The Falling Stars (The Vamps and One Direction Zombie Apocalypse)

Chapter 24- Carrying You to Safety

There was a piece of shrapnel sticking right out of James’ left leg. Another shiny piece of metal was in Brad’s collarbone, and yet another in Ava’s elbow. There was a lot of blood, and it was everywhere. My muscles ached and I could feel the blood dripping from the inside of my ears. I couldn’t hear much but a loud ringing sound, and I was so disorientated I could barely stand.

I probably should give some elaboration as to how everything got this bad after just a day. I’ll start by adding something new to the list.

Do ingest sugar.

Do think of your own survival first.

Do wear fake weapons.

Do hook up generators and the correct ham radios to ensure maximum power and communication with other survivors.

Don’t drink from unknown water sources.

Don’t leave any doors/windows open.

Don’t travel alone.

Don’t fall in love.

Don’t hesitate to kill.

Don’t EVER shoot guns in an unprotected area.

Check all areas before venturing out.

So that sounds cheesy, like something you would learn in the boy scouts. But the world’s a crappy place, so you have to check. Have to.

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We left the Asda at twenty past nine. The cars in the parking lot were all knackered and old so we didn’t bother, staying walking in the direction of the mast. The radios died because of the lack of generators two hours after we set off, and by the time we stopped to eat, we were down cast, down trodden and down hearted.

Ellie had sprained her ankle ten minutes before we stopped, which slowed us to snail pace. Jake, Brad and I had to take shifts carrying her, which also meant carrying her copious amounts of belongings. We let Casey off the carrying, because she was smaller, and James got off lightly by taking the radios. Jake and Ava carried the majority of the supplies. We stopped inside a small abandoned candy shop for lunch, using the huge amounts of sugar to the advantage that it would keep the undead at bay.

We had only seen a few that day, which was uncharacteristic of the weather we were having. The sun was high and hot in the sky, drying out the ground and streams and baking us slowly as we walked in the heat. I could feel the backs of my ears peeling already from the dry weather.

We ate in silence, hurrying to eat our meagre supply of tinned vegetables and flat energy drink, ready to be back on the road again as soon as possible. We knew that getting to the radio mast would take just short of a day now on foot, if no more of us were injured, but if another person got put out of action it could take us weeks without transport to get to where we needed to be.

We set off again when we could. It was my turn to carry Ellie so I lagged behind the others, watching carefully as we reached the base of the valley. I swore mentally at the extra steep incline that was now our only way up, but I knew Ellie could not do it herself and I had to do this.

It was like climbing a mountain, only harder. The grass was dry and crunchy and fell into a flat slide when stepped on. There was very little to hold onto and no discernable path. I knew for a fact there was a nice smooth road which lead directly across these hills, but it would take hours to find it and by the slight darkening of the sky I could tell that nightfall was swiftly approaching.