Chapter 5: Chapter 05: Fight

"Hide and don't let it see you!" I scream at my companions and run into the middle of the street, while they hide behind some cars.

The infected storms forward and even pushes a car out of its path to get to me.

I grab the gun and try to shoot it twice in the head. However, it simply puts its arm in front of its face and blocks the bullets with it.

My third bullet went into its foot, but it only managed to annoy it and it started to run even faster...

When it was about to run me over, I threw my backpack away and jumped to the side just in time to avoid the tackle.

Because of its speed, it couldn't stop immediately and had to run several feet further before stopping like a truck.

Using the situation to my advantage, I reloaded the gun and began shooting it.

But it turned around in time before I could hit something vital and put its arm again in front of its face, while walking towards me.

Its muscles are so thick that bullets simply stick in them.

How the hell should I deal with the thing... running and hiding from it is nearly impossible because it can run through freaking walls.

Then there is the problem that the kids can't keep up with our speed and I can't leave them behind.

Making up my mind, I let it come at me. My only option is to evade its attack and then shoot it in the head, which it tries so hard to protect.

Standing in front of me, it slams down its fist, but because its arm blocks its sight, it can't aim properly and I can simply evade the attack, by jumping to the side.

Looking at the knife in its chest, I drop the book, jump up after evading a backhand and pull it out.

In anger, it puts its hands together and slams them down towards me. However, I jump between its legs before the hit connects.

Immediately, I slammed the knife into its left upper calf. When the infected then tried to put weight on this foot, the knee gave in and it stumbled to the ground.

It roars and tries to turn around, but I have the gun already on its back head.

I press the trigger, but it ducks forward at the same time and the bullet only grazes its head.

At the same time, it kicks me like a horse with its healthy foot and sends me flying into a car further away.

My vision turns dark and I lose consciousness.

 

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Darkness... my back and head hurt.

"Jake, wake up! You can't die here!" I could hear Shana's voice.

Why is she not hiding?

"No! Don't come closer to him!" her voice again, followed by two gunshots.

I forced my eyes to open. I was lying on the ground and could feel blood coming from the top of my head.

Raising my head, I could see the infected standing directly in front of me and raising his left foot to stomp on me. But suddenly, it turns to the right and starts walking away while limping.

Since the infected moved, I could see the pregnant zombie... she was standing there while pointing in the direction the infected started walking toward. I blinked and she was gone.

Is this how this fucker is so intelligent? The pregnant zombie tells him what to do? Is she even real? So many questions, but no one is there to answer them.

Looking in the same direction the infected was heading, I could see Shana standing, while pointing the pistol at the infected.

Whenever the infected take a step forward, Shana does a step back.

She tries to lure it away from me...

I take a few deep breaths and stand up, then grab the yellow book that was lying nearby and walk toward the infected.

"Hey, you mush head, I wasn't finished with you yet." I taunted it while walking closer.

It turns around and growls at me, but I throw the book in its face in response.

This made it furious and it ran towards me, while trying to grab me with both hands. However, I ducked down, slid under its crotch again and pulled the knife out that was still in its calf.

This made the infected lose its footing again and crash to the ground.

I ran to Shana, who watched all this wide eyed, took the gun from her and said, "Thank you for saving me, but let me handle the rest."

The infected had already risen and roared at us.

She tried to grab me and pull me away, but I had already run forward.

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I had only four bullets left to bring this to an end.

Again we appeared in front of each other. I shot him in the face and he blocked it with its left arm and used the right to make an uppercut. To get me when I would try to slide between its feet again.

But I use its fist to jump on it and the infected catapults me into the air above him.

It looks up at me, then grins and holds its arms up as if it wants to catch me. But before it can, I shoot it in the face and it blocks it by crossing the arms above its head. Blinding himself again in the process.

In the next second, I stop my fall by slamming the knife into its chest. Then place the gun directly under its chin and pull the trigger twice before it even realizes what has happened.

The knife broke at its handle, because it couldn't support my weight anymore and I landed on the ground.

As I stepped back from it, its crossed arms, which were still above its head, became limp. Afterwards it started to sway slightly before falling head first to the ground.

It's over... I looked at the handle in my hand, which had an engraving that said 'Für Tommy', which means for Tommy.

After apologizing to Tommy for breaking his knife, I throw the handle away and stick the empty gun in the back of my pants.

Turning around I could see Shana already running to me with some alcohol and bandages in her hand. Maria also stepped with her children out of their hiding place and walked towards us, with a relieved look on her face.

"You idiot." said Shana when arriving in front of me and then wanted to treat my head wound.

But I smile and stop her. "Let's get off the street first and then you can give me treatment."

Although she wanted to complain, when she saw that I was serious, she nodded with a worried look and we all started walking, while I picked up the backpack that I had dropped before.

My head had already stopped bleeding, but my body was still in pain and wanted rest. Sadly we can't do that right now, because more infected could show up at any moment.

I wondered why no infected showed up to disturb the fight. It was like someone had made an arena for us to fight...

When we walked around the corner to the next block, we could suddenly hear some groans and other strange sounds behind us. Turning around we saw the street started filling up with infected who came out from all the corners.

I saw the pregnant zombie standing next to the dead infected that I killed and then she looked at me and grinned.

Shana saw the infected too and shivered while saying, "We need... we need to get away from here, now!"

Then with Maria together, she takes the children's hands and we start running.

 

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We moved through some back streets and alleys to avoid the infected, until finding an open apartment building, where we could finally take a break.

Currently, we are sitting in the stairway and the children sleep on Maria's lap.

I leaned against the wall, while Shana wiped away the blood to see the cuts and wounds I had received during the fight.

Luckily, I didn't break all my bones when I crashed into the car and only sustained bruises on my back and the cut on my head...

After she wiped away the blood on my face and head, she applied some alcohol to the cuts and wanted to continue.

But I stopped her and said, "I'm alright. You should get some rest now."

She hesitates a bit but then nods and puts everything away. Then leans on me and places her head on my chest while I hug her.

Maria watches us, then looks at me and says, "You are a pretty crazy person."

"Thanks... I guess?" I looked confused at her.

"No, I don't mean it badly, but how you deal with everything is pretty crazy. Nonetheless, thank you for risking your life for us."

"Don't worry about it and thank me later when we are safe." I say while smiling at her.

"Yes, I will do that." she smiles back and caresses her children's heads.

I think it was the first time I saw her smile...

In the apocalypse, you don't have many opportunities to smile and be happy...

I wanted to close my eyes for a bit, but then decided to check the radio to see, if there was anything new. So I take Shana's phone and listened to the emergency broadcast.

Finally, a new message started playing, but hearing it made me nearly drop the phone.

"Containment failed. The military will begin with the purge of the cities. Berlin 12 am..."

 

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