Rabid

[cuzyeahboi]

"Literally," She said with a small laugh.

[Blaiiine]

"Well, as long as I'm still here, you'll never be alone or unaccepted." Tyler said, giving Kai's forehead a gentle peck. He came down and rubbed his nose against hers, smiling. "Promise."


Blaine was still passed out, mumbling, "Stay...o-out...of.." He trailed off before going back to silence.

[cuzyeahboi]

She smiled, "I'm sure."


Holly thought she heard something banging. Sounded like a fence being shaken. Her grip tightened on the knife as she stood to go to the door to look.

[Blaiiine]

Tyler's ears twitched as he heard the shaking. He stood up and walked to the window, slightly moving the curtains. "Did you hear that?" He asked in a hushed tone.


Blaine grumbled and rubbed his eyes, slowly waking up. "Hmm..ugh. What's going on?" He lazily asked Holly.

[cuzyeahboi]

Holly shrugged as she pushed the door open and put her knife in her pocket, grabbing her rifle. She stepped outside, took a knee and looked down the scope. In the distance there were a few damn wolfs pressed against the fence. They looked to be rabid, there clothes torn and froth coming from their mouths. "Just a few infected. I'll go kill 'em before they make too much noise." She put down the rifle and pulled her knife back out. Kai went to the window and stood next to Tyler, peering out. "I see a few more infected. Nothing else... But how did they find us?"

[Blaiiine]

"Noise? Smell? Hell if I know..." Tyler replied, shrugging his shoulders. His gun was still in his waistband, ready at a moment's notice.

[cuzyeahboi]

Holly crept towards the wolfs, with a few felines in the mix. There was about 4-5 and Holly's fingers tightened around the knife.


Crack!

A red plume flew from Holly's ear. She winced and dropped to the ground, rolling towards a nearby patch of high grass, incorporated into a fake garden. Kai nearly screamed and backed away from the window.

[Blaiiine]

"Damn it! Damn it!" Blaine yelled, almost falling over trying to get to the weapon bag. He quickly unzipped the bag and pulled out the assault rifle.


Tyler pulled his gun and fired a few shots out of the window at the infected. After a few moments, it was silent again.


"Okay, I think we're good fo-" Tyler was cut off as a loud crack zipped through his shoulder. He grunted before falling to the floor, unconscious from the impact.

[cuzyeahboi]

Kai caught him before he hit the ground. "Shit." She took his gun and went to the window, scanning for anybody firing. She spotted a figure, stationed in a tree. They obviously weren't alone. Firing off two quick shots the figure fell from the tree. She resumed looking. Holly slowly crawled back towards them, blood running from her ear onto the ground. Her ear was a thin thing, packed with blood vessels to be used for self cooling. Such a wound could be fatal if left long enough.

[Blaiiine]

Blaine ran out the front door, unloading half a clip at the treeline before jumping over the porch railing. Landing near Holly, he scooped her up and carried her inside.


"I gotcha, man! Just hold on," He said to her, stumbling up the stairs.


Tyler was out cold for a moment before slowly waking up. His ears were ringing, his vision blurred. "Ungh...what h-happened..?" He managed to blurt out before Blaine came rushing in.


He tossed Holly on the bed and threw the rifle down, going to the dresser to find something to bandage her ear.

[cuzyeahboi]

Kai continued scanning for any more shooters. "I got one, not sure how many more there are." She said, relatively calm yet her voice was shaking. She pulled back from the window long enough to grab Tyler and look at the wound. She wished he had stayed out longer. "This is gonna hurt." She said, pulling off his shirt. She wasn't lying as she put her thumbs on either side of the bullet wound and lightly pulled in either way so she could get a good look. It was a complete penetration, small entry, the bullet looking to be a FMJ .223 caliber round. Probably from a hunting rifle. She sighed as she saw that it hit no important nerves or lymph nodes. Just needed to be cleaned and bound. "You were shot."


Holly groaned holding her ear to help stop bleeding. Her vision was starting to blur a little, the blood beginning to drop to the bed.

[Blaiiine]

Blaine found a shirt, tearing it into a strip before wrapping it around Holly's ear. "You're good, man. I'll hold 'em back, just make sure he's okay, Kai." He quickly said before grabbing the rifle and taking off.


Tyler laid back on the floor, a small puddle of blood building up under his shoulder. "Well, I c-can feel that..is it b-bad?" He asked, trying to lift his other paw to the hit shoulder.


A string of shots could be heard from the next room along with a volley of screaming curses.

[cuzyeahboi]

Kai shook her head no. "Should be alright." She took his shirt and tore off the hem, wrapping it around Tyler's shoulder and under his armpit multiple times.


Holly sighed, the woozyness was being replaced with pain.

[Blaiiine]

A loud crash came from downstairs, with two sets of loud footsteps. One disappeared into the first floor, but the second slowly began to ascend the stairs.


Blaine was too busy trading gunfire with the few outside to hear the intruders.


Tyler grabbed the shotgun off the bed that Blaine left, checking the tube for a shell count. Five in, one in the chamber.


"S-stay here...don't come out until..I come get you," Tyler whispered to Kai, regaining some strength and all his awareness. He shut the door and turned to the hallway entrance, shotgun leveled to the middle of the doorway.

[cuzyeahboi]

Kai stalked to the doorway, knife out. She would kill anything threatening once Tyler shot.