Mercy

Chapter 2 - 2 years after

"Morning folks!" Mason yelled at the top of his lungs. "Get up. We have work to do today.

Anya and Zach turned over on their mattresses. "Mason, it's 5 in the morning. You never wake us up this early unless there's a large crows of dead's that need to be killed or everyone else is awake." said Anya as she jumped up of her mattress and went to put on her boots.

"Everyone else is awake except you guys." argued Mason as he went to wake up Zach. "Something seems to have woken everybody up."

Caolán was sitting down by the pond that was just to the right of the camp site, staring out at the miles and miles of florals that had never seemed to die no matter happened to them.

"Hey, guys, I'm gonna go check on the others." Cassandra said and she but on her boots and walked out the door and walked over to the pond. Caolán was sitting on the only patch of grass that wasn't completely dead and brown.

"Hey."

"Hey Cass." he said as he turned to look at her "What brings you over here? Usually I am the only one that ever come out here, since everyone else decided never to stray off the trail."

"I don't know. Guess it was just random. But Mason's calling us so we should probably head back up there." Cassandra turned around and went back up the trail to the main site, Caolán following behind at a slower pace."

"Listen up everyone." Mason shouted so everyone could hear. "We have been doing the same thing for the last two years. It worked well for a while, but we are running a bit low on resources. I need some of you to go out and look around for a new water source. Oil also."

Everyone started to talk to each other in a concerned tone.

"Cassandra and Zach, I need you two to go out into the deeper parts of the forest and look for new sources of water and plants. Anya, take group to  the lake to fish, and Caolán will take this group to the old radio tower and see if it works"

Everyone nodded and started to make their way to their designated location.

"So this is why we had to get up so early." Zach said as him and Cassandra and him made their way off the trail. "Wonder if we will even find anything new."

Cassandra paused.

"Zach, do you hear that?

"Hear what?" Zach peeked over the edge of the mini cliff where they stood.

"Oh my- RUN!!!!!!