Fist Fighting the Undead (Cont.) IV
We’d run across the damp field and I’d tripped a couple of times. She did nothing at all to help me, except to encourage me to ‘keep up.’ I was tired, and my arms ached and my fists were sore.
I have to rest, despite the groans echoing around us. Pitch black and slivers of moonlight are revealing the muddiest route through the countryside. “Stop, I need to rest.” She did stop this time, and she ran back to me.
“Come on we don’t have all night,” she complained. Well we needed all fucking night because my ribs were seizing and my legs burned lactic acid. “Come on!”
“Wait, fucking wait,” I yelled back. Thank goodness I couldn’t see her expression, but she didn’t take to it kindly and began to run away. The first soul I’d seen in the last month was now leaving. I pushed through the stings in my stomach. “I’m coming.” I can jog and that is all, but the woman is fast, and much fitter, her body sways under the dim light and I cannot shake the moans that pierce my ears. Like a dead reckoning.
Slip, slush, I cracked my elbow on stone, the mud thick and coagulated, she’s out of sight, but I can hear her faint calls in the distance. “Come on then,” she cried back to me. I attempt to move and my arms flick around, my legs kick like a fool. The groans closed in, I smell stench of decomposed flesh, and I know the dead, the undead are about to eat me… “Come on.”
Damn, I really hate using my fists. I feel the cold and rotten flesh about to grab me and swing my legs around, I know I’ve knocked at least two to the muddy grass, and now another is behind. My legs span round and knocked another down. I go to stand up, press my hand on a dimpled skull and hear it crack as I push myself to my feet. “No,” I cried as one grabbed my left arm. I swing my right hook, caught the beast in the face and then gripped its neck and tore its thin throat out. “Wait for me!”
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Part I — https://medium.com/@thomas_maxwellharrison/fist-fighting-the-undead-4f63b257b79
Part II — https://medium.com/@thomas_maxwellharrison/fist-fighting-the-undead-cont-4990ac43f5fd
Part III — https://medium.com/@thomas_maxwellharrison/fist-fighting-the-undead-cont-iii-80ccf43c4056
