Chapter 1: Devil in a Mask (1/5)
Ellie: (Early that day.)
It was going to be another cold day, she could feel it. There was absolutely no rush to wake up from her warm bed. Especially with the company that she had.
"We should get up soon." Ellie told her company.
"Why?" Her company asked while kissing her on the cheek. "It's so comfy in here."
The company was her girlfriend Dina, who was cuddling with Ellie on her bed. Ellie just roll around to look at Dina's face and planted a kiss on her lips. Both of them were on their underwear.
"Since when you're so clingy?" Ellie asked with a smile.
"Since I couldn't see you for two weeks because of that cold." She replied. "Speaking of which, did you finally learn your lesson?"
"I already got enough shit from Joel, so please, don't you start too." Ellie replied in annoyance.
"Well, that's what you get for wearing canvas sneakers in the snow," Dina added as she moved herself to touch Ellie's feet. "You're lucky that we were there, you could have died of hypothermia." She started to caress her feet.
"I know, I'm sorry." Ellie touched Dina's thigh and started to caress her leg as well.
Dina then plants a kiss on Ellie's feet. Before moving back to the pillow besides Ellie's. "Are going on patrol today?" She asked.
"I want to, I'm tired of just laying on the bed all day." Ellie complained, "Hell, I even missed the celebration." She was very annoyed by that. "Speaking of which, how was it?"
"Oh... ummm... It was... okay." Dina looked a bit nervous about it, for some reason.
"Did something happened?" Ellie asked as Dina is not someone to get nervous easily.
"Ummm... I... drank more than I should and, kind of made a fool of myself." Dina explained while looking away, clearly ashamed of something.
Ellie touched her face. "It's okay, we don't have to talk about it." She assured her. She probably just got drunk and did something embarrassing, I better not pry.
Dina smiled at her. "I'm starving, let's see if Joel did some breakfast."
Ellie nodded and the two got up from the bed, they both put their clothes from yesterday back on.
Ellie put on a pair of blue jeans and a red long sleeve t-shirt.
Dina put on a pair of dark jeans and a black T-shirt.
They exit Ellie's room and made their way downstairs. Which they sense the smell of eggs. They quickly made their way to the kitchen where they saw Joel cooking the eggs that the smelled.
"Morning," Joel greeted them. "Fealing better?"
"Completely recovered, although I could use some breakfast for some extra recovery" Ellie joked.
"If that's the case, you two sit down while I finish." Joel replied as scrambled the eggs on the frying pan. "Tommy and Maria invited us for dinner tonight." He told them as they took their seats.
"Is it a special occasion or something?" Ellie asked.
"It's their Wedding anniversary." Dina told her.
"Oh shit, is it already?" They have dinners together on this occasion since Joel and Ellie started to live in Jackson.
"It was actually two days ago, but since you couldn't go because of your cold, they decided to delay until your recovery." Joel explained as he put the eggs on a plate.
"What? They didn't have to do that." Ellie replied a little frustrated as he put the plates for her and Dina.
"It wouldn't be the same without you there, Kiddo " Joel told her as he sat down as well.
Ellie took a bite of the scrambled eggs that Joel did. They tasted really nice.
After breakfast, all three of them decided to go find Tommy to check the patrol duty of the day.
"Are you sure, you're good to go?" Joel asked Ellie. This is the third time he asked that.
"Yes, I'm wearing boots this time." Ellie pointed out.
"Don't worry, if she catches another cold, I'll take the responsibility of nursing her back to health from you." Dina joked as they walked.
"Don't even joke about that, I don't wanna get sick again." Ellie complained.
They all kept walking through the streets while a few people wave at them. "So... Are you guys still paranoid about those guys that tried to invade us last week."
Apparently, one of Jessie's friends was patrolling a are up in the north and discovered group of bandits. Apparently Joel,Tommy and a few others took this bandits by surprise and killed most of them. But two of them escaped and they have been extra vigilant on the patrol duty.
"We have to be, they know our location and could come back to try again at any time." Joel told her.
"Jessie has been pretty annoying about that." Dina commented. "Like when he yelled at Fred the other day."
"To be fair, Fred was taking a nap during his patrol." Joel pointed out. "Honestly, Jessie has been throwing himself at work since you two broke up."
"It's been a year, and with Ellie now." Dina replied. "He really needs to move on."
"Do you think that he's still believes that you cheated on him with me?" Ellie asked.
"Probably." Dina replied with a smile. "But my conscious is clean, I broke up with him because I knew that I wanted to be with you."
Ellie smiled at her before they finally arrived at their destination.
Joel: (A few hours later.)
Joel and Tommy Miller decided to patrol their usual are in hopes of not finding anything. They were both riding their horses side by side as the snow fell from the sky.
"You sure Ellie was okay to go?" Tommy asked him.
"I took every precaution before letting her go on patrol, and I trust Dina to keep an eye on her." Joel told his brother.
"Good to know, are you two coming for dinner?" Tommy asked him.
"Definitely." Joel replied. "Ellie and I were working on some songs together while she was sick."
"Oh good, you guys can play for us after dinner then" Tommy replied with a smile.
Joel was about to say something else, but before he did. He saw something from afar. "Look." He pointed at the direction of it.
"What is that?"
The two brothers approached whatever it was. As they got close enough, they noticed that it was a gauze bandage, completely soaked in blood. It close to a tree and they could see a few drops of blood on the ground and some in the snow.
"Do you know where this path lead?" Joel asked as he has never been on this specific area before.
"To some custom build house, a man named Xander used to live there a few years." Tommy explained.
"Used to?" Joel asked.
"Died of kidney failure." Tommy answered. "What do you think?"
"Whoever's blood is this, it's probably taking refuge there." Joel suggested.
"Then we better take a look." Tommy replied.
Both brothers then followed the path that led to the abandoned house that Tommy mentioned. As soon as they got close, Joel couldn't help but think that the house was really nice looking.
It was a two floor building, with a big fence surrounding it. There was a dead tree in front of the house, right behind the fence. The house looked abandoned, with a hole on the wall and a broken window on the second floor.
Joel and Tommy noticed the trail of blood leading towards the entrance. Both come off of their horses and prepared their guns. But when they approached, they noticed that the fence door was locked with a chains.
"Shit, I don't think we can break that, without making a lot noise." Tommy spoke.
"There's got to be another way, let's look around a bit." Joel suggested. "Be on your guard, we don't know if whoever is bleeding is armed or not, " He added.
Both brothers then decided to check around for another entrance, they checked to see if there was any opening on the fence. Soon enough they circle around the house until they noticed something.
"Are those footsteps?" Tommy asked his brother.
"Yes." Joel replied.
"They're walking away from the house." Tommy pointed out. "Did he or she left?"
"Or there's two of them." Joel suggested. "Whoever's blood was that, I don't think that he simply stopped bleeding."
"He could have just bandaged himself." Tommy also suggested.
"AAAAAH! FUCK!" Both Joel and Tommy heard someone yelling out loud.
"Or not." Tommy added.
They noticed a small gap on the fence and decided to use it to get inside. They could see the back door of the house. Both approached slowly as they didn't know if whoever was inside was hostile or not. Joel opens the back door of the house and Tommy follows behind him, both trying to not make any noise.
The house on the inside looked really bad. The kitchen had dry blood on the floor and corroded objects, like the fridge and the oven.
Joel and Tommy passed through and made their way to the living room. Which was pretty empty with only a couch in there. A couch where a man was sitting down. The man was grunting in paim while gulping down a bottle filled with something. Which Joel assumes that it's alcoholic.
Tommy looks at Joel with a unsure expression. Joel looks at the man again and decides to approach him. But then, one of the boards on the wooden floor made a noise.
"Fox Boy?" The man asked. "Why did you came back?" He asked in confusion.
Joel pointed his gun at him in case, while wondering who is this Fox Boy.
"Again, with the quiet shit? They told me you and you're masked buddies were their best, but I'm yet to see anything coming from you." The man kept talking, thinking that Joel was someone else. Joel was sure that he was drunk. The man gulped down more alcohol before speaking. "Hell, I heard that your people actually conquered several regions of the U.S. Are you guys seriously aiming to take Seattle? I mean fuck, why do you even bother with this stupid town if you people have an army that big." Joel widened his eyes when he heard that. "Or is that all a load of bullshit, cause it's pretty unbelievable that a bunch of Spartan wannabes actually managed to accomplish something like that." He finally finished the bottle. "Maybe you're jus-" The man turned around and noticed that he wasn't talking to who he was thinking.
"Don't move." Joel told him as he aimed his handgun at him.
The man raised his arms. But then he reached for a gun that was besides him on the couch and pointed at Joel. Fortunately, Joel was quicker and managed to shoot the man first. The bullet landed on his forehead, he fell as soon as the blood started to come out of hole.
"Shit." That was all that Tommy said.
Joel was about to say something but was interrupted. "Mission Accomplished." Both brothers were surprised and pointed their guns at the direction of the voice. Joel then sighted something on the couch. A Radio. He picked up to check. "Hello." Joel spoke to the Radio but there was no response.
"Joel, there was someone else with him." Tommy spoke up as he checked around the living room.
Unfortunately, whoever was on the other side of the radio. Turned off, probably because of what Tommy said.
"What the hell is going on?" Tommy asked in deep confusion. "Masked buddies? Army that took over several regions of the U.S? Spartan wannabes?" He mentioned the things that the man said.
Joel didn't answer, he was in deep thought, trying to understand what exactly is going on. He looked at Tommy before speaking. "Whoever this Fox Boy is, he left a trail."
Thanks everyone who followed and favorited this story.
Answer to the questions:
Q: So how old is fox boy actually
Also hope despite the infected and all the other people left in the world our dear Oc is the most dangerous thing on the planet.
A: He's technically younger than Ellie.
Not the most dangerous thing on the planet but still extremely dangerous.
Q: I'm curious about this, something tells me that the story will play out differently.
Also, this Fox Boy seems like an interesting character. Looking forward or his interactions with Ellie and Dina.
A: Your suspicion is correct.
They won't exactly have the most warm introduction.
Q:
Cool, short but awesome start. I hope you don't get burned out from running multiple stories at once. Because it's amazing being able to maintain so many ideas.
Anyways there are a few grammar errors here and there but nothing that detracts from the story.
Having read some of your other stories now, one thing that stands out is the unique and original plotlines you make and how much depth they're given. Taking the summary of this story, Jackson falling forcing Ellie, Joel, and comp. to unknowingly walk right into the vengeful hands of Abby. Well, that's if Abby is part of this plot...hopefully? And getting whatever characters survived with them stuck right in the middle of the Seraphites and WLF. So looking forward to whatever you come up with.
Fox boy seems interesting too, I'm always up for oc characters, and you have a decent oc character gallery so far with your other stories. I wonder what the other of fox boy's people are like and if they'll survive or die, leaving him even more 'alone' than he already seems to be. Do they have actual names or did they forgo conventional naming? Either way, I'm looking forward to seeing Ellie and Dina interact with him and get past the mask.
Anyways sorry for rambling and being incoherent with my review. Just wanted to get this out before I forget. Thanks for the story, and hopefully later
A: Not really, the ideas are easy, the writing part that it's complicated because the story often doesn't come out as I wanted them to.
Grammer errors will always be there, as much as I hate to admit it.
Abby will be part of the plot, but in an extremely different way.
Let's just say that Fox Boy and the one behind the mask are two completely different people. Ellie and Dina will become close to the one behind the mask and not Fox Boy.
I don't mind, I love when people review my stories. (When it's not just pointless insults of course.)