Nicholas "Nick" Solidor's Story

Nicholas Solidor Introduction

Nicholas woke up from yet another nightmare of his past. His sight was blurred for a few seconds. He had taken refuge in a bakery store in another run down town. He slept behind the counter, he had set alarms, such as; trip-wires that when triggered they ring a bell so it wakes Nicholas in time.
Nicholas was surprised that he had no trouble last night or even this morning. He got up and stretched, cracking his back a little for he did sleep on the cold hard tiles.

Nicholas grabbed some food that he found on the way to the bakery, the day before. As he ate the food, his glued to the bakery window as he saw dozens of infected people walking passed not being able to see him. Before Nicholas leaves for his daily run to a new area he works out. He began his workout in the kitchen, where he wouldn't risk being seen.
"One... Two... Three." Nicholas spoke quietly as he was doing his push-ups next to the bread oven. He needed to quickly find shelter before it gets dark or he would have to deal with the new species.

- Theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx0Nfo0jN08

After working out, Nicholas put on his backpack and strapped his sniper around his body and sneaked out the back exit of the bakery.

Nicholas climbed up on to the rooftop of the bakery and started jumping onto the rooftops next door to the bakery. He looked down and saw that no infected had noticed him... yet. As he made it to the last rooftop, he grabbed a firecracker from his backpack and lit it up, throwing it in the opposite direction he was going. BANG

Off went the firecracker distracting the infected for awhile as Nicholas leaped off the rooftop and landed firmly on the ground.
As the massive horde of infected walked to the sound, their were other ones wandering in the outskirts of the town. Nicholas then drew his switchblade taking the infected head on, stabbing it between the eyes, then sprinting towards the next infected sliding between its legs and stabbing it at the back of its head.

"One minute and twenty-three seconds to escape, huh?" Nicholas said to himself as he looked at his watch.
"That's a new record." Since he lived on his own he got lonely and set a small amount of goals for himself, just like this goal, How fast can I escape the town.'

He looked at his watch one more time, "9:34am." He read out loud as he walked south from the town. He had to quickly find another town, city or even a small building that he could take refuge and hide in from the deadly new infected.

After hours of walking and running in the middle of no where, Nicholas finally saw a town. He crouched down low and grabbed his XM21 sniper rifle and looked through the scope to check out the situation inside the town.
"About... 30 infected." He whispered to himself. But that was only on the streets, he didn't know how many were deeper inside the town, he didn't know if there were any crawlers or even nightmares hiding inside the buildings.
As he slowly walked up to the entrance of the town he hid behind the welcome sign, the whole sign was covered in blood, so he had no idea what the area was called.
He looked at his watch; "4:11pm, it's gonna be dark in a few hours" He thought to himself.

He walked into the alley way that led behind the buildings. As he hid behind a dumpster, he saw 5 infected in the hallway.
"At least they're regulars." He thought. He slid across the dumpster and to a back entrance door to a club.
As he slowly entered the club, he checked every corner cautiously, with his switchblade in his hand. He slowly slipped through the closed curtain onto the dance floor looking everywhere, up and down, they could be anywhere.

Surprisingly the night club was empty, after searching the entire club he returned to the bar and found a bunch of bottles of alcohol.
"This would be great for distractions, or as a weapon against those nightmares." He said quietly, still being cautious.
He grabbed 3 bottles of Jack Daniel's bourbon. He was thinking as using them as Molotov's.
After that he placed his backpack down for a pillow and ripped the curtain and created a mattress and a blanket. After making his bed for the night, he created alarm systems.

"8:09pm." He said quietly as he looked at his watch. "Just in time." Nicholas lied down in his new bed and drifted off to sleep.

Nicholas Solidor

Nicholas woke up, sitting straight up with his heart pumping.
"Another nightmare." He whispered to himself frustrated. This was a routine for him every time he slept. It would be, survive and find some shelter, go to sleep and wake up from nightmares about his sister; Maggie.
As he got up, he folded one of the curtains and wrapped around his backpack, since it wouldn't fit inside. After he finished doing his morning work out, he checked the bar out one more time and found some energy drinks inside one of the cupboards right behind the counter. It said on the can that it doesn't expire, as long as the can is never opened. He found 3 cans.
"Perfect." He said, with a smile on his face.

He exited out of the building through the back, and saw the alley way was clear. It was good so far. There was no way on to the roof of this building without a ladder, and it was the same for all the other buildings.
"8:32am, I guess I have to do this the hard way." He said as he was creeping around the alley way. Then he remembered the alcohol in his backpack, but then thought again; "No, I'll save this for later."

As he looked up to one of the rooftops, he saw a crawler. "Shit! What are crawlers doing all the way out here?"
He looked down to the direction he was moving and saw a forest. "That's probably where it came from.
He took his sniper aiming straight at its head, this was the only idea he had that actually had a chance with living through it. As long as that crawler was alive, he would get caught for sure. BANG Nicholas shot the crawler right in the head, the sound of the gun alarmed all of the infected. Nicholas put his sniper away and sprinted out of the alley way, with the earphones in his ears listening to his favourite song, trying to dodge every infected attack.

Some infected grabbed onto his clothes, but lost its grip, or he just slipped out of their hands. Luckily, Nicholas was quick and small, which came to his advantage. As he made it deep into the city, he didn't stop running, he ran until he reached the other side of the town. As he was at the exit, he ripped a piece off of his curtain blanket and put it in one of the bottles of alcohol, then lit it on fire. He then through it to the ground, blocking the whole exit of the entrance leaving anything that walked through to burn and rot.
"I hope there was no survivors in that town."

After that, he looked at his watch; "Seven minutes." He shook his head in disappointment, if it wasn't for that crawler, he would've been quicker. He then took care of one straggler that was wandering around the open fields and made his way to the forest, resting on a large rock to catch his breathe.

Nicholas finished resting and began to move through the forest. Since he had his earphones in, he couldn't hear anything, he had to use his sight. As he was moving towards the forest he had no idea that there were people about to pop up right in front of him. In his head he was thinking; "I have to find some shelter." as he was looking at his watch.

After bush-bashing for a couple of hours, he arrived to a clear path, unfortunately he revealed himself to about four people. Two young women and two young men. Nicholas saw that he had caught there attention and stood there frozen.
"Oh shit, I'm an idiot." He thought, as his earphones was on his mind. He would have heard them if he didn't have them in.

Nicholas just stood there and immediately put his hands in the air.

---Aarti---

Aarti laughed,
"See? You're such an idiot, Alex." She snickered, nudging her friend in the arm, "Now put away the damn gun."
Alex scowled but put the gun back in his pocket.

Aarti gave him a thumbs up and then turned towards Leo,
"Can you see if there's any medical equipment in the backpack?" She asked.
Leo looked like he wanted to protest, but he did as he was told and managed to find a few bandages, he handed them over to Aarti, "Here." He muttered.

Aarti rolled her eyes, was she seriously the only one who didn't think of the newcomer as a threat?
She was harmless... aside from the knife and the brother with the gun, but those weren't problems at the moment, so they didn't matter.

---Alex---

Alex's eyes drifted over to where another person appeared, for a second he thought it was the girls brother, and then he realised that they looked nothing alike.
So who was he?
"Aarti," He said, tapping his friends shoulder. She looked back at him with an annoyed look, "If this is about-"
"No, look." He pointed to where the new boy was, "Another visitor."
Honestly, where were all these people coming from?

Taylor saw the new boy, and slightly chuckled. "And I'll tell you, he's not my brother." She said, giving him a once over, then looking at the other three, about to ask if he was one of them, but the shocked expression on all of there faces, clued her in that they were certainly not together. A smirk worked its way onto her face, as she looked back down at her arm, now covered in blood.

I should probably fix this soon, she thought, but her eyes floated right back up to the new comers face. He looked so young, probably even younger then Max, and it seemed as though he was on his own, as this encounter was not planned out by him. It was so strange, this whole meeting all of a sudden, but Taylor didn't believe in fate. This was just something that had happened, possibly resulting great, possibly horrible.

She glanced at those around her, slowly picking up her knife and putting it back in her halter. Then, she looked back at the three, only praying that Max was still there, watching.

And he was. Although, now he was less pressed flat against the tree, and more leaning around it, and watching the scene unfold. He was still far enough away that there was nearly no chance of them seeing him, but he could hear and see them. And it was quite interesting. For example, how this boy had come out of no where, like his sister, except he had not planned his entrance, or so it seemed, from his shocked and confused face. Max looked down at Scout, the dog silently panting and watching him, then looked back at the clearing, watching his sister and the others.

---Aarti---

Aarti shrugged, "One more person, so? He's just a kid." She asked Alex, who didn't look overly thrilled about the new guest.
Then Aarti walked over to the other girl and without asking grabbed her hurt arm, "Don't stab me." She muttered as she examined the wound. It didn't look too bad, but Aarti decided that it could use cleaning... and that it needed to stop bleeding.
Also without asking, Aarti began to wrap up the girls arm, she'd tend to it later, but hopefully the bandages would stop the blood flow.
"You should really take better care of yourself. This, " She said, holding up the girls arm, "Is a perfect example on how not to do that. You're lucky that the zombies haven't found you!"

---Alex---

Alex rolled his eyes and turned his attention to the new boy, who he guessed was a complete idiot.
He looked surprised like he hadn't expected to run into other people, and he probably wouldn't have if he hadn't been listening to whatever was playing on his earphones.
Yes, Alex decided that the kid was stupid, didn't he know to be more careful then that? Obviously not.

"You," He said, pointing at the boy, "Can put your hands down."
Alex didn't kill, shoot, or harm children, that was his rule. So unless the kid gave Alex any reason to, he was fine.
"What's your name?"

Taylor watched the girl helping her, not objecting, allowing her face to fall into a blank stage, nodding a thanks at her, then turning towards the trees she'd come out of, and watching and waiting for her brother to come out. Max did as he knew he should, slowly making his way out, glock still in his hand, Scout in step with him.

He had the gun by his side, looking at the scene closer and moving to stand with Taylor, glancing only quickly at her now wrapped wrist, smirking at how her petty attempt to look wounded had actually worked. But it was smart. He too knew that they both needed rest, Taylor especially, and with only the two of them, there was no way that would be possible. Max stood right next to Taylor, glancing at the boy who had just entered the clearing, and wiggling two of his fingers, signally Scout to sit by his feet.

Taylor watched Max come out, turning to face the group again, glancing at her now wrapped and covered arm. Well now what were they to do? She had no idea, other than the fact that she continued to hope she had made the right decision by exposing her brother and herself. Either they would join up with the four infront of them, and conquer, or they would be dead within days.

Leo had given Aarti bandages when she had asked for them, he watched as she didnt think twice about helping the blonde haired girl, and he noticed that Alex was trying to actually be nice for once, which would hopefully not be a short-term thing.
But Leo... he was doing nothing at the moment, he was pretty much useless.
So he decided to continue on with what he had been doing before the uninvited visitors had arrived.

He rolled up his sleeping bag and was just about to put it away when another person and a dog appeared. Leo looked up and saw who he guessed was most likely the blonde haired girls brother and the dog she had spoken about.
Hopefully, anyway.
Leo wasnt very keen on having another random visitor show up out of nowhere.

"You know folks, it might behoove you to know that there is a fuck-ton of infected coming this way. Largest horde I've ever seen to be honest..."
Leo paused and looked at the group behind him, for he second he thought that it must of been one of them who had spoken, but no one seemed to of heard the voice and it definitely hadnt sounded like anyone he knew.
Great... Leo thought, shaking his head, Im going crazy.
And then the voice spoke again, at first Leo wasnt able to catch what it was saying, but the last few parts he understood,
"...Any of you are members of any known/unknown resistance groups working against the NDO? An odd and random question yes, but it's very important for me to know."

Leo blinked and looked up, since he realized that that was where the voice had been coming from.
Leo was surprised to find a man sitting way up in a tree.
He couldnt see him clearly, but from what he did see, the man didnt look quite human... odd.
NDO? Leo thought,
No... him, Aarti, and Alex werent exactly working against them... but they werent working with them, either.
They were just kind of... not really doing anything.

"Uh... no. I mean... I dont think so." Leo called back, not sure of his answer.

Nicholas was looking around, he put his hands down since it looked like no one was attacking him. Suddenly a man jumped down from the trees, and one of the men said something to him. Nicholas could not hear anything. The strange man looked as if he was really angry and like he was telling everybody off. Nicholas had no idea what he was say, the earphones were still in his ears and all he could hear was his music playing while the man was telling him off. Nicholas wasn't really afraid of him. Well, he had been living in an apocalypse, so this should normal according to everything else that had been happening in the passed years.

Nicholas took his earphones out of his ears, and walked back slowly, so that he wasn't in the middle of everyone else. "I was just passing by, I don't want any trouble. I got sloppy just for a minute, but I'll get out of your way." He said to the strangers and also to the strange man. He turned his mp3 player off and put it in his pocket. He couldn't handle all of the staring, and he was pretty sure that the other man was getting tired of it as well. "Sorry I didn't answer you, I just couldn't hear you."

((OOC: I would of posted earlier but I had a shitload of homework to finish DX ))

Aarti stared at the man, unable to think of anything to say. She was doing her best to hide her surprise... it wasnt everyday she saw someone who looked like... that, but it was clear she was failing.
She wished that Leo had kept his mouth shut and pretended he hadn't heard the man speak, but what was done was done.
"Sorry! Normally people like you... I mean, the ones that look kinda like you..." Aarti trailed off, lost of words.
The way the man looked shocked her, if he hadn't spoken Aarti would of guessed he was one of the infected.
Maybe he was, maybe he just wasn't fully infected...?

Suddenly the new kid, whatever his name was, took a few steps back,
"I was just passing by, I don't want any trouble. I got sloppy just for a minute but I'll get out of your way...Sorry I didn't answer you, I just couldn't hear you."
Truthfully she was kind of disappointed, being around Alex and Leo was surprisingly boring, and Aarti didn't know if the blonde and her brother were going to stick around or not... maybe not, Alex had been planning to kill her, after all.
But still, having a new addition to the group would of been fun.

Aarti flashed a smile, wishing she could use the kids excuse of 'I didnt hear you'

Aarti's face went red with embarrassment, "Sorry."
She was glad that the man didn't seem offended, but she reminded herself to be more careful with her words.

Alex was listening to what the man was saying, and the words 'my employer' caught his interest.
He was working for someone?
"So what brings all of you folks out into the middle of butt-fuck nowhere?" The man said, not giving Alex a chance to question, "Granted it's a nice forest, but it's certainly not a friendly one with all of the groaners and moaners wandering about for a snack." He continued as he looked around.
"Well... i've been traveling with these two idiots," Aarti said, pointing at Alex and Leo, both of them didn't look like they appreciated what she called them. Then Aarti hushed her voice into a whisper that was still loud enough for everyone to hear,
"Honestly they're both complete dumbass's."

Alex narrowed his eyes,
"You said something about a hoard of infected heading this way... did you actually see it with your own eyes or did you just hear it from someone?" He asked the man, completely ignoring Aarti.

Nicholas answered the man. "Just escaped a small town and trapped them with a wall of fire. The fire was necessary because I alerted all the infected by killing a crawler. I'd rather have a group of infected than one crawler on my ass."
He looked at the group and looked away.
"See ya." Nicholas turned around and walked away deeper into the jungle.

As he was walking away, he shook his head, disappointed in himself, he could've died just from being sloppy.

As Nicholas walked through the bushes, to get away from that group he looked at his watch, which showed 2:00p.m. "Shit!" He thought. Nicholas was worried because it was going to be dark in 4-7 hours, and Nicholas didn't know how long it would take to find another town. "Looks, I'm going to have to run."

Nicholas sprinted into the "never ending" forest. Nicholas had been running for 2 hours and a bit, and he had still been in the forest. He stopped suddenly, and hid behind a bush. As he peaked through, he saw a massive horde of infected coming his way, and it would most likely make it to the group that he just came from. "I can't take them all on... I bet that huge guy could take them on though." Nicholas quickly climbed up the tree with ease, and this tree was very high. The only infected to get him would probably only be a Crawler or a Nightmare, but luckily it was daylight... for now.

Nicholas sat on the highest branch that could support him. He grabbed the stage curtain that he took from the nightclub and strapped himself to the tree, in case he fell of while sleeping. As he watched the infected passing through from underneath him, he thought; "Those guys better move quickly..." He wasn't worried about the other man though.

After the horde had passed another couple kilometers away, Nicholas climbed down the tree and made his way to the next closest town. On his way there he saw the same man from the other group.
"Fancy meeting him here." He thought to himself.

He stayed in the bushes as he watched the man destroy the two people outside. He then followed him inside and watched as he completely obliterated every living thing in that building, and even a child.
"He was infected anyway... He was going to die sooner or later." He thought to himself again.
"If you don't want to die boy, I'd suggest you tell me you are not one of their friends." The man said after he turned around to face Nicholas.

Once again, Nicholas wasn't scared of him, though he should be. He had given up fear through the years, he had already accepted death after he saw his dead sister (Maggie's) ripped and torn corpse. The only thing on his mind these days was, to see how long he could go before he died of this disease or from not making his jump to wherever he was jumping. "I don't have any friends. They all died... well I'm pretty sure they are dead." He replied to the man. "So to answer your question... No, I'm not one of those rag dolls' friends." Calling them rag dolls because of how easily he took them all down. Nicholas didn't really want to piss him off but, he had to show somehow that he wasn't afraid of the man, and if he was going to kill him, he was ready to defend himself.

"I've been traveling for the passed six years. I keep on moving everyday moving from town to town." Nicholas answered.
He walked towards the kitchen to look for anything to eat or drink.
"I'm Nicholas, or Nick." He said. "What's your name?" He asked as he was still looking through all the cupboards. "Man, there is nothing in here, what did they live on? Thinking about it, what do you live on?" He asked the man.

Nicholas hadn't had a conversation with another person since the camp he was on during the outbreak. The group in the forest didn't count, he wasn't looking for a conversation. He didn't want to stay with their group, and was happy he got out of it alive. But this guy is different, he is quite similar to Nicholas. They are both always on the move and they could take care of themselves, but he was hunted down some group and Nicholas... he was just trying to survive.

Nicholas watched as Belial ate pieces of the arm. He had a grossed out look on his face, well, you can't keep cool when you are witnessing someone eating another persons body part. However, he wasn't as grossed out as he should have been... Since this outbreak includes dead people eating other people, it was kind of normal at the same time.

"So I am guessing you are immune?" Nicholas asked Belial looking ever so curious. He found a box with foods such as; canned foods & fruits and bottles of water. "This should last me a while." He said to himself. He looked at Belial once again, "That looks like it's going to take a while to get used to that." He said. Then an idea popped up into his head, "Do you like bourbon?" Nicholas pulled it out of his backpack and helled it out towards Belial. It was actually going to be used for a Molotov, but since Belial was around, he guess he didnt need it.

"Have you ever cooked other people, to see if it tastes better?" He asked.

"You were a cannibal? Were you like a warrior living in the jungle or something before all of this?" Nicholas asked as he put everything into his backpack, including the newly found products.

"I mean... the way you fight is incredible. This mutation couldn't have automatically given you outstanding fighting skills." Nicholas was always curious when he observed people, this was the first time he asked someone about what he was curious about. Nicholas looked out the window and saw a bunch of infected heading their way.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Nicholas was sick of the infected making their way towards him, he thought it was a waste of time to fend them off, they will just keep coming. He just thought it was irritating.

"Get your ass out here already Nick!" Belial yelled from outside. Nicholas stood up and groaned as he put on his backpack and readied his rifle if he needed to use it.

"What's going on out here!?" Nicholas yelled out to the two men. "Who's this guy?" He asked Belial, but not taking his eyes of him. Nicholas' first thoughts of him was he was an enemy since he was aiming his gun at Belial, but who wouldn't aim at a mutant with a shotgun in his hand.