Beside The Dying Fire/Issue 2

Beside The Dying Fire
This is Issue 2 of Beside The Dying Fire

Issue 2
"first thank goodness this is fenced, and second why not chop off the limb, remember if you cut off the source an infection can't spread"- Logan Myers

It's been roughly a week since this apocalypse started. Me and the rest of my group have benn hiding in a school hoping that help would come. We have had some new comers, My sister drove here when she heard the news, My brother drove back to check on us, and 2 brothers called Axel and Adam Durf. Those brothers gave us a name for those things Biters. The Biters have been quiet around these parts. We were able to raid a Walmart. We got supplies, weapons, food, and water.

"Ken you and Logan are going to make another run into the city because i don't think help is coming anytime soon and we need to be better prepared, the rest of you board up the windows and doors of the school, i'll try to get this damn radio working" Sohti told us. Karen gave me a kiss and told me to come back safe. I grabbed my bookbag and a garbage bag. My brother handed me a rifle and he got a shotgun and we set off. We sprinted across the road riddled with corpses, cars, and bullet shells. We reached a walmart and I opened the door and we entered."Remember get everything you can and look under the counters this time. At that moment a bullet flew and grazed my leg. I jumped behind a counter and brother ran to me. He looked over the counter and ducked quickly when a bullet flew over his head."Do you know this fucker" he said, "I wish i knew" i replied."This run is gonna be short just run through the aisles and grab whatever essentials you can quickly". I opened my bookbag and handed my brother a garbage bag. The stranger shooting at us said "nobody enters John's Mart and lives anymore". I screamed out "what did we do to you". He shot at us again. My Brother made a dash for the soda's and water section while ran to the canned food section. My brother screamed and yelled "Holy shit there's a load of Biters". Then the stranger said "I'm outta here, i might have owned here but i ain't dying here". I grabbed as many canned foods as i could and turned to run to my brother. A biter jumped on me and he was a fat one. I screamed for my brother. He ran to the aisle, shot the walker, helped me up, and we escaped.

When we reached the school it was surrounded by Biters and Sohti was on the roof sniping biters one by one. I told my brother we were screwed but he said that there had to be a way. Sohti saw us and grabbed a ladder we found in the school and lowered it down. Me and my brother started killing Biters till we had a good way to the ladder, when we saw their wasn't alot of biters around the ladder we ran to it. My brother went first then me, then I went up and a biter grabbed me. It had a good grip and kept pulling on me. I tugged on my brothers leg and he shot the biter and we went up quickly. Sohti told us this place wasnt safe anymore and to gather up the supplies. I ran downstairs and told everyone to get all the supplies quick. When everything was packed and we were about to leave we heard a scream. I ran quickly to the source to see Sohti with a bite on his arm and biters breaking in. I quickly helped Sohti up and we ran to the back of the school where the rest of group was. My brother had already left the door open and everyone was outside waiting for us. I locked the door behind us and said " Sohti's bit, their has to be a way to save him". My brother said "first thank goodness this is fenced, and second why not chop off the limb, remember if you cut off the source an infection can't spread". He took out a knife and told Sohti " this is going to hurt you but it will save you" My brother lifted the knife and cut down on Sohti's arm. He had to do 4 swings until Sohti's arm fell off. Sohti fainted and we entered a deserted car my brother hot wired a car and we left.