The world is dead. Just a great mass of dirt.
Its riddled with flesh eating, rotting, stumbling, walking dead creatures. Zombies.
She joins forces with another group. she's reluctant yet she has caught someones eye
but there's something in the dark...
It was the crack of dawn; roughly five o'clock. My favourite time, not just because of inactive Zs but the beauty of seeing the golden sun peaking over the horizon. I was packing my bags ready to leave, taking as much food and supplies as possible. There was little to no Zs in the streets. I made a run for it down the street, knocking down the occasional Z. I made it out of the town and onto the motorway which went through a forest biome area.
I kept walking dealing with the occasional Z, I saw a path branching off into the forest. Something drew me towards it, maybe it was the distant sound of trickling water or the sight of no Zs maybe something else. I followed the path through the woodlands, it was so peaceful, not whisper nor Z.
I soon found the source of the trickling water: there was a small river with rocks forming a waterfall. It was a picturesque scene.
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(Ignore the doge)
I dumped my bags and items (except my axe which I always kept beside me) on a nearby rock. I was a good few metres away from the bottom of the waterfall. I took my hair out of my bun, it wasn't even a bun anymore, it was just a knotted mess that had slipped from the top of my head to the bottom of my neck.
I dipped my hands into the cool clear water, watching it run through my hands. I splashed some on my face by didn't drink any. That's another important rule, never drink water from rivers or creeks, a Z may of died in the water spreading whatever infection, virus or disease this was.
Suddenly I heard the snapping of branches from the top of the waterfall, to the right, in the forest. I grabbed my axe and hid behind a rock pulling the rucksack down with me. It would've been an easy give away. But the most unexpected thing happened... people...
"Keep up Ethan!" Said a man with brown curly hair towards a rather young boy with faded blue hair and a skinny figure.
"We've been walking for ages though Tyler!~ can't we have a break here?" He whined. Oh fuck no, please don't stop here, I thought. More people came out of the woodland they were slowly walking along the top of the waterfall. There was a guy with green hair and I couldn't decide if it was good or bad camouflage.
"Wade. If you splash me again I'm gonna chop of those fooking legs of yours!" The tennis ball said, he had a really strong Irish accent as well as a painfully loud voice. They must run into Zs a lot with him around.
The (what I assumed) last member of the group walked out of the woods, he had dark brown-black hair, muscular figure, a bit on the short side, deep brown eyes and a blonde labrador was towed at his side. He looked like the alpha of the pack, he scouted the area, I had to quickly duck before being seen, or so I thought.
"Wait" he said firmly. Shit shit shit I'm shiting biscuits. The rest of the group halted on the spot, turning to him. The dog was sniffing the air and let out a quiet bark. BITCH!
"What is it chica?!" The man asked his fellow companion.
"Mark it was probably just a squirrel" the the man called wade said.
"No... I thought I saw someone... I saw a flash of (h/c) behind the rocks over there..." this could only happen to me; couldn't it? He jumped down the waterfall and started very slowly walking towards me.
"Is anyone there? We don't want to hurt you... you can join our group if you want, everyone is really nice here. I promise. We can take care of you. Of each other..." his words sounded truthful. but I go solo. I discreetly put my rucksack on my back and jumped up from behind the rock and darted like Usain Bolt into the woods.
Marks POV ~
I swear I saw someone. I'm sure of it. I got closer to the rock and all of a sudden a (h/c) haired girl with (e/c) eyes and a bloody axe in her hand jumped up and ran into the wood. Something about her made me curious.
"Wait!" I chased after her as I ignored the yells of my group behind me as they desperately tried to keep up. I could see the girl up ahead, I would see her (h/c) lockstep bounce around a corner every now and then. She quickly began to slow down, it was my opportunity to catch up, we were approaching the motorway.
She ran out Into the road, she kept going yet I stopped in my tracks. There were five or six grabbers out on the road. Isn't she gonna stop? Taking on that many would surely result in death.
The others caught up with me to watch the girl. She was heavily out of breath but still ran like her life depended upon it. She brought her axe up and swung it down onto a grabbers skull, while taking a knife from her waist and stabbing another in the eye. She withdrew her weapons from her victims and moved on stabbing another one with her knife while cutting the head off clean of another grabber.
She plowed through the remaining grabbers easy breezy and ran into the woods on the other side of the road. The five of us just stood there in shock, not believing the strength we had just witnessed.
"Bloomin' heck..." jack remarked.
"She's practically a walking weapon! Mark we gotta convince her to join us! We have gotta find her!" Tyler said seriously.
"What do you guys think?" I say turning to Ethan and Wade.
"She's very scary..." Ethan whispers wide eyed. "But she could help us a lot"
"I think it's an opportunity we shouldn't waste" wade added. I nodded
"Decision made. Let's get after her before we loose her" we follow her tracks back into the woods hoping to find her. There was something different about the (h/c), she intrigued me. Immensely.
We continued to follow the mystery girls trail which Chica was showing us. I had a baseball bat in my hand ready to use if needed. After a few hours we came across a worn building, we decided to check because either A) there would be supplies or B) the girl inside. I signalled to the group for them to keep quiet. We crouched and snuck inside each taking a different entrance, our weapons at the ready. We searched the place but no girl.
"Grab as many supplies as possible! Then we'll move out" I shout to the group I hear replies in agreement. I walk into what I assume is the kitchen, there was a knife on a rack. I took it and but it In my belt. From what I could see there was nothing else.
"Right! Let's move out!" I yell. We meet outside and continue to follow her trail.
"We need to pick up the pace, we're gonna loose the trail"
"It's almost nightfall mark. We need to find somewhere to stay" the sky was a bloody orange.
"Ok next building or infrastructure we come across we can stay there, it'll also be likely the girl will be there too, she'll need a place to rest overnight" we kept walking following the faint trail.
