The Scavengers

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Book: The Scavengers Read Free
Author: Gen Griffin
Tags: Zombies
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He had to be new to the Scavengers, though judging by the sword on his hip, I was assuming this wasn't his first hunt.
    “Your loss,” Shayla told Conner as she blew him a kiss. She focused her attention on Drake. “Time to go?”
    “Almost. Waiting on one more,” Drake said.
    “Tell me it’s not that whiny, worthless little blonde again,” Shayla said.
    “Cya Gree,” Drake said.
    “We need to cut that one loose, Drake.” Conner had taken Shayla's bags from the blonde boy. He began loading them onto the bus. “She can't fight. She can't run. She isn't strong enough to carry no supplies. She's weak.”
    “Shush,” Kennedy said. He pointed down the hallway. “She's coming.”
    “I don't care if she hears me,” Conner said as an almost impossibly petite girl entered the room.
    I hated to admit that I could see why Conner thought this girl was weak. She was under five feet tall and built so slightly that she would likely always have the physique of a young girl rather than a mature woman. Her white-blonde hair was chopped short just above her jaw line. Her t-shirt was a shockingly bright lime green compared to the dark browns and blacks that all the other Scavengers were wearing. It even had sparkles sewn into the fabric. Her pants were purple with fabric so thin that it might as well have been see-thru. Her shoes were impractical silk slippers with no sole. I couldn't see any weapons on her person, but I hoped she'd tucked them in the bejeweled lilac purse she'd opted to carry instead of a backpack or duffel bag.
    “Hi,” Cya said.
    “You're late,” Conner snapped at her.
    She blinked at him and then narrowed her pretty blue eyes. “No, I'm not. We're not scheduled to leave until 8 am. It's only 6:23 now.”
    “Everyone else was ready to leave 20 minutes ago,” Drake said mildly.
    “Our schedules say we leave at 8,” Cya repeated.
    “I say we leave now,” Conner said.
    “Not arguing,” Kennedy agreed.
    I took a deep breath and nodded when Drake looked over at me.
    Drake bared his teeth in a false impression of a smile. “Time to go hunting.”

CHAPTER 2
     
    The bus had heavy bars welded over the busted glass windows and frayed blue vinyl seats. The engine coughed and hacked as the bus rumbled through the heavy garage door and into the brickyard. I focused my attention on the other Scavengers in hopes of not seeing the scorched black earth and scalded, crumbling wall that made up the outer wall of Cube.
    Up until last year, the brickyard had been my favorite part of the Cube. I loved going outside into the bright sunlight and sitting in the warm air watching people walk, talk and play in the long field of dirt that surrounded the Cube.
    The Powers That Be had welded the door between the Brickyard and Cube closed after the fire. We weren't allowed to go outside anymore. It was too dangerous.
    As the ancient bus rumbled into the sun I involuntarily took a deep breath and closed my eyes. I had missed the feeling of the sun on my skin so badly since the fire. I could taste the fall air on my tongue. I had crisp, fresh, moist air in my lungs for the first time in a year and a half. It was ecstasy.
    “Feels good, doesn't it?”
    I opened my eyes to see that the blonde haired boy who had been trailing after Shayla earlier was now sitting in the seat behind me. He grinned from ear to ear as he took deep, gulping breaths of the fresh air.
    “It almost makes it worth signing my life away to the Scavengers,” I admitted with a guilty smile.
    He shrugged his shoulders. “I think they make it out to be worse than it is,” he told me. “Last time we went out we were outside the Cube four days and never even saw a single zombie.”
    “Really?” I had a hard time believing that. Mom always told me you could hardly take two steps outside the Cube without getting snapped at by a zombie. I'd expected the bus to get mobbed with rotting flesh the moment it passed through the heavy gates.
    The quiet, cracked

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