The Vordox

Chapter 9

It was dark at night. I had almost slept but I was alert.i was riminding myself about my camp and how fun it used to be with others. Those were the days. I had a great friends circle who were alyays there for me to be there by my side and act like a net. But as time flew... I left my post because of the family complications. I was lying there my head to the sky looking at the stars and maybe one of these stars would be Mars. I took a deep sigh Isabel was asleep She woke up to a huge crash that we heard on the other side of the wall I checked what time it was. It was 3:30 in the morning. Instinctively I went over to Isabel, I comforted her. We had our weapons out and all ready. Then we saw a huge heat wave coming towards us as if a rocket was fired on the other side of the wall. It was a blast of fire thank God there was the wall to protect us or else we would've been plant food by now. As soon as the heat wave went, we heard the same noises approaching us the same noises the people on the bridge were making. I said, "get up close your tent I'll get mine and don't leave sight" It was pitch black. We closed our tents as soon as possible and heard footsteps approaching. I grabbed Isabel by her wrist and walked fast into the forest. I didn't realize but we had left a bag behind it was the bag with all the batteries for the hover boots and filled to the top with extra ammo and food which was almost all the food we had brought for the journey and all the batteries too. Her gun almost fell as she swung on my arm. We both had our gun ready and were in the woods nothing was visible. I turned on me watch torch and flashed it all around. Nothing was visible we started hearing someone or something breathe intensely "AAAHHH-" I turned around rapidly. Isabel was gone someone took her. I could only see her weapon on the ground kept diagonal when I flashed light on it. I thought the direction in which her gun is facing she might be taken perpendicular because it fell when she was taken. One of the directions was towards me the other was away from me I turned the torch upwards away from her weapon which was kept on the ground. I flashed it through some bushes and saw something move. I picked up her weapon with one hand and with the other I was holding my weapon and a torch attached to it I flashed it again on the bush I saw something move again. This time I even heard a loud scream "aaahhh" it was her. She was not close to me. It came from a distance. I ran in the direction I heard it. I was running for about a minute now there was no sign of Isabel until I heard another scream a muffled one of course. The scream was quite close to me. I jumped over a bush and saw Isabel with a grey cloth stuck in her mouth she was crying I could see her tears. Her hair was all messed up and sitting propped up to a tree. She was shaking her legs vigorously trying to get free. Panicking in all ways. Suddenly someone popped out and started crawling up her legs. I flashed light at the person and then at Isabel as soon as the person saw Isabel. It realized something as if it realized it had done something wrong and left at once. I gave her a hand she got up she was in shock her eyes wide open almost as if she escaped death which she did I asked her, "are you alright?" "yeah" she said panting, "I thought I almost lost you there" I said while handing her a bottle of water, "yeah no kidding, I thought I lost myself too" it was still dark but there was a little bit of light coming on from around the corner maybe it was about time for sunrise. I asked her, "what was that all about" she was acting all weird "I don't know" I was trying to get her mind off so I asked her, "what would you like for breakfast" she didn't reply. She was distracted and was thinking about it for a lot of time.

We had a small meal. reloaded our weapons and set off to our way back to Italy. As we were on our way back, I asked her, "so... you told me that you lived with your fiancé can I ask who he was" she looked at me and said, "isn't someone curious" I laughed it out. She started describing him, "He was tall just like you didn't wear glasses had frizzy hair all the time was beautiful by heart and I loved him a lot" "ohh he seems like the perfect man" she smiled, "yeah he was the perfect man" "then why did you leave him?" "because even though he was the perfect man he was not more them me to myself." I was completely confused what she had said made almost no sense to me... so I asked, "didn't mean more than you to yourself?" "yeah... I mean he did mean a lot to me but not more than myself and I wanted to stay on earth and he wanted to go to mars so I stepped back and realized that it was better if I had left him because he could never mean more to me than myself" her mind was completely off the topic. We kept on going in about half an hour we saw the bridge again this time the bridge was visible to the top. Maybe it could be safe as we can see most part of the bridge. I asked her, "over or under?" she said without a thought, "under! I don't want to jump off of a 9-story tall bridge again" I laughed; "okay" we were approaching the bridge. And we went under it. We heard them again the loud screaming and howling. It was coming from inside of a building we saw to our right, right under the bridge we came closer to it and heard the loud noises clearer as we were getting close to the building. We saw it was a church we wondered what might they be up to. We came close to the door and tried peeking but nothing was visible. So, instead picked up a metal rod attached it to the door so that it won't open easily. suddenly Isabel tapped me from behind I almost had an heart attack she scared me I said, "what ? why did you scare me?" she said she found a ladder we put the ladder up against the building reaching the round window of the church we climbed up very quietly. The building was dark from inside, on the other hand the sun almost rose up we were on the balcony of the church from where the children used to sing in churches. It was dark up there we tried remaining as quiet as possible. We saw light coming from the lower floor there were about 70 infected people down there. They had many lights lit up. We saw a big hole dug in the middle of the church. They were throwing something in the underground hole it was dug soo deep that their voices echoed when they were putting food in it. They were doing that as if they were told to do so. Some were putting food some were putting shattered pieces of glass some were putting cement or building debris. A strange person came in. He was also infected and was limping. He took something out of the pocket of the hoodie he was wearing. which was torn from the sleeves and the back. In order to see what he was throwing. I leaned over the balcony to see what he was about to throw until the little pebble on the railing fell down because I accidentally pushed it with my hand while leaning over. It landed on a person's head. He suddenly looked up and saw us. He started yelling and slowly everyone in the room looked towards us I said very lightly, "uh oh" they started yelling really loud and they eventually got louder and louder I got a hold of Isabel's hand. She was so busy looking at them and what they were doing. That I broke her attention and jumped out of the window pulling her till the window and used the ladder as a slide. She was right behind me. I dropped down, got up. The church door was being banged loudly. It wasn't opening because of the rod I had placed. Isabel came down the ladder slide. I grabbed her arm fixed our bags and pulled her up and started running away. Suddenly we saw the church gate fly open and a bench thrown out the metal rod that I had attached was badly bent and in the middle of the road. I pulled her arm even more. We started running faster in the boots. The infected didn't realize what direction we were running until we shot bullets at them. We were far enough from them that we could possibly escape them easily but they realized where the shots were fired from and started running towards us even faster than us. I took a left turn swinging Isabel around. I pulled her closer and told her to be on guard I saw a hover scooter. I never rode on it before but I knew how to because I saw kids do it. I drove the scooter standing in front. She was standing at the back turned backwards shooting the infected they were approaching us soo quickly that we had to take sharper and faster turns. In one of the turns a person almost grabbed Isabel's hand her sleeve was torn and blood seeped out of her arm she screamed in pain. I looked at her arm it had a lot of blood I yelled "duck!" looking behind us. Isabel ducked and so did I. One of the infected threw a pole towards us a big pole, it went over us blocking our path. We took the immediate right I said, "oh no!" she asked, "what?" "it's a dead end" she said, "we can't go back they caught up with us" I tried spinning around and managed to do it but we were late. I thought of climbing the buildings but they were 15 story tall buildings and had mist cover half of the way. We had nowhere to go. Suddenly a lot of infected closed the only entrance and exit. They started walking slower towards us. We were trapped there was nowhere to go except die. We tried shooting but were out of ammo. Not a single bullet was to be found in the bag in such a hurry. Panicking Isabel struck an idea she put her foot on the scooter's base and pulled its handle out ripping the base and the handle apart it was a long pipe I asked, "what's the plan?" she replied "stall them for a moment" I threw stones at them. Some were getting hurt but there were coming in slow. Isabel opened my bag she took out my deodorant and took out some of our clothes but only cotton ones. My t-shirt and her cotton muffler she wrapped it around the top of the bar sprayed a lot of deodorant on it. She picked up 2 stones from the ground rubbed them together and smelled them, "these are not igneous quick give me a fire or a spark" I thought quickly I had no idea. They were coming quite close to us. "search the bags" I said looking around I found some steel wool I picked it up and threw it towards her she said, "what am I supposed to do with this?" I said, "take out the battery from my bag it's in the front pocket" She understood on what to do. She attached the battery to the steel wool which burnt a bit but then went off I said, "any moment now!" and started hitting the infected with the back of the gun as a bat. She lit up the fire everyone stepped back. They were scared of fire. I held the steel wool in one hand and sprayed deodorant on it as a flame thrower. We were back to back she was keeping them away from the front and I kept them away from the back. The fire did something to their eyes that they didn't follow us. It made them lose vision for a while till that time we ran far away from them. But her wound was bleeding badly.