Undeads are walking

From Cluj to Athene - Part 19

The survivor group managed to walk almost 100 meters on the big mess of this highway. While they are walking, they are using their weapons as a melee because they are running short of ammo, thanks to the stupid and psychopathic military people who just killed a girl in front of them. Alin has an idea of using a knife. He attached an assault rifle and would use it to stab the head. An attack tactic well known in the Japanese Imperial Army.

"Gargh!" says Claudia, who used a hammer she found in the truck to smash a car window, only to unlock the door of that car, then grab the medical kit from it. She inspects it while Alina and Ilie are getting closer to her.

"What have you found here?" asks Ilie, holding his SMG.

"A medical kit," says Claudia, passing the medical kit to Ilie. "This might be your domain."

"I am not an actual doctor, you know." says Ilie, taking the medical kit, but before he could pass it to her again, she took the lead with Alina. He puts this med kit into his backpack and continues walking.

"Are you really not a doctor?" asks Klaus, holding a handgun.

"No. I.. uh... I was a football player for CFR Cluj."

"Cool," says Klaus. "That was your dream?"

"More like my father's dream. You know. He always wanted to see me a football player, even though I didn't like it. I was more attracted to medicine than football, or any type of sport. But my father really wished to see me becoming a footballer become so I have decided to be one. It was tough, but I made it to a strong team. Then this apocalypse happened... And you can figure it out... It has changed all of us."

"Was your father proud?" asks Klaus after he stomped the head of a corpse who didn't even show movement, but he did that just in case.

"It was. He loved me only when I was kicking the ball, not when I did when in school... He wouldn't even be proud of me in this situation... I started to miss him, man."

"My family is probably gone, too." says Klaus to Ilie to make him feel sad and thinking that he is the only man here who is dealing with family loss. "Most of this group has their family gone, but we have each other back, and we are together, right? Without teamwork, we wouldn't even be able to enter Greece."

"You're right." says Ilie, smiling at Klaus. "For a German guy, your Romanian sounds good."

"Thank you, my dear friend" he replied in Romanian, like he was speaking the whole time this mess started.

Ilie sees a zombie coming under the door, at the feet of Klaus, he quickly took out his SMG and shot a few bullets into the thing's head. This sudden action has almost damaged Klaus' right leg, but it has also saved his life. One inch and he would've become a thing that eats only human meat.

All of the survivors are turning to Ilie, and they look at him. All of those faces are curious to know why he shot that SMG. Then, Alina came close to Ilie and she told him.

"Are you trying to alert the Military ? We have to run from this Hell!"

"I'm sorry," says Ilie. "But in my defense, a zombie was close to getting Klaus' leg."

"That is true." says Klaus, feeling anxious about the fact he was close to becoming a monster who eats human meat. "And I am sorry for being this clueless."

"Don't worry about it," says Ana. "This could happen to anyone."

"Um, guys," says Anakin, looking in the sky and points at a helicopter which is falling from the sky a few hundred meters from their location on a hill. "Looks like someone got in trouble!"

" In the sky?!" asks Alina, surprised. "Are zombies now able to fly?"

"If a zombie is able to do that, he should be called a zombie?" asks Anakin.

"If he is a he and not a she," says Laura to Anakin. "But yeah, we should be focusing on the run and not on the helicopter that is about to crash."

"Laura is right," says Claudia to the group who gathered in one place. "We should be focusing on the walk."

The group of survivors continued to walk to the highway crammed with broken vehicles where, once, we're used by humans to travel long distances, or in the case of rich folks who can afford any gas price, to go even with their cars only five meters to only buy one milk bottle or any cheap food from a local supermarket.

While they were walking, all of them were trying to ignore the helicopter that crashed into the hill, and when it did, a big "BOOM!" could be heard, and almost all of them saw the helicopter being on fire, and the screaming of the people from that helicopter who had crashed. A few of these survivors felt bad for these unlucky fighters, but they didn't stay much to mourn them because the explosion had awakened a few zombies and "called" the zombies nearby.

Three zombies were walking on the highway, but they were quickly put down by Anakin, who used a sword he found in the attic of the house he checked in Bulgaria. He ditched his light saber sword, in order to gain a much more deadly weapon, because he finally realized his "toy" would be useless while he was fighting against zombies. He detached the heads of these zombies by only doing three swings with the sword. Almost everyone was impressed by the skill of Anakin.

"Great work." says Radu to Anakin.

"Good job, mate." says Ho Lee, patting the back of the Anakin before he refilled an arrow into his bow. "Watch out.". He shot a zombie who was standing idle on the top of a bus in this crowd of cars, trucks and different types of vehicles. He saw the arrow hitting the head of that zombie, and looked at him, falling with his back on the top of the bus with his face looking at the sun.

The team continued to walk and in a few minutes they were able to arrive at the intersection, and they took the one that leads to the city of Thessaloniki. But when they take the walking road, they see fewer cars for some reasons. There were many, but not as many as on the highway. And most of them were only small vehicles, such as Dacia, Renault, Opel etc.

The team saw a few zombies eating from the corpse of a human. Alina was thinking that they should avoid them, but Ho Lee and Klaus proceed to use their weapons to kill those things. Ho Lee shoots two arrows from the bow, which hits only one zombie, but Klaus uses his pistol to shoot those two zombies. The first one had fallen down later because of another arrow shot by Ho Lee. Then a few more zombies, who heard Klaus' gun shot, started to raise up and walk to the zone where the noise was made.

"Well done, Klaus," said Laura sarcastically while she prepared her assault rifle.

"Shoot their heads! Only the heads!" says Alina to the group, who proceed to prepare their weapons to fight.

Alin was the first person to use almost the entire clip to shoot four zombies. He used a pistol which had about 15 bullet magazines and a medium range. He did well for a man with a broken leg, and stood still with the help of a car door. Radu has stabbed the zombies who were coming close and weren't shot by the team. He successfully stabbed the heads of nine zombies without a sweat and broke the head of a creature with his martial arts skill.

"Are you aright?" asks Laura, who saw Radu punching a zombie.

"Yes!" responds Radu, taking his gun with the knife attached in front. "Be ready to shoot or else they will be eating your ass!"

"Shut up." says Laura, feeling a little triggered because Radu had spoken rude to her.

Anakin, Marcus and Alina have killed together about eleven zombies with their weapons. Ana has managed to kill two of those things by using almost the entire clip magazine from her pistol. Other teammates didn't do so well, such as Claudia getting a bunch of zombies, and she was close to getting a bite, if it wasn't Alina and Ana, who were head-shooting all of the upcoming zombies, and Radu, who was stabbing the zombies and kicking their faces out of their decomposed bodies. But the zombies continued to come because of the noise, so the team had the plan to run to any vehicle that could work and drive their way to the city port.

Anakin, Marcus and Ana are getting into an Opel vehicle with broken windows and a small box with water and food. They did see a zombie there who was tied to the driver's seat. They checked to see if they had fuel, and they did have enough to even get to Greece. Anakin put the zombie down by stabbing the forehead and dragging him from the driver's seat and dropping him on the concrete. Marcus is taking the driver's seat while Ana and Anakin are going behind.

Alina, Laura, Claudia, Ilie and Klaus are taking a BMW which has five seats. When they checked inside, there was nobody there, and they had enough fuel to help them to go to the port. Alina is taking the driver's seat, Klaus sits in the other front seat, while the others are sitting behind. Alina saw the car could be turned on by a button, so she pressed the button and the car turned up. This car also has a GPS, which will be extremely helpful. Klaus put the destination at the nearest port, and he did get them on route to the Port of Thessaloniki.

The rest of the survivors, Ho Lee, Radu and Alin, are taking a Dacia Logan who has two zombies tied to their seats. Ho Lee used his arrows to stab the zombies' heads and then, with the help of Radu, drag them out of the car. Ho Lee is going to drive this one, while Radu and Alin are taking the backseats.

"Is anyone ready?" asks Alina to her group.

"Yes!" replied most of the group from there.

"Let's go!"

Alina's car is the first one to leave this highway, then comes the car driven by Ho Lee, and in the final end, it comes Marcus's one. While they were driving in the street, they saw a few zombies walking in their direction, but they were walking so slowly that the survivors didn't even mind them. They weren't a threat to them at that moment because of the cars.

The port's name is Port of Thessaloniki. It is the second largest container port in Greece which was acquired by a German consortium in 2018. This port will probably be their key to escaping this Hell from Eastern Europe.