Capsule Outbreak

21 Dangerous Woman

Akira's POV

Kierra is a dangerous woman. Even in a bloody world, she rises above and commits cruel acts against the people coming into Arkansas. I didn’t know this place would be so ruthless as they keep hurting Duke and soon they will kill us brutally. Blood pours from his mouth and the wounds on his body. Allie can't take her eyes off him; she’s not afraid of Kierra but is more afraid of losing her boyfriend.

"Stop, you're so cruel! Why do you keep doing this?" Allie said, struggling as she watches Duke in terrible pain.

Duke looks at her with blood flowing down his face.

"Allie, look at your boyfriend. He's so pathetic and you can't do anything here. All of you in the cages will die at our hands," Kierra shouted, laughing.

Allie looks at Duke, unable to save him as we're locked in the cage. Maggie is sitting and crying over what’s happening to us. I'm scared but I need to stay optimistic like Allie.

As the group of men continues punching Duke, he passes out. Tears start flowing from Allie’s eyes as she looks at Duke, wounded and covered in blood. I don’t know if we're going to escape here, but I'm still glad I met these people who helped me when I was struggling with zombies chasing me. I thought no one would help someone who couldn’t give back, but people like Allie, Maggie, and their friends are the best people I've ever met.

After some time, Kierra commands her comrades to remove us from the cage. We're kneeling in front of her, seeing her grinning at us.

"Look at you people, you're dying, so let's make it faster than you can imagine. Bring the deadly weapons!" Kierra commands, and her comrades bring up a box filled with deadly weapons such as machine guns, shotguns, assault rifles, trench knives, explosives, incendiary or poison gas, bombs, grenades, and more than you can imagine.

"How do you want to die?" Kierra said, laughing at us.

Allie looks furious at Kierra, feeling like in her mind she’s killing Kierra repeatedly. Suddenly, Duke wakes up, seeing us kneeling in front of Kierra.

"What are you doing?" Duke said, struggling.

"Don't worry, you're not the first who will die today. Bring the thieves from earlier!" Kierra commanded, and her comrades follow.

We're lucky there was a theft earlier in their place, giving us some time to untie ourselves. Allie picks up a small piece of a blade earlier, so we start removing the ties on our hands. Kierra slaps the thieves and wounds their faces. Then, she grabs a shotgun, shooting two of them. The thieves are scared, and their voices are trembling. After that, the other thieves are fed to the zombies in the cage.

We’ve untied ourselves now and are acting like we're still struggling. Suddenly, a bomb explodes near the throne, causing Kierra to fall down. This is our time to escape. Then, Louis and a man show up with an assault rifle, shooting the comrades there. We untie Duke and carry him as he’s struggling to walk because of the terrible pain. Louis throws weapons to us and we use them to shoot the comrades and zombies there. Her comrades are now dead, some are severely injured, while hidden guards are shot dead too. Only Kierra hopelessly survives as she falls while shooting.

"Who’s the dangerous woman now?" Allie shouted.

"Forgive me!" Kierra said, wounded.

"I can forgive but I can't forget. You killed my family!" a man shouted, wanting to shoot her.

"We can rule the world, come with me!" Kierra said, struggling. Then, Allie slaps her face repeatedly, and we stop her.

"You will never rule this world. You're just a human being, you're not a god!" Duke shouted, in terrible pain.

Kierra attempts to get a gun to shoot us but suddenly the man shoots her head repeatedly until it blows out.

Unfortunately, the man gets bitten by a zombie behind him as all the cages unlock earlier. All the people in the other cages have been bitten too, and then zombies start approaching us. We decide to run away until we get to my stepbrother’s house.

As we arrive at the house, we see Charlie patiently waiting for us. He sees our blood and worries about what happened. We come inside, wounded and covered in blood. Suddenly, Duke passes out again and we carry him and lay him down on the couch. Allie treats him immediately. Louis suddenly hugs Maggie tightly. I search for my stepbrother everywhere in the house but can't find him, until I see a note on the refrigerator saying, "Akira, if you come back, please don't come inside my bedroom. I was bitten earlier. I'm sorry!" I can't believe he has already turned into a zombie, then I hear growling in the bedroom. I immediately go to see him again, even though it's grievous. When I open the door, I see him standing near the window, turned into a zombie. Tears fill my eyes and I want to touch his face but I can't. Maggie and Louis come in too and see what happened.

"Is he Brent?" Maggie softly asked, and I nod yes to her while in tears.

"I'm sorry," Maggie responded and hugs me right away.

He looks at me while growling. Louis suddenly points a gun at him but I decide that I should kill him.

"Bang! Bang!"