Dungeon Crawl (The Twenty-Sided Sorceress Book 8) by Annie Bellet

Author:Annie Bellet [Bellet, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Doomed Muse Press
Published: 2017-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

The door came free with a hard tug and hit the wall as I quickly let go and stepped back. A rotting corpse launched itself at my face. Instinct and magic saved me as I threw up a shield and the creature was deflected. It bounced off and slammed into its companion.

The creatures were definitely zombies, for lack of a better word. They looked like something straight out of a horror movie. Flesh hung in festering strips off their bones. Their clothes, which might have been teeshirts and jeans once, were shredded and caked with dried blood and probably other bodily fluids I didn’t want to envision. Both corpses appeared to be male. Their fingernails were overgrown into hideous claws and their jaws gnashed open and closed again as though they were stuck with a memory of chewing gum.

I turned shield to flame as Harper exclaimed behind me, “Holy shit” and swept the fire forward in an arc.

Turns out, real life zombies don’t like fire any more than video game zombies do. The magical flames caught on their flesh and they started to howl as the fire lit them up like corpse torches.

Backing away from the heat, almost falling into Harper, I realized I’d caught the door on fire. The flames ate the dry wood up as we backed farther down the hallway.

“Maybe left?” I gasped when I could finally feel air on my face instead of heat. The hallway seemed clear though the eerie howling screams had not abated. I put up my shield in front of me again, just in case a burning zombie decided to rush down the hall.

“Uh, Jade,” Ezee said in a slow, controlled murmur. “I don’t want to alarm anyone, but there’s a zombie staring at me from behind us.”

Fucktoast on a stick. This wasn’t going to be easy.

“What’s it doing?” I asked, craning my head around to try to see.

Harper pressed herself back against the wall, facing the direction of the flaming zombies. She had a white-knuckle grip on her crowbar while holding the jar tight to her side with her other hand. I couldn’t see around Levi’s broad shoulders or over his Mohawk.

“Hissing?” Ezee said.

“Ok, slowly, we move back toward the fire.” I started doing exactly that, edging my way back down the hall, shield up.

Right behind me, my friends did the same. The door was still burning and the zombies in the room beyond were now twitching, smoking corpses. I dashed into the room, pushing them to the sides with a wave of force from my right hand. Fatigue edged my vision in red for a moment. I wasn’t exactly being magically economical.

Harper, Ezee, and Levi dashed in behind me and we circled up. The room was about ten by twelve with a dark hallway opening directly across the room. To the left of us was another door. The smoke from the fires I’d started clung to the walls and ceiling and swirled over in the direction of that door.

“I think that door leads somewhere vented,” I said.

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