Peril

Four.

AAAAAH! I slit their throat and slashed their heads. "Oh my god." I was nervous because there were already five zombies attacking me. My mind says run, but my feet says stay. Blood splashed through my body. It was horrible. The abhorrent smell occupied my nostrils.

Bang! A gunshot was heard from the distance, the zombies were distracted and someone pulled me away from the hoard of zombies. "Mhmmuhmmm!" I tried to scream but someone was covering my mouth. "Keep quiet. The zombies might hear us. We'll be dead meat."

I tried to calm down and looked at the person who just saved me from the zombies. He had bluish-green eyes, brown hair, and edged jawline. He reminded me of someone. " Colton?"

"Quiet! Do you want to die?" He whimpered.

I turn my head side to side indicating a 'no'. He rolled his eyes and mouthed " Follow me." He held my hand with a tight grip and I was making sure that I will make no unnecessary noises. For short, I'll just shut my mouth.

We went through a lot of places. We passed a cave, a river, and a big stone where I climbed the whole way through. When we reached the top, I was surprised with what I saw. "What is that place?"

"That's my home." He said.

All I could see were tall tin walls with barbed wires around it. There were lamp posts above it. "Are we gonna go there?" I poked him.

"Isn't it obvious? Haha you're funny Claer."

What did he just call me? Did he just called me by my nickname. "How did you know my nickname?" I asked him. He scowled at me. "Isn't it obvious?" Then he did a snap on his fingers. I laughed but then he stopped me because the zombies might hear us. "Come." He invited me to go to the gate or the main entrance of their compound.

He let me wear his jacket and asked me to cover my logo patch of my suit on my right chest. It says Skywalker Association. He said that it was for my safety and privacy. Then he knocked twice , a man with dark long beard opened the small window on the door. "PASSWORD." He murmured in a deep voice. "Sire Arclord." The door opened making unpleasant sounds.

" Where have you been Sir, your grandfather has been looking for you? And who's that?" The man asked in a deep voice.

"She's a survivor I found today. Don't worry she's clean and not infected."

The man, I guess the guard, let us in. I was curious with the password so I asked Colton. "Why that?"

"The what?"

"The password. And who's Sire Arclord?"

"Ahhh. You'll know, later." He didn't looked at me and kept walking. I was mesmerized with his facial features but what caught most my attention was his tattoo on the left side of his neck. "Claeris, stop checking me out." He smirked at me.

"What? No!" I looked away embarrassed that I was indeed checking him out. I could see a lot of row houses along the place we were passing by. Everyone seems to be asleep already.

After a 5 minute walk in the compound, I could see a big house made of wood. We were approaching towards it. I could see a sudden change of emotion on Colton's face. " Is this your house?" I asked.

"No. I mean yes but we're 4 in here." He shrugged his shoulders.

An old man dressed in an old navy long sleeves with a beret hat was waiting by the door step. "Colton. Where in the earth have you been? And who's this? Another girl? What the heck Colton!? It's already zombie apocalypse and yet you're still the same!?" He yelled at Colton. I stepped back and hid behind Colton's back.