mutated

chapter thirty five: zombies are fucking creepy. i'm out of here

I ran.

I could hear the sudden appearance of the zombies from their heavy breaths and snarls that filled my ears, and a shrill scream, followed by the fluttering of feathers. Cam. I didn't blame her. One was terrifying enough for me, and I didn't need an entire horde of them chasing after me to freak me out. I sprinted to the climbing wall, and quickly summoning a volume and jumping onto it. Elliot was sprinted behind me, and as he looked up at my hovering form in confusion, I sighed.

The boys always got the physical powers. What use was it if no one could kill you? You had no attacking strength. Physical abilities are either offensive or defensive - more ranged powers like me and Abby's were more suitable. Keep your enemies at a distance, keep yourself safe, and still manage to hit devastating blows against them. Perfect strategy.

I flicked my wrist, and suddenly Elliot was floating in the air next to me. I plopped him on my volume (thankfully I had chosen a pretty big one so there was plenty of space for me to edge away from him) and pointed sharply at the other side of the volume. "There's plenty of space for the both of us. Shoo. My territory."

He grumbled and crawled towards the other side. Just to frighten him, I tipped the volume slightly so that although I was perfectly balanced, he was wobbling precariously on the edge.

Abby and Alpha would have been called the Disappearing Duo if they were a pair of criminals. With Alpha's ability to alter his density to near nothing, and Abby's ability to disperse her cells into water (which was so cool, by the way. Imagine being able to turn into water at will!), they could be undetectable.

Though I had to admit, the pairs on this were once again unfair. Me, Abby, Alpha, and Elliot were the fourth highest scorers in our class, not counting Lia, and we were currently paired together and teaming. 

Instead of staying in their vapor form, Abby blasted a bit of my wall (rude!) to form a little chair for her, and she sat in her subzero throne triumphantly. Alpha just stayed hovering, but now his figure was more visible, so he looked like a ghost. "We can't stay here forever," I said, and they looked at me in surprise.

"What do you mean?" Abby asked. "How the fück are zombies supposed to reach us here? You two are floating, and I'm suspended in mid-air. We're safe."

"Well..." I pointed to the ground where a horde of zombies was climbing up the wall. With my other hand, I opened one of the hidden doors that lead to an empty corridor... which wasn't that empty anymore now that it was filled with zombies. I slammed it back shut and glanced at Abby, who replied by icing up the door.

"How do we get rid of those zombies then?" She asked her throne of ice now a suspended ice bridge that connected the window with the wall. 

"Steel up?" I glanced at Elliot, who looked at me in confusion, and then realization, and then frustration. Eventually, the expression on his face was defeat, and his skin turned metallic. I grinned. He wasn't going to be arguing with any time soon.

I picked him up with my abilities again and tossed him at the zombie hordes. Like a wrecking ball, he smashed through the horde as they disintegrated into tiny grey pixels. I plucked him back up, and he landed on the volume with a thud once again. He started waving his hands randomly, tapping the air, and the other three of us looked at him in confusion.

His eyes were glazed and unfocused like he was looking at something else before they focused back on me. A scythe appeared in his hands, and he gave a toothy grin.

"Ew. No. Don't grin at her like that." Abby said, crinkling her forehead before she immediately loosened them. "Why do you get a weapon?"

"You get points when you kill zombies. With the points, you can get weapons." He explained simply. Alpha's bored look morphed into a smile.