With a sharp pain to my head, I sit up, pinching the bridge of my nose.

I look around only to see a few roamers still pounding their fists against the window. I take a deep sigh, I have to get moving, maybe if I search the corpse I will find some keys and run out through the back.

Maybe Aurei ran to the woods....maybe she's with someone....I can't sit there and be too stubborn for my own good.

I slowly get up, feeling my head slightly ache, but I walk towards the corpse, covering my nose and searching the pockets, I pull out a set of keys, I get up and walk towards the back door, opening it to see the sun shining down as usual. A couple of roamers are just staggering around, in the parking lot there was a truck, the paint about faded and one of the windows shattered.

I run towards it, opening the door with the keys in my hand and checking the back seat before getting comfortable, I close the door and toss my bag and gently placed my assault rifle against the passenger's seat. I use the other key to start the car, it cranks up and I put on my seatbelt, pulling out and driving out down the road, speeding my way out and going down another bridge.

After a couple more miles, I start seeing more trees, the car starts to slow down.

"Dammit." I mutter, stopping the car, I'm out of gas already.....I'll need to make a camp into the woods then travel in the morning.

I step out of the car, grabbing my bag and my revolver, I don't need the rifle, I'm out of bullets so it's pretty much useless now....tomorrow I'll have to travel on foot to find Aurei, she's probably in the woods.

I walk across the road and into the woods, looking around, there were a couple of dead deer, I close my eyes. Dad and I wouldn't kill any rabbits or deers that were ill. I shake my head and kept walking, only to hear a couple of voices.

I hide behind the bushes, taking out my dagger. There was a jug full of something that smells like gasoline. I pause but stay silent.

"Hey, I'll go look for the stuff Linette left out here, you check the place out, the last people left gasoline around here." I hear a man say, I peer at the woman with tousled black hair and pale skin who takes out her glock.

"I'll be back Beatrice, camp is nowhere far." The man in the beanie says and walks away. She walks around, I could feel my heart beating slowly against my chest.

She walks towards the tree.

"Fucking Carson, fuck the vipers, if it were up to me those people would already be dead....they're useless..." She mutters.

Aurei has mentioned that Cassie had escaped from these vipers, according to Cassie, they were bad people. No wonder she had that cut on her arm before she died...

Two roamers stagger towards her, she shoots one....then she keeps pulling the trigger, she's out of bullets but she takes out a dagger, stabbing it by the head and struggling to pull it out. I hear a rustle in the trees, she turns around and points her glock at the bush.

She's an idiot.

"Stand up." She said sternly. I do as she says, holding my hands up.

"C'mere." She orders, using her glock as she becons me to come closer, I slide my dagger down my pants, acting like I'm adjusting my clothes.

"Bring that bag too." She adds. I know that she only has a dagger for a weapon.

"I have food....we can split it....then we can go our separate ways." I said, pretending to be helpless and scared.

"Or I can kill you, take it all." She said, her voice hardened and full of complete cruelty, if I was actually helpless, I would've been pretty screwed.

"P-please....it's all I have!" I pretend to start crying, the woman still looks me cold in the eye.

"You can just walk away...." I plead, the woman rolls her eyes.

"After I stab you in the head." She said heartlessly although I'm clearly faking, taking out her dagger and walking towards me.

I warned her.

I pull out my dagger as she swings her weapon at me, slashing my arm as she screams loudly. I dodge another one of her slashes and I tackle her, she tries to wrap her hand around my neck and the other manages to cut my leg but in one swift motion I plunge my blade into her forehead. She could've walked away.....why must every weak person take it the hard way?

"Beatrice!" I heard someone yell, I turn around to see the man in a beanie staring at me.

"You killed her...." He said, he walks towards me, before I could run away he pulls me onto my feet, I dig my fingernails into his wrist, drawing blood from his arm causing him to yelp out in pain and he drops me onto the ground, another woman walks up to us. Her hair is coal black, she wore a long sleeved faded blue shirt with a sleevless jacket on, she points her glock at me. The man stands up, kicking me in the stomach.

"Beatrice was useless anyway, she ate up all of our remaining food, forgot to reload her gun...we'll take this woman, just from looking she looks like she could be one of the vipers." She said, looking down at me.

"Connie that's nuts!" The man in the beanie yells.

"Keep it down Fernando." Connie warns.

"Who are you?" Connie asks me, I just glare at her.

"That's none of your business." I said icily. Connie rolls her eyes.

"I can easily kill you, so try not to be cute and just tell me your name." She said, kneeling down in front of me.

"I am someone you don't know. And if I were you....I wouldn't want to find out." I said, giving her the most emotionless stare possible.

"Okay miss feminist." Connie said as she points her gun at me. I hate it when people call me that.....I've been taught how to fight by my uncle, who's been in the military, but then again I'm not going to underestimate her....as long as she knows it's a big mistake for her to underestimate me, I remind myself not to get cocky and if someone tries to kill me, I show no mercy.

She grabs a fistfull of my hair, I use the back of my hand to roughly slap her, the sound almost echoing all over the woods, my hand slightly stings but I'm not going to let some bitch try to push me around.

I stand up, as she has her hand on her cheek, covering the red mark on her blemishing olive skin. I give her another punch in the jaw, her head snaps back but as she falls she kicks me in the stomach causing me to stagger back.

"You....bitch." She manages to say with her busted lip then she spits blood in my face, I kneel down to her level. The man in the beanie makes a run for it.

"I'm going to ask nicely..." I growl, my voice low.

"Have you seen a little girl?" I ask, going through my bag and showing her a picture of Aurei.

"She must be dead...." Connie says coyly, I grab my dagger and slashed her leg open, she yelps.

"I don't like doing this. But if you're going to sit there and think I'm going to believe that shitty lie then you're going to get another cut." I threaten, she clutches her leg.

"I haven't seen her at all....." Connie says.

"Stop." A grim voice calls out, I turn around to see a man with five other people behind him, even the beanie guy who must've belonged to the group.

"She killed off our biggest threat....this woman has some serious balls." The man chuckles.

His voice low key sent chills up my spine, I have to keep my nerve, if I did try to kill this man I wouldn't make it out alive. I stand up.

"Who are you?" The man asks.

"I'm Avery." I said boldly, taking a big step forward with a emotionless stare to prove that I'm not afraid of him, or anyone....or at least act like I'm not.

"I've seen you've beaten Connie....I can't just take you in without some sort of punishment!" He yells, a roamer comes from the tree a man stabs him through the head and yanks it out causing the roamer to fall. They've must've been here for a while, usually people would panic whenever a roamer appears in their sight.

I could feel the bile rise up my throat, something smelled weird....something burnt. I bend over to the side and puked, and it's pretty close to Connie.

"You're a little savage aren't you Ava?" He asks, his voice slightly cracks at the nickname he given me, I smile bitterly.

"Funny, coming from a man who's a savage himself." I said, wiping the vomit from my lips.

"You're heartless as hell....killed Beatrice so quickly, I can tell you really don't give two shits about the people you kill." He said, walking up close to me.

"I'm Carson, the leader of the vipers." He said, extending his hand, everyone gives me wry smiles but Connie just glares at Carson.

"Are we gonna forget that this bitch beaten me up?" She asks. Carson gives the girl on the right a look, she just walks towards Connie and pulls her onto her feet.

"Avery is gonna get what's coming to her, after we take her to the camp." Carson said.

"And weren't you supposed to keep an eye on the people in the vermin cage?" Carson asks, raising a eyebrow. Vermin cage?

"It's not a vermin cage-" Connie said but Carson cuts her off.

"Avery, if you didn't realize already.....we've been before the apocalypse happened. Vermin are the people who intrude and try to steal what's ours." Carson said, handing one of his men his crowbar.

"Isn't Beatrice a vermin?" One of the men asked.

"Of course she was, but she's still got something coming, come on Avery." Carson said, two men grabbed me and one of the women grabbed my bag and my gun. We walk past trees and into a clearing, it wasn't far.

There were cars that blocked the woods off, a delivery truck was in the middle, and two trailers blocked the rest of my view.

I get shoved into the clearing, seeing a huge fire being built and one of the men holding a huge gun. Carson grabs Connie by the arm, she yelps in pain as he kicks her leg.

"That's for leaving the spot I told you to stay in...but I'm not going to continue to beat you. But I will give you one last warning before I have you become one of my vermin." He growls, Connie pales and staggers back, running into the trailer.

This wasn't no ordinary gang, my thoughts begun to run through my head as a weird smell clouds the air, causing me to cough.

I have no time for this, I need to escape....and fast.