Adventures Of Bayek: Through The Void And Beyond

"Cesar. Airport? What does that even mean?" Em looked at the wall a little confused

"It's for me, my name is Cesar Morales. And my family is telling to go to the airport if I ever made it here" Cesar explained

"Okay then Cesar, what do you want to do?" Bayek asked taking a seat on the couch.

"We'll somethings obviously wrong around here. And we came for my family, maybe we can have our cake and eat it too if we go to the airport"

Bayek smiled and looked at the crew "alright, airport it is. And if any of you don't like it. Stay here"

Bayek pushed himself up from the coach and went back to the vehicles. While, everyone was making their way out, Cesar when up stairs to room, and began to look around. Inside of the drawer of a nightstand. Cesar pulled out a necklace, it was pendant of Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte, Santa Muerte, Lady of the Death, it was meant for protection.

Holding the pendant up to eye level, it spun and the rays of bounce off of it, creating a natural strobe light. Focused on the pendant, Cesar fell in a trance.

---Flash Back---

A beautiful brown skinned woman, laying on the c.h.e.s.t of a young Cesar with tear cascading down her flushed cheeks, Cesar held her close and whispered words of comfort in an attempt to calm her down.

The scene flashed to moments of happiness , the woman's hair blew in the wind and smile that shined even in the darkest of nights. The woman danced around the front lawn. And Pulled a young Cesar to join her. The world seem so serene and peaceful.

The image flashed again, to a blossoming spring and intimate entanglement between the two. Passion, l.u.s.t, Carnality, love, drilled its way into Cesar heart again. When the youthful tryst had ended, the couple rested while remaining in each other's embrace . Cesar pulled out a Santa Muerte pendent put it around her neck, placing a soft linger kiss on her forehead.

-Flashback end---

"Cesar, she'll be okay… Raul and Nadia, Abuela. They're all fine. But we need to get to the airport if we want to see them again" Miranda walked in the room and wrapped arms around the worried Cesar.

Clutching the pendant, Cesar stuffed it in his pocket "I know…come on, we should go"

Cesar led the way to the airport; he was from Birmingham and knew his way around the city without the need for a map. It made things faster. Deeper into the city, the scene began to change. It was finally beginning to look like the apocalypse

"Stop" Bayek ordered of the radio

"The road is blocked ahead; I can sense it. We need to find another way, Or a smaller group of walkers." He explained.

"I think I know a way around it, if the LMTVs can fit" Cesar replied

"Let's do it then. But we need to make it quick. The sun is going down"

Down a small alley the convoy went. It was just wide enough for the LMTV's to fit through. When the convoy arrived on the other side the pushed. But running into walkers was just investable. Bayek had theory that when one of them died, if others were close enough, then they could sense it. But, regardless of that fact, Bayek ran them over anyway. It had to be done, no matter the future consequences.

The Birmingham hospital was a nice size. Big enough to where if a group wanted to settle it had to be one hell of a gathering. And that's exactly what it was.

-3 days ago Birmingham Airport-

While Bayek and his group was on their way to the airport, invents were getting worse at the airport

"Captain we have another, and it's bad this time"

"Them put the f.u.c.ker down or everyone at this base dies."

The young solider snapped to attention "yes, sir"

For the past couple of weeks, the walker activity had been ramping up, Soldiers and civilian fighters out on patrol began to find themselves in tight spots. Currently there was four hundred plus people, settled at the Birmingham airport. So, when a group came back one day from barely surviving a horde attack. Two soldiers began showing signs of evolution. They had pushed their bodies past their physical limits. Being desk soldier before the outbreak, their limits were low, but it was surpassed all the same.

Seeing this, the Captain of the unit, defending the Airport believed them to be infected, ordering their execution. It was business as usual until more and more people began to show signs. When the leaders of the airport began to realize there were no bite marks present on the 'infected' they believed the virus had become airborne. Once the information of their theory leaked. Chaos started to brew. The captain used this as an opportunity to exert total control over the growing population. Executing whoever went against his law.

But this didn't stop the evolution of fighters, people began escaping , stealing food and supplies, this left gaps in the perimeter and led to walker attacks. When the captain saw that the airport was falling , he ordered his soldiers to begin packing up so they could leave falling safe haven. However, the never suspected arrival of so many walkers so fast and the survivors didn't stop coming. Which only led to the increase of walker population.

It's been a week since the horde gathered at the airport, food was running low, ammunition, and fighters were still evolving, and because of ignorance, the number of fighters began to decrease.

In the middle of the Airport, the Captain had called a general meeting. In front of the crowd a military doctor stood up holding a protective mask.

"From my personal experience as a doctor of 10 years. I believe the infection to be in droplet form. That means that it is airborne but, the virus can only survive in the air for ten minutes, six to at meters away from the host. Sneezing and cough is how its spreading. So as long as you where the mask and report any sings of early infected. We can make it through this!"

The doctor looked over at the Captain and nodded his head. "keep an eye out for black veins, sweating, excessive sleeping. And discoloration of the eyes."

Taking a step forward. " Now we need volunteers to fight, so that we can get everyone out of this place. Food is running low. And we need more fighters, to get more food and supplies, then we can break through the horde" the captain looked around for any volunteers

Many men and woman stepped forward as volunteers, they all had family and loved ones they wanted to protect. And staying in an airport that was running low on food was not an option, they had to step up to the plate.

Towards the back of the crowd a man with his wife and daughter could be seen holding each other

"Listen to me Yalissa, if I don't come back. Get Nadia and Abulea to that place. Take what you can leave. It's going to be dangerous out there. But you two need to protect each other and Abulea, Okay?"

With tears in her eyes, his daughter refused to let him go. Pulling her closer in a tighter embrace. The man slid a small Glock into her pants "Look at me Nadia, you are beautiful girl and I am so proud to be your father. But, your seventeen now. Your old enough and strong enough to be able to use that. When your uncle Cesar and I got our first. We were two years younger. Now I need you to be even stronger, and protect your family now, entiéndeme?"

"sí" she replied, whipping tears from he eyes.

-Present day Birmingham-

" God Damn it! This way is backed up as well. for the next three miles at least" Bayek radioed the convoy. "Pull over. We need to talk?"