by Leonidas Jarnefeldt 14th May 2022, 3:40 pm
Leonidas watched as some of the zombies began to abandon their siege of the cabin and move towards the easier prey which was out in the open. Leonidas watched them move towards him as individuals instead of as a unified group, a lack of foresight that he was not going to complain about. Them moving as individuals made his life easier because he could take them on one at a time instead of having to fight a group of them.
Leonidas waited and let them string themselves out as the faster zombies outpaced the slower ones. When the first zombie got to within three meters of him Leonidas went on the attack. He approached it and when it got close brought his sword down towards its head. The sword inflicted an instant kill when it buried itself deep in the zombie's skull. Leonidas removed the sword and repeated the process until the seven zombies who had heeded what they thought was a dinner bell were all dead with deep sword wounds to the skull. Leonidas then moved up five meters and repeated his call.
"OVER HERE!" Leonidas called out to the undead. He saw the zombies on both sides of the building start shambling towards him and decided to repeat the call again.
"I'M OVER HERE!" Leonidas called out again. That time the rest of the zombies gathered outside the cabin started shambling towards him. He repeated the tactic of waiting where he was to let the zombies string themselves out before moving in to engage them. He took them out one by one without much trouble... the most challenging part of the "fighting" was the effort it took to pull his sword out of each zombie's skull after dispatching it. Still, he was glad that the fighting was that easy because he was not up for taking on large hordes of undead... not yet, anyway.
With the last of the recent batch of undead dispatched Leonidas looked around him to look for any zombies that were late to the fighting that had just concluded. Leonidas did not see any stragglers, so he walked towards the cabin while keeping an eye out for any more zombies approaching the area. After a brief walk he stopped in front of the cabin and immediately decided to do a loop around the structure to seek out and eliminate any zombies that might be behind it. Leonidas took a quiet breath, then started walking around the left side of the cabin.
-Two minutes later-
Leonidas was now at the front door of the cabin after walking around it and not seeing any more zombies. He took a quiet breath, then reached out for the door with his left hand and quickly knocked three times.
"Janine? Janine, are you in there?" Leonidas asked the young woman who was holed up in the cabin. He heard moaning within and feared the worst. He knocked on the door again.
"Hello? Janine?" Leonidas asked again. He heard moaning closer to the door as the sound of a heavy object being moved was heard and he tightened his grip on his Silver Falchion. He hoped that he had not been too late to rescue her.
The door opened and moaning sounded one last time. Leonidas was prepared to face an undead Janine but instead found her to be alive and well. The black-haired young woman was obviously tired and obviously in pain from her left leg... despite her blue jeans covering the leg and obscuring any wounds she was limping on it, which clued him in that Samantha's report from hours ago was accurate.
"Man, am I glad to see you, Leonidas!" Janine greeted her rescuer with a smile. She was wearing a zipped-up black leather jacket and blue jeans plus the sword belt Leonidas had recovered the other day. On her back was a beige backpack. Leonidas saw her hobble over to an old and weathered wooden chair placed near the center of the cabin and sit in it... that was likely the object she had used to try and barricade the door.
"Are you OK, Janine?" Leonidas asked her. She gestured towards her left leg with her left hand.
"I got the iLac I came into the cabin for and put it in my backpack. I started to leave when the zombies surprised me. I turned to run to the left to run around them and tripped, landing on my left leg. I was able to hobble back into the cabin and block the door with the chair I'm sitting on, but if they had managed to break in I would have been dead. I can't run and I can't walk very fast either." Janine replied. Leonidas had a solution to that problem.
"I can carry you back to Capital Crocus." Leonidas offered a way to help get her out of here. Janine stood up.
"I'm in no position to turn you down, Leonidas. Let's get going. I wanna get outta this place before more of those zombies show up!" Janine accepted the offer. Leonidas walked back outside and wiped the blood on his sword off on the grass, then put his Silver Falchion back into its scabbard. He went back inside and gently picked up Janine in a bridal carry style, then turned around and walked out of the cabin with the young woman securely in his arms.
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Last edited by Leonidas Jarnefeldt on 14th May 2022, 9:26 pm; edited 1 time in total