Jasmine and her crush - Part 3

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Later, on the high school Carmen is attending, the girl, starting to play her act to the nurse. She did all she could to fool this working nurse, and it as all a success. It stopped the nurse not calling the ambulance or her mother about this incident, and it let talk all by herself to her house. The nurse did not even care about this, all she wanted was to see this girl walk away from here and not cause any more troubles as she did up until that incident with said "possessed woman".

Carmen walks away from the Infirmary room, with her backpack on her back. It got brought here by her co-worker, Kyle, on the break session. The girl, would want to call Kyle and escort her to the exit, but she can do this by herself, plus, she would want to thank him for this thing which has given her an enormous chance of surviving on this moment.

Anyway, as Carmen continues to walk further the hallway, she sees her best friend, Jasmine, leaning on the all with a friend. Carmen observes Jasmine did not spot her, neither felt her presence, she is mostly focussing on speaking with a boy. The boy is guy with skin like "Kinder Chocolate" candy, wearing uniform as some girls and boys do in this school (after all, this school does accept people wearing any type of clothing because this is Brighton), with a normal hairstyle for teenagers on the year 2015 that are having a darkish skin colour.

Carmen is walking ahead, and when she got near her, her friend had a quick look, and saw Carmen, she looks at her, worried of course.

"What happened?"

"I am alright." says Carmen trying to use her acting of feeling sick because of a stomach ache. "Can you tell the teacher I will not be able to attend the next classes?"

"Yes, of course." says Jasmine feeling worried. "Can you walk by yourself?"

"I-I can, Jas." says Carmen to her friend. "Goodbye."

"Bye." says Jasmine feeling not so sure as she watches her friend walking normal.

"Is your friend alright?" asks the boy.

"Yeah. She… She is probably a little sick."

"Anyway, would you like to meet on the Cafeteria next big break?"

"Sure." says Jasmine, smiling to her male friend as she is heading back to her classroom, to attend the next boring lessons.

After a few moments, Carmen leaves the high school grounds, she walks to the bus station and waits for the bus who will be giving it a ride to her home. As she stays on the bus, she looks around, worried about the fact she is skipping class, even though she is declared by normal humans. Carmen remains on the bus station, waiting for her bus to came and deliver her at home. As she is waiting for the bus, something strange is happening to her badge, which is a communication device.

Before she would take it out, firstly, she is looking around, and replies to the message she has just got from her Leader of Team 4, message that stated the following: "Would you be able to come later?". Carmen, she looks around again, being sure nobody is spying her or is listening the conversation.

"By later, you mean in the afternoon when I finish my class?" asks Carmen while she is speaking on the microphone this badge is incorporated with.

"I am afraid I need you to come here as soon as you can." replies the Leader as soon as he got the message.

Carmen reads the message, then she sighs when she finished it. The girl repliers with a simple "Okay." and she proceed to walk away from the bus station, then far away from the high school. When she got from a good distance out of the area, the girl proceeds to change her pace of walking into a running state. She run like an athlete. Which was weird for the people on the street to see a plump person running like a professional cyclist on a Tour of France.

Carmen has avoided people left and right who were on her way, jumped over a taxi driver who almost ran her over on the cross-walk, dodged a few birds who were flying straight to her, almost crashing to her. At one point, Carmen even avoided a roof tile who fall from the sit floor rooftop. That tile could have killed anybody at the speed it was going... Anybody who is a human. I have to say. The roof tile, hit the ground before it would have got the chance to hit Carmen's head. Her run to the headquarters was always, with troubles left and right.

Arriving in the front of the headquarters, Carmen takes the scanning process, and when it was done, waits for the door to opens and after that she goes inside the headquarters where the Leader waits for her.

"And she's here." says Lucian after he saw Carmen entering the headquarters and going to the Living Room, where the doll and the Leader of Team 4 is waiting for her.

"Good morning, Lucian!" says Carmen to the ghost.

"Good morning." says Lucian making a bow to Carmen, only to let her walk through him to the doll, who is looking at her.

"Good morning." she says to the doll who is holding the Vewolf spirit captured.

The doll only nodded his head in agreement. He did not say a thing to Carmen. She thinks the doll is probably pissed about the fact that he has to be held captive into this "human kid's toy" for a few decades or even a century.

"Good morning, Leader!" says Carmen as Leader of team 4, sounding serious.

"Good morning, Carmen." responds the Leader of Team 4 with a cigarette on his mouth, and holding the same folder. "Please. Take a seat."

"Alright." says Carmen feeling a little concerned about this seriousness in the air. She sits on the chair which is usually taken by Louis when he is here.

"You know why have I summoned you here?"

"No idea." replies Carmen.

"Well. The reason I have called you from school, was an important meeting. And this meeting is known to be something huge for you… Are you familiar with the tactic of "campaign", right?"

"…Yes." says Carmen after she remembered the huge book by the title of "Hunter Teams History since the dawn of the mankind", it presented a brief history of ten pages of the term of "Campaign" and his history. "Campaign is known by the popular term to being a big battlefield where Hunter from other teams cooperate to free a neighbouring Team zone, the entire country, or the whole world from the enemies coming from the Second Dimension."

"It is also the way where you can earn enough points to advance in rank."

"Have you called me for this?" asks Carmen almost shocked. "Y-You wanted to put me into a campaign?"

"Yes." replies Navylian making a smoke cloud from its cigarette.

Carmen could not believe what she just heard. Her, going on a campaign? On the lowest rank imaginable? "Is Navylian right in the head?" she asks herself, looking at the folder Navylian is holding. She decides to take courage and asks.

"Why me?"

"Because you are having a test in about a year. The physical one. It is a demanding test. But this one can be passed by participating in a campaign and gathering more than ten points from it. Which doesn't sound too hard if you are thinking at first, but keep in mind, this mission would be very challenging for you and Kyle to advance in rank."

"And why is that? Of the other teams?"

"Yes. One of the reasons. To say." says Navylian putting the cigarette into the ashtray of the table. He hands Carmen the folder file. "Read it, and when you are done, bring it to me. Then, we'll go gather supplies."

"We?" asks Carmen who did not even opened up the folder.

"That's right." says Navylian to Carmen. "I am joining this campaign."

Carmen is feeling somehow anxious about this information. She never thought that she would go into a campaign this sooner. Especially with the captain of Team 4.

The girl is familiar with this system of campaign because she has read the entire manual of the Hunter Team in about one night. This system does sound good for gridding points on the rank, but on this event, only the luckiest members are able to enter it. The ones who are having luck on their sides, can jump from the lowest rank to the decent ones in one single campaign if they can be the "MVP" of the campaign which is no easy thing to do since most of campaign are encouraging members of different teams to cooperate.

Nobody from the higher-up would encourage only one single team to do a campaign. The reasons are multiple for this rule because there has been campaigns who were done by a single team and it turned out messed up. Like one incident in Sweden, were hundreds of thousands of huge frogs invaded the first dimension and destroyed more than eighty cities in the span of about three days. But thankfully, it was saved of the nick of time before it crossed Norway, thanks to the other three teams of Sweden territory who decided to ignore the higher-ups orders and protect their neighbours and their zone. The damage was high, but thanks to the erasing technology, no humans and nor historians have no clue about some kind of incident which happens about a century ago.

Carmen reads the file carefully. She can see all of the information this file is revealing about the campaign. It shows the number of days it may take, the number of teams who are participating, which is the entire team of United Kingdom, the number of members each team should have and recommended rank they should have. As Carmen read the file, she realised she is not the only trainee on this campaign. There are two beginners in Team 1. The girl reads the other file, stating the objective of the missions which are the following.

"Retake the control of the attacked cities if they were taken by the swarms of zombies and kill the entire population of zombies. Or send them back to the second dimension. Killing about fifty zombies would award the hunter one points in the rank score." she reads on a loud tone to her leader, then she looks at him. "When are we going to go?"

"Tonight." says the Leader.

"Tonight?" says Carmen surprised.

"Yeah. Pretty good for you and Kyle, who aren't having any school day on the weekends."

"But. What about family?"

"Your family?" asks Leader. "Oh, right… Well. It's up to you."

Carmen can already feel uneasy about the fact that she has to leave her city for a few days and go to the other side of this island known as United Kingdom to fight zombies. Now this, is an adventure every teenager or young adult on a stressful job would find it calming. Killing zombies left and right can be used as a form of relief on today's world standards.

"It also says something about uniform here." says Carmen after she read a paragraph stating the uniform and showing an explicit drawing of it.

"Right, right." says Navylian to carmen. "There is a set of ten uniforms in the armoury room. All can be automatically adjusted to the person body type who are wearing it. Maybe one from there can be going well to you."

"A zombie bite can work like in tv shows?" asks Carmen

"Yes." replies Navylian. "But the process of turning into a zombie could take about five seconds, but thankfully, we have a few potions to prevent this."

"Nice."

The girl reads carefully the file, she passes to Navylian after she finishes it. Then, the Leader raises from the table and goes to his office, but before he left the room, he looked at Carmen.

"How did you managed it to leave school early?"

"Long story." says Carmen, and she looks angrily at the Lucian, who is feeling kind of bad for the mess he put Carmen yesterday.

"Aha. Anyway, hope Kyle would manage to somehow skip class later." he then goes to the office, where he has to prepare the arsenal for tonight campaign.