Holding the fire axe to her chest and taking deep breaths, she braced herself to do something completely stupid and without a follow-up plan. There was no telling what the result of this would be, but at this point anything was better than just standing here doing nothing and every second wasted on pondering what to do, was another second closer to her girlfriend’s death.
She charged forward, raising the axe and swinging it with all her power to hack off one of many arms. She was rewarded with a seemingly endless spray of blood across her face and clothes.
Evidently posing a threat to the monstrosity, it’s other arms began swinging wildly in an attempt to grab her, but she fought back, chopping off more arms and hacking into its back like a crazed person herself, disregarding the blood spray and dismembered limbs.
“Fuck you! Fuck you!” She screamed.
The colossal monster, now aware its back was left vulnerable, attempted to push its way back out, abandoning its determination to reach Rachel.
“Lori! Whatever you are doing is working! I don’t know how many bullets I have left, but I’ve already shot three!” Rachel yelled over the roar of the monster obstructing her.
“Stay there, Rachel! I’m coming for you! I won’t let this fucker touch you!” Lori shouted back.
Lori, unaware that it was slowly slipping loose of the narrow corridor, hacked away, covering herself in blood and innards. It was gruesome, but her sheer drive to save a loved one was more than worth the unpleasantries.
Rachel on the other side fumbled with the gun, stepped a little closer and pointed it towards the monster again.
“I’m going to shoot it, Lori, but I don’t want to accidentally hit you!”
“Just shoot it! I’ll be okay! Shoot, shoot!”
“Okay...” Rachel replied hesitantly. She aimed towards what she believed to be its head, but just as she fired, it slipped back, freeing itself of its confines and knocking Lori back to the ground behind her with it, the bullet missing and completely wasted.
Lori yelped as the creature landed on top of her, but she didn’t stop her attack, only infuriating the monster as it flipped over to attack her.
Noticing the peril Lori was now in, Rachel wasted no time in taking another shot, just as it pounced upon Lori with a frightening aggression.
Flinching from the gunshot, the monster gave Lori that precious moment to scramble to her feet and slip out of harm’s way.
“Lori!” Rachel yelped, seeing all the blood. Lori grabbed her hand.
“Go, go, go!” Lori ordered, dragging Rachel behind her.
They fled, using the very brief opportunity they were given to create a gap between them and the monster, but as luck would have it, it was soon hot on their heels once more, smashing everything in its path to debris.
Rachel spun around and fired two more shots at their pursuer, but one bullet missed entirely and the other did only enough to buffer it momentarily. She was empty, no more bullets.
“Shit! I’m out of fucking bullets! It’s going to catch us, Lori!”
“This way!” Lori shouted back, dragging Rachel into a deserted ransacked Thai restaurant, a split second decision they would quickly come to regret as not one, not two, but four bloody mouthed heads of crazies popped up from behind restaurant tables and seats, twitching erratically, before pouncing towards the two.
“Shit! Duck!” Lori cried and they ducked just in time to narrowly avoid a leaping crazy, as she sailed overhead, crashing into a table opposite.
Lori released Rachel’s hand to push over a table, whilst Rachel threw plates.
Suddenly, through the glass window pane the colossal brute crashed, flattening tables and seats and sending shards of broken glass flying everywhere.
The young women’s hearts almost leapt from their chests as it landed on the floor before them.
“Holy shit!” Rachel screamed, they were completely surrounded.
Panting, the two women knew their time was up, it was over, there was nowhere left to go, this is how they were going out, so as their backs pressed against one another, Rachel accepted her fate.
“As morbid as this sounds, when I pictured my death, it was nothing as grisly as this will be”.
Lori chuckled between fear, the only thing she could do when faced with these odds.
“I know...”
“I don’t regret anything”.
“Neither do I”.
“I love you, Lori”.
“I love you too, Rachel. I want my last sight to be you”. She spun around to face Rachel and Rachel did the same. They locked lips in a passionate kiss and embraced tighter than they had ever before, squeezing their eyes shut so that their last sight was each other’s faces and braced themselves for whatever came next.
They heard the wails of the crazies as they leapt from tables and chairs, but felt nothing other than the breeze of something flying close by their heads and crashing into something else opposite. Rachel opened her eyes.
“Lori, duck!” She pulled Lori down just in time to see a table soar right over their heads and smash into several pieces across the restaurant.
“Fuck… thank you, Rachel”. Lori spun around to see the commotion and there opposite them was the colossal brute fighting off four crazed people as they clung onto it, biting and scratching, ripping off skin. The brute slammed one to the ground with tremendous force, enough to break any normal person’s back and flung another through the window pane.
“What the hell? They’re fighting each other”.
“Yeah… why?”
“I don’t know… but we should see this as a blessing in disguise and get the fuck out of here”. She couldn’t have been more convincing as the brute ripped a crazed human in two, raining the restaurant with blood and guts, before flinging the upper
