Centipedes Part III

    By: James B. Davis

Me and Francis where walking in the forest and eating some apples looking for old computers. I thinking about what the world might have been light before The Wave invaded, some still have stories passed down for father to father or mother to mother, about how they used computers to seek out information, or drive in cars.

That thought drifted away when Francis yelled for me to came look at something. I ran to him to see a big piece of ice, stuck in a tree with a large military computer in it. “Think we can get it out?” Francis asked “Probably not without a flamer, we'll go back to the village and get one.” I said and we headed back to the village.

When we got to the village we walked into the black smith's hut, “Could we use your Flamer?” asked Francis “You got something to trade?” he asked “Um,” I said while looking in the pocket that hung from my neck, “how about this?” I said and grabbed a toothbrush out of the pocket “My god where did you find that?!” he cried “Not telling, now do you want it or not?” I said “Yes, yes of course.” I handed him the toothbrush and he gave me a flamer.

Francis and Me walked back into the woods to flame the ice. When we got there a large tiger was sleeping in front of it. We slowly walked up to and threw a spear into it's side killing it. I took the flamer, and started flaming the ice, we melted the computer out of the ice and tried to scooped up most of the water. “We might have to take it apart to get it to the village. But we we might be able to take it in three pieces. I took a small saw out of my pocket started cutting the computer. I cut off the big screen and we both carried it to the village, after that we took the base, then the control panel.

We were nearly heroes to the village, we collected these computers for parts for other machines and weapons. We ate had dinner that night in the dining hall, we ate the tiger we killed and also put the water in the Big Tank, we also ate a large turkey and it's eggs. That whole night was one of happiness, well most of it anyway. Later, almost sun rise, a large Wave attacked the village. The had to set the gate up as fast as we could, we set up the spikes on the wall, and threw sulfur bombs over the wall. After hours of fighting the Wave, they left with few creatures left.

The next couple days we stayed in the village and behind the wall, for protection reasons. Any time a Wave attacks we stay behind the wall for a couple days, we learned to do that the hard way. One day a Wave attacked the village and we only stayed in for a day, the Wave was just hiding in the woods outside the village, so we learned to stay in for a couple days after attacks.

The day we were aloud to leave the village me and Francis left to find supplies for the village, such as food, electronics, or medical supplies, some times ever forgotten weapons, but we rarely find those. We looked all day fruit and vegetables in our normal spot, but everything was gone, the Wave most have eaten everything in the last couple days, we had to venture outside our normal area, which wasn't safe.

Still all day we looked, nothing but a few old cell phones, a calculator, and a small bottle of medicine.

So we headed back to the village, but it was a long way, we had get to the village before sun down, because that's when Glowworms come out, and you don't want to caught by Glowworms, so we had to hurry. We hurried along as fast as we could.

We had to pass the marsh, which was terrifying, be cause a leech Wave lived in it, you could see the it move under water at times, I took hours to move through the marsh, at the end we woke up the leach Wave, we ran, and we ran fast. When the village was in sigh, we yelled for them to get ready to close the gate. We ran through and the gate closed. The wave smashed the gates down and we ran into the underground bunker.

I'm writing this now, in the bunker, the leech Wave is right outside, we might not make it through the night. The black smith brought all the weapons into the bunker, the mayor said that all food is down hear, and the extra supplies. We probably won't make it, Francis was bit by a leech, he might turn into a worman. God help us all...