Chapter 03. Pick Up A Friend

At nighttime, James finished packing his and Aslan's things. "Did you charge everything like I asked you to?" James asked as he grabbed his car key. Aslan nods nervously "yeah, they're all charged". James nods before putting his jacket and helping Aslan put his jacket on.

James carefully opened the door and examined his surroundings before taking Aslan's hand. "Can you carry that?" James asked while looking to his surroundings for any potential danger. Aslan shakes his head "I can pull this just fine." Aslan said as he looks back at the generator on the cart. James nods before holding Aslan's hand and starts walking towards the parking lot. The parking lot was strangely quiet and empty "well, this apartment isn't really a luxurious place, so it's not a surprise, I guess" James said to reassure himself.

They made it to their car and put everything in the car leaving the cart outside. James started the engine and slowly but carefully drove off, making sure not to alert any danger. as they got out from the parking lot they saw the giant monster from before smashing a wall, "jeez, how can we get past that without getting spotted" James sighs. after he said that suddenly a massive wall fell and crashed the thing. James and Aslan who saw this paused in shock, "well, I guess we don't have to run it over after all." James said as he shrugs nonchalantly, Aslan looks at him with a shock face, he then hits the gas and drives away.

They arrived at where Maria stayed. James looks at Aslan and pats his head "stay here okay? I won't be long." James said as he got out of the car. "Dad, I'm scared." Aslan said trying to hold back his tears. "I promise you, I'll be back healthy and fine, okay baby?" James said before he kissed the top of Aslan's head. "Okay, be careful." Aslan hides inside the car. James sighs before walking into the building using the emergency stairs.

James walked up the stairs carefully and made it into the 8th floor. there he saw a woman eating a dead body, before not long the woman left and the half eaten body stands up and starts walking. seeing this James shivered and quickly hides behind the wall where no one could see him. "this is crazy, what am I doing!? I should've stayed in my apartment but here I am, doing stupid shits." James mumbled to himself as he took a deep breath. James slowly and silently starts walking towards the apartment door where Maria is.

he knocked carefully on the door but no answer, he tried turning the door handle and strangely, the door wasn't locked. James quickly got inside and closed the door, James pants heavily and tried to calm himself down, he then heard someone calling his name. "James! thank god you made it! there are a lot of those people out there!" Maria said as she sighed in relief. "yeah, I saw." James nods as he calls himself down.

Maria and James kept peeking through the window and door. "shit, how are we gonna go back?" James said. Maria walks out slowly and quietly before sprinting to the stairs, James was shocked for a moment before following behind her. "kid! next time say something! don't do that stupid shit alone!" James whispered a little annoyed. Maria looks guilty at James "sorry sir", James sighs but decides not to bother as they walk down the stairs.

out the apartment, as they see the car not far from them, they suddenly hear a scream for help. they look far right to see a woman limping and waving her arms as she screams for help, without thinking twice James quickly pulled Maria's arm and ran to the car. Aslan who saw this quickly unlocked the door for easier access. James and Maria quickly went inside the car but before James could close the door suddenly one of the zombies faces got in between the door preventing James to close it. Maria looked around in panic and saw a gun behind James, she quickly grabbed the gun and shot the zombie, the zombie got launched back and James quickly closed the door before he turned on the engine and hit the reverse and drove off.

On the road Maria was lost in thought after what happened while Aslan was in the back seat closing his ears from the shock of the gun shot. James looks back at Aslan worriedly "honey are you alright back there?" James asked as he kept glancing back at Aslan from the rearview mirror. Aslan sobs and stayed quiet while looking out the window before he decided to answer "yeah, I'm alright" he said followed by a few sobs.

Maria sighs before looking at James "I've checked everywhere, but no news or information about a safe shelter. can't we just go back to your apartment?". James paused before shaking his head "all of our food supplies are running out, if we stayed there again, it'll be hard for us to go out again to find food.". Maria sighs again "what about just keep driving away from the city, that way we can avoid any-" before Maria could finish her sentence James cuts in "Raccoon City, i'm thinking of going there, there's a friend of mine who lives there, I've contacted him and I'm thinking of us staying there.". Maria who heard this paused, now looking at James with wide eyes and a suspicious look "Raccoon City? out of nowhere? that's like hours or even days away. why there?" James paused before shrugging suspiciously "like I said, we're staying there."

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