A Week with Homeschoolers Part 13 and 14

Warning, this story does take a turn for the morbid. Reader discretion advised
Part 13, Pure terror
Two lights quickly turned on as Ben and Chris switched on their Surefires attached to their MIB weapons. Hey, gotta get them as realistic as possible. Ben headed to go check the breaker box as everyone pulled out their Cell or Ipod to get some light going. Cy took the opportunity to slip out. There was a very pretty local girl who had been helping cater, she was just begging for a good long kiss. The others all gathered in the middle of the gym, including Carrie and Matt, all kissing forgotten. There was some nervous chatter until Ben and Chris came back.
Chris spoke up, “It’s not the breakers, something else along the powerline is bad, maybe a pole fell down.”
Chad snickered, “And in this little Podunk town it’ll be a day before they fix it. Great idea to come here.”
Then they heard the same howling that they heard before.. except it was closer and more chilling. In the dark it was positively terrifying. It got closer as more wails joined in, a chorus of hell from mortal throats. Then a terrifying death wail keened from the kitchen then gargled slowly. Most of the girls dropped whatever they were holding and grabbed someone to hold on to. Sara started sobbing, and E went into hysterics. Ben and Mark raced towards the kitchen, weapons at the ready. Chris had handed it over so he could dance again with the dazzling Kim. Ben leaned over and vomited. “Get the girls out of here!”
The guys stared in horror at the corpse before them. Morbid splashes of blood covered the ground. Peter gasped. Erik’s head had been torn off. Ben’s light played up from the body to the head lying at the opposite side of the room and the beautiful witch crouching over it. The caterer girl was sitting like an ape and snarled at the light. Then she jumped screaming, fingers outstretched like claws out for the light. Ben squeezed off a round sending the witch to a very prompt death. Klaus dragged a table cloth over the body and threw a towel over the head. Ben put a sheet over the dead girl. Matt mentioned that Cy had said he was going to kiss that girl, Laura. They drew the conclusion that she had killed him for kissing her. Why so violent though? What was behind this? And the howling, something was up and it wasn’t good.
What would they do next? Would they survive?
Part 14 Shutdown
Several of them tried to call out but they couldn’t get any reception all of a sudden. That was really bad. The guys got together for a planning session. Freddy reached an instant conclusion. ZOMBIES!!! The wiser and more mature heads among them brushed off the big bunny when they should have listened. They did agree that something evil was happening and that they needed a plan. Klaus, Mark, and Ben drew up a plan of action.
1 Get to a power source and lights preferably at a safe location
2 Get contact with the outside
3 Get lots of firepower
4 Get local authority to fix problem
As they consulted Ben knew where they would most likely have a generator at the sewage lift station and the water holding tank, maybe the Water treatment plant and waste water treatment plant. Those places were required by State law to have generators and intruder proof fencing. At least it was a start. Several people started calling out but their cell phones weren’t working. Disturbing.While they were still discussing it the gym door swung open revealing a bright light and an old man. “Sorry about the power folks, it’ll probably get fixed in the morning when the power company comes on out.” He ahemed, and cleared his throat. “What was the shooting for?”
Klaus motioned Frank over. Everyone waited as Klaus and Frank went into the kitchen area. Frank walked in and lifted the sheets. As his light beam played over the gruesome scene then to our lovely dead murderer he sat down and cried. He buried his old head in his hands. Klaus put a hand on his shoulder.
The old man gulped and sobbed, “I brought Laura May into the world, I never thought she’d beat me out, why would such a good girl do something like this?” He cried bitterly for a couple minutes then got up and walked out.
He coughed and then spoke up in a husky voice. “Who shot Laura?” Ben coughed.
“I did”, he handed his gun over. “She jumped at me, and she killed Erik.”
“Did you see her kill him?” Frank assumed his business voice.
“No, but she was alone with him and she was crazy!”
“I am going to have to take you all downtown and take statements.
They all gathered up and headed out. Suddenly the universal spirit was not so festive. The party made it’s way back to the hotel, which was also the jail. Peter had one of Franks spare flashlights and he kept playing the beam at the outskirts if the brush. He stopped. “Look!! Animals!!”
Chris, in possession of his gun again, spun pointing the beam into the sparse woods. There was this hunched over humpback figure. The disfigured ape thing snarled as the light flashed over it and it hurled something. There was a thunk and the smallest bunny fell over. Not a real rabbit, but Jay. Sara screamed and ran over to her brother. Jay screamed. Not a shrill scream but more of a breathless scream. He lay limp, Frank stopped and started Patient assessment as Mark picked up the projectile. It was a pipe wrench.
Frank looked up,“ his spine, broken, what a lucky hit. Wait.. that’s Jed Hammonds wrench! He never lets it out of his sight, he’s a tool miser. Who threw it?”
Mark and Peter charged into the bushes to grab the lurking animal. But the Ape figure was too much of a match, with one sweep of it’s arm it hurled Mark backwards 5 feet. Then it grabbed Peter by the throat and started squeezing. Peter gargled.. then a flash of light lit up the area. The Ape figure threw up it’s hands, letting Peter drop gasping for air, and fell over limply.
Carrie ran to help her husband as did Abi. Everyone looked to the shooter, Chris, who was standing with his gun on his shoulder. “Not all that different from a black powder musket after all.” He said in his best tough guy voice.
Ben, also helping with patient assessment, told the stunned onlookers to go get some 2x4s or something to use as a stretcher. Kim and Scarlett, the resourceful ones, quickly ripped up some t-posts and gave them to Ben. Frank and Chris headed over to see who the attacker was. They looked down at a disfigured human with longer canines and froth bubbling from his mouth
Frank gasped, “Oh dear heavens, It’s Jed!! What could have done this to him?”