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reason, the decay doesn’t seem to slow
them down any.
    “ Okay, I get it…Please
continue .”
    Muffled shots were popping off, and zombie screams were
sounding out. It wasn’t a very long moment, probably less than a couple
minutes. Jaxon was quick to act. He probably saw the outcome of that situation
way before the rest of us.
    The next thing I knew, he was barking out orders and I heard
a door break from behind me. This all happened from somewhere far away. All my
attention was concentrated on the mass of undead rapidly approaching.
    Jaxon charged right into them.
    He gave no warning, he just attacked. I saw the tomahawk
come out. I saw dark blood and skull fragments flying in the air as he carved
his way right through the center of them.
    And then he was gone.
    They closed in around him. I called out his name. In shock,
I took a step forward and then another. I felt arms close around me. They were
pulling me backwards towards the house. I tried to explain. They must not have
seen what happened. We had to get to my uncle. My uncle was in the middle of
that shit storm.
    Next thing I knew, I was inside the house.
    Kingsley had slammed the door shut. I don’t know why he
bothered. The mass lost interest in chasing us as soon as Jaxon charged them.
We were safe. Javie was peering through the curtains. It was the only source of
light in the room.
    Georgie was still holding me. I could have pulled away. I’m
a lot stronger than Georgie. Instead, I collapsed. I was exhausted, or maybe it
was shock. I couldn’t believe what had just happened. I had just lost my uncle.
    “Jaxon’s running,” Javie said.
    “What?” Georgie asked.
    “He made it through. He’s leading them away from us. Merrick
is with him.”
    I tapped my ear piece.
    “Jax,” I said. “Are you there?”
    No answer.
    “Give him time to lead them away,” Georgie said. “That’s
what he’s doing: he’s leading them away from us.”
    I began to calm down. My breathing became more regular. It
was then that it finally dawned on me that we were in a dark house and we had
no idea if it was safe or not.
    “Get ready,” I ordered.
    Everybody jumped and brought their weapons up. I was on my
feet and reaching in my backpack for a flashlight.
    “We have no idea what’s in this house,” I said. “So don’t
drop your guard.”
    It took a bit, but I finally found my light. I attached it
to the front of my weapon and waited for the rest of the team to follow my
example.
    “Room by room then,” Georgie said.
    “Georgie and I in front,” I added. “Kingsley and Javie will
cover the rear.”
    Nobody said anything, they just moved into position and we
searched the house as quietly as possible. We quickly realized that the back
door was wide open, but other than that there were no threats. The only sound I
heard was Kingsley’s labored breathing.
    Do you smoke, little lady?
    “ Not since college .”
    Good, it’s a bad habit and if the downstairs wasn’t empty,
you could be sure that his dirty mouth air would have alerted whatever was
lurking in the dark to our presence.
    If it wasn’t for my uncle’s idiot move of charging a horde
of the living dead, I would have laughed a lot sooner than I did. I held it in
for a long time, but when we all paused at the foot of the stairs…I let out a
little chuckle.
    “ You let out a chuckle ?”
    Yeah, I couldn’t help it. I think it was all the tension.
Everything was quiet except for Kingsley’s Darth Vader breathing. I kind of
lost it…so did Georgie…so did Javie.
    Kingsley was pissed.
    I was about to apologize, but suddenly there was a figure at
the foot of the stairs. It was what appeared to be a teenage girl in a summer
dress. One minute there was nothing and in the next minute…she was just there.
    I slowly moved my light up her body to her face. She charged
us when my light got about halfway.
    I reacted on pure instinct and fired randomly. My weapon was
on auto fire, but of course I missed.