sorry, but this is epicly long.. I just wanted to get Christian and Blue too a safe spot, so that fullmetalangel can chuck up some posts again. You don't need to read this.. but I feel its pretty epic.
Christian forced his way forward another hundred meters, leaping over the bonnet of a car that was half buried in the sand. He was lucky that the girl was young, light, and carrying a relatively. He was able to carry her with surprising ease, making the athletic maneuvers that where necessary to keep him ahead of the moaning wall of flesh that pursued them every step of the way.
He ran up the bonnet of the car, across the roof, and then down its spoiler, using it as a vault to get to the bonnet of the next car. He found that this 'car hopping' as he had come to call it made the process of avoiding the swarm easier; as they didn't seem to have the intellect to preemptively prepare an ambush on the cars, all thought he had seen a handful clamber onto there chassis in pursuit of him.
He launched himself off the roof of a blue Sedan, sun bleached to an off silver, and landed on the sandy ground, stumbling to regain his footing as he underwent the change from weather worn metal too natural sand. Then, with the ever present moans again lurching up on him he took off, running into the fog towards what he thought to be a shelter looming out before him. As he ran he realized he had been mistaken, it wasn't a shelter at all, but the overhead roof of a gas station, four pumps protrude from the sandy embankments, and a large tanker truck sat long forgotten across the right hand side of the station. It was a gas station.. gas was highly combustible There was no way he was going to be able to dodge these zombies forever, and he had neither the stamina nor the ammunition to fight them all of. But if he could kill some.. no.. not just some.. a hell of a lot with one move. Maybe, just maybe he could by some time. And so a primitive but effective plan concocted itself in his mind.
Christian legged it straight to the pumps, running on reserves of energy that seemed to emerge from the desperation of his plight. His stomach burnt, his legs ached, and every step felt like a lance of hot fire burning its way down his body. But he ran straight towards the nearest pump. 'Come on lady luck, don't fail me now.' He thought to himself. As he reached the nearest pump he tenderly lent the girl down next too it, her head lolled to the side, but she was still breathing, shallowly, but it was still a sign of life. "Don't worry kido, where getting you out of here." He gritted with determination. With his cargo secured he checked the pump. Empty. 'No. no no no no no.' screamed his mind, he ran to the next one in line. Empty too. 'Damn it.' With panic and fear gripping his mind he ran to the third one, and had barely touched the pump when he was rewarded with a spray of gasoline. Bingo.
Christian ripped off a strip of his shirt and tied it hard around the grip off the gasoline pump, forcing the pump to keep flowing, then, as the precious liquid spilled onto the sand he opened up his pack and started emptying some of the drink bottles that he had in there and filling them up with the oil. In addition he ripped of some more strips of his shirt and lay them on the ground near the pump to catch all the excess flow of liquid. It would do no good letting it all seep into the sand were it would be absorbed. He finally ripped another strip off his left pant leg and dipped that into one of the bottles, manufacturing a primitive moltov. As he worked he kept checking back on the girl. Zombies were constantly drawing ever closer, but none were close enough yet.
With the moltov prepped and ready he was finally prepared. Taking off at a dash back towards the downed girl he again cradled her into his arms, making sure to keep the oil soaked rag end of the moltov well away from her clothing. He had no idea HOW big this was going to be. But he had a feeling it was going to be BIG . He reached the end of the gas station and turned to look, although the fog obscured much of the station he could still make out the shambling figures of dozens of zombies as they made there way towards their ever illusive pray. "Sorry guys, but I just needed to go out with a bang." Said Christian, hardly able to suppress the hysterical laughter that overcame his body as he laid the girl down beside him and pulled out his lighter. It sparked on the first flick, and with sadistic and calculated menace he let the end of the rag catch and start to burn as he arched back his arm and through the concoction towards his trap. The bottle arched through the air like a flare illuminating the gray wisps of fog, it flew straight onto the station, and landed in the sand, where it sat smoldering to itself.
It was plastic the point of a moltov was for the glass to break, thus spilling out is volatile cargo. In a plastic bottle all it achieved was a self contained fire. Of course the plastic would eventually melt, and the fire would catch onto everything else around it. But he had no idea how long that would take and he needed the fire works now. "Shit." Muttered Christian. He was out of ideas. "I'm sorry kid, I tried." he said, barely able to hold back the tears that threatened to overwhelm him. It just didn't seem right. To have come so far only for it to end like this. At least he could do one thing right. She didn't need to become one of them. He could at least stop that happening. He went to reach for his magnum, he could at least make that right... As he reached however he saw that in his hand he still held the ignited zippo lighter. His senses were dulled, and the thought processes slowed. But slowly and steadily he made the connection. Zippo = hot. Hot = fire. Fire = boom. Time for plan B.
He had to leave no room for error this time. Christian violently tore away the lid of the zippo so it wouldn't flip back over the lighter and accidentally extinguish it. Then, arching his arm back and placing his body low like he was preparing to skip a stone across a river, Christian got ready to throw. In one swift motion he bought his hand forward and released, sending the lighter skimming through the twilight air. It twirled over itself once, twice, three times, then smacked right against the side of the gas pump.
The explosion was.. initially quite disappointing. The first of the live gas pumps had already released a fair amount of its cargo, and although the liquid caught and flared up like napalm, turning several nearby zombies into walking torches. But it was when the liquid caught the second pump, which proceeded to explode like a righteous fireball, that the real spectacle began.
After throwing the zippo Christian had grabbed his companion back up and started running again. But when he felt the searing wave of heat rush across his back he crouched down against the sand, putting his entire body between the station and the girl. He heard the first explosion, he heard the sound of shrapnel clattering down around him. He even saw a piece of masonry from the stations roof land on top of a Taxi cab, crushing it flat. The first explosion was then accompanied by a second, as the heat form the second pump exploding, and the flaming litter from its gutted corpse landed in, on, and around the petrol tanker, which proceeded to explode as well.
With embers dancing into the cool night air Christian again took off, stumbling into the night. All though the noise had been tremendous he was sure the results far outweighed the danger. He stumbled up the street for a few hundred yards until he saw a building where a truck had piled into its wall, collapsing pieces of it around it. The buildings doors and windows were barred and secured, but the back of the truck hung loosely open. On a hunch Christian climbed into the back of the truck, then closes it behind him, locking it securely. Taking the girls flashlight and gun Christian slowly walked up the truck and into the building, kicking open the trucks door to gain entry. He scanned the flashlight about the building but saw no inhabitants. Convinced of there safety he set down his own lantern, turned it on, then climbed back into the truck to retrieve the girl again.
Once they were both inside he assessed there position again. The building already had its own natural fortifications, and sand build up around the bottom of the truck, and the rubble collapsed onto of it turned it into its own defensive chock point. The trucks rear door was the only was into and out of the building. And to top it all off, the building was a drug store. Although his mind was ravaged, and his limbs ached, Christian knew he still had one task to complete. Tenderly he removed blues top, being sure to avoid letting any of the fabric stick to the wound.
Christian had rudimentary medical knowledge, but he knew this wound required more then he could deliver. Stitches almost defiantly. But he was going to do what he could. Tenderly he positioned some dressed gauze patches over the wounds, before strapping them down with bandages. He was careful not to pin the bandages to tight, and disable mobility to the girls arms. With her wounds dressed Christian then lay her on the floor, and gently covered her with his Duster. "Sleep tight little one." He said softly, before looting the store for a lighter and some cigarettes. Contently he lit one up. life was good; they were safe, for now.
1700 words.. sorry. But I hope at least some of you enjoy it.