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toilet door closed behind Amy.
I just shrugged my shoulders and lifted my rucksack off the floor and headed out of the dorm to where we had parked the ATV’s the day before. Putting down my rucksack beside the nearest ATV, I went to the doors and looked out through the small window set in the large doors. Outside looked quiet but I could see shadows moving behind the windows of the buildings opposite. I felt the wet touch of Spirit's nose on my hand and I looked down at her. It then occurred to me that we had no way to carry her on the ATV.
Looking around the room, I saw all the fireman’s duty clothes hanging on racks near the now useless fire engines. Chris came down followed by Amy and her face said it all. Rather than start an argument, I headed over to where the jackets were hanging and pulled down the largest I could find. Calling Spirit over, I measured the jacket and found that if I fastened two of them together using the clasps I could fashion a sort of carryall to hold her in.
“Chris, one of us is going to have to carry Spirit.” I said.
He looked over and then pointed to his arm saying “You’re going to have to do that. My arm is still knackered.”
To be honest, with the way that he moved I had forgot that he had fractured his arm when that infected fell off the boat.
“I’ll ride behind Chris.” Amy said, fastening a rucksack to the back of her ATV.
I looked at Chris and he just shrugged. Using a couple of bungie cords I fastened my rucksack to the small baggage area on the back of the ATV I was going to drive. We all checked to make sure our weapons where locked and loaded. Chris and Amy climbed on to their ATV and waited whilst I slowly opened the large doors enough for us to drive out.
The last couple of inches the door squeaked and grated against the metal runners. The sound echoed off the buildings around the fire station. The shadows that I had seen started to make themselves be known. Infected started to lurch from buildings moaning and groaning. Chris fired up the engine on the ATV and I ran back to mine pausing to lift Spirit in her carrier in front of me. With the ATV started Chris shot through the gap and out into the street which was filling up with infected faster than I thought it would. I followed him and was just clearing the doors when I heard a bang and turned slightly to look behind me. There, barrelling out of one of the buildings, were two large infected similar to the ones we had encountered on the ship. Turning the accelerator, I sped up and pulled alongside Chris and Amy. Using one hand and pointing behind us I shouted for Amy to look but the wind whipped the sound of my words away as we sped down the street.
This nearly caused me to crash into the side of their ATV. Amy’s eyes went wide at this and then turned around to look behind at what I had been pointing at. The color drained from her face and she leaned forward to say something into Chris’ ear. He nodded his head and their ATV shot forward. I risked a quick glance and saw the two large infected tossing the slower normal infected to the side like ragdolls trying to catch up. We turned a corner and they were cut from sight.
The rest of the infected city seemed to come alive with the noise from ATV’s engines. Nearly every street we turned into had infected either in it or streaming out of the houses. Then our luck changed and the sky opened and rain poured down.
The last time it had rained the infected stayed under the heavy canopy of a forest to keep from getting wet. But here they had the use of deserted houses and buildings. The streets became slick with rain and the infected all but disappeared from sight. We did run across two more packs of the large infected before we hit the outskirts of Hull, but those huge creatures didn’t seem as bothered by the rain as the small ones were. The edge of the city came into view just as the rain started to slow and then stop. By then we were in an industrial park and
I just shrugged my shoulders and lifted my rucksack off the floor and headed out of the dorm to where we had parked the ATV’s the day before. Putting down my rucksack beside the nearest ATV, I went to the doors and looked out through the small window set in the large doors. Outside looked quiet but I could see shadows moving behind the windows of the buildings opposite. I felt the wet touch of Spirit's nose on my hand and I looked down at her. It then occurred to me that we had no way to carry her on the ATV.
Looking around the room, I saw all the fireman’s duty clothes hanging on racks near the now useless fire engines. Chris came down followed by Amy and her face said it all. Rather than start an argument, I headed over to where the jackets were hanging and pulled down the largest I could find. Calling Spirit over, I measured the jacket and found that if I fastened two of them together using the clasps I could fashion a sort of carryall to hold her in.
“Chris, one of us is going to have to carry Spirit.” I said.
He looked over and then pointed to his arm saying “You’re going to have to do that. My arm is still knackered.”
To be honest, with the way that he moved I had forgot that he had fractured his arm when that infected fell off the boat.
“I’ll ride behind Chris.” Amy said, fastening a rucksack to the back of her ATV.
I looked at Chris and he just shrugged. Using a couple of bungie cords I fastened my rucksack to the small baggage area on the back of the ATV I was going to drive. We all checked to make sure our weapons where locked and loaded. Chris and Amy climbed on to their ATV and waited whilst I slowly opened the large doors enough for us to drive out.
The last couple of inches the door squeaked and grated against the metal runners. The sound echoed off the buildings around the fire station. The shadows that I had seen started to make themselves be known. Infected started to lurch from buildings moaning and groaning. Chris fired up the engine on the ATV and I ran back to mine pausing to lift Spirit in her carrier in front of me. With the ATV started Chris shot through the gap and out into the street which was filling up with infected faster than I thought it would. I followed him and was just clearing the doors when I heard a bang and turned slightly to look behind me. There, barrelling out of one of the buildings, were two large infected similar to the ones we had encountered on the ship. Turning the accelerator, I sped up and pulled alongside Chris and Amy. Using one hand and pointing behind us I shouted for Amy to look but the wind whipped the sound of my words away as we sped down the street.
This nearly caused me to crash into the side of their ATV. Amy’s eyes went wide at this and then turned around to look behind at what I had been pointing at. The color drained from her face and she leaned forward to say something into Chris’ ear. He nodded his head and their ATV shot forward. I risked a quick glance and saw the two large infected tossing the slower normal infected to the side like ragdolls trying to catch up. We turned a corner and they were cut from sight.
The rest of the infected city seemed to come alive with the noise from ATV’s engines. Nearly every street we turned into had infected either in it or streaming out of the houses. Then our luck changed and the sky opened and rain poured down.
The last time it had rained the infected stayed under the heavy canopy of a forest to keep from getting wet. But here they had the use of deserted houses and buildings. The streets became slick with rain and the infected all but disappeared from sight. We did run across two more packs of the large infected before we hit the outskirts of Hull, but those huge creatures didn’t seem as bothered by the rain as the small ones were. The edge of the city came into view just as the rain started to slow and then stop. By then we were in an industrial park and
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