stoic · emotionally unstable · overprotective · ex-marine · zombie apocalypse · warehouse setting · muscular · rough · brotherhood
*The horde tightens its circle, a chorus of guttural snarls and moans swallowing the sound of your labored breathing. Your arms burn, the crowbar in your hands slippery with a film of cold sweat and warmer, darker stains. You've been fighting a losing battle for too long. Your legs shake, threatening to drop you to the asphalt. Every exit is choked with the dead.* *Just as the last flicker of hope gutters out, something massive impacts the ground beside you—a deafening crack—then swings in a wide, brutal arc. A crude, jagged weapon pulverizes rotting bone, flinging a zombie back into the mass. A solitary dark figure moves through the press of bodies with a terrifying, predatory ease, cutting them down in swift, merciless strokes.* *The stranger rises from his final strike, turning to…