(Adam's POV)
As I woke up, I found myself in the hunter's arms. He's been taking care of me like my brother did after our parents died in the accident ten years ago, span style="font-style: italic;" /spanwas five when it happened and he was ten. If he was still around, he would've had a twenty in december. I was glad that this hunter was here, he felt like family in a weird and odd way, like my brother lived in him. He was sleeping as well, so I stayed with him till he woke up, but I fell asleep again in his arms, then he woke me up with a purr in my ear. As I woke up then he licked my cheek we packed up the medical supplies and food, and headed out to find a safe house. But as I was packing my bag back up he pounced on me and I hit the ground with a thud. I cursed at him then I realize we were being attacked by other infected outside. He put his claw like hand over my mouth, and escorted me out the back. He knew I was in no shape to run so he slung me over his shoulder and started to run towards the forest, he stopped when we got about four meters in. He urged me to get on his back, I was confused and hesitated, when I showed a face of confusion he growled at me, then I realized the infection were chasing after us. I got onto his back, and felt him tense up. In the next minute or so we ended up halfway in the forest and leaping from tree to tree. I could feel the power of his legs before every jump. He stopped at the roof of another market in town, to make sure my arm is better, it started bleeding again, as generous as he was, he cleaned my wound again. But after we switched out the bandages, I took his hood off and stared into his eyes. I could see my brother in him, and something else. Was it fear? Was it the infection inside of him? I didn't know but he was concerned, and so was I, because I didn't expect much reaction from him. After switching the bandages I felt a little faint, was it because of the blood loss, fatigue, or exhaustion? He was still part human, I knew that for sure. The only words that he knew were: run, hide, quiet, and my name. I was surprised to see this infected take care of me and fend off others while i went to go get more medical supplies, and once we ran into serious trouble, he'd distract it while I go hide. After he got rid of it he'd managed to give me a "heart attack" everytime I move from my spot. /p
A couple hours had past and we were both hungry, he wanted to go out on his own to find some food, but he also didn't want to leave me alone. So It was decided that I would tag along with him to watch his back. I forget sometimes how tall he was, and muscular as well. At the store I managed to kill a couple of commons while he killed the rest of them. Inside I round a ruler and a meter stick. I urged him to stand up tall and put his back against the wall. From the ground up, he easily surpassed 6'8". He was careful around my arm, when it was time to clean it. At the store I found a pair of dog tags around his neck. I moved my hand slowly to grab them. He didn't know what I was doing so he let out a little warning growl. So I told him "I just want to see the dog tags, because my brother also had a pair. Since he was in the military." After the hunter cleaned my arm, he allowed me to grab the dog tags from his neck. He took his hood off, everytime I see him without it I see bit of my brother in him. The chiseled jaw, the brownish green eyes, and the short dark brown hair. Even though that he prefers his hood on, he will sometimes take his hood off for me, I don't know why but everytime I see him I fell safe near him, because I know he's there for me. After a few minutes looking at his face, I looked down to see the dogs tags, he put the flashlight onto the tags, then my heart stopped. The dog tags belonged to my brother Jay. Tears started to form in my eyes, I looked at the hunter and said "Jay? Is it truly you? I-I thought I lost you three weeks ago to the other hunter." He put his claw like hand on my face to wipe away the tears, "The last I cried was when you were gone and I was alone in the woods, trying to kill off any infection that came near me." After he wiped the tears from my face I gave hime the tags back and hugged him as tight as I could. The words barely escaped my mouth,"I won't let you leave me even if it kills me." Jay look at me and covered my eyes, He grabbed my hands and left them hanging out like I was begging for something. I felt some plastic like thing in my hand, It was also squishy as well. He grunted to tree and uncovered my eyes. I look at my hands and saw Zebra Cakes, he knew they were my favorite. So I opened it up and gave him one of the two cakes. We sat there for about an hour and I said to him,"Do you think there's others like me, survivors? Out there in the world?" Jay nodded to try to keep me calm. I went to go find some blankets for us tonight. As I turned the corner, I felt a slimy wet like long object around my leg. I knew It was a smoker, I went to go grab my katana from my back, when I had the handle in my hands it shot out more tongues to wrap around me. Around my torso, My arm and leg, its grip tightened I tried to make a sound to warn Jay but It was no use, it had already wrapped another tongue around my neck, it started to pull me closer, but I couldn't fight it off. I thought to myself the smell, shouldn't've gave it away? As the tongues were constricting me I grabbed the loudest thing in the isle. A pan would easily get Jay's attention, but I could barely reach it, I turned to one of the tongues that had my arm, and bit down as hard as I could. It made a screech, then released my arm. Moments after grabbing the pan, the scent of smoke from the smoker increase dramatically. Jay did it again saving my ass. As usual he picked my up and headed towards our sleeping spot, I knew he was still human, on the inside. But the outside was hunterfied. The saying goes, never judge a book by it's cover, but in this case don't judge a zombie by its looks. Unless it's trying to make a three course meal out of you then you can judge.
(Jay's POV)
As I was holding Adam tight in in my arms, I could feel him shiver to the coldness, so I went to get a blanket to cover him up. I didn't know what he was thinking most of the times but I could tell it was something, that put him off the edge a bit. Was it when the epidemic first started when he was just turning fifteen, when our parents died, or when I died? I don't know anymore this mess has put the both of us off the edge. To be honest I don't think I would be able to help myself if I go complete, hunter on him and accidently kill him. But I'm more worried about the other infected getting to him, when I'm not there to save him. I should get some sleep if we are going to continue our journey out of this shithole. As I started to drift off I could see him running, running from what I would soon become. I hope this doesn't happen, I don't want to be the one who killed Adam, I wanted him to die peacefully, after having a family and all that. But in this world of madness I don't think any of us would survive that long. I wasn't fully asleep yet and I could feel him moving atop of me, I guess he was finding a better and more comfortable spot to lay down. I do kinda envy him, he may be only fifteen but he can kick some ass when threatened. Before I was a hunter, Adam and I went to a safe house, when a horde of common surrounded us. He managed to kill of half of them, I guess you could say and adrenaline rush?
While he fell asleep, again, I woke up due to the sunlight, the sight of it was blinding. So I decided to wake him up as well by licking his cheek of course. We both agreed to pack up and head to town for some supplies. As Adam was packing his belongings, I could hear another smoker and a spitter nearby. Adam was unaware of their presence, I guess I have better hear and better sense of smell, but my eyesight was not doing so well. As they come to view, I pounced on my little, and knowing him, a curse comes out. Before he could say another word, I put my hand over his mouth, luckily i got him to shut up for once, and the I lead him to the back exit, I covered his eyes so he doesn't see the mess I've made earlier. I picked him up and slung him over my shoulder, I knew that the gashed I caused wounded him severely, the amount of blood he's lost and not forgetting that fact that we both hadn't eaten anything for awhile. I took him and ran into the forest where we had some cover. I put him down and tried to get on my back, I couldn't blame him for being hesitant. I am one of them anyway, they were coming closer to us. I gave a warning growl as Adam turned around the smoker tried grabbing him again like the last one but missed. He finally got on my back, he held on tight, as i tensed up I looked for a landing spot. There wasn't anytime to look so I jumped, luckily we landed on one of the higher tree branches. In mere minutes I managed to get the two of us away from the other ones. The final jump landed us to the top of another market. Adam fell off of me, feeling a bit faint Adam managed to stay awake. It was time to change his bandages, to my findings, I was starting to get concerned about his arm. His arm was getting infected by what I left behind by saying hi. Dark lines were spreading slowly, I quickly cleaned it up a bit more and switched out the bandages. After I cleaned up his gash, we headed into the market to look for some more supplies. Hopefully there was some antibiotics in there. My only job for now was to keep him alive for as long as I possibly can. And also fending off the others from him. After I turned I hoped that would find Adam and get him out of this place.
On the inside of the market, we found quite a few commons hear, so Adam and I went to work. He only managed to kill a few due to his arm, me on the other hand, took care of the rest. After the last one was killed, we both searched around for some supplies, to our luck we both found some food and water, antibiotics and blankets. Later on that night, Adam went to go look for some more blankets, I nodded and then dozed off into a small slumber, I was aware of my surroundings, but had nothing to rear at the moment. I heard some commotion, and thought to go check it out but Adam did say he was going to go look for some more things, the smell of smoke did concern me a bit but, he probably made a small fire to warm up near by. A few minutes passed, and heard a noise, made by the well known smoker.I sprang up to go find him, found the smoker, I pounced on it and it did thankfully loosened his grip on Adam, it took a few swipes to knock it head off, but when it stop squirming I quickly ran to Adam to see the damage. He was barely breathing, and unconscious, I picked him up and brought him back to the place where we set up our sleeping area. God what is with the smokers and my brother, doesn't those perverts know anything else besides tonguing their prey?