Note : this chapter has being recently corrected, but The point of the story is still the same.
(Hadi gidelim= Let's go)
...Previously...
I scratched my head slightly " Aren't I a human hybrid zombie, I should be able to fight the zombies right...well at least some of them?" I said.
Sultana gave me a disapproval stare, "don't be so confident, you don't even remember who you are! and you know nothing about your own kind.
it doesn't matter how much physical strength you have, it's the knowledge you don't possess that's going to get you killed." She said to me.
...[chapter begins]...
As Sultana warned me from being overconfident, I realized we were now standing in front of the tree house.
back to square one baby...I guess.
"Hadi gidelim (Y/N)! the town gate is few feet away from here!" Sultana ushered for me with her hand to follow her.
"Wait hubbii, my love! I don't think it's a good idea to bring captain (Y/N) inside town just yet, some ppl might recognize them!" Omar said interfering, Sultana paused thinking for a moment.
Eh! he's such a Romeo... she's more like a Bonnie though.
" hmmm You're right Omar, I think staying in the tree house might be (Y/N)'s only option.
if they were a shapeshifter HHZ, this wouldn't be a lot problem!" Sultana said.
A what now?
" A shapeshifter HHZ? wait you mean like there's HHZs that can shapeshift! cool!" I asked surprised.
"Omar told me you have Mickey's Notes right? only handful of people laid eyes on his notebook so far... you're definitely an exception too." Sultana replied.
I nodded a yes, I was wondering just how many people know about this notebook, Sultana seems like she knows Alot of her own too.
The notebook...I should read more.
Sultana pointed at the bag I was carrying, "While you chill up there (Y/N) in the tree house, try reading the notes written there, it'll come in real handy for you trust me." she said.
Not gonna lie, I like how straightforward to the point she is...Omar out a ring on her finger already.
I nodded in agreement, I knew I had to read more from the note book sooner rather than later, it's just that there's always something that cuts me off unexpectedly, like Omar.
also I'm kinda lazy, there's too many words written! too bad I'm gonna have to read'em.
" Should we wait with (Y/N)? at least a bit for Mickey to return, so he can give captain the permission to stay in the tree house?" Omar suggested to Sultana, she looked like she was considering to wait up until we heard something.
Speaking of the devil...why do people appear after mentioning them.
"Back so soon (Y/N)? I knew you'd end up Missing me!" someone playfully said from behind us, it was Mickey.
He fist bumped Omar and waved at Sultana greeting them, "oh I was about to go find you Mick!!" Omar spoke excited.
"Yeah about that, mind giving me permission to stay at the tree house for a bit, it seems like I'm sticking for a while." I said asking for his permission.
The way his eyes stared at me knowingly, he probably knew I was going to drag my ass back here.
" I knew you'd realized that you rushed in on your decision to leave, well I mean I'm in charge of the tree house so Yeah, make yourself at home (Y/N)!" Mickey replied smiling with thumbs up.
Did he expect Omar to Know about me so soon too? he seems to be ignoring the fact that Omar and Sultana seemed aware of who I was.
"My job for today is over! I guess now that you're settled for the night (Y/N), I'm gonna head back to the town, take care everyone! Salam alaikum!" Sultana stated walking away from us.
Omar hurried after her, " wait for me Sultana! I'm gonna escort you back!" He said as he followed her to the town leaving me alone standing with Mickey.
love birds...Bye
"Did he try again to proposing to her today?" Mickey asked causing me to laugh
"holy shit my dude! I laughed like an idiot, when Omar bluntly proposed to her at the worse time, she went ham on his Ass! Sultana is the real MVP." I replied to him, we both exploded laughing for few seconds before we finally calmed down.
This felt oddly satisfying.
Mickey then wiped away his last tear from laughing as he said " seriously I keep telling him! just wear something presentable man!
Grab a gift and go to her house! ask her uncle for her hand...
you know, since Sultana is Muslim and has no one of her family left but her sister and her uncle...she values family Alot!
And let me tell you her Uncle, he's is the most chill funny old man I've ever seen, well at least while unprovoked.
he's Open minded and very wise but when it comes to Sultana, he's overprotective to the max.
That's mainly the reason why he gives Omar a hard time, because there's no one left in the universe that doesn't know Omar is head over heels for Sultana." Mickey explained.
Again, such a Romeo.
"Oh c'mon! anyone would stress the fuck out meeting the family of their significant other! besides don't you think it's cute when they do that? the panicking?
Nonetheless, it's a beautiful experience to be in love I guess, not everyone is lucky to find love or actually have someone to call their own, not in the middle of an Apocalypse anyway." I said smiling a bit.
Must be nice, to dream a little dream of happiness.
Mickey's smile on the other hand slowly fainted "Yeah very lucky...that the kinda stuff I'm jealous of." he said, "You good dude?" I asked him, I was worried I might've stepped on another emotional mine today.
He shook his head reassuring me he's fine, he then climbed up to the tree house, I quickly followed him, still feeling a little guilt that I might've said something upsetting to him.
did I though? I don't think so.
...Few minutes later...
There was nothing but silence, deafening Silence that you can hear a pen drop.
Mickey didn't say a word since we made it to the tree house, nor he smiled like usual and my anxiety was acting up.
He was just pacing the ground back and forth.
"Listen Mick...from earth to Mick copy? hellooo...DUDE!" I finally shouted at him grabbing his attention, it startled Mickey that he bumped his foot to a chair.
" AWe!! what the hell captain!" he whined, grabbing his foot and curling himself in pain.
"You're spacing out Mickey! it's been few minutes inside the tree house and all you did was walking back and forth mindlessly, you probably know the measurements of the floor by now?!" I said to him.
Mickey's face twisted in slight anger "WHY DO YOU CARE?! IF IT'S BOTHERING YOU THEN LEAVE!" He screamed for the first time at me since I met him, not that we've met for long.
But, what happened to him? he was fine moments ago.
I was taken by surprise, the room went silent again as before, then his face suddenly dropped, he must've realized that he just screamed " Oh my goodness I'm sorry (Y/N)! I didn't mean to ...ugh I'm a jerk I'm sorry." He apologize avoiding eye contact with me.
I remained silent, I didn't know what to say, I was still...shooketh.
"I'm going out for a bit...don't worry about Ivan he won't be coming tonight to the tree house so you can relax... I'm sorry again." Mickey said as he quickly climbed down the tree house Leaving me alone, it was almost nightime.
I was now feeling a major deal of guilt thanks to my interaction with Mickey, "Seriously (Y/N) how many times do you have to mess up today." I said loudly to myself.
Since I didn't have to worry about food and shelter for tonight, I decided to take Sultana's advice and continue reading the note book Mickey left me, thankfully there was a candle lantern conveniently lit by my side.
"cool! works as a complementary horror game flash light, I guess." I said as i moved the lantern close to me.
I was Flipping the pages of the notebook till I spotted the familiar big title that say's 'HHZ Infos', I decided to read more notes under this section.
(Reading the notes):
" 99% of every HHZ cases were self infected, they all infected themselves by will.
Also, There's five main types of HHZ transformations.
A human hybrid zombie (HHZ) can turn into a special form of infected when endangered, however an HHz can only turn into one form of these listed below, depending on the virus they infected themselves with, the types being:
-Animalistic.
-controllers.
-shapeshifters.
-Blood Bonds.
-Giants.
The animalistic are the HHZ that can turn into a Zombified version of an animal.
The animal shape doesn't change, meaning if an HHZ turned out to be an Animalistic HHZ and they turned into a Bear for example, they will always keep transforming into a Zombified Bear, every time they change form.
The Controllers, an HHZ that can control the normal infection zombies that are less powerful than them and turn these zombies into Minions, meaning they sort of brainwash a number of lower rank normal zombies to obey their command.
The shapeshifters, An HHZ type that can change their appearances at will by consuming even a little bit of DNA from anyone dead or alive or infected, they can make themselves look exactly like that person for a specific time span, making them master tricksters and giving them the perfect disguise.
The Blood Bonds, An HHZ type that possesses blood with healing effect for humans and poisonous for Normal infection zombies, they are the weakest on a battle field but despite that, a blood Bond HHZ is still stronger than an average human.
The Giants, literally it says it all in their name, an HHZ in possession of the Giant Quirk will grow five time their original size and gain five times their original strength, they turn into Giants, creatures of destruction.
basically, these are the Five types of an HHZ,
however...
There's one type that has been documented few times, a rare sixth type.
Called, The variant.
The variant is the most dangerous form an HHZ can take, a variant is an unstable HZZ that can switch forms between all the five already mentioned Types, even worse! when they use the Animalistic Quirk for example, they can even change the shape of animals they turn to as they please!
The problem is that they can't exactly control or choose what Quirk to use at a time...appearantly the selection is naturally random.
Only very few Variants have been found, possibly because most of them are still undiscovered.
Variants are feared by everyone for their unpredictability by humans, the dead or even normal HHZs."
(stops reading)
"Damn!" I said to myself "That's some specifically specific informations?! how did Mickey collect these?! is this some player information guide book?! am I in a video game!? what the hell?! five types of HHZs!" I said surprised.
...Time Skip.....
I spent some time, in fact a long time just thinking and overthinking about the informations I read earlier, I was curious to read more but at the same time I didn't feel like it, I felt a bit overwhelmed with everything today.
I was still busy thinking, when I suddenly noticed a little piece of paper sticking out from between the pages, I pulled it out, and written on it was a name and a phone number
"Zoe Bombardo." I read the name, I wondered who's Zoe and what kind of person they were.
Cool name btw.
"Maybe Mickey's lover." I asked myself, "hmmm don't think so" I added.
Actually I didn't care the slightest, I was more concerned about what type of HHZ I was?
"Maybe I'm an overthinker! haha!" I joked to myself.
"i wonder how Mickey collected the infos on his notebook....maybe this Zoe person helped him.
maybe he's an HHZ scientist idk...everything seems well collected and written carefully...as if he's trying to explain to someone." I thought to myself.
"can he help me figure out what type of HHZ I am?... I'll ask him later when he's back.
Should I apologize to him though?...did I do something worth apologizing for?" I was overthinking again, my head began heating up.
Laying back, I closed the note book laying it beside me, I wasn't tired or anything I just felt a little depressed.
This is all new to me, I don't feel ready and I sure don't feel like I'm grasping the situation well.
"if this is a dream...I just want it to be over before it turns into a nightmare" I whispered to myself.
The tree houses only had few standardized white blankets, thin mattresses and small pillows thrown around in a corner.
few chairs to sit on, and child size wooden table.
And sleeping on the ground didn't feel comfortable, so I got up, grabbed one of the thin mattresses alongside with a pillow and a blanket, making a sleeping area for myself.
I put the notebook back inside the bag, putting the bag close to the pillow I placed to be under my head as i laid down to sleep.
I wasn't sleepy but I just wanted a break, I covered myself with the blanket, closing them slowly while Hugging myself with my own arms.
"Goodnight me" I whispered into the darkness one last time, falling deeper and deeper into a slumber.
...Time skip.....still nightime....
Suddenly, I opened my eyes, I was standing in middle of a forest, my head was feeling foggy again, just a little bit but it was annoying.
I fighting after a sec, that I was probably lucid dreaming.
a lucid dream, huh?
I knew I was in a dream, and everything just felt real but I was greeted by that smell, The smell of decomposition.
This felt all too familiar, so I spun around and saw that there was something behind me, laid on the ground.
it was a body, a full grown man's body.
a dead body...that body!
Wait?! this was all too familiar!
This is the scene I woke up in the very first time I opened my eyes!
"Why am I seeing this...why am I dreaming about this again? even the body is in the same position!" I said to myself.
Why was I back to square one?
I decided to explore this dream, and as I walked away from the crime scene behind me and into the woods, I heard rustling between the trees.
"Am I getting chase by zombies again....wait if I was a strong HHZ, stronger than most Normal infection Zombies...then it's impossible for those weak ass zombies Mickey and Ivan shot behind me when we first met to be actually chasing me?!" I said thinking out loud.
"Maybe they were after Mickey and Ivan, and it was just a perfect coincidence that I was there so it seemed like I was being chased?!" I thought again.
I couldn't explain what seemed like a plot hole in my head, and I decided it wasn't necessary for me to explain it.
what I care about is this moment, is me getting the hell out.
Then I noticed that noises were fading away in the distance," seems like I don't have to run for my life this time." I said to myself, however my little joy was soon crushed when I realized that I was indeed back to square one.
it was getting darker and darker and I was still wandering in the woods, I tried walking the direction I thought the tree house should be in several times, but it was all pointless.
I felt like I was walking in circles, no matter what way I choose, I found myself coming back to where I left the dead man's body.
"oh no! not again." I grunted under my breath when I saw myself again standing next to that rotten dead body.
Suddenly, " hello!" a small cheerful voice greeted me, I spun around to see a little girl maybe six or seven, with a rosy like complexion, hazel eyes and leather like black short hair.
The little girl was a tiny copy of Mickey, the only difference was her Black hair, since Mickey's hair color was Brown.
I remembered that when I first met Omar and he told me that the Tucker bag I was carrying was Mickey's daughter bag, I had seen a metal name tag that says 'baby Rory' on the bag.
I knelt to the child's level smiling " Hello are you Rory?" asked.
She smiled showing her teeth gab "Baby Rory! it's baby Rory" she replied snickering.
"okay ...baby Rory! what are you doing here in the scary Forest all by yourself?" I childishly asked her, she looked around us as if she's making sure no one is looking.
" I am looking for daddy have you seen him... there's a big bad Wolf following me and I'm scared!" Baby Rory replied, her smile was replaced with a scared expression.
I hugged the child assuring her that nothing bad is going to happen, " I'm captain (Y/N)! ... didn't your daddy ever told you that you shouldn't trust strangers, you should be here." I asked, she looked at me bizarrely.
"But you're not a stranger (Y/N)?! you're daddy's friend." Baby Rory replied, I was taken back by her statement.
could it be perhaps that I knew baby Rory before I lost my memories, it's possible.
" is your daddy...Mickey?" I asked her, she nodded yes with her head.
why am I seeing Mickey's daughter in my dreams?
"Which way did you came from? I didn't see you here, I was walking around and I didn't see you baby Rory?" I asked her.
To my horror she answered my question by pointing at the ground.
I looked at the ground beneath me where she had pointed, for some reason my survival instincts kicked in.
As I looked back at the child, I saw her grinning from ear to ear, it wasn't a cute childish grin, she had her wolf like teeth out, dripping with saliva.
I backed away in fear, the little child started walking slowly in a taunting manner, wiggling her head back and forth, grinning like a hungry predator, her eyes where seeping blood now.
"can you take me to my daddy?" she kept repeating this sentence over and over as she slowly started chasing me throughout the forest.
No matter what way I took, she was always within a close distance from me.
singing and playfully asking me to take her to Mickey.
" I'm definitely not having children...I'm never subscribing to parenthood! Ever." I said to myself as I continued running away from the little girl who was still asking me to take her to her daddy
"do I look like a GPS for you sis! leave me alone!...oh hell no I don't deal with cursed babies, I still got an apocalypse to unpack and I'm already irritated!" I replied to the little girl.
"Can you take me to my daddy?" is all what the devilish version of baby Rory kept saying,
I decided to climb a tree instead, I found it rather easy until I accidentally jabbed my hand roughly into a sticking tree branch, it was hard but i tried not to scream in pain.
Then I noticed the baby girl was searching for me, right at the bottom of the tree I climbed to hide.
"Honey pie you better not looking up here with them bloody eyes... please don't look at me don't look up! ...keep walking keep walking!" I pleaded within me.
.....chapter end...