The Walkers [editing]

One Cat and Two Tiger - Dean

Chapter 32

One Cat and Two Tigers

Dean

Instinct. T-That's what it was! And that's what I'm going to say it was... I'm going to blame it on my blood instincts. It all happened within seconds. I plunged my blades into a Walker's body before quickly swinging out my bow and lining up three arrows, shooting them all accurately I took a quick glance/ check on Blake and Kumi. And shitenhousen Blake looked ready to fall off the edge. I quickly Glanced back over to my battle, and other their heads to see if I or anyone else could help out. But the only person in distance was that Insane mother. I think I heard Echo or Katrissa call her Lillian. But in hell I would trust her... Well this is basically a living hell- F*ck! I just dodged a pair of jaws trying to attack my head and sliced it's jaw straight off it's face. Just as I turned back to glance back at Blake and Kumi, I watched as he pushed himself Out the window, while using that force to push Kumi in, bringing her to 'safety'. I dropped my task at hand and rushed towards where Blake had fallen. As if I still had the chance to save him. I-I mean I saved him once! Why couldn't I do it again?!?

"BLAAAAKKKEEEE!!!!"I screamed at the top of my lungs as I gripped the sharp glass, ignoring the pain that shot into my hand.
Only the pain that shot into my heart. The worse thing is that all I could do was watch. Watch him slip away. I noticed there was already a dismembered body down there, bright clean blood painting the floor. And now Blake was going to join them... Must be Kye since he was no where in sight. My eyes filled with tears, as I felt sick in the stomach. What was the point now!?! Why did I even bother?!?
"FUCK! FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUUUCCKKK!!!"I screamed, screaming out my pain, ignoring the burning and ripping feeling in my throat.
Caught in my own pain I didn't notice what had happened.
"You're infected. I can't afford you infecting the others."Lillian held her foot on Kumi's shoulder.
She was back over the edge, her shoulder bitten. But her arms were holding her up. When she was getting up, since I was off guard she must have gotten bitten and her and Lillian got in a fight! Or some shit! I don't know!
"P-Please don't do this! I-I have to live for them!!"she sobbed her eyes closed as she shook her head in heavy cries.
"Lil-"I reached out to stop her, but yet again. As always in my whole f*cking life, I was too late.
For a second Kumi's eyes widened before she was completely out of sight, her hair falling shortly after her. At that point I couldn't even speak anymore. I couldn't comprehend. My best friend just died to save a girl who was then killed by a psychopathic mother I had just met.... WHAT THE FUCK!?!? How cruel can you get?!? One moment they're dying one by one the next three bite the dust in a row! Is this my punishment!?! 'eternal suffering'!?!? What bullshit is this!!?! I let out a heavy sob my lips quivering as I realise one last thing. Ace is probably dead as well. My sobs suddenly go silent. The tears don't stop and nor does my body stop shaking. I hardly realise that practically all the infected were gone and soon Elgin Katrissa and Echo were by my sides fruit to comfort me. I felt like I was suffocating. Drowning. Falling. Dying. Dying inside. That my heart was rotting away. I let out another gasp for air mixed with a sob. As I breathed heavily into Katrissa's tight hug.
"What the FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU!?! DONT YOU REALISE THWT YOU KILLED WHAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO YOU??! YOU CAN PROTECT HIM FROM EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR YOURSELF!! GO DIE IN A FUCKING HOLE!"I scream at Lilian, shouting out my pain as Echo and Katrissa try to hold me back.
There was only so much one could take and I-I just didn't to take anymore.
"JUST KILL ME ALREADY!!!"I screamed.
Whether it was at whatever f*cking god there was out there of for my friend's to just end my suffering. I dropped my head onto my knees as I continued sobbing into hands.
"I-I j-just-t d-don't w-w-want t-to suf-f-fer anym-more!" As I closed my eyes I felt a hand on my shoulder, it wasn't Echo's or Katrissa's so I hesitantly looked up.
"You're a extremely smart person, alright. And I think you have it in you to make this cure! You can help save people, that's you're dream right? To become a doctor? So go end people's suffering... In a good way!"Ace squatted down in front of me before jumping up and walking down the hallway.
"We'll be waiting!"Blake shouted beside him before they started pushing and shoving each other all the way out of view.
heh, even after death we were all helping each other urvive. An 'unkillable friendship' I guess. I suddenly stood up, with a little support from Echo I was stable and ready to find or make this f*cking cure!
"I-I'm sorry Rye..."Lilian murmured her hand going limp as the dropped the knife.
Oh yeah, her. Well I was able to tell or guess her story by observations, I remember how Ace used to always call me Sherlock and Alice, Watson.
"Look guys, I am not trusting this bitch-"I started, turning to face them when Lillian spoke up herself.
"Here."She tossed my a bundle of keys along with her ID card.
Her bloody hair covered her eyes and it didn't help due to the fact her head was bowed.
"You were right. I should die for my sins. I wish you all luck."Lillian turned to look at us one more time before running off around the corner.
Soon enough her screams of pain mixed with possibly laughter echoes down the hallways, as I assume she was ripped apart and eaten alive. And no matter what somehow it was almost music to my ears. She deserved it. I gritted my teeth before Katrissa and Echo helped me up, going on about how we better get moving before infected swarm us. As soon as I was up, we sprinted down he hallways, following the map that I still had, trying to ignore the bloody smudges on the corners even though it reminded me of him. Blinking the tears away, I tried to take deep breaths, my chest tight... Like I was suffocating... why won't it just go away!?! My vision started to blur as I watched Echo run ahead of me, Katrissa by my side. And then once again as a blur I saw Ace ahead of me, he turned to smile at me like he used to always do, probably to drag me on with him.
"A-Ace-"I reached out towards him when I noticed Dean sprinting up beside me.
Soon enough he caught up with Ace as the looked read to tackle each other. I ran past Alice and Scarlette who were both busy walking and talking probably about Star Wars. Causing Ender, running from my left to attack them shouting a muffled 'Aloha!' which echoed through my mind. Suki and Claude walked side by side, Claude giggling as Suki shouted at him clenched fists. They both turned, smiled and waved at me as I ran past, for a second their frames shook changing to Kumi's and Kye's but quickly fading back to their original. I felt light. Free. My rapid heart beat and breathing loud and clear. Mixed with mumbles, laughter, shouting, talking all from my past away friends. Is this what happens before you lose your sanity? I mean Echo and Katrissa had already lost it. Saw it in their eyes. Their like tigers now, and I a cat. Same species just they are no longer tamed. Insane. But now I feel insane! I mean I'm comparing myself to a f*cking cat! And my friends to tigers! I dunno... F*CK I CAN'T LET THESE HALLUCINATIONS GET TO ME!! I brought my hand across my face as I was finally able to see straight and clear again. For a moment I thought back and smile at the fact that at least my mind thinks and remembers the good but old times we had as a happy group. We come to a well boarded off area causing us to knock and call a few times.
"Hello? We're survivors... Uh we came here because of the uh radio recording thingo..."I could tell Echo didnt know what to say but I teased her about it anyway. We waited. But nothing made a sound. So we decided to uh well just cut through all the boarders. Finally come to a quiet lab, The walls are white with many panels of glass breaking off certain sections, as quietly as we can we step over the broken glass wincing whenever someone makes a crack.
"F*cking shit!"Echo gasps mixed with a whisper as she comes across a corpse.
It was slumped over the key board, blood weaving through the keys from it's mouth. Noticing her blood soaked clothes that's long gone brown with the smallest touch of red I'd assumed she'd died two to a day a go since blood goes off pretty fast. Her eyes are still open, dead. But By the location of her wound, the setting of her body and position of her hands. I sentence her death as suicide.
"She killed himself."I 'explain' plainly.
Tilting my head up to the two maniacs they both smile at me. They look like their enforcing laughter but can't incase their smiles. F*cking insane bastards. Reminds me of when Ace would go on about cannibalism and becoming a hitman. Argh that f*cking idiot. I groaned inwardly before continuing looking for information he could have possibly left behind. Holding My breath I tap my bow against her head before pushing the corpse straight off the key board. She falls to the ground with a thump as I use my bow to poke at the keyboard. Written on a blood soaked note pad by the side of the monitor were a whole punch of codes taking a guess I typed in the codes at random. Failing a few times before it finally let me in.
"FRICK!"Katrissa shouted from behind me as we all snapped around to look at her.
There in a small confined area sat a Walker. It seemed dormant not bothered by Katrissa's presence. Echo was by the door, bordering it up again. And didn't stop so I stood up to check it out. Holding my breath and swallowing down my fears I tapped. Giving the plastic panel two taps. It'a eyes shot towards me as Katrissa and I quickly stepped back cautiously. Walking towards us it raised its' hand, bringing it's knuckle into the panel, knocking twice.
"Hooly shit! They're not as stupid as we thought they were!"Echo exclaims from afar, Multi tasking.
"Hold on... Do you think it's dormant?"I asked quietly as I continue observing it.
"No... I think they tested on it, different 'cures' and maybe one of them almost worked."Katrissa suggested before I hurried back to he computer.
Using the bow to move the mouse and to poke at the keyboard I was able to get into a whole buck of files. All in which were labeled dates and days. This dude seemed like she'd been here since 3 days after the infection started. It was a slow and annoying process to try and move the mouse without touching it but I wasn't risking a chance of infection.
"Argh, move."Echo pushed me aside, grabbing the blood covered mouse as I started shouting at her about hygiene and such.
"Ok, just shut up! We need to find this f*cking cure and Get the he'll out of here! The infection is spreading all over the place every second. Plus my sisters are out there-"she shouts back at me but I interrupt her.
"Yeah, ok, F*CK you too! My f*cking parents and brother are out there as well and unlike you I do t even f*cking know if they're f*cking alive!"I snarl back at her.
She goes to grab me by the collar as prepare to hit her in the face if I must, when Katrissa steps in calmly.
"We are all in the same boat here, so let's co-operate. Yes, Echo you shouldn't have just touched anything blood with bare hands, but then again we are all in an understandable hurry. So here."She hands echo a pair of rubber gloves as she slips them on and starts working her way through the files.
"Here read this one."She taps at the screen as we all skim over the black printing.
'Today the alarm went off in this lab. I couldn't find the keys for one of the cabinets so I just broke the glass, setting off a high pitched alarm, since most of the shit in there was all pretty dangerous stuff. Toxins, things that can cause one to die and such. Besides the point. As I clutched my own ears I noticed specimen 4 did the same while giving out a screech. I think the sound started to drive out the parasite!*' We followed the star to the bottom of the page as it directed us to another file where she discovered that they had actually created a more of a parasite not a disease which made it a lot easier to cure. Plus it seemed as if she was with a few other survivors but they'd died. Searching back to the last few entries she'd written about how she tried different frequencies of sound and such on it, each one different. Soon enough the changes really started to improve. It was full of information explaining how to get certain sounds by cutting certain wires. This sound business made sense right? mean liquids such as medication and injections sound the most logical but if it's a parasite that infects the brain can't it be chased out by a sound it can't handle? Certain sounds can be affective against certain cells, bacteria and well, parasites! It's and infection so it's not a shocker it's connected to a parasite. Shit is finally making sense now! and I can't believe I'm actually saying that in a f*cking zombie apocalypse! Clicking on the final entry I was curious on why she just suddenly gave up when she was going so well. There was no reason. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. No explanation, no reason, no goodbye. I didn't understand. Until it hit me. Possibly since I knew she started with other survivors that her last friend died or she had to kill them? Something traumatizing? Well I can't be shocked. Breathing out a heavy breath I still couldn't help but smile. We were getting there! We could start a cure! My dream of helping/saving people will finally come true!
"Well then let's get this shit on the road!"Katrissa exclaimed as I raised an eyes brow at her, she never used an expression like that... That was more of a mixture of something that Alice and Ace would say. Since Ace called everything 'shit' and Alice wouldn't swear... But I swear something's up with Katrissa...
"Yaw, so. We'll need to get into first experiment on his Walker first. Work out what sound will drive the parasite out, then head out, find the sound systems mess around with them, then project it around the whole building, from there we can break into other places with more survivors and spread the 'cure'. Sound good?"Echo laid out the plane as we all nodded.
I returned back to the passage looking for maybe some more information about where all the sound shit was in in this lab, as Echo printed all the important jazz.
"Oh f*ck..."I murmured as I skimmed over the words noticing that we had to head out of this lab to another lab (lab7) to get all the sound equipment.
That's kinda stupid to put all your equipment in another lab, you're just making the chance of you getting killed higher. Groaning I told Katrissa and Echo of my findings as she handed me the sound files. We all sat down for about an hour, discussing the files, what frequencies have already been used, which ones worked closer to a cure and which ones didn't work. More combinations to try that might work. In the end we had around 20 plus different frequencies we could try, but about 4 that we thought would cure it or at least make a difference.
"Ok. You ready to go?"Echo look in-between Katrissa and I as we both nodded, standing up.
"Lab 7 will be on the other side of the hallway. But as soon as you come to a split way turn to the left."I explained looking carefully at the map.
They both nodded as Echo started to work on taking down barrier she just built up.
"Wait, shouldn't one of us stay back here or something?"Katrissa suddenly brought up as we all quickly exchanged a look.
"That would work if we had four or more people. The thing is with our small population of three, we can't afford to lose or leave a person alone."I explained as they all nodded in agreement.
We climbed over what looked like a few chairs and broken bits and bobs to get out, before Echo shut ip the place again, just in case. I took quiet steps in the direction we were heading, sticking to the walls while occasionally stopping and checking what was ahead, with my back to the wall. Everything was going pretty well, but due to the fact that we we're in a f*cking zombie apocalypse our luck couldn't be THAT good. So I was prepared and waiting for the random mob or attack of walkers. And soon enough we came across them. A turn to the left without looking and I would've been dead, considering I was leading the way. Keeping my back flat on the cold tiled wall I glanced back to Echo and Katrissa, sending them a hand signal. They both nodded with not much emotion, as I carefully stuck my head around the corner. About 10 dormant Walkers were scattered along the hallway, quickly looking at the opposite wall I read the sign saying 'Lab 7' above the second door from us. shit I remembered something that I had observed and also Scarlette had told me, they were hearing and visually impaired. Completely blind and a little deaf. The idea shot through my mind as I quickly grabbed hold of it and put the idea into action.
'We have to sneak past them!'I mouthed to them over my shoulder as they both gave me questionable looks, probably only peaking up a few words.
Breathing out, I repeated myself a few times before they finally nodded and we headed out. Stepping out from behind the corner, fear struck my body. One mistake and I was dead meat. My fingers shook uncontrollably with every step I took, only moving closer and closer to them. Then I realised, the door was closed and I hadn't found the lab 7 key in the bundle. 'SHIT' I was way too close to a walker to make the mistake of taking out the keys and searching. Argh f*ck my life! Hoping the door wasn't locked I looked through the huge window, that lined down past the door, taking up about half the wall. But that didn't help since the window was only AFTER the door. But at least I was able to tell that the lab was safe and empty. Almost shitting my pants as Echo realized my dilemma and shoved past me. Giving us the signal to follow her, she seemed un harmed by carefully ducking past all the infected as I shook uncontrollably. My eye brows drew together as she ducked straight past the door and towards a tiny 'clearing' right out side the long rectangular window. That's when she did something absolutely insane. As soon as we all were bunched up, I was about to ask what the f*ck she was doing, when she ran forward, shattering the glass with the handle of her meat cleaver, along with her own covered shoulder, and thus jumping through the window. Katrissa ran past me quickly, following suit as I dragged m shit together and run forward, squinting ad I also made a jump through the broken glass. As soon as I hit the floor, I felt a sharp pain in my forehead as probably glass poked into my face. But I didn't have time. I never had time. Jumping up, I helped Katrissa grab anything that was available to block up the hole, unfortunately there was practically nothing that could block it up. I mean you don't just find random planks of wood lying around in a lab do you?
"Shit! They're trying through guys!"Echo shouted over, before she sliced one's head off.
Shit, shit, shit, shit, SHIT! My eyes scanned the room desperately before stopping at the speak in the corner of the ceiling and wall. Underneath it were many other speakers with pliers, ear plugs, wires and such scattered across the table with them.
"FRICK! They're through!"Katrissa screamed over as I hurried over to the bench.
"Katrissa!"I screamed just as she put aside her bleach guns (that eventually ran out of bleach) and pulled out her nail guns.
"Cover me!"I placed my hands on the bench, and with all my arm muscles that I had built when boxing and swimming I threw myself up.
Standing up, I only just reach the speaker. Katrissa was a few meters away as Echo was even further. Neither of them questioned me as I grabbed a few things off the bench and skimmed through the notes. I'd never been under such pressure in my life, not a single part of my body wasn't shaking. Guessing by Echo and Katrissa's desperate calls I only had one chance. And I had to make this in time. Taking a deep breath in, it was time I used all the weird researching science stuff I knew. Putting together all that knowledge with my kick ass grades in science I chose a combination. Stretching out my arms, I carefully tool apart the speaker while reading the instructions, which were a mixture of ours, hers and the manual. Cutting the yellow wire, twisting the black and blue together, threading in a third wire, splitting the red. And attaching the yellow and white. Holding the paper in-between my lips I carefully tried to attach the yellow and white, twisting the together. I expected a sound. Nothing. Giving it a strong pinch, an ear piercing sound erupted from it. Pain shot through my head from my ears, as I immediately went to grab my ears as I squeezed my eyes shot. Completely losing my balance I let out a scream before taking a dangerous and deadly fall to the ground. But that wasn't it. Even the crack of my leg and skull didn't make it through the sharp sound, which continued stabbing my head. The pain shot through my body eating me alive as I screamed. That's when all the screeching ended. Not a single sound. I opened my tear filled eyes, only to see the floor covered in blood. My own blood. My vision went in and out of focus as I tried to stay 'awake' only causing the pain to intensify. I'd broken many bones in my life but that didn't mean I didn't feel anything. Trying. Trying to move. My Body not responding. Trying. Trying to breath. My lungs clogging. Trying. Trying to see. My vision darkening. I guess with every gift of luck will come with a death. Luck is man's biggest fool.

A/N WELL THEN I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE SECOND LAST CHAPTER BEFORE THE EPILOGUE!!! GET EXCITED YOU MAY NEED SOME SHIT BEFORE YOU READ IT BUTT DON'T WORRY THERE'S A WARNING SO YOU CAN PREPARE YOURSELF!! I MIGHT PUBLISH THE LAST CHAPTER TODAY SINCE IT'S ALREADY DONE AND READY