Page 10 chapter 3 The Man In White
Jamie-"What the hell Wendy." He says loudly in a shocked tone.
Samson-"Awww there goes the second half of my sandwich." He says with sadness and anger. What remained of his sandwich was on the backseat of the driver's side slowly dripping like melting ice cream down the cone. Wendy stops the car after hitting the… is it a woman? Is it a zombie? She's not sure but whatever it is she needs to see if it's still alive. She turns.
Wendy-"You boys stay in the car, I'm going to see if what I just hit was a zombie or not."
Jamie-"What?? Why did you hit it in the first place?" He says with a tone annoyed and almost more confused than before. Wendy steps out of the car to inspect the body part and it's just as she thought. Its limbs are still moving. This must be an SP zombie with the power to entrance anyone that looks in its eyes into a dreamlike state that can keep the person attacked by this trapped forever. If you become aware that this dream/memory is not reality the power that confines you in this state is broken immediately, likely leaving you disoriented as it may have felt like hours or even days in this dreamscape when in reality it has only been a fraction of a second.
Wendy-"Damn these monsters, more might be coming soon. I should get back in the car." She says with anger. Zombies start appearing from every angle.
Wendy-"What? When did so many get here? BOYS, GET OUT THE CAR NOW." She says with determination.
Samson-"Woah, Jamie do you see the zombies surrounding us all of a sudden?"
Jamie-"yeah, we gotta get out now." Samson grabs his last sandwich and slams the door open running alongside Jamie to get to Wendy. They all stand back to back ready to take on this horrid horde. Jamie gathers the sweat off of the bodies of Wendy and Samson.
Wendy-"Manifest…" All the zombies' heads are blown off at once leaving bone, blood and brains on the road. A handsome man standing 6 '0 ft tall with an all white suit and white fur surrounding his entire body walks to the group of survivors calmly with nothing but a smile.
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Jamie, Samson and Wendy all gasp in shock, not able to comprehend how this man in a suit of white could be capable of such power.
The Man in white-"Hello travelers, I've come to rescue you from this less than ideal predicament, I hope you find that my services were helpful." He says with a tone of superiority. They all look at him slightly confused.
Wendy-"doesn't he kinda sound like an ass." She whispers to the boys.
Jamie and Samson-"Yup"
Wendy-"Thank you, I'm not sure that we would have lived if it wasn't for you."
The Man in white-"please no need to thank me, my name is Cain what is yours?"
Wendy-"My name's Wendy and these are Jamie and Samson they aren't my children but I treat them like family"
Cain-"I see, I would like to bring the 3 of you to the base where my group resides. It's only a short 15 minute walk directly to the right of this road. The pathway to this base is dark but since they feel that they owe their lives to this man they accept his offer and follow him into the dark forest.
Wendy-"Man it's dark out here, manifest flashlight. That's much better." Cain observes as she forms her flashlight and cary's it in her right hand, he watches as she moves the flashlight to her left hand and fixes her hair with her right then moves the flashlight back to her right hand.
Cain-"So what exactly is your power Wendy? Do these two young men have abilities as well?"
Wendy-"My power is manifest, all I have to do is think about something and its forms, of course this would be pretty bad if I had no way to control it because new thoughts form in the mind all the time so that's why I have to say "Manifest" in order to create the objects I create. To answer your second question, yes both these boys have powers Jamie can control water and Samson here is capable of controlling your hearing. Since we're on the subject, what's your power?"
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Cain-"Wow what splendid abilities the three of you possess. If you'd like to know my power, well I think it's better if I just show you a demonstration at the base. We should only be about 7 minutes away now." Cain is looking at Wendy as he's now realizing just how beautiful she is, maybe it's because he hasn't seen a woman in over a year but something about her has Cain's mind racing. He thinks how her head would look in his lap.
Wendy-"So I assume you have a group of survivors at your base as well, no?"
Cain-"Why yes I do there's Nygel and Cameron both just regular humans with no powers though but I believe they are out on a small mission right now, I'm sure they'll be back before the night ends. You know I'd consider Myself a nite amongst people since I'm always saving others which honestly is such a burden but I believe it is my duty since I am strong." He says in a quite braggadocious tone.
Wendy-"This dude really loves hearing himself speak doesn't he." She says in her head.
Wendy-"I was trying not to be rude, but I gotta know why are you so furry?"
Cain-"You see that does have to do with my powers, as I have two, this one being the far easier one to explain."
Wendy-"WHAT? You have two powers. I thought that was super uncommon, like so uncommon you'd probably never run into someone with two powers your whole life."
Cain-"This is true and I am one of the lucky few, see this power turns me partly into a wolf every night without my control making me stronger, faster and just heightening my senses over all."
Jamie-"Woah dude so you have no control over it, I mean I guess that's kinda cool but I wouldn't want to be a wolf all night long every night." All the hair on Cain's back rais as he tries to hold back the anger he feels that some of the first words he hears this brat say are an insult to his powers which are deeply rooted with his pride. They all stop walking.
Samson-"Oh that's a real surprising base you got man"
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They all stare at the seemingly random blue and white two story house in the middle of the woods.
Cain-"Come now, let's go inside of humble abode" The three of them follow Cain to the front doorstep. Cain grabs his key out his right pocket pushing it into the door and turning the doorknob slowly making the boys so curious as to what the inside could look like. The door is open all the way but it's dark and hard to see anything to the boy's disappointment.
Cain-"My apologies let me light up some candles for the house. I haven't been inside since this morning."
Jamie-"What the hell., this guy really hasn't been home all day? What was he even doing out near the street anyways?" He says in his head.
Wendy-"It's kinda creepy in here honestly no offense." She says worryingly.
Cain-"The three of us aren't great at cleaning up around here so the dust reality settles in so again my apologies."
Jamie-"Is that a basement door right there?"
Cain-"Yes but I'd prefer that you don't enter as it's pretty scary even to me with all the spider webs down there." This peaks Jamie's interest even more now that he was told not to enter.
Jamie-"Sam, Sam." He whispers
Samson-"Huh? What?"
Jamie-Wanna sneaks into this dude's basement? He doesn't want us to go in, there must be something pretty interesting in it, am I right?" He says eagerly, full of curiosity. Cain takes Wendy to see the upstairs part of the house.
Wendy-"You guys stay right here, I don't want you sneaking off anywhere and getting lost."
The boys watch as they walk upstairs. Samson lowers the range of Cain's hearing. They open the door and peek inside and they are so stunned and disgusted they gag as an instant reflex.