Infection - Part I

Chapter 4.

"Una!" Tim shouted out as Luke was released to the ground. Jones immediately tended to him.

Tim managed to get Una free with one, swift hit. He put the person to rest with a single bullet to the head.

It was only then, as the person turned on its back that Tim got a closer look at what they were dealing with. Decomposition was present across its face. Its nose was no longer. The cartilage structure was gone. Its eyes were a white colour, just like those they saw on the dogs that chased after them. They all looked like corpses.

He found it hard to get his eyes off such a gruesome site. However, the barks that echoed through the air made him do just that. 

A dog jumped from the bush and immediately set Luke as its target, behind it followed 2 more. Pointing her gun at the dogs, she fired bullets at the animals before... Click, click, click. 

She ran out of ammo. 

But she had a knife by her holster. Pulling it out, she approached the attackers that were on her comrade as he cried for help.

She tried her best to get the attackers off of Luke, but with him becoming mute, she knew it was too late. 

As Jones tried to save her fellow officer, four more dogs joined the attack, feasting upon Jones too. It was too late for anyone else to react.

Not that they could react anyway as more and more of what looked like humanoid corpsed approached them.

More shots were heard, but one by one, more and more of the officers ran out of ammo before they were downed and feasted upon.

"We have to get out of here!" Valerie yelled, looking toward Tim. He gave her a nod.

They tried to save whoever was left, but as they looked back, they saw Una getting pulled back by bloodied hands. "Help!" was her final scream before they took an initial bite from her neck. Blood rushed everywhere as her body seconds later became limp.

"W-we have to go..." Valerie voiced to Tim, seeing he had his eyes on Una. "I'm so sorry... but we... we have to go...".

With a group of dogs charging for them, Valerie caught sight of them and managed to down two of them, but the one that she didn't manage to get to dug its teeth into Tim's right thigh. 

With a painful roar, he pushed and dog down and as if it were to be an instinct, he raised his leg before stomping on its head, causing its head to burst and splatter everywhere. Closing his eyes to look away from the gruesome sight, he took hold of his leg before moving elsewhere. Pulling his hands from the deep injury to his thigh, he saw blood dripping down his hand when he examined the palms of his hands.

"We need to get you to a hospital!" Valerie exclaimed as she looked around her. Less of her force was alive. She wanted to help them all, but her instinct told her otherwise. It told her to run.

So, with Tim in her arms, she did just that. They ran in a direction they thought seemed familiar.

With the dogs and humanoid creatures chasing after them, Valerie often turned to shoot those who pursued them. 

What she didn't expect was for a dog, from the bushes, to lunge and both herself and Tim, in turn, downing them both to the ground. 

With both herself and Tim letting out a grunt of pain, Valerie found herself about to get feated by the dog that downed both herself and Tim. Once it reached her face, it was there where it tried to bite her face off. 

However, by defending herself with her forearm, she managed to win the wrestling before whacking the dog with the butt of her pistol and shooting it dead.