World of Anarchy/Chapter 20

This is Chapter 20 of World of Anarchy entitled: Reckoning

Chapter 20 – Reckoning
October 19, 2014 “What's going on?” Teresa asked walking up behind David.

“Sam fucking robbed us! Left us for dead!” Leo shouted angrily.

“Leo man, maybe you should calm down a bit.” Omid said to him.

“Calm down? What's there to be fucking calm about?! She took the meds and the food knowing that it could damn mean the death of anyone of us!” He yelled back as he went to grab the crowbar peeking out of his backpack and began walking off.

“Where are you going?” Riley asked.

“You see this?” Leo said pointing at the indentations in the dirt underfoot. “It's the bus' tire tracks. Follow them and they'll lead us right to her.”

“What exactly do you plan on doing?” Amber questioned.

“Whatever has to be done.” He said following the tracks.

David's mind was still reeling. Sam, another person they trusted had betrayed them again. But he pushed those thoughts aside. Right now, Leo was heading off to who knows where by himself. He knew that Leo had been becoming more and more reckless ever since Anna's death and was worried about what he would do.

“Dammit, Leo.” David said gabbing his backpack and pulling out his gun and hatchet before slinging the backpack over his shoulder.

He quickly turned and took off after Leo, but was halted by Omid's calling to him.

“Hey, David, what do you want us to do?”

“Stay there I guess.” He called back.

“What about food?” Amber shouted to him.

He had almost forgotten that they had nothing to eat. He looked around at the forest around them, half to see the rabbits and other forest animals they had seen when they first made camp to appear. But that would have been to easy. Nevertheless, they had seen the animals so he knew that they would find them.

“You said you hunt, right?” He called to Amber.

“Yeah.”

“Well...hunt.” He called to them before turning to chase after Leo.

Denton High School. August 25, 2007. “Hey, numb-nutts.” Jim said to him as David shut his locker. “SO...how's your first day been so far?”

“Eh, so far so good.” David said placing his biology text book into his satchel. “What about you?”

“Classes are okay. But this school year is kinda lacking in terms of hot girl action...Hold up, I stand corrected.” He said turning to face a group of about four girls that were about to pass them. “Ladies, ladies, ladies, lookin' fine today.” He said to them as they passed.

The girls glanced at him and rolled their eyes as they continued on. One girl, however, turned back and glanced at David once her and her friends reached the end of the hall.

“Oh yeah.” Jim said with a grin turning back to face David. “They want me.”

“Sure they do.” David said sarcastically. “What about you and Jackie though?”

“Pfftt, me and Jackie are done man.” He said as they began walking away from the lockers.

“Oh please, you guys will be back together in month at most.”

“I'm tellin' ya, it's over between us.”

“Whatever.” David said as they entered the Biology class room.

Present Day. “Leo!” David called out as he ran up behind him.

“What?” Leo said in gruff voice as he continued on, not slowing in his pace.

“What are we doing here, Leo?” David said keeping his eyes peeled for any infected.

“What do ya mean what are we doin' here? We're gonna go find Sam.”

They were walking down a sidewalk on the outskirts of a city. A wall was to the right of them that had been vandalized by graffiti. One spot on the wall stuck out the most to him, even momentarily distracting him from the current situation.

The graffiti on the wall depicted a skull that had a snake weaving in and out of the skull's eye sockets and mouth. On top of the skull's head rested crown, but not your average looking kind of crown. This crown was cracked with pieces falling off. The blood red words below the image bothered him the most though.

“How do you know even know we'll catch up to her?” David said shaking the image of the skull and words out of his head.

“Luckily for us, the crappy ol' bus was almost out of gas.” He said as they turned a corner to see the school bus sitting in the middle of the street.

Leo quickly ran over and entered the bus. David waited outside and kept watch, making sure no infected or bandits would stumble upon them. Leo reemerged a few seconds later with a few cans of food in hand.

“Looks like she left in a hurry.” He said tossing the cans to David.

“What now?” David asked as he put the cans in backpack.

“We keep lookin' fer her is what we do. Look.” Leo said pointing into an alley across from them.

As soon as he looked over he noticed that a few pills were lying on the ground, which David guessed she had dropped trying to carry everything on foot.

“Let's get this over with.” Leo said walking toward the alley.