"I wouldn't want to be caught with any evidence,either." Ein said.Now that Shadow mentioned it,it stood to reason that Umbrella wouldn't leave any documents behind.If there was any important information,it might have been stored on flash drives or something. "Oh,no.It's an old childhood injury.Thanks for your concern." The blond had to smile at that.It was nice of Shadow to be worried,especially since they didn't know each other.

"I never even thought of that.Thanks,Chloe." Garrett said.Actually,he and Ein had just been expecting the hospital to have supplies.His theory was that after the outbreak,the doctors and able-bodied patients had fled the hospital,and left most of if not all the medical supplies behind. "I wish there was some way we could figure out if there are any nearby towns that are zombie free." But then,if there were,they probably wouldn't be like that for long.

At Garrets comment he grab his dog tags a small tear formed in his eye. "There will be no towns, At this point its survive or die." He looked up wiping the tear from his face. He begins walking off no words to anyone else toward the direction Chloe had mention. He wasn't trying to be rude but he was one of those people who didn't like people knowing he cried. "Im going to go find us a ride and some food you guys find somewhere safe.."

He pulled lifted his pant leg to reveal a flare gun in his boot and gently tossed it at Chloe "When you guys find somewhere shoot this flare into the air and ill head that way" He didn't want the group to come with him simply because he knew he was going to being doing alot of dangerous things. He much rather risk his life over the life of the group.

He then again began walking down the street toward the direction. He pulled his 9mm out for good measure he wasn't gonna be unprepared.

Chloe catches the flare gun Shadow tosses at her and watches him head off before turning her attention to Garret, "As much as I hope the same as you that there a place that isn't infected, in reality, who knows how far this infection has spread. But Shadow is right, we need to find some place that we can zombie proof and the hospital sounds like the only logical choice right now. We can disable the elevators easily from any of the computer systems."

The sound of the explosion had woken not only Avalon from a nice nap but had not only woken Roz up but had startled the two year old that she had been begin to wail. Plodding down the hall to the room where Roz slept, Avalon picks the cranky two year old up and glances out of the window to see flames burning down the street, wondering why the Fire Department had yet to respond to the fire.

Stuck in a line of traffic on the highway headed out of the city, Alexis could feel the sweat dripping off of her forehead. She became tired of waiting and decided to continue on, waving through the idled cars on her motorbike. Up ahead she could see waves of heat beating down on the crowded freeway. The panic hadn't started quite yet, but it was rush hour. Lex was glad to have started her journey out of the city beforehand. Her head start and quick thinking just might have saved her life. She knew this was something she had to get used to. Taking a quick drink break, she looked at the person in the car next to her. He looked tired after a long day at work. She could definitely use some rest herself. A few cars ahead, she saw an RV. She decided to take a chance and ask if she could nap in the back for a small fee. When the owner of the camper agreed, she packed her bike inside and laid on the couch after locking the camper door. It's funny, because even though after everything that happened over the course of the day, and everything that was on her mind, she drifted off to sleep within ten minutes of laying down.

Shadow began his long walk alone."Well i guess we are off again aren't we Shadow? So where are we going?" He considered him self the walking insane asylum because he always had some conversation with him self when he was alone, even though he knew it was because being a sniper he was alone a lot and needed the comfort of a conversation. Shadow walked through the town it had became a wasteland he recognized this sign. "There all gone, either the fools who went to the highways and are awaiting slaughter, Survivors, Or those who didn't see this coming."

He looked down noticing at his show was a dead child he grimace and knelt down closing the child's eyes his body wasn't badly torn up on in fact he could not find but one bite mark on the child and a small bullet wound in his temple.. "This is your fault Shadow. If you would have just convinced those damn scientists.." he stood up picking the child's body up and hiding it. He knew if he had extra time he would come back and give the boy a proper burial.

"Now, where is this damn place at Shadow" He started talking to himself once more having a normal conversation filled with how are yous and how has your day been comments. As he was walking a house caught his eye with a huge back yard and something behind it "Hmm, maybe this is it?" he said to him self walking up to the house and slowly opening the gate to the back yard "HELLO? Is Anyone here?!" He yelled at a semi-loud tone, If this was the wrong house he didn't just want to up and walk in.

After standing at the gate for a while he heard no response he began walking into the back of the house noticing several cars and a large RV. "Jackpot, Shadow you found it" He said to himself walking to the front of the Rv and propping the hood up. He began examining the motor of the RV and as he did he noticed a few pistons missing as well as a master cylinder for the brake system. "Well i can see why it doesn't run well anymore." He said chuckling to him self "Tools, tools, Where are the tools he said pacing around the yard looking for Mechanical tools to pull parts from the other vehicles with.

The sound of a voice outside near the back gate startled Avalon. She knew at times the neighborhood kids dared each other to sneak into the back lot to see if they had the courage to travel to the end of the backyard and she knew the backyard was a few acres, most of covered with parts of cars jutting out of the ground like a graveyard. But she knew farther back, there were a few old trucks, a rusty skeleton of a school bus and not known for sure cause of the small forest that had sprung up from neglect, a few of the RVs that you towed behind your car or at least, you could make out one that had been impaled right through the middle by one of the Maples and was now a few good feet up in the air.

Balancing a still cranky Roz, Avalon makes her way downstairs and into the kitchen to peer out into the backyard, noticing a strange guy opening and peering under the old RV that sat there. Sitting Roz on the kitchen rug and grabbing a freeze pop from the freezer for the toddler to slurp on, Avalon hurries into the study and grabs the samurai sword from where Chloe had left it. Pulling the back door open, lots of people usually underestimated Avalon cause of her illness but she was just as good at kicking ass as her sister.

Seeing the guy was looking for something, Avalon pulls the blade out of the hilt and points it straight at Shadow, "Who are you and what do you want?" she demands, not caring if she gives this dude a heart attack.

Shadow freezes in mid-movement looking down the blade of the sword he gently places his hand on the blade and pushes it down. "Um..Im sorry.. I must have the wrong place this girl named Chloe sent me. You see you may not believe me but.. there is a war going on in the town, a war between the dead and the living and we need a means of transportation this women told me of a Car scarp yard in this direction and i thought it was this one"

Shadow slowly began walking out of the yard. He didn't want any problems to start he was a peaceful person at heart. He had just hoped that she was as well he didn't want any violence. "Ill just look around to see if i can find the right place"

A confused expression crosses Avalon's face, "Chloe?" she repeats, "My sister's name is Chloe. And she often refers to the backyard as the scrap heap." she puts the sword back into the hilt and watches Shadow, "What do you mean, war between the dead and living?" she glances at the RV with the hood still up.

Shadow slowly turns around and nods "Well, long story short a corporation Known as umbrella was tampering with human's trying to create the perfect solider and created what most people refer as zombies." He frowned again thinking still that he could have done something to stop this chaos from happening. He then realized he had been talking to a women this entire time his body grew stiff his face flustered red..

"S-So.. umm This women Chloe..D-does she carry around alot of weapons like that one?" He slowly musters the courage to move his hand up and point at the sword "B-because the one I met does" He stood still just thinking to himself [What are you doing Shadow?! MOVE TALK TO HER!] His legs shook he felt extremely weak and stupid. "S-so..U-umm may I please use your Scrapyard? I-of you will ill promise to f-fix up something for you as w-well.."

Avalon frowns, "Do you mean like in Resident Evil?" she asks. She had heard talk of the game and movies from her classmates, "And no, Chloe doesn't usually carry around weapons like this," she gestures to the sword idly, "she prefers hand to hand or if she has a weapon, sais or one of the staffs. And why you so nervous for?" Avalon had noticed how jumpy Shadow was and unlike Chloe, she was going to say something, "If it's the sword," she pulls the sword out of the hilt again and shows the blade toward Shadow before she runs a hand right over it and grins, "it's blunt, can't hurt a fly with it much less you. It's only for show," she turns serious again, "If Chloe said you could, I'm not going to stop you through doubt you'll find anything that really runs, than I don't know what condition of the other cars farther back than that
neon is. And I don't think you will find many spare parts for the RV either, the only other RV I know about happens to be a good ten feet in the air," she gestures back toward the trees where the outline of the impaled RV could be seen, "And honestly, why I need a car? I'm thirteen years old and I doubt the government would approve of someone my age having a license or driving a car. That is kind of a stupid offer." Avalon starts up the steps to the back door before stopping and glancing at Shadow, "And either way, your going to need tools. FYI, before you begin a massive tool hunt, any tools left in the cars are probably rusty as hell by now and useless, there's a set in one of the kitchen cabinets. You'll also need the key for the RV unless you were planning to hot wire it."

Shadow shakes his head when she was implying he meant she used swords "No, no no i meant melee weapons" He said looking down at the sword then back up at Avalon "and as for the car i knew how to drive when i was 13 and the government is dead.. Its a war and the zombies are winning" he looking into the house thinking about the tools she had told him about and nodded

"I dont need any keys, But i really do need some tools may i borrow some?" At that moment a huge crash came from the front yard. Shadows instant instinct was to gently Push the girl back behind him and pull out his 9mm.. "Who's there?" He said with a grimace on his face looking out towards the gate he had just entered. Slowly walking upon the gate he hears a loud groaning sound "Shit are you serious? no break for me to even fix a car?!"

He said to himself pulling the 9mm firmly into aiming position. "Hello! You have the count of Three To answer before i fire! 1.... 2..."

"Melee weapons?" Avalon wrinkles her nose, "I would of thought sais and weapons like num chucks would be sorta melee weapons. I never said I didn't know how to drive, doesn't take a scientist to figure out how to start a car up and put the pedal down." she pauses, studying him, "Your really not pulling my leg about zombies, are you? Cause if I find out some lame bastard from school has set this up, I'm seriously going to be kicking some ass." before the sound of crashing in the front yard and Shadow pushing her back to safety. Seeing the 9mm, Avalon knew her sister despised guns and refused to keep one in the house, she pales, "Damn, your not joking." she mumbles, falling to her knees in shock...

"3!" Shadow said turning the corner to find a group of 5-6 zombies surrounding the front yard. "DAMN IT!" he exclaimed quickly firing a shot off into a zombies eye piercing through it leaving a nice see through whole in its head the zombie fell *Click* *Click* Shadow had forgotten to stock up on ammo this was becoming a horrible situation he didn't have many sniper rounds left and he frankly didn't wanna use them unless he had to..

Shadow looked down at his dog tags for a moment "Seth..." He then proceeded to pull his combat knife out.. He looked back at the young girl "STAY BACK" he said with a serious stare in his eye. Shadow charged the zombies slamming his shoulder into ones head so hard you could hear the bones cracking in its head. He then stood between a group of zombies surrounded.. What could he do??

Avalon watches Shadow as he charges into the group of zombies, she was still in shock over seeing actual zombies. Knowing that she should obey the older man's orders, but this was her home and she had just as much right to protect it from these son of bitches. Getting to her feet, she wraps her fingers around the hilt of the sword, "Hey you ugly dead people, why go for the old age pensioners when there's young blood around." she yells, seeing Shadow is getting surrounded by the zombies and hoping to distract the zombies to help him.

The zombies turn toward avalon and he looks down frowning "Damn it i said stay back! And im not old!" He said snarling at that moment he swung his legs around the body of one zombie placing a hand onto the floor and hurling it into another and quickly back flipping onto another head wrapping his legs around it and leaning back stabbing another head at the moment he jumped on the zombie Clenched his teeth into Shadows leg "GAH!!!!"

He feel twisting his legs and yanking the head of the zombie off leaving 1 left. He hit the dirt hard scooting back into the corner of a house grasping at his cut. [Damn.. I can't waste those on me] He thought to himself staring into his pocket he pulled out his sniper now sitting a little bit away from the zombie looking down the scope and aiming at the zombies head.. "Die you scum" He said pulling the trigger and delivering a hit into the zombies head being at close distance the zombies head explodes and chunks fly in all directions.

"DAMN IT!" he yells pounding his fist to the ground his leg now bleeding profusely. He frowned and pulled from his pocket 5 Syringes full of strange luminescent liquid and tossed them to the girl.. "Here is the antidote. No point in using it on myself.." He looked down a tear forming in his eye "I have no place in this world.. no reason.. no one to force me to cling to life. Like a child to his mother."

He looked up at avalon "But you have a family and the other survivors do as well..Take this to them.. " he pointed into the sky and smiled "soon there will be a flare up there thats where you will find Chloe and the other survivors." He glance down at his dog tags crying but keeping it hidden by the fedora on his head "Seth.." He whispered to himself. "I have failed you.."

Avalon catches the syringes Shadow threw to her before frowning at him, "Don't be such a damn idiot. By now, I think most of the survivors will know their loved ones are gone. And if you promised them you are going to return, than you better keep your promise." she narrows her eyes, driving home her point.

His eyes widened, She was right he couldn't leave people behind to suffer like he did he stood smiling limping to the girl. "Do you have anything to wrap my leg up so I can get back to work?" He said smiling and gently taking a syringe from the girl and slamming it into his leg injecting the Antidote. "AGGH!! That hurts.."

"Yea, I'll go get a towel or something." Avalon replies, watching him jab the needle in his leg before pushing open the back door and grabbing the first towel from the kitchen she saw. She brings the towel back out and holds it out to him.

He smiles at the girl "Thanks..And im not old" He says with a slight grimace in his eyes. Tying the towel around his leg and applying as much pressure possible he stands almost falling again but catching himself. "Gah, Stupid wound" He said frowning looking down at his leg

Shadow had to get the RV ready soon He had no time to waste on pain, he Ran into the kitchen grabbing the tools that Avalon had told him about and threw stuffed them in his pockets. He walked to the tree where the impaled Rv lies.

He looked up at it and pulled out his combat knife unscrewing the bottom of it he pulled out a set of folded climbing hooks and placed them in his gloves on his hand. He then placed the lid back on the bottom and sheathed it "Time to climb" He said jumping onto the tree's trunk and slamming the hooks into the tree shadow slowly began inching his way up.. He thought to himself [I promised you Seth.. I would live a life for you.. I would find love... a Family...]

He swung his arm up to hook into the tree and missed almost falling and hanging by one arm he quickly slammed his arm back into the tree "Damn, that was close" He looked at the RV impaled in the tree above him. "This is a lot higher than ten feet" He whispered to himself looking over at the girl.

Avalon smirks, "To me, anyone older than twenty is an old fart." she moves aside to let him limp into the kitchen for the tools before watching him start toward where the impaled RV was and beginning to climb. She walks to the base of the tree and grimaces seeing him almost fall, "Don't you think it would of been smarter to see if there was any other RVs not impaled by a tree in there?" she points to the thicket.

Shadow smirks looking down as he reaches the top of the RV sitting on it "Now where would be the Challenge in that?" He said chuckling and opening the hood of the RV his eyes glowed with happiness all the parts he needed where in the Rv.

He pulled out the proper tools needed to pull the pistons and radiators as well as other various parts to replace the older ones in the Rv he was previously looking at. "Hey!!! You want me to jimmy up you a car or what kid?" He said smiling teasing her by calling her a kid.

Ein felt bad that Shadow had left by himself.Then again,the man was a trained sniper,and seemed determined.The blond knew that there would probably be no stopping him.He was certainly not a trained shooter,and went to a firing range once,maybe twice just for the hell of it. "So,Chloe,why don't we go get into that hospital?"

"The hospital sounds like a good base to me." Garrett agreed.Chloe said they could disable the elevators,which would be a crucial step in zombie proofing the place.There were also several beds,which meant that they could rest there safely.The dark haired young man was about to suggest that he go with Shadow,but the sniper had taken off before he could do so.His parents had put a lot of pressure on him to go to a prestigious university and find a high paying job.Much to their dismay,he opted for working at the local video game store instead.Garrett fired guns as a hobby to help relieve some of the stress his parents put on him.

Avalon shakes her head, scrunching up her nose, "You going to stay up there all day or what?" she grins, "Maybe we could hang a pinecone with birdseed on your nose and you can feed the birds while your up there."

Chloe starts toward where the hospital is located, "We should stop at any of the small stores along the way and stock up on some food and medicines to be on the safe side." she calls to Ein and Garrett.

Shadow tossed the parts down toward the RV he was trying to fix. Chuckling at the comment that the girl had made. "Hey! I got an idea to keep rats out off the Rv.. We will put pictures of you around it they will be to scared to enter" He was edging the little girl on not to piss her off but to keep her mind off of the zombies. Shadow slid down the tree carefully jumping off the trunk and landing next to the girl.

His leg was looking worse it was bleeding more and you could see the pain in Shadows eyes although he wasn't showing it on his facial expression. "So do you know how to use a wrench?" He said smiling holding one out in front of her. "I could use a little help to make this go faster"

"Puz-lesh, I know how to wield a wrench." Avalon takes the wrench that Shadow holds out, "They make really good weapons, didn't know that guy could scream so loud or how far one of these things go up." she grins and heads back toward the RV, twirling the wrench around her finger as she goes.

"You are just not right in the head kid." he says chuckling following her to the Rv walking to the front of it and inspecting under the vehicles hood. "Hmm, Yep i got everything i needed" He began taking the parts he had replacements for out of the car first and handing them gently to Avalon unless they were to heavy then he just set them behind him"

"Hey go get me those pistons! and put them in here!" He pointed at the pistons he had pulled out. Shadow quickly grabbed his head the blood loss was making him dizzy and woozy he had to finish quick or he wouldn't make it to the hospital in time. "Damn.."

"Nah, I'm just got a really strange sense of humor." Avalon gets the pistons from where Shadow left them and puts them where he says, "Plus, when you find out there's dead people literally knocking on your door, who can stay sane during that?"

Shadow frowned hearing her speak of the zombies he was trying his best to keep her mind off of it "So, Where you here all alone?" He was curious on how many more survivors are and he was again attempting to make he forget. He after a while he placed the last part into the Rv and walked towards the driver door "there almost done"

he looked up into the sky thinking to himself [I wonder if they made it yet].. This was weird for him, He had not known these people for long yet he cared so much about them.. "Better get going"

"There's just me and Roz here. Roz's dad went back to London, something about his psycho girlfriend. Never met the woman but I heard she is crazy as hell." Avalon frowns, as she watches Shadow head for the driver door, "How you plan to start this bad boy up? Give it a pep talk?"

Shadow smirked pulling his combat knife out looking over at Avalon "Oh, of course not I will just use my master key" he chuckled and bent down Wincing and letting out a loud groan from pain. He then started to gut the wires of the rv below the steering wheel and touching some wires together while twisting the key area. *VRROOOMM* the car sparked up to life the engine sounded brand knew and the hood shot off a bit of dust from sitting there so long.

"Vwalla!" He was making fun of avalon at this point. Teasing her by showing off he jumped into the Driver seat and closed the door looking over at the girl "Well nice knowing you" He laughed then edge the passenger seat door open.

Avalon raised an eyebrow at Shadow hotwiring the car. Before she can climb into the seat, she goes back inside to get Roz who had fallen fast asleep. Bundling the tot up in a blanket that was sitting on one of the chairs, Avalon heads back out, pulling the door shut and climbs inside the car, placing Roz in the back seat.

Shadow pulled the car out into the street driving it around the block a few times "well i think it works" He said smiling and looking over at the girl "I guess we will just have to wait until the flare goes off " The fuel gage was slowly moving towards empty Shadow wasn't giving it any attention.

"You better get gas before we end up having to push this monster," Avalon jabs at the gas meter, "Or more, you pushing this monster. Just pull over at the first gas station that isn't blown up yet."

"Hmm?" he looked down at the gas gauge "shit.." he frowned and pulled in to the nears gas station he pulled out his combat knife and handed it to Avalon. "You know how to use this i hope" he grabbed the wrench he was using from his back pocket and slowly stepped out of the car locking it. there was no sign of zombies so far but that didn't stop them from showing up

He slowly began walking into the building being completely aware of his surrounds he walks to the door and attempted to pull it open. It was locked just his luck. he began pacing "I dont wanna break the glass the noise will attract zombies...Oh well" Shadow took the wrench and broke open the window making a loud crashing noise Shadow slipped his hand inside of the door of the building and unlocked it from the inside. "Gotcha" He smiled pushing the door open.. "Hello?? anyone in here??" he said scoping the area out it. He noticed outside that it was getting darker that was never good he stumbled around the store trying to find a source of light.

"What do you think I am," Avalon yells at him, "Two years old? I know how to handle any weapon, dammit you old fart."
She glances out the window at the surrounding area, noticing that the sun was going down, maybe the zombies needed to sleep as well as humans do?

As shadow walked through the shop he could hear the sounds of groaning outside in the distance. Where they becoming more active?"Okay, Shadow you just need to find a light switch" He said to himself blinding feeling around the room his hand came upon a small pool of warm liquid "OH i hope that isn't blood Shadow"

Hearing the sounds of groans coming from near, Avalon slids down a bit in the seat, the knife at the ready incase one of the zombies thought of being stupid and attempt to get in the door, "I feel like I'm in a tin of sardines." Avalon mumbles, "At least I get to skip school."

"Sounds like a plan." Ein said with a nod.There ought to be one close by.Hopefully.The blond shoplifted quite often in his teens,so walking into a store and taking whatever he wanted without paying would be no sweat.The clerk had probably already abandoned the store anyway.That,or he was dead.It wasn't about breaking the law anymore.It was about surviving.Ein noticed a metal Louisville slugger on the ground and picked it up.His ammo would run out eventually.He followed Chloe and Garrett.

"I hope Shadow's doing okay." Garrett said thoughtfully as they walked.The dark haired man made sure to look around every so often so as to stay aware of their surroundings. He's a professional.He'll be fine. Still,he wish he could have gone along.

Name: Rhys Brooks

Age: 23

Background/History: In his younger years, Rhys grew up mostly in the outdoors. He was in the Boy Scouts of America and played outside in the woods near where he lived almost every day with his 3 siblings. Admittedly he was a bit of a nerdy kid, but he was okay if not proud of that. "Brains are sometimes better than brawn," he knew. That was definitely the case when the outbreak occurred with ground zero nearby. While quickly separated from the rest of his family, Rhys kept a cool head and thought before doing anything. That is how he has survived and continues to survive. Today he lives with a small group of survivors as a scout, helping to keep track of the roaming hordes and keep supplies up. He is held in high esteem by his group, his word always being his bond. He still has hopes of finding the rest of his family some day.

Description: 6'0" Dark brown hair, dark brown eyes. Body is tone but not built. Keeps a rough short beard and medium to long length hair. Wears heavy but non loose fitting clothes, usually in dark colors or camo.

Strengths: Basic survival, Close combat (machete), bow and arrow, and crossbow. Silent movement and hiding

Weaknesses: Is a normal guy just like the rest of his small group.

Preferred weapon(s): Machete, crossbow

Anything else you'd like to add: I will be posting on behalf of my whole survivor group unless someone else finds us and joins or decides to take over one of them (Rhys and Kat are off limits.)