Note : this chapter has being recently corrected, but The point of the story is still the same.
....Chapter begins....
Tamika begin telling me the story behind Mickey's fake smile, " No not that way, it's just...Omar says that ever since Mickey has lost his family he's been like this.
first it was Mickey's highschool sweetheart Zoya, who died when the apocalypse started.
they were in the process of getting married when that happened, Mickey and Zoya were 22 years old at the time of the outbreak and they had Baby Rory when they were 20, so baby Rory was two years old at the time of the wedding." She explained.
"Unfortunately, as if seeing his soon to be bride get bitten by a zombie wasn't enough...Zoya begged Mickey to just take baby Rory and leave her behind.
So he did just that turning his back on his wife against his will, and he ran away with Baby Rory and Omar.
Through the apocalypse, they moved from town to town, city to a city and never settled down in one place for long...they were lucky enough to survive on their own." Nikita added.
Tamika took turns again to explain, " We met Mickey, Omar and baby Rory two years after the Apocalypse started and when the new modified HHZ virus started popping up.
At the time There was a little decrease in Normal zombies numbers, so things started getting easy a bit however, we were Fifteen at the time and we just got abandoned by our group of survivors down a highway, that Mickey and Omar thankfully happened to pass by soon after.
we were in disbelief when they offered us to join them, and even shared their food with us...we instantly fell in love with how cute and upbeat Baby Rory was for a four years old child at the time, we vowed we'd protect her no matter what, be her big sisters.
We already owed her dad's our lives, since Mickey picked us up from that highway when he didn't have to."
"how come we met then?" I asked the twins,
" it was all pure luck, we were heading to the country side hoping for an easier life...a year after tagging along with Mickey and Omar.
so it was now three years after the apocalypse...the numbers of normal infection suddenly started to rise up again.
people were trying to find a way to ensure less possible infections to happen...and we heard a rumor about people forming and building towns of their own to try and go back to living normal...since the military didn't do much helping survivors out, since it was being run by Rich folks who don't give shit about people like us...most commony survivors were being lead by a team of survival groups leaders.
each leader decided to make their own town and create a work system for it" Nikita said.
then I remembered when Omar laughed at me for saying that the town's idea was creative, I also remember he said I helped designing this very system.
"Was I a leader at the time?" I asked.
Tamika nodded as she continued explaining
"that's right...you were newly leading your own pack of survivals.
All leaders decided to go on with the plan and within few months, towns started appearing around within This country side...it was around that time when we heard about the town system as well.
we were ecstatic...it was a chance for all of us to live a normal life again, so we headed towards a random town and it was by luck the one under your leadership.
Right after being recruited by you, Mickey almost got himself killed but thankfully you were able to save him just in time...so afterwards the rest of the group got recruited, creating our team and we all started living in the town and working at the same time. " Tamika explained.
"So what happens to Baby Rory? did she die here in the forest or something?" I asked again, the dream I had with that little girl still sends shivers down my spine.
"She just vanished approximately a year before your presumed death... so that means she's been gone for 3 years now." it was Nikita who said that.
Vanished? how? kids don't just disappear on their own?
Tamika took turns to explain, "When we built the tree house, it was a place where Mickey and his daughters stayed.
without an explanation on baby Rory's sixth birthday... Mickey woke up realizing his baby girl is nowhere inside the tree house, it was also kind of difficult for a child to climb down the tree house ladder, so he panicked really hard thinking somebody might've kidnapped her and called for us to help him search for her..
we spent some time searching for her around in the town, but to no avail until Omar suggested that we look into the forest.
we went deeper and deeper into the woods looking for her, we called for her name until we stumbled upon her bag.
you were with us during the search, lucky you can't remember the sight we saw." she said.
Nikita followed up on telling the story next, "unfortunately we didn't just find her bag, we also found her shirt that she was wearing to bed, laying near the bag and the whole area was covered in blood but there was no sign of her body nearby...we couldn't find her dead or alive.
baby Rory was just gone!... Although there was no concrete evidence that she was killed or That the blood we found was her blood.
Mickey was in total Belief that Rory was killed... he almost went crazy after that with grief.
that's why he's so reckless and tries to save kids whenever he can, just like that time when we thought he got you killed...he thinks it's his fault that Rory is no longer with us." she said.
"God damn the MF lived some tragic past, I could turn this into a best selling novel.
what the actual fuck?! why the fuck somebody like Mickey be hanging out with Ivan though?! did Ivan also lose his daughter?!" I asked shouting it out loud.
"Well yeah duh?! cuz technically he did, Zoya was Ivan's daughter after all, so that technically makes Rory also his granddaughter!" Tamika bluntly said making me choke on my own breath.
"What the fuck, excuse me?! you're telling me? Zoya?! Mickey's wife is Ivan's daughter?! talk about tragedy bringing people together...holy shit!
I'm really thankful for my amnesia at this point, I just don't want my memories back... did I stumble on some seriously sad TV drama by mistake?!" I said trying my best not sound like I'm losing my shit.
Thanks to this memory loss I believe I'm living in a bliss, I don't even want to remember if I have my own tragedy.
"Not going to lie, Ivan is indeed a piece of shit but everybody's trying to tolerate him I mean he's been through a lot...Doesn't justify him being a dick, but still kind of makes us sympathize with him." Nikita added.
"You know something enough is enough.
Enough stories for the day, I'm just going to go back to the tree house, and hopefully I'll apologize to Mickey cuz we ended things on bad terms yesterday...see ya!" I said walking away from the twins.
But despite that, they followed me closely behind asking if I Could stay for another round of the game, I had to explained to them it was necessary for me to come back to the tree house.
"Listen! I'm going to behave like a decent person and do a decent thing... I am going to apologize to Mickey and nothing is going to stop me." I said wielding my hands in the air while walking.
...Slight time skip...
Climbing up the ladder, I found myself inside the tree house, But surprisingly enough Mickey was there too, still asleep, or so I thought he was.
The moment I set foot inside the treehouse, he stood up from his sleeping position and sat down on his mattress.
"I'm sorry." I said almost instantly, grabbing his attention.
"for what?" he asked confused, "for being A jerk to you last night, when you were zoning out...everybody's going through shit, I was surprisingly enough selfish, to consider my own problems to be the most important ones.
I was with the twins earlier and they told me about your background story, I'm sorry for your loss." I replied.
Smiling at me, "no need to apologize but apology accepted I guess... I'm so sorry too, for yesterday...i shouldn't scream at you like that.
so We're in the clear?" Mickey said.
"Crystal clear." I replied.
...Time skip...Night-time...
"Do you even need to sleep?!" Mickey asked Curiously.
To be honest I don't feel any sort of need to get some sleep, but I guess it's the human part of me.
"Not really... I'm just bored.
I mean I can't do anything super cool like fight a zombie or something, since it turns out zombies are scared of me.
so yeah, for tonight I'm just gonna hit the bed again...what about you? leaving for patrol tonight too?" I asked him back.
" Yeah I guess...Although with you (Y/N) here seems like the undead chickened out, so it's getting pretty safer to walk outside." Mickey said.
He explained that he was going with Ivan for their usual night patrol, so again I was left alone in this tree house.
When Mickey left, "I wonder when the real action would begin.
I'm kinda getting comfy around here, just chilling and doing nothing, but at the same time...it feels like it's the calm before the storm." I thought to myself.
I realized for the three nights I've been here, nothing major happened, not just because it's the countryside but also because of my Quirk, being an HHZ is kinda boring when you can't use your powers I guess.
" Damn, I still didn't get a chance to discover what type or Quirk do I possess.
I kinda hope for anything but a variant...that sounds cool but difficult to manage." I said to myself.
Eventually, I decided to sleep without doing anything this time, Hoping that I won't have another lucid dream like last night.
...Time skip....still night-time....
( Dream begins)
I opened my eyes to the sound of flapping wings, I came quickly to realize that I was dreaming again, and this time, I found myself in the ruins of a big abandoned city.
"What in the?!" i said inspecting my Surroundings, there was nobody outside, I was the only one standing there, no one else was moving at least, And it was so dark yet I was able to see my way thanks to thanks the moon light.
The flapping noise grew closer closer until something went flying above me, I got a good glimpse of that creature.
it was human looking but with wings, grayish in a way as if it was made of gray mold.
Whatever that creature was it landed on top of a destructed skyscraper, something shined above there too.
I followed that creature, hurriedly going inside the building, or more accurately, the ruins of That skyscraper.
The place looked like a warzone, everything was destroyed everything was ruined, shattered and in shambles.
Things were upside down and there was no sign of life, just dead bodies of people I've never seen before, scattered everywhere.
The elevators wouldn't work, it was impossible to use them, and the staircases were heavily damaged but they were the only choice I had, to get up.
Climbing up floor by floor, I grew tired mentally, it's a skyscraper I was climbing up after all.
I made it to a certain floor and stopped when I saw a figure pass by,
They were wearing a face mask like the one I use, along with a special uniform and a bucket hat.
the mysterious person noticed me immediately, and My survival instincts kicked in again, so I hid myself behind some furniture, while they Approached.
"I know you're here (Y/N) but I won't ask you to come out.
I'm just like you a hybrid." the mystery person said.
When I did answer, "Have you ever asked yourself why do you have these dreams?" they added.
"Wait is this person hacking my dream?! how would they know I'm dreaming right now?!" I whispered to myself.
"Have you figured out your quirk? you know my quirk (Y/N) you've seen it a few minutes ago...I flew right above you." the mysterious person spoke again, I can feel it in their tone, they were getting cocky.
I had a feeling, They knew where I was hiding, but if they wanted to harm me, they would already have done it.
The mysterious person continued to explain "As you can tell my quirk is animalistic... I can turn into a bird.
Do you know my darling (Y/N) what's special about the animalistic quirk? there's two stages of it... you can turn into half human half animal, for example let's say you're a cat.
You can have the cat ears and tail but keep your human body.
The second stage being the full transition, where you can fully turn into the animal.
in my case...I can fully turn like a bird or I can just chose to grow wings and keep my human form... pretty handy sometimes if you'd ask me."
Not that I asked for this educational class but thanks I guess?
I tried to peer at the mysterious person, but the way they dressed makes it impossible to see their face.
did this person really somehow made it to my dreams?
"Oh wait you're probably thinking I hacked your dream or something! stop it sweetheart, I'm not a genius nor I have some sort of dream hacking machine, this is all part of you... your head your mind is trying to tell you something.
to be honest sweetheart you should have realized by now, that you shouldn't stay there at the countryside... you are only putting Mickey, Omar, the Twins and everybody else, those innocent people in danger.
I'm just here to remind you that just because you're half human, doesn't mean you won't end up hurting them!
we are freaks! we don't belong with the normal zombies and the normal humans don't always look at us with a kind eye.
(Y/N) you only belong with your own kind...us.
the virus you're carrying, that if you can call it a virus even, you injected yourself with it.
So take responsibility and come back home." the person said in an almost believable sincere tone.
"I can't tell if you actually caring, or you're just trying to pursue me to go back into whatever you call a home, but it's going to take more than that." I replied for the first time to this person.
"And again, I was only able to just trust Mickey and the others because I already have history of them and they give two fucks about me.
however it seems like I do have history with you too but sadly, your Oscar award-winning performance isn't going to get me to trust you that easy honey pie.
How do I know you're a good person?bucket hat!" I asked slowly rising for my hideout, I was now fully standing and facing the mysterious person I was talking to.
Average in built and height, just like I saw it earlier, this person was wearing a dark uniform, and covering their face with that bucket head and face mask.
I've took notice of the letters on one of the breast pocket in the person's uniform, I didn't see it before when I first spotted the them but now that I'm facing the person, the letters spell U.H.B
"The Union of the Hybrid Blood.
I'm the current leader of this organization, that's what the letters stand for anyway." Answered the mysterious person.
"Couldn't be that these dreams are helping me to regain my memories?" I asked.
"perhaps yes...I can only assure you that you can trust me.
the choice remains yours to make (Y/N)." that was the last thing the mysterious person said before walking away from me.
"Wait where are you going?" I asked again.
They spun around dramatically, saying "This place is about to fall on itself...Either grasp the lights or go down with this place, Bye bye!" as soon as the mystery person finished their words, I felt an earthquake beneath me, this place was really going down.
"Hurry (Y/N) make a decision!" said the person as two large bird wings came out of their back, they were getting ready to fly away to safety.
"What lights?! where are the lights?!" I shouted asking but the person ignored me, breaking out of the floor's windows and flying away.
I was left behind in a building that was about to fall down to pieces.
"Fuck, I gotta find a way out...if i can fly too." I grunted underneath my breaths.
Just like the previous dream, I was faced with a death-like situation, I don't know what could happen if I get stuck in the dream and I was not about to find out.
in the midst of my panicking, realization Hit me hard, I remembered when I first saw the bird like creature land on the top of the skyscraper.
I saw something shine up there.
" Okay I got to keep on climbing, I have to go up... C'MON YOU CAN DO IT!!" I cheered myself up climbing all the way to the rooftop.
through it all, i had to jump and dodge avoiding all kind of obstacles in my way up, some furniture and even the stairs came falling down on me.
the floor crumbled beneath me, some statues and decorations fell down blocking my way but I managed to escape miraculously, at this point I was driven by an extreme adrenaline rush and a need to survive.
nothing could have felt better than when I made it to the rooftop, to the light.
( end of dream)
Waking up and realizing I was safe at the treehouse was possibly the best news I got today, despite that it was still night time I decided not to go back to sleep.
"Not ready for round two." I quietly said to myself as I got up, and then sat back again by the window, watching the starry night sky.
i could have sworn I saw something flew by at some point, but maybe it's just my imagination.
....End of chapter...