"So... You are saying you don't remember anything before the first fall?" I said somewhat surprised, everyone I met since this whole shit began were quick to boast about how they survived the 3 falls but this girl in front of me is saying that she doesn't even remember? Well that gives me a reason to finally share my story.

"Yes, during the first fall the building I was in was hit by one of the fragments and it crumbled, I hit my head really hard back there so all I remember are just some flashes and my memory between the first and second fall are quite blurry too, I guess I got lucky being healed by a witch, huh?"

"You got to meet a witch? Damn, the only time I saw one was after the first fall."

"Ooh, tell me more!" She said, looking quite interested.

"I'll start from the begining then, ok?"

"Sure."

"So when the first..."

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-7 Years Ago-

"Mooooom! When are we going to leave?" I cried out to her, my ten year old self wasn't the most mature kid on the block. I was waiting in the car to go visit my grandparents while my mom was still getting ready, I was really excited since I haven't seen them since my birthday a month ago.

"I'm coming, I'm coming! Settle down."

"Finally..."

It was a 2 hour drive there so after I got bored of watching YouTube videos I fell asleep. But not for long, some time after I fell asleep I heard my mom scream and before I could even open my eyes the car flipped on its side and and into a tree at the side of the road.

I wasn't really hurt but I still fainted from the shock and when I woke up I saw some people doing something to my mom but my vision was a little blurry. I instinctively called out to them.

"Hel..." My vision returned and I finally saw what they were doing. They were feasting on my mom's corpse. I immediately closed my mouth but it seemed to be too late.

One of them turned it's head to me. It looked terrible, his eyes were sunken back and a dark green spot was spreading on his face but otherwise seemed pretty normal. He looked at me for what felt like the longest staring contest I had in my life then when I blinked be smiled, he fucking smiled with the widest grin I ever seen a person do.

As any scared kid would do I, of course, screamed, but it ended up saving my life.

I quickly unbound my seatbelt and went to the door on the pasager side. The monster got up from where my mom was and went to the back door. It was really inteligent, it knew how to operate the door and opened it. I basically crawled out of the car but the monster lunged at me and grabbed my leg.

It tried to pull me instead of coming at me and seemed to enjoy my suffering. I have to admit that at this point I was balling my eyes out. It was burying it's nails into my leg and with every thug from me the nails would go deeper.

But right when my body was about to give out a shining blade came from the sky and split the zombie in two. Well I kind of romanticized it but an older man planted a machete in the thing's head.

"Come with me if you want to live, kid." He said.

"B-but... my mom..."

He too a quick glance at the driver's seat before averting his eyes.

"It's too late for her, I'm sorry." He then turned around and started walking to the house near the road and I followed him.

The other monsters didn't seem as smart as the one that attacked me, they only took a glance at me before deciding it wasn't worth the effort.

The man entered the house and started scavenging it for all he could find.

"So, what's your name, kid? My name's Jones."

"I am Jack." I said still a little shook from earlyer, he seemed to notice.

"Jack you say... Jack and Jones, where did I hear this... Oh! It's a clothing company, I remember now. Heh, pretty cool."

"Yeah." I got a little more relaxed and I took a better look at him. He was really tall, like two meters and some more (6'5"+). He had grey beard and his body was really muscular.

"Listen kid, there's one of them in that room, you distract it and when it goes past the doorframe I take it out, ok?"

I nodded without much confidence but still did it. I took a candle that was on the floor next to me and threw it at the zombie. It turned around and started walking towards me but when it passed the door Jones decapitated it.

We nodded at each other and continued going trough the house. I found a nice schoolbag and a baseball bat that Jones made into a spiked bat with some nails he found in the garage. We also took some cans before we ate whatever we found in the fridge and went to the house next door to see what we find.

"Hey, kid. Listen here, we'll go trough this whole neighborhood then we'll look for a car and go to a hunting cabin I own in the forest nearby, sounds good?"

"I guess, but mom said I shouldn't get in stranger's cars."

"Yet you followed me in a house, don't you think that's a little silly." After that I shut up but when I looked down I saw that my pants were covered in blood.

"Ouch!"

He turned back and saw that my leg was red.

"Can you walk or do I have to carry you?"

"..." I tried stepping on it. "I think I can walk, but it really hurts."

"Let's go then, we have a long day ahead for us."