Mercy

Small warning before you read, this chapter gets pretty dark and the next few chapters wont be much better, but I decided to do it because come on, its a Zombie Apocalypse.

Zombie after zombie just keeps on coming down the alleyway, and each time William crushes their skull in one blow using the sledgehammer. After about 70 zombies his arms are too weak to swing the hammer so he switches out for the axe again but this time cuts the zombies throat also killing them...

After an hour he finally kills the last zombie so William heads towards the gas station to get more gas for the quad, when he reaches it he finds that inside the small shop is a blood bath as all the walls are covered in blood and there are about 15 zombies walking around the store, William quickly lures them back to the alley and deals with them before starting to gather supplies that they will need in the future.

When he is done he heads out again and fills the containers will fuel for the quad and sets all the stuff on the quad before heading deeper into town.

He drives past a gun store but by the looks of it, people have had the same idea as him, as it is already looted. He starts down winding alleys until he comes to a seemingly empty house, but theres metal bars on the door. He rattles the door while shouting "Oie gramps you still alive you old geezer!?", after a few seconds the door rattles and opens showing an old man with grey hair and yellow teeth. He smiles at William while saying "It'll take more than a few zombies to kill me you wee git, now what do ya want from me this time?". William's faces goes serious as he tells the old man about everything that has happened today, as he hears about this the old man's face darkens and when William finishes telling him everything, he is silent for a few moments before saying "I'm guessing your here to get some weapons then?".

William nods his head and asks the man "What's the best long distance gun you have and how much ammo can I get for it? I would prefer something simple that has the needed range, but I'll take whatever I can get." before setting stacks of money on the desk, "If you're going to do what I think you're going to do then this is going to be the best gun for you" he says while setting a large gun on the desk, "This is a Barrett Firearms M82A1 12.7 mm semiautomatic rifle, takes 50 cal bullets but has a firing range of over 1 mile and an absolute range of 5 miles, the only thing surviving a shot from this is a tank. The only problem is that 50 cal aren't exactly easy to get for normal people like you and me, but I might have a supply of them at the moment that may or may not be sitting on the shelf to your left." before shuffling back into the store after taking a few stacks of money and shutting the door.

William just sighs before taking 1 of the 3 stacks of money that had been left before turning to the shelf and searching for the bullets, once he found the bullets he turned thanked the old man and left...

After walking around for a few minutes William came to a very tall building, probably from a large business, he went inside to see the carnage that happened inside. It looked like one of the original zombies appeared here, as each room he went into was covered in blood yet there were no zombies anywhere to be seen, no bodies either which means that everyone in the building most likely turned already. Walking further inside he walks past flipped over desks and chairs before starting to walk up the steps, but before he can get to the first floor he hears something that almost sounds like a man whimpering somewhere in the building. William decides to search the building to try and find the mysterious man as his inner conscience wont let him leave the poor man...

After searching the first floor and only finding a few zombies that were quickly disposed of William goes up to the second floor. Nothing

Third Floor. Nothing

Fourth Floor. Nothing

Fifth Floor. Nothing

And so on until he gets to the eighth floor where he can see a man cowering beneath one of the many desks that haven't been flipped. When he gets closer to the man, who is wearing a very fancy and expensive suit that only a boss could own, finally notices him and quickly shuffles backwards away from him until he hits the desk.

"Hey now, your ok, I'm not going to hurt you. What happened here...Randolf?" asks William while standing a few steps away from the mans as not to scare him anymore than he already is, he saw on one if the desks a name plaque that says Randolf, and guessed that it's the man.

"Everyone's dead....I had to....They work for me....Its their job to protect me....ISNT IT, NONE OF THIS IS MY FAULT IF THOSE 'THINGS' HADN'T SHOWED UP EVERYTHING WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE. NO ONE WOULD HAVE DIED ITS NOT MY FAULT THE GUARDS LEFT AND THEY ALL DIED HOW CAN IT BE IF IM THEIR BOSS THEY'RE MEANT TO PROTECT ME EVEN WITH THEIR LIFE IF I TELL THEM TO. RIGHT. RIGHT!?" he rambles to himself before starting to laugh. After a few moments of just laughing like a madman, no make that as a madman. If the world was still normal the man would have been in a hospital for the dangerous and the deranged.

He then looks past William and his face goes white while starting to back up again this time actually moving the desk as well. William quickly looks behind him to see what scared him so much but theres nothing there that could have made him this spooked, turning back he sees that Randolf had managed to push the desk all the way to the window as he was so desperate to get away from whatever he could see.

"I'm sorry ok. Is that what you want to hear! I'm sorry for getting you all killed just so that I could survive!" Randolf sobs to himself while slightly rocking himself. "But I know your dead SO WHY WONT YOU LEAVE ME ALONE I SAW YOU DIE IM THE ONE WHO PUSHED YOU!" he screams before slamming his back against the desk cracking the glass window behind him.

"Hey hey hey. If you don't stop know your going to break that window, I dont know what you did to survive but if you die now then everyone else who died will have died for nothing. The least you can do for them now is survive, you at least owe them that don't you?" William softly says trying to calm him down before he breaks the glass.

"Yeah...Your right I owe them that dont I, BUT WHY WONT THEY LET ME GO I CAN STILL SEE THEM EVERYWHERE"

Randolf seemed to calm down for a few moments before slamming into the desk again making the crack even bigger than before.

"They aren't trying to hurt you they're staying with you to look over you and make sure your safe, cause if you died then all they did would be for nothing and would be forgotten like them" William tries again to calm him down, this time it looks like it works as the crazed look leaves Randolf's eyes and he looks at William this time not behind him. "Yeah your right I need to live because if I didn't then all this would have been for nothing, thank you really thank you. Even though i dont know who you are I'm pretty sure you saved me."

After he says this he slumps down and rests against the desk for a few moments, then tries to stand up. But forgetting that he's under the desk hits his head and crashed back down again.

"Ahh that hurt?! Howd I get under a desk, last time I checked I was hiding beside it, not under it and how did it get all the way over here, I thought I was in the middle of the room?" As he says this he leans back against the desk.

"Well you see, when I got here you were in the middle of the room but when you saw me you went crazy talking about how you got everyone killed and moved the desk and yourself over here, thankfully I managed to calm you down before you managed to break the glass, its pretty crack right now." William explains to Randolf before walking over to help move the desk away.

"Ahh I see, thankfully the windows are made from hardened glass so they are harder to bre-"

'crraaacckk'

William looks up to see that the glass has started to crack on it's own due to the weight of Randolf leaning on it and its rapidly growing as the linger glass cracks the faster it cracks.

"RANDOLF GET OUT OF TH"

'CRASH'

The window smashes sending glass everywhere and the desk and Randolf fall out the broken window and a loud crunch can be heard a few seconds later...