The Last Dawn: After Midnight (The Last Dawn Series Book 2) by Richard C Hale

Author:Richard C Hale [Hale, Richard C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Three Thirty A.M. Publishing
Published: 2022-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

17

The explosion jolted A J up from the couch.

He looked around the dark room, remembering where he was, and wondered if the explosion had been in his dream. Then another one came, and the night sky outside the windows lit up with a flash. Marty stumbled out of a back room and looked around as Harlee and Michalla came in.

“What was that?” Harlee said.

“Jethro,” Marty said. “He’s attacking again.”

“Attacking? Like with bombs and stuff?”

“Grenades. He has them left over from his military time.”

“Should we be worried?” Michalla asked.

“Very.”

Michalla and Harlee looked at each other and then grabbed up their guns. A J found his shotgun next to the couch and checked the load. Marty had disappeared, and when he returned he had some kind of thing on his back that had a hose and nozzle-like wand in his hand. He lit the end with a lighter, and a blue flame glowed.

“What is that?” Harlee asked.

“Flamethrower,” Marty said matter-of-factly. He headed for the back door, and they followed.

“I don’t want you guys in on this,” Marty said. “It’s not your problem. Let me handle it.”

He disappeared outside without waiting for them to answer.

Michalla looked at A J. “We can’t just let him die out there.”

“It sounds like something he’s used to,” A J said.

“Still…” Harlee said. “What if something happens to him?”

Michalla checked her AR15 and pushed outside. A J and Harlee followed. The darkness was pretty overwhelming, no moon or lights anywhere until another grenade went off to their left, and the night lit up like a strobe flash. A J felt like his vision went blank from it, and he closed his eyes for a second.

“Where’s Marty?” Harlee said.

“I don’t see him,” Michalla said.

A flame shot skyward to their left near where the grenade went off, and A J realized it was Marty’s flamethrower. It lit up the night around the house pretty well, and they saw Jethro running off to their left. The man’s face was pure white with a big red grin painted on his mouth.

“Is he really dressed up as a clown?” Harlee asked.

A J shrugged. Marty fired another long flame after his brother, and it lit up the area again, but Jethro was nowhere to be seen.

“I know you’re out there!” Marty shouted. “I have guests! Get the hell out of here!”

A kind of mad laugh erupted to their right, and A J crouched down at the sound of it. A flash went off again over by the cars, and one of them became airborne, crashing back down on top of another. It burst into flames, lighting up more of the yard. Marty could be seen running toward the cars as Jethro ran back the other way.

“What are we doing?” Harlee asked. “We’re just standing here.”

“Do we shoot his brother?” A J asked. “I don’t want to shoot his brother.”

“This is nuts,” Harlee said.

Another car caught fire, and then Marty was running to a hose and turning it on. He trained the hose on the fire, but it did hardly anything.

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