Stronghold In The Apocalypse

Chapter 16: Test?

"Yeah, that's the reason why women will go first and us guys will stay here for the time being before going back tomorrow"

"But does this thing, really will send us to a safe place?" Michelle inquired.

"Yes, of course. I built it myself *cough*" Leo said smiling widely.

"Now, I'm become more suspicious if you smile like that" Michelle said with a bit of trembling tone.

"Come on, we don't have all the time in the world, hurry up and go to the portal" Leo said as he hurries them.

"No, I'll stay here with you" Amanda said meekly while pulling the side of my shirt.

"Me too. I'll stay here, others can go first" Michelle spoke through gritted teeth.

"No! You guys go, now!" Leo raised his voice.

"B-but...B-but" Amanda stuttered.

"No buts, just go before the portal close up. On the other side, you guys will meet my family. Tell them I sent you guys to live with them and we'll be back tomorrow"

Seeing that Leo can't be swayed, the girls didn't had any choice but follow and immediately went pass the portal not before hugging and telling their love ones to be safe while they're here in L.A.

The women already went pass through the portal but Leo noticed that the portal is not closing up.

"System, why is the teleportation stone not closing up? Does it need a total of 10 people to close up?" Leo immediately asked the system.

"Yes and no, If there are less than 10 people used the portal then the Host only needs to wait 5 minutes before it would close by itself" the system sounded in his mind.

"I see" Leo said and looked at his watch with only a minute left before the teleportation stone deactivates.

After one minute, the teleportation stone finally deactivated itself and returned to normal.

The rest of the guys looked at Leo in shocked still trying to process of what the f*ck just happened withing their minds.

"What?" Leo asked as he looked at them.

"U-uh..n-nothing" they are stuttered at the same time.

"Alright, seeing that you guys are already armed with weapons" Leo said as he looked at them armed with weapons like baseball bats, machete and fire ax.

"Follow me" Leo said to them as he walked out of the house.

Tom and the 3 brothers looked at each other before following him outside and they saw Leo on the motion of opening the front gate.

Seeing that Leo already started walking pass the gate, the four of them hurriedly followed him outside but what they upon reaching the street shock them bad, they are Zombies roaming everywhere and they also noticed that some are already heading towards them as they also saw Leo killing a Zombie that got near him.

The three siblings can be seen trembling with hands as they readied they're weapons for the incoming Zombies.

"Stick together boys, just swing your weapons hard on their hands and in no circumstances that you hesitate or you're dead" Tom said as he saw that the situation is turning bad with numerous Zombies starting to swarm towards them.

When the siblings heard Tom, three of them trembled as they imagined themselves being Zombies if they are bitten.

"You heard him, just swing hard towards their heads and it will be okay, got it?" Joe tried to encourage both him and his brothers.

"Uhmm" both Michael and Josh heavily nodded their heads as they took a deep breath and gripped their weapons tightly but it still can't conceal that they are scared with their trembling.

'Where's the f*ck did Leo go?' Tom asked himself worriedly when he noticed that Leo disappeared "Damn, did he left us here on purposed?" Tom thought in anger.

But what Tom did not noticed is Leo already laying on top of the opposite building from them as he observed them through the scope of his rifle.

"This will be your test guys, so do it carefully. I don't need freeloaders back at the camp" Leo thought to himself while looking at them.

"Here they come" Tom raised his voice a bit as he swung his machete towards the head of a Zombie that wanted a bite off of him and immediately pulled his weapon back and looked back at the others to see if they're okay, seeing that they are "doing" fine holding their self up, he continued swinging his weapon at the incoming Zombies near him.

A minute in the fight, they heard someone screamed and they saw that Josh was pushed down on the ground as a female zombie laid on top of him as it tried to bite him.

Other's looked at Josh in despair as they saw him about to get bitten and they wanted to help especially his two older brothers but felt powerless because they are also being preoccupied right now.

"NO!" Josh screamed in sadness and despair as he saw the bloodied mouth of the Zombie that was about to bite him but just as he was about to get bitten.

BANG! ~

A gunshot rang out as Josh saw the the head of the Zombie blasting to pieces and with blood and gore splattered on his face.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!" Josh screamed in fright as he started furiously swiping the b****n matters and blood on his face.

"Get up! Stop being a crybaby!" Michael and Joe both yelled at Josh as they helped him stand back up.

"Are you okay? Were you bitten!?" Michael was anxiously asking him as he inspected Josh worriedly.

"I-I'm fine, I-I think I'm okay" Josh stuttered, still feeling a bit scared as he thought of almost getting bitten.

"Good! Now, get you shit together cause more are coming!"

"I-I w-will do my best!"

"It seems someone is helping us!" yelled Joe as he swung his fire ax at the head of Zombie and put one of his put on the Zombies chest as the pulled he weapon back from getting stuck.

"Its probably Leo!" shouted Tom back.

When they heard Tom mentioning Leo, only did they finally noticed that he was missing and tried to look around them.

"He's over there!" Josh was the first to noticed Leo because he saw Leo's head moved away from looking at the rifle scope who was currently lying flat on the cemented ground on the opposite building/house and pointed at him.

"Damn, so he was over there all along. I thought he already abandoned us for good" Tom yelled in joy when he also saw him.

"Alright, don't hold back and just kill them all!" Joe roared like a battle cry, as he furiously swung his fire ax left and right.

"F*ck em up!" the three also roared like mad, as they felt the feeling of pressure being lifted from them, knowing that someone is keeping a lookout for them.

"Damn, I wanted them to fight more under pressure so that they won't get scared or have their legs go limp in fear if they also encounter a same situation like this in the near future" Leo complained in his mind when he saw them finally noticing him.

"But what is amazing is that Josh is still able to keep his composure even after all that, he's a good kid, I'm calling him a kid but our age's aren't that much apart" Leo praised Josh smiling as he would press the trigger from time to time blasting a Zombie's head into pieces.

"It seems that they are already growing tired" Leo said to himself when he noticed that their attacks are already slowing down with their breathing getting hard.

"I guess, its already enough experienced for them. Time to take care of the rest of Zombies and I don't getting hated by the girls if one of them dies on my watch" Leo smiled as he shook his head when he imagined being hated by Amanda or Michelle.

And then Leo leaped off the building and landed heavily on the ground causing cracks beneath his feet and the pulled out the fire ax he used before and made a dashed towards the group of four heavily tired men.