Killing zombies in Scotland - Part 17

  "All of you have arrived?" asks Ray who is on the stand where musicians used to come in here and sing their best song to make a better atmosphere. 

  "Yes, sir!" says most of the hunters gathered.

  "Great." responds Navylian. "Congratulation for defeating the second wave of zombies. Now. We have received the report of the third wave of zombie attacks."

  "And where is it?" asks Rose, who is covered in blood and guts of zombies, like most of the hunters gathered here.

  "The last wave will happen in Montrose. This time, all of us will be defending the city because this wave contains around 2500 zombies."

  "2500?!" asks a few hunters surprised by this.

  "Oh, hell…" says Hannah a bit scared.

  "Two-Two thousand…" says Carmen almost falling on her knees and feeling scared.

  "And we've barely done kill those three hundred fifty." says Hannah looking at Carmen, both being tired. 

  "Don't worry, girls." says Xander to the two hunters who were looking distressed. "Now you're all together and I've got both of you back."

  "Don't count on this, prick." says Hannibal to the girls, covered in blood. "This one will definitely give bigger issue that walking zombies."

  "Shut up." says Xander to Hannibal looking pissed.

  "Hey." says Navylian to the hunters who were starting to talk with each other. "The meeting is not over yet. You will discuss your experience after this meeting, okay?"

  "Sorry, sir!" says the four hunters who were starting to not pay attention, feeling guilty for doing a thing like this.

  "Now, then." continues Ray. "We shall talk about the current results." he opens a holographic screen, then he enlarges it wide enough to let the hunters see the results of the two days of campaign. "Feel free to see you and your friends, comrades and friends kill score. You can also judge it." says Ray to the group.

  Carmen is looking at her name from Team 4, she let a long gasp as she observes she has earned one hundred seventy-five kills last mission, while on the other one she achieved around one hundred fifty. This mean she has a total of five hundred twenty-five kills. Meaning she got almost 15 points from this single campaign. Sending her immediately to Newbie Rank. There were her teammates who observed Carmen has ranked, and they congratulate her.

  "Wow. You are already Newbie Grade 4?" asks Hannah seeing Carmen score.

  "Yes." says Carmen to Hannah. "And in what rank are you?"

  "I am in Newbie Grade 3." responds Hannah. "Higher than you, but you definitely did the most kills in that attack."

  "Thank you. You also did a good job there providing support." says Carmen to Hannah.

  "Right back at you." says Hannah to Carmen.

  "Not bad." says Kyle looking at scoreboard. "You jumped from Trainee Grade right at Newbie Grade 5. Not really bad for you."

  "T-T-Thank you." stutters Carmen, feeling a bit red because she got praised by her crush.

  Hannah noticed how Carmen was a stuttering and she has a hunch of what is going on here. Thankfully, Carmen did not see the small smirk Hannah pulled when she realized the love connection in the air. Then, carmen decide to ask Louis, who was on the left of her, wearing a human skin like he always does.

  "What I can do at Newbie Grade?"

  "You can do only three things." says Louis to Carmen. "You are allowed to be considered an official member, meaning we have to give you a proper medal identification."

  "That one-handed by Navylian was not real?"

  "No. That was plastic. The real one has some kind of special rock who can be used as a supernatural cases tracker. Anyway, the second thing is that you are now allowed to use portal. Of course, limited. And the third, you are allowed to use certain rooms without supervision."

  "That's it?" asks Carmen feeling this is a lack of things she has unlocked after she climbed the ranks.

  "Yes. That's it." says Louis. "That is all I can remember. I was like you a while ago."

  "How long?" asks Carmen out of curiosity.

  "Probably thirty or more years I don't know."

  Carmen did not respond to this question; the woman and other people are looking on the board to see how are the other hunters. It looks like Carmen has made of the biggest jump on ranking system. The newbie jumped from Trainee Grade, almost reaching the Newbie Grade 4, a grade where she will be seen as an official member even without the paper test she will be forced to take on the beginning of spring.

  After a moment, the two leaders of these campaigns are telling the hunters to rest in tavern, prepare for the last wave that will decide the fate of the campaign. When the campaign will be over, all of the hunters will be rewarded the points accumulated on the campaign which will help them raise in ranking system and reward their activity.

  Kyle, Carmen and Louis are leaving the dining room, walking toward their room to relax, waiting for chef of this Tavern to prepare the dinner for the entire group of supernatural hunters. 

  Kyle and Carmen are entering their room.

  "This night was exhausted." says Kyle laying on his bed.

  "Was your mission hard?"

  "Yes. Yours?"

  "Yeap."

  "But you did great when I've seen your scoreboard."

  "You also did good." responds Carmen going on her bed, laying on her pillow.

  "How was the partner of yours?"

  "Was good." says Carmen looking at Kyle. "How was yours?"

  Kyle doesn't respond immediately. He just thinks at the moments when he had to save Nami from the zombies attacks. The member of his small duo was always so reckless to jump straight into the horde of zombies and killing everything that moves. So Kyle was mostly protecting her back and supporting her by killing any creature who is getting to close to Nami and almost grabbed her.

  "Was exhausting." says Kyle to Carmen. "Good thing we got a break. Only this wave and we'll finally be home."

  "Yeah." says Carmen on her bed, thinking abut home, wondering what is her mother doing at this hour. She is thinking that her mother may be working on her painting hobby or just sleeping.

  The two members of team 4 remain in their room for a while. Scrolling through their mobile phones, looking through social media app and at funny videos until they will be called for breakfast.