3rd person
Meet Zephyr and Gideon, two 16-year-old highschoolers who are severely tired of school or really the dipshits as they would call them in the school.
Yes, these guys get bullied on the daily just for being quiet and reserved or at least one of them are, Gideon is the calm one who does his best to hold his best friend back Zephyr from attacking the bullies.
Sure, maybe he would win but he would get expelled almost immediately, the main guy bullying them and many others is the principal's son. Gideon didn't base this off nothing, another student who they were once friends with got expelled immediately soon after he fought back against them, though the other kids started cheering him on.
They didn't have phones at the time, Gideon still wonders if they'll meet again though there's no time for that, he's still in math class. When the school day was eventually finished Gideon and Zephyr immediately went home, specifically Gideon's, sleep over night is today, and there's no way Zephyr is passing up on that.
Zephyr Pov
"So, man you finally bought one of the games I recommended?" I asked what the equivalent of my best buddy could only be, besides that one homie who got expelled. I didn't get an answer, so I asked again, "Did you get any game I asked of you?" "..." "Gideon, I swear to god if you bought something called Gta 7 for seven dollars from a homeless guy again I'm going to strangle you." I stated.
"..." "GIDEON EUPHORIA! If you bought something that I deem as something you find from the garbage can I'll hurt somebody!" This guy has actually got to be kidding me, first that weird looking ass sonic CD he got from robed guys and then the time when he bought something from a homeless looking dude.
He holds up his hands and then says, "I got this game for a good deal and-" I didn't let him finish and grabbed what was in his hands, I might hurt him after this.... it's a breaking bad video game for the Xbox 360. WHO THE HELL MADE THIS!!!
3rd person Pov
Soon after Zephyr found out his friend hadn't bought an actual video game for the third time this year he begins to scream at the top of his lungs. In hindsight that might not be a good idea...
Somewhere else an experimental biological weapon made with Covid and some diseases from Africa, ancient diseases, extremely, ancient diseases. Had finally broken out, in just a couple of hours over 20% of the world has been infected, and the laboratories in several different continents failed to contain what they each worked on...
The world will now have to face the horrors unleashed.
Gideon Pov
It's been two days and already more than 75% of the world has turned into zombies, how did this happen? We were always so sure they were fiction, and even if they were real, we could have stopped them, destroyed them but this is different.
It is air borne, those who immune systems are strong enough could hold off the virus, but the ones who didn't are basically zombies now, and if your bitten you'll be turned into one of them no matter what.
Reports say that it's extremely slow to turn so your able to cut off the limbs before you turn. Sadly, our babysitter got bit on the way here, how I know? Because she's shambling down the road with everybody else who's been bitten.
I then go back to the kitchen where Zephyr is "Zephyr, how much food do we have?" Zephyr lowers his head and says, "We barely might have enough for another day... We're going to have to go out soon." My worst fear up until now was this, losing my friend, family, I couldn't risk him.
"I'll go, you stay here and guard the house." Before I could even get near the door, he grabbed me by the arm and turned me to face him, "If we have to go out, we go together, safety in numbers and we have a better chance of survival."
"And if it goes wrong? We'll both be dead one of us has to go get supplies while the other waits, in safety." Before we could continue arguing I heard a ding in my head, it seems my friend heard it to because he stopped.
[Welcome to the duo system magic science system!] I then looked at him with the face saying, 'You hearing this too?' he for sure heard it. [You two will be provided an ai and spirit who will guide you further into your respective arts] [To decide which one is which a wheel was spun, and user Gideon will have science while user Zephyr will have magic]
As soon as we heard this, we knew what was going to happen in the future, us surviving maybe thriving. [See you soon] "Zephyr, I think we need to leave this area now." Zephyr nods in agreement but now before doing something, "Yo spirit guy, is there anything I can do with the current things we have right now?" At first, I thought this guy was dumb but quickly realized it's pretty smart.
I decided to do the same thing but, in my head, and I was answered. [Hello, this is your faithful ai Baron. the only things you can make out of the thousands of millions of technologies in my database, the best you can do is either a metal bat weapon or an advanced nail gun.] I communicated to Baron to guide me to make the advanced nail gun.
While making the advanced nail gun I used the fire extinguisher for the pressure of shooting the nail gun, some tin cans I found and used the tools in my dad's garage to make it. It took me about 2 and a half hours to finally make the nail gun, just for it to lose some power after a couple of shots.
Thinking about supplies I asked my ai if he can hack into a satellite and into the government, he could easily and he did more. I now have a map of the nation and more, control of all remaining cameras, government files, and more. I love my ai.
Zephyr Pov
Okay me, you may have just done a ritual that gave you better luck with the help of your spirit, and then you did another ritual that gave you access to magic or mana in this case. Using some candles, salt, and a little bit of my blood I can use mana to grant me better luck.
So, I gained a new superpower, I think this will serve me extremely well. I then communicate to my spirit, 'So, due to the ritual I can manipulate luck and stuff?' {Yes sir, to a decent amount you'll be able to change a person's luck and increase or decrease your own. The amount of luck manipulation is limited due to the quality of the ritual, increasing the luck to the max can cause a person to find more rations, supplies and maybe something rare, or not finding 35% less supplies.}
'That's pretty cool... Thanks Cartos.' I then see Cartos disappear into the Aether, getting out of the basement I headed towards Gideon and did the spell to increase his luck, it took a chunk of my mana, but it was worth it.
"So, you can do magic now?" "Yeah, pretty much." Gideon then showed me a homemade nail gun, and a metal bat with nails in it, did he used tools? Yeah, he probably used tools.
We snuck out of the house and went into the neighbor's house, we sadly eliminated our previous neighbors but they're not human anymore, it's better to put them down than continue to let them live like this.
After I bashed in Mr. Crade's skull in with my newfound weapon and Zephyr shot nails through Mrs. Crade's skull obliterating scattering her brain matter across the wall. We quickly grabbed any of their supplies and materials in our backpacks having to stuff them with tools and whatever else we grabbed.
Turns out these guys were a bit of the supernatural fans and had materials that I desperately needed. Like exotic materials, sea salt, animal blood, rocks, and more. We then took their electronics and their electric car, one of the main reasons we came here besides supplies.
Me and Gideon ran to the car and got in, he put the keys in, and I guess gave his ai control of the car. I just started resting and asked where we're going but all I got in response is where rich people are, We're in Seattle.
And the nearest rich area is Hunts Point, "Hey Gideon, are we going towards Hunts Point?" In response he just nods but not before saying, "We're going to take a quick detour though mate."
(End of chapter guys thanks for reading I guess.)