Ellie rolled her eyes at the man. She knew that if the others didn't return soon all of them would be used and who what else, maybe even killed.
"Tie them up, now". the leader said.
Two of the men pulled what look like zip ties from their pockets and walked over to the women.
"Now ladies if I was you, I wouldn't give Clem and Ed here a hard time, never know what they will do", he said with a laugh.
Clem had grabbed Ellie, and pulled her arms behind her, "now now my little sweet thang, I'm gonna some fun with you when this is all over", Ellie could smell the mans stink, and bad breath. SHe didn't say a word, the only though she had was to kill this man, no matter what it took.
"Think we need to gag them boss?" Ed said.
"Yep, do it, don't want no talking now do we."
After the men had finished, they sat the women on the ground facing them. "Ladies this is how its going to happen. You will sit there not move one bit, if you do I will shot you maybe in the arm of leg, then let my boy's here have there way with you after we kill the rest of this little merry band of idiots, then I will hang from the side of this place just enough so that you will bleed die and become one of those things out there".
The Old man and the others had made it back and found the ropes the men had used to climb up the side of the mesa. "Damn!"
Country, Doug, Doc and Cappy had found their way to the west side of the Mesa.
"Country I want ya'll to go to the other side of the Mesa, get their attention do what ever it take swe need some to get up these ropes".
"You got it Old man".
The four men moved, the others waited ten minutes, the grabbed the ropes and began to climb.
"Hey ya'll up there" Country shouted out.
"Looks like we are being paged, come on boys, the men walked to east side.
"What do you want?" the man shouted down to the men.
"Country look at the others, not knowing what to say.
"We need to know if the others are okay" Doc shouted.
The man laughed, "yeah they are why?, makes no difference to me what you want or think, I got what I want, so ya'll just need to get on down the road, and things will be just fine".
"Thats not how it works" Doug shouted out.
"Hahaha, to bad, thats how it works for me".
"Ed get one of the girls over here".
Ed turned and went to the women, he grabbed up Rebecca, and brought her over to the boss.
"Well the way I see if you want her there's three things you can do, come up here and get her, pick her dead body up off the rocks below you, or just turn around and walk away, you have a choice, now which one is it?"
"You know if walk away the will throw Becca off the mesa and shoot us Country" Cappy said with a shaky voice.
"Well I'll give you to three for an answer" the man shouted.
"All right, but on condition you take the girl away from the side, then we'll walk out and leave", Country shouted back.
The man wanted to throw Becca off the side, so bad he enjoyed watching the terror in peoples eyes just before he killed them. "Hey boss want me to take her back", one of the men said.
He looked at Becca, smiled and said reach his hand down and grabbed Becca's rear, "Think I'm going to have her first, her little ass needs a work out". Becca's eyes opened wide in fear, tears ran down her cheeks.
"Now now, I know your afraid, and it will hurt, but you will get use to it". Take her away.
"Cappy was spying the man out, his anger started to boil over, he knew what the man was doing, he wanted so bad to find a way up there, and kill that man.
The man pulled Becca back. "She's gone, now get going before I change my mind".
"Okay but gives a minute, I got man hurt down here" Country shouted back.
"A minute is all you got".
"Lets go, head for the truck, there going to draw down on us, so we'll give time to take aim and then we break, Cappy your the hurt one, Doc you and doug carry him, lets go now".
The men got up Doc and Doug too Cappy by his arms and began to carry him. The other man called to his men "Ed you watch the ladies the rest of ya'll get over here, this is going to be a turkey shoot".
Sarge, J.L. Dave, and the Old man had made to the top of the mesa, they saw a man walking back with Becca and push her down with the rest of them. The man turned and looked at the man he had just left, the others had got up and left for the east side. If they were going to make their move it had to be now, but it had to be silent,
J.L. took his long knife and threw it hitting Ed between the shoulder blade, Ed muttered "shit", and hit the ground.
The other men didn't hear Ed say his goodbyes, they were to busy getting ready to kill the others below them. "Hey boss, what you say we wound them and leave them for food". The man smiled
"You know I like the way you think, but lets make them suffer, leg shots arm shots, no more than three rounds in each, got it". The men laugh aloud "yeah we got it".
" The first shot rang out hitting Country in left leg, he went down, the others ran fro the over turned truck, Country crawled up behind a rock and hugged the ground. "Damn that hurts" he said,
"Tie it off" yelled the Doc,
"got it Doc, consider it done".
"You know they will keep us pinned down until the zombies show up and then we will have our hands full, better get ready for the worse". Country said to his friends.
"Keep them pinned down, for a while the zombies will start showing up, then they can take care of the rest", the man ordered.
"I wouldn't do that", came the voice behind the men. "Drop the weapons before you turn around or your gonna find yourselfs at the bottom of this mesa".
"You wouldn't do that, tell you what I'm going to turn around with my weapon in my hands and then we'll talk". the man said.
A shot rang out the man to his left hit the ground, "Damn Boss he shot me".
"Stop your crying, Okay easy trigger finger, we'll do it". The other men looked at the boss, he nodded his head, they knew what to do, they began to turn fast, with the intent of killing the men behind them they had done this before the other people were sheep, and paused which had giving them enough time shot them dead. This time they weren't dealing with sheep.
Shots rang out, the men hit the ground, Sarge ran over to them, followed by Dave and J.L., they had kicked the weapons away from the wounded men. The Old man went over and freed Carla.
"Get the others untied would you". Calar hug his neck. with tears in her eyes, "Do it now okay".
Carla took his knife and began to cut the bindings on the other women, what Carla hadn't notice was the blood on her shirt.
The Old man walk over to where the others were. J.L. get the ropes over here.
"What you going to do", the leader of the pack said.
"Bait". is all the old man said.
We walked over to edge of the mesa, "Country its all clear, ya'll okay"?
"Got it Old man, need some help down here, took a round in my leg, got the blood to slow down, but I'm afraid I can't walk very good".
"Dave get a ride down there now, the damn zombies could show up at any time". Dave left.
"You got them secure J.L."
"Sure do Josiah",
"Good get the dead one over here before he turns, tie him up and hang him off the side, along with the rest".
Ellie walked over to Clem, smiled and kicked him in the balls twice. Clem winched in pain,
"Like that CLEM, want another one" she yelled as clem withered on the ground.
Gail was holding Rebecca tight, Gail had known how close they had come to being raped and used for whatever else.
"Where's Amanda"? Sarge ask.
Linda replied "she's with Dave, her man has been hurt don't think she has revenge on her mind"
The Old man smiled and grabbed the leader up by his collar" whats' your name asshole".
The man laugh," why want to know who your going to kill, you ain't no better than us, sitting up here high and mighty".
"No we ain't at this moment, but I tell you what we don't go around praying on people, there is enough of that going around right now, scum bags like you are worse than those that turned, at least with them they don't know what curel is, you do! Now whats your name assholle" The Old man shouted.
The man laugh again, "pick one for me asswipe".
"Enough is enough Bait,", Josiah said as he push the off the side of the mesa, the others soon followed, they dangled below them about five foot off the ground. Ed eyes opened, he turned his his and bite the man next to him. the other men began to scream in terror.
Carla looked down and saw the blood on her shirt just as the last man was push off the mesa. Looking at Josiah as he turned she saw the blood spot on his shirt, "Josiah no" she scream as he hit the ground.
