Earth: Book One (Elemental Series) Read Free Page B

“Let’s go!” A female human ordered her grabbing Forres from the ground. The girl ran ahead of Forres, slicing and dicing zombies, all around. They ran out of the cemetery, side-by-side, and being chased by a horde of undead, most of them elders yet they were fast.
    The girls ran down the street together and turned a corner, slipping into a store without being noticed. They duck behind a clothing rack as a group of undead passes. Once it was safe, the girl gets up and goes to the door. “Wait,” Forres calls. The girl stopped. “Where are you going?”
    “I saved you,” she said. “What? That’s not enough?” She put her hands on her hips, her long dark red hair hanging over her shoulder.
    Bewildered, Forres stuttered and answered, “N-no, no. It’s just you are skilled with that knife,” She pointed at the long knife that had blood on it still. “I thought… that we could stick together for a while…”
    The girl cocked her brow. “No thanks,” the girl started out of the store and Forres understood. Who would want to be grouped with a sick girl in a sick game?
    Forres bended down, putting her hands on her knees as she tried to breathe. She didn’t notice that a zombie came around from the check-out counter and goes to her. The zombie was close and finally let out a groan to tell Forres it was here. She turned just as the zombie’s head was cut off.
    Blood splattered on Forres as she turned away. When the zombie fell to the ground, she turned back to see the girl.
    “I have a group of survivors. We have food, water, and heat. Are you infected because I can’t risk that with my group?” The girl asked.
    “I’m stabbed in the hand…,” Forres looked down at her dirty feet.
    The girl rubbed the back of her neck. “Uh, bring clothing. We need to get you cleaned up and fed,” Forres started to smile when the girl said that but she added, “Then you are on your way.” Forres nodded. She grabbed a bag, and filled it with a bunch of clothing and shoes.
    They both started out, looking at both ways of the streets as if they were little kids and they were watching out for cars. “You better not just take me and eat me or something,” Forres joked.
    “Yeah, something like that…,” the girl joked back and smirked. Forres had to look at her twice to notice she was joking.
    Or was she?
     

 
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter Five
     
    Day One: March 26 th , 2020; 4:31 pm
    The girl led the way down the streets.
    Forres had no idea where they were going but she followed silently.
    “What’s your name?” The girl asked, looking back at her as they crossed a street.
    Forres looked up at the girl. “I’m…,” Who was she? Was she really the “doctor” told her she was? Did she even trust this person? She knew she had to trust someone in this new world. “Forres…,” She finally said.
    The girl cocked her thin brow. “Is that your real name?”
    Forres shrugged. “I don’t know…,”
    “How?”
    She shrugged again. “I woke up with no memory.”
    “Wow… Weird,” The girl said. Forres agreed and nodded. “Kind of cliché.”
    “What do you mean?”
    “You know,” The girl started. Forres stared at her. She really didn’t know. “You never watched a zombie movie or read a book?”
    “I’m sure I have… But I don’t remember it.”
    The girl looked at Forres for a second, wondering if she could trust the girl with no memory. “Well in every zombie movie or novel the main character always wakes up, usually they have a member unless that character was in the war, shot or sick or something.” 
    Forres stared forward, still walking. It was a cliché beginning. Of course, she was the main character of her own life and maybe the hero of this story but why so cliché?
    “By the way, I’m Eleanor,” Eleanor replied. Anyone could easily tell Eleanor was part Native American from her tan skin. Eleanor had long dark red curls – from her mother being part Irish – and dark indigo eyes