City Of The Damned: Expanded Edition by Knight Stephen

Author:Knight, Stephen [Knight, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-11-27T16:00:00+00:00

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Claudia and Patrick turned when they heard the sudden volley of gunfire from below. It sounded distant, more like firecrackers than anything else.

“What’s that?” Patrick asked.

“Come over here,” Ellenshaw said, leading Claudia by the arm toward a dark waiting room just inside the second security door.

“Man, enough of this shit,” Patrick said. “I’m out of here. You guys want to shoot the place up? Fine, but—”

His words were drowned out by the squeal of tortured metal. Patrick looked back down the hallway just as the elevator doors slid open. Ellenshaw yanked him into the waiting room.

“Quiet!” he said through clenched teeth. He pushed them down onto a thinly cushioned couch and flicked off the safety on his MP-5. As he moved away from them, his leg bumped an end table, knocking some magazines to the floor. He shouldered his weapon.

“This is Two-Six. Ellenshaw, you’ve got three ghouls heading in your direction!”

No sooner had Acheson’s voice faded than the ghouls in question appeared. They hurtled down the hallway, one on all fours, another hunched over like a frightened cat, and the other crawling on the ceiling like some enormous insect. Ellenshaw heard Patrick’s sharp intake of breath. Claudia was as silent as death.

The first ghoul slammed into the security door at full speed and bounced off. The second met with the same fate, but the two ghouls worked together and smashed into it as if of one mind. The glass in the center of the door fractured, then shattered as the first ghoul hurled itself through, unmindful of the lacerations left by the glass shards. The two other ghouls followed, snarling and hissing. The three of them attacked the outer door with a vengeance, slamming into it again and again. Ellenshaw swallowed nervously. What if they couldn’t get out?

He didn’t have to worry. He heard the outer door fail as it tore away from its hinges and bounced across the concrete outside. The ghouls charged out into the night, their feet kicking up shattered glass as they ran.

Patrick moaned. “What the fuck was that?”

Ellenshaw hurried to the doorway and peered around the inner door’s frame. The foyer was empty, and the outer door was indeed gone. He stepped into the foyer, glass crunching beneath his boots. Behind him, he heard running footsteps, and he wisely stepped to his left. Acheson thundered past, followed by Rick Wallace and Nacho Delgado. They held their weapons close to their bodies, looking into the night.

“Robert, which way did they go?” Acheson asked.

“I’m sorry, I don’t know.” Ellenshaw stepped outside, joining the other men. He glanced up and caught a glimpse of something along the roofline of the building. He pointed.

“Up there!”

Acheson reached for the small transmitter on his belt and switched frequencies. “SHADOW, this is Two-Six, over.”

Zaslow’s voice came back. “Two-Six, this is SHADOW, over.”

“SHADOW, Two-Six. I need you to look around with your FLIR. Can you see anyone running along the rooftops? We’re looking for three hostiles, over.”

“Stand by.” In the near distance, Acheson could hear the MH-60’s rotor beats.

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