"Derick!", Mrs Claire called holding my arm, "are you guys coming?", I asked p_ssed as they all looked at me speechlessly, "I guess I have my answer!", I said and pulled my hand from Mrs Claire and walked away.
"Derick!", April called running after me, I stopped and turned to her, "please stay!", she pleaded, "are you coming?", I asked, she looked back at Mrs Claire and June; and then back to me, "please!", she added, I said nothing and continued walking away and Medusa followed.
I walked some distance still by the side of the hill, in search of a more distant cave, and to my surprise, my arm which was said to be broken slowly became movable, "Let's wait in one of these caves till we are fully recovered", I said to Medusa noticing how fast my arm was healing with time.
"Are you hungry girl?", I asked Medusa, it hissed and from it, I could tell that it was hungry.
I had stayed so long with her that I can tell what her hisses meant, "you are in luck, cause there are lots of fruits around", I said and walked to towards the nearest tree I could find.
I was with my knife but couldn't perform my tree climbing stunt with it cause of my injured arm, I heard Medusa hissing from behind and turned around, on seeing her I smiled.
Similarly, she has stayed so long with me that she can virtually read my mind, with her help I went up the tree, plucked as much fruits as I could reach and threw them down.
We gathered them to the cave we decided to settle in and ate till our satisfaction.
Being with Medusa is alot more peaceful and stress free, I sometimes don't even have to tell her what do before she does them, and for an animal she listens better than June ever would.
We both fell asleep in the cave, when we woke up, we did a little sparing just to get a little exercise in, afterwards we got some more fruits from a different tree and went back into the cave; this went on for two days, after which I and Medusa were fully recovered.
But in these days, no matter how stubborn I tried to act, my mind was far from rest, all I could think of was Mrs Claire and April getting hurt, and to worsen the situation, I had a terrible dream about them, that they were ambushed and were at the verge of death, the only thing saving them was the sticks of fire they held lited up, as they formed a circle, in the dream they cried and yelled, screaming my name, but it felt like I was one of the zombies attacking them.
Immediately I woke up, I was out, I have began to search for them, "Mrs Claire!!! Aprill!!!", I called aloud as I walked around the forest.
Frustrated, I sat down and closed my eyes, resting my back against a tree, and in a flash I saw them again just like in the dream but alot more blurry, June seemed to be making a switch in the woods holding up the flames, so the fire doesn't go out, "uuhhh", I took a deep breath as I opened by eyes, "Let's go!", I said to Medusa as I jumped up, and for some reason it felt like I was certain of their current location.
In a few minutes I was there, and just like it was in the dream and my short blurry vision there they were; I observed from a distance, the fleet of zombies that surrounded them, "what do we do Med?", I asked my none talking snake, it hissed and coiled up, set to attack.
With just a knife, I wondered how I was going to take out all of these monsters, I held it firmly with my right hand and yelled in seek of attention, it was succesful as half of the fleet charged at me and Medusa, "argh!!!!", I roared as I ran towards them as well, with the knife I stabbed swiftly into the eyes of almost 10 before recieving a really minor hit, "Medusa! cover me!", I commanded and it obeyed.
As I ran it used its tail to kick as many as it could out of my way, and the left overs I killed with my knife as I ran towards Mrs Claire and her grandchildren; after killing over 20, arrived at where they were, "Derick!", Mrs Claire and April chorused in joy, "we need to get out of her!", I said aloud, "they are too many!", June added, "what have you?", I asked, "your cutlass, bow and some sticks for fire", he replied as I fought against any zombie that came close.
"Cutlass!", I demanded and was given immediately, "keep your sticks up in flames", I said still fighting, "Medusa!", I called seeing the number of zombies attacking her at the same time.
She was too far off to reach and I couldn't leave these guys here.
She hissed and groaned in pain, unable to fight her way out of the situation she was in, "Medusa!", I cried out attempting to run towards her, "arggh!!!", April cried out in pain, I turned to her and noticed that a zombie had gone in through the hole I left, I quickly went back and sliced off his head, I stood back p_ssed at my stagnant situation as I watched them beat up Medusa.
Zombies soon started dropping dead as the sound of a gun being fired at an abnormal speed was heard, "woah!", June exclaimed as the sound became louder, "Lie down!", we heard a voice say, and June, April and Mrs Claire went down holding up their flames.
"Medusa!", I called as I ran towards her cutting any zombie in my way and the bullets randomly killing the zombies behind me, "Medusa! Stay down!", I said on getting to where she was.
After taking down the annoying zombie that had been inflicting the most pain on her, I jumped on the floor, laying flat with Medusa as the rest zombies fell to the ground after being hit by bullets.
This went on untill all the zombies had fallen, "It's a huge snake!", I heard a voice say, "you are right! Let out the grenade!", I heard another say and I stood up immediately, "stop!!", I yelled, "please stop!", April said aloud as well running towards us with her wounded arm.
One of the person with gun took off the mask on his face, a boy about the same age as us, "are you out of your mind! Get out of the way!", he said and the other held his shoulder and also took off her mask, a girl with several spots on her face, also same age as us, "they seem to know the beast!", she advised, "I am Helen!", she said opening her palm and putting her hand in front of me, "Derick shake!", April said and I looked at the hand still in front of me, I immedaitely remembered a gesture known as handshake, and I put my hand forward as well, looking into her eyes, "what's your name?", she asked as our hands made contact, "Derick", I replied, "well Derick and friends, you should count yourself among the lucky, you've been found by fort 4", she said as the cars with guns mounted on them drove closer.
Mrs Claire, June and April smiled in joy seeing other humans like themselves, we all got into the car as it drove beside the river, "you must be really good using those", Helen said looking at me playing with my knife, I continued and said nothing, "is he always like that?", she asked, "yeah...he is really not much of a conversationist when he doesn't know you", April said as Helen continued looking at me, "it's not you trust me", April added smiling.
"What about you, what do you do?", she asked April, "I am a nurse", she replied, "really?", she asked with enthusiasm, "yeah!", she replied, "we really need people like you at our fort, where did you learn?", she asked, "I studied with books and my dad", April replied, "oh", Helen replied in a depressing tone.
She immediately turned to June who had been looking at her since she took off her mask, "what about you?", she asked June, "I... I uhhh... I fight!", He said and Helen and April began to laugh, "of course warrior, we all fight, what do you specialise on?", She further asked, "I uhh...guns! I am good with guns", He said, "impressive! It's skills like yours we need the most at our fort, people who can take out fleets of zombies from a distance; I really hope you are as good as you claim", she said smiling at him, "of course", he said as he blushed.
She then turned back to me, "so back to you shirtless!", She said referring to me, "what do you do?", She asked and before I could say anything, "you were bitten!", She interrupted alarmed, I looked at her and turned to my shoulder, "how long has it been?", She asked, "...6 years", I replied after a brief silence, "I'll have to take you to our commander, he was also bitten", she added staring at my shoulder.
"What's so special about being bitten?", April asked, "according to our researchers, those who survived a zombie bite, develop, heal faster and have a stronger immune system", she added, "that explains the broken arm", April added, "you broke your arm?", Helen asked intrigued and looking at me, observing both arms as she put a hand foward to touch it, "sub commander Helen!", the driver interrupted, "yes?", she replied, "a fleet of zombie ahead", he said, "give me a count", she requested, "80 to a hundred!", he replied, "don't fire! I need to run a little test", she said as she reloaded her gun, "Jacob stay in! Boys let's see how good you really are!", she said and threw a gun at June, "can you use that?", she asked June who looked at the gun strangely, "....of course I can!", he said smiling, "what's it going to be Derick?", she asked looking at me, "is there any other weapon you would like to use?", she added with a big chest of weapons opened infront of her, "sub commander!", the driver called, "yes?", she replied, "they are getting close!", she said, "take out the front liners!", she commanded, "got it!", the driver said and the sound of a firing gun started.
"My cutlass is blunt, do you have one?", I requested and Helen began to laugh, I said nothing as I stared at her, "sorry", she said as she stopped laughing, "who still uses a cutlass?", she asked, "here!", she said throwing a really slim and long like cutlass covered with a cloth to me, "what kind of cutlass is this?", I asked as I took the cloth off the long blade, "it's a sword Derick", April replied.
Holding the sword felt a lot different from the cutlass, unlike the cutlass the sword was really light, so light it felt useless, "so you don't have a cutlass?", I asked, "trust me Derick, this is better", Helen said as she came down from the car, "let's go boys!", she added aloud as she brought out two short guns, seemingly pistols, and began to fire at the zombies as they came, they dropped dead immediately at a really quick rate.
I and June just stood their while Helen laughed outrageously as she killed the zombies, "sorry boys, this gets really fun", she said and stopped, "anyways it's your turn, let's see what you can guys can really do, there are about 30 left and they are all yours", she said as she walked to where we were, "go get them boys", she added softly.
I stood there trying to hold the sword in a way I could be comfortable with, while June held up his gun pointing it at the zombies approaching, seemingly deciding which to shoot at, "what are you guys waiting for, go!", she commanded.
I started by walking slowly into the field as the first zombie approached me, I swung the sword at it like I would my cutlass, and unlike anything I have seen before the sword divided it in two, "woah!", I said astonished as I looked at it.
Another approached and in the same manner, it went down, "great job Derick!", I heard Helen say as more ran towards me, in excitement I ran towards them as well with confidence, knowing that with one swing of the sword a monster will drop dead.
to be continued......
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