The Walking DeAd

Charpter 25 Harrison's POV

We all got up in the morning. "We need to either head back to the lab, or go find the other group. They could have found the flower." I said "or they could be dead" Finn suggested. "Shut up" Rissy said quickly. We all quickly to head back because we didn't know their exact location. We started heading back but we eventually got there they where already back by the time we got there we opened the doors and they were all sitting down. "Quick group meeting" I said. We all gathered. "Did anyone find the flower?" Famous asked. We all said "no" at the same time. Ace asked "what happened how did you all meet up?" Famous said" our group got cornered by zombies and we would've died.." "But Harrison showed up" Finn said. Kat responded "what's the dealeo with you guys?" Aberdeen started "it started fine we  didn't find much then we saw a tower in the distance and we were ambushed by a horde of zombies." Ace cut her off "when we finished the zombies Emerald went missing and we kind of flipped out. We headed to the tower to find her, hoping she was there, once there we entered and there were hundreds of corpses on the ground in the building." Aberdeen took the story from there "and we kept going up the floors and on the 4th there was a makeshift concrete wall to the ceiling we couldn't get past. We heard footsteps above us and talking. Then Ace went insane and started shooting at the wall with her gun and it turned to chaos. We created a small peephole and a guy came down. Ace distracted him and I broke a way into the other side from down stairs we seised them and untied Emerald and tied the two up." We talked about less important things after that random stuff for the most part. We all headed outside because we thought we heard something when we got out there were 4 zombies. I quickly drew my bow and shot one then another then a loud voice rang out "FREEZE" we all stopped and a automatic rifle shot from behind the trees and killed the last 2 zombies. 4 figures stepped out from the trees 3 of them had rifles the other looked like he had a sniper on his back! "Lay down your weapons" he yelled I placed my bow and my bat on the ground everyone else was hesitant. I made them drop them "I have a plan" I whispered. Did I really? No. But I had to think of one and fast. As they slowly approached us we were all frozen. Their weapons were super intimating. Emerald gasped "two of them were the people who kidnapped me!" "Hey shut up over there" one of them yelled. Once they were 10 feet away from us they stopped. "We can do this the easy way or the hard way, your choice." They tied up all of our hands behind our backs and made us follow them. One of them I couldn't tell started talking "How long have you been in this area?" None of us responded. "You seem like friendly folks" he said with a very sarcastic tone. We just kept walking I was in the front of the line, and Ace behind me. I think that Finn was in the back but it was hard to tell. "Hey, Kid with the bow your a pretty good shot" I responded "thanks" "you shot those Walkers in 5 seconds you had no hesitations Killing those people" I responded with a angry voice " it's not my choice I was put in this position!" "You're right" he said "what's your name I'm Preston" "Harrison" I said sharply. We kept walking "where are we going?" Alońa asked. "Our base, we have taken over a small gas station and have barricaded it." The guy behind us said. I was about to ask how much farther then we got to the top of a hill and we could see it on 200 feet from us. I kept trying to lightly struggle from the restraints on my hands, but nothing seemed to work once we were there they threw us in the storage room. "We will be back in an hour be ready" we were stuck in this room. I surveyed around there was shelves on shelves we were still tied up. "How did that plan work?" Emerald asked angrily "it's starting now" someone grab a arrow from the quiver on my back" it was kind of weird but Pumpkin got one. Try sawing the rope off my hands after 3 minutes of sawing it broke free. I untied everyone else and we searched for a way out "I found a vent" Rissy exclaimed. We broke it and I went into the ventilation I crawled around trying to find an exit I found one leading outside I went back and gathered everyone and we hopped out of the building, We were free "we need to move" Finn said. "Your not going anywhere" Preston said from up on top of the gas station. We were screwed. Alońa and Kat ran. Why I don't know. Preston with no mercy shot Alońa. She stumbled but he got a good shot and she fell motionless to the ground. Kat almost made it into the trees but her foot was hit and she stumbled into the trees but she was alive Preston used a walk is talkie "Mitch, Jerome can you come outside we have a runner. They came outside, "Where?" One of them asked. Preston replied "She somewhere in the woods, I hit her on the foot she ain't going nowhere" Mitch and Jerome walked into the forest. "You little craps  tried to escape. I was going to punish Y'all but two members lost, seems like a mighty fine punishment." He forced us back inside into the storage room. He tied us to a support beam in the center of the room. We could only move a little. "I will be back in 15 minutes I just need to finish something off. Vikk here will watch you until I'm back." The Indian guy Vikk stood at the door with a rifle. If we were going to escape. It would be now and with brute force. I was thinking. The only way to get out was to put enough tension on a certain point of the rope. I tried leaning but I needed some help. "Aberdeen, lean against the rope" I whispered we both did and it broke. We fell down and Vikk re-acted. Mitch and Jerome walked in at that very moment too. The world felt as if it paused to let me decide what to do. I couldn't get up in time so I rolled towards Vikk. Everything came back in motion Vikk was about to pull the trigger but I grabbed him leg and pulled him down to the ground, this was going to be a struggle since he seemed like he was 19 or 20. I dodged his grab at me and stood up. I kicked him right in the jaw and ran towards the table with our weapons. I quickly grabbed my bow instantly and drew an arrow I saw Jerome about to shoot Ace I tried to shoot him but I was to late, the bullet flew through air in slow motion Aberdeen pushed Ace out of the way and took the bullet. She fell down to the ground. My arrow ended up hitting Jerome in the neck but it was a second to late. I drew another arrow to fire at Vikk who was now standing about to shoot someone. I launched the arrow and the second I did I felt an extraordinary pain in the left of my stomach. Mitch had hit me with a bullet. I fell to the ground forcing myself not to close my eyes I watched as Ace had grabbed her shotgun and shot Mitch. Preston walked in right after "What's this Ruckus?" He saw the bodies and the gun Ace held. That's when I blacked out.

I woke up. I was alive! I didn't expect to live. The sun in my eyes it was so bright I sat up. I was on a table everyone else was at a table with a map. Even Aberdeen was sitting there. I tried talking "Hey" but my voice was very dry and felt like crap. Pumpkin noticed me "You're awake!" Everyone helped me up. "What happened?" It has been 6 or 7 hours since the fight it is pitch black outside. "What's this" I motioned to the map. "We were trying to plan our way somewhere else." We need to head north. We waited a couple hours and headed out. We walked outside and it was windy I almost fell down. I stayed behind the group. We kept moving even with the powerful wind. Once we where 20 minutes i heard something. I felt something on my shoulder I turned around and a zombie was upon me I fell down I knew it was my time like my comrades I closed my eyes expecting the worst. A gun shot rang I opened my eyes Aberdeen had saved me. "Run!" She yelled I got up and took off I took one good look behind me only to see Aberdeen being engulfed by the horde. "Her death was not in vain." Pumpkin said "she wasn't going to make it with that wound anyways"  we will all miss her. We continued on through this brutal cruel world that takes everything from you when you hope it gets better.

Life goes on...
Whether you choose to move on and take a chance in the unknown
Or stay behind, locked in the past, thinking of what could've been.

-Harrison