Zombie Dawn II: A Zombie Apocalypse Sequel by J.A. Crowley Page A

a stuck pig
from multiple head and neck wounds.  Kate was practically naked, laying on a
bed in there in a daze.  I could tell what had happened, or almost happened,
and I saw pure red.  Things slowed down to super slow motion.
    I lined Santos up with my Beretta,
only to notice that the slide had locked back.  There was no magazine in it.  I
must have dropped it, then fired my last shot.  And I had no more mags.  What a
fucking dumb shit I was.  Killed Mike’s girlfriend, ruined the element of
surprise, and showed up empty at the most important gun fight of my life.
    Santos and the others, except for
Kate, all raced at me.  I flung my Beretta into Santos’ face but naturally
missed.  I pulled my Ka-Bar and braced for the attack.
    There were two big guys, two women,
and Santos.  Five on one.  The first, a big skinhead, was holding a fire axe in
his bleeding hand.  The other guy had a framing hammer or something.  I could
see Kate trying to slow him down.  He went to whack her with the axe, but
Santos screamed at him to stop.  He did.
    The women were unarmed.  I could not
tell what they were doing.  They did not seem eager to attack me, which was
fortunate because I was outnumbered.  But they were coming at me.
    As I held my Ka-Bar in front of me
with my right hand, the skinhead swung the axe.  I tried to move back but hit
the wall, bouncing back towards him.  I went for his belly, but the axe hit me
in the arm and I dropped the knife.  My hand and arm were completely numb, and
I knew I was badly injured.  Maybe killed, I thought.
    One of the women tackled Santos and
brought him to the ground.  I heard Kate scream “Bonnie--No” then Santos simply
twisted the woman’s head all the way around.  Her dead body dropped bonelessly
to the floor.  The skinhead’s feet got tangled up in the woman’s body, and he
lost his balance, going down heavily.
    My last memory was the other guy
swinging that hammer at me.  I tried to block it with my right arm.  The other
woman tried to get in the way, but she was no solider.  Luckily for her, Santos
knocked her down before the hammer could hit her.  Just as I noticed that my
arm was just hanging there, limp as a noodle, the hammer nailed me above the
left eye.  I went under.

 
    Chapter 35:    Kate’s Diary—Bitter
Reunion
    I was in shock to see Jack. 
Amazingly, my first thought was embarrassment and shame at him finding me
“with” another man.  Followed by regret that I had been unable to kill that
bastard Santos.  It all happened so fast.
    First, Jack rushes in.  He has a
perfect set up, but his gun is empty.  I can’t believe it, after all of his
lectures and speeches.  Standing there with his slide racked back and a
confused look on his face.  He’s done a lot of stupid things in his life, but
this is a masterpiece.
    Santos leaves me, dripping blood but
definitely not mortally wounded.  Bonnie tries to stop him but he killed her
without even thinking about it.  Twist and snap.  She was a gentle soul and
never had a chance.  Sadie also tried to interfere with Darius but to no avail. 
She ended up knocked out on the floor.
    So it was three on one, and it didn’t
last long.  Lehman struck Jack on his arm with an axe, and Darius hit him in
the head with a hammer.  I figured it was over.  I was sure that Jack was
dead.  Just then, Luis got off a shot from the doorway that hit Dale between
the eyes followed quickly by a second shot to Darius’ chest.  Luis slumped to
the ground, passing out from his injuries, a look of profound regret on his
scarred face.  Looked dead to me.
    Santos, still pouring blood from his
neck and face, turned to me with a triumphant sneer.
    “I’ll take you now, bitch.  Big Shot
Jack is dead.  Your son is dead.  Once you give me my son you’ll be dead, too.”
    I had picked up the razor blade that
Lehman had dropped, but I knew that Santos would have his way.  The weapon was
just too small.
    He