I yawned and rubbed my eyes, adjusting to the dark lighting. Yep, night time again.... I know that I won't be able to go back to sleep. What do I do now? Its awfully quiet here, not that I mind the silence, it just gets boring and lonely very quickly. My gaze travelled to, what looked like a moving shadow. I opened my mouth, about to call out and ask who's there, but then remembered; that would be stupid. 1, It could be a monster, and 2, I have a 99.9% of dying or attracting other hostile creatures. So I decided to seal my mouth shut.

I gazed up at the moon and found myself staring at the stars, billions of gas particles that formed into a single thing. Facinating. I looked towards the moon and realised it was almost a full moon. Shit. Better go now to get supplies, next night, shit is about to get real.

I grabbed my, well, lets call it a machete and my Pistol, but im not that stupid, I managed to get to a gun store and get all of the stuff in it, so Im pretty stacked. On my pistol I have a surpressor. This basically silences the noise of my gun if I shoot, and attracts less enemies.

I looked up to be greeted by the break of dawn. I jumped down from my second-floor camp-out. Lets do this.

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Dust rose behind me as I lightly sprinted down the abandoned alleyways. I jumped over a broken window frame and rapidly crouched behind a crate. There stood about 5-6 zombies if I counted correctly. My clip only has enough to take down 2 of them. Shit. Plan, Mini, you need a plan. You may be thinking right now, go to the other buildings, Mini, its safer there, you dumbass. Nope. I just hit a jackpot. 11 cans of food, 7 waterbottles, a couple juice boxes and 2 first aid kits. Hell no Im not leaving this place. I peeked out and aimed my gun at the infected's head. Deep breaths, Craig. You can do this. You can pull this off. I raised the gun and shot.

BANG

BANG

BANG

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2 down, 3 to go. The 3 others noticed me and were already heading my way. Shit. Uhh.... I grabbed the nearest beer bottle and steadied my breathing. I ducked behind the crate and threw the bottle at the opposite corner of the room from me. The creatures seemed to get distracted and I quietly sneaked around and to the table. I grabbed the stuff and just as I was about to run, something caught my leg.

I fell down with a yelp as my gun slid away from me. I turned over and cursed under my breath. I forgot about crawlers. I was now pinned against the corner as the monstrosity was getting closer every second. Its in-human face was an inch away from mine when suddenly, something burst through the window and attached the crawler that was about to bite me. I took the opportunity I had and dashed for the exit. I made it out safely. Thank god. I wiped the sweat off and walked down the road, only I wasn't aware of the company I had brought with me until I looked down. It was a wolf. I gulped. That thing can kill you with 1 or 2 bites. Very lethal.

I pretended like it wasn't there and continued walking. I reached my hideout and did a little bit of parkour to get up to my camp. The wolf followed my pattern of jumps and soon was in my camp. I didn't know what to do.

I looked at the wolf as he just sat there. Then I noticed something odd. A collar? On a wolf?

I moved a little closer and the wolf didn't seem to mind. I reached out and lifted the collar up slightly to show me the name tag.

'Ice'

What kind of wierd name is that?

"Your name is Ice?"

I had nothing better to say. The wolf just gave a slight nod and wagged its tail a little.

"Ice.... Who is your owner?"

The wolf figited around a little bit before he shook the collar off himself. I took it and flipped it over.

"De...?"

I pushed my glasses further up my nose and brought the collar closer to my face.

"Deli...?"

I gave it another try.

"Delirious?"

What? Doesn't that mean like 'Insane' or some shit? Whatever. At least I got some company. I gotta admit. Ice is one of the smartest animals I've seen in my life. I asked him a couple of questions, they were yes or no questions, since Ice can't answer differently. He seemed to understand my language perfectly. That is until I got to one question.

"Is your owner alone?"

He seemed to tremble slightly and I barely noticed the shake of his head.

"Hey, we dont have to continue if you dont want to. You hungry?"

He seemed to relax a bit and stood up, wagging his tail and hanging his tounge out of the side of his moth.

I opened a can of beef stew and poured it into a wider can for him to eat it easier. I smiled when he dug into the food. I sat down away from him and opened my drawing pad. It was filled with doodles from video games and shit from real life. Heck, it has some private stuff in it. I felt my cheeks heat up. Shit. Need to work on hiding my emotions better. I sat down and started drawing some random Crap that came into my head. I didn't notice that Ice sat down next to me until I felt a nudge.

"Huh?"

I turned my body 90 degrees to the right and stoped drawing. Ice stared at me, then at the paper, then at the pencil. He lightly nuzzled my hand and it made an 'E'.

"You want me to write?"

He wagged his tail.

"What do you want me to write?"

He seemed to have the trouble of explaining. So I started guessing.

"A roleplay?"

Shake.

"A debate on vigeo games or...?"

Shake.
That semmed stupid anyway.
I thought and after about 2 minutes, an Idea finally popped into my head.

"A... Letter?"

Ice put his paws on my lap and licked my face. I laughed a little and scratched him behind his ear.

"Ohhh. A letter to Delirious?"

He shooke his head and stood up. He used his tail as a brush and wrote something in the dirt and stand...

'Va...n..os..s?'

"Vanoss?"

The wolf barked and nuzzled my leg.

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I thought for a long time what to write. And finally came up with an idea.

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To Vanoss,

I have absolutely no idea who you are, but Ice had saved my life and made me write this letter. Well, what can I say? Im a guy who has survived so far in this applcypse, I have absolutely no fucking idea what Im doing and how I managed to survive this long, but, who gives a fuck, right? Well, I guess Ice took this to you. Uhh..... Should I even wish you luck?

Well... If you ever, for some reason, want to find me, Ice can take you to me.

-The stranger who got saved by your wolf, or, you can just call me Mini.

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I clipped the collar back onto Ice and pinned the letter to it. I sat up and looked at him. I smiled a real smile, a smile I haven't smiled in a long time.

"It was nice having you here as a guset, I guess you should get going now, it's gonna be full moon soon."

Ice's eyes widened when I said that. It sort of looked like that 'oh shit' look.

I looked up to see that its dusk now.

"Ice.... How far is your base?"

He looked down and bent his ears.... Im guessing pretty far.

"Hey, stay here for another night, you can eat, too. What do you say?"

He tilted his head up at me and started wagging his tail slowly. I smiled and closed my eyes.

"Great!"

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The night went by almost as peaceful as the previous, only thing is that this time, Ice cuddled into me and I put my arm around him. I heard a few disturbing groans, but I held my breath and kept as still and quiet as I could. The night passed by without much trouble and It was time to say goodbye To Ice.

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"You know..... It was fun having you around. Now... Its just gonna be lonely again..."

I looked down, but the smiled.

"Hey, just promise me yoy will get there safely and give them the letter."

He looked at me and nodded. I leaned closer and hugged him lightly around his neck.

"Take care, man.... Hope to see you some other time"

With that, I said my final goodbyes and escorted him out of my camp ground.

I sighed and returned to my sleeping quaters... It sure is lonely now.... Infected dont have much friendlieness in them, so thats out of the list.... Bow about birds? Crows, ahhh, the good old black crows..... They only harm and dont do good. Bugs? I'd rather not think about that.

I swung slightly in my hammock and drifted to the endless dark void they call sleep.

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