'Q''s Story

Q hid behind a tree, leaning her back against the base and breathing shallowly.
She checked to see there wasn't any others around that could get her from behind and turned around - waiting for a good time.
"Ready or not," She whispered to herself "Here I come."
She jumped out from behind the tree, catching the blood streaked monster off guard and ran at it, hitting the 'thing' in the shins with her baseball bat.
The zombie falls to the ground, splattering someone else's blood on the ground as it went.
Q took the zombie's surprise as leverage and smashed it in the face with her baseball bat, but the thing was rapidly thinking.
when she went to take her second blow the abnormally smart zombie rolled and Q smashed the bat into the ground.
"Dammit!" She hissed and tossed her now loose - having fallen out of her dodge ponytail - hair over her shoulder.
The zombie took a lunge at her and only narrowly missed, falling on it's face. Q dropped the large bat she held and climbed onto the back of the now, even more bloody zombie.
cracking its face into the ground, repeatedly she soon decided it was dead and smile slightly to herself, getting up.
Q sighs and wipes her brow where an old, small gash had been re-opened.
"Ah." She winced and walked to where a dried up bush stood.

When the stopped she took this chance to gasp for air. Adrenalin was coursing through her veins and her whole body was trembling. The night sky was red behind them from the burning camp and she could still hear faint screams from the people. She put her hands in her face and shivered. She'd always dreamed of going out beyond the fences but she never had the courage to do so, and now everyone was probably dead back in the village. She sniffed and wiped her nose looking up at Elliot. He looked almost as scared as her right now. She could see pain and she knew he was leaving someone behind too. She heard a sound and then Elliot peaked out from the bush. She tugged on his shirt and whispered softly.
"What is it?" and when he turned and quickly shoved her towards the tree she whispered, "is it the dead?!" She scrabbled up the tree, cutting her hands on the rough bark, and Elliot followed. She scuntched herself as far back as she could on the branch and held on tight. The tree was quite tall but she didn't know if the undead could climb or not. Looking through the brown leaves she saw another person. She made out a woman's figure and bit her lip. She gripped Elliot's shirt. What if she was one of the stronger dead? Or what if she was alive?

Q wiped her bloody hands on her trousers and took a deep breath, steadying herself.
'Is no-one alive?' she thinks.
Q shakes her head and starts looking around for water, or any liquid.
She spots a tiny puddle and walks over, crouching down she scoops some up and rubs it over her wound, wincing.
"Ah, crap." She whispers but doesn't stop.
She then washes her hands and stands up, ripping off her sleeve she ties the filthy cloth around her head to catch the blood and stands up again.
She hears a noise and her head turns to a tall tree.
Q walks over to it, breathing heavily.
Was it another creature?

Elliot's eye's widened as he watched the girl walk over to the tree they were in.
Elliot's hand searched widely for the axe he had been carrying his fingers brushed it before it fell from the tree with a clatter.
Elliot winced and looked over at the girl next to him. Great again I've messed up, Elliot thought. He slowly nodded to the girl and put a hand up in a stop like manner. If the girl below them was a threat, at least he could save one person for once.
Elliot jumped down from the tree and put his hands up and turned around to indicate he had no other weapons. He didnt want to startle the girl or make her think he was a threat. Elliots eye's met with the girl's. If this did go wrong at least the other girl would be safe.

She winced as his ax fell and she knew the girl had either heard it or seen it. Her eyes grew even wider and she clenched her fists, digging her nails into her palm. Elliot glanced over at her and she was trying to ask him with her eyes what they were going to do. He seemed conflicted and before she could stop him he jumped from the tree. She tried reaching for him, but had to grip back onto the base of the tree as to not fall out. She watched the scene lay out in front of her from the teeth. Her breathing came out in shallow breaths.

Q's hands clenched around her make shift bat that she'd traded from someone from the dark city ((OOC: :D just finished reading the third book and it was awesome!!)). She eyed this boy and saw the fear in his eyes. She relaxed her grip on the bat, but didn't let go. Looking at his ax a few feet away she pointed to it.
"Don't touch that or I'll kill you." she said with a stern voice. The wound on her head stung but not as much as the one on her arm. She didn't want to think about that wound and shook her head a bit.
"Anyone else with you?" she asked and looked up at the tree, but the darkness of the night and the leaves hid anyone if there was someone. She looked over the trees and saw the light of flames, and then looked back at the boy.
"What's that?"

((OOC: @BraceBlaze: How's that?
@ProjectxCrusade: We'll have our characters stumble on you soon. So don't run off ok? XD Sorry for the hold up. ))

Elliot looked at the girl blankly and gave a slight nod as she threaten to kill him. Elliot quickly looked up towards the tree, no way was he gonna give the girl up, he would have to stall her as long as possible. Maybe she could get away.
"No one's with me." Elliot mumbled unable to keep his eyes from quickly darting to the axe.
"What's that?" The girl in front of him asked, looking over her shoulder at the ever growing flames of their village.
Elliot clenched his jaw as not to hurl on the spot thinking of his now probably sweet and caring dead Step-mother.
"It's nothing! Just a little house fire.." Elliot shouted his first words then slowly becoming quiet and trailing his words off at the end of his sentence. He knew he sounded supsious, but he wasent ready to talk about the 'incident' yet. He just couldn't forgive himself for not being able to protect someone again.
"It's nothing..,what are you doing out here anyway? Fighting those creatures like there harmless." Elliot looked at her eyeing her, trying to decide if she was a threat.

(OOC:yeah it's perfect)

Q rested her bat on the tip of her shoe and eyed the boy. His answer had holes in it and she didn't miss the flicker of his eyes towards his weapons. Even with her suspicion she didn't question him further about the fire.
"I've been out here for a while." she answered with a flick of her hand, she wouldn't answer anything more about where she'd been.
"You're coming with me." she finally decided. She wasn't a very caring person, but that didn't mean she would just leave this person out here, who seemed more scared of the dark than what lie ahead. That's when her mind finally picked up all the pieces. She'd seen fires like these. Where gated villages would become overrun and people would try burning the entrance of the hole so they could save the community, but it always ended badly. All the houses were made of dry wood and everyone ended up dead.
She looked back at the boy and could see his eyes dart around. This was his first time out in the forest. She felt slightly sorry for him. He wasn't ready to face this world yet. He would die immediately.

Q's eyes darted up at the sound of a small voice as a body scrabbled down the tree and landed with a thud.
"Don't kill him!" the voice said. The girl crawled out from under the bushes and stood up, brushing her bloodied hands on her shirt. She looked around the same age as the boy and she also had the same fear in her eyes.
Q grimaced. She now had to look after two people. She wasn't one to baby sit but she wasn't a killer. Q sighed annoyed and rubbed her temples.
"Grab your weapon," she said to the boy, "I'm not going to kill him, but you two will die out here in less than two hours."

Sky bent down and picked up Elliot's ax. She gripped the weapon before handing it to him. Right at this moment she'd wished she had more than just the small knife that she held in her other hand.
She looked at Q's retreating body as she walked deeper into the woods and away from the burning sky. Then Sky looked back at Elliot. He looked conflicted with something and SKy smiled a bit to help reassure him that things would be ok. However even Sky wasn't sure of that herself. She wouldn't let herself think about all the people in her village as she grabbed his hand and tugged him along after the girl.
Moans swam through the trees.

OOC: It perfectly alright :3

Sky followed behind the woman with Elliot to her side.
"So why are you helping us?" Elliot asked. "And where are we going?"
He pulled her closer to him and she realized he didn't trust this woman yet even though she was helping them. Sky thought about it and also realized too that maybe she should trust this women so soon either.
The women didn't answer first and then turned around to face them.
"My name's Q, and that's all you need to know right now." she said with a stern look. She acted much older for her age. Q looked only maybe a few years older than Sky and Elliot.
Q glared around in the woods and put her finger to her lips. She crept towards a line of trees and Sky could hear the faint sounds of running water.
Fear began to creep up Sky's spine and she gripped her knife close to her. Looking over Q's shoulder she sighed as she realized it was just another man. His head shot up and he pulled out his bow and pointed it towards where they stood.

OOC: It's so hard playing as two character in one reply so I'll do two XD

Q waved her hand at Elliot.
"Shh I'm thinking." she muttered and bit her lip. The man seemed to be very fit, something that was often not seemed in these woods. He could be a recruiter. At that her stomach flipped, but she shook her head. If he was a recruiter then he would be in uniform and he wasn't. The bow in his hand suggested maybe a trade? Or he built it. Her mind twisted and turned as she tried figuring out what to do. If he wanted to kill them he would have. He had eyed her, must having realized she was the most experienced, but hadn't shot at her. With the way he held that bow it also meant he was very skilled and she would bet the clothes on her back that he could have killed her with one shot.
She sighed annoyed as she realized what she had to do.
"We're going to have to trust him." she said to the others. She thought that maybe if she got him to join their little group that maybe if he did she could ditch him and leave the young woman and man with him. They would be out of her hands then, and he looked like someone who wouldn't just ditch them.
She felt a little guilty at these thoughts, but she had to do what she had to do to survive.

Sky blinked at Q confused as she finally decided that they needed to trust him.
"But..." she trailed off. The man had looked so big and buff. He also looked like he could kill them all if he wanted, but then Sky realized Q could too if she wanted. Maybe Sky was just not used to people she hadn't known all her life. This was the first time she met someone she'd hadn't known since she was born. The only reason why she'd trusted so easily was because she was still in shock over having lost her whole village including her mother. What if there were survivors? She shook her head to erase those thoughts. She had to believe they were all dead, or she would go back and try to find them. She didn't know if she was brave enough to do that just yet. She almost laughed at how scared she was about the woods. She'd grown up wishing she could just run away and be free in them. She looked down at her hands and clenched them. She felt so week, and so useless. Q was treating them like children! I'm almost eighteen! I can take care of myself! Part of her screamed that in anger inside, but she knew it was a lie. She couldn't take care of herself. She didn't know how. Her village banned any type of survivalist training. All she knew how to do was be a good farmer and mother. That was all. She looked over at Elliot and he looked over at her. She wondered if he was thinking the same thing...