2012 -2-

We arrive at the airport and get out of the car.  "Get in the plane and be quick about it" I shout.  I jump in the pilot seat and turn the plane on.  "Hold them off Niko!"  Niko jumps out of the plane all bruised and cut up with dirt all over.  
"I will hold them off while you get recovered." Said Jake.  The cuts had already been infected, and now with all the dirt they started swelling.
"Are you sure" said Niko
"yea I will be fine" I turn on the engine of the plane and Jake gets in. the engine started up and we where off. I started to think, what if we saw another survivor in Vegas? We would find out soon enough.
One thing that you need to know about flying.  It's easy to fly, but hard to land.  Its even harder without a runway. As the plain crashed into the middle of the street, I realized one house in this small neighborhood wasn't abandon.  As we crash landed, the two figures in a house disappeared.  The whole power went off in the house.  "Jake, Niko!  There is something in that house."
As we existed the plain, I totally expected the door to break down, and for zombies to come out. We cautiously opened the door to the house. It was completely dark inside, but we could hear light breathing from something. The light through the front door gave us some light, but not a lot. The house was blood stained. It had a simple couch, and 2 single beds. It was set up kind of like a hotel room. On the floor, dead bodies of zombies lied in the light. Black nail polish was splattered over the floor along with dr. pepper.  A half eaten pizza was laying out, and it was still warm.  Clothes where scattered out around the floor.  Jake began to state the obvious.  
"I think someone lives here." I started to notice light breathing and the smell of perfume and clone.  "Shut up!" I yelled at Jake.  I investigated the dark area.  I stuck my gun into the darkness, and amazingly it reacted.
My gun flew out of my hands.  I was tripped and pinned within seconds. A large knife was up agents my neck.  A girl my age was on top of me.  she had me pinned.  She had straight brown hair and bangs that covered her face.  She wore a tight strapless black shirt  and ripped jeans. She had a unzipped black hoodie and a backwards hat on over that. She had fish net gloves that covered her hands. Then a boy bolted from the corner.  "Kaley stop it's one of the marine kids!" she never took her eyes off me but she replied back.  
"Are you sure James?  He aint look like no good fighter to me." she pushed the knife closer to my kneck.
  " Positive."  
The girl stood up stuck her knife in a belt.  She also had grenades, scythes, and a couple pistols with her.  She extended a hand to me. As I got up the boy introduced himself.  
"Hello Donny.  My name is James, and this is Kaley."  James had a baggy hoodie and a purple shirt on underneath.  He had short blond hair, and bright blue eyes.  He also had ripped jeans and a tool belt.  On his he displayed an AK47, smoke grenade, a large hammer, and a few small pistols.
I shook hands with James, but it was clear Kaley wasn't interested in me.  Jake and Niko shook hands with James, but that girl kept her distance. After we finished introducing ourselves, Kaley opened her mouth to say something. James eyes bulged as he reached for his AK47. Kaley screamed "duck" and threw a knife.  It slammed a zombie on the fore head.
It was on.  Zombie screeches filled the air along with the sound of guns.  I got blood on my jacket, and pants.  A zombie grabbed Niko from behind.  
"Help!" before I could do anything, James used a chair and kicked off a zombies head. They could be useful.  I slammed a zombie up ageist the wall, it spit up its guts onto my shoulder.  I was drug down onto the ground by one behind me.  I threw my legs over my head and grabbed it by the shoulders. I used my legs to chuck it agents the wall.  With a back roll I was back up and shooting.
The small house reeked of blood.  I brushed off the guts and blood on my jacket.
"We have to keep moving."  I hated to admit it, but Niko was right.  The only way to survive was to keep moving.
"You all should grab a blanket," James commented.  Jake stood up off the ground.  
"If we don't, will we freeze to death?"
"Quite possibly.  Its already freezing outside now." Kaley said.
"You can borrow my jacket" I told her.  She whipped around with her face bright red.  
"excuse me "son of some marine " but if you try flirting with me one more time you will wake up with this knife up your butt." She stormed off as everyone but James looked surprised.  
"she's been that way to strangers even since her dad died. when he was out at war he was shot 13 times in the stomach and died instantly. She took it so hard she had to start living with us. We took her in as part of the family. She started training herself like her dad had and pushing herself to new limits. She's the toughest girl ive seen. We trained even once our parents died in this stupid invasion. Its been hard, but ive never seen  her cry through it. She goes and breaks stuff instead. I believe even when she was born she never cried. Who knows that's just a rumor.
"That could have hit her hard. "Niko started in. "come on you guys, lets get some rest.  We will take shifts.  Me and Jake will take the first, James will take the second, and Donny, you and Kaley can late the last.  We set down some blankets in the small house. I started to drift off as Jake and Niko sat at the front door.  Kaley laid down in front of me but never looked me in the eye.  James laid down behind me as I fell asleep to be woken up in the morning.  
I woke up by getting kicked. A couple jabs to the stomach woke me up.  "Get up you idiot we have look out."  I pulled on my jacket as Kaley stood outside the door. As I went out I started to take in the scene. The large casinos shone bright as the sun came up behind them. The large grass field connecting the back yard to the main strip was covered in morning dew.  I started a conversation.
"Hey im sorry about your dad."  I looked in her eyes as tears welled up behind she hazel coloring.  A tear stroke down her cheek as she silently cried. I couldn't help but stair. The girl James said never cried had let her tears out in front of me. she leaned up agent the door and closed her eyes. I turned into face her and the others. Sitting side by side looking in at James, Jake, and Niko all sleeping.
"You can get your hand off from around my neck now."  Kaley sounded a little sad and upset. I was confused.  Both of my hands where shoved in my pockets. I whipped around to see a zombie with its hand on her neck. With her eyes closed she thought it was me. I took out my pistol and shot it in the head. The blood and brains startled Kaley as she let out a squeal. She jumped up and grabbed a knife and ran out into the field. The battle was on.  Everyone darted up out of bed and shooting zombies where filing out of the casinos.  I took out a sniper I found underneath the porch and set up. Its scope was right at the entrance to one of the main casino.  The zombies kept feeding out into the trap. The casino's entrance started to turn a bright red blood color as they all fell down still bleeding and screaming from the pain. The blood splattered out onto the back of the door. They wouldn't give up. They all left blood trails from where their upper half tried to crawl all the ways across the street.  When the gunfire and screaming stopped, I looked out into the field and realized that it was a blood red color.  Jake was left with a scrape across his face.  Niko loaned him his jacket where he pressed it to stop the bleeding. He helped him inside.
A voice called my name from out in the field.  I looked up and saw it was Kaley.  "Hey Donny.  Thanks.  You saved my life." I smiled and walked over to help her up. I noticed a gash on her back but didn't say anything. She struggled to stand up then smiled. And walked back towards the house.
James looked at her back and laughed. "hey Kaley you need some medicine for your back again."
"what! No!" she backed up towards the wall as James pulled out a cotton ball and a big glass jar with a clear liquid in it. "umm, im not bleeding! That's not my cut! No that's not what it is!" she was a bad liar. She backed up into the wall and screamed. She clasped to the ground as I realized she had run into the wall.
As James put the weird medicine on Kaley I talked with Niko and Jake. "so guys, you think its safe to bring a girl in this?"
Niko piped up. " I remember when we all where in training together. I don't remember a tough girl and boy like that there. I only remember a small boy and a girl they called grace."
Jake started in " yah I remember that.  We all looked so different.  I think it might be them."
I reconsidered it then just came up with the simplest answer. " why don't we just ask?  I mean they knew we where marine children, so they must be.  But just incase we can ask them. Everyone agreed as Kaley and James walked up. with out notice Jake did the most stupidest thing possible.
"Grace?" he asked. Kaley's face went black as she slapped him and he fell to the ground. She jumped on him and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt.
"don't you ever  call me that again!" Jake had slap marks from where he had gotten hit and James flipped.
"Kaley don't punch people that's not nice at all!" he put his hand on her shoulder and she looked up at him with deep sorrow in her eyes.  She got up and helped him back up.
"yah that's them" Jake finished. I looked around at that room full of kids.  I looked each one of them deep in the eyes and thought not of them as kids, but marine soldiers.  All ready for battle.  Tough and ready for anything. And I looked at myself, and thought im a solder to, and we are going to make it through this, together.
"Lets move out men."  I started to head towards the door when Kaley looked at me.  "Um and women."
As we walked outside a black Ferrari pulled up.  We all stopped dead in our tracks and pulled out our guns. Two girls stepped out of the car with their hands in the air and we all put down our guns. A blonde haired girl stepped forward and started talking. "Um hi my name is Lexy and this is Jackie and we are from California. We noticed a radio call from some people here that needed a car but I only heard that where was 2 of you…" she was wearing a black t-shirt and tattered black jeans with gloves on.  Her blond hair wisped around in the wind and I couldn't help but think she was beautiful.
Kaley looked at me and waved her hand in front of my face. She hit the bottom of my chin and I pulled it back up from what seemed the ground.  I looked Lexy over again. Kaley looked at me.  "Do you have any respect for women?" she crossed her arms and stood there angry.
James stepped forward and started talking to her.  "That was true, long story.  How many can your car hold?"
"Um well about 4…"
Kaley started talking to herself. " well with some rope that would be 6 and someone on the top that would be 7…" she glanced up at the girls and took out a knife. At the sight of the knife Lexy stood up as straight as a board. "well Lexy," she said while walking around to Lexy's back and pushing the knife up to her neck " we really need a car. And in case we meet some more marine kids on the way, this will have to be your last stop. So just hand over the keys and we will be on our way."  
She started to put the keys in Kaley's hand, but I grabbed a desert eagle form the ground and pointed it at Kaley. "you slice her neck ill be sure to blow your head off all the way to the casinos." Kaley looked and me and then she put the knife back in her tool belt.
"fine," she said, " but they are riding on the back….. and im still driving.
Next thing I knew I was up on top of the car with a giant shot gun, Lexy and Jackie where tied to the trunk, Kaley driving, James shot gun and Niko and Jake in the back seat. There where only a few zombies on the way, and Kaley hit most of them. As I started to drift off to sleep I told myself that everything would be ok. I still wasn't sure but I put my life in the hand of the 2 lunatics in the front seats.
I woke up to the honking of a horn and a gunshot. I bolted up to find out we where in front of a convenient store. Everyone rushed in as quickly as we could. Kaley started to yell across the whole store. "Niko! Can you go get us some spare clothes?
Niko bolted off twords the clothes. "yah ill get it!"
"ok," she faced the girls. "we can go get some make-up and food ok?"
Lexy and Jackie started off towards the make-up isle and found all the really expensive mascara. Kaley rolled her eyes when the girls got over there. " how about you two go get us some shampoo and conditioner, tooth paste and stuff like that ok?
She ran off to the make-up while James and I grabbed the stuff we needed. We found some good shampoo and some sweet smelling conditioner when Niko called us all into the isle.
" hey you guys! Check this out!" he held us a black shirt with in green writing on the back "zombies fear me!" and we all started laughing. " im getting one for all of us!  
We all started packing all of our stuff in the back of the car. "ok is that everything?" Jake asked.
"should be." Niko said.
"lets get rolling! James shouted. Kaley helped me up on top of the car then strapped the girls in. I laid down and got my gun ready just in case. The two front doors slammed and we where off. As we drove I shot some zombies chasing after behind us and we hit a turn. We started down the road and we finally hit beach. There was a large house in the distance.
I poked my gun through the front door and nothing happened.  Everyone stood close behind tiring to get a good glimpse inside.  As soon as they saw the inside of the house everyone pushed past me to get inside.  Jackie and Lexy where the first two to get a room. Jake was interested more in the fridge than anything else. James immediately went to the bathroom and took a shower while Kaley grabbed a bathing suit and headed down towards the pool. I couldn't help but stand their and look at it all.
The house had marble columns and a large spiral staircase. It also had another staircase above that to go up to the 3rd floor where another bedroom was located. Above that a balcony was in place. There where 3 bedrooms  bunch of bathrooms. The fridge was fully stocked, and painted on the ceiling was angels. This could be the life.
Niko waved his hand in front of my face.  "Dude look at this place its wicked!" he smiled and continued.  "Im going to see if it has video games!" he ran off towards the upstairs while I went to go find a room.
Upstairs there was a room with a bunk bed and a twin size bed on the side.  It had a grate view of the front door great for sniping. The walls where painted blue and under the bed I found a bunch of guns. The room down the hall was more of a neutral type of room, made for ether a boy or girl. there where two twin beds in there where we figured the dynamic duo could sleep. Then there was the pretty pink room with butterflies. It had one king size bed, but with the two girls being well girls we figured they wouldn't mind. The two girls squealed with delight when the found their room and started to set up.
Jackie unpacked her bag and put all of her make-up down on the table. "Hey Lexy!  Let's go get Kaley!  We could all do make-up!"
James over heard them as he walked by and stuck his head in. "um girls Kaley doesn't like make-up much. Or really at all."
Lexy turned to him.  "Oh what do you know!  You're a boy!  Come on Jackie lets go!" they walked past him and headed down to the pool while I just stood there laughing. I started to hear screaming so I ran down-stairs.
Kaley was yelling at the girls. "dude there is no way in the world you are making me go upstairs! No way! Not to put make-up on!"
Lexy pulled at her arms. "But Kaley! You will look so pretty!"
Kaley started yelling in Japanese.  "No mah!  No mah en toshimo!"
Jackie refused her call for help. " oh come on it will be fun!"