On a hill, overlooking the groups cabin; Tifa sits by Mockley's (supposed) grave, drinking an unknown dark grey liquid and stares out at Dustin and group. She pulls herself up, walks up to a tree and stashes the bottle in a dug-out hole. She stands over the tree, her head resting over her arm - she stares blankly into her burried glass. Thoughts wander inside her cranium "love?" "Pffft" - she laughs to herself thinking about what Angela had told her after returning from their trip. "He decides to waste his last breath to mutter that... hahah. What a fool"
She resumes staring blankly for a moment until she's met with movement down the hill behind the tree. It was Angela, seemingly scavenging supplies. Tifa looks out at her, confused. "On her own?" Tifa thinks. "I better get down there and help her out." - Tifa steps carefully around the tree, making sure not to trample her hiding hole and begins making her way down the mountain.
On this side of the mountain laid a small town, abandoned. They had largely scavenged the town apart from a few buildings - it was completely opposite from where the group had built their base so getting to it would serve as a challenge. Upon getting to the floor level, Tifa hears faint mumbling coming from Angela's direction. She sneaks closer and closer, the words slowly grew clearer. The noises were coming from the gas station, Tifa could make out 3 voices - inching closer she heard "come on, we dont have time. They'll be here any moment. Come on, come on" coming from the gas station.
"Huh..? Is that Angela's voice"
She got a little closer and could peer into a window from a distance, Angela's bright red hair stood out through the glass - it was her. Talking to 2 men unfamiliar to Tifa - they appeared friendly toward her, not ill-intent but a face of worry. Tifa was going to get even closer, try and eavesdrop on their conversation - before she was about to move to the vehicle closest to the window she could hear foreign footsteps coming from the opposite direction of the voices. And before she could see who it was---BWOAHKWH. An explosion occured in the gas station. Causing Tifa's ears to ring inside her head and push her to the ground. "What... the.... Fuck" she said under her breath. The ringing in her head made it difficult for her to stand but after a few seconds, she regained stability. 'I hope Angela's alright' - Tifa thought to herself as she peaked around the building. The gas pump appears to have went up in flames, a giant roaring fire had engulfed a nearby car and the front of the station. Tifa inched closer and noticed a man in a black SWAT outfit weilding a rocket launcher walk toward the gas station - he was cautiously walking, trying to see through the carnage he caused.
"Who the fuck!" Tifa explained to herself. "Weilding an RPG?!" The man walked behind an abondoned semi truck, reloading in the process. He then gestures in the sky, doing a circular motion with his fingers - followed by a peace sign with his 2 middle fingers. Shortly after, a group of 4 men on horses galloped out of the nearby woods. They stopped next to the RPG-Man and 2 closest to him dismounted their horses.
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"Horses....?" Tifa thought to herself. "Who are these people". They wore cowboy hats, and pitch black helmets - black boots, gloves and leather jackets. It was a weird mix of SWAT and cowboy wear. The man closest to the RPG weilder, walked up to him exchanging words which Tifa couldn't make out. "I need to do something, i need to inform the group..." she thought, "but not now..."
A few moments pass and the man conversing with the RPG weilder walks back to the main group and pulls out a rifle, the 2nd man followed along. While the other 2 reached down and pulled out long swords. "Wait... swords?" Tifa thinks.
The two sword weilders circled around the sides of the gas station - presumably to pick off any escapees - if any are left alive that is. The two with rifles run toward the fire, making sure to step around it.
Tifa began to clench her fist, clench it so hard it began to bleed.
The man with the RPG climbs on top of the knocked over semi truck and readies his rocket launcher.
For a moment, all that could be heard was the raging fire and the 2 men's footsteps. For a moment, thats all that there was for the ones unfortunate enough to be in this situation.
"I have to get out of here." Tifa thought, she began to take the long way round toward the cabin - making sure to stay close behind buildings and cars.
She made good distance before looking back again, checking where the men were - their position had shifted to the inside, Tifa could no longer see the 2 rifle-wielding men but the cowboys kept their guard surrounding the gas station.
She took another step forward and a singular rifle round is fired inside the gas station. Tifa's body begins to shake uncontrollably, 'has she been found?' She pondered to herself. But she had no choice but to go forward, there was no way for her to combat 5 heavily armed men with only a knife.
So she kept making her way forward... 15 minutes later the cabin was close. She had to take the long way round, around the back of the mountain to avoid detection. While trying to hike up the mountain another rifle shot was heard, Tifa upped her pace even more, a few seconds go by and another shot. And another... Tifa stared at the ground, clenching dirt in her hand, furling her eyebrows.
Moments later another shot is heard, but by that point Tifa had already reached the cabin. She ran over to the clearing they've made and it was oddly quiet.. she ran up to the cabin screaming "hello! This is an emergency! It's Angela!" But no one replied.
She barges into the cabin, the door swinging open violently into the the outer wall. Panting, her eyes dart around the room looking for any recognisable figure. "Where has everyone gone?!" She exclaimed to herself.
"To town"
She had not noticed but Jimmy had been there the whole time, curled up by the fire. "What? What do you mean?" She shouted at him.
"Dustin, Rita and Mike" he said calmly.
"They're going hunting."
"Huh? Hunting? Tell me, where are they right now. And what about Marand?" She told Jimmy.
"Dustin took Mockley's rifle, Rita let him" Jimmy explained to Tifa.
"What... what is wrong with everyone. How can they..." she turns around mid sentence, before she could finish she was interrupted by Dustin's gargantuan size knocking into her.
"My bad." Dustin proclaimed, stepping beside her - he held an unconcious Angela on his right shoulder and a rifle on his left.