Reaper: Dead Like Me
Chapter Four- The Necromancer and his "Undead" Minions.
Sam turned and watched as Sock dripped burrito sauce all over his dash board. He frowned. He turned and looked back at Ben. Ben looked like he was starting to fall asleep. He sighed.
"Maybe we should be at the morgue?" He asked.
"You wanna give up already? Come on Sam, it's not even midnight yet." Sock slapped a hand toward the digital clock display.
Ben could hear some rustling noises outside. He lifted up his head. He tapped Sam's shoulder and gave a nod at some of the graves ahead. Sam looked closer and he could see that those graves were unturned.
George had also noticed that there was movement. She leaned in closer and tried to watch.
Just like a classic horror movie, rotting corpses rose from their graves and headed toward Sam's car.
"Oh my god!" Sock said. "No way…this can't be happening."
"Um, Sam, you might want to get the vessel." Ben pointed toward the back of the mob. Their soul was heading in the same direction.
Sam reached back and grabbed the vessel from Ben. He got out of the car.
Mason watched curiously.
"What in the blazing…"
"Shhh." George said.
Sam approached the zombie mob. The soul laughed.
"I'm not going back to hell. Not when I have all this power." He waved a hand at his zombie mob. He motioned them to move toward the car. They did so. They started tearing apart Sam's car.
"Don't let them scratch or bite you!" Ben said.
The soul laughed again. He faded into the darkness.
At that second Sam turned and noticed a young looking man in a pie maker's outfit standing in the middle of the road. The man looked up at him, and approached him with a box.
"Um, weird." He mumbled. "Let me guess, you're Sam Oliver?"
Sam gave a nod.
"Shoot 'em in the head Ben!!" Sock shouted.
"We don't have a gun you idiot." Ben screamed.
The pie man turned and looked at the zombies attacking the car.
Mason turned to George.
"Did you swipe your guy?"
"Yeah, earlier."
"Good."
George sighed. She really didn't want to see Sock go, and this was something that she could never expected.
The pie man turned to Sam.
"Well, I have two pies here. I guess one is for you, and one is for a Mr. Wysockie?"
Sock glanced out the window.
"Did someone say I got a pie?"
"Sock shut up! We're going to die!" Ben shouted.
A zombie reached in through the window and ripped the car door off. Sam was trying to battle another zombie that had him pinned to the ground. He tried to shove the vessel into the soul but it did nothing. The zombie continued to try to strangle him. The zombie that ripped off the car door reached in and pulled Sock out. He slammed him onto the ground outside and through his fist into his chest. Ben screamed and ran out of the car. He whacked the zombie on Sock, but it was too late. Sock was motionless.
The pie man sighed. He sat the pies down in the middle of the road. He approached one of the zombies, and touched it. It dropped to the ground. He continued to tap each one until they were all corpses once more.
Sock's soul meanwhile, noticed George and Mason's car and headed over to it. George smiled flatly.
"Seriously?" Sock shook his head.
The pie man approached Sock's body. He bent down and touched Sock. Sock's soul floated back into his body. George's mouth dropped.
Sock sat up. He noticed the big hole in his chest.
"Lovely." He mumbled.
"Um, yeah. Sorry, I can't do anything about that." The pie man said.
"Oh, but you brought me pie!" Sock got up. He totally ignored everything else and went for the pie boxes in the ground.
The pie man looked at Sam.
"I thought that it was a joke you know…the pies were paid for and signed off by Satan…I never thought any of it was real."
Mason turned to George.
"Go."
"What?"
"Just go. Let's get out of here. This is too damn intense and you've already lost your reap."
George looked out at Sock. She sighed.
"Fine." She mumbled. She put the car in reverse.
"If you hadn't showed up when you did…well, it probably would have gotten pretty ugly." Sam said. He extended a hand. "Thank you."
"No problem. My name is Ned by the way. I run the pie hole. Come in any time." He gave a wave. Ned faded out of the scene and the devil stood in his place. He was grinning.
"Nice job with the zombies Sam, but the soul is still on the loose!"
"Yeah, I'm going." Sam mumbled. "Thanks for the pie…"
The devil grinned.
"You liked that huh?"
"Why'd you do that anyway?"
The devil shrugged.
"Maybe I just felt like it wasn't time for your friend to die."
"Uh huh."
"Just don't let Sock get too close to the pie maker again huh?"
"Sure." Sam mumbled.
The devil disappeared. Sam sighed. He turned and looked at his car. The door was trashed, there were a million dents in the car, the bumper was gone. He sighed. He hoped that maybe after they actually got the soul, that the devil would buy him a new car.
*Story will continue!!!
Disclaimer: I added Ned from "Pushing Daisies" in this chapter. I'd like to see him some more "Reaper" Stories. I do not claim to own the rights to his character or the ideas from "Pushing Daisies"