Running from corpses

Three

I looked over at Elliot as he stretched. He blinked and looked over at me.

"Morning sleepy head rise and shine."

"Mornin'."

I stood up and slung my crossbow on my shoulder. I sat down at the table as Elliot walked over to a cabinet. He pulled out a bag of cereal and two bowls. He throw the bag to me and then sat a bowl in front of me. I poured myself a bowl and passed the bag to him. I had sat my crossbow down on the floor along with my pack. Which I reached into and pulled out a water. I also buckled my canteen sheath with my canteen onto my belt. It also had a flask pouch sewed onto it which I kept some whiskey in.

"Thanks for letting me stay here and for the food but I should get going."

"Why? It doesn't seem like you have a group and I need someone to watch my back. Judging by yesterday so do you."

"Walter was the only one chasing me and now he's dead so he won't be a thorn in my side anymore."

"Still you can't survive out there on your own nobody can. It almost killed me just getting into the city. If we work together we can get out."

"Wait so you trapped me here. You know what the cities are like. They run here single ones are dangerous enough but there are hundreds here."

I didn't trap you here but you can only get in and out of the route I took to find you and to get you here. You have to go at a certain time of the day though."

Turns out this city was one of the last to fall. I didn't remember the whole trip here because I was asleep. But the city took down the bridges and dammed up a nearby river to create a moat around the city. When people started to try and swim across the city posted people around the entire moat to shoot people in the water. Not all of them stayed dead though some came back. When the people inside the city started to get infected they threw them into the moat and shot them until there was no one left. The moat made an almost perfect circle around the city and had an extremely strong current. All the infected couldn't climb out because of a steep slope and their low motor functions. Now they are so many that the filled most of the moat. They got pushed around in a circle but there was one small opening. And it arrived in an hour. If we missed it we would have to stay the night here again and try to make it through the city the next day. Elliot had a boat but it had been badly scraped up on the bottom. Even when the opening is there, there are still hundreds of infected on the river bottom reaching up to try and grab boats but they couldn't reach them. So they scratched at the bottom of the boats.

We stepped out of the apartment building. I looked around shouldering my crossbow as Elliot did the same with his rifle. Elliot had handed me a machete before we left.

"So why did you not leave all those times you left."

"Because they pushed me back into the city. And also this was the closest safe house I could bring you to."

I lowered my crossbow and we started off towards the moat. If we were lucky we could get there in thirty minutes cross in five or ten and have enough time to retreat if we needed to.

Just then I heard a screech behind me and we both turned. A runner was standing there and it charged. This was my chance to be chased by one of the most dangerous infected. But Elliot was with me I couldn't show him that. What would he think. Like it or not I can't go on my own forever. I'm seventeen despite my past I couldn't have prepared for this. I also have to kill this thing before it reaches us. My mind was racing so fast that it had literally just started running. I aimed my crossbow at its head despite wanting to stab it over and over again before killing it. I don't even remember pulling the trigger but the infected was dead ten feet away. I retrieved my bolt and loaded my crossbow. We took off going a little faster not wanting to miss our opening.