Never how we imagined
Chapter TWO - Dawn.
The darkness was soon replaced by a familiar orange light that pushed through the boarded windows into the eyes of the three sleeping figures. “Morning” I muttered noticing that Whetu was already up standing by the door, “morning my Bro” he replied. The other two stirred from their sleep “dammit… alright im up” Tequila said groggily, pulling the blanket up to her chest and sitting up. “Well... where are we heading next?” I asked Whetu “Hastings is a ghost town” Whetu looked at his the map, surveying the possible places we could head and marking hastings with a giant red X “The next closest place is probably Palmerston north so we will head there”
We all nodded.
“Leah you're on breakfast, you and Tequila go to the next few houses and try to find some food alright” Whetu said with command “Aaron you go find a car, ill pack up all of our stuff, you know the drill. Radios on at all time… don’t ever let you guard down”
“Hai! Hokage-sama!” I said sarcastically “Will do haha”
The other two joined in on the laughter, Whetu just stood there frowning through squinted eyes.
I walked outside first, just me, my forged iron rebar, my dads hunting knife and a 22. Strapped to my back, I noticed two Zee’s down the south end of the street “two Zee’s 50 meters away… all mine!” I yelled enthusiastically taking my .22 aptly named 'Longsword' off my back and taking aim, the two zombies heard me loud and clear and started sprinting for their next meal
*BANG*
“One….
*click*
*BANG*
..Two hehe” I smiled.
“HRRRRRNNNNGGG!!!”
"What the!" I jumped forwards in fright away from the sound “DAMMIT! One snuck up on me! reload!” I thought “RELOAD!”
Too late
The zombie pounced knocking me over, my gun slid onto the pavement, the hunter gave a bloodthirsty scream before viciously clawing at me, all I could do was bring my arms up to block my face “AHHH! HELP!” I yelled towards the house
A flash of light was all I saw before the zombie stopped attacking me and went limp, blood trickled slowly from its mouth. “huh?” I thought… “How did it…” then I noticed the small star hanging out of its left temple “WHETU! YOU COULD HAVE KILLED ME!” I yelled over at the door, a figure walked smugly out from the darkness of the house. “Hey a thanks is in order… don’t you think? And besides! I don’t ever miss!” he retorted
“I hate when you use shuriken though… I was there when we were practicing! Don’t tell me you don’t miss!… but thanks bro” I submitted
“Yeah, watch your back from now on aye?”
I walked over and picked up longsword of the ground, strapping it to my back I scanned the street for any vehicles… none. I looked at my forearms… bits of skin were missing but nothing too bad… hurt like hell but its better than a bite. I pulled my rebar blade out from its sheath and walked down the street, I looked down the next few roads… “nothing”
I pushed the big grey button on my radio “Nothing bro, im coming back, we can search after breakfast as a group… sweet”
…
…
“Yeah my bro the girls are back, Ill come meet you on the corner”
“Sweet”.
“Really! Eggs, baked beans and toast ? Oh jeez” I said mouth watering “AWESOME!” I laughed, my stomached growled at the feast that lay before me “Yeah I know right! YUMMY!” Tequila smiled “Well lets not waste any time!” Whetu said with a hint of excitement in his voice “Thanks Leah!” He added turning to the youngest in the group “Yep, no uh problem” She said with a big smile on her face.
“THANK YOU FOR THE FOOD!” We all said in unison
After breakfast we gathered our backpacks, we didn't have much to carry but our weapons and spare clothes, we each had Water, a Torch, Walkie Talkie, Markers, Fire lighters and other miscellaneous items. That’s all we really needed, every day we would drive around cities and towns looking for survivors, looking for supplies and before 4pm we would find shelter in a house. From there we would board up all the windows, doors and any other way in and out. Eat dinner and then sleep.
It was the same everyday, wake up, search, lunch, search, dinner, hide…
Survive.
END Chapter TWO
