Free Zombie Jesus by Edward Teach Page B

warily approached Zombie Jesus weapons in hand, their hearts thundering in their chests as they drew near the messiah whose presence had dominated their lives for so long. The undead messiah crouched and snarled, then leapt for the bikers, and the battle was on.
                  Cisco twisted his torso, barely escaping a swipe from Zombie Jesus, then brought his tire iron down on the messiah’s arm, the impact snapping the bone. Zombie Jesus spun with the strike with surprising grace and slammed his other hand into Cisco’s jaw, sending the man reeling and spitting blood. Romeo darted in and sank his machete deep into the messiah’s neck, and worked it free just as Zombie Jesus turned and thrust his hand into Romeo’s mid-section. The messiah’s strike was powerful, and his claw-like fingers drive into Romeo’s flesh, ripping free a fistful of muscle and fat.
                  Romeo fell to the ground screaming, and a collective moan rose from the hundreds of walkers assembled just on the other end of the invisible barrier. Zombie Jesus made to leap on top of Romeo, though just as he landed Cisco bashed the back of the messiah’s head with a running strike. The blow was powerful enough to lift the messiah off of Romeo and collapse in a heap nearby. Romeo rolled over and struggled to his feet with Cisco’s help.
                  The voice boomed in Cisco’s mind, even as Romeo could see himself through the messiah’s eyes as Zombie Jesus returned to his feet and faced the men once again.
     
    Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you are happy. But when you see your likeness that came into being before you and that it neither dies nor becomes visible, how much you will have to bear!"
     
    Zombie Jesus rushed the men, and they moved to meet him. Romeo ducked low and slashed his machete across the messiah’s belly, spilling his rotted guts across the canyon floor. Cisco stepped boldly into the messiah’s embrace and slammed his tire iron directly into the messiah’s skull. Zombie Jesus twitched as his head was knocked back, but his hands were on Cisco, and he pulled the man to his chest. Before the biker could react Zombie Jesus sank his teeth into Cisco’s neck, pulling a hunk of flesh from it and bathing them both in the blood that jetted from his wound.
                  Romeo screamed and wrapped his arm around the messiah’s heat to pull his mouth from Cisco’s throat. Zombie Jesus clamped down on Romeo’s arm, his teeth sinking into the flesh as the young biker pulled him free. Romeo groaned in pain but did not let go until Cisco rolled away. The young biker and the messiah struggled for position, the biker’s machete slipping from his grasp. As Romeo wrestled Zombie Jesus to his knees Cisco appeared, one hand covering his throat wound and the other brandishing the tire iron.
                  Cisco roared as he plunged the pointed end of the tire iron into the messiah’s eye socket, driving it as deep as he could. The messiah’s jaws relaxed as Cisco collapsed to the ground. Romeo snatched up his machete and held the messiah by the hair with his wounded hand as he brought the machete down on the messiah’s neck several times until the head was cleaved from the body. Finally Romeo fell back to the ground, the head still in his grasp, and closed his eyes.
     
    Jesus said, "Beasts have their dens, and fish have their waters, and birds have their nests, but human beings have no place to lay down and rest."
     
    Jesus said, "How miserable is the body that depends on a body, and how miserable is the soul that depends on the same. Bodies decay, as does the soul that depends on such."
     
    Jesus said, "The messengers and the prophets will come to you and give you what belongs to you. You, in turn, give them what you have, and say to yourselves, 'When will they come and take what belongs to them?’ but Prophets die, none so swiftly as those chosen to carry