Chapter 1
rabbit stew
Waking at 7am to check the surroundings, Marc goes out to his beloved tractor. Sitting upon it's comfy leather seat for about five minutes before looking around to see if anyone else was stirring. He sees he is alone at this hour and walks off down the lane to stare into the emtpy fields and the thick plume of smoke rising from the city miles off on the horizon. The sun is glistening down and the fields are glowing in a creepy orange haze as the sun reflects off of the soggy ground. Out on one of his fields he spots a figure, distant and slow. With unease he pulls out one of the rounds from his front pocket and carefully loads his Python.
Just as loads up he sees four more figures behind the first.
"Grah!" ,he hears from the figure in the front,"Stay back!"
Marc quickly realizes the figure infront is being chased by the ones in the back. He begins racing towards them, then sees the glimmer of metal. The pursuers growl as the one in front is prepared for an attack with a sword pulled out.
Marc thinks to himself,
What's this guy thinking? Is he for real? But just as this crosses his mind he sees a flurry of slashes from the figure and two of the attackers fall. Just after this though the one with the sword begins running again. Witnessing Tae's plight, Marc quickly aims his python.
"Duck!" ,he yells as he fires.
The boy being chased quickly ducks just in time and the shot blows through the head of one of his chasers. Just as this one falls the other one comes from behind and lunges at it's prey now ducking. Quickly reacting Marc fires again and hits it in the shoulder sending it flying back in mid air. The boy ducking quickly stood up and shot it again through the head.
"Phew," he said gasping for breath,"thanks for the help!"
"No problem", said Marc,"If your looking for shelter , my farm just over there that stays pretty safe from these monsters."
"Thanks, i've been running for quite some time", answered the boy as he limped after Marc to the house.
"Looks like you've got a pretty bad leg there," Marc said noticing how the boy was limping into the barn," need any help... er... what's your name kid?"
"Nah, i'll be fine, my leg just doesn't like me running long", the boy said sitting down in the nearest chair," and the name's Tae."
"Nice to meet 'cha, I'm Marc", he said noticing Tae has some rabbits tied to his belt," i see you've been hunting mind sharing?"
"Haha, of course not, you kinda just saved my life anyways", Tae said with a half smile.
"Well i'd rather not but anythings better than the bugs and plants i've been living off of.", Marc answered as he realized how cruel life can be.
"Well i'd rather not either but gotta do watcha gotta do to survive," Tae said ," unless of course you wanna join those 'thing' out there and cannibalising your own kind into extinction."
"Well i have plenty of skinny and butchering tools do what you want", Marc exclaimed pointing to the knives organized on his wall.
"Well hope you feel like rabbit stew tonight", Tae replied," I've been living off the stuff for a while."