Background: a quick writing exercise I did after somebody mentioned the two subjects above in the same sentence. This is a single page extract of a much larger story that, sadly, does not exist.
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“Come ON! MOVE!” Buck shouted, motioning frantically as Chloe ran backwards through the O’Hare terminal, blowing off the head of the nearest lunging, ravenous monster with her shotgun. She tossed him the walkie talkie and he pressed the button, taking one-handed aim with his pistol as dozens more screaming, bloodstained undead burst through the glass doors. Chloe narrowed her eyes, still pouring buckshot into the oncoming hoard as they run backwards towards the opening to the runway.
“I think we’re in trouble…”
“Rayford! Rayford, where the hell are you with that plane?!”
“Dammit Buck I’m bringing her in as fast as I can! Touching down now!”
Rayford Steele brought Global Community One into abrupt contact with the ground, staring at the wreckages of other planes strewn across the runway as they zipped past. Lurching figures were taken by surprise and crushed under the planes wheels. The screech of the brakes against the wheels drowned out their angry vocalisations.
Nicolae sat next to him in the co-pilots seat. Whatever else Rayford might think of the man, Nicolae had saved his life: the thing that used to be Hattie would have killed him if not for Nicholae. The man was even more pale than usual, his eyes were closed, and he appeared to have lost consiousness. Rayford wasn’t surprised: Carpathia had lost a lot of blood through the bite on his shoulder. But there was nothing do for him at the moment: not if he wanted to save Buck and Chloe.
The pistol in Bucks hand clicked, empty, and he threw it away as he turned to run. Chloe followed, frantically fumbling more shells into her shotgun as the roaring, screeching hoard of gaunt, dark figures followed. They scrambled down a broken corridor onto the tarmac, and Buck turned to see a welcome sight: the headlights of Global Community One bearing down the main tarmac towards them. Chloe rapidly fired her weapon into the bottleneck they’d just escaped from, clogging it with inert corpses as they ran for the plane.
Rayford saw the gunfire and his heart raced quicker as he turned the plane with agonising slowness, preparing to take off the moment everyone was aboard. There was a moan beside him. It sounded like Nicloae was waking up.
Rayford glanced over at Nicolae and found himself looking into pale, pupiless grey eyes. Dead eyes.
He screamed in terror as the zombie Carpathia let out an inhuman roar and leapt for his throat.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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4 comments:
Awesome. That's great material for a story right there - "what if the Left Behind characters suddenly found themselves in a Zombie Apocalypse?".
Wanted to add-
It's a pity Nicholae didn't survive. I wonder what his weapon of choice would be in the Zombie Apocalypse.
"It's a pity Nicholae didn't survive. I wonder what his weapon of choice would be in the Zombie Apocalypse?"
Whatever he used to save Rayford from Zombie Hattie with? If I had to guess... an A-Z encyclopedia of the nations of the United Nations.
I'm genuinely sorry to kill him off, but someone had to be zombified and there's something inherently cool about a zombie anti-christ. He moans for braaaaaiiiinzzz in 9 different languages!
Well, given that Satan is supposed to possess Nicolae after death, I think it would be a much more interesting fic if Nicolae was the sole self aware zombie and was able to control the mindless horde.
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