***DISCONTINUED**Outbreak [COLLAB]

[Ch 4] ✍️ Breaking into Springs🏃‍♀️

Okay so we've met a man named Seth, and he's apparently immune to whatever shitty infection started all of this. We walk for a while until we see the mall's sign in the distance. It reads:

SPRING HILLS SHOPPING CENTER

We've arrived. Most things are in
Some what alright shape. The automatic doors open with a jam of a crowbar. Once we get inside the mall, a flickering of lights greets us. Most things are damaged but the damage isn't too bad.

We spot a Whole-foods nearby us, and see some not-so empty shelves through the clear glass. We walk in the open doors and automatically start grabbing food items. Juice, mostly water, can food, dry snacks, basically anything we can find. Some of the fruits have gone bad though.

We pick up a light bag of dog treats for Nick. We can't carry too much though, the bags might get heavy. Tired from walking all day, we sit down next to one of the good lifting carts.

Suddenly Seth speaks, breaking the silence, "I'm going to look around the mall, can I take Nick with me?"
I tell him that Nick is probably tired, so I refused to let him take our dog.
Seth doesn't argue, he just walks out of the Whole-foods.
I turn to Ezra.
"Something's not right about Him"
"Who Seth?" He responds.
"No, Carl." He looks at me confused.
"It's obviously Seth Dumbass" I roll my eyes at him.

Ezra ignores my rude lash at him, and proceeds to ask me what's wrong. "I dunno..he just-Something's fucking off."
"I think your trust issues got the best of you" He tells me, before continuing, "It's the apocalypse Ellie, everyone's going to feel off" He finishes, crossing his arms.

I was about to snap back at him for mentioning my quote on quote trust issues-  But a wicked growling interrupted me, as it wasn't coming from Nick- Oh lord. See it wasn't just one zombie-it was TEN.

The creatures surround us, with no way to escape. "Ellie go for the vent!" Ezra calls out. We quickly grab wooden crates stacking them up to the vent which was a meter high. Ezra grabbed the crowbar from the side of my bag and jams the vent door open. We grab Nick's paw and he leaps up and into the vent. I crawl inside and reach for Ezra's arm. We make it safely inside the vent. The zombies at this point were clawing at the wooden crates, guess they are too dumb to climb.

We hurry inside the vent, crawling deeper by the second. Shit man this place is practically a MAZE.

We crawl left and right, almost running into a fan which could have killed us. After what seems like hours on end, we find another section of a vent. We look through the bar lines of the vent door. It was a clothing store, with closed glass doors and no zombies or Seth.

The vent door gets pushed open and Nick's the first to jump out. He lands in a line of clothing and Ezra panics. "Nick are you okay? I'm coming!" He quickly jumps out of the 4 feet high vent onto the floor. He hurts himself but rushes over to Nick. "Ezra you Dumbass..." I murmur. That idiot could have gotten seriously hurt. I cautiously slide out the vent, onto the nearest clothing table.

Ezra is busy with Nick when I see something strange. Outside the shop, Seth is so deathly close to a zombie. The strange thing? They aren't attacking him. He's on to something and I don't like it one bit.

Author's note:
Hello loves ❤️
A little announcement, I'm going to start writing in other POVs besides Ellie. Also this chapter has been renamed and rewritten. I wasn't super proud of this chapter, but I remade it so it's all good. Okay that's all for now, bye loves ❤️ 👋