So Close

(Chapter 6)

The first zombie to make contact with the speeding Mustang was crushed in an instant, as the 18 inch rims became drenched in red blood splatter. The bodies that took the impact of the car were thrown to the side like rag dolls, all of them cracking their skulls upon impact with the concrete.

"God damn it, they dented my hood…"Josh moaned as he rocked back in forth in the driver's seat.

With the frontal approach Josh took, only ten zombies were left able to move, he had hit over 15 of those things on the way down, he even had a nice cracked windshield to prove it. Josh turned right heading for the safety of Guardian, when suddenly he noticed a hand gripping on to the back of the spoiler.

"Umm, Josh one of those things just hitched a ride." Riley spoke calmly as she turned facing the back window.

Josh slammed on the brakes in hope that the zombie that had gotten a hold of the car would let go… it didn't.

Josh reached into the backseat and pulled out his gun, he switched the safety off and opened the door. He was going to have to take this zombie out on his own, he wasn't going to risk having one of those things break in through the back window.

"Riley stay in the car, and lock the doors just in case" Josh commanded as he stepped out onto the concrete street slamming the door behind him.

Josh walked around to face the creature that had latched onto his car. A wave of sadness hit his emotions like a tsunami, his beautiful car was now bloody and dented everywhere and there was no way he could ever fix it, not how the world was turning now.

Josh lifted his gun prepared to shoot whatever he found behind his car, but what he didn't expect was to find a little girl with have her face missing. He had to shoot a child, a little girl, no one could ever be mentally prepared to shoot a child, but in this new world Josh knew it was him or them, and he rather it be her shot than him eaten. So with a swift pull of the trigger the 5.7x28mm bullet sailed through the air into the skull of the little girl. Her body went limp as her hand finally let go of the spoiler.

Josh was making his way to his car when he heard a scream.

"Josh behind you!"

Josh turned around and stood frozen. He had forgotten about the other zombies he hadn't killed with his car. Now those 10 things were running towards him full speed and it was too late to get in the car to drive off safely, Josh was going to have to shoot them all. It wasn't going to be an easy job. Scoring ten headshots on running targets was going to be nearly impossible, but he was going to have to try,

Josh took aim and fired, the first zombie to go down was a woman probably in her 30's with long matted bloody blonde hair. A bullet had struck her right through her open mouth and she slumped to the floor being trampled by the nine remaining zombies. Josh fired another volley of bullets this time hitting one in the throat and another in the knee. They both went down, but both would be up any second, josh fired again and again hitting his targets, aiming for the head but usually hitting the nose or cheeks. He continued to fire until all but the two who had fallen earlier were left. He walked slowly towards them and fired, shooting them both in the head.

Riley sat in the car in horror at what Josh had just done; he had just shot and killed 11 of those monsters. She felt sorry for him, killing anything takes a toll on one's mind and even Riley knew that, so she told herself she'd try to comfort him when he got back, any way she could.

Josh reached the driver side door and put his hand on the handle. He couldn't believe what he had just done. He was still in shock, he had shot them so calmly and now he was about to break down. He turned his head to the ground.

"How could of this happened?" he thought to himself. He started to open the door when a hand from underneath the car grabbed a hold of his leg. A face appeared from under and bit down hard on his foot. Josh screamed…