The End ch4: Serenity
End of Days
Chapter4
"Serenity"
This and the next chapter are kinda my worst work so bare with me.
As Blade and Kayli stopped in front of the fence, it opened for them. They went through, and stopped next to a small building. Kayli looked around.'Some kind of military base?' she wondered. Blade turned off the engine, and got out. Kayli did the same and followed him into the small building. Inside was a table, some chairs, a few lockers, and a fairly surprised looking black panther.
"Hey Jed" Blade said. "Hey Blade, who's the girl?" the panther said in a friendly tone. "Her name's Kayli" blade said to him. "Kayli, this is Jed, our engineer. He keeps everything running smoothly here." "Hello Kayli" Jed said to her, extending a hand to her. "Hi" she said timidly, taking his paw and shaking it."Welcome to hope point, one of the safest places in the world" Jed said. "Can someone show me around?" she asked shyly. "Well, I'm on guard duty, so I cant, but I'm sure Blade would show you around" he replied. "Will you?"she asked blade, looking over at him. "Sure" he answered. "Thanks" she said to him.
They walked out to the middle of the camp. "As you can probably tell, this is an old military base. Me and Jed found it after wandering around for a month after this happened. It was completely overrun by infected. We cleared it out, fixed it up, and made it home. After a while, we came across another small group while looking for supplies, and we let them join us. Over there are the aircraft hangars" he said, pointing towards some large, cylinder shaped buildings. "Only one flies, but were close to fixing up the others." he said, walking towards the hangars. They entered the middle one through a gap in the massive steel doors. Inside there was a large grey plane that Kayli recognized. "Hey, is that an A-10?" she asked looking at the plane. It was in pieces, being repaired. "That it is" said a young boy walking towards them. He was covered in grease and oil. "This is one of 5 planes that were here when Blade and Jed let me and my friends join them. I'm Mark by the way" the boy said."I'm Kayli" she said to him. "How long until this thing can fly?" blade asked him. "Well, if I keep working like I am, I'll have the electronics and the engine done in about a week, then I just gotta get it back together" Mark said. "Awesome I should finish showing Kayli around." Blade said to mark. "OK then. Talk to you later" mark replied.
Blade and Kayli left the hangar and walked a short distance to a slightly smaller building across the runway. "This is the garage. All of our vehicles are kept here, and its where we do repairs and such."Blade said entering the building with Kayli right behind him. He walked over next to a black hummer and gently kicked the furry black canine legs underneath it. "What blade?" a gruff male voice said. "Come out and meet the newest member of the family" blade said. A large black wolf on a mechanics creeper rolled out from under the truck. "Kayli, this is Josh, the resident greasemonkey. He keeps the vehicles running." blade said. "Josh, this is Kayli." "Hey"said the large wolf, now standing up to his full height of over 6 feet. "Hi" Kayli said timidly. The wolf immediately went back under the truck and got back to what he was doing. "Blade sighed and left the building with Kayli still right behind him. "He doesn't seem very friendly" she said. "He's not, but he's a really good guy" Blade said. "You need a place to sleep. Everyone here stays in small 2 person cabins, and everyone is already paired with someone except for me and Jed, so you're gonna have to stay with one of us" he said. Kayli thought for a moment."Can I stay with you?" she asked shyly. "Sure" he replied. It was getting dark outside. "Come on, lets get some rest." he said, walking towards a group of small huts.
Blade opened the door of one of the huts, and stepped inside. Kayli followed him in and looked around. The 1 room building was very uninviting. All 4 walls had tons of weapons of all sorts mounted on the walls, ranging from small knives to a massive machine gun with a belt of bullets hanging off of it. 'Well, this is certainly going to be an interesting place to live' Kayli thought. Other than being full of weapons, there was a desk, which was also covered in weapons that had been disassembled, a chair, and a bunk bed. "Top or bottom bunk?" Blade asked. "Top please" she said. "OK. I gotta go get you some blankets and stuff" he said, leaving the hut.
He came back a few minutes later with a heavy blanket and pillow for Kayli. "Here" he said, giving them to her. "Thanks" she said, and climbed up into the top bunk. Without a word, Blade sat in the chair at the desk and started putting weapon pieces on the table back together. Kayli laid on the top bunk, now under her blanket and looked down at blade, noticing some of the smaller details about him. He was wearing camouflage clothes, black combat boots, fingerless leather gloves, and a thick bulletproof vest. He had short black hair and muddy green eyes. He had a well toned, muscular body, and was quite tan. She guessed that he was about 6'2" and around 180 lbs. He was working in the light of a small oil lamp, but he seemed upset.
"Are you OK?" Kayli asked him. He was quiet for a minute."Yeah, just kinda pissed off that I didn't find what I was looking for" he said. "What were you looking for any ways?" She asked. "Answers" he said, stopping what he was doing. He sounded like he didn't want to talk about it so she didn't ask him any more about it. "Why do they call you blade?" she asked after a while. "Because I'm good with knives" he replied. "Oh, makes sense" she said. They were silent for a bit longer. "I'm gonna get some rest. Night" blade said, extinguishing the lamp and crawling into bed. "Night Blade" Kayli said. They both got to sleep quickly.