Flowers Vs. Zombies: Genesis by Perrin Briar

Author:Perrin Briar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Perrin Briar
Published: 2017-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

FRITZ THREW HIMSELF at the railing, curling himself around it. His whole body tensed and relaxed, and then tensed again as the contents of his stomach evacuated. His breath rasped out of his sore throat.

Ernest leaned on the railing beside Fritz and looked at the calm surface of the sea. A small flock of birds descended, hovered just above it, and then dipped their beaks into it without stopping.

“It’s really quite beautiful, isn’t it?” Ernest said.

“Yeah,” Fritz said, not even looking. “Stunning.”

“Marvellous how the sea rises and falls the way it does, pushing and pulling, and going up and down, up and down, side to side and-”

Fritz hurled again, this time hitting the hull. Ernest smiled, relishing the moment.

“Funny how it’s you who’s turned out to be seasick, isn’t it?” he said. “My money would have been on me. But I’m right as rain. I could dance if I wanted to.”

Fritz glared at Ernest, but it failed to have the effect he’d hoped for.

“You’ve got a piece of airline food at the corner of your mouth there,” Ernest said.

Fritz wiped his mouth.

“I hate you,” he said.

Ernest looked over Fritz’s shoulder.

“You’re about to hate me even more,” he said.

“I don’t think that’s possible,” Fritz said.

“A couple of girls are heading our way.”

Fritz turned even paler.

“From which direction?” he said.

“Behind you,” Ernest said.

Fritz turned away and covered his face as best he could.

“Have they gone?” he said.

“Yes, they’re gone,” Ernest said. “In fact, they were never here in the first place. I just wanted to see you squirm.”

Fritz made a grab for Ernest, who stepped back. Fritz lost his balance and hit the deck. There was a gasp. A pair of pretty girls stood over Fritz, hands to their mouths. Fritz, face pale, T-shirt vomit-stained, turned to Ernest.

“I’m going to kill you!” he shouted.

“Let’s not be silly,” Ernest said, backing away.

“I’m going to bloody kill you!”

Ernest took off at a run as Fritz pulled himself to his feet using the railing. Ernest turned and ran down a narrow alley that snaked between cabin compartments. He came out the other side, looked back, and saw no sign of Fritz.

He walked at a leisurely pace along the deck, and then leaned against the railing. He looked out at an earth bank that slipped by like it was losing its grip on the hull.

The lights of the towns grew smaller, giving way to ramshackle villages with huts on tall stilts – what Ernest knew to be called Bahay Kubo, Balay or Nipa Huts. He smiled at the memory attached to the knowledge.

Ernest waved to a little girl sat on the end of a pier made of bamboo canes, her legs draped over the side, toes tickling the water’s surface. The ferry chugged on, slow but relentless, and the girl shrunk into the distance. The water was calm, but brown with dirt and silt from the land’s steep banks.

Ernest heard raised voices, not from fighting, but excitement. He rounded the stern of the ship and found a large group of children and teenagers.

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