Aithen POV

“Well now I know why this place is abandoned” - Aithen. The room was clouded with a deafening silence. My own thoughts felt like they were echoing throughout the small room.

The room smelt damp with vine hanging from all directions...The doors were creaky and I have to keep a steady step because of the poorly made floor

I picked the document up and went to explore, I made extra sure I wasn’t going to let my guard down because there may be more zombies left, I can’t assume all are dead just because I can’t see any around me.  

I tried to see if there was anything else while not trying to let my guard down and trying to be careful of . ‘’Johnathan better not get too cocky as a temporary leader after nearly seeing Kaylee take her own life” -Aithen

I noticed a fast movement coming from the corner of my eye...Although it didn’t seem like human nor zombie movement “That's...Strange also kinda creepy better investigate”- Aithen.

I stealthily and carefully made my way to the thing I saw…”I hope I don’t slip with all this heavy equipment on” - Aithen. 

I made my way to where it was but realised that they were completely gone without a trace. “Huh where on the earth did it go?” - Aithen. There was no trace at all.

Looking all around I found no sign of the thing I saw but it must have been close even though it vanished.

In front of me was a sharp corner into another room, to the left of me was a long dark hallway and to the right of me is where I came from so it can’t be there. So I chose to go to the corner carefully.

Carefully I moved to the corner and peaked around it making sure nothing could see me, I noticed the thing I saw going past where I was watching. “Aha so that’s where you are” I accidentally shouted a bit too loud.

The thing looked behind and started moving to where I was. “Shoot I better move”- Aithen.

It started looking wherever it could to find me or something else completely, even though it was searching frantically it seemed injured and could not move its legs fully…”Could this be a insanity?” I thought as a cold sweat dripped down my head.

There was no other reason I could think of for why this weird creature is here other than what I found when I came back here earlier. I looked down trying to pull my equipment out to try and scan the creature for any help.

When I looked up...The Insanity was looking down at me...Suddenly it went in for the attack, I took out my weapon and shot it in the mouth making it back away but it didn’t seem that bothered instead trying to attack me in different ways.

The Insanity backed away to a pile of zombies that were shot in the head, a strange green glow appeared around the Insanity and then the Zombies came back up despite being dead.

Despite my odds I tried to defend myself but…Right before my eyes there was something else that was going to be a problem and the problem was that there was a new type of zombie, a zombie that looked tougher and bigger than any of the other zombies that I’ve seen so far.

It looked dead into my eyes, then before I could react it charged into me, maybe breaking a rib as I was slammed straight through a wall “Shoot!”Quickly trying to defend myself with a knife in my hand I stabbed it in the leg...No reaction and the knife didn’t even pierce it just scratched it. 

The big zombie went in for another attack, luckily I moved just in time and swiftly got up, the jaring pain from my rib was evident that this thing was way stronger than I was.

A large spike from the zombie’s hand formed and stabbed me, my flesh ripped apart as the spike pierced my body and barely missed my heart. I was in too much pain to speak out loud but the pain was immense.

I held the knife in my hand and tried again to stab the zombie with all my might, it sliced a chunk of it’s leg off and couldn’t balance properly, the zombie fell down and struggled to move due to its size.

I couldn’t let this chance go to waste so I quickly grabbed my HeartStomper and shot several rounds into the zombies head emptying my magazine. 

The head splintered into several chunks. I reloaded a new magazine and shot the body a couple more times to make sure it was dead.

Thankfully it wasn’t moving anymore…”Thank god” I muttered quietly because of the pain. An explosion happened and the corpse of the zombie turned into several of Fragment-66

I threw my backpack off my shoulders and rummaged through it to try and find a medical kit...Luckily there was one more inside...I opened it and bandaged the wound on my chest...It was quite a small hole but it still was a whole straight through my chest.

The Bandage helped the bleeding but didn’t help the pain...I might actually die here...No one is here and help won’t come in time.

Wait when Kaylee went through the portal all her wounds healed, so what if I were to go through it?. 

I slowly walked to where the portal was with the Fragment-66 and activated the machine...The Familiar portal and I was ready to leave now with all the Fragment-66 i needed.

I limped over to it and entered the portal once again, a voice echoed inside my head. “You pose no threat to me...I will heal you so I can crush you fully and watch everyone in despair...You will not beat me, You are merely a puppet in string“ Unknown Voice.