Vampire Apocalypse by Derek Gunn

Author:Derek Gunn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Horror, Vampires, Thriller, Fantasy
ISBN: 9780976791485
Publisher: KHP PUBL
Published: 2006-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

“Drop your weapons.” The words reverberated around the room.

John Pritchard was behind the door when he heard the command. He quickly ducked behind a filing cabinet and peeped out to see a rather stocky thrall issue the command with obvious relish and his weapon was levelled evenly at Scott Anderson. The five other thralls quickly spread out behind him and covered the rest of the small group. The thralls” arrival had caught them completely by surprise. He watched as Scott gave the signal to the others to comply and dropped his own machine gun with a sigh. Bill Anderson threw his weapon down in disgust. Jenny White, who wasn’t actually armed, laid down the bags she carried anyway. Hackett merely placed his weapon at his feet with a resigned shrug.

“How can you work for those bastards?” Scott Anderson asked. Pritchard wasn’t certain, but he thought that Scott had seen him duck behind cover. The fact that Scott was directing attention at himself and away from Pritchard was a good sign. He pressed himself further against the wall and listened to the exchange.

“Oh, it’s not really so bad,” the stocky thrall replied. “They leave us pretty much alone to do as we like, and I do mean whatever we like.” He winked lasciviously and the others thralls grunted agreement.

“But you’re human,” Scott countered.

“Oh, not anymore we’re not. We’re so much more than that now. We’re stronger and faster than ever before, and we’re the ones in control.”

Thoughts raced through Pritchard’s mind. He explored every avenue he could think of to rescue something from the fiasco they found themselves in. Stupid, he chastised himself; we should have had a guard on the door.

As silently as he could he searched the bag he carried. He quickly disregarded the two grenades he found. They would probably do too much damage and injure his friends in the blast. Just then his hands found a slightly larger, misshapen grenade and he looked up to the ceiling and offered a prayer of thanks.

The thrall rambled on about being more than human and Pritchard risked a quick peek. He had to give Scott some warning if his new plan was to have any chance of working. He looked around the edge of the cabinet and immediately saw that all the thralls were gathered close together. Like fish in a barrel, he thought. He brought the flash grenade out just past the edge of the cabinet and caught the slow nod from Scott.

“Wait a minute.”

Pritchard heard the shout interrupt the argument, but didn’t recognise the voice

“There were five of them. Where’s the other one?”

Shit! He thought. It’s now or never.

The grenade fell to the ground and everyone turned automatically to the noise. Scott Anderson shut his eyes tightly just before the flash grenade exploded and had already hit the floor before the blinding light filled the room. He landed on his arm and grunted with pain just as a huge explosion seemed to shatter his eardrums. He opened his eyes a moment later.

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