Disclaimer: This chapter has some gruesome content so if you don't want to read such avoid the big paragraph in italics. If you don't have a problem welcome and enjoy the read.

Bruce started to work out and also did self-defence class, he did so for weeks and started to feel cocky and badass. Bruce wasn't the tallest out of his grade but for his height, he grew a lot of muscle mass. Bruce felt at his best until one-day things took a turn, his friendship with Joe started to fade and they eventually got distant from each other. At the time Bruce didn't really care since he and Joe weren't that close at that time, but he didn't know that it would lead to a fight between the two.

But for the time being Bruce was at the gym using the treadmill until a figure distracted him, it was a girl that Bruce hasn't seen in the gym but in his mind, all he could think of was 'damn she looks fine,' and before he knew it he was walking towards her but he ended up tripping over on the treadmill and was launched off the machine he slid across the floor for a couple of seconds. He got up and looked over at the girl making sure she didn't realize, but unfortunately for him, she was staring at him giggling, his face burning with embarrassment he quickly turned off the machine and just took in a deep breath.

This time aware of his surroundings Bruce successfully approached the girl, "Hey, names Bruce what's yours?" He smiled.

"Names christie..."

Bruce woke to grasp his chest breathing heavily it took a while for him to regain his breath and when he did he realised he fell onto the floor which woke him, Bruce stood and looked out the small window, it was about dawn. Bruce sluggishly put on his boots, took his deagul and AKM then walked out of the cell, his wound certainly was healing well unless he bumped into a wall then it stung like hell. Bruce made his way down to Dr Lindsey's office. When he bumped into Joe who was grinning like an idiot.

"What?" Bruce asked raising his eyebrows and tilting his head slightly.

"Nothin', just that you have to do that dare of yours" Joe replied his grin widening as he inched closer.

"Right, right she's still asleep I'll do it after we talk to Lindsey okay." Bruce yawned.

"Urgh, fine let's go then."

They both started to make their way down towards Lindsey's lab, "Joe quick question how does one hit on a lady?"

"Ah, a newbie don't worry I'll fill you in, and in the short trial of one minute, I can make you a ladies man. First of all, you need the cheesiest of cheesy pickup lines that are so bad that it makes the girl laugh the second step is to keep confident in everything you do and lastly maintain good eye contact and be a good listener, so that's Joe's one on one guide on how to hit on women, any questions?"

"Interesting so give me some lines."

"Oh that's for premium members only, I suggest you purchase it since you learn new pickup lines, workout tips, and how to achieve good confidence it also comes at the cheap price of 69.69 dollars, good deal won't you say?"

"How about a discount of one-hundred percent? since well I'm your bestie and all"

"Nope pay the price or you don't get the sauce"

"Urgh, such a prick you are I'll keep the free route thank you."

They were about to burst out laughing but they were caught off guard by Lindsey's face, it was so lifeless and exhausted, Bruce and Joe walked in and knocked Lindsey's attitude somehow went from dullness to excitement.

"Boys you've finally come, ready to collect the goods?"

"Yes, sir we are we're just here to ask about where everyone's gone like I haven't seen the sheriff around for a while it's just a tad bit suspicious," Bruce answered adjusting his shirt.

"Oh, the Sheriff yea last time I saw him was when Ari saved him from faiths grasp, but after then he vanished I'm assuming he's making plans when we confront the father. " Lindsey replied adjusting his glasses, "And I know you're worried but we have to focus on what's happening around us for now because for all we know the PEGGIES could be back anytime today."

"Yeah, yeah bro don't worry we've got this okay I'll go with Bruce and faith so we'd be more efficient," Joe stepped in giving a light tap at Dr Lindsey's shoulder.

"Thank you, thank you both now go I have things to attend to," Lindsey said waving the two off.

Bruce and Joe both left closing the door behind them they walked in silence towards their cells, "Bro meet at the front gates in what 10 minutes?" Bruce asked.

"Yup I'll see you there" Joe replied walking off, Bruce stood by the stairs for a second looking around the area, empty. It felt weird seeing the place so quiet and motionless, he snapped out of his thoughts and ran towards faith's cell, to his surprise she was awake and already dressed waiting for him on her bed.

"You ready for the long haul?" Bruce asked peering into her cell from the door.

"Yea, I think so. Gonna feel so weird going out after a long period of time." She replied getting off her bed and pulling out a backpack from under the bed.

"Good, good give me a second I left something in my room"

She nodded and Bruce hastily made his way towards his cell he looked under his bed and found his duffle he picked it up and unzipped it, inside was a handful of protein bars and little snacks for the day ahead, he pulled out four protine bars stuffing them into his pant pockets, he zipped the bag and swung it onto his shoulder. He left his cell and saw that Faith was taking a nap on her bed, Bruce lightly tapped the cell bars which to his surprise woke her. She made a slight grunt and walked towards him, Bruce fished out two protine bars and handed one to her.

"Eat up, big day ahead of us,"

She took the bar and unwrapped it, she took a big bite out of it and squinted, "tastes bad" she mumbled.

"Rude, they take a while to get used to though," Bruce said unwrapping his and taking basically swallowing the whole thing in one go.

Faith glared at him and then at her bar, she blocked her nose and quickly down the rest of the bar, Bruce started to crack up because her face was priceless she wore a disgusted face but it was mixed with another emotion that Bruce couldn't remember the name of. "You know I have other stuff on my pack right?" The face she made was more priceless than before because it was a mixture of annoy but with hints of disgust still in it, Bruce was practically rolling on the floor laughing to a point where he forgot to breathe and started to choke.

Faith grinned "Who's laughing now" she crossed her arms and walked down the stairs, Bruce was holing on the railings coughing he slowed his breathing and finally he stopped choking, he quickly dashed behind Faith and they both exited towards the front gates. They found themselves waiting inside of a blue bus that was out of order, they sat in silence absorbing the calm Sunday vibes. Bruce was about to pass out until he heard both Joe's and Mary's voices he popped his head out the window and shouted at the two, who cluelessly stare back at him. Bruce rolled out the bus window and pulled out the two protine bars in his pocket he threw one at Joe and the other at Mary, they stared down at the bar and then back at Bruce. "Eat up good nutrients and stuff," Bruce said putting two thumbs up.

Both Mary and Joe raise an eyebrow but proceed to devour the bar, faith finally got out of the bus and walked up to Bruce, "when are we heading out" she yawned.

"Right now, there's a brownish van parked by the prison entrance we can take."

Everyone nodded and started to make their way towards the brown van, once they got to the van they saw its colour pallet of three colours, a dark brown body, a lighter brown pattern near the top and gold near the linings of the van. Joe and Mary got in the front seat Mary being the driver, whilst Bruce and faith had to sit at the back. - The back of the van had two bench-like seats opposite each other placed near the back door - Bruce and faith sat next to each other, Mary started the engine and then the van sped off.

"Can I ask you a question," Bruce said turning towards Faith.

"What?"

"You know that day when I was shot on the shoulder and passed out, well how were you guys able to take me to the prison whilst fighting PEGGIES and also the fire right behind you?"

Faith froze in thought, "well...

Faith froze staring at the man below her, he was bleeding out fast. Mary May was next to him tears in her eyes as she pressed against his would when Faith glared up she saw that Joe was suppressing the cultists with an AKM, Faiths glare went back to Bruce she knew she had to do something but she was conflicted since it would show disloyalty to the father and the cult, Faith wanted to run but instead, she took off her overshirt and lightly shoved Marys hand off the shoulder, she then wrapped the overshirt around the shoulder tightly and then glared at Mary, "We have to move now, we're going to die from the fire or from the cultists if we don't make a run for it." Mary stared at her and then nodded as she made her way towards Joe, they both stared back at Faith and back at each other. Eventually, Joe ran over and tossed Bruce into his shoulders. "Careful" Faith hissed.

"Sorry, but you go on ahead with Mary I'll follow behind," Faith nodded and followed Mary the surrounding area was just burnt grass and bodies it seemed like all the cultists were killed, it was a horrific view for Faith but she took a deep breath and soldiered on. She and Mary eventually came across a Ute that could fit at least 4 people, Faith hopped on back while Mary got in the driver's seat, Faith looked back towards the cabin and saw Joe slowly carrying Bruce towards the Ute. Faith opened the door when Joe finally got to the Ute, Joe slowly took Bruce off his shoulder and gently placed Bruce into the seat Joe wrapped the seatbelt on Bruce but Faith decided to sit close to him and wrapped an arm around him so he doesn't fall into his would.

Mary revved the engine and set off towards an unknown destination, it was still around night time so Faith just sat back and enjoyed the starry sky, after a while, she heard Bruce groan and he fell towards her Faith tried to stop him but his body mass was a bit too much for her, but she did put in enough pressure so he didn't fall on his shoulder too hard, she tried to pull him back up but she was too fatigued to and she eventually gave up. Eventually, Faith sees the prison and at that point, she wanted to jump out of the Ute.

By the time Faith was done explaining what had happened they pulled up by what remained of Ari's cabin, everyone hopped off the van and started to walk towards the scorched building, looking around the premises Faith could see some burnt up bodies most of them were burnt to crisp some still had flesh but maggots were feasting on the corps, Faith wanted to vomit but she managed to hold it back.

There was a little wooden shack that still remained, the door was metal and needed a key to get through, but Bruce was already picking at the lock, he moved the rake pin back and forth after a minute or so bruce took the pinout and turned the tension tool unlocking the door, Bruce walked in first Faith followed closely behind. Inside they saw there was a little hatch that led down to a bunker, the entrance had 4 bunk beds one near each corner of the room waking forward there was a bathroom to the right and a small room opposite it the room had a small Tv and a VCR player sitting at the top. The whole room was packed with goodies such as medical supplies, weapons, ammo, food and miscellaneous items, each item was placed in its own corner neatly inside of a box. Both Bruce and Faith started to go through the food and medical supplies, most of the medical supplies were full and the tinned food was still in good shape and far from the expiry date Faith continued to rummage through the other supplies as well.

A couple of moments later Joe and Mary came down and they all started to pass the boxes to each other, Bruce and faith pass the boxes to Joe who gives them to Mary so she can load them in the van, they spent at least an hour or so until they collected all the food, medical supplies, ammo and weapons the miscellaneous items were just posters or just some old VCR tapes that had no use to anyone. Once they finished Joe summoned Bruce into the small room and told Mary and Faith to head back to the van to see if there was anything worth a while. Mary and Faith both stood outside staring at the burnt building.

Faith turned at stared at Mary, "You want to see what they are talking about?"

Mary hesitated before replying, "Yeah sure"

They both snuck down the ladder and crept towards the doorway of the room, they could hear a faint voice coming from what they assumed was the TV when they got there they peeked and saw both Joe and Bruce squatting down staring at the TV screen when faith glared at the screen she saw John tied up to a wooden chair blood staining his clothes and his face covered with cuts and bruises, Faith wanted to run but she was paralyzed unable to move she continued to stare at the TV nothing was happening other than John's muffled breathing but after a minute a familiar figure came on screen it was Ari, he smirked as he glared at the camera.

"Okay, welcome all to Ari's special interrogations, here we have the infamous John Seed," Ari said pointing towards John. "So Mr, Seed tell me what's the reason you joined the cult?"

John grunted and spat on Ari's face, furious Ari grabbed John by the head and struck a fist right on his nose John squirmed and started to look down.

"Okay let me ask once more before I lose my patience why did you join the cult?" Ari said taking out a remote.

John stared back at him and grinned, "I certainly gave you the wrong sin... you... your not wrath, your Greed, with hints of Pride." John looked down again.

Ari didn't seem interested in what John said and walked off pressing a button on his remote, in the background, there was a sound of a gate opening and loud growls, John looked up his face covered in fear, he started to try and break free from the chair but it was no use, he then screamed at Ari calling him a psychotic bitch, moments later 4 white wolves emerged from the corner of the screen they all growled as the slowly prowled towards him.

One wolf pounced on him from the front biting John's calf, He let out an ear-piercing scream. The rest of the pack followed and all pounced on him, one bit at his arm, another at his shoulder and the last took a bite at his thigh. The room was filled with John's loud screams of agony as he begged for mercy. Eventually, the wolves got even more feisty, one of the wolves sunk its teeth in John's neck and tore out the tender flesh, blood squirted everywhere drenching the wolves white fur to crimson. John lost all movement and his head tilted downwards he either had died or lost consciousness due to the pain, eventually, all the wolves joined up and bit into his left leg 3 were tugging at the leg while the other was biting into the thigh trying to weaken the structure of the leg, after a long minute the leg was torn off, more blood started to sputter everywhere covering the floor, three of the wolves all dug into the leg tearing off the flesh like it was paper, but the fourth wolf went behind John and bit into his head the wolf tugged, and tugged and eventually the tendons of the neck started to tear, the blood streamed down John's neck as if it was a waterfall, the head was eventually peeled off of John's torso which created a large sputter of blood from the neck-

Faith had enough she tried to run away but ended up doubling over and vomiting all over the floor, she felt a firm grip on her left shoulder, she wiped her lips with her sleeve and turned around, she saw Bruce with a concerned look.

"Why did you guys come down here?" He asked

Faith brushed his hand off, "The two of you coming down here, excluding Mary and I just seems suspicious."

"Well we had a feeling that the tape was about John so we didn't want you to see, but anyway we don't have time to waste let's get going now we gotta get more supplies."

They all headed to the ladder no one spoke and the only noise made was the sound of footsteps, they all got out and went towards the van everyone stuck close to each other Bruce and Joe at the front, Mary and Faith at the back. They all jumped in the van but this time Bruce and Joe both sat at the front and Mary and Faith stayed in the back seat. Faith saw that about half the van space was taken up from the supplies, if they went to a decent location the van most likely would be packed.

Faith could see through the small gaps in between the boxes that Bruce and Joe were gabbing on about something, at first she was concerned but eventually, she brushed it off and her focus drifted to her thoughts, 'why was she here, and why did she feel safe whenever shes with Bruce' the question ringed on her mind for what felt like a minute or two until she shook her head and started to focus on her surroundings, she saw Mary study her face, embarrassed faith looked away towards her torn blue jeans.

The van started up and they were off, Faith started to twidle with her thumb and began to think about a melody, closing her eyes she imagined a time when she was younger around the age of 5 or so, Faith reimagined the scenes she saw and how innocent that girl was until she grew older. She snapped back to reality when the van came to a halt.

Faith got out and smelt in the air, from the smell she knew there was water nearby, she looked around and saw three structures, there was a garage to the far left and nearby the garage was a little house that had the American flag hung on one of the walls, the final structure was to the right it was a little shack and right in front of it was a really shallow lake.

Faith went over to the small hut to see what was inside she saw that the windows and the door were all bordered off, she'd probably have to use a crowbar or something to get in so instead Faith went towards the small house, the front door had flowers hung on it but Faith wasn't able to get in since it was also bordered off, she scouted the exterior of the house but still, there was no entry point every window or door was bordered off.

Faith also checked the garage but that was also closed off, eventually, Faith went back to Bruce and the gang they were all in a circle pulling out equipment to break in, Joe pulled out a shovel with a smiley face on the tip, Bruce and Mary both pulled out a metal baseball bat. They all went over to the front door of the house and took turns breaking down the door. Faith just stood there as the three went back and forth attacking a door, eventually, Bruce offered if she wanted to help which Faith delightedly accepted she grasped the bat tightly and ran towards a window she assumed it would be a better area to attack since the windows were only bordered off by a single sheet of defence.

She swung at the window breaking the glass and the wooden frame also snapped off too, Faith felt all the stress and anger fade from her body, she started to swing harder and harder she eventually heard a crack as the board slowly started to break, she swung the bat a few more times until there was a decently large hole in the board. She hit the board a few more times and eventually the hole was big enough for her to fit through...

Dudes note: The chapter's meant to be like 10k words but I literally forget to write so yea this chapter is gonna be split in two I guess...