World of Anarchy/Chapter 5

This is chapter 5 of World of Anarchy entitled: Friends Or Foes?

Chapter 5 - Friends Or Foes?
The truck was silent as they drove away from Dallas. Teresa had fallen cried herself to sleep after witnessing what had happend to Dallas. David had wanted to say something--anything to make her feel better, but he knew there was nothing that would.

David watched the trees, cars, and families they passed on the road. He knew that those people had been losing loved ones just the same as them.

"What a fucked up night." He thought,"First Jenna's death, then us leaving Jim and Jackie behined, me killing Chris' mom, and then Teresa watching the city her parents lived in burn to the ground. How worse could it get?"

David knew however, that it would get much, much, worse for them. He looked over at Teresa and Chris, who were asleep and made a promise to himself. He would protect them and make sure that they survived this--no matter the cost.

None of them had spoken since they had left the outskirts of Dallas. Leo had just got back in the truck and drove.

"Where are we going?" Anna asked breaking the silence.

"Just--the closest town. We might be able to find help, or hell even some gas. We're runnin' on fumes."

It was still dark out, but that was going to end soon. The sun was about to rise. David began to realise just how tired he was. He had only gotten a few hours of sleep earlier before the nightmare had woken him.

"Well...now is as good a time as any." He thought as he closed his eyes and leaned his head back.

"You're going to stay here with me until we can find someone to take you in--if that's okay with you." Jayden said opening the door to his apartment.

Jayden walked in and immeaditly walked to the kitchen. David entered after him and to a look around his new home.

The furniture looked new and barely lived in. The appartment had an amazing view of the Dallas skyline. The sight almost made him forget about what happend. Almost.

"We can order pizza later if you're hungry since I've zero eddible food here and--"Jayden looked up at David,"You can sit down you know."

David closed the front door and sat down on the couch. His eyes wandered around the room until they stopped on a photo on the coffe table. Jayden, a woman, and a little girl were all smiling in the picture.

Jayden sat down beside him and noticed him looking at the picture.

"That's my wife Natalie and my daughter Emily. She's two now."

"Where are they?"

"We live up in Washington D.C., you know where the white house is. My job requires me to travel all over the country, so I don't get to see them a whole lot. It's hard being away from them for so long, but I do it to stop the bad guys from hurting people. People like you and them."

David looked away because tears began to form in his eyes. The pain in his heart began to worsen.

"You said...that we could eat pizza?"

"Yeah, yeah--I'll, uh, go order it now. Pizza hut sound good?"

David nodded.

"Alright. Feel free to watch cartoons till it gets here."

Jayden left David sitting there with his thoughts to keep him company.

"I-I should have done something...then...then they'd still be alive." David thought as tears trickled out of his eyes.

"Well...that doesn't look good." Leo said.

David opend his eyes to find that the sun had risen. He turned his head to see Teresa and Chris still asleep. He then turned to the front of them. They were approaching a townthat looked as if a tornado had just blown through. Trash litered the streets. Buildings looked looted and ruined. Cars were abandoned and some were destoryed. What stuck out most to him was that there were no people outside. Alive or dead.

The truck began to slow and came to a halt just as they entered town. They had run out of gas.

"Whelp, I guess this is our stop," Leo said getting out,"We're gonna have to walk from here."

David gently shook Teresa awake.

"Time to wake up. We're going to go look for help."

She nodded and woke Chris as David jumped out of the truck.

As soon as he steped out he noticed a small pool of blood on the sidewalk, but no body. "Something's not right here...where are the people?" He thought.

Leo walked over to them and then looked ahead.

"Okay here's the plan: We search those cars down the street for any gas. If anything goes wrong, say a zombie appear, I want you all to high-tail it back to the truck. You guys ready?"

They nodded and began their trek down the street. David took up the rear while Leo took the lead.

When they reached the cars, Leo quickly cheacked their gas tanks while everyone else kept watch. The quietness of the town kept bugging David.

"We should have seen someone by now." He thought to himself.

"Damn." Leo said getting up,"Their tanks are empty. Someone's already siphoned them.

"What do you mean someone's already siphoned it? It lookes like we're the only people in this town." Anna said.

"The military could have taken it," Teresa suggested,"I mean, that makes sense right?"

David took another quick look around.

"Doesn't look like the military made it here. If they had, there would be bullet holes and stuff."

"Well someone took it." Leo said looking around.

"Someone's up there mommy." Penny said pointing to the roof of a nearby hardware store.

They all looked up to see a girl in her teens jump off the building. She landed face first with a loud crack into a car on the street below. The cars alarm began to go off causing the errie silence to become very loud.

Movement to David's left caught his attention. Undead had begun to appear on the streets, crawling out from underneath cars and out broken building windows.

"Oh fuck." He cursed under his breath.

"Everybody back to the truck now!" Leo yelled.

They started back to the truck, but were cut off by another group of infected. They were surrounded. They all huddled together as David scanned the area for any way out.

"Hey!Over here" A voice yelled.

They looked down at the ground to see someone peering out from in the sewer.

"You guy's just gonna stand there like idiots or come on?"

Leo rushed over and pulled the lid up, motioning for the rest of them to follow. Anna, Penny, Chris, Teresa, Leo, and David entered in that order. They quickly climbed down the latter until they reached the dark, dank, warm floor of the sewer. David turned to their rescuer and saw someone else standing beside him.

"Who are you guys?"

"My name's Oliver, and my black friend here is Keith," The one who rescued them answered,"Now that that's out of the way, you mind tellin' us why you folks brought the dead out of their holes?The town was quiet before."

"We didn't do that, some girl jumped of off a building and landed on a car." Leo responded angrily.

"Whoa, whoa, calm your tits old man, I didn't know that. I just heard the commotion and saw you all standin' there."

"Why are you two down here?" Teresa asked.

"We were on a supply run for our group. It's safer down here you know, without the dead trying to chomp ya." Keith answered.

"You have a group?Where?" Anna asked.

"We're staying at the town hall. We could take you back with us if you want."

"Hey man, the bitch isn't gonna like that." Oliver said.

"Samantha can deal with it," Keith said as he walked down the path to the right,"It's this way."

Chris and Penny were happily talking, while Leo, Anna, and Keith talked. Oliver had taken the lead, leaving David and Teresa in the back.

"Look at them. They're both so happy." Teresa said smiling as she watched Chris and Penny play.

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The rest to be added tommarow because it's late and I'm tired.=========