Hey everybody im back wanted to going right away again. Hope you're liking it so far.

Josh

He was glad to see that at the very least all though things had fallen to shit in the entire city, people were still resisting and surviving. The people of Kijuju as far as Josh had seen had been unable to do that much. How could they resist? Many of them didn't have guns only a machete at most and if they were to go up against a Licker or that B.O.W. that had killed all of Josh's team, there would have been no way they'd have lived. The only survivors in Kijuju it seemed were the ones outside the military checkpoint gates where Chris and Sheva had met.

He had about five magazines left for the Desert Eagle, thirty six rounds in all aside from the four rounds he still had in the magnum after putting down a few more zombies. When they had been deployed to NYC they'd all had a lot of ammunition but josh knew all too well just how fast rounds could go. He was headed for the Empire State Building still. Just then a few people came towards him. A Caucasian man, with blonde hair and brown eyes wearing a Yankees t shirt and black jeans plus workboots, a woman of Nicaraguan American descent with dark brown hair, golden brown skin and her hair in pigtails, wearing a green blouse and black pants plus steel toed boots, and a Japanese American man with a punk rock haircut that was orange in color wearing a black leather jacket over a white wife beater and leather pants. The first guy carried an M-16, the woman carried a shotgun and the man in leather carried an H&K MP7.

The leather clad man asked, "Hey we saw what you did against that...thing. Do you mind if we follow you to the Empire State Building ? We have radios so that we can contact the rest of the group. We just want to see if the place is safe or not. If it isn't we'll let our group know it's a no go and try and find another place to take shelter. If it is we'll radio our people and let them know to come follow us there."

Josh wasn't sure about the idea. "I already have to check on my team mates and I have a mission of my own to complete. I'm barely able to cover my own ass out here I can't worry about you as well. I would like to help all of you that is what my job is supposed to be but right now I am running low on resources and I have just enough to get me to the building."

The woman said, "We don't need you to protect us we just want to see if the sky scraper is safe. Nothing else. We have our own guns we can take care of ourselves,"

The man in the Yankees shirt said, "That's right. We can even help you out. Four people with guns is a hell of a lot better than one. We've got ammo. We can help you save some of yours. You know I never fired a gun before any of this shit started but you catch on or you die and I was a fast learner. I still need to work on my long range shots but I've survived so far."

Josh told him, "That is not a good idea. You don't want to let those things get too close o if you keep on having to rely on any of these creatures to get close to you in order to hit it that makes you a liability. I wish I could help the three of you but there are a lot more lives at risk than just three people.."

The woman challenged Josh, "Oh but you get to survive no matter what because you're para military but it doesn't matter what happens to us, right? We're just collateral to you. I used to be in the Air Force so i know how military types think but I joined to help people not leave them to fend for themselves!"

Josh smirked. "If you were really in the US military then perhaps you should teach these two men how to shoot better?" She scowled. "I would but we've been a little too busy being under constant attack from the real thing to take the time for any target practice. You heard our friends say that we had twenty of us and now there's a lot less than that."

Josh told them, "I can't promise you will survive. I'm not responsible for your lives. You would be better off to go with your friends who have the surgeons because I don't have one and I am pretty sure when I get to where I'm going there aren't any there either."

The man with the leather jacket said, "We don't care, dude. We want to find some place safer for our group than just a boarded up old apartment. Enough of those things can break down the wood. So even if it is a risk it doesn't matter. We're going to take the risk no matter what. We don't need your permission to head in the same direction as you. If we can't tag along with you, then we'll just be separate people heading the same direction."

Josh sighed. "Fine. But you'd better keep up. I've got a brisk pace," He jogged down the street, and the survivors looked at each other and then did the same jogging as best as they could with the heavy weapons. Josh paid them no mind as he was jogging mostly so that in case they ran into any B.O.W.'s they would get ahead of them. After all there was no reason to waste ammo on the ugly bastards when he was not far from where he needed to be.

He came to a stop as he saw some dogs in the way of his path, clearly infected with the virus

Helena

They had searched the second floor but hadn't found anything. Suddenly Leon was contacted on the headset. Helena had tried once again to get a hold of Sherry but couldn't. "Leon, it's Barry I have something to tell you. Me and Yoko are on our way out but we just got contact from Chris. He says he found the lab. They're searching it as we speak. It's on the first floor. You just have to go past the lobby. Look for a room with a lot of books. There should be an opening."

They began to head downstairs, "Thanks, Barry. Appreciate that. We'll try and rendezvous with Chris as soon as possible. You just be careful out there. I've seen outbreaks but nothing like this Even the two cities in Lanshiang didn't have this high of a population."

Helena was not one to think that people in other countries mattered less far from it but she had to agree with him on that much. It wasn't that what happened in China wasn't bad too. It was up to this point the worst outbreak the world had ever seen and until recently they made Raccon and Tall Oaks look like nothing just as those two outbreaks had made the Queen Zenobia incident look like nothing even if it wasn't. It was the high population and the density of the city that made this the worst outbreak.

They made their way downstairs. Her old partner asked her, "So any luck getting through to Sherry?" She shook her head. "No. I don't know what happened. You say you guys saw her and then you didn't and she had Jake with her. Do you think anything bad might have happened to her?"

He cautiously went first opening the door to lead them to the first floor. "If you asked me fifteen years ago...I don't know. Probably. But she's tough now she's a grown up I knew her when she was just a scared little girl me and Claire trying to keep her safe. Ada was there too. If Jake is gone too then I'm sure wherever she is he's with her."

Ada seemed less optimistic. "I wouldn't be so sure. Because of our gunfight at Grand Central with the Family, there's a chance the two of them get isolated and they might have been shot by soldiers or police officers trying to take the city back. They could have been mistaken for terrorists or even captured."

Leon's eyes flashed at the spy. "You shouldn't say that, Ada. It's bad luck. Helena, look I'm concerned for Sherry too I've known her the longest of all three of us but she's tough and Jake is tough and knowing what I do about them getting captured and taken to China but they escaped. Even if they did get captured they would be able to escape."

They checked a couple of rooms. Leon suggested, "Let's split up. I'll look in this room you two take the others and we'll work our way until we find the place Barry was talking about,"

She began to search. There was a lot of ground to cover even just for one floor this was after all a large building and and one of the biggest buildings

Helena checked two rooms within five minutes and headed back into the hall. She heard an evil sounding hiss. She readied her handgun and moved slowly not sure if she wold be able to move without being spotted. She heard the clicking as it came around the corner. She drew down on the thing recognizing a Licker and she fired her handgun seven times hitting it in the back.

She saw it crawling towards them along the wall. She ducked as it jumped at her swinging the talons at her. A chunk of hair was sliced off. She got her assault rifle out and drew down on the thing as it drooled. She fired letting twelve rounds off aiming for its head.

The thing slashed at her getting the DSO agent in the side. She cried out in pain but fired hitting it in the base of the skull. She was bleeding in the side near her ribs. It was more towards her back. The thing was dead but she could hear more coming. She saw one coming around the corner and fired hitting it dead on and it dropped down due to its wounds and she backed up reloading her Assault Rifle. She fired hitting the Licker. She got the third one with rounds in the back hitting in its back and the rounds got its spine.

Leon's voice caught her off guard more so than the Lickers in sight. "Helena. You all right?" Her voice came out a bit higher and a little more shaken sounding than she wanted to. "Yeah...just ran into a licker...one of the bastards nicked me..."

"I was worried there for a second. I heard you scream! Hang tight we're a few doors down. Let me know if you run into any more of them and we'll come back you up. We're almost through here. Also just let us know if you find anything."

She tried the next room. She couldn't help but remember what had went down between herself and Leon the last time she had seen him before this all started.

Flashback

They were back in the city after having gotten Helena's pardon. There had been some paperwork to fill out but other than that not much/They would be back to their usual duties soon but after what had happened, they got a week off, both of them with pay. They were in Leon's hotel room. "Can I get you something to drink?" He offered. She walked in and said, "Sure."

"I've uh..got Brandy, whiskey, wine, soda and juice or water if you're not a drinker," She smiled telling him, "Wine would be nice. Thank you."

He poured them both a glass she sat in one chain and he sat in another. "How've you been holding up?" He asked as she sipped her glass. "I've just been trying to stay busy. Trying not to think of what happened. I appreciate you and Hunnigan looking out for me."

He nodded taking a drink himself. "It's not a problem. Even if we'd been forced to take you in I wold have suggested a very light sentence since you brought Simmons down just as much as me. It's what we do. We have to look out for each other."

She looked at him and said, "Yeah I know...it's a weird feeling. i almost don't know what to do with myself. That whole time you and i were working together I was thinking that what kept me moving forward was the idea of revenge on Simmons."

"I hear you but it was justice. Not revenge,"

She didn't agree with him there. "I saw it as both justice and revenge. I had to do it. We needed to do it. I did my duty as a sister when we put Debra down as a mercy killing but Simmons had to pay. We couldn't let him skate with all he put so many innocent people in America and China through."

Leon said, "Look...I've known loss too. the president was a friend. Same with President Graham. I had to put him down too. I know it's not the same thing as having to kill your own sister but I know what it's like to not want to pull the trigger but also know there's nothing else you can do for them."

She looked down after taking another sip. "Yeah...but it doesn't make it any easier. When you and I were fighting our way through that lab I was just looking for her. When I helped them attack the town, I just wanted them to let her go. I attacked the city for nothing. That also means that even everything I survived at least for me it doesn't mean anything. I couldn't save my sister and she was the whole reason I did it."

Leon looked into her eyes. "That's not true. You and I were partners. We teamed up just the same as I have with Claire and with Ada in the past. You and I wanted to get justice and that's what we did. We got it for your sister and for the president and all those people in Tall Oaks and China. We made Simmons pay. Chris and his partner stopped something catastrophic from destroying the world, Jake and Sherry kept that Ustanak creature at bay, Ada stopped Carla Radames and you and me stopped Simmons. That means in a way aside from Chris saving the world from infection you and I brought down the most important person who destroyed all those cities."

She looked at him directly. "You might be right on that but look at what we lost. It's like you were saying before about those survivors back in Tall Oaks. Even that exchange student was holding his own until we lost control of the bus. I don't know if those people would have come with us to China to finish this thing if we made it maybe they would have just been taken to quarantine and tested but it's still better than what they had happen to them. Even if the others wouldn't have made it i never thought the cop would."

Leon set his glass down and he refilled hers. "I did too. Believe me. I'm not gonna lie though that asshole who let his girlfriend get killed deserved to die. But that old man...that cop...the tourist they were troopers. I wanted them to live too. They reminded me of me when I was new to all of this. I thought all I was back then was a regular guy with a gun surviving. I thought they'd be the next outbreak survivors and if they'd ever be in it again they'd survive more and join the fight against bio terrorism. Silly me, huh?"

She shook her head. "That's not silly at all. I might not have been some regular woman but I was new to all of this too and i don't think I would have survived without you. The truth is neither would Ada. I can see why you like her. She saved us both too. I didn't want to kill my sister but you and I probably would have died in the catacombs if it wasn't for her."

Leon sighed. "Ada and i...have a complicated and long history together. I think I told you some of the story but not everything. We were in Raccoon together. She was looking for her boyfriend John or at least that was the story she told me. She was really out for a sample of the G virus., You remember that girl Sherry? She had it in a little necklace. Ada saved my life though when Sherry's mom shot me. She got me in the shoulder. It missed my clavicle by an inch but even still if it wasn't for her I wouldn't have made it. We fought this tyrant creature together and I thought it killed her but before she 'died' she said she was in love with me. Kissed me...and then I didn't see her again for another six years. It was hell dreaming about her."

She sympathized with that. "I knew there was a lot going on. More than met the eye I mean. I could just tell the energy between you two. You're right about her. You were trying to hold it together and keep me from getting killed by Debra and she was even stronger. I get the feeling she's emotionally closed off though."

He sadly admitted. "She's been that way as long as I've known her. She said she had feelings for me but she's afraid to be vulnerable. She said she was looking for her boyfriend John but I doubt if she ever was close enough with somebody to have a real relationship. I don't know what her deal is and yet...I can't seem to shake her out of my system."

She smiled saying, "That's why you should go to her the next time you see her. Tell her how you really feel. If she's really worth it she won't pass up a good thing."

He admitted to her, "I do care about her. You're not the first person to ask me about her though. The presidents daughter back in 04' did too. She's just a part of my past I can't seem to get rid of. I'm not sure if I want to either because I do care about her but I don't like her having this kind of hold on me. Then again at the same time I've been unlucky with relationships. I can handle women but the relationship side not so much. I think it all comes back to her."

"Is that your not so subtle way of saying you're a good lover but not good at love?" He chuckled sheepishly. "Maybe that came out that way but I didn't mean it like that...but it's true I've tried to have relationships but I can't get her out of my mind. She's a femme fatal."

"I get it. My love life has been a disaster but I really haven't had time for any of hear what you mean about Ada being emotionally unavailable but the truth is so are a lot of guys. I didn't set a good example with Deborah either by the kind of relationships I had. Not that it really matters now."

He told her, "You're still pretty young though. You're twenty four I mean I honestly thought you were in your late twenties when i first met you. I didn't know you weren't."

She eyed him accusingly. "What are you trying to say I look older?"

He chuckled. "No not at all. You just had a maturity about you. Most women your age, I don't know they'd still be in college here you were helping me save the world. You're not a lost cause, Helena. I think you'll find the right guy some day but in this line of work it can be kind of tough. We have the risk of losing our lives so that's always a problem. You might want to find somebody on the team."

She flirted saying, "Like you?"

"Not me.,somebody younger.."

"is there something wrong with me?" He said, "No not at all I just...look I'm pushing 40'. And I've been in love with a woman who's emotionally unavailable which in a way makes me emotionally unavailable.

"What's age other than a number? You said yourself you didn't think I was twenty four. It's not supposed to be about that it's supposed to be about connection. I still think you should talk to Ada again even if it's just to put that part of you to rest. At the very least she owes you some answers. You'd think it'd be as simple as you like her and she likes you but it never is."

He agreed, "You're right. In a way it was almost easier in the six years I thought she was dead and when rumors of her being alive were just rumors. I'm not perfect, Helena but I would never string somebody along the way she does."

She suddenly moved in kissing him. He was taken aback by it but he kissed back. She suddenly broke the kiss and realized she had done wrong. "I'm sorry..."

He told her, "it's okay...we've both had a lot to drink..."

She shook her head. "No..I don't know what came over me. We both just...have a lot of baggage. I'm sorry...I should go..."

He told her, "You don't have to apologize you're only human..."

She stood up saying, "No, it's...you're right we both had too much to drink I should probably get back to my room...while I'm still able to walk...you should get some sleep too. She set the glass down telling him with a sheepish smile, "I appreciate the drink...thanks. I'll see you in the morning.."

"Okay...good night..." He said with some disappointment in his voice...or was it? She couldn't tell. She felt hot a little too much and needed to disrobe.

He knocked on her door as he had her wallet. It must have fallen out when she was in his room. The door opened as it must not have been closed all of the way. He saw she was pretty much naked topless and he saw her from the side her beautiful ivory tits exposed and she was just in the process of removing her pants slowly removing her pants revealing her round plump bottom. He accidentally spilled his wine at the sight. "Oh god...ahhh..Im sorry i didn't mean..." He looked for a hotel towel closing his eyes to try and not be a peeping tom. She pulled her pants up and grabbed her shirt putting it in front of her. "You already saw pretty much everything... what's up?"

He said, "you uh...forgot your wallet..." He handed it to her and she smiled saying, "Thanks just leave it on the bed."

He nodded and asked, "Do you uh...normally sleep like that?" She chuckled. "Guys aren't the only ones who can don't worry I normally am fully clothed but at night I like to be free."

He turned away from her not wanting to see his erection that had sprouted up seeing her nude body. "Good night."

She returned the same farewell. "Don't worry i'll lock it behind you. If anybody tries to get in here without me saying so I still have my gun."

He left the thought about what had happened. He pondered it all processing what had just happened. She had come onto him and while he wasn't sure a kiss was an invitation for sex this would hardly be his first time having been more than friends with a colleague or a fellow bio hazard survivor. He thought about what they had discussed about Ada.

She didn't say it aloud as a friend to him but she knew it just as much as he did even if only he had said it. He opened the door and she turned to see him and she was nude in the exact same way as he had already found her. He walked up to her grabbing her from behind, her looking at him surprised as he dipped her a bit and kissed her his hand feeling the flesh on her warm silky smooth back. She allowed it kissing him back her pants still halfway off. His hand trailed to her luscious bottom squeezing it. She moaned against his lips as the kiss went from casual to french.

She reached pulling off his jacket as they embraced, kissing his hand trailing up and down the soft smooth skin of her back as they embraced. He cleared off the table setting his glass on her night stand and he kissed her from behind her neck, brushing her brown hair aside kissing behind her ear, her neck, causing her to close her eyes opening her mouth in a breath. Her skin, the sight of her form , her feeling him grabbing his groin reaching for his belt buckle caused his semi hard erection to go full throttle.

He kissed her down her back bending her over the table slipping her pants off. As he kissed her he began to finger her from behind his lips moving down her lower back. She moaned as his fingers slipped into her entrance., He got to the center of her back enjoying the smell of her skin and silky smoothness of it. He turned her around laying her down kissing her stomach, which rose and fell based in his foreplay and he kissed around her navel, his tongue flicking into it and around it. She closed her eyes and he moved up to her large breasts licking her nipple flesh and began feeling her right breast with his other hand as he began to finger her again. She helped him take his shirt off and went for his pants. Her noises as he sucked on her breasts he grew stif with antcipation and desire.

She got onto him making him sit down leaning over him like a daughter being put over her dad's knee with her ass in the air her stomach and she took his manhood into her mouth beginning to suck him off as his fingers toyed with her entrance from behind as well as her ass using s fingers on both holes, due to the close proximity. He put his other hand on her hair guiding her as she slid her mouth up and down his shaft., her wet lips sliding over his helmet her mouth thermal with heat as she slid it down taking his full length in her mouth. She moaned against his cock as she was fingered from behind. He still had his pants on so she was sucking him off through his zipper.

Her saliva, coated his dick hot and moist as she sucked him off. She moved her mouth along his woody a bit to the side moving around with him in her mouth but being careful to keep her teeth from the skin and his bulge poked at her cheek a bit showing through the cheek. She licked the head of his dick looking up at him her tongue licking all around. Meanwhile his fingers prodded deeper into her hole. He wondered if his finger nails were too long for fear of accidentally hurting her.

Not as many men knew how to pleasure a woman through fingering or through oral themselves but he was pretty skilled at it. Se meanwhile continued to slurp on his meat stick, devouring it taking back to her throat her gag reflex testing as she polished his knob. Before long he came. Her mouth brimming with his sticky essence oozing out as she continued to suck him off.

He began to enter her from behind sliding into her with ease his hardened cock squeezing into her tight entrance and he kissed her neck from behind as he went in and out of her. She closed her eyes her mouth open as she took his length into her gap, and she began to back up into him increasing the sensation on his member. He smacked her ass causing her to let out a yelp as he drove into her. He did it a few more times leaving a pink mark. He closed his eyes grabbing her hips as he felt her warm wet hole drown his sex in a seemingly endless river of ecstasy. They were both in sorrow for their own losses but right now they could drown in passion rather than misery.

The sound of her wet twat slapping on his dick filled the hotel room, Helena, moaning, as she felt his warmth inside of her, his bone penetrating her g spot and he began to finger her from behind toying at her folds as he moved in and out of her. Sensation spread into her radiating her whole body as her hips bucked, she, taking his whole length rotating her hips in a circular motion.

Her breasts bounced as did her whole body as he drove into her. He then turned her around and he began to penetrate from the front lifting her legs high in the air as he drove in deeper. The smell of sweat and sex filled the room her breasts looking as though he had just given her a full body oil massage. He plowed into her at a downward angle and she thrust up into him taking every inch into her soaking sex. She dug her nails into his back while her legs wrapped around his shoulder.

He drove in deeper than he'd gone so far and she cried out letting out a yelp as he started to bring her toward orgasm. Her legs were trembling and her heart skipped a beat as they fucked. She finally cried out with a shriek, as he repeatedly hit her pleasure button. Her walls tightened on him as her cunt was filled with him, her juices erupted onto hi only a bit more onto his dick and balls. She was not done however as she could keep going. She rode out the orgasm as he thrusted inside her.

She rode out her orgasm with a wail and she kept going. He moved again and she was on top of him riding him this time as she kept moving, she started at a slower pace due to her clit being sensitive but she began to ride him faster and then began to bounce on him and he groaned grabbing both breasts caressing them as he closed his eyes. "Fuck...Helena..."

"Keep going..." She demanded as he did. He felt like he might climax soon but he tried to hold on. He thrust upwards, pumping his rod inside her and he began to rotate his penetration too to match hers as she rode him. He fingered her at an upward angle stroking her clit and he moved his other hand to her ass, fingering her there too as well as to the bridge between her vagina and her anus, stroking the perineum. He let out a low growl in contrast to her higher pitched love cries. He finally lost control saying, "i'm about to cum..." She got off of him as he started losing it exploding in several spurts getting it on her thighs her stomach and her waist.

They took a moment to clean up. Not much needed to be said but she wanted him to stay over for the night. He held her and even as he was staying the night and they laid there, she couldn't help but hope that some day he might feel the way he felt about Ada towards her. Even if it wasn't likely and he had a lot of intimacy issues at least in terms of having a relationship, there was always room for hope. Leon was a fucked up guy but she was no less troubled herself. They turned off her lamp and before long, he was snoring lightly.

It wasn't that likely but maybe by being there for him more where Ada for whatever reason wasn't, and always left, would change things. She softly said in the dark, "Who knows what can happen...?" Leon, did not stir but his arm was still around her. Typical man but at the same time she didn't want this to end and she wished that daylight would be more than twelve hours.

She was half awake trying to decide if she should fall asleep, in his arms as though she were his and he was hers and only hers, or to savor the moment and be thankful that she could get even this because even if she had failed in relationships as much as he had, he was still better than most guys out there. Even if he had intimacy issues he was still a hero. She couldn't help but wonder to herself if she loved him or not.

The door opened and Leon was staring at her. "You okay?" She lied saying, "Yeah it's no big deal. Just wondering how my partner is," She of course meant him as they had been partners first even if not officially at first but he said, "I'm sure she's okay. We'll find her."

Helena asked him, "Any luck?" He nodded with a bit of a triumphant spark in his eyes. "Yeah. We found it. Well...Ada found it. But we're a team."

"Yeah..you two have been for a long time," He shook his head saying, "You're part of it too. We should head down there. This outbreak has been going on too long."

She got her weapons ready checking ammo and said, "Let's move."

Jake

It had been boring. He wasn't sure how long he had been in there maybe a few hours. The prisoners mostly fortified their defenses and largely ignored him. There were plenty of books for him to read but he was getting tired of sitting on his ass but Adams had told him to shut the fuck up and stay out of the way.

Trigger looked at the ex mercenary and told him, "You know...we're gonna need your help with something. You want to stay here long enough to be here to get whoever you came with it's going to cost you."

Jake eyed the prisoner. "You guys have been acting like I'm the ugly girl at prom and now suddenly you want my help?"

The prisoner told him, "You're here, aint you? This is Rikers Island, baby.14,000 prisoners, only now it's more like almost 14,000 zombies. We have to stick together but I don't want to waste any of my friends on this errand."

"So you figure you'll use me and if I die who gives a damn? I'm only here for lack of a better idea. I don';tt want to be here. I have things to do in the city."

"You've never been to New York City before have you? You're in the city. We're between Bronx and Queens. This isn't like Alcatraz if you really want out there's a prison bus you can take to get out but i'm not giving you any keys to one of them unless you do this for me. If you don't, you can always hoof it on foot."

Jake sighed. "I can't do that untol I find the person I arrived here with. Not a second before. What do you need me to do?" The prisoner informed the ex ,merc, "A lot of our guys are still locked down. This is a big prison and this shit has only gone on for a few days but it's taken it's toll. We need ,more guys out of there and here with us especially with the bulls trying to take back this prison. If this is the end times we still need a hideout and this is th best we have."

Jake chuckled, "Define irony. One of the worst prisons in the country, a place nobody wants to be and now suddenly it's your castle. The end of the world really has a way of screwing things up. Okay. Where do I even begin to start looking?"

"There should be one of the guards, dead or alive that will have the card key. Here, I'll draw you a map of where you need to go."

He did draw one really quickly. "Okay. That's it. And listen I have no problem with you going and getting your friend whoever he is and getting out of here but you won't get far without the arsenal those pigs have for a rainy day. All maximum security prisons have them. We need those guns ourselves. Not just for the zombies but the cops trying to take this place back from us."

Jake sighed. "Okay. Guess I better get moving then," They let him out and he was given a shotgun and a pistol to use. "This is only being loaned to you until you get back. We need to conserve ammunition until we can get our hand on more guns but in the meantime you might as well have some preparation those things are nasty fuckers."

He headed out not sure what to expect even though he had already encountered this sort of thing before, it was new terrain and that was a death sentence if things went the wrong way. He moved down the cel block. He was also given a radio by one of the prisoners so as to keep in touch. He shined his flashlight on some of the corpses laid out. "Muller...it's at a front desk. You'll need to let these people out. I don't really want to let any of these guys out but we need them. Rivera asked for them."

Jake's light fixated on a dead inmate, with a clover which had the 666 symbol inside the clover disrespecting St Patrick. From what Jake had learned on the internet, that too was an Aryan Brotherhood tattoo. " Neo nazis..You American prisoners, you sure like to separate yourselves don't you?"

"It's the way it is in prison, outsider. A lot of women prisons aint that way some are but all men's prisons are that way. Used to be the guards separated everybody based on what they look like. Got to a point where they didn't have to because even when they tried integrating inmates, people naturally seperated themselves on their own."

" know back in my old country there was some old timers who used to kill Nazis...the real thing. And a few of them used to be Nazis. That's the way it is in Eastern Europe. Whether you were with teh Allies or Axis, all the survivors are dinosaurs. They pass on their war stories but pretty soon they'll a;ll just be a memory just like the veterans from the first war. But in the zombie apocalypse do you really think it's a good idea to fall back into old divisions?"

The guy told him, "Let's get one thing straight. If you were in here you'd either be wearing the same nd of ink or at least eating with the guys who did. Survival of the fittest especially in here. The men at Rikers Island are the fuck ups, the outcast society doesn't want but we were always on the fringe of society. Those people with their fancy homes in Long Island don't know struggle and I'll bet you that if this virus hit the city then the suburbs is fucked. People like us, we stayt on our toes twenty four seven. We're built for this war."

"Sure maybe...but why regress? Isn't this a time to stick together?" The inmate explained, "We do stick together when it comes to everybody doing their part and when it comes to keeping those guards at bay. But this is anarchy, kid. Maybe you're right things have changed the way society is now people have to get along and maybe if society fell apart back in the 40's we would have had to band together to live. But this is now and society is all cushy for many people all pc but now that's fallen. We're regressing back because that's what our ancestors did to survive. Can't trust those too different from you. The way it was when everybody was hunter gatherers. Hell it's been that way most of human history. We want to suddenly be moralist about the whole thing now?"

Jake chuckled. "I'm no man of principal. Or morals. Maybe your way is right maybe my way is. Right now in this prison I dob';t trust anybody but my partner. Im doing this for you as a means to an end but don't mistake that for me giving a shit about you or anyone else in here. I got a job to do and a person to kill. When I do that, maybe this whole thing stops. Maybe not. But I love my freedom too much to take shelter in a shit hole like this."

The inmate cackled. "These days this is one of the safest places for a man to hole up. Walls, guard towers, once we repel the attacks of the guards, we'll get a few of our guys up there in the towers with a Sniper Rifle. It's kind of stupid when you think about it. Rather than trying to spend all of their time and effort trying to save the city, they're trying to take back a prison. You would think in a doomsday scenario crimes could be forgiven."

"I don't know if a bunch of serial killers or rapists should go free. Not even in this situation. Especially not in this situation. I'm not a man of laws or stability either but I know right from wrong. A lot of people don't."

"Don't let the media fool you. In here rapists and child molesters get no love. It doesn't matter what gang you're in or even if you're not in one. Even if you got an opportunity to shank a pedophile and you don't you can get stabbed yourself for that. As far as killing goes, hell there's cops and soldiers that are murderers but murder is only wrong when it's not sanctioned by the state. Enough chatter. Stick to your job."

Jake thought to himself, My job is to find Sherry and kill Alex not be your errand boy, asshole...

Just then Jake heard a sound. He racked the shotgun staying alert and he looked at the source of the sound and he could hear a sick crunching sound indicating whatever it was, was eating. He expected to see a zombie and prepared to shoot but it wasn't a zombie. It looked like a female with gray hair falling off its scalp but it was short. If it had once been humanoid it sure wasn't anymore. It looked like it was somewhere between a human and a skeleton. It's feet almost resembled talons more than human feet, it's hands looking more like it had claws than fingernails. It had several spikes in its head almost as if it were part of some sick ritual. The nose was gone leaving only a hole much like any skeleton and its eye sockets were empty too. It led out a demonic shriek unlike any he had ever heard. He backed up. A large piece of flesh dangled from its chin.

He trained his weapon on the thing and it looked at him the flashlight shining to the back of its hallow eye sockets. It lept up just as he fired and he missed as the thing was fast. It moved extremely fast. He backed up as it crawled along the wall moving toward him, and moved up to the ceiling, firing again. "Shit...!"

Chris

They had found a few documents on the Family that would be of good use they would be glad to find more but so far had not found any tanks filled with BOW's like before. Jill turned to Chris, "Did you hear that? I heard something crash."

Sheva noticed too. "It sounds like somebody's crying too... a woman..."

Chris went outside recognizing it. He spotted his sister hunched over a body. She was weeping. He then noticed she had a pistol in her hand and was aiming at her own head. "Claire no!" She either didn't hear him which was unlikely or she was dead set on doing what she was about to anyway. He ran as fast as he could towards her. He yelled, "STOP!" Tackling her and the gun went off. "Nooo!" He panicked looking at her as he saw blood drip to the floor, he got off of her checking to see how bad it was, afraid he had been too late...

I know it's a dick move to end it on a cliff hanger but I left off in chapter 2 with Claire considering killing herself because of Steve out of grief. I wanted to keep the suspense and not reveal what happened yet until the next chapter. Did Claire make it you think was Chris on time? You won't know until I update next i'm sorry I haven;t updated this in a while I will try to again soon but I have a lot of stories to balance out. Those of you who have read to this point please review, all the chapters or go through it dont just review this chapter it doesn't make much sense and it doesn't let me know if you really read to this point or if you do do that at least give me some indication you have read what's happened throughout the story so far. I just wanted the suspense to kind of drag out with Chris trying to prevent Claire's suicide. You gotta admit whether she lives or dies, it wouldn't be a good thing for a brother to see his sister doing that.

So i want to make clear as of now Leon and Helena aren't necessarily an item I had implied that in the past in Leon's past in this story he has slept with women he has worked with such as Ashley, Claire, Helena, etc and at the start of this story he did with Ada all though he is paired with Ada. I have gotten requests from some to have him be with both Helena and Ada at the same time. I'm not sure yet if I'll do that or not. I might we'll just have to see if you want to see that I'll take that into consideration.

So that creature Jake encountered was called a Tzitzimime. I always said that I would make new B.O.W's based on folklore of different cultures I've done a lot from American Indian and Meso American (Mexican native tribes) legends I'm open to do more from non indigenous cultures but there's just so many that would in fact be terrifying. That thing Chris and Sheva fought in the theater was called the Stone Coat like my people's version of the wendigo which is like an Algonquin version of the zombie all though in the Cree and Algonquin view, they became monsters after they ate human flesh not before. I may explore that more since I have had Wendigos appear in this too. Like have them start off as human and still crave flesh but still be an aware person until they reach the point of no return. Besides a lot of the tyrants in Resident Evil like Nemesis and Nyx are based on Greek mythology so i figured why not make some B.O.W. based on legends from our side of the world?

The Tzitzimime were demons that came from the stars. Their Birth place in Mexica (The true name for Aztecs) legends is a place called tamoanchan, which was once a paradise where the gods made the humans. These carnivorous creatures reside there and were one of many stories to frighten children. According to myths these demons were primarily women but few were men in that they would visit the world and swoop down and grab a person and take him into the sky to be eaten. They are ruled by a goddes that also resides in Tamoanchan, now a dark realm within the stars.

Anyway if you have been reading up until this point I hope you enjoy. Stay tuned