Location: Barn/Farmhouse
“Ok, we need a plan,” Liz said, hopping to her feet.
“No. We need to get out of here,” Edward said, cowering
deeper into the corner. “You don’t understand, those guys out there…they’re not
the warmly and cuddly type. They’re worse than those monsters!”
“Who are they?” Matthew again asked, checking the load on
his rifle.
“I—I don’t know! They work for some company.”
“What company? What are you talking about?” Edward didn’t
have the chance to explain before the banging at the backdoor culminated in a
large explosion like a rocket had gone off in tight quarters. “They’re inside,’
Matthew said, the expression on his face turning stony. “Josh, can you still
fire a weapon?”
“Yeah, I’m good,” he said, climbing to his feet.
“Good, here.” Matthew handed him his side arm and moved
behind a wall of stacked hay bales. “Get ready. There’s no telling what’s waiting
on the other side of that door.”
Josh gripped the gun in his hand and aimed at the door. The
first person that entered was hit dead center in the forehead. When he pulled the
trigger bits of brain and skull sprayed everywhere. Blood spilled out under the
corpse and he heard as the others hopped back around the corner.
“Found yourself some friends, huh, Eddie?” A deep,
masculine voice croaked from the hallway. “Doesn’t matter. You’ll all end up in
the same place.”
“Who are you?” Matthew asked, trying to keep the man talking
so he could pinpoint his exact location.
“Call me the Reaper, because I’m here to collect your
souls!”
Josh moved behind the pillar near the door, covering himself
between the crates beside the window. An ear-splitting, thunderous roar exploded
the calm as the man’s assault rifle propelled a volley of shells into the barn.
Spent cartridges clinked as they met the wooden floor. And then silence. Movement
to the left caught Josh’s eye. He lifted his arm to fire. The 45 caliber pistol
sounded weak following a rifle like that. But the cry and subsequent thump told
him he’d gotten his man…at least one of them.
“Almost,” the voice teased with a boisterous cackle. “Why
don’t you step out into the light? Let me kill you quick.” Another rifle shot. Matthew
thought for a second he felt pain. He was sure it was just a stab in the gut
from his nerves. Not, as he’d first imagined, a bullet. Looking down, Matthew
noticed a single splinter of wood sticking out of his gut. Fuck. He pulled it free, watching a
small cascade of his blood fall with it to the floor. Pressing a hand to his
side, he checked the depth of his injury and was pleased to learn it wasn’t too
bad. I’ll live.
Matthew motioned to Liz and she circled around his side,
beckoning for Jeremiah to toss her the first aid kit. And while she tended to
Matthew’s wound, he waited for the man’s head to surface as a flashbulb burst
in his head. The wall was thin wood. He could shoot right through the damned thing. He
smiled at his own stupidity. Boom, boom,
boom. The three rounds sent splinters flying and polluted the barn air with
even more dust.
The gunplay went on for minutes, but no one dared give an
inch on their position. Finally, as the smoke cleared and the booming of
firearms ceased, Matthew glanced over at the door. His rifle’s muzzle poked out
from the hay bale, almost invisible if not for the smoke billowing out of it.
One step forward, then another. Nothing but silence from the
other side of the wall. The man was gone, leaving behind the bodies of his
friends for the others to clean up. “We’re going to have to move,” Matthew said. “He’ll
be back and probably with more guns.”
“Sounds like a plan,” Liz exhaled the breath she’d been
holding, “But that still leaves me with the one burning question, who was that?”
“And better still,” Josh added, “Why is he after us?”
Continue---->“And better still,” Josh added, “Why is he after us?”
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Who the hell did Eddie piss off? He did something bad for them to come at him like that guns blazing. They need to get Eddie to talk so they know exactly what they are up against.
ReplyDeleteHoly crap!!! Now what have they gotten themselves into???
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