"Oh crap! The radiator hose smoked again!" explained David as he looked at the engine compartment of the vehicle.
The engine of the RV was smoking. Lana rushed to David's aid and looked at the RV. She looked at the engine and noticed that the radiator hose has popped open. She knew that she could fix it, but only temporarily, and that a new radiator hose would survive much better in the long run.
"David, it looks like I can patch the radiator hose back in the engine and have it sealed tightly, but it would be a matter of time before the seal causes the hose to pop again. You're going to need a new radiator hose for the RV," explained Lana.
"How do you know so much about fixing engines? Aren't you only six years old?" asked David.
"Almost seven."
"Trust me, she can fix the RV engine, Now, what is it that you need?" asking Lori.
"I need a sealant for the hose. I think you guys need to scavenge for a new radiator hose. Meanwhile, you should also get a plastic tube for siphoning fuel from any of the nearby vehicles," said Lana.
"You got it, Lana. Alright, everyone! David and Lana are going to work together on fixing the engine! I need people to come with me to grab supplies that we need! And Lisa, work on siphoning the gas because I know you have a plastic tube!" commanded Lori.
"I can come with you," said Lincoln.
"Sorry, but I'm looking for someone older, I don't want to risk your life," responded Lori.
"I can come with you!" explained Wavehead.
"So can I," said D.
"I guess I'm coming as well," said Luna.
"So am I," said Bobby.
"No, Bobby," said Lori harshly, placing her hands on her hips. "You're staying here to watch Darcy and Clyde."
"I'm going with you too," said Becky.
"Alright, So Luna, Becky, Wavehead, and D! You guys are going to come with me to grab a radiator hose. Benny, Tad, Missy, Richard, and Sam are going to split up from us to search for a gas station or a repair shop. Alright, sit still and do not go anywhere until everyone is back," ordered Lori.
"Okay, but I got something important to say," said Jason.
"What is it Jason?" asked Lori.
"The herd is going to be here soon," replied Jason.
Every member of the group was shocked by this some were scared.
"How much time do we have before the herd comes," asked Lori.
"I don't know the exact time maybe a couple of hours at best," said Jason.
"Okay if the herd gets here before we get back run and hide somewhere safe until we get back," ordered Lori.
Lori, Luna, Becky, Wavehead, D, Benny, Tad, Missy, Richard, and Sam ran further in the town and disappeared from the group's sight. The thunder grew closer and closer with every passing minute. The two groups found nothing but roamers when they scavenge the tiny town. It was going to take a couple of hours to cover the whole town. And it did take a couple of hours.
Time was ticking as Bobby was playing with Darcy. As Dana talked with Leni, still depressed from what happened in Ann Arbor. As Lincoln, Ronnie Anne, Tabby, Liam, and Zach tried to cheer up Rusty and Lucy. As Clyde was talking to Lynn and Luan, while Luan was holding Lily. As Chunk was strumming Luna's guitar slowly. As Sergei was cooking for the group. As Francisco talked with Carol. As Lisa taught Vonda how to siphon fuel from vehicles. As Lola and Jason watched Lana and David fix other infractions in the engine mechanism. As the herd came closer and closer to the group, Lisa and Vonda were able to gather more fuel for Chaz's car, Vanzilla, and Chunk's car. And when they filled up the fuel in the cars, the thunder of the herd was sensed by the group.
"Oh shit..." whispered Lynn.
The herd ran as fast as it could, which was still a weak running speed compared to the ground. However, in less than a minute, they would arrive at the vehicles.
"Everyone! Run to the town! Go! Go! Go!" yelled David as he ran to Chunk's car.
"What are you doing," yelled Lynn.
"I'm going to lead the herd away! Go!"
"I'm going to lead them away too!" said Sergei as he went inside Chaz's car.
They drove slowly as the rest of the group ran by the RV. Everyone grabbed their weapons and many ran into town. Lynn, Clyde, Lincoln, and Ronnie Anne stayed and fought for the roamers. Lynn shot three arrows, each hitting the roamer's head. Ronnie Anne swung her tiny pickaxe at the roamers while Lincoln swung his large sledgehammer at the smaller roamers. Chunk, Bobby, Darcy, Vonda, Lucy, Tabby, Liam, Zach, and Rusty ran into town. Luan, holding Lily, Francisco, and Carol dashed out of the right side of the road, through some thick bushes, and into a different part of the town. As soon as the roamers started piling up, Lynn, Lincoln, Clyde, and Ronnie Anne ran away from the road, in a small declining hill that would lead to another road below the highway. They hid behind the bushes that hid the hill as well. Jason, Dana, Lisa, Lola, and Lana were left behind as they weren't able to run into town. There were roamers that emerged from the surrounding areas that cut them off from the rest of the group.
"Oh crap! Fight your way into the RV!" yelled Dana as she took out her machete.
The roamers surround the RV. Dana turned back to run towards the town. She used her machete to kill the roamers in front of her.
Jason pulled out his buck knife and combat knife and kill any roamers that got to close to Lisa, Lola, and Lana.
"Okay, run for the town, but as soon as they start to from into groups that are too much to handle, fun to the right, away from the road!" yelled Dana.
"It is already to many to handle!" yelled Lisa.
"She right we need to move now!" yelled Jason.
Dana swung her machete. Jason swung his knife's. Lana swung her heavy wrench. Lola swung her golf club. Meanwhile, Lynn, Lincoln, Clyde, and Ronnie Anne were sneaking by the herd. They were heading away from town, in hopes that they could go behind the herd. Lynn grabbed her baseball bat, which Clyde was carrying on his back.
"This is not good. Not good at all!" whispered Lynn.
"Alright, keep calm, everyone!" whispered Ronnie Anne, who was having trouble staying come herself.
Lincoln turned on his walkie-talkie. However, Lynn quickly smacked it out of Lincoln's hand.
"Lynn, What the heck!" angrily whispered Lincoln.
"No! You're going to alert the roamers! We need to stay quiet," whispered Lynn.
"Lori? Are you there?" asked David through the walkie-talkie. "Stay away from the highway! A herd arrived, and we are currently split up!"
A few roamers heard the walkie-talkie go of. Lynn smacked her forehead, picked up the walkie-talkie, and lead her small group through the bushes. They held tight to their weapons and attacked the roamers that came close to them. Lynn peeked through the bushes and noticed that the herd was still moving along the highway, following David and Sergei. She turned off the walkie-talkie.
"Yes, David, I'm here! I was just heading back to the vehicles!" exclaimed Lori through the walkie-talkie. "Who is with you? Where are you?"
"I'm with Sergei. I'm inside of Chunk's car, leading the herd away. I'm going to pass through the town and then lead them to the road that leads to Lake Erie. I'm going to make a U-turn after that."
"Where are the rest of the group?"
"I told them to run into town. They should be away from the road as well."
"Yup," replied Bobby. "Not all of us ran through the town thought! My sister, Lynn, Clyde, Lincoln, Jason, Dana, Lola, Lana, Lisa, Luan, Lily, Francisco, and Carol were separated from us!"
"What! Well, what happened to them?" asked Lori.
"I don't know! We have to go back!" yelled Bobby.
"Don't worry! Stay where you are!" whispered Carol into the walkie-talkie.
Francisco, Carol, Lily, and I are safe. Well, safe enough. We ran away from the road!" said Luan into the walkie-talkie.
"Alright, and... oh... my... god," gasped Lori as she looked off into the distance.
Behind David and Sergei were hundreds of roamers, all chasing the two cars. She quickly led the group away from the road. However, her group now had to face small groups of roamers themselves as they were lurking in the town. Lori held her golf club and stuck a roamer in the head once. However, It only managed to crack parts of the skull. Luna smashed the roamer's skull by swinging her crowbar repeatedly.
"It hasn't been dead for a long time. The skull is still thick," informed Luna.
Becky walked up to a roamer, grabbing its throat and, using one of the Bowie knives that she found in the crate, stabbing the roamer through its left eye. She stumbled to the group and removed the knife from the eye.
"We can do that," panted Becky.
"I can't risk that!" yelled D.
"Alright, stay back then," said Richard as he moved closer to a roamer wearing a blue dress.
Richard quickly grabbed its throat and stabbed its eye as fast as he could before the roamer grabbed his arm. The knife was a little difficult to pull out, which would cause him to stumble to the ground as the roamer dropped to the sidewalk.
"Good thing I don't have to worry about that," said Benny, drawing his katana.
He sliced off the head of a roamer, sending it flying thought the air. The head managed to survive the impact of hitting the ground, so Sam knelt down to the ground and cruised the head with her ice pick. Tad swung his machete through the side of their heads, making a large cut and causing their brains spill out through the cut, killing them. Missy mimicked Becky and Richard's methods dispatched a roamer. After stabbing it through the eye, she turned the knife quickly and successfully pulled it out before she stumbled to the ground with the roamer.
"This way," yelled Lori running to a different street to the right side of the town.
"Oh no! What do we do? What do we do?" shouted Lola, panicked from the surrounding roamers.
"There! Run through the bushes! I'll cover you guys! Jason you go to and protect them for any roamers! Go!" yelled Dana.
Jason, Lisa, Lola, and Lana ran through the bushes on the right side of the road and ran halfway down the hill. Dana chopped more skulls and followed Jason and the girls. She ran too fast, as the roamers were close on her tail, and fell down the hill to the road. She released her machete as she fell and crashed into a half-crushed car.
"OW!" yelled Dana in agony.
"DANA!" yelled Jason worried about her.
"Oh no," whispered Lynn, as she watched Dana fall from a hundred yards away.
Jason, Lola, and Lana ran down the hill towards Dana. Lisa picked up Dana's machete and lightly jogged down the hill. Dana whimpered as she moved away from the car. The dent that she created had spots of blood on it. Not only was there a dent, but there was also a bloody piece of the door that stuck out like a spike. She looked down on the left side of her abdomen. Upon noticed that her shirt was bloody, she took of her striped shirt and tore her black dress enough to see her cut. The cut was about half the size of her hand. She tried standing up, but she moaned in agony when she did. She stayed down on the ground, with blood leaking onto her hands. Lisa arrived next to Dana and took out a bottle of aerosol wound spray. She sprayed it on Dana's cut. She took out handkerchiefs and covered the wound. She looked back at the bushes and noticed the roamers following them. The roamers stumbled and fell down the hill.
"Lynn! We gotta help them!" whispered Lincoln.
Lynn let out a yell of frustration.
"Alright! Let's go!" yelled Lynn.
She took out her bow and shot an arrow at the roamers that stood up from the fall. She missed her first shot and noticed the incoming roamers near her. Ronnie Anne, Lincoln, and Clyde were already halfway between Lynn and Dana. Lynn ran with her bow and followed Lincoln. One hundred yards was not too hard for her, so she actually managed to reach Dana first. Lynn dropped her bow and beat the roamers with her baseball bat. Ronnie Anne and Lincoln lifted Dana up. She moaned in pain and shrugged to walk.
"Oh my gosh! Look over there!" yelled Carol.
Luan looked behind the bushes a couple of hundred feet away. She saw Lynn grabbed Dana while Lincoln fought for the stray roamers that were to close to them. Clyde was holding Lynn's bow and baseball bat. Lisa was carrying Dana's machete and looking at her bloody shirt with worry. Jason pulled out both his M1911's and started shooting the roamers. Dana was sweating intensely as she bit her teeth, holding back her pained moans.
"We gotta help them!" explained Francisco.
"Yes! We gotta! Let's go, guys!" ordered Luan.
Carol and Francisco ran ahead of Luan. They want Luan to stay behind since she was carrying Lily. Lily started crying, which a roamer near Luan heard.
"Oh no! Please, shut up, Lily. Please, please, please!" whispered Luan as a few roamers popped out of a few houses.
Ronnie Anne saw Carol and Francisco running to them. She also saw Luan about to be surrounded by roamers. She ran to her aid. Francisco helped lifted Dana.
"Oh my god! OW!" yelled Dana. "Just let me go! I'm holding you guys back!"
"We're not doing that!" yelled Lynn.
The roamers were getting closer and closer. Dozens of roamers were following Lynn's group. However, many roamers separated from the herd that was following David and Sergei in order to follow the ones that chased Lynn's group. The dozens of roamers were starting to combine as hundreds of roamers.
"Over there!" yelled Carol as she pointed at a mini-markit named Washington mini-markit.
Meanwhile, Ronnie Anne swung her pickaxe at the roamers that were close to Luan. Luan was running to the mini-markit carrying a sobbing Lily. Ronnie Anne followed her and entered the mini-markit.
"Oh no! What happened to the herd?" asked David.
"It looks like half of the herd is going of the road and into that direction," said Sergei.
"Isn't that where Carol and Luan said they were at?" asked David.
"Guys! The herd is heading in their direction! I can see it from where I'm at!" yelled Bobby.
"Well, what are you guys going to do?" asked Lori.
"We're going to lead the herd that we already have, away from the road and into the lake. That might take a couple of hours," said David.
"Alright! We gotta set still, and wait for the guys to come back! I can't drive the RV yet. We can't risk attracting the herd away from you guys right now!" declared Lori.
Lynn and Francisco ran as fast as they could to get Dana inside the market. The roamers were catching up and surrounding the group. Lisa handed Dana's machete Carol. She quickly dispatched the roamers around her. She entered the mini-markit quickly. Jason and Lincoln helped Lisa escape the roamers. Lola and Lana fought for the roamers together. The roamers overcrowded the streets. Ronnie Anne spotted two roamers behind the counter. She quickly rushed over the counter to kill them, alerting the group to be cautious. Clyde, Lana, and Lola where separated from the group by a few yards since there was a well off roamers surrounding them. Clyde, Lana, and Lola fought to make an opening. Jason ran quickly out of the mini-markit to help Clyde, Lana, and Lola.
"Over here! Crouch and quickly move through there!" yelled Clyde as he pointed to an opening that led to the market.
Clyde pushed a roamer away and quickly rolled to the opening. Lana quickly ran and didn't have to crouch doe to her small size. Lola through the opening, only to have a roamer step on her pink dress. Lola stumbled to the group and a roamer lunged at her.
"No!" yelled Lola as she closed her eyes.