Zombie Theorem (Book 1): The Culling by James Wallace Read Free Book Online Page B

by Brian’s side. “Fuck that, I got your back. Matt close that door now.” I yelled. I heard the door shut and then the locked clicked. I looked around the floor looking for a weapon. Nothing, fuck me really? Water? No help unless I could hold her down and drown her with it. Food? Well if she was hungry that might help.  Plastic forks? Yeah ok never mind, that’s just stupid. Finally, I saw an old chair that had been dragged from my office. It had these modern looking metal legs supporting its base. I kicked the chair over and was trying to pull the legs off. Suddenly I was slammed against the wall. Brian reached down grabbed a leg in each hand and pulled inward then outward ripping them free. He handed one to me and turned. Suddenly there was Stacey in all her gory puss filled glory.
    She grabbed Brian and started pulling him toward her. He dropped his chair leg and put his hands on her chest trying to push her away. I could see the veins on his neck and forearms bulging from the exertion. He had her almost at a stalemate. But then she started craning her teeth toward him snapping them hard, trying to bite him. “Stop fucking being a spectator and do something Boss. This bitch is way stronger then she looks.” He was grimacing hard.
    I realized I was just standing there with the makeshift weapon hanging by my side. I raised my arm and yelled her name until my voice went hoarse. “STACEY!” I brought down the chair leg and hit her left arm as hard as I could. I heard bone snap but she didn’t even yelp in pain or stop her action of trying to get a tasty Brian sandwich. I raised the chair leg again and started hitting her on the shoulder with all my strength. I could’ve been hitting her with a pool noddle with all the same results. She was now inches from biting down on Brian’s cheek. I could tell he was fading, his massive strength at its limits. I lost all control and started hitting her in the head over and over again. Hair and bone exploded all over with each hit I landed. I raised the leg high over my head and shoved the sharper broken side into her head wound that I had created and pushed with all my might. Her body started to falter as she lost her grip on Brian and he was able to push her back. My weapon was still lodged in her head. Somehow she was able to keep her feet under her, yet she seemed only damaged somehow. Brian let loose a guttural roar and stepped over to her. He grabbed the leg ripped it out of her head and using all his remaining strength shoved it back into her pushing it deeper then I had been able to. She finally collapsed, completely as if someone had just turned off her power switch. Brian and I both just stood there, panting heavily, looking down at Stacey’s twice dead body.
    “Thanks Boss, I know that probably took a lot out of you. But thank you.” He reached out gathering me into his arms and giving me a proper hug.
    We heard the lock on my office door unlatch and then the door swung open. Matt shakily poked his head out. “We could see the entire thing from the office window. Are you guys ok?” All of them emerged from my office and stood behind us. Stacey’s body just laid there. I looked down at her and saw some black looking liquid seeping from her head.
    “What the hell is that? Brian, bodies don’t leak black shit right?” I pointed to what I saw.
    “Not unless it’s a ruptured intestine that was filled with waste. Certainly nothing in the head leaks that color. So by the way what the fuck happened?”
    “Not completely sure, let’s go for a quick walk; I need to see something before I can be sure. All of you can either stay here with that”, I pointed at the body on the ground. “or you can come with us, up to you.” I strode from the office back toward the lobby. I didn’t have to look back to know they were following. We passed the bathrooms and made a beeline for the supply closet. The door was wide open, that black stuff smeared on the inside and door.