The Store

(Back to third person.)

Joel and Henry had survived the riot. They checked each other to see if they were alright. The young boy asked the cop why they would run away from the police which he explained they would not allow them to get to safety as he knew why they were here. They needed to get out of the white zone if they were going to make it to the evacuation site further west of the city, but someone had found them. A grey armored person found them in the ally way and started to slowly go towards them hands raised. It was covered in blood and the gear looked to be severely damaged. The helmet visor was cackled and Joel and the Henry saw the face of it. It was infected and had started to go towards them. Joel made Henry stay behind him he panicked as the armored zombie growled Joel knew that his gunfire would attract unwanted attention and quickly made Henry pass him his knife he had in his pocket.

Upon getting the knife he stood up and charged towards the zombie. Joel shoulder tackled the zombie to the ground its amour was heavy for it. As the zombie was on the ground he stabbed the zombie in the unprotected part of its neck. The knife went inside his skull and blood gashed out of its neck. Joel kept stabling it until the body was lifeless. Joel stayed on top of the dead zombie catching a moment to think about what happened.

"Is it dead?" Henry said hiding behind a dumpster.

"Yea it is am pretty sure." Joel said catching his breath again.

"How did they become one of the monsters?"

"Am not sure." Joel answered

Joel motioned for Henry to come towards him. He told him that they needed to sneak past the police in order to get to evacuation site. Henry agreed with Joel and they both left the alley way. Joel's Phone was going to die so he switched it off to save its battery as because of the map on the phone and they and no other way of seeing it. As they walked across the street Joel carefully listening to any sounds or movement they checked the area for supplies. For awhile they walked in the city following the map on the phone until they found a supermarket.

"Am hungry." A noise of a rumbling stomach was heard.

"Alright we will go and find some food okay but were not staying there forever." Said Joel sternly.

"Okay!"

"Wait let me see if anyone inside."

Joel checked inside through the glass of the store and saw nothing it was clean like just before the outbreak somehow. As they walked towards it the store's doors opened automatically it seemed it had power since it was still the first day of the outbreak. As the young boy checked the small store for food. Joel checked the counter. The store owner either had left or died. Joel went over the counter and opened the register. He grabbed a few dollar bills and stuffed them into his pocket. He checked Henry who had found a bag of chips and ate them happily. Joel then looked around the store and it had a lot of food and goods but they had no bag to carry it all.

"Henry after you eat we got to go okay!" he yelled across the store. Henry at the other end would hear him.

"Yes sir!" He responded munching on some potato chips. They both spend some time together resting and talking about Henry's school.

"I love these chips!", Cried Henry as he ate them.

"When I was your age, I also ate a lot junk food, but they are unhealthy so we should not eat too much. "Joel replied to Henry.

"I understand that." Henry replied.

They then left the store and went through the streets again. They stayed close and were alert for any zombies or hostile people.