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Chapter 4

The High Fence

It all happened so fast, the beast hurling itself into Steven knocking him into a store isle, and then biting deep into his left forearm. He let out a scream as it shook it's head furiously trying to rip out what it could in it's twisted jaws. He felt pain shoot up through his whole arm as the beast tore at it. He couldn't think, the pain was too tremendous. The crowbar laying at his side nudged him in the back and he reached for it and managed to grab it out of blind luck. He slid it in between the beasts jaws and started to pry them open.

Suddenly out of nowhere Eliza came to the rescue, she swung at the creature with a wooden broom stick hitting it in the back of it's rotted head. At the same time Steven twisted hard enough to pry it's jaws off of his forearm. He quickly pushed himself away from the dangerous creature holding his bleeding left forearm in his hand. It suddenly turned and looked at Eliza letting out a low dog-like growl. She backed away from it into a wall, her eyes darting around looking for an exit.

It bent down on it's haunches and prepared to leap on her. Steven, still in pain, let out a shaky yell at it. It was too focused on the easier prey to notice him. Eliza knew that this was it, the creature had her cornered, there was no way out. She closed her eyes and prayed that it would be a quick death for her knowing that there would be pain even before she died. It leaped at her with it's powerful hind legs.

Suddenly there was a sound almost deafening in the store, it was followed by two more loud reports. When Eliza opened her eyes the creature lay dead at her feet, mere inches away from it's target. She looked beyond the putrid smelling beast and saw Steven standing with the gun in front of him. His arm was bleeding and he looked pale, more than likely from shock. She fell to her knees and began to cry both from fright and from relief that Steven had killed the abomination that was only a few inches away from her.

Steven walked slowly over to where she was huddled at. He grabbed the broom stick from the floor and stabbed it through the creatures head. Then he collapsed next to her.

"I need to find a first-aid kit somewhere." He said. His coat had been torn and the wound was bleeding bad. Eliza got up and began to rummage around the store looking for a first-aid kit. She came back a few minutes later holding a small med kit in her hands.

She went to work bandaging it up, and after she finished bandaging his arm she helped him to his feet. They started to walk out of the store when they heard more howling noises. Eliza stopped at the exit and looked fearfully at Steven who continued on.

"I have to get to the high school, my sister might be in the kind of danger we just faced!" he exclaimed. He started to walk towards the end of the street towards the fence that was blocking their way.

Eliza jogged over to where Steven was and handed him a box of bullets. He looked at her in surprise and then put the box in his pocket. "Where did you find these?" He asked her.

"I found them in the back of the store, I thought you might need them." She replied. They came to a stop at the fence and looked at it.

The fence towered up and up past some of the buildings they were standing next to. It seemed like it was four or five stories in high, a long climb just to get to the other side. Steven grabbed the fence and started to climb then stopped.

"My damn arm is in too much pain," he said suddenly sitting down,"I need to rest for a second."

They sat down by the fence looking down the road as far as they could. It was of course blocked out by fog so by the end of the street all they could see were the parked cars and the tips of some of the buildings. Eliza handed Steven the fairy tale book and began to climb the fence.

"What are you doing?" he asked her. She one of her feet slipped and she had to grasp the fence tightly so she wouldn't fall.

"I'm climbing up to see what that is on the grocery store roof." She said, she briefly pointed in the direction of the building.

Steven saw blood and could make out a book of some sort hanging off the side of the roof. He would never have seen it himself if Eliza hadn't pointed it out. While she was climbing he decided to read the story of the Knight and the Worm, he had a feeling it would be just as disturbing as the rest of the town. It was the shortest story in the book.

The Knight and the Worm

Once upon a time there was an evil Sorceress that hated the fair people of the land. She hated them so bad in fact that she created a huge worm to devour the people. In a desperate plea for help the King of this land asked for the assistance of a great Knight. The Knight was to go to the Sorceress's lair and defeat the worm and the sorceress herself. If he were able to do such a feat all the lives in the land would be saved and the Knight would be delcared the greatest of all knights. If he were declared the greatest of all knights then he would be granted one wish. The knight knew the what he wanted and that was what drove him as he rode his steed to the lair of his foe. He fought through the Sorceress's army and soon found himself in the very lair of the worm. It spoke in a great deep voice that sounded like thunder.

"Who dares storm the lair of M'lady?" It boomed.

The knight trembled at the sight of the creature. It was huge in size and had a mouth filled with rows and rows of jagged sharp teeth. Yet he held his ground and spoke right back at the creature as if it were merely a pesky dog.

"It is I the Knight! I am here to slay you and your Sorceress!" he said in a voice booming with confidence.

The worm laughed at this in it's great thunderous way. "You slay me? Surely you jest!" it replied.

The knight grew angry at this and suddenly swung out at the great worm with his sword. He struck it across it's leathery hide. It laughed at him again as he struck it repeatedly not once harming it.

"Do you really think you can hack away at me with that toothpick you are using?" it boomed.

He fought it and fought it until he tired and fell from exhaustion. He could not figure it out, it seemed impossible to kill. He suddenly saw a weak point on the worm that he didn't see before. He lunged at the worm in a last ditch effort to kill it knowing that this was it's weak point-

Steven noticed that the last few pages of the story were missing so he closed the book to see how Eliza was doing. She was just reaching the top of the building. She managed to knock the book off of the roof and then started to climb down as fast as she could when she stopped suddenly and began to scream.

"Steven look down the street and saw two more of the skinless wolves running his way. He grabbed the links in the fence and began to scramble up to where Eliza was. He was barely six feet off the ground when the first one hit the fence and knocked him off. He pulled the gun out as he was falling and when he hit the ground he instantly jumped to his feet and began shooting at the beasts.

He killed the first one before the second one even reached the area. By the time he was climbing up the fence again it reached the fence. He turned around, pistol still in hand, and shot the beast point blank in the face killing it instantly.

He put the gun back in his pocket and began to climb up the side. Eliza and Steven decided to continue climbing after they got to the roof rather than taking a rest. The climbed up the side of the fence for what seemed like hours before they reached the top. Steven's arm was throbbing with pain as the sat on the very top of the highest fence known to Steven.

They climbed down the other side of the fence as fast as they could without taking a break. When they did stop it was on the roof of a different building. Steven sat on the edge of the building, tired from the climbing.

"How far is it to the high school?" he asked her.

"It's across the street from this building." she said. He looked into the foggy streets and saw a huge shape that he figured was the school.

"It's just a little ways away then." he said in a thoughtful voice. He wanted to go there when suddenly a memory of some sort flashed in his mind. He grabbed his head and steadied himself. What was that? he wondered then another one hit him and he actually fell off of the roof of the building.