“Oh My GOD!!! ITS THE SEA!!! WE ARE SAVED!!!”
Came the cry from one of us, I don’t know who because we were all thinking the same thing as we charged down the slope and across the pebble beach as the waves pushed us back and forth, the younger ones chackled with laughter as the attempted to push the water towards one another. A chuckle rolled out of my throat as I watched the dogs snap at the waves coming in but it was a short lived moment as the Wagon rolled past as the Beasts we had hitched up to them also pelted for the water...
“FUCK THE WAGON!!!” I bellowed at everyone, but too late. The wheels dug into the Soft Pebble Beach and became quickly bogged as water filled its frame, “Grab everything, back to the shore!!!”
We all grabbed something from the wagon, unhitching the animals and dragging it and them back to the shore. It took forever with the amount of stuff we had, Jacen’s Rifle which had been forgotten on the shore as he dragged a bag in each hand to the shore, became lost to the sea waves, dragging the gun to its waters...
“Bugger the damn thing, hadn’t had a round for it for a long time anyway...” He muttered to himself as I passed him. He hadn’t really, a Crossbow and a few bolts he had picked up in a Raided Weapon’s Store was the only thing left to find, long had all other guns and ammunition been taken while the crossbow and its bolts were lost in a back storeroom. After a short while we had everything out of the wagon, and all that was left of our mistake was the poor thing being flooded with water. I shook my head as I called over Alex and Savolainen. Pointing the handle of a Chopaxe at both of them I looked them into the eye...
“Now, you know how to use this right, we need to clear an area to make space for our camp. We’ll start over there and come back to where the others have started to set up. Got it???” A nod from the Silent Girl and the Young Boy was enough for me, though Alex’s face looked a bit off while he was running off...
Alex was a weird one at that. We found the boy, or rather he found us, covered in Animal Hides that he wore like a Neanderthal. He didn’t seem to remember much, stating that he came from a city a long ways back and had been looking after himself since. He didn’t say much else. In fact I have caught him doing what I think is reading a book whenever we made camp or he ran off for something. I never could get a look at the cover and he always hid it whenever he became aware of me, and that was quite often...
Savolainen though. I don’t know much about her, I rescued her from a small town and we stuck together since, she is like a little sister to me. She doesn’t speak much, but she makes a good meal with whatever we can scrounge up...
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The constant thunk of my Chopaxe connecting with the trunk of the tree was calming to me, to my left I saw Alex, the young boy happily cutting away at the meaty part of the wood and Savolainen busy with her work. Back at camp I could see Dohan setting up a smelter of sorts using the native Bismuth we had found, forrowing some holes in the ground and filling them with extra pebbles while using the stone as a Heat plate, before finally melting down the rest of the ore and making coke out of the coal. And Jacen was busy setting up the Workstations where we can cut the Logs into Planks for building walls and such, while also keeping an eye out for any animals within reach, he had spotted a few Wild cats and a Moose across the river, but it was too wide for him to leap across...
Dohan said he was a Smelter before the Infection fully took hold, he told me about holding up together with his family and friends who had not taken the drug like so many others. They are gone now he says, he can’t remember when he lost them or does he actually talk about it if he did. Regardless, he may know abit or two about metal working...
Jacen was a Military Cadet, or so I believe he said he was close to graduating or something, his Rifle had saved their arses for a while now, but before that Weapon Shop raid and finding the Crossbow, we had to go without the full safety of the Gun...
Looking behind me I noticed that Nullus had grabbed our only spade and was working away at the soil, he had it in his mind to dig a trench around our camp, perhaps even a moat, I hadn’t a clue to be honest. I also noticed Kerlc looking for said Spade as he passed me, growling under his breath when I pointed at Nullus before storming off to demand for it back so he could clear a spot for the Seedlings he had saved from the last Farmstead we had passed...
Nullus is a Strange one, we found him looking through the Wagon a few weeks back, all of a sudden he was there and next thing we know he was tagging along with us as if he had always been part of the group...
Kerlc, though, was a son of an accountant who liked to farm, a mother who was a vet and alot of other things. He said that he can use a Rifle if he ever could get his hands on one but the fact that we could only find one Crossbow disappointed him. We promised that after we get settled somewhere we would get him a gun and let him have at the Infected that killed his family...
Regardless of the problems, I think our Camp is going along well...
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