Dawn of the heroes

Chapter XVI - Home sweet home

Nero: After driving five weeks and walking by feet, we had managed to get back into the city. Empty as always. The city hadn't brought anything special. No creature, no snake, no nothing.
We were heading to the place where our run had started. I was curious to see what had made them realised where our location was. Many hours it took to us until we arrived back home, but we could not enter until we would had made sure everything was safe. We had checked the place from three directions: Alia was watching the front gate, Danny was checking from the roof and I had checked the secret door.
The room was empty. No body, no Executioner, no nothing. I went to the hatch and same result. Nothing. I had pressed a brick and turned the ramp back into the stairs. When I got out I had seen the other two looking surprised at me. I told them what is inside our shelter and got back into Alia's room.
Alia helped me to get through the hole they were coming from in our previous meeting. The road was long and cold. At a certain point I had reached a wall and another hatch. I had pushed it and I had realised where I was at that moment.
Danny: I was waiting for Nero to get back and in the end the result was more than enough for me. 'The tunnel leads to Adrian's room.' The answer was kind of shocking, but not enough for me. 'And the bodies from there?' I asked. Nero said there was none since he had burned them.

***

15 minutes later, we had arrived in Adrian's room. Nero went to speak with his family. How comes there was such thing in his room? And since when it was this tunnel? And for what it was made in fact? So many questions, so lesser the time to find out.

Nero: The family members were all right. None of them presented signs of the infection. That was good. They knew all this time how to survive. I had assured them that Adrian was OK. His older brother was not conviced of it. He wanted to speak with me in private.

Alia: We were searching carefully every place in the room, but with no luck. There wasn't something very interesting in here, but I had the feeling that there should had been something more than a secret hatch.

Nero:'Is he dead?' He asked me while watching the starred sky.

'I don't know....'I answered.

He asked me how it came to this and the only answer he had gotten from me was:

'Fate is something that we would never understand.'

From Adrian's room we had heard a sound. They had found something.