Avenging Autumn: Seasons Change Book 1 of 4 by Derek A Schneider Read Free Book Online Page B

to heaven the river beds would be flowing
with chocolate milk.
    Jack was having trouble staying awake, it was
way past his usual bed time and he could feel his head starting to
fall forward repeatedly. He began to think (or perhaps it was a
strange dream) about his job. He began to see the countless bodies
he had made up and prepared for showing, and how with each and
every one came this great fear that they’d sit up and come after
him. Moaning and groaning, trying desperately to eat some part of
him. Each time he would shake that fear away and tell himself he’d
been watching too many horror movies. Now here he was, sitting at
his kitchen table with a dead girl and waiting for his father to
get here so they could go and kill some vampires.
    He was on the verge of falling into a deep
sleep when he felt a chill and the hair on his neck stand up. He
opened his eyes to see Benny sitting across from him with a gun
pointed at his head. All of a sudden, time seemed to slow down.
In-stinctively, he jumped from his seat and he hit the floor
seconds before he heard the bang of the pistol like a sudden
rolling thunder breaking the calm silence of a cool summer night.
Looking back he saw a man with a monstrous face fall to his knees,
smoke rising from a hole in his forehead.
    “ BENNY!” he shouted, pulling his
own gun from the waistband of his jeans. He put two bullets into
the chest of another vampire who crept in from the hallway that led
to the staircase.
    Benny was on his feet and moving around the
table quickly toward the dark living room where the first vampire
came from. He groped blindly along the inside wall until his hand
fell on the light switch. He flicked it on and discovered the
living room was hiding seven more vampires, none of them looking
very happy.
    Jack let out a sound that was somewhere
between a laugh and a moan. He waved to the vampires nervously and
said to his brother; “Christ on a cracker, Benny, how long have
these things been here?”
    Benny didn’t answer, he only stared at the
vampires with an expression of rage that Jack thought looked
complete-ly foreign on his brothers face.
    Autumn decided to crawl under the table and
stay out of the way and a second later Benny and Jack began firing
repeatedly into the living room. For a moment she couldn’t turn
away from the ensuing carnage. She had never seen this kind of
violence before and never thought her Benny would be a part of it.
Her attention was suddenly caught by three vampires coming out of
the hall and moving swiftly toward her husband and brother-in
law.
    “ LOOK OUT!” she screamed, but they
couldn’t hear her over the gun fire and the earsplitting shrieks
coming from the dying creatures. The three newcomers were nearly on
them.
    Suddenly the back door crashed open and an Uzi
spoke out in three quick burst. Benny and Jack hit the floor at the
sound of the weapon. The remaining vampires fell dead.
    “ Frank,” Autumn said happily as she
came out from beneath the table, “your okay.”
    Benny and Jack picked themselves off the floor
and saw the Old Man standing in the doorway like a weathered
warrior. Guns and silver shrapnel grenades seemed to hang from
every article of clothing.
    “ Come on,” Frank said calmly,
“we’re leaving, now.”
    As they were walking out of the house, Jack
patted his father on the back, “Way to go, Dad, I knew you were a
bad ass.”
    “ Yeah, thanks Dad,” Benny added
with a smile.
    “ Frank, can we take your car?”
Autumn asked.
    The Old Man stopped, “All I have is my pickup
truck, and we won’t all fit.”
    “ Are you serious?” Jack said,
exasperated “I never realized all three of us have pickups. If
anybody looked at this family from the outside they’d think we were
a bunch of goddamned hillbillies.”
    “ We’ll just have to stick with the
hearse,” Benny stated.
    They all piled into the old death cab (Benny
and Au-tumn climbing into the back) and hit the road. Frank took
over the