Chapter 9- So Much For a Good Night's Sleep
Not that long, but don't worry, I made sure I packed a little action in there. Enjoy and a review is always appreciated.
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Fiery Ashes
"So the fat man is dead, huh?" Vic asked coolly as he leaned against the brick wall surrounding my fireplace. "Ha, I figured he'd be the first to go."
"The first and the last!" Matt cut in, "Would you shut up man! This is no laughing matter!" He smacked Vic on the back of the head shutting him up. Vic wiped his smirk from his face.
"Yo you better watch it Matt Ryan." He said with a gloved finger shoved in-front of his face.
"Woud the both of you just shut the hell up!?" I continued to fish through my file cabinet, looking for the folder containing the information of the past outbreaks, history on the Umbrella Corp., as well as the overviews from my previous missions.
"Yo can we light a fire in her man before my balls freeze off?"
"No!" I screamed back at Vic, "Smoke is just a trail that will lead that scum right up to the house, and we still have plenty of preparation to do before we go back out there.
"Now," I said grabbing the files out and closing the drawer, "everyone, upstairs to the attic." Vic and Matt followed me upstairs, the attic latter decended and we climbed up, retracting it back up behind us. I padlocked it from the inside, no one going in now.
"Jeeze man, do you live up here?" Matt asked as he looked around. I understand where he was getting that from. There was a bathroom, carpet, electricity, it was invisible 3rd floor basically. I opened up one of the crawlspaces and took out two sleeping bags and pillows. Vic flipped through my files.
"Holy shit…so these zombie things…something…uh..this has happened before? Why did no one ever know?"
"Why do you think?" I responded as I searched for the extra army cots. "If the general public knew of these things they would go ballistic."
"So the Umbrella Corporation was responsible for the first…and possible others across the globe. Do you think this could be them too?"
"I wouldn't doubt it." I said unfolding the cots. "That's what we're gonna find out."
"Why haven't they been shut down if they're causing this much trouble?" Matt questioned.
"Because," I answered hastily, "if you piss them off do you know what could happen? They are the ultimate source of biological weapons. They take a nice healthy gene and play around with it until it's a deadly virus. That's what this virus is. It could be used as a weapon, you drop this on a country and the entire population could be wiped out in a matter of weeks. Just one vile of that nasty shit could wipe out everything. In a matter of speaking, Umbrella over-rules our own legal system."
"But that's not fair!" Shouted Matt, "Keeping the leaders of this country enticed with fear? It's not right."
"Well than, nothing left to do but lock and load." Vic slipped into the discussion.
"Not until morning." I said glancing at my watch. "Sundown is in 45 minutes and then the creatures rule the roost until morning. We'll sleep in shifts. Someone needs to mount the gun at the window at all times. I have security cameras and ultraviolet beams set down on the road, so you will hear that radio over in the corner beep if we have any trespassers." I moved several cement blocks over the hatch door. "Now listen to me. For no reason can you leave this attic. You got it?" Vic and Matt nodded quietly. "Let's not have anymore friends die…We've lost too many already."
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It was 3:00 in the morning when I felt Vic shaking me violently. "YO! WAKE UP LEON, WAKE UP!"
"WHAT? WHAT IS IT!?" I screamed now fully awake.
"Those dead bitches…THEY'RE HERE!"
"Aw fuck! How did they find us already!?"
"I got the sniper." Matt said quickly "Leon, Vic, get to the other windows! Holy shit!" He screamed out, "There's like fifty of 'em!" I stumbled over to the gun trunk and pulled out two AR-15's, tossing one to Vic. I dashed to the window on the right of the sniper and Vic took the left.
Matt began to whisper a prayer quietly to himself. "With the lord upon my side, I have nothing to fear." He rang out a single shot, killing one the zombie's in his tracks. He cocked the rifle once more, "Forever by my side, protecting my body and my mind." He shot again, killing yet another.
"Let's do this." Vic said coolly as he lifted up the window, "Go to hell where you belong!" The both of us aimed through our scopes before I shouted, "NOW!" The both of us unleashed a barrage of bullets, not letting a single zombie proceed any further. After several minutes, all was quiet again.
"Alright," Said Vic letting his rifle down, "get some shut eye." He moved to the center window and sat in the chair behind the trusty sniper rifle. "So much for a good night's sleep."