Chapter 18

"Mel where are you" Jarred yelled coming into the church with his men "Jarred" I said running over to him and hugging him. Jarred is my older cousin, he's 25 and tall with dirty blonde hair and blue eyes. "Xavier's here to" I said releasing him from the hug "really never thought you two would team up even during an apocalypse" he said slightly annoyed 'they never did like each other' I thought to myself.

"did you by chance bring supplies to take samples?" I asked "do I look stupid little cuz" he said as a subordinate brought over a suitcase and opened it showing supplies needed. "follow me" I said seriously. I led him and his subordinate with the suit case to the room the sick were in. "what are we at Sam?" I asked "21 in total got sick 7 turned" she said. I took a deep breath.

"what's your name?" I asked Jarred's Subordinate. "Emma" she replied "by going in that room you realize you can get sick so if you...." I said "I am doing this not for myself but for our people" she said and I smiled "ok" I said opening the door and the 2 of us went into the room.

*bang* Xavier shot a another turned zombie as we walked into the room. Emma opened the suit case and I grabbed a large needle then stuck it into the zombie, after a minute I pulled it out "interesting" I said looking at the needle that now had fluid in it.

I then put it back in the suit case and grabbed another needle, I walked over to someone who was sick and hadn't turned and took blood.

I then walked back over to Emma and put It back into the suit case. "I have what I need from in here" I said "Are you good in here?" I asked Xavier before leaving the room "fine" he answered and Emma and I left the room "Sam I need your arm" I said "what for?" she asked handing me her arm. I grabbed another needle and stuck it in her arm. "I need a normal person's blood" I replied as I put the needle back in the case then grabbed the final needle.

"your not gonna stab me again are you" he asked rubbing her arm "nope I said putting it into my arm and taking blood. "your ruthless even to yourself" she said giving me a weird look. "If I'm not who will be" I replied putting the needle back "you can close it now" I said to Emma and she closed the suit case "your gonna protect them right?" I asked looking at my cousin "with my life" he replied "Sam if there are any issues contact me and make sure Xavier doesn't stay in there forever" I said as I exited the church.

'i hope this is the right choice' I thought to myself as I got into their vehicle. "So what do I have to work with?" I asked as Jarred got in and sat next to me "well other then the samples you just took we also got a sample of the comet" he replied. "how the hell did you get that?" I asked shocked "that's something I can't tell you" he said.

after a while we go to the base they were stationed at. Jarred led me to a lab in the center of the lab there was something that I could only assume was the comets sample. "is that..." I said "yup" he replied. "there a special gloves by it only use those when you work with it" he said "got it" I replied "so am I working alone" I asked walking around the lab "for now" he said "ok then well I guess I should get to work" I said right as Emma brought in the samples.

I put on some gloves and grabbed the zombie sample I took. I then put a little bit of the fluid under a microscope. "interesting" I said to my self. I then took one of the sicks samples and put that under the microscope "the cells are frozen" I said to myself. I then grabbed the sample of Sam's blood and put that under the microscope, of course it looked normal. after I grabbed my sample and put that under the microscope.

as I expected it was different from Sam's, of course there was was the normal red and white blood cell but there was something else. if it wasn't for the microscopes higher resolution I would have never seen it. I was able to see a DNA strand. here's some info, each DNA strand has something called a nucleotide, a nucleotide has three components: a sugar molecule, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base.

then there's the gene, genes name up what we look like our eye color, our hair color, our skin color, so on so forth. looking at the DNA the genes, I noticed something, an extra gene. I wasn't completely sure but for now I could only assume it was the gifted gene.

"Jarred!" I yelled and he came "what is it?" he asked "I need more samples of normal people and gifted people" I said walking over to the comet sample "for what?" he asked "I need to be sure of something" I replied putting gloves on. "I'll see what I can do" he said as I took a small piece of the comet sample.

I took it over to the microscope and began looking at it. it was beyond an abnormal comet, it was more like a meteor, it had a strange reddish dust. after I removed the sample and put I back, I then got a small sample of Sam's blood and dripped a small drop of the zombies fluid into her blood and put it under a microscope.

nothing happened immediately so I continued to watch after a few minutes, the fluid suddenly separated from the blood, then it surrounded and completely covered it after another few minutes the blood also turned into the clear fluid "No way it's not a sickness or infection it's a living being" I said to myself in shock.

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