The Life and Times in the Zombie Apocalypse: Part 3: Homecoming

Life At Sea

The man on the ship lifted his gun up to the sky, he wasn't going to shoot them. It was a warning shot that he had fired. A loud sound came buzzing from behind the ship, a smaller boat came whirling around it's side. On the boat was four people. They rode toward the dinghy, within a minute or two the boat had gotten to them. A man on board threw a rope down the side of the boat.

"Climb on up." Said man told them.

"I'll go first." Richard said as he stood up and leaned over the side of the dinghy and grabbed hold of the rope. Once he gained reach, he climbed up to the top of the boat and stood in front of the man who had handed them the rope. Edgar followed Richard up and Adalyn followed Edgar.

"Where's your leader?" Richard asked the man who had helped them aboard.

"Why's that?" The man asked.

"This girl, she was a part of that cruise. Her father on land over there, he was too." Richard pointed to the others on land. They were barely visible from the boat.

"My name's Curt." Said the man as he held his hand out to shake Richard's. "I'm a local to Brooklyn. So why'd you come back?"

"We were going to raid the ship. We figured there wasn't anybody on it." Richard told him.

"Well, that's where you'd be incorrect." Curt told him. "There's quite a few people left alive on that ship."

"I'm assuming you're one of them." Richard laughed.

"Actually, no." Curt told him. "I live here. On my boat. But them, they live on the ship." Curt said as he pointed to the other three people aboard.

"So you came to see the ship, I can take you to our leader, his name's Ethan. The man that shot at you. That's him. Would you like us to pick up your friends?" Curt asked.

"Yes, please." Edgar blurted out before Richard could say anything else. "Thanks."

"No problem. We're all good folks, I'd like to hope you are too." Curt told them.

"Don't worry about that. We aren't here for any trouble." Richard promised.

"So where are your people?" Asked Curt.

"Over there." Richard pointed towards Battery Weed.

"Nice place." Curt told them. "How big you holding up there?"

"We aren't. We're from Jersey." Said Edgar.

"Oh." Curt wasn't expecting to hear that. "Well, let's go get your friends." He looked over to a teenage boy. "Michael, can you get Grayson to take us over there, it's called Battery Weed, please take us there."

"You got it." Michael said in his Irish accent. He was from Ireland, he came over on the cruise just like Adalyn and Renard had done. Mike walked over to Grayson who was steering the boat. "Can you take us over there?" Asked Mike.

"Yes, I can do that for you." Grayson told Mike. Grayson was a British man who had also come over on the cruise. He had brown hair and brown eyes with a beauty mark on the left side of his neck.

"So this is your boat?" Edgar asked Curt.

"Yessir. I docked it about a week before everything went to shit. Stockpiled on food and gas, I was getting ready for a month long fishing trip with my best friend." Curt explained. "He uh, he didn't make it."

"I'm sorry to hear that." Said Adalyn.

"Yeah, I am too." Curt told her. "I came across the cruise ship and I climbed up the side. I met these guys and we became friends."