Author's note; been a long time since I updated these stories so I'd recommend skimming through the previous chapters to update but, to be honest, I never do xD
Chapter Four; Firearms
Arra and Gavner hadn't stopped running. They dare not.
Behind them were monsters, screaming and spreading their plague through cannibalism. They savaged their brethren, their kin, eating them before charging at the next poor innocent victim. Arra felt nauseous as they passed the corpse of a child, laying near headless in the gutter; clearly they were killable but was it worth the risk of being bitten to get so close to them?
"House!" Gavner roared over the cutting wind, squeezing Arra's hand as they changed their position and made for a house in the suburbs of the city which seemingly was intact. They slowed their flitting, vaulting the white picket fence and dropping to their bellies. They crawled swiftly but silently, alert like terrified dogs as they made their way towards a garage.
Gavner stood against the wall, scanning the area before quickly slotting a nail into the padlock and cracking it open. He ran in, followed by Arra, before slamming the door closed.
The garage was dark, dim light from an eerie orange street light entering from under the large shutter door. In the centre of the room was a large dark blue car with a built in trailer boot. Arra was not one for cars, though Gavner clearly was in love with the manly exterior.
"A Toyota Hilux. Beautiful car. Heavy purpose. Amazing," Gavner whispered with a wide grin before suddenly going pale at the sound of a blood curdling scream. Instantly, he and Arra dropped to their bellies and crawled under car, quaking with fear as they fell silent. They were panting badly, alert to the slightest footstep as they held each other's hand.
We have a car.
Arra looked at Gavner curiously, the two using their telekinesis to communicate rather than to risk being over heard.
I can't drive well – Arra admitted, squeezing Gavner's hand as the screaming got closer. If they were going to run it needed to be now.
They'll storm the house. Gotta make a move – Gavner nodded, slowly making his way to shuffle out from under the car.
"Arra! Gavner!"
The two froze.
"That sounded like…"
"Kurda!" Arra finished, the two scurrying out from under the car, "He sounded like we was in trouble!"
Gavner looked at her and cursed. "Have a peek outside. I'll find the keys," he nodded, running over to a work table which had a massive bowl of random keys hidden in the back corner. Cursing once more, he frantically began pulling and chucking keys out of the bowl, searching desperately. The screaming was getting louder, pressure mounting as his hands shook violently.
"Arra! Help!"
Arra cursed, running out garage door, not as cautious as once before, scaling the wall till she was upon the roof. Looking out upon the street, she couldn't believe the sight before her.
Running down the centre of the road and limping badly was Kurda. Arra was sure both he and Prince Arrow were supposed to be hunting together a good few miles away. Had they been driven to the city? Where was Arrow?
A scream of ferocity caught Arra's attention as she gasped at the bloody, hungry mob chasing Kurda. Without thinking, her hand shot up into the air, waving frantically, "Kurda!"
At the sight of Arra, Kurda near collapsed. He had been running for so long, a deep cut in his upper thigh bleeding freely and tiring him out, making his stomach feel nauseated bizarrely. He hobbled towards Arra as she ran to his aid and with her arms around his waist he was able to run slightly faster, the mob howling in anticipation.
"This way!" Arra instructed, throwing him over the picket fence before vaulting herself. She practically dragged him along the garden grass and threw him inside the garage, slamming the door and barricading the door shut with a heavy piece of machinery.
"Gavner! We have company!" Arra shouted as she ripped off the sleeve of her shirt to tie around Kurda's wound.
Gavner cursed as he heard a blood thirsty scream from outside the garage shutter, those enraged beasts charging at the thick metal door and denting it. He whitened almost at their determination to get inside; they were relentless.
He gasped as Arra threw Kurda into the car and buckled him in before jumping in herself, the general going back to frantically trying to hot wire the engine.
"I couldn't find the keys!" he panicked slightly as he heard the back door being bashed violently, the garage windows smashing behind them. Kurda ducked down cowardly, Arra quaking in fear. She had faced down many foes without a blink but even her nerves were being pushed to the limit as Gavner desperately pulled at the wires. "I don't know what to do!" he whined, "It wont work! I can't get it!"
Arra's eyes shot forward as the shutter door began to break, the relentless beating it was receiving buckling it in the middle.
Gavner had frozen in fear as a group of five bloody mouthed humans glared hungrily inside the car. "A-a-arra?" he whimpered.
Suddenly, the beasts charged, Arra shooting into action as she leant forward, placed her fingers next to the ignition and clicked them. To her astonishment, the engine began roaring powerfully, Gavner instantly slamming his foot down and running over those savage, Zombie-like, beasts.
"Whooohooo!" Gavner cheered, powering down the suburban street fearlessly, "When did'ya learn that?"
"Larten," Arra panted, her heart racing as she slouched back in her seat. There was an over whelming sense of relief, feeling safer than ever before in this car. She made a mental note to buy one herself if she survived this mutated apocalypse that was.
"How're you coping, Kurda?" Gavner called into the back, clearly pleased with himself as he knocked over another monster with a grin. "Kurda?"
Arra looked to her left and gasped.
Kurda's leg was saturated in foul black blood; his body quaking violently under his seat belt before more blood vomited onto the back seat, catching the back of Gavner's neck and making him turn around.
"Shit!" Gavner gasped, turning back around as he narrowly missed another car on the road, "Arra?"
"Gavner, we left the knives back in the garage!" Arra suddenly realized as Kurda's body thrust forward furiously, snarling hungrily as Gavner shrieked in fear, hunched over the wheel as he watched his friend turn. The speed Kurda pushed forward locked his seat belt
Arra let out a scream, having taken off her shoe and using it to hit his head.
"Kill him!" Gavner yelled.
"I'm trying!" Arra retorted, desperately trying to evade his snapping teeth.
"What the hell are you doing? Use your nails!" Gavner snapped, stalling the car as Kurda kicked his seat violently.
"I'm trying to damage his brain!" Arra snarled, hitting Kurda hard and aggravating him more.
Gavner stared over at her in disbelief, "He's not a Zombie! Fucking kill him!" he shouted before gasping as a gun fired and a bullet tore through the window, cutting through the headrest of Gavner's chair.
Kurda's body slumped forward, a gaping hole in his forehead. Arra poked his body with her shoe once more before following Gavner's gaze out of the cracked windscreen. Her heart lifted as she saw before her a beefy bald man cradling a riffle in his hands and several pistols strapped to a thick leather belt. He casually walked around the side of the car, opening the back door and pulling Kurda's body out before joining Gavner by the front passenger side.
Gavner was amazed, jaw dropped in shock.
"Drive," the man's deep voice ordered as his bear-like hand ran across the arrow tattoos he wore so proudly upon his scalp.
"Aye, Prince Arrow," Gavner nodded, still shaking badly as he reignited the car and drove forward at a fast speed.
"Just Arrow, Gav." Arrow stated, reclining in an almost relaxed manner, gun in hand, "Tonight we're gonna break a ton of rules; starting with firearms. I think it'll be forgiven if we don't risk fighting these beasts hand in hand." He handed Arra a pistol which she received with almost disgust, making the beefy vampire laugh, "Chin up, Arra. Rules are meant to be broken sometimes. Now, Larten is close; lets pick him up and find a safe place for the day."
"Is there anywhere safe?" Arra questioned as her mind wondered to her ex mate out in this apocalyptic world, struggling to survive.
"You tak' the high road, an 'll take the low road an 'll be in Scotland afore'ye! Where me an' my true love will never meet again on the bonnie, bonnie banks of **** ******!"
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Going to try and finish this story in the next few days; maybe another three chapters or so till it's completed!
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Preston
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-Also, is it obvious I hate Kurda? xD