"We need to go to school bus parked outside the school. In my mark, just run and do not look back, got it?" a burly man with blonde hair around mid or late forties and wearing a black windbreaker armed with a Fire Axe softly said to the people behind him. There two adults and the seven kids from ages around nine to twelve years old. There are currently two male and one female adults among them and the kids all had fear plastered on their faces and the oldest of them are all armed with metal bats.This blonde man wanted for them to escape this school immediately the moment he heard those blast of gunfire, cannon fire from another direction and the sound of helicopters roaming the skies above the city and he wanted to take this chance for them to escape while the most of the zombies would certainly head towards where the sound is coming from and to either escape towards the people fighting the zombies or to leave the city instead.
The burly man who"s probably their gym teacher slowly and carefully opened the main entrance of their school as his other hand gripped tightly on his weapon.
"On my signal" the blonde man softly said as he showed three fingers.
"Three"
"Two"
"One"
"Follow me!" the blonde man as he pushed open the door and immediately swung his axe towards the head of the nearest zombie from him.
*Slash*
Then he ran forward again down the small stairs in front of the entrance door as he executed another horizontal slash with his Fire Axe as it struck deep on the side of the zombie and he immediately pulled it out and gestured towards the people behind him to keep with his movements with the two adults carrying the youngest of the group in their arms.
"Follow me" he said as he led the way and killed the zombies on his way while the other adults even the kids who has weapons also help by killing the zombies that got too near them.
Luckily for this group, there"s actually aren"t any mutated zombies around them even with how huge this city is and how large its population are or there would been casualties right now.
The blonde man then went into a mad rush because he already noticed that some zombies had turned back and walking towards them because of their ruckus and the zombies are slowly surrounding them and if they don"t escape fast,then they can keep dreaming about leaving this zombie infested city for good.
"Run! Just run! Don"t even think about how much noise you are making! If we don"t reach the bus in time then we"re all dead!" the blonde immediately burst into speed as he hacked the heads of three zombies at the same time!
*****
"Interesting" Leo mumbled from a top a building near the school as he observe that group trying to escape from the school but his attention was instead directed towards the blond haired man leading the group.
"He doesn"t look that panic at all but he"s instead feeling...excited?" Leo rubbed his chin as he remembered someone similar to this guy. It was Caleb, among all of the soldiers under Leo. He is probably the one who loves fighting the most especially towards strong opponents.
There was a time when Caleb continuously challenge Alex into a fight but it seems the latter had started getting annoyed at Caleb"s behavior that Caleb"s has always been sent to the infirmary for treatment and if wasn"t for the special characteristic of the buildings that was built alongside the Stronghold and Alex holding back then Caleb would have been bedridden for his entire life.
"Its either he"s someone like Caleb who came from a long line of family that it still upholds their traditions as being Warriors or he"s just natural born hooligan who just gets excited at the midst of danger" Leo said looking very interested at taking in the guy under him.
"Ohh? It seems they are in trouble this time" Leo said as he leapt down from the five story floor building without any fear whatsoever.
*****
"s.h.i.+t! Go! Now! I"ll handle this guy!" the blonde haired man yelled as he having a compet.i.tion of strength between a Hunter Zombie leaning towards him while gripping on the handle of his Fire Axe trying to get at him while at the same time he was pus.h.i.+ng the zombie away from reaching his head.
"Come on, let"s go!" the other man hurried the others to board towards the bus but as they were just a few meters away from reaching the bus, a zombie suddenly dropped in front of them!
It was another Hunter Type Zombie!
"s.h.i.+t!" the blonde haired man actually still has the time to put his attention to the others even when his life is only hanging on a thin thread and that is his weapon that separates him the and the mutated hunter zombie but his death is already imminent, the moment those ordinary zombies gets close to him.
"s.h.i.+t, s.h.i.+t, s.h.i.+t! Run! Run!" he yelled at them and for the first time he showed rage, horror and helplessness on his face as he imagined the kids getting teared into pieces.
The other man was panicking that he drop the kid on his arms on the ground and escape to another direction by himself.
"b.a.s.t.a.r.d! Come back!" the only woman yelled with indignation and rage at the cowardice of the man who was showed that he was brave and courageous man when he was wooing her before and she didn"t actually expect that he would abandon them like this.
"That a.s.shole!" the blond haired gritted his teeth in anger as he got pushed on the ground while Hunter Zombie is on top of him.
Then the woman and the kids stayed rooted on the spot due to fear, they weren"t afraid of ordinary zombies but they know the terror of facing a mutated zombie and they know that they aren"t even a match for it as all of them, stood rooted with fear, despair, helpless and unwillingness in their faces that some of them even started bawling in tears as the ordinary zombies are slowly gathering around them and in no time, all of their available escape paths would be block if they don"t escape now!
"Run! Dammit! Run!" the blonde haired man yelled on top of his lungs that his face started getting red as veins started bulging all over his arms, neck and face as he tried to push off the zombie that was on top of him.
Seemingly knowing that the preys in front of him fears him, the hunter zombie slowly walked over towards the nearest human, the woman holding a little boy around eight years old on her arms.
The mutated zombie is finally standing before her that she could even smell that disgusting rotting stench that the zombie is emitting off from its body.
"Help! Someone help us!" she started crying in desperation when she saw that the mutated zombie was about to attack her that she even started p.i.s.sing herself.
"Rawr" the zombie roared as it swipe its claws towards both of their heads.
The woman closed her eyes and hugged the boy in her arms tightly as she waited for the inevitable to happen but she didn"t saw that a shadow of a person suddenly appeared in front of her and blocked the attack of the Hunter Zombie.
"Hey, you stink. You b.a.s.t.a.r.d"
She suddenly heard an unfamiliar voice of a man in front of her and when she opened her eyes, she the back of a short but dark blonde haired man standing in front of her with a huge sword on his back and currently gripping the wrist of the zombie on his right hand.
"Ei! You really stink!" Leo said as he punched the zombie into pieces!
"Are you okay!?" the blonde haired man hurriedly took the boy from the woman"s hand and worriedly asked her, he wasn"t even bothered that she p.i.s.sed herself.
The woman just nodded with a face red of embarra.s.sment.
"Enough chit-chat. Get in the bus, quick!" Leo berated them.
The two adults finally remembered that this wasn"t the right time to talk so they hurriedly gestured for the kids and pulled them all inside the bus while Leo would a grabbed a zombie and throw it towards a group of zombies.
While n.o.body was looking, Leo suddenly pulled out an M4 carbine from out of where and an additional three magazine for the rifle and ran around the bus, shooting the zombies that now surrounded them before finally boarding the bus.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
"GO!" Leo yelled towards the blonde haired man after he threw three grenades on the path of the bus to clear a way for them to escape before he entered and he kicked a zombie aside and finally stepped inside the vehicle as the doors closed in behind him and the latter immediately stepped on the gas as the vehicle finally roared into life as it made a beeline towards the only path of survival!
"It seems my main purpose for coming here will be delayed for the time being" Leo thought bitterly to himself.