Chapter 13

UNEDITED-

Marisol POV-

"Does it hurt?"

"Sol I shot you with an arrow"

"It's not a competition Alex.. I'm asking you a question" I feel terrible about it.

"Not really"..She answered keeping her eyes on my hand.

"Don't lie.. please"..

"It hurts a little but I'll be okay"

"You should stay here, I'll be alright"..

"Not a chance.." I just made a small smile at her response. For some reason I'm happy to be spending time with her. She smiled back and we just sat there for a moment in comfortable silence, making the odd glance at eachother.

I heard the pitter patter of August's little feet as he come skipping down the stairs.. the sound two of louder sets of footsteps following. A few seconds later he appeared in the doorway..

"What happened Sol?" August asked worriedly as he approached.

"Nothing buddy, I just hurt my hand that's all".. My body is probably bruised too but he can't see that.

"I can make it better.." He smiled placing a hand on the side of my head.. I was confused but let him carry out this little game. He gently placed his free hand the other side and closed his eyes.. I just looked up at him from my chair, his eyebrows furrowed, a few seconds later I felt electric coursing through my entire body..

The adrenaline zipped through me, I felt powerless against it.. my eyes closed subconsciously as a new burning sensation started in my hand.. like I was being electrocuted from the inside.. then my eye. It feels worse than it ever did before and that is saying something. Somehow amidst the pain and confusion I noticed the wind whipping around us.. Then all of it stopped, somehow he healed me. I caught August just before his limp body hit the ground.. What the fuck was that?.. "Auggie are you okay?" I asked frantically..

He groggily opened his eyes to look at me.. "Did it work?" .. "Show me" . In seconds he was seemingly back to normal, standing on his own, waiting for me to do what he told me to.

I glanced around at the other astonished faces; Betty, Sam and Alex. Before unwrapping my hand. After removing the bandages and gauze you could clearly see my hand was healed. It was still covered in blood but there was no hole. "How did you know you could do that?"

"I had a dream about it.." He said simply..

"Is that how you knew about Forrest?" He just nodded.

"Why didn't you tell me?" August shrugged and I realised that's the most I'm going to be able to get out of him on the subject.

"Well thank you.." I stood up and pulled him into me.. "-my special boy".. He squeezed me back and then let go.

August picked up a packet of crisps from the counter and casually wondered off down the hallway.

"What the hell just happened?" Sam asked when she thought August could no longer hear her.

"The virus.. we aren't human anymore are we?" Betty said as more of a statement than a question..

"I don't think so.. but it doesn't matter right now, we can't change what's happening.." We can only roll with the punches.

I washed myself off while everyone else had something to eat and we were finally packing our bags to leave. This should only take an hour tops.. but then again I don't have much luck predicting how long things will take. It was surprisingly easy to talk August into letting me go, all Sam had to do was say that she's going to stay with him.. Am I that easily replaced?.. pft of course not.

We made our way into Bellas car without a hitch and set off. I don't know why I insisted on driving, and still with only one eye.. After a rocky start we sped off down the road. I heard several clicks as everyone hurried to put their seatbelts on.. Alex leaned over me and grabbed my seatbelt.. I moved my arm through it, keeping my eyes on the road as she clicked it into place.. "Thanks"..

"It's not a- race you know" Alex huffed midway through her sentence when I took an unexpected turn and the air got knocked out of her.

"Sorry" I eased my foot off the accelerator a little for her comfort. We kept a steady pace, knocking over the occasional biter that I couldn't avoid in the road.

Finally we arrived at Natasha's house. I stopped outside the gates.. Now I have to get out to open them.. with three grey faces coming over as well. "You drive.." I spoke to Alex as I got out of the car with my katana in hand.

I thrust my blade forward into the first man's head.. the next was a young boy.. probably around Forrests age.. I closed my eyes as I swung the blade towards his head.. I felt it connect and opened my eyes again to see the third, a middle aged woman lunging for me.. I kicked her back, where she fell over the man's body.. her thin arms reached up for me.. I swung my katana through her head as though it were a golf club and she stopped moving.

After I opened the gate Alex drove through and I closed them behind us.. I got into the passenger seat and we drove up to the large white house. We all got out of the car and I approached the door to knock.. if they are all dead inside we should know about it pretty quickly. Just as my hand was about to make contact with the door it opened and I came nose to nose with a double barrelled shotgun.. good to know everyone's got the same idea.

I dropped my weapon and threw my hands in the air.. "Please don't shoot me" I spoke more surprised than anything..

"Mum?" Natasha cried as she ran towards her barbie doll of a mother. Finally the gun was dropped away from my face as the mother and daughter embraced.

I sighed a breath of relief closing my eyes for a moment.. I nearly lost my life, again. I heard clanging as Alex picked my katana back up and placed it into the sheath that I'd hooked to my waist. "Next time I'll knock.." Alex spoke as she placed her hand on my arm and took it back just as quick.

"Next time she'll knock" I gestured to Storm who was too focused on Natasha and her mother to notice me talking about her. Alex smiled. A few apologies and thanks were shared before we found ourselves back in the car and setting off again.

"Wait!" Storm shouted after we'd been driving for almost five minutes..

"What is it?"

Just as I asked a ragged pregnant lady walked out into the road 30ft ahead.. I can see a few dead bodies on the ground but no live ones wandering the streets. I slowed the car.. "We can't leave her like that".. Alex was right..

"I know". I stopped the car right infront of her.. The mucky brunette hopped into the seat behind me.

"So where are you going?" I asked..

"Don't move" An arm around my neck held my head to the headrest and a pistol against my temple made sure I would listen. Alex and Storm both gasped but were powerless to do anything about it. I should have made Storm drive.. "Everyone out.." I glanced to the side keeping my head still to look at Alex, she looks so scared.. Slowly they both got out of the car..

I heard something thud off the car and then a mans voice.. "What have you got on you beautiful?"

"Get off me" Storm fought..

"Keep your voice down.. wouldn't want to attract a crowd now would we?"..

"Give me the keys" The woman ordered from behind me.. I turned the key and handed it to her. She released her arm from around my neck to take it.. "Now get out, slowly.. and don't try anything.." As I got out of the car with my hands up she whacked the gun off the back of my head.. I jolted but it didn't really hurt, I turned my head with a look that said 'what the fuck was that for?'.. Wasting no time she walked me to the front of the car and pushed the pistol into the back of my neck, making me lay over the bonnet. At this point I think I just have bad luck with people and guns.

Whilst she was rooting around in my pockets I looked back over to Alex and Storm. The huge man easily searched them, neither one putting up much of a fight.. probably because if they did I'd most likely get a bullet in the back of my head. When the woman was done searching me all she came away with was Forrests front door key and my gun as everything else is still in the car. "Get up" She pulled me to stand up and I turned around slowly to face her with my hands in the air. "Oh she's a pretty thing, can we keep her?" she grinned keeping her eyes on me.

"What about this one?" The man responded, I glanced over to see that he was talking about Alex.. keep us for what?.. I'm not about to find out.

I decided in that moment, the second the woman took her eyes off me, I was going to get us out of this. As she was about to address her companion.. "Get-" Was all she could say. I punched her gun down, out of her hand.. my other hand quickly made contact with her face in the form of a fist and she went flying backwards unconscious, blood spurting from her nose.. Her shirt lifted in the fall and I could see all the rags she was using to create a fake baby bump.

"You little whore!.." The man shouted pulling out a previously concealed gun from his waist, I closed my eyes to prepare for the impact. After the shot went off I realised it wasn't me that got hit.. When my eyes opened I saw Storm, slowly dropping to the floor with a hole between the eyes. Then the gun was aimed back towards me and I was sure, this is it.. this is the moment I die. Just as he was about to pull the trigger Alex grabbed the gun in his hands.. I heard another pop then a whizz as the bullet zoomed past my face, stinging as it grazed my cheek.

I ran to them and watched him pull the pistol from her hands and swung it into Alex's face, knocking her down.. he pointed the gun towards her on the ground but luckily I was already there, rage filled and seeing only red. I held onto his wrist, easily aiming the gun away from Alex as another shot went off.. his expression changed to horror as he realised I was much stronger than him.. and I was no longer going by any plan.. His wrist crunched in my hand and the gun dropped to the floor. Without any thought I sunk my teeth into his shoulder.. His screams were soon inaudible, his body became lifeless under my grasp, warm blood spurted out all over me and coated my throat as I tore into his flesh, bite after bite. It didn't take very long for me to come back to my senses and soon realise, I'm eating a human being.. and Alex is watching me eat a human being. I let go of him and his body slumped to the ground. How can I turn around and look at her after what I just did? And the worst part is, I enjoyed it.. I was so hungry, the starving pains started hours ago.

The sounds of gunfire had already attracted the attention of a shuffling swarm of the dead.. 15 or 20 of them were approaching from every direction. I can hear them coming for us but I still can't seem to move..

"Where are the car keys?" Amidst the chaos unraveling inside my mind Alexs voice threw me into action. I ran to the woman on the floor and took the car keys, Forrests key and my gun back from her. I threw her into the back of a crashed car with her gun and shut the door. Nobody else needs to die here. Then I ran to pick up the mans gun and quickly got into the car, where Alex was already waiting in the passenger seat. Just as I closed my door a dead lady was snarling and scraping her teeth down my window..

"Sol?" I could feel the weight of her eyes on me as I drove. Water began streaming down my face when I tried to come to terms with just how out of control I was. Now I'm a murderer. "Sol stop the car.." My eyes were fixed forward as I slowed the car to a halt. The street is almost bare. I glanced in the rearview mirror to see the man and Storm being finished off by a pack of the hungry infected in the distance, then closed my eyes. If I wasn't so reckless Storm might still be alive. And to think, that could have just as easily been Alex..

"Look at me".. "Marisol" I heard in her tone that she too was holding back tears.. she just watched her friend get shot and killed, while another friend almost chewed a guys head off.

"I can't" I shook my head trembling as I held on tight to the steering wheel. I opened my eyes for a second to see my blood soaked hands and closed them again.

"Stop thinking for a second and just look at me.." She peeled one of my hands off the steering wheel.. well for some reason I let her peel it off. Slowly I turned my head and opened my eyes to look at her.

"You did what you had to" She calmly brought her sleeve up to gently wipe the crimson off my face..

"Stop" I held onto her other hand but quickly let go when I realised we were both holding each others hand.."I didn't have to kill anyone" As soon as I let go she brought her hand back up to continue wiping my face.

"If you hadn't, one of us might not be here right now.." Why is she trying to paint this as good thing?..

"One of us isn't.."

"You know what I meant.."

"I just killed someone Alex.. Storm is dead and I fucking ate someone. I'm a murderer" More like a monster.. I can't stomach food but human flesh is just fine. I would say things couldn't possibly get worse, but I know from experience that things can always get worse. "What if I do it again?, or August does, or Betty.." As my head reeled through the horrendous possibilities Alex grabbed my other hand again, bringing me back to the present moment.

"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it".. How will we?.. what if they loose control like I did and hurt someone I care about?.

We sat for a few minutes in silence. Out of nowhere Alex screamed. I looked at her to see what's wrong, she was looking directly past me. The car window smashed next to my head, a hand grabbed onto the middle of my jumper, I grabbed the katana just in time as I was thrown from the vehicle. My body bounced along the road, coming to a halt when I crashed into the mailbox, the katana came loose from my hand and fell away from me.

I struggled to get to my feet, looking in the direction of the enemy. It's the guy I just murdered.. he looks angry. There are way more wounds than I left him with.. jet black blood covered his skin like war paint.

"I'm really going to enjoy this.." He snarled as he approached me.

For a second I was relieved that he wasn't dead.. until I realised that now I have no choice but to kill him.. or at least try to. The biters are slowly approaching us, they must have followed him. I glanced around for a second but I couldn't see where my katana had fallen.. Alex got out of the car and his head snapped around to look in her direction.. that's when I remembered I still have my gun on me. I pulled it out, flicked off the safety and pulled the trigger, all before he turned his head back to look at me. I fired twice, missing him, then two more times.

The first bullet hit him in the neck just bellow his ear, the second missed. He grabbed ahold of his neck as I fired again. This time the bullet got stuck in the chamber. The burly man calmly took his hand away from his neck and began running at me. I guess I know what's coming next.. I tried to dodge, but apparently I didn't know what was coming next. He grabbed me, headbutting me in the face three times before I headbutted him back and we finally broke away from each other. A dead man almost his size grabbed ahold of his arm and bit down, he easily lifted the guy in the air and threw him into two of the dead that were 10 feet away. There were many more following, all I could think about was how much danger Alex was in. She just stood there frozen beside the car, not knowing what to do.

The man resumed his attack roaring as he approached me, he swung his bawled first at my head, I ducked just in time returning a gut punch of my own. He skidded backwards crumpled over for a second at the force but quickly retaliated.. his knee smashed into my chest launching me through the air, straight over the mail box and into a brick wall. I heard several of my ribs crack on impact. As I threw my hands down on the pavement to pick myself back up, I looked straight infront of me to see the katana. I wasted no more time, with the katana in my hand I stood strong.. The man was almost at the mail box now.. "You think you can kill me with that? look at me girl.. I'm Jesus fucking Christ.. resurrected" He grinned with his arms out like he's on the cross before kicking another of the dead away from him.

One of the biters reached for me, I threw the woman at him where he quickly punched her head, smashing through it.. he looked at the hand he had used, his hand hung down below his wrist, it's clearly the one I broke and he does not look happy. His cocky demeanor changed back to rage filled as he ran at me again. I decided to go with the strategy that worked for me the first time. I ducked and span with the katana stretched out.. his leg severed just above his knee and he toppled over. I approached him as he turned over screaming.. when he saw me coming he shuffled backwards away from me frantically.. "Mercy.. please give me mercy.."

"I will"

He stopped moving and looked down at his leg. I took another step and swung my katana.. slicing his head clean from his body. Only his face was still moving, terror and fear in his eyes as he glanced around frantically.. his mouth was moving but no sound coming out. I could read his lips though. 'Kill me, kill me, kill me'.. I managed to swing my blade down through his head. Even now that his head is in two pieces, I can still see it whole in my mind as he begs for death.

A dead man grabbed ahold of me from behind about to take a bite.. I managed to get my hand under his chin and use it to lift him over my shoulder throwing him forward. His body flew a few metres away, but his jaw carried on with my hand and splatted on the pavement a foot infront of me. Now the rest of the swarm was catching up I knew we didn't have long to get out of here, and I can't fight them all.

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NOTES-

This is a bit random and I can't remember mentioning it before, but can you tell I'm not sure what to call the undead? It's actually making me laugh that I can't stick to one thing. Anyway as always I hope you enjoyed it.

Also thank you for the powerstones, I appreciate it more than you know.

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