《A Zombie's heart (BL) - HIATUS》


 Chapter 1

    (Author''s note: The first three chapters can be considered as an introduction to the story)


    Sam¡¯s POV


    It all has started when the doorbell rang; I was sleeping in my new fluffy bed and having the best sleep ever when an annoying sound kept ringing in my ears. For a moment there, I didn¡¯t know if it was a dream or reality until my eyes opened slowly and wandered around the room for a moment, the sound rang again and I recognized it as my doorbell.


    While I was rolling out of the bed and standing up, I wondered for a second who might that be, I have recently moved to this new city to attend college, and I hardly knew anybody in this city, I shook off all the thoughts when I reached the door and opened it, and I wish I never did.


    A tall, blonde and handsome man was standing there with a gentle smile on his face; I was just about to ask the man something like ¡®Who the hell are you? What the fuck do you want?¡¯ (Yeah, I know, I can be really rude if you wake me up) but my voice stuck in my throat when I felt a stinging pain in my heart, the pain became unbearable as it spread through my whole body.


    I tilted my head down and looked at the cause of this pain, a small piece of what looked like a stake made of rock stabbed the middle of my heart, my vision started to blur and as I fell to my knees, the last things I saw were the terrified look on the handsome man¡¯s blue eyes and the color of the sun was changing to dark blue, before everything turned black and I lost consciousness.


    I woke up on loud screams, in fact, not just screams, I could hear shouting, crying, car horns and I could even swear that I heard gunshots, there were also some strange noises I have never heard before, they were similar to grunts and growls, maybe from some kind of animals which was weird considering the fact that I live in a city.


    My head was heavy for some reason, so much heavy that I couldn¡¯t focus on anything, I have tried to open my eyes but they refused to obey, nevertheless, I kept trying for a minute or two until I finally managed to open them a little.


    With blurry eyes and a fuzzy mind, I saw my front door in front of me and I was still lying on the floor on my back, it was already dark outside, which meant that I have been lying on the corridor¡¯s floor next to my half-opened front door for almost twelve hours or so, all of a sudden, I felt anger raging in me, how come nobody checked on me or even called an ambulance?


    Another high-pitched scream thundered through the night, which made me even madder, all my thoughts became focused on the annoying screams and shouts and how angry they were making me feel, I just wanted them to stop.


    After a few failed attempts to stand up, I finally managed to clamber back to my feet. With my shaky legs and trembling body, I started to walk towards the parapet to take a look at the street.


    The first thing I saw was a woman, she was sitting on the street about ten meters away from my apartment¡¯s building, she was screaming and shouting for help, she was kicking with her leg what looked like a drunk man with dirty clothes and messy hair who was grabbing her other leg tightly and biting it, her voice was too damn loud and pierced through my ears like daggers.


    For some strange reason, the thought of me helping her never crossed my mind. Like I said before, all I could think of was that her screams and shouts were annoying and making me fucking angry, and most importantly, I wanted them to stop.


    The building I lived in was a one-story building consisted of six apartments aligned next to each other in a long line, all the apartments¡¯ front doors open onto a long half-open corridor, with the stairs to exit the building stationed in the middle of the corridor, I lived in the last apartment to the left.


    My body was swaying slightly, so I walked slowly in the corridor toward the building¡¯s exit and made my way to her, step by step, with each step I took toward her the hungrier and angrier I felt. When I managed to reach her I had only one thought in my mind, to kill and eat her, so without any delay, I leaned down with my hands on both sides of her head and snapped her neck, ¡®Oh, she finally stopped screaming¡¯ I thought before taking a mouthful of her flesh into my mouth and ate it.


    I wonder how many years has it been since the blue sun first appeared? Ten or maybe fifteen? As the saying goes ¡®Ignorance is a blessing¡¯, it may be better not to know for how long I have been suffering from all the anger, pain, sadness and loneliness.You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.


    I closed my eyes as a tear made its way to my cheek, carrying with it some of the pain from my dead heart. What a strange thing to happen, can you imagine a crying zombie? Yup, that¡¯s me, well, let me introduce myself, my name is Sam and I¡¯m nineteen years old or was nineteen years old when I died, but most importantly, I¡¯m a fucking zombie.


    For the first few years of being a zombie, all I could feel was a burning rage and the need to kill every human I laid my eyes on, all rational thoughts were gone; it didn¡¯t matter how many I killed or for what reason, I just killed them all.


    Little by little my mind began to clear and I started to feel some other emotions, sadly though, they were all bad emotions like sadness or regret.


    Anyhow, since I could somehow control myself a little, I decided to lock myself in some abandoned building to sort out my thoughts and emotions, and that is how I spent the next few years, just sitting alone struggling mentally and emotionally, until one day I managed to have full control over myself or so I thought, so I left the building and went outside.


    The first thing I decided to do was to meet some other zombies, in hope that I can talk with them or something, so for the last few years all I did was trying, and the keyword here is ¡®trying¡¯ since all my attempts were for nothing, well, not really nothing because every time I tried I felt angry and ended up killing the zombie, maybe I cleaned half of the city¡¯s zombies before I managed to really have full control over my anger and didn¡¯t kill the rest of them.


    During that period, I discovered a few things, first and most importantly, I¡¯m somehow different than other zombies, I can talk, think clearly and look more human than the rest of them (although my skin is pale and my irises are red) not to mention the fact that I¡¯m faster and stronger than them and have many abilities.


    The other zombies can think like angry one-year-old kids, hardly talk a word or two after a few days of trying, only advanced zombies who usually have abilities can think and talk a little better (like two or three years old kids), so I gave up on talking with them. Some of the zombies have one or two abilities which I guessed helped in speeding their evolution.


    The second thing I discovered was that, on the day of the blue sun which also happened to be the start of the apocalypse, some shards fell from the sky into the earth and most likely were the cause of the zombie virus or that is what a doctor¡¯s old journal which I found said, unfortunately, they never had the chance to verify any of it because during the first week everything was gone, no government, no military, nothing.


    And guess what, I was the lucky one to receive a direct hit from a shard into my fucking heart, which I concluded was the reason for me being different and all of my troubles.


    The third thing I discovered was, there are humans still alive. For the past week, I have been watching them from a distance, there are now about twenty men left, with guns, knives and some of them have abilities.


    I guess the virus also changed some of the humans¡¯ DNA but not enough to turn them to zombies, which made it easier for them to survive in this missed up world, I think they came to search for food and other supplies since the city is safer after I killed half of the zombies population, they should give me a reward of some sort, just kidding.


    Seeing these humans made me realize how lonely and miserable I¡¯m, I don¡¯t belong in either side, the humans or the zombies, how long can I keep going on like this? The worst thing about being a zombie is that your emotions are heightened, so much stronger than normal humans, to the point that it can consume you.


    And so, here I¡¯m now, standing on an old building¡¯s rooftop, with one thought and only one thought in my mind, I need it to stop, just like what happened in the first day of being a zombie, same strong sensation that consumed me and I couldn''t think of anything else. I need it to stop, all these emotions and feelings, all the regret and suffering, loneliness and sadness, I need it all to stop, I need my life to stop.


    As I looked at the pale skin of my hands, one last tear fell down from my eyes, I climbed down the stairs and walked out of the building, I changed my clothes to some old rags which I took from an unlucky corps, and put some dirt and old blood on my face and hands, I even made my hair messy and dirty ¡®Now I look like any other zombie¡¯, I thought to myself as I made my way to where the humans were.


    I walked for a few minutes until I was only a hundred meters away or so from them, I halted my steps and closed my eyes and tried to remove this stupid idea from my mind but unfortunately for me, it was too late, the thought totally consumed my mind and took with it all other thoughts, yup, I needed it to stop.


    I turned the corner and saw the men were talking to each other in a low voice while trying to open an old store¡¯s door without alerting the zombies, I started to wobble while walking and stretched my hands in front of me as if I was trying to catch them, I made some grunts and growls voices to catch the humans attention.


    one of the humans looked at me and pointed his gun toward me with a shaking hand, he moved his other hand through his hair in frustration and hesitated for a moment, which made me furrowed my eyebrows, for some reason he had a very sad look in his blue eyes. When he pulled the trigger, I could swear that I saw a tear made its way to his cheek.


    Suddenly, an old memory came to my mind ¡®Oh, he is the same handsome man, I wonder who he was¡¯ I wondered to myself. A faint smile decorated my lips for the first time since the blue sun shone in this world as the bullet hit me in the head and everything turned black one last time.

 Chapter 2

    Jack¡¯s POV


    I was in my room looking fondly at the old picture in my hand; his black silky hair is a little long, his black eyes are full of life and his dazzling half-smile can take my breath away in a second, I was caressing his cheek carefully and lovingly when a knock on the door interrupted my staring like an idiot at the photo, I kissed the photo one last time then stored it back into my space-storage and allowed the person to enter ¡°Come in.¡±


    Mark entered the room with a curious look in his eyes and a little frown and said ¡°Hey Jack, why do you always sit in your room alone? How about hanging out with me sometimes?¡±


    I answered him with a fake faint smile on my lips ¡°Just resting, you know how tiring it¡¯s every day, I would rather get some rest in the little free time I can get.¡±


    Mark looked at me, clearly, he didn¡¯t believe a single word I said, he already knew that there was no point in talking about that since we had this kind of conversation hundreds of times already ¡°Tsk tsk, anyhow, your father wants to see you.¡± He threw the last sentence at me and dragged me out of my room.


    Mark and I have been friends since we were 15 years old; we went to the same school and even the same college, though we never had the chance to finish college, he is one of the few friends that I have and the only friend that survived with me until today.


    We lost so many people, it has already been thirteen years since the start of the fucking apocalypse, it¡¯s a cruel world we live in, constant fear and hunger, maybe we are still alive, but I doubt anybody is feeling alive, I sure as hell am not, my heart had died on the same day the blue sunhas appeared for the first time.


    I said goodbye to Mark and knocked on the door of my father¡¯s office before entering the office, there were about thirty men in the room talking to my father; they all stared at me with different looks, I hate how they look at me like I¡¯m some kind of an alien of some sort. I didn¡¯t spare them any glance and made my way to the desk at the end of the room.


    Before I even have the chance to open my mouth and greet my father, he glanced at me and started to talk while arranging some papers in his hands ¡°We got some confirmed information that the number of zombies in ¡®A¡¯ city has decreased significantly in the last few years, it is still considered a very dangerous zone but we should be able to enter it.¡±


    He glanced at me again then continued ¡°Jack, I need you to go with these men to the city to search for supplies and assess the city¡¯s situation. Since nobody entered the city ever after the start of the apocalypse, it should have many supplies. Two of these men have space ability, so there should be enough space to collect everything. One more thing, try to investigate the reason behind the decrease in the zombies¡¯ numbers. You will be leaving in two hours, don¡¯t forget to make the necessary arrangements to stay there for a few days, dismiss.¡±


    I stood there for a second or two before making my way out of the room. For fuck¡¯s sake, I¡¯m supposed to be his fucking son, not some subordinate to order around, he was and always will treat me like he treats his former subordinates in the military, I think being a general for half of his life made it impossible for him to change. The worst part is, though, there is no military anymore, in fact, there hadn¡¯t even been military factions in years, but for my father, he treats this small survivor base as if it¡¯s a military base.


    It took us about six hours by car to reach the outskirts of the city; everyone around me was tensed and nervous. Cities are classified as red zones, and nobody who wants to survive will ever enter them, I still don¡¯t understand why would my father send me to such a dangerous mission with this team, who I can¡¯t even remember seeing any of its members in our base unless these men were the ones watching the city.


    It has been a week since we entered the city, we found a lot of food but I doubt that it¡¯s still edible, for the time being, we stored everything in our space-storages, and we will have to check it carefully when we return to the base.


    We also managed to find ammo, water bottles, clothes, some kind of seeds and even some guns, we took anything that could be usable and divided them between me and the other two space ability users.This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work.


    Today will be the last day of our mission, we already lost ten men, it¡¯s true that the number of zombies had decreased but nevertheless, the city is still very dangerous, there are many advanced zombies with abilities, but the worst part was that ever since we entered the city I had this feeling in my gut that we were being watched, which made it nerve breaking since I couldn¡¯t relax or lower my guard down for even a second, especially that I don¡¯t trust any of these men to guard my back.


    We decided to raid one last store before heading back to the base, so, two of the men were trying to open the door as quietly as possible, some of the men were talking and arranging themselves to three groups, while I kept watching with some other two men.


    A few zombies approached us and we took care of them as soon as possible before they could attract any more zombies. I checked my gun and fixed the silencer to prepare before entering the store, so the others started to check on their weapons too. I looked at the direction of the voice when I heard a grunt coming from the left, and I saw him.


    His long silky black hair became messy silver hair, his unnaturally pale skin was covered with dirt and blood, his beautiful black eyes turned to crimson red and his slender body was dressed with dirty and tattered clothes. He was wobbling with his hands stretched in front of him while making his way toward us.


    ¡®Still so beautiful as always¡¯ I thought while pointing my gun to his direction with a shaky hand and tears in my eyes, I pulled my hair with my other hand and tried to control my emotions, I wanted to run to him and embrace him in my arms, I wanted to kiss every part of him and hide him in my heart.


    While I was drowning down in these thoughts, it took me a second or two to notice that one of the men was preparing his gun to shot him.


    I felt the blood rush into my head and a lone tear streamed down my cheek at the thought of somebody killing him in front of me again, I would rather kill him with my own hands than let anybody hurt him again, so I pulled the trigger, and I could swear that I saw a beautiful faint smile on his lips just before his body dropped to the ground.


    I waved my hand at the men while my eyes were fixed on his body which was at that moment lying still in the ground, and told them to enter the store while I will keep watching outside.


    Two minutes later, I was sitting on the ground next to his body, tracing his cheeks with my hand while crying my heart out, I took his body in my arms and hugged him next to my heart and shouted ¡°This is not what we agreed upon, you fucker, show yourself, how many fucking times I have to watch him die in front of me? Show yourself or I¡¯m going to kill all your fucking precious humans, this is not what you promised me thirteen years ago.¡±


    Suddenly, time stopped and everything turned gray like in an old movie, and the fucker showed himself with a sick smile on his face.


    Seeing his face again opened all my old wounds once more, reminding me of my past life in my original world and all the horrible things I experienced in it. I could see myself again when I was five years old and my parents sold me for a few meals to some rich psycho; I had to work my ass out for a few bites every a few days. It only got worse as I became older, how many times he whipped me and beat me half dead for no reason? He even raped me and watched his men rape me for the fun of it; I spent almost fifteen years in continuous assaults and torture until I lost all hope in life.


    When I was in my darkest days, a new slave came to work in the house, he was a year younger than me, but he was like the sun in my life, he made me laugh again, made me feel again, I could ignore all the horrible things that happened during the day when I saw him at night and embraced him in my arms, he gave me the strength to continue on living. We spent eight years in that hell together, taking care and love each other, for the first time in my fucked up life I felt alive, until that night.


    We were having sex in the hellhole we called our room, when The master suddenly opened the door with a sick smirk on his lips and motioned to some of his men to take us out of the room and into the yard behind the house, they chained me to a wall and chained Sam to some old bench, the Master laughed like the psycho he was and shouted ¡°Let the fun starts.¡±


    Some of the men went to Sam and raped him, punched him, cut him with knives, while the master was laughing and whipping him from time to time or burning him with some hot metal pole.


    I was shouting and crying, cursing and begging, but nothing worked, they kept at it for hours until Sam dropped dead with his body soaked in his blood.


    At that point, I was screaming hysterically and blood was dripping from my wrists and ankles as I kept pulling on my restraints for hours.


    After the master admired what happened to Sam, he turned his attention to me and the torture started, they kept me chained while torturing me for months but making sure to keep me alive, just to teach me a lesson as the master liked to call it ¡°How dare a slave like you to fall in love, I¡¯ll make sure to teach you a lesson.¡±


    I was hanging between life and death, until one day, same like today this fucker showed himself in front of me with the same sick smile on his face and gave me a deal.

 Chapter 3

    Jack¡¯s POV


    I was hanging between life and death, my consciousness was fading from all the blood I have lost, ¡®I guess they forgot to patch me this time, finally, I¡¯m going to die¡¯ I thought.


    Suddenly my mind started to clear and I opened my eyes wondering what the hell was happening, everything was gray and frozen in place, a pink creature with small pink wings was floating in the air with pink hair, pink eyes, pink clothes, even his skin is a little pink. As I said, a pink creature with a sick smile on his face approached me and introduced himself.


    ¡°Hello Jack, you can call me Leo, as you can see, I¡¯m an angel, see, you can have a look at my wings if you want to, I don¡¯t mind, see, they are beautiful right, right.¡±


    He circled around himself to show me his wings and continued ¡°Anyhow, I was sent here to make a deal with you, as you know, you are going to die in a few more minutes, god bless your soul.¡±


    He made a gesture with his hands as if he was praying for my soul to rest in peace or something, then said ¡°We would like to send you to another world, that world will be facing an apocalypse in a few more days, your mission is simple, all you have to do is help as many humans as possible to survive, in exchange, you will have another life in a new world, so what do you think? You like it right, right, it is a super deal.¡± As he finished talking, he looked at me with anticipation shown in his eyes.


    I gave him a look clearly saying ¡®Are you fucking stupid?¡¯ Before saying to him ¡°So, now that I¡¯m finally will be able to leave this hell, you want to send me to another hell, no, thank you, I would rather die here and now.¡± I closed my eyes as an indication that this conversation is over.


    I felt his gaze on me before he started to talk again ¡°Did I forget to mention that, both worlds have the same people in them but with different lifestyles? You will be occupying the original Jack Ross¡¯ body, he is you but from that world, though he is a bit younger than you at the moment, he is still twenty right now, compared to your twenty-eight self here in this world, and most importantly, Sam Black is still alive in that world.¡±


    I shot my eyes open at the mention of Sam, only to see a smirk on his lips as if he knew from the start how to make me agree to this missed up deal, he chuckled at me and said ¡°So, you will have another chance to live with Sam again, now, what is your answer?¡±


    At that moment, I knew just as much as he had also known that I sold my soul and made a deal with the devil, oh sorry, I mean angel, I shook my head and mumbled a weak ¡°Deal.¡±


    He laughed at me and put his hand on my forehead and mumbled a few words.


    When I opened my eyes again, I found myself sleeping in a strange room, with some strange things that I have never seen before, all of a sudden, strange images and memories started to flow in my mind. After a few minutes, I knew everything about this Jack and everything he knew about this world as if I was the one living here my whole life.


    ¡°I need to find Sam¡± I said out loud to myself and jumped out of the bed and started my search to find him.


    I managed to search in some data from the military database and found him in ¡®A¡¯ city; he was still nineteen in this world and was planning to enter college.


    I printed his photo out and kept it with me, for safe-keeping, of course, nothing shameless.


    I decided to head to ¡®A¡¯ city as soon as possible, but unfortunately for me, we were at ¡®Z¡¯ city at the moment. My father had some military meetings there, and we had to wait until they were finished before we could head back to ¡®A¡¯ city, as we also lived in ¡®A¡¯ city as well, and I was forced to stay with him in ¡®Z¡¯ city for another four days.


    We reached ¡®A¡¯ city at midnight, so I forced myself to wait until morning to see Sam, I went directly to bed as I was hoping that the morning will come faster, after some struggle and a thousand thoughts I finally managed to fall asleep.You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.


    I woke up at six-thirty and went directly to Sam¡¯s apartment, I reached it at about eight o¡¯clock and rang the bell a few times, I missed him so much and I couldn¡¯t wait to see him again, I knew he didn¡¯t know me in this world and it was inappropriate to make all this ruckus early in the morning, but I couldn¡¯t control myself at all.


    Finally, after a few minutes, the door opened and I saw his face, clearly, he was sleeping, a smile decorated my lips and it took all my self-control to stop myself from hugging him and kissing him.


    Just as he was about to say something, his face turned pale and he tilted his head and looked down, I followed his gaze with my eyes and my body froze in place terrified when I saw a piece of rock in his chest. He looked into my eyes as he fell to his knees and down to the ground.


    It took me a moment to process what happened and force my body to move again, I bent down while shaking and turned his body to face me. Just as I grabbed the rock in his chest to remove it, a strong pair of arms dragged me to a nearby car and the car made its way to the military base.


    The two soldiers told me to get out of the car, I stood in the parking lot and looked around me in a daze only to see the soldiers running in a frenzy and shouting, I felt something in my hand so I looked down to see what it was, and it was a small piece of rock from the rock that pierced Sam¡¯s chest, suddenly, I woke up from my shock and started to wail.


    I pulled myself together and ran to the nearest car and asked one of the soldiers to lend me the car, I wanted to go back to Sam, but as you can imagine, my father gave an order to find me and keep me there. Just as I was about to argue with the soldier, he looked at me strangely and said ¡°Dude, look at the fucking sun, it¡¯s fucking blue.¡±


    I sat in a small room inside the base cursing and shaking, all I could think of was Sam, I could hear screams, shouts, gunshots, all hell got loose in the past few hours.


    I kept saying to myself that, Sam will be alright, he is strong and he can survive until I can get out of this fucking base.


    Finally, at nearly ten in the evening, my father decided that it was dangerous to stay in the city and so, as we were leaving the base, I chose to set in a car with some of the soldiers that I had some kind of friendship with and asked them for a favor.


    In our way to leave the city, we took a detour to check on Sam. When we reached Sam¡¯s apartment, Sam wasn¡¯t there anymore and there was no sign of him, so all I could do was hoping that somebody helped him or that he woke up and left on his own.


    For the past thirteen years, we changed many bases, met many people, and I kept searching for my Sam, until today when I finally found him.


    That¡¯s how I found myself, at that moment, sitting on the ground next to Sam¡¯s body and tracing his cheeks with my hand while crying my heart out, I took his body in my arms and hugged him next to my heart and shouted ¡°This is not what we agreed upon, you fucker, show yourself, how many fucking times I have to watch him die in front of me? Show yourself or I¡¯m going to kill all your fucking precious humans, this is not what you promised me thirteen years ago.¡±


    Suddenly, time stopped and everything turned gray like in an old movie, the fucker showed himself with the same sick smile on his face.


    ¡°Hello, Jack, did you miss me? Sure, you did, I know you missed me right, right?¡± He said as he looked at me cheerfully as if we were some kind of old friends.


    ¡°Stop fucking around, what the hell happened to our deal? This is not what you promised me.¡± I shouted at him angrily, I was in no position to tolerate him or play his game anymore.


    He pouted a little but nevertheless, he answered me seriously ¡°You see, what I said was that you would have another chance to live with Sam again, but I never said that you will live with him or that it¡¯s going to be easy to do so.¡±


    He blinked his pink eyes with his pink eyelashes and looked at me with an expression saying that it was not his fault.


    Just as I was about to retort, he waved his hand to gesture that he didn¡¯t finish speaking and continued to speak again in that disgusting tone of his ¡°Anyhow, the test period is over, so,¡°


    I looked at him confused, which made him widen his eyes and said a soft ¡°Oh¡± Then he looked a little embarrassed as he said ¡°Did I forget to tell you? Maybe you forgot? Ok, let¡¯s just say that you are the one who forgot, not me, because you know, I have my image to worry about and such a small mistake will ruin it.¡±


    At that point, I was really thinking about smashing his head or something, and I think he noticed the murderous look I was giving him, so he cleared his throat and said ¡°Anyhow, as I was saying, the test period is over, actually it was supposed to finish twelve years ago, but I was a little busy and I didn¡¯t have the time until today.¡±


    ¡®I bet he forgot to come.¡¯ I thought before asking him ¡°What do you mean by the test period?¡±


    ¡°You see, it is a test period, ok, let me explain more, we made this period for two reasons, the first reason is to watch and see how you will perform, if you perform poorly, we will have to cancel the deal and find someone else. The second reason is to give you some time to adapt to this world and this environment, it was supposed to be for one year, then we return the time to the first day of the apocalypse, exactly two hours before the blue sun, with your memory intact. But as I said before, I was busy and I couldn¡¯t come earlier.¡± He finished speaking and flashed some foolish smile at me.


    I wanted to say something but before I could open my mouth, I felt his hand yet again on my forehead, and I opened my eyes in my bed.

 Chapter 4

    Sam¡¯s POV


    I turned around in my bed annoyed, my body was numb, and I had a nasty headache, I shut my eyes tighter and covered my head with my blanket, I wanted to sleep again until it hit me, I shouted ¡°Fuck¡± and shot my eyes open, I looked around me only to see my room, I kept mumbling to myself ¡°It was a dream, a fucking dream, just a dream.¡±


    Before I could convince myself that it was only a dream, my sight fell on my hand and I saw my pale skin, my eyes widen in shock, and I knew it wasn¡¯t a dream. I ran to the mirror and stared at my reflection, pale skin, silver hair, a bloody red lips, and fucking crimson red eyes.


    I stood there staring for what felt like hours thinking and trying to understand what was happening ¡®Clearly, I¡¯m a zombie, but why the hell am I in my room? And the room looks exactly the same as I remember it from before the apocalypse, and why am I not dead? I mean really dead, not undead, I can clearly remember the bullet hitting my head¡¯.


    I looked around me again, trying to figure out anything until I saw my phone, I looked at the screen and started to shake and tremble ¡°Fuck, how is it the start of the fucking apocalypse again?¡±


    I sat on the ground and stared into space while trying to arrange my thoughts.


    After a while of thinking and testing I figured out a few things, first, I¡¯m still a Zombie; I guess it¡¯s very clear at this point.


    Second, I have all my abilities and level, as if my zombie body traveled back in time and replaced my human body, which I had at this point in time in the original timeline (As I decided to call it) so I have good control over my emotions, though it¡¯s hard to keep them under control with all of this shit happening.


    Third, the sun will turn blue and the shards will fall from the sky in about half an hour - following the sequence of events from the original timeline - which will announce the start of the apocalypse. So, today will be the first day of the apocalypse and what made me sure that the apocalypse will happen today is that, I¡¯m a fucking zombie for god¡¯s sake.


    Fourth, it¡¯s still unclear if there are any other differences - except for me - between this timeline and the original timeline, and if there are, how many things will remain the same and how many will be different.


    But the most important thing is, what should I do? I can¡¯t live the same way as I did before. Should I kill myself again from the start and get it over with? Or should I leave the city? If so, where can I go?


    While I was thinking and contemplating on what I should do, the doorbell rang continuously and there were knocks on the door too,I frowned ¡®It is different and earlier than last time.¡¯ I thought while checking the time.


    I decided to ignore the ringing and knocking on my door and the handsome man standing next to it. Since the whole world was going to become hell in a few more minutes, it was safer for him to leave earlier and I was not concerned about the neighbors complaining about the noise, so, I sat on my bed and tried to focus again on planning what to do next.


    The doorbell kept ringing, the knocks turned to bangs, and my patience was disappearing. I really wanted to beat some sense to that shithead who kept knocking when suddenly, everything became quiet. Just as I thought that he finally gave up and left, I heard a really loud bang and footsteps running toward my room.


    ¡°Shit, he broke in.¡± I murmured, the way I look is clearly different from normal humans, what should I do?


    Panic took over me and all I could think of was to wear black sunglasses to cover my eyes, after all, they are the most inhuman looking part of me. So, I looked like some stupid teenager with lots of makeup covering his face and blood-red lipstick on his lips.


    I walked toward the bathroom to hide in it hoping that he would leave if he thought that I was not there, but I didn¡¯t have the chance to do so, because my bedroom door opened while I was still in the middle of the room.


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    Jack¡¯s POV


    When I opened my eyes, I took a quick look around me just to confirm where I was, and a quick look to confirm the time and date, it was exactly like the angel-devil said, two hours before the blue sun.


    ¡®I need to take him with me this time and prevent this fucking rock from killing him and turning him into a zombie¡¯ As that thought came to my mind, I didn¡¯t waste any time and made my way to Sam¡¯s apartment.


    While I was driving, I frowned when I noticed that I have my abilities which I shouldn¡¯t have them yet. During the apocalypse, they concluded that these abilities came from some mutation to the humans¡¯ DNA caused by the zombie virus.


    The zombie virus came to Earth with the shards that fell from the sky, each shard contained numerous amounts of the virus, and when they hit the earth¡¯s surface they shattered to powder and flew with the wind which spread the virus everywhere in less than minutes.


    When the sun changed and turned to blue, some of the light rays that could be harmful or hinder the growth of the virus were eliminated, which provided the best environment to nurture the virus.


    Most people (almost 85%) turned into zombies, the remaining 15% remained humans, 10% of them are normal humans, while the remaining 5% have abilities. The people who have these abilities are already infected with the virus, which caused some mutation but not enough to turn them into zombies.


    Most people with abilities have one ability, the lucky ones have two, I didn¡¯t hear about anyone who has more than two except for myself, I have four abilities, and that is why the people used to always look at me as if I¡¯m some kind of an alien or a monster.


    What made me feel anxious about having my abilities after I returned in time was the cause which made me have four abilities in the first place. They discovered that the people with two abilities were near the places where the shards first hit the earth; the concentration of the pure virus that entered their bodies affected the number of abilities.


    Following that discovery, I got four abilities because I touched and kept with me a piece of one of the shards for a while after I tried to remove it from Sam¡¯s chest.


    Now that I think about it, I can¡¯t remember what happened to it, I think it fell somewhere in the base while I was trying to find a car to go back to Sam and shattered with the wind.


    Anyhow, back to the topic, what does it mean to have my abilities now? Is it some kind of help from the angel-devil Leo? Nah, I doubt that, I¡¯m pretty sure that he messed up something while returning me in time.


    I reached to Sam¡¯s apartment, jumped out of the car and ran toward his front door, I rang the bell and knocked at the door to wake him up as fast as possible; I glanced at the time and mumbled ¡°I only have about half an hour before the start of this hell.¡±


    I knocked a little harder and rang the bell again, if I remember correctly, by that time my father had already received an emergency call about some meteorites approaching and about to hit the Earth, so he gave the orders for all the soldiers to assemble in the military base and bring me with them.


    ¡°For the love of God, open the fucking door, Sam¡± I shouted while banging on the door, I glanced again at the time, and decided that I didn''t have more time to waste, so I stopped knocking and activated my wind ability, I waved my hand and sent some wind blades towards the door to knock it down, sure enough, the door fell to the ground with a loud bang, I jumped over the door and ran toward his room and opened the door.


    I saw my lovely Sam standing in the middle of the room while wearing black sunglasses, I froze in my place when I noticed his silver hair and pale skin, I felt my heart about to stop beating and it became hard to breathe.


    ¡®Fuck, he is a zombie, how come he is already a zombie, what should I do? That fucker Leo sure had messed up again, I swear to god I will find a way to kill him.¡¯ Just as I was thinking of a way to kill Leo, Sam looked at me feeling a little awkward, and then he opened his mouth and said ¡°What the hell dude, you broke into my house, and now you are standing there like a fucking statue.¡±


    The moment I heard his voice my tears fell like rain and my body moved on its own, in a second, I was in front of him and took him in my arms, I hugged him tightly afraid that he would disappear if I loosened my grip on him and planted sloppy kisses on his head while mumbling again and again with fast and irregular breaths ¡°Thank god I found you, please don¡¯t leave me again.¡±


    I could feel his stiffness and confuse, but he didn¡¯t move, I think he was still in shock from my strange behavior, after a minute or so, I reluctantly let go of him and said in a hoarse voice I tried as much as I could to make it as clear as possible ¡°Can we talk?¡±


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    Leo¡¯s POV


    Why do I feel like I messed up again? It was a good thing that Jack was shouting and calling me which made me remember to turn the time back. Shit, I opened a portal and sent his soul instead of returning the time itself.


    Whatever, he should be thankful because he will have his abilities from the beginning of the apocalypse but with the strength of thirteen years post-apocalypse, it¡¯s like cheating. I¡¯ll consider it as a reward for him for surviving thirteen years in the test period; it will make his mission easier this time.


    All this speaking about missions and cheating reminded me of my new game, maybe I should prepare some snacks and play the game, yup, what a good idea.


    Wait, what? I opened a portal which meant the souls in the area of the portal were sucked in, which also meant that Sam¡¯s soul went back in time too, fuck. What? Don¡¯t look at me, I¡¯m telling you, it¡¯s not my fault, yes, not my fault, who told Jack to cling into Sam while the portal was open? See, not my fault, anyhow, where did I put the new game¡¯s core?

 Chapter 5

    Jack¡¯s POV


    I reluctantly released Sam from my arms, and asked him if we could talk, he nodded his head in agreement and sat on his bed, I really wanted to sit next to him but I figured that I already scared him more than enough with all this drama that I have made, and I was thankful that he accepted to talk to me in the first place, and I didn¡¯t want to push my luck any further so I sat on a chair next to his bed.


    Sam looked nervous and restless, he glanced at his phone and said ¡°I think you should start talking so you can go back to your house quickly, I heard there is a bad storm approaching, so it¡¯s going to be dangerous very soon to be outside.¡±


    At that point, I was 100% sure that he knows about the apocalypse, but not sure how much does he know about it because he was a zombie, and I was not sure if he turned directly from the shard or if it has happened later, so I decided to be honest with him about the apocalypse, and lie - for the time being - about how I know him, so I cleared my throat and started talking ¡°So, by storm, you mean the zombie apocalypse, right?¡±


    He tilted his head a little and looked a little surprised and confused, he kept quiet and I think he was contemplating whether he should lie or not, finally, he nodded his head hesitantly, so I continued ¡°Can you tell me, what do you remember about it? Oh, and by the way, you can remove the sunglasses; I already know that you are a zombie.¡±


    As I said that I prepared myself to catch him if he tried to run, and make sure to convince him that I mean him no harm, but strangely enough, all he said was a soft ¡±Oh¡± then he removed the sunglasses and looked at me with a sad expression before asking ¡°So, after our talk is over, are you going to kill me again?¡±


    I looked at him terrified, I would rather kill myself than do that again, I shook my head violently and said quickly ¡°Of course not, why would I do that?¡±


    He kept looking at me with the same sad expression and said ¡°Ok, to answer your question, I remember everything about the apocalypse.¡±


    I looked at him with shock clearly shown in my face, what did he mean by he remembers everything? Wasn¡¯t he a zombie? When did he become a zombie?


    Before I could think anymore, he gave me a faint sad smile and talked again ¡°Since you know about the apocalypse, I¡¯m guessing that you came back in time too.¡±


    I just nodded, so he continued ¡°In the original timeline, oh, that¡¯s what I named the period of time before I came back in time.¡± he chuckled embarrassed so I smiled at him.


    ¡®I really want to eat those lips of his¡¯ I thought while staring at his lips, before pulling my thoughts back to the topic and encouraged ¡°A suitable name indeed, I guess I will call it that too.¡±


    He smiled and said ¡°That will make it easier, so, as I was saying, in the original timeline when I opened the door for you, a shard fell from the sky directly into my heart, which from what I gathered was the source of the virus, so it was like I took a super dose of the virus, I¡¯m guessing that made me somewhat different than other zombies.¡±


    I looked at him confused then asked him ¡°What do you mean by different?¡±


    He sighed and answered ¡°It will take a lot of time to explain everything, to sum it up, even though I don¡¯t know how much exactly the other zombies can remember about what happened or what they did, I can remember everything, from the first day of the apocalypse until I died, even though I didn¡¯t have full control over my actions during the first a few years.¡±


    I could see the pain and regret on his beautiful face, which pained my heart to no end, but since we didn''t have much time I couldn¡¯t ask about all those details, so, I went straight to the point and asked him ¡°What are you planning to do?¡±


    He kept quiet for a minute or so before replying ¡°I¡¯m not sure, the only thing I¡¯m sure about is that, I¡¯m not going to stay here in this city again.¡±


    I wondered what he lived through during the original timeline, I could see on his face how much he was hurt and broken, ¡®I couldn¡¯t be with him last time, but I¡¯m sure as hell that I will make it different this time, I must make sure that we will meet again soon since I can¡¯t take him with me as he is now.¡¯The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    I rearranged my thoughts, looked at him and said ¡°Well, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Jack Ross, I live nearby, but I guess it doesn¡¯t matter anymore with the apocalypse coming, my father is a general in the military, he is responsible for the base in ¡®A¡¯ city, so I have to go back to the military base before they drag me there again.¡±


    I smiled faintly at the thought then continued ¡°Anyhow, as we both know, starting today and for the next week or so the city will be dangerous for both, humans and zombies. I suggest that you stay at your house for the first week, and by the end of the week, most humans in the city will be dead or already left, so it will be easier for you to move freely in the city.¡±


    He nodded his head slowly so I continued ¡°Try to find something to make you look more human-like, especially your eyes, so you can disguise yourself as a survivor and come with me. Even if you looked a little different nobody will ever think that you are a zombie. We will meet again after ten days near the woods, keep this walkie-talkie with you, it has a ten kilometers radius, I¡¯ll contact you again on the tenth day.¡± I finished speaking and gave him a walkie-talkie.


    He hesitated a little before taking it; he then looked at me in the eyes and asked me seriously ¡°Why would you do that for me? Why would you help me this much?¡±


    He looked confuse and full of doubts, so I tried to find the most logical thing I could think of to convince him and replied in a serious tone ¡°Well, two hands are better than one hand, you have already experienced the apocalypse before so I¡¯m sure you have so many important information and experiences that you can help me with, also, you can go to dangerous places full of zombies with ease and I think you are strong, so it¡¯s a win-win situation for both of us.¡±


    He looked at the ground thinking for a moment, while I was praying that he would believe these reasons that I gave him, suddenly, he stood up with a faint smile on his face and offered his hand for me to shake, I took his hand and shook it happily, as I heard him saying gently ¡°You got yourself a deal.¡±


    We talked for a few more minutes and made some more arrangements before I had to reluctantly excuse myself. I headed to the door and waited for a minute until I saw the fucking sun was turning blue, and just as I thought, the shard that was supposed to hit Sam didn¡¯t fall this time around, I cursed Leo and made my way to my car.


    On the way to my car, I turned my head to look at the apartment one last time with a smile on my lips, happy that everything went well with Sam. Just as I turned again to continue walking, a pair of strong hands dragged me to a military car, I rolled my eyes at them and thought ¡®Here we go again.¡¯


    Since I wasn¡¯t in shock this time around, I decided to play dumb and started to make conversations and asking about the situation and what was happening and faking fear. Don¡¯t judge me, if I act calm and happy while the sun is blue over my head, they will label me as crazy.


    I faked freaking out a little and then pulled my knees to my chest and put my face on my knees and covered it with my arms, I could hear them pitying me, while all I really was doing was trying to take a short nap, like I said, don¡¯t judge me, I was tired.


    It took us more than two hours to reach the base, there was chaos everywhere, people were afraid of the change in the sun¡¯s color. It will take between four to six hours after the infection to turn into a zombie, so it was still safe, we still had about two hours before the zombies start to appear.


    Unfortunately, I couldn¡¯t tell them to take precautions, not that it would help much anyway, but something might be better than nothing, however, nobody was going to believe me and they would think that the sun affected my head and turned me crazy, so I decided to keep my mouth shut and play along.


    I tried to follow what I did during the original timeline, so I went to the same room and shut myself in, planning my next move and of course, I didn¡¯t forget to search for Sam¡¯s file in the computer and printed out his photo once more, for safekeeping purposes *cough, cough*, anyhow, after about two hours or so, the screams and shouts started, I looked from the window to see how bad it was, I watched for a few minutes and decided to wait.


    When the chaos reached its peak, I sneaked out of the room; I could see blood and body parts a few meters away from my door, I collected some guns and ammo from dead soldiers lying on the floor and put them in my space-storage.


    I turned the corner and saw some zombies eating a screaming soldier, I could see the tears in his terrified eyes, I waved my hand and sent a wind blade to his throat killing him instantly, after that I killed the three zombies and collected and stored all the guns and ammo they were carrying.


    I kept a gun in my hand in case I ran into some soldiers because it was going to look unnatural to walk unarmed in a situation like that at that period of time, it was going to take about a week or so for the first ability user to appear, so for that time, gun it was.


    I kept going until I reached the warehouses, I opened a food warehouse and collected everything inside it, after that, I went out and closed its door again, then I used my fire ability to melt the locks to make sure that nobody would be able to open it, after all, in the middle of the chaos no one has the time to try and open damaged doors, so they might look less suspicious in situations like those.


    I went from one warehouse to the next one, I collected food, ammo, arms, everything I found I stored in my space-storage, of course, I kept a few warehouses so the military can take some supplies with them when they leave the base.


    After I finished all the things I planned to do, I sneaked back to the room and waited for my father¡¯s orders to leave the base, which would be around ten at night.

 Chapter 6

    Sam¡¯s POV


    After Jack left the room, I went to the window and looked at the street, after a few minutes I saw Jack crossing the street, he looked to my direction with a smile, I doubt that he could see me; nonetheless, I appreciated the smile.


    Just as he was about to continue to his car, two soldiers dragged him to a military car ¡®I guess now I know why he left me lying on the floor in the original timeline¡¯ I thought and made my way to the front door, and sure enough, it was lying on the floor, I lift it back up and laid it at the door frame to close my apartment¡¯s entrance as much as possible.


    I sat in the living room and turned the TV on and chose a news channel, all they were talking about was the blue sun and the shards that hit the earth, I listened for a while until my thoughts wandered to Jack ¡°What a strange man¡± I mumbled.


    For some reason that I don¡¯t know yet, it seems that he cares about me so much; otherwise, it doesn¡¯t make any sense that he would come to my house even though he knew about the apocalypse, after all, who would lose such a precious time if there was no good reason.


    About me helping him and the win-win shit, yes, it made sense, but no, I wasn¡¯t convinced. He was clearly surprised when he opened the door and saw me as a zombie, so, he clearly didn¡¯t know beforehand. Therefore, the real reason for his coming to my house today should be the same original reason that made him come in the original timeline, which is still a mystery to me.


    If you are wondering why did I accept such a suspicious deal, the reason would be because it felt nice to have someone cares about you, I can¡¯t deny that I was petrified when he hugged me while crying and kissing me all over my head, but I also felt warm, which is something I didn¡¯t feel for so many years.


    More importantly, what do I have to lose? What is the worst thing that could happen? Kill me? I don¡¯t care, I was already thinking about killing myself again. Put me in a lab? I can easily kill myself if I wanted to. After a little thinking, I decided to try, it will be better than me leaving the city alone, at least, now I know someone who may help me, so, why the hell not?


    I decided to take the chance while the internet and electricity were still working to make a hard and soft copies for some important information such as detailed maps for the country, and detailed information about each city and town (roads, highways, streets, all kind of stores, petrol stations, resources, military bases, rivers, mountains, forests) everything that could make moving and finding places easier, I also collected information about how to make, fix and operate all sort of things.


    While I was working on my computer, I heard a lot of screams, shouts, cries, gunshots, car horns, police and ambulances, all kind of noises to announce the start of the hell on earth, it has been years since I last heard these noises.


    I started to feel annoyed and angry again, so I decided it would be better if I couldn¡¯t hear any of it, and that was what I did, I put my headphone on my ears and put some loud music on to cover all the other voices, and since I didn¡¯t need to rest, I kept searching, saving and printing out anything and everything that could be useful, until the internet was gone.


    I looked at the time and it was almost midnight, so I decided to go out, being an advanced zombie made all my senses sharp and heighten, so I could see very clearly and far at day and night, and with the electricity gone, the night would give me the perfect cover to go out and collect materials and supplies while the people were still in a mess and most of the stores were still intact especially the food stores.


    Although I don¡¯t really need to eat, I still can eat, however, I can''t enjoy the taste, so in the original timeline I never collected food, but since the plan was to play human, I might as well help and collect some, especially meat, fruit, and vegetables because they will be damaged in a few days with the electricity gone.


    I jumped from the window because my door was damaged and I didn¡¯t want to make any noise and headed to the nearest convenience store, it was about a block away.


    Zombies were roaming the streets while grunting and growling, I could hear screams from time to time, some stuff breaking and banging, some cars moving in the distance, I could see faint lights in some of the houses, and some shadows moving, anyhow, I walked slowly while trying to avoid attracting any attention to myself.


    I kept walking until I reached the convenience store, I walked to the corner and entered an alley searching for a window to enter from, that¡¯s when I heard a pitched-scream at the end of the alley, and a man was calling for help. When he saw me, he started to shout at me and requesting me to help him; I reluctantly looked at his direction and took a few steps closer while still searching for a window.If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    The man was stabbing and trying to push away a zombie that was biting him on his hand, his shouts attracted another two zombies which were making their way to him, ¡®He is already infected¡¯ I thought and decided to ignore him.


    I hardly took two steps to the other direction when he lost his mind and started to swear at me ¡°You fucker, come here at this instant, come the fuck here now, I¡¯m going to fuck your ass, come and take this disgusting thing away from me, move your ass.¡±


    The more he talked and screamed the angrier I became, I have been already at the edge since I woke up in the morning, so I easily lost all my control again.


    I turned my head and looked at the man and had the urge to rip his limbs one by one, so I walked toward him and pierced my hand into the head of the zombie and took a mouthful of his brain and shoved it into that fucker¡¯s mouth.


    He looked at me terrified; I whispered in a scary voice ¡°Weren¡¯t you the one who asked me to come?¡±


    I smirked at him and grabbed his throat with my other hand and tightened my grip on it, chocking him lightly.


    I removed my hand from his mouth before grabbing his arm and pulling it off of his body, he screamed from the pain and his tears covered his cheeks. I threw his first arm into the ground then grabbed his other arm and pulled it hard and ripped it off.


    I tilted my head and sneered ¡°Didn¡¯t you say that you are going to fuck me? Let¡¯s see how you are going to do that without your legs.¡±


    As I finished the last word, I pushed him to the ground, sent two wind blades and cut his two legs off. When I looked at him, he was drowning in a pool of his blood and already unconscious, so I left him there for the other two zombies and left.


    After all this ruckus there was no need to search for a window, so I made my way back to the store¡¯s door and sent a few wind blades to open it. I looked at my hand and it was full of blood so I cursed at him and activated my water ability to clean it up, after that, I entered the store.


    I spent about twenty minutes inside the store, and I can say with proud that I picked it clean, not only the food and drinks, I even took the shelves, they were of good quality and still new, they could be useful in any warehouse or storage room, and my space-storage is really, really big, I guess I can put half of the city inside it, so I may as well take anything that may become useful one day, and since time is frozen in this kind of storage I don¡¯t have to worry about the things inside.


    For the seven days, I kept the same routine, I went out at nearly ten at night, moved from one store to the other, went back home at nearly five in the morning.


    On the eighth night, I took everything in my house before leaving and started my journey toward the woods while clearing the stores on the way. By then, there were nearly no humans in the city, for two days, I didn¡¯t see any of them which made it easier for me.


    While I was walking I saw some light in the next street which caught my attention, I went to see what it was, and a big smile decorated my face, it was a fire ability user zombie, finally, the ability users start to appear, which meant I could collect crystals.


    A crystal is what makes the ability user an ability user, whether he/she is a human or a zombie, it is located in the head, and the more spiritual energy it has, the higher the level of the ability user will be. You can also absorb the energy from the crystals to increase your level and become stronger. The higher your level is the harder it¡¯s to increase it.


    For some reason unknown to me, zombies can only absorb the energy from humans¡¯ crystals, and humans can only absorb it from zombies¡¯ crystals.


    As for me, I can absorb the spiritual energy from both, humans¡¯ and zombies¡¯ crystals, and advance faster than other zombies, which is why my level is very high. I guess if I didn¡¯t stop killing the zombies during the original timeline in an attempt to control my emotions and anger I would have been already more than level twelve, but I didn¡¯t care that much at that time.


    There was one more thing or atheory thatI thought about, but I still needed to confirm it, so I needed to collect crystals to advance to level ten. I was almost level ten, so all I needed was a little more spiritual energy, and crystals are the fastest way to collect it.


    I made my way to the poor zombie, took the crystal out of his head, and kept moving, no time to waste.


    I kept collecting supplies and crystals for two days until I reached the woods.


    On the tenth day at noon, I was sitting a few kilometers away from the woods and absorbing crystals until my level finally reached ten. I took a mirror from my space-storage and examined my face, and my theory has been confirmed, the more advanced the zombie is, the more human it will look-like, and I think it can also affect the thinking, like growing up in age or something.


    Anyway, after I reached level ten, I looked like a human with poor melanin, my hair didn¡¯t change back to black so it was still silver (Though I don¡¯t know why it became silver in the first place, other zombies have their original hair colors), my skin was still pale but not as noticeable as before, the red in my eyes became darker, they became dark red (maybe two more levels and they will become black), my lips were dim red, so all I needed to do was to put some black lenses.


    I changed my dirty clothes and wore black jeans, with a black long sleeve shirt and a black jacket, black boots, and a black cap, I always wear all black, and I guess I got it from my name.


    When I finished everything, I prepared a backpack with some clothes, food, and water in it, then walked slowly towards the woods until I heard a desperate voice saying ¡°Sam, are you there? Please, answer me.¡±

 Chapter 7

    Jack¡¯s POV


    While I was waiting for my father¡¯s order to leave the base, I wrote down all the important events, accidents, places and people¡¯s names that I could remember from the original timeline in a notebook and stored it.


    At around nine-thirty at night, we received orders by walkie-talkie to assemble in the parking lot; I checked my gun and put a backpack with some clothes in it on my shoulder and left the room, I could hear footsteps running all around the compound.


    I walked toward the nearest group and joined them, a young soldier with black short hair and green eyes looked at me, gave me a faint smile and said ¡°Hey Jack, glad to see that you are fine.¡±


    I nodded and asked ¡°James, what the hell is happening here?¡±


    ¡°Who the fuck knows, the soldiers have gone crazy, they are eating each other, I even heard that it¡¯s happening everywhere, maybe it has something to do with the freaking sun, anyhow, stay with us and don¡¯t go near any crazy looking fucker.¡± He said to me quickly with confusion and terror written all over his face.


    I just nodded and kept running, James is a very kind and trustworthy soldier, in the original timeline we were friends of some sort, unfortunately, he lost his life about five years after the start of the apocalypse, he went to scavenge with a new group of survivors and never came back, I¡¯m planning to prevent it from happening this time around.


    When we reached the parking lot, about two thousand soldiers were already there, most of the trucks were loaded with materials and soldiers and ready to go. I made my way to my father who was giving orders left and right, ¡®Sure he is very busy¡¯ I thought and greeted him. When he saw me, he nodded greeted me and directly ordered me to get in one of the trucks, I quietly went to the truck and sat there.


    After a little while we started moving, our target was a small town to the north, about two hours away from the city; all the trucks made a line while the military cars with machine guns provided protection from both sides.


    After a few minutes, we entered the highway at the outskirt of the city and picked up speed, fortunately, the number of the cars on the highway were minimum at the moment, the soldiers made a quick work on any parked cars on the way and we continued to move smoothly with a lot of civilians¡¯ cars following us out of the city.


    It took us more than three hours to reach the town; by the time we reached there, we had almost two thousand civilians on our trail.


    After discussing and assessing the town¡¯s situation, we decided to camp until morning on a flat land about five kilometers away from the town since the flat land is safer at the moment and easier to keep watch than the town. There were almost no zombies and the soldiers disposed of the few which were wandering at the perimeter and settled the camp.


    The main problem was the civilians; they were very loud, unorganized and unsecured. The soldiers tried their best to keep them quiet to avoid attracting the zombies and settled them in a separated camp about five hundred meters away from the soldiers¡¯ camp, but some of the civilians objected and tried to join the soldiers¡¯ camp, but at the end, everything worked out.


    The night was almost uneventful, some civilians and soldiers tuned into zombies but the other soldiers killed them quickly, some skirmishes and small fights here and there, but since it¡¯s the apocalypse, I¡¯m sure as hell it can be count as peaceful.


    With the first a few rays of the blue light from the fucking blue sun, we started to move, the soldiers split into two teams, the first team went to the town to clear it from the zombies, while the second team stayed in the camp with the civilians and the supplies.


    Since I wasn¡¯t a soldier or had any real military training I was left behind with the second team, although my father made sure to make me join close combat and weapon training every summer with the army, but still, according to him the situation was too dangerous for me, and honestly, I had no objection in staying in the camp.


    We entered the town at evening and split into the houses, there were still a few survivors from the original residents but they were more than happy to welcome the soldiers because it meant more protection.If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.


    Some soldiers kept watch all around the town while the rest of us settled in the houses, I chose an empty small old house at the outskirt of the town and settled myself in it.


    During the next week, some of the civilians were relocated to the middle of the town while the soldiers occupied the houses on the outskirts to make it easier to keep watch, with the command center in the middle for safety measures.


    They also made a list of all the survivors (soldiers and civilians) including their names, ages, jobs and fighting skills, and divided the work between them.


    On the seventh day, chaos and ruckus spread through the town when the first ability user appeared, a teenage boy who accidentally shot water from his hands, the soldiers surrounded him while shouting and pointing their guns at him, the boy was terrified from the soldiers and I¡¯m guessing, he was even more terrified from the fact that water was shooting from his hands, he was crying and screaming for the water to stop.


    It was a funny situation, and just like that, before anybody could understand what was happening with this poor boy, another shouts and screams could be heard from another location, where a woman had a fire on her hands.


    Everybody was scared, some civilians took their cars and left to god knows where, after a few hours, anybody who showed signs of having an ability were quarantined, the military doctors took blood samples and made some tests, at the end of the day they concluded that they were still humans, and since they didn¡¯t have an appropriate laboratory to make full tests they decided to keep them separated.


    The doctors theorized that the virus affected their DNA and mutated it to some level, but not enough to turn them into zombies. After three days of continuous observation and more tests, they released them from the quarantine and were allowed to move freely.


    I decided to keep my abilities hidden at that time; because I was still not sure how many abilities I should reveal, I would prefer to avoid drawing attention to myself, like in the original timeline, but at the same time, the stronger you are the more privileges and power you will get, and I was going to need them to keep Sam safe, so I decided to wait and see how it will turn out, and then act according to the situation.


    On the day that I was finally going to be able to see Sam again, I woke up early and wore some nice clothes, fixed my hair with a big grin on my face, and made my way to the teams which were responsible for gathering suppliesand search for more survivors.


    I spoke to the leader of one of the teams and tried to convince him to let me tag along, after a few minutes of arguing he finally gave up and allowed me to join, under the condition that I must stay with the group and never wander alone.


    We made our way to another small town about a hundred kilometers away to the east-south; it took us about one and half an hour to reach it. After we entered the town, we were divided into five groups, with twenty people per group, two military cars and one truck to store the supplies and split into different places.


    My group entered a mall and started to clear any zombie inside it to make sure it was safe before collecting the supplies. While everybody was busy, I took the chance and sneaked out of the mall from a window, I walked through an alley to go to the other side of the road while trying my best to avoid making any sound, I chose a car which still had the keys inside and drove out of the town.


    It was almost nine in the morning and I still had to drive for nearly two hours to reach the woods at the outskirt of ¡®A¡¯ city, I drove as fast as possible, but I had to stop many times to clear the street from damaged and stopped cars, but thanks to my space-storage it didn¡¯t take much time, I just dumped every obstacle in the storage and kept going until I reached the woods and cursed out loud ¡°Fuck, we didn¡¯t arrange a specific location or time, how stupid can I be.¡±


    So, for two hours, I kept driving at the edge of the woods and contacting Sam every a few minutes, but with every passing minute, dark and bad thoughts were consuming me, what if he decided not to come? What if he didn¡¯t make it? What if he died already? But that didn¡¯t stop me from calling and begging him to answer me.


    I could feel a bulb in my throat suffocating me, I held the walkie-talkie and tried for the hundredth time ¡°Sam, are you there, please, answer me.¡±


    ¡°Hello, Jack.¡± Suddenly, the most beautiful voice I have ever heard answered me, I took a deep breath to calm myself down before saying ¡°Hey Sam, glad you made it, where are you right now?¡±


    It took him a moment but he answered back ¡°Well, there are no signs around me, how about we meet at the front of ¡®M¡¯ store after thirty minutes? Do you know the place?¡±


    ¡®Even if I don¡¯t know the place, I will search every corner of the city to find it¡¯ I thought before I answered him ¡°Sure, see you in thirty minutes.¡±


    I drove toward the store, it was on the other side of the woods, hence it took me over twenty minutes to reach there. As soon as I parked the car, I looked at the front of the store, and there he was, leaning against the wall, with his splendid body and a smile on his face.


    I stared at him and got lost in that gorgeous smile of his but I came back to my senses when he motioned at me to come out, I quickly got out of the car and made my way to him.


    He offered his hand yet again for a handshake, I took it gladly and pulled him to my chest, I put my other hand on his back and half hugged him, I kept reminding myself to control my emotions but I really couldn¡¯t, at least I had to have that much.


    He offered his hand yet again for a handshake, I took it gladly and pulled him to my chest, I put my other hand on his back and half hugged him, I kept reminding myself to control my emotions but I really couldn¡¯t, at least I had to have this much.

 Chapter 8

    Jack¡¯s POV


    I got out of the car and made my way to Sam, he offered his hand yet again for a handshake, I took it gladly and pulled him to my chest, I put my other hand on his back and half hugged him.


    I kept him against my chest until I heard a soft cough, I looked at him and he seemed embarrassed, so I had no choice but to release him, I smiled at him and said half-joking ¡°You look wonderful. Nice new look.¡± and pointed with my finger toward his eyes.


    He laughed and said ¡°How do I look? Totally like a normal human, right? Though the lenses are a little annoying I can live with that for now.¡±


    I nodded in approval and said ¡°Totally, though a little pale, but passable, what did you put on your face?¡±


    I moved my hand next to his face and touch it with my index finger but frowned when I looked at my finger and there were no traces of any cosmetics on it.


    He scratched his neck embarrassed from my touch while saying ¡°Oh, I didn¡¯t have to, I just advanced my level.¡±


    I looked at him confused, so he continued with his explanation ¡°The more advance the zombie is, the more human he/ she will look.¡±


    He said the last word then pointed at the store and said ¡°Let¡¯s enter it, we can collect the remaining supplies.¡±


    After talking, he started to walk toward what used to be the store¡¯s door, though it¡¯s now only a hole in the glass.


    I followed him and entered the store while asking ¡°So, do you have a space-storage? Actually, what abilities do you have?¡±


    He looked at me for a moment, contemplating whether to tell me or not, then he said while entering the store ¡°As I told you before, I¡¯m different than other zombies, so I have five abilities, water, earth, wind, space and lightning, I¡¯m also at level ten now, what about you?¡±


    I chuckled ¡°Nice, I knew you are super strong. Well, I¡¯m at level 7 and I have four abilities, water, fire, wind and space. Though, we may need to keep it a secret for now.¡±


    He looked at me surprised and boomed ¡°You are the first human or zombie other than me who has more than two abilities I have ever met.¡±


    He walked about two steps to the right toward an approaching zombie and with a swift movement, his hand shot into the poor creature¡¯s head, making a hole in his brain, and coming out with a crystal in it, with another wave of his hand, water washed it and he threw the crystal at me, all before the zombie¡¯s body even hit the ground.


    I caught the crystal, shook my head and laughed while saying ¡°How effective, back to the topic, maybe because we both touched the same shard in the original timeline that we both have many and similar abilities.¡±


    He only shrugged in response and walked next to a shelf which has some kind of cans and strange-looking green bars, and stored everything on it without even bothering himself to see what he just stored, I really loved how carefree he looked.


    I was just standing there like an idiot staring at every movement he was making, how he tilted his head a little when he moved his hand to reach low places, how his eyebrows frowned when the shelf was empty. I was watching every step, every finger, and even every hair, not paying attention to anything else.


    Suddenly, a wind blade passed near my head and hit something behind me as he complained ¡°Dude, pay more attention, the zombies will target you, not me.¡± Then he mumbled to himself ¡°Fuck, how did he survive in the original timeline that long?¡±


    I looked behind me and saw two zombies on the floor with their heads wide open and their brains all over the place; I really wanted to tell him that, it was because he was in front of me that I couldn¡¯t focus on anything else.Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation.


    I just nodded in response and tried to focus on killing zombies and collecting the supplies while glancing at him from time to time, I really couldn¡¯t keep my eyes away from him even though I could feel that I was making him uncomfortable.


    After about two minutes or so, he suggested ¡°How about we split up? Since we both have a space-storage, you can collect the things in here and I will go out to check on the store¡¯s warehouse, oh, and don¡¯t waste your time while trying to figure out what some of these things are, just store everything for now, and we can find out what they are later when we are feeling bored or have nothing else to do.¡±


    To prove his point, he pointed at some strange-looking things on a shelf next to him, which I¡¯m guessing were some kind of tools used for gardening, with a look on his face which clearly said ¡®I dare you to tell me what these tools are used for.¡¯


    I raised an eyebrow then laughed before saying ¡°Fine, I¡¯ll finish here then head to the warehouse.¡±


    So, he nodded and left the store.


    **************************************


    Sam¡¯s POV


    I nodded and left the store, leaving Jack to collect the remaining things, I could have waited and helped him, but honestly, he kept staring at me and when I told him to focus, he switched to glancing at me every a few seconds.


    I could tell that he wasn¡¯t watching me because I¡¯m a zombie or because he was afraid that I was going to attack him, it was more like he wanted to keep me in his sight afraid that if he didn¡¯t keep an eye on me, I would disappear or something.


    I couldn¡¯t figure out why he was looking at me like that, but I was sure of one thing though, there were no bad vibes in his eyes. Nevertheless, it made me feel uncomfortable and a little embarrassed to be watched like that.


    On the way to the warehouse¡¯s door I met face to face with Steve, a young zombie wearing the store¡¯s gray uniform with a tag name, I looked at him with a pout and said ¡°I¡¯m sorry Steve, but I have to kill you.¡± and just like that, I split his head open with a wind blade and took the crystal from it.


    Just as I was about to continue walking toward the door, my eyes landed on a key chain on Steve¡¯s waist, I grinned and took it, and walked toward the door, I hardly took three steps then halted with a frown and mumbled ¡°Great, here come the troubles.¡±


    I could hear footsteps coming from the parking lot and quickly approaching from behind me, and it was very clear at that moment that they were not zombies. I turned around and looked at their direction, and sure enough, a few seconds later, I saw four men in their twenties walking toward me.


    One of the men was holding a metal bat covered in blood, two of them had guns, and the fourth was empty-handed, the empty-handed guy stood in front of me with a grin on his face and said ¡±Hello there, is that your car in the parking lot? You see, we lost our car a while ago, and we would like it if you offer us a ride.¡±


    While he was talking the other three surrounded me, the two guys with guns who were on my right and left sides, and the bat guy stood behind me.


    I closed my eyes for a second trying to control my rising anger before reopening them and said with a voice I tried to make it as calm as possible ¡°It¡¯s not my car, you can take if you want to.¡±


    The guy on my right side laughed then pointed at my hand with his gun while saying ¡°Then, what are those keys in your hand for? Are you trying to lie to us?¡±


    The guy behind me snorted and said ¡°Boss, he is clearly lying.¡± Then nudged me with the bat on my back.


    The guy in front of me, and I¡¯m guessing that he is the so-called ¡®Boss¡¯ chuckled and said ¡°See, they don¡¯t believe you and neither do I, I think we will have to do it the hard way.¡±


    He quieted for a moment and looked at me up and down checking my body, then he licked his lips and continued ¡°I wonder how you will look with your clothes all wet and sticky.¡±


    And just like that, he extended his hands in front of him then frown a little as he shot some water from his hands all over me, he looked at me again with a smirk while the other three started to laugh.


    I closed my eyes and tightened my palms into fists, trying my best to calm my anger down, while repeating in my head again and again ¡®Stay calm, it¡¯s not a big deal.¡¯ After a moment I looked at the boss and said in an angry tone this time ¡°Take the fucking car and go.¡±


    I could feel myself losing control; I didn''t know how long I could keep myself from ripping their heads off. After all the back in time shit and the start of the fucking apocalypse all over again, reliving all that made it even harder for me to control my emotions.


    The guys with the guns pointed their guns at my head as if daring me to make any move, while the boss walked closer to me with a mischievous smile, just as he reached me, he took a knife from his back and put it near my throat with the blade pointed at my shirt¡¯s collar.


    He smirked and said near my ear with a low voice ¡°I don¡¯t think so, I¡¯m going to have some fun with you, by the way, your body looks sexy all wet and dripping, now I¡¯m going to make it sticky.¡±


    Just as he finished talking, he moved the knife down cutting my shirt and exposing my chest while his other hand grabbed my ass.


    As his hand touched my ass, the last drop of my self-control vanished, I could see jack at the corner of the building cursing, I could see the guys around me trembling and shaking, I could feel my hands cutting through flesh and feel the blood splashed on my face and dripping from my hands, I could hear body after body hit the ground, but I was too angry to stop.

 Chapter 9

    Jack¡¯s POV


    After Sam left, I stored everything and anything I could see in front of me, even some purple strange looking things that I really had the urge to see what they are used for before storing them, but when I remembered what Sam said, I laughed and just tossed them in my storage and smiled at the thought that, I can check them with Sam later.


    I finished the first floor within a few minutes then walked towards the stairs to go to the second floor, and that was when I heard some voices coming from behind the wall, I couldn¡¯t comprehend what they were saying, but I could clearly recognize Sam¡¯s voice, I cursed and ran toward the store¡¯s entrance and made my way to where those voices were coming from.


    Just as I turned around the corner, I saw four men surrounding Sam, two on his both sides holding guns pointed at him, and one behind him laughing about god knows what, and the last man was standing in front of Sam and very close to him (too close for my comfort), so I couldn¡¯t see Sam clearly.


    I could hear the man saying something but it was very low, so I couldn¡¯t comprehend what it was, suddenly, he stepped to the left and I saw a knife in his hand ripping Sam¡¯s shirt while his other hand on Sam¡¯s back. I felt my blood boiling and I cursed out loud then ran toward Sam ¡°Shit, these fuckers.¡±


    Before I could take even two steps, blue and yellow sparks erupted all around Sam and were hitting the men repeatedly; the men started to shake and tremble under Sam¡¯s lightning ability and lost the ability to move.


    Blood sprinkled andscattered everywhere, the man in front of Sam fell to the ground with a hole in his head, chest and his two arms had been ripped off of his body. The second man had an open chest, almost cut in half, I¡¯m guessing from a wind blade, while the third and fourth were in similar conditions with many cuts all over them, one by one all of them fell to the ground.


    I was about twenty meters away from them when Sam looked at me; I could see anger raging in his eyes and his body was emitting lightning and the sparks were still surrounding him. Just as I took another step, a bolt of lightning hit near my foot, so I halted my steps immediately.


    I was confused, sad and didn¡¯t understand why would he stop me from coming near him, I looked at Sam who was standing there. His body was trembling a little, and his hands turned into fists before hitting himself two times on his forehead with one of them, then kept his fist on his forehead and closed his eyes. At that point, it was clear to me that he was mentally struggling.


    I stood there with my own struggle, I wanted to go to him, hug him and tell him that everything is going to be fine and comfort him. But at the same time, I didn¡¯t know what was happening to him, and since he asked me to stop there and don¡¯t go near him, I also wanted to comply with his demand.


    We stood there quietly, each one of us with his own thoughts and struggles for five minutes or so until Sam finally said with a weak voice ¡°Sorry about the attack, I wasn¡¯t sure whether I would be able to stop myself or not if you were any closer.¡±


    I looked at him and smiled faintly before asking ¡°So, can I come closer now?¡±


    He opened his eyes and looked at me then hesitantly nodded his head, I didn¡¯t waste any time and walked directly to him and hugged him tightly. He just stood there quietly in my embrace, we stayed like that for a while until his body relaxed and the sparks vanished.


    I looked fondly at his cute face and asked cautiously ¡°What happened?¡±


    He flinched at the sound of my voice and tried to slip out of my arms as if my question reminded him that I was hugging him, but I stubbornly hugged him even tighter and kept him in my arms. He struggled a little to free himself but eventually gave up.


    He glanced at me then said angrily ¡°Well, these shitheads wanted the car, so I told them to¡±


    I cut him off and corrected my question ¡°I meant, what happened to you? I don¡¯t give a shit about those fuckers.¡± My voice went down and I continued mumbling ¡°They deserved what they got; I would have done the same thing.¡±


    He raised an eyebrow at me then chuckled before saying ¡°To put it simply, I lost control over myself.¡±Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.


    I looked at him with a pout, so he continued with a sigh ¡°Fine, I¡¯ll explain, but first things first, can I now have my freedom back?¡±


    I laughed at his choice of words and reluctantly released him while teasing him by saying ¡°Though you looked very comfortable in my arms.¡± and smirked at him.


    He just shook his head; though I could tell he was embarrassed especially as he tried to hide his faint smile and said with a serious tone ¡°Think of it as an anger control issue, in the original timeline, when I woke up that night I was so much angry and every little thing made me boiling with rage, for example, I killed a woman just because she screamed for help, and the anger kept stacking until I started to kill for no reason.¡±


    He stopped talking for a second at looked toward the city then continued ¡°I spent years with all this boiling rage inside me until finally, my thoughts started to calm down and I managed to control myself a little, now that I think about it, maybe my level has increased which helped my brain to calm itself down, anyhow, I spent another few years alone just sorting out my thoughts and emotions until I felt that I was in full control. After that I roamed the city trying to find other zombies with control over themselves, unfortunately, it was futile which made me angry and killed almost every zombie I tried with, then¡±


    I motioned with my hand for him to stop and laughed before saying ¡°So, you were the reason for the zombies'' decline?¡±


    He looked at me a little confused, so I explained ¡°We got reports that the zombies have decreased so much in the city, so it was possible to enter the city to collect supplies and also to try to find out the reason.¡±


    He looked at me with his eyes wide open then shook his head and said ¡°Wow, so I was really the reason that you entered the city.¡±


    He chuckled and continued ¡°Anyhow, as I was saying, I killed half of the zombies¡¯ population while trying to communicate with them, and then I used the other half as anger control practice, which helped me a lot. The problem now, in this timeline, I¡¯m not sure about the reason, maybe because I¡¯m experiencing this shit again or maybe because the virus¡¯ concentration in the air is still high, whatever the reason is, it became harder to control my anger.¡±


    He finished with a shrug, after that he pointed to the warehouse while saying ¡°Let¡¯s finish and leave.¡± And he walked towards the warehouse¡¯s door.


    I stood there absorbing the very short version of what he went through in the original timeline until it hit me hard this time, and there was no way to shove the thought to the back of my mind as I have been doing ever since I came back in time, and had to ask him, so I ran after him and hesitantly asked ¡°That means when you approached us in the original timeline you were.¡±


    I couldn¡¯t continue, all the pain and suffering at that moment came back and hit my heart at full force.


    He looked at me apologetically and I felt a stab in my heart because I knew the answer, and I really didn¡¯t want to hear it, unfortunately, he said ¡°I was watching your group since you entered the city, seeing humans for the first time in a long time reminded me of all the things that I did, of whom I was and what I became, and I reached to the conclusion that I had enough of this fucked up world, so I went to your group to end it.¡±


    He quieted down and looked at me again with a sad look on his face then continued ¡°In short, I was fully aware and in control, I just played zombie.¡±


    After that he patted my back and whispered ¡°Sorry to put you through that, I can tell that you care about me, let¡¯s just forget about all that and focus at what we can do now.¡±


    I could feel the tears on my cheek and the pain was suffocating me, but nevertheless, I forced a smile, nodded my head and said ¡°Good idea, let¡¯s start with this warehouse.¡±


    We worked in silence for a few minutes then Sam suddenly asked ¡°When are you planning to tell me the truth?¡±


    I looked at him and asked confused ¡°About what?¡±


    He looked back at me and said ¡°The real reason for bringing me with you, why do you care about me?¡±


    I looked at the floor and wondered how to answer him, I definitely couldn¡¯t tell him the truth, it would freak him out, so I said while hoping he would let it go ¡°I really don¡¯t wish to lie to you and make any more excuses, so, can we leave this story for another time?¡± I asked while looking at him hopefully.


    He looked at my eyes for a little while, then said while pointing a finger at me with a half-laugh ¡°Fine, but you owe me one Mr.¡± I just nodded furiously with a smile.


    We continued to dumb everything in our space-storages while chatting about anything and everything. After we cleared the warehouse and the store we went to the car and left the area toward the base.


    During the ride, we stopped many times near small stores and petrol stations and collected everything as fast as possible, Sam also changed his wet and damaged clothes, unfortunately for me, I didn¡¯t get the chance to see him naked, hopefully, I would soon though *cough, cough*, anyhow, it was very smooth with no more accidents.


    We also decided on a story about how we met, it went like this: ¡®When I was scavenging with the team I got cornered by some zombies and got separated, then I met Sam accidentally while I was trying to take his car from his house, so he invited me in, and after we talked for a while, he decided to come with me to the base¡¯. Simple and believable story.


    We also decided to reveal some of our abilities, since we both have some similar abilities, it was better to reveal different abilities so we can use them in different situations, Sam said that he usually uses his wind ability so we decided for Sam to reveal it, and since I don¡¯t have the earth or lightning abilities we chose to reveal the earth ability because lightning more effective against humans, that meant, Sam was going to reveal his wind and earth abilities, as for me, I reluctantly decided to reveal three of my abilities, water, fire, and space.

 Chapter 10

    Sam¡¯s POV


    The car¡¯s ride was nice; we talked about different things, some important things like the survival in this fucking apocalypse and some silly unimportant things like how to fold a paper to make a boat. We joked and laughed as if we were some old friends going on a car ride on a Sunday afternoon for shopping and sightseeing.


    Unfortunately, nothing lasts forever, the closer to the town we get the more nervous and uncomfortable I felt. It has been years since I have been with humans or talked to them without killing them (except for Jack), so, what if I got angry and ended up killing them? What if they discovered that I¡¯m a zombie and attacked me?


    At that point in time, I doubted any of them could really hurt me unless they used heavy weapons or I allowed myself to get hurt and canceled all my defenses like what I did last time when I got killed.


    Jack could hurt me though, if he used his abilities and fought me seriously, which led me to the main question. If a fight between me and the humans happen, what Jack is going to do? Will he help me? Or attack me? Maybe he would step aside and just watch?


    As these thoughts occupied my mind, I started to regret my decision to come with Jack, the stakes were high, I could end up being the reason for destroying that group of survivors.


    I smiled sadly to myself and turned my head to look through the window at the grain fields, they used to have farmers all day long working in them, but at that moment they had zombies roaming them instead.


    I rubbed my forehead with my fingers, trying to clear my mind from all the disturbing thoughts. Suddenly, a hand grabbed my other hand tightly, I looked at Jack and before I could say anything he stated ¡°Everything is going to be fine, even if it isn¡¯t fine, we will make it fine, so, stop worrying yourself so much.¡±


    I smiled at him and retorted ¡°Who said that I¡¯m worried or anything like that?¡±


    He raised his eyebrow and smirked ¡°Good, we will reach the base within five minutes.¡±


    I just nodded and tried to pull my hand away from his, but he tightened his grip on it, I could have pulled it hard and forced it free, but I secretly liked the calming feeling of his hand on mine, so I just sighed and let him hold it.


    As I gave up the idea of pulling my hand from his, he glanced at me and grinned, which made me feel like slapping him on that grin of his, I pursed my lips a little embarrassed and looked through the window again.


    After a few minutes we were at the outskirts of the small town, I could see soldiers stationed on the rooftops, with a few guarding the entrance to the town, as we approached; they waved at us to stop the car, as soon as we parked on the side of the street, two soldiers came to us with guns in their hands and asked us to get out of the car.


    Jack gave me a reassuring look and nodded his head, so I opened my door and stepped out of the car as did Jack; one soldier approached me and examined me, he was looking intently at my body while circling around me as he asked ¡°Did you get scratched or bitten by those infected people?¡±


    ¡°No¡± I answered him clearly, but I was laughing in my mind and really wanted to mock him and tell him that I¡¯m a full-fledged zombie.


    He nodded and asked again ¡°Are you from this base? What is your name?¡±


    Before I could answer him, Jack interfered and said irritated ¡°No, he is not from this base, I brought him with me, and his name is Sam Black. Can we enter now?¡±


    The soldier glared at Jack; clearly not happy with his interference, and sneered ¡°You can only enter after a full body examination and quarantine for eight hours.¡±


    He stopped talking for a moment as he walked toward Jack with a smirk on his face before he continued ¡°By the way, Captain Lucas is waiting for you, he clearly told us to inform you if you ever returned alive.¡±


    Jack just ignored the man and looked at me ¡°Let¡¯s go to that building for the examination and quarantine¡± and pointed to one of the houses near the entrance, though it¡¯s bigger than a normal house.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.


    I followed Jack quietly until we were a good distance from the soldiers, I looked back at them only to see one of them taking the car to a big yard full of other cars while the other one returned to his position with his eyes fixed on us as if to make sure that we were going to the check-up point.


    I approached Jack and whispered with a shaky voice ¡°What if they made a blood test?¡±


    Jack looked at me for a second then whispered back ¡°They won¡¯t, they tried before to use the blood test but it didn¡¯t work for two reasons, first, the people with abilities have the virus in their system so in a blood test they can¡¯t differentiate between them and the zombies, secondly and most importantly, the virus doesn¡¯t show in the blood until the person is about to turn to a zombie, so they can¡¯t detect it in the first a few hours of the infection, and that is why they are using the quarantine to determine if the person is going to become a zombie or not.¡±


    His answer made me wonder how and why I can sense the infected people only after a few minutes of the infection, nevertheless, I just nodded my head.


    We entered the house with two other soldiers, they asked us to remove all our clothes except for our boxers and made sure that we had no scratches and bite marks, it was really uncomfortable how the soldier was staring at my body, I¡¯m glad that my skin¡¯s color was almost normal and I didn¡¯t have any rotten flesh or old scars since I can heal myself when I eat human flesh.


    After the check-up, we put our clothes back on and one of the soldiers escorted us to another big room or more like a big hall, filled with people, some were wearing military uniforms and some had normal clothes.


    Suddenly, Jack held my hand tightly and pulled me to him, almost crashing me against his chest, I looked at him only to see his face was a little red, I didn¡¯t really know why, but he looked angry for some reason while trying to find an empty place for us to sit.


    We found an empty space in a corner, Jack pulled a blanket from his space-storage and laid it on the floor and asked me to sit, I eyed him before mumbling ¡°Thanks¡± and sat on it, he looked around him for a moment then made himself comfortable next to me.


    We were sitting silently and watching the people, some people were talking to each other while some were crying and sobbing, the atmosphere was really bad and making me angry to some degree, so I decided to close my eyes and tried not to focus on them.


    After about half an hour, I heard an angry voice shouting Jack¡¯s name which made me open my eyes and looked at the man, he was tall and masculine with small eyes and black short hair, he was wearing a military uniform.


    The man looked at Jack with fire shooting from his eyes and shouted angrily ¡°You fucking put me in a bad situation in front of the general because of your fucking lie and added to that your disappearance, don¡¯t you ever dare come to me again.¡± As he finished shouting, he left stomping just as he came.


    Jack¡¯s face twisted because so many people were staring at him, some with curious looks while others with disgust, I couldn¡¯t help but cover my mouth to hide a laugh was trying to escape my lips, Jack looked at me for a moment then he started to laugh which made me laugh even harder.


    After we calmed down I asked Jack about that man, it turned out his name is Lucas, and he was the team leader which Jack went out with at the morning, and since Jack left them and came to see me, the team leader had it rough with Jack¡¯s father and to make matters worse, Jack lied and said that he had taken permission from his father, while in reality, he went out without permission.


    During the quarantine period, we talked, rested, played some stupid games and even secretly absorbed some crystals, it was really boring and a waste of time, they really should find another way to determine the infected people.


    According to Jack though, they had invented a machine to test the people in the original timeline a few years after the start of the apocalypse, but he has no idea how it worked, so he can¡¯t help in making it.


    When the quarantine period was over, it was already about two in the morning, we made our way to the house Jack was occupying, fortunately, the house was empty, no other people were assigned to it yet, Jack led me to a room while he went to the one next to it, we said our good night and entered the rooms.


    I lay on the bed and closed my eyes, I don¡¯t need to sleep but I was mentally exhausted, the day felt very long and full of events, especially for me who lived for years almost alone without anything to do, a smile crept on my lips at the dramatic change in my lifestyle, for the first time in years I almost felt alive.


    Early in the morning I left my room and went downstairs to the living room, I took a book and sat on the couch and started reading until I saw jack coming down while rubbing his eyes to wake himself up, he looked cute for some reason, I shook my head to remove the thought and greeted him, he looked at me then smiled sweetly before saying with a hoarse voice from sleeping ¡°Good morning, how long have you been awake?¡±


    I just shrugged and answered ¡°I don¡¯t really need to sleep, but I have been up for about an hour or so.¡±


    He looked at me with his eyes half-open while rubbing his head then went to the kitchen and mumbled in a hardly audible voice ¡°You could have prepared some breakfast.¡±


    I was then convinced that he was still half-asleep or even sleepwalking since he almost hit his head on the wall while trying to enter the kitchen, I said in a loud voice to make sure that he could hear me ¡°Jack, wash up until I prepare some breakfast.¡±


    He looked at me with a happy foolish smile and made his way up the stairs.

 Chapter 11

    Jack¡¯s POV


    ¡®Today is the best day ever since I came to this world, to be able to see Sam¡¯s face when I wake up is a blessing, though I would much rather see him lying in the same bed with me, nonetheless, seeing him at all is making me happy, not to mention eating breakfast made by him and with him, hopefully, today will be the first of many days that we would spend together.¡¯ I thought while splashing some water at my face and looking at my reflection on the mirror with a smile.


    I finished my business in the bathroom quickly and changed my clothes then went downstairs to the kitchen, only to have my hopes crushed when I saw ready-made sandwiches in plastic bags and some coffee on the table.


    I looked at Sam questioningly, so he smiled and said ¡°Oh, I got them from a convenience store at the beginning of the apocalypse, I heated them in the microwave though, as you know I can use my lightening ability as electricity.¡±


    I nodded my head and said ¡°Thanks for preparing the food.¡± While thinking to myself ¡®I hope your stack of the ready-made food will finish soon.¡¯


    Then an idea popped into my head, so I smiled and said ¡°How about we keep this ready-made food for when we are outside? And we can cook when we are at home.¡±


    Sam gazed at the food in front of him then said ¡°Makes sense, since I didn¡¯t eat food for years, I lost all common sense about stuff like this, for me, they all taste the same.¡±


    He finished speaking and took a bite from the sandwich and chewed at it with a face showing a little disgust.


    I swallowed all my selfish thoughts with a bite of my sandwich and said ¡°If they taste bad for you, you don¡¯t have to force yourself to eat.¡±


    He laughed and beamed ¡°Yup, it is a win-win situation, I don¡¯t have to eat these things and it can also save more food for you and the others.¡±


    I shook my head with a smile and took another bite, while Sam threw his Sandwich and sipped on his coffee, so I guessed that drinks didn¡¯t taste as bad for him as the food.


    As we were eating or more accurately, I was eating, somebody knocked on the door; I put the last bite of my sandwich in my mouth and went to open the door.


    A soldier was there leaning against the wall, when he saw me, he stated ¡°Good morning, the general wants to see you.¡±


    He finished talking and walked away, he didn¡¯t even wait for me to reply, I frowned at his attitude and couldn¡¯t help but to think about the original timeline and the difference in treatment, for them in this timeline, at that moment, I was only a useless brat that caused trouble.


    I clicked my tongue and went inside; I made my way to Sam and asked him to come with me to see my father.


    We left the house and headed to the middle of the town where the command center was located, during the walk, the soldiers glared at me or shook their heads in disapproval, I¡¯m guessing that the incident with Captain Lucas spread between the soldiers, and since he was very popular and infamous for his spotless records, the soldiers were angry at me.


    I ignored the soldiers¡¯ glares and kept walking with Sam until we entered the command center and made our way to the living room, which was used as the operation room, and I was face to face with my angry father, as soon as he laid his eyes on me he shouted ¡°I thought I raised you better than to lie and go out without permission.¡±


    I lowered my head and apologized ¡°I¡¯m sorry father, I just wanted to help.¡±


    I knew he is not my original father, but he earned my respect from years of working together in the original timeline, even though we think differently, he did all he could during that time to keep his base safe as much as possible and I knew that he loves his son even though he never showed it.


    He sighed and his tone soften as he said ¡°I¡¯m not against you helping but you should help with what you can, and going out in such circumstances without proper training is not helping, for the time being, every civilian in a suitable age and body condition capable of fighting is going under training, you must join the training before you are allowed to go out of the town.¡±This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.


    I glanced at Sam who was standing near the entrance of the living room, only to see his lips tightened as he was trying his best not to laugh at me, well, I don¡¯t blame him for laughing though, after I lived in the apocalypse for thirteen years and with all my abilities I was treated like a kid who can¡¯t manage to do anything.


    I coughed to get rid of a laugh of my own as I looked at my father and said ¡°What about the people with abilities? Do they train with the others or separately?¡±


    He looked at me questioningly as he answered ¡°They train separately to master their control over their abilities and the extent to them, why do you ask?¡±


    I scratch my cheek and said ¡°Yesterday I have awakened some abilities.¡±


    My father¡¯s eyes lit up as he looked at me surprised since almost everybody has awakened their abilities on the same day, the people who didn¡¯t awake abilities were considered as normal people and nobody expects them to have abilities.


    In a way it¡¯s true, if you have an ability the crystal inside your brain will be formed after a week from the start of the apocalypse, but it doesn¡¯t necessarily mean that you will be able to use the ability directly, some people will not have access to their abilities until they are met with a critical situation that forces them to the edge.


    My father looked at me as he rubbed his chin and asked ¡°What ability have you awakened?¡±


    ¡°Actually, I have three abilities, water, fire and space.¡±


    As I finished talking an uproar erupted in the operation room because in the base there was only one person who has two abilities.


    It was still unknown for them at that time, but some who have awakened an ability, in fact, have two abilities, but they didn¡¯t know yet, while some of them still didn¡¯t know that they have abilities at all and one of them was my father, he has two abilities but he still didn¡¯t wake any of them yet.


    I waited until the uproar quieted down then continued speaking ¡°My friend Sam here¡± and I pointed at Sam ¡°has two abilities, wind and earth.¡±


    All eyes switched from me to Sam, which made him clearly uncomfortable, as he nodded his head and retreated a couple of steps toward the living room¡¯s door.


    My father cleared his throat as he looked at me again and said sternly ¡°Since you and your friend have abilities, you will both join the training starting today, and if you notice anything wrong with your body you must go to the doctor immediately, although it seems that the abilities are not a threat, we still know very little about them, so be careful, dismiss.¡±


    Although my father¡¯s way of speaking seemed nonchalant, I could tell that he was happy and worried at the same time.


    ¡°Yes, sir,¡± I answered as I made my way to the door and dragged Sam with me out of the commanding center.


    As we walked out Sam started to laugh at me, I shook my head and whispered ¡°I have to act like this, I can¡¯t tell them that I returned in time, can I?¡±


    He just shook his head and laughed a little more, before looking at me and said seriously ¡°We need to tone the power of our abilities to match the power of the level one ability users, this is going to be a pain in the ass.¡±


    I nodded and said with a frown ¡°Fuck, I forgot about this, it¡¯s going to be a waste of time and efforts in the real fights, not to mention the difficulty to keep it down in crucial situations.¡±


    We both sighed deeply at all the headaches that we were going to have from that.


    As we reached the training area we looked around at the people, there were around four hundred people with abilities at that moment (though the number should multiply in the next a few months), and let me tell you something, some of them looked miserable, some of them were covered in water or dirt while others with burned clothes, a guy electrocuted the others around him, a teenage girl with wood ability trapped herself with branches, and was crying and asking for help.


    I looked at Sam only to see him looking at them while shaking his head furiously and mumbling ¡°I¡¯m not going near those people, just hearing all their shouting and crying making me angry.¡±


    I tilted my head a little and looked at him confused, then I remembered that he might lose control over his anger and end up killing them, I looked at him and smiled as I said with a voice I tried as much as possible to make it convincing ¡°We are not going near them, we will go to a side away from them and fake training there, if it became harder for you to keep calm, we will leave immediately.¡±


    I put my arm around his shoulder and smirked then continued ¡°Don¡¯t worry; I will keep talking to you so you won¡¯t be able to hear anything else.¡±


    He raised his eyebrow and frowned at the same time which made his face wrinkled and looked a little funny as he said with twisted lips ¡°Fuck, how loud are you planning to speak to cover all their voices? I guess I should try my luck with them, otherwise, I may end up killing you.¡±


    I just laughed and didn¡¯t answer him; my only answer was dragging him yet again to the edge of the training area where it was nearly empty.


    Just as I turned around to look at Sam with a smug smile on my face, I felt an electric current spread through my whole body, which made my face twitch involuntarily and erased the smug from my face, it wasn¡¯t strong enough to hurt me but enough to make me flinch and tremble a little, I looked at Sam only to see him with a smug smile as he said ¡°Now your face looks better.¡±


    I looked at him innocently which made him roll his eyes at me and shrug.


    We chatted as we trained, mostly trying to get used to using our abilities at level one all the time, while laughing from time to time at the other people¡¯s misfortune.

 Chapter 12

    Sam¡¯s POV


    Yellow and black with small transparent wings flapping rapidly while flying from a tiny wildflower to the other, trying to collect some nectar for its hive.


    A small bird with feathers consisted from all shades of blue was singing its best song, swaying with the wind as if it was dancing at its song, its gray claws grabbing firmly on a thin branch of a tall and green nearby tree, the tree itself was dancing at the bird¡¯s song and was creating a low and nice music by moving its branches with the help of the wind.


    A few fluffy and white clouds were running after each other in the sea of the blue sky, I sighed at the peace and beauty of the scene, I was enjoying myself while lying on an old bench on the backyard of the house, my eyes were roaming around the greens and the blue sky in content until they landed on the blue sun, which returned me to the harsh reality, that I was in a base living in an apocalyptic world full of zombies, and not to mention, I¡¯m a freaking zombie myself.


    I closed my eyes trying to return to the moments of peace before my eyes landed on the sun and spoiled it, unfortunately, it was not possible as I could hear people walking nearby while talking loudly, or more like shouting at each other which in turn scared the small bird to fly away, I sighed again but in annoyance this time.


    It has been a month since the start of the apocalypse, things are almost quiet now, survivors still comes to the town from time to time, mostly with the scavengers teams and rarely on their own, but their numbers are declining, there are almost five thousand residents in the base at the moment, the work is divided between them according to what they can offer, as long as you can move you will be assigned something to do, if you refused to comply, let¡¯s just say, you are not welcome in the base ground anymore.


    There are people responsible for scavenging for supplies; the teams now consisted of a mix of former military and civilians especially those with abilities, there are people for guarding the town and its surroundings.


    Whoever can¡¯t fight is positioned in the town, some are taking care of the small children and elderly while others washing the laundry or cooking, some are trying to build a wall between the houses at the perimeter, with the help of the earth and metal ability users, though it¡¯s going to take some time to be finished since the houses on the outskirts of the town are far from each other and the levels of the ability users are still very low, though, in my opinion, it¡¯s a waste of time, it may handle a few zombies, but if a zombie herd happen to come, it will be destroyed in no time.


    The supposed training Jack and I underwent is finally over, and under Jack¡¯s insistence to be with me in the same team, we were assigned to one of the scavenger teams, though I could tell that, Jack¡¯s father wanted to keep him inside the town, but Jack¡¯s qualifications are too good to be able to do that, so his father reluctantly accepted to send his son out.


    Tomorrow is going to be our first mission, so for today, we have free time until noon, after that we are going to meet with the other team members to know each other and try to bond as a team, according to what our team leader said.


    A friend of Jack, I think his name is Mark, came to see him, so I slipped out of the house into the backyard and relaxed on this old bench.


    I opened my eyes and scratched the back of my neck, thinking what should I do during the two hours before the meeting when I remembered that I had the crystal from the bastard water ability user that I killed last time, so I took it out from my space-storage and threw it in my mouth and swallowed it.


    It is easier for me to consume a human¡¯s crystal than a zombie¡¯s crystal, for us zombies we just need to swallow a human¡¯s crystal to absorb the spiritual energy in it. As for humans or me, if we want to absorb a zombie¡¯s crystal, we need to hold it for a period of time and absorb the energy slowly until it¡¯s finished.


    I did try to swallow a zombie¡¯s crystal before, and it gave me spiritual energy but not as much as when absorbing it slowly through skin, hardly half the amount, so it¡¯s not efficient at all.This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source.


    I decided to take a bath and refresh myself, and maybe see what Jack was doing, I took one last look at the scenery in front of me, the tiny wildflowers, the tree, the blue sky with a few clouds, but as I stood up and was about to turn and enter the house from the back door, my eyes caught something strange in the sky, I squinted my eyes focusing all my attention at the strange scene in the sky.


    As I stared at the sky, a realization hit me, they were fucking meteorites, even with the sun in the sky I could still see the lights in the sky, thousands or even tens of thousands were hitting the earth¡¯s atmosphere, and for some strange reason they were not fast as they are supposed to be, I saw one, maybe the size of a fist with a long tail of light hit a place a hundred or so kilometers away from us, while the others suddenly turned to dust and spread in the sky.


    ¡°Jack¡± I shouted as loud as I could, I have no memory about second meteorites hitting the earth during the original timeline, maybe I didn¡¯t notice it back then, but Jack also didn¡¯t mention it and he was acting normally today, so I needed to ask Jack and confirm it.


    I shouted once more as I started to lose my patience ¡°Jack, come here quickly.¡±


    I looked down only to notice that my hand was clutching tightly at my chest, exactly over my heart, the same place where the shard hit my heart.


    Jack came a few seconds later with his friend following behind him, he looked at me with a smile only to vanished and changed to a concerned and worried look after he saw my expression, he closed the distance between us as he asked me ¡°What happened?¡±


    I just pointed with my finger to the sky, which made his eyes move from looking at me to look at the sky, I could see his expressions changing from shock to frown then concentration and then some kind of confusion, which made me sure that he had no idea what was happening either.


    ¡°What is it?¡± Asked Mark in a worried voice as he just made it out of the door, when he saw both Jack and me were looking at the sky, he shifted his eyes from us to the sky too, and exclaimed ¡°What the hell is this thing? Is it some kind of a sand storm?¡±


    I shook my head and answered weakly ¡°No, they are the remnants of meteorites when they hit the atmosphere.¡±


    I looked at Jack questioningly who in response shook his head, he looked as confused as I was to see them too, I can¡¯t help but think, if the first meteorites brought the zombie virus with them, what these new meteorites will bring? At the thought, I felt a shiver goes down my spine.


    I felt Jack¡¯s hand on my shoulder which made me look at him, he smiled at me with as much confidence as he could show then whispered ¡°Everything is going to be just fine, and even if it¡¯s not, we will make it fine, didn¡¯t I tell you that before?¡±


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    Leo¡¯s POV


    I was sitting in the entertainment room, inside the small mansion I created as a temporary residence while observing Earth, on a big rock of the rocks in Saturn¡¯s belt, playing the new game I created while I was observing Rooth, a planet in a different solar system, which contains a variety of monstrous creatures and plants.


    To make the game as realistic as possible, I put a lot of the creatures¡¯ and plants¡¯ life essences in the game¡¯s core, so, the game has almost living creatures and plants moving inside it, which made it really enjoyable, well, I deserve to have the best game ever, right?


    I sipped on my milkshake and almost moaned at its wonderful taste, I put the cup on the table, and shook my hands and fingers excitedly while getting ready to continue playing from where I stopped, that¡¯s when I heard my superior¡¯s voice calling my name, I cursed under my breath and looked quickly at the room¡¯s door to make sure that he didn¡¯t see me playing this game, since it is prohibited to collect life essences to create wonderful games, I needed to get rid of it before he could see it, though they should allow us to have fun, right?


    I took the core as fast as a bolt of lightning and threw it out of the window with all my strength; I could see it hitting multiple rocks in its way and some of the rocks started to move from the strength of the hit with the core.


    I twisted my lips afraid that my superior was going to notice the commotion, but unfortunately for the poor me, I didn¡¯t have much time as my superior entered the room, I flashed him a smile and bowed my head a little in greeting, he nodded his head and asked about the situation on the planet Earth and said that I can move to the next planet while checking on Earth from time to time.


    As he finished talking and flew in front of me, I took down the mansion, as we are supposed to leave no evidence of our existence. I looked back at the direction in which I threw the core only to see that the core surrounded by thousands of rocks were heading directly to the planet Earth.


    I swallowed my saliva and looked at my superior with the tip of my eye to make sure that he was not looking and I used my powers trying to stop the core and rocks from hitting the planet, unfortunately, I didn¡¯t make it time, as they already entered the atmosphere, so, at least, I slowed them down a little then shattered them and prevented them from destroying the planet.


    I shrugged my shoulders and sped my pace and followed my superior, after all, it¡¯s not my fault, you see, who told him to come and surprise me?

 Chapter 13

    Jack¡¯s POV


    Sam wrapped his legs around my waist and pulled me closer to him, he arched his back and moaned loudly as my cock penetrated his asshole all the way to the hilt. I groaned at the sensation of his insides rubbing intently at my cock then leaned over him and swallowed his lips with mine to muffle his moans while thrusting deep inside him.


    I put my hand on his nipple and twisted it which made him flinch and moan louder, I released his tasty lips and licked and nibbled them a few times before flipping us and making him sit over my cock. He started to bounce over my rock hard cock with closed eyes and a few drops of tears threatening to fall from his eyes.


    I looked at him lovingly then raised my hands and grabbed his cheeks and wiped his tears with my thumbs, after that I hugged him and pulled him over me, I trailed kisses and licks from his neck until his ear then whispered ¡°I love you Sam.¡±


    A strange and rattling voice entered my ears and my hands felt wet, I frowned a little and raised his body from over mine to look at him, and saw that his tears and a trail of his saliva were red, I blinked a few times and focused my vision only to see that it was blood, and it was dripping from all over his body.


    My body started to shake violently and tears filled my eyes, I laid him carefully over the bed and jumped out of the bed to search for something to stop the bleeding. I heard a loud BAM which made me open my eyes only to find my head smashed on the floor while my legs were still over the bed.


    I looked around me confused for a second only to discover that I was inside my room in the base, I rubbed my head and dragged my legs down onto the floor, I sat on the floor and the tears which were stuck on my eyes fell down.


    It has been a long time since I dreamed of my Sam from my original world, maybe being near this Sam opened my old wounds and made me dream of him.


    You may think that I¡¯m stupid and can¡¯t differentiate between the two Sam. Even though they are very similar in so many ways, not just the look, I¡¯m fully aware that this Sam and the original Sam are two different people, but honestly speaking, I can¡¯t imagine living my life without Sam, so, if I can¡¯t be with the original Sam I will gladly be with this one.Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author.


    I know that it might be unfair for this Sam, but don¡¯t get me wrong, I¡¯m truly and totally in love with this one too, it¡¯s just that if I ever have a choice, I will definitely choose the original Sam, that¡¯s all.


    I sighed and moved my hand through my hair, I glanced at my hard cock and my lips twisted, I don¡¯t blame it though, because the last time I had sex was with the original Sam on the night of his death.


    I sighed again and climbed onto my feet and went to the bathroom to take care of my cock and take a shower.


    It has already been two days since the second meteor shower, if you can call it that way, the dust cloud almost subsided and except for a few people who turned into zombies no other changes happened, or at least, nothing we are aware of.


    When the news reached my father, he canceled all scavengers missions and ordered everybody to stay at their houses and in separate rooms if possible, and made sure that each house has at least one person capable of killing zombies and ready to take action, which in a way, helped to reduce the number of people who were attacked by the new zombies.


    The orders also prohibited exposure to the dust as much as possible which forced all the patrol and guard teams to arrange strict watch shifts around the perimeter through the windows.


    According to Sam, who by the way was in a very bad and edgy mood during these two days, there is something in the air, but he doesn¡¯t know what, he also pointed out that the rock which had fallen about a hundred kilometers away from us was the only one that didn¡¯t shatter and has some kind of energy inside it which is pulling him into it.


    I have no idea about the rock, but I definitely agree with him that there is something, I think that whatever changes these new meteorites brought, we didn¡¯t see it yet. But what made me sure that there is something changing is the fact that, the few who turned into zombies were somewhat different from other new zombies, they were faster and more savage.


    I shook all the thoughts and finished my shower and left the bathroom with a towel wrapped around my waist, I dried myself and dressed then looked through the window. The freaking blue sun was shining brightly and there was no dust anymore concealing the sun.


    I left my room and went downstairs to the living room and found Sam still sitting on a chair near the window and staring through the window into empty space, I cleared my throat to draw his attention, so he turned his head and glanced at me before nodding his head and continue his staring.


    I twisted my lips and made my way toward him and put my hand at his shoulder before soothing ¡°How long are you planning to stay like this? You hardly moved from this chair during the past two days, whatever will happen we can face it together, so please, stop worrying your self.¡±


    He looked at me with a sad look and said ¡°As much as I hated the apocalypse in the original timeline, I will choose it over this one any time, a big change is coming, and I¡¯m not sure if humanity will be able to survive.¡±

 Chapter 14

    Sam¡¯s POV


    It has already been two days since the second meteor shower, during those two days, I could feel something in the air reacts with the virus inside my body, merging with it and very slowly changing it, it¡¯s really hard to explain the feeling, all I¡¯m sure of is that something is happening to the virus. Which made me wonder if the change is going to make me lose my mind again like in the first apocalypse or even something worse.


    When I asked Jack about it, although he agreed with me that something was happening, he himself didn¡¯t feel anything and mostly reached this conclusion because of the condition of the new zombies.


    But what is really freaking me out is the pulling energy I¡¯m feeling from the direction where the meteorite fell, and I¡¯m sure that it¡¯s from it; because this energy wasn¡¯t there beforehand. I¡¯m planning to sneak out of the base and check it out as fast as possible before this feeling drives me crazy.


    While I was consumed with my thoughts, I heard Jack clear his throat which interrupted my thoughts. I looked at him and nodded my head in greeting then looked outside the window again, unfortunately, he didn¡¯t leave me alone and made his way toward me.


    He stood behind me and put his hand on my shoulder then said ¡°How long are you planning to stay like this? You hardly moved from this chair during the past two days, whatever will happen we can face it together, so please, stop worrying yourself.¡±


    I wished it was just me worrying myself over nothing, but I knew that whatever the changes to the virus were, they weren¡¯t good. I looked at him and absentmindedly said ¡°As much as I hated the apocalypse in the original timeline, I will choose it over this one any time, a big change is coming, and I¡¯m not sure if humanity will be able to survive.¡±


    Although what I said sounded like a retort, it was mostly my thoughts escaped through my lips, and I directly regretted saying it; because Jack¡¯s face became black and his grip on my shoulder tightened, so I forced myself to smile faintly and continued ¡°But since you are here with me, I¡¯m sure we will manage somehow, so, stop worrying yourself about me.¡±


    As I finished speaking, I patted his hand that was still over my shoulder two times then rested my hand over his, which of course, made him chuckle and made me feel a little embarrassed, but my embarrassment only increased when he put his free arm and his head over my other shoulder and rested his body over it.Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original.


    I tried to remove my hand from over his, only for him to catch it and keep it firmly in his hand, and put his arm around the other shoulder instead of his hand. I tilted my head a little away from his and was about to complain, but before I had the chance to say anything I felt his lips on my cheek, and he gave me a deep and strong kiss.


    I froze in my place in shock and didn¡¯t know what to say, I already reached to the conclusion that the way he looks at me and treats me is most likely some kind of love, but I never expected him to kiss me, although I can¡¯t deny that I feel comfortable around him, but still, what the hell.


    He looked at my shocked face and smiled innocently then said defensively ¡°It¡¯s a good luck charm, it can do wonders.¡±


    His silly defense made me want to laugh, so I just shook my head and retorted ¡°Said who?¡±


    Before he got the chance to answer my question, we heard knocks at the door, Jack looked at me then at the door which somebody knocked at it again and reluctantly went to open it; while cursing all the way until he reached the door and opened it.


    The moment the door was ajar, Mark¡¯s head bobbed inside and his body quickly followed, and he shouted happily ¡°Hello guys, the curfew is finally over, let¡¯s go out and have a walk, it¡¯s boring to walk alone.¡±


    Mark is a very nice and energetic guy, he is what you can call ¡®sunshine¡¯, he is always optimistic and spreads happiness all around him. He is the only person I interacted with except Jack, even though I kept some distance for safety measures.


    Jack looked at me then at Mark who was already in the middle of the living room, he closed the front door and asked while walking toward Mark ¡°Only the curfew? What about outside missions?¡±


    Mark stopped in his tracks and scratched his head thinking before he shrugged and answered ¡°I¡¯m not sure, I heard that the higher-ups are going to have a meeting within the next two hours to discuss whatever they want to discuss before announcing the new orders and arrangements. Come on now, move your asses before they assign jobs for us.¡±


    I wanted to refuse but I changed my mind and accepted Mark¡¯s invitation since I really wanted to have a look outside, and it was a suitable time because whether they were afraid to go out or didn¡¯t know that the curfew was over, most of the people likely were still inside the houses.


    I stretched my hands then stood up and headed toward the front door where Mark was dragging Jack by his arm. When Jack saw me coming, he stopped his futile resistance and started to walk by himself, which made Mark almost hit his head against the door frame when he pulled a non-resistant Jack.


    Jack and Mark started to skirmish over the imminent accident while I pretended that I didn¡¯t see anything and left the house, I quickened my steps and created a little distance between me and them to avoid getting caught in their skirmish.


    I walked on a few streets and as I guessed, the streets were almost empty except for a few individuals heading towards the town¡¯s center and some standing cautiously near their houses. I took a deep breath out of habit and walked toward a big tree with very noticeable green leaves.

 Chapter 15

    Sam¡¯s POV


    The tree was located at the end of a playground, about two hundred meters away from the houses. I approached the tree and stood a few meters away from the nearest branch and frowned, even though it was not my first time walking on the street near the playground, I never noticed that tree before, I could vaguely remember a big tree was there, but I was pretty sure that, it wasn¡¯t that big and green, otherwise I would have definitely noticed it.


    The tree was about fifteen meters tall with strong branches spread all around it for about five meters, it had big dark green leaves, with each leaf about forty centimeters long. The strangest thing was that the tree had fruits, and I never saw fruits like that before.


    The fruits were bright yellow and every twenty or so were gathered together in a cluster similar to grapes, but the fruit itself looked like a strawberry with the size of a small apple. I wondered if it was just me thinking too much or that kind of fruit didn¡¯t exist beforehand, to solve the issue, I sent a wind blade toward a branch holding a cluster and cut it.


    The cluster fell to the ground, and to my surprise, it stayed whole and the fruits were hard enough to withstand the fall. Before I could approach the cluster and examine it, Mark ran directly under the tree; grabbed the cluster and hugged it between his arms, then started to jump and laugh before teasing me by saying ¡°I caught it first, it should be mine.¡±


    I smiled at his childish behavior and looked behind me searching for Jack, who turned out to have been stuck talking to a former soldier right outside the playground, which explained why Mark left him and focused his attention on teasing me.


    I turned my head again toward Mark while thinking if I should play along with his teasing or not, but all my thoughts vanished when I glimpsed a brown thing moving behind his legs, however, before I could alert him or even move, what looked like a fist-thick root suddenly grabbed him from his legs, which made him fall onto the ground on his front, then the thing started to pull him into a small hole about a meter away from his position.


    The whole situation took me by surprise, in the original timeline, there were no moving roots or anything similar to the thing I just saw, which made confused and my reaction speed was slower than usual.Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more.


    By the time I reached Mark, his legs were already buried in the ground, while he was trying his best to keep himself from getting buried, by shoving his fingers desperately in the ground, nevertheless, all his attempts were useless as his body was still moving fast toward the hole.


    I tried to locate whatever was dragging him, but I couldn¡¯t see it anymore, therefore, all I could do was to grab Mark¡¯s hands and try to pull him out of the hole. I yanked him and managed to stop him from being dragged anymore, but the force which was pulling him was immense and made him scream in pain as his body was ripping apart from the two opposite forces, so I had no choice but to stop pulling him.


    I kept my grasp firmly on his hands and focused my attention at the small hole, it was hardly the size of Mark¡¯s body, or more likely, his dragged body was shaping the hole to fit him. I looked at Mark who half of his body was already under the ground and contemplated on what to do, if only he wasn¡¯t Jack¡¯s friend, I would have left him to die.


    I released his hands and used my earth ability at level one to widen the hole in the hope of seeing the thing that was dragging him, but at the low level of one, my attempt was futile as the soil kept falling from the side to cover the hole again, which made me little angry, but nevertheless, I couldn¡¯t use my full ability it was going to draw unwanted attention to me.


    I cursed as I tried again and increased my ability a little bit, just enough to overcome the falling soil, and walked toward the hole. I could feel the ground under my feet were soft and unsteady with noticeable movements, and I knew that I needed to act fast.


    I focused on widening the hole with one hand until I saw the thing, which after a closer look, turned out to be root, I crouched down and tried to reach the root, but I couldn¡¯t and it was dangerous to shoot a wind blade at it; because it was circling around Mark¡¯s legs, with no other option, I widened the hole more and jumped inside it.


    Mark¡¯s body started to move faster from the moment I removed the soil, hence I had less time to think and had to act, even though I knew that what I was doing was stupid. I grabbed Mark¡¯s thigh and pushed him up with the hand that was holding the hole open, and used my wind ability with my other hand to create a fast-rotating plate from the wind and used it to cut the root.


    The soil was falling fast and Jack was running toward us with the soldier in tow. When the root was almost cut and its grasp on Mark¡¯s legs became loose, I yanked him up and threw him two meters away from the quickly closing hole which was at that moment almost as deep as my height.


    I spit out some dust and was preparing myself to jump out of the hole; when another root pierced through my stomach and circled itself around me and started to drag me down and under the ground. Even though I didn¡¯t feel pain, I was shocked that something fragile like wood managed to pierce through my body.


    When the hole was fully closed, Mark was coughing and panting trying to catch his breath while Jack was screaming my name and was about to reach Mark¡¯s position.