Dead Weight/Issue 18

This is issue 18 of Dead  Weight, Titled: His little Angel

Abreham looked into the mans eyes,

Suddenly a baby starts crying, footsteps could be heard and shushing sounds where made.

"You got children, Alright, I heard that. A baby is in there, you come with us you have a better chance of being safer. We have a baby too, well, an unborn child lives here. Alone with a 18 year old. Young people..." Abreham says.

"Can we discuss the fact you have a psyco in your camp" The man says, pointing to  Flake with the end of his gun.

"Says the.....Says the guy with the 1970's hair cut" Flake groans, holdiong his face in pain.

"The gun is empty" Scarlette says, walking out from the bushes. Holding a dagger at hand.

"You can easily see it is a fake shotgun, like a BB gun, I can see the made in china tag just under the barrel and the barrel is too thin to hold a shot gun bullet anyways."

The man sighs, dropping the gun and walking back over to the RV door. "Please...Come with us. We need as much help as we can"

"I'm Leo, Thats my daughter Lacey and my son, Levi" He says, sitting in the drivers seat.

Abreham throws his bag onto the seat before helping Mel get onto the RV.

"Where is the mother?" Mel asks, biting her nail as she sits down.

Leo takes a big sigh before starting up the engine.

"She, She is dead."

-

"I think this place is safe..." Naomi (Mother) said, Stepping inside the small cottage. Holding a small bundle in her hands. A woman, Leo and Levi. A growl is heard before a figure jumps out from the darkness. Grabbing onto Naomi and biting her neck. Causing her to drop the fragile baby onto the blooded sheet bellow her legs. She screams as it rips into her. Leo pulls it off, causing flesh to rip. Naomi falls to the ground as Kerri (the woman) rocks the small baby wrapped in the blanket. Crawling away from the still alive undead. As it crawls up to its feet. Leo tries to stop the bleeding from his to-be wife as the undead slugs closer and closer. Kerri trips it and it falls. Its leg getting trapped and it thrashes around.

Kerri removes her shoe, placing the baby down and beating the undead several times on its head with her shoe. It soon stops moving and lies still.Kerri wipes sweat from her head. As she crawls back to the baby.

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Leo throws a pack of ice to Flake, he catches it and holds it against his throbbing mouth.

"Kerri was the next one to go," He says as he drives down the road. The little boy looks out the window, sitting in the back of the RV, watching the undead roam the streets.

",She was so innocent, She helped deliver our baby. The way she went. Wasn't how she was suppost to go. She was suppost to go in peace...Not....Not like that"

Leo clutches the steering wheel as he remembers.

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Kerri hangs from the roof, clinging onto the bars crossing over the roof to support it. Leo looks as she hangs there, clutching on for dear life. As under her was a horde of undead. Reaching up for her ankles. "GRAB MY HAND!" Leo shouts, before she could she falls into the undead bellow. Being pulled apart almost instantly.

-

He pushes down on the gas, speeding up a bit as the little boy in the back cradles his little sister. "Didn't ask for your whole life story" Flake mutters, adjusting himself so he is comfterable. Lying down on the couch.

"Who is the father?" Leo asks, looking at Mel.

"Wha- Oh. Nobody you know" Mel sighs, looking down at the bump of her baby.

"Nobody here then, aye?"

Mel frowns, lying down on the fold out bed and covering herself. Closing her eyes, a tear falls from her eyes as she falls asleep.

"What happened to everyone in your group then? Did they sod off? Steal...Die?"

"Carlos, the father of Mel's child, sacraficed himself, I guess. There was no time to save him. A camp before us killed two of our own, leaving another, Sally, over there, slightly injured..."

"SLIGHTLY!" Robbie spat, "Shot her with a rifle around five times in the foot! Lucky she never bled out!" Robbie says angrily, sitting beside Sally.

"Its fine, it, funny it didn't..ouch!" Sally moans, adjusting herself on the seat.

"Killed two of your men? Ouch, Well. Depends how he did it? Cold Blood I'm guessing?" Leo asks, going through the populated city centre. "Gotta speed up to get out of the city centre fast, Hold on!" He pushes down on the gas, going fast as the runners look up, starting to chase after the RV. "Watch for the screamers"

"Screamers?!" Sally gasps, looking out the window of a woman standing up, opening her mouth and letting out a glass shattering squeal. Levi covers his ears, holding his sister tight to his body.

"What the hell-" Mel says, looking up.

"That is what it was" Flake says "What caused them all to come running out, It was that!"

"I think I might circle back to the highway!" Leo says, taking a sharp right turn, runners had come off the trail now and where feasting on the dead bodies littering the streets.

"Just, lets just hide out in a house until that screaming stops!" Leo says, the screams where a slight echo through the streets, causing the undead to get up and roam.

Leo stops the van, looking around "All clear, we move quickly" He gets up, walking to the back of the RV and quickly grabbing his daughter, Lacey, Before opening the RV door. Running upto the house and picking the lock, holding Lacey in one arm.

The door opens, Abreham goes in first, looking through the area.

"Oh no" Abreham sighs, picking up a shattered piece of glass, fresh-ish blood dripped off the end.

"Keep the kids and girls outside, Flake, we need to check upstairs, down stairs and every nook and cranny, someone has been here, died, or is still alive"

Flake begins the walk upstairs, as a creak is heard. He pulls out his sword, Putting his hand on the doorknob and pushing it open. He hears heavy breathing as he enters the room. He notices dark blonde hair, a woman, around her mid 30's. Holding a gun up. Watching Flake as he slowly walks into the room.

"For fu-ks sake put your gun down, Zoe" The boy says, getting up from the edge of the bed.

Flake holds out his sword, pointing it towards Zoe, "Drop the gun, sweetcheeks" He growls. She stands back, the boy grabbing the gun from her hands.

Abreham runs into the room, Flake slides his sword into its holder. Walking out the room, exhaling through his mouth.

"Who are you" The boy asks.

"Just people trying to get by, like you folks...You're not...Cannibles or anything. Are you?"

Abreham asks,

"Ha! No. We wish"

Abreham digs in his bag, pulling out 3 long sausages.

"Cooked this mornin' Eat it, if its poisioned, you'll be dead. If its not. You'll live and beable to come with us and our amazing sausages" Abreham grins.

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The little boy stared at the baby lying in his arms. The bright blue eyes and the tuffs of Blonde hair. He starts muttering to himself.

"You remember mummy, she said to protect you, protect you will all my heart, I will, I will do that. Daddy wont. He is too busy, I'm already and always will be hear for you. I love you Lacey. You're my little sister. Nothing will change that"

Goofs

 * Even though in the last issue Flake bursts a tire, the RV is still drivable