"Guys I think we might have overlooked something!"
Isis wasn't surprised shooting both I and Seth, a I told you so glaze whiles AI had her mind wandering of someway.
"Isis were did you get all of this information."
Before I could fully conclude if I was underestimating the situation I needed to here from Isis whom had done more in-depth research than me and figure out her source.
"The academy is classified an Urban legend on the internet but most of my source is from the associations Database."
"Specify!" I responded causing her to furrow but answer neitherless.
"Incident MS-280"
Mesmerizing those words I quickly took out my phone, opened the association data bank and searched for that incident.
[Incident MS-280]
"Keep guard!"
Leaving them with those instructions I began racing through the document that detailed the incident.
[Year recorded: NE280]
[Date of recording:12/01]
[Time and day: Monday,3:00]
[Agent recording: Commander Lucas]
[ Act:On the first day of the incident two victims were recorded, both students of the academy. A brief explanation would be heart attack and all witness confirm before the two died they each held their chest in pain after that an agonizing scream followed and soon their death. The twenty other incident including this all suffered the same symptoms and upon carefully examination of their corpse nothing out of the ordinary was found.]
For a brief moment I felt my heart race at how such a thing could be possible. One didn't just die while clutching their heart just to be examine with no abnormalities at all. So making sure my team were still on guard and read the scene part.
[After a long week of research by both our scientists and doctor and those of various hospitals we still made no process. We still couldn't identify the cause of death until the cause was made clear. Within a week our scientists began to noticed spores grow around the corpses chest. A week later the spores became living trees and an hour later all the corpses disappeared.]
"Fuck."
Right as I looked up, I noticed we were surrounded and my teammates specifically Isis and Seth had their weapons drawn.
"Zombies."
In a tone filled with disbain I took in the gruesome appearance of the monsters that surrounded as. They were one's human I could tell but not anymore. Their skins had grown pale, their limbs and face twisted and disfigured like a paints of a mad artist. Some had swollen hands pulsing with veins other's inflated heads with bloodshot eyes.
"This are minions!"
Taking out my new weapon I muttered causing my teammates faces to tense up because they knew what it entitled.
Their were seven confirmed class of cyptics ranging from F to S. Among them the lower four being F,E,D,C were classified as lower entities and B,A,S as higher and that simple fact was due to the ability of any cryptic above C to create minions.
Originally I had through if a creature truly existed in the academy then it was probably only killing to fuel it's strength but I had been wrong and...
BOOM!
Under my ever own eyes a grosteue sphere made of flesh...pure gross flesh engulf the academy sealing us within it's ground.
"It's trying to create a territory."
Moving with inhuman agility, Isis grabbed a hold of me and leaped into the air trying to toss me through the closing gap to help me escapes, I tried stopping her...my eyes pleading at her to stop because I knew what leaving them entitled but she didn't listen...she never did so as she neared the gap to toss me out, I sighed realizing she hadn't made it fast enough.
"No..."
Ignoring her scream of disappointment, I looked down nested within her arms and observrd my comrades rushing at the zombie to kill them.
As Isis descended on the ground, I switched on the earbuds in my ear to establish communication and right as she landed I left her grasp and dashed towards the nearest zombie.
"Don't let them touch you."
With a strict warning I closed the distance between me and the zombie with a swollen right arm, which clenched it's bulky fist and rained it down on me like a hammer.
Dodging it's brutal smash by leaping to the side, I made my way around it's gross boss, feeling the impact of its attack behind me as I made it behind it and pulled the trigger of Jet, sending a bullet coated in lightning blasting out the barrel of my gun and penetration it's spine.
"Arghhhh."
Letting out a pained scream too human to my liking, it turn back, charges of blue lightning cracking around it's body as it tried attacking me but...
"Rest now."
Switching to Set, I sent a barrage of orange energy bullet that tore through it's body leaving behind a hole as it body collapsed onto the ground.
I wasn't allowed to rest as I quickly switched my target to the next zombie but before I could act, a lone arrow whistle pass me and impaled it's skull before discharging a violet burst of electricity that caused it's head to inflate and explode.
"Thanks."
Throwing Seth a satisfied smile, I leaped back avoiding the claws of a zombie that dig into the ground right infornt of me.
Looking down at it's bloodshot eyes, I pull the trigger of Jet and Set, simultaneous
stunning it and blasting it's head off ina blazing glory.
"Nice toys!" Seth comment nocking a new arrow into his bow, them with masterful precision, aimed at his foes, the two zombie charging at him.
With a soft breath, he unleashed his arrow and as it shoot through the field it landed right before the charging zombies and exploded taking the two of them out.
"You're not using you abilities."
With my back turned against him, I remark surprised by how causal he was at his predicament..no looking around I realized he wasn't the only one, on my left was Isis having draw her blade and charging at a horde of zombies with a determined gaze.
Dodging one's grab she pushed her blade underneath it's armpit and swung up, slicing through it's arm and neck, killing it in one go.
Without much time to rest, she continued forward, her swordsman guiding her through the horde as she unleash endless slash that ripped through her opponent whiles moving with a calculated moveset that left her unscathed as she appeared at the end of the horde leaving behind her a pile of mutilated carcass.
As for AI, there was no special movement in her actions, no stance or technique just blows for blow. If it has been any other person it would have ended with them death but not AI, she was strong...to strong if I was being honest, her blow were like the impact of a train and the zombies were her target. Non of them survive a blow as each of her punches upon impact cause their bodies to explode and spray blood all over the field.
Watching her go about her business while drenched in blood, I couldn't help but think of the possibility that maybe I had overreact and maybe..just maybe death wasn't want was installed for us.