Chapter 10: A Hunting Trip Gone Wrong

The van was driving down the road again, in early morning. The other day was pretty hectic and everybody in there seemed to be afraid of Davey now after what he did to Hogarth. Well everybody except Arnold, Danny, and Hogarth. They took crap from no one and this guy wasn't going to drag them down and intimidate them.

Again now it was early morning and Davey stopped outside of a gas station, with a path that led to the woods on the other side of the road. He decided they should check the gas station for gasoline and search the woods for food. Davey then went to the back of the van to call the boys.

"Come on dumbasses, time to get up."

The boys all woke up. Going outside was an irritating experience as the sun was not a very welcoming thing at this point in time.

"Fuck, that hurts." Dexter said as he felt his eyes burning from the contact to the sunlight.

"Get over it four eyes," Davey said, "Alright boys here's the deal. We're gonna need more gas if we're gonna spend a couple days on the road now. I'm going to go in there and get any supplies we need as well as gasoline for the truck. As for you guys I want you to get more experience in hunting, so go out to the woods and find any animals. If we run low on food we're gonna need extra rations."

"Okay, I guess that'll be fine." Tut said in reply.

All the other boys just responded with shrugs and simple words.

"Yeah," "sure," "uh-huh," "whatever."

The boys then went off into the woods, but just as they were about to go Hogarth was called back by Davey.

"Hey kid," he said.

"Yeah," Hogarth said quietly.

"I don't want you giving me any shit now, if you do this and go along with it, your life will be a lot easier with me, if not I'll make this the worst experience of your life."

"Whatever," Hogarth said under his breath.

"What'd you say," Davey snapped at him.

"I said okay, I'll do it," he responded quietly.

"Good, now go shoot up some rabbits."

Hogarth then went off, but not before giving the bird to Davey when he wasn't looking. Like he had said before, he wasn't going to be intimidated by some drunken bum.

Searching for food in the woods wasn't as big a challenge as it seemed. There were rabbits, birds, snakes, and all kinds of animals out here. The question to the boys was which one would be the best.

One rabbit came out of it's hole and was shot dead by Hogarth with his pistol. The boys ran over and collected the corpse gathering it in his bag.

"Nice shot," Arnold complimented, "I've never seen one straight in the eye before."

They had been out for a little while and had gathered a good amount of food for the time being. Now thouhg they decided to take a break and just talk.

"Well, I knew these would come in handy so far," Danny said as he pulled out a box of cigarrettes from his pocket along with a lighter, handing one to Arnold. "I stole these from Davey's personal stash along with some liquor," he said as he lit up the cigarette and took a smoke blowing a ring out of his mouth into Tut's face causing him to cough sporadically, "watch where you're blowing those things."

"Boy that's great stuff," Arnold said. "Uh, Hogarth, Dex, Tut, you guys wanna try one."

"I don't think those are good for you." Hogarth said reluctantly.

"Eh who cares, you smoke one it's no big deal." Danny said handing him one and lighting it. Hogarth took the cigarette into his mouth and inhaled some of it. He then tried to see if he could puff a smoke ring but failed and started coughing. Dexter came in and started patting him on the back, while the boys started laughing at him

"Oh dear God, you're terrible" Dexter said as he laughed along too. Hogarth responded by elbowing him.

"Anyway guys, we never really did talk about where we'll all going too now. I mean I'm sure you know that Hogarth and I are trying to find some people but what are your plans," Tut asked.

"Well I'm trying to find my girlfriend Sam, and my buddy Tucker. When our house fortress went down I saw them escape in a car, they have to be somewhere."

"Yeah and I'm just trying to find a good group to survive in now," Arnold said.

"You and me both," Dexter said.

"You know, I think that maybe some people nowadays might be going crazy over this whole thing. People do go insane and end up killing other people. So besides walkers we also have to look out for crazy people too." Hogarth stated firmly, "They could be just as much of a danger."

"You mean like Davey," Tut asked.

"Exactly," Hogarth said.

"I gotta admit that was pretty ballsy, standing up to him like that even after he punched you right in the face." Danny said, "that was pretty badass."

"Come on the dude's a bum Danny, there's no way he poses any real threat to us at all," Hogarth said.

"I don't know, he almost offed us on the road three days ago, so there has to be something to his madness." Dexter said.

Just as they were talking about this, they heard two walkerss come out from the woods.

"I'll take care of it," Danny said as he walked over and pulling out a switchblade buck knife, stabbed the walker right in the head as Hogarth took down the other one with his gun.

"We better get out of here," Arnold said, "in case more start coming."

"Good idea," Tut said. And they all left and went back to where the van was parked.

As they got back they heard yelling coming from outside the gas station where the van was parked. It sounded like an argument was going on so they hid behind the van and peeked their heads out to see what was happening

"Why the fuck were you doing in there."

"I just needed some gas."

"I don't give a shit you tresspass on us and you pay the price asshole."

"Please I just wanted some gas."

"Hold him down and get all of his weapons."

The boys looked from behind the van and saw Davey being thrown on the ground and kicked by a gang of guys. They had guns and knives in their pockets and looked as though the were about to kill Davey.

"We gotta help him," Arnold said quickly.

"HEY, LET HIM GO," Hogarth yelled.

The gang pulled out their guns and knives as the boys did the exact same aiming their guns at them.

"Who the fuck are you little pipsqueaks."

"Look he's with us, just let him go and we'll leave." Dexter told them

"No," another one of the gang members said, "he stole from us and now he has to pay the price."

"Just let him go and we'll negotiate something," Tut said, "we'll settle on a deal."

"Put your guns down or we'll kill him." one gangmember said as he put the gun to Davey's head

"Do what he says boys," Davey responded as he looked at the boys with real fear. Something they never expected him to have.

"Okay, we'll put them down." Danny said.

They then put their weapons on the ground and put their hands up in the air.

"Get inside the gas station." the member said. They did as they were told and followed the members into the gas station with their hands on their head.

Well this'll get pretty suspensful soon enough. I've actually got the next thing planned out well. For those who want Davey dead now, don't worry it's coming up soon.