![]() "Next time I stake, you chop," I replied. ![]() ![]() Trip was already at the sink scrubbing furiously. They were shaking badly and I felt a strong urge to vomit. Placing the gore-splattered knife on the table, I stumbled away to wash my hands. Mingled fluids coagulated around the central drain. Several of the other Newbies had lost their lunch on this exercise. Newcastle and Mead," Sam said to Holly and Chuck, the next people in line, as Milo used a hose to spray down the floor. By saving this part until most of the trainees had washed out he had to scrounge up fewer corpses. According to Milo the reason we saved it for this late in the training was that it was hard to get a good supply of medical school leftover bodies. It probably would have been more efficient to do the horrific stuff first, as it really took out anyone with a weak stomach. I'm sure that staking and beheading corpses was practical training, but I believed that the main reason we did this was to weed out the trainees who couldn't handle the sheer nastiness of lopping off a human head. MHI had saved the most disgusting lessons for the last of us. Currently we were standing in a small refrigerated room near the hangar, known as the Body Shack. Our class of remaining Newbies was slowly shaping up into a coherent team of Hunters. And remember the fresh ones squirt more!" There are some things that don't quit until you take their heads off. "See that, class? Don't screw around with them. The cadaver's head rolled off the table and landed on the floor with a damp thud. Responding to the order, I raised the heavy knife over my head and brought it down with as much force as possible, this time chopping completely through the tissue and breaking the vertebrae. I grunted as I strained the blade against the rubbery flesh. Once goo gets on the handle of your knife, it gets even worse, and the next thing you know, your blade is glancing off of bones that you didn't even know were there. The body tends to flop around every time you hit it, and it makes a really nasty mess. Sawing off a human head is harder than it looks. "It runs in the family." He returned to the lesson. Julie pinned it to a mausoleum door and held it there until it quit kicking. Once its flesh was on fire it was only a matter of time before it ran out of steam. Don't fight high-level undead without one. ![]()
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