Laila William and Stefan Kingsley had found each other in the thicket earlier that morning.One was an untouchable, protected young girl from the zombies, while the other was a broken, wounded young man, and while Laila grappled with the mystery of the Allfather, Stefan was coming into contact with the zombies.His scream alerted her, and she had rushed forward to find him in the midst of the zombies. Without a second thought, she leapt over and fell right on top of him, her body lying prone over him so that her head was above his shoulder, allowing for her lips to be close to his ear, and for his to be the same for her own ear.It was why the vibration rang into her ear when he let out another pained scream.“Are you crazy?” She shot at him on impulse, and still yet, kept her voice low.“Why did you do that?” He asked, returning her question with another in a voice just as low, despite the pain that wanted to rip him in pieces. “My leg is broken.” As soon as he said the words, she f
Kevin huddled the children into the car, swearing to them that he was going to come back, even though he had to raise his voice for the girl to hear him. Her eyes started to water when she did at last, and it was only the boy pulling her close to hold her that allowed them some respite.“Let's go, Kev. Leave the kids and let's go and check who it is.” Max yelled, hauling his RPG onto his back and slipping a pistol into his pocket. Kevin kissed the children, slammed the door, and ran with Max into the thickets, when the shouts reached them again.They crushed all in their path, running forward when they came upon the scene. A young man was held up by one of the large zombies, only hanging because the thing's tongue held onto him like a dear trophy. At its feet, a girl was trying to distract it and stop the boy with her from being eaten by distracting it, throwing stones at it.“Distract him and get the boy off. I'll shoot the gun.” Max ordered, going off to hide while Kevin pulled out
Outside Middlestown, the rest of the world stood watching with bated breath, and that small, largely unknown town became a world sensation in a week for reasons it would not have desired.Awareness of Middlestown's plight started with a 34-second phone recorded video uploaded to Facebook, in which someone was running through some hallway in a house before turning the camera's focus to show three creatures with grey, peeling skin as they attacked a man who had fallen to the floor, his blood curdling screams making the video one of the most frightening things anyone had laid eyes upon.The video's caption was just as chilling as the video itself. It read:“SAVE US IN MIDDLESTOWN. WE ARE BEING ATTACKED BY STRANGE CREATURES. #SAVE MIDDLESTOWN. #PRAY FOR MIDDLESTOWN.”It instantly went viral, but failed to get the reaction that the poster hoped for, with most of the comments lauding how everything could be done with artificial intelligence in recent times, and others making jokes about it
It took the duo that was Kevin and Max a lot of effort to convince the girl to join them as sobs racked her body over the death of the boy they had found her with. She remained where Kevin let her fall, shedding tears on the ground while the two men looked on, the killer unmoved — convinced that he had done what was absolutely necessary to save themselves from a man with an infected leg and the rest of the world from an extra zombie, while the other man looked as though he would join the girl in crying for the boy.“Was he your boyfriend?” Max asked, not without being spared a deathly glare from the other man, however.She shook her head.“Did you guys fuck?”Again, she shook her head, too immersed in her misery to see Max raise his eyebrows and then roll his eyes at Kevin.“You should come with us.” Kevin told her. “We are just trying to save ourselves from the apocalypse, and don't want to leave you here alone with the zombies.”“You promised my friend to take care of him and kille
Laila.Laila William was disheartened to lose the young man she had spent six hours shielding from the zombies to a man who had just come on the scene from nowhere.Just when help and a promise to take care of the person with her came, she had been led off thinking that he would be saved and they would relive the memory, if they ever made it past the borders. Then she heard the gunshots that sent him to his end.Her knees went weak, and she fell to the ground without the will to do anything but cry and wallow in self-pity. It all came rushing into her head at that moment: how she ruined everything she got close to, including her entire family, and a boy she tried to keep safe. She could swear she was cursed and unfortunate.It would not be the first time she wished for death. She had already come close to suicide once, only lacking the willpower to actually kill herself. The man who shot her friend could as well do the job and finish what she could not even start. Only, he didn't seem
Laila.At the van, the sympathetic man whom she liked more was still with the girl, still holding her to himself while the boy looked up at them. “She's gone through too much already.” The newcomers heard him say. “To lose your full hearing and see a corpse so close to you in twenty four hours. Why did she leave the van?”“To save you.” The black boy answered. “She was brave enough to think she could have.”“She heard the gunshot?”“She can only hear things said and done loud enough.”“Oh yes, that is true.”Again, the sympathetic man who she liked more planted a kiss on the girl's hair, cradling her in his arms before raising his head to look at them. “I think camping in the bunker until we can get help is the best thing we can do for now. We should get in as quickly as possible and shut ourselves in while I go to get some food for us all when we start running out of supplies.”“What about me?” Laila heard the unsympathetic man ask.“I promised to take care of the children, or did I
Ronnie.Ronnie Chris awoke the next morning to Kevin saying that he had something to show himself and Laila. The two were soon ready, and as he looked at the blonde-haired, blue eyed older girl next to him, he thought he was in love. She was a beauty, her ivory skin magnificent, and a clear contrast to him. The only thing was she did not seem to be thinking of him as he was of her.Not far off sat Max, playing with Sandra in a game that involved counting her fingers. He tried to look away from the rest of them, bothered by the fact that her hearing was partially ruined and not wanting to think about how much of it was his fault. She was a lovely, lively girl, and knowing that she was impaired brought the heaviness to his heart. “For some reason, we have been singled out by a core, central figure in all of this called the Allfather. Do any of you know anything about him?” Kevin asked the duo before him. He could not forget when those letters appeared before him, introducing him to the
The soldiers standing at the border that separated Middlestown from her closest neighbour, Heavenlin, had until that moment done their work well enough and kept all who tried to leave Middlestown well within their limits. They had made camp at the border and were at their posts again that morning, doing their jobs with dedicated service when a single person was spotted running towards their ranks from three hundred yards away by the watchman, himself another single man sitting up on a high post with a pair of binoculars for his aid.He called for a shooter, and one soldier — the best shooter of his squad — fell into position behind a barrier set up for the purpose, and then shot, him being one of the best shooters of them all. Still, the person continued to run even closer, undaunted. He let off two more shots, firing them in quick succession. Still, this person did not stop his advance, as though the bullets had not even touched him at all.Two more people fell in step behind the ap