Pippa had taken cover
behind Mrs Bennet’s currently empty greenhouse and poked her head out from
behind it as Cupcake and Jack were pelted by the ‘ammo’ of Jamie’s squad, who
were all loaded up with freshly packed snowballs.
“Get them!” Jamie
laughed as he pelted the pair with snowballs, the other non-zombies following
his direction. Jack managed to avoid the worst of it by taking off into the
air, but poor Cupcake got hit by at least four. The girl let out a growl and
darted forward even as the other of the two boys complained that “flying
zombies were cheating.”
“Run!” Monty screeched,
turning and doing just that as the huge girl barreled forwards. Sophie, who had
been hiding behind her big brother, grabbed Jamie’s arm and pulled him away
just before Cupcake careened into the group, tagging Monty as the others legged
it, laughing as they did so. The bespectacled blonde joined Jack’s steadily
growing zombie army as the leader of said army swept back down to the ground
and grinned at his forces.
“Brains.” Jack pointed
in the direction the other kids had gone.
“BRAAAAAINS!” Pippa,
Cupcake and Monty replied loudly and chased the others around to the front of
the house only to find that Jamie and his diminishing forces had prepared for
them. Jack paused momentarily to wonder where Sophie had gone before he was
under fire again, Jamie’s troops not bunching up this time as the ‘zombies’
went after them, having learnt their lesson from Cupcake’s charge.
“Jack. Jack. Jack.” Jack didn’t have time to
react before he was tackled by a small, giggling blonde who latched onto his side
and refused to let go, slowing him down enough for Jamie to escape being beeped
on the nose. “Hi.” Sophie giggled at him.
“Brains.” Jack tapped her on the nose instead
of her older brother.
“Cold!” Sophie complained, before letting go,
giggling again and chasing her brother around the garden, “Brains, brains,
brains, brains, brains...”
Jack grinned as Jamie dodged his sister then yelped
and narrowly dodged around Cupcake who was in fact chasing the boy who seemed
to live in basketball tops no matter how cold out it was. At this point of the
proceedings he could probably bow out and watch the insanity unfold, sometimes
it was fun to see how his small pack of believers could draw the other children
in the area into his games, however today he had no intention of bowing out.
Not until he had tagged Jamie at least.
He took off, aiming to swoop round behind his
friend only to get pelted by snowballs from most of Jamie’s remaining squad who
were determined to keep their friend out of the clutches of the zombies. Jack
tumbled in midair, knocked off balance by the impact as the three remaining
‘human’ members of the group escaped back into the house.
“Brains, brains, brains, brains, brains...”
Sophie happily warbled as she followed her brother inside.
It took a moment for Jack to right himself but
Pippa was holding the door open for him when he managed it. He nodded to her as
he drifted through, listening for the sounds of the ‘battle’ continuing. He
could hear the sounds of the kids running around upstairs and he drifted that
way, moving to one side so Pippa could shoot up to join the others after she
shut the front door.
Alighting on the landing, he followed the
sounds, his concern piqued when he heard Jamie yelp, “No, that’s Santa’s!” and
saw a bright flash. He darted towards the door, only to arrive in time to see
Sophie giggling as she ran through a portal to Jack had no clue where.
“Sophie! Wait!” Jamie darted after her, his
friends in hot pursuit.
“Wait for...” Jack shot forward only for the
portal to close before he could get there, “Me.”
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