The Bryne Runaways (Updated)

Chapter 28

The loud buzzer sounds off and it all went slow in my eyes with no sound. The games have commenced. The survivors and the infected all begin to run to each other right into the center of the main field. The blue vs the red. A huge collision of fighters. They all began to fight. I see campers throwing themselves to each other and started using their weapons on each other. I stay back in the trees and look at the entire fight that is much bigger than I imagined. Much more rough and brutal than I thought. I didn't think a whole lot of campers were playing. I'm surprised to see this amount. I stare as campers stay to fight and others run to the trees.

Campers against campers. Friends against friends. Why do we do this? I think to myself. Are we really this desperate to crave some action? This doesn't feel like how the game was back then. I look around for Uncle Ben and I can't find him anywhere around. Where is he?

I see as the fight evolve into something much larger, everyone began moving around. The fight is coming my way. Then out of nowhere an infected is right in front of me, he raises his sword and I stay frozen not able to move. I close my eyes but a camper from my same team tackles him to the ground. I look as my teammate lends some hard punches into the infected face and I just watched till I saw Bones pushing me away from the wreckage.

"Norman, go go!" He pulls my on my arm as we run deep into the trees with two infected on our feet. I crush trees branches and jump over rocks but the infected are still on us. They are running like if we are their meat and they are vicious mutts.

"Norman use the bow" Bones yells and I just stare at it until I get it taken from my hands along with an arrow from my sheath. We stop and take cover behind a tree and Bones uses my bow aiming and shooting the arrow. He throws me back my bow and tells me to use it or I'll be done for.

We continue running till another infected with a sword jumps in. Bones pushes me to the ground when an infected sword flies to my side I look up from the dirt where I notice that Bones sword fights with the infected. My eye catches another infected running toward Bones and I seize an arrow from my sheath. I draw my bow upward so I can let my arrow free but I'm afraid to shoot so it took me awhile until the infected got very close to Bones with a knife when finally my arrow is released inserting itself deep and directly in the camper's leg bulging out the other side of his calf muscle. He falls onto the ground and he clutches his leg yelling mindlessly from the pain I inflicted. I look closely at the infected who suffers from what I have done. Bones takes down the other infected knocking him to the ground as I continue to look at my hands.

What have I done? I shot someone. I pick myself up stumbling over to the enemy for I to assist him until Bones gets in the way hauling me back. The camper's cries drill in my ears remembering that I am the one who shot him. A camper. A human. I shot a person with an arrow.

"Hey it's okay they're not dead just disqualified" Bones says and helps me up and we were on our way again from so many other infected. I feel sadder than I was this morning. I didn't want to injure anyone, it was never my intention. I just entered to warn Uncle Ben. I feel myself slowing down as we run through forest also realizing that I'm having trouble breathing so I end up stopping by this tree not able to go on.

"Norman, what's the matter with you?!" Bones says pissed off and annoyed that I'm holding him back from his plans.

"I just shot someone with an arrow"

"I know, so did I. It felt good." He says enthusiastic about it.

"I don't want to do this. I-" I say.

"Whatever you have to say has to wait! We need to get to the others before we have more on us" Bones says and kept on moving with me up front and him in the back. We kept on moving forward till we made a turn when we saw a group of infected ganging up on a survivor. They are giving him everything no mercy. We had to be quiet for that or I wouldn't have made it to Uncle Ben.

I end up walking to catch my breath and I stop on a log. I set my bow down and sit covering my face with my hands. I can't think anymore.

"Why are you stopping? Keep on going. We need to get to the others before they do" Bones says to me but I just stay put catching my breath. He's acting a bit rough at the moment and it isn't helping my situation. It seems he calmed down since he quit being so impatient. I feel a pat on my shoulder and I look up to see a canteen of water in front of me.

"Take it" Bones says and I drink the cool liquid quenching my thirst. He sits beside me on the log and I think he needs to say something to me to help me get rid of this replaying image.

"It happens, I know I've been there myself. It's never easy doing that. Remember you have to do this to protect yourself from anyone, without it, you'll be dead and we can't have that" He says and I feel myself loosen up but from this anger inside.

"I have to find my uncle" I finally speak soft and peacefully.

"Why? He's an infected" Bones says.

"They're some people going after him and I need to be there before they find him and hurt him" I say with trembling hands. I need to prevent Uncle Ben from being hurt.

"Why would anyone go after him, do they know what he can do to you?" He says which kind of lifts up my spirits a bit but still no one knows what campers Gordon has ordered to take down my uncle.

But I'm gonna find out who or what it is.