The Living Saga (Book 2): Enduring by McFall Jaron

Author:McFall, Jaron [McFall, Jaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dystopian | Infected
Published: 2019-10-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine:

THE WORST OF LUCK

Cedric ran across the wet asphalt. Judging from the smell in the air and the amount of puddles, it had rained all night. Cedric ran past car after car, not even bothering to check them.

“What’s up, man?” Warner shouted when he noticed Cedric wasn’t stopping. “You ain’t got to get the perfect car. Just get one.”

“I know two things about each and every one of these cars,” Cedric said.

“Yeah?”

“One,” Cedric said crouching behind a car to look at Warner, “all of the ones in this lot have been checked and won’t start.”

“Yeah?” Warner repeated trying to catch his breath.

“Two, they all have bad gas. Ethanol separates into alcohol and water after a couple of months. These have been sitting for about seven months.” Cedric explained. “We need to find utility vehicles or street racers. They usually have the ethanol free gas.”

“Makes sense,” Warner said huffing.

“And three,” Cedric said.

“I thought you said two.”

“Three,” Cedric repeated, “You need to do some cardio.”

Cedric opened the door to the car he was leaned up on and motioned for Warner to get in. He did. Cedric then proceeded to shut him in the car and said, “Stay put. I’ll be back.”

Then, he turned and ran. When Cedric got to Morris Boulevard, he hooked a left going east. In the distance, Cedric saw a small hoard of infected, but it wasn’t in the direction he planned on going. They were at least two miles out and he only needed to go a few hundred yards.

Cedric continued running at a fast pace until he saw the restaurant he remembered. It was a brown building he used to eat at when he was a kid. He turned and ran up the hill. On level ground, Cedric had become a fairly accomplished runner. But now, going up a steep incline, his calves burned fiercely.

Cedric was nearly to the top of the hill when he saw three infected veer from the restaurant and run toward him.

“Crap, greenies,” he said. He knew he couldn’t take three of the long infected in hand-to-hand, so he drew his 9mm pistol. One thing about his training time was the limited amount of ammo meant a limited amount of target practice. Cedric stood stock-still waiting. He knew he couldn’t make the shot.

The infected were closing in quicker than he anticipated. Cedric pulled the trigger of his pistol but heard multiple shots ring out.

The infected man he’d been aiming for fell, but so did the man next to him. Before Cedric could fire again, the infected woman has gotten too close.

Cedric instinctively pistol-whipped the woman, but her momentum was too much. The pair went tumbling back down the hill. In the fall, Ceric lost his firearm. He was just about to have a set of jaws rip into him when another shot rang out and the woman collapsed on top of him.

“You are such a jerk!” Warner shouted out. “Did you really think I couldn’t keep up just because I was breathing a little heavy?”

Cedric pushed the woman off him and started to laugh.

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