Love and Decay Vol.3: Season 2 (Episodes 1-4) by Higginson Rachel

Author:Higginson, Rachel [Higginson, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ZOMbies
Published: 2014-03-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

“Run!” Hendrix shouted.

Feminism aside, that was an easy command to obey.

Forget accuracy, we popped off a few shots and took off running through the forest. We were headed back toward the compound, but I knew we couldn’t continue in this direction. We were the watch and unless someone happened to notice we were missing, and assumed- which was an impossible speculation- that we would need reinforcements when we came back, there would be no one to cover us. We would lead twenty hungry, intelligent, apparently-speaking Zombies back to our home and probably die trying to unlock the gate.

My mind played through this predicament over and over again. That Feeder spoke. She communicated with those other Feeders. Maybe it wasn’t a language that we understood or would ever understand… but she verbalized her thoughts to the other Zombies and they knew what she wanted.

I couldn’t even begin to comprehend that.

Holy shit. In two years, Zombies had either evolved or de-evolved, depending on how you looked at it, beyond grunting and moaning animals blinded by their addiction to flesh into intelligent creatures fueled by their addiction to flesh.

The consequences this had on our war with the undead was… staggering.

And not in a good way.

I pushed my way through the thick forest, hating how familiar this was becoming. Even in the dark night, I managed to stay upright and fast enough to keep up with Hendrix and Vaughan. The cool air burned as I sucked it in and pushed it out of my lungs. My arms pumped at my sides, my feet pounded the crunching leaves.

And all the while the Feeders pursued hot at our backs.

They were smart, obviously. But not as smart as us. And their rotting, stiff joints and bones gave us the advantage in the closed-in space of the forest. They could be inhumanly fast on flat ground, but their super-speed was seriously limited with so many obstacles for them to trip over.

So we had a lead, but just barely.

“We can’t take them straight to the compound!” I huffed with wheezing words.

They boys remained silent for a long time but after a while Vaughan veered to the left, away from the storage facility.

This put Hendrix just an inch behind me. I felt safer with his protection covering my back and that feeling was only reinforced when the bang of a loud gunshot burst just a few inches from the back of my head. I screamed with the explosion that sounded like dynamite in my ear from how close to my head Hendrix had taken the shot. I couldn’t hear anything for several seconds while my ears struggled to clear, but I had to assume Hendrix had just saved my life- again- and that whatever had been about to attack had taken a journey into the afterlife.

Vaughan’s head turned toward me and his mouth started moving, but I couldn’t make out anything he was saying. I watched Hendrix respond, but still the sound of their words couldn’t compete with the ringing in my ears.

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