The End (22 page)

Jason looks and searches for him, unable to
find Luke, Jason figures it will be best to return to Jacky now
before she bleeds out, from a distance Jason can see that her body
is gone, Jason follows the blood trail all the way to the far end
of the island.

“You finally made it,” Luke said, shouting at
Jason.

“Hold it right there, leave your weapons
right there,” Luke said, shouting at Jason, still distant.

“Leave both your pistols and approach, slowly
now,” Luke said as he draw his knife to Jacky’s neck.

“Please stop, you took enough already,” Jason
said as he approach Luke slowly.

“That’s where you are wrong,” Luke said
loudly.

“She is all I have left,” Jason said with
tears.

“Roy was my brother, he suffered, he got
stabbed, you nearly burned him alive, you let him suffer you didn’t
even think to kill him,” Luke said angrily.

“I didn’t mean for that to happen,” Jason
said worried.

“Well he survived, in pain, to make matters
even worse he changed into something much more horrible,” Luke
said.

“You can’t possibly blame that on us, anyone
can get infected at any time,” Jason said loudly.

“I can, I can blame you, you could have
simply put a bullet in his head that would have been fast and easy
on him, why set him on fire, to give a message to my father?
Besides from what I understand you guys are rivals after all,
that’s it isn’t it?” Luke asked.

“It’s not like that,” Jason said.

“Shut up, that’s exactly what it is, you and
he are exactly the same, can’t wait for a reason to make other
people suffer, did you know if my brother had to come home empty
handed, my dad would have beaten him, maybe even killed him on the
spot,” Luke said.

“That’s not all of it, I was planning to kill
my father myself, he was evil, my plan was going well, I would have
done it, and then set all prisoners free, making matters worse,
this is what Roy was helping me with until you and your daughters
came along!” Luke said shouting out of anger and heart break.

“If you were in our shoes, you would have
found a way to defend yourself as well, so he got stabbed!” Jason
said loudly, shouting back.

“Ok, then still explain to me why you had to
set him on fire, you clearly had enough time to shoot him since you
had the time to tie him down and put a tire around him,” Luke said
crying softly.

“How was I supposed to know Bradley was the
only one behind this?” Jason asked.

“No you didn’t, that still gave you no right
to do what you did,” Luke said angrily.

There was no time for Jason to explain,
knowing he might have messed up somewhere, also knowing that Roy
and Bradley is freaking psychopaths, judging Luke he clearly have
some problems as well, even if he had some valid points.

Jason moves in closer feeling bad for Luke,
beside that’s exactly what he wanted, to make Roy suffer for all
the killings, raping and other crimes, still what Jason wanted the
most was for Bradley to pay, now it seems like he is only torturing
himself.

“Don’t come any closer,” Luke said.

“You know how me and your dad settled things
if we had a problem?” Jason asked.

“We drop our weapons and go head to head,”
Jason said

“Not interested,” Luke said angrily.

“Sissy, just like your brother, he couldn’t
even put up a good fight,”

Luke pushes Jacky to the side hard, smiling
as he toss his very own knife towards Jason’s feet, insuring Jason
he will need it. Jason figures that this will be just as easy, as
Bradley couldn’t fight just like his one son Roy, one or two good
shot and they go down; this is where Jason made his big mistake,
never get to confident.

Jason picks up the knife and started swinging
it towards Luke, missing each time, unaware that Luke has taken
classes in various fighting arts, though he had never completed any
of them but it was enough to get him educated, fit and well trained
in self-defense.

Jason jabs the knife straight, with a single
dodge, in a second Luke was standing right next to him elbowing
Jason behind the head, moving forward Luke turns around with two
kicks to the knee dropping Jason to his knees in pain.

It was so fast and painful, Jason finds it
hard to believe that he is losing the fight so fast, Jason tries to
stand up straight but his leg feels crushed, it’s the worse pain
ever. Crippling to continue the fight further, swinging the knife
around with a few straight jabs, Jason finds it impossible to cut
Luke.

Luke waits for his move patiently, knowing
that Jason is only fighting out of rage, at a split second after
Jason swings the knife Luke unleashes multiple straight jabs not
missing once.

With each jab, Jason goes blank for a second,
rendering him useless, the jabs stopped but before Jason could see
clearly he feels one final blow as Luke swings twice left followed
with a right. Jason is entirely blank as he falls to ground his
face all bloody, his nose broken, to weak and confused to get up,
with a deep cut in the back of his head with that elbow that
connected.

Luke stares at him struggling and without any
remorse kicks Jason hard, as hard as he could manage, so hard that
the bridge of his foot felt a slight sting of pain.

Luke doesn’t stop there and as soon as the
kick lands, Luke grabs the knife from Jason and quickly stabs him
twice, once in the leg and again straight through his hand. Jason
pulls his face in agony, Jason lays down as the pain resides
slightly the moment he notices Luke walking over to Jacky, he tries
to get up just to fall back down, he crawls slowly, crying, begging
not to harm her.

Jason shouts out continuously to leave her
alone he can rather kill him, Luke ignores him entirely, he sits
down on his knees right next to Jacky, crying as she to begs for
her life.

“It will be over soon I promise,” Luke said
holding the knife on the right side of her neck with only the tip
piercing her skin.

“Please!” Jason shouts begging.

“Take this as a life lesson, the very actions
you take every day, will lead to certain consequences, this is just
one of them,” Luke said as he applies pressure, letting the knife
pierce through her neck slowly.

Jason cries and crawls faster with the last
attempt to stop Luke, already knowing that it’s too late no one
here will be able to stop a bleeding like that, he could only stare
at her and hear her scream as her throat fills up with blood.

Luke made sure to drive the knife only deep
enough to reach and pierce into the internal jugular vein, enough
of a wound, for her to bleed out slowly, yet big enough for no one
to stop the bleeding; it will insure Jason suffers a few seconds
longer.

Without time to waste Luke walks over to
Jason and grabs him by the arm, dragging him over to Jacky’s side,
Jason just laid there and cried, there was no point to even try.
It’s a fatal wound, he could only stare at her dying slowly, and
even if it was a matter of seconds it felt like an eternal life
time.

Luke just stands there, he doesn’t regret it
for one moment, he didn’t enjoy it, it didn’t give him any pleasure
though now he knows he did everything he could for his brother, he
decides that it’s enough and raises his knife ready to put Jason
down for good.

With his knife ready, Luke hear one loud gun
shot, he stares down to his stomach where blood is flowing freely,
he stands up slowly and see a man with a rifle, recognizing him as
the man that was on Jason’s side when he killed Maggie.

“Put down your weapon!” Martin said
loudly.

“Just end it now, I have nothing left,” Luke
said softly as he starts charging at Martin.

Another shot fire and Luke falls, beside from
small kicks Luke shows no sign of life, Martin walks over to him,
and pulls the trigger one more time just to make sure and ends any
suffering that there might be. Martin regrets not coming earlier;
Jason is bloody and looks terrible, Martin could spot three major
wounds, a stab wound that is bleeding heavily with a stab wound
straight through his hand and a small cut at the back of his
head.

Martin feels Jacky for a pulse but she is
already dead, he pulls Jason up and assists him back to the Fort
where Emma helps half way.

“What the hell happened?” Emma asked shocked
and worried.

“The man that murdered his daughter, came
back to finish the job,” Martin said.

“He just lost his other daughter too,” Martin
said.

“We can show our emotions later, for now we
need to get him back and stitched up and you need to return and
look for William,” Emma said loud and seriously.

Martin washed the blood of his hands, putting
on a new shirt knowing that Jason is in good hands, he could only
wonder what happened, while wondering, why such a young man will
have such a big grudge against someone.

Martin actually feels the pain for Jason,
knowing that he is in good hands, he might as well be better off
dying, once he wakes up he will be lost and tormented by the way he
ended up losing both his daughters. Martin grabbed a few bottles of
water just for incase they want some if he finds William and the
other unless they are already dead to.

Martin heads back to Fort Zachery its late
and only Taylor and Conway is back, Martin feels happier at least
there is a bright side for the horrifying day, and Conway is alive
and well. Martin shares the good news that they found Ashley and
that they managed to get her to safety; he also shares the bad news
and what happened to Jason and his two daughters.

Martin and Conway teams up and searches for
William together, two hours later they start to return, not giving
up but it’s getting late and the streets are wild and dangerous,
with those things in mass groups lurking around every corner.

William has been waiting several hours for a
large group to pass, it’s hard to wait this long, it’s extremely
boring but the coast seems clear, fearing if he doesn’t go now and
take the opportunity he won’t get another one anytime soon.

“William is that you?” Danny asked slowly
with heavy breathing.

“Danny, your alive I can’t believe it!”
William said rushing over but pauses as he sees Danny clearly.

“I know it’s looking bad, it turns out that I
have caught the virus after all,” Danny said.

“We can get you help, we can go out and
search for someone, I am sure if we are still alive, many others
will be alive to and one among them must be a talented doctor,”
William said crying still hugging Danny tightly.

“Willy, look at me, I’m turning into a
monster, and no one can help me now,” Danny said.

“I should have never left your side, I am so
sorry,” William said crying.

“You did what you had to do, I would have
done the same thing, I would’ve escaped too if you were in that bed
dying,” Danny said.

William can’t believe how much Danny changed
and yet here he is still feeling, still caring, Danny requested one
thing of William. He passed over a revolver and told William to
shoot him and end it, he refused the very second Danny finished his
sentence, not yet William said, we still have time, we can at least
spend some time, as those things bang on the glass door, knowing
they will break through any second.

William stares at Danny, his skin is
literally falling of his arms and partially around his neck with
weird hairs growing out of his body, blisters and large lumps
growing on his arms legs and chest, with long over developed bones
sticking out by each nail like claws, his eyes is yellow and
bloody. This transformation is new and will be discussed with Emma
as soon as he returns.

William and Danny stares at the glass door as
it starts to crack but they only start to fear the outside after
hearing a loud roar and intense breathing. Those things stopped
banging against the door, before the two could even wonder what was
going on, they see this large creature, this tall man is muscular
with red eyes and gray skin featuring the same black hairs running
down his shoulders the same Danny had growing.

His one arm is skinny, like it was normal
where the right one was larger and deformed with big claws, eyes
red of the blood, running down his face, he roars and starts
clawing the creatures around him. This new thing truly deserves the
title of a true monstrosity, he kills everything and all of them
savagely, it’s fast and over within seconds. He smashes against the
glass door, shattering it into pieces; having so much weight that
you can hear each step the monster takes.

Before William could think of a plan he opens
fire shooting the titan five times, it doesn’t show pain and it
keeps on coming, William was about to suggest a new plan but he was
too late as Danny got up to face this creature head on, knowing he
has some new developed strengths as well. He puts up a good fight
by using the bony claws to cut into the chest of this beastly titan
but with one whack, Danny slams against the wall, he got up and
quickly to rejoined the fight.

William is left with no options but to help
Danny, grabbing a pipe striking it multiple times, the beast
ignores it entirely, the beast grabs Danny by the head as he
applies pressure, crushing his head entirely, the blood runs down
his large arm as he holds up his latest victim high up in the air.
William is shocked and angry, he starts pounding the beast on its
back and at this point it was obvious to William that he is doing
absolutely nothing to it.

They beast turns around and grabs William,
turning him around holding both arms, the beast kicks William with
full force, William leaps into the air landing on his back, dead on
sight, his back broken and three ribs sticking out of his stomach
region. The beast quickly retreated and ran away a few minutes to
soon. Martin arrived on the scene figuring that Danny did this to
William yet that won’t explain what happened to his head, broken
and mushed up.