Fight To Live

(OLD) Chapter 21: Leave (OLD)

Ethan's POV

We had already cleared the entire second floor. All the people that were up here were killed or mortally wounded. We ran towards the staircase and shit at people that were at the bottom, hitting and killing some and forcing others back.

"Down the stairs! Let's go!" Cindy shouted as she ran down the stairs, firing her assault rifle as she went.

Tony and Akio helped Alex down the stairs, Carol pulled the cart down and Alex got back on. The rest of us ran down and the firefight continued. Alex had to get off the cart and use it as cover so that he wouldn't be shot. The rest of us opened doors and used them as cover or hid behind furniture. Akio threw several more of his molotovs and the building began to catch on fire.

"This building is coming down in flames! Get out that door!" Alex said as he pointed to a door behind us. Tony, Landon, Cindy and Ayumi were the first ones out the door. One by one more of us got out, it was down to Alex, Jaylen, Carl and I left inside.

"Go kid!" Alex shouted as he aimed his shotgun over the cart and fired several shots.

Jaylen jumped up and ran for the door, bullets hit the wall beside it as he exited the building.

"Go. You two need to get out, I'll hold them back, I can't move fast enough to get out anyway." Alex said as he pushed Carl and I towards the door.

"Alex..." I started.

"No! Just go!" The man shouted as he stood on his one good leg and fired his shotgun several times.

The ceiling was starting to fall, bits and pieces collapsed throughout the hallway. Carl grabbed my hand and we left the collapsing building. The rest of our group was fighting in the street, bodies littered the ground, some on fire, others bleeding. I looked back at the door we had just come out of and saw Alex slowly scooting back towards it, constantly shooting at the people who remained inside. He was almost out when the building collapsed in on itself, he was lost in the burning rubble.

"Alex!" Carl shouted.

There was obviously no response. I pulled him behind a car and we continued fighting.

"We're getting low on ammo!" Cindy shouted as she reloaded her assault rifle.

"I still have quite a few molotovs! We can start heading for the truck and I'll cover our escape!" Akio responded.

"We haven't killed them all yet!" Landon shouted as he killed another two people that had shown themselves.

"We've killed a lot. We need to leave. The ones we've killed will turn and finish off a lot more. This settlement is done for, look!" Carol shouted as she pointed down the street.

There were walkers coming from that direction, a ton of them.

"We need to kill Frank!" Tony shouted as he pointed at someone enter a building not far away.

Frank.

"Let's go! That's the direction we need to go to get to the truck anyway!" I shouted.

We all started running, as we reached the house that Frank had gone into Akio threw several molotovs at it. The fire began to spread across the building, the wood quickly catching and beginning to burn. An upstairs window shattered and a gun was put out of it. We all got behind things and bullets slammed into the protection we had.