''You crazy human! Let me go! I am NOT your pet!'' Zero tried to escape her clutches, but Maria held him tightly and started rubbing his fur.
''How soft and beautiful you are.'' Her words made him calm down and his own pride went up.
''I told you my kind is the most beautiful kind ever existing in any universe. Your strange soft bodies with hairless structure and just two pairs of arms... Truly not pretty at all. Yes, you should consider yourself lucky to meet one of my kind. The prettiest creatures ever.'' Maria almost started laughing at the amount of his self-confidence.
"Now let's start talking. What do you mean by my second evolution and new stats?" She was curious.
His voice became official.
''Second evolution :
Level:1
Light attribute: 121/500
Electricity attribute : 9/ 100
Fire attribute: 0/100
Strength: 5
Agility: 4
Precision: 5
Healing: 7
As you skipped to expand first evolution, you lost nature attribute. But you really do not need it with space that can grow food. Space became bigger.
From now on there will be no more tasks. You grow your powers by using them. In third evolution you will lose stats completely and will just grow your attributes. In fourth evolution... I don't have data. I have only data for third evolution.''
After explaining she was amazed by new things. ''Then what I have to do is just expand my power by killing zombies and enemies?"
Everything and everyone that wants to kill her is enemy.
Zero smiled with his scary looking pointy teeth. "Yes. But your little friend here might be different."
"What do you mean?" Maria was worried about her new family member.
"I spoke wrong, you are different than other humanoid forms that gained powers. You are stronger than them and as I see, they will live normal human life and perish, but not you. This is so interesting. I remember other planets and other intelligent life forms, but not one of them had such strong power like your kind do." Zero floated around her.
Even tho she is one of ugliest living forms in his eyes, but very interesting one. So he started to ignore her ugly appearance and concentrated on what is most important. Power...
Maria saw him staring at her with shiny eyes and ignored him. Now is important to think about something she had to do. Cook food.
She literally felt so hungry. Her body was craving for food and she made a lot.
The smell of meat and vegetables slowly floated straight to the room where Nicky was sleeping. Before she felt coldness, but couldn't wake up.
After getting into the warm room and even warmer bed, her body relaxed and she felt comfortable enough to sleep deeply. But the enticing smell of food lured her out of it and she slowly opened her eyes. "Hungry..."
It was cute complain that made Maria stunned. She could hear it even in kitchen like she was standing near her. "Uhm, did my hearing got better or is it because silence?"
Zero shrruged. "All your senses that you had before became twice stronger. Every living kind had its own. Your kind has five primary sense and something called premonition. In the files I gathered from this world, usually females have it. Well, your and Nicky's senses doubled."
Maria looked at the large amount of food she cooked and furrowed her eyebrows. "I must control my food intake or I'll gain weight."
He snorted. "Your senses became stronger so the energy that you use as well. But don't worry. You will be able to stop yourself after filling enough with food."
Maria rolled her eyes. "I'm not a program. Humans are famous to overdo things that are bad for them. Anyway, let me call Nicky."
In the room she saw Nicky stretching like a lazy cat and chuckled. "You can go to bed again after eating something. We need to tell you few things."
Nicky heard as well what she spoke to that familiar voice do she jumped from the bed, but when she saw the fluffy creature she reacted same like Maria. "So cute!"
Zero was proud because of her words, but seeing her stretched out fingers he learned his lesson and escaped. "No touching. Maria already ruffled me do much that I'm still dizzy."
Nicky calmly stopped and sat down. With straight face she pointed at him and stated the fact. "You are program. It is rather impossible to get dizzy."
He fluffed up in anger as he knew her words were logical and just snorted. "At least you are not dumb." Right after that he looked at Maria and rolled his eyes. "Don't worry about weight. I saw your kind overeating itself. But this is different situation. You already evolved. Your body won't let you eat more than it can handle. Going to gather more informations about your kind. Interesting species indeed."
And disapeared.
Maria pointed at table filled with food and shrruged. "I'm hungry. Let's eat and then go down. You can rest. It is better for you."
Nicky didn't refuse as she felt as well that she needed sleep. "Good. I'll do that. But you should rest as well."
Maria shook her head. "After that strange stinky substance left my body I feel energized. It would be ridiculous to go to sleep like this."
Nicky could see her face having healthy color and could only agree. If you go to bed wide awake, what's the point of going to bed?
And just like Zero said, they ate quite an amount, but when they felt full they automatically stopped and packed rest of the food into the fridge.
Nicky went to bed and fell asleep right away. Maria on other hand went down and met new situation...