The Night

A long story

      Ok, so I knew there were people out there. People who needed help escaping from those things. I also knew that the Reavers seemed to hide at day, bit cliched but hell they scared the hell out of me. I couldn't do this alone, I needed to find others. I was lost in thought fiddling with some materials I had found, screw a bolt here, a piece of metal here and there, lost in thought. Piecing things together, I held my creation up and it resembled long grappeling hook weapon, it had sharp edges to pierce enemies with but could also latch onto edges for me to run up, nylon ran along the side and it was sturdy, pretty cool.
      My stomach rumbled heavily, the food I had would last me a few days at the most if rationed. I was also heavily dehydrated. Suddenly I heard a thud outside, but it was the day... There were no Reavers out? Cautiously I edged the door open to see a girl about my age lying on the floor, unconscious. Hesitantly I brought her inside, resting her on a table and I put makeshift bandages on her wounds.
She had silky black hair and was smaller than me, she had soft brown eyes and a beautiful face. I shook my head, I was getting distracted and resumed my medical treatment: Some pretend banages and put a blanket on her, making a small bed. A few hours later she started mumbling, I couldn't make out what she was saying. Guess I just had to wait and scavenge. I spent the next day or two not doing much; making the occasional run through bins and reinforcing my shop until one day she woke up, she was instantly startled. "Hey? Where am I, wait wha-who are-where..? What is?" She mumbled and I told her to calm down.
      I didn't get much out of her before she slept again,"My name... my name is Arya,". After the third day she woke up properly an instantly began asking question after question.
      "Sit down and relax. I'll explain everything, though I don't really know much," I replied then attempted to tell Arya what had happened,"You appeared outside my door unconscious, I brought you in and bandages your wounds," leaving an awkward silence."So, uh, what happened leaving you out there injured?" I asked, gently so as not to disturb her.
       She looked distraught,"Wait.. Oh no oh no, where are they, what happened to them!?" She gasped before attempting to run out, I told her to calm down yet again,
"Just tell me what happened, I can help you," and was met with a long story," Well, it was me and two other survivors living together, we were all best friends before all this happened, us 3 lived on the streets together. Never had any parents we knew about, each other was all we had. Now I have no-one oh God, so we had this nice set up, a camp in some old apartment and we had lots of food, we always knew how to scavenge and traverse the terrain, had to to survive. So we were all together then on the first day, where everyone was screaming, Alicia, one of my two friends the other being Paul, suggested we go get some food and more resources. We all agreed, cause us 3 knew better than everyone else, food and drink burnt fast and by the time you realised it, it was too late. So we went off scavenging, bringing our weapons, yeah, don't look at me like that, obviously we had weapon," to my sideways glance at her,"Had a gun each and small assortment of knives and stuff, ones not too heavy but that could still deal damage, anyway we went out and got some food and stuff, also helping some people out, yeah, I remember there was this guy getting totally overrun by those creeps, so me being the genius I am, shot the creep 3 times in the back and got it to chase me instead. I didn't realise they were so fast, it chased after me and called its buddies on me too, was running all night and couldn't find my friends. Come to think about it, I haven't thought about Alicia and Paul until now... Anyway, so I've been out here for a while, then came the second night. It was all clear and I was so confused, I went out to see what was going on, and hell I wish I didn't. Every single one of em creeps was locked on this one fella here. He was running like a beast, some insane parkour skills, some kinda God. So, this guy single handedly saved so many lives, the streets were empty for a long long time, felt like an eternity. Then, out of nowhere a creep jumps me and knocks me to the floor, I get it off of me but then a huge horde starts getting me as well, I felt like I was running for ages, like an hour. So, I was running like that other guy, rooftop to rooftop. I lost them for a minute then some guy screams his head off, I felt guitly for him, did me losing the creeps cause him to get hunted? Anyway, I was exhausted and limping around town then I saw this boarded up house. Windows and everything cut up, I assumed it must've been inhabitated so I tried to open it. It was locked then my mind drifted away and I felt like I was dead. That's where you found me,". Her story left me dumbfounded, was it her that saved me that first night? And did I really save everyone last night...? I had so many questions but the one I asked was,
     "So, wanna stick together until you find your group, huh?" I had a lot of explaining to do, this was gonna take a while.