A high piched ringing sound replaced the scream in Jezariah's ears. He bent down for a second and cupped his ears, wincing in pain. It made his head ache and his mind spin.
His eyes strained ooen after a second and he realized what was happening.
"Okay…." Jess said in a soft voice, still in a bit of pain. "That scream had to come from the second or third floor. If it did scream that means someone else is most likely nearby. You can stay here and hide but im going to go help whoevers up there." He says running towards the nearest staircase. Which happened to be old rickety metal planks basically melted together.
He felt horrible about staying down here whole they went upstairs to fight, he still just nodded along and watched as he went upstairs.
He went to hide behind something making sure he couldn't be spotted from the windows, holding himself in a tight grip.
Serenity was breathing heavily. Her muscles and wounds ached, her vision was starting to blur, and her legs felt like they were going to buckle underneath her, but she charged at the screamer anyway. Well, more like stumbled. After hours of running from screamers, and all the blood she'd lost on the way while having no time to tend to her injuries, she was exhausted. Unfortunately, she missed the screamer entirely, and it swiped at her, knocking her back against the wall, the knife skidding across the floor. The last thing Serenity saw before losing consciousness was a blurred figure appearing at the top of the stairs.
Angel and Corwyn ran out the doors of the local supermarket, three screamers trailing behind. The blonde girl pushed the doors closed and helped her friend shove over a nearby shelf, effectively blocking the door. The duo high tailed it out of there and back to the church they stayed in. Even though Angel would have preferred to sleep outside, it wasn't safe to stay out in the woods anymore. Not with those things around.
"Did anything follow us? " she asked, slipping inside. Corwyn looked back as he closed the door behind him. "Not that I can see."
(Sorry I took so long.)
(Thats totally fine!)
Jezariah stumbled up the stairs with the blood pounding in his head when he saw the girl go unconsious and the screamer making its way to her body, ready to rip it up.
Hopefully he would be able to save her. And thats what he thought as he ran towards the screamer with two machetes in both hands and a rope around his shoulder.
The screamer turned its head at an unearthly angle at the heavy sound of Jess's footsteps rushing towards it.
As it ran towards him he slid like he used to in baseball, reached the base anx winning the game with a home run (i have no idea how baseball works lol)
But this time he was sliding underneath the screamer as he wailed in pain and its insides spilled out onto the floor, and unfortunately Jess.
It stumbled around and let out a faint screach, obviously not done yet.
Jess slid a machete over to Nikko while still keeping the attention of the nightmare that stood before him. He took a firm step.forward, the adrenaline making him forget about his earlier wound, slashing at the screamers head. Missing, he looked over to Nikko, hoping he would ambush him and swing this things head off.
(you expect too much lol)
Nikko noticed the machete had slid over to him, he stopped cowering and reached for it, holding it tightly in his hands and swallowing his fear and aniexty, slowing his breathing down and taking off his bag and setting it down so it wouldn't weigh him down. He slowly and shakily and sneaked over to it and brought the machete down on the neck of the screamer hoping to slice its head off.
(He killed it didnt he? XD)
Jess let out a heavy sigh, still holding tight to his machete. "Good job my man" he says wiping off the black goo like substance off his hands.
Looking over to the unconsious bodynof the girl bear the wall, he stumbled over to her and knelt down, checking her pulse and sitting her up.
"Shes still alive. Shes bleeding out but not too much. I think she passed out from a concussion" he says looking around for any water.
"Yo, you got medical training. What should we do?" He looked over to Nikko
Nikkō had to stand there and process things for a few seconds before he finally registered that he killed it. "I..d-did?" He dropped the machete and went over to the unconscious girl.
"Well we need to disinfect and bandage all of her wounds at the very least." He got out his supplies, starting to treat her visible cuts. He would disinfect the wound and then apply the bandages and if there was any horrible wounds he would stitch later.
"We can worry about disinfecting later. Infections wont kill her if she didnt get bit. We gotta stitch her up before she bleeds out." He says moving the hair out of her face. She was still breathing…barely.
"Damnit" he mumbled under his breath.
Mocha padded up to the two newcomers and sniffed at them tentatively. After a moment, the dog decided they were alright, and turned to Serenity, nudging her gently. She whimpered, and laid down with her head resting on the girl's leg.
Jess lookee to the side at the dog in visible confusion. "Wait…this must be her dog or something." He says with a sigh.
He turned to Nikko "okay im gonna carry her to a safer room. This ones too out in the open. Hopefully she wakes up soon." He says with a grunt as he picked her up carefully.
Nikko reached own and held out his hand letting the dog sniff it before petting it gently. "good boy."He turned towards jess and nodded.
"okay, l-lets g-go." He stood up, preparing his stuff to leave.
Soon, after walking around and searching with the girls body in his arms, they stepped into a closed off room that had tables, broken chaors, one sink (hopefully it worked) and a few broken machines, crushed on the floor.
"Hey, can you clear of that one table. We can set her on that and you can stitch her up before he dies." He says notioning towards the metal table closest to them.
"Ill clear this place out and see if that sink works while you work on her to"
He simply nodded to his request, going and cleaning off the table, using a wipe to clear it off. as soon as she was set down he started to stitch her up, going slow and steady before patching up and checking all her other wounds for infection.
"S-sink work? a-also d-dont forget to c-check y-your wound for a-any i-infection or i-infected f-flesh."
He rolled his eyes as he turned the sink on, struggling to. And when it did it squirted him in the face before it started running.
He turned it off and turned back to Nikko as he operated on the girl. He hoped shed make it… he didnt even know her name
He snapped out of his thoughts and started moving the box-like metal machines on the floor to the sides. If a screamer smelled the blood and came in here, he wasnt about to fall down on one of these things and break his back.
"Dont worry about me. Ill be fine. The sink works" he grunted, setting another machine down.
Looking at them, the wires attacked to them and the skits in them, he hadnt seen anything like that. But it was a factory used to make whatever the hell they made back then. This place looked like it had run down even bedore the apocalypse.
"Where was she bleeding out anyway?" He asks looking around the room for any light source. He knew the long glass lights hanging from the ceiling wereny about to turn on.
Well…the ones that werent broken. All electricity had been out for the last year at least. He had his stash of lighters in his back, but that was all the way down on the first floor. And they were on the third. The highest floor.
He huffed at Jess's stubbornness, fixing up the stitching and cleaning the wound before putting a fresh bandages over it and turning back to Jess.
He walked over to Jess and stood in front of him. "I'm going to c-check your w-wound w-whether you like it, or not. D-don't j-just say y-your fine. Y-you a-actually g-got bit." He leaned down and peeled back the bandage to check on his bite,
"s-she was b-bleeding o-out on h-her l-left s-side, she m-must have hit it against s-something o-or gotten it before she e-encountered t-the screamer."
Mocha sniffed around the room, as if trying to make sure there wasn't anything nearby. Satisfied that it was safe, she lay under the table, waiting for Serenity to wake up.
(I know I should probably make it longer, but there's not really much I can do with a dog.)
(Thats totally fine hun! You can have her wake up soon if you want lol. Like we can do a time skip to later on by like a few hours)
Jess pulled back, refusing the medical attention. He was stubborn but he also didnt like people worrying about him. So he didnt let him touch him or the bandage.
"Well it was a cut so it was probably the screamer. Now for me on the other hand, im fine. I can deal with it myself. It wasnt that bad anyway and its not like im gonna turn into one of them or anything" he rolled his eyes
(Shoukd we time skip?)
Serenity slowly blinked open her eyes, finding herself in a strange room. Her eyes widened and she cautiously glanced around. The room was full of tables, some of which were covered in dusty old junk. There were two others in the room, but she couldn't see Mocha anywhere. She slowly tried to sit up, but fell back against the table, letting out a cry as pain shot up her side. A bark came from next to the table as Mocha's face appeared in Serenity's vision.
Jezariah shot up from the ground he was laying on, realizing his leg had fellen asleep, he quickly hit the cold tile floor again before getting back up.
"Hey hey hey now dont sit up. You were dying so we kinda…ya know fixed ya back up" he let out an awkward chuckle.
"Thw stitches are still a bit fresh and we didnt have any numbing pain so its still gonna hurt a bit. Dont worry your pups safe" he smiled at her
(I'm thinking of trying again to add in my character, it seems like I chose the wrong place to jump in last time lol. Can she come find you guys as well?)
(Yeah thats totally fine! Dont overthink it! We're just here to have fun! Not to judge. Add your character im however you want, as long as it follows the guidelines (you can be as dramatic as you wsnt too lol. I live for that stuff XD)
He noticed her sitting up and then laying back down with a cry of pain.
"Ah- u-um, i w-wouldnt s-sit up y-yet." He spoke softly walking over to her, and flashing her a small smile.
"L-like he s-said, y-your d-dog i-is okay, and r-rather a-adorable." he spoke softly still.
"Yeah, okay." Serenity said, nodding. "No sitting up. Got it." She held up her hand in a sort of wave. "Nice to meet you. Thanks for, you know, saving my life and all." She gave the guy a grin. "Name's Serenity, and this is Mocha." She gave the dog a pat on the head. "And you are…?"
"Y-your w-welcome." he smiled softly at her before going down to pet mocha.
"I-its n-nice to m-meet you as w-well Serenity, M-my n-names n-nikko.." he turned his face towards her once again having soft smile on his face.
He looked to Nikko then the dog before his gaze met the girls again. "Im.Jezariah. call me.Jess though" he says sitting back down against the wall. "Sorry about the whole almost dying thing" he says, sounding more like a statement than an apology as he looked up to the ceiling before closing his eyes.
(okay I finally figured out how to set this up lol)
Nina was dangerously close to starvation.
The need for food hadn't seemed that urgent until a few days ago, but when the hunger hit, it was so intense that she almost couldn't walk. Her original supplies had been lost in a screamer attack, and she'd been forced to leave her hiding place on the far end of town and go searching for something, anything, that was edible.
At first, she was optimistic. She had plenty of water, and the town was mostly deserted. There had to be some canned food or wild plants nearby, she thought. But as one day passed without finding food, then another, she began to realize that soon she wouldn't have the strength to keep looking. It was frightening to realize how easily she could die out here.
She tried hunting for food, but she was a softhearted person who avoided killing, and this meant she was out of practice using her bow and arrows. Despite her persistence, the few rabbits she found all escaped with their lives. At that point, she was beginning to get very desperate.
So when she entered an abandoned building and heard voices, she didn't think twice. Drawing her knife and forgetting she didn't know how to fight, she staggered up the stairs and burst into the room, leveling her weapon at the three young people sitting there.
"Give me something to eat," she demanded, her voice and limbs trembling. "Now."
Serenity was tempted to try to sit up again at the sound of the girl's threat, but she thought against it. Instead, she moved her hand across the rest of the table, searching for a weapon or something to defend herself with. Mocha growled, already on her feet, and with her fur bristling. The dog bared her teeth and let out a series of angry barks.
Jez popped up at the sound of an unfamiliar voice. "Woah woah woah there. How bout you ask nicely. Ive got a few cans of beans and raviolis for ya but put the knife down" he says standing up and slowly coming towards the girl. It was obvious she was starving and was losing control. But he wasnt about to let this chick waltz in with a knife demanding for dome food.
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