Season of the Dead by Adams Lucia

Author:Adams, Lucia [Adams, Lucia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Zoombies
Publisher: Spore Press
Published: 2013-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26

Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Gerry

Screams pealed through the trees and froze me in my tracks. After a beat, I pointed south with my rifle. There was no turning back now; the first team had made contact somewhere near the beach. We’d split up into three units, and the first team had been discovered long before we thought they would… but it changed nothing. They were the diversion, and doing a fine job judging by the heightened activity inside the compound. With any luck they’d made it close enough to draw most of the fire.

I thumbed off my safety and nodded over my shoulder to my team; it was Go Time. Every nerve in my body vibrated and I’d never felt more alive. Fear clenched my gut in an icy fist, but purpose kept me moving. Once upon a time, a guidance counsellor told me I was best suited for, well, not much of anything more than saying ‘yessir’, but he was wrong. I was built for this shit. I was a vengeful scythe, tearing through blood and bone with steel and lead. God help the unlucky motherfuckers who made the mistake of crossing my path. I made a promise to those kids and I planned on keeping it.

My group was smallest, since we wouldn’t be engaging with the cultists unless discovered. We would sneak over the wall next to the poorly guarded north entrance, near the only brick building in the compound—what appeared to be a kitchen if my guess was right. With me were three of the older boys: Justin, Cory, and Simon, and one of the cops, Jenks. Most of the firepower had been distributed between the other two teams. We’d need to be quick and couldn’t afford to weigh ourselves down with too much gear. Hopefully we wouldn’t need guns for more than intimidation anyway.

Just then, a shimmer of movement to the west caught my eye. “Gimme your binoculars,” I whispered.

Justin handed them to me and poked his head up. “What? You see something?”

I hoped I was wrong, but when I focused on the tree line beyond the compound’s perimeter, it seemed as though the forest were alive and slouching toward the lights pooling at the western entrance to the camp.

“Fuck.”

“What?”

“Nothing, Squirt. We gotta boogie. I hope you brought your running shoes.”

Jenks had binoculars of his own, and was shaking his head as he took in the meandering dead. “Wait. We need to call this off. Those things down there will kill us all.”

“Not happening, Slick. We go. You wanna stay here, stay here, but give us your guns.”

“Look,” Jenks said, “I get it, really, but I count at least twenty-five of them, and that’s just the ones I can see from here. That’s more than enough to give us a bad day. I’m not afraid of dying, but not for nothing.”

“Don’t look at it like that, then. Think of those beasties out there as Team Four. Those Cultist pricks will be too busy beating back the dribblers on the west wall to pay attention to little old us.

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