A/N: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF LAST OF US OR YU GI OH 5DS! ALL RIGHTS GO TO THE CREATORS OF BOTH!
Chapter 14: Cannibals- Part 2
Leo was asleep on the hard floor of his cage. James walked up and grabbed the calling, "Wake-y, wake-y."
Leo immediately began fighting back. "Let go!"
"Get-" David stated. He touched the boy's face, but Leo immediately bit it as hard as he could. David kneed Leo making the boy let go and he and James forced him onto the bloodsoaked, butchering table. They pinned them down while David raised a butchering knife saying, "I warned you."
"I'm Infected! I'm Infected!" Leo called before David could bring it down. They both froze.
"Really?" David responded disbelievingly.
"And so are you," Leo replied. David gave him a unbelieving face. "Right there. Roll up my sleeve." David paused. "Look at it!"
"I'll play along," David said. He stabbed the table with the knife next to Leo's head. He then reached over and yanked it up and they both froze to see the bite mark. "What did you say? Everything happens for a reason, right?"
"What the hell is that?" James asked pointing to the bite mark.
"He would've turned by now," David replied. "It can't be real."
"Looks pretty fucking real to me!" James retorted.
In that second, Leo grabbed the knife with his arm and stabbed James with it. The boy rolled to the ground and hit behind the table as David shot at him. Leo quickly ran behind the doorway closest to him, barely avoiding getting shot. Leo noticed his dagger lodged into the shelf and yanked it out. Across from Leo was a window and Leo ran and hopped out of it quickly.
Leo landed on the ground below and found himself in a blizzard. He placed his hands in front of his face hurried through.
He heard gunshots and David call, "Where're you going, Leo? This is my town!"
The boy found a gated entrance that was locked and turned to see another doorway. He hurriedly opened it and closed it behind him. He saw a doorway with half of it boarded shut and the other lower half blocked by a landry transport basket. Leo pulled the basket out of the way and put it in front of the door.
Leo quickly crawled through the hole into a pet store and hid behind the counter when he heard someone say, "We heard gunshots!"
Leo walked behind a shelf with a cage on top of it a bit closer and noticed three guys talking outside, one included David.
David responded, "Infected!"
"What?" the first man responded.
"The boy. He's Infected and he got out," David replied.
"This is bad, David," the first man responded.
"Alright. I need you to round up everyone who isn't armed and get 'em to clear outta here. We're gonna find that boy and we're gonna kill him," he ordered.
"Oh my god," the first stated.
"I'll get the kids to the shelter," the third stated and the two ran off.
'Not good,' Leo thought worriedly. He listened and saw so many people with guns that were searching around for him. He hopped through a couple windows into another store. As he entered that one, a man came in. 'I need to get a gun from these guys.'
He hurriedly hid behind the counter and waited for the man to get to the other side of it. Once he was, Leo used his dagger and killed him. He grabbed his revolver and ammo. He hurried through the window, but didn't notice another man coming. The man noticed him and grabbed Leo. The boy bit him and the man let him go before Leo knifed him. The man fell and Leo grabbed him ammo as well. He turned to see another man coming and hid before knifing that man as well. Leo grabbed the man's ammo.
Leo hurried through the snow storm in a crouch, trying to find his way of there. But the snow was making it impossible to see very far in front of him. He looked ahead and notice some fires not too far away.
He hurried towards the area which had some boarded to hide behind. He sat there for a moment, listening for any upcoming, cannibalistic thugs. When he didn't find any, he hurried through the back alleyway. He noticed a thug walking across a platform high above him and quickly hid behind a dumpster.
He waited for a moment and checked to see if he was looking this way, before silently darting under the platform and in between some mail trucks. He hurried through a hole in the back when he noticed another man coming in his direction, unable to see him through the storm. Leo hurried up the stairs when he noticed another thug walking around unsuspectingly.
The boy hurried up to the man before stabbing him down. He went through a hole and walked through a backyard like area. He noticed a man coming up in his direction and darted to behind the car. The man came by and turned to enter the yard when Leo came and killed him with his dagger. Leo quickly took his ammo, before moving forward.
The boy knew he had his revolver, but he didn't want to alert any of them by using it unless he had to. He walked through the area, trying to find any area of evidence of an exit in the snow storm. He just couldn't seem to find it.
Leo hurried into a back alley. He approached a window when he heard someone say, "What if he bites someone?"
Someone that he couldn't tell was David or not in the snow storm replied, "Relax, he's not biting anybody."
"I'm saying we can have a real situation here," the first retorted.
"We're already have a situation and we're gonna take care of it. Now stay focused. Let's find him," the second assured.
Leo neared a lower hole in the wall and noticed the two men entering the store. Leo went to the window when he noticed it was hidden from their view and hid behind an arcade machine. He followed the first man silently and when he was just behind him, stabbed him down. Leo hurried behind the wall and circled around as the man turned to figure out what the stabbing sound was. When Leo was in the right position, he stabbed the man as well. Leo turned around just as a man grabbed him.
The young boy bit the man who let him go out of the man and stabbed him with his dagger. Suddenly, shots were heard behind him which were barely missing Leo. Leo brought out his revolver. He fired two in his gun before finally taking him down with a lung shot.
Leo hid behind some games and checked to find no one else in the store. He quickly jumped out a side window and walked behind a car. 'Man, where do I go?' he thought.
He walked across the street, getting nervous when he couldn't find any men. He noticed a school coming into view and walked near it, hoping it would lead him somewhere out of here. Leo walked along it until he reached a locked gate. He looked up and saw a open window over a dumpster. Leo climbed the dumpster and over the window.
He found himself in a kitchen and noticed a first aid kit not too far away. He grabbed it and put it in his pocket for the time being. He walked around a bit and grabbed another first aid kit. He listened around and still couldn't find anyone. It made him uneasy. He pulled out his revolver just in case.
He walked around a bit still finding no one. He slowly opened the door when David grabbed him by his arms and Leo fighting.
"You're easy to track," David stated. He pushed Leo against a table before yanking the gun out of Leo's hands and throwing Leo to the ground. He quickly pointed the gun at the boy while Leo backed up. "How did you do it?" He looked at a small fire for a second and in that second, Leo got up and hid behind some benches. "That's alright." David locked the door. "There's nowhere to go!" Leo backed up and continued to hide while running. "You want out? Gonna have to come get these keys." Leo had managed to make it to the far right side of David and behind a back wall of the seats. "I know you're not Infected. No one that's Infected fights this hard to stay alive."
Leo was quick to notice a fire beginning to ignite by the door. 'I need to get those keys,' he thought. He listened and noticed David coming this way. He immediately and quietly hurried away from David.
"So what is it, Leo?" David asked. "I gotta admit. You had me back there. For a second, you shook my faith. But only for a second." Leo came behind the man and stabbed him. David threw him off and Leo hurried back behind a table and bench as the man shot. "That was good, kid." He put away the revolver. "It's gonna be alright." He pulled out a machete and Leo backed up. He quickly noticed the man beginning to run after him and Leo darted for it. He entered the kitchen again and his behind the grills as the man slowly came in. "You give up now, I promise to be quick. Promise."
'Yeah, no,' Leo denied mentally and circled around the grills as David walked around towards him.
"Okay, then. Don't say I didn't give you a chance," David stated. Leo watched silently as David walked out to the dining area again. Leo came behind him and stabbed the man again.
David cried out in pain and Leo got off. The boy immediately ran for it. When the man stopped chasing him in a full blown sprint, they had found themselves back in the same spots as before. Leo jumped on the man and stabbed him in the chest. David cried out and backed Leo up against a table before they both passed out.
. . .
Yusei had just entered the town where he knew the gang's camp was. He entered a store and hurried into a garage. He hid behind a car while pulling a few arrows out of a corpse. He noticed a few men coming near and waited silently. When the man turned to the door Yusei had come from, the Firefly grabbed the man and strangled him until he was dead. He noticed another thug coming and circled around the other door while the other man came up on the dead body. Yusei immediately did the same thing to that man as well.
Yusei turned as he heard another thug exclaim, "Son of a bitch!" The man tried to hit him with a hard stick but, Yusei pulled out his pistol and shot him down.
Yusei winced slightly as his injury ached at him, but ignored it. He noticed another man come it. He fired a bullet, but missed as the man dodged through an opening in the wall. Yusei walked around and saw the man looking around the corner. The Firefly grabbed the thug and thought, 'At least I don't have to restrain how I kill these guys at the moment.' He threw the man to the ground, before stomping on his face to kill him.
Yusei hurried behind a garbage can and hid for a moment. He focused and listened and noticed two men on a platform a bit high up and a man running from car to car. He ran behind a car as a man on the platform shot at him. However, Yusei took the man who was running as he was attacking him and used an axe to slit his throat. Yusei then hid behind the car and aimed with his scoped rifle. He took fire and shot the gunman in the head. Yusei focused and noticed the man on a platform high up. He took aim again and fired, killing that man as well.
The Firefly ran through a truck. He came out and hid behind a few cement car stops. When he found no one was around, he hopped over them and quickly ran behind a table that was leaning on its side.
He hurried behind a stone wall and listened. He saw a man coming to the corner on the far side that he was at and two men from the left side. Yusei walked towards the left side entrance. One man came down that way and Yusei grabbed him, silently killing him in the process. He heard the man from the other corner load a weapon and he knew that the man had seen him. Yusei turned around, shotgun at ready. The man popped out and Yusei shot him. He listened and saw the last man hiding behind a car on the opposite side of the street.
Yusei grabbed his bow and an arrow and aimed it. Before the man could fire, Yusei released the arrow and the man was killed. Yusei walked over to check if the arrow was still intact and was relieved to find it was. He pulled it out of the man's body and hid behind the car. He couldn't hear or see anyone else, so he slowly came out, still at a crouch and went through an alley.
Yusei ran through and entered a room. He shut the door behind him quickly but quietly. He turned his flashlight on to see in the darkness of the room. He was shocked to see Leo's bag. Yusei had given it to Leo on the flight just in case something happened.
"Why is Leo's stuff here?" Yusei muttered near silently. "Are they planning on having Leo now? I need to find him." He walked into the next room and saw three dead bodies strung up by their feet, ready to be cooked. "God, these people are sick." He ran through the room, not wanting to be in it any longer. He was relieved to find no one else in the area. He opened the door to exit the building and saw an abandoned restaurant engulfed in flames. 'Leo…' Yusei thought.
. . .
Leo woke up and weakly rolled onto his hands and knees. He looked up and noticed David's machete hiding underneath a seat. He slowly, but tryingly hurried, made his way to the machete. Just as he was about to get within arms reach of it, a foot kicked him in the stomach making him collapse.
David laughed lightly. "I knew you had heart," he stated. "Y'know, it's okay to give up. Ain't no shame in it." Leo, however, still continued his way to the giant knife. "I guess not. Just not your style, is it?" David kicked his side again making Leo collapse again. The man pinned Leo and yanked him up saying, "You can try beggin'."
"No way," Leo refused.
David rolled Leo onto his back and put his hands around Leo's neck. "Think you know me? Huh?" David asked. He began to press down on Leo's neck. "Well, let me tell you somethin'. You have no idea what I'm capable of." Leo reached as far as he could for the machete and managed to grab it. The boy whipped it and hit David's arm making him cry out and let go. David rolled over with Leo on top of him. Leo repeatedly hit David's head with the blade of the machete.
"Leo!" Yusei called grabbing him. He gently but still sternly ordered, "Stop. Stop." The boy didn't find out who was holding him and tried to get out. "Leo! Leo, calm down. It's okay. It's okay." Yusei flipped him around. "It's me. It's me." Leo was still struggling slightly. Yusei brought the boy's face to look at him gently. "Look. Look. It's me."
"He tried to…" Leo trailed off still calming down, near tears in his fright.
"I know," Yusei responded bringing him in. "I know. It's okay."
"Yusei…" Leo cried.
"It's okay now," the Firefly whispered. He held Leo's face and looked at him in the eyes. "It'll be alright. You did good. I know. I've faced these guys before with the Fireflies. It's not your fault. You didn't know. Just calm down, alright?" Leo nodded, slowly calming down. "Come on. We need to get out of here and back the others. Once we're done with that, we'll get to Salt Lake City. Alright?" Leo nodded again and stood up with Yusei. "Here." Yusei put Leo's bag back on him. "Let's get out of here." They quickly ran out with that.
They arrived back at the house and the others were relieved to find Leo back alive. "Are you alright, Leo?" Luna asked.
"I will be," he answered.
"Let's get out of here," Yusei told them. "Before any crew the leader might've had leftover comes looking."
They nodded and hurriedly took off with that.