The group watched as Marzia ran down the stairs, all with sad and worried expressions on their faces.
"We'll go get her." Chapin said, grabbing Lonnie by the arm and starting down the stairs. Hannah and Zoey followed, but they stopped the guys from going any further.
"You guys clean up the the corpses before Marzia comes back up." Hannah ordered. The men nodded, not wanting to argue.
The two girls ran down the staircase, and saw Marzia hitting a pile of furniture at the bottom of the staircase with her bat. Zombie hands reached out to her, but she ignored them.
The other four girls reached Marzia before she could knock the barricade down. Lonnie put a hand on her shoulder.
"Marzia, come on, you can't go out there." The red head said in a calm voice.
"I want to kill them. All of them! For killing Felix." Marzia said. She hit the barricade again with her bat.
"Marzia, stop. We'll kill them all eventually, but right now I think your exhausted, both physically and mentally." Hannah said.
"You need your strength." Zoey added.
Marzia stopped and thought. She seemed to be battling inside emotions, thinking if she should listen or not. Then she dropped the bat and ran into Hannah, crying in her shoulder and grabbing onto her like a lost child. Hannah looked startled, but then rubbed her hand on the Italian's back in a soothing manner.
Chapin picked up the bat, and then the five girls walked back up the stairs, the zombies growling behind them.
When they emerged back to the Top Deck, the corpses were gone. The only proof that there were corpses on the deck were the blood trails leading to the railing. Down below, you could see the corpses laying on true ground.
The guys' shirts were covered in blood, but who wasn't now a days?
"Are you guys okay?" Liam asked.
Lonnie seemed to take her chance, because she smiled so wide it looked like her cheeks were going to rip, and walked over to Liam. She wrapped her arms around his neck and layed her head on his shoulder.
"So nice of you to ask!" She said flirtatiously. "I'm better, now." Liam could hear the other men chuckling behind him.
Liam carefully, trying not to be rude, removed Lonnie's arms from his neck and took a step away. She pouted.
"Uh, what I mean is, um, is Hannah, okay?" Liam said, side-stepping Lonnie and gently putting a hand on Hannah's shoulder. Hannah smirked, knowing that Liam just wanted to get away from Lonnie. The red head glared at Hannah for a moment, before retracting back to her happy too-excited self.
"Alright everyone," Chapin said. "We'd better get some rest, if we're going to try to get our ship back tomorrow." She set her pistol down and grabbed a crowbar that was on the floor.
"Why not use your pistol?" Joakim asked.
"'Cause I ran out of ammo. If I'd still have ammo, I'd be down there trying to get our boat back." Chapin answered. She seated herself on the ground, facing both the railing and the stairway. "You all get rest."
Doing as they were told, the Yogscast found a spot on the deck, and they closed their eyes.
***
The next day they awoke without trouble. It was hard to get to sleep when you heard the zombies groaning, but maybe you didn't want to sleep anyways.
The group sat around, wishing they'd brought that laptop with them, doing nothing.
"What should we do?" Chris asked, laying down on the deck.
"I don't know. How's that scratch of yours?" Lewis asked.
Chris shrugged. "I don't feel any different, if that's what you mean."
Suddenly, someone's stomach growled, making everyone laugh and turn their heads towards Zoey.
"I'm hungry!" Zoey said, laughing. "Where's all the food that you packed, anyways?"
Chapin, who was laughing along with everyone, froze and go pale.
"What is it, Chapin?" Lonnie asked, recomposing herself.
"I left the food down there." Chapin said. She ran to the front of the boat, opposite of the stairway, and looked down. "There's another room, directly below us. That's where I stored the food. And we're not going to get it unless we go down there."
"Then go," Lewis said. "Go down from the front of the boat, and get into the room. We'll watch your backs."
"And how are you supposed to 'watch our backs' without any guns?" Chapin questioned, eye narrowing. She still doesn't exactly trust the YouTubers; she blames them for bringing the virus on board, therefore she just doesn't like them.
"We could do distractions." Zoey spoke up. "If you get in a tight spot, we'll distract the dead until you get back up here."
Chapin was about to retort, but stopped herself when she thought it over. After a little while, she nodded. "Fine. But don't expect this to start up a friendship." She turned to Lonnie. "Come with?"
Lonnie smiled. "Sure." She smiled at Liam and winked. "I'll be back, don't miss me too much."
Liam forced a smile, and waved. Then he turned back to the other Yogscast members.
"Miss her? I want her to leave me alone!" He whispered.
Hannah chuckled. "Why? It's cute that she has a crush; it's just funny that it's you." Liam glared at her, but he couldn't help the smirk come to his lips.
Lonnie and Chapin decided to jump over the railing at the front of the boat, and make their way around back. If they could be quiet enough to not attract the undead and get back, everything will be fine.
The dead gave up on trying to break through the barrier on the stairway, and instead began to wander the Ferry to try to find some food. Lonnie and Chapin managed to dodge a few, making their way to the door. It was on the side of the lower deck, and should be unlocked.
The two woman made it to the door unscathed. Chapin tried to lift the handle, but the door didn't open. She lifted it again, but with the same result.
"Sh*t, it's not opening." Chapin whispered fiercely to her companion.
"Try again." Lonnie encouraged.
Chapin lifted the handle, but the door still did not open. "Grr. Cover me while I try to get this thing open."
Chapin then began to move the handle frantically, lifting up the handle and pushing. With the sound, it attracted almost all the zombies on the boat. Lonnie held her crowbar up, ready to defend.
But before she could hit a zombie, there was shouting from up above. Lonnie and Chapin turned their heads to see both Zoey and Joakim, hanging by the railing, dangling their feet and screaming insults at the dead. Further up, you could see the rest of the Yogscast holding onto their arms, probably praying to God that they don't fall. That definitely distracted the dead, letting Chapin and Lonnie have more time.
Chapin tried to open the door, this time moving the handle downwards, and pushing. The door opened, and the two ran in and gathered as much food as they could. Then they ran out, closing the door behind them to hide the rest of the food in the room, and ran back to the front of the boat. They managed to climb back up to the Top Deck, the food in hand.
Zoey and Joakim were pulled up, safe and sound, just in time for Chapin to catch them.
"Do you realize what you just did?!" Chapin yelled.
Zoey and Joakim took a step back.
"You could've gotten killed!" Chapin yelled again. "That was so stupid! Do you realize you were risking your lives-"
"For you two? Yeah." Joakim finished, crossing his arms.
"We thought you'd be thankful." Zoey mumbled like a student in trouble.
"Thankful?! I can't leave you guys alone for a minute without you trying to get yourselves killed!" Chapin said. Her cheeks were red.
"You two would've been killed if it weren't for these two!" Lewis argued.
"Stay out of this." Chapin snapped.
"Don't talk to him that way! If it includes our friends, then it includes us." Hannah replied.
"You guys didn't almost become suicidal!" Chapin said, aiming her glare towards Zoey and Joakim.
"Okay, enough of this!" Zoey said. She turned to Chapin, and if looks could kill, Chapin would be dead. "I said we could do a distraction, I came up with it, we tried to help you, and then you yell at us like we're the dumbest people on the planet!"
"THAT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE!" Chapin screamed. "A normal person wouldn't have just dangled their bodies above the dead just willy-nilly for a good reason!"
"Then I guess I'll think twice when it comes to saving your life." Joakim growled.
There was silence as Chapin tried to think of something to say. Lonnie came over and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Let's just eat and have a rest, okay?" Lonnie said in a sweet tone. Chapin gritted her teeth as she nodded. The black-haired leader walked away from the group and sat with her back turned to them.
"Now, let's pass out this food, shall we?" Lonnie said, smiling brightly and reached into one of the grocery bags that contained various items of food. She passed out cans of different fruits, bags of certain snacks and bottles of warm water. The last thing she pulled out was a pack of Jaffa Cakes.
The Yogscast members' eyes widened, then they looked down in their laps. Lonnie noticed.
"What's up?" She asked.
"It's just," Lewis started. "Those cakes were..... uh..... very important to what we did, before sh*t hit the fan."
Lonnie looked at them with a look that said, 'Are you kidding me?'.
"Our friend.... those cakes were his favorites." Lewis continued.
Lonnie's expression changed into pity. She looked at the Jaffa Cakes, then handed them to Lewis. "I'm sure your friend would want you to have them."
Lewis took them, and soon after took off his glasses and wiped his eyes, which looked red and puffy.
Lonnie continued to hand out food, giving a bag of beef jerky to Chris lastly.
When Chris opened the bag and bit into a chunk, he almost immediately jumped up, ran to the railing, and puked. The others looked on with shocked silence.
"Chris, are you okay?" Liam asked.
Chris shook his head without turning around, and began to dry heave. Then he just sat down on the ground, having wasted all his energy.
"Was it the jerky?" Lonnie asked, walking over. She smelled the inside of the bag, then tasted a jerky piece. It tasted fine. Then the gears in her head clicked, and she ran over to Chris, placing her hands on the side of his face and looked at the scar. It was tinted with an ugly dark green now.
"I think it was the scratch." Lonnie said. She placed her hand on his forehead, then shook his head. "But there's no fever."
"What do we do about it?" Zoey asked.
Lonnie shook her head. "I don't know."
