Dangerous. Beautiful. Sight - James Conrad

Chapter 7- Explosion

"It smells like death" someone comments.

"That's because it is" Hank shoots back, his expression still isn't happy. You sigh, knowing how much of a bad idea this is.

"We'll cut through here" Packard says. You stare at the sight in shock. The large set of corpses before you. Hank has told you about this place. This is Kong's parents. This remains are the King's parents.

You sigh, as you's all begin to go down the small hill. You stay close to Conrad since you have no weapon. You honestly wish you had a gun, experience or not that thing can save your life.

"Stay close" Conrad whispers, keeping a tight grip on his gun. He isn't take into any risks of lowering his gun. You nod, him catching it in the corner of his eye.

The smoking air will be cause to suffocating you. So you breathe through your mouth. You look around to everyone looking around at the giant set of bones. You notice Earl lighting a cigarette. Gosh, you could go for one of those right now.

"Cole? What are you doing? Put that out!" Glenn hisses. Earl sighs and chucks the cigarette over to a pit of dirt. You grip onto Conrad's arm when flames soar into the air. Earl and Glenn are thrown the the ground but luckily the flames didn't touch them.

"This place is full of flumes!" Bill shouts to them, shaking his head. "Idiots" he mumbles before continuing to walk. Conrad sighs and looks down to you.

"Are you alright?" He asks, concerned. You nod for your answer. Conrad gives you a small smile and you's begin to walk again.

You gasp, hearing a screech like sound in the distance. Everyone stops and looks around for what did that. But oh do you have an idea what. You look to Hank who has a knowing expression.

"Crawlers.." He mutters.

You look to Packard who has a stressed and worried look on him. "Everyone run!" He commands, beginning to run to a hiding spot. Conrad doesn't wait a second for you to progress and pulls you along with him.

You struggle to keep up with his long pair of legs but thankfully his hand on your arm just keeps you up. He slides down, hiding behind a large piece of bone, pulling you down with him and you's lean against it. Mason quickly joins.

You's breath in deeply, Conrad protecting you with one of his arms while he aims his weapon for the enemy. You close your eyes hearing the screech again. And again. And again. You look around, watching everyone hide in frozen with fear. They all have a weapon. Besides you and Mason.

The crawler screeches, you know it is near to you. It's screech sounds clogged and it brings to spill. You hold back your sounds, opening your mouth in disgust as you watch blood, guts and bones landing basically right next to you. You close your eyes when you see a skull land. Sickening.

Conrad stares at the dog tags and sighs silently. He begins looking around for Packard. The screeches get quieter as the skullcrawler slowly leaves. But you still stay in place until everyone slowly gets up. Conrad helps up Mason and then you.

"Are you okay?" He asks, you only answer in a nod again. He hums and picks up the dog tags, putting it in his pocket, looking around for Packard.

Everyone regroups, ready to go again. You sigh, beginning to walk until you hear a camera flash. You jerk your head around and stare at Bill, holding on to his flashing camera with a horrified expression. "Oh shit" he says before he is bitten by a skullcrawler. You cry at the sight and fall backwards from your body trying to run away without thinking. Conrad catches you, spinning you around from the sight, blocking your ears from the words being shouted.

"Stay by me L/N, stay by me" Conrad says, aiming his gun to the fog. Majority form a circle. One man setting up his gun to kill the crawler. It goes quiet, you can hear the camera still flashing in the distance. Coming from a different spot each flash.

You slowly drift from Conrad without him noticing. Without you even noticing. You breathe in and out deeply, looking around for it. You look to Hank who's holding his samurai up, ready to strike and mumbles under his breath. It's not English, that's all you know.

You eyes widen when you see the skullcrawler sprinting out of the fog right to Hank. Hank dodges, managing to slice it's leg and now, it's coming for you. "L/N!" Conrad yells, running to you. He tackles you to the ground, right before the skull crawler gets to you. The skull crawler flies over you's and begins to be shot at. It screeches loudly. "Are you okay!" Conrad shouts.

You can only nod your head furiously. Conrad nods his head and helps you up, telling you to hide as he runs off to kill the crawler. But you have no idea where to hide. You look around at everyone firing at the crawler but you don't have a weapon! You sigh, bending down by a large bone.

You duct and cry lightly at everyone screaming. But you keep your eye on Conrad. Praying that he will be okay. You hear a yelp and jerk your head to the right to see Mason, gripping onto her leg on the ground. You breathe in, keeping yourself calm and run over to her. Dodging the flying objects and bullets.

"Are you okay?" You question, sliding down next to her. She cries, holding on tighter to your ankle.

"I twisted my ankle" she whimpers. You nod, your head helping her up. You look for the safest are to take her but stop. Watching Conrad run through toxic gas with a face mask on, with Hank's sword to defend myself from the creatures. You quickly put down Mason in a safe spot. Your eyes widen when you see the skullcrawler run in their direction. You run around, looking for Conrad.

You slow down, watching Conrad help up Reg and them only notice the skullcrawler coming to them. You blink, thinking of what to do. When it clicked. You ran to them, pulling out Conrad's lighter from your pocket. Conrad shouts your last name, reaching out for you but missing. You lit the lighter, throwing it at the crawler before running backwards.

The crawler screeches before flames exploded by the flumes, sending you back. Conrad automatically lets go of Reg. His arms opening out for you as you fly into him. He catches you, landing on his back by the brutal force.

You's both groan in pain. You fall of of him, laying with a screwed expression, trying to breathe properly. "Thank you.." Conrad groans.

"No problem.." You reply and you's just lay there, knowing the crawler is dead.