Note : this chapter has being recently corrected, but The point of the story is still the same.
..... previously.....
"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 begins...
The little devilish version of baby Rory finally moved away from the tree I was hiding on top of, and I felt a sense of security for a moment.
"Holy mutations! what the hell was that thing?" I was scared to even go down the tree, I just wanted this dream to be over but I felt stuck in it.
Thankfully though, my injured hand was already healing itself slowly.
" I can't hear her anymore...damn what the hell happened to that kid.
Running from the big bad Wolf she said...liar! i almost believed your ass." I grunted underneath my breaths.
"So you won't take me to my daddy?" a voice came from behind me while I was still on the tree.
I got jump-scared by Evil baby Rory, I fell from the tree top to the bottom and on my back.
"Ow! Ah shit! I think I broke something!" I whined in pain clutching my ass, even if this is a lucid dream? is it possible to feel this much pain?
The little girl giggled jumping from the tree, she was now standing while looking down at me.
"not today Satan." I said quickly rising back on my feet and dashing forward into the forest, somehow this time I was able to seek a different path.
I saw those lights ahead of me and I just headed towards the source without a second thought, without even looking back once as the little girl was now chasing me at an inhumane speed.
"Please Please please!! take me to daddy I promise I'll be a good girl! I promise I won't trust strangers again! don't leave me PLEEEAAASE!" she cried over and over but I didn't turn back to her, even though she was sounding like a desperate little girl.
I knew it's a trap, and I won't fall for it twice, whatever that thing is, that's not a child
that's a monster.
"Adios baby girl I'm outta here!" I shouted finally grasping the light.
(End of dream)
I woke up sweating bullets, I was so relieved to see that I wasn't dreaming anymore.
I couldd hear some type of bird chirping outside, it was pretty early in the morning apparently, so I took a deep relaxing breath.
"I guess it's morning already huh." I whispered not sure why.
Still laying down, I hugged myself.
Everything I experienced in that dream felt so real, I rolled to my right side where I left the bag next to my pillow last night, looking at the metal name tag that says baby Rory.
"what the hell happened to this kid?" I whispered again.
I rolled again to my other side only to be surprised by someone's presence, laying on my left side, in his own thin mattress, was Mickey.
"He must've came back when I was asleep." I thought to myself.
Mickey's sleeping posture was a mess, let alone the fact he didn't even put a blanket over his body or a pillow under his head, he was just laid there on an empty mattress, getting some shut-eye.
it wasn't just the posture, his sleep wasn't peaceful either, Mickey started tossing around all of the sudden and it was obvious he was having his own dream, a nightmare.
sweating and muttering something under his breath, while he slept.
"Damn this dude... seriously he's gonna catch more than a cold sleeping like he just crashed in at a party!" I whined as I got up and grabbed him a blanket and a pillow.
Lifting his head slightly, I placed the pillow under, I tried fixing the position he was asleep in too.
I guess thanks to my infection, I was strong enough to move him without much struggle.
And last but not least, I covered Mickey's shivering body with the blanket.
"Aaaaand we're done!" I congratulated myself for being a decent and caring human being, or an HHZ in my case.
"Alright (Y/N) it's time to move your limbs a little...time to move it soldier!
let's see what should I do... I'm probably not gonna get hungry today, well as long as I avoid human food! so breakfast is off the menu." I thought while stretching myself.
For some reason I remembered that I was running out of ammo for my gun.
I realized I might need a weapon soon, not that it was relevant to me at the moment.
Anyways, I decided to take a short walk outside grabbing my pair of shoes, and of course the face/mouth mask.
I climbed down the tree house ladder, and into the grass beneath it.
After Stretching a bit more, I found myself mindlessly walking around for few minutes.
...Time skip...
Few minutes of walking into the forest, and I saw a little rabbit pass by me, I decided not to follow the little creature at all, I've learned my lesson yesterday.
" last time I followed one of your kind I met a motherfucker named Omar and guess what? he almost shot my infected ass!" I said laughing a little at yesterday's memory, the rabbit kinda stopped looking me curiously wondering what the hell was I saying.
"Move shoo! get away!!" I shooed the rabbit away and it finally decided to hop away from my scenery.
I decided to go back as well to the tree house, that was enough if a walk for me.
on my way back however, my instincts kicked in high again.
someone was following me from behind the trees, and for some reason I knew they were human.
I decided to play it cool and act like I'm not even aware of my surroundings, I started humming a random tune while walking sort of carelessly towards the tree house.
I was hoping that whomever is following me around, would lose interest or come out eventually, but they kept tailing me in secrecy behind the trees.
"you ain't a smooth criminal my darling... it'll be better to come out.
the two of you." I loudly stated as I stopped walking and just stood waiting for my stalker or stalkers to come out.
At my word, two people came out from behind the trees, one came from left and one from the right, both of them looked young around the same age, maybe 19 years old.
I couldn't determine their gender at sight thanks to their clothes, not that I care.
They seemed like twins, What caught my attention However was the fact they they were nothing like I imagined a set of twins to be like.
They were biracial twins, Miraculously enough they looked like they had the same face in different fonts.
One of the duo had a more of an East Asian look with milky skintone, medium layers jet black hair and dark brown eyes.
The other one was light skin Black, with a Bob Box Braids hairstyle and also dark brown eyes.
Both wearing matching unisex standardized Zombie apocalypse surviving badass outfits,
Thick leather jackets, pairs of heavy raw denim jeans and pairs Lightweight Combat Boots.
"Howdy homies wassup?!" I greeted them sarcastically with a salute.
The Biracial twins looked at me in confusion
"Aren't you mad we were following you?!" they asked.
I shrugged my shoulders "Nah not really... you're the Jackson twins I guess?" I said.
They both nodded, " Right on the spot! But do we know you though, stranger?" they asked again.
"it seems like Mickey is waiting on me to do all the social work here... yeah you do know me." I replied removing my mask.
here comes the drama scene.
"I TOLD YOU !! the b!tch ain't dead Sistah! you owe me a month of your snacks!" The Black twin said enthusiastically jumping.
"You guys betted on my dead ass?" I asked them and they started laughing at me, but I was genuinely confused.
"Captain (Y/N) you have no idea how much we missed you! you mentally ill b!tch!!" the Asian twin said and both of them body slammed me to the ground, hugging the crap out of my infected ass.
" You guys realize you're two against one! enough joyous hugs! get off me Mfs!" I yelled trying to free myself from the twins, I was afraid if I used my strength, I'd end up hurting them both.
"You're tag teaming on my old ass you filthy young!" I jokingly screamed as they hugged me even tighter, while laughing at my misery.
"You ARE getting old (Y/N)!" they said in union.
"At least introduce yourselves you little sh!ts I got amnesia, big news!" I shouted tapping on the ground.
Confused enough, they finally let me go.
Dusting myself up, i glared at the twins whom were waiting for me to say something.
So I explained to them my memory issue, without telling the about the fact that I'm an HHZ.
"Now you two... introduce yourselves properly." I demanded from the Biracial twins.
"I'm Nikita Jackson" said the black twin," I'm Tamika Jackson" said the Asian twin.
"You can call us Nikki and Tammi though... not that we give a sh!t but anyways we're old bishes now! you can't baby-us anymore captain." they both added.
Can they chill with the b!tch thing?
"Nikita and Tamika Jackson huh." I whispered to myself trying to memorize the names.
"So how come you still living?" Tamika asked looking skeptically at me.
"by chance?! idk what part of I got amnesia you don't get...I really don't even know how I got here in the first place!" I replied.
"Not gonna lie though, it is highly suspicious but we're gon trust you on your word." Nikita stated.
"thanks I guess...now the bigger question is shouldn't you guys be explaining why on earth were you two following me around like you did earlier?" I asked them, I wanted to know what purpose do they have stalking people in the forest.
Mickey's team sure got lot of weird people in it.
"Nothing much...we were just curious.
you didn't look like one of town folks, so we figured maybe you're new or something! we know everyone that comes in and out, and since you were wearing that mouth face whatever mask, we were kinda hoping for a thief or something fun to handle.
we hadn't had a chance to go stealth mode in a while now." Nikita answered my question.
"We were bored, and it seems like there's something in the forest driving all The zombies we can hunt away too.
We just wanted some fun." Tamika added.
hearing that, I was an inch to close to kicking the crap out of them both " so you sweethearts though that stalking a possibly dangerous person throughout the woods would be a fun experience?... who's got mental issues now?!" I said.
Were they aware that they almost gave me a heart attack, I was scared shitless just thinking about who's following me around!
"Sorry (Y/N) there isn't much fun stuff to do around here...unless you're in the military or a part of the HHZ agency.
people here live like it's the 70s or something...some are lucky to still have cell phones and some electronic stuff but they are mostly useless, since there's no phone service or internet for regular ppl here especially not in the countryside!" Tamika explained to me.
"Not to mention that the military doesn't give two Fucks about us people here...unless you join them and risk your life, or provide services for them.
They won't care about you, everyone is on their own here." Nikita added to my informations.
Coming to think of it, I didn't see any communications devices around here, ever since I made it to this place.
"Maybe I should ask Sultana about this later." I whispered to myself.
"So what you're up to now?" I asked the twins, they smirked at each other, that smirk was far from innocent.
"dunno what about you (Y/N)? what You're up to?" they answered my question with the same question, I sensed their childish malicious intentions, so I decided to think of an idea.
" I was walking back to the tree house...so technically I'm doing nothing major, and I got no memory but I don't think we're just gonna sit down have a picnic and catch up anyways too.
you guys said you were looking for something fun to do...how about throwing knives for a game?" I suggested.
"Sound cool...but do you have a knife to begin with? idk why I feel like you ain't be carrying one right now " Nikita replied to me.
holy shit is she a psychic? she's right.
"Yeah about that *scratching head* I kinda Left my belongings in the tree house...so let me go get a knife and I'll be back!" I said as I started walking the remaining distance between me and the tree house.
Only to be stopped by Tamika throwing a knife past me, it nearly scratched my left cheek, and the knife landed on a tree trunk few steps ahead of me.
"You can use that one I just threw. " Tamika said finger pointing at the knife.
I was a little freaked out, " Thank you? but it would've been a lot nicer if you gave me the knife IN MY GODDAMN HAND!!" I shouted at her.
But The twins just freaking mocked me for being scared.
"Well I'm sorry I don't always get a knife thrown at me everyday, now SHUT UP YOU TWO." I shouted again, the twins stopped laughing but they were still grinning from ear to ear.
...Time Skip....
For the past half an hour or so, I was playing with twins, we threw out knives at every tree trunks we saw, literally.
The twins were ruthless, thankfully though I stopped them several times from attacking any animal that was passing by.
" if you ain't gonna eat it then leave it alone... don't kill to waste, besides you already got Omar hunting and Shit " I said warning the twins from hurting the little rabbit that passed by us couple of times.
"Omar doesn't hunt usually...at least not for us though, if you saw him hunting down a rabbit that means he's preparing a gift for Sultana's Uncle...Her uncle likes To eat rabbit meat and since he's an old man with poor eye sight, Omar ended up hunting him a rabbit whenever the old man wants to eat one
Omar even clean up it up and cook it for him!" Nikita explained to me.
"God damn! he cooks he cleans and he's still waiting on that ring? how come Omar is not married to Sultana yet he's particularly a perfect house husband?!" I asked.
"idk why her uncle is giving him a serious hard time? possibly because Omar doesn't understand personal space and he's a little bit of an airhead...but Omar is literally the best cook I've seen! you should eat anything Omar prepares!! your mouth is gonna melt!" Tamika answered me with a dumb smile on her face.
I feel kinda sad, although I can eat Normal human food, it'll cause my hunger to grow and I'm honestly not looking up to eating another Zombie sausages, just to shut that hunger, down anytime soon.
"who knows maybe, speaking of which...I gotta ask something, how long has this apocalypse been going on?" I asked them, The twins exchanged a certain type of look between each other.
Tamika decided to speak first " By this summer, it's gonna be almost seven years ago since the outbreak...and five since those human hybrid zombies started popping up, and two years since we thought you died."
"Excuse me...SEVEN YEARS?!" I nearly gasped.
"Although humanity is kinda restoring itself...Alot happened in these Seven years.
We were just kids when this all started...Tamika and I were twelve at the time." Nikita added to her sister's info.
"this is messed up...big time.
not to mention my stupid amnesia out of everything! why the hell did I loose my memories?" I asked myself, I was angry at how useless and left behind I felt.
Not everyday you'd loose your memories, only to realize you're in the middle of an unwanted apocalypse.
Tamika crossed her hands and leaned on the tree behind her, " I wish I can forget everything too...this outbreak cost us and lot of other people so much loss.
And it wasn't just because of the virus, humans! some people were so adamant to survive they wouldn't mind hurting and sacrificing others to do so." she said.
Nikita smiled sadly at her twin saying "We had to stab our own parents when they turned undead to survive.
it sounds justified, but no thirteen years old should be going through such thing... everyone has lost someone of something dear, and we're just lucky we still have each other's backs." she said.
I can't begin to imagine how difficult that must've been, to survive in such way, it's a scary thought to think about.
" I'm sorry for your loss Nikki & Tammi... I guess loosing my memories is kind of a blessing right now.
what about the others... Mickey and Omar? what's the deal with them?" I asked.
"oh those two! highschool buds, they support each other on everything.
if one of them got a crazy idea in mind, you bet your ass the other one is gonna join in...but things lately have been rough for them both, since Omar is happily in love with Sultana and is considering to marry her...we think Mickey might be jealous." Nikita said.
Coming to think of it...Mickey's mood dropped when we were talking about Sultana and Omar's relationship, I remember he said he was jealous.
"he got a thing for Omar? or Sultana?" I asked genuinely curious.
Looking at each other, the twins began telling me the tale of a tragedy, Mickey O'Brian tragedy's.
... Chapter end ....