Yesterdays Gone: SEASON TWO (THE POST-APOCALYPTIC SERIAL THRILLER) (Yesterday's Gone)

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LUCA HARDING: PART 5

    Luca screamed to warn Desmond, but he was too late.
    The creature dropped Desmond’s dead body in the snow, then opened its mouth wide, screeching at Luca and Linc.
    Linc, with only the pitchfork could not attack the demon. It ran toward them, at full speed.
    Luca raised his pistol and fired at the rapidly approaching doom. Linc held his pitchfork out, ready to strike.
    One of Luca’s bullets connected, and the creature rolled to the ground in a shriek just short of them. But it was not dead.
    Linc stabbed the beast through the head. Now it was.
    The rear gate burst off its hinges as a fresh wave of the creatures raced into the grounds of The Sanctuary.
    “Fuck!” Linc screamed, “Let’s go!”
    Linc and Luca raced toward the hangar and the hope of escape with Rebecca and Boricio. The creatures, at least eight of them, were hot on their heels.
    Two cars screamed from the hangar, plowing right into one of the several creatures scattered outside the hangar, waiting for them. Both cars made it to the front gate.
    Luca hoped to God Boricio was still in the hangar, waiting for them, and that they could get to his car in time.
    Luca wasn’t sure how many bullets his gun had left, but he doubted many. And while there were plenty of scattered weapons lying next to corpses in the snow, he didn’t think he’d be able to get to any before the monsters made a meal of him.  
    He swallowed, preparing for death, when Boricio and Rebecca raced from the hangar entrance in a black Escalade. Boricio whooping and hollering so loud, Luca could hear him outside the car’s cabin, even above the roar of the engine and screeching from the monsters.  
    Boricio tore through a cluster of creatures, then swerved toward Luca and Linc.
    The monsters were just steps behind, and gaining ground.
    Luca raced toward Boricio, pinched his brain, and thought, “ Run them over. ”
    “ Gotchya, ” Boricio thought.
    Borico was angling the Escalade directly at them. At the last possible moment, Luca shoved Linc to the side and onto the ground just as Boricio sped past them, striking a mob of creatures, sending some flying backward and crunching others beneath the Escalade’s oversized tires.
    Three creatures raced past Linc and Luca, eyes now on Boricio’s truck.
    Luca sat up and took aim, hitting two of the creatures as the third veered off toward a new target, one of the Brothers who was fleeing from the main house.
    The courtyard was momentarily cleared. Boricio drove up next to them, rolled down the driver’s side window and said, “What the French fried fuck are you waiting for? Git your asses inside!”  
    Rebecca opened the back and they climbed inside. Linc slammed the door shut just as another monster landed on the Escalade’s roof, quickly followed by another.  
    Another two sprung onto the hood, their claws ripping through the Escalade’s metal and digging deep into the engine.  
    A shrill and sudden ringing filled the night, followed by an explosion. The main house erupted in flames. Then the second house echoed, with a second detonation sending it to splinters.  
    The third house was already on fire.
    Boricio gunned the engine, but nothing happened.  
    “Fuck my asshole with asphalt!” Boricio’s face was beading with sweat. He gunned the engine again. The silence seemed louder the second time.  
    “Alright folks,” he said, turning to the backseat. “Looks like we’re gonna have to run from here to there,” He nodded toward the barn. “There’s at least three of them greasy mother fuckers outside, maybe five. Anyone got bullets left?”
    Luca handed Boricio his gun so he could check.
    “Okay, we’ve got one bullet left. Awesome.”
    The car started to shake violently. The clicking and screeching outside the cabin was deafening, as though the monsters were determined to be heard.  
    “We’ve got slightly less than no time. You trip, stumble, think or breathe, you’ll end up a couple hundred pounds of demon chew. You run, and don’t stop. First one to look behind them is a rotten egg forever. I’m gonna bust this door open and run as fast as I can in the other direction.” Boricio pointed to the church that would never be finished, then pointed at Rebecca. “You wait five-seconds, then open the door and run as fast as you can. Miracle Boy will follow. Linc, you go last, or with Luca. Don’t look behind you, no matter what. I guarantee every one of them