I held my breath as I stepped away from the car. My heart pounding. I slowly turned towards the voice. Standing their was a group of three men and one girl. The girl and the guy with a gun wore black ha kerchiefs around their mouths, where as the other wore skeleton masks that covered their faces.
"Drop the food and water!" The man with the gun ordered. Gesturing with his hand to my bag of stolen goods.
I did as I was told and stuck my hands in the air.
"W-Who are you?" I asked. The girl answered as she stepped forward and took the bag.
"We're Zeros,"
"Oh," I said stupidly, she glared at me.
"We answer to the queen, and you my friend will have some answering to do yourself for trying to steal from her," one of the men with a mask said.
I gulped. The man with the gun smacked the barrel of the gun on my head.
"Ack!" I yelped as my knees buckled. My eyes shut and I couldn't open them or even move. And then I blacked out.
"Uhhhhh...." I awoke to the feeling of something poking my face. I slowly opened my eyes to find...a Z. It poked my face examining me to see if I was food. As part of a reflex I reached out for the closest thing near me. My fingers folded over a shard of glass.
I jammed the glass into the Zs skull. Blood bursting from the wound. It's head fell to the ground with a Thump! Glass,blood and dirt splattered onto my face. I gagged wiping my face on the seat of the truck. The smell of the now deader body making me want to puke. And then I had a thought.
Where the hell am I?!?
I looked around. My jaw dropped open. I was sitting, buckled into the overturned truck. The bodies of the 'Zeros' were dragged outside. And through the broken glass I could see most of them were almost nothing but bone. I unbuckled my seatbelt and crawled over the dead Z.
"Sorry sir," I said quietly as I crawled over his rotten corpse.
I stood straight up for a bout 5 seconds before my knees buckled and I ended up on my hands. I squeezed my eyes shut as the worst ever head rush washed over me. My vision blurred and my body felt numb. It wasn't until I felt better that I seen I had thrown up.
Getting back up I surveyed the area. Stretching, I went back to the truck and found that my stuff was still there. Taking the food and water I shoved it into a grocery bag I found under the seat. Since my other bag was nowhere to be seen. I set off down the road. It appeared to only be desert, at least if there was anything else I couldn't seen it. Only sand and stones. Then again, I didn't see that group of 14 Zs coming my way.
