Vampire Apocalypse: Fallout (Book 3) Read Free Page B

thing that he had not found
anyone he knew or not. There would at least have been some form of
closure if he had found them. At least then he might have
b een able to grieve and move on; now
there would always be uncertainty until he found his parents and
brothers one way or the other.
    For now, he
lived with a family who had lost their own son during the war. But
their devastation for their own loss was smothering him and was not
at all what the young boy needed. He had been totally lost until he
had found the ‘Wolverines’. At twelve, he should still have been in
school, the committee had put certain restrictions on the group of
youths and an age limit had been one of the first, but, with no one
around to prove otherwise, his insistence of being thirteen could
not be contested.
    “ Yep,” Danny
laughed and kicked the vampire in the ribs to emphasise his point.
Something moved beneath the corpse and caused the body to shift
slightly. All of them jumped back, and a few of the smaller ones
ran half way down the street before they realised that they weren’t
being pursued and returned sheepishly to the group. The vampire’s
head had rolled toward them and they could see a stream of dried
blood running from both ears down its cheeks and neck. Dried blood
also streaked from its eyes and nose and there was a huge pool of
blood around the body that had stained the bricks and concrete
around it like cancer corrupting flesh.
    “ What killed
it?” Seager asked as he finally raised the courage to join Danny
beside the vampire.
    “ Haven’t a
clue. ” Danny smiled as he moved aside to
let the bigger boy get closer. “I tripped over him last night when
I was following my Dad.”
    “You mean this isn’t what your
Dad was coming out here for?” Emma blurted out.
    “ God,
no. ” Danny smiled. “If the adults knew
they’d be all over it and we wouldn’t get a chance to see
it.”
    “ Danny,” Emma
took a deep breath to help calm herself before continuing. “We have
to tell the adults. This might be important.” She snorted and threw
her eyes up to heaven. “What am I saying? This is important. My
God, it might just be the most important discovery
ever.”
    “But we’ll get in trouble,”
Danny whined as he thought of the punishment he was likely to
get.
    “ Danny,”
Ricks moved forward and put his hand on the smaller boy’s shoulder.
“Emma’s right. This is huge. Something killed this vampire and if
we can figure out what it was then we might just be able to use it
against the others. Your discovery might just be the biggest thing
that has happened since these bastards came out of the shadows.
You’ll be a hero, man.”
    “ Is that
before or after my Dad beats the hell out of me for coming out
here?” Danny sighed but was already thinking past his beating to
the part where he was credited with making the
discovery.
    “After, of course,” Ricks
laughed and tousled the smaller boy’s hair.
     
     

Chapter 1
     
     
    “But what actually killed it?”
Phil Regan asked with more urgency that he had intended. His voice
squeaked excitedly and he cringed inwardly as he forced himself to
calm down. It was important for him to appear in control,
especially now that he was in charge. Such immature outbursts would
not help him to cultivate the image of the competent and calm
leader that he was desperately trying to portray.
    “ We’re not
entirely sure,” Adam Wilkins shrugged as he fidgeted with the
papers in front of him. Wilkins had never been in the council room
before, let alone the sole object of their attention, and he found
the experience far from pleasant. He looked over at Pat Smyth for
support and Pat winked once and nodded
encouragingly.
    The whole
community was buzzing with the news since his son and his friends
had returned with news of their discovery. While he had been
outraged at first that Danny had broken such an important rule, he
had soon become caught up in the discovery itself. He had