Chapter 5
The next morning as the sun is just breaking in the sky Tom out of breath comes bursting into Brendan and Tori’s room to shake them awake. “Get up now”, he yells.
“What the hell is the matter now?!”, says Brendan.
“We are fucked!”, says Tom as he turns and runs back out of the room. Brendan and Tori run out after him.
Outside others are running around gasping and yelling. When Tori and Brendan see what all the commotion is about their jaws drop. All around the compound stand zombies. They can’t count them there are so many. No one has ever seen this many zombies in one place. The zombies are just standing there and have them completely surrounded along the perimeter of the compound.
“They just appeared right before the sun rose. I don’t know if we couldn’t see them because of the darkness but before we knew it they had us fucking surrounded”, says Tom.
“They haven’t moved since we saw them”, says Mike who runs up to them along with Ray.
“Zombies don’t act like this dammit”, adds Ray. “They just attack the first moving thing they see.”
“Why are they just standing there?”, asks Lakota who also runs up to the group with Kristen.
“How the fuck should I know!”, snaps Tom.
“Uncle Brendan what are we going to do?”, asks Kristen.
Brendan looks down at his niece and into her eyes and says, “What we always do. Survive.” Brendan then turns to Mike and Tom and says, “Get everyone up and out here.” He then turns to Ray and Lakota and says, “Find anything that can be remotely used as a weapon and get the vehicles out here.”
The others run off per Brendan’s orders. “We will never survive this if they all attack. There is just too damn many”, says Tori.
“Doesn’t mean we ain’t going to try baby”, says Brendan squeezing Tori.
“What is that?”, cries Kristen pointing to something hovering in the air and coming towards them.
Brendan’s eyes grow wide as he tries to comprehend what he is seeing. What looks like a large metal platform hovers in the air coming up to them. It has a little over half a dozen humanoid looking figures standing on it. They look almost amphibious with smooth skin and large worms growing out of their backs. There heads seem to melt into their shoulders but it looks like they have several large eyes but no mouth. They appear to have two legs but four arms with what look like knives at the end of each appendage.
The platform slowly descends in front of Brendan and the others who are all speechless and paralyzed by fear and disbelief. A booming voice that seems to be coming from the bizarre creatures says, “Where are they?”
Brendan manages to stammer, “Wha the…?” Just then someone manages enough awareness and cohesion of thought to fire a gun at the creatures. The bullet hits them but has no affect. The creatures stand on the platform before them unfazed. Again the booming voice is heard, “Tell us their location or suffer.” Then one of the creatures extends one of its appendages towards Brendan.
Just then Brendan feels a piercing pain in his head. He cries out in anguish and agony. He falls to his knees clutching his head. It feels to Brendan like a thousand nails are piercing his skull all at once. He continues to scream as Tori cries out trying to figure out how to help him. The others stand there watching helplessly confused and afraid not knowing what to do.
Suddenly a wall of rainbow colored light appears between Brendan and the creatures. As soon as the wall of light appears Brendan stops screaming. He is disoriented and feels woozy but the pain has stopped. Lindsey’s voice is then heard yelling, “Leave them alone! It’s us you want!” Everyone turns to the voice and is surprised to see the four strangers along with their dog Dixie standing behind the wall of zombies high up on the hill from where they first appeared. But this time Megan is carrying a large golden bow and Lindsey is floating in the air. Megan then takes aim with her bow and a beam of bright gold light shoots from the bow and hits the zombies in front of them. The zombies hit with the light fall. At the same time Lindsey forms a ball of white light in her hands and also hurls it at the zombies in front of them and more zombies fall.
Megan then says, “Ok opening made let’s do this I guess.” She then starts running at an incredible speed towards the compound through the gap in the wall of zombies. Lindsey flies through the air following her. Suddenly Dixie just disappears from beside Alex and reappears by Brendan and Tori’s side and quickly the other dogs and cats and horses start grouping behind Dixie all growling at the wall of zombies like they are preparing for battle. Megan and Lindsey then reach Brendan and Tori and the others. “Ok everyone stay close and get ready.”
Before any of the inhabitants of the compound can comprehend what is happening the zombies begin charging the compound. But Megan is shooting beams of light at the zombies and Lindsey is throwing balls of light at them. The zombies stop and fall to the ground immediately when hit with either one. But there are still too many for all of them to be prevented from reaching the compound. So the inhabitants of the compound use whatever weapons they can and fight the zombies along with Lindsey and Megan. Dixie also seems to be leading the animals in defending the humans against the zombies.
Alex meanwhile somehow creates a waterfall that just falls from the skies over the beings on the platform. The deluge of water smashes the platform to the ground and seems to keep the creatures pinned down. Ashley then puts her hands on the ground and the entire earth begins to shake. Alex says to Ashley, “Not the entire ground. Your going to send the people in the compound fighting off balance too. Just where the Mologs and zombies are.”
“Aw your no fun”, says Ashley as she stops the entire ground from shaking and only makes it shakes where clusters of zombies are and the creatures. Several of the zombies seem to slip into the ground and disappear like sand in a sieve but many still remain for Megan and Lindsey to blast. The people of the compound as well as the animals are fighting valiantly alongside Lindsey and Megan but there are many zombies attacking in a frenzy.
Meanwhile while all this is going on Kristen and Tori try to revive Brendan who is still out of it. A zombie rushes up and grabs Kristen. She fights back kicking and punching. Tori then springs up and grabs Kristen away from the zombie in a quick movement. No sooner has she rescued Kristen then another zombie grabs Tori from behind. Tori takes out a knife she has on her and starts hacking the zombies head off. The first zombie now runs at Tori and tackles her on the ground. Brendan snaps to attention and grabs the zombie off of Tori. The zombie fights Brendan. Brendan is still weakened from whatever it was those creatures did to him but manages to break the zombie’s arm on the fence. The zombie though is unfazed by his injury and shoves the jagged bone protruding through it’s skin right through Brendan’s side. Brendan cries out in pain as Kristen who went and grabbed a shovel hits the zombie over the head. The zombie turns to face Kristen when Brendan using the last of his strength runs at the zombie and pushes him into a fence post impaling the zombie. Tori who finishes hacking the zombies coming at her then runs over and takes the shovel from Kristen and smashes the zombie to pieces. Kristen’s cry of, “Aunt Tori!”, snaps her back from taking her frustrations out on the zombie. She turns to see Kristen by Brendan who is lying on the ground clutching his wound blood oozing from it.
Tori runs over to Brendan and holds him and puts pressure on the wound, “Stay still baby.”
“Is he going to be ok?”, Kristen asks with concern.
“I don’t know find me something to hold against the wound.” Kristen runs off to fulfill Tori’s request. “Hang in there baby. Don’t you dare leave me know, you hear.”
By this time most of the zombies are taken care of thanks to everyone’s efforts. Alex says to Ashley, “It looks like the zombies are taken care of but the Mologs’ biomechanical suits are giving them too much protection for me to handle.”
Ashley stands up and the ground stops shaking, “Steam bath?”
“Let’s do it”, says Alex. With that the waterfall disappears and the creatures slowly begin to stand up again. Alex holds out his right hand and out of nowhere there appears on the right side of Alex a small dragon with eyes the color of fire. The dragon spreads his wings and hovers over Alex. The dragon then opens his mouth and shoots fire out of it. Alex somehow guides the column of fire coming from the dragon with his right hand which is unfazed by the heat. Meanwhile with his left hand Alex shoots out a column of water so the fire and water meet and rapidly create a great deal of steam.
Ashley then begins to levitate in the air behind Alex. She reaches up to her hat and takes the feather and waves it at the cloud of steam building up. With the simple wave of her feather a great and mighty wind begins blowing. It doesn’t seem to faze Alex but it blows the steam he is creating towards the compound. The people at the compound brace themselves against the fierce wind but it knocks most people to the ground. Only Megan seems to be able to hold her own against it and continues to fire her light beams from her golden bow as she braces herself with what seems to be superhuman strength against the wind. Lindsey flies high in the sky above the wind as both woman pick off the last of the zombies.
The creatures upon getting hit with the steamy wind seem to writhe in great distress and their is shrieking sounds coming from them. They then hold their hands up in the air. No sooner have they done this then a vortex forms in the sky above them. The vortex seems to reach down to where the creatures are writhing and fighting against the steamy wind. The vortex sucks up the creatures into it and just as quickly as it appears the vortex disintegrates. The dragon stops blowing his fire and seems to fade away. Alex stops making water and the steam dissipates. Ashley puts the feather back in her hat and lowers to the ground and the wind dies down. Alex and Ashley then begin calmly walking towards the compound.
Now that the wind and zombies are all gone people start wandering around the compound trying to process everything that just happened. Lindsey descends to the ground and yells out, “Everyone ok?”
“No!”, screams Tori. Everyone turns and makes their way to her. Tori is in tears as she clutches Brendan who is breathing heavy and turning white. “He lost too much blood! I think he is going into shock!”
“Oh my!”, gasps Lindsey upon seeing Brendan.
“I got it”, says Ashley as her and Alex enter the compound. Ashley walks up to Brendan and lays her hand on Brendan’s wound. “Just relax.” To everyone’s disbelief the wound begins closing up before their eyes.
“You…you are a witch”, Brendan mutters as the color begins to return to his face.
“Something like that”, says Ashley. Ashley heals Brendan’s wound completely. Brendan feels his strength return to him once again and can think clearly.
Before anyone can say anything else a circular portal of blue light appears next to where Dixie is standing. Ashley gets up without saying anything else and walks through the portal.
“Wait just a minute! Where the fuck do you think you are going?”, says Tom.
“Sorry we have to recharge”, says Lindsey as she flies through the portal.
“I don’t give a shit what you have to do we need some fucking answers dammit”, says Tom.
“We understand believe me. And we promise we will be back to give them as soon as we can”, says Megan as she walks through the portal.
“But what if those creatures or more zombies come back”, asks Kristen.
“They won’t. Not before we do at least. Trust us”, says Alex as he walks through the portal. Dixie then gives a bark which Brendan suddenly realizes is the first time he ever heard that dog make a sound. Dixie then jumps through the portal and it closes behind him leaving everyone in stunned silence.
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