A Place To Call Home

The End Is Nigh!

Three Weeks Later

Ellie's feet were killing her, she had come so far in the last three weeks. She had calculated that it would take her 330 hours to travel by foot from Wyoming to Santa Barbara, California. Fourteen days, but since she had to sleep and eat it added extra days onto her journey. The journey had been straight forward at first, she hadn't really encountered anything too serious unless you count a few Infected people along the way. But when Ellie reached Utah she ended up hiding in an abandoned building's basement for a few days due to a Hunter attack on a small community, the aftermath had been horrific for the surviving settlers. She buried most of the dead, but the Hunters soon returned.

Ellie had escaped unnoticed, she had found a bicycle and managed to distance herself from the Hunters. The bicycle had soon become her trusty rusty steed, it saved her poor feet from aching. It had brought her all the way to Nevada, she was on day twenty-eight now. The sign to the city of Last Vegas had fallen apart decades ago, the road ahead of her was broken and abandoned. She dismounted her bicycle and wheeled it through the cities deserted streets, she was amazed by the sights that greeted her. The Main Strip of Las Vegas was mesmerising, it was falling apart but it was vest. Overturned cars on the streets and yellowing palm trees, the giant hotels were derelict. There were restaurants and stores lining the different streets, she even saw a sign posts directing the way to a casino. She couldn't help but admire the city, it must have been beautiful before the infection took hold of the world. It wasn't long until Ellie stopped near an overturned car, she rested her bicycle against it and took her journey from her backpack. She wanted to sketch some of the street, the fake Effle Tower caught her attention in the distance. 

" I wish you could see this Dina..." Ellie said.

Sketching the outline of the structure Ellie soon had the perfect drawing in her journey, she then wrote a little piece about Las Vegas. She put her journal back into her backpack and took a sip of her water, she needed to get through this city before nightfall crept across this ghost town. Ellie had seen some decapitated Infected people hanging upside down from a traffic light a few blocks back, she was unsure if there was any Hunters or hostile groups in this area. But she wanted to check out a few of the store before left, she was running low on food supplies. Getting back onto her bicycle Ellie began cycling down the bumpy Main Strip of Las Vegas, she careful maneuvered herself around fallen palm trees and broken statues on the road. She kept on riding until she reached the most massive building she had ever seen in all of her life, she stopped her bicycle dead and rested her feet on the ground. She looked at a sign and read the name of the building, it was called The Bellagio. 

Ellie looked up at the building with amazement, it was impressive. The building's doors were boarded up, it's huge windows were blacked out and old blood splatters stained the sidewalk. She looked over at the vest fountain outside of the building, it was filled with dark gooey water. Her attention was soon caught though when she heard a snarling sound, it sounded like it was coming from inside the building. Resting her bicycle against an over turned hotdog stand she walked over to the boarded up doors, she rested her hand against the wood and listened to the sounds coming from inside of the building. Snarls and groans erupted from behind the boarded up doors of the hotel, it sounded like there was thousands of Infected trapped inside of this old hotel casino. She backed away from the boarded up door when she felt it vibrating beneath her hand, she hurried over to her bicycle and mounted it. She needed to get far away from this building, it was dangerous. She began cycling around the large fountain and turned left when she reached the Main Strip, she was soon halfway down the street. She was following the signs that would lead her to the Las Vegas Freeway, that was one of the main routes she was taking to get to Santa Barbara. She stopped when reached the end of one street, she noticed a small convenience store. She needed to check it for some supplies, the store looked like it had been overturned decades ago but it was worth a shot.