Owen by Rebecca Ethington

Author:Rebecca Ethington [Ethington, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-23T04:00:00+00:00

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May 8th 2013 6:59 pm

Monsters exploded before me in clouds of ash, the remains of the twisted creatures falling so quick and fast that for a few minutes I was sure I was running through a snow storm.

A storm of grey and black that didn’t slow as I ran. Every monster the light touched exploded, adding to the blizzard that I raced through, still yelling into the walkie-talkie.

Every scream was like an anchor and I ran towards them, the beacon before me acting like some kind of acid against the beasts.

More ash sparkled to the ground, a tear-stained face of a blonde girl younger than me looking up. She was a dark shape in the middle of a dark world, but under the blazing light of my headlamp she was nearly as frightening as the monster I had just destroyed. She was covered in ash, the stuff pouring from her hands as though she had been grabbing at it. Grabbing at who the ash used to be.

“Come on,” I said with a grunt, pushing all of that pain and loss down, down as far as it could go.

She didn’t question, she just silently stood, fingers still curled around the ash as we both ran, ran toward another scream. Another deafening call of the monsters.

“What are we doing?” The girls said between sobs, “we have to get out of here.”

“We are.” I didn’t really feel like explaining myself right then.

“But they will kill you.” She tripped, but I didn’t even try to catch her. I was plowing forward, toward the next scream that was quickly silenced.

The resonating sound echoed over the darkened houses like a twisted memory, pulling at the vile twist in my gut in an attempt to rekindle my panic. My fear.

“How do you think I saved you?” I asked as we skirted around the side of the house that the screams had come from. Pressing my back against the shadowed siding I turned off the headlamp, plunging us into a world that was only shadow.

Darkness was everywhere. Looking around the corner of the house I could scarcely make out the monster from the family it was chasing.

Chasing.

Crap, those beasts were fast.

Before the thing went out of sight I flipped my headlight back on and watched as the thing dissolved, his hunting cry falling to silence as the family stopped, turning in amazement.

The father looked at me as though I was some kind of savior.

Maybe I was, it wasn’t every day a sixteen-year-old nerd saves everyone's asses.

“They can’t stand in the light, it kills them,” I said without introduction. “Do you have any flashlights.”

“Yes, in the camping stuff,” he said with a nod.

“Good, get it, and meet me at the Old Court Mall. Tell as many as you can,” he nodded, his wife now sobbing incoherently into his shoulder. “Oh, and take her with you.”

“What?” The girl behind me nearly shrieked. “You saved me, I want to stay with you.”

A scream echoed through the darkened sky above us, it shook the leaves of the trees we stood next to.

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