Starving!

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Name: Starving
Difficulty: Medium
Salary: 75
Participants: N/A
Location: Tommy's Dam to The Woods
Mission: People in Tommy's Dam are running low on food. Joel helps his baby brother, and Ellie chats "adult talk" with Maria while Joel goes hunting.

"Tommy got me doing everything, now?" Joel muttered angrily. This was for his baby brother, he knew, but Tommy could've at least came with him. Ellie offered Joel her trusty bow and arrows, and Joel accepted. He couldn't SHOOT the game he was hunting. Joel crouched as a doe galloped by, leaving tracks in the frosty snow, soft as a wool blanket. He pulled the arrow back, getting the unsuspecting doe in the neck. It was severely injured, and Joel shot an arrow at a tree, missing the final shot on the doe.

"Damn." Joel whispered, following the tracks in the snow, standing near a bush. He shot the arrow, and it darted through the air, landing right into the doe's neck. It started to gallop off, but fell quickly. This was a big doe, and would provide some good food. Joel quickly grabbed an arrow with his hand and extended it forcefully into a hare's back, killing it. Joel quickly made his way toward the dam, dragging the doe behind him and keeping the hare tied to his backpack, but was stopped as a couple of Hunters appeared to be going the same way.

Joel pulled his assault rifle off the side of his bag, and held it at the back of the right Hunter's hood. He stopped walking and his friend turned to talk to the Hunter, but stopped. This Hunter was crazed, planning to shoot through his friend to get to Joel. A slight quiver asserted itself upon Joel's eyebrow as he quickly shot the Hunter at point blank, shooting over the falling Hunter's corpse into the other. Joel picked up some ammo the Hunters stole from someone as he made his way toward the dam.

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[murdoc]

    Murdoc was sitting inside his shack passed out. A bottle slowly rolled out of his hand and smashed against the ground. It barley woke him but it did.Sitting up and looking around he walked over to his desk and started lighting candles. The room was lit now. It was dirty with no windows. A hole in the roof with a bucket under it to catch rain water. There was no bed only a couch. there was a door but at the moment it had a bookshelf pushed in front of it.No locks on the door. And next the desk was a tall cage with no door. On the inside a sleeping was a Hawk. Walking up to the cage and tossing in a dead mouse the hawk woke up and choked it down."Good boy fiz....or girl...." After two years with the animal murdoc still didnt know the sex. Murdoc sat back down when a loud thump hit the door. Reaching under the couch he pulled out his single shot rifle. A 30-30 modle. "Whos there." He approached the door slowly with the gun pointing at the door.The cabin creeked under his feet with every step. "Its santa,its tommy who they hell else knows you live out here." Taking his hand off the trigger murdoc walked over to the book case and put his gun against the wall pushing it. Once it was out of the way He opened the door for tommy. Tommy walked in about to say something before he looked Murdoc up and down. "God damnit scott when was the last time you ate." Murdoc shrugged. "Its not scott anymore. Its murdoc. Scott died back in maine." Tommy rolled his eyes smelling a can of food before gagging. "You need to eat. We all do. Look we're running out of food at the dam. You need to eat, I need to eat. they need to eat." Murdoc didnt hesitate to reply. "Ellie needs to eat." Tommy stopped, looking through things. "Yes,she needs to eat too." Tommy placed a flare gun on the table. "If its too big for you to carry back send up a flare and we'll be right there. Scott, you can come back and live with us anytime youd like, we do miss you." Murdoc didnt say anything and Tommy left. Murdoc walked over to the cage and put his arm out,Fiz jumped from his perch to murdocs arm. He then walked over to the big hole in the roof and threw him in the air and he left the shack and started hunting. 
    Murdoc threw on his field gear.(stained old clothes that are thicker than the ones he was just wearing) He walked over to the wall and pulled out his home made cleaver and then picked up a box of shells and his rifle and he was out the door.It was a really ,really nice day.Around murdocs cabin were some scare crows(meant to distract the runners) Murdoc scanned the air until he found his hawk flying around in a circle about ten yards away. But then a gunshot from the same direction. Making double pace murdoc ran to the gunshot stopping two yards. out from where fiz was flying. Two men where field gutting a stag. Fireflies. Swallowing his pain he stood up and turned around to leave. "STOP,DONT FUCKNG MOVE!" There was another man he didnt see. Coming from behind a tree a firefly holding a pistol to murdoc head. "Where did you come from?" He asked looking around. "Are there more of you?" Murdoc put his rifle over his head and breached it making the bullet fall out so the man would calm down. "I came from Maine, Im alone." The man didnt seem to take it. "Wheres your camp, your people. Are you from the dam?" He mustve seen something murdocs eyes because he turned to where his friends where standing. "Hey! we got one of tommys boys! That means The girls there!" I didnt know what they meant. "Call up the others and tell them we found Ellie!" The man turned back and his smile faded and he looked down noticing the blood coming from his gut. He looked back up in time to see murdoc swinging the cleaver into his neck making him drop. The other two men had just gotten into range and started shooting and murdoc dropped to the ground taking cover behind a log. Slipping a shell back into the rifle he waited for the shooting to stop. Once it stopped and he heard them reloading murdoc popped up and took a shot into one of their shoulders then he dropped back down to reload. He crawled over to the man he cleaved and searched him for a gun. the gun he was pointing at murdoc was empty. The shooting started up again and murdoc did more waiting. Once they stopped again he popped back up shooting the unharmed one in the forehead making him drop. The wounded one started to run and murdoc ran after him. The man had a good 4 yard head start on murdoc. Dropping a knee he aimed in and focused the best he could. "Breathe in" Murdoc took a deep breath. " And.....out." He pulled the trigger and the center of the fireflies back exploded with blood. Murdoc fell to the floor sighing. then he looked to one of the corpses who had a duffle bag. Unzipping it murdoc started to laugh. It was full of canned food. an eight point buck and enough canned goods to last the dam a few more days. They were set for the next few weeks. Pluss Tommy would be happy with the new guns we got off the fireflies, less happy at the fact that murdoc just killed three fireflies. "We need to protect the girl at all cost." Murdoc said mimicking Tommy. " Ellie could save us all." He pulled the flare gun out of his pack and shot it in the air, another flare was shot from the direction of the dam to show that they were on their way. 
    Tommys gang should be here soon. Murdoc stood up and started to leave when he heard the squawking of fiz. He slammed back down next to the bodies and didnt move. He could already hear the clicking. Three clickers came out of the trees and started walking towards the bodies. Murdoc slowed his breathing down and reached for his gun.It was too far away, he then reached up for his cleaver.Still inside the neck of the first firefly. Just time to lay here and wait for death.Murdoc closed his eyes and started to speak to his self out of fear. "On april ninth your niece was born, on march seventeenth you met the girl of your dreams. four years later they both died. You lived nineteen years, Thats better then most can say." He heard a clicker standing over him. "Im sorry tommy, ellie ,joel all of you." Gunshots rang out from all directions and the clickers fell. Tommy and his boys walked out of the trees on high alert. Tommy ran over to Murdoc and picked him up. "You ok? any Bites? Spores?" Murdoc shook tommys hand. "On time as usual, im fine im fine. Ill explain this mess later, just get whats useful and lets get out of here." Tommy nodded and they packed up all the guns and food and meds. Tommy convinced murdoc to come over for supper tonight, the first meal hes had in two weeks. He sat at the same table as Tommy. That included , Joel , Ellie  Tommys girl and a few other of the boys. They all joked and eventually everyone was asleep. All by the fire. Ellie Laying next to Joel, Joel sitting up with his head knocked back. Tommy cuddled up to his girl. And murdoc between the two groups. This was the first time hes felt at home in a while.