Fame

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niall horan;

It was time to go now, they had the information they needed to run off into the horizon until they were met with Gameland. The man had spoke, a desperate and cowardly tone to his confession as he spat out the directions. Niall had to force himself not to smile in pride, he didn't know he had it in himself to be completely honest, he thought he was a scared little mouse all the time too worried about not getting what he wanted at the most needed times. But he was forceful, had tortured that bastard till he was weeping, and now they can finish off the rest of their journey. 

Niall can't wait to find Sunny and Jock now, can't wait to feel their blood on his hands thick and red. He'd wait for it to dry, keep it on his skin and clothes all the way back to the villages they'd come back too, to mark himself as the murderer of those two. 

He's turned into a savage now, someone deeply troubled and that has no mind for himself anymore. He feels like he's always in an out-of-body experience, looking at himself and at the people around him as a different spirit. Everything doesn't feel real anymore, it's the same feelings he had when the zom's first came to life all across the globe. The thoughts of confusion, disbelief,  and how far he has parted from reality along those past couple of days around the start of his new life now consumed in a dead mans land. Ever since Louis' death and watching one of his best friends fall to his death in a sea of hungry jaws and clawing hands, his world has become plastic in his eyes, phoney and wrong in every shape and form. He doesn't like it here, he doesn't like himself, he doesn't like the boys the way he used to, doesn't like the dirt along his feet that he'd run barefoot in and got to know when he first escaped the camp. 

"We should leave now, Ni they are gonna come looking for this wanker soon and we will definitely be caught in the middle soon enough." Zayn had gotten up from where he was beside Liam trying to keep the mans movements limited. Liam and Harry looked to be in agreement with his words, both straightening themselves out as well and making their way towards the entrance to the cave with their weapons over their shoulders or shoved in the pockets of their jeans or belt holsters. 

Niall spared a glance towards the man still splayed out on the stone ground of the cave. He was sitting in his own blood, it all dried up now along the places where Niall had jabbed at him with his katana sword. He knows as soon as they leave the man will get out of the rope Niall had tied around him, he's a worker for Sunny and Jock, they wouldn't hire some rookie. So if they were going to leave, they needed to leave fast and get out of the perimeter of the forest before this guy started to stalk them and will clearly ambush them if he did find them again. 

He silently moved towards where the boys were, pushing them lightly out of the cave before rushing down the large rocks like a staircase for him on either side of the waterfall. The boys were more slower than he was, being careful along the slippery parts coated with the water sprayed from the falls. But as soon as they hit the ground Niall grabbed them to form a circle, looking at them all equally before speaking his plans. 

"He's gonna get out of the restraints I put him in them, I didn't put them as tight as I'd usually do because I wanted him to get out and go to Sunny and Jock. So we need to get out of here fast, no walking and talking, just go, go, go." He said that as fast as possible but tried to make his words clear, they all nodded, making their way through the forest the next second.

They didn't stop, like Niall had ordered. They ran north light on their feet and maneuvered swiftly around the trees. They had crossed paths with ten zombies, easily killing them off with teamwork before they finally met eyes with the horizon, no trees blocking the way. 

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"What do you think we will find, when we get there?" Harry asked after a long and calming walk in the middle of no where, the forest behind them slowly growing smaller and smaller the farther they got from it.