Will Of A Deity

04| Why?

Location: Garden, Horizon Academy
Time: 14:43
Ethan Dashiell

"Natasha Michaelis from CODE: NYX! Let's all be good friends, okay?"

"Nice to meet you, Ms. Michaelis." I remembered Simon telling us that the members of CODE:NYX are referred to with honorifics.

"C'mon! Just call me Natasha, okay~"

"Sure, N-Natasha..."

"There we go!"

This is really not how I thought a member of CODE:NYX is like. She's really different from how I imagined them to be. Simon made them sound like they're cold and serious people but in reality...

"Are all of you guys friends? Like do you know each other?" She asked raising a brow as she points at each of us.

"Indeed, we are faintly acquainted with each other. But not as much as to be called 'friends'." Hyron answered.

"I don't know about everyone else but Ethan and I are soulmates." Shane said hugging my arm again. I just let her be.

"Eh~ Then who is that guy?" She asked pointing at Zen who's blankly staring at the zombie which is still slightly flinching. It's probably flinching because of cadaveric spasms.

"Oh that...He's a son of a bat." I answered obviously tired of Zen's existence.

"My parents are not bats, they're vampires. And I have a name, it's Zen Lucille." He emotionlessly said while turning his gaze to Natasha. For a moment, I saw his red eyes glint. He flinched for a moment but tried to remain composed.

"Oh nice to meet you, Zen. I'm Natasha!"

He was about to step forward towards Natasha, but eventually stepped back. "I...I know, I heard you the first time," he said. What's wrong with this bat? Natasha only smiled at him.

"What...is that thing?" He asked as he tried to avoid Natasha's gaze. Wow, is this fucker fucking shy?

"Oh, that? I was looking for that since it slipped off inside the campus." She said and shyly scratches the back of her neck. "Good thing, I caught it!"

"You're not answering my question," Zen continued to try to get answers.

"It's a corpse!" Yeah, like no shit Sherlock.

"It can't see," they turned to me when I spoke. "It can't hear nor feel pain either. I doubt if it can smell with it's nose missing. And yet it still manage to detect me."

Everyone was still staring at me so I felt awkward. "Why are you all looking at me like that?"

"Paano mo yun nalaman?" Tanong ni Yael.

"I noticed back then when we were fighting it." This is why I was observing it despite it running after me like a mad man.

"How..."

"Pfftt!" We turned to Natasha. "You're good, Ethan boy!"

"Did I got that right?" I asked.

"Yeah, yeah, you did. These things don't have any senses at all. The only thing guiding these freaks are they're ability to sense a living person." She tapped the corpse with her foot. "In short," she looked back at us and grin. "It's an undead that feeds off the living."

"Parang...zombie?" I heard Yael asked. Natasha nodded.

"But why is it only chasing me?" I asked. That's been bothering me for a while now. It's not like I'm the only one alive here.

"This body is a human," Natasha answered. "So obviously, it craves humans."

I felt a shiver went down my spine. What...why is that creature here? What is going on here?