DarkWalker by Urbancik John

Author:Urbancik, John [Urbancik, John]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Evileye Books
Published: 2012-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

2.

Lisa waited, surprised her mind was so clear. She didn’t even consider alternatives. Go after Jack. Fight for him. She’d always wanted to fight for someone.

Twelve hours ago, she would have laughed at the idea of fighting demonic armies. That was before teeth dropped out of the sky, before Jack unveiled the shadows. Her senses were open now, her night vision sharpened and her hearing more acute. She was fit. Ready and willing to fight for her love. Able. And, for good or bad, not alone in her struggle.

“We need to know more about what we’ve seen already,” Nick said. “How to kill that red behemoth, for instance. And the clay thing, in case there’s another.”

The computer hung from her left hand, the straps of the soft briefcase crunched within her fist.

“And,” Nick said, “we have to get away from here. The police will only slow us down.” Until he said it, Lisa hadn’t heard the approaching sirens.

Lisa nodded. “We can’t have that.”

“This way,” he said, going to the back of the club and scaling the four-foot brick wall.

They climbed down from the roof to an alley behind the club.

Lisa spent little time trying to puzzle anything out. It was useless to assert reason on anything she’d experienced tonight. She’d seen enough horror movies to know the constant skeptic died—horribly—crying at the end that she believed, truly believed, and needed no more convincing.

If her mind was shot, if this was all a dream, she’d wake up with the alarm or anti-psychotic medicine, and Nick and Jack and the multitude of demons would fade from memory.

They moved more quickly now that they weren’t the focal point of every shadow, past a clearing and under the I-4 overpass. Not so far they couldn’t hear the police sirens or see flashing lights, but far enough so they could open the computer and see what they would see.

“It’s almost morning,” she said. The sky had brightened faintly.

“It is morning,” Nick told her. “Newspapers have been delivered. Bakers have baked, bagel shops are hopping. Sunrise in . . . about twenty minutes.”

“Vampires are night creatures, right?” Lisa asked. “I mean, the thing that took Jack, it won’t be out and about during the day, will it?”

Nick hesitated. “Most sleep during the day, yes.”

“So if Jack survives until sunrise,” she said, though his chances seemed slim, “he’ll probably be okay until sunset.”

Nick didn’t answer. He didn’t have to. It was a false hope; he’d said most, not all, and his hesitation suggested not this type. And the other creature—the giant with bright red flesh—hadn’t been a vampire. It was subject to different rules.

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