Oblivion {n.h.}

Chapter 23.

The moon shines bright for us, illuminating every face, dead or alive.

I run to Josh, who is fumbling the car keys from his pocket. "We're leaving now, let's take the semi-truck, Perrie's jeep, and the ammunition truck." He yells at everyone and people start running to where they're supposed to be.

"WE'RE JUST GONNA LEAVE?" Harry screams over the noise of hungry walkers, inching closer and closer.

"We have to." I tell him, looking straight into his green eyes before running toward where the walkers are coming from.

Perrie, Zayn, Jade, and Liam sprint down to Perrie's Jeep to escape from there.

I decide to help everyone get where they're supposed to be and lead the way down to Perrie's jeep, cutting off zombie heads here and there, more coming by the second.

I hear a scream and turn to see a walker biting into Jade's arm. As if in slow motion, blood spurts in every direction and I open my mouth in fear.

A strike of pain goes through my head and heart, running back towards Jase and having no other choice. I kill the walker and ready her arm.

"LIAM TAKE OFF YOUR SHIRT, PERRIE, LIAM, ZAYN, FEND OFF THE WALKERS." I order them all as they do what they're told.

Liam removed his grey shirt and vest and handed it to me.  "Wha- What are you doing?" Jade screams over the noise at me.

"Saving your life." I yell back at her, handing her Liam's shirt to put in her mouth. I pull her arm to outstretch it a bit and slice the infected part of her arm.

The machete only goes about half-way through, and a walker inches closer to me, I stab it over my shoulder and between the eyes before wiping it's remains on my pants.

Focusing back on Jade's arm, it hangs low and I give it another swing before the whole thing comes off. I take the shirt out of her mouth and wrap it around what's left of her arm, letting the vest sit on top.

"GO, that'll stop the bleeding." I tell her and they make their way to a now clear-pathed jeep.

I run back up to the semi-truck where Carly, Harry, Gemma, and Fizzy fumble with the keys to open the back to climb inside. I stand there waiting for them to open it, to their surprise wasn't a very pleasant sight.

When the back opens, they meet a walker filled surprise. Every inch of the back is filled with walkers, hungry and angry.

Jacob must have set it as a trap, maybe even as a plan to release them at us after he was done here.

Carly grabs Fizzy and pulls her away, Harry trying to do the same thing with Gemma before a walker takes a juicy bite out of her neck and grabs ahold of her stomach.

Harry screams in agony, pulling her away and shooting the walker in the face, this only making it worse as it tugs Gemma skin off of her stomach.

Jackson and Josh show up by my side to kill the walkers that were awaiting inside the truck. The last one falls and I begin to kick and throw them out, making room for the truck's new guests.

Carly hops up front to start up the engine and go, Harry hauling Gemma up the ramp and into the back.

Felicite runs out of the crate, looking out in both directions, "FIZZY STOP!" Niall yells at her, grabbing her arm as she looks around the corner.

"LOU. LOU WE HAVE TO GO!" Fizzy coughs out at her older brother who is still slicing Jacob far into the ground. Jacob now only a pile of guts on the grass.

Louis was about to scream back before he realized it was his little sister, he drops what he was doing and runs into the truck after her, closing the shutter, tears and blood layer Louis' face, and he hold Felicite close to his heart, mourning.

The ammunition truck zooms around the corner next to the semi, Steven up front and Emily in the passenger seat. Instead of where we sit in the back of the bloody semi truck, the back of the ammunition truck sounds great.

Niall opens the back doors and motions for us to get in before Joshua runs off back toward the house.

"We gotta go!" Emily screams back through the window between the back and the seats up front.

"NOT WITHOUT JOSH!" Jackson screams back as we still shoot and slice back and forth.

Josh runs back outside to be greeted by a large herd of walkers blocking his way up and inside the ammunition truck.

"COME ON YOU CAN DO IT!" I scream at the man I could call my father.

"I can't!" He yells back, defending himself from all of the walkers between us and him.

"Oblivion," he pants out, punching and shooting walkers while he tries to scream for us at the same time, "you're alive, I've succeeded! Go on!"

"JOSH WE'RE NOT LEAVING WITHOUT YOU!" I yell back at him, tears coming out of my eyes.

"GO. GO BEFORE YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT." Josh agonizes, salty tears streaming down his face now too.

Carly nods at Steven and Emily from the front seats of both cars before the engine spurts and we begin to roll down the hill of the property.

Niall closes the shutter just as I see Joshua fall to the ground, and I'm left with the images of everyone we lost tonight; everyone we'll lose in the future.

Louis still clutches Felicite in his arms, rubbing her hair and she coughs, coughs, doesn't stop coughing.

I look between Niall and Jackson, all of us panting and sobbing, Josh was dead.

"He didn't fall into it." I tell them, a bit of accusation in my voice.

Both of their eyebrows similarly raise and question what I'm trying to say.

"Oblivion. Josh didn't fall into it." I tell them, a tiny fierce look on my face. "We won't forget him."