Chapter Four

(Dennis)

I woke up to a thud, my eyes practically flew open, and my fingers bladed in seconds. I jumped up to see what the noise was and where it came from. I calmed down slightly when I realized it was only the passing monsters.

"You ok?" I heard Tom ask as he sat up and looked at me with concerned eyes. They wondered to my bladed fingers and widened in surprised and worry. I immediately dismissed his worried and transformed my hand back to its original state.

"I'm sorry if I woke you, and yeah everything's fine. It was just a stupid monsters banging on the doors again" I said putting my hand on my forehead in frustration. Tom sat up with a sigh, "getting use to this apocalypse bullshit will not be easy, huh?" He said, "No it will not be" I said sitting down against the door.

We sat in a comfortable silence for a little bit, until Tom spoke up. "So what's gonna be our next move?" he said, his deep rumbling voice soothing my growing nerves. "We should go check cars for gasoline, and then move off to another part of the town, or hopefully if their is a town over we should go there" I got up going to my back and packing the stuff that was laid out.

"What do you hope to find by moving around?" Tom said, "Honestly, I want to know the cause of this apocalypse. As well as what those scientists did to me" I admit. "Would you be ok with traveling with me as I search for these answers?" I questioned.

"No of course I wouldn't mind, I mean I have nothing bet to do, or no where else to go, so I'll go with you" He said smiling at me, I returned his smile and continued to pack up the scattered food on the ground. "So where are we going to start?" he asked "we need to find a lead right?" "That's correct" I told him, "But now that I'm thinking about it, I'm gonna need to figure out and better grasp these abilities, so maybe its time to train" I said staring at my hands.

"Well what can you do so far?" Tom asked, standing up and coming over to me to put a hand on my back. "well as you can see, I can turn each of my fingers into these very sharp, clean, and deadly blades. Escaping the lab I was in, I shot a tendril out and it impaled a monster in the head, so maybe I should start there." I said coming to a conclusion.

"Alright sounds like a plan then Dennis, so should we go get that gasoline then?" he asked, "Yeah let's do it" I slung my bags over my shoulder and walked towards the window of the house, checking to see if the coast was clear. After eventually seeing no monsters or anything else, I decided it was safe to go out and signaled Tom to follow me.

Walking outside quietly, I was happy to see that my car was still here and in one piece, I got in and unlocked the door for Tom. Tom opened the door, sitting down in his seat and setting his things down in the back. "So where should we go first to check for gasoline?" I asked, "There is a gas station not to far around this corner up here actually" Tom said pointing to a corner on the right.

"Alright sounds good, let's go" I eased my foot on the pedal, putting a little gas into the car as we were off down the street and to the next corner. I saw the gas station Tom was talking and wondered why I hadn't seen it when I was driving around yesterday. I quickly dismissed the thought as we arrived pretty quick. I parked close too the store, planning in going inside to check for diesel cans.

"Some stores usually have diesel cans full of gasoline so let's hope this one does" I said looking to Tom. Tom nods and waits for me to look around and make sure everything is good, once I'm done I turn to tom. "Ok ready?" I asked looking back to Tom to see him trembling a little bit, but not alot. "Yeah a tad bit nervous but let's go" he said, unlocking his car door and stepping out with his bag. "Right" I said doing the same, we creeped into the store and immediately checked around for monsters. I heard shuffling coming from the back and converted my fingers into blades again, opening the door to the back room and walking cautiously inside.

The back rook had a few shelves littering the beginning of the room, ontop of them were a few different items I couldn't see because how dark it was. I felt around the door for a light switch, but nothing was there. "Fuck" I swore quietly to myself and look ontop of a few near shelves for what I could only hope to be a flashlight. I reached and felt my hands graze a few different sized things until the landed on a handle. I pulled whatever I had in my hands off the shelf and into the light so I can see what it was. I was a powerful looking flash like with a big bulb, I switched it on hoping it would have power. When it came on I got my answer and shined the flashlight into the darkness of the room. I froze in fear when I saw 4 monsters with tattered skin and blood dripping down there oddly pale skins. The light seemed to agitate them and they ran towards me at full speed, knocking over each other in eagerness.

I jumped back, turning around trying to distance myself from the monsters, "DENNIS!?" I heard Tom yell from the counter of the store, his knife already drawn ready for a fight. My eyes locked with his, he jumped over the counter and a rapidly made his way towards me to help. I pushed a stand full of some off brand candy onto the monsters in the front, knocking them over and onto the ground. I raised my gun and shot at the other 2 with a shaky hand, missing a few shots to the head and only landing some onto their abdomens. "Shit!" I seethed resorting to my clawed hand, I swiped and the 3rd monsters, his rotting facial features getting ripped off in the process. Tom provided cover fire from behind my landing a shot on the 4 monters head, the first two still struggling on the ground.

I jabbed one finger into the eye of the third monster, managing to hit its brain as it falls backwards to the floor. Tom must of missed the other monsters brain so I helped him out by reeling to of my blade fingers back and throwing them forward at the monsters abdominal. It staggered and stopped running foward, I then grabbed its head with my claw and penetrated into it with all of my bladed fingers, crushing its brain.

"Holy shit!" Tom said surprised from behind me, and I couldnt help but smirk. The first two monsters still struggled on the floor. I stomped down on their heads, exploding their rotting brains all over the floor. I grabbed the flashlight I had dropped on the floor earlier.

Walking further into the room, I see there were decomposing bodies the smell no longer bothered me tho. Looking past them were a few of the red cans we were hoping to find. 5 to be exact, tho only 2 of them had some in it, 1 being completely full and the other only half. We took them tho, I asked if tom had any luck and he said no.

"I guess this is all we got then, it's good for now. Hopefully when we move cities there will be more for this car." I said sighing, "Yeah hopefully" Tom agreed following me out of the store back to the car. Once we hopped into the car, I checked how much gas was left and it was on half. Once we get back to the house I would put a little more in so it can last us. I started the car and drove back to the house, We unloaded everything and hurried to get back in before anything could see us.

"Wow, that was excited but exhausting" Tom stated taking off his equipment and setting it down. "Yeah" I agreed, "But don't get too comfortable because next I gotta do some training, and you're coming with me wherever I go" I said smiling at him. he groaned "Fineee, but only because I wanna see what else you can do" Tom said smiling back at me. "awesome then its settled, I'm gonna go put some gas in the car, I'll be back then we can go find somewhere walking distant to train" I said getting up and grabbing the diesel cans. "Have funnn" tom said laying his head back, and with that I was on to putting gas in my car.