Run

Survivor

Percy looks at me for a split second with a sympathetic look, "I'm sorry." He said and turned back to Reece and stabs him straight in the heart.

"No!" I scream, but it does no good; the deed is already done.

Just seconds later it looks as if Reece's body is healing once again, and he sits up with his eyes black as night.

"What the hell..." Percy slurs while backing away from the Him. "They can't be shot in the head or the heart... What more can we do?"

I breathe heavily and my heart is about to pump out of my chest. The other ones from the drones are surrounding us, we only have limited time to think.

"I'm sorry Reece." I whisper in a soft cry and stab the knife in him strait into the center of his forehead, but it scars up immediately. Strait through his heart, it scars. Panicking, I slice open across his stomach and a flood of black fluid oozes out. It is the color of oil and the consistency of slime. The whole thing slips out of the body and sits in a pile of goop in the hot ray of sun. The sunlight disintegrated the black fluid and it vanishes into thin air. Reece's body lays stiff on the ground. He's dead.

Standing up I hug Percy tight and cry into his bare chest, but he pushes me off of him, "I know it hurts, but there is no time for crying now. Slice open every single one of Their stomachs."

"But there has to be another way to not kill all of these people!"

"Well if there is, we don't know it. We have to deal with what we got... And just remember, these people arn't people. They're already dead."

I nod and wipe away my tears. Percy nods back at me and we wait for Them to surround us more closely.

The first wave is sprinting towards us, shooting at us like mad men. Percy gets out our gun and shoots them to stun them as I run up and open the flood gates.

This group is already dead on the floor, but the second is running up wildly. We do the same to the next wave and the next, and the next. How we managed to do this, I have no clue. It was literally two to a million, but eventually we did it. We committed a mass murder of these weird alien parasites and the host they took over.

My knees buckle in at the thought of what I had just done. Did I really do this? I never would have thought I was capable of something like this. I always pictured myself as just lucky to be alive, yet now I see why I'm alive, and I believe that it's true. I really am strong.

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We are walking away from the scene. I don't even know if we are going towards home or if we are leaving in the opposite direction.

Tumbleweeds role past us and rustle on the ground making a shaking noise and sending chills through my skin.

There is a warm breeze aginst the back of my neck, tingling the little hairs and giving me goosebumps. But the weird thing is, it's not breezy... I turn my head a little behind me and-

"Quinn!" He says excitedly while standing directly behind me, being the one breathing on my neck.

I breath heavily and grab my knife and aim straight for the stomach, but He pushes His arm on my chest and stops me.

"What the hell Quinn? Are you trying to kill me?"

"Stop! Just stop! Your not alive, don't mess with my head!" I scream, trying to slip the knife into Him, but He backs off and I just slice the side of his rib cage.

He grasps his side and sucks in a sharp breath, "oww!" He mutters, "why are you doing this? I'm a good guy remember? Now lets plant the chips and head to the desert!"

My mouth falls open and I stammer, "R-Re-Reece? Your-- your really alive? And your okay?!"

"Your side is still bleeding! Quinn, he really is human again!" Percy excitedly says.

"Human again? What are you two talking about?" he replies.

"Your were one of Them, Reece! But we discovered how to kill Them and the alien or parasite or whatever it was vanished into thin air. We don't know if it died or transported itself... But it's gone! For now atleast." I explain.

Reece sits down in the dirt and rolls some sand in his hand and looks at it lay in his hands, "We're in the desert?" he asks confused, "I was really one of Them? I don't remember anything."

"Well what was the last thing you do remember?" Percy asks.

"We were at the beach... And we found out about the chips that They planted in us. I was gonna go put them in the tent and then catch up to you two and we were going to head to here." He continues, "but when I got to the tent they were already there waiting for me... I- I think I dropped the chips and that's when They got me."

"I knew it!" I scream, "I told you we shouldn't have split up, but you two insisted on it! This would never have happened if we stayed together, we could have fought Them off if we stayed together!" I yell, now enraged at the boys.

Percy puts his hand on the small of my back and rubs it to try and calm me down, "well then what Reece?" Percy asks.

"I woke up here... But there was one thing, I felt hungry. I think all that They wanted was food." he states.

I breath heavily and think in my mind how it all kind of makes sence now. They just wanted food and it just happed that whatever They ate They turned into. A tear forms out of the corner of my eyes, but I don't even know why. I don't feel sad at all.

Reece spies me crying and comes into a hug, as does Percy. "I'm sorry I stabbed you in the head and the heart and the stomach." I laugh/cry.

"Wait what?!" Reece laughs.

"Yeah about that, I kinda put a knife in your heart too.." Percy joins.

"Okay... I see how it is!" He jokes. "So now what do we do?"

"Hm, walk home I guess." I suggest.

"But what even is home without people?" Percy replies.

At that moment we heard more footsteps and turned to see every one of them standing up in a confused daze.

Reece gasps and glipses over the crowd, "Ashley!" he whispers to himself and runs off into the mob of people.

"There is no way this is all of Them right?" I ask Percy.

"Yeah, there are way more people that live out here than this..."

"So then where is everyone else?"

"I don't know, but remember how They could shape shift if they ate their brain?"

I nod my head at him.

"Well then what happend to all of those people that They wern't at the moment we killed Them?"

I pause a minute... "Gone, I guess. Unlike Them people can't just split into other people."

"So mabey this is all of Them then, and the only survivors are the ones whos bodies They inhabitted as we killed Them."

Author's note:
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