Two Alive, стр. 3

Miles sighed and they both began to creep through the woods, staying low and sticking close to trees as they made their way to the voices. When the talking started to get louder and turned into shouting, Miles and Antonio came on a small circle of people with three men standing at the front of it with assault rifles pointed at the others.

“Franklin you don’t have to do this!” A man was standing between the guns and what looked like maybe his son and a woman.

“Screw that! Fuck this bitch! It’s her fault my brother’s dead!” Franklin was leading the other two men with rifles; he was hysterical as he waved his gun back and forth.

“You can’t blame Nicole for what happened back there! Those things were everywhere! We’re lucky we made it out alive. Those monsters ambushed us!”

The woman, Nicole, had tears streaming down her face but she wasn’t backing down. “I kicked his ass because he thought he could put his hands on me! But that had nothing to do with what happened to him!”

“You fucking bitch!” Franklin raised his weapon on her, but the pacifist stepped between them again. “Move Danny!” Franklin yelled.

“Everyone just calm down!” The pacifist, Danny, continued, “We have to get back to the store! We can’t stay out here any longer and we can’t fight each other!”

“We’re lost out here! We’re lost and those things are following us!” One of the men with a rifle was looking around, panicked. “We shouldn’t have come out looking for those people!”

“It’s her fault! If she didn’t sling her pussy all around my brother woulda never met this whore and he’d still be alive! He passed out after what she did to him and when those freaks attacked--”

“Screw you, you asshole!” Nicole spat back at him.

“Franklin, c’mon! Don’t do anything you’re going to regret! Please!” Danny was pleading and trying to get the men to lower their weapons.

“You think you’re some hot shit because that bastard Carver gave you a gun and you idiots get to play soldier!”

“Fuck you!” The last man with a rifle finally spoke. “I am a soldier.”

“Then where the hell were you when David tried to rape me!” Nicole fired at him.

The dark man just shook his head, “You two were fuckin’ so much, how the hell was I supposed to know it was going bad? All your fighting and yelling probably brought those things to us!”

The panicked man spun around when he thought he heard something in the trees. He was shaking like a leaf. “Oh shit! Did you hear that? They’re coming! They’re coming!”

“Shut the fuck up Gerald!” Franklin shouted, tightening the grip on his gun.

“Franklin, please!” Danny put his hand up, still trying to deescalate the situation.

Things were intensifying as Nicole shouted at the dark man and at Franklin while the men argued back. Everyone was so involved in the dispute. Except the young boy, who had seen Antonio leaning out from behind a tree.

“Hey, who’s that?” The teen spoke and in that brief moment, shots rang out.

Franklin had pulled the trigger on his gun and shot Danny through the stomach.

“No!” The boy shouted.

Whether it was an accident or on purpose, Nicole wasn’t going to wait and find out. She pulled free her handgun and shot Franklin in the leg. Franklin dropped down to one knee and she shot him in the face. The dark man looked at her and she looked at him. He raised his gun and she raised hers. They both fired, both hit their targets and both fell to the ground. Three lurking infected came running through the trees towards the people; no doubt drawn over by the shouting and the gun fire. They jumped on the frozen Gerald and he tried fighting them off, shoving them with his rifle.

Danny was on the ground, holding his stomach and turned to the boy. “Run! Run!” Blood was bubbling in his mouth.

The boy reluctantly took off running into the woods.

Miles and Antonio stayed out of sight through the whole ordeal and didn’t step out until it was only Gerald, fighting off the infected alone. The two brothers made their way over and Miles promptly went to checking the bodies of the dead while Antonio was putting down the half dead creatures who were looking to attack them. He put his gold gun away and used his knife to take out two of the monsters but left the last freak for Gerald to take care of. It only wanted him anyway.

“Help me!” Gerald pleaded and kept shoving away the growling creature.

Antonio laughed, “Bruh it’s only one of ‘em. You got a gun, you can’t kill it?”

Gerald tried firing his weapon, pulling the trigger repeatedly, but couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t shoot. Then the infected monster jumped Gerald and started tearing him apart with its bare hands. Gerald was useless with the assault rifle he was carrying. By the end of it, he was just a bloody mess of torn flesh and gargled screaming. The rotting creature pounded Gerald’s face in with big smashing fists and clawed at his chest with mindless killing intent. It wasn’t until Gerald’s screaming stopped that the creature stopped.

Antonio just shook his head, moseyed over to the creature as it stood up and drove his knife into its skull. “Pshh, hella weak.” He said, looking down at what was left of Gerald.

Miles stopped his gathering when he heard a loud cry of pain coming from the trees.

“Ooooh! Yeah! He stepped on one of them bear traps out there!” Antonio was nearly leaping for joy that someone actually got caught in one of the bear traps he and the old man set up. Those traps never caught anything and it was half