Voodoo Plague by Dirk Patton

Author:Dirk Patton [Patton, Dirk]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci-Fi, Horror
ISBN: 9781499614992
Amazon: 1499614993
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-06-01T12:00:00+00:00

23

BOOM!

The detonation was far louder than I expected. I felt the concussion in my chest and a huge cloud of white smoke marked where the targets had been. I ripped my attention away from the smoke to check on the infected. It looked like the diversion was working. The pack had abandoned the truck and was moving towards the smoke cloud. All but two females, that is, who were still moving towards me. They must have either seen my movement as I fired or heard enough of the rifle report to keep their attention.

The pack had cleared the truck by a good ten yards when I yanked the singed shirt off the end of the rifle barrel, slung the rifle, grabbed my pack and headed to get Dog. The two females spotted me as soon as I stood up and broke into a run directly at me. I kept the rifle slung, afraid to use it and alert the rest of the pack to my location. Instead I drew the Ka-Bar and moved to meet them.

One of the females looked to have been in her late teens to early twenties and was in good shape. She was completely nude as she ran towards me and even in the heat of battle my mind wondered what she had been doing at the moment she got infected. The other was older, probably in her forties and grossly out of shape. She was still coming fast, but the younger one quickly outpaced her.

I met her about half way to the truck, her at a flat out run, me slowing to a trot so I could move laterally. She leapt at me and I spun out of her grasp, completing the spin and jamming the knife into her lower back, directly into a kidney. Now, a normal human with an eight inch knife wound to the kidney would go down and stay down, but she wasn’t normal. She twisted around and almost pulled the knife from my grasp.

I spared a glance at the fat one who was still twenty yards away but closing fast. I needed to end this quickly before I had two of them on me and we drew the attention of the rest of the pack. Stepping inside the younger infected’s reach I slammed the hilt of the knife into her forehead with enough force to snap her head back and knock her to the ground. Using my own momentum I followed her down, right knee landing on her chest. I both heard and felt her breast bone and ribs snap when I came down with my 230 pounds. Reversing the knife in my grip I stabbed into her eye and sank the blade to the hilt. Just like earlier all animation left her body instantly.

Jumping back to my feet I turned as the older female arrived with a snarl. I sidestepped and swept her legs so that she fell face first to the pavement. I was on her back in a second and drove the knife into the soft spot at the base of the skull.

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