The Cure, стр. 29
She raised her gun with both hands and pointed it towards the thing in front of her. But as she did the creature raised its hands up in surrender, inch long talons on every fingertip. Hands still up, the smile departed and instead a rather sad and pathetic human being stood in front of her. It opened its mouth and a noise from the back of his throat implored ‘help me.’ Her hands shaking, she slowly lowered her gun. As she did so, she felt a warm liquid cover her face as the Savage pounced at her and Logan simultaneously put a bullet through its chest.
Time had stood still but now frantically Logan took her by her hand ‘Three left Tals and two of them have Faye.’ They ran through the mass of shelters and tents looking for Faye.
Seth was stood by a tent his hand over his mouth when Tallulah and Logan reached him. Inside the tent the two creatures sat huddled over Faye obscuring her body. Seth was paralyzed watching as Faye mouthed the words ‘kill me,’ to him. Logan raised his gun to the oblivious creatures, high on human flesh, and rained bullets from a machine gun into the tent killing everything in there. When he took his finger off the trigger he was out of ammunition and Tals sunk into him, her legs like jelly, sobbing uncontrollably.
‘We’ve got it,’ shouted Samson. Logan, Tallulah and Seth headed out to the opening where one of the creatures was hanging from a chain in the middle of the warehouse. ‘Logan, I underestimated you and your team. I’m sorry for the loss of your friend. She seemed very nice. I was skeptical of what you were telling me, and I know I haven’t been very forthcoming. I know you have your reservations about us, but I am not hiding anything from you. We have fought to survive this long and we live to fight until the next battle. We support your quest to find your Professor and thank you for what you are doing. You really are heroes. Tomorrow morning, we will escort you to the Police Station and the prison.’
‘And what next for that monster,’ said Logan.
One of Samson’s men stood before him holding out a Samurai sword, which he drew from its sheath.
‘Next, for this one, who was once my brother, peace,’ and he brought the sword down slicing the creatures head from its body.
Next morning Samson kept to his promise and took the group the two-hour journey to the Police Station. The roads were quiet and despite Samson telling them that no-one would attack during the day they were still very aware of the preceding night’s events and what had happened to Faye. All were on edge and Tallulah in particular was understandably upset at the loss of her friend.
‘This is as far as we go my friend,’ Samson said to Logan
Logan held out his hand and Samson took it and pulled Logan into him.
‘Just be careful in there son. Don’t go in guns blazing. Expect the unexpected,’ Samson said.
Logan pulled his hand away sharply wondering whether this was some kind of threat. He had known early on that Samson hadn’t told him the whole truth about the Prison and this backed that up.
‘Thank you for your hospitality Samson. Until we meet again,’ said Logan.
Samson bellowed out a laugh and turned and started walking away and the rest of his men turned and walked off into the distance of the city.
‘We’re on our own again now guys,’ he said to the remaining group.
‘Just how we like it,’ said Chuck.
They entered the Police Station and split off, first checking that they were as alone as they hoped. The station was small but had offices spread throughout the main floor. Stairs led down to the cells, along with the entrance into the prison. Logan indicated to them to follow him downstairs and with his gun ready he moved forward.
The staircase was dark and the only light in the cells was coming from the stairwell. They took out their torches and lit the way ahead. Downstairs the cells doors were open and one by one the group bunched together behind Logan examining each cell and moving along to the end of the corridor. They reached the last cell and Logan peered around the door. A loud screech rang out and Logan jumped backwards into the rest of them causing everyone to scream and panic.
‘Its fine it’s fine,’ Logan said, ‘It’s just a cat.’
‘Holy cow Logan. I thought it was one of those things,’ said Chuck ‘Are you trying to give me a heart attack?’
Tallulah smacked Logan on the arm and the group started laughing, first slowly and then into raucous laughter. Even Logan broke a smile and then couldn’t stop himself bursting out into tears of laughter. Gradually the moment passed, and they looked at each other under the lights of the torches and Logan snapped back into army mode. ‘This is it guys. Time to save the world,’ he said dramatically.
The tunnel entrance was at the end of the corridor and the metal door was ajar. It looked like it had previously been covered with a bookcase, which had been shifted aside, scratch marks on the floor. ‘That makes things easier,’ said Xander. They continued through the door and down another corridor which led to a junction. ‘The schematics say we go right, and two hundred yards up there should be an entrance to a stairwell that goes into the first floor of the prison. Then there should be a door that takes us into the maintenance room of the gantry,’ said