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Behind them, a Huoddamned stationary parade Out stepped an officer froe of thethat this was his show since roasting behind those walls was theBehind the a camera Meanwhile, the crowd of bystanders was doubling every five h the air to announce that the coolest freaking thing ever was going on down at the old Wong place right this veryinto what John would later refer to as "a fucktard circus"
I shifted aze back behind the house
Oh-oh
The fire a few feet away His friend nowhere to be found Maybe he went for help?
Suddenly, several things hithis head;
2 The fact that the hat that was laying a few feet away still had the head in it;
3 The realization that this was not the body of the guy as hurt earlier--this was the guy who cah theand knocked me out cold
When I calass and people were screarass outside the Porsche A pair of arhter’s coat were clenched aroundwas clasped in one of the hands, red and white and shaped like a horseshoe My vision cah for me to realize it was a human jawbone, complete with a full set of teeth One of thefoot, things got a little war brain finally realized et out of the rip, my hands still pinned behind ot me free, for the moment anyway, and I tried to craay froed to roll over
The fire the lower half of his face Where his jawbone should have been, and presuo, was thefeet of my spider It looked a bit charred in places
Halfface Firefighter threw off his fireht ared from his wrist, kind of like Wolverine’s claws except when Wolverine pushed his out, his hand didn’t immediately fall off, as happened here Frorew and sharpened Then, a red split appeared at thesound, his forearthwise halves, the two bones of the forear on a pair of scissors
Halfface Firefighter Scissorare and leaned down
His forehead exploded
Gunshots hammered the air Screams from all around Halfface Bloodyhead stu behind his enor bloody holes in a firefighter-issue T-shirt But the o down
I was up and onwith my hands pinned behindscrearab the detective around the base of the skull He forced Falconer’s head down to waist level, then turned his body away fro Falconer’s face directly in front of his buttocks, Halfface farted Falconer collapsed to the leaves, as if dead
Another gunshot smacked Halfface in the shoulder Annoyed, he held up his scissored arm The two sharpened bones rotated at the elbow joint Slow at first, and then faster and faster until they were twirling at the elbow like a band leader’s baton, whizzing through the air and throwing off flecks of blood and hter Bloodyhead Spinbones strode toward the burning house with purpose, directly towardupward, causing the gutter above it tofroe into the wall, tearing a ragged hole in the siding and insulation behind it, ash about chest high, leading up to the bottom left corner of the broken
Cops screa to Falconer, the other was shouting about backup
Halfface finished his cut, thenat theHe was turning theinto a door
"Hey! Dave!"
It was John His plastic handcuffs were cut but he still wore the loops around his wrists like a pair of cheap bracelets Munch ca panic-stricken He was carrying a huge set of bolt cutters
"Turn around!"
Halfface bashed out the rest of the glass with his reh theand pulled
A burning section of wall fell at his feet Behind it was the charred, s and frame that had been en
John took the bolt cutters from Munch and went to work on my handcuffs To Munch he screamed, "RUN! TAKE DAVE’S BRONCO! THE KEYS ARE IN IT DRIVE UNTIL YOU’RE SOMEPLACE NOBODY SPEAKS ENGLISH!"
My hands were free Explosions erupted a few feet away--a cop going to work on Halfface with a riot gun The monster was down on his knees I saw a shot blow a hole in his neck and his head flopped over, dangling by a tendon
There was victory, for about three seconds Then …
The cop started screa
The nearest firefighter started screa at the monsters that they could not see Then I looked back at my house, and understood