What Zombies Fear (Book 2): The Maxists by Kirk Allmond

and using his legs to pull it straight again. He held it up over his head as the bones knitted back together. The stump of what had been his other hand had grown into a knob and fingers were starting to sprout from it. A few more minutes and I could chop it off again.
     
     
     
    “ Her name is Laura Watson. She was the first one on that boat outside of Baltimore. She’s pretty pissed off about how much trouble we’ve had in this area.” Harry said.
     
    I reached down and holstered the sig. While I was doing that, I flipped the radio to voice activated instead of push to talk.
     
    “ Harry. I’m going to let you live. By now my friends are in range and they never miss. You can be dead where you’re standing, or you can go. Which would you prefer?”
     
    Again shadows danced in front of me. I focused on the one lunging for my throat with his almost healed hand. It solidified, even though it was the worst choice for him and I cut off his hand for a second time with one solid swing.
     
    “ We’re too far away for your friends to be here yet.” Harry said, shoving his fresh stump into his armpit. I immediately noticed a red dot appear on his chest. “Do you have any idea how much that hurts?”
     
    “ Look down. That would hurt even more” I said coolly.
     
    When he saw the red dot, his attitude changed drastically.
     
    “ Why would you let me live?” he asked.
     
    “ I’ll let you live, if you meet two conditions. Number 1, tell me where Laura is. Number 2; give her a message for me.”
     
    “ Mister, you’re crazy. She’ll kill you. She doesn’t even have to touch you; she can kill you with her mind.”
     
    “ Then I’m sure she won’t mind if you tell me where she is.”
     
    “ She’s in Australia right now. That’s the last continent we’re taking over, the people there gave us a little trouble, but we mostly have that wrapped up. Damned Australians gave us more trouble than all of Asia.”
     
    “ Ok. Here’s the message. Tell Laura, My name is Victor Tookes. I claim all land from the former state of Virginia south along the coast, all the way to everything that is currently Florida. She can have the rest of the world, but the lower east coast is mine. If she agrees, she is to pull every zombie and super out of my territory immediately and my people won’t travel outside those lines. If she doesn’t agree, I will hunt her down and end her miserable existence. There’s nothing in those states she can’t get somewhere else. This is non negotiable.”
     
    “ You’re Tookes?” asked Harry, clearly frightened. That reaction gave me no small amount of pleasure.
     
    “ I am. If your people continue to harass me and my family, I will end every one of you. You sent 15,000 zombies to my house. You sent super after super to my house. I have killed everything that you’ve thrown in my path and I won’t rest until this world is safe for my family. Are we clear Harry? I will end your kind, once and for all time.”
     
    “ I got it. I’ll tell her. But you’re just going to make her mad,” he said and then the swirling black smoke appeared covering his escape.
     
    “ Bring it!” I said over subspace, loud enough for everything within twenty miles to hear.
     
    “ Tookes, you’re mad as a meat axe,” said John, walking up.
     
    “ I know mate.”
     
    Leo came walking out of the bushes holding a laser pointer. ”I was playing with this in the store when he took you. I guess I still had it in my hand when I got here. It seemed like Harry was a few Holdens short of a carpark.”
     
    We all chuckled about Leo running off a super zombie with a laser pointer as we finished gathering our supplies from the sporting goods store. I loaded up 24 50 round boxes of 30.06 ammunition, as well as the score of the night, ten magazines for the assault rifles we found at the police station and an astounding amount of .223 ammunition for them, almost 2000 rounds. We’d taken all the magazines