(true... sorrry... got it mixed up with a different weapon. thats what its called though... its like a knife, except used by assassins somewhere...)

Sure enough, it was in their. a nice pair, looking a lot like the type i had whhen i was human. "thanks a lot. For everything." I said.

((Sorry I've been gone so long. This thread is getting bigger every day!))
Walking over half a day throughout the thickets of the forest wearied me down. Elsa was asleep in my arms, but I still struggled through the woods. I didn't know where I was going or where I was going to go. I knew I couldn't go back to the camp. We were too far from it and I couldn't remember which direction it was in. Not only were Elsa and my chances slim for survival there, but because of the sheer damage to my mental state of watching so many people be slain once again. To watch all these victims' lives fade away before me, and I have no way of saving them. All I could do was protect Elsa and myself.
I jumped at every snap of a twig or rustling leaves of a shrub. We were in the wilderness, and I didn't know what to expect. Paranoia was a requirement at this point. I was beginning to regret leaving the camp, but I knew that there would be many casualties. I couldn't let Elsa become one of them.
The miles ahead of me, I knew, would just be more forestry. I didn't even try to optimize finding anyone to help or any safe haven. It was a good chance that the infection would reach us out in the wilderness, where contamination could be all around. No matter the chances, I continued along. Wherever the path lead me, I had to move forward for Elsa's sake, and my own.

Several hours later while still stuck in the dense woods, I decided to concoct a plan of catching an animal of some sort. While Elsa was still sleeping, I had been able to make fire out of the friction of dried wood and leaves. It took a good half-hour to an hour to make, and much longer to keep it going. When it finally reached a full-blown fire, I began to gather supplies for making an animal-catcher. I decided to recreate a model of a Burmese Tiger pit. Of course at a much smaller size and without the sharp spikes at the bottom. I strayed about a half-mile away from where Elsa and I settled, but marked my path by gashing the trees and ground with a stone. After clearing the area at which the trap was going to be set, I began digging with long, jagged shards of trees around me. I had to replace my tool a good dozen times throughout the two hours spent digging, ripping through tough roots and packed soil.
After the hole reached about four feet with a perimeter of six feet, I quit and laid down, exhausted. I struggled to stay awake, for I still had to cover the pit. I took a few sticks and laid them across the top of it, and scattered a bunch of leaves and dirt over it. After the trap was nearly invisible against the ground, I traveled back toward where I left Elsa. Although I was exasperated, I ran almost throughout the half-mile, to make sure that she would be okay. I thought I had lost her as I searched unsuccessfully for where I had put her. I had to rummage throughout the area, before I found her sitting by the receding fire. Looking up to my image, she beamed and embraced me.
"Leon!" she exclaimed as I hugged her. "Oh gosh... I thought you left me..."
"No," I replied, giving her a wry smile, "I'll never do that. I was just trying to get some food..." Elsa leg go of me and frowned at my empty hands.
"You didn't get anything," she said. I nodded and said, "I was just developing a trap to get an animal." She nodded and returned to her place by the fire. "Looks like the fire needs some more kindling."
"I tried to feed it," murmured Elsa, looking down, "I got some twigs, but it didn't help much..." I smiled and said, "Wanna help me?" She looked up and nodded at me.

i half listened as the girl talked to me.i could stay.i just had to be carefull i didnt hurt anyone.then i heard something.people,talking,in the forest.i dawned on me that i was having a vision.that had never happened before.did i catch something,or was my disease evolving? was that even possible? "wait...please,get someone...there are two people in the forest,miles from here...they,no,one of them took the other and ran during the battle...their names are...elsa and leon...get help! they may be in danger!" i begged the girl sitting next to me,even though i couldnt see her,i could only see the people in the forest,with a dying fire."that fire wont keep away the wild animals..."

Months it seemed like went by and Robert and I grew closer. The werewolves were peaceful towards be, though most stayed away, they joke and called me dead girl, saying I stunk like something dead. Robert growled at them when they said this, but I laughed it off saying they smelled like wet dog. I helped take care of the pack leader, his name was Rukisan. He had been attacked by zombies, they feared he may change into one, but I calmed them down by saying that the venom had not entered any blood streams. It seemed like I had found a nice little nitch in there world. "I wonder if they even are looking for me. It's been months now." I said to robert as I redressed my wounds. I could now wear shirts as long as they weren't tight. At the moment I had one of his shirts around my neck half on except my arms were out. "They have been scouting, but I doubt they'll find you." He said handing me some cream for the infection.

"you are welcome." i say to felix.

after hours of searching for ember her scent, now faint, leads us to a cave. The stench of werewolves was strong and i wondered what they had done to ember, if she was even still alive.
"She's in here somewhere. There are werewolves everywhere so be careful. we might be able to sneak in undetected if we are quiet enough. That means we don't attack unless they see us. Then we run. Got it?"

I nodded. "How many are in there? the stench is strong, but i cant tell.."

((Don't immediately jump to finding Leon and Elsa. I plan on them staying out in the wilderness for a while.))
It seemed like the sun would never rise. I turned over on my back and peered through the dense trees to the dark skies above, sprinkled with stars. I didn't dare give myself any sleep. Not only was I too scared to close my eyes, but I knew that I would receive no rest or comfort from my grotesque dreams that haunted my mind. Turning from the black above me, I stared at Elsa's face lit up by the fire's warm glow. As it flickered, it gave the impression that Elsa's expressions kept altering; from pain to sadness, and then to fear. Turning away, I sat up and huffed. This was the longest night of my life. Several times, I had to stay up throughout the night to guard the base. It never seemed this long... I was beginning to believe that it would never rise, as the night dragged on. Maybe the sun had been infected with the night... and the light disintegrated. It was completely irrational, but I couldn't push the dreading thought away.
I decided to compose myself with something to do. I knew that sooner or later we would come across contamination, so we had to have some sort of defense. I rummaged through the ground around our little campsite for a rock or stone. It took some time and digging, but I found a large, flat stone that was qualified for the job I wished to use it for. I approached a nearby ash tree and positioned myself under a lower branch. After sticking the rock as high as I could reach, I grasped the trunk with my other arm while raising my legs and pressing them against the tree. Every step I took up the tree, I had to stick the rock up higher and higher. I was able to reach my destination about ten feet up the tree. Hitching my leg around the branch, I grounded myself against the trunk. After I stabled my balance, I stuck the stone in the branch about a foot where I sat. It took quite a lot of stabbing and thrashing to sever the thick branch. When I finally did, it tumbled to the ground violently.
"Leon!" cried Elsa. Evidently, the clatter of the branch had woken her.
"I'm alright!" I called from above. I saw her tiny figure look down at the branch, and then look up at me. I could only see her periwinkle dress against the darkness of the ground. "I apologize for waking you. I'm just going to be making... or try to make some weapons for us."
"What kind of weapons?" she asked, sounding intrigued.
"Spears," I replied, grasping the tree's trunk with both my arms and my legs. "Get out of the way." She obliged and walked away about five feet from the tree. I gently pushed myself off the tree and plummeted to the ground. I let myself bend my knees once I hit the ground and stood up. I turned to Elsa and said, "I'll just be working on this. You can go back to bed." Elsa looked down and said, "I don't want to. I didn't like the dreams that I had..." I frowned and looked up at the sky.
"I can see where your coming from," I murmured, turning back to her. "Well I suppose you could help, if you want to." She came toward me with a salute and said, "Glad to be of service." I smirked.

"I can't tell but probably over a dozen and a half... It's getting harder to smell Ember's scent. It's a good thing we can see in the dark." I look at Felix. He would go as far as to enter a cave of werewolves, to his death if be, just to save the one he loves.

Would I go that far to save the one I loved? Did he even still love me? Or had he moved on? There was that other girl that he was always with. What was she to him? And he to her? NO. I can't think like this. I quickly push the thoughts from my mind and focus back to saving Ember.

"Who needs night vision when you're a monster, right?I say somewhat jokingly.
"Now, there are a few things that you might need to know about werewolves before we enter. They have a high sense of smell and hearing, but still not as acute as a vampire's. They also can't see so well in the dark, so there might be lights, use the shadows to your advantage. From what I've seen in the past there are also some that can take human form."

((ok,ill remedy the situation.XD))
i sat waiting.it seemed like forever.i knew that the two i had seen in my vision were miles away,and it would take some time to find them,but i had to tell someone."oh,whats the point in having visions if no one listens? i might as well have been talking to the sword..." i sighed for what seemed like the thousandth time.i wondered if anyone would come,so i could tell them my vision.

I smiled "I've ran into a few Lycans in my past. Sorry, that's what we called them. You seem to know more than I still... how long ago did you turn? Into a vampire I mean." She was obviously expirinced, but how long DID she turn? Was she a vampire BEFORE the infection? Was she a true blood like me? Although, I wouldnt consider myself one anymore...

"I've been a vamp since the outbreak. I was human just trying to stay alive until one caught me and I turned... I was practically rejected by the rest of them because I was different. I can't drink blood. So I hid and survived off of the food left behind in buildings."
"I studied each kind, vampires, lycans, and zombies as well, as to know how to avoid them and survive. That's why I know so much. Lycans, werewolves, beasts. There are slight differences in degrees of the change. Some are as you call them lycans and can change on a whim, others are werewolves and change from human to wolf with no control. There are both here."

I knew this was suicide. But Ember was like family to me, she was like me. I had to save her at all costs even if it meant giving up the remainder of my own life.

A scout ran into the cave where I was bathing and Robert was keeping guard. "Robert, the vampires are closing in, it seems they are searching for that pile of death you keep so close to you. They have weapons and seem trained to use them." He said catching his breath. Robert stood stiffly staring back at me then sighed. "Well, then it seems that we have no choice. Ember get dressed." He said throwing my clothes at me. I got up and dressed not sure what was going on. Next thing I know Robert picked me up and we began to run towards the camp they had made.

I realized that they noticed our presents. how was this possible? i asked myself. there shouldn't be a way for a lycan to notice us... then i realize that there must have been some sort of scout.

"They know we're here. We shouldnt attack... yet. It would be PURE suicide to attack now... then they would kill Ember... We should wait. around here, of course, but still wait. train ourselves a bit more..."

I wanted to control more zombies than just one. a small force would be better than two people.

((Thanks. I plan on them being out there for a month more or less.))
As the first rays of dawn shone over the horizon, Elsa and I finally finished making the spears with scathed and bleeding hands. Out of the branch that I cut down, we had made two spears; I had cut down another one, which added another spear. Breaking off the numerous thick and thin boughs that grew out of the branch with our hands was a long and painful task. We also had to smooth out the protruding jagged edges of the removed boughs with little stones. Finding longer, sharp rocks was a challenge, but we found close enough ones and I sharpened them with other stones. Scraps of my long white shirt had been used to tie the rocks to the wood. I also had sharpened the other wooden edge.
Deciding to check on my makeshift trap, I lead Elsa through the path, our spears wielded. After what seemed like forever, I spotted my trap within the distance. When I looked at it, the leaves were shuffled away from the hole, indicating that something had fallen in. I eagerly looked down into the pit, only to find that nothing was there. I clenched my teeth in anger, and huffed, turning away.
"Nothing there," said Elsa, not as a question. I shook my head and began the journey back toward the camp.

i waited and waited.it seemed to take forever.soon,i decided it could not wait any longer.i might get into trouble,but i was going to find the man who had spoken to me before.he seemed like he could help,and these people needed help.otherwise,i wouldnt have had the vision,right? i walked out from my little corner,ignoring the pain and dizziness that threatened to overtake me."hello? mr.hemora? anyone? i need to speak with someone.hello? its important! hello?!" i continued walking,having no idea where i was,or where i was going.

Sky came running down the hallway.
"Sergeant!! The vampire is up and walking around. She looks like she is still hut bad."
"Take her back to her corner please. Be nice about it, do not force her to do anything she doesn't want to do." She nodded and quickly moved back out into the main tent.
"Guard! Come here!" I yell down the hall. The young private came down the hall to me. I could tell that she was nervous.
"Yes Sergeant?" I was polite, I didn't want to scare her when she had first met me.
"Private, I need you to go to your squad leader and ask him to come here. If he asks what I want tell him that he is going to be getting ready to go out on a mission to find another unit that's not all that far from here. They are stationed at a large warehouse and have a pretty good set up from what I've heard about them. Now, go. Tell him to hurry up." She turned and walked out of the office. I sat back down in my chair and started watching people again. I could see the little private leave to find her squad leader. I turned around and found a piece of paper on the desk. It showed a crude drawing of a warehouse. It seemed the unit had somehow gotten power to it and had removed all the shelves on the inside. They were able to pull some of their trucks into the actual store, most likely the cell trailers, or HUMVEEs. They had taken the metal from the shelves and made look out towers around the roof and out a little bit from the store itself. We just have to get some people there, have some of them come back, and then we could move out there as soon as we had everyone accounted for, then we should be safe for a while.

"Dang it! EMBER!!!!!" I scream furiously.
Frustrated I turn and walk away. "We won't give up. No matter what we do they will know."
"STUPID MUTS!!" I scream again and punch the nearest tree, causing it to break and come crashing to the ground.
I had always been told that I had a temper worse than a redhead. I had just lost it. I let a few curse words fly as I took my anger out on the trees nearby. When I was done there was a good sized clearing. I plop down on the ground and put my head in my hands.

"Robert, Lets go back. I can't run with this wound." I huffed as we began to run, according the to scout the camp was a few days run away. I would never make it, already the wound was opening again and a faint smell was coming from it, it had gotten infected. Robert sighed and picked me up, we ran back to the clan and he took me to the medical crew. They cleaned the wound and redressed it, then ordered me to stay in bed. Robert sighed with this order but obeyed, he took me to his room and laid me in his bed. I quickly fell asleep.

When Eli (that's your name, right???) put her head inbetween her knees, i sat in front of her. "Put your head between my knees" I said. She obliged, andi pressed down on her back. she threw up. "Do you feel better?"

((yeah, that's right. and vommit, Ick! lol))

"How could this happen. I was supposed to protect everyone. But I failed! I can't do anything right, I can't even be a vampire right. I'm an outcats of all races. I'm not human. I'm a monster, I'm disgusting!" I start sobbing "I ca- can't do anyth-thing!"

She started saying she was a monster.

"Look. You're not a monster. Now I'm a monster. Im half zombie, half vampire. you're only vampire. those aren't even monsters. plus you''re protecting all of the humans you can. If anyone calls you a monster, derserves to be... killed. you're not an outcast either. You're clearly with the humans, which is where you belong. You're not useless. without you, I'd probably be killed by the lycans. It's all right."

(( has anybody else had problems loging in? Hemora and I did earlier))

"The humans only tolerate me because I used to know one of them. The soldier you talked to before we left, he was my fiance before THIS happened to me... We were to be married that summer, until the infection broke out that was." I look away quickly, trying not to think about that past. It didn't exist anymore.

"At least you know what you are, or were. I'm a mutation! I couldn't protect all those people that died in the attack on the town. I couldn't protect all the soldiers that died in the last attack. I couldn't even protect Elsa... My little angel, Elsa." My voice trails off and I start to cry again. "I don't even know if she is still alive" I whimper.

Elsa? Where have i heard that name before...

"I promise you, I'll help you find Elsa, and if he doesnt like you because somehting happened, it's his fault. He is a jerk then."

(i havent had problems logging in. I just had to type everything in again lolz. i almost forgot my password haha)

i sat down heavily against what i assumed was a wall.it was getting hard to breathe,but i had no choice."i-ill just-*gasp*-ill just rest a minute,a-and then find som...someone...." i was gasping,trying to get air into my failing lungs.i shouldnt have pushed myself,i thought.but...those people in the woods...i had to tell someone.if i lived long enough.each breath was becoming harder to draw,and more painfull.

I turn away and ignore Felix. Was he trying to cheer me up?
After a few minutes of silence I stand up and walk through the mess of fallen trees I had left in my wake of madness. It had been years since I had last lost my temper, but that was when I was still human and I could only break what I threw at walls. I had to remember that i was stronger now. Humans were fragile, touch one the wrong way and it could kill them it seemed. That's why I hadn't allowed myself to see Ken, and why it hurt me so much to see him now. I didn't know my own streingth, and that made me a danger to all humans.

He would be better off with that girl, Sky. I wonder what their relationship is? He has probably forgotten about me. She is prettier after all, and still human I might add. I wonder...

I loved him. No, i still Love him. And I only ever wanted the best for him. I couldn't give him what he needs. I couldn't be with him anymore.

After Felix gets Ember back, I'll leave. I just won't go back to the base. I'll send a note or something. No, better to just leave in silence... I'll stay in my storehouse with my weapons, just like I used to do in the beginning. Yeah. That's what I'll do. I'll just leave the sword and katars as parting gifts.

I had made up my mind and planned everything out so perfectly. I just couldn't let anybody know about my plan. Otherwise it would be ruined.