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Several men race along the empty streets of an abandoned and broken city. They were cloth in rags and a few decent clothes.
As they ran, some of them had bags and sacks containing food and other daily necessities with them.
Behind them trails several zombies that chased after the sounds they made while running.
"Damn, if you two had followed orders well enough, we won't be in this mess right now," a young male dressed in a blue jacket and black trousers, complained to the two youngsters following him as they all ran for their lives.
"It wasn't our fault, who knew we would find a zombie trapped underneath the goods," one of the young males replied with a ragged voice.
"Huh, was that a reason for you to chicken out and scream?" The man shouted again. "You are not completely useless, you know. You have skills, the least you could have done was make use of..."
"Hey, calm down. Let's focus on getting out of this mess first then you can bite off their necks later," a girl in her late twenties interrupted him.
She wore a black jumpsuit with her hair tied behind her head.
Just as they continued running, a young boy leaped through the roof of the buildings around them. He wore red trousers and a top that glued his body perfectly.
"Up ahead, there are a few zombies!!" He alerted.
"Tsk, damn that mindless trash," the man in blue cursed as he dash ahead of the crew.
A few seconds later, he was in front of the zombies who had just heard him arrive and started acting in the direction of the noise.
"Too late for y'all to move, freaks," he yelled out as his hands started to glow blue, with several cracks of electricity surrounding them.
Immediately he did that, the sky turned dark and several clouds gathered. Seconds later, a bolt of lightning fell from the clouds and caused an explosion where the zombies were.
[Boom!!]
"Hehe, take that you worthless trash," he grinned after he thought he had destroyed the zombies.
As the black smoke dissipated, the zombies charged at him with full force.
"W- what? How are they in one piece?" He question as the zombies charged at him.
"You idiot, you didn't focus your power on that attack just now, it was so weak that they survived it," the girl scolded him as she approached.
"Ahhhh, S- stay back, don't come near me," the man yelled out to the zombies in fear.
"Raaarrrrr,"
"I- I said stay back," his hands glowed once again and this time, several bolts of lightning raced toward him and the zombies.
"Fool,"
"He's dead," His teammate murmured as they saw the bolts of lightning rain down on him.
[Boom!!]
"What did I tell you about losing control over your powers?" A man cloth in gray robes and black trousers crashed in between the man in blue and the zombies.
As lightning destroyed the zombies, the man, using his left hand, spread the side of his robe over the man in blue and himself, shielding them from the bolt of lightning.
"What the- Ash?" The man in blue questioned as he saw Ash standing over him. "Sorry," he apologizes while slowly getting up.
"Raaarrrrr,"
The zombies chasing behind them finally caught up as they were unaware. Ash saw as they got closer and decided to take action.
"Flame ball!!" He yelled out and immediately a huge ball of scorching flames appeared out of nowhere right in front of him.
The heat from the ball of fire was so intense it sent out ripples through the air.
"Get down!!" He ordered them as the ball raged.
As Ash threw the ball of fire, a black vortex appeared behind him and swallowed him.
Immediately he disappeared into the vortex, the ball dissipated into thin air.
With shock written all over their faces, they began to panic at what just occurred.
"Ash!!!"
"Damn it, now of all time?"
Amidst the confusion, the girl in their team tried to give out orders but was attacked by a zombie.
"Protect yourself from the zombies and retreat as soon as possible, we can't let out guard- ahhhh,"
"M- Mika!!!" Fear and terror rained down on the teammates as they watched their members get torn to shred by zombies.
While still glued to their positions, they got attacked one by one by the zombies.
Screams of agonizing pain filled the air as they got devoured without mercy.
"Hey, Ash!" The voice of a girl screaming into his ears jolted him, waking him up from his sleep.
After opening his eyes, he glanced around the place before fixating his eyes on the group of girls and boys digging the open field.
"Hey Ash, we don't seem to be making any progress," Gareth shouted out to him from afar.
He immediately changed position from lying to sitting, on the open trunk of a large vehicle.
"You are almost there, just a bit further," he shouted back as he got down from the vehicle.
Ash had fallen asleep as he waited for the group to dig up whatever it is they were looking for.
"Arrgghhh, I quit," Jared lashed out of frustration. "I've been digging for hours and still haven't found anything,"
"You?" Rika objected. "What have the rest of us been doing then?"
"Well you guys helped, no big deal," he added.
"Quit complaining and just dig, would ya? Y'all don't want to stay out here for long," Ash said and shortly after, he walked away.
"Tsk, damn that boy, he's probably just using us for his dirty work," Jared complained as he dug into the soil with his shovel.
[Bang!]
A loud sound was heard as Jared struck against the soil with his shovel.
"Huh?"
"What was that sound just now?"
"Looks like there's something here,"
They all murmured amongst themselves while moving closer to Jared.
"It looks like a box," he said just after removing the remaining soil on top of it.
"Pull it out," Ash ordered as he stood on the ground above them.
Not knowing what was on his mind or what was in the box, Jarred and a few others joined in pulling the large box out.
A brown oakwood box was laid on the ground next to the truck.
It was about the height of a child and was quite large.
After staring at the box for some time, they began to wonder what was in it.
"Should I crack open the key on it?" David asked as he brought out a hammer from the bag with him.
"Just open it with this key," Ash brought out a key from his pocket and handed it to him.
Soon the lock was open and the lid of the box was removed, what came into view next left every one of them except Ash, shocked to the core.
"What the?" Gareth reacted upon seeing the content.
"Oh no, count me out," Diva added as she backed away. "I'm not doing this with you guys,"
"Ash?" Rika asked as she slightly hid behind Ash.
Everyone was so surprised and shocked at the same time as they observed the contents inside the box. Everyone except Jared...
"Oh yeah, the real deal," he voiced out with excitement as he stood in front of the box filled with ammunition.