As I trudged through the Sand, a rod with milk jugs hanging from it over my shoulders, I sighed in relief as the Oasis came into view. It had a small tree, the water sparkled, grass grew around the water, and a small bush with berries grew close to the tree. I ran down the hill, half falling and half sliding through the Sand. I came here once every week to refill. A discovery I made a while back when I pissed off a small Zephie patrol group and had to run like Hell. I saw foot prints.
I refilled the jugs and stood, keeping my breathing quiet. I heard a click.
Well fuck.
"Listen here, kid. Yer gonna gimme that there water and everything else you got! Got it?" He yelled in a thick country accent. I turned to see a face more ugly than a Zephie. He was balding, yellow teeth, a massive beer-belly, and his breath was horrid.
"You sound as bad as the aliens. Your grammar blows." I said calmly.
"I said to gimme all you got!" He screamed, pushing the barrel of a shotgun to my chest. I could feel the cold steel through my thin shirt.
"Let me just get the water." I said, looking down at the jugs of full water.
"Fine!"
I went to grab them, pushing them in.
"Damn! I will go get them, okay?" I asked.
"Hurry up!" He yelled again as I dove in.
I grinned under the water, drawing a pistol and aiming to his fat stomach.
Bang.
He fell back, holding his stomach as I climbed from the water.
"Fuckin' kid!" He gasped, coughing blood.
I mocked his accent, "Fuckin' redneck."
I didn't look down as I pulled the trigger, his brains splattering around that balding head of his. I grabbed his gun and hung it with the water jugs and whistled as I headed to my bunker.
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Sand
Science FictionZephlarians. Picture a body builder with a reptile face, tail, claws, and skin. Now add in the senses of the top predators and that is kind of like the Zephies. After they showed up and watched our every move, like an eagle eyes a rodent, it was cha...
