Apocalypse: Dragons! by Jacqueline Druga

Author:Jacqueline Druga [Druga, Jacqueline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Level Up Publishing
Published: 2020-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

CHANGE UP

They never heard it. Had Officer Bill Smith not shown up and decided to stay outside, Bea and Sally certainly would have died.

He heard the distant howling screeches. The same ones he had heard the day before when he was downtown Pittsburgh.

They both were sound asleep when he raced into the camper, shouted for them to get up and buckle in, as he jumped in the driver’s seat and took off from their spot.

“Grab what you can. Water, food, guns. Grab it. Also blankets.”

“What’s happening?” Bea asked, making her way to the front. She held on with each step because Office Bill Smith drove like a mad man.

“They’re coming.”

“Who?”

“You mean ‘what’,” said Officer Bill Smith. “The dragons.”

“What?” Sally asked in shock as she shoved things in a bag. “The Wizard said this was safe. We’re out in the middle of nowhere.”

“I just know what I heard and it didn’t sound good,” he replied.

The road wasn’t designed for a large vehicle to barrel down.

“Where are we headed?” Bea asked.

“Deep in the woods; conceal ourselves.”

“Do you really think they’ll hit here? Maybe they were somewhere else?” Bea suggested.

The second she said that, a huge blast of fire struck the road and had Officer Bill Smith not jerked the wheel hard to the left in a nick of time, the explosion of flames would have engulfed them.

He veered the camper down a hillside and across a picnic area. His sights were set on the line of trees in the distance.

He didn’t know how many dragons were out there, but he could see two, both swooping down.

“Will we fit in the trees?” Bea asked.

“No,” he replied. “We won’t.”

“What are we gonna do.”

“I’m gonna get us there, pull as close as I can, swing this bad boy around sideways. I need you two by that side door now. Go,” he instructed. “Open it and when I stop, run out as fast as you can through the woods.”

“I’m not finished grabbing things,” said Sally.

“I don’t care. Go!” Officer Bill Smith said. “When you get out, just run.”

He lifted his sight to the rearview mirror. His foot pressed the pedal all the way to the floor as he swerved the camper left and right trying to avoid the torpedo shots of fire.

How they didn’t roll he didn’t know.

The tree line was close. Almost there.

“Hold on!” he yelled out. Just as he arrived at the tree line, he turned the wheel, sending the camper in a spin.

Officer Bill Smith jumped from his seat, ran to the back and leapt from the open side door. He hit the ground by the edge of the streets, rolling into the weeds, as the dragons fired down at the camper then flew off.

The camper was consumed by flames instantaneously, and, as if they were making sure they had hit their targets, both dragons made another pass, blasting it again.

He watched, only a few feet from the camper. He could feel the heat of the fire. Then he felt both his arms being grabbed.

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