The Infected [1]

23.Strongholds

I woke up to the feeling of something wet being smothered all over my face. I slowly opened my eyes and saw the grey wolf looked down on me with her tongue dangling the side of her snout. She licked my nose once again and I covered her snout with my hand. "Okay, Okay, I'm up."

I let go of her snout and bopped her snoot which resulted in her sneezing. I got up and changed into a red hoodie and a pair of shorts.

That's kinda weird. I slept at like 4 am last night? or morning? And now I think it should be around 8 to 9 am. The same thing happened since I turned. I guess zombies requires less sleep.

I picked Storm up and exited the tent to find Jeff and Mark holding a bunch of axe perfumes and rubber bands. I sneaked up on them and tapped Mark on the shoulder. "Who are you planning to axebomb?"

He jumped and dropped the cans of axe while Jeff threw a can of axe towards me which I luckily caught. "What the heck,Ash! Are you trying to give us heart attacks?!"

"Don't dodge the question, Jeff. Who are you going to axebomb?",I asked again.

"Andrew.",Mark replied with a devilish grin.

"Nice. Where'd you get all that axe?"

"Oh, I brought'em from home. You know me, can't leave all my prank tools behind."

I could faintly smell Andrew's scent and informed,"Well you better hurry, he's already coming back."

                          
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"Got any 4?"

"Nope"

"My turn. Go-",I was interrupted by an enraged scream.

"MARK!!"

"Welp,I'm gonna go run now.",he quickly said before bolting out of the backdoor.

"There's no way he can outrun Andrew.",Jay said.

"Let's just wait and see.",Jeff replied.

A few hours later......

"No put it a little higher."

"This is the highest it can get!",Jeff exclaimed while trying to lift the bird house higher.

"Fine then.",Jay sighed.

"What else can we do to kill time? I'm bored.",I groaned.

"I don't know. I thought making a bird house will take a longer time than it did.",Jay commented idly.

"Excuse me.",a voice said.

I turned around to see the old grandmother holding the little girl's hand. She motioned me to follow her. "Hey guys, I'm gonna go inside for a while. Please figure something out to do by the time I come back."

I entered the cabin and sat down on the couch next to the grandmother. "Child, I have something to tell you. The other day, I was watching the television and a military man informed that there are these structures being build called strongholds. He said that any survivors should come to the nearest one for protection and have sent the locations for them. I've been thinking about going there with my grandchild so we won't have to be a burden for you."

"Well, that's a good idea. We can escort you there if you'd like.",I offered.

"Oh, that's very thoughtful of you, dear.",she said.

"I'll go inform the others. We can leave at dusk.",I informed before rushing out to tell the rest.

"Guys!",Jeff and Jay snapped their heads towards me instantly.

"I've got some news."

Hey guys, Lucky here. Just to tell you that this book is nearing it's ending. This book will have a sequel which will probably be up at around the start of next year. I'll announce it here once it has been released.