Chapter 21: Jail break (part 10)
Riley stops a block from the station and lays his nervous head on the steering wheel. "I am the monster, I am the hunter, I will be the savior. I will conquer this world in a sea of my enemies' blood living and dead until then I am the monster, I am the hunter." Riley chants over and over as he loads bullets into magazines and checks his gear until his racing heart steadies. Leaving the truck Riley draws his machete and gun creeping close to the buildings before rounding a corner to move through an alley. 2 zombies stand silently ahead of him and Riley kills them with the ease of a professional. Peeking around the corner Riley sees around 800 zombies roaming aimlessly about. Sharp pain catches Riley's scalp as his hair is yanked backwards towards a hungry maw. Riley's machete slides into the zombie's chin into its brain, yanking him to the ground while it falls still clutching his hair. 3 zombies appear at the alleyway where he had come from and seeing him, eagerly rush forward for their meal. Riley's arm holding the gun is pinned under his and the zombie's body. Struggling Riley pulls his hunting knife out and throws it, killing the closest zombie. Struggling further draws his k-bar on the same side and stabs at the hands and face of the lunging zombie crawling up him, killing it. Riley raises the newly dead zombie's arm and puts it in the mouth of the last zombie watching it hungrily chew its brethrens flesh. Twisting sharply, Riley frees himself and pins the last zombie beneath its kin and drives a knife into its skull. Tugging Riley tries freeing his hair and groans. Ripping his machete free he cuts the hand off and breaks the fingers until he tosses it aside and reclaims his lost gun. "Not a good start huh guys?" Riley asks the corpses at his feet. Taking a deep breath Riley moves around the building and runs forward into the sea of zombies lifting his gun he drops 15 zombies in a line to clear a path to the fence around the three story building. Riley moves as fast as he possibly can as the zombies claw at his body trying to get a hold of him. Scrambling up and over the fence Riley's arm gets caught on the razor wire hanging him from the fence for a moment until he rips himself free gouging his arm open in five places. The zombies on this side of the fence turn quickly towards the scent of blood and crowd towards Riley. Riley reloads and starts shooting zombies ignoring the pain in his forearm. Soon the boy realizes there is now way he will kill them all and he runs to a waterspout leading to the roof. Climbing frantically Riley gets half way up the creaky pipe when he hears the fence below give out to the horde and fall no longer separating the zombies within and out. Climbing faster Riley's fingers almost reach the roof when the water spout makes a horrendous groan and breaks free of the roof taking Riley with it.
"Where did Riley go?" Rat asks Jason in the kitchen where many were gathered to eat. "Police station." Jason answers. Several of the new members' eyes widen. "That place was overrun like no other before we even woke up!" Jessica yells in shock. "I am aware and so is he." Jason responds calmly. "There are hundreds of zombies there Jason." Mrs. King says, trying to remain calm. "There were hundreds around the high school as well and he was fine." Jason answers without looking up from his book. "You don't understand. I was there when it fell before. I went back to the school. The number of people being turned was in the thousands, people traveling on the freeways were there Jason you have no idea how bad it really is." The nurse says trying to fight the panic growing for Riley. Jason stares at her for a long moment. "Riley doesn't die, he kills and the only thing that will happen is he is going to walk through that gate and reach even more prolific heights of apocalyptic legend, so calm down Mrs. King and enjoy your breakfast." Jason says standing and hobbling to the market room.
Riley pants gripping the waterspout now bent at a 90 degree angle. "Fuck!" Riley yells. Looking forward Riley sees a window. Swinging his legs Riley builds momentum before launching himself into the window catching the small ledge. Pain flows from his abused left arm, and as he carefully pulls himself up increases. Sitting on the 1 foot wide ledge Riley inspects his hand. His little finger's nail had been wrenched up and back peeling away from its finger. Gritting his teeth Riley pulls it the rest of the way off and throws it. Very carefully Riley pulls his left arm out of his jacket and inspects the bloody arm. Riley gasps in pain as he dumps rubbing alcohol over his arm and using his ever present fishing hook and line, stitches the 5 savage gashes in his forearm. Once he finishes Riley takes a moment to catch his breath. As Riley pulls a bundle of bandages from his backpack he bumps it sending it to the horde below. "Fuck!" Riley roars. A pair of torn up police zombies bang into the window behind Riley. "Oh you will get some in a fucking minute." Riley growls thoroughly pissed off now. Once he is done wrapping the bandages around the stitched wounds Riley puts his arm back through his jacket sleeve. Carefully he draws his guns, and puts the barrel of each gun on the forehead of the zombies pressing their faces against the glass. Riley pushes hard as he pulls the triggers and tumbles inside landing roughly on his shoulder making him lose the 9mm pistol. Riley climbs to his feet and shoots a zombie climbing up the stairs leading to the lobby. Riley rushes down these stairs and past several zombies heading to the basement where the armory was located. At the stairs a zombie startles Riley, and he falls down the cement steps going through the metal railing. Landing. Riley cries out in pain. His leg has a 2 inch wide jagged piece of metal all the way through his calf muscle. At the top of the stairs zombies are coming in droves towards their meal. Dragging himself across the floor Riley pulls himself into an empty cell and closes the door as the dead slam into it. The zombies on either side of him reach hungrily for the bleeding boy. Riley shakes his head panting and drenched in blood and sweat. Weakly he pulls his radio out of his Jacket pocket.
Jason, Alex and Tank are sitting in the radio room waiting for Riley to report in though he is known to be bad at reporting in. "This is Riley to Crystal lake." Riley's voice rings over all the radios in Crystal Lake, and the 13 clan breathes a sigh of relief. "What's up Riley?" Tank asks, pushing Jason out of the way. "I fucked up guys." Riley says over the radio. Tank looks at Jason ``I'm not going to make it through this one. I'm really banged up." Riley says his words spilling ice over the 13 clan. "Stop messing around." Tank says laughing nervously. "Don't come here you will die, you can't save me there are too many of them." Riley says noticeably grimacing in pain. "You can't talk like that Ri. You always find a way." Tank says fighting fearful tears. "I only have one way Tank. I'm bleeding out, and I am in a cell surrounded. All I can do now is make sure there isn't a zombie Riley trying to eat you all later." Jason grabs the radio mic. "Riley, don't do this." Jason says panicking. "I'm sorry everyone, I failed to get the guns." Riley says. "Fuck the guns, get your ass back here!" Tank shouts. "Survive as long as you can brothers." Riley says followed by a bang that echoes and haunts Crystal Lake to its core.
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