Hunter Or The Hunted

Part One: Lonesome

Alicia's POV:
I just kept running and don't look back. My feet started to hurt and my heart felt as though it was about to explode out of my chest! My bearings are gone, I don't know where I am! I got lost from my group, my family, 3 days ago whilst we were on a supply run. All I have left is a rucksack with a few peanut protein bars, 2 bottles of water and a torch, I also had a combat knife strapped to my upper thigh for protection in this fucked up world.

I finally slowed down when I felt it was safe! My current safe house where I was staying on my own was over run by infected! I don't like the word Zombie because it quite in accurate and brings its own stereotypes! But infected feels right because they were infected by some sort of neurological virus but I don't know! All that is happening around me is just too much for my brain to comprehend at this moment!

I've been walking around this derelict town for hours now and found nothing but infected and looted shops! It's starting to get dark so, now my mission is to find somewhere where I can possible sleep for the night! Then I spot it a shop that has a ladder access roof! It's not really protecting me from the weather but it will protect me from the infected!

As I made my way up the ladder, it creaked and bent a little! Shit, I'm going to have to be careful when I come down in the morning! I finally reach the top of the shop and I was are the remains of a camp where someone was staying! I climb over the barrier and grab the handle of my knife and take it out of its holster ready to protect myself! Once I have check that this place was clear of infected or people, I had a look around for was the previous person had left!

The first thing I saw was a piece of paper with writing on it! It read:
'To the person or people who are reading this you have found my camp! Or what's left of it. I have left you my gun which is a desert eagle pistol and 3 boxes of ammunition! Which are in my hiking bag! If you are wondering where I am then i let myself be killed so I could enter the afterlife where the rest of my loved ones are. So you don't suffer the same fate As i did, those creatures are attracted by sound and light! Also I have left some books in my bag too! They are real classics so I recommend you read them, they were my escape from this fucked world! Good luck on your journey! Jack signing out!'

As soon as I finished and ran and checked his bag... It was true his pistol and bullet where in that bag! And the books too. I packed all of my new belongings into my bag and started to organise the blankets to make my bed! Once I was finally comfortable I sat down and started to read one of the books that jack had left! I was quite dark so I got out my torch and read my books! I was reading for a what seemed like hours, when the darkness finally took over me.

I woke up to the sounds of banging and moaning! I jolted up and sprung up due to the recognisable sound of the infected creatures. I ran to the edge of the shop to finally reveal what was causing the horrific sound! When my eyes came upon it, there were at least 50 infected surrounding the shop and some how had pulled down the ladder! I just stare at the horror in front of me! I try and figure out what caused them to come and surround the shop, that's until I realise that's I left my torch on and I had pointed towards the wall and it makes the light twice as bright. I shout in frustration. Multiple thoughts go through my head, how am I going to get out?, I never got to say goodbye to my family, is this my end?

Im ripped out of my thoughts, when I see a break in the horde and I take my opportunity while it's still there! I grab my bag and my books and run to the edge! I breathe a big breath to compose myself and jump from the top shop onto the back alley. As I land onto the concrete I hear a crack in my ankle and I scream out! I ignore the pain and run as fast as my leg will let me past the horde, but my screams attracted the horde. I start to walk from the shop and toward the main road but soon my ankle gives way and I can't walk any further! I'm a bit in front of the horde so all I can do it sit with my back against an abandoned house! I put my hands over my head and and accept my fate. I would use the gun I found but I don't know how to use it properly and will probably waste the bullet and maybe the next person will find it like I did with jack's possessions! The horde finally caught up with me and I'm really scared because i don't want to die. I hear the moans practically in front of me. I put my hands over my ears and hummed a light tune to myself.

I waited and waited and waited but nothing seemed to happen! I lifted my hands off my ears and I heard gun shots and bodies falling. The shots make me instinctively close my eyes tightly. I don't know how long it was that I had my eyes closed but I was too scared to open them. Then I heard a voice of a girl, a slight Australian accent in it. But I keep my eye closed because this could just be my body being in shock! That's until I feel a hand placed onto my shoulder and I realise that it's not a hallucination. I slowly open my eyes to reveal a girl.

"Hey are you okay? Look we need to go? Can you walk?" she says looking at me with concern in her eyes.

"I-I can't walk i h-hurt my ankle" I say weak and uncontrollable tears start to flow from my eyes.

She grabs me and pull me up and into a quick hug. She pulls me to arms length and says "I'm Elyza and we need to go, I'm going to pick you up and take you to my motorcycle, then to my safe house, okay?"

I nod in response and in return tell her my name. Then I turn my head quickly at the sound of more infected and I grab onto Elyza's jacket! She senses my fear and picks me up bridal style and runs towards her matte black motorcycle, she places me down softly and never removes her hand from my back. Elyza quickly sat at the front of her motorcycle and started it up.

She turns to me and says "Hold on tight".

Hi, hope you enjoyed the first intense chapter. I will give a back story of Alicia's family in the next chapter and I was also thinking that I don't want it to follow the same story line in FTWD for some of the relationships like Alicia and Matts! Please comment for any feedback and don't forget to vote! Also if there are spelling mistakes, I'm sorry!
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