I stood there still defending the baby as I thought of a way out of the mess I was in, even while fighting, I still tried to be very careful so I don't hurt the baby, and due that, I couldn't fight out, all I could was remain at a spot and defend.
"Arghh!", I growled in pain, experienced from a strike to my right arm, I began to contemplate leaving the baby, seeing how unimportant he really is, it's not like he's going to feel a thing when they eat him up, after all there isn't much to eat up, it will be illogical for us to die together, one has to survive.
I swug the cutlass at one in front of me, when I realized there was another behind me, "charlie!", I exclaimed as I turned swinging the cutlass to it, "arghhhh!", I grunted in pain receive two solid hits on my back, why am I still trying to protect this child.
"Hssssss", I heard the hiss loud and clear, "Medusa!!!", I yelled excited, and in seconds Medusa was in, "Medusa!! Don't swallow!", I commanded knowing that if it swallows them, it will end up useless, it heard me and began to use it's tail to clear a path for us, I quickly kept my knife in my arrow bag, and then with that same hand I grabbed the baby, collected my mom's necklace from his dad's corpse, and then took him through the path Medusa had made while she defended me with her tail.
I got out with the baby, Medusa followed still helping to clear the path for us to go through, they were so many, even outside the hole, even Medusa couldn't handle it anymore, she had sustained some bruises on her own, I needed to intervene, but this baby wasn't helping matters at all, all it did was cry endlessly, "Charlie!!", I screamed as a zombie pulled of his head in the heat of the battle, the once crying baby had blood shooting out his neck.
In anger, I threw the dead baby at the zombie that pulled out it's head, brought out my knife and went for it's head, I jabbed repeatedly as I thought about the energy I had wasted, the wounds I had sustained trying to save the baby, it's all been pointless, I wished just left it to die.
Now I had my two hands to my self, with a cutlass on one hand and a knife in the other, Medusa had gone some distance still fighting these monsters who refused to stop coming, so I was all to myself, no friends just monsters around.
I began to kill, swinging the knife and cutlass in any direction I hear a sound, if I were to count at this time how many I had killed, they would sum up to more than a fifty, and these guys were still not giving up, they kept on coming in larger number and sizes, "Medusa!!", I called and it hissed, "Run!!", I yelled having used up almost all my strength in this never ending war.
On hearing me Medusa came closer, "no! Go away!", I said, and it refused, instead came closrr defending me, seeming more than ready to die, the fight went on, Medusa helping me, and being the best fight partner, the numbers began to to drop, we had killed more than a hundred of them till the very last two, whose heads were plated with iron, after trying everything, Medusa swallowed one and fell on the ground becoming useless, leaving me with the other, "sh_t!", I exclaimed as the other ran towards Medusa who laid lifelessly on the floor, with her bruises and all.
I brought out an arrow, aimed at the bastards leg, and shot, it went on still not seeming to feel anything's on it's leg, as though I threw a straw at it, it continued running towards her, I held my knife a lot firmer and threw at its leg, this time around the knife went through and it fell still not stopping it's attack, I rushed to where it was, and with my cutlass I hit his head continuously, my cutlass continued bouncing back as it collided with it's metal plated head, the only effect the hit had on it was a temporary confusion that stopped it from getting up. He turned to me still on the floor, swinging his claws at me and I dodged, attempting to cut off his hand, it's arm moved reacting to my cutlass's hit on it, but there was no buldge what so ever.
I drifted back as it stood up with my knife still in it's leg, it kept on running towards me, I stood there confused, I didn't know how to attack or counter this; I held my cutlass with both hands and when it got close enough, I swung as hard as I could at it's neck, it fell to the ground and on it's neck was a visible cut, "that's my way in", I kept my cutlass back into it's sheet and brought out an arrow, but before I could put it into the bow, it was already in front of me, "sh_t!", I exclaimed right before its arm came in contact with my chest, and I flew far hitting a tree.
Before opened my eyes it was already about 5 feets away from me, I looked around for my cutlass and it was no where to be found, it must have fallen off, all I had with me was an arrow, the bow too had fallen.
I held the arrow firmly as I got up, I then put it in it's head through it's neck wound I generated earlier with my cutlass, "arggghhhh!!", It growled as it held it's head and moved around. On seeing this I sat back down resting my head on the tree.
In what felt like a second, I opened my eyes and it was dark, around me was dead zombies everywhere, killed by I and Medusa, who also seemed to be asleep, I stood up and looked around, the wind blew, as the unfriendly weather spoke harshly in thunderstorms, howls were heard and branches fell to ground, the birds refused to sing and I was getting cold, I reeked of blood and dirt, a smell similar to the monsters I had been killing.
It was obvious that the night wasn't going to be a friendly one, we need shelter, "Medusa", I said as I tapped sleeping Medusa repeatedly, it hissed as it opened it's eyes, it got up and was ready to move, we walked together back home as the rain slowly began to shower, we were lucky for as soon as we shut the door it began to pour heavily, "Derick! Medusa!", Where have you been, Mrs Claire said as she rushed towards us, Medusa who normally stays outside was in, her body occupies almost more than half of the entire living room, "oh my God, you guys are badly wounded", she said on seeing us closely, she rushed back in.
I never thought that at this stage of my life I will still be this scared of hot rags, on seeing her go in I and Medusa contemplated running outside, because we knew what she was going get and do to us when she gets back, "we can't go out buddy, it's raining cat and dogs out there", I said to Medusa with a shade of excitement having waited so long to use that line.
As expected Mrs Claire came back with a hot rag, noticed from how steam came out from it, Medusa moved back while I remained where I was, "it's for your own good", Mrs Claire said as she came closer.
I bared the pain trying so hard not to make a fuss so Medusa would be more willing to try it. It worked and just like me she remained strong, after being cleaned up with hot rags Mrs Claire got us hot soups made entirely of leaves, after eating this we fell asleep.
The next morning I woke up quite late, having no fear what so ever, "Derick!", Mrs Claire's voice which woke me up re echoed, "yes!", I replied as I got up, "why aren't you rushing back to aunt Vera and Uncle Zack's house?", She asked, "first of, it's my house, and secondly they are both dead!", I replied without any remorse, "what!!", She exclaimed, "how? Why? What about their baby?", She asked, "it died too", I replied, "Derick!!", She sad aloud, looking at me like I killed them, "what happened?", She asked suspiciously looking at me, "they were killed by zombies!", I replied as I stood up, "why didn't you help them?", She asked and I kept quiet, "Derick!", She called, "Charlie was taken away from my arm!", I said aloud in an angry tone, "oh, I am so sorry dear", she said and came in for a hug, while hugging, I brought out my mom's necklace from my pocket, "who's the man now?", I whispered as I looked at it.
The radio came on once again, like it had done several times before now, "if you can hear the sound of my voice", a voice spoke and a loud screech followed, "it means you are a survivor", the screech followed again, "there's a place set up to protect us all, where we as humans can survive together!", It continued and the screech followed, "just follow the river, in the direction of it's color change", it said and once again the screech, and then it went off, this was the first time I heard it to the end, in other times it stopped half way, "Mrs Claire?", I called out to Mrs Claire, who said nothing as she barely gave a smile, "there are other humans out there", I said, "yeah", she replied, "we have to go there, for your safety", I said to her, "what's left to save?", she asked, "you!", I replied quite p_ssed having an idea of what she was about to say, "you guys should save yourselves, go without me, I will only be a burden to you on your journey", she replied, "there's no way I'll leave you behind, it's better you die on the way than behind my back; and I swear with the last drop of blood in my body that I would not let you die Mrs Claire!", I said to her, "Derick!", She said aloud in a rebuking but tearful tone, "yes Mrs Claire, I owe you my life!", I replied, she remained speechless as she looked at me crying, "so gather your things mom, we move tomorrow!", I said affirmatively looking into her eyes as she broke down in tears.
To be continued.....
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