Chapter 1 Coming Down
A man ran as fast as his legs could carry him to a fenced off road with military guards and trucks on the other side. A guard noticed the man racing at them and he opened the gate with his gun out and pointing to the man.
"STOP RIGHT THEIR OR I'LL BE FORCED TO SHOT!" The guard screamed in a demanding voice.
"Don't! I'm alive!" The man called out with his hands in the air.
He slowed down to a walk before stopping entirely to catch his breath as he had been running for who knows how long. The man had a blue tank top, red running shoes, gray shorts, and a prosthetic arm; a scar also ran over one of his eye brows as well.
"Where did you come from?" The guard asked as he used a thermometer to check the man's vitals.
"I was in the Grand Prix and staying at the Beverly Hills hotel." The man explained, still out of breath.
"That's gotta be on the other side of the city, did you run all the way here, past them?" The guard asked as he pointed behind the man with his gun.
The man looked back and saw several figures sprinting to the gate at a rapid pace while letting out monstrous shreeks and roars.
"They couldn't catch up with me, I'm just too fast." the man explained as he walked into the fenced off area while the guards all ran to the entrance of the gate and started shooting down the figures.
Meanwhile in a casino another man came out of his hotel room with a doctor's outfit on. He swiped up a tag that had "Love you big bro" written on it in pink with little hearts on the rest of it.
"Dont worry little sis, I'm coming!" The man declared. He then saw a med kit that was in his room, thinking fast he picked it up before running out of the building. He ran to the evac point that was nearby and declared to be a doctor to get in and get the hell out of the area.
In another point of the evac center a woman in a black goth dress with black spiked boots, black gloves, and black hair put up in a braided bum was waiting in line with other survivors. Suddenly another woman pushed past everyone else in line and in the distraction the lady in the black dress managed to snap a photo of another person's digital ticket.
She then looked at the lady who pushed past the others as they all cursed her out annoyed with her. However the lady didn't bother and before the guard who was checking them out could say anything to her she pulled out a badge and showed it to him.
"Ah go on a head ma'am, it's an honor to see you here." The guard said after seeing the badge.
"I bet, this plague is soon gonna be wiped off the face of the earth." The woman said as she went in.
The goth lady didn't pay much mind to that as she only cared about getting to a safe place right then and there. So when it was her turn she showed the guard the info she stole and he scanned it. Much to her relief it was accepted and he allowed her in.
"Better get a move on, it's only the calm before the storm." The woman advised as she went in.
Some time later a man was driving a race car right next to the plane that all the survivors were getting on. He stopped it and hopped out, he had an orange racing suit on and he smiled when he saw the place.
"Wow this place is getting full, better get a seat before they're all taken." The man said as he tossed the keys to his car at a guard who caught them.
After he and some other survivors got on an earthquake hit, causing the plane to slide a little and the staircase that the other passengers were on to roll away a bit.
"Shit! Not a quake now!" A guard complained angrily. He then got a transmission on his walkie talkie and the person on the other end started explaining what was happening.
"The walls collapsed because of the quake! Walkers are starting to pore in! Get the hell out now if you want the survivors to remain as such!" The person on the other end of the walkie talkie blurted out.
The guard then slammed the door shut even though there were other survivors still on the staircase. However he knew there wasn't enough time to get them inside before the walkers got to the plane.
"Pilot! Get this in the air and get us out of here!" The Guard commanded in a demanding tone.
"On it! Passengers prepare for take off!" The pilot announced as she got the plane to start flying.
Meanwhile outside the plane on one of the wheels a stunt woman looked down as the plane flew up across the city that despite the current situation was still well lit up. She wore a pink crop top, a blue sleeveless over coat, magenta shorts with a chain belt, black and dark blue stockings, with silver colored boots. She then climbed into the plane via the wheel before it was closed up. Once inside she started looking for a way up into the main cockpit with the other survivors.
Inside the luggage compartment a man kicked open a big suitcase that he was hiding in before climbing out of it. He groaned as he got out and landed on the cold floor; standing up the man stretched his limbs as he'd been in that thing for a while. The man had tattoos, a sleeveless leather jacket, dreadlocks, sunglasses, leather boots, black pants, and brown gloves.
"Ugh, I really hope there's food on this flight, I'm starving!" The man said as he also looked around for a way up with the other survivors.
The stunt woman and the man soon meet up at a ladder that leads up to the main cockpit with the other survivors.
"Oh hey their hot cakes, where's your ticket?" The man asked flirting with the woman.
"Hmm, sorry I lost it in the panic." The woman said as she blew a bubble with some gum she was chewing on.
"If you got some more of that gum it will do." The man said.
"Why of course, here take some." The woman said as she pulled out a box that still had some gum in it.
The man took out a piece, took it out of the wrapper, and began to chew on it. The two then went up the ladder and saw other survivors celebrating their escape and how they were all still alive. As the two were walking past they overheard the strange woman talking to someone. They looked and saw her looking out the window with her hand on her ear.
"Yes I have it... understood I'm on my way... no h-he's dead... they're all still at large... affirmative I'll start as soon as I'm finished... see you then." The woman said, ending her call.
"Huh, wonder who she was talking to?" The man asked.
"I don't know but-" The woman was saying when she was cut off by someone screaming.
Everyone looked to where the screams were coming from and were horrified to see one of the passengers had turned and bitten another one. They all went into a panic and the pilot reported the situation to the authorities the moment they realized what was going on. As a result a missile was immediately fired at the plane to keep the infection out from the rest of the world.
Those who were still alive held on to whatever they could as the missile collided with the plane blowing off a huge hole in the side of it. Some passengers who were still alive had gotten sucked out, but thankfully the infected were also sucked out. However in a matter of seconds the plane crashed to the ground breaking apart and killing or injuring a few other survivors.
Some time had passed before the running man woke up to a terrible throbbing in his head. He felt like his brain was swelling up and putting pressure on his skull. He looked around as much as he could, as he didn't want to make his head hurt anymore. He was in a part of the cargo that was hit by the missile based on the hole he was under. Some parts of luggage were still on the carriers and some of the earth was scorched and upturned.
"Oh god dammit! Just when I thought I was able to ditch this hell hole." The man groaned as he got up.
"Hey! You're human!" He heard a woman ask.
He looked and saw the lady with black hair and dress standing not too far away from him with a medal scrap in her hands.
Yeah! Don't worry! I'm alive and not infected!" The man blurted out as he feared she was about to beat him with that scrap.
"Okay, I'm Jenifer by the way." Jenifer explained as she lowered her weapon.
"Nice to meet you, call me Kevin." Kevin said introducing himself as he reached out a hand hoping Jenifer would shake it.
"I'm not shaking hands with someone I don't know. Earn my trust then I'll shake your hand." Jenifer bluntly told him.
"Alright, alright, I understand." Kevin said as he got up.
He looked at himself and aside from some cuts he was lucky that he didn't have any serious injuries. He did have a slight throbbing in his hip but he decided he'll worry about that once he's somewhere safe.
"You alright Jenifer?" Kevin asked.
"Yeah, I did get smacked in the face by someone's case, but aside from some sores and a split lip, I'm feeling mostly alright." Jenifer explained.
"Okay, we should go out and see if anyone else is still alive." Kevin suggested
"Sure I cant trust people that well, but anyone who's not a walker I can try to get along with." Jenifer said as she started walking around.
The two searched through the broken plain for a bit and soon came across four other survivors. One of them was the man in the doctor's outfit, the race car driver, the stunt woman, and the man with the tattoos.
"Hey! You are all human!?" Kevin called out getting their attention.
"Yeah we're good! I'm Leha! By the way!" The stunt woman called out.
"And I'm Ray! And I'm alive as well!" The man in the doctor's outfit yelled out.
"Call me Aaron! And I'm not infected myself!" Aaron the tattooed man called out.
"I'm Sean! And I'm well and healthy! So don't worry I'm alright!" Sean called out.
"Good! Cause if any of you were then I would've killed you on the spot!" Jenifer threateningly declared.
Her and Kevin then jumped down from where they were and joined up with the others.
"Damn, just when you thought you were going to get out alive. Now what do we do?" Leha asked as she looked around the place and their current situation.
"Why are you asking me? I'm not a guard or anything, just a waitress who had to steal the info of someone else just to get the fuck out of this place!" Jenifer angrily explained while waving her scrap around in the air.
"Hey! Let's not yell at each other alright? We're all tired and hungry, we just need to find a safe place to hold up with food and shelter till we can get help." Ray explained.
"Normally I wouldn't listen to someone who wasn't a part of my gang, but considering that they're all dead I guess I could consider you all my new gain till further notice." Aaron explained.
"Good to know you're willing to listen." Sean said.
Just then the group heard someone groaning in clear pain from under some scrap. They all went over to where they heard the sounds and saw a woman's head sticking out from some scrap she was buried in. Aaron looked at her and noticed she was the same woman he and Leha had seen talking to someone earlier.
"Is she infected?" Jenifer asked, holding the scrap tightly in her grip so much that her knuckles were popping out of her hand.
"Someone help me get this stuff off of her and I'll cheek!" Aaron called out.
Kevin and Ray walked up and helped Aaron lift some of the scraps and broken material off the woman. With the three of them working together they were able to lift everything off of her. Aaron pulled her out of where she was and the whole group was able to get a better look at her condition.
They saw that she was wearing a beautiful white long dress, or it at least still out beautiful without all the rips, tares, and blood stains on it. She had lightly tanned skin with some lines visible from a bathing suit on the exposed parts of her shoulders and back. Her hair seemingly used to be up in a french braid but now had fallen out and some remains of what were once hair pics and clips could still be seen in her hair. The woman's arms had some visible cuts on them and a big gash was on her head bleeding badly. Some long cuts where on her left leg thankfully it wasn't big or deep enough to need stitches, just some medicine and bandages would do.
"Dam she got fucked up... and that dress looked so pretty." Leha said as she looked at the now ruined dress.
"Dam looks like we'll need to get her somewhere to be patched up safely." Kiven said as he observed the injuries.
"Well thankfully we have a doctor, right Ray?" Jenifer asked.
"Um... well I uh..." Ray was trying to explain but couldn't get the words out.
"Oh what? You're not a doctor?" Jenifer asked sarcastically.
"Um.. no I'm not I was pretending to so I could get out of here and find my little sister. I'm really just a clothing designer, nothing big, just stuff for restaurant themes mainly for strippers." Ray explained.
"OH FUCKING GREAT! So we got a fake doctor who makes the kinds of stripper outfits I had to wear at my job just to Fucking eat!" Jenifer screamed angrily.
"Wowow! Listen! Lets not flip okay! Now listen we need to find a place to hold up with medical supplies! I've seen the paramedics at my race courses patch up racers who'd crashed a million times and I had taken some emergency care lessons so I might be able to do the job and fix her up!" Sean explained trying to pacify Jenifer.
"Well if you do know that! Then let's get going, I have a feeling that some walkers are charging at us because of the commotion the plane made while crashing." Jenifer explained.
"I agree with her, I shed too much blood just to die now. I planned on getting out of here with my life and I intend on living!" Aaron explained.
"And I didn't run halfway across the whole damn city avoiding walkers just to die now!" Kevin stated.
The rest of the group all agreed to get out before more trouble arrived to eat their face. However before Aaron could grab the woman Jenifer lightly pushed him out of the way and kneeled down to her. She grabbed onto the base of her own dress and tore a long piece off. Using the fabric she tore off Jenifer grabbed onto another medial scrap, wrapped it around the scrap, put it in the woman's mouth, and finally tied it to the back of her head tightly.
"Um hey what's that for?" Leha asked, confused by Jenifers actions.
"Incase she is infected and turns it'll prevent her from biting any of us." Jenifer explained.
"Aww you looking out for us?" Aaron asked in a teasing tone.
"Don't get any ideas! I just did that so I wouldn't die! I've worked too hard throughout my life just to die now!" Jenifer snapped.
Aaron backed up and Jenifer scoffed before she got up and walked away from the strange woman. Aaron then picked her up and threw her over his shoulder; the group then started making their way out of the crash sight. The roars of walkers could be heard in the distance so they quickened up their pace in order to get away faster.
Running through the destroyed area they were soon able to get away from the crash and onto a dirt road that led into the now destroyed city the sun seemingly now rising bringing light on LA now reduced to rubble and walkers. Without much choice the group ran into the city despite it crawling with walkers they didn't know where else they could go currently. Racing for their lives the group ran into the suburban area of the city that isn't too far away from the beach and had plenty of abandoned houses. They went inside a random house and thankfully there weren't any signs of walkers inside the place.
"Alright Sean, you patch up that lady, Aaron you and Kiven look around for any weapons, Leha and Ray look and see if there's any food here. I'll keep an eye out for any walkers." Jenifer explained.
"I'm up for finding a weapon that'll allow me to bash in the skull of the walkers who took my gang from me." Aaron stated firmly as he sat the woman down on a table in the kitchen.
After setting her down he and Kevin explore the house looking around for any weapons they could use. Sean meanwhile looked around the house and thankfully found a med kit in the first floor bathroom that was sitting next to the living room. With the med kit in hand he started patching up the woman's wounds hoping she'd wake up soon. Leha started rummaging through the fridge and cabinets for any food. She was able to find some food, some was expired so she threw it out of the kitchen window, while others were thankful it was still good to eat. Ray had even found some energy drinks and water for them to drink which was great for them all.
After half an hour Sean was finished patching up the woman and she was now on the couch still unconscious. The others had all gathered up in the living room munching on the good food and discussing what to do next.
"Alright so the plane was a good plan, till there was an infection on it which caused it to be shot down." Kevin explained recalling the current events.
"Yeah so unless any of you know how the hell to drive a boat or fly a helicopter then I don't see any other way for us to get out of this city." Aaron said.
"Thanks for pointing out the obvious! Ugh! I cant believe I'm gonna die in the same fucking city I had to work as a stripper in for three damn years! I would've been better off with my idiotic foster family!" Jenifer complained slightly tipsy as she had gotten her hands on some wine and had half the bottle already.
Leha slowly took the wine out of Jennifer's hand and sat it next to her while saying "I think you had enough already. If we get attacked we're gonna need to be sober."
"Just let me be drunk! It's not the worst way to go out." Jenifer said her voice sounded a bit slurred.
Jenifer tries to grab the wine bottle but stops when a grone comes out of the strange woman. The group looked and saw she was stirring in her sleep, indicating she was waking up. The woman soon opened her eyes, groaning as she was in some mild pain, and rubbing her head.
"Ugh... w-whats going on?" The woman asked weakly.
"Hey, you alright." Kevin gently asked as he got closer to her. The woman looked over to him and observed his face for a bit, she then looked to everyone else and observed them as well.
"W-Who are all of you?" The woman asked.
"I'm Kevin, this is Sean, Aaron, Ray, Jenifer, and Leha." Kevin explained introducing everyone and himself.
"Ugh, N-nice to meet you all. Oh my head hurts... um... do any of you live here?" The woman asked as she looked around the place.
"No none of us live here, we're just hiding out till we can find a way out of the city." Sean explained.
"W-Why? What's going on in the city?" The woman asked, confused by what they were saying.
"Are you joking? The thing that's been happening for almost a month now! The very thing that has turned LA into even more of a hell hole than it already was!" Jenifer claimed still tipsy and clearly annoyed.
"Um... what's that again?" The woman asked, still very confused.
"Well um, that's not important right now. Let's just say we found you injured after the plane we were on crashed so we brought you here and patched you up." Leha explained.
"Yeah and now that you're awake, why don't you tell us your name." Ray suggested.
"Alright my name is... My name is... Um it's uhh." The woman was trying to say but it was like she couldn't.
"Hey you alright miss?" Kevin asked as he noticed the woman struggling.
"I-I don't remember my name... I-I don't remember anything! It's all blank! I-I CAN'T REMEMBER!" The woman screamed as she began to freak out as she realized all her memories were gone.
"Oh shit! She must've hit her head harder than we thought if her memories are gone." Sean said as he realized that the woman's injuries are more serious than they originally thought.
"Okay! Memory loss that's bad, so I guess we'll need to give you a temporary name till you can remember your real one." Aaron suggested.
"Uh Y-Yeah I think I can go for that till I can regain my memories." The woman said.
"Okay so why don't we call you Rachile then?" Ray suggested.
"I guess that will work for now." Rachile said, accepting the temporary name.
"Alright now we just need to discuss a plan of action." Kevin said as she sat back in his original spot.
The group then began talking about any possible way out of the city, while Rachile thought over things. She couldn't remember where she was, who she was, or what was even going on. She did hope that she would get her answers along with her memories soon, as she didnt know why but she just had this feeling that she was needed somewhere else.
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