The Enemy

James~~

I pulled myself easily onto the short roof and crept along to the right, keeping the beasts in sight and making sure they didn't see me. When Simon nodded I shot the zip gun. The bolt slapped into the things neck and I dropped down with my sword drawn to finish it off. The dog jumped to the side as I landed, forcing me to roll. I came back up as Simon's sniper hit another dog, knocking it over. The one I shot had blood dripping down its neck, and it was limping. It lunged and I feigned to the side, slipping my sword in through the bullet hole, causing it to scream in pain. I jumped back as its claw came forward, but it was faster than I expected. I guess most animals were. The claw hit my shoulder and I flew through the air like a rag-doll until I hit a car. The metal crunched under me and I fell to the ground. I threw my knife as the dog charged, but it only scraped along the side. The dog tripped and I darted in, sliding the sword along the beasts ribs. It fell to the ground at last and I finished it off, whispering a prayer for its spirit as it died. It was not a christian thing, more of a Native American thing, but it seemed only right to pray for the spirit of a beast that should not exist, even if we could not eat it.

Jack

"Aw you killed their parent's" Ali said Picking the bear things up and letting them snuggle her. I pushed a bear thing with my Sniper rifle.

"cool" I said admiring the creatures thick fur. James walked over cleaning off some blood from his knives.

"what happened to shooting it?" I asked James shrugged.

"wasn't gonna happen" He said and followed after Simon as he walked past.

"Jack you coming or are you too busy feeling sorry for your self" Natasha said.

"Na I was feeling sorry you, I mean that face I'm sorry I feel sorry for you" I said but Simon gave her a look before she could say anything back.

"Come on Jack " Blowtorch guy said.

"What you see in her?" I said taking my short spear from my back. The nuclear factory was starting to loom on the horizon.

That had been... crazy.

In honestly, I felt kind of useless, and my hear rang out to the two little dog-bear cub-things in my arms. They whimpered quietly, and I tried my hardest not to let them see the remains of their parents.

I had to say, the rest of the group was very... close? The best word I had, I guess. They all knew eachother very well. It made me feel like the outsider.

As we left, I kept hold of two of the doggies to 'study' as Natasha put it. I didn't know how I became the scientist all of the sudden, not that I was opposed. They could have put me in anything and... truthfully? I would have done my best. I was glad I had taken a course in animal behavior my first year of middle school. It was basic, but I should know how these guys were supposed to act.

All of a sudden, one of the started to scramble out of my grasp.

"Woah!" I gasped, as the little guy flew out of my hold. Luckily, Simon was there next to me to catch him. I sighed in relief.

"Here, let me keep hold of him for you," he said as I gestured my free hand out to him, ready to take the bear-dog back. I was glad, though. They were about the size of small cats, and a handful to hold two at a time.

The rest of the group was a little bit behind, bickering with each other. I smirked. "This is quite the group you've got here, Simon."

"Yeah, no kidding." He glanced up ahead, towards the power plant ahead.

"Almost there, guys," he said. I wondered who would be the ones to search the place, and if I would end up staying back, alone with the cubs. I didn't think they would come in with us... I hoped I wouldn't be left alone.

Simon

Thirty minutes later the power plant was up the road. Simon followed Natasha up to a point just outside the gate.

"Ok well this is it," she borrowed Simon's sawed-off shotgun to break the lock on the gate-it made a rusty grating sound as it slid open. Natasha wiped her bangs from her face and with a grand sweeping movement of her hand she motioned the way in. "Shall we?"

Simon laughed. "Sure," he said then smiled. Natasha shrugged. She offered him his Shot gun but Simon pushed it away. "It's ok," He pulled out the Colt .45 Winchester he always kept in his belt(the one he stole from his father).

"You still carry that thing? What are you? married to it?"

Simon laughed "Shut up smart ass."

Jack added in "She's a dumb ass also." And that encouraged a testimony of curses from Natasha in his direction. Simon told them both to shut up then they entered they walked onto the property.
"Hey, take care of him will ya? I'm gonna need my other hand," Simon handed the small dog bear cub to Ali.

"It's ok, thanks" she said.

"If it's fine with you I'd like to keep one when you're done studying them."

Ali smiled "Only if you help me take care of them."

"Anytime, I love animals." Simon smiled and Natasha feigned a gagging sound.

"Come on Simon! You're lagging behind!"

"Are you sure this is safe? We won't get radiation poisoning will we?" someone asked.

"Probably not," Jack said "but either way Natasha will probably benefit the radiation will make her less flat chested-OUCH! What the hell Natasha?"

Natasha grinned, the but of the shotgun still held out like a weapon. "Shut up or I'll do it again ass hole." Jack stuck out his tongue but didn't say anything. The group covered the path to power plant in silence. Everyone in the group seemed to be too busy looking out for grown ups or worrying about radiation. Simon reached the door first-Jack was next to him.

"Everyone ready?" Simon asked. They all nodded and he opened the door...

Natasha~
"What happened here?" I mused out loud. The entire place was still running but it looked like the scene of a massacre.

"Oh my God look!!" Ali almost screamed. A pack of wolves were surrounding something. One had turned around and was looking at them. "It's eyes..."

The wolves had human eyes, when they opened their mouths a set of human teeth and tongue were in place. "Who you?" One asked.

"What the- they talk." Jack whispered.
"No shit smart-ass." I mumbled back kind of instinctively.

"Who you?" The wolf asked again.

OOC:can the humans mutate too?

Those ones did

have any of you read the gone series because that's what this reminds me of...except it was everyone older than 15 dissapeared and some of the kids mutated and got powers. Also the animals were mutating and the coyotes could speak its pretty cool.

OOC: I read that, and the second Natasha mentioned the radiation part I was like, woah! This is just like Gone!

Ok I'm mentioning this just as a side note for I still want to finish this SB but Gone would make an Awesome! SB. Like we don't have to use the same character's but it has everything: high-schoolers, powers, radiation, weird monsters, and a common enemy. It's the embodiment of awesomeness. Coates kids v.s. Pacific view kids. It'd be fun.

Wow this has taken a weird turn, good but weird. If someone starts a gone storybook I'd join it.

I'd join... if you make one save me a spot.

Well I just did! There's more info about it in the thread! Please join guys! =) and ofcourse i'll save you a spot Threnody.

Bio template:



Name: [nickname optional}: Angelica Rivera, "Angel" to her friends





Age: 0-14 {please no baby's}: The pandemic broke out two days before her 14th birthday.




appearance: Strawberry-Blond hair down to the middle of her back. Her eyes change color based on her mood. If she's happy light blue/aqua if shes upset or angry Navy. Tall and thin and very strong. Used to wear glasses but lost them in the panic.



personality: She used to be happy and fun but now is blunt, slightly paranoid and depressed. She has gone a little crazy from the lack of human contact for over 2 months. She talks to herself and has nightmares but nothing super-phyco. If she finds a good group of friend she will go back to the happy person she always was.



job in group: She is pretty much a Jack-of-all-trades. Her father was a NYC cop and taught her how to fight in hand-to-hand combat, how to use a gun and stuff like that so she can protect herself. Her mother was a doctor and she learned about treating wounds, stopping infection etc etc. She herself wanted to be a scientist or engineer so she knows how to build bombs, how to fight using chemical warfare, though she all of her chemicals in a raid.

History: She lived in Queens, NY untill the epidemic happened two days before her birthday. Her mother, father, two older sisters (age-17, age-15), older brother (age-18) and uncle all contracted the virus and died only after trying to kill her. She also had a little sister Mary but she was killed in the cities panic. She went to her parents safe house in the Catskills for a while untill the infected found and almost killed her. She gathered many weapons and head out to NYC hoping to find some sort of refugee camp. Has a backpack filled with protein bars, protein drinks and weapons



weapon: Her bag has two guns, an average 28, used for small threats and a NeoStead 2000 used for larger attacks. She also has around 15 grenades, 25 smoke bombs and two knives. She also has a traiquilizer dart gun filled with unlimited ammunition because instead of using darts, per say, she used Ketamine hydrochloride, a tranquilizer liquid, which she has over 2000 doses of, as each dose is one drop. She normally has a small case filled with small empty grenade looking spheres that she would put two chemicals and throw them at the enemy to efficiently blow them up. During the raid in the Catskills, she used all of the chemicals though.


up for love: For the right person, not just any random fling.

A/N: Yeah I’m just going to start from here in my perspective...I guess I’ll fit myself in there some how.

I walked down what formally was known as Broadway to the old nuclear factory. Hopefully, I could find some chems, preferably liquid nitrogen, as it was easy to bomb stuff with.

I turned the corner, ignoring the dead decomposing carcass' everywhere. As I got to the decaying building, I began to hear noises, like a guttural wolfish version of English. I strained my ears to hear.

"Oh My God, Look at them!" A girl's voice shrieked.

"Who you?" someone...or something said.

"What the-you talk", a male human voice said in shock.

"Who you?" the weird barking sounding voice asked again.

I walked further into the main hall and turned my eyes to the hideous creature in front of me. They looked liked wolves but had human eyes and mouths. I had ran into many of them into my way here and let's just say they didn't like me much-or my guns. I had killed over 50 of them and was now hunted in the region, apparently the Luman (Lupine-Human, corny I know) to find and kill me gets to eat me. Pleasant huh?

They were gathered around the dead body of a ca-oh my god, it was like a cat-bird thing. A couple of kids, around my age were looking at the wolf-humans in shock, disgust and fear.

"Oh, what a lovely meeting we have here. Ugly dog creatures AKA Lupans, haven’t seen you in a while. How's life treating you? Killed anything lately, well other than the bird-cat thing next to you?" I asked, sarcasm dripping off every word. As I was saying this, I reached into my bag and pulled out both of my tranquilizer guns pulling back the safety. I kept all of my guns fully loaded at all times, just in case.

The Lupan's growled in fury at the sight of me and jumped to attack at the exact second I pulled the guns from behind my back and shot twice, efficiently pulling down two Lupans. There were only two left so I just shot at them again and they fell to the ground, unconscious for at least 2 hours.

I turned to the group of kids, who stared at me in a mixture of awe, shock and fear. I looked the oldest boy in the eye and asked,

“So who are you anyway?”