Ghost Mirror

Chapter 5 - Six Months Later...

October 17, 2014

            Spencer hefted an M249 as he peered across a large train yard outside Ogden Utah. An eerie quiet hung in the air like terror that blended with the autumn fog

            “Are you sure they’re here?” Gretchen asked leaning in affectionately close.

            “They’re here.” Spencer replied with certainty.

Through the early morning light a wraith-like shape raced across the open train yard to a derelict train car.

            “There’s one of them.” Spencer guessed.

            “Where’s the other one?” Gretchen asked.

            “Maybe Vince or Jessie has spotted her.” Spencer hoped.

            “Next time we go demon hunting, let’s not chase them into a train yard.” Gretchen protested.

The sound of several bullets ripping through the still quiet alerted Spencer and Gretchen to the impending danger, Jessie had spotted their quarry.

            “Let’s go!” Spencer loudly whispered as he charged. The hiding target drew a sword and bounded out of its hiding place toward the sound of the gun fire.

            As Spencer and Gretchen arrived on the scene Jessie and Vince weren’t alone. They had it was trapped in a small gap between two train cars. A hive queen stood alone, she was trapped in a pincer, on one side was Vince and Jessie and on the other was Spencer and Gretchen.

            Spencer looked around expecting to get skewered by the second hive queen, but she was no where to be seen, they had lost her.

The queen noticed a gleaming sword in Vince’s hand so she turned to fight her way past Spencer and Gretchen only to have Spencer drop to one knee with his machine gun and unleash his weapons fury upward towards the queens head, Jessie did likewise. The queen was left with no alternative so she leapt into the air and landed atop the train car.

            Spencer and Jessie didn’t miss a beat; their weapons followed the queen.

Until a loud, thunderous gun shot ripped through the hive queens left shoulder, knocking her off the train car to the rock-strewn ground below and leaving a gaping hole in her shoulder and a train car between the group and the hive queen. Spencer and Vince raced around the train car to see the queen was wounded, however the wound was healing itself at an alarming rate, she could be back on her feet in mere seconds. Vince quickly stepped up to the queen and forced the shimmering swords tip into the queens throat, within seconds the queen turned into a fine grey dust and blended with the rocks under her.

            Spencer turned to Vince, “I told you I should have been at the sniper rifle instead of Rodney.”

            “Where’s the other one?” Vince asked ignoring Spencer’s comment.

            “I didn’t see which way she went,” Spencer said “She couldn’t have gone far.”

            “Yes, that’s what concerns me.” Vince admitted.

A voice erupted from the depths of terror to catch Spencer’s attention.

            “SPENCER!”

It was Gretchen, was she in trouble?

            Spencer raced toward the voice of his beloved. But just before he rounded the last corner a bright light exploded outward in all directions briefly leaving a silhouette of a woman across the train car.