The Ruins

Chapter 12

The RK's travelled for a long time, about eleven hours. "There we go." Mal said.

They arrived at a town of the rusted sign of Lincoln. Mal pointed to the town's water tower. She led them through the woods, and AJ was in awe at the sight of the nature of the woods, making little cute giggles and babbling some nonsense or little words, Max took note of this. Mal enjoy the experience of walking in a forest, hearing fireflies, the trees creaking against the soft spoken wind. So weird, back before the Black Night, there wasn't as much as to have beautiful lands in people's houses or the busy streets. As they climbed over the fence she can see smoke in the distance, a camp fire maybe.

"That you, Jasper?" She mumbled.

"You sure that's him? Where do you usually meet him?" Max asked.

"Not the same places."

"You never been here?" Rin asked. She sighed in defeat.

"I know this is where he lives but... no I do not know the town from the back of my hand. Even if I did, he likes to move a lot." That's what Jasper does. Goes off to each place, have his own setup until it's too crowded with Infected or people.

Johan stepped forward, "And that smoke, you think that's him?"

"Better be." Mal replied.

The place was a ghost town, untouched, although some places were ransacked probably by Jasper or some scavengers. Jasper was a friend of Mal's, he trained her with her when she was young and both were with the Flyer Frontiers at Boston Quarantine Zone, he supplied them with pills, food, ammo but what Mal really needed at this point was a car. It wasn't a good idea to travel the entire way on foot, either it took too long or that it was suicide. Whatever the case it's better for the rest to get back. Unfortunately, she rather stay out a bit longer in The Ruins.

The boys scavenge a small area for supplements, food, or ammo of sorts, but some places were picked clean. Lugh attention was drawn to some little statue lying around.

"Hey look. It's the same poster." He chuckled.

Max rolled his eyes, "Yeah, it is." The poster had a man looking like a werewolf with a teenage girl leaning against him seductively, the title in bold colors 'Wolf Among the New Moon'.

"What's it about? Is it scary? Does he kill her? Torture her?" Rin frowned. Lugh shrugged, smirking each of her question, flipping his flannel jacket a bit. "A scary movie or-"

"Looks like a romantic movie." Vix said, "sounds a bit cheesy."

"I thought you like cheesy stories?" He asked, earning Vix to flush, shrugged but smiled at him. "Ok Lugh, I have guilty pleasures."

"This place is very quaint." Killeen said. Mal scoffed by Killeen's surprisingly abnormal vocabulary.

"Quaint?" Mal replied raising an eyebrow.

"Well, I don't know... how would you describe it?"

"Empty."

"Yeah. That would be the other way." He nodded.

Mal and Max searched that old record store, he was going through the old selection of untouched music, cracking a smile at the corner of her mouth from some of the ridiculous covers. The only kind of music Max was able to listen to was from watching the Disney movies, all of them are really catchy however if he sings, Mal would slap him silly.

"Max!" Mal's voice said in a quiet shout. He looked up and pushing up his cap from his eyes, he got up and went with Mal pressing on through the town. She led them into the alley, it was all fine until a Infected stumbled in at the other end, seeing the RK's then suddenly... Boom! All of them expect Mal jumped at the sound of a bomb going off and the Infected was...everywhere, pieces of its body scattered the bricked walls.