A/N: Well... It's been a long time...

We were running fast. We had to meet back at the camp by nine o'clock and it was already half past two. I'd almost forgotten about our weapons but luckily Jack reminded us all before we set off.

Our group had set off through the woods heading North. Caitlin had figured this out, she was the smart one of the group. She had a great sense of direction and a lot of random knowledge stuffed in her brain.

Olivia was the quickest runner out of all of us. We were all determined to catch up with her which consequently left us gasping for air when we decided to rest. Harvey split up a breakfast bar between the nine of us; obviously we didn't get that much of it but we needed energy.
"where do you think he is?" Annabel asked. "Sergeant Joe?"
"I don't have a clue, he's too hardcore to be dead, right?" said Theo
"Yeah, he's got to be alive somewhere" Harvey reassured but even he looked worried.

We all gathered our stuff as it was time to set off again; hopefully we will find Sergeant Joe, please be alive!" I thought.
As we were walking, the faint smell of rotting flesh danced around our noses. We all stopped and glanced at each other- we were all thinking the same thing. Cautiously, we took step by step to the place where the putrid smell was coming from. Closer... Closer... And then we saw...
Him