The Dead World/Issue 42

Sitting back against a tree, one lone zombie growled as it just remained still, not bothering to try and catch a rabbit as it went past. However just as thunder and rain began pouring down, it heard the sound of a vehicle coming its way and turning its head it saw a truck come down the road and at first the zombie wasn't going to go after it. But then it suddenly moved to the left straight into a tree....stopping it in its tracks. After seeing this, the zombie slowly got up spilling its guts over the grass but that didnt stop it as it began to move forward heading towards the crashed truck, quickly joined by around 3 more zombies. Looking over the crash with its grey cloudy eyes, the zombie quickly caught the sent of bleeding flesh and turning its head in the direction, it noticed a man laying sprawled along the front of the truck with a small cut on his head which was where the blood was coming from. Letting out a low growl which was followed by low growls from the rest of the zombies, it moved forward along with the rest....heading for their next meal as the crash sight was clouded in rain and thunder. Biting her lip, Natasha looked out the window to the rain and thunder, running her finger down the window following a rain drop on its little journey. The group had eaten dinner a short while ago and was now preparing to go to bed. Watching most of her group go into the barn, she sighed before she heard someone cough to get her attention and turned to see Charles standing behind her. "yeh yeh dont worry I get it.....i'll head out there now" Natasha said quietly and Charles nodded giving her a sad look but she understood, he may have let their group onto the farm but he wouldnt allow them to stay in his house while his his family slept. Getting up, Natasha mumbled a good night to Charles who responded with his own before she headed to the front door and went outside before she heard Charles close and lock the door behind her, leaving her to the cold, dark and wet outside. However instead of running to the barn like she should've done, Natasha just stood there arms wrapped around herself as she looked down the road, Will had disappeared on. She always did like the rain, watching it, standing in it maybe even dancing in it if she was drunk enough. Shaking herself out of it, Natasha walked over to the barn avoiding the slippery areas as she was lost in thought. Will would be back, she knew he would.....he was a survivor. Waking up slowly, Will quickly felt the pain on the side of his head and groaned as he reached up to feel the damage, his fingers touching the blood on his head but thankfully it didnt feel like a lot so Will began to move but soon stopped in his tracks when he heard some low growling and looked up to see 4 zombies coming towards the truck. "Oh shit!" Will exclaimed as he felt around the truck trying to find his crossbow and soon layed his hand on it before he brought it up to infront of him and slowly aimed aware of his vision still being very dizzy and fired to the closest zombie hitting it in the forehead resulting in it falling to the ground. However when he reached to take another arrow out of the front of his weapon he found the holster empty and slammed his fist down unaware of the glass there resulting on a few cuts on his hand and him crying out in pain drawing the remaining zombies to come quicker to his direction. "shit, shit, shit, shit" Will kept saying as he crawled backwards noticing there was no zombies behind him, being careful of his now wounded hand. Growling due to the glass currently cutting his skin through his clothes before he finally reached the end of the truck. Bringing up his foot, Will smashed it against the glass window repeatedly until finally the glass broke apart and Will continued crawling down barely managing to get through the window along with his crossbow before he got up using the truck as support to stand now aware that one of his legs was as bad as his hand. However what he wasnt aware of was the slope that the truck had crashed next to resulting in him ending up tumbling down the slope and crashing through bushes and other sharp plants before finally landing badly on his leg and arm at the bottom.... Looking up his vision even more blurrier than before, Will saw a figure standing in front of him and instantly panicked thinking it was a zombie but the figure crouched down as his vision began to get a little clearer and he saw it was his dead wife....another hallucination. Sitting at the top of the barn looking out to the farm, Bella sat with her legs hanging off the edge, watching Natasha as she walked slowly and sadly to the barn and Bella couldnt help but feel sorry for her. She knew Will and Natasha was close and at the current time things were not looking good for Will. "he shouldnt have gone out" Bella stated turning to Lewis who leaned against the wall near her looking down to his hands before he looked up at her nodding but letting her continue. "its dark, stormy and he's surrounded by trees......how the hell is he meant to see where he's going?" Bella asked and Lewis shrugged silently causing her to sigh and look at him agrily "will you say something?" Bella asked trying not to shout. "what do you want me to say?" Lewis asked softly and Bella shrugged looking down a little sadly. "I dont know...."Bella trailed off so Lewis held out his arms for Bella to come over so she did slowly being carefull of his leg as she leaned into his embrace. "i'll look for him in the morning but for tonight...theres nothing I can do" Lewis whispered and she nodded closing her eyes as she layed softly in his arms while he stared outside wishing Will luck for whereether he was. Sitting beside the unconsious Jake, Jennifer looked down at him biting her lip as if to try and stop herself from crying. She tried to sleep like her father told her to but she just couldnt....she couldnt stop thinking about how she had abandoned Jake to be eaten. "I'm sorry....i'm so sorry" Jennifer said shaking her head in sadness "i'm such a coward and I left you and now your probably gonna die and its all MY fault..." Jennifer said but stopped when she heard a low groaning and looked towards Jake in happiness. "DAD!! he's awake" Jennifer called out but she soon found out she shouldnt have done it.... Jake shot up from the bed and grabbed at her neck with his hands before trying to pull her down so he could sink his teeth in causing her to scream out and try and pry his hand away from her throat while continuing to scream out for help. Soon enough her father Charles rushed in and quickly took the scene in before moving forward and picking up a crutch before swinging it onto his arm repeatedly until the reanimated Jake finally let go of Jennifer who rushed into Lily's arms as she came into the room. Meanwhile Charles pushed the crutch into Jake's chest making him lay back onto the bed before he raised it again and smashed it down onto Jake's head repeatedly until it was a complete mess as his two daughters watched in shock and sadness, the sound of crying filling the room. What none of them realised was, the youngest daughter Maria stood behind Lily in horror as she watched her father repeatedly bash the what was Jake's head in and it wasnt until Charles finished and looked over to Lily and Jennifer that he saw her. "Maria....." Charles tried to form words but trailed off in shock as he realised what she had just witnissed but before any of them could tell her what was going on she ran off to her room and Lily put a hand on her father's shoulder to stop him from going after her.