Setting up

"What are u doing Haider?"

Bella said in a low voice as she approached him from behind ,

Haider was standing with two birds on his shoulders and Pearl laying near his feet , He was on the top story of the house with a cross bow and a binocular in his hand.

"Nothing just testing something " Haider replied as he turned around to see her walking towards him . He then pointed at the open sewer on the side of the road,

" Flame , fetch that one " HE said to the large cocktail sitting on his left shoulder .

With bright red and blue marks on his wings and his golden crown glowing in the dark night it flew off .

"Here.. see what's going on" Haider said to as he handed over the binocular to Bella.

The parrot with great speed struck something in the dark open sewer and blood gushed out from there as Flame with a huge rat about the size of a cat in his claws flew off towards them .

Flame threw off the rat on the side of Haider and landed on Haider shoulders with pride. He didn't had any problem lifting the dead rat as flame himself was about the size of a hawk .

" Nice job " Haider patted Flame , then lightly kicked Pearl

" HEY! sleeping beauty eat your food " Pearl just looked at him and then walked over to the dead rat .

*Swish swish*

Pearl sliced the rat with her huge claws then started to eat the rat as she sliced the head and threw it to the side, and started eating the body.

"Your hunting? " Bella said

"Well you can say that but I'm looking for something different "Haider replied as he walked towards the head of the rat and stabbed his matchet on it and started to put his hand into the spilled brain to find something .

"Well I wanted this if I say precisely " Haider said as he held a white crystal on his hand .It was a pretty crystal with a white glow .

"What is that ?" Bella asked while looking at the crystal

"I don't know either but it appears in the head of the red ones and sometimes inside the heads of mutated animals "

Haider replied as he threw off the rest of the head towards the zombies roaming the streets

"You know something right about the whole virus ? tell me now " Bella asked with her eyes fixed into Haiders ,

"Well yeah I can't deny that , and Mark why not come outside " Haider said as he looked at the door to the stairs .Mark walked out as he was found out peeking at the couple late at night .

"I was just curious " Mark said with a forced smile ,

" I got a dream a month ago about this but didn't gave it attention but after a few days as the world got locked downed I searched on the dark web about it and got some results about mutation of genes of animals and humans by the virus and some pictures of disgusting experiments ,So I started to prepare for this but I didn't knew the exact date for the event "

Haider explained to them

"And these crystals can be used for making our bodies strong. l tested this about an hour ago "

"So we can have super natural strength" Mark said with a stern face ,

" Well I don't know the limitations about this crystal but i guess yeah " Haider replied ,

"And who are these cute guys ?" Bella asked as she had her eyes fixed upon the two birds sitting on Haiders shoulders

*KKKAAAAWWWW"

Flame opened his wings as he disliked Bella trying to grab her ,

" OH! thats flame and this is Silver " He pointed toward his right shoulder where a pure white flower back budgie with jet black two big and five small flowers on its back.

"He's rude " Bella pointed towards Flame as he didn't let her grab him.

"Why not play with Pearl, I think she likes you "

Haider said with a laugh

"Not funny " Bella said with chills going down her spine thinking of playing with a cat as large as a panther .

Silver flew towards Bella and sat on her shoulder and started to embrace herself with Bella's hair, which made Bella happy .

"I think she likes you by the way she's a baby girl " Haider said with a smile .He turned his head towards Pearl

" Hey girl lets go " Pearl just looked at Haider and started to walk to the stairs and went downstairs .

"It's late let's go and get some sleep ,we'll be up at dawn '" Haider said as he looked at Bella playing with Silver .

Mark nodded and they went downstairs .that night Bella slept with sliver.

6 am dawn 6 April : Inside the main hall :

"Hey wake up everyone " Haider shouted as he was placing the cake in his plate to eat .

"What time is it? " Jessica asked

"Its dawn" Haider answered as he was putting another piece of cake for Flame as he really liked it . Sliver also flew towards him and started to taste the cake then also started to eat with Flame they always acted like siblings ,

"Mark let's go outside and everyone cook something really heavy for us " Haider said ,

Mark stood up and followed him with a sleepy face .

They got out and did some light exercise. Mark just followed what Haider did. Then they went to the second floor to grab some weapons .

" Try to conserve some bullets they aren't

infinite, also I dont have many silencers and use cold weapons often " Haider instructed as he fitted two broad swords on his back and a small crossbow to his belt and a long dagger.

Mark just held an MP-5 a sub machine gun

with a silencer attached and a matchet to his belt and a pistol .

"Well aren't you over doing it for just a few zombies " Mark asked

" It's never too safe " Haider replied which gave mark cold sweat on his back as he thought what kind of mind did Haider had .He knew Haider for years but now it seemed like he didn't even knew the person standing Infront of him.

7 am morning 6 April

They got out of the back door and started to walk towards the nearest house .Haider went first and opened the lock with a pin,

"Man where did u learn that?" Marj asked

"You tube of course" Haider replied ,

They entered and saw two zombies running towards them , Haider stepped backwards and shot the two with his crossbow.

*THUD* THUD*

The two zombies fell down,

"Is anyone alive ?" Haider shouted but no reply came , they went to the kitchen took all the food then searched the whole house fortunately they found some two pistols and some bullets in the house.

They went on with this routine and cleared a dozen house ,some were empty while others had zombies but unfortunately no survivors. They found a lot of food ,five pistols and two rifles with three boxes of bullets. While they were doing this Haider saw a large dog eating a dead zombie on the street from the second story of the house but he didn't had the time to examine it .

10 am morning : Haiders house :

"We need to reinforce the back door Haider" Mark said ,

"Yeah I think we should get some welding materials from the front shops ,we also need them for some other stuff" Haider replied and they went inside ,

:Inside the kitchen:

"Hey babe ! We didn't got the time last night so how bout now " Haider whispered in Bella's ear as he grabbed her from behind while she was cooking.

" Really ? you should have at least some shame " Bella said with a red face ,

"Why?" Haider replied back with a confused look ,

"Breakfasts ready " Monica said as she blushed at the scene ,

"Okay let's go Haider" Mark said as he placed all the food they found on rhe shelf then grabbed him from behind and dragged him out of the kitchen ,

They ate breakfast together in the hall, they had roasted beef and rice with milk ,

" Haider what are you gonna do next ?" Bella asked with a worried tone as she was playing with Silver,

" Nothing much just gonna fetch some welding materials from the front shops and modify the gates and vehicles I guess " Haider replied with his mouth stuffed with food ,

"Where are you gonna head after that? " Jessica asked

"Haven't thought about that " Haider replied,

10_30am :inside the hall:

They finished dinner then Haider took Flame out of his cage and handed him to Bella and told her to feed him ,

" Can I feed him?" Monica asked as she saw Flame ,

"I don't mind "Bella replied and gave Flame to her Flame hurriedly went over to Monica like he really hated to be around Bella for some reason.

Flame sat on her arm and started to rub his crown on Monica's face as a sign of affection.

" He likes you " Haider said as he watched Flame who is always picky at everything,

"Hey Jessica can you go and kick that lazy ass cat out of the room " Haider said ,

"Okay and then ?" Jessica replied ,

"Then tell her to fetch her own food outside the house "Haider said as he exited the hall , He handed over his mobile to Bella with some image that had instructions on it for exercise. He told her to do with everyone when they were done with their tasks .

Haider went to the stairs and then walked towards the roof of the second building that only had four shops inside it and a store room connceted to the parking space of Haiders house hr had previously kept his parrots there, It was at the front side of the house.

There Mark was standing at the edge of the balcony looking downwards .

"What's the situation down there?" Haider asked Mark

" Pretty bad I guess there are at least two dozen zombies wandering but they are all normal and the workshop is open " Mark replied ,

"Okay throw the ladder down we're both going down. Your gonna load the materials while I clear the zombies "Haider said ,

"Okay " Mark said with a frown , He threw the foldable ladder down .

Haider shot the nearest zombies with his cross bow and climbed down with Mark following behind him.

*Thump*

Haider jumped half way and took out his two broad swords from his back and ran with great speed towards the nearest zombie ,

*Swish*

Haider beheaded the nearest one with a single swipe then moved to next one , One after another he killed two dozen with great speed . It took him about 15 minutes total, Haider had sweat all over his face.

"Well now that's done "Haider said with a satisfied expression looking at the dead zombies .

They took the materials they needed from the shop and climbed back up . They took all the stuff to a store room inside the second building and placed them there ,Haider also took the folded trolleys from the car he took from the Mart then also placed them at the newly arranged workshop.

Mark also took some car silencers from the shop beside the workshop and started to attach it to the four wheeler to reduce the noise made by the large vehicle .

"Do you know how to use this stuff ? " Mark asked as he saw Haider started to cut the trolleys with a grinder near the car .

" Yeah a little bit I guess " Haider said the he again shifted his attention towards the grinder. He learned this in the past month with many other skills he found useful. He cutted them them then started to weld them infront of the mirror of the four by four car . He also reinforced the front bumper of the car with short steel spikes.

12: 30 pm noon 6 April ":at the back yard :

"One two three "

three girls shouted as they were exercising in union ,you could see two birds chasing each other inside the trees and a cat watching all this as she layed on the floor near them .

"Hey everyone get ready " Haider shouted .