CRUEL

Behind the RV, Tobias is continuously panicking, completely afraid. He started to bite on the rope that is tied into mouth. Surprisingly it is worn out, he started gritting on the rope. He can feel short fibers getting into his mouth. 'PLEASE, PLEASE' He kept thinking into his head as every shot is fired, every shot will attract the dead to them. Especially in the dead of night. since there are not a much of people alive in the small town of Greenwood, and the open area on which they are. The shots are clearer to the dead.

They start moving towards the sound of the gunshots, and it turns out there are already attracted to the sound. The gunshots ringed out as dinner bells for the dead to come to, the people in the house has no idea what is to come to them.

After 10 minutes of struggling and biting through the rope, it snapped. Tobias has a big sigh of relief for his mouth being free, not wanting to alert their captors he tries to free himself from the ropes he is tied in. He looks in the box for anything sharp, as he is looking for it he noticed how quiet the house is.

HARRY

Harry fired shots downstairs to the people down it, he managed to hit one of the captors in the knee. The captors called for back and now two of them are preparing to into the house, Harry continues to fire down on them until.

*CLICK CLICK*

"Out of bullets, no no no no"

"Here, Tobias gave me some, you might 'forget it' he said"

Harry broke a smile knowing his brother and the way he acts. He loaded his pistol and aimed and before he knew it the men is already aiming their guns at them. They moved quietly as the dead of night, 'down' the masked man said and so Harry and Elizabeth complied to what they say. Lee in the room continues to watch over Amare and his mother, not knowing what is happening outside.

The couple is put outside on their knees aimed guns to their head. Elizabeth and Harry is not breaking upon the threat, instead of trembling with fear they are glaring with anger towards them. Upstairs Dalia begged Lee to let Amare go, 'He'll help you' she said.

"How?"

"There is a passage behind the cabinet"

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, go the well and get your friend"

"Okay then, move the cabinet"

Amare opened the cabinet doors and to her shock, there is another door. Amare opened the door and a small staircase can be seen. Amare head down first while Lee locked the door, they got into the garage and the RV. Amare approached the door while Lee aimed at it. Suddenly Tobias came out of the door, he hit his face directly on the concrete floor and wounded his lip.

"Oh, serge…. thank god, where's Harry?"

"they got them"

"Yeah, do you have any other guns?"

"Just this one"

"Oh no, There's a rifle in the RV...but don't want to risk attraction"

"Then we have to go to the truck"

Dalia crawls towards the door and locked it just as soon someone tried to open it. She crawled towards Louanne and covered her fearing as the man behind the door started to kick it. Dalia started to tear up, regretting what he asked his son to do for these kind people.

"hey, what's wrong with that door?"

"Locked, have you checked the other doors?"

"yeah, this is the only one that is locked"

One of them pointed the gun at the door, and fired. Amare, bewildered tried to run ahead of them but Tobias stopped him.

"What are you doing?"

He cannot reply, 'just wait, we will go back to her' Amare nodded.

"Check the RV"

A husky voice commanded, their goons walked and encountered the three. Down to instinct, Lee shot the man dead. Tobias went and get his rifle and checked for the bullet, Amare looked shocked. 'Sorry' Toby said. The two men upstairs went down and see the four people gone, Harry and Tobias are aiming the guns to their heads.

"Put the gun down and we'll talk"

"Then let my men go"

"No"

"Why?"

'Leverage' Toby said with a angry face, 'You hurt us first'.

'No, they did' He pointed at Amare with the gun, Toby knew they were forced to do so, and behind the two heavy armored people the dead has caught up. The two parties looked behind them and saw the one things that will kill them.

"We're one now"

"No back stabbing?"

"We're all survivors"

The two parties banded as one and opened fire at the dead. Harry, Tobias, and Amare went into the house while Lee got into the truck, Elizabeth and one of the goons got into the RV. Harry immediately picked up Louanne who is still soundly asleep, and Tobias carried Dalia, Amare continued to lead them down the stairs as the dead started to get in.

The goons kept their promise and shot the dead in front of them, Tobias and Amare got into the Truck and Harry went into the RV. Without a second to waste one of the goons is in the house and turned on the gas, he threw three grenade into the oven and ran like hell to escape. The vehicles started to move away and suddenly a massive explosion. The dead is attracted to the fire like moths.

The last goon got into his team's truck. The dead got into the house and started to burn. The RV went off road and back to the main road, they all have a sigh of relief. the goons' truck followed behind the RV.

In the RV, Harry starts to interview one of the goons. He took his helmet off and revealed a teenager.

"Wow"

"Wow?"

"You're a kid"

"yeah, I'm sorry... we asked that young boy to hurt you guys"

"For what?"

"Bait, we plan to attract the dead and bom'em'"

"How'd it go?"

"Met you guys, so didn't happen"

"So bait, is that what you see people like us?"

The boy looked down, flustered upon hearing the question. He started to mumble to himself being pressured by the question Harry asked him.

"Never mind that question"

"....."

"So you guys look 'big', do you guys have a camp some where?"

"Yeah"

The goons' truck stopped in front of Lee's truck, they put the window down and told them to follow and so they did. The RV also followed along, they continued down a main road. They followed the truck to Denton, Maryland, a bigger town than Greenwood.

"Can you give us your names?"

"No"

"One of our people killed yours, I'm sorry"

"Its okay, he was infected"

"Really?"

"Yep, he has a strong immune system, that explains how he lasted longer"

"I'm sorry"

"Don't be...The name's Bryce"

"Bryce, Harry.. that's my wife Elizabeth and this is my baby Louanne"

Bryce started to tear up knowing that they could have killed this baby. He started to dictate the names of the 3 other people he is with. 'Corey, Niall, and Dylan', he explained what they team was doing on that house. They were asked to set the house and anyone in their as a trap, to attract the dead and Dalia will set the house to explode.

Harry almost lost himself in the fury that has built in, he instead bit his lip an it bled. After 10 minutes they arrived at the town of Denton, a massive community that has a gate erected to defend the northern part of the town. Bryce explained to Harry how they divided the town when the outbreak started. They called it the 4 divisions of Denton.