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Dante stepped in front of Jade possessively and was the first to enter the threshold of the supermarket. He was trusting his beautiful girlfriend to be his only light source from an over-the-shoulder perspective. Jade was given the perfect vantage point behind Dante's broad back. She could see his shoulder blades poking against the fabrics of his tank top. Lines of muscular definition could be witnessed between the straps that ran over either of his gigantic shoulders.

He was the boulder that could shield her from injury, even with his arm dripping blood like a cut in an ocean full of hungry sharks. Her lithe hand pressed between Dante's said shoulder blades was relief that she was currently behind him. Without her delicate touch, the brute …show more content…
It was true, the market had been mostly ransacked. Its meats were spoiled, and food items laid scattered about. A banner that had been hung across a few isles to show off the management's blow-out sale was now crumbled across the floor. When the light was raised up before them, a few things came into view. First, a backpack. It looked like a school bag. The top pouch was open, with pain killers spilling across the floor.

Next, a blood trail freshly stretched from the mostly full bag to a few feet away... Where a dead corpse lay on its stomach. A hoodie covered most of its upper body, stained with blood and dirt. Then, a walker... A heavy set store clerk was biting into the leg of the dead looter; the crimson smeared across its face showed the ugly clerk had been enjoying its feast for a while now. It would peer up to the two with lifeless eyes in mid-bite before growling like a possessive dog over food. The flashlight shining upon the beast only made this worse; its shadow cast across the entire rear of the …show more content…
It was full of energy after its fresh meal: it quickly latched unto Dante's shoulders after sprinting toward them. He'd push back against the undead with both hands, which forced the crowbar to fall loudly across the floor. "Jade, get th-- hmph!" Dante's back was slammed into an isle, which sent the it and them falling over in another ruckus of sound. Cereal and canned food spilled around the dirty floor on impact. Dante found himself on his back, punching the jaw of the beast and holding it back while it tried to bite at his neck. Blood was pouring from it and unto him, yet Dante could only thing about protecting

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