I watched as fear entered the zombie's eyes the closer my flas got to his feet. In fact, he even broke eye contact with in order to watch the flas eat up the ground between us. I clicked my tongue, bringing his attention back to as I widened my smile, showing off as much of my own teeth as I could.
Of course, I was still wrapped in the lavender fla as I allowed the fire to go where it wanted to with free reign. It rushed at the Alpha stopping just short of his feet and raising up like a tide of its own.
'Wang Chao, if you can hear , get Liu Wei to breathe so air into the clearing. Make it wrap around my fla like a fire tornado,' I said in my head, hoping that Wang Chao could hear . I wanted to make an impression on this Alpha so that if he ever saw again, he would know to stay away.
When I felt the air around start to whip up into a frenzy of its own, I burst out laughing. There was always sothing freeing about getting into a dominance battle with a zombie. You could shuck the human trappings and tap into a baser version of yourself.
I continued to laugh as three purple fire tornadoes raced across the clearing, two toward the zombie horde at the entrance and one that continued to circle where the n were. When the Alpha saw the fire tornadoes cutting him off from the rest of his horde, I could practically sll the fear coming off him in waves.
I parted my hands, moving the flas away, and allowed him a safe path back to the entrance of the clearing. He took off, almost turning into a blur with how fast he went. Within seconds, there were no more zombies in the clearing and I could hear Hades owing from where he was left with Wang Chao and Liu Wei.
The coast was clear and we had won.
I called back my flas, allowing them to reabsorb into my body, and marveled at their color. I had never seen purple flas before; I hadn't even heard of anyone with them. Even the strongest fire user that I had ever heard of in the past only had red flas. I would have to experint with them when we got back to the ranch.
The air started to die back and I turned around and made my way back to where the boys were waiting. I slipped back between the two RVs and faced the n. While I had a huge smile on my face, they clearly were not as impressed about the situation as I was. In fact, they looked downright pissed.
"Are you going to explain yourself?" Asked Liu Yu Zeng from where he stood beside his brother. I raised my eyebrows and cracked my neck. I was no longer facing the Alpha so I would have to bring myself back a bit and not think of everything as a challenge. This was the worst part getting into a dominace battle with an Alpha, coming down from it, and wrapping part of you back into the chains of civilization.
"What is there to explain?" I asked, holding back my temper at being questioned. Taking another breath, I pulled out a Snickers bar, praying that so form of chocolate would help take a step back and not bite off the n's heads.
"What was that?" Asked Chen Zi Han as he walked up behind , his gun resting on his shoulder.
"A different type of battle," I said with a shrug. Honestly, I was surprised that the zombie was willing to do that. In most cases, the Alpha would stay back until his or her horde was completely destroyed before backing off. There were not many that would be willing to stand up for the rest of their team by putting themselves at risk like that.
"As cute as your half-answers are, Sweetheart, you are going to have to give us a bit more than that," said Liu Wei and he took a step closer to and enveloped in his arms.
I shook my head, still trying to clear it. "It was a dominance battle between and the leader of the horde. They are normally just referred to as the Alpha," I said, assuming that that would be enough for the n. "Once you guys get a handle on your powers, you could do them too, they are just a bit tricky and not many Alphas would be willing to risk themselves for it."
"You are about as clear as mud, little girl," grumbled Wang Chao as he pulled from Liu Wei and into his own arms. I could hear the frantic pounding of his heart. Huh, I guess I scared them? Confused about how I could have scared this Prince; I was not expecting the hit to my head.I think you should take a look at
"Yes, you scared us," said Wang Chao as he took one hand and tipped my chin up enough that I could look into his eyes. "Now, could you carefully and clearly explain what just happened for those of us in the class that have not been through a zombie apocalypse before?"
"Sorry," I pouted, really not trying to upset them. "The zombies are more animal than human or mindless beings. So there will be ranking fights between the mber of a horde to determine the one at the top, and that one would lead to a horde is called the Alpha. Just like the leader of a pack type thing. Sotis, they will issue a challenge to see who is the more dominant one in a battle. Since we had wiped out most of his horde, he issued an Alpha challenge to save the rest of his team."
"And if you lost?" Demanded Liu Yu Zeng.
"Then one of you would have fought him or would have given him our team to control as part of his horde."
"And when you won?" Asked Chen Zi Han.
"If I had killed him, then technically I would have been the new Alpha of the horde, but because I had allowed him to live, he remains the Alpha but will steer clear of us in the future," I said, a yawn coming out. My fire display was impressive, but I needed Liu Wei to help at the end because I was becoming too drained to keep it up. Luckily the Alpha didn't realize that I had help or he would have killed on the spot once my flas were extinguished.
"Now let's get onto the road and get back to the ranch," I said, as I made sure all of the n were out of the RVs before I vanished them. I would take them out once we got onto the highway, but for right now, they could go back into my space. What? I needed to save gas where I could. That was a lot of RVs and ATVs.
The n ford up into their lines again, this ti, the two groups were sowhat intermingled. I don't know if that was sothing that they did a lot, or was sothing that they worked out while I was in battle. But frankly, I didn't care.
Pulling out a couple of peanut butter cookies, I lead the way out of the clearing in a leisurely manner, not worried about what was waiting for us on the other side of the forest. After all, I just defeated the Alpha of this area, what else was there to worry about?
The four n fell in line on either side of and their n behind them. As we exited the forest path and stepped back onto the highway, I took one last look behind at the skyline of City B. I didn't know what actually happened to all of these cities when they rose or fell, but I found a new sense of hope as we left behind the soon-to-be zombie paradise. Hopefully, we would never have to co back here in the future. City A rose as a safe haven for humans, and I couldn't wait to get back ho and just relax. There were a lot of cake recipes that I wanted to try out and a harvest to process and put away.
Ho was calling with the sa lure as a siren and I sighed as I started walking in the direction of City A. "There is nothing else that you guys are going to spring on at the last minute, right?" I asked, looking at Liu Wei and Wang Chao from where they stood on either side of .
Both n shook their heads. At least I knew that there were no more family mbers to rescue. Liu Wei's important people are with us. Zhang What's His Face was lost sowhere in City B, and all of Wang Chao's family was back in City A. All in all, I could rest and eat sweets as soon as we got a bit further away from the city and I could take the RVs out.
Happy and content in my own head, I didn't pay attention when the boys ca to a dead stop. Wang Chao quickly grabbed my shoulder and pulled back, causing to stumble a bit. Looking at him, it took a few seconds to see that he wasn't even paying attention to . Instead, his gave was fixed firmly in front of us, and the line up of soldiers, complete with fatigues and weapons pointed at us.
"Ah, fuck."
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