Do you guys mind if I take control of a few infected creatures to add to the challenge a bit? I mean, infinite Thompsons is kinda easy-breezy.
(Name change for my character: Tony Miranda)
(Also, please ask for permission before interjecting with my characters' story.)
(Two hours earlier)
The smell of smoke and alcohol filled the bar. The bar was like a black sheep in the city and fittingly placed on the edge. I was quiet when it was. Most of the rough-necks and hard-asses spent most of their time playing pool, but not a day went by where there wasn't a bar fight. Jack, the owner and bartender of this fine and relaxing establishment had to keep a clean-up crew on twenty-four hour duty just to keep the place presentable. Even then, it was a stereotypical fashioned slum back alley-type bar that no one knew about.
Tony had gotten into his fair share of fights there too. He was tough though. He had no problems getting up from taking a hit. His problem was landing a hit ...at least until his entry into the military. All of his fore-father's served in wars -big ones. Though, involved in countless smaller wars in third-world countries, Tony felt incomplete without his own great war to claim unto himself. The bar fights helped somewhat, but not enough. His return to the city and bar in which he felt so secure and at home was a welcome visitation before he moved on in his life; but his soul was crying out for something... of what he couldn't comprehend.
"Jack, what's on the TV there?"
Jack looked to the TV and face Tony with a smile.
"You finally interested in the news huh? I guess what they say is true; 'if it bleeds, it leads."
"Come on, Jack. Just turn it up."
Jack stopped polishing his glass and turned up the TV. Only three minutes passed before the jukebox fell upon deaf ears and billiards lay on the table solitary. Everyone in the bar fell silent at the reports of the cannibalism plagueing the city.
"Holy- ****...."
"Mary, mother of God...."
The comments filled the bar as a more sentimental side appeared in all the men. The entry of woman snapped them out of it, Jack pulled out his shotgun from behind the counter.
"Get out of here you freak!"
"Easy, Jack." Tony said gently pushing down his gunbarrel. "Don't be so jumpy. It's not like you." Tony smiled,
Jack came to his senses and chuckled.
"Damn straight, jackass. Sorry little miss. I'm deathly sorry about that."
(One hour later....)
Tony and Rose, that was her name, watched the bar atop a building several blocks away demolished with nothing left but splinters to show of its former glory. Tony and Rose were both badly hurt. Not bitten or scarred for they were ignorant of the nature of the lesser beings- these "zombies" as it were. They were tired, bloodied, and weak from the catastrophe the swept through the bar and several others on the same street including the munnitions shop. All they managed between them was the 45. Magnum Revolver upon Jack's wasted body with ten extra rounds from the shop before its destruction and a rifle from the same place with no extra rounds. Tony gave the guns to Rose he carressed his knife like an old friend he hadn't known in a long time. Out of breath, his sight blurry, and breathing hoarsely, he spoke.
"You alright?"
Her own heartbeat pounded so hard it hurt. Upon her knees she looked up at him and smiled weakly.