It's been a few hours since we jumped into the sewer and thankfully those guys didn't jump in after us because I'm sure if they did we would've been caught and killed on the spot.

As we walk deeper into the nasty waters, the height if the water keeps raising. It's now up to my hips and it's gross.

"I'm pretty sure this is where the map stopped." I say. Kageyama sighs.

"Great, do we keep going straight or do we take a turn?" He asks.

"Straight. We'll make a turn when we have to. I'm not trying to get lost in here." I readjust my bag and keep going and Kageyama follows close behind me. I look back and him and frown.

His wound is gunna get infected if we don't do something about it soon. Dammit. But there's no good place to stop to take a look at it and I don't think I have anything to treat the wound. A dinky little first aid kit isn't gunna do much.

I clench my fists and keep going until I step on something slippery and almost fall.

"Ahh! I stepped on something and it felt weird!" I squeal and jump back.

"It's a miracle you made it this far." Kageyama comments.

"Call it dumb luck. " I correct him my eyes still on the spot where I stepped on the mystery object. I watch as something covered in gunk and stuff float to the surface.

"It's probably nothing."

"You know that's what everybody in a horror movie says before everyone is killed. This is not nothing." Gaining some courage I slowly make my way over to the object. Picking it up, I begin to remove all the gunk that covers it. Once I take a better look at it my blood runs cold and I drop the thing like it was burning my hand.

"Well, what was it if it wasn't nothing."  A lump forms in my throat as I try to find my voice to explain what it was.

I don't wanna scare him or worry him but if I don't tell him, something might happen...

"Well?" Kageyama pushes on crossing his arms.

"I-it was a decomposing arm of a human." I declare. "I couldn't tell you how long it's been here but it's seems to be long enough for it to look like a zombies arm."

"W-what? Are you sure?"

"Kageyama, I think I know what an arm looks like, even if it is one of a corpse."

It goes silent for a moment. Silent enough for me to drown in my thoughts and current emotions. Questions filled my mind as I stared at the floating arm.

How long has it been here?
Who's is it?
What happened to them?
Could they be alive?
Could they have been like me and Kageyama? Runaways?

"Should we take it?" Kageyama asks as he walks beside me. I stare at him with wide eyes.

"What the hell, it's an arm! What use do we have for it?"

"If we aren't gunna take it or if it doesn't have any use to use we shouldn't stay here and dwindle on it. It's an arm that somebody lost and it somehow ended here. That doesn't mean that's gunna happen to us." And with that, Kageyama kept going.

While most of what he said is right, we could still die here.

I begin to walk to catch up with him.

- Time skip -

"I'm hungry."

"I've got a granola bar?"

"Gimme." I dig through my bag to find the bar and I hand it off to Kageyama. He rips the wrapper off and throws it on the ground and throws the whole granola in his mouth. "Thanks."

I hum and look around. I look up and see what looking to be a lid. My gaze lowers and I see a metal ladder leading to the lid. I smile and walk over to it.

"What are you doing?"

"We're leaving the sewer."

"Sounds nice." Kageyama walks over to where I am and sees the metal ladder. He watches as I start to climb it and after I get a good enough distance away he does the same.

Once I reach the top I use one arm to try and push the lid open.

Damn, this thing is heavy.

I continue to try and push the lid open until I get fed up and just punch it, hurting my hand.

"Ow..."

"Dumbass."

"Fuck off, I got frustrated." Taking a deep breath I try again and I open it with ease. "Got it!"

"Good, now start climbing." I push the lid fully off and am met with the blinding sun and a gun to my face.

"Shit, " I mutter. Someone else grabs my arm and pulls me up and throws me down to the ground. I try to get up but I feel someone place their foot on my back to force me back to the ground. I hear a grunt beside me. I look beside me to see Kageyama in the same position as me.

Someone grabs me by my hair and forces me to look at the end of their gun. "Who are you?" They ask.

Fuck.

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