the end of a
corridor, coming face to face with a zombie. The thing grabbed him by
the shoulders, drawing him in, as its teeth snapped at the air. Colt
pushed the bastard up against the wall, using his superior strength
to his advantage. He swung a fist, striking the zombie across the
jaw. He pushed it down to the floor and then noticed several more
zombies coming his way. He could see the group running away down the
far end of the corridor. He had been completely cut off by the
zombies.
‘ Shit!’
He turned around and rushed the other way.
***
The
black beast walked on its hind legs into the room. Claws cracked the
hard floor. It sniffed at the air. Suddenly, it paused in front of
the male shower room. It moved so quickly that you couldn’t
follow its movements with the naked eye. The beast spun like a
spinning top, swinging its long black tail through the air. The
spike-like tip ripped through the wall of the shower room like some
kind of demolishing ball. Dust and debris filled the air. The sound
of sobbing could be heard coming out of the room. The alien lowered
its head down, extending its neck forward as if it were some kind of
rubbery kid’s toy. The Doctor was stood in the middle of the
room; piss ran down the inside of his legs.
‘ I
have the kids for you...’
The
alien bit off the top of his head, removing the skull.
It
sucked on his brains as if he was some kind of human straw.
The
slurping sound was sickening.
His
lifeless body shook and convulsed.
The
children screamed.
The
alien began to chew him up, biting through his torso like a human
eating a breadstick.
It
took less than five seconds for the doctor to be eaten.
The
agonising screams of the children filled the air, as the alien
devoured them too.
***
Lisa
led the group up the stairs. They were sprinting for their lives. An
emergency exit popped open, as they rushed out onto the roof. A full
moon was sitting high in the sky, partly consumed by the rain clouds.
The rain continued to lash down, as strong winds whipped across the
roof top. Zombies were pouring up the stairs behind them, as at least
three dozen more had already been trapped on the roof. A military
helicopter was parked on a helipad in the centre of the roof.
‘ What
are we going to do?’ asked Sheridan.
‘ The
helicopter,’ said Levi.
‘ You
can fly?’ asked Lisa.
‘ I’m
a pilot. I have never flown something like that, but we have to try,
right?’
‘ Get
to the helicopter,’ ordered Lisa, as she slapped in her last
magazine into her sub-machine-gun. Levi, Andy, Lisa, Sheridan and
Shelly sprinted forward as fast as they could, trying to reach the
helicopter before the zombies cut off their path.
***
Natasha
and Oliver sprinted down two flights of stairs and headed through a
broken door into a corridor. They skidded to an abrupt halt at the
sight of a horde of zombies. The un-dead hadn’t seen them. They
both headed the other way. At the far end of the corridor was a
T-junction. More zombies awaited them. Natasha had to think fast. The
decaying corpses of the walking dead were everywhere.
‘ In
here,’ said Oliver, pulling her into a side room.
Natasha
closed the door, quietly.
‘ Look,’
he said, pointing to the window. The window hung above a garage roof.
It was only a five-foot drop. From there they could climb down from
the roof and be back down on the ground. The cars they had driven in
with were still in the hanger nearby, the keys still in the ignition.
The hanger was only fifty feet away. They finally had a way out.
‘ You
are a genius,’ said Natasha, throwing open the window. ‘We
can get out of here.’
***
‘ Where
the fucking hell am I?’ Colt asked the world in general. He
scooped down and picked up an assault rifle from a dead soldier
slumped against the wall. The man’s internal organs had all
been eaten. Colt checked the magazine and the rocket-propelled
grenade attachment.
‘ You
are going to die...’ hissed a