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  Adam sat there staring at her for a moment slack jawed. He couldn’t believe what Eve had just said, but deep down, he knew she was right. “Fine. You can come with me, and if you come up with a plan to take them down along the way, that’s great. But I’m not going to wait around for you to do so.”

  Eve smiled, obviously enthused about her victory. “I’m going to go pack now. I’ll be back in five minutes, and then we can leave.” She skipped out of the room, softly closing the door behind her.

  Adam fell back onto his bed and let out a deep sigh. What had he gotten himself into?

  *****

  Eve returned to Adam’s room five minutes later. She was excited to actually be doing something. It was great being able to take a rest, but she was ready to go out there and start looking for answers! She hated sitting around here doing nothing, but wait.

  “Alright, so what’s first?” She asked Adam.

  “Well, I thought we’d go out and get something to eat. You know, just kill time until it got dark out.” He said, as he threw his bag across his shoulder.

  “What are we going to do once it gets dark?” She asked.

  “I’m going to leave my window open, and we’re going to sneak back in here. Then, we’re going to go down to the basement, and steal all the information that London has gathered about Kappa.” He walked over to the window, and opened it.

  “That’s not right! We can’t just steal it!”

  “Hey, if you wanna bring Kappa down, and get our families back, we gotta get our hands just a little dirty. Besides, I’m sure they’ve got backups.” Adam climbed out the window, and onto the roof.

  Eve felt a little reassured, but it still felt wrong to her to be stealing from them. “I hope you know what you’re doing.” She said as she followed Adam onto the roof.

  “Don’t worry, I don’t.”

  Adam jumped onto the first floor roof, and offered to help Eve down. She just threw her bag into his open arms, and jumped down beside him. She jumped down to the ground, and started walking before Adam could catch up.

  It was going to be a long trip.

  Chapter Six

  Adam and Eve were standing behind a tree, watching the house. They never realized how late everybody went to bed. It was almost one-thirty before all the lights in the house had been turned off.

  They ran over to the part of the roof that was under Adams window. He interlaced his fingers to help Eve climb onto the roof. She the grabbed his hand, and helped pull them up. They repeated this process, until they were under Adams bedroom window. They climbed in.

  “Alright, where’s the basement? I’m gonna be pissed if it’s outside.” Adam whispered to Eve.

  “Don’t worry; I remember hearing them say something about the door to it being in the kitchen.” Eve said as she snuck out of the room.

  The two of them quietly snuck down the hallway. Their eyes were not fully adjusted to the light, so it was difficult to see where they were going. They made it to the stairs, and began slowly making their way down. Adam never realized how much the stairs creaked, until now. With every step they took, the steps protested louder and louder. This made Adam’s blood pressure rise more and more.

  They made it to the bottom of the stairs, and froze to listen if Nick or Felix were getting up for a late-night snack. After they stood there for a few minutes, and heard no sound but their own breathing, they continued.

  Eve walked into the kitchen, and began looking for a door. She searched, and searched, but couldn’t find it.

  “Maybe it’s hidden.” Adam quietly suggested.

  Eve shrugged. “It would make sense. If the basement is where they keep all of their top secret information, they’d want to keep it hidden from Kappa.”

  They began looking in the not so obvious places. Under the mat, and table; inside the cabinet, and pantry; they even looked inside the refrigerator, but to no avail.

  “I give up.” Eve said as she sat down in one of the chairs.

  “We can’t give up. If we don’t get this information, we have to start from square one.” Adam opened up the fridge, and pulled out the grape juice. The both of them jumped up when a lard clanking noise came from behind the fridge.

  “The grape juice!” Adam said laughing. “The way to open it was to get some grape juice!”

  The fridge slid into the wall, leaving a large gap leading into a dark abyss.

  “Let’s go!” Adam said as the darkness wrapped him in its dark embrace.

  The both of them felt their way down the stairs. They reached a platform, and turned right to continue down the stairs.

  They reached the basement, and started to grope the wall for a switch. As Adam was feeling up and down the wall, he felt something sticky. He continued looking for a switch, hoping what he felt wasn’t what he thought it was.

  All of the sudden, the basement was illuminated by florescent lights that were on the ceiling. Eve must have found the switch. The room was huge. It was half the size of a football field. Obviously, the basement was much bigger than the house above it.

  Adam felt his stomach drop. The sticky stuff on the wall was blood. Eve let out a scream, but put her hand over her mouth to stop herself. There were two men lying in the corner, covered in blood.

  “Kappa was here.” Adam said, examining the two bodies.

  There was a thumping noise upstairs, along with some shouting. The sound of the secret door opening reached their ears.

  “And I think they still are.” Eve said, as she ran to the wall, and turned out the lights.

  Part Four Coming Fall 2011

  Now, an excerpt from Logan Rutherford’s upcoming Novel, “The Arrival”.

  I woke up feeling dizzy. At first, I forgot where I was, but then I remembered that I was at the hospital.

  The news headline from earlier flashed in my head. Five Billion people. Just gone. I had to get out of here. I had to find my parents.

  I got out of hospital bed, and almost fell over from the dizziness, and the pain. But I kept myself up. I was determined to get out of here. I flipped the light switch on, but the lights didn’t come on. I kept trying, but nothing changed.

  A little freaked out; I opened the door. The lights were out in the hallway, too. I began walking down the hall, calling out for anybody. “Hello? Anybody there?”

  I felt something brush behind me. I turned around quickly, squinting in the darkness, trying to see who was there. “Hey! Where are you?” I began walking to where I thought I saw the person go. I saw a door ajar, and looked in. Nobody was in there, so I left the room, and continued walking down the hall.

  I began calling out, but a hand appeared over my mouth. I tried struggling, and punching behind me, but the grip that the person had on me was too strong. I was drug into what looked like the security room.

  The hand released me, and I turned around with my fists up.

  “Dude, shut up! They’ll hear you!” My captor said. He was a teenager, about my age, and was very muscular.

  “What are you talking about?” I said, with adrenaline buzzing through me. I wasn’t letting my guard down for a second.

  “The creatures, man!” He said with fear dripping from his voice.

  “What creatures?” I asked, still in a defensive position.

  “I don’t know, dude. But they’re out there, and they’re killing everybody! Look,” He said pulling out his cellphone. “I got a video of them, before I came in here.”

  I grabbed his cell phone, and what I saw gripped me with fear. A creature that was bald, and had grey skin, was crouched on its back legs. I looked almost human, but much freakier. The doctor that had tended to me earlier walked around the hallway, mumbling to himself. He saw the creature, and froze. The creature let out a screech, that made my hair stand up, and my arms feel like led. The creature ran for the doctor, but in a strange way, like a gorilla. It bounded at the doctor on its fists and feet, and tackled him. The creature killed the doctor, and began to feast on him.

  I began to feel dizzy. I realized that I was holding my breath. I began to breathe hard. Fear gripped my heart.

  “We’re gonna die, man.” The boy said, tears rolling down his cheeks. “Everybody left, and now these things are gonna kill us!”

  I had to get out of there, somehow. But those…things! How was I going to get out of here, with them trying to kill me?

  “Is this the security room?” I asked the boy.

  He wasn’t listening to me.

  “Answer me!” I yelled.

  He jumped, startled. “Yeah, yeah, this is it.” His voice was shaking.

  I began to dig around the desks that held the security monitors. I found a drawer that had four pistols in it. I knew how to use them.

  My dad, since he was in the marines, always wanted me to go into the military. He taught me how to shoot a gun when I was five – much to my mom’s disliking.

  We went down to the shooting range for some “guy time”. At first, I was scared of the guns. They were loud, and could kill me, and other people. But I still did it for my dad’s sake, and after a while, I began to enjoy it, but mostly because my dad and I had something to do together.

  I shook the memory out of my head. I had to get out of here, for them. For my parents.

  I grabbed the guns. I had one in my hand, and stuck a backup in the waist of my pants. I tossed the other two to the boy. “Know how to use one?” I asked.

  He shrugged.

  “What’s your name?” I asked.

  “Alex.” He responded.

  “Alright, Alex. My name is Charlie. Let’s get outta here.” Then, we heard the girl scream.

  Alex looked at me. “What do we do?” He asked.

  I stood there for two seconds before making my decision. “Stay close to me, and don’t shoot unless you have to.” I said, and I brushed pass him before he could protest. I slowly opened to creaking door. I didn’t see any of the creatures, so I snuck out with Alex on my heels.

  The girl started screaming again, but this time it was muffled. We followed the screams. I tried to move as fast as I can, to keep the fear from rising up within me. I pushed the thoughts of leaving her out of my mind. There were only a few humans left, and every life counted. That and I would not be able to live with myself if I left her here.

  We rounded a hallway, and saw one of the creatures trying to get into a hospital room. The girl’s screams for help emanated from the room. The creature was banging and scratching on the door, trying its hardest to get in. Eventually, the creature would just give up. It would never get it, unless it figured out how to use the doorknob. Then, I remembered that scene in Jurassic Park when the dinosaurs figured out how to use the doorknobs, and almost ate the two kids.

  “We gotta figure something out quick.” I thought aloud.

  I didn’t want to shoot it, and attract more creatures to me. I had to take it out quietly.

  “Stay here.” I whispered to Alex.

  I crouched down, and stalked up to the creature. The girl’s screams, and the creature’s grunts, scratching, and banging, covered the noise of my footsteps. I got up to it, and stood up, raising my gun. I brought the butt of it down on its head, as hard as I could.

  It had no effect.

  I turned and got inches from my face, and roared. Spit and blood sprayed on my face. I didn’t want to know whose blood it was.

  But before I had time to process this thought, it tackled me and was about to sink its teeth into me. A shoot rang out, and the creature fell on my face. It was dead. I pushed it off me, and stood up, wiping my face off on my shirt.

  “I thought that was necessary.” Alex shakily said.

  “Yeah, me too.” I said.

  I opened the door. I saw a girl, about 15-years-old curled up in the corner. Tear marks streaked down her face and her brown curly hair was a mess.

  “Wh-wh-who are y-y-you?” She said through sobs.

  “Jesus, now let’s go.” Alex said sarcastically.

  I heard roars, and screams in the distance. They were coming.

  She stood, and limped over to us.

  “Great,” Alex said rolling her eyes. “She has a limp. How cliché.”

  I ignored the comment, and grabbed her hand. We ran the opposite direction of the screams. We ran as fast as we could, trying not to stumble over things in the dark. By things, I mean bodies, but I tried to convince myself that they were trays, or something. I tried not to look behind us, but I couldn’t help myself. There were about 20 creatures chasing after us.

  Here it goes. We are about to die. I thought. I wasn’t scared of death, just those creatures, which I guess was the same thing.

  We came to a T-intersection. “Turn left!” I yelled. Not that I knew which way to go. I just heard more creatures coming from the right, so I figured that wasn’t the way we should go.

  We ran to the end of the hallway. It was a dead end.

  I saw a door to my right, and the girl and I busted through it, with Alex on our heels. I slammed the door, but a creature stuck its hands in the way. I tried to slam it again, but it was too strong. It pushed, and squeezed its head in.

  “Alex! Help!” I yelled.

  By helping, he shot it in the head.

  The body went limp; I pushed it out of the way, slammed the door shut, and locked it.

  “With that many creatures, the door won’t last for long.” I said, out of breath. “We have to figure something out, and fast.”

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  The Runners, by Logan Rutherford

  Runner (The Runners, Part One)

  Caught (The Runners, Part Two)

  Rescued (The Runners, Part Three)

  Coming Soon

  The Arrival – A Novel

  The Runners, Part Four

  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  Prologue

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Now, an excerpt from Logan

 

 

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