Them

Mistaken

Chapter Four:

Mistaken

It was tall, too tall to even climb over. It's not your ordinary wooden fence that you have surrounding your house. This one was made of cement; almost hard to believe how fast they had this wall up when the infection broke out. How in the world were we going to get in without getting caught? The gaurds have a wide perimeter to watch and they can catch any movement that we make from where they stood; which was about more than 100 feet.

I hear the clanking of the ammo being put into guns from ahead; Gregory and I were walking pretty slow compared to the group. "Hey Ray!" I call out. He spins around."What chump?" Fuck you too. I press my lips together before speaking, "What now?" The sun was now blocked by the great green wall. It was astonishing how the plants could grow that high to cover a wall.

"We're going through a tunnel." He states, leading the group down a rocky slope that lead to a sewer. It looked just like the one I took with Jessica and Jerry to get out of our quarantine. Hopefully no guards caught us going down here. Ray and the others get through a broken part of the metal bars, and I stand on the other side, eyeing Ray. "Come on." He insists. "Where are we going?"

"My partner has a secret entrance to his home through here. Now could you stop being a pansy?"

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The water was knee length and full of garbage. "This is where they throw everything out?" Charles speaks, pinching his nose to block out the intense smell. Natasha had squealed for the fifth time, saying she feels something rubbing against her leg or grabbing her foot. Again, we all shush her and Ray calms her down. They were walking hand in hand, Jamie was right behind me, Gregory to my right, Zach and Ben were leading the group now through the sewer and-- Where's Charles?

"Run!" I hear him scream, and I spin around to find Charles sprinting in the water towards us. A few feet behind him was a gigantic Beep. It's waist was bloated and puss oozed out of it's pores when it yelled. Jamie was already running ahead of me as I waited for Charles to get closer. "Hurry up!" I yell to him when the Beep starts running after Charles. Once he got close enough, we both ran side by side and I kept glancing behind us.

Taking out my gun, I try running backwards to shoot him but that only works for a few seconds before I fall down into the water. Quickly, picking myself up, I wipe away the water from my face and see that Charles and the group had turned left to a tunnel. I head left as well, and the Beep growls... He was close. I glance behind me again, it was catching up. I then turn my head to look in front of me and crash into Ray. "Move it!" He yells at me and I make space between us when standing next to him. "What the fuck are you doing?! We got to run!" I tell him, my voice echoing off the curved walls. He was too focused on pointing his gun at the Beep that was charging at us.

Shoot him already Ray.

This was taking too long; he was going to get both of us killed. Taking my own gun in hand and pointing it at the Beep, I shoot him all over; not caring where the bullets went. It was dying out in the water, but I don't think that's stopping the Beep because it tries getting back up. My ears were filled with whimpers and my eyes were filled with pity. Shaking it off, I see that Ray is frozen in his spot. I pull on his arm to get him running; leading him back to our group.

We both catch up to the group, where they waited for us at section of the tunnel where some crappy-looking wooden boards were badly nailed to hide a hole. A passage. Zach speaks over the Beep's distant cries,"We're going through here but we don't have the equipment to break the boards down--"

Gregory abruptly grunts aloud and kicks down the boards; the nails flying over our heads and the wood breaking to pieces. "Never mind." Zach finishes and crawls through the hole first.