"Enlighten me." JC said scanning their surroundings for any sign of zombie activity.
"Come on dude, it's Valentine's Day." He said. JC just glared at him. Owen looked down realizing what he had said. "Oh, I'm sorry..."
"We have no time to even think about that, we have to find Adelaide."
Jiko stopped suddenly. "Yo...yo...over there." He pointed. Three zombies were walking the streets aimlessly down the street. "You guys want to do it?"
"I only have my gun." Owen said. Jiko tossed him an extra machete he hid tucked away in the back of his pants. "You can use this one. I have one already." All three guys smiled and crept away behind a bush.
"Dibs on that fat one." Jiko said. "It'll probably ooze out a lot when I cut his head off."
"Dude, I think that's a chick." JC responded.
"You're right...the shit that happens to you when you become a zombie, I swear."
On the count of three the guys jumped out of the bush and dashed for the zombies. The fat one turned around only in time to see a machete chop its head off.
The other two were quickly mowed down as Jiko noticed a head dart down in the bushes.
"Someone's over there!" They all ran. David stumbled out of the bushes and tried to make a bee line for the main street but the guys blocked him from all directions.
"What are you doing in the bushes?" JC asked, pointing his machete at David's throat.
"I wasn't doing nothing, I swear." David said quivering.
"Did you see a little girl out here?" Owen asked. David shook his head furiously.
"Take us to your hiding spot." JC ordered.
"Why should I?"
"Or this machete," Jiko said placing his machete on David's ass, "will rip you a new one."
"Fine, fine I'll take you there...but I swear I don't know what you're talking about."
***
"Do you hear a banging at the back door?" Mel asked.
"A faint one...do you think the guys are back?" Sarah asked.
"I'll go check." Mel got up and went to the back door to see if the guys were trying to get back in. She cracked the door slightly and a grisly hand shot through trying to grab her. Frightened she slammed the door shut cutting off the fingers that twitched a few more seconds on the ground before finally they ceased.
"What was that!" Sarah ran to check on Mel.
"There are zombies outside! And from the little I saw, there are a lot of them!" Mel said. The two of them ran back to the other women and warned them to arm themselves. Suddenly they heard crashing from the front store. They all ran and realized the front windows had been smashed and through their barricades they could hear the moans of several zombies.
Sarah ran up with her gun.
"No guns." LeAndria said pushing Sarah's gun down gently. "It's the middle of the night...one fire and we'll have the entire city coming after us."
"How many machetes do we have?" Christa asked. Devin ran to the back room and panicked as she picked up the meager supply.
"We only have two machetes." She said tossing one to Christa and one to LeAndria.
"Everyone else grab what you can...that barricade won't hold much longer." Christa said. The other women scrambled to find what they can. Nina and Caroline broke a metal coat rack to use as a piercing object. Jenny grabbed a metal chair and Mel shared her throwing knife with Devin.
"I can't use this...I don't know how." Devin replied.
"Well you better learn fast...because here they come!" The zombies broke through the barricade and the women braced themselves for the worst.
***
"It took you long enough!" Elizabeth yelled down the elevator shaft as the elevator made its way up. She stood in front of the doors as they opened ready to give David a piece of her mind. He was stark white in the face and even in the darkness Elizabeth could tell something was wrong. The minute he walked out, the other three guys walked out, Jiko holding a machete to the back of his head.
"What is going on!" Elizabeth said in shock. Ashleigh and Vankelia ran out from the other room, groggy eyed obviously from slumber.
"Where is she!" JC asked.
"Who? Where is who?" Elizabeth asked back.
"Don't play dumb with me." JC responded. Elizabeth bit her lip as her temperature began to rise.
"Dumb?" She stuttered out of anger. "You're calling me dumb?" In a rage she went over and slapped him in the face. JC reacted and hit her across her face with the butt of his machete knocking her to the ground.
"I'm sorry, I've never hit a girl...but don't try to do anything funny." JC said. Ashleigh and Vankelia helped her up.
"What girl!" Elizabeth said now yelling.
"The little girl! I know you took her." JC said. He motioned for Jiko and Owen to raid their small office space. Vankelia and Ashleigh followed them.
"I might hate you guys, but I would never harm a little girl." Elizabeth said.
"Why do you hate us?"
"I hate you, most of all."
"Why me?" JC asked.
"I don't owe you an explanation. Maybe one day you'll get to find out...if both of us are still alive at that point."
Jiko and Owen ran back to the elevator lobby with the other girls.
"No little girl." Jiko said. JC and Elizabeth glared at each other.
"Fine. We'll leave. I trust you that you wouldn't hurt a little girl...if you DO happen to see her...somehow let us know." JC said as the three guys entered the elevators. The doors began to close but Elizabeth stuck her hand in causing them to open again. She said nothing for a minute but then said, "Okay...I will." The doors closed and the three guys went downstairs. Elizabeth slapped David in the back of head. "You're so dumb for getting caught."
"I can be called dumb and you can't?"
"Yes." Elizabeth said and walked back to their sleeping quarters.
***
"Go!" LeAndria said as the girls dashed forward and began attacking the oncoming zombie horde. A female zombie tried to swipe at Sarah but she stabbed her through the eye with a screwdriver, giving Lauren H. enough time to drive a crowbar through her head.
Mel took a few out with her throwing knives and as she was pulling one out of a zombie's head Devin yelled, "Duck!" Devin tossed a throwing knife a zombie but hit it with the side of the knife rather than any portion that would have caused damage. "Fuck!" Devin ran to find a more suitable weapon.
Christa and LeAndria slashed a few zombies and realized that more were coming through.
"We can't hold them back forever!" LeAndria said. Lauren N. was straddling a zombie and stabbing it in the face with a wooden clothes hanger.
Devin was rummaging through the back room trying to find another weapon. She felt a tap on her shoulder, a drip of ooze landed on her back. She knew it wasn't good when she heard moaning. She turned around and saw a tall male zombie stand above her. The zombie grabbed her by the face and clawed her eyes out as she screamed a blood chortling yell. Nina heard the scream and ran towards the back. She saw Devin's body on the ground being eaten by three zombies and another dozen or so were pushing their way through the back door.
"You guys! They're coming in from the back!!!" Sarah and Christa ran back to see what was going on and they began to kill as many as they could.
Jenny was pressed against a corner while two zombies approached her.
"Stay back!" She said using the metal chair to keep them at bay. One of the zombies slashed at the chair, sending it flying.
"Someone please protect Adelaide." Jenny said as her last words as a zombie lunged for her and bit a huge chuck off of her neck -- her screaming becoming nothing more than a gurgling noise.
Mel stabbed the two zombies eating on Jenny's body from behind and wiped the knives clean on her jeans as she ran back to attack another few zombies. Lauren H. had bashed another one straight across the face with her crow bar, pulling a chunk off of its decrepit face.
"Oh God, ew....oh God." She stammered.
"How are we going to survive this!" Caroline said to Mel.
Mel gave her a look. "How have we survived the last week? We fight." Caroline agreed and speared a zombie through the face with her jagged broken coat rack.
"You're right...I will fight."
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