When Aella was 6 years old, her parents were taken from her by a deadly virus that poisons the mind and drives them mad. Known as the Root. Now, 10 years later, she stays with a medium sized group of survivors in an old church building, fighting to...
By the time we managed to kill all of the Corrupted, 30 minutes had passed. How we managed to kill probably over 100 Corrupted by ourselves is something that I will never be able to understand.
I wipe the sweat from my forehead, trying to catch my breath as I lean down and put my hands on my knees, then look up at my 2 best friends who just risked their lives for mine.
Zoey starts giggling and soon enough all 3 of us are laughing our heads off, "What is wrong with us?!" Zoey says between laughs as she tries to calm herself down.
"That's a long list." I laugh with her. After a few minutes of non stop laughing we calm ourselves down.
"We make a pretty good team." Zoey says, smiling as she takes deep breaths from laughing so hard.
"Yeah, we just yeeted over 100 Corrupted!" Tristen exclaims, to which we both laugh at his description.
"So what were you thinking coming out here in the first place you retard!" Tristen scolds me.
"I came out here because I'm leaving." my mood immediately turns much more serious.
"What do you mean you're leaving?" Zoey asks, actually knowing what I mean. I've talked about leaving before, but I guess she never actually expected me to do it.
"I can't just sit here and hide while people get killed, it's time to put an end to this. Once and for all, I'm leaving, and I'm going to find a cure. It's out there somewhere, we just need to find it." I reply.
"How are you going to do that? Hmm? How do you even know where to start?!" Tristen tries to talk me out of my decision.
I grab my backpack and get out my journal, this is where I keep all of my notes on the different types of Corrupted, journal entries, and research on where to start if I ever really went through with my plan on leaving. I flip to the page I need and lean over the table with Zoey and Tristen to my left and right, looking at the page, "I did some research. There's an old lab a couple towns over, apparently the virus was traced back to it when people actually used to make an attempt at finding a cure. There should be some information about the virus there, and if I'm really, really, lucky. There might even be a vaccine." I explain, I thought this out carefully for months before I actually decided to do it. I'm not stupid enough to walk out there blind, not knowing what to do or where to start. That would just get me killed.
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"Why hasn't anyone else checked this out?" Zoey asks, clearly confused as to why no one bothered to go look into the place.
"It was a government-funded organization, which means no one could get within a 10-mile radius of that place without being interrogated by security. Eventually, people just gave up and forgot about it. Then, the place was overrun by Corrupted and shut down. No one has been anywhere near it since." I say, looking them in the eye as I explain.
"Well, then I'm going with you." Tristen says out nowhere, but somehow I had a feeling he would say that.
"What? No, I couldn't ask you to do that, this is dangerous you could get hurt Tristen!" I shake my head, no, not wanting him to get hurt on something I decided to do. I would never forgive myself, if either of them got killed on my watch I wouldn't be able to even look at myself.
"You didn't ask Ella, we volunteered. I'm not going to let you guys do this by yourselves either! Plus did you see us? We make a great team!" Zoey jumps in.
I stare at both of them with wide eyes, why would they do that? They could get hurt, I didn't ask them to come, they don't have to do this! So why would they?
"Did you really expect us to just let you go out there alone? Who do you think we are?!" Tristen asks a rhetorical question.
"Yeah, there's no way we're letting you do this by yourself. It's dangerous, and if we're going down, then we're going down together!" Zoey follows up on Tristen's comment with a smile.
I hesitate for a moment before giving up and sighing with a small trace of a smile, "Well, grab your ammo fellas, cause we're going on a trip." (ON OUR FAVORITE ROCKET SHIP! ZOOMING THROUGH THE SKY! LITTLE EINSTEINS!!!)
After we had grabbed backpacks, we packed as much supplies as we could while still traveling light. Once we got back to the lobby, all of us were packed and ready to go. I had my dual 45's in my holster that was strapped around my waste, along with a knife, and I had a sword strapped to my backpack so it was easy to access if I ever needed it. My shotgun was strapped next to my sword on my backpack as well, so my weapons were all easy to access, I also had a long strap going diagonal across my torso with ammo so I didn't have to waste time to get it out of my backpack.
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"You guys ready?" I ask, looking to my sides, to see my 2 best friends in the whole world right by my side. Ready to die out there if that's what it takes to keep eachother safe, and honestly, that's all you can really ask for in a world like this...
