Beyond the Walls

Dark Secret

“This way.” Gabrielle led the group and started running around. With undead slow movements and the stadium’s size, they have a good amount of time to run.

“There!” She pointed. Gabrielle pulls open the gate separating the field and the entrance. Alexa and Adam are guarding the entrance, Gabrielle comes up first to the audience area and offers her hand to Xian who is climbing next.

“AHHH!” He screamed.

*GROWL

Something else is with Gabrielle up there.

“Argh!” She struggled with an undead.

‘Newly turned undead?’

*Thud

Using her legs, she pushed away the undead while supporting her upper body so she wouldn't fall on the railings.

It was an undead that looked like it was in his forties and had multiple flesh bitten.

“Uwargh!!” Salivating it charges again running. She could kick and drop it on the field but it might fall directly down to Alexa. In that case she has no choice but to kill it here and there.

She ran towards it, and wrestled with it.

“Uargh!!” The energetic undead tries to scratch and bite her but with her pushing down him from the back, its left hand is pulled to its back.

*Thud

Newly turned undead are so strong that even with Gabrielle’s pushing her whole weight on the undead, it still can move violently.

*Bang

Gabrielle, can’t waste time, she pulled the trigger.

*Bzzz

“Is that necessary?!” Adam said with a strained voice.

“It’s a newly turned undead….Ah! You better come up now!” She said as she spotted several undead coming out of the entrance.

“Level Zero Undead spotted. Number more than 10 spotted!” She reported.

“Ah! s**t!”

*Bang Bang Bang

Glancing down, she sees Alexa retreating inside while Adam is killing several Level 0 or also known as newly turned undead.

‘Where did they come from?’ Gabrielle questioned.

Xian successfully climbs up and hides himself from the field.

Scanning the surroundings, she finally spotted it. Level 0 originally came from the audience area, they only jumped to the field after spotting Alexa and Adam, though it was Xian’s scream and Gabrielle’s gun played most of that undead attracting role.

It didn’t take long for Alexa to jump up to the audience area.

*BANG BANG BANG

Gabrielle slowed down several Level 0 that are closing in.

Gunshot coming from Alexa distracted Gabrielle for a second because Alexa is shooting something in the audience area.

“Cover for me! The ladder came off.”

Not wasting another second, Gabrielle looks from behind and sees five Level 0 jumping around the seats watching and advancing once you take your eyes off of them.

*BAMM!

Something hit the walls below Alexa.

“f**k they are already here.” Even without looking behind, she knows undead are coming in close. She pulled another gun and vigilantly watched every move of the five undead.

“UWARGHHHH!”

*Bang

Headshot. 4 more to go.

“Take my hand now!” Alexa leans down and gives her hand to Adam who is still down in the entrance.

*Bang Bang Bang

He is killing one after another, the Level 0. Alexa knew why he cannot go up because the moment he stops shooting, these undead will swarm and kill him.

“Cover me!” Adam said, as he took off the empty cartridge.

Alexa shoots from above.

*Click

Adam begins to shoot again. Alexa looks over the field and the horde of undeads are closing in, as if the Level Zero undead were buying time.

She looked over the audience area. With Xian being useless and Gabriell busy keeping in check the undeads, she looks for another person.

“DAMMIT! WHERE THE f**k IS THAT MOTHERFUCKER?!”

Apollo had disappeared again. Quick decision had to be made, she pulled the collar of Xian up.

“YOU! Make yourself useful! Pull Adam up!”

“I,I —*Choke” Alexa wasn’t asking.

“I’ll cover for you! Come up!” Pulling her guns she makes time for Adam to put his gun behind and give himself a momentum to jump up and grab Xian's hands.

"Ah! Ah!" Adam's weight might have been too much for Xian alone to pull. Instead of pulling up Adam, he is the one being pulled down.

"ARGH!" Alexa grabbed Xian's falling body but because of that she had to stop defending against the undeads.

One level 0 comes in and frantically attacks forward and tries to grab on hanging Adam.

Adam had to kick his body away from the wall to avoid such a bite and swing to the other side.

Xian bit his lips as his muscles stretched on.

*Bang

Alexa fired a shot against it but it retreated in a shadowed part. An old undead is passing through and heading to Adam.

Adam took a breath and kicked it on its head, squashing its head on the wall.

"Uwargh!!!!!" The hiding level 0 emerged again and came to attack again.

*Bang

Missing a hair's breadth, the bullet snagged a part of Adam's cloth.

"You missed." He sarcastically said after he was pulled up by them. Just in time, the horde came in close contact.

"Let's go." Gabrielle urged as soon as she killed another level 0 undead.

*Pew pew pew

With a gun silencer, Adam took down the remaining undeads in seconds.

They ran low and hid from the undead in the audience area. Though newly turned undead are more dangerous when it comes to reflexes and power than an old undead, their brain wave length doesn't differ from one another.

As the horde gathers and bangs their bodies, the sound attracts others, so they only need to wait.

Flying across the field is the drone monitoring them.

"Sir, there are only four of them." One had reported after seeing from the camera the head account.

"Who is missing?" Macord put it on the large screen.

"The guy with the name of Apollo."

"Has anyone spotted him climbing out?"

" D3 Negative sir."

" D4 Negative sir"

Three drones try to locate the missing person.

“Doesn’t this remind you of someone?” Macord mumbled, frowning.

“Get me a detailed background on this guy. Something is eerie about this one.” He continued, while they acknowledged the order they started whispering among themselves.

“Do you think he is dead?” Someone asked in a low voice.

“Should we bet?” Another answered snickering.

As they amuse themselves in the lives of people before the screen, these people are getting desperate as the crowd of undead gathers more.

“There.” Gabrielle pointed to the VIP room in the audience area next to them.

“I’ll go first.” Alexa says and passes them and crawls in the spaces of the seats.

“Watch and copy it carefully.” Gabrielle lightly pushes next Xian to follow.

Xian freezes. He is shakingly grabs Gabrielle’s pants.

“W,wait wait… Can w,we re-really make it … there… that far?”

“If we do, we live; if we don’t, we die.” Adam said almost with a hint of sneer. His tone made Xian cower more in fear.

Gabrielle glared at Adam, conveying her thoughts with her eyes. ‘You are not helping.’

She only got a shrugged shoulders from him.

“Would you rather go before or after me? I wouldn’t be able to protect you if I go first, Adam, will go last to cover us from here. We can’t stay here long.” She tilted her chin up toward the banging sound below. More and more are gathering and some undeads are coming up.

Xian swallowed his saliva and started crawling.

With Adam looking through his sniping gun’s scope, watching Alexa swiftly killing an undead and lying it to the floor. “Are you not going?”

“Follow as soon as you can.” Gabrielle said as she dropped to the floor.

“I don’t plan on dying. If that is what you are worried about.”

*Phew

A silent shot was released after Adam spotted that an undead successfully climbed up.

Calmly he watches his companions through his scope.

Seeing that Alexa is having a hard time sneaking, Adam killed an undead from the front row and as it dropped to the floor, the nearby undead’s attention was caught.

Alexa gave him a thumbs up and he smiled at it.

*phew

Another undead had climbed up. More hands are becoming visible in the railings.

“Haaa. My life sure is tough.”

Alexa on the other side, climbs up the stairs unnoticed and reaches the room, when she notices something.

An undead feet came to her view. The undead stared down at her and did not hesitate to grab her and she was dragged to the room.

“f**k!” Adam exclaimed as he got distracted in a second before Alexa was dragged. Second later a splatter of blood sprayed in the glass window of the room.

*Bzzz

“Alexa! Come in! Alexa!” Adam called to their transmitter.

“...”

*Grrrr

“Uwargh!!” three undeads came to him. His spinning gun is too long to use in such a short distance. As he reaches for the gun in his back.

*Thud

“You gotta be kidding me!” He said as one level zero undead spotted him.

*BANG

Immediately, Gabrielle rolled out of the seats and glanced back. Spotting, Adam fends himself. He is smashing head with his long gun, keeping another gun in his other hand.

“AHHHHHH!” Getting on her knees, on the opposite side of Adam, is Xian getting dragged out by two level zero.

*Thud thud thud

Growling and running sounds are felt but even before she felt it. She already knew… all the undeads are gathering on their spot.

“What will you do now?” Macord asked as he watched the dilemma on Gabrielle.