Dark Moonlighting 5 by Scott Haworth

Author:Scott Haworth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vampires, horror, humor, zombies, genetic engineering, werewolves, dystopian
Publisher: Scott Haworth

Chapter Eight: The Sauntering Dead

Dried leaves crunched under my feet as I desperately searched the woods for my companions. “Lara?” I yelled into the forest. “Jasmine?”

“Over here!” Lara responded.

My granddaughter’s voice was filled with fear. I quickly maneuvered through the trees as I dashed towards her position. My recent fight with the other vampire had taken a lot out of me, and I was breathing heavily. I pushed myself harder as I struggled to find my friends. When I finally saw them through the trees I feared that I was too late. My female companions were backing away from the half dozen zombies who were approaching them. Having been stripped of their crossbows by Hitler’s assassin, they were armed only with wooden stakes. Jasmine was doing her best to fend the undead off, but she was too distracted by the frontal assault. A young zombie girl wearing a blue t-shirt and khaki pants was approaching them from behind. The creature was about to bite my granddaughter’s waist when a single shot rang out. A plume of red exploded from the zombie’s head.

I glanced towards the sound of the gunshot and found a handsome man holding up a Colt Python revolver with one hand. He was wearing a sheriff’s uniform and a brown cowboy hat. He nodded at me when he caught my eye before he started to walk towards the fallen zombie. Jasmine and Lara glanced back at the sound of the gunshot, but they had bigger things to worry about. I darted forward and began staking the six zombies with Jasmine’s help. Lara, who was not skilled in hand to hand combat, wisely decided to stay out of our way. I turned back towards the hunky stranger after dispatching the last of the zombies. He was kneeling on the ground next to the zombie he had shot, and a single tear was running down his cheek. The little girl opened her mouth and moaned at him after her head repaired itself. The man sighed and stabbed her through the heart with a stake.

“That’s, like, the sixth saunterer child I’ve had to kill,” the stranger remarked as he stood up. “It never gets any easier.”

“Saunterer?” Lara questioned.

The man looked around the woods uneasily before holstering his sidearm. “That’s what my group calls these... things. The monsters who die and then come back to life.”

“Why don’t you call them zombies?” I asked. “That term has been prevalent in pop culture for fifty years.”

“Zom... bies?” the man asked as if he had never heard the word before.

“It doesn’t matter,” Jasmine declared. “I’m just happy you decided to save our asses. We owe you our lives.”

“Don’t mention it,” the man in the sheriff’s uniform responded. “I would never let an innocent person get eaten by saunterers... except for those handful of occasions where I did. Sometimes I’m all about the greater good and helping the innocent, and other times I care only about the best interests of my small group. My philosophy kind of ping pongs back and forth.

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