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to Tonto as they moved through the woods. Tonto breakd quietly, “Yeah yeah I know, you and me and three little cupcakes against a platoon of deadheads, if it wasn’t for you being here boy I’d be a bit worried.” Tonto breakd once more as they continued on.Ceara quietly made her way back to camp hoping that she wasn’t bringing attention from the deaders. Maximus was right by her till a loud noise scared both of them. Ceara screamed and Maximus breakd. “OK fuck stealth, RUN!” She burst through the trees “CHARLIE what the hell was that?”Alden watched in front as Tabitha broke through the trees startling Charley. “CHARLEY .. THIS IS CUPCAKE THREE. POP THAT GREEN LONG BOX BY MY TRUCK WE GOT COMPANY.” Tonto stopped a few yards into the lot and spun around crouching down, snarling and watching the tree line. Alden made for the old foot locker as Charley stood dumbfounded. Reaching in he began to pull out an array of rifles laying them quickly on the ground. He stood and turned and saw the German Sheppard running in from the woods followed closely by his master. Ceara joined the new girl as Charley looked first to the woods then back to Alden.Alden laid 3 shotguns and another 45 desert eagle on the ground then pulled out an army ammo box, and opened it. The speed to which he loaded the shot guns amazed the three young people. Turning around he saw that the two girls were standing side by side with Charley off to the left. The one girls dog had joined Tonto at the edge and both were growling lowly. “Alright everyone listen up.I was hoping to have time to teach you all how to do this but that ain’t gonna happen. You’re all getting a crash course of tactics and defense.” Handing each one a shot gun he went on, “ Rule one I’m in charge. you do as I say no questions and no fucking independent ideas.”Ceara looked to the new girl as she pumped the shotgun and looked down the site, Ceara looked at her own shotgun and did the same thing the girl did and then to not look like she didn’t know what she was doing she raised it up to look down the barrel too. She wasn’t sure why she was looking down the barrel but the girl did it so it must be right. Charlie was holding a gun and looking nervous. Ceara lowered the shotgun, “Maximus come here!” Maximus stood by the man’s dog and didn’t do more than look back in Ceara’s direction. “Damn dog!” The girl looked mean so Ceara slid over by Charlie, “Sorry, I just feel better by you.”Charlie looked to Ceara then to the new girl and then to his own shot gun, “I’m not sure about this” he said as he worked the action of the rifle. Charlie looked at the dark haired girl. To him, she was fierce looking with her leather jacket and pants, her eyes were soft but cold, but her general demeanor was one who was not to be messed with. Charlie turned and smiled weakly at the new girl, “Hi I’m cupcake number one, names Charlie. This here is cupcake number two her name is Ceara.” Ceara started to say something but the old man didn’t let her.Alden stepped up to the group his face was stern and his eyes were cold. “ I don’t have time to evaluate what you may or may not know about these deadheads, or how well you can shoot, or what you may know about weapons so here is the crash course. You all have chosen shotguns, good pick close range and easy to hit your target which by the way is the head. If you hit the bastards in the stomach or the shoulder they’ll just keep coming. If you hit them in the leg and blow their fucking knees out, they’ll keep coming crawling yes but still coming. The only way to kill them is with a head shot. I am not interested in whether it’s against your religion to kill, the religion that concerns me right here and now is mine and my 1st commandment is, I SHALL NOT DIE OR BE BIT.” His voiced bellowed to get his point across. “ IF YOU GET BIT I WILL SHOOT YOU IN THE HEAD, Nothing personal it’s just the way things are. Now are we all on the same fucking page.” Not waiting for an answer he went on “GOOD!” 2ND commandment is if I get bit you will SHOOT ME IN THE FUCKING HEAD GOT IT?” Taking his knife out he draws a semicircle in the dirt, drawing a large box at the top, “This is the Latrine, the potty house for those who have never been off the block.” To the left he drew a smaller box, “This here is my truck, we will form a semi-circle field of fire the two on the ends, Charlie you and cupcake three will be here and here,” as he put an x in the dirt signifying their positions.Ceara raised her hand “ummmm Sir..” Alden glared at her, “I said this was not open for debate shut up and listen up number two.” She put a hand on her hip, “Fine, be all in control I don’t give a shit but I thought you might want to know there were more deaders about a mile over that way.” She pointed her shotgun in the direction her and Maximus had just came. Alden looked back to where she pointed, “That’s fine missy, you say a mile huh, well figuring the average normal human walks at about 2 miles an hour their not really an imminent threat like the ones that are only about a thousand yards that way and are heading our way right now, are they?” Ceara started pouting, “I was just saying damn.” She looked to Charlie, “Can we shoot him now?”Charlie shook his head, “No, the dog would kill us all if we even thought about it,” he whispered. Ceara winked at Charlie, “Not if Maximus can block him, but odds of that ain’t real high,” just saying.Alden groaned and looked to cupcake number three, “Thank God you got some brains to you. You and I might be the only ones to come out of this alive.” Tabitha glared at him, “If I wanted to kill you I would just do it, can we PLEASE focus on the damn things coming? “Alden roared, “Y’ALL SHUT THE FUCK UP. JESUS H CHRIST! We make a semi-circle Charlie you and number three take the corners make sure you are not facing each other, Cupcake two you’re with me in the center here, you’ll be on my left shooting right towards front, do not shoot cupcake number three that would upset me and her if she lived. I’ll shoot to the left, Charlie and Cupcake three give ground if you have to but do not turn and run. If they flank us were all dead. Now everyone knows what to expect and what you should do. One more thing the plugs have been removed from the shot guns so you have five shots not three shoot 4 and keep count reload then shoot four again never ever empty your weapon.” Ceara looked to Charlie but walked over with the man, “Could you at least call me by my name, it’s Ceara remember? And running the risk of pissing you off more, do I have to do that pump thing every shot?” Alden sighed, and then remembered what he said to Tonto, “Missy that’s why your with me, and yes you have to pump it every time, later, if you live through this I have a better one in the truck. One more thing, you all see that big red dog, he’s my brother, my partner and my best fucking friend. He has killed many of those things. You shoot him, I shoot you, even if he gets bit. I don’t have time to explain but that’s just the way it is.”Tabitha moved to her position scanning the woods, “How far you think they are?” She glanced back to the area Ceara had said that others would be coming, she knew Rambo was right, they had plenty of time before the others got there but that was depending on the girl knowing distance and the girl didn’t look to intelligent to her. Tabitha looked over to the girl, “Do your job and do it good or else I will take you out myself.” Ceara looked from Tabitha to Alden, wondering what she had gotten herself into and if she lived she thought she should get away from these psychotic people. Charlie seemed to be the only sane one but he worshipped the old man, with a heavy sigh she looked to Tabitha, “I got this, and if I don’t you will be dead so stop the threats.”Tabitha, quite honestly was really getting antsy and the only thing that she wanted to do was blow the fuckers away. Once Ceara had finished with her statement Tabitha looked off to her right of the perimeter. The leaves on the ground were rustling and memories of when she was younger played in the foreground of her mind briefly. Often while Tabitha would be hiding out in the woods back home she never liked people sneaking up on her. This had happened on a couple of occasions. Both of those times were from assholes that would want to have their ways with her. Only one of those times that actually happened and that would be a time that Tabitha would never forget. That sound rang through her ears. The crunching of leaves and breaking of twigs before the attack always sounded the same. After that one time the very next time Tabitha used her force to ward of the attack with her over powering street smarts. To make it simple she would just kick, bite and hit the fuckers where it counted. Her street smarts were what had kept her alive and safe for years and now they would resurrect themselves once more. Quietly Tabitha slowing sidestepped a couple of feet to her right and stopped suddenly. Her eyes then became slits as she peered off through the trees trying to pin point the sound. Closing her eyes for a brief moment so that her hearing became more acute, she honed in back to the left where her head snapped and her eyes became wide. The sound was that of a thud then a dragging sound along the leaves. Whispering back to Alden then giving a nod with her head in that direction, “Hey Rambo! 12 o’clock.” She didn’t really feel to comfortable with little red riding hood back there and well, the boy over to her left looked like a virgin on prom night with his weapon. Just then she realized where her position was and with Alden being behind her Tabitha didn’t take time to think she just reacted. Seeing the figure make its way out of the tree line she wasted no time. With her eye looking down the sight she followed the movements until she was able to see that the asshole was dead. The dragging noise that she heard was now visible and that was that of the zombie’s right leg dragging behind him while he stomped down with his left foot. Both dogs now could be seen out of the corner of her eye bolting off in his direction and just as she figured out that the mutts were going after this fucktard Tabitha quickly saw another zombie coming out of the woods about twenty yards to her right. This one however was moaning very loudly and that was when Tabitha finally had had enough. “AWWW FUCK THIS SHIT!!” was what she yelled before pulling the trigger on her rifle. Tabitha hadn’t fired a weapon in a while but it was like riding a bike. The recoil was kick ass and everything that was bad ass about Tabitha broke out. When the shell made contact with her target there was nothing left of the dudes head and his body dropped to the ground. Down deep inside she felt a twinge of excitement and chuckled loudly, “That’s what I’m talking about!!!!” Pumping her rifle once the shell casing flew out and Tabitha wasted no time. She took a couple more steps and found herself standing almost directly in front of Alden’s truck. Just then her head snapped to her right and she yelled, “3 O’CLOCK!!!” Taking a quick head count Tabitha counted five more fuckers headed in their direction.Ceara swung to where cupcake three said the deader was going for the closest to him and that was cupcake three. Ceara raised the shotgun and fired; the man lurched back but didn’t go down. The damn shotgun wasn’t very accurate; she pumped it again and fired again, this time he dropped. She took a deep breath, rolled her shoulder knowing there was going to be a bruise. Ceara aimed at another one that just broke through the trees about thirty feet from her, she fired, the deader didn’t even flinch. She looked toward Alden, “What the fuck?! I fired right at him!”Alden glanced over to Ceara, “IT AIN’T THE DAMN WEAPONS FAULT. Now listen aim, take a breath, hold it for a second and then squeeze the trigger as you breathe out. Also you rfifty yards away your weapon is not that accurate at this distance nor is it that deadly. You can slow them down from here but they have to get a hell of a lot closer for you to kill them.” Just then he turned to where Charley was. Tonto had taken down to deadheads, by the arm then bit into their throats and yanked. The longer the Deadhead had been dead the easier the head popped off Alden noticed. Three more had come out of the woods and Alden had counted Charley’s shots, he was down to two. Pushing Ceara back a little he stood and fired three shots rapidly hitting each one right in the head. He watched as Charley fumbled for the shells as he tried to reload. “PEEL BACK A FEW STEPS CHARLEY! PEEL BACK!!!.” Alden yelled, as four more suddenly appeared. Alden took two out with his pistol as he gave a loud whistle. Tonto released his hold on the deadhead and lunged toward the closet one to Charley knocking Charley off balance and square on his ass dropping the shells in his hand as he hit the ground.Charley never saw Tonto or the deadhead, till the dog had hit him. “Shit. .Shit. .Shit!!,” he said as he scrambled to grab the fallen shells and get them in the rifle. “Peel back? What the fuck is peel back???!,” he thought to himself. The intensity of the situation was getting to him. He was shaking so bad he could hardly hold the shotgun anymore. A deadhead had gotten hold of his right foot as he finished reloading. Charley screamed and whacked at it with the rifle when suddenly Maximus had hold of the deadhead by his leg and was dragging it back. The deadhead rolled over and Maximus released and bit again only this time a little higher up right into the deadheads groin area. Charley winced at the sight of the dog dragging the deadhead back and then suddenly had no grip. Charley knew what part had just been bitten off, “OH HOLY HELL! FUCK!! THAT HURT ME!!!” Maximus turned and dropped the body part as Charley saw the back of the deadheads head explode knowing once again Alden had saved his life. Rolling to his right he got up on one knee, the adrenaline pumping hard he fired four shots all of them hitting their mark. He rolled once more and started to reload, “HEY ALDEN! I THINK I’M GETTING THE HANG OF THIS!!” He yelled with a big grin.Tabitha could hear all of the commotion going on and all she could do was try to keep her eyes wide while she kept reloading. However when she head Charley cheerfully make his little comment Tabitha got an even bigger smile on her face. Kindergarten was now over and this shit was getting real. The mutts were carrying on with veracious intensity and quickly she turned to see Alden. “Who opened the fucking gates?” Then she saw one of the zombies making their way over towards the red head. “Hey Red!!!! 9 O’CLOCK!!!” Ceara looked over at Tabitha and frantically exclaimed, “GOT IT!!!” Ceara leveled the shotgun pulling the trigger to hear a click, “FUCK!!” She quickly pumped the shotgun and fired again dropping the deader. She knew she only had one shot left before she had to reload.Tabitha saw Ceara fidget with the gun after it made the clicking sound and this caused Tabitha to smirk. “She definitely needs to have a repeat of guns 101 when this is all over if she survives this shit!” she shouted over to Alden. However, when she heard the gun go off and quickly looked over to see the body hit the ground Tabitha scanned the perimeter once more. The zombies were now starting to thin out and she could easily pick a few more off. Taking a few more head shots she started walking back towards Charley to see what was going on because the mutts were carrying on weirdly and Charley appeared to be a little in shock. Tabitha glanced over and noticed, laying right there on the ground was the zombies dick. Chuckling out loud Tabitha stated to Charley sarcastically, “At least it wasn’t yours!” Then the German Shepard started to run in the opposite direction in a playful manner. “Hey Muttley, He didn’t throw you a bone did he!?!” Tabitha kicked it out of her way and smiled at the group while saying, “Ok you all got to admit THAT was fucking brutal. Slowly Tabitha started to feel a bit more relaxed. It might of been the fact that she was back in her element where she felt at home. Or it might of been that she had blown away about a half a dozen zombies. Quite honestly it was both of those reasons but there was the most important one and she wasn’t about to let anyone know that one. The fact that now she survived one of the most vicious attacks that she had been through since this whole mess started was the best thing ever. Hell, she even found humor with little red riding hood over there. All of her emotions she experienced in that short amount of time. “What a fucking rush!!”, she thought to herself. Tabitha was alive and she was damn happy about it. And when she saw another zombie making his way in her direction she took a couple of steps in its direction took her mark and blew his head clean off.Ceara looked around and saw Cupcake three go to Charlie, Ceara thought the girl was enjoying this too much. A few more deaders were coming out but at least it was fewer, she took aim and dropped another one. She got a look of panic and ran over to Alden shoving the shotgun at him, “I AIN’T GOT NO IDEA HOW TO RELOAD THIS DAMN THING!!!” Alden grabbed her shotgun and slammed his pistol in to her chest, “Damn girl, you are going to get us all killed! I got three left in that one, use them right!” He reloaded her shot gun as Ceara dropped a deader that had made her way almost to them. Two more shots and she knew she was empty, but Alden had said not to let it empty so she was almost scared to tell him.Alden turned and shot one more that lay on the ground still moving then turned and signaled for the others to come in. Sitting down on the old foot locker he reached in a cooler and pulled out 4 beers, “here you all earned these today” he said as he tossed the cans to each one of them. Opening his he poured it into a small metal bowl and Tonto came up and started to lap it up. Alden reached down a grabbed a thermos took the top off and poured coffee into the cup from the top. He watched as Maximus walked up to the dog bowl, Tonto growled at the other dog and Alden breakd, “Tonto mind your manners, you share with that one, he’s one of us now.” Taking another sip he looked to Ceara. “Cupcake two where’d you say there were more off that way? Pointing back behind the group Ceara nodded, “I don’t know how many but not as many as these.” Alden looked to the woods then to the group. “Okay kiddies here’s what we’re going to do now. You are going to play pick up, in other words I want all those bodies dragged down the hill there to an open space by the rocks near a stream. take a gallon of gas. Gas not kerosene we’re going to need that and gas is a hell of a lot easier to come by,” he pointed to a red can. “Then burn the bodies, start with two and add one at a time I don’t need no roaring bonfire but we need to get rid of them before they really stink up the place.” Charley nodded as Tabitha spoke up, “Us why do we get the shit jobs old man?” Alden turned to her, “Okay little girl I’ll stay and burn the fucking deadheads and you can go into those woods find the enemy, without them finding you first then I want you to set traps that will kill them or disable them so you can use a knife to stab the brain or cut off the head. Then I need you to work your way back here, by then it will be dark so I hope you’re good at navigating a compass in the night. Oh and do this quietly so if there are any other humans around they won’t find you, cause you know not all of them will be as nice as me.” Turning he reached into the van and pulled out a machete and another large knife. “Oh here missy you’ll need these, and if you do come across humans who are not of the conversational kind you need to kill them too, quietly. Think you can handle all that?” Tabitha shook her head and looked to Charley and Ceara, “Okay come on let’s get these bodies out of here.” Alden smiled and put the knives on his belt. Tonto got up, Alden grinned, “Naw boy you just stay here and guard the children I’ll be back soon enough.” He turned and moved into the woods seemingly without even causing the bushes to move .
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