finally Samson woke up.
“We’re here for
a reason. We were here from the beginning.”
CHAPTER
FOURTEEN
Yowzah ! The drivers have refueled and now it’s
off into the Zone of Dead Roads.
For those who
missed it, Mr. Silver himself has given our contestants another challenge: kill
Lord Bing Bong and earn a bonus! Let’s see if our racers will take advantage of
it. For the sake of pure unadulterated entertainment…. I sure hope so!
I.
One Year Ago
Gabby loved
racing.
But what she loved
even more than racing was winning. She believed whole-heartedly that she
deserved to win each and every race she entered and she mostly did.
It had been three
nights straight, though, that she had been having those dreams.
Bad
dreams.
At first she was
floating high above the earth, slowly and peacefully, as other unknown
celestial bodies came into view. But then her body would drop to the earth,
into the deep blue of the sea. She would start to swim, moving through the
water like a great white shark, swerving left and right to find her prey.
Instinctively she
knew she was a predator, knew that she was hunting for the perfect and most
delectable prey.
But something
would grab her body. It happened every time, in every dream, every night. It
happened the same way. At first she thought he body got caught in seaweed but
the slimy ropes were moving. She realized they weren’t ropes. They were
tentacles. It had begun with maybe four or five but quickly multiplied into
ten, twenty, fifty, a hundred, until her whole body was covered in them. The
suckers glued to her flesh, pulsating with furious hunger.
Then there came a
sharp pain between her legs.
And that’s when
she would awake…sweaty, scared, and bleeding from the crotch.
After an hour of
being awake, Gabby would forget about the dream and continue on her mission of
being the best racer around. She was detailing her car when someone tapped her
on the shoulder.
It scared the shit
out of Gabby and she grabbed her gun and pointed it at the person behind her.
When she saw who it was, she put the weapon down.
“ Enzo ,” she said.
“At
your service, young lady.”
“So is Mr. Silver
letting me in the race or what?”
Enzo put his finger to his chin and cocked his head. “Well…..”
Gabby grabbed the
man’s collar. “I want in, dickhead.”
“I’m just fooling
with you, sweetie. Of course you’re in. Mr. Silver would be happy to have you.”
“Good.”
Enzo explained to Gabby the details of the race but she
only half-listened. Instead, she was thinking about how many people she’d get
to kill on the road.
Once Enzo left, Gabby felt extremely tired despite it being only
three in the afternoon. She got into her car, leaned the seat back, and fell
asleep.
Then she had
another dream.
This time,
however, it did not stop after the pain struck in between her legs. The dream
went on as the tentacles squeezed and the suckers held on, vibrating until
finally she was ripped into pieces.
Then she woke up.
She was relieved
it was only a dream. It didn’t matter what had happened there in her sleep.
Dreams were just fantasies of the mind.
Dreams never came
true.
II.
Once the horn
sounded, Drac sped out of the gas station and onto
the road, taking a small turn off to the right off the main highway. When he
got a half mile ahead, he saw what looked like a speed bump on the road. But it
couldn’t have been a speed bump.
It was moving.
As he was driving
up on it, Drac saw it was a parade of crabs of all
shapes, sizes, and colors. He could hear the clicking of their claws over his
engine. The sensation beneath his tires brought his mind back to the race. He
looked in his rearview and saw that little bitch Gabby coming up fast. “You
want to pass me? Go ahead and pass me,” he said, slowing down.
Gabby didn’t waste
any time and sped up alongside the passenger’s side of Drac’s car, shooting her gun wildly.
Drac slowed down, moved to the right,
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