RIDE OR DIE

As soon as Oscar noticed that he immediately asked for the family to follow them. They looked at him in confusion but nonetheless they followed him, ignoring their need for medicine as Oscar looked healthy as their horses. They all packed everything and hooked their things on the horses saddles. They all rode on the horses, Oscar sat behind Josiah whose horse will lead the string of horses, Millie and her mother on the same horse and the 2 siblings on one horse.. They got to the road and they clearly see the horde coming out from it, it walked slowly towards them. They looked ahead on the road and they followed the vehicles.

The vehicles were surprisingly fast and kept a constant distant between them, they need to catch up to them as soon as possible. The cars can run for days and the only thing that needs recharging are the drivers, as for horseback riders the horses need to recharge. As they go on the road something unexpected and surprising for them starts chasing them down. A pack of the undead coyotes came forth. Their eyes are whites as if they have cataract, and their mouth drooling excessively of saliva, one nasty bite can cause it their lives.

The pack just snarls at them hungrily, the horses' tails hang around as the pack tries to bite on it. One got a lucky bite it pulled off a bit of its strand off, the horses neigh in pain from the sudden pull. Marcus' horses suddenly rushed to the front bumping on Josiah's horses, the horse continued to run on follow on the road except for Josiah's. Oscar is slipping of the horses and barely holds on to Josiah, the horses leaned on the left as that is where Oscar is hanging of, the horses ran left. Josiah and Oscar run off to a different direction.

Some coyotes jump and tries to bite on Oscar but each time they kept missing they learned, they wait as soon as there is no other of their kind in front of them then jump. Josiah manages to pull Oscar up except for the duffle bag behind, one of the coyotes bit on the back and it teared a hole. The duffle bag becomes a problem due to its durability, Oscar can feel the guns slipping on his back. He carefully took it off and flipped it so that the hole is on top not on the bottom.

He grabbed one of the guns and loaded a magazine into one of the rifles, and shoots the coyote, the head blew off. Oscar shouted in delight. The others heard the loud gunshot from where they are, and in front of them they can see the fleet of vehicles. More shots ringed out but the men on the vehicles cannot hear it, Marcus and Millie caught up first to the car and they tried to alert them of the gunshots.

"HE-"

Blood spewed onto Millie's face. They got out of the little forest and the light shined on what is in front of her. The men fired directly on his chest and he fall down on the ground with his horse. The other horses jumped over their fallen brother, some of the pack feasted on Marcus' body and the horse's. The horse neighed in pain and all the other 4 can do is look in front and cry. The pack still continued their pursuit. The men noticed what they have done and took a warning shot in between the horses. The horses were startled and the pack jumped on them took bites on their backpacks. Fortunately the bags save them and they managed to ride faster.

The men tries to shoot but Millie was quicker, she drew her gun and shot the man through the window. The men inside panicked and dropped the corpses, the horses barely jumped by the corpse and almost tripped. The coyotes yipped, and barked in a high pitch manner. The men got up and started to shoot at them, despite the targets being big and near them they seem be incompetent. The coyotes were shot but as it falls down it easily goes back, some are even missing parts of their bodies, even their jaws but they continued pursuit.

Everything seems to be in hell as they are pinned in between death sentences. The road was deteriorating and the vehicle is unstable, it became a factor as to why they are missing every shot. The driver tries his best to stable the vehicle to take the shot but they were to late, Millie is already beside the driver and she fired a shot. The bullet went through the driver's head and to the neck of the person sitting beside him. The driver's face hit the wheel hard and honked loudly, the car drifted of the road and barely missing her Mother Emma. The ignored the riders and they jumped on to one of the vehicles.

3 More drives in front of them, the cars starts to slow down and so did their horses because the pack is gone. It was obvious that the car that went adrift was not part of this group, they only remember seeing 3 cars run past them earlier. They come by and intersection and they were reunited with Oscar and Josiah in the most oddest way possible. The cars immediately revved loudly and followed them, the horses also followed. The vehicle behind them exploded and the coyotes' howls can be heard. The pursuing ones blindly charged ahead but the men in the cars immediately cleared all of them.

After a few more minutes of driving and ensuring that they are in the clear, the vehicles stopped to the side of the road and so did they. The horses went down and rested. Millie tells her father about what happened to his brother and the siblings bawled their eyes out. Millie hugs her mother as Josiah pulls her away from them. Josiah approached one of the men that came down and hit him through the helmet. The men came out of their trucks and they aimed their gun at them without a warning.

'STOP HE DIDN'T MEAN THAT!' Oscar went in between the men.

"There was another group on our asses, and your friend here managed to killed her for us... he should be thanking you"

"Why did you not save..... my boy?"

"We can't do anything, they were also aiming something at us"

"What?"

"An RPG, how does that sound..."

Josiah fell on his knees and started to cry, he though that he was ready to accept a death even if it someone close to him but he was not. The loss of someone close to you will always be painful.

"Hello"

"Who are you?"

Oscar grabbed the piece of cloth with the first skull that they first made, it was a bit worn out but noticeable.

"Who are you?"

"I'm Alpha, I was in charge of the group up on DC and Massachusetts"

"Was, what happened?"

"Well, long story"

Oscar explained everything from when he encountered the people at Washington and where they are at now. The men has a hard time believing him after the story that he said, the men wants proof by bringing them to community in Canada but Oscar cannot. Unfortunately they all start to disbelieve him the more he tries to persuade them. Oscar askes to reunite all of their members and go up against the people who took control.

"shit, this is all we got... We barely made it out of fucking Texas..."

"Its a all new different enemy out there... "

"And why should we help you, we already have no mission so we have to survive"

"Exactly, if we can somehow take over the community up in Canada.. we can survive"

"How can you be so sure?"

"We have electricity, food, clothes... some people with incredible professions are also starting to appear, in no time we can just stay out there and wait out all of this"

"Sounds to good to be true sir, can we really trust him?"

"All right, we can go to Minnesota... we can find a part of them there"

"Wait what about yo-"

"Didn't you hear us? We got massacred by some fucking new shitty species of those fuckers"

"What do you mean?"

"Like us, those fuckers can evolve and I mean fucking evolve"

"How?"

"The normal biters can bite and walk, and obviously you saw earlier, a pack of dogs-"

'coyotes'

"Yeah coyotes were not just wild, but dead and charging after us..."

"I though they were just seeing and learning, I did not know they can evolve"

"Yeah, now that I think about is... how about forming an alliance to that community instead of being a dick?"

"...."

"What have they done to you?"