Reign of Dead

Chapter 4 Who Needs Saving

Ok guys in this chapter I will be introducing some new characters and we will see if they can be trusted................................

We stood there for a few minutes completely in silence until the man in the green jacket finally spoke.

"It would be wise if you dropped your weapons. We just wanted to see what was going on, we heard the screams and were going to find out if there were any survivors we could help. Instead we found a crazy man in a ghili suit."

I lowered my knives and placed them back on to my belt. Then in a moment I jumped out from the bush and stood across from the leader. I quickly pulled my hood and mask down. I looked their leader dead in the eyes as he came to a realization of how young I was.

"What happened here kid?"he asked

"Someone dumped a load of infected on us, I am the only survivor."I answered

"How did you kill this many infected and a mutant infected all by yourself?"he asked

"I am not afraid of them. They didn't stand a chance in the first place."I replied

"Well since you don't have anywhere left to go and those bandits will be back do you wana come with us. We will help you with your supplies if you wish."he asked

"How do I know if you were the ones that did this or not?"I asked doubting their motives

"You have nothing to fear from us I promise we didn't do this."he replied Then he motioned to his men to lower their weapons and they did so.

"I trust you then and I will come with you."I answered

"Great, we will start lo....."he started

"But if you are lying to me I will end your life in a heart beat, got it? "I interrupted

"Like I said you have nothing to fear."he answered.

He started on his way back from where he came from and his men started picking up crates and following behind him. I slowly started to follow them and I realized I had forgotten my bag. I ran back to grab it when the man with the sleeveless uniform tossed it to me.

"Wouldn't want to forget that." He said in a sarcastic way

I stared at him blankly for a while before I walked off still pissed he spotted me so easily before. In the distance I heard the distinct sound of a helicopter. I ran foreward to where the other soldiers were heading only to stumble apon a clearing in the woods. There I saw the first aircraft I had seen since the outbreak, a chinook, a helicopter with two sets of rotor blades one set in the front one in the back. The cargo platform on the back opened up and the man in charge waved for me to come in. I walked towards it and saw soldiers loading my old groups supplies on board. I walked up the platform into the vast space of the aircraft's interior and found the leader sitting on a bench on the side of the interior. I walked over and sat down next to him and finally spoke.

"So,  where are we going?"

"To a base established near Weslmen Woxods, Indiana. I wanted to ask how did you kill the mutant? "he replied

"I've killed them before, they are like some animals, they can smell fear and that gets them a huge blood lust."I said

"So what uour saying is that you aren't afraid of them?"He asked suprised at my statement

"No, they aren't scary, I know my own skills and physical attributes, which means I know how much I can handle."I answered

"Do you have a name?"he questioned

"Just call me Tas, my full name isn't needed. What is your name then?  "I replied

"Lieutenant Kevin Carter, but you can call me Carter."Carter replied

We both sat back in our seats and waited for the ride to begin. About a hour later the soldiers had finished loading on the supplies and began sitting down on the seats around us. The man with the cut sleeves sat down next to me and looked at my knives franticly.

"I'm not going to slit you throat the minute you blink, you have given me no reason to do so."I said to him

He just looked at me like I was insane for a few seconds before he spoke."Sorry, but when you sit down next to a guy who killed a mutant and around fifty infected and also held a knife to your throat you can't exactly be calm."

"Do you think I'm actually going to kill you for no reason?"I asked

"Nate, leave it be, the kids not going to kill you." Carter said

"Well since you already know my name, courtesy of the lt. what's yours?" Nate asked

"Tas, my name is Tas and I will not hurt you unless you give me a reason to."I said

"Good, there is just a lot of psychopaths out there these days. We wouldn't want you to go crazy and kill everyone on board." Nate said

The last of the supplies were loaded on and we were off to our destination. Everything was quiet until a soldier shouted out pointing to the man next to him "He's been bitten."

I sprung up from my seat to where the infected soldier was sitting. I got to him just as he looked up with those blood red eyes and implanted a knife in his head. Everyone sat in utter shock ask I retrieved my blade and wiped it on the dead soldiers back. I started walking back to where I was sitting and noticed Carter had a suprised expression still lit on his face.

"Where did you learn to move like that."Carter asked as the expression slowly faded from his face

"I do it on instinct."I answered as I took my seat

"When we arrive please refrain from doing something like that. If someone is turning that isn't military let someone else handle it  or do it when the infected's loved ones are gone understood? "Carter asked

"No problem."I answered

Minutes later I drifted to sleep only to be woken by a infected soldier in the remains of the chinook. The infected was chewing on my boots and its lower half of its body was gone. I kicked it in the front of its head knocking it back a foot on the floor of the wreckage. I stood out of my chair but fell back down when a pain in my leg stopped me. I looked down and saw I had a piece of metal in the side of my leg.

"God dammit!"I shouted

I grabbed the piece of metal and ripped it out it wasn't that big but the wound still bled. I clutched my leg and lunged at the infected still on its back strugging to turn over. The metal met its brain and all life instantly left its body. I grabbed my bag from underneath the bench and opened it. I searched through to find my medical kit, pulled it out, then opened it. I grabbed the gause, pin, disinfectant wipes, and neosporin. I wiped my cut with the disinfectant wipes and clenched my teeth at the sensation of burning. Next I put neosporin on the cut then wrapped the gause around it and pinned it off. I had put everything away and pulled my pant leg down when I realized there were very few corpses in the wreck and the cargo plarform was down. I walked over to the exit and crouched down as I looked out to see if any enemies were outside. I layed my eyes apon the soldiers including Nate and Carter on their knees with their hands tied behind their back. In front of them were people in ragged mixed clothes and one with no shirt on, and red and black paint all over his body. He was well built and sported a fire axe on his belt. He was oviously their leader and with him I counted seven. They all had assualt rifles and with my.leg the way it was I couldn't move fast enough to take them all out. The painted man was saying something to Carter but I couldn't understand what he was saying. I walked back into the wreckage to look for a gun though I had never shot one before. I found what looked to be a M24 under a dead soldier. It seemed like they thought I was dead when they took the supplies and soldiers out. I found the safety and turned it off, then I looked around the gun to see its condition.I heard voices and footsteps behind me as two of the men walked up the platform. I layed down on the floor and aimed the gun at the entrance. The two men entered and I lay a wave of bullets on them. I missed more than I hit but I fired so much I managed to hit them both multible times before they could react. They both went down one barely breathing the other lay dead. I rushed up and I shot the one near death in the chest. As soon as the shot landed his breathing ceased. A few seconds later I heard shouts outside and bullets started littering the wreckage. Then in an instant the sounds stopped and the unmistakable screech of a jackal sounded.......................