Aliens Versus Zombies by Mark Terence Chapman

Author:Mark Terence Chapman [Chapman, Mark Terence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Empty Sea Intergalactic Enterprises
Published: 2015-07-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

The next morning, Daniels and Jesse awoke early and decided to scout the surrounding area and maybe catch a rabbit or two. They got the woman on watch at the barn door to let them out and they set off facing the sun that was just beginning to peek over the low hill ahead. The shadows were still long, but shrinking as they walked. The dew clung to their boots and pant legs as they waded through the long grass on the way to the woods beyond the yard.

Jesse was the first to speak. “Sure is pretty out here, isn’t it? You could almost imagine all’s right with the world. No damn Zoms, no damn aliens. Just a coupla guys goin’ hunting.”

Daniels nodded. “Yeah. Too bad it isn’t true.”

“Tell me about it.”

They trudged on in silence for ten minutes, seeing and hearing nothing, except one lone sparrow calling to others that never responded.

“You suppose the Zoms got all the birds and other small critters around here?”

Daniels shrugged. “Beats me. But the place isn’t exactly crawling with Zoms. Except for the one that came after you yesterday, we haven’t seen any.”

“You’re right. That’s weird. Where did they all go?”

“I’m hardly an expert on country living among Zoms, but it seems to me there aren’t a lot of people around here to eat, and it’s hard to run down a bunny or a bird or a deer. There probably wasn’t a lot of food here for them after they took out the farmer and his family. Maybe they starved to death, or moved on to greener pastures.”

“Maybe. Let’s hope so. I wouldn’t mind hanging out around here for a while. Peace and quiet kinda grows on you, don’t it?”

Daniels smiled. “Sure does. Don’t mean to cut you off, but if we want any chance at catching anything, we need to be quiet. We can’t sneak up on them if they hear us talking from fifty yards away.”

“Gotcha.”

After the heavy rains, the leaves coating the ground were wet and therefore didn’t rustle when the two men walked over them. After another twenty minutes, Daniels stopped and held up a hand. Jesse froze.

Daniels pointed eighty yards ahead and to his left. Jesse looked in that direction but saw nothing. Then an ear twitched. Jesse gave a thumb-up signal indicating that he saw the rabbit. Both men raised their rifles slowly and aimed.

Daniels whispered. “Now.”

Two shots echoed across the woods. Both missed the target and the rabbit took off. They each fired again, but missed.

“Damn,” Jesse said. “I had my taste buds set on some rabbit stew, with those fresh carrots and potatoes I dug up.”

“If there’s one out here, there must be more. We just have to keep looking.”

“I thought you were some big war hero. Marksman and all that.”

“Don’t believe everything you read in the funny papers. Besides, this old rifle is crap. Give me an M16A4 with a scope and we’re talking a different story.”

“Heh. There must be an armory around here somewhere.

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