Fight To Live

(OLD) Chapter 38 (OLD)

Hey y'all, sorry I didn't post this until just now. I was feeling very motivated for other things and wanted to work on them while I was motivated for them. Also, this chapter (and likely all future chapters) doesn't have a title because chapter titles are exhausting lmao.

Dylan's POV

The sun was starting to rise when we arrived at Cleburne. Instead of rushing all the way and exhausting the horses out we let them go at their own pace so that we could get to the city with as few stops as possible.

"Ok, let's stop and rest for a few hours or so." I said as we directed the horses towards a gas station on the edge of the city.

Everyone, Elijah most of all since he was the only one that had gotten absolutely no sleep through the night, instantly agreed that we should stop in the gas station and get some sleep. The Brit had stayed awake all night keeping watch over our prisoner while the rest of us had been able to catch a bit of rest while the other person on our horse stayed awake and directed the animal. All of us had offered to take over for him so that he could sleep but he refused each time. We reached the gas station and got off the horses and readied our weapons. Elijah brought Declan over to a bench next to the building and forced him to sit down, after the teen sat the Brit tied him to the arm of the bench then leaned against the wall next to him.

"You guys clear it. I'll keep him in line and make sure nothing sneaks up on us." The Brit said as he nodded towards the teen.

I nodded and raised my pickaxe and tapped it on the glass doors to attract any dead that may be inside. After several moments we saw and heard a small group of walkers coming towards the glass.

"I see nine coming towards us... there's another one stuck under a shelf that got knocked over." Anna said as she looked through a window.

Those of us going inside gave nods of acknowledgement to the woman and got ready to open the door. Mikayla tried to push the doors open but they were locked. I drew my tool back and swung the pointed end at the lock in the middle of the two doors. After a couple more swings of the tool there was a snapping sound from the lock and we shoved the doors open hard enough to push the walkers back.

"Let them come out to us, it'll be more controlled that way." Marcus stated as the corpses began to regain their footing and come at us.

As they came through the doors the four of us killed them and let their still corpses collapse in the doorway. Soon we had killed the nine that had come out of hiding and we carefully walked inside.

"Anna and I will go left, you guys take the right." Mikayla said as she held her machete out in front of her and went left with her girlfriend.

Marcus and I went right and he stabbed the trapped walker Anna had seen earlier in the head, silencing it's hungry moans.

Ok... so far so good... I don't hear any more of them... hopefully it was just the ten that we've already killed.

"We're clear over here." I heard Anna say as Marcus and I looked through the right side of the building. "How 'bout you guys?"

We had looked everywhere except behind the counter so I quickly scanned the space and found nothing but a bloody sleeping bag wrapped around the small corpse of a child. A large chunk of flesh was torn from his upper arm. There was a bloody knife laying beside the kid's head and a hole in his temple where he had been stabbed to prevent reanimation. A second corpse was sitting against the counter, a large portion of it's head missing and splattered against the cash register, a shotgun was stuck inside the corpse's mouth with the stock shoved against the corpse's feet.