Socks felt light headed for a split second, he took a deep breath in and closed his eyes to orientate himself again.

"Hey Socks are you alright-?" Meme asked then he went silent, he sounded like he was going to say something else. Socks opened his eyes, it was kinda like someone put a filter over his eyes, the room was grayed out.

"Hello?" he asked as he glanced at Meme who seemed to be frozen in place walking towards Socks. He saw a broken mirror next to the wall and decided to look in it. He saw that both of his eyes were bright yellow, the only color that he could see. His orange hoodie was also dulled out in a dark grey. The sleeves on his hoodie were torn with tape at the end. He looked exactly like the many hunters that he had seen his friends kill. He glanced down at his hands and saw them extended into sharp claws.

"Definitely like a hunter." he muttered silently to himself.

He walked outside of the saferoom and out into the open. He looked around and saw a woman in a white dress in almost perfect condition, except for the torn and muddy bottom part of it. She turned around and looked him in the eyes calmly.

"Hey Socks." She smiled at him.

"How do you know my name?" He asked, trying to keep the surprise and fear out of his voice.

"It's just something us special infecteds can do, you know?" She laughed. He nodded unsurely, he really couldn't come up with a name for this lady.

"I don't know your name." he pointed out, then he paused and thought for a moment. "Wait, your a special infected too?" He asked.

"Yes," She responded simply.

"You dont look like a special infected?." He muttered confused.

"Ah you see, That's the point. Us special infecteds keep some part of our brain from before we got infected. That's why I look like this, and you are still technically, normal, or uninfected" she kept the small smile on her face as she spoke. Socks nodded again thinking about it.

"It doesn't make any sense- Well none of this makes any sense in the first place but, this definitely is one of the weirdest things I've heard." Socks said she laughed at him and he put on an hesitant smile.

"I'm that witch right there." She pointed to one of the firsts witches in the sugarcane field, Blocking the pipe that would lead them out of the field easily. He nodded,

"So from what I understand, is that if you're fully infected like that." He said waving his hand at

The witch, "You kinda are like a normal human, but like spirit form?"  he asked,
"Close enough," she laughed again, "We still remember being a normal human even though we're not anymore"  she responded. "It was nice talking to you Socks," She smiled then faded as Socks opened his eyes in surprise.

"SOCKS ARE YOU ALRIGHT?" Meme screamed.
"Huh what? Yeah, Yeah," Socks shook his head startled.

"Oh my god you terrified me" Meme sighed in relief.

"Why? What happened?" Socks asked confused.

"Really you didn't see anything strange?" Ally asked from across the room.

"No-" Socks responded. Ally tilted her head,

"Well we need to get moving anyways." Ally added as an afterthought, "If we get moving now then we can most likely make it to the docks by sunset." Socks nodded ally held the door open motioning for them to walk through Woolf and Nadwe were the first out along with the rest of the gang, Meme,Socks, and Ally were the last ones out the door. She shut it carefully when Socks looked at her in confusion. She smiled and said "Just in case there's another survivor who needs a safe place." Socks nodded in understanding. As they started walking Ally saw the Witch that Socks recognized.
"Aw She's blocking the pipe!" Nadwe complained.

"We can just crown her, Here Ill do it." Blaza responded as he started walking towards her, He carefully pulled out his gun and got closer. In quick reaction Socks ran forward.

Blaza took light and careful steps towards the Witch making sure to not startle her before he got close, as he got close he pulled out his gun and got ready to fire. Then all of a sudden Socks was blocking him.

"What the-" Blaza started out,

"You. Will. Not. Shoot. That. Witch." Socks growled each word spaced out with threat,

"What do you mean? She's blocking our path." Blaza retorted.

"If you want to make it out alive in this situation you will listen to me and BACK OFF" Socks ended his words in a shout. Blaza lowered the nose of his gun and took a few steps back.

"Fine have it your way, She's still blocking our easy way out." Blaza responded.
"I can fix that." Socks responded  "Wait here" , he started leading the Witch away and a few seconds later he emerged from the sugarcane. "Okay were free to keep moving." Socks calmly responded like he hadn't just threatened to kill Blaza. Blaza felt his jaw drop,
"Y-you just threatened to kill me and you just dropped it like nothing happened?" Blaza stuttered. Socks bit his lip and whispered.

"I have my reasons"
                           *  *  *

They made it through the sugar mill and ended up back in the suburbs. It was pouring rain and due to his night vision he could see decently through the rain.

"Hey guys I hear a Witch!" Meme called from the darkness Socks glanced over to where he heard Meme's voice and saw that he was about to bump into that witch himself.
"WATCH OUT!" Socks shouted but it was too Late Meme was about to be attacked. Socks put all the strength into his legs and leaped knocking Meme out of the way which meant that the witches claws that were aimed for Meme hit Socks' side and he screamed in agony he had heard they were strong but he hadn't realized how strong they were. She was gonna kill him "Man I need to stop getting in the fray of these things" He gasped through the sheer pain.

"Yeah so I don't have to help you." he heard someone say, then a loud screech from the witch, it was the scream she gave off when she died. He looked through the darkness and saw a person in a bright red onesie.

"Who the heck are you?" Socks asked.

"The guy that just saved your life." He responded gruffly.

"Yeah I realize that." Socks chuckled.

"Safe rooms over there," He pointed through the rain. "I'll lead you there."  Socks nodded and stood up wincing from pain, his hands darted to his side which was bleeding profusely.
"Okay just give me a moment."

"I'm waiting."
"I SAID GIVE ME A MOMENT!" Socks screamed. The other person fell silent. "Okay let's go" Socks finally said.
"Follow me then. Bring your friends too."

                        *  *  *

They ran to the safe room, Socks shut the door behind them and let out a sigh of relief. Muffin was holding something close to his chest as if to comfort himself. Socks looked closer at it and saw that it was a frog. A live one too, it looked freaked out from being in what Socks could only assume was the overall pocket that sat on Muffin's chest. Meme looked to be staring in shock and Socks tracked Meme's gaze to the scratches that were on the side of his torso.
"Hey I'll be fine." He said. Meme broke his gaze off the still bleeding scratches and Looked socks in the eyes and said,
  "No, I don't think you will be." Socks let out a small laugh which hurt a lot more than he expected.

  "Oh Ow, Man that's painful." he muttered to himself. He found a rickety old wooden chair and sat down on it, Breathing heavily.

  "Well I think introductions are in order." he heard Ally say, "Who are you stranger?" She asked politely. Socks didn't think that the mysterious stranger appreciated that comment.

    "Names Tbhhonest, Just call me Tb or Tbh, though." Tbh said. "Now that I've told you who I am, why don't you tell me who you lot are?'' He said crossley. "Specifically Mister Kamikaze over there." Tbh waved his hands in Socks direction.
   "Who, me?" Socks asked in confusion.

   "Did anyone else jump in front of witch claws?" Tbh asked. Socks winced as he remembered Ally got attacked by a Witch after Socks pounced on her when she tried to crown that said witch. Ally must have noticed it as well so she jumped to his defence.

    "I would've done it if I had known what was happening." She responded.

     "Would you Though?" Tbh retorted.

      "I would've," Ally assured him. Tbh snorted and then started speaking again.

      "Alright where yall heading?" he asked. This time Blaza responded.

      "Heading to the docks, We're meeting  a boat there,"

      "I'll stick with you guys for now since it's kinda been lonely since my last group got infected." Tbh admitted,

       "Of course more members are always welcome!" Ally responded smiling."We should settle down here since the day is  practically over." Ally suggested everyone was relieved to hear that and they settled down.

   "You never told me your name." Tbh said as he walked up to Socks,

     "Doesn't matter," Socks responded he wasn't in the mood for small talk even the slightest.

      "Mr kamikaze for sure has a name and doesn't want to tell me, plus I'm sure it's important." Tbh said sarcastically.

     "Stop calling me 'Mr kamikaze'" Socks snapped.

     "You haven't really given me a Name to call you otherwise." Tbh responded snarky.

     "Fine you want my name?" Socks spat. "Its Socks alright?" "My name is Socks." Socks snarled.

       "No need to be aggressive," tbh put his hands up defensively. Socks felt his jaw drop. He was about to scream at Tbh that he had no right to talk to him like that but instead he just shut his mouth and sighed.

         "I'm going to the roof." He said and turned.

         "Isn't it still raining?" Meme asked

          "Only lightly." He said with no emotion, he turned and left storming out of the room.

It had been about 30 minutes since Socks stormed out of the room and Ally had been looking around for any possible loot to be found in the house, after a few minutes of nothing from her she shouted

      "GUYS I FOUND BREAD!"

       "Bread just bread?" Nadwe asked
       "Be thankful we're gonna starve out here before the infected get to us." Tbh joked he had warmed up to the group within the 30 minutes, he hadn't even thought to go and apologize to Socks. He had just hung out around and made stupid jokes.

         "Issue is that we don't have enough slices of bread for everyone, but hey we can split the slices, they are decently thick." Ally smiled. Meme walked over and grabbed two slices of bread.

            "Hey! You can't get two pieces!" Nadwe shouted as he took one of the slices, Muffin looking at it hungrily.

            "One of the pieces is for Socks." Meme retorted. Nadwe looked at him and laughed

             "You're such a simp dude." Nadwe Chuckled, Meme rolled his eyes but could feel his face getting hot.

"No-, I'M NOT A SIMP-, I'm just looking out for a person other than myself," Meme responded defensively.

               "That's a first." Nadwe laughed, "Okay fine i'll leave you alone to go flirt with your boyfriend," Nadwe teased,

                 "HE IS NOT- You know what I give up." Meme sighed defeated.

He turned around and walked out the door. He saw a ladder leaning against one of the houses he could easily move the ladder over and get on the roof of the safe house, which Meme assumed that Socks had parkoured up to get. Meme had seen Socks parkour before, It was impressive, Meme could never be that athletic or strong.

Meme walked over and picked up the ladder and awkwardly waddled over with it in his hands and leaned it up against the building, he paused to breathe for  a little as he was out of breath. He then climbed up the ladder and saw Socks sitting by himself on the edge of the roof, his legs dangling over the edge. Meme walked over and sat down beside him. Socks was looking up at the moon climbing up the sky.
               "Here I got you some bread, it's only slightly stale." Meme said, handing Socks a piece.

                "I don't need it."  Socks grumbled. Meme sighed and took a bite.

                "Ugh, good choice." Meme said, spitting out the bite he had. Socks laughed a little at that. 

            "Looks like it's already moldy."  Socks laughed 

             "Tasted like it too." Meme spat, trying to remove the taste from his mouth. They talked for awhile  until Meme stood up and said,

                      "Bro I think it's almost dawn-" 

"Dawn No way." Socks said skeptically. Meme looked at him with a 'Do i look like im lying' look (Makes no sense but k)
                           *   *   *

"Tank up ahead!" tbh whispered. "I can hear it."

"What does it sound like?" Nadwe asked a little too loudly. Tbh quickly shushed him

"Keep quiet okay? We don't want him to get mad yet. Alright plan, Mr kamazie or sorry- Socks" Tbh corrected when socks glared at him. "Will attack from the roof, We'll be a distraction for socks to rein fire from his gun."

"I don't need a gun." Socks smiled coldly.

     "What? You planning on tackling him or something?" Tbh asked and when he saw the look in Socks eye he knew that was his plan. "YOU'RE GONNA TACKLE A TANK?" He screamed. The tank let out a Bull-like roar.

"Great you startled him." Socks grumbled "Alright I'm gonna go parkour up to the roof and take it from there."  he said as he ran towards a boarded up window and broke through it with just a little momentum. Socks swung up to the roof and crouched as he saw the tank charge towards his group of friends. Then the scene went gray and he saw a guy wandering through the dark into a horde of infecteds. He's gonna get himself killed! Socks thought as he came up with a plan. He was gonna tackle the infecteds and let the guy know to not keep going. So he let out a scream of warning and Leaped.

                              *   *   *

Meme heard a scream and thought it was Socks about to attack the tank but instead he flew straight at Meme. Meme gasped as he felt himself hit the ground with what felt like a truck full of force.

"GET HIM OFF" Meme shrieked in pain. "Get the TANK THOUGH!" Meme then added as he tried to shove socks off. He felt the weight get relieved as Ally came and punched Socks off. Socks blinked in surprise and growled. He spun around and leaped at the tank. "Oh god that was intense." Meme gasped.

"I wonder why he attacked you instead of the tank?" Ally thought out loud. They heard a loud thump as the tank's body fell. Socks walking away okay just limping a little.

"I think I know why." Tbh said

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Cliff hanger and a long ass chapter, Weeeeee I bet you're so happy Huh? (that's sarcasm this chapter got really rushed) I rushed this number one because i had like a 1,000 words and wasn't even halfway done. (This still isnt even what i planned on finishing it with I HAD MORE) Anywayyyyy I sorry ive been really stressed lately anddd listing to really edge music-

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