Female Warrior [COMPLETED]

Chapter 22

Lucas: I'm riding on a bike that I've found in front of someone's yard. As I'm riding I sigh with relief since I just passed the, "Welcome to Delaware" sign. "Ugh...finally. I'm surprised I'm even still alive after every-..." I start to cough excessively so hard that I lose my balance on the bike, fall off of it and go tumbling on the ground. I keep coughing and try to gasp for air as my chest starts to feel tight. Eventually, it stops and I take a deep breath and try to get myself together. "Am I...am I getting sick? I've never gotten sick in my life before...maybe it has to do with the air out here or something," I say as I get up slowly and walk over and pick up my ax. "All right...I need to find some medicine at least...or a hospital? But first I need to go into town and find a map," I say to myself as I begin to walk, leaving the bike.

*15 minutes later*

As I'm walking I stumble upon a mall that looks pretty trashed. I walk over to it hoping that there would be at least something to help me. I walk through the recently broken doors and windows and see a lot of dead or unconscious people on the ground. I go up to a body and feel the blood and it's still warm. "This might've just happened. I could be getting close to Ava. I leave the person alone and start to wander around the mall hoping to find something, which I do. "Food..." I run over and jump over the counter, where all the food is stored. "Woah this is a lot...they probably won't mind if I help myself." I snatch a can of beans and start to open it up with my ax but see on the side it says, "Property of Diego." "Well Mr.Diego I don't see you stopping me, so I'm just gonna help myself," I say smirking and digging into the first can of beans, then another, then one more. After eating 3 full cans of beans I still didn't feel full. But I didn't have time to pig out all day, I had a mission to accomplish. As I'm getting up I see on the ground that I was sitting on a map all this time. "Wow...what a coincidence." I pick it up, open it and start to look around the map. "I should probably stop talking to myself. I'll seem crazy. But there's no one else here to talk to, so I might as well keep talking to myself." I sigh. "I'm still talking to myself..." As I'm looking around the map I see a hospital that's not too far from here. "Yes! Score one for Lucas!" I get back over the counter but quickly fall back down as I begin to cough heavily again. I finish my coughs and feeling like I'm almost dying by wiping my mouth and seeing blood on my hand from the excessive coughs. "Great.." I get back up slowly and start to make my way out of the mall and to the hospital.

*30 minutes later*

"God that felt like forever..." I come up to the hospital but quickly duck for cover as I see a bunch of guys guarding it and a ton more of military tanks. "Could that really be the military or just a gang of people that stole the tanks? Well, I don't have time to worry about that now, I need to get inside. As the guys are on watch scanning the area and talking with each other. I jump from car to car, bush to bush, tree to tree hiding and trying to get closer. Within a few hop, skips, and jumps I'm so close to the door that I can taste it. "They're not budging from that door...I need to find another way in." I look around and see a sewer cap pretty close to me. "Welp looks like I'm going back underground..." I crouch down running to it, I use all my strength to get it open and once I do, I get down and go down the ladder after closing the hole with the sewer cap. I get down to the bottom and step in the dirty green sewage water. "It surprisingly doesn't stink down here..." I say as I start to wander around in the maze-like sewer but what after feels like an eternity but was only 5 minutes, I come across another ladder and start to go up it. I open the cap and come back onto the surface. I look around and see that I'm in the basement. "All right Lucas you're in." I sigh with relief. "I feel like such a spy, all right focus! Now if I were medicine...where would I be." I walk up the steps to the first floor and open the door slowly and hear chatter and people walking around. As I'm eavesdropping I hear a guy say that they've moved all the medicine in the building to floor 20. "Let me guess the elevator doesn't work?" Right after saying that I hear the guy again say, "And take the steps, the generator is out again so the elevator doesn't work." "Just my luck." As I'm eavesdropping waiting for an opening I see another guy approaching the door I'm behind. I quickly hide behind it and as he opens it, I get from behind the door and push him down the steps. I run down the steps and go up to him and I chop him in the head with my ax and pull my ax back out of his skull. I then examine the guy. "Oddly enough you're just my size." I start to take the clothes off of the guy and put them over my own so that I'll be able to blend in with everyone else. "Next stop...floor 20." I go back up the steps once again and walk out amongst the others and head for the steps next to elevator acting cool, calm, and collected. Once I'm there I see and hear only a few people here and there on the steps and on the steps way above me. So I take my time, even though I'm dying and try not to draw attention to myself as I head up these steps. Good thing I've been doing a lot of walking lately or else I wouldn't be able to do this. Within some time I pass a few guys and they pay me no mind but I see that I finally reached floor 10. I was halfway there! That is until I start to hear a lot of commotion and the sounds of bullets coming from every which angle. Guys from the top and lower floors start to go up and down the steps trying to help one another, as I stand there looking like a fool, I overhear two guys talking and hear them say, that a girl with a bow and arrow is trespassing and killing their men.