The Diary Of The Dead

Part 10 : Hunter

Preparing for the scavenger hunt is not easy . Especially when there's something out there that want your flesh .

Everyone checked their Flashlight , their safety gear , their water supplies and their knife except for Gunther . He's bringing two machete . What a sicko . But thanks to him we manage to survive , once , he killed 6 of them in a row with that machete skills of his .

Tom was doing pretty well . He did everything Cecil taught him to .

"Alright Crows ! Mornin !" Its the leader of the Guardian , he is in charge of our mission .

"Morning sir " They greeted them like he is a nobody . Well literally he is a nobody . He just stand and alert us if there's some disturbance .

"What is it this time ? A teddy bear ? An ice cream for the guards ? " Cecil teased him while carving . Zoan just smiled and Gunther just secretly laughing .

"Enough jokes , this time-- " He smack the desk. "its really important" he landed his butt on the chair .

"What is it ? " I asked . The atmosphere changed from a fun fare into a medical room .

He told us that the camp is in danger , there's a disturbance in the far end of the road where the guard heard a screech .

"That's normal , they did that all the time . " Cecil stopped sculpting and finally start to concentrate about the thing that the guard wanted to say .

"That's what we thought also but -- " he stood up and walk outside of our house tent . He came back in with a bag . "I found this near the Botanist section during my patrols" He opened the bag and a head rolled out of it .

The head was rotten and the smell is worse than 10 dead rats .

Tom ran out and vomits . Zoan came closer to inspect the head . Gunther just stood still . And Cecil's tongue is tied inside of his mouth .

"Who did this ?" I wave my hand alerting him to keep the head in the bag . He push it back inside the bag .

"I'm not sure-- " He sit back and rub his neck . " but make sure no one knows about this "

"Its probably the hunter " Zoan spoke with a deep voice . "Did anyone from the botanist saw the head ? " He asked .

The guard shook his head . "No one"

"Maybe Zoan is right" Cecil now joins the circle we made in the center of the room . " Hunter scares their prey to increase our adrenaline . Hence , making them able to see us "

I kept quiet . Jack died because of the hunter . Jack , what should I do now ?
"We take down the hunter ! " Gunther stab the desk with his machete .

"How .. " I interrupts the discussion about hunting the hunter .
The hunter is a special infected . The infection causes them to be stronger , faster and smarter but , they cant see , nor hear . They sense us by inflicting us with fear . Increasing our heartbeat and they have a pleasure eating flesh that are filled with blood enriched with adrenaline .

Jack ..

"Captain ! " I snapped out of my self thoughts when Gunther called me .

I looked up to face the conversation .

"Your call captain .. " Zoan stretches his arm preparing for a hunt .

"We need to kill this hunter , or he'll bring the horde with him . " Cecil walk to his bed and bring out his flashlight .

A horde is hard to deal with . A normal horde was already a pain in the neck . Now with a hunter that will lead them . Ouch . This camp is going to be destroyed .

"I vote for a hunt " Everyone turn to face the tent door . Tom ? We all looked at Tom while he wipes the vomits that stick to the side of his mouth .

"My family is in this camp . I need to protect it please . " He begged .

I was left to decide . Everyone looked at me like the whole camp's life is in my hand .

"We can't -- " I try not to looked at the disappointed face that were on me . "It's too dangerous" I try to loose up the tense .

AHHHHHH !
A scream ! It seems that it came from the botanist camp . We all bolted to the place where the scream is coming from .

As soon as we arrive , some guardian and some crows were there .

"What happened here ?!" The guard leader asked .

They explained that the girl saw her son playing outside of the barricades .
So she tried to scream for him to come back inside . There's no possible way he would come back .

We were told that she lost her son in the first year of the outbreak .

What is the meaning of this ?

Hallucinations ?

No .

I looked out of the barricade .

And I saw Jack .

Smiling with a hole in his head .