The Rake

So the plan was to attack a colony of maenads and hope the Rake showed up. We drove there by bus and were split into teams. I was paired up with Kenny (the guy who writes that blog I linked to a few posts ago.) and another guy named Fang.

Shine had been singing annoying songs while we were on the bus. The whole damn time. -.-
Luckily only I had to suffer through them as she didn't sing them out loud. Its like having a song stuck in your head, but worse.


Awe, My singing is not that bad!

No but your taste in music is.

Lies!

Next time I'm bringing a radio.

That's fun too. ^^


Anyway once we arrived I put on my gloves and loaded my gun. Kenny shuffled towards us. I suggested he get his weapon ready. He looked at his staff, I expected him to have something else for a weapon but I guess a Staff works well too.
I don't read his blog so shuddup.

I didn't say anything.

I wasn't talking to you Shine.

Oh.


 Fang pointed out a grocery store where we might find some Maenads. They then barged in there and started attacking people. (And then proxiehunter said I have a death wish. <.< If I do then these guys probably have one too. Just saying.)
I ran inside after them and started shooting. The more chaos the higher our chances of Rakey showing up I figured.

Suddenly a woman jumped on me out of nowhere. She pinned me down on the ground and my gun flew out of my hands. I tried to kick her off of me but she was stronger. Right when she was about to try and bite my face off, Kenny hit her on the head with his staff and she collapsed.

Guess that staff was a better weapon than I thought. I should thank him for saving me there.
Anyway, I threw her off of me and rolled behind some cover. Because someone was shooting from somewhere, with my gun apparently.

Kenny said he was gonna help Fang, who was also being pinned down apparently. I agreed and said I'd go get my gun back, the fun way.
So I crouched and went to the other end of the aisle before sprinting out trying to get to the back of the store. A guy came up at me and I punched him in the face. Knocked him out instantly. (And that's why I love my gloves. ^^ )

I then crawled around and got behind the guy with my gun and attacked him. I quickly had him pinned down and started punching him till he passed out. Grabbed my gun again and reloaded it.
The fucker wasted most of my bullets.

But it sure was fun!

I then walked back to the entrance. Fang and Kenny soon followed. We figured that would have been good enough and went back to the others.





The others were waiting for us at the gas station. Now we just had to wait for the third group but not for long. The three of them came sprinting towards us, one of them shooting behind them.
Our plan obviously worked, the rake was right behind them.

Now I had seen pictures of this thing before but goddamn it was ugly. Like Gollum but far worse. It had beady red eyes and fangs and giant blade-like claws. And it was coming straight at us.
If it had been just me and my guns I would be FUBAR right now. Maybe even mistaken for ground beef.

It was then that the "Inspector" stepped forward. I had no idea what he was gonna do, I hadn't payed attention to anyone in our group really. So I was surprised when suddenly the Rake looked like it had forgotten what it was even doing. It just walked around in circles, as if it was confused for some reason. All the while the Inspector was just standing there in front of it.

Next part of the plan: "Have Fang (runner from the black dog, I assume.) think about his darkest secrets and hope the mutt shows up."
Not the best plan but it worked. Just on time too, the Rake seemed to be regaining its senses.

Suddenly this huge black canine leapt up at the Rake and pinned it down. All I could see was two blurs fighting. One black with yellow glowing eyes the other White-ish with red eyes. Blood and Fur all over the place. An Impressive sight really.



Not too long into the fight and suddenly this small robot-spider-face thing comes scurrying at the fighting Beasts and jumps in. Not really how I pictured the newborn to look like..
It had come to help apparently, only to have the Black dog grab it between its jaws and throw it away.
I laughed a bit. Seriously, it was funny.

The Black dog and the Rake just kept at it. Every injury they caused each other healed itself up again. But after a while it became Obvious that the Rake was healing and dealing damage faster. If this kept up it would win and then come after us.

It was then that the Newborn showed up again. It had changed, improved even. On its legs were now long metal claws and it also had steel fangs. I was partly impressed and partly worried at its learning capabilities. It will only become stronger if it keeps doing this, not a good thing. Not good at all..

It jumped on the Rake and slashed and bit at it. But the Rake was strong and was about to break free.
When suddenly a gunshot rang out. It hat hit the Rake and the monster collapsed. The other two Fears jumped on it and tore It apart in a matter of seconds.

We thought the Shot came from on of ours. But our sniper said it wasn't him. We looked around to see where the shot came from and then we saw him, the Archangel.
He stood on a rooftop nearby with a sniper rifle. He put away his gun and turned to us. Then he tipped his bowler hat and disappeared.


It took three other Fears but we did it, we killed the Rake. We killed a fucking Fear. So all you runners out there, there is hope. We can kill these bastards. We can win. We just need to band together and form a plan. It will take a long time, but we can do this. The Fears will fall.