Blood Feud by Cullen Bunn

Author:Cullen Bunn
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-10-24T07:00:00+00:00

He sucked at his teeth and shook his head.

“So what’s to worry about? They’re all dead now.”

“Not all of them. Something turned them, wouldn’t you say? And that something may still be out here right now.”

I was starting to like the vampire theory less and less.

“And whatever it was,” Jack said, “it attacked Seth, too.”

But that would mean—

We picked up the pace.

* * *

Before we reached the Hollow, I realized we were being followed. Not just followed. Stalked. I heard the soft crackle of twigs under foot, a shuffling in the scrub. Someone kept pace with us. I spied movement beyond a line of nearby trees. Pale flesh. A glint of red.

My muscles tensed. I crouched down behind a tangle of branches and dry leaves, turning the flashlight off. I hoped we hadn’t been spotted. I’m no coward, but I didn’t want to run into another of those… things anytime soon.

A few hundred yards ahead, the forest floor would give way to the craggy slope of the Hollow. I was guessing the distance, but didn’t dare turn on the flashlight to get my bearings.

Another dark shape loped through the brush. Between us and the Hollow. Coming closer.

I pulled my gun and silently prayed my last two bullets struck true. The gun had been near about useless against the creatures at the Stubbs place, but it was something at least.

Jack still carried the wooden stake—the weapon he had used to kill an infant.

No.

The Stubbs family was already dead by the time Jack and I arrived at the farm. We only laid them to rest. I sounded like a character from one of those Dracula movies Jack liked so much. But maybe that was easier—thinking of the children as something other than human.

“You don’t suppose it’s another of those…” Draculas, I almost said. “…things, do you?”

I heard the snapping again. Close. Too close. I flipped the flashlight’s switch and pointed it towards the pitch black swelling beyond the trees. Shadows fled from the chasing light.

Three men stood in the thickets, two blocking our path and another behind us.

They were naked, and their faces were whiskered and covered in pimples near about ready to burst. Their shriveled peckers bounced from side to side as they attacked. Their eyes glowed like a blood moon.

They jumped at us.

Jack raised his leg and planted his boot in the chest of one, and the vampire sprawled back and crashed into the other. They tumbled over. I pistol-whipped the third and elbowed him for good measure. He fell. By the time they scrambled to their feet, Jack and I were making tracks.

We crashed through the woods. I heard the three vampires chasing after us, cackling like madmen. We headed away from the Hollow, the vampires herding us in another direction. I felt as if my chest might break open, and my heart might jump from my body, yell out, “every man for himself!” and dash off into the darkness. My bad knee ached, but I didn’t dare stop running.

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