zombie apocalypse | the fallen (book One) [REWRITING]

chapter 12

It was silent outside. Other than prestons every-once in a while yells asking questions about stupid shit. You hear a rustling sound every once in a while as well. It sounds closer everytime but nothing is ever there. Maybe it's in your head? After a few more minutes of the sound you get out of the car to investigate.

Preston pov
You haven't heard from zoe in a while. You go outside but she's not there. "ZOE?!" you look everywhere but she's not here. Nothing but blood on the car. "ZOE WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!? THIS ISN'T FUNNY!" you check once more and find her bag. "she would never leave her stuff." you look down at something shining on the ground. "her necklace emma gave her and her ring? She never takes these off...unless it wasn't her." you stand up and get in the car.

After driving around for a while you find a building. There were a few cars outside and one was running. She had to be inside. "please be in there." as you step out of the car you hear a deafening scream. Almost like someone's being murdered. It was Zoe.

you sprint toward the building, gun in one hand, knife in the other. You slowly open the door, no one around.  you run towards the scream up three flights of stairs, not stopping for a second. You get to a door but it's locked. "no no no." you look around and see a window just barely big enough for you to fit through.

"well well well. What do we have here?" a man says. You look up. He's short and kind of chubby. His beard greying but his hair still maintaining all it's dark brown color. " is this your boyfriend?" he turns and you see zoe. Beaten and bloody. Half of her clothes torn or missing. And a woman's motionless body right next to her.

It was Kryssie.

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO THEM!" you scream, your voice cracking in the process. " me? I didn't do anything. They should have listened. But instead they decided they wanted to be punished." " I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!"

the man jumps back as you charge at him. You manage to cut his stomach before he pushes you to the ground. During the fight you didn't even notice another girl going towards zoe. You've seen her before but you can't remember exactly. You turn back and dodge just in time as the man swings at you.

He doesn't seem to notice the girl. He knocked your gun across the room by zoe but she can't reach it. As the man turns around to look at zoe the girl shoots the man in the shoulder. You jump on him and push your finger in the gun wound as he screams bloody murder. The girl throws the gun towards you and you catch it and point it at the man.

"please please don't kill me. I was only doing my job." " i dont care what the hell you were doing, you hurt my girlfriend, my family! and you're gonna fucking pay!" you look back at zoe and she gave you a small smile between tears, signaling she heard you call her your girlfriend. Your heart felt a sense of relief when she smiled.

You look back at the man. "tell me what you did to them." I-i..." "TELL ME!" "I beat them like i was told when they didn't listen. I was told to do whatever to  the girl with the black and teal hair. I was told to kill the mother if she tried to do anything to stop me. I didn't want to but then i would die!" " you're dying either fucking way! Who told you to do it!" "ran-randal. he's the head of our group if we don't do what he says he kills us!" "why didn't you just leave?" "he'll hunt us down if we do! He thinks we will find other communities and come back to start a war!" "That's not an excuse!"

Preston didn't hesitate to pull the trigger. He jumped up to cut the ropes on Zoe and the random girl. "Are you okay?" Zoe nodded anxiously as she spoke, "yeah, yeah I'm fine. My mom!" The random girl was already holding pressure to kryssies knife wounds. "And who are you?" Preston asked as he cut the ropes off kryssies hands. "Preston, this...

This is my sister, Isabella."

( A/n:  i had like 300+ more words after this and they deleted themselves. I'm rewriting it in briefly just based off what i remember(which isn't much from 7 years ago lol, gonna jump to the escape now.)