A Long Road to Fortune/Issue 6

This is the sixth and final issue in Volume 1 of A Long Road to Fortune.

Issue 6
"Paco, go get help! Now!" Jose's words sent Paco off sprinting right into Mendoza's room. Jose knew the gate was about to go down so he grabbed a shovel and prepared for the worst. Seconds later, the gte broke down, letting in at least a dozen groseros. Jose moved away as far as he could. Right now, he was a certified meal for the groseros and he knew it. The first grosero to approach Jose got a direct shovel hit to the face. Jose proceeded to crck the grosero's skull open with his shovel and kill it. Jose kept rinsing and repeating until 3 groseros approached him at the same time, closely followed by more groseros. Jose backed into a corner of the marketplace and stood there ready to go out fighting.

"Get a load this you undead cabrones!" yelled none other than Sergeant Mendoza. He and his squad of 5 other men had their weapons ready. Jaime had a pickaxe handy, Aguila had an axe, Juarez held metal pipe, Manuel was armed with a knife, Pepe's hand had another axe, and Mendoza had a tight grasp on a bloody butcher knife. A good amount of the groseros focused their attention on Mendoza and his men instead. Only a few continue to make their way toward Jose. Jose did not lose hope as one would expect and knocked the groseros in his path down to the ground with mighty swings of his shovel. Jose dove his shovel into their skulls once more, with a few getting up from his mighty swing. Jose easily knocked them back down again and soon met their demise thanks to the shovel."Yeah! Ok, we got this!" yelled Jose, in excitement. "Who's the man?" boasted Jose. Mendoza and his men were also succesful in dispatching the groseros thanks to their formation. However, elsewhere in the marketplace, things were going to take a turn for the worst.

"Groseros everyone! Groseros got into the marketplace over by the window!" yelled Paco. The people of the marketplace were now terrified. One family in particular panicked the most. The Suares, who were the largest, consisting of Pedro and Lila, the parents and their children, Ramiro and Maria. They hid in one of the storage rooms.

"Would you shut up kid? You're going to bring more over here!" replied Daniel, with an angry tone of voice.

Ashton and his friends had heard the commotion. "What the hell is going?" said Mr. Chet.

"Paco groseros got into the marketplace!" said Paco. "Paco, son, stop yelling so loudly!" replied his mother, Leslie. "Damn it boy, shut up!" replied his father, Jacobo.

"You heard that, the gate went down. We have to go help Jose!" said Mr. Chet. "Got it." replied Valdez and Ashton. "I want to fight too" said Liza. "Uh, here. Take this." Ashton handed Liza his machete. "What are we waiting for? Let's go!" said Valdez. Ashton pulled his combat knife out and began to follow his friends when. "That gate is down!" screamed a woman, in obvious horror. The main gate Ashton had entered the marketplace from earlier tht day had been broken down. The groseros started pouring in. "Shoot. Guys, go, I'll help Daniel take care of things over here!" yeled Ashton. Liza, Valdez, and Mr. Chet nodded in response.

"I don't care how bad a person you are Ashton, but I hope you risking your ass like this changes that." said Daniel. "I'm counting on it." replied Ashton.

Daniel had a big hammer with him and Ashton only had his knife. There were a dozen groseros ready to terrorize the marketplace. Ashton and Daniel started to kill them while the rest of the survivors witnessing either grabbed a weapon of their own or hid. "Not today!" said Ashton as he dug his knife inside a grosero's eye socket, killing her instantly. Daniel was also bashing away with his hammer. Despite their efforts, more groseros found their way in, too many for Ashton an Daniel to handle on their own. The groseros were now spread out in the room. A few unfortunte survivors found themselves victims of the cruel carnage. Mrs. Alicia Galeana, a mother of 2, was eaten before the eyes very of her children and their cousin. The siblings were twins Manny and Sofia, both 15 years old and their cousin Mario, who was somewhere in his mid 20s. Manny and Sofia each grabbed metal pipes laying on the floor and joined in on the fight. Mario did the same. "Leslie, mi amor, I can't stand here and watch, I have to protect everyone!" said Jacobo to his family who had now hidden behind a counter. Numerous survivors had been bitten or killed at this point. This part of the marketplace had been hit harder than the part compromised earlier.

Amidst the chaos, a child was separate from his single mother. "Max, be careful!" A woman was alerting her far away son to come join her. Her name was Sandra Gomez. Max was about to provide a nice snack to a nearby grosero. Sandra began to cry. The death of her son was inevitable. "No!" Ashton was alerted by the sound of Sandra's crying and rushed to scene. He snuck up on Max's walker and killed him. "Come on!" Ashton reached his hand out the boy and picked him up. He began to run over to Sandra but a grosero grabbed a hold of him. Max was dropped but managed to get to his mother. Ashton was now struggling to get the grosero off of him. As the groseros' teeth got closer and closer to Ashton's neck, it looked to be the end. "Oh hell no!" The grosero was kicked off of Ashton by none other than Mr. Chet, who proceeded to kill the ugly bastard with his bloody icepick.

"Thanks, that was a close one" said Ashton, gasping for air. "Don't mention it."

"I need some help over here!" Jacobo was calling out for help. He had the attention of four groseros. Jaime had miraculously shown up in time to lend Jacobo a helping hand. Together, they murdered the groseros around them. "They're thinning out everyone! Keep going!" said Daniel. After about an hour, the groseros stopped coming in.

"It was the herd from earlier today. They were back." said Mr. Chet, in a solemn voice. Mr. Chet approached Mendoza. "Now do you see? This is what I meant. We lost 16 people because of your choice!" Mendoza did not dare respond, ass he knew Mr. Chet was right. "I'm sorry, Joaquin..." He instead apologized, with a few tears running down his face.

"Valdez, Liza!" Ashton was calling out to his friends. "Over here!" replied Liza.

"Are you guys alright?" asked Ashton.

"Yeah. We were worried about you man!" replied Valdez.

"Did anyone-?" asked Liza "16" interrupted Ashton. "I saw in with my own eyes."

Liza had covered her face in sadness and began to silently weep. Ashton hugged her as did Valdez. Ashton's first day after waking up felt like the biggest nightmare of his life.

Credits
Ashton

Jose Quintero

Paco Barrera

Sgt. Mendoza

Jaime

Aguila

Juarez

Manuel

Pepe

Mr. Chet

Liza

Valdez

Daniel

Leslie Barrera

Jacobo Barrera

The Suares' (Pedro, Lila, Ramiro, Maria)

The Galeanas (Alicia, Manny, Sofia, Mario)

The Gomes' (Sandra, Max)

Deaths
Alicia Galeana

15 other unnamed marketplace survivors

Trivia

 * First appearance of Aguila, Juarez, Manuel, Pepe, The Suares', The Galeanas, and the Gomes'.