The End of Everything: Book 2 by Christopher Artinian

Author:Christopher Artinian [Artinian, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-25T16:00:00+00:00

chapter 11

Wren and Robyn screamed simultaneously as they watched the disaster unfold. Wren threw herself backwards, and with the javelin still in one hand, she speed shuffled a few feet down the hall, as the momentum of the storming horde became the creatures’ momentary downfall as all the beasts stumbled forward without time to halt, collapsing into a writhing pile. Still more from the kitchen were delayed attempting to scramble over them.

Robyn loaded an arrow and fired quickly, dropping one beast like a lead weight onto the struggling mound of arms and bodies. Wren ran forwards while Robyn loaded her weapon again. She thrust the javelin hard into the heads of two more creatures at the top of the squirming pile, making it even harder for the struggling monsters beneath to crawl free. She retreated with equal speed and ducked down to give her sister a clear line of sight. Despite there being fewer attackers, the noise seemed to amplify in the narrow confines of the hallway.

Another beast lunged over the small mountain. Robyn fired and missed, but Wren rushed forward once again and jammed the end of the javelin through the monster’s eye socket, pushing it hard to make it fall backwards on the ever growing hill of bodies. Another creature began to struggle over the increasingly uneven surface; Robyn brought this one down with a well-aimed shot before firing a second, third, and fourth shot, all while Wren kept low, jabbing and retreating, extinguishing the last ripples of movement from the flailing pile.

Robyn loaded another arrow and waited, and waited, and waited; but nothing else appeared in the doorway. Her sister remained down on one knee with the javelin still clenched tightly in her hands. She looked back towards Robyn. Their chests were heaving, sweat was running down their foreheads and their backs, and the only sound in the hallway now was that of their own laboured breaths.

“I daren’t look out there,” Wren said.

“Just give it a minute. There might be a couple of stragglers.” The two sisters remained still; two minutes ran into three, and three into four before Robyn finally brought her loaded bow down.

Wren stood up, looked out towards the kitchen, then back to her sister. “If it hadn’t been for your quick thinking, we’d be dead now.”

“It was both of us, Wren.”

“No. The table. The table was the thing that saved us. I’d have shut the door and run into one of the bedrooms, but they’d have broken through in a heartbeat and we’d be dead. You gave us the time we needed. You were amazing.”

“We were both amazing. We covered each other,” she said finally allowing herself a small smile. “My heart’s still racing.”

“Mine too. There are still more of them at the gate.”

“Just give me a minute. My legs are jelly.”

Wren laughed. “Yeah, our heads have finally caught up to our bodies.”

“I really don’t fancy cleaning this up,” Robyn said.

“Yeah, I think it’s about time we moved. The neighbourhood’s really turned to shit.

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