Chronicles of the Dead
Chapter 3Rander knelt behind an overturned car. It had already blown up and even if it was to do that again she wouldnt be worried, its not like she could die of a fire related death. She rubbed her temples and looked infront of her, it was all clear that was but the sick sound of flesh being ripped off of a body was coming from behind her. Somewhere someone had found a dead body and a hoard of zombies had come and taken a big bite out of the decaying body.Somewhere along the way Rander had lost Angel but they had made a deal when they were held up in an empty office building that if something happened to the other one that they would meet at the mansion but they would both make it there no matter what. Now she was trying to figure out a way to get past the zombies without using her powers and draining herself, she still had five miles to go and she needed all of the extra strength she could muster.
So she was going to take a leap of blind not so much faith because faith would only apply was there anything to believe in around the millions of zombies who were actually people. She had to remind herself that the zombies she would kill were actually people. What was with all of the morality? She had spent the majority of her unnaturally long life killing people and reeking havoc on the world and now she was thinking about how to keep from killing some flesh eating demons.
She stood slowly and peered over the car to the zombies who were still rejoycing in the disgusting noise of flesh being pulled from the body. Rander shook her head then took a chance. She saw an oppourtunity in the form of a building close to the hoarde of zombies. If she jumped onto the car and pushed off as hard as she could from the car she could be able to grab the windowsil of the fourth floor and throw herself through the window.
So, she did just that.
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Angel pulled the map out of his pocket to examine the picture of large mansion that had been scribbled in red ink which irritated his eyes. He looked back up at the massive white struckture. If had a heart it would be racing but since he didnt he just let his legs twitch slightly. His fears were closing in around him, he had a choice save the world and possible get your head severed from your body or run like a girl and let the epidemic spread all over the world.
He was preparing to sneak into the house through the back when the loud rumble of a army car alerted his attention. He knelt in the grass as if they would hide him but he didnt need shelter. The army vehicle was fulled to the point of bursting with people. People he knew very well. Buffy Summers, the love of his life was driving horribly. Next to her was Wesley in the passangers seat. Behind them was Spike the recently ensouled vampire. Gunn was next to her and Cordy was in the seat next to him.
Angel made a decision at that moment. He ran for it crossing the street before they came fully into view and saw him. He couldnt drag them into that mansion they were all human and needed no reason to die, Angel was already dead and on that point so was Rander.
He ran up the back side of the house and hopped the stone fence. He dropped into the grass and raced across the grass to the side of the mansion where he climbed up the side of the house to the top where he found an air duct that led into the house and ultimately on the path that he desperatly needed to be on.
He climbed through the duct that was a little tight around the shoulders but he was lucky enough to be able to fit at all. He crawled for a few minutes doing what he did best which was be quiet and sneak around. he reached the vent that was marked on the map and then slipped out of it noiselessly.
Angel dropped into a sickly marroon colored hall. He cringed at the sight of the ungly color but what creeped him out more was the multiple pictures along the walls of men that looked older then him. He looked down at the map, it told him to go to the last portrait on the left then lift it open. He did exactly that and behind the picture was a safe. He turned the lock on the safe three times everytime he heard a familiar click as if he were on a game show and he had gotten the question right. On the third number the safe poped open almost hitting him in the face.
Inside the safe there was a key, Angel pulled the key out and closed the safe before he could even think about this being a set up, without Rander his odds looked dim thats why they sent those two out there. They were champions, Angel could feel it just being around her, she was a champion just like him.
He walked down to the end of the hallway and a door that blended in almost perfectly with the wall. He pushed the edge of the door and it came open slightly. He pulled that door open and beyond that door there was a large steel door with a place to put a key. He went down the small hall amazed at the time he had made through the mansion but also aware that whatever was behind that door had to be bad or else they wouldnt have locked it inside.
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Rander watched silently as Angel slipped into the duct on top of the house. She knew she needed to join him but chances where someone inside that mansion knew that he was coming and she had to hold them off or beat the crap out of them. So she did what she did best, she climmed the stairs to the mansion and prepared herself for a full on war.
To be polite she rang the doorbell, after the three seconds she had waited she kicked the door down with her booted foot. The door banged open onto the other side. What she found inside was as strange as anything and confirmed that this was a magical thing.
Inside the mansion in the parlor sat nearly thirteen well dressed men and women. The sight of Rander probably scared the crap out of them. She wasnt tall but her leather pants and her ACDC shirt made her look scary and her light blue eyes probably would set a person off but the fact that she had just kicked down their front door was proabably what got them.
She passed them and headed for a staricase that winded up from a large entryway with marble floor. She scaled the stairs in a few long strides. She knew Angel was getting there the moment that she was running up the stairs and according to her suspicions something big and yucky was in this place. She didnt have to run far.
She was in a wide hallway with stipped wall paper and a few portraits of families. She turned to her left, the wall was leading into the core of the house and she could feel a serious amount of heat from the room and movement, lots of movement.
Something crashed on the other side of the wall and she knew that there was something going on. So she did what she could, she slammed her tiny fist into the wall and she hit solid metal. It vibrated off of her hand, it hadnt hurt much but she knew she could get through it by strenght. She began to pull away from the outer wall and when she had enough space to fit herself in she put her hand against the metal. A small flame showed around her hand, and at the heat she was producing the wall began to melt.
Finally the whole side of the wall peeled away and she saw inside. Angel laid motionlessly on the tiled floor of what looked to be a lab. There was a long steel table and ontop of it was an orb being held up by a black stand with a soft cloth below it. Rander turned to her to head to the side almost two seconds to late. She was hit upside the head with a large clawed hand. What the demon had anticipated was that she didnt take pain that Angel did, because she didnt take pain.
She shot her foot out drop kicking the demon and making it fall on its back. She saw now that it was red with skin that looked like it would crackel and peel off. The demon was almost seven feet tall and absolutley not bulletproof. She crossed the room to the orb and lifted it up off of its thing.
The demon jumped up and charged at Rander.
"Got your back!" She heard a new unfamiliar voice from behind her.
A bleach blonde vampire jumped onto the demons back while a small blonde haired girl came at the demon from the front, Rander was at a loss to knowing where they came from but they obviously were sneaky champions and the girl smelled like a slayer. Rander took the orb and threw down onto the ground with all of the strength she had in her.
It hit the ground and a white light escaped from it blowing past all of them and threw past them and out of the house. Fred and Gunn came through the hole that she had made and went at the demon with a large axe. Wesley and Cordy came through an open door that Rander had failed to notice both heavily equipped with weapons.
But the Slayer snapped the demons neck and then when it began to move again Gunn chopped its head off. Rander heard the faintest clicking and looked at the dead demon. Strapped to its demony claw was a pack and she knew what was inside of it.
"We have to get out of here." She said to them looking at the pack.
"What?" Angel said moving slightly.
"Get up come on." She said looking at Angel.
Wes knelt next to the pack and opened it. As she had suspected, it was a bomb and the small red flashing numbers that were so Die Hard where blinking twenty seconds. She grabbed did the only thing she knew logical. She grabbed the bomb and ran for it. She ran out of the hole in wall and then to one of the large windows on the hall she had been in. She jumped out of the window and while she was midair falling she bomb exploded. She hit the ground without a scratch on her but pain in every section of her body.
She laid on the ground her body writing in pain as the group circled around the window to look down at her. She closed her eyes and everything was dark, so maybe the unkillable can die.
