The Dead World/Issue 96

Chasing after Will through the woods, Riley sneakily kept to the bushes while also taking down any zombies that had stupidly decided that he would be their next meal, although he knew he had caught Will's attention and they both knew what they were planning to do.

However the two of them also knew that they couldn't try and kill each other just yet, first they had to get clear of the zombie herd which they were kind of working together on much to their dislike.

Finally managing to smash his way through the zombies, Riley made his way over to Will but in response, Will turned to raise his revolver at the mad man causing Riley to stop quickly but not surrendering.

"looks like your little plan failed" Riley taunted giving him a smirk but Will just scoffed as he quickly shot at an incoming zombie before pointing his revolver again to Riley as he spoke.

"failed?, I'm pretty sure we just took out over half of your camp" Will pointed out laughing lightly but this laughter soon stopped when Riley's trademark grin came to show and Will knew that meant one of two things, either something was going to go bad or Will had made a mistake.

"you think I wouldn't expect an attack on our camp?, it was all a fucking trap most of my group is in a different location, the ones you killed were nothing but pawns in my plan for revenge" Riley spat pointing his baseball bat forwards while the two began circling one another.

They both knew today was the day, it was time for them to fight it out, rival against rival after all this time of Riley chasing after Will's group. Both participants also knew they had been waiting for this a long time. They both knew they hated each other never mind what happened.

"yeh well trap or not, I'm going to finish you off" Will stated coldly before raising his revolver to Riley's head. However the only thing that happened was the sound of a click that signaled the weapon was out of bullets.

"looks like I'm still not worth a single bullet, hmmm?" Riley asked continuing to tease Will as Riley himself slung his baseball bat over his shoulders and watched as Will paced around the area angrily.

"so how you want to do this, fist fight?, stick fight?" Riley said laughing his head off while Will just glared at the man, wishing he actually had bullets in his revolver but unfortunately he didn't.

"why don't you just climb up a tree and fall to your death?" Will suggested coldly causing Riley to laugh even more, swinging his baseball bat around in a threatening manner while sharing Will's glare.

"damn, you've got colder since we last met but I suppose I did kill your girlfriend didn't I" Riley stated with his trademark grin while Will just gritted his teeth in frustration, he really got angry when Riley mentioned Natasha and the mad man himself knew it. However before Will could respond Riley spoke up again.

"although it looks like your going out with that other hot chick, poor poor Natasha, being all forgotten and pushed away as if she was nothing" Riley said in fake sadness, practically forcing the tone in his voice but it was worth it, he got the response he wanted.

Not even bothering to think about it, Will dived forwards tackling Riley to the ground and knocking the baseball bat aside before he repeatedly smashed his fist down, although he missed Riley's head because the man himself had moved it before kicking Will hard in the balls making him double over in pain.

"feel better now do ya?" Riley asked walking over to retrieve his baseball bat while Will just crawled around spitting out a little blood before falling to lay on the floor. Sometimes Will didn't know why he bothered....

"fuck you" Will said spitting towards him making the man himself chuckle as he waved his arms about like he was a king. However much to Will's shock Riley's body suddenly fell to the floor as someone came behind the man and wacked him round the head with a rifle.

Quickly going on alert, Will crawled up and went to reach for his revolver but it was soon kicked away before he himself was kicked over so he was again lying on his back and the last thing he saw before his vision went blank was the hard butt of a rifle swinging down onto his face....

Around about half an hour later, Will groaned as he slowly opened his eyes, completely dizzy as he looked around. He made out about four silhouettes not to far away from him, all four of them being men before he groaned, even more as pain went through his head.

Luckily his groans seemed to not have drawn their attention since they were in a heated discussion about something, probably the fact that they now had a prisoner but that didn't matter, he just used this as an opportunity to look around but just as he began to try and move he realized he was tied up to something.

"don't bother, the ropes are too tight" Will heard Riley mutter and groaned at the realization that the thing that Will was tied to was in fact his rival the mad man himself, Riley.

"so what do you suggest we do instead then?" Will snapped quietly but before Riley could answer they heard one of the men speak up and both rivals turned to watch as the four figures walked over to them giving them a chance to see what their new enemies looked like.

One of the men was obviously really over weight and the weakest out of the group. Another man was the total opposite and it was pretty clear he was the muscle of the group. The next man was an elder man who seemed to be the leader out of them and the final man looked to be a crazy guy with a weird eye.

"right this is going to be a very simple game of questions and answers, ok?....good" the older man stated but before he could continue speaking the fat guy spoke up shifting nervously on his feet.

"Eric, Red ordered us to stay away from their camp, you know what she does if we don't follow her orders" the fatter one said nervously even sweating which he tried not to show but Eric just turned and glared at him.

"god damn it John SHUT UP or i'll get Jake here to make you shut up" Eric shouted gesturing to the guy with the weird eye who was currently leaning against a tree while playing with one of his many knives on his person, with a grin so mad that it even put Riley's to shame.

Nodding John quickly went silent while Jake chuckled at the fat man's pathetic ness and Eric to smirk as he turned to look back at Will and Riley while said pair shared a look wondering who "Red" was and who these guys were. However again before he could speak up the muscle guy spoke up.

"hey boss he has a point, we don't want to upset Red and I mean if she wants to use these two to get into that camp then she'd do it herself and wouldn't want us to do it" the guy stated causing Eric to sigh as he mumbled to himself.

"see Brad agrees with me" John pointed out but he quickly went silent again as Eric looked up to glare at the fat man leading him to shuffle on his feet and move away silently while Jake just chuckled again.

"alright lets talk, elsewhere" Eric ordered his three friends and they all nodded beginning to move away from Riley and Will who was still tied up to a tree while Eric turned to smirk at the two as he gave them a bow.

"i'll be back soon" Eric told them before walking off after the others while laughing to himself leaving Riley and Will in silence for a few moments until Will finally broke said silence by speaking.

"we gotta get outta here" Will stated and Riley nodded looking around to see if there was any other group members they didn't know about although there didn't seem to be any so he grinned and turned to look at Will as much as he can.

"for once I'm in an agreement with ya" Riley stated in response laughing to himself while Will just ignored his remark and began making plans on how they could escape, he had to get back to his camp....back to Bella.