L4D2-Special Blood part 6

Rochelle peaks over again, seeing the Hunter never budged from his spot, no growling, no prowling despite Ellis was out in the open, nothing but sitting there,"What is going on here?! First a strange base with odd letters and now a ..tamed Hunter?!"

Ellis decided to let Rochelle have her moment and looks at the Hunter. Kneeling down he held his hand out,"Come here boy." he whistles for him to come on over,"Ellis won't bite..well I hope you won't too."

He watched the Hunter fidget at his spot, in fact, started backing off," Come on I won't hurt." He places his gun down, holding his hands up,"See?"

"You're nuts like the folks that use to live here," comment Rochelle, standing next to Ellis though never drop her handgun.

They watched their 'tamed' infected climbing off the pile of corpses away from them, grabbing a piece of an infected arm that Ellis blew off and bolts back into his cage. The two look at each other with confusion and decided to follow him back to his cage. They couldn't help but watch the Hoodie munching on the arm.

"Would you look at that. Hey Ro, he doesn't eat us..he eats the infected!" Ellis sounded rather excited and appall.

"Yeeeaaaa, let's get out of here before anything else..odd..comes out.." Rochelle started to head out, grabbing a folder she left on the cart she knocked down.

" But what about-"

"Come Ellis, we're leaving.."

Ellis looks back at the Hunter, sighing lightly and follows Rochelle out. Soon they were back on the dirt road, everything was quiet. Rochelle can feel Ellis was thinking about that Hoodie back at the base, though didn't say anything. The two were about half way down the road, until Ellis spoke, " Did you hear that?"

They both stopped and listen yet soon as the stopped, the noise stopped. The two shrugged and resume their walking, but the noise return so they stopped again, only the noise stopped again too. "Ellis, you playing games with me? It's not funny because I'm not laughing." Rochelle looks at Ellis with a glare.

"Whoa whoa, why would I do that Ro? I'm not THAT mean..well I do love to pull pranks but, not like this," Ellis gives a sheepish smile. The two looked around, seeing if an infected was making a noise until they look behind him. There he was, sitting on the ground the White Hunter stared at them.

'You got to be kidding me!" Rochelle muttered.

"Hey man, he followed us like an actual dog!" Ellis was again excited at this, kneeling down on the ground again trying to call him over," Come on little fella." Ellis heard Ro sighing heavily and muttering something, but he ignores her. He started inching toward the Hunter," Come to Uncle Ellis." He watched the Hunter taking a step back and stops, " What's that?", He spots something around the infected's neck, "Looks like a collar. He IS a dog." Ellis grabs his beer can and rolls it out toward the Hoodie, waiting to see what he will do.

The Hunter tilt his head as the can rolled into him, picking it up gently with his mouth using his fangs to keep it away from the saliva in his mouth and slowly, very slowly inches toward Ellis as his claws dig into the ground nervously.

Ellis held his hand out as he watch it placed it back into his hands,"Ro..did you SEE that?" He looks back, seeing Rochelle staring in shock. He looks back at the frighten Hoodie, frozen in place now. He saw the black collar around the neck and sees a name tag. He slowly reaches over watching every movement of the Hunter, seeing he was stiff as a statue, and manage to get a hold of the name tag," Boo? Your name is...Boo?" He watched the face suddenly perked up and made this purring noise. Before he could react, the Hunter tackled him into the ground.

Rochelle quickly pointed her handgun at the Hoodie as he tackled Ellis down,"Ellis!" She yelled out yet stops as he heard him..laughing? She let reality come back and actually sees the thing..hugging..him.

"Easy boy," laughed Ellis, patting Boo's head and saw Rochelle's face," Don't shoot! He's just-ack- hugging me very..hard.."

Soon enough, Boo lets go and sat back down, staring at them with a smile. Ellis sat up, fixing his hat as Rochelle walks over to him and helps him up, "We can't take him back to New Hope."

Ellis spun around, shocked," What ye mean? He's harmless!"

"Ellis, we may see him harmless but the others won't and kill him on sight."

Ellis suddenly frowns, scratching the back of his head," Yer right..they will kill him." He looks back at Boo, pondering at this. The hunter tilted his head looking puzzled at this reaction. Ellis sighs and knelt down to his level,"Boo...you can't come with us. Our uh..people might see you and uh..well..shoot ya." he saw the Hunter look scared, "No offense but, you're  a Hunter and well, our folks kill those since they like to tear you up and all that shit."

Rochelle sighs lightly, seeing both of their faces look hurt and spoke," Look, uh..Boo, you can follow us to the edge of our town but you have to stay out of sight all right? They can't see you but..you can..hang outside okay?" She watched the Hunter perked up and nods, surprising how smart he was.