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and pulled up to the dumpster, “All aboard.”
    The seven were now on the road again. Heading north they had about three hours nonstop of travel before hitting Michigan. All of them devoured chips like they were fine cuisine. “Everyone lookout for another motel or something.” He kept his eyes on the road as cars and trucks were stopped everywhere. Chatterers littered the interstate worse than the vehicles. Many times one of them would wake up to a splat when Cade had crushed one at high speed. Goo on the window made Autumn vomit once or twice.
    About thirty minutes had passed and Trina said, “There’s one.” They looked to their right and sure enough lights were on in a pull barn of some sort. They took the next exit and pulled in the lot.
    Vick and Dwayne held guns at ready and crept to the door. Vick kicked it open and they both jumped in.
    “What the fuck,” said Vick.

 
    Chapter 6
     
    The group peered into the building wondering what could be the problem. They had seen their share of odd and disgusting in the last day but Vick had never reacted like this before. The building itself was in decent shape. The grounds itself left a little to be desired however. The grass and shrubs were dead and tall. There was an old beat up boat in the parking lot that looked as if it last saw water in the Nixon years.
    They all walked in with Vick and saw where his horror laid. It was a building for children’s gymnastics. There looked to be about twenty girls strewn about the mats, all dead. One girl must have climbed the rope to hide but fell. Her body was misshapen after hitting the ground from such a height and her head was completely sideways.
    The pack slowly walked through the gym looking for any life. Body after body of young girl lay dead in various stages of gore. “I don’t think they were infected,” said Cade looking about. “Someone got to them.”
    They walked past one poor little thing with her back broken over a balance beam, guts torn from her stomach. He face looked as though it were eaten; eyeballs gone. In fact as they checked each body all of the faces were torn away with eyes missing.
    “Do chatterers take the eyes,” asked Trina.
    “Everyone look around, there could be a few lingering,” said Cade. “Be careful.”
    One by one they split up and began looking for survivors and monsters. The building itself was not very big. There was a large workout area with beams and bars which they were in. Cade could make out a few other doors and a stairway. Some must be rest rooms or changing areas, and maybe a viewing room for parents and an office for the manager slash trainer or both.
    Vick and Cade looked through the rest rooms finding only one dead little girl. It appeared she was trying to hide under a bench from whoever attacked. Her eyes and face were missing and her fingernails were gone leaving bloody stumps in their place. “Poor little girl must have been dragged out of hiding,” said Vick.
    Dwayne was in the manager’s office. Nothing was in there alive or dead. He searched through drawers and found some bagged snacks. In the mini fridge there was a case of bottled water, “This will come in handy.”
    The three girls stayed in the workout area looking around. Autumn was stuck to Keiko like a leech. They looked at each girl for signs of life but found none. The chalk stand was spilled over with one girl inside it. Two little ones were under mats. At least ten were strewn around the room in various designs of gore.
    They all met back by the door to leave, Dwayne showing off the water he had found. Cade looked around disheveled, “Well we may as well go; we were too late to find anyone here.” He gave the place a quick gaze, “And I sure as hell don’t want to stay the night here.”
    “Wait. Where is dad,” said Autumn with concern.
    “Ah shit let’s find him fast,” called Dwayne and Vick together.
    He only place no one had gone was up the stairs. He had to be there somewhere.