10 Old Man Alfredo (1/2)

Sleeping in this new world is horrible. Throughout the night there was constant noise, sometimes it would be an animal roaring, other times it might just be a large animal passing by. Whatever it was constantly woke up the family, after all, they don't want to be eaten in their sleep.

When the light of day finally came it was extremely relaxing, seeing beams of sunlight shoot through the gaps between the tables and chairs.

It was 7:00 am when everyone was awake, Chloe was in the Roadhouse's kitchen using whatever was there to cook up a meal.

Lachlan yawned and finally got up, walking towards the kitchen he could smell baked beans, hash browns and sausages, causing his stomach to gurgle.

Sitting at the desk, Jack and Adam were already halfway into their meal, mowing it down as if it might be their last, which it might.

Sarah was on top of the desk, in a little self-made bed Chloe made for her.

Chloe walked out of the kitchen after she finished cleaning up, even though she knew very well that there wasn't a need to, just habits.

Rocky seemed to have been de-summoned throughout the night, which Jack explained that keeping it summoned mentally exhausted him. When he did de-summon him though there was nothing flashing, Rocky's body seemed to have been consumed by the shadows before merging with Jack's.

”Good morning Lachy,” Chloe said walking up to Lachlan and giving him a bear hug.

”Morning mum,” Lachlan replied.

”Anyway, get ready, we'll be going in 30 minutes,” Chloe stated.

Lachlan nodded and begun eating breakfast, constantly looking through one of the unconcealed windows, trying to see if he can notice anything.

By the time Lachlan finished his breakfast, Chloe had already packed a few bags full of foods and drinks, mainly water.

Jack was removing all the tables and chairs used to barricade the door since he was the strongest one there.

After he had done so he grabbed some of the bags, Adam grabbed two bags and Sarah while Chloe was carrying a total of five bags. Lachlan was only carrying one bag filled with snacks.

Walking outside they noticed there were more animal corpses littered around the area. Some had missing heads, others had missing arms and legs, while there were a few that didn't have anything missing, meaning they probably died of poison.

Although after last night's incident they found it easier to stomach such a sight, Lachlan however, threw up again.

Looking around for their car they realised a massive scorpion corpse crushed it, the scorpion was about 3 metres long, light brown and missing its tail and a pincer.

Looking around they noticed a brown Toyota Hilux that was almost untouched, just having a few blood marks.

Checking the inside there was no one in there, and obviously, there were no keys in the ignition.

”Ah!” Adam shouted and stepped back.

Walking over Chloe questioned him, ”What's wrong Adam”.

”There's a man in the back,” Adam replied.

Hearing that Chloe looked through the window, she quickly realised they were mostly covered but she quickly managed to find a gap.

Looking through she indeed saw a man, sleeping. He looked fairly old, maybe in his 50s, had a black well-trimmed beard with a few strands of grey. His hair was cut at a decent length and it had been pulled back. Knocking on the window she tried to get the man to wake, which failed.

Jack gave it a try, slamming on the metal caused a loud bang, shocking the man right awake.

Noticing there were people he opens the back and shouted angrily, ”What are you doing?”

”We were just seeing if you were alive sir,” Jack replied.

”There's no need to slam onto the car then boy, you can just knock,” the old man stated.

”Tried it, failed, decided this would work,” Jack said.