The Gathering Storm by Richard Murray

Author:Richard Murray [Murray, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2018-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Thick and undoubtedly toxic smoke rose up into the sky as I leant out and poured more paint thinner onto the blaze below. Even with the cloth, dampened with water from our bottles, that was wrapped around my face did little to keep the acrid odour out.

“More blankets,” I called.

Gregg gathered an armful of soaked blankets and pushed past me, coughing at the smoke, and tossed them through the window. They landed amidst the gathered zombies below and were soon burning, helping to spread the flame through the crowd.

The smell was horrendous and the moans of the undead assaulted our ears. I backed away from the window, coughing and very much aware of what it must be doing to my lungs.

“Now what?”

“Downstairs,” I said and coughed again. “Bring some of the paint thinners.”

“I just bloody brought it upstairs,” he muttered but did as I said and lifted several bottles into his arms.

Smoke was coming through the crack beneath the front door and I couldn’t help but grin. Soon enough the door would be burning and the zombies would fall through it into the shop. I intended it to be a mistake.

Taking one of the bottles of paint thinner from Gregg, I unscrewed the top and began to empty it directly onto the floor. Gregg watched me with an open mouth for just a moment before he did the same.

Soon all the bottles were empty and discarded and we retreated to the back room that had been used for storage. I left the door open and crossed to the rear door. It was secured with a deadbolt only and I pulled that back.

“Can hear moaning, mate.” Gregg hawked and spat, face twisting at the foul taste the smoke had left in his mouth. “Gonna be a fight.”

I just grinned in response and pulled the door open.

My knife plunged and I shoved the corpse away from me before batting aside the withered arms of another zombie. It died just as quickly as the first and the fight began in earnest.

Gregg joined me and together, we cut our way through the zombies crowding the back door. They were weak and ineffectual having had little to feed on for the past year. Even so, they could hurt us.

I grimaced as foul smelling fingers scraped across my cheek and slammed my fist into the side of the offending zombies head as I pulled my knife blade out of another zombies skull with my other. It collapsed into the wall and I kicked it, shattering its jaw as I cursed at the pain that brought to my poor injured toes.

“Left, mate!”

I sidestepped to the right, away from the lunging zombie and it fell past me right into Greggs waiting knife. I stabbed another zombie through its empty eye socket and pushed yet another away. It fell amongst the piled rubbish bags that were waiting to be collected.

“More coming,” I called out as a group of zombies turned into the alley that ran behind the shop.

It was a sizeable group and we were tiring so we began moving in the opposite direction.

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