End Of Everything (Book 1)

14: It Has Begun

*Johnny's Pov*

We made it inside, or at least some of us did that is. We start making our way to the armory, a.k.a the band room. On our way there, we run into two of our people. They're growlers now. Herbert and his wife Margaret, with a deep cut on their throat. Jesus Christ.

I take my knife out, rush and tackle Herbert to the ground. I drive it through his temple putting him out of his misery. Margaret lunges at Claire but she sides steps her, kicks her knee in, and slams her head on the wall stopping her for sure. We continue to make our way to the band room.

We finally arrive to the band room. Jenny who is on armory duty let's us in. The 12 of us all fill in and shut the door. The closets of used to be instruments, that is now filled with the guns we salvaged from Hope before it blew up and on the road is opened. Dylan and Claire starts distributing weapons out to everyone. Tyler and Robert sit Matt down in one of the chairs.

"We need to get him to the nurses room." Troy mentions.

"Just grab a weapon, we need to get there anyways. He'll be fine." I ordered him as I tie up my shoes. I  walk over to Matthew. He smiles. I look him in his one eye that's open.

"You're lucky I don't leave your ass to die. The only reason you're alive right now, is because you're a doctor and your of use to me. But If you even think about looking at Olivia, you'd wish that you didn't make it out of Hope."

His smile fades. Jenny comes over to me and hands me my metal bat. I thanked her and she nods. Dylan gives me the we're ready look. So I go to the door and wait as Tyler and Robert help Matt up. I hear a bunch of footsteps from outside running pass the door. I raised my hand for everyone to be silent which they do. The footsteps fades into the distance until I can't hear a single one.

"Is the coast clear?" Jenny whispers. I take my ear off the door and open it slightly. I peak and see nothing, I close it back and nod.

"Alright let's get a move on. They'll be down these halls again sooner than later. If you see one kill them, no hesitation or you will die." I instructed the group.

I open the door and we head out. We come to a corner and stop. I peak around the corner and spot 5 of our people, who are now growlers eating our people.

I go on ahead and throw my knife into one of their skulls, quickly smash my bat across another growlers face, sending brains, blood, and bone fragments flying.

A growler was behind me, I turned and it's teeth took a bite in my bat. It has me up against the wall trying to get me. The other two stop eating and start making their way towards me. An arrow goes through the head of one that has me pinned killing it. Thanks Liv.

Claire runs in and kicks back the closest growler to me in the chest, knocking both of the growlers down. She stomps her foot through it's head as I smash my bat into the other one. The others come over and Olivia retrieves the arrow from the growlers head, and puts it back in her quiver. We're close to the nurses room.

We stop in our tracks as we come across a Phoenix soldier. He's wearing that black swat uniform with no helmet, but has a red bandana on his head. He draws his assault rifle on us.

"Hand him over now!!" The soldier's stern voice echoing the hall.

"Wait!! Most of us are just kids. C-Can't we just talk this out please?" Jenny begged while slowly getting closer to him. What the hell is she planning. Troy tries to run after her but Sam stopped him and shook his head.

"Don't come any closer! I have orders to kill you all except him. I..I don't want to kill kids. So don't make do this." The soldier begged her.

"P..Please, t..they will never know that you spared us. Nobody has to get hurt." She said moving even closer, reaching out her hand. "Just think about it. If you really don't want to kill kids, then why do you have your gun trained on us. We're just trying to survive this new world just like you."

The soldier starts thinking of his next move, dropping his attention from us. While he's in deep thought Jenny approaches the solider and apologizes to him. He looks down at Jenny in confusion as she does the splits. From the corner of my eye I see Olivia draw back her bow and fires an arrow through his eye, dropping and killing the man.

We all turn to look at Jenny with confusion on how she just hit the splits like they were nothing.

"What? I was in cheerleading for 8 years." Jenny explained with a chuckle. All of us share an impress look at each other.

We start heading inside the nurses room and I drag his body in there with us. Tyler and Robert set Matt down in his chair, while Olivia starts stitching Dylan's hand. Claire helps me search the body while Sam looks into Matt's wounds.

We find a gold necklace with of a bird surrounded by flames around his neck, and a holster that has a suppressed pistol, a combat knife, and a walkie talkie. I take them off of him and set it on the desk.

"Uh..Johnny, I think you better come take a look at this dude." Simon called out to me. I get up and head over to him, he's starring out the window that is facing the gate. I look out the window and seen the trees moving like crazy from the wind. I look towards the road and my hands starts to shake.

A massive horde, bigger than the one at Hope except this time it's being led by a helicopter. All those traps we set up are definitly triggered by growlers. Damnit, this is worse than we thought. But this could also be our opportunity. The chopper becomes louder catching everyones attetion as it lands on the roof.

"They have helicopters." Tyler sighed.

"This...this could be a good thing." I pondered.

"The hell do you mean this could be a good thing? We're screwed, there's 12 of us versus a fucking army. All that training just to get wiped out." Troy said panicked and scared. Jenny holds his arm and looks at him and he calms down a bit. I look out the window again seeing the horde getting even closer. I turn around with a hand on my chin.

"Troy's right it's 12 of us versus an army. We're the last of our people. We weren't prepared for what they're throwing at us. We can't beat them and a whole ass horde. But what those asshats just did, was flown in our ticket out of here."