Unexpected visitors

Chapter 6 Escape

A/N Hey to all the people who have been reading my book so far, sorry I haven't been updating recently, I've been busy I'll try to update every week, thanks for reading :)
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Still grabbing me by the collar, Alexia leaped onto me and the familiar feeling of defenceless has overcome my body leaving me only wanting to get rid of it. She's still pushing me to the floor grabbing into my neck and collar making me gasp for air while tears stream down my probably now blue or red face.

She is growling and snapping her head ferociously towards any part of my body she can get to, which makes me cringe. Just imaging something like that , her teeth ripping into my naked flesh makes me feel like I want to throw up.

A part of me is telling myself to just give up, what's the point, these monsters will eventually get us all so why don't let them now and be rid of the burden of trying to survive in this cruel world.

But another part of me has a burning desire to live, I guess it's a natural human instinct that everyone has. Once you've lost that, your pretty much screwed and might as well kill yourself now.

I haven't lost it yet so I will keep fighting until it kills me. With her teeth still snapping at me I use all of my last pieces of strength to push her off, she does get off and I manage to scramble to my feet with her only a metre away from me. She growls while shuffling towards me making a really unnatural gurgling sound. Crimson blood splatters onto the floor from her mouth.

"Eww", why couldn't it have kept its blood in its mouth. Since the bus has been tipped over its harder to move around the seats and remaining supply's on the ground, but it also slows her down as she tumbles over the objects making it a bonus.

Blood is smearing on the windows and side of the bus which is now the floor making it look like a pre-schoolers painting. She is getting ever so close now and it's scaring me, there's a beretta next to my feet, but there is no silencer so it will attract every walker in the nearby area, making our situation even worse.

I would like to give up right now but I refuse to become one of those monsters, my time is not up yet. I'm running out of options so I run to the back of the bus looking for anything,And I mean anything that I could use. I would use a toaster if I had too.

That thought made me grin even though I'm in a life threatening situation. As I search under the seats again I find a sword, it will make the less noise and is the only weapon I am familiar with since I used to do fencing as a kid.

I grip it tightly with both hands and realise that my knuckles are turning white but I don't care, I'm terrified of all the possibilities and things that could go wrong while doing this. I have no choice.

I sprint down the bus making sure I don't fall on the way which is a pretty hard task when everything is on the floor, were lucky a grenade hasn't gone off yet , that would of killed us instantly.

As I got closer I didn't slow down I just leapt onto it, keeping one hand on the sword and one hand on the creatures neck, keeping it's mouth away from me. I let out a  squeal from the impact on my hands and legs on the hard floor making my body ache with pain.

The monster is way too strong for me and manages to get me under it instead of on top, this time it's attacking me. I try to stab its torso leaving a gaping hole in the middle of its stomach. Gross blood splattering me all over, making it hard to see.

But what I can see is truly horrifying. The normal face that she Had half an hour ago was full of life and freshness, now it has turned into saggy skin and decayed flesh while new blood smothers her face.

The sword had no affect on the zombie apart from just making everything a bit more messy. "Get the fuck off me"  and with a push of my feet manage to get up once more.

Now with no more distractions and surprise attacks I take a swing of my sword and try to hack the things head off reaching the bone of its neck. Just one more hit and it should die. I slice the sword through it's neck as it stumbles backwards onto the floor it's head rolls aimlessly in the opposite direction. 

I'll take care of that later, now, I need to check on the others.

"Max" I limp to the back of the bus from the impact of jumping onto that thing, to find him snoring his head off.

How could he of slept through that, I nearly died.

"Wake up asshole"

"Wha... What happened ?, where's everybody ?, what's wrong with your arm ?"

"Well while you were on conscious, Jake and I had to fend off the hungry zomb..."

"Where's Jake"

As those words fall out of his mouth a frown appears across my face. How could I of forgot about Jake and how am I suppose to tell him about Alexia.

"He left to lead them away from us" As I say those words he did something I didn't expect, a tear fell from his eye then one after another as he started to sob.

Taking a deep breath I told him everything, slowly so he could keep up. By now he has stopped crying and I gave him a tight hug and we stay like this for a long time until I notice how close we are to each other.

I pull away and look into his hazel eyes. "He might of survived, we will wait in this bus for 2 to 3 days and if he doesn't come back we'll know, ok"

"Ok"

"To answer your other questions Dani and Kat are over there we should check on them soon"

He wiggles his eyebrows and says  "so I'm trapped on a bus with a bunch of girls" 

I grin and roll my eyes "as if there interested in you"

He smiled and pouted like a child not getting what it wants "How mean"

Grinning I say "I know"

He scratches his arm and I remember the question he asked me earlier, "Max, what did you mean earlier when you asked about my arm"

"Huh"

"Earlier when you woke up you said a bunch of questions and one was what happened to my arm"

"Oh" he said with a hint of recognition in his voice."It looked like it was bleeding" 

"What?" I trace my hand up the back of my arm and wince at the pain when I touch the bit that's still bleeding.

"Do you have 2 cosmetic mirrors"

" yeah, why"

"I'll show you, please just get them"

Without saying anything he gets up takes a duffel bag, roots through it and finds two intact mirrors and passes them to me.

I put one behind me and while using the other one I pick it up reflecting It on the other mirror to see a pair of teeth marks on the back of my arm with blood still slowly oozing out of it.

I softly whisper "oh, no"