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THE REUNION OF DARKNESS
Chapter XIV.
The street light up ahead was flickering. It was the only light for miles. It was next to the flagpole of the Elementary school ahead. Just to the right of the pole, they see a car that had crashed into the gate. There is still movement in the car, and the rush over to see if they can help. The smell of gasoline puts them on alert, they need to move fast. As they walk around to the driver side, they see the tires had been flattened and the wheels bent. They must have been trying to drive away on the flat tires for a while. In the distance they heard an engine, and it was slowly getting louder & potentially closer. They speed up their efforts. Chesty smashes the window and they work together to try and pull open the door. They hear the screams from the car, there is a baby in the back.
As they pull open the driver side door, they try to cut the belt, but it gets even harder since the car is quickly filling with smoke. They take a step back to figure out how to get into the back seat. When they turn back to look, BOOM, the car explodes. They are pushed to the ground from the power, and everyone is disoriented.
Before they can get their bearings, a black truck pulls up. The back is loaded with plastic crates, and the slight appearance of tire spikes hanging out of one of them. The men in the truck are masked with old halloween pig masks, that have been duct taped to their gas masks.
Chesty has to pick up Buckley and carry him with the family and run into the school. Buckley is paralyzed with fear. His body has shut down as the flashback takes over his brain.
He is floating over a car in the middle of the field. The car is burning and hands are reaching out the windows trying to get help. He looks to the right and sees himself as a teenager crying under a tree. Buckley tries to yell towards himself down below, ‘save them, save them, help them;’ but nothing happens. He starts to float higher into the sky and the car gets smaller.
Suddenly they are gone and his eyes spring open. Chesty grabbed some smelling salts out of the bag in order to wake him up. As Buckley takes a drink of one of the old sodas he packed, they start to understand the surroundings. With the school just around the block from Chesty’s house, they look to forge a path.
As they look out the window for an open path, they can see that down the street there is another group of people. They are armed with bats and molotov cocktails. They are being led by a German Shepard, hunting out the scent of those that left the car behind a few hours ago.
The doors at the back of the school swing open, and a group of 7 men come inside. They start yelling, hooting and whistling as they drag metal pipes and bats along the lockers in the hall. The first door slams as they check the class on the left, followed by each class down the hall. Hearing the doors slam at the other side of the building, they know they have time to escape. Buckley leads the group into the cafeteria knowing they must have a door for deliveries that they can use to get out.
As they quietly slide open the metal door covering the serving line, everyone jumps over into the kitchen and they quietly put the lock on the door once closed again. The plan is simple. Kids wait in the kitchen office, while everyone else checks for the exit and a clear path out. As the adults were looking around the back of the kitchen, the kids were hiding under the desk in the office. Once the exit was found, they formulated a plan on how to get out. They would exit out the back and go behind the dumpster on the right and from there they could go between the houses and in a few blocks they would be safe.
Before they could get out the door the group of men had found them. It didn't take long for them to get the door open and to be face to face with the family. Buckley knew his way around the kitchen, and immediately knew what to do. He pushed the kids underneath the stainless steel tables and told them to cover up as best they could. He took the bin of flour and threw it towards the group, giving them a few seconds to get ready.
The dog came towards them and jumped right at Chesty. As he turned he grabbed a cutting board and smacked the dog across the face. The dog hit the ground, snarled his teeth and growled. Buckley's wife luckily was behind the dog at this point, and grabbed a Large metal mixing bowl and used it as a shield. Chesty quickly grabbed a large paddle off the wall and continued to hit the dog pushing him back. Between both of them they got the dog into the walking freezer, shut the door and turned back to assist Buckley.
Buckley had been wrestling with one of the men, and pushed him back against the table. He used his knee to turn on the slicer. The purring and grinding of the metal slicer hummed until the blood curling gags came from the other man. His face and ear were nearly all the way off when with a final push Buckley was able to push his neck into the slicer blade.
Chesty took on the second man in line, who came after him with a kick. Chesty grabbed his leg and knocked him to the ground. still holding his legs he swung the man on the floor to the left, lifted him up by his ankles and shoved him in the steamer. He closed the door and turned it on full blast. The man crunched upside down could only knock on the glass for help.
One man went to check on the guy convulsing over the slicer, his eyes completely black, threw back his head and howled like a wolf. A few twitches of his neck he got down on his hands and feet and started running on all fours towards Buckley. Buckley's wife threw a gallon of oil on the ground, causing the man to slip. He fell over on his right side and knocked his head against the giant mixer. His wife grabbed the man by his hair, pushed his head against the mixer paddle and turned it on. The repetitive smashes of the mixer against his face Quickly put the man in his place.Upon seeing these a few others ran away, but one stayed.
This man could barely stand. He was in so much pain, he was vomiting and keeled over. He started to snarl, looking like a wild boar, he ran over and tackled Chesty. A knife fell out of Chesty’s pocket and Buckley went to reach for it, but he wasn’t fast enough. The man in the mask grabbed it and stabbed Buckley in the wrist. This gave Chesty the chance To use a pressure point since the man's attention was drawn away. He grabbed the masked man, stood up while holding him, and threw him on the table. The large buffalo chopper was in reach, he dragged the man across the table, put his arm inside and turned it on. As the man yelled, the screams echoed through the kitchen and sounded as if 1000 souls had died. The chopper pulled the man’s arm deeper and was slowing down as it stuck to his bones. As he tried to pull himself free, Buckley’s wife grabbed a knife and shoved it through his back. He was coughing up blood as he continued to scream until his screams slowed in pace. The smell of burnt electronics gave way to the machine being completely stuck and shutting down.
The kids crying in fear, were covered in splattered blood, as they were taken from below the table. They were going to make their way for one final push to Chesty’s house. Buckley only had towels to tie around his wrist as they got ready to head out.