To The Gun Store

The alley was dark and smelly, but it provided a convenient hiding place for me as a group of thirty or so ghouls made their way down main street toward the scent trap I had set in the square. It took them a few minutes to pass my position during which I took a quick inventory of ammunition. Only five shells left in the twelve gage and fourteen rounds in the biretta. I was eager to use up the ammo in the shot gun, it grew heavier in my hands by the moment. I took a quick swig from the canteen before leaving the alley.
On main street I forced myself to jog, blasting a couple of the more fast moving ghouls from my path and counting down the shells in my head. I spotted a fork in the road ahead that I did not recognize, but it was too crowded to pause to consult the map. I ducked into another alley to check my position and nearly collided with a group of undead feasting on one of their own. I unloaded the shotgun into the group of six, firing high and erasing five heads with the last three rounds. I dropped the twelve gage and drew the katana, decapitating the remaining ghoul before the empty shotgun clattered to the ground. A couple more appeared behind me, coming off the street. I spun low and dropped them with a sweeping arc of the sword. I jogged further into the alley before more appeared and entered a door I found ajar. It appeared to be a mechanic's shop, cluttered with machinery. I paused to catch my breath and consult the map. Only three more blocks to go.
I went back into the alley and started jogging, deciding to bypass as much of main street as possible. A feeble looking ghoul stepped into my path that I shoved hard against a dumpster. The ghoul collapsed in a heap and I kept running.
The alleyway opened to another street and I turned left, staying at full speed with the katana trailing behind, poised for attack. The street was congested with undead and I did my best to dodge between them, trying to avoid stopping to fight. I had to run right past the appropriate turn because the side street was choked with ghouls. I cursed the detour as sweat ran down into my eye. I was over heating in the helmet and gear, I couldn't run much further.
The next street was less congested, but I still had to slow to a walk as I made my way through, hacking a bloody path down the center of the one lane street. All I could hear was my pulse, I felt dizzy from the heat. Suddenly I lost control of myself.
I tore off the sweaty helmet and went berserk with the katana. I decapitated the nearest three. The fourth I kicked so hard in the torso that my steel toe boot stuck there for a moment, causing me to lose my balance. I spun and ripped an arm off another ghoul to right myself. I swung the severed arm at another's head, but it broke like chicken bones against the fresher specimen. I brought the sword around in a wide arc and took his head off just above his bottom jaw. I continued hacking ruthlessly through their ranks until none were left on the street. Thirty or forty of them littered the streets in a broad circle around my position. I retrieved my helmet and wiped the gore from it before continuing down the street fighting back the desire to vomit.
Just around the next bend in the road was the square. I could hear the roaring of the horde of undead drawn by the smell of the blood capsules I had shattered there. They reached toward the top of the monument stained with blood as more and more continuously poured in from the intersecting streets, filling the square with many more than I could count. I leaped up and caught the fire escape I had lowered earlier and climbed up to the roof where I could get a good look at the battlefield. I checked my watch, still five minutes until show time. I sat back and watched as the square filled up until it was standing room only. It almost looked like a concert arena, with all the outstretched hands and the roar of the crowd. I counted down the last ten seconds out loud as if it was some sort of bizarre new year's celebration.
The bombs went off nearly simultaneously, exploding in a ring around the square. The last two explosions came fifteen seconds later, the largest of all, placed right in the center. I could feel it through the building when it went off like an earthquake, bathing the entire square in gas and fire. The ghouls were ignited in a flash, there was still plenty of movement down there but they wouldn't last long on fire. They were spreading the fire out onto the nearby streets and I could see more of the buildings around the perimeter catching fire too. I relaxed and drank deeply from the canteen. It felt good to be getting rid of so many, maybe I really could kill them all if I stayed at it long enough.
After one last look at the devastation I climbed back down the fire escape, headed for my truck that was parked two blocks away. There were no undead on the street when I dropped down from the steel ladder. I could still hear lots of moaning coming from the square, but the surrounding area was virtually empty. I jogged back to the truck uninterrupted. Once safely inside I checked the map and headed for the gun store.