World of Decay: Escape Artists (Book 1)

chapter 36

Nyla sat outside the police station. The kids behind the fence having fun in the playground. She git herself ahold of a shotgun from an abandoned cruiser parked out front. The cops had lots of neat things laying around all over the place.
They are about just as good as R.D. across the river. The place is chucked full of assault rifles, tazors, handguns, tear and smoke gas, and plenty of ammunition for all the guns.
The factory kids didn't bother going up the second hill at all. All they care about is planting food and keeping the younger kids alive. Since their attack in saving James and his asshole party they didn't really bother the houses anymore. The grownups came right to them.
Ash sits right beside Nyla. She likes Ash a lot. As a close friend.
Ash on the other hand likes Nyla. Theres something about her that pulls her in. Can't stop thinking about her. Is it the Nyla fights? How she is determined to protect the little kids? It doesn't matter what pulls her in. All she wants is to be close to her. Feels a little safer knowing her best friend is around.
Lacrisha is inside cleaning the rifles off. Making sure they work properly and everything. The cells were cleaned out after the bonfire in the parking lot. The place looks like its old self but, now kids sleep where the old inmates used to.
Surprisingly the beds are comfy. They got more from the house's when the factory kids helped them settle in.
They figured out how to signal help. On the roof sits a burn barrel full of stuff to make smoke go high in the sky. All the settlements know have one and a guard on top always watching for a signal.
Krista is up there watching. Jamie left to go wonder the town. She has been getting very distant from everyone. Left a couple of days ago and Havent seen her since. All she took with her was a handgun, food and water, with sleeping bag, and her favorite dagger.
"Nyla. Do you think we should start to scavenge the houses? Just saying we should start getting more food for the little ones." Ash said, looking up at the blue sky ahead.
"Yea. Maybe, we should. Wanna tell Lacrisha?" Nyla said looking over to see Ash playing with her short dark hair.
The two of them called the children in and went inside.
A reception desk sit empty in the main hall. A heavy door beside it that leads to the bacl where the cells are in a huge maze. Two stories of nothing but empty rooms. Two the left another door. That's where the calls uses to come in and in the very back an armory where Lacrisha likes to stay.
"Lacrisha. I think we nees to go out and scavenge more food." Ash said opening the door.
Lacrisha sits in a chair in the middle of the room with a single rifle laying in her lap. She looks up at her. "Maybe your right. Take a few guards guards and have someone watch the kids."
"As you wish." Ash said closing the door behind her. Something made her skin crawl when she saw her boss treating the gun like a baby. The way she looked at her made it worse. Like she wants to kill her for disturbing the tranquility she had in the armory.
"What did she say?"
"We can go with a few guards and put somebody out to watch the kids." Ash said coldly.
"What happened in there, Ash? It sounds like she pissed in your cheerios." Nyla said staring her down.
"I don't know. How old is Lacrisha?" She replied, looking at her shoes.
"I don't know. Eighteen I think. We used to hangout a lot after school here around Nitro."
There it was. A dead silence. Hit had finally hit them. Nyla turned back to look at the armory from all the way from the entrance to the corridor.
Lacrisha is holding the rifle above her shoulder. A cold stare at the two of them. She held out the gun with one arm. Pulled back the hammer and grinned with a bloody smile.
Ash pushed Nyla into the door. At the same time a shot was fired off at them. Ash is on top of Nyla on the floor. The blast ringing in their ears.
"Come on we have to stop her." Ash pulled her up and flung the door closes as another gunshot tried to hit her in the head.
Nyla took cover behind the wall near the cells, gun ready. Lacrisha started banging on the door screaming at them to open the door.
The two of them frighted. Ash hid behind the reception desk. The banging and cursing went on for all of thirty seconds and then dead silence.
The little kids tried to open the door but Nyla pushed it shut. The door handle containing Lacrisha had shot sparks and flew off. The door flung open and Ash poked her head up to be shot at and went back down.
"Dont hide from your boss. Come out and face me like a man." Lacrisha said angrily.
The two of them didn't dare budge. Ash turned to Nyla and nodded. Nyla then stuck her arm out firing blindly and not hitting her. Lacrisha fired back. Ash jumled up and shot twice hitting her in the chest.
Lacrisha fell behind the desk leaving the rifle in the floor. Ash went to see if she was dead. A shot went off and Ash fell against the wall dead. Her forehead with a single bullet hole in it.
Nyla looked away from Ash telling herself she is alive. She went in behind the desk, aimed her pistol over the counter and finished Lacrisha off.