ALEXANDER x DELILAH [ BLOOD MOON ]

Tonight was supposed to be just an ordinary lunar eclipse.

But something’s different this time around. The full moon is already high in the sky.
Clouds shroud it from sight one minute, and the next they’re gone, revealing the moon to
no longer be its usual white light, but rather something much more sinister. As though
bathed in blood, its reddish hue gives off a frightening appearance.

It’s a blood moon.
It's a late night in the City Outskirts.

Though it could not have anticipated the blood moon, the Military is quick to respond to overwhelming reports of heightened Infected activity. After an unnerving distress signal, Captain Alexander Geoff and Officer Delilah Odell are sent on a mission to rescue the inhabitants of a Military outpost just outside Stronghold.

When the officers come across the scene, it's like nothing that has been witnessed before. Dozens of Infected surround the outpost, clawing desperately at its concrete walls and clambering over one another in their wild hunt for the soldiers inside. It's clear from the sheer amount of Infected that stealth is a necessity for this mission- not only because there are too many to be killed at once, but the sound of gunshots would surely attract more of the monsters.

Will the mission be completed? Or will Alex and Delilah risk the wrath of their superiors and a failure on their military record?

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Posted 10-10-2021, 09:34 PM

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Delilah had thought she was off rescue and patrol duty when she was promoted to secret service. Apparently, she was dead wrong.

Hopefully without an emphasis on dead.

She supposed a regional emergency justified pulling the pen pushers from their desks and throwing them back into the fray. She prayed that didn't mean they were losing the proverbial war by the orders of "all hands on deck." Only time and their success or failure would tell.

One unnerving distress signal threw two old friends back on the same detail. At least, Delilah had thought as she'd quickly suit up back at headquarters, she knew the man who'd be watching her back. Armor, weaponry out the wazoo, extra ammo--worryingly enough: a canteen and a night's worth of rations later, she and her partner for the evening were on their way to answer a distress call outside the safety of Stronghold's sturdy walls.

"Fancy seeing your ass tonight, Geoff," she'd greeted with characteristic cheer. Even with the city bathed in an eerie red gloom that grew thicker by the second, she was hard pressed to drop her joyful facade. Alex, of course, second only to Dallas, was one of the few people that could see past the cheeky grins to the weary nervousness that lie beneath.

She was picking at her cuticles. She wasn't scared they'd fail per se, it was just knowing that you were walking into an angry hornets nest brought with it a healthy amount of caution. Either one of them could die that night.

Lilah thumped him on the back, as much of an assurance to her as it was him. With no other opportunity for dallying... they had left.

She was not prepared for what awaited them.

After the first attack--just outside the walls and covered by the guards--Lilah began to wonder if it was too late to start praying. She settled with a white-knuckled grip on the steering wheel of the military specified armored transport vehicle and tried to focus on how cool they looked and how big this truck was.

It was the small pleasures in life that made you stop thinking that you'd never live past the night. She definitely did not think about her daughter, sleeping peacefully in her bed. Well, hopefully Percy had her in bed. A six year old witnessing this kind of chaos was not going to do good things for her psychological growth.

She'd killed the headlights and inched down the road at a snail's pace. The people at the outpost might be dead by the time they got there, but going any faster or keeping the headlights on, had proven to attract too many of the vampires to their location at once. The windshield wipers already had viscera and blood smeared across them.

How quaint.

Even the worst infestation she'd had to clear was nothing like this. They were flocking like cockroaches, covering every inch of the ground, hidden in deep shadows. She could see their lumbering forms in the dark, passing in front of one signal light or another. An undulating sea of death.

A great black shadow obscured the stars and faint red clouds in front of them. At last the outpost. Lilah pulled to a stop on the road next to an old rusted pickup truck wrapped not-so-lovingly around a spruce tree on the side of the road.

There was a great sound of shuffling feet. A small, slow moving stampede. Lilah cracked the window on the driver's side, just enough to let the sound in. The twisted, mutated voices of the infected drifted to them, along with the sound of clamoring, banging, things falling.

"Shit, man..." she whispered, barely audible. "Why the fuck they only send two of us?"

No one expected this.

Fuckin Military. Fuckin Infected.

She kept the window down, trying to count the foot-steps and determine how many were out there. How close they were. The echo bouncing off the trees made it difficult. She wished she could turn the lights on, but that might be just as deadly as hopping out and shouting "Here's dinner! come and get it!"

Lilah shot Alex a worried glance. Technically he still out ranked her--and he'd always been better at this than she was. Ultimately, it was his call. She offered him her hand in a brotherly shake. "Maybe we can circle around, see if there's an opening?"
"Shall we circle? Keep to the trees and see if there's an opening?"

Posted 10-13-2021, 03:50 PM

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