Knight Terrors: A Zombie Apocalypse Survival Tale by Stephen J. Beard Read Free Book Online Page B

didn’t trust your husband from the very beginning, but we would’ve helped you anyway.  I’m giving you a fighting chance, because I’m better than you.  You have 50 rounds from my own bag.  But, understand, Nancy.  If either one of you try anything I will kill you both without hesitation.”
         She nodded through her tears.
         “Do you and Ken have any tools at home?”
         She nodded again.
         “Good, a large kitchen knife or screwdriver will make a better weapon than your guns.  The zombies are attracted to noise.  Use the guns only as a last resort.  Do you understand?”
         She nodded again.  I looked up.
         “Okay, lets’ go.”
         We got into the bus and started off.  As I looked over, Nancy was till cradling Ken as she cried.
         “I’m sorry Boss Man.”
         “Why are you sorry?”
         “I’m always the ‘let’s help people’ guy.  That one didn’t work out so well.”
         “We’ll try to help everyone we can, Mike.  But did everyone get a weird vibe from them?”
         Everyone agreed.
         “Remember to listen to your instincts.  They will save your life.  And, we are alive and unhurt so we win.”
         “You’re a better human than I am, Ryan Knight.” Said Lois.  “I don’t think I’d have been as charitable.
         “Leaving them with nothing was the same as killing them right there.  I’d kill to save any one of us.  But, once I got the gun from him they were no threat to us.”
         “Still…”
         When we pulled into the CVS lot there were more zombies than expected.  Roughly 20 or so.  I parked to one side of the lot and we methodically took them out one by one.  Mike stayed in the back of a pickup truck to watch for trouble.  That included zombies and humans.
         But the CVS had been broken into and looted.  We cleared the store and looked around.  The water was gone along with a lot of the medical supplies.  The pharmacy was practically empty.
         “Okay, whatever soda and juice still here we grab.  Breakfast bar type snacks are good.  Whatever you think we need,” I said.
         It didn’t take long.  The people looting the store were in a hurry and missed a lot of things that are necessary.  We managed to get vitamins for Tracie and a cane for Tony.  Plus a few other medical supplies like ACE bandages.  A sprain that takes time to heal puts a valuable person out of action.
         We had one more stop.  Not 100 yards from The Harris Teeter was a True Value hardware store.  I was sure it’d be looted but what we needed might not be a hot commodity.  There was no sign of Ken or Nancy but I left a lookout just the same.  The store had been looted as expected but there were no zombies inside.
         We were here for ladders and they had not been looted.  But we managed to find more things we could use at the fort.  More nails.  An assortment of tools.  It would be really frustrating and potentially dangerous to not complete a project because we didn’t have the right tools.  We also found some plastic tubbies.  They would be handy to carry item from the boat to the fort but also could keep stuff dry.  Lastly, I found some seeds.  Not many but we’d need to grow our own food eventually.
         The trip back to Liberty Square and the boat was uneventful.  We got the boat loaded quickly and cast off.
         “Ryan,” Lois asked.  “Are all the supply runs like that?”
         I could see that Lois was reconsidering her decision to come along.  I didn’t want to scare her but she needed to know how things were when we left the safety of the fort.
         “No, Lois.  Sometimes we don’t have any living people trying to kill us.”
         We got everything packed into the tubbies.  They were really going to help.  The other thing that would be helpful is to have a way to get stuff from the