"THE PLAGUE "

Enfected Forrest

Russ and Atlas keep waliking supporting me on their shoulders. I felt bad they had to carry me like this. I'm trying to use my good leg to help them but they still seem to struggle.

"Maybe you guys should take a break," I suggest.Atlas opens her mouth to say something but Russ quickly answers.

"No, not out here any way," he says,"it's to risky."

Me and Atlas are both silent. Russ is right this place was crawling with dead. We ran into only two so far. Atlas has been the one to take care of them since she has the hatchet.

As we're walking we see one of them eating something.

"See," Russ says. It turns around and snarls then gets up and starts walking towards us.Russ hold out his hand towards Atlas. She hands him the hatchet and he steps forward. We just stand and watch as Russ burrys the hatchet into the creeper's skull. As Russ pulls it out me and Atlas go over to what it was eating.

"What is that?" She asks.

"Looks like a squirrel," I reply.

"How did one of those things catch a squirrel," Russ says walking over.

"I guess they'll eat anything," I say.

"I could eat anything,right now," Russ replies grabbing his stomach.

"How much further,Atlas," I ask.

"Uhhh...well," she says hesitantly.

"Atlas?" I say.

"Umm.."

"We're lost!" Russ shouts.

"No,just give me a second," she says defiantly.

"We are so dead," he says.

"We're not lost!" Atlas yells.

"Ok, everybody calm down," I say.

"If we're not lost where are we?" Russ says to Atlas.

"We're..I don't know," she replies.

"Well that just great,know we're..." Russ starts to say.

"Guys!" I shout. They both shut up.

"We need to stay calm and stay focused," I say," let's just keep walking, Atlas tell us if anything looks familiar..bit we can't stand around and argue"

"Sorry," Atlas says.

The two of them say nothing afterwords like scolded children. We continue to walk taking guesses of where to go.

"We should go back to the road," Russ says.

"No way we'll get eaten alive out there," Atlas replies.

"It's better than wondering around lost in the woods," he says back.

"We should find a place to stay it's almost dark," I say looking up at the sky.

"I don't think there's very many hotels around here," Russ says.

"Shh.." Atlas says.

"What it it now.."Russ starts.

"No seriously be quiet, I heard something," she replies.

We all stay quiet for a second.

"It's nothing,Atlas," I say.

"Justin," Russ says shaking my shoulder. I look over and see a creeper walking towards us.

"Oh.."

More of them come out from all around us. Russ and Atlas move in unison dragging me with them. We start to run away from them but there around every corner.

Russ trips and fall ,then Atlas lets go of me for a second then helps him up. Once he's back we start running again.

"Thanks.." he says.

The dead chase us to a ledge on the side of a river. We start backing up slowly. Until our heals our hanging off. I look back to see the rushing currents below. Atlas gets her Hatchet ready and Russ pull out the hammer. I grab the gun and shoot a couple times.

"There's to many of them.." Russ says.

I feel the earth crack below us and then we drop.

"Ahhh!" We scream in unison as our huddle breaks apart.

Atlas hits her head on the side of the ledge then falls Into the river below. When I fall the coldness of the water hits hits me like a thousand tiny needles. I open my eyes to the stinging of the water and start to claw trying to reach the surface. My head breaks the water and I gasp for air. Soon I'm swept away by the rushing currents with Russ and Atlas nowhere to be seen.

As the rapids increase,the water swallows me again. I struggle unable to reach the surface again. The energy soon drains from my body.

I close my eyes giving up.

Every thing is now black.

A/N sorry about the short chapter. I won't do that often : )

ttyl ;)