The Eyeless Reaper’s Weakness

I waved the axe at a tentacle which was approaching me as we raced through the empty and quiet hallway, all the way I was still trying to get the angle on the shadow, where were all the zombies, were they hiding somewhere waiting to ambush us, all these questions swirled in my head amidst escaping the onslaught of the eyeless reaper who was hell bent on chasing us or specifically me.

"I think I'm it's target" I voiced as I dodged another tentacle while blocking several more.

"What are you talking about?" Rash asked with fatigue as he also played donkey Kong with the tentacles, the girls were in front of us and we were behind so that we could protect them.

"It seems to be focused on me so the best course of action would be to separate, you guys go left and I'll lure it away and meet u with you guys later" I quickly formulated a plan.

"No we aren't doing that again" Rash refused outwardly, he remembered how I had almost died at the hands of the spider.

"But that's the only option now" I insisted.

"No it isn't because I have a plan" When I heard this I almost tripped in shock as I glanced at him.

"What?, you're not the only smart one" Rash shrugged as he swerved to the side and avoided a tentacle.

"Okay then let's hear it, we can't keep going like this, the girls are almost exhausted" I said as I glanced at the girls who were panting with tiredness.

"You said that it was super sensitive to sound right?" Rash asked quickly.

"Yes I did, it's one of it's strengths" I replied with a frown while trying to see where this was going.

"Well in the correct situation, a strength can become a weakness, now follow me" Rash smirked as he burst forward with more speed which shocked me.

"We're almost there, it's just right around the corner" Rash said as he pointed at a corner ahead but this was where shit got real, Tasha who was exhausted suddenly paused as she fell on her knees.

"Shit Tasha.." Rash shouted as he threw the stick with the sharpened edge at a tentacle which was approaching Tasha which nailed it to the wall but in the process he was left defenseless as two tentacles shot through his left leg which immobilized him.

"Arrrrg my leg, fuck it hurts" Rash screamed in pain as I hurriedly slashed off the tentacles.

SCREECH

The reaper let out a screech as its tentacles were cut off, seizing the opportunity, I immedieately helped Rash up as I and the girls quickly ran and as we branched right, I could hear the angry screech of the reaper behind us which showed that it had freed itself.

"Quick press the button" Rash said amidst the pain as he pointed towards the big red button some distance away, seeing this everything finally settled as it clicked in my mind, loud sounds that was the weakness of the reaper, I had thought that it was without weakness but now Rash had figured it out.

"Hearing the sound behind us, I knew that the reaper was just seconds away from finishing us off so I placed rash behind a rack away from the reaper's view as I told the girls to stay silent while they crouched behind the rack with Rash.

"Come and get me you fucked up shit" I shouted as the reaper appeared behind us, it seemed like it understood me because the next second it suddenly burst towards me with surprising agility as I turned and ran but before I could get far, I suddenly felt a huge sense of danger behind me which caused my eyes to shrink in alarm as I jumped into the air and threw the axe towards the button then twisted my body slightly as I weaved through the tentacles approaching me.

At this moment, It was like time slowed down as the tentacles swept past me as I narrowly evaded while the axe flew through the air towards the button, I could see the expectant gazes of Rash and the girls as they all stared at the button, I uncounsciously stared at the reaper and I felt like I saw something on it's horrific face, something like confusion.

Unfortunately, I didn't have much time to observe because time went back to normal, the axe hit the button as the fire alarm went off, I fell to the ground and I could feel a slight crack in my arm which hit the ground first but I disregarded the pain as I stared at the reaper who was screeching in pain.

SCCREECH

It screeched in pain as it's tentacles swung around it madly before they all rushed downwards and created a huge hole before it leaped through it and disappeared, only then did I finally breathe out in relief as I grabbed my arm in pain then suddenly remembering Rash I looked upwards before rushing to him.

"Are you okay?" I asked as I stared at his leg which was bleeding.

"Oh I'm fine it's just a flesh wound" Rash replied sarcastically as he scrunched his face up in pain.

"Okay first we need to stop the Bleeding but how, how?" I tried to think of something as I grabbed my hair.

"Wait what of the drugs we took the last time, is there something to stop the bleeding?" Christina said which reminded me of the drugs, I immediately placed the bag down as I swept through it's contents before grabbing somethings.

"So first we need to like apply pressure on the wound" I said after taking a deep breath.

"Do you even know what you're doing?" Rash asked with a slightly fearful expression.

"Um actually no but I once saw it in a movie and it worked so bite down on this" I replied quickly stuffing a piece of foam in his mouth then stared at the wound as I prepared to start first aid.

"Blood…" I muttered as I stared at the blood flowing out of the wound as it released some kind of appetizing aroma to me which made me become entranced with it as I imagined tasting it.

"Hey I'm freaking dying here if you haven't noticed" Rash spat out the foam as he shouted in anger which woke me out of my daze.

"Sorry okay so Christina I need you to put your hands over here and apply some pressure on it, Tasha I need you to hand me the water in the bag" I said as I dished out instructions similar to what I remember in the movie, I washed the wound with clean water as I wiped it with cotton wool before applying antibiotic cream or something, I had grabbed somethings from the storage because I thought it would be useful and I was glad that I did.

"Okay now I'm about to cover it with a bandage" I said as I took out a bandage and wrapped the wound with it.

"Whew we're finally done, I think I did well, how do you feel?" I asked Rash who rested against the rack.

"Better I think, so are you telling me that you saw this in a movie?" Rash asked suspiciously.

"Yeah but that time they poured alcohol on the wound but we didn't have alcohol so I used the antibiotic cream" I said with a smile.

"Well thanks, at least we stopped the bleeding but I think my bone's broken too" Rash said as he tried to get up.

"Hey hey stay down, you're just recovering, you should be resting" Tasha reprimanded as he pushed him back down.

"Ouch, did I just sense care in your voice" Rash said with a grin.

"Hmmp, nobody cares about you" Tasha replied with a light kick to Rash's leg which made him wince in pain.

"Your bone's okay so you should be back to normal in a few days" I remarked after observing his leg again.

"It doesn't but maybe some cuddling would help, wouldn't it doctor?" Rash said with a grin as he glanced over to me with a pleading look.

"Screw you, I'm going to take my axe then we can continue our quest, this place isn't safe" I said as I stood up and walked over to where the axe was, I placed my hand on the axe then froaze as a frown instantly jotted across my face, my eyes shrank as I suddenly grabbed my axe and ran over to others who glanced at me in alarm after seeing my expression.

"We have to go now" I said quickly as I helped Rash up.

"What's going on?" Christina asked me with a frown.

"They're coming" I replied hurriedly, not wanting to waste any time explaining but the others wanted to know.

"Hey stop acting all scary and tell us who's coming" Rash said, they didn't understand why I was behaving like this.

"The zombies, they're coming" I stated as my actions became quicker.

"What are you talking about, I can't see or hear anything" Rash replied with confusion.

"I can hear them coming, we're surrounded" I said as I could hear footsteps approaching quickly.

"How many?" Christina asked which shocked me because the question I expected them to ask was how I could hear them while they couldn't.

"6…9..13…18..25, fuck they're still coming, I can't count them all" I said with furrowed brows as I heard their increasing numbers rushing to our location, my thoughts swirling around in my head as I sensed all our possible escape routes were flooded with zombies.