Total Apoc Trilogy (Book 3): Horde Ravaged by TW Gallier Read Free Book Online Page A

Empty. I opened the fridge, and the most god awful stench assaulted me. I slammed it shut.
                "Find any food?" Ralph asked as they joined me.
                "Cleaned out. That back door was forced open and damaged, so I can't close it."
                The door down to the basement was open, so we checked it out. Laundry and storage. Nothing to eat. No weapons. So we headed upstairs. The bedrooms were tossed worse than the living room. The mattresses were cut open. All of the clothes were pulled out of the closets and left on the floor.
                "Wahoo!" Ralph called from the other room.
                We rushed over to the front bedroom. He was sitting on the ruined mattress and pulling a pair of socks onto his still muddy feet. A pair of work boots sat on the floor before him.
                "They fit," he said, beaming with joy.
                While he was busy, I took Olivia to check the only bathroom in the house. We wanted medical supplies. It wasn't in the stars. Even the bathroom was smashed.
                "I get the impression someone was a little ticked off," Olivia said. "Hey, here's an empty Vicodin bottle. Maybe we can find a pharmacy that hasn't been looted for some really good pain killers."
                Worth checking, but I couldn't imagine gun stores or pharmacies being spared a good looting. Even during the apocalypse some people would want to zone out on drugs. Maybe even more so.
                Olivia and I entered the last bedroom, which was setup as an office. It was trashed, too. She went over to the window.
                "I can see downtown from here," she said. "It kind of looks familiar. Could this be Jackson?"
                Jackson was a city of a few hundred thousand north and east of our hometown. If that was Jackson, then we were closer to home than I thought. A few hours' drive, if we could get a running automobile. The ATVs out in the barn would get us there pretty quickly, but weren't anywhere close to being as fast as a car or pickup.
                "I haven't seen any keys in the bedrooms or downstairs," Olivia said as if she'd read my mind. "Maybe someone took them to test the ATVs and they wouldn't start."
                Didn't matter. Without keys the ATVs were dead to us.
                "Shame none of us knows how to hotwire them," I said, looking at my friends hopefully. Olivia shrugged and Ralph frowned. "Didn't think so. So, do we rest here a few hours?" I looked out the window. From the 2nd floor we had a much better view of the subdivision across the street. "Or do you want to look for a house that hasn't been looted to eat and rest inside?"
                "Move on," Ralph said. "Nothing here for us. Even the beds are trashed."
                "Agreed," Olivia said. Her eyes narrowed as she looked down in the farmyard. "Shit."
                Ralph and I pressed up against the window. There they were. Zombies. Had to be over twenty of the stupid bastards. Worse, they were headed for the house.
                "Well fuck me to…"
                "Hush. Ralph will make an obscene comment."
                "You know me so well," he said, grinning. Then his grin turned into a scowl. "Looks like we get to kill some more semi-dead monsters."
                There was no back stairs. So we charged down the stairs and straight into zombies entering the house. There were too many to fight, but we didn’t have a choice. So we fell upon them with machetes. Why waste ammo? Gunfire would just attract more of them.
                I stood directly in front of the door, with Olivia to my left and Ralph on the right. They came through the door one at a time. We hacked them down, blood splattering ever us and everything. That might have been the most blood ever. We were mostly