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Damn, it's been a while now hasn't it? I blame our schools or, more specifically, college for a large part of the delay. Gotta write those papers too to make the professors happy.
That, and a shout-out to A.J Scarlet and Sarah Victoria Cullen for inspiring me to write another chapter by reading their co-written story series Weirder Than Fiction (WTF). It's wonderful and full of WTF moments (clever naming on the title).
Hope I'm not too rusty myself though. Enjoy.
Chapter Eight: Fear of the Dark Iron Maiden
The area just outside of town wasn't too populated. It contained houses placed a decent yard length apart, some of them were two stories high while others were three stories. Trees dotted some of the yards while others were bare. There was a two lane road that ran into town that all the houses sat near. Oddly enough, however, was that there were a large number of cars parked in both lanes and all were facing towards the countryside. Under the current circumstances, however, I'll accept this as normal.
From what I could see it appeared that the area just out of town hadn't been disturbed at all as far as I could tell, unless you count the abandoned vehicles that lined the road. I stood at the driver-side of an older car and peeked inside, the keys were still in the ignition, but the car wasn't going anywhere. All the vehicles were nearly bumper to bumper as if they all lined up and tried to leave. The guards stationed outside made sure everyone didn't.
Just then, I noticed movement inside the car. I backed up, making sure nothing was behind me, and disengaged the safety on my 9mm. The car began to rock and sway slightly with whatever was moving within. Slowly, I reached my hand towards the door latch, keeping to the front of the car incase anything jumped out ready to eat my face. Aiming my gun with my right hand and pulling the handle with my left, the door released.
As soon as the door was free a force pushed up against it and flung it open. The forced knocked me back a bit, but I steadied and aimed at the door while moving to the front of the car. The shadow lurched out and quickly made its way to the front where I was. I almost fired, but I didn't; it was just a dog, and normal one at that. I released the pressure on the trigger and looked at the dog. It was a golden retriever, still clean and unaffected by the mess that plagued the city before me. The animal simply looked at me, shook its head, and ran between the cars and out of the city limits, away from hell.
I let out a sigh of relief, glad that what it was didn't try to kill me, and holstered my gun.
Big mistake.
As soon as I attempted to make my way towards town I heard a sliding sound from behind me, like cloth against asphalt. Just then, a pair of hands reached out from under the car in front of the one I stood at and grabbed my legs.
"Shit!" I cried out as my legs were pulled from beneath me and my chin smacked the hood of the car I previously stood at, knocking the glasses from my face and nearly putting me in a daze.
I quickly recovered and kicked at the hands that held me. They released and I flipped over and looked under the car, right into the pale face of a zombie.
"Oh, fuck off" I muttered as I gave the zombie another kick, hitting it in the face and disorienting it enough for me to climb to my feet. I stumbled and leaned against the hood for support. Before I could properly rest the zombie began to pull itself towards me again.
"Persistent son of a bitch, aren't you?" I stated as the zombie continued its horizontal climb, "Let me help you with that." With that I reached down and grabbed the living corpse by its upper arms and yanked it forward, straight into the bumper of the car the dog left, smashing its face slightly. I picked the zombie back up by the arms again and placed its chin on the hood of the car and delivered the final blow by stomping on the back of its neck, snapping it and severing all connective tissue that was still left and sending the head flying into the back of the car it crawled from.
Once again I leaned against the hood of the car and let out another sigh. From what just happened I could tell this was going to be a fun night. Emphasis on fun. After a moment I stood away from the car and looked down at the corpse before me. Damn shame really, but now it's either them or me. Before I pulled my gaze away from the remains I noticed the glasses that fell from my face.
Slowly and carefully I reached down and picked them up, placing them back on my face. Just as soon as I did the familiar H.U.D. displayed itself, but there was a message blinking in the top of the lens.
"/Danger Imminent\" the message kept blinking and as soon as I focused on the lane of cars I saw why; most of them had shadows moving beneath them.
"How the hell did they all make it out here?" I questioned as I glanced around, "And why didn't these damn glasses warn me before?" I looked over at the corpse I killed between the cars and noticed bullet holes embedded in its legs. "The bastards crawled" I realized.
The glasses began picking up signatures and showed me the locations of the zombies in range:
Detection Radius: (5m)
Situation: /Danger\
Hostile Type: *Carrier*
Hostile Count: 34
Hostile Spread: [Surrounded]
Hostile Threat Level: ^Nominal-Moderate^
Hostile Weapons: None
Suggested Action: Leave The Area
There were slightly over a dozen signatures in front of me. I looked behind me, the rest of them were there.
"Alrighty then." I said to no one in particular and took the glasses' advice. Before running into town I quickly reached down to the severed head from earlier and picked it up by the hair. With a quick toss I threw it at a car behind me, towards the outside of town. The head bounced off the car's hood and triggered the alarm, signaling all of the zombies within earshot to the noise.
I navigated to the roadside and began running towards the inner city limits while the zombies mindlessly crawled to the car making all the noise, somehow thinking they could eat it. More power to them, they can eat what they want as long as it isn't me. I was just worried about what else lurked in town while I awaited the arrival of the B.S.A.A.
"Chimeras, Hunters, and Tyrants oh my!" I thought as I raced for the city.
Lyrics
Fear of the Dark Iron Maiden
I am a man who walks alone
And when I'm walking a dark road
At night or strolling through the park
When the light begins to change
I sometimes feel a little strange
A little anxious when it's dark
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have constant fear that something's
always near
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's
always there
Have you run your fingers down
the wall
And have you felt your neck skin crawl
When you're searching for the light?
Sometimes when you're scared
to take a look
At the corner of the room
You've sensed that something's
watching you
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have constant fear that something's
always near
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's
always there
Have you ever been alone at night
Thought you heard footsteps behind
And turned around and no one's there?
And as you quicken up your pace
You find it hard to look again
Because you're sure there's
someone there
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have constant fear that something's
always near
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's
always there
Watching horror films the night before
Debating witches and folklores
The unknown troubles on your mind
Maybe your mind is playing tricks
You sense, and suddenly eyes fix
On dancing shadows from behind
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have constant fear that something's
always near
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's
always there
When I'm walking a dark road
I am a man who walks alone
I DO NOT OWN THIS SONG!
That's what I have for now. The next chapter was meant to be part of this one but it would've been a bit long, I thought I'd make it a challenge just to get into the city, and the song I had picked out didn't fit; it's for next time.
I may be able to update a bit sooner now that college is out for a while.
I do hope you enjoyed, I know I enjoy the ones I read.
Everyone keep it up.
