Rebirth in the Apocalypse: Third Time's a Charm-Chapter 273 Still Choosing Death?
"Enough!" I shouted again, this time even louder than the first. The two zombie Alphas turned to look at me. The one that declared himself my Beta stood up and took a step back. Placing his hand across his chest, he bowed his head.
"Who are you?" hissed the other Alpha looking me up and down "You look like her, but you are not that human. What do you want?"
I simply looked at the unknown Alpha in front of me. I could demand answers right now and it may or may not give me the answers I was looking for, or I could issue a challenge of my own, beat the zombie into the dirt, force his horde to be under my command, and be in complete control of City B without having to lift a finger afterwards. 𝙗𝙚𝙙𝒏𝙤𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝒎
If anyone was thinking that I was going for option A, you really didn't know me all that well.
I smiled at the unknown Alpha in front of me and tipped my head back and roared a challenge.
When I was done, I brought my head forward and smiled at the zombie. It snorted and tipped his head back to answer my challenge. As soon as the challenge was answered, the hordes on both sides moved back to give us room. Even the Alpha on my side moved back with the rest of his horde. It only took minutes before there was a space cleared on the road in front of the mall that the other horde was using as its base.
Only Liu Yu Zeng continued to stand by my side. I looked at him with a smile. Tilting my head to the side, I told him without words what I expected. He pulled me in for a kiss before grumbling under his breath about stubborn women and walking away. He was standing on the invisible line between the two hordes, but I could see the black smoke billowing at his feet, his mood unstable.
"You will regret this," hissed the zombie as he paced back and forth in front of me. "I will rip you to shreds and claim the city as mine."
"So, you understand who I am to the other Alpha," I said with a smile on my face. "This will make life so much easier. Submit or die, those are your two choices. Or do you think that he is so weak that he submitted to a human for the Hell of it?"
"I will not submit," hissed the zombie as he briefly looked over at the other horde before quickly closing in the distance between us.
"That's fine," I replied as I ducked under his claw. Calling upon a Ka-Bar fighter knife, I slipped it between the zombie's ribs. It let out a terrifying scream as it jumped back and out of the range of the knife. I twirled the knife around so the zombie could see the purple blood running down the blade and over the top of my hand.
This knife was a thing of beauty that I must have picked up in some random supply run. But after finding it when my aunt had visited, it was quickly becoming a favorite. The whole thing, from the tip of the blade to the base of the handle was matte black with a black hilt over the handle protecting my hand from slipping down onto the blade. Yes, I was quickly becoming in love with the thing. Not to mention, it cut through zombies like butter.
"If you are choosing death, why are you so far away?" I taunted looking at the zombie in front of me. The black snake-like mist on my right arm had moved up to create almost a choker around my neck. I appreciated that as I didn't want to kill the zombie too quickly with a power that wasn't even mine.
I called the blue flame into my left hand as my right hand still held firmly to the handle of the knife. With a flick, I sent the flames out behind the zombie, creating a straight line between it and whatever it considered to be safe. It also prevented any other zombie from its horde from jumping into the fight when I least expected it.
I could learn my lesson too, you know.
"The other human promised me the city," growled the zombie. "She said nothing about you."
"That was her mistake then. Why don't you go take it up with her?" I smiled smugly as the zombie was slowly pushed forward by the heat of my flames.
"She said she knew the future," continued the zombie as his eyes searched me, looking for some type of opening or weakness.
"She knew that this would be a zombie city and wanted the zombie on her side?" I guessed. I mean, it was pretty much my same plan, just with different zombies.
"Yes," the other zombie hissed before he sprinted in front of me so fast, I almost couldn't see him. However, almost wasn't good enough. With a swipe of my knife, I cut off the claw that was once again aiming for my head.
Calling the purple flame this time, I sent it out as fast as I could to consume the limb before another zombie could grow from it. I didn't need two Alphas to fight at the same time. "Close," I said with a smile as once again, the zombie backed up, clutching his severed wrist to his chest. "But close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."
It growled and hissed at me as the limb started to regrow. Shaking his hand, he continued to pace in front of me, looking for a weakness. "Still choosing death?" I asked as I stared at him. I now understood why the zombies paced so much, it made its prey dizzy after a few minutes of watching them.
I closed my eyes and shook my head, trying to relieve myself of the light-headed feeling. It wasn't until Liu Yu Zeng screamed my name that I opened my eyes to see the zombie inches from my face.
