chapter 15: the zombie Heist part IV

Federico is eating a soup with rice. Joaquin is only looking at him. Joaquin is eating some can food. Don-Savage & Chicken Wrath are also eating.

Beau & Leah arrived on the same floor. they used the stairs. Beau asks for forgiveness as he uses excuses to justify his late arrival. Leah asks for forgiveness.

the six of them are eating. they are now together. the rest of the journey may be too dangerous if they don't continue together. it is better to be careful on this building. they don't know what horrors can be awaiting on the darkness. better to be careful.

Federico takes his coat off. he shows some grenades attached to his body. Federico burns the coat. he takes a jacket out of his inventory. he puts it on. he quietly feels the others looking at him. he tells them to not worry.

Beau kneels in front of Joaquin. he asks for forgiveness. he admits that he was too happy fooling around with his girlfriend. he promises to be a better man. he isn't doing this because he wants to, he is doing it to please his girlfriend.

Don-Savage is quietly looking at them. he is thinking about his life on the real world. there are many things he did. there are many lives he took. there are secrets he kept from his sister. there is a past he wishes to change.

Federico laughs loudly. he tells Beau to stand up. he lets him know that it is on the past, Federico puts a lolly pop on his mouth. he tells them that it is time to move. he wants to leave this building as soon as possible.

Joaquin lets him know who is the leader. Joaquin looks at Federico with anger. Federico only looks down. Joaquin leads the team up to the next floor. the next floor is dark. there are some zombies walking around.

they kill quietly the zombies on the hallway. one zombie can see in the darkness. that zombie looks at the humans. he keeps himself on the darkness, far away from them. he keeps watching them killing zombies.

"welcome be the living ones to the realm of the unrest souls. be warn of the one. the one who walks among humans, the one who walks like the messenger of death."

said the zombie.

"who the fuck are you?"

asks Beau with fear.

"I am no one, I came from nowhere. you all should become nobody. here am I, to guard the castle of the crowned devil, the minor devil from this fable. there be no shame, my face be the face of my sins. I am judge, and death be your sentence."

said the zombie.

the zombie makes a sound. many zombies come out of rooms. the zombies run towards our heroes. Joaquin decapitates zombies with his machete. he leads the rest of his team. behind of him is Beau with his chainsaw.

Federico walks by himself. he uses shotguns to kill zombies. he smiles. he reloads both of his guns. some zombies come at him. he kicks them. then he starts killing them.

Don-Savage holds a flashlight with a hand. he holds a revolver with the other hand. he grins when he sees all the zombies in front. he looks at his gun. he reloads his gun. he looks at the zombie hiding on the darkness. he looks at the zombie on the corner.

"you shouldn't fear the dead ones. death is nothing else than just another phase, I am the phase that awaits on the cycle of your life. flesh decays, bones break. life dies. there is nothing to fear, life wasn't ever meant to be eternal for us the mortals."

said the sinister zombie hiding on the darkness.

the zombie laughs with no reason. it keeps laughing until it starts coughing. the zombie dares Don-Savage to walk in front of him. only if he is brave enough to fight him alone. the zombie laughs making fun of him. he calls him a coward. Don-Savage isn't much of a smart man, but he knows this is a trap. he can wait or fight him now.

the zombie keeps speaking to provoke him. Don-Savage can't control himself anymore. he needs to do something. he walks directly towards the talkative zombie. the other zombies kneel. they look down. they hold their weapons on the air. Don-Savage keeps walking slowly.

"don't be afraid of them. they won't touch you if you don't hurt them. I told them to not attack you unless you attack them first."

said loudly the talkative zombie.

"how did you? I never saw you giving any command."

said Don-Savage unbelieving what he was told.

"I don't need the tongue to communicate with inferior undead. I can command as many inferior undead as I am capable of finding. the man who awakened the chaos on my soul was no regular undead. he was specially made by Hades, on the same manner a shoe-maker creates with the right ingredients on his god-given hands."

said feeling pride the talkative zombie.

Don-Savage knew at that moment. it is necessary for him to kill the talking zombie. that zombie is a threat to those who are in there. Don-Savage had hidden a dagger before. he thinks about using it on that zombie.

"can I at least know if you are going to be a menace to us or an ally to stop that man who did this to you. any normal man with a bit of self-conscious will feel rage, desires of vengeance even. don't you?"

said Joaquin as he walked behind Don-Savage.

"no, you are mistaking me for an inferior being. yes, it filled me with rage finding my decaying body. yes, it enraged me this eternal sense of hunger. yet, I seek no thing called vengeance. that is only for an inferior mind. what I found after turning, is that I am no longer human, but I am superior. I had become divine, by a messenger of the Gods."

said the talkative zombie with rage.

Don-Savage tries to kill the talking zombie. he is stop by the zombie. he is hold from the neck half meter away from the floor. the lights are turned on. the zombie is finally visible. Don-Savage looks directly at the eyes of the beast. it smiles at him.

tale mode on:

on the elevator are William, Anne, Sandra, Manolo and Macario. there are other four coworkers with them. one of them is on the phone. he is worry because it seems like they won't be able to leave the building.

for the conversation he is having, it is clear that the first floors are a carnage. he is crying loudly. William asks if anyone knows what do to. they can't keep moving without a clear goal. they have to think before acting like idiots.

William tries to call his family. no one is answering. William looks at Anne who is shaking with a lot of horror. William hugs her. he tells her that after the storm comes the peace. she looks at him with teary eyes. she cries on his arms.

everyone is surprise to see a soft side to William. no one expected him to be kind. William ignored everyone else. for him the only person who matters is Anne. he wants to make sure she is fine. he wants to protect her till the end of the times.

the elevator stops. it opens its doors. they all get out. there is a middle age man in front of them. he is someone important from the company. he is cold and cruel towards his employees. he is the most hated man on the company.

his name is unknown to most. his last name is Schmidt. he always talks about his grandpa helping on WWII. his grandpa is his hero. he always walks with gloves on hand. at times he speaks on German or French.

Schmidt talks with William. the others leave. William tells his boss everything. Schmidt didn't show any sign of emotion. he was only thinking about his job. William told him to follow him. the boss follows him. William takes the necktie off.

Anne was waiting for him. she looks at him. William knows the first floors are bad. the middle floors are in danger. they can't go to the up floors. they can't stay in there forever, there is a limit for how long they can stay.

Manolo & Macario are arguing. a guy is trying to stop them. they are trying to find a way out of the building. William just ignores them. Schmidt coughs. there is some blood on his mouth. he cleans the blood from his mouth.

Schmidt doesn't care about the chaos. he is already steps away from death. Schmidt walks away from them. the doors of the elevator open by itself. Schmidt walks towards the elevator. he makes a face of horror, unable to scream.

Ceyx is on the elevator. he gets out. he looks directly on Schmidt's eyes. two guys try to fight Ceyx. he breaks the neck of one. with his right claws he tears apart another man's beating heart. Ceyx smiles at Schmidt. then he bites him on the neck.

Schmidt decided to do something noble. he tries to hold the zombie. he jumps inside of the elevator with Ceyx. Schmidt was about to die on one way or another. he laughs on a light tone. Ceyx keeps biting him. Schmidt falls on his knees.

at this point he started to feel a change on his body. he was unconscious for days. he woke up on the elevator alone. the doors open by itself. a human looks at him. the human tries to kill him. he bites the human. then he breaks his neck.

he walked around the floors of the building for long lone days. he walked quietly. he saw his face later on a mirror. he was shocked to see his face. now he was no longer human, no he was now a monster. he laughed like a maniac.

[End of the tale.]

Don-Savage looks at the face of the zombie. he is Schmidt. the talking zombie pushes him away. he then runs away. other zombies attack Don-Savage. he kills all the zombies on his way. he wasn't able to stop the talking zombie.

Don-Savage is stop by Joaquin. he stopped him from getting further away. they all need to be together to stay alive. Joaquin asks Don-Savage to think. he wants him to act, not like an individual being, but as part of a group.

Don-Savage accepts that he was on the wrong. he accepts that he acted wrongly. he promises to think better the next time. Joaquin asks him to trust on them more. they are not weak. they can do better together.

Chicken Wrath is looking at the dead zombies. he feels uncomfortable. there is so much death inside this world, so much death that at some point it feels normal. but does it really need to feel natural? death is natural, but it isn't meant to be like that.

Chicken Wrath feels confuse. does he belongs anywhere? is there anything wrong with him? after all he refuses to accept the world that he walks on. it is in our nature to adapt to a different environment. it is part of evolution. jet he can't.

the world to which he belongs, is no longer earth. now is this dreadful world of chaos. it is easy to accept the calm peace, as part of life. but it has to be hard, to accept chaos as part of your lifestyle. it is never easy letting the chaos inside.

Leah is holding Beau's hand. she looks at him with her flirtatious eyes. he smiles at her. is easier to look at the better side of life, when there is someone with who share a smile, specially when that someone, is the most important person to you.

the road is long and dangerous. but at least they have each other. the warmth of another body can save souls. it is natural to find strength from romance. unlike popular belief, love doesn't make you weaker, but stronger.

and now Beau is stronger with Leah. he is strong enough to tolerate hell if needed. there is nothing on his way, there is nothing he can't do. love is like that, strange but it comes with its benefits.