OPENING

They got in front of the fire station, they walked around the station and they cannot see ways to enter it. All possible entrances are covered or blocked by something. They see an opening from one of the windows, small enough for a kid to get through.

"No she's not going"

"Obviously, we have no idea what the fuck is in there"

"Okay, look maul"

"That's an axe"

"It's not"

"It is... just stop okay"

The splitting maul is much different than a axe. It is like a sledgehammer only with a pointed axe head that can break anything through sheer force. It has a longer handle and a duller blade edge. Rodrick gets near it and sees a rotten hand arm holding it. Rodrick easily picks up the maul and swings it with little to no effort. He got close on the window and swings it vertically, it broke through three planks. He continued to cut it open and he manages to break through. He looks in it as the light bounces in and around the room. After his eyes adjusted to the darkness he can clearly see the ruined room and a biter dragged him in.

"Oh SHIT RODDY!!"

He immediately got up and sees the slender figure, despite being thin it has powerful strength. Part of his outfit was teared of by the plank, a part of his abdomen was scratched and it starts to bleed lightly. He gripped hard on the mauler and prepares to swing it. The biter starts to growl and groan at him as it get closer. Seymour thinks of a way to help Rodrick help him, he needs to find another way in to properly help him. The biter attacks quickly and Rodrick manages to put the hand on its mouth. He slips down on a pull of blood and fell on his buttocks.

The biter attacks him very quickly, he closes his mouth as tight as he can. Seymour finds a lightly barricaded door and pushes on it, after 3 hits he gets in. The building is dark and the slightest hint of light barely does anything for them.

"Stay on me Nevada"

"okay"

They can hear the shrieks of the biter and they followed the origin of the noise. They see a ray of light being disturbed by something, as they got around the corner Rodrick is fighting the biter. He throws the biter around but it quickly gets back on its feet and attacks him.

"A little help please"

"Yeah I'm on it"

Seymour grabs a vase and smashes it on the head of the biter. It incapacitated him a bit as they try to run away, the biter jumped on Nevada. Rodrick got on top of it and bars it with his axe. Nevada closes her mouth as tight as she can as she starts to cry. From the window beside them a crossbow bolt came flying through the window and kills the biter. Seymour grabs Nevada under the biter and cleanse hear, Rodrick drops the biter. He pulled the bolt off the head and looks through the window if there is anyone. He looks down and sees a crossbow and quiver for the crossbow bolts. He got around grabbed the free items, Seymour carrying Nevada followed him.

"Who the fuck was that?"

"No idea, but they were fast"

He looks down and sees 2 set of flashlights. A UV flashlight and a standard flash light.

"Uh huh?"

"Flashlights?"

"A UV and a normal one"

They used the 2 flashlights and they checked around the building with Nevada behind them. Rodrick uses the newly obtained crossbow and Seymour uses the splitting maul. They slowly look around the building, they even checked the corpses for anything. They found ammo and light armor from the national police. They equipped it and continued to explore.

"Fire axe"

"That's for you, already have mine... there's 2.. nevermind"

They grabbed the axes and used their belt as holsters for the small axe. They managed to clear the building and finds the tools and a few medical items. They found MREs in a zip lock bag. They went to the door that Seymour opened and covered it with 2 waiting chairs. They looked for something comfortable to sleep, they used other waiting chairs as beds in a clean room.

"Time to sleep"

"Yeah, I'll watch first"

"Thank you"

"Are we through?"

"Dah.. have you pack things?"

"All of it"

"Good, we go to other house now"

Bogdan and Bruce successfully bakes through and connects the tunnel. They followed one tunnel and they can hear the outside. They see a trapdoor and Bogdan opens it by pulling the bar towards him and releasing a lock. The trapdoor opens and he first gets out, slowly. They pop out from the shed beside the home depot. Bruce confirmed this by looking through the opening on top of the shed.

"Nice, we get in there and find some weapons we can use"

"Cool, how do we get to there..."

"Through the front door, the biters here are the same so its fine"

"Good"

Bogdan opens the lock which was just chain by destroying it using a bolt cutter. The chains fell to the ground and they all quietly moved one by one. They went through the backdoors of the depot. The home depot door is also locked by chains.

"People wanted others to have easy"

"Guess so"

Bogdan broke the chains and they all got in, they used a pile of heavy tools to cover the door.

"All right, bring things that you can carry"

"Yes"

"Dah"

They all looked through different areas of the store but it was mostly stripped clean, they got to the middle of the building after a few minutes of searching. They put what they can find in the middle. 2 steel hand axe, sickle, billhook, and a sledgehammer.

"Well, not a lot to choose from"

"Its fine, if we get desperate the guns will do it for us"

"No guns... guns call dead"

"We know"

"All right, I'll have the billhook"

"I'll have serp"

"The sickle, then I'll have one of the steel hand axe-"

Orlando grabbed one of the axes shocking everyone. Orlando's eyes and the way he grips the axe shows that he knows what he is handling. Bruce grabbed the axe and the sledgehammer.

"Let the kid have it"

"Why?"

"He knows how to use it"

"We can't risk it"

"We also can't risk him being unarmed"

"He'll be on our sights"

"What if we got separate"

"It won't happen when you are there Zach"

"IF"

Bogdan and Caiti looked away and packed their acquired weapons. He handed the axe to Orlando to which he says 'I'm no kid'. Bruce smiled and shrugged the boy's hair, he puts his rifle to his back and they moved the barricade off. They stood to the door and looked outside if the horde has cleared a bit and they did, the trees helped in clearing them out.

"Where do you think they'll be heading?"

"The road"

"The interstate you're guessing Caiti?"

"Yep, its hard to tell which was is west"

"The sunrise will help"

"Looky there"

The sunrise rose directly to their left as they looked through the window. They all agreed the opposite is where they are heading.

"Guess we'll go right"

"Yep"

"Wait, we need to be distinct from the others, add a little light color"

"Lime paint? Or yellow and bright"

"There is Orange paint?"

The orange paint has already dried, they all sighed.

"Guess we're eye balling, I mean-"

"We just head north, we don't have to complicate it now"

They all got into a line with Orlando on his back. He hides his face on Zach's shoulders as he is afraid of he surroundings. The dead is revealed slowly by the rising sun, they can clearly see the rotting faces of the dead. It made everything much eerie, but much better for them. Bogdan is directly in front of the 2 and they can clearly see him we would turn around to wait for them, as to not lost their way. After a painfully long hour moving slowly in the crowd they finally arrive at the interstate. They all arrived one by one, the horde from Phoenix has also arrived.

"Let's move to Flagstaff"

"Got that right"

They immediately lost sight of the horde in the forest as their colors completely blend in with the greenness of the village. They moved in front and among the horde as they can see the 'Bawlers'. The loud screeching as if it is in command, an intelligent one. The brain of the horde.