Living Monsters

Chapter 4

They stood there, idle on the road for a while, with Aarav working to fend off any infected from destroying the potentially-valuable supplies located inside the building.

"It's a pharmacy," Aarav called out before disappearing through the front automatic double doors.

Having to deal with feeling Lana's intense stare on her eyes, Penny wanted to close them.

"Didn't you see the bite?" Lana asked to make sure her sister wasn't an idiot.

"You can't, you can not do that, Lana. We're not murderers." Penny's voice was so faint that it was almost a whisper.

"I don't care. He could've killed one of us. Do you want that to happen?" Her voice gradually turned into a growl as she stepped closer to Penny.

"Lana, how about we go inside, okay? Before they show up," Penny insisted, with no expression on her face as she moved closer to the entrance.

The two sisters walked in vigilantly and Aarav was nowhere to be seen. There were no lights at all except for the wide windows, which allowed the bright sun to seep in. Lana studied her surroundings closely before making any sort of motion. Around three-fourths of every item was gone from the shelves and she wondered where all of the food was. If there were more cans. Speaking of which, Lana began to take out her can of peaches from her metal lunch pack.

"Let's look for Aarav, okay?" Penny told Lana in a hushed manner. One of the infected still managed to emerge out from one of the passages, heading straight towards Lana, causing her to place her backpack and the peaches on the ground and pick up her red chainsaw.

"I got this," affirmed Penny, who promptly made the correct swing. To add insult to the injury, Lana turned on her chainsaw and aimed it to destroy the head.

Penny scoffed out of frustration. "That's enough. It's already dead. Drop it-"

"There you guys are."

Lana and Penny looked away from each other to meet Aarav's glance.

"I found something really cool. You're gonna wanna see this! Follow me."

"Okay," said Penny.

Lana put the straps of the backpack on her back again while Penny lagged behind them in attempt to cover the trio from any danger, her bat in hands.

The destination was a diagonal shot across from what Penny assumed was the front of a pharmacy, judging from how much variety there was in the products sitting idle on the shelves. As Penny looked to the left for a bit, there were medical supplies in addition to food when they finally arrived at where Aarav was talking about.

What the three saw before them was a thin blanket with an open basket next to it. Lana crouched down and saw what was in there.

"That's a lot of food. There's snacks and more cans in here," Lana rejoiced with a wide grin.

Penny shook her head, looking up. "How can you live with that?"

Her smile was broken. "With what, Penny?"

"You - you just killed someone to get their supplies! That's not right!" Penny declared.

"Just deal with it. What's done is done," said Lana.

"Maybe that woman needs something to eat, Penny," Aarav mentioned.

Damn it, Aarav. Why did you have to bring that up?  I wouldn't have felt the urge to say yes.

"Okay, fine," Penny gave in as Lana put the peaches in her backpack and grabbed hold of the brown intertwined basket.

"We should probably get out of here before any more see us," said Aarav.