"You'll get killed!", Judith warned.
"Living without mom, is worse than death! I wasn't strong enough to save her when I was younger, now I am. I have to go! Stay here, until Mr. Mike is better.....the meat should last you for days!", I said as I looked up at the sky as it threw up some more rain.
"What about the wild dogs?", Judith asked seemingly scared, "I already took care of them, you'll find out when you dig deeper into the dead animals before you", I said and walked under the rain, waiting to catch a cold strong enough to make me sneeze.
I took of my shirt to fasten the process. And just as hoped for, it came.
A sneeze, and then a vision, the zombies had gotten to one of the trees, at some distance away from where I was.
I can get there if I swing fast enough, with this vision acquired strength, I should be able to skip several trees while swinging.
I ran, jumped and swung, and as planned the chain went round a tree and with a great force, I swung; literally flying over trees. I swung on till I got to where they were.
"Hey!!", I yelled as I landed. Acquiring some of their attention, while some other continued doing what they were doing to the tree.
The ones not occupied ran towards me, and for the first time in a war front, I was glad I was wielding a chain.
I began my attacks, lashing as many that came close. Any who came in contact with it, either tore open, or was scattered in a manner similar to that of a detonated bomb.
I killed so many, and none got within a 10 feet radius from where I stood.
All whose attention I got, I had killed, the others continued what they were doing on the tree.
"Stop!!", I yelled as I ran towards them, lashing 3 on a straight line. And on collision, the dropped dead, with that same speed, force and aggression, I swung my chain around the tree and all who were around it were tied against it. I quickly, with a great force, pulled the chain; and all who were tied to the tree by my chain, it cut in two disfigured halves.
I rushed to tree, looking up at, it had very few fruits and, they were all high up.
I was about to start climbing when the tree began chainging its colour.
"What's going on?", I said to myself as I walked back observing the withering tree.
Seems the zombies had already done what they wanted to do to the tree.
I need to get to the next one, at this point, I was heated up, so much so, I was sweating under the rain. I was far from being cold and so Icould get a sneeze, and so no visions.
How do I get to the next without those visions?
Let's try a higher ground. With my chain, I swung up till I got to the tree top.
From where I stood high above the ground, I looked around if I would see any sign of their operation.
There was none in sight, "f_ck!", I muttered angry.
What do I do now? I feel like I came all this way for nothing. I got down about to leave, when the sight of a big syringe caught my eye. I walked to where it was, and wielding it was a zombie convert, just like mom and Mrs. Judith.
She must be a bio-chemist like Mrs. Judith, and what ever she had injected the tree with must of caused its wethering, I picked up the syringe and the box she held, and headed back to the cave. I refused to swing, so I don't destroy the chemicals. And so it took me longer time to arrive back at the cave.
When I arrived, Mrs. Judith and her husband were already asleep, seemingly after eating too much. I could tell from the way she slept, face up and shirt above her protruding tummy and so did her husband.
"Wake up!", I woke her up not willing to wait through the night to hear what she knows about the chemicals. She opened her eyes and was shocked to see me. "Derick!", she called in shock, "yes", I replied giving her the syringe and the box in my hand.
"What's this?", she asked, "I should be asking you. This was what they used to take down the tree!", I said to her.
With her hand, she rubbed her eyes and yawned, and took a closer look at the syringe and chemicals, "it's metaglyphosphatetriclopyr! this is the addition of two deadly chemicals, we were working on it back at the lab. One gram of this on any living thing can kill it to the root!", she explained seemingly frightened, as her hands shaked in fear.
"Why the face?", I asked, "if this should be used on a human, they won't be able to bury his remains!", she replied.
Suddenly! I exhaled heavily, and was in a vision. In this one another set of zombies, and their biochemist with their box and syringe were about to go for the next.
Afterwards, the heavily inhaling commenced, "what did you see?", Judith asked seemingly understanding what happened, "they are on another!", I said standing up, "Derick! Please don't go", Judith said holding my hands.
I looked at her for a brief moment, wondering where the sudden care came from, "I have to!", I replied as I pulled my hand from hers, "if for any reason you are infused with that chemical, the pain you would feel before death, even in that brief moment, is way worse than death itself!", she continued explaining.
Her plea woke Mr. Mike up, "what's going on?", Mr. Mike asked sitting up, "nothing dear, you should get some more rest", she adviced. "You know I hate it when you do this", he said now seriously looking at Judith.
Now she had no choice but tell, "Derick is going out to get fruits from the tree you used in converting me back", she explained, "you can't blame him now, can you? He wants his mom back just like I did you", he replied, "but its too dangerous", she added.
"In that case, I'll go with him", he said about to get up, "No!", judith said aggressively, "You are not leaving this cave, till we agree you are better!", she said to him.
Something about Judith reminded me of mom, always wanted my safety and not wanting me in danger. Although the care was gotten from a sensation of fear of what the chemical is capable of doing to humans, but it still feels good to be reminded of how mom use to react to me when I want to go out.
Unfortunately for Mrs. Judith, her actions only made me want mom more, "I am sorry Mrs. Judith, I have to go. I'll be fine", I replied, "you should let him go! You've seen what he can do, haven't you?", Mike asked.
"Here we go again! Those were your exact words before we lost Luke! Let him go, haven't you seen how he swims?", she said as tears rolled down her cheeks.
"I am beginning to get sick of you always bringing back this story! I told you then, and have been telling you since then, the water current went crazy, and no one saw it coming, not even the life guards! Sometimes you make it look like I killed him!", Mike said aloud now getting angry.
"That's because it sometimes feel so!", Judith stormed back, and after a moment of brief silence, Mike pursed his lips and tightened his fist, "you know what! I honestly regret bringing you back, I would have just left you and that story to die!", he replied.
"Cause the same story caused all this in the first place. Derick, let me tell you what really happened. The day the zombies abducted her, we would have been able to see them on the road and probably avoided them if not for her. She was busy bringing up irrelevant arguements that blinded us to the zombies right in front of us! We were not ambushed, we ran into them....because of her!", Mike said really angry.
Watching this, triggered some memories from the past, this was how Aunt Vera and Uncle Zack argued back then, they fight so much so they'll get physical. It's crazy how one minute couples would be laughing happily and the next something really stupid will cause great ripples in their calm and peaceful co-existence.
"You know what! Just go!", Judith said now really p_ssed.
"I will!", Mr Mike said and stood up, leaning on a stick and his still functional leg. With that he walked gently towards me. He shaked about to fall, and in that split second, I could feel Mrs. Judith's hearts race, as she turned to her about falling husband.
He supported himself with the stick and she acted like nothing happened. When she turned to me, I too acted like I didn't see what happened.
I know by now those zombies must have taken down that tree, so I guess I should use this opportunity to drain Mr. Mike of all the information he had, he seemed a lot more honest than his wife.
We began to walk through the forest, walking on puddles of water, created by the rain pour, as he grumbled some more.
"Judith always gets on my nerves, I wonder why I still love her this much.....sorry", he apologized looking at me like a kid. If this was something else, I probably would have told him that I wasn't, but I really don't want to hear his love history, so it's best I let it slide.
"So how did you find out about the fruits, I don't see any teeth marks on you", I said as I looked at him. He laughed and put a hand on my shoulder.
He soon stopped laughing, took a deep breath, and pursed his lips. Once I saw this, I knew I was in for a long story.
"When I woke up and found out that Judith was abducted, I wasn't myself, I didn't know where to start look. For the first 3 years I tried to locate the headquaters, I snuck behind zombies, but none took me back to the headquaters. They ended up discovering me and dying, cause until recently, in anger, I fought these things with my bare hands and I do not spare them, they couldn't speak, so it would be pointless interrogating them", He explained and stopped to hold a tree.
I too stopped and looked at him, as he leaned against the tree, seemingly needing rest.
"You can sit", I said looking around, without wasting even a second to think, he obeyed, sitting and resting his back against the tree, obviously tired.
"But please skip to the chase, how did you get there?", I asked, "I encountered white alpha!", he replied looking into my eyes, almost as though he was expecting a shock, or a change in the expression on my face.
When he saw none, he continued, "I confronted him! He and his zombie brothers were standing before a tree, one which I had never seen before, whose fruits were very small. They seemed to have their researchers looking into it, I ignored all of this and demanded for my wife. Calmly and audibly, he explianed to me that he wasn't keeping my wife, that she was infact working for him. For some reason, I believed his words, cause I knew I and Judith didn't depart on the best of terms, but I still wanted to see her for myself. So I held him by his white suit. Then he told asked me if I knew the difference between humans and white alpha. I replied with a no, then he told me that white alpha always kept his promises. And those were the last words I remembered before waking up on the floor and finding out that they had gone", he explained.
"When I got up, I was wet, it seemed to have been raining. In hunger, I climbed up the tree with those small fruits, and began to pluck. They were few, and so I plucked all the fruits, I could get. I took a bite from this fruit and gosh!", he said closing his eyes and moving his mouth seemingly remembering how it tasted.
"I told myself that I have to get it to Judith and apologize...", he said and I interrupted him with a hand gestured that indicated stop, "they are around!", I said noticing how all the animals had stopped making their usual sounds.
He understood and became quiet. I stood upright and held my chain tight, as I felt their presence.
"Derick!", I heard the voice of white alpha and I turned in that direction, and there he was.
"I really don't have the time to chat! There's something urgent that I need your skills to handle", he said looking at me. "You know there's no way, I'll go with you", I said lifting my chain above my head.
"I know how strong you've gotten! And I have heard rumors about your new weapon...which is why I brought this!", he said and a sound like that of moving vehicle was heard aloud.
And suddenly! My chain flew out of my hand, with a great force, one which left my fingers sore. All zombies in the direction it flew, were killed by it.
"Oops! My bad", white alpha exclaimed sarcastically, putting a hand on his mouth.
"What did you do?", I asked looking at my fingers in shock, "that my friend, is called a magnet!", he replied smiling.
to be continued....
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