Raven Maid: Out of the Darkness by Erik Schubach

Author:Erik Schubach [Schubach, Erik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Erik Schubach
Published: 2017-04-20T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8 – Zombies

Three men stepped out of a dark sedan thirty yards down the street, they were dressed in dark business suits, and they had weapons drawn as they started charging us in formation with military precision like they did this sort of thing frequently.

My heart was beating a million miles per second, but Rin was already rolling on her feet almost the moment we hit the ground, and she a was throwing a knife which she pulled from god knows where. It struck the lead man in is throat and he barely even flinched as it buried itself to the hilt.

She hissed at me, “Hide!” as she ran along the sidewalk while all three men opened fire. A detached, analytical portion of my brain noted that the man with the blade through his throat wasn't bleeding or even slowing, his airway should have been compromised and his carotid artery would have been severed.

That and that all three men were concentrating their fire on Rin as she used her momentum to actually run horizontally along the side of a concrete retaining wall edging a house on the hill, her pseudo wings spread. Sparks flew as the shots missed.

I realized that this was a hit on Rin! It had to be Abigail Truit's men.

I pushed down my panic. They were going to kill her. I looked at the men as I scrambled behind a car, the two white men up front in their reverse triangle seemed to have blank looks on their faces. The injured man looked to be in a bit of pain, but he was ignoring it. The man at the rear was scanning the entire area and seemed much more alert than the others. Though imposing, the black man with a well-trimmed goatee wasn't quite as large as the men in front of him.

All of them were built like tanks and had obvious military backgrounds what with the way they moved and held their pistols. All of the guns had silencers on the end of their barrels. The part of me that still didn't have a firm grasp on reality was asking, “Isn't that illegal?” I almost burst out laughing maniacally at myself. Maybe I had finally lost it like I had been afraid of the last few months.

My eyes kept being drawn to the man who shouldn't have still been on his feet. The world started to brighten and clarify around me, and the colors got richer. The Raven in me was screaming at me that he wasn't right, he was some sort of abomination, and I had a driving need to make it right. It was almost as overwhelming as my need to help the girl I was seeing as a good friend, no matter how cantankerous she could be.

More than that... I was seeing her as family. And nobody hurt my family when I could do something about it. I prepared myself to move, and I heard a scratching on the sidewalk beneath my feet.

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