Oh Boy
The zombie closest to Felix didn't hesitate to pounce straight after him as soon as he hits the ground. Felix quickly rolls away and just about dodges the zombie as another pounces onto him, he punches it in the face but it doesn't even move from the impact of the blow. The zombie goes to bite his neck but Felix jams his hands into its mouth and tries9something tap against the zombie's head then another loud bang and he gets splattered in zombie blood.
He pushes the zombie off him before a hand appears above him, he grabs it and gets pulled onto his feet. Annabel was standing beside him holding the rifle that William had bought in her hands, it was covered in blood and on the ground near them the other two zombies lay dead, one with a bullet hole in its chest and the other's head was also blown completely off. Felix stared at Annabel for a few seconds then at the rifle and then back to Annabel.
"Ok now I really regret throwing that vase at you, and when was that put in the car I dont fucking remember seeing it? Also how come it took you so long to shoot the damn thing?"
"Let's see...the vase thing has already been sorted, William put this in just before we left and I wasn't looking the the rifle, I was looking for the ammo cause it must have gotten jostled around. Even if I did want to kill you, this is like the second time I've used this, William showed me how when he first bought it a few days ago so im pretty sure as long as you didn't walk in a straight line I would probably miss. Now come on let's see if we can find the boys before they do something else stupid, actually they probably already have but I guess I can hope..."
Annabel got in the car and Felix jumped onto the quad and they started driving towards the house that Jack and William had run into. When they arrived at the house the door was wide open and the house was in shambles. Blood covered most of the walls with smashed cutlery lying on the floor. All the way up the steps, multiple bloody footprints could be seen running up the steps. When they got to the top of the stairs they could see a broken down door, it had been ripped from the hinges and lay off to the side, but no one was there. No zombies, no William or Jack, but Jack's axe was broken in half on the ground. They looked around to see if they could find any signs about what happened but they couldn't find anything, until they heard someone groaning below them.
They looked over the edge of the roof and saw William and Jack hanging onto one of the windowsills, William was holding onto the actual windowsill and Jack had one arm drapped over William's back and the other was on the windowsill trying to pull himself up. On the ground below them lay the rest of the zombies, with their legs completely broken, entire bones sticking up through with jagged edges. Felix ran back to the car to see if he could find anything to help them climb back up quickly so they could get to the safe zone before anything else could go wrong, after only a few seconds he came back with the rope that William had when breaking into the school. He threw it down to them and with Annabel's help they managed to climb back onto the roof where they flopped down and lay wheezing.
"Jesus...could you guys not have come sooner...any longer and we would have fallen...and my axe broke...and William lost his sledgehammer...so if we meet any zombies you guys will have to do most of the work."
"For once I have to admit Jack is right but then again he is also wrong, you two also had to deal with three of those 'metal' zombies and without any real weapons to hurt them so well done. Although he is correct about us being pretty useless now and the weapons are gone. His axe is broken and I have no clue where my sledgehammer is now, I threw it at one of the zombies as a last ditch attempt and it just bounced off somewhere. So how did you two kill those zombies anyway, no offence but I doubt our mini Muhammad Ali killed them and the chances of you escaping from them aren't much better."
"Umm excuse me MINI is that meant to be a dig about my height? So what if I'm smaller than you guys...maybe by a couple of inches but that doesn't mean I cant whoop your asses in a few seconds."
Felix then speed walks over to William who by this point is back on his feet and starts trying to square up to him. Except William has a good 5 inches on him so Felix has to look straight up to look him in his eyes, making it look pretty ridiculous.
"Ok for one, I wasn't making a dig at your height, nobody said anything about height except you, what i meant by Mini Muhammad Ali was that you fight like him but your obviously not as good. Although I have to admit your attempt at 'squaring up' looked like a chihuahua trying to act tough, no offence."
At this Jack and Annabel try to keep a straight face but you can easily see that they are both trying not to laugh at the thought of comparing Felix to a Chihuahua. Felix saw this but didn't say anything and just walked back to the car and started sulking, slamming the door shut behind him.
As soon as the door is shut Jack and Annabel burst out laughing and clutch their sides in pain.
"I know im not meant to laugh at this, William at somepoint your gonna have to apologise but for now just let me laugh for a few minutes. Oh jesus I'm happy he went in the car I didn't know how long I was gonna be able to keep it in, the chihuahua thing got me bad."
They both finally stop laughing and Annabel gets in the car and starts it up while William and Jack ran over to the quad and got on it, they then set off towards Belfast which was only 30 minutes away but they were meeting more and more zombies as they went. At first William and Jack on the quad went first however pretty soon Annabel and Felix in the car went ahead to deal with as many zombies as they could. When they arrived at where the safe zone was meant to be all they saw was a bunch of tall office buildings, but they all looked empty with no signs of life.
The other thing that they all noticed was that for their entire journey to the 'safe zone' they hadn't seen an animal at all. No dogs, cows, sheep, birds, foxes, deer, even creepy crawlys. Just nothing, add this to Ban disappearing and things look even more uncertain, if all the animals have completely disappeared somewhere then that means no meat or fish, farming is going to be harder without slurry or manure, no animals like dogs to help kill zombies or find people, nothing.
William knew more than the rest about how bad this could get in the near future but didn't say anything incase he did more harm than good. They all got of or out of their mode of transport and looked around and into the nearby buildings to see if they were just missing something, until they heard something coming from the closest building.
Leaning outside the door was a man, probably in his late 20s beckoning them in.
"Hurry up, if they spot you we are all dead! Come on come on, what's keeping you. Its either stay out there and kill us all or follow me and we all live, it isn't a hard choice to make."
They looked at each other silently asking each other if they should go but in the end they all shrugged their shoulders and ran over to the building. Inside the main entrance the man was looking into one of the rooms but when he saw that they had followed him he quickly walked over to them and motioned for them to be quiet.
"Dont be too loud, I'm guessing that you guys are also here about the supposed 'safe zone' same as us...I MEAN me, I heard about it on the radio but as you can guess it hasn't exactly gone to plan. It was like this when I got here so I dont exactly know what happened but from what I can see it seems like there was a safe zone but very recently the zombies seiged it and won. The reason I say seiged and not attacked is because of the places all the dead zombies are at, they are in the perfect position to seige a building like this. Which is even stranger because my major is literally history, and my favourite part is seiges and long drawn out battles so I know how to seige stuff. Its like...
"Its like they have super smart zombies telling the rest what to do correct?"
William cuts in as the man stops mid sentence.
"Yeah we know what you're on about, we've already seen two of these 'leader' zombies. They are able to command other zombies and seem to know a lot about not dying. So did anyone survive the seige or did they just join the zombies?"
"Well from what I can see maybe a few, but they are all trapped on one of the higher up floors but they seem relatively safe for now. Maybe a little hungry but they shouldn't be too bad yet. But there's nothing we can do for them, there must be a couple hundred zombies between us and them and all you have weapon wise is that rifle, which probably doesn't have that much ammo. And the rest of you don't seem like the army type of people who could kill zombies with ease even if you didn't have any weapons."
"Hey Jack I have an idea, remember what happened when I killed the leader zombies, the others all went crazy and wanted to kill anything that moved? Well imagine that, on a balcony with a drop that could kill them with ease. All we need to do is lure the leaders out, have Annabel shoot them and you and me get the rest to jump. Easy right?
Everyone looked at him like he had grown a third arm on the middle of his chest that was giving them all the middle finger.