The Apocalypse Survival Manual (Three Days Before Doomsday, I Stockpiled Billions) novel Chapter 802

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Outside the window, countless/creatures burst from the sea and hurled themselves at the yacht.

Another slammed into the glass. Its slender body and broad, papery fins stayed pressed against the window for several seconds before it dropped away.

Nicole finally got a good look at it. Flying fish!

They filled the ocean as far as she could see, leaping into the faint dawn light and spreading their winglike fins to glide through the air.

Nicole saw footage of this on TV before. It was spectacular, the sort of sight that made people marvel at the wonders of the ocean.

In person, it made her skin crawl.

She and Zeph scrambled out of bed and rushed toward the deck.

The door was still closed, and Cola clawed frantically at it.

Poppy beat them there. She stood with a gun in her hands, tense and alert, unsure what was happening.

“They’re flying fish,” Zeph told her.

Poppy never saw anything like this before. Her face lit up at the thought of fish that could fly.

Cola wrestled the door open and charged outside.

Something was wrong with his bark. He sounded scared.

Nicole and Zeph followed a step behind. Before they reached the doorway, Poppy’s smile vanished. She raised her gun and fired.

Their hearts lurched, and they rushed toward her.

Cola, who usually charged into a fight without a second thought, came racing back with his tail between his legs.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…

Flying fish bounced across the deck. More than a dozen shot through the doorway, fins spread as they lunged at Poppy and Cola,

It was impossible. This had to be a nightmare.

Nicole stared in horror. Then a fish snapped at Cola’s nose, and she drew her sword and lunged forward, swinging down.

The blade cut it clean in half. Both halves hit the floor.

Its jaws kept snapping, revealing rows of sharp, serrated teeth. Its bulging eyes gleamed with strange, unnatural colors, and its fins thrashed wildly.

The sight nearly turned her stomach. These fish were several times their normal size and unbelievably hard

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to kill. They might as well have been zombies.

Nicole could kill a person without her hands shaking, but these zombie fish scared her, especially when she saw them covering the entire deck.

They writhed in heaps, flinging themselves into the air. Right then, Nicole swore she would never eat fish again.

They darted and flapped in every direction, making them almost impossible to hit. Even a bullet through the body didn’t stop them right away.

The guns weren’t doing any good.

Zeph rushed to shield Poppy just before a fish could sink its teeth into her.

Nicolle pulled out two baseball bats and tossed them over. “Cola, get back!”

Cola retreated, and the three of them fought for all they were worth.

For every fish they killed, more came flying inside. They bounced across the floor and hurtled through the air, turning the passageway into chaos.

Nicole hacked with her sword while Zeph and Poppy swung their bats. Dead fish piled up around them, but more kept coming.

Zeph knocked several away in quick succession, then slammed the door before any more could get through.

Nicole finished off the dozen or so fish still in the passageway with her sword.

Outside, the thudding and banging continued.

Tens of thousands of flying fish swarmed past the yacht, slamming into everything in their path. A thousand or two landed on deck and couldn’t get back into the water. They thrashed and hurled themselves against the door, battering it so hard that Nicole thought it might give way.

Blood coated the passageway, and the air reeked of fish.

Killing these things was harder than killing people. Drenched in sweat, her heart still racing, Nicole asked, Poppy, Cola, are you hurt?”

Both were splattered with fish blood. She couldn’t tell if any of it was their own.

Poppy quickly checked herself. Cola, thoroughly rattled after fleeing the fight, turned and bolted.

Nicole hurried after him. She found him cowering in a cramped corner on the lower deck, and it took some doing to pull him out.

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