Priest of Death - Part 5

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At a distance of three kilometres away from the village, somewhere in North, the group of four survivors reached a street. There are a lot of wrecked cars, corpses of zombies decaying and a few zombies walking slowly around them. Dragan, is holding his hurt hand, and cringes as the pain is going through its mind.

"Are you okay?" asks Milan to Dragan.

"I am fine." says Dragan to Milan, and to everyone else. "I am fine."

"We should rest." says Goran.

"No." says Dragan. "We need to get to Uzice. The Evac is right there. All we need is to find some wheels and we can get there faster."

"Wheels?" asks Zoran looking at the street. "Hope we'll have luck today."

Zoran and Goran proceed to walk on the street and search for any working car on the street, or any type of vehicle in there. Dragan holds his pain feeling away from its mind, and joins the searching with Zoran and Goran. Milan is going to the first car, he looks inside of the window and sees in the car an axe. The man opens the car door and grabs the axe, then he takes it from there.

"Found something?" asks Dragan looking to the direction of Milan.

Dragan cannot see Milan has grabbed an axe because of the night, and the low luminosity of the wrecked cars who are still having some power on. Milan goes closer to Dragan, he shows him the axe and goes to help the other two comrades search for a working car.

Goran checks the interior of a small truck, he opened the door of the back, and observes on the back there are is a zombie. Goran was about to take its knife from the vest, but he observes the zombie who was only looking at him, and turned back to the dark. Goran, was about to kill an Undead zombie. He closes the backside of the truck and continues searching.

"Thank you."

That word came from the truck. It was something so low on volume he thought this was coming from its mind, and not from the truck. He did not take its time to think about this, he continues their searching. He approaches a car with four seats, he observes in the interior of the car there is a corpse of an old man. His torso is tore open to the skin, revealing bitten organs and missing heart. Goran only sees a bit of the corpse, to all because of the darkness outside, but by the smell it irradiates from the car, he can deduce the thing there is dead for good with no chance of coming back as a zombie.

"Guys." says Milan to their people as a shout. "We've found a car."

The other three members are running to where was Milan calling them. The three people are running to that direction it was coming from, which it was pretty close for them. Milan has found a car, a working one, but it has trouble, it is turned upside down. The rest of the group are discussing a bit about this, deciding if they should try their luck to turn the thing around, and use it to help them reach at Uzice.

They decide to try their luck of turning around the car. But they don't have any luck with this technique of theirs. The group continues to searching for another working car, or any vehicle.

After a while of searching, the group finds a working car, from the distance of about two hundred meters from the last cars. The four survivors, upon fining the car, they were about to get in it, but they are all surprised when they opened the door to trigger a really loud alarm. The one who opened the door was Goran, and he tells them to enters as fast as possible in it.

The four people are gathering inside of the car, Goran jumps on the drier seat, Zoran next to Goran, Dragan and Milan are going on the backside of the car. As Goran turned the car engine one, he backs away from there, and drives ahead to the road who will take them to Uzice. As the car contains to drives and dodges the wreckage on its way, Dragan is feeling a little sick by all of this. He almost threw up in the car.

"Dragan. You aright?" asks Milan, worried about Dragan.

"Yes. I am fine." responds Dragan, who is feeling not fine.

The car leaves the road, and drives further to where Uzice supposed to be. As the car continues to drive further, zombies are starting to follow the group of survivor, because of the car alarm and the loud engine motor. And from the forest emerges the priest Sava, and his six villagers who are looking mad at the car who have left.

"They have gone." says a villager angry. "We should go after them." he addressed to Sava.

"And that's what we will do." says Sava to the villagers. "Get your cars. We are going after them."

"But where they are going?" asks another villager. "We don't know where they are heading?"

"We know Vasyli." says Sava to the villager.

Sava remains silent for a second. He closes its eyes, then, he opened them, he says to the group of six people.

"Uzice."

"Alright." says a few villagers, going back to their village to get their cars and prepare their arsenal to hunt down the four survivors who have entered their village.

When the most members of the small group have gone, Sava remains in the place, he looks for a moment to the street, to a few zombies who are walking after the car of the four survivors. He can see the exact number of zombies which is thirty-five. He looks back, and decides to leave this place to prepare his arsenal for the next journey.

"We have to stop them." says Sava to himself.