Rex And Dexter: A Short Story

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Today is the day that Rex and Dexter could go to the shaft to fight the dead. “You ready bro?”, asked Dexter?
“More ready than you’ll ever be”, taunted Rex.
“Do you guys ever stop bickering?”, asked Margot.
“Come on guys, we need to get there early so you can get warmed up and for you two to figure out your strategies”, instructed James.
James was 19, and he was the older and much more mature than his two younger brothers Rex and Dexter. Ever since their parents died two years ago, James had to look after his younger brothers and keep them out of trouble. James worked in the US Army till his parents died and the zombies practically took over the world. Now he works as a Hawker. A Hawker is someone who is sent out to kill zombies that escape from behind the wall that is holding them in. “Ok guys we’re almost there”, announced James.
The four kids looked into the
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The zombie was gushing blood from the massive cut on the top of its head. Rex walked over to the zombie and stuck his katana in the back of his neck and quieted him (quieted means killed). “Round one is over!”, the announcer yelled, “now it's time for round two!”
As Rex leaned up against the outside of the pit and waited for the next zombie to come wandering out of the tunnel, he thought of his friend Will back in Roakville. Will and Rex had gone fishing everyday until just this morning when they had got into a fight. Will had asked why he couldn’t go with on the trip and Rex spat in his face and said he wasn’t capable of fighting the dead or the Thanatos Clan. As Will stormed off back toward his house that morning, he stopped and turned and said to Rex, “I hope you die out there”, and kept walking back towards his house.
Rex looked up and listened for the zombie, but still couldn’t hear it, so he went back to thinking with

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