SafeHaven

Prologue

5 Years Ago......

3rd Person

In the ruins of a city, there was silence. The empty streets, littered with rotting bodies and rusty cars that were left. The buildings, broken down and boarded up.

Green was taking over the streets, no humans were there to cut down the weeds. No humans to remove the cars, the bodies, no humans for anything. The city was dead, due to the outbreak, the city died along with most of it's inhabitants. The rest, they turned. One could say that the bodies belonged to infected that burned out cause the virus was too strong for their bodies.

Silence filled the street, for that moment. There was suddenly shouting. And Gunfire.

Then, like a flash, several footsteps stampeded through the streets. A group of humans, running down the street. A group of six, running from something.

At the front of the group, a young black haired man. He held a machete in one hand and a pistol in the other.

"Go go go!!!" He bellowed to the rest behind him

They all sprinted down the streets, as loud screeches were heard. Behind them, turning a corner, a large horde of infected chased them. The loud screeches that each of them made echoed through the streets. How did the group end up in that situation? Who knows.

They all ran, weaving through broken debris and parked cars. The lead guy jumped over the hood of a car then turned around, watching the others run towards the car.

At the end of the group, a young blonde man tripped and fell to the ground with a thud. The others didn't notice this but the lead guy did.

"Ugh!" He grunted as he slid down

"Ronnie!" The lead exclaimed as he saw the horde sprinting towards them

The other 4 managed to make it to the car that the lead guy was behind. Ronnie crawled towards them, his ankled sprained. The horde rapidly made their way to him, they were a few dozen yards away.

"My ankle, Hunter, My ankle's busted!" Ronnie told the lead guy

The first of the infected reached within 10 yards from Ronnie. Hunter then pointed his pistol and opened fire. The first bullet hit the infected in the head, dropping it instantly. The second bullet flew past the falling body and at the shoulder of the second one, stumbling it.

"Shoot 'em up!" He shouted

The other five then pointed their guns, which consisted of a shotgun, a rifle, two pistols, and a semi-automatic assault rifle, and fired.

Bullets hailed past Ronnie and hit the incoming infected, dropping bodies. Out of the corner of his eye, Hunter noticed a falling neon sign on the side of a building that was behind Ronnie. He then pointed his pistol at the thin wires and shot twice.

The bullets hit the wire and it snapped, the massive sign falling down horizontally in the street, crashing down at the horde.

"Yes!" Hunter exclaimed triumphantly

The sign crushed most of the infected as it scattered the rest. The loud screeches of the crushed infected filled the streets, they were louder than before. A bit stunned by the crash, the infected gave them a bit of time to recover. Hunter took this opportunity, he jumped over the hood and placed the pistol on it.

"Reload it!" He ordered the others before he ran towards Ronnie

The large man with the assault rifle nodded and did so. He was tall, with brown hair and blue eyes. He set down his rifle and proceeded to reload the pistol.

Hunter ran towards Ronnie who was still crawling, the infected near him reacted and ran towards him.

Hunter ran past Ronnie and with a battle cry, he swung his machete at the incoming infected. With great force, he sliced the head of one, blood spewing everywhere. He then spun around and with more force, cut the side of another, dropping it to the ground.

"Take that!" He shouted as he cut down another one before looking back at two others who came for Ronnie, "Get him up!"

He then back a bit up as he cut away the incoming infected. His ears ran as bullets flew past him and hitting the ones he couldn't see.

"Hunter!" The large man called

Hunter looked back and saw him toss his pistol at him. Hunter caught it with his left hand and then aimed at incoming infected, opening fire.

Sending three bullets past two infected which hit the ones behind him in the head, Hunter then cut down the ones in front of him. He then shot one that was to close for him to swing. The bullet went straight into his head which spewed blood everywhere.

"Hey, Hunter!" The man said, "We gotta go! Now!"

Hunter slowly backed away, shooting and cutting down Infected. The others being shot down by supporting fire.

He looked back to see Ronnie being dragged away by the man and the other guy. He then nodded and placed the pistol in the holster he had. He then pulled out something from his jacket.

He ran towards the group and showed them what he had in his hand. The moment they saw it, they widened their eyes. It was a homemade grenade, one that Hunter made.

"Run!" He shouted and they did

Ronnie was managed to be taken past the car, and Hunter turned around. He pulled the pin from the grenade and he heard a low hiss and smelled the gunpowder. He tossed the grenade at the horde, seeing bounced off the head of one and into the sign.

He turned around and started running fast.

"Three..." He thought

He ran past the car, seeing that Ronnie and the others were in a safe distance.

"Two..."

He didn't look back, and kept running. Adrenaline filling his body.

"One."

He covered his ears, still not used to the loud sound the explosion made.

"Bang"

BOOOOOM!!!

The explosion shook the ground, which stumbled Hunter as he ran. The screeches of the horde were muffled by the loud boom.

Hunter kept running, he looked back and saw surviving infected slowly walking in his direction. He then closed his eyes for a moment and opened them again, looking forwards.

This was normal for him, now.

His everyday life.