A Turnover

Arya and Kim had been going on hunting sessions daily ever since they reached the base. They both realised the need to grow stronger. They also needed to try out their powers in different ways to bring more usefulness out of them. Their main goal had been training their coordination as well as hunt mutated zombies with mana beads.

Mana beads were the only way to strengthen their powers and they had gathered 15 mana beads so far, they had consumed 5 mana beads each and had left 5 for Jason when he wakes up.

They had just entered the base after another hunting session when they found themselves surrounded by one of the other hunting teams within the base. There were many hunting teams inside the base and their main goal was to scavenge for food and weapons from the nearby areas.

The group that surrounded them was a fairly strong one with 2 supernatural's within their team, both of them could guess what they really wanted as they gazed at the lecherous looks in their eyes when they asked them to join their hunting group.

While Harry's parents were one of the founders of this base they were not in total control of the base as there were many hunting parties inside the base and the population kept growing every day.

Any person that joined the base had to contribute to the base in one way or the other, normal humans were either assigned to work as workers for building the base wall or if they were brave enough, they could join a hunting party and bring back resources every day.

The base was growing rapidly as new humans kept joining it but as the population grew so did the chaos within the base as many hunting parties were not really afraid of the original owners of the base and this was giving Harry's parents quite a headache.

The group surrounding them was one of such groups.

"I'm tired, do you wanna do it ?" Kim asked in an uninterested voice as she looked apathetically at the group.

"Let's get this over with," Arya said as a white light flashed in her right hand as she waved it at the group.

The temperature suddenly dropped around her as ice crystals started forming in the surrounding at a blazing fast speed.

*Crackle

The sound of ice crystals forming rapidly came as the bodies of all the members of the group were incased in solid blocks of ice, leaving just their heads unfrozen.

All of them had terrified expression as they struggled to break the ice covering their bodies, the ice was rapidly accumulating, and they were soon enclosed in a meter-thick block of ice.

One of the members of the group had the ability to turn his skin to metal and he had covered all his body to metal and was struggling with all his might, but he couldn't even move a single inch inside the ice block.

The other supernatural member had the ability to transform his hands into bear paws with enormous strength but even when he used his transformed paws to try to break out of the ice block all it did was shake it a little bit.

"If this ice doesn't come off soon you will lose the feel of your body and then you'll die after your insides freeze out," Arya said as she looked at the group with a mocking gaze.

Kim and Arya had not displayed their powers out in the public after coming to the base and these people must have thought they had none and had schemed to get them to join their team so that they could exploit them when they go out for hunting. She was disgusted by them and wanted nothing more than to beak a limb or two of theirs but doing so would make things difficult for Harry's parents and she did not want to do that as they had been very helpful to them.

"Cough up any of the beads dropped by the mutated zombies and I'll let you go," Arya said. She could not beat them up but taking stuff from them was reasonable to her. Humans had realized the importance of the mana beads and were using them as a higher form of currency as the supernaturals cannot eat them too often as that would lead them to die from overload.

"NO way!" the leader of the group shouted out aloud. The mana beads were his most prized possession. Defeating mutated zombies was a very dangerous task and each mana bead was a possible upgrade to his powers.

"The beads or your life what do you prefer?" Arya asked was she kept increasing the size of the block of ice.

"Okay okay, I'll give it to you, first unfreeze me and my teammates." The man finally relented as he had a devastated look on his face.

Arya immediately retracted the ice and the group all fell on the ground as they tried to move their limbs to circulate blood in them and to lose the chill in them.

The man then stood up and searched inside his pockets and pulled out two mana beads and walked closer towards Araya to hand them to her.

"I'm Sorry for ganging up on you I…" The man did not continue as a Sharp glint flashed in his eyes as he saw that he had reached close enough to Arya and a metallic sheen covered his body as he formed a knife out of his right hand and thrust it at her chest.