World of Decay: Escape Artists (Book 1)

chapter 23

Nyla swore at the kids. They were chucking stones at the girls telling them to leave. She put her hand out infront of her signaling to stop but the kids didn't. A big one cracked her in the kneecap making her leg go limp for a second.
Nyla was enraged. She was ready to kill those pip-squeaks. They decided to give up and go home. One girl got hit in the face and is down for the count. The rock knocked her unconscious and so they had to leave some metal behind.
Who cares. Its just metal they can have it for all she cares. The place has somewhere around two hundred and fourty-eight. So its reasonable why they won't let them in.
"What are we going to do now Nyla?" Tasha asked falling in sync beside her.
Nyla tries to get a better grip on the unconscious girl. "We go home an tell the boss Poca is being an ass. Maybe she had better luck talking to the Winfield leader."
"Yea. Maybe." She sighed. "I wish we could have a car to help lug us around.  I mean we could but that would mean fighting the infected and searching their disgusting bodies."
"Well we are gonna have to. We got live ones coming up from Raymond city bottom." Nyla said laying the girl down on the street. "Stay with her, me and the others got this."
Tasha nodded. Put down all the rids except for one.
Nyla and the others ran on ahead. Two other batches of rods lay on the ground. Six girls against maybe ten or more.
The infected must have smelled them coming back. Hoping to find out if they can win. Well they weren't these girls are mean and love to fight now.
Something snapped in them. Made them not care about beauty or looking totally sexy. All they want to do is live and kill anyone who stands in their way that attacks.
Nyla was first in cracking two before anyone else. Two slapped their rods across them in the neck completely severing the spinal cord. One called Mary and the other Ash who dresses like a boy.
Ash cracked one on top of the head and jammed the other in the gut. Someone grabbed her leather jacket and she elbowed the mother right in the teeth. Nothing stands in her way. When Ash gets back to the base, she wants to take that rod and sharpen it to a point. See who messes with her then.
The poor attackers are getting beat twenty to nothing. Mary went down taken by a father and Nyla played ball. Pulling her up Vicki saved their skin making a mother eat the bat.
Some got by Nyla. Tasha advanced stabbing in the gut and swinging at the throats. Two went down and the third took her rod away. Surprised at what happened she scrambled back grabbing another rod. He swing down and Tasha blocked sending a painful jolt up her arms. He drew back again while she was kneeling. Unable to block this deadly attack. To boths surprise the girl who was unconscious jumped him making the rod fly free. She made the man bounce his head off the pavement. Killing him. Her hands rest on the mans face as he look up at the sky with pale eyes. He looks blind.
Soon the street was clear. Adrenaline worn off making them hurt all over. They picked up the rods and set off again.
Davis Drive has a boat dock. Bodies float by in the river going in the same direction as them. Soon it cuts out by more trees. The railroad track separates them both as the hill goes down and back up.
At the top of the hill there sits the building a mile down the road. Home sweet home.