Jax and the Beanstalk Zombies by Avery Flynn

Author:Avery Flynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lyrical Press, Inc.
Published: 2013-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Jax checked his watch. Again. Exactly two and a half minutes had passed since he’d last glanced at the quartz face. The truth bubbled up inside him, threatening to burst out at any moment. No doubt Veronica was going to be a mad as a cat drenched in deep-fat-frying batter, but she deserved to know why he’d called off the wedding. Then they could move forward. Together. No more secrets. No more lies. He couldn’t wait until tonight.

The six pancakes he’d gobbled down this morning at breakfast did a triple flip. Okay, maybe he was a little on edge.

“Why’d you stop? Did you see something?” Veronica asked from a few feet below him on the beanstalk.

Real smooth, dipshit. Get your head in the game before you lose it to a bunch of zombies.

“Nah, we’re almost there.” He gripped a thick vine in his right hand and continued to climb.

The hole from yesterday remained in the cloud cover. He scurried up the last few feet and stopped just shy of the entrance to the zombie playground. With his right hand, he unsnapped the button on his knife sheath. Any delay in pulling out the six-inch blade could make the difference between life and death if he found a living corpse waiting for him on the other side of the clouds.

Time for one last equipment check. While gearing up this morning, he’d had no idea what to bring to a zombie fight, so he’d brought it all. A larger blade remained in a holder tied to his back. Two small knives were snug against his ankles. Throwing stars filled a pocket in his camouflage pants. Another pocket held a flash grenade. Around his neck, he’d fastened a Celtic knot made of Adamantite, the same material Perseus had used to decapitate Medusa. He could kick himself for not wearing it yesterday when its prophetic powers could have warned him of the zombies before they were breathing down his neck.

He was as ready as he’d ever be. Time to roll.

“I’m heading in. Wait for me to give the all clear before coming up.” Jax locked his jaw and hit Veronica with his deadliest glare. “If anything goes wrong, go back down. Do not–I repeat–do not come up after me.”

She rolled her brown eyes at him.

“I mean it, Veronica.”

“I got it. We let the zombies floss their teeth with your bones. No problem.” She waved him on. “Get moving. We’re wasting daylight.”

Grinning at her typical sarcastic remark, Jax poked his head through the hole.

Feeling like a gopher sniffing the wind before scampering out of his dirt home, he pulled himself out of the hole and stood on the cloud ground. Fluffy clouds appeared as far as the eye could see until the castle wall in the far distance broke up the sea of white. He strained, listening for the zombies’ telltale giggle. Nothing but the sound of his heartbeat in his ears.

He forced himself to remain still and scan the perimeter again. Nothing moved

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