onto hers. "Oh clarity! Clarity..." I whimpered, tears were getting ready to fall out of my eyes. There was something I had to, I remembered a first aid kit inside of one of the bags. I picked up clarity and placed her on the couch. I started to call for Aizen. "AIZEN! Aizen! I need your help!" I looked for aizen, but I couldn't find him. I couldn't find Flare either. Then, I saw angel walking out of the room, rubbing his eye. He didn't have his blue winter cap on, allowing me to see his spiky brunette hair. "Angel!" I called him. Angel's ears perked up. I walked to him and asked, "Where's Aizen?" "He's...*Yawn* with flarey. They went to look for more survivors for Mr. Leo while he...waited for you guys to come back." angel answered, with his quiet voice. "Oh no...nononononono..." I said. Angel looked at me confused. I ran downstairs and grabbed the first aid kit from the kitchen. Slowly and carefully, I wrapped the bandage around clarity's arm wound. She whimpered in pain, opening her brown eyes. "Sorry, Clair." I said to her. I looked at the window, seeing some infected roaming around. Then, "C-cain..." clarity said to me, placing her hand on mine. I looked at her and she pointed upstairs. "Pa...in...killers...are inside...the closet." she said. Pain killers? Closet? I quickly ran upstairs and into the closet. I saw a bag and opened it. I saw bottles of pain killers inside. I whistled,
"Wow. You guys have everything."
I went downstairs and took a bottle of water from the kitchen. The first thing I noticed was Leo's body. It was gone. I desperately searched for him, but that didn't matter. I walked back to clarity, who started moaning in pain. I took out one pill and gave it to her. After she took it, she sighed and hid her face from me. "I'm really sorry, clair. Wasn't leo your only fa-" I said to her. "Don't bring it up...please." she said, facing me with her tired brown eyes. I placed my hand on her face, wiping blood and tears off her face. Clarity stayed quiet for a moment. I could tell she had something to tell me, but was hesitating. "What is it, clarity?" I asked her. "Cain...am I..." clarity started to say. "Am I going to turn into an infected?" I looked down and put both of my hands onto one of hers. "No...not on my watch. I won't let you turn into one of those things." I replied to her, kissing her forehead. Clarity smiled, shutting her eyes to sleep. The only thing that bothered me was leo suddenly disappearing when clarity shot him in the shoulder. I sighed, sitting down on the couch as I waited for Aizen and Flare to come back. Finally, an hour later, a knock came on the door. I answered it and Aizen and flare were there. "Oh! You're back! Did you find food or...hey, what's wrong?" aizen asked. I noticed aizen and flare were holding hands. I sighed and explained what happened ever since clarity and I arrived home.
Aizen and Flare found a survivors. One is Danny. He's a blue bear and wore a white shirt. He's also an adult, thank god, along with the other. She's also an adult, a pink bear named Diana. They're both husband and wife and got married in time before this all started. As I finished the explanation, aizen was shocked. "He's gone!? *GASP!* Did he take angel!?" aizen cried. Then, angel came down the steps. "Bro!" angel cried, running to aizen and gave him a huge hug. "I'm fine! What about Blaze?" aizen replied, petting his spiky hair. "Sleeping." angel said. Then, Dan noticed clarity lying on the couch. "Who's she?" he asked. "Clarity!? Oh god, she's been shot, right?" aizen asked me. I slowly nodded my head. "Shot? Where?" Diana asked. "Arm. Left." I answered. Diana faced Dan and nodded. Dan walked to me and said,
"I'm a doctor...well, used to. I can fix her up. It's the least I can do to repay aizen and flare for finding us."
My eyes was filled with hope. A wide smile appeared on my face. "Th-thank you!"