Note : this chapter has being recently corrected, but The point of the story is still the same.
language note: some Turkish words used in this chapter:
( aşkım= my love)
( kardeşim= brother/sister)
(arkadaşım= my friend)
(arkadaşlarım= my friends)
the ' ş' is read 'sh'
...[chapter begins]...
Omar's face suddenly twisted in anger.
" Did you steal this from the tree house? you dirty thief!! HEY YOU COME HERE!
Who are you? and how the hell did you put your hand on Mickey's daughter bag?!" Omar screamed demanding an answer, while again pointing his gun back at me.
"What the Fuck?! Young hazel eyes has a daughter?!" I whispered to myself, and it seems the bag I was carrying belongs to her.
Baby Rory? that's her name.
"Just calm down Omar, I swear to God! I have a good explanation for what is going on right now!" I said, while carefully reaching for my mask.
I knew I had not other choice but to reveal myself to this boy, despite knowing I can take him down easily, I preferred not to hurt him.
"Don't try to pull any funny business on me! I'm the one holding the gun here, so hands up where I can see em!" Omar warned me, it was clear in his eyes, he was determined to shoot my unholy infected Ass.
"Listen my guy! you don't know what you're getting yourself into! I am so hungry right now, if I don't eat I might end up hurting you trust me...if you want an explanation all you have to do is look at my face.
trust what you see Omar." I said as I removed my mask.
A moment of hesitation took over Omar's whole body, his gun was finally dropped down.
phew! dodged that!
Now he was just looking at me in disbelief, "Omg! is that you captain (Y/n)?!" That's all he said before he removed his backpack he was wearing, dropped his gun to the ground and just ran towards me, hugging the crap out of my body.
I felt him shake uncontrollably while hugging me, he was mumbling apologies over and over.
He suddenly was acting like a happy puppy.
I tried to calm him down, I reassured him I'm okay and when he finally stopped crying and mumbling, I pushed him away gently.
"So now you wanna listen to why I am in possession of that bag?... Long story short, Mickey himself gave it to me!" I stated.
Omar looked at me a little confused.
"The problem here, is that I am dealing with amnesia currently so I don't recall anything or anyone, anybody, nothing!! I'll let you know I don't remember anything and Mickey can vouch for me on that...I met him and Ivan few hours ago near the tree house.
truth, I stayed there for the night, had a little chat this morning that turned horribly wrong, and Ivan said he doesn't want me in town, so I figured the best thing to do is to leave for a while until I get the hang of things, so that's why I have this bag.
Mickey packed it up for me, you see." I quietly Added.
Omar nodded in acknowledgment "Aha! it makes sense now, He cherishes that bag more than his life.
you're the only one I know that he'll probably give them this bag." he said.
only one...wow?
Omar continued "I might understand why he gave it to you, I don't understand why he let you go? Especially now that you lost your memories!
i mean Mickey, myself and everybody else on the team, we were praying every single day that you somehow made it alive! I can't believe you're standing here captain, in front of me!
i don't understand why Mickey would let you go?! why he let that mean old hag Ivan kick you out?! can you explain this to me?"
I took yet another deep breath in, "Omar... not everything has an explanation." I stated looking him in the eyes, Omar gave me a disappointed look .
Well before some sort of realization hit him...HARD, his face went pale
"Wait a minute, I've noticed something else was weird!" Omar said.
This boy keeps noticing.
"Earlier as I was looking for something to hunt, I've noticed that the area seemed almost too clear of zombies...I did spot some of them Zombies around but they were walking specifically in the same direction... zombies sometimes move in Union when they see a human so they'd attack them together or something, but..." he added.
"But what? what are you trying to say Omar?" I asked, he looked at me like I grew a second head.
"They seemed like they were running away... they'd only run away from an HHZ.
Now I that I think about it, i was watching you and the rabbit earlier because you were someone that I didn't recognize due to the mask you're wearing, and I grew suspicious of you.
but now I could swear that what I saw earlier was the zombies walking the opposite direction of you, running away from you." Omar finally said, I felt my body shivered from head to toe.
is that a thing really? running away from me.
He must've realized that I'm an HHZ now, why does Mickey and his team know a lot about the HHZ stuff?
Omar was now panicking so hard ,I had to slap him back into reality.
He fell down while watching me with a big red mark on his face, I swear I slapped him gently!
"You're one of them aren't you captain! you said you can't even eat the rabbit... tttthe zombies were walking the opposite way of you and and and! oh god!" Omar still freaking out.
"Get your shit together dude... I don't have a lot of time for this bullshit, I need to find a zombie to eat or you'll be next." I said helping him up again, he refused to take my hand at first but a upon further insisting, he finally grabbed my hand pulling himself up.
"long story short yeah! I am what you crazy ass peoy call an HHZ! so stop panicking!
if you know a little about my kind, you know that I'm not going to eat you but rather eat a zombie instead." I said
" technically right now, I'm hungry as Fuck and if I don't find me some nice juicy zombie steak, I will resort to eating you instead my guy!" I added on purpose to scare him.
I was hoping he'd run honestly...
"FUCK this shit, I wasted too much time on you man! so bye-bye! Oh and by the way if you are going to tell anybody about my return, don't!
don't tell anybody that you saw me, just pretend I'm still dead, don't talk about me and try not to tell anyone else!
I promised Mickey I'm gonna keep my identity hidden, and again byebye!!" I said signing him a goodbye with my hand before I began walking away.
Much to my surprise, Omar started following me which made me feel more irritated "Omar, for the love of everything worth loving in this life, leave my ass to breath man!!
trust me I'm not going to do any good in this situation?! I can barely talk like a human being! I can feel the effect of my hunger getting worse!" I tried to get him off my back but he kept following me like a lost puppy.
"OMAR!!" I screamed.
"YA RABI (my God) what! Why are you screaming at me you haven't changed a bit! you always scold me like a little kid!" He screamed back.
"Why are you still following me Homeboy?! I'm telling you I'm going to turn into super psycho mode right now.
I need food! how can I find zombies now that they are running away from me?! I'm already irritated about the fact that I'm going to have to eat a dead person to stay alive, add on top of that you follow me around like you're some sort of a lost child!" I shouted.
"With the zombies escaping you this way, it's going to be hard for you to hunt! you literally have to chase them and you're saying yourself you don't have much time or energy to do so?! let me help!!" he said.
"fucking fine my friend, I will let you help as long as it's going to take you off my back soon!
oh and by the way? are you going to leave that bunny dead over there, did you just shoot it to shoot it?" I asked him point at the spot we were in earlier.
Omar took a moment to think for some reason before replying to me "oh I completely forget about the rabbit! I even left my backpack there!" he said hurrying back to where he left the dead animal, he picked up his huge hiking backpack and pulled something like a box out of it.
my guess it was a small portable refrigerator I think.
He then place the dead rabbit inside the box, closed it and then put it back in his hiking backpack.
"Damn, that's one heavy looking bag dude, are you carrying all this with you around?! how can you move?!" I asked, to be honest Omar is tall and fairly built man, so maybe it's not that difficult for him to carry all of this, but it should wear him out after few hours.
"I've always been the muscle head in the team. I can carry anything you give me! I can even carry you!!" He replied answering my question proudly.
I laughed as I sincerely said "Haha! not a chance dude, I love the fact that I am close to the ground! you're not picking me up!"
He pouted but smiled afterwards,"so you said you can help? how are you going to help exactly?" I asked him pulling the attention back to my problem.
Omar stood up carrying his backpack and we slowly started walking together "there's a crematory town nearby, these kind of towns they burn anything from trash to non-usable things, to even zombie bodies.
They usually scoops out all dead zombies bodies and burn them down to ashes...well sometimes they'd use them for personal use, or they ship some bodies to towns that also use zombie for medical studies or something" he explained to me.
I was pretty surprised at this, a crematory town?
"So, towns have specialties now...so what does our town do?" I asked.
"We're a storage town." he casually replied "We store whatever we can of necessities and vital objects our scout teams can find, from food to clothes to medicines, and other town usually get theirs supplies from storage towns like us." said a very proud Omar walking besides me.
"I see that's a creative system, I guess? sounds smart and functional." I replied with my hand on my chin, thinking.
He laughed a little "Sadiqi! you were part of the team who designed and helped functioning the system! it feels weird that you forgot everything honestly." he spoke in a sad tone.
I designed it? Am I really that smart?!
Omar then continued explaining to me why we're heading to the crematory town "the crematory town is pretty close from here, it won't take us a long while to reach there.
about ten minutes walking fast and I have a friend there or she should be there I guess... she's in the transportation team from our town and her name is Sultana... I'm pretty sure she was supposed to deliver the crematory town some Food!" he said.
"What does this friend Sultana has to do with us now?" I asked.
Omar smiled a bit nervously " I thought maybe we need her help there... Sultana can help us get a piece of a zombie body for you to eat I think." he replied smiling wider.
I raised an eyebrow at him while asking " wait, why would she help us? why would she help me a human hybrid zombie?!"
"that's because she told me one day a big secret, I'm not supposed to be telling you that secret but considering the matter... I think she's the best person to help you.
She's hiding the fact that she has an older sister who's also like you an HHZ! Sultana can tell you more about these Hybrid stuff." Omar explained to me, I noticed his cheeks looked a little red.
I smirked as I realized something," Say Omar...How pretty is Sultana?" I asked him.
He quickly got flustered, " what?! why are you asking me this?! I mean she's a smart and strong, independent Woman before she's beautiful and yeah she's beautiful! I mean respectfully very beautiful!
Oh my God you trapped me with this question didn't you!" He started mumbling again and freaking out.
Oh how sweet... a crush in the middle of apocalypse.
I couldn't help but to laugh at his outburst "Relax chill bro! there's nothing wrong with liking somebody, damn you have a serious crush on her! your eyes lit up when you first mentioned Sultana...so are you friendzoned or brotherzoned or perhaps you haven't told her yet?" I asked.
He stuttered a bit, I thought I was right he hasn't told her yet...or has he?
wait is this more than a crush?
"Never mind dude, don't answer me.
it's not the most important thing to discuss now anyway." I said reassuring him that he doesn't need to answer my question, it was none of my damn business anyway.
we anyhow, continued to walk towards the crematory town ahead of us.
...Few minutes later...
I've noticed smoke rising up from a certain area in the forest, I could see a big iron gate few feet away, I realized we made it to the crematory town, so I decided to wear my mask back, to cover my face.
Omar told me to stay put Away from the gate as he went and entered by himself.
When he reached the gate, he was immediately greeted by the guards, seemed like everybody knew him well.
I waited outside until he came out with a pretty looking Hijabi Girl by his side, I assumed her to be Sultana.
Her porcelain skin, thick eyebrows and big light blue eyes were matching aesthetically with the blue Hijab covering her head, she was wearing a long white dress shirt and a pair of jeans, she was indeed very beautiful.
why is everyone I meet so attractive?
"Ya! Omar ashkim?! where are you taking me?!" I heard her say.
Ashkim...I don't know why that's sounded romantic.
"Oh I want you to meet a friend here!" he replied to her while waving at me, so I waved back at them.
when they finally reached me, the hijabi girl stood up crossing her arms "ok arkadaşlarım! what do you want from me now?" she asked eyeing me a bit strangely.
" hello you must be Sultana, am I right?" I asked lifting my hand to shake hers.
She ignored my attempt to shake her hand, keeping her hands crossed together.
"Arkadaşım! I don't have all day here to get to know you... and yes I Am Sultana! Sultana Ataturk...at your service stranger person." Sultana replied carefully, I can tell she doesn't trust strangers.
" Sultanaaaa~ don't be a meanie! my friend here, I can assure you they are trustworthy!" Omar playfully said pointing at me.
Sultana sighted in defeat " ugh fine fine! is there something that i can help both of you with, you know I have to go back to our town now?" she said.
"okay first of all I have to apologize... cuz I told my friend here about your older sister.
My Friend here is also an HHZ like your sister Yildiz." Omar said to her, Sultana's eyes widened.
"you're a human hyper zombie too?!" she said asking me to confirm what Omar just said and I nodded a yes with my head.
"When was the last time you ate?" she asked me, her tone completely shifted, I was surprised at her question, so I decided to tell her everything.
...Few minutes later.....
I explained to her everything that has happened so far and why I am here at the crematory town with Omar, she was listening carefully to everything I said.
" I might be able to help you... first of all we need to feed you, then we'll talk about other stuff. " Sultana said to which I agreed.
"so what are you going to do Sultana?!" Omar asked her.
"They are getting some zombie bodies ready to burn, I'll go back and pretend I forgot something then cut you off a piece or something! stay here (Y/N), and as for you Omar follow me, we have to be quick." Sultana replied jogging back into the town gate followed by Omar.
I decided to wait up for them, my hunger was getting worse and worse, my veins were popping and my skin was slightly cracked up.
I sat down waiting for the Hijabi Girl And the tall dude to come back.
... [chapter ends]...