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thing raised its blood-soaked face, then hissed at Erica. As it stumbled out, she put a round from the pistol through its neck, spraying blood all over the computer. She then fired another shot into the head of the grisly creature which fell backwards, taking a pile of equipment with it.
    Erica turned to see Dan reloading his pistol. As the magazine dropped to the floor, he was preoccupied for just a second. He never saw the ghoul that came staggering out by one of the beds. It clamped its jaws around his wrist and tore off a chunk of flesh. As the blood poured from the horrific wound, Dan screamed. He managed to slam the magazine into his pistol and fire the weapon point blank into the head of the ghoul. Its head erupted in a spray of brains, covering the wall.
    Dan winced in pain and held his wrist. “Get the hell out of here!” he grabbed a gurney and slammed it into two more of the things that came towards him.
    “Dan!” screamed Jessica.
    “Get out!” yelled Dan. “They’re coming through into the room now.” Dan fired several more rounds at them, then put the pistol into his mouth and pulled the trigger. His blood soaked the ghouls behind him as he crumpled to the floor.
    “No!” Jessica sobbed as Erica grabbed her arm.
    The two women ducked as one of the ghouls swiped at them with a grisly blood-soaked arm, and then they ran through the emergency door. The emergency area was full of ambulances, as well as several gurneys. A few of the ghouls walked around aimlessly and turned as the two women came flying through the doors. One of the dead was bent down and pulled out stands of intestines from a paramedic. It chewed on them, pulling them apart like sweet taffy. It looked at them as they ran past, its jaws opening and closing over the remains of the unfortunate man.
    “This way!” said Erica. “My car is over here.” One of the dead staggered towards her, and she pointed the pistol at it, but the weapon was out of ammunition. She cursed and drove her foot into the thing, which staggered back. The two of them ran towards her car. In the parking lot, many of the dead staggered around, then headed towards the two women as they moved to the vehicle.
    Jessica went to the passenger side door of Erica’s older model Suzuki. “Open the damn door!” She pulled on the handle as the ghouls moved ever closer. Jessica peered over her shoulder. “Hurry up, there’s a ton of them heading this way!”
    Erica worked her keys into the lock, but her hands were shaking so much she fumbled them and they fell to the ground. She bent down to pick them up, but that simple mistake was more than enough. The dead reached the vehicle on Jessica’s side, and she was still working the handle with her hand when one of them bit down into her shoulder blade, sending a jet of blood across the door window. Erica had her door open now, and the keys were in the ignition. As she watched the dead bite into Jessica, she screamed and pounded down on the steering wheel as the tears ran down her cheeks. Jessica shrieked as they tore into her flesh, she slammed her hand on the window but it did no use. Erica knew she couldn’t open the door, and that her friend was as good as dead. She screamed in her seat as another one of them slammed into her door, its grisly face up against the glass as it tried to bite her through the pane. It left trails of saliva, blood, and grime over the window. Erica drove her foot hard on the accelerator and backed out of the parking stall. She hit the car behind her hard, and the back of the vehicle crumpled. Ahead of her she could only watch in vain as a pack of the dead consumed her friend, leaving a pile of blood and gore over the pavement as they devoured her. She turned the car and hit the gas, peeling out of the hospital parking lot as fast as she could.
    The city of Vancouver had turned to complete chaos, claimed by the dead.

Chapter 5
 
    Jake Rawlings sat in a Chilliwack bar much like he did on most