"You guys might not want to, but I find it relaxing." Carter said wiggling his eyebrows, his fangs peeking out from over his lip.
"You don't have a choice though, you have to kill sometimes, or you'll die." Esmeralda said narrowing her eyes. "But, if I'm around I'll zap your ass so you don't."
"That's unfair, very unfair." He whined.
"Life is unfair, young one." Amelia giggled
"Come children, it is time!" William called out loudly. Everyone shared a look for a moment then nodded as they headed out, joining the others.
***
Esmeralda was pacing back and forth; her hands itching to cast a spell or two with everything that was going on. Everyone she knew was ready to kill, standing around in different poses and wielding different things, different weapons. But this was going to be up to herself and Carter mainly.
She watched as her father gave her the signal. She and Carter started ahead into an abandoned looking building; Carter sped ahead of her using his vampiric speed to help him out the most as he moved ahead into the area with an almost ironic welcome mat on the doorstep. Esmeralda whispered something to herself and the front door busted open.
Carter growled in his throat when she heard it; the snap of a jawbone and the ripping and tearing of flesh as well as the thud of new corpse as it landed on the ground. He'd attacked someone and likely had killed them.
Esmeralda went ahead of him as she ignored the bloody mess he'd made all around the doorway. She listened intently to the noises around her, listening for any footsteps or other sounds. A dog barked as if alerting its master and she cursed to herself. Knowing it was already too late if the dog was going off.
She strode ahead running on her long, thin legs as fast as she could and turned a corner leaning against it taking in deep breaths as she closed her eyes tightly. She heard a noise in one of the rooms with the door open and then saw a man in front of her. Before he could make a sound, she'd thrown her hands out in front of herself and he was sent flying through the air.
She took off up a flight of stairs running into a room and then she saw him - Carlos. He was chained to a wall barely alive, unconscious at the moment. She ran over to him cupping her hands over the locks on the chains and whispered to herself, the chains gave way, with a slight groan he fell forward.
She set him down struggling to catch her breath and made her way over to the nearest window, it was pointing north right where everyone was. She let a bright spark start from her hand and then fly out, the spark spread into many, lighting up the sky in a signal.
Esmeralda heard Carter outside of the door screaming at someone, then a loud sound came right after, she ran out and followed the noise into a pit of men who were attacking. She screamed and threw her arms out; most of them went flying back into the wall, knocked out cold.
She fell down to her knee's shaking a little bit, as she took in a deep breath looking up at Carter watching as he inched forward, then she saw it at the same moment. One of the men stood up with a cross bow in hand and pulled the trigger as she went to scream for him to move.
Carter stared at his chest in shock; then to his hands before lifting his eyes to look up at her smiling a bit. "Guess it was a good run, kid." He spoke softly and like that his skin started to turn older and older before falling from his face, it didn't take long before he was a heap of ash on the ground.
Esmeralda screamed out, the glass within the building shook before shattering in a loud burst. The man looked shocked at her, before she stared at him. Her hands slammed down and the entire building started to shake, falling apart in seconds around her, glass spun around. The man was being torn to shreds before her as she watched; His skin being ripped apart, the flesh and meat seeming to fall from the bone as the man wailed in agony, he was dying as the glass dug in deeper, seeming to reverberate as it stuck to the bone, breaking off inside as more surrounded him, even the planks of the floorboard was splintering off and ripping into him. Blood soaked the ground as Esmeralda fell completely unconscious.
A Mother's End
It has not been that long really; Since everything was normal, and not everyone was dead. Even if it really does feel like it has been forever.
Almost four months ago, a plague hit us here in Pennsylvania, and we thought nothing of it, just the normal simple things. Get a shot, stay home, and get over it. We were all dead wrong to think as such.
Our nine-year-old daughter Julie, I, as well as my husband Daniel were lucky enough not to get sick or at least that is what he had thought when it hit. Everyone we knew had practically been coming down with it, and we never even came close to getting sick.
My mother had gotten it, I remember seeing her put into the hospital against her will, and then Daniel's parents thought they never would survive it. I remember that day perfectly, as if it was only yesterday yet or as if it was minutes ago but I guess that kind of trauma sticks with you.
We all stayed home, I held Julie from school, Daniel took off work, and so did I, we all claimed to be ill though not even one of us was. Julie was as usual ecstatic to be home with us and get to see her daddy all day, she ran around our small home in her pretty little blue princess dress, it was all lacy skirting and a tight corset looking upper half with fancy little flowers all over it, she loved it and wore it every chance she got.
Her blonde hair pulled into a tight bun with a few little ringlet curls falling down around her face, a princess tiara snug on top of her head and her blue eyes were bright and full of joy. She ran to Daniel, he smiled one of his ever so stunning bright smiles, leaning down and picking her up into his arms before tossing her into the air above him, she giggled loudly loving the attention.
I smiled over at the two of them as he continued tossing her in the air for a few more moments, his powerful muscled arms catching her each time she came back down before he began spinning her in circles, only increasing her giggles. His brown hair hung in his dark eyes as he looked down at her, he almost looked like a sinister man hovering over a poor child, but at the same time like a beautifully sculpted god.
I looked down as I remembered what even led us here in the first place. I had gotten pregnant to him the first time we had sex at all, he’d broke the condom and I began to conceive Julie, once I told my mother and Father they couldn’t take it. They threw me out to live on the street, disowning me from them and I was left a stranded Eighteen year old woman.
Daniel had found out and picked me up as soon as he could. Taking me home with him, not caring if his family liked it or not. I was the mother of his child and he wanted to make sure I was safe and not somewhere in harms reach, we stayed with his parents they were kind and caring and once he got the money, we rented a small cozy apartment.
It has not been that long really; Since everything was normal, and not everyone was dead. Even if it really does feel like it has been forever.
Almost four months ago, a plague hit us here in Pennsylvania, and we thought nothing of it, just the normal simple things. Get a shot, stay home, and get over it. We were all dead wrong to think as such.
Our nine-year-old daughter Julie, I, as well as my husband Daniel were lucky enough not to get sick or at least that is what he had thought when it hit. Everyone we knew had practically been coming down with it, and we never even came close to getting sick.
My mother had gotten it, I remember seeing her put into the hospital against her will, and then Daniel's parents thought they never would survive it. I remember that day perfectly, as if it was only yesterday yet or as if it was minutes ago but I guess that kind of trauma sticks with you.
We all stayed home, I held Julie from school, Daniel took off work, and so did I, we all claimed to be ill though not even one of us was. Julie was as usual ecstatic to be home with us and get to see her daddy all day, she ran around our small home in her pretty little blue princess dress, it was all lacy skirting and a tight corset looking upper half with fancy little flowers all over it, she loved it and wore it every c
hance she got.
Her blonde hair pulled into a tight bun with a few little ringlet curls falling down around her face, a princess tiara snug on top of her head and her blue eyes were bright and full of joy. She ran to Daniel, he smiled one of his ever so stunning bright smiles, leaning down and picking her up into his arms before tossing her into the air above him, she giggled loudly loving the attention.
I smiled over at the two of them as he continued tossing her in the air for a few more moments, his powerful muscled arms catching her each time she came back down before he began spinning her in circles, only increasing her giggles. His brown hair hung in his dark eyes as he looked down at her, he almost looked like a sinister man hovering over a poor child, but at the same time like a beautifully sculpted god.
I looked down as I remembered what even led us here in the first place. I had gotten pregnant to him the first time we had sex at all, he’d broke the condom and I began to conceive Julie, once I told my mother and Father they couldn’t take it. They threw me out to live on the street, disowning me from them and I was left a stranded Eighteen year old woman.
Daniel had found out and picked me up as soon as he could. Taking me home with him, not caring if his family liked it or not. I was the mother of his child and he wanted to make sure I was safe and not somewhere in harms reach, we stayed with his parents they were kind and caring and once he got the money, we rented a small cozy apartment.
I was so proud of her that it hurt, I never wanted to see a child like this, or let one grow up like this, especially ours, but what could we do? At the very moment I was standing with Julie pressed between Daniel, and me as he peeked around a corner grunting softly.
“There’s only two, I haven’t seen any others for miles so we can go in shoot these two down and start boarding up that house.” He said quietly to Julie and me.
“Right.” I nodded and followed as he cocked his rifle and headed towards the two zombies.
They were both women, Number one was more human looking, missing an arm and side of her throat, but had some of her color still and all of her fiery red hair, but she was leaking her own bodily fluids everywhere and her clothes were barely hanging on her. Number two was sickening to look at, her face was missing half her jaw and one of her eyes; bugs crawled all over her face as she let out groans that sounded like she as gagging. Her flesh was starting to peel off in places and her body looked deformed, her shirt hung low, ripped and one of her breasts were exposed and bitten into, missing a large chunk of it, I looked away turning Julie as I heard the two familiar shots go off.
“Come on, more may find us now!” Daniel said sternly kicking open the door to the small two leveled home.
Me and Julie ran in after him, listening as he scouted out the house, shouting a loud and definite “Clear!” from each room before coming back down and throwing his gun onto a couch. “Alright, let’s get to work.”
***
We began finding furniture ripping and pulling at it, kicking and bashing as wood splintered off and we began nailing the pieces onto the doors and windows. Pinning blanket’s across them afterwards to make sure that no light from indoors would seep out as the sun began to set. Julie had passed out on the leather couch and I could only look to her as Daniel began to move closer to me.
“We’re safe...” He murmured as he began kissing my neck softly; I leaned into him turning to face him slowly.
“For how long, Dan?” I spoke with a slight hitch to my breathing.
“For now, sweetheart. That’s all I can promise you.” He said smiling weakly before leaning down and kissing me, something we had not been able to do in a long time, “Let’s make the best of it while we still can.”
I thought his words over and at that moment and agreed on them, kissing him back slowly and passionately. He lifted me up into his arm’s letting my lithe form mold against him as he moved towards the stairs. He walked upstairs with me in arms still, before I knew it we were in a bed clawing at each other’s clothes; each breath I took only came out harder for me, his hands roaming every inch of my body and soon his mouth followed kissing every inch he could.
I moaned as his mouth trailed up my thigh slowly, making me take in slower sharper breaths, my stomach tightened as his mouth came closer and closer to my center, taking his time there making every single passing second count, making me wither under his touch and moan every now and then.
He suddenly pulled back while I was on edge, and crawled back up my body quickly and roughly grinding his lips onto mine kissing me with fever and lust. His body moved right between my legs pushing them open as he positioned himself perfectly, and pushed inside of me in one quick thrust, I arched my back and let out another moan letting my nails dig into the hard muscled flesh of his back.
“Daniel…” I moaned softly meeting his lust filled eyes with my own pair, he let his lips press back onto mine kissing me deeply, letting his tongue snake within my mouth and play with my own tongue as he started to work his hips back and forth, moving in and out, faster and faster.
My legs moved slowly and wrapped up around his hips and I held on for dear life as he drilled me for all he was worth. His hips moved back and forth with animal passion, his eyes closed as he let out his own groans and grunts as I moaned in unison with him. His lips met my collarbone and he began to nip at the flesh for a moment moving down towards my breasts and biting into the soft silky flesh making me answer with a moan.
It did not take long before we were both letting out moans louder, louder, and panting in unison. I felt myself finally hit my breaking point as I began to shutter with one of the strongest orgasms I had gotten in a hell of a long time, followed by him having his own orgasm, we held onto each other as he collapsed on top of me catching his breath slowly and kissing my forehead.
“I love you, Susan.” He murmured in his husky still lust filled voice
“And I love you, Daniel.” I said, he rolled off of me and laid next to me closing his eyes, I pressed my body back against his, laying my head on his chest as I closed my own eyes filling his arm coil around me to keep me held close, and we both fell off into a sleep.
***
I woke up with a start, something had broken inside there was a crash downstairs - downstairs! “Julie!” I nearly screamed starting to run down the steps grabbing the first weapon I found wearing nothing more than Daniel’s T-shirt. Once down there I was only face to face with a Zombie, a bullet came whizzing from behind me and slamming into its head before I could even move and Daniel jumped the railing following my into the living room.
Once in there, we found nothing at all, not even our beautiful little girl Julie was there to be seen, and that was what had my attention fully “Where’s Julie?!” I screeched beginning to panic “Julie!” I screamed getting no answer.
“Susan…” Daniel said in a flat shaky voice, looking down at the floor in front of him, my eyes followed the claw marks across the polished wood floor surface and I put it together figuring what had happened and I started to shake my head frantically
“N-no, no, no!” I began sobbing as I stared at the ripped down front door and claw marks towards it as if - as if a little child had been dragged to it. “No!” I screamed falling to my knees nearly only to be caught by Daniel “Our little girl Daniel, our daughter!”
“I know, I know, we’re going to find her Susan but, we can’t do it like this we need to be thinking clearly or we’re only going to kill ourselves.” He said hugging me tightly against himself
I continued to shake but had calmed myself down and pulled away from him, now I went into mother mode. Shutting down my emotions and marching up the stairs and heading back into the room where we spent our night, not even hearing Daniel as he spoke to me, I got dressed and grabbed two guns I saw and filled my pockets full of bullet’s and started gathering a bag and stuffing more weapons and ammo within.
“Susan.” Daniel said pulling on a shirt staring at me “Don’t ignore me.”
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sp; “I’m sorry, what Daniel?” I asked him standing with the bag in hand
“What are you planning to do?” He asked me concern filling his voice
“I’m planning to go and get my child back.” I said flatly walking past him quickly and practically skipping steps, I heard him chasing me as I started heading out, turning the safety off one of my pistols
“Dammit! Susan!” Daniel grabbed my arm and I pointed the gun at him narrowing my eyes, he jumped back putting his hands up quickly staring at me in disbelief.
“I love you, Daniel, believe me I do.” I started staring at him still “But you do NOT get in the way of a Mother and her child, I will shoot you here and now if you stop me.”
“I’m not going to Susan, she’s my daughter too but you’re my wife too, I don’t want you hurt as well!” He countered, I lowered my gun and looked at him before turning and heading off in the only obvious way the Zombie has had gone, following the path of clawed up dirt.
The farther I went, the more unsettled I got especially when the dirt trial suddenly had disappeared into thin air. Daniel had settled into following beside me keeping silent, I was the one leading here, and I did not plan to stop any time soon.
“No, No, No, NO!” I shouted looking for a trail
“Babe…”
“Shut up Daniel, I’m not going to quit!” I snapped
“I wasn’t going to say that, I hear something up ahead.” He said frowning to me
I looked up ahead and loaded my guns checking them and briskly taking off towards the noise to see what I found, and found something I really had not expected. There were a group of at least twenty zombies gathered and hungrily feeding on a now dead cow, it was sickening to watch even from afar. Blood was running off them and splattered the ground, body parts strewn everywhere, and the disgusting squishing sound as they ate usually would have turned my stomach but right now, I could only stare in pure rage.
I lifted my gun and before Daniel could stop me began to shoot, one bullet after another was squeezed off, several zombies went down but more turned and started towards me, my aim wasn’t that great but I really didn’t care, I just wanted my daughter.
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