Infected: Ch. 1

[roseblonde123]

Yay I'm back to writing! I blame watching Beef's The Last of Us: Left Behind series awhile back cause this idea popped into my head. Anyway I hope you enjoy!

It was just another typical day for Etho and the other Mindcrackers. It was his usual schedule - eat breakfast, then go caving. When he finished his bowl of oatmeal, Etho grabbed his pick and headed out for a cave.  He's always swarmed by zombies whenever he goes to the cave; each zombie was typically the same...well...all except one. He was odd, different, but very interesting. Etho settled his pick on the stone flooring of the cave, and he cautiously made his way towards the zombie. This zombie, he couldn’t burn in daylight; it wasn’t even wearing an armour piece or holding an item. As curiosity would have it, Etho led the zombie back to EthoCorp. The more he slowed on the way there, the more it kept trying to attack Etho. It still kept the instincts of a normal zombie.

 
When Etho got back to EthoCorp, Kurt was downstairs with Wolfie.

“Kurt, I told you not to bring Wolfie in the laboratory.” Etho almost trip over the wolf’s tail trying to get the zombie into a test chamber. After getting the zombie in the chamber, he turn towards Kurt and his fluff ball of a wolf and says, “Can you get him out of here? We have work to do.”

Kurt glances over at Etho and sighs. He barely hears him mumble something about how Wolfie has done nothing wrong, as he walks out the door. He comes back shortly after and tugs his lab coat on tighter. He walks over to the test chamber, examining the zombie. “A zombie? Why is it so special?” Etho was looking through drawers for a syringe.

“He didn’t burn when he came out of the cave.” he bring the syringe eye level and check the needle, with his finger, to make sure it was sharp enough. “Something about this zombie is different.”

“Different, eh...” Kurt walks over to the island in the middle of the room and searches one of the drawers for a mask and a pair of latex gloves. He walks over to the entrance and looks up at the door.

“Kurt, I really hoped you closed the door up there ‘cause I don’t want that dog down here while we’re working.” Etho turn towards him watching him walk quickly from the entrance to over by the chamber again.

"It's not, don't worry. Lets get back to work." He was speaking quickly. Etho looks over at Kurt curiously. He shook his head and rolled his eyes.

"Alright, lets get to work." Etho walks over to the chamber and waves his hand. "Hold the zombie's arm real quick, I just need to get a sample of his blood, or whatever he has in him."

Kurt nods and opens a mini compartment of the chamber and takes the zombie's wrist. The zombie growls and moans at Kurt, trying to pull its arm back and attempts to scratch him.

"Don't let him scratch you, I don't want you getting sick with whatever he has." Etho says half jokingly,  half serious.

"Whatever boss." Kurt rolls his eyes, keeping a grip on the zombie's wrist. He watches as Etho takes the syringe and pokes at the zombie's wrist till he finds what looks like a vein. He pushes the syringe in quickly and gets what looks like a clear liquid.

"Ok done, let its wrist go and shut the door upstairs." Etho grins as he watches Kurt's eyes grow wide and he laughs.

"Fine." Kurt lets go of the zombie's wrist and shuts the compartment. He makes his way upstairs and Ethos hears a small CLICK and turns towards the entrance. "He was just laying down and he would've come of I whistled."

Kurt sits in the spot he always sat in. Etho looks over at Kurt and stretches.  "Don't you have somewhere to be?" He couldn't hide the grin forming under his mask.

The man in the chair put his hands behind his head, "No, I have no idea what you're talking about."

"I'm pretty sure Zisteau doesn't like waiting." Etho threw a crumbled up piece of paper at the farlander. "You can go hang out with him just come back soon cause I need help with this." Etho held up the vial filled with the clear liquid.

Kurt got up and stretched. "Alright I'll go." He whistled and Etho heard the sound of paws clicking on the hard quartz stairs.

Etho stands up straight and narrows his eyes at the wolf. "I thought I told you to shut the door."

"I thought I did."

There was a cough and they both turn towards the entrance. Nebris. Etho sighed and glared at the man leaning on the entrance door frame.

"May I help you?" The tone in Etho's voice wasn't too threatening but it sounded like it.

Nebris raises an eyebrow. "You forgot, didn't you?"

The ninja tilted his head slightly and eyes went wide when he realized that he was supposed to hang with Nebris.

"Oh, no..." he said in a barely audible whisper. "Um." Etho sighed. "Hold on I'll get ready." He took his lab coat off and set it down on top of Kurt's chair.

"Whelp, I'm gonna hang with Zisteau,  later!" Kurt walked out the door with Wolfie following close behind, tail wagging while he walked.

Comments

[purplesky]

Ooh, this is good. More?

(And flustered Etho is by far the best Etho)