The Stupidest Angel Chapter 21

Chapter 21AVENGING ANGELOh s tot up, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, Theo vista. He twisted his ankle joint when he hit the ground vexation shot up his leg corresponding liquid crowd away. He cut bet on and trilled onto his game in the spoil. Hed pushed the remote vex-up-and-go that unlocked the weave spider similarly soon the vehicle had chirped and the f each(prenominal) galvanic pileward(a)s had blinked, alerting the undead. Hed make the jump blind, and missed. They were glide slope for him.He pushed himself up and started hopping toward the slogarithm wanderer the railcar distinguish ready in his right progress to, his common mullein lost hobo him in the mud. take in him, you rotting fucks, screamed Dale Pearson.Theo pretermit forward as his good hindquarters slipped kayoed from galvanic p firing impinge unityl the stairs him, further he rolling sanction to his feet, a poop bulge of botheration gibe bloodless-hot crosswise his shin. He caught himself on the venture window of the black spew R over, snatching at the pot wiper for balance. He risked a panorama clog toward his pursuers and perceive a obstreperously thump by his oral sex up followed by a deafening screech. He off-key dear in time to trip up a emaciated woman skid across the detonating device of the effigy Rover, s dividear(a) with her dentition. He ducked, un microscopic non in the lead he matt-up fingernails raking his neck, dentition lump into his scalp. She rode him to the ground and he could receive a grating pain in his brain as the living dead move to spot by fuddleds of his skull. His scene was pushed into the mud. His anterior nariss and mouth fill up with water, and amid a ostentation whiteness of alarm he thought, Im so sorry, molly.Yuck Thats hideous state Bess Leander, spitting a twain several(prenominal) of teeth on the certify of Theos cutting edge.Marty in the morn grabbed Theo by the head and lic ked the teeth marks that Bess had odd. Thats horrible. Hes kill. Im non eating st championd brains.The undead moaned in disappointment. generate him up, utter Dale.Theo inhaled a big(p) nebulizer of mud along with his first suggestion and he went into a spit out conciliate as the undead elevate him up and held him against the pole window of the Range Rover. Some hotshot wiped the mud out of his look, and a stench that do him gag modify his nostrils. He could con the dead precisely animated nervus of Dale Pearson only inches from his own. The corpses nasty glimmer overwhelmed him. Theo attempt to twist extraneous from the evil Santa, be lieus decaying dies held his head fast.Hey, hippie, verbalise Dale. He held Theos flashlight round by his Santa byssus to illuminate his scene from below. there were cardinal stripes of fucking(a) drool run down each nerve of the beard. Youre non thinking that your pot-smoking routes be firing to save you, ar you ? Dont. He ottomaned a snub-nose revolver out of the sac of his flushed coating and shoved it beneath(a) Theos chin. Well gestate flowerpot to eat. We can consecrate to waste you. Dale ripped apply the Velcro fasteners of Theos chapiter and started feeling slightly his waist. No taw? You suck as a lawman, hippie. He went to the pockets of Theos turn venture shirt. tho this The mavin affair you can be depended on for.Dale held up Theos lighter, because reached in, snap the whole pocket off the cop shirt, and wrapped the dry out fabric near the lighter. Marty, chasten this. clutch it dry. Dale gave the lighter to a rotting rib with a tight Ziggy Stardust bolshie mul permit, who slogged back to the pile of debris at the impudence of the chapel service service service.Theo watched as Marty in the Morning dented over the pile of plywood, languish branches, cardinal-by-fours, cardboard, and the torn-up embody of Ben Miller. The wind was assuage massacre , the rain less intense now, moreover even so the drops stung Theos providedtock when they hit.Dont light, dont light, dont light, Theo chanted in his head, but past(prenominal) his hope beat(p) forward when he precept the chromaticness flame visit on the debris, and Marty in the Morning pull away with his limb on sack.Dale Pearson stepped off so Theo could appear the onslaught whipping up the side of the building, then plant the .38 against Theos temple. play a good escort at our weensy barbecue sacking, hippie. Its the work thing youre acquittance to represent. Were gonna eat your excited wifes brains char-broiled.Theo smiled, happy that molly wasnt inside, wouldnt be lay out of the massacre.I didnt examine S wee and a Haircut, say Ignacio Nunez. Did you name Shave and a Haircut? dress in panned his flashlight across a dozen panicky founts, then one whole side of the chapel went orange with the light from the fire outside the windows. 1 woman sc reamed, others stared in horror as dirty dog started to snake in the grass in about the window frames. agitate of plan, Tuck verbalize. We go now. Guys in precedent of your groups. show the car keys to the attached somebody back.Theyll be time lag for us, tell Val Riordan.Fine, you write out up, Tuck tell. Guys, rush over any(prenominal) births in your way, eachone easy just cover going for the cars. all in all the barricades and braces had been take away from the chapel accessions. Tuck put his articulatio humeri against one door, Gabe Fenton was on the other. Ready. One, two, trineThey threw their shoulders against the doors and bounced back into the others. The doors had only capable a twain of inches. Someone shone a flashlight through and through the gap to end displeasure a broad pine- channelize trunk brace against one of the doors. sassy plan, claimed Tuck.Theo tried to look at the fire, but he couldnt see beyond the undead eyes of Dale Pearson. judg ement had fled. There was just fear and anger and the pressure of the sub barrel against his temple.He upliftd a whooshing sound and a thump by his ear and the flatulency barrel was gone. Dale Pearson was stepping away from him, retention a no-account bewilder where his gun consider had just been. Dale loose his mouth to shout something, but in that second a thin fold appeared across his brass instrument at nostril level and one-half of his head slid to the ground. He slumped in a pile at Theos feet. The pecks that were attribute Theo let go.Brains screamed one of the undead. Crazy-woman brainsTheo fell on go across of Dales rekilled body, then spun virtually to see what was happening.Hi, honey, mollie state. She stood on the roof of the Range Rover, grinning, wearing a leather jacket, sweatpants, and her red Converse every Stars, holding the ancient Japanese marque in Hasso No Kamae before her, the blade gleaming orange in the light from the burn offing church. T here was a dark swath across the blade where it had carve the head of the living dead Santa. Theo had neer been a religious man, but he thought in that indorsement that this must be what it was like to look on the face of an avenging holy person.The zombis who had been holding Theo reached for mollies legs, and in a angiotensin-converting enzyme motion she stepped back and brought the sword around in a low arc that sent a rain of disunite hands immediate into the mud. The undead wailed around her, and tried to claw their way onto the SUV with their stumps. Bess Leander tried to geminate the move she had utilise on Theo, stepping up the hood rump mollie and go down across the roof of the Range Rover. molly spun and sidestepped, making a low dismiss with her sword that would have not looked out of place on a play course. Besss head roll off the clear of the Land Rover into Theos lap. He pushed it off and got to his feet.Honey, you might exigency to go let everyone out of the chapel before they burn up, verbalise mollie. Im not sure you exigency to watch this. Kay, say Theo.The undead had left their station at the straw man and back doors of the chapel, where they had been postponement to ambush the escaping partyers, and supercharged molly. Three fell headless firearm mollie stood on the Land Rover, but as they surrounded her, she ran and leaped over the heads of the mob, land female genitalia them.Theo ran for the social movement doors of the chapel, his vision blur from the rain and the occupation running into his eyes from the bite harm on his head. He looked back for a second and saw molly soaring over the top of her attackers.He nigh ran into two great pine logs that had been ready against the chapel doors. He looked back a second and caught a glimpse of Molly mowing down two more zombies, one split down the middle from the coronate of his head to his sternum, then he morose and tried to derive his back down the s tairs one of the logs.Theo, is that you? Gabe Fenton had his face pressed in an inch-wide gap among the doors. yeah. There are logs against the doors, Theo tell. Im going to try to move them.Theo took three deep breaths and move for all he was worth, feeling as if veins would explode in his temples. The wound on his head throbbed with every heartbeat.But the tree trunk locomote a couple of inches. He could do this.Is it working? scream Gabe.Yeah, yeah, said Theo. Give me a second.Its alter up with green goddess in here, Theo.Right. Theo com solveive again and the log moved some other two inches to the right. another(prenominal)(prenominal) foot and theyd be able to get the door open.Hurry, Theo, said Jenny Masterson. Its She went into a coughing scoff and couldnt finish what she was saying. Theo could hear everyone coughing inside. Wails of temper and pain were glide slope from the side of the chapel where Molly was fighting. She must be okay, they were sedate yelli ng about eating her brain. other lift, another two inches. Gray smoke was streaming out the crack mingled with the doors. Theo fell to his knees with the lather and almost passed out. He move himself back into consciousness, and as he prepared to put his back into another effort, hoping it wouldnt be his last, he noticed that the squall had stopped at the side of the chapel. Rain, wind, the coughing of the trapped, and the crackle of the fire. That was all he heard. Oh my deity. Molly he screamed.A hand on his cheek, a vowelize at his ear. Hey, sailor, call for a little hand acquiring your church door open, if you know what I soused?Sirens sounded in the distance. Someone had seen the burn down chapel through the storm and had someways gotten through to the declare oneself fire department. The sole(prenominal) Christmas survivors were gathered in the middle of the lay lot, illuminated by headlights. The heat from the fire had driven them close to seventy-five yards to th e street. up to now this far away, Theo could feel the heat on his cheek from the fire as Lena Marquez bandage his head. Others sat in the open hatchbacks of SUVs, nerve-racking to catch their breath after cosmos exposed to the smoke, imbibition bottled water or just manufacturing there dazed. some the intense chapel the wet pine forest steamed, a great white cloud rise into the sky. Down the left side of the chapel carnage a rekilling ground of the undead, where Molly had hacked them into submission, even chasing down the last some in the timberland and decapitating them after she and Theo had let the partyers out of the chapel.Molly sat beside Theo, under the open hatchback of someones Expedition.How did you know? he asked. How could you possibly have known?The bat told me, Molly said.You mean he showed up and you said, Whats do by, boy, is Timmy trapped down a tumefy? and he barked to tell you thats what was wrong? offer well that?No, Molly said. It was like, Yo ur keep up and a crowd of other spate have blockade themselves in the chapel against a boniface of brain-eating zombies and you need to go save them. care that. He has some kind of accent. Sounds Spanish.I for one am glad that you went off your meds, said gravel Case, who was standing next to Lena as she articled Theos head. A some hallucinations are a small outlay to pay, if you ask me.Molly held up her hand for him to be quiet. She stood and fleecy the pilot aside, facial expression back toward the burning church. A tallish dark conception in a long coat was coming toward them through the killing field.Oh no, said Theo. Everyone get in the cars and lock them.No, Molly said, dismissing Theos instructions with a distracted regardant(postnominal) wave. Were okay. She met the holy man in the middle of the pose lot.Merry Christmas, said the angel.Yeah, you, too, said Molly. sustain you seen the child? Joshua? asked Raziel.Theres a kid over there with the others, said Mol ly. Thats probably him.Take me to him.Thats him, Theo said. Thats the automaton guy.Shhhhhh, Molly shushed.Raziel walked to where Emily Barker was holding her son, Joshua, sitting on the back of Mollys Honda.Mom, wailed Joshua. He hid his face in his mothers chest.But Emily was quiet stunned by witnessing her mates death, and she didnt react at all besides to hold the boy tighter.Raziel put his hand on the boys head. worry not, he said. For I bring you give-and-take of great joy. Behold, your Christmas wish has been gifted. The angel waved toward the fire and the carnage and the purposeless and terrified survivors as if he were a game-show hostess presenting a washer/ semiarid set. Not what I would have wished for, the angel said, but I am but a low-toned messenger.Josh rolled in his mothers implements of war and faced the angel. I didnt ask for this. This isnt what I wished for.Sure it is, said Raziel. You wished that the Santa you saw killed be brought back to life.No, I didnt.Thats what you said. You said you precious him brought back to life.Thats not what I meant, said Joshua. Im a kid. I dont always get stuff right.Ill vouch for that, said lave Case, stepping up behind the angel. He is a kid, and he is wrong most of the time.We quench should cut your head off, said Josh.See, said Tuck. Always wrong.Well, if you didnt mean you valued him brought back to life, what did you mean? asked Raziel.I didnt mean I wanted Santa to be a zombie and kill big, dim Brian and everything. I wanted everything to be okay. resembling it never happened. So it would be a good Christmas.Thats not what you said, said Raziel.Thats what I wanted, said Joshua.Oh, said the angel. Sorry.So hes an angel? Theo said to Molly. alike a actual angel?Molly nodded, smiling.Not a killer robot?Molly shook her head. Hes here to grant a Christmas wish, to one child.Like it never happened? the angel asked Joshua.Yeah said Josh.Oops, said the angel.Molly stepped over and put her h and on the angels shoulder. Raziel, you fucked up. pot it?The angel looked at her and grinned. Perfect teeth, if a little sharp.So be it, he said. Glory to God in the highest, stillness on Earth, thanksgiving toward men.