Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter 30

*-Important- A lot of this is dreams. Pay attention. The dreams are important. One of them anyway.😜-*

Late at night-
Romeo lay awake tossing and turning. The stress was just too much for him. What was he thinking? How could Kristina do this to him? Katia was the one how really wanted to lead. She was semi good at it. Maybe, just maybe he'll let her lead, but then he'll look like a quitter. If Romeo was anything he wasn't a quitter. Never. That was his motto when he was a rebel.
-I am no rebel without a cause, therefore I will not quit no matter how difficult the task.
Romeo decided he wouldn't quit....yet. He wasn't a rebel anymore, so he could bend his own rule a little. Even though it'll make him a slight rebel. He promised himself that he would only quit if he brought the team more harm than good. With that he fell into a deep troubled sleep.

Katia paced around the room as silently as she could. Elizabeth laid down peacefully drooling a little on the white sheet. Katia always thought and worried. It was her specialty. She didn't trust anyone to lead the group if it wasn't Kristina or herself. She knew she should trust Romeo, but it looks like he still follows Kristina. That should reassure her, but it didn't. Kristina seemed a little detached as if she had given up on the group, and was doing her own thing. Her running away from the in the forest proved Katia's theory. Twice. Katia raked a hand through her tangle short brown hair. She picked up Elizabeth's comb and started to comber hair. She imagined every tangle she found to be one if her problems. Every tangle she brushed out was a problem solved. This soothed her in an odd way, but she made the best of it. Finally, she set the brush down and stared at the tiny mirror.
"No more problems." Katia whispered to herself, her voice slightly uneven.

Elizabeth dreamed she was back in her house having breakfast with her sister. They were having eggs, bacon, and toast. Elizabeth looked around. She opened her eyes and noticed her mother was saying grace. She ducked her head and mumbled along in respect. She looked at her little sister. Her mother finished and everyone began to eat peacefully.
"Mom, what's the date?" Elizabeth asked.
"Oh well it's 7-13-3016." Elizabeth's mom replied with a smile. She ate a piece of bacon causally.
"But what happened? The apocalypse? Mom, what happened to-" Elizabeth got up frantically, and pushed her breakfast away from her.
"Elizabeth! Stop talking about it. It's illegal. I don't know why you always have these outbursts. It's in the past!" Elizabeth's mom shouted. She shook her head sadly. She nodded at Elizabeth's dad.
"Elizabeth, let's go back to the room." Elizabeth's dad got up and grabbed Elizabeth's shoulder firmly.
"What room? What's happening? Dad, mom, where's Gaby? And Kristina? And Katia?" Elizabeth asked frantically.
"ELIZABETH WE ARE FORBIDDEN TO SPEAK THE NAME OF THE FALLEN!" Elizabeth's mom yelled. Her face red with anger and frustration. Elizabeth's sister cried silently into her egg.
"The fallen?" Elizabeth whispered as her Dad roughly pushed her down a cellar into a cold dark room. She never had this in her actual house. Elizabeth started to panic. What going on? What did mom mean the fallen?
"Elizabeth, can down its just a dream. It'll all be over soon." A voice from above told her.  Elizabeth tried to slow her shaky breathing without much success.

Jax slept as Xander took the first shift of watching the room. He saw fleeting images in his dreams. He saw a guy with blue eyes, uneven hair, covered in mud and blood with a sword in his hand. He looked like Ethan, except taller, older, and fiercer. The guy had a alcohol bottle strapped to his belt. Kristina was hugging him, but he pushed her away. Then, his vision went a little cloudy. It cleared up and he was looking at all off the group members. Even Gaby and Ash.
Gaby leaned on a tree twiddling her thumbs. She mumbled to herself, "Never going to work." Jax didn't get what she meant, but his dreams moved on.
Ash was back at the underground base. He was sitting outside on top of a bench table with guys Jax didn't know surrounding him. Ash was laughing, "Zombie Apocalypse, please." was all he said.
Next, Xander, Romeo, and himself were sitting in a circle. Everything around them was dark. Jax thought they must've been in some type of cave. Xander spoke up, "Well we're screwed." He raked nervous fingers in his hair. "Someone will save us." Romeo spoke next. Jax was about to ask 'save us from what', but the dream changed images again.
Katia was brushing her hair, while Elizabeth slept. Katia seemed very calm with her eyes closed as if she were savoring some moment. "No more problems." She said shakily. She walked over to the bed and laid down with her eyes wide open.
Kristina was sitting in a tree. Her head was in her knees. She seemed to be letting out rasping breaths. "We're done." She said to herself. Her voice was uneven like she had been crying, but when she lifted her head her face was calm.
Kalani was looking at her nails. Inspecting them carefully. She looked straight forward as if she was looking at Jax. "What?" She said clearly annoyed.
Finally, Nathan and Devin where surrounded by fire. Jax couldn't see where they were, because of the fire. Nathan laid down in Devin's lap with his eyes closed. Jax figured he was dead and hoped his dream would change. Devin let out an uneven cry that sounded like 'Nathan'. The dream changed, but not before he heard Devin cry out again in depression, desperation, and pain.
Jax woke up to Xander shaking him.
"Are you okay? You look like you've been through hell." Xander asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Fine." Jax sputtered.

Devin offered to watch over the room, while Nathan slept. Nathan was scared of zombies coming, and him not waking up. Nathan fell fast asleep. The walking and battle had tired him out, and he needed some rest. 
At first his dream was blank. A big patch of whiteness and nothing more. Then the room started to look golden in color. Every group member except him floated around. Kristina sat in a tree on her phone. Elizabeth and Katia sat talking about how you could get any fruit you wanted. A pile of fruit lay at their feet. Romeo was floating around doing nothing. Jax was running faster than any human could've ran, except his feet didn't touch the ground. Devin floated to a corner weeping, and repeating Nathan's name many times. Xander just hovered in midair, a look of extreme concentration printed on his face. Ethan just hovered above everyone his eyes darting back and forth. Before Nathan could question anything his dream changed.
Kristina sat in an old wicker chair. She was old. Very old, Nathan noted. A woman came in grabbing Kristina's hand and saying 'it's time to go' sympathetically. Elizabeth was surrounded by Zs her eyes darting back and forth as she backed up into a wall. Nathan didn't see the gun she always had with her in her hand. Jax screamed as someone gagged him and pointed a gun to his head. Romeo dangled on a tree branch while Zs looked up hungrily at him. Above him a shadowed figure stood his foot poised above his hand. Kalani was running out of an explosion. As the explosion went off it hurtled her forward. Katia was running through a graveyard. A little girl who Nathan guessed was Elizabeth's sister clung to her hand. Xander was standing in the center of a pond. He looked around him his expression calm. Finally, Devin was surrounded by fire. Devin shirt caught up on flames-
Nathan sat up gasping for fresh air. He was drenched in sweat. The images came one after another, and Nathan could barely remember then. Except one. Tears streaked his eyes. Devin ran towards him. His worried eyes looked into Nathans.
"Oh, Nathan are you okay?" Devin asked.
Nathan pulled Devin towards him in an embrace.
"Are you? Promise me something, Devin." Nathan demanded.
"What?" Devin asked. He was confused. Nathan was acting strangely.
"Promise me that you'll never go up in flames." Nathan said. The image of Devin's shirt catching of fire came to his mind. He started to sob.
"I promise. I swear. I didn't plan to catch on fire anyways." Devin said quickly. Devin kissed Nathan's cheek to comfort him and got up.
"Go to sleep Nathan. Everything's fine." Devin said and brushed a hand through his hair.
"No, I'll watch the room." Nathan replied swiping the backs of his hands across his face.
"Okay?" Devin said and moved to take Nathans spot on the bed.

Ethan sat alone in his room. The talk with Cary hadn't went well. All he got from that was a bruise. He rubbed his shoulder where she had punched him. She could've done a lot worse, but she withdrew herself. An eerie clam spread across her face, just because he wouldn't tell her where Ash was. Come on! Just look for a guy on a chair being paraded around by zombies. Its not that hard. She went for a walk to avoid him. She traditionally wanted to sleep in the empty room, but Ethan protested he was a guy and Kalani was in the other room with only one person occupying it. Cary went to go sleep with her, but Kalani said she didn't harbor traitors in her room. After that, Cary went for a walk. Ethan wanted to wait for her and apologize, but then again he wasn't the one who threw a stick at someone. He knew he should get back to his house, but it was so lonely there. He couldn't make himself leave. Almost everyone in the neighborhood hated him. Except for that cat lady, but she liked everyone. She didn't seem to notice everyone hated her. One of her cats turned into a zombie cat and bit her neighbor's son, and that didn't go down well. Ethan's mind drifted off into weird places. Finally, he decided to leave. If fate let him see Cary and apologize then he would do so. He got up to leave when he heard screams. Then, Cary came in as Ethan ran to the door.
"Ethan? Were are you going?" Cary asked.
"I heard screams." Ethan replied. Cary grabbed his wrist and pulled him back in. She locked the door.
"It's the stupid cat lady. One of her cats got ran over, but it's not a Z. To crushed I guess." Kristina said. She moved along with Ethan to the room he was in.
"Oh, uh...Cary I'm sorry about-" Ethan started to apologize.
"Ugh, you sound like Juan. Enough, my name is actually Kristina. Also, don't apologize." Kristina said. She had told Ethan her name was Cary. She used it as a substitute before she could really trust him. She had done the same thing in the seventh grade to a guy name Juan. Except, a different friend of hers told her to. She didn't do it with purpose like with Ethan. Juan continued to call her Cary.
"Oh, you don't look like a Cary anyway." Ethan responded. They entered the room.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Kristina asked.
"I don't know. I guess a Cary looks like uh...forget it." He finally said. He walked towards the bed and was about to rest, but Kristina moved in front of him.
"One, you're sleeping on the floor. Two, don't argue." Kristina said quickly. She walked out the door to go and get her stuff.
"What am I a dog?" Ethan said looking at the direction Kristina had gone.
"You never know." Kristina answered him as she walked back in with her stuff