The Zombie Tournament

Act 50 : A Small Break

 It is the fourth day of the contest. Within halfway of the game’s arrangement, there are at least twenty assassination happened across the vast landscape of Minopia. Fourty-eight contestants is required for the commencement of the third game, and they have reached one-third from ninety-six in total participants of the second game. From Tonado’s side, there are five members that has gotten the ticket for the final battle in the capital city. Tanya Rushdi was the earliest one to have them alongside Tony Simmons on Frandemulo. Damon has gotten his medal, as well, yet the half-zombie has to venture within the past-days of experimentation shortly after.

Juno Rumondor and Gina Keaton were injured by the last engagement with Gorand Industries upon the entryway to Gastamo. Their group have obliterated some of the sworn opponent’s members by the moment of their clash. All eight members of the team were hit badly and close to critical, but having only a day to recover because of the competition’s strict rules and conducts.

As for now, They have themselves occupied with various forms of fresh-arrival living dead at Tonado Hospital of Gastamo. Nothing new around the clock for them to buy. Materials for gigantic zombie contruction are available side-to-side with regular speedster zombies on 30% discount. A fresh-and-hunk partial gigantic zombie ones will cost them 8000 virtual dollars from their account. Zombie animals are also here to be purchased, but most of them needed around 20.000 virtual dollars for a piece of their work.

Looking at one of the cat-zombie, Zeno Gunnar wants to buy some of them for fun, yet it has been priced at 10.000 virtual dollars for one.

“Damnit, Tonado really has to consider picking a good label for this. How come a useless critter costs us half of our prize from Frandemulo?” Zeno Gunnar sulked. Being intrigued, Tanya Rushdi on the right scanned on the black barcode on the cage’s metal bar to ease off her curiosity.

“Yeah, it has self-combustion, venom fangs, and would be bristle upon contact. I guess that’s why.” She concluded,”It is insanely cute, though, I wonder why would anyone use this for battle.”

Of course, being inquisitive means having acute interest to touch. There have been no other way to expedite an answer rather than feeling it by hand. Therefore, Frank Terino feels determined to have a taste of the bristle thoroughly and called one of them for a human fleh on his hand,”Come on, kitty. You want this finger, are you? Come and get one.” He allured the grey one out of the pack.

(chomp)

Its petite mouth has enlarged to grow a bunch of layers across the lips. It shows numerous lines of purple-colored fangs for grinding its food within. Some of them were protruding to grab onto Frank Terino’s hand, even, for him to be scared as it seemed that the cat wants him more as a prey.

He quickly pulled his hand and washed it properly with alcohol afterwards,“Whoa, that fangs’ dangerous!” He rattled. One slight second later, the stout man of Tonado will have to be hospitalised because of his own recklessness, therefore made them losing one fairly hefty character to the battle.

On the southern area of the cage, Tony Simmons was indulged with one unique form of living dead and has been observing such beast for awhile. Zeno Gunnar has arrived to the special lair a number of minutes later, accompanied with Tanya Rushdi for sightseeing across the zombie exhibit’s corridor. It has a number of sharp claws on the point of its fingers. A long grey hair indicated its zombified process has been through the same method to anyone else in the realm. From behind, none could concur with its actual gender, despite anybody’s agreement that it is a female by the long-disorganised hair on its back.

A hunch, really, because Deino and Sanna Gunnar have the same feature, as much.

There are signs plastered on every edge of the confinement that prohibited onlookers to snap a picture or putting a limb into the cage. Indeed, the zombie itself has been crawling down at the center of its own cage and goes standstill there, but nobody will be aware of its further action once a person tried to do what was forbidden.

Being a knight determines Zeno Gunnar’s resillience to adhere on any rules implied. The young knight will never do anything that could be antagonistic towards moral conduct. However, He felt a dozen interest to see its face, therefore the young knight’s attempt to encircle the cage. Alas, the living dead tends to put its own stare down towards the ground, rejecting Zeno Gunnar’s desire to know further.

“Ah, he’s too shy.” Zeno Gunnar protested. He grabbed a portion of human fingers that was given by Frank Terino for a bait,”I’ll hand him a flesh if that zombie wanted to show a nibble of his face.”

“Don’t be, Zeno, what if-“

The young knight laid a finger to his partner’s lips,”If I need to unveil, I’ll do everything for it to happen, Tanya. What if that man is your brother or something?”

“That zombie is declared as female, honey. Look at the sign.” She retorted,”You can do anything you wish, but at least be respectful of her gender, please.”

“Yeah, whatever.” Zeno Gunnar eyes rolled. Being engrossed with the creature’s appearance at most, the young knight fell absent of his surroundings, until he sees Tony on the southern direction of the cage in gleeful fashion.

”Oh, hey there, Tony. How are you?” He yelled.

Tony Simmons glanced to the man’s direction, nods a bit for courtesy, before laying his own sense back to the living dead inside the cage in a blank stare. As their vice-leader looks dejected to their vision, Tanya Rushdi nose wrinkled. She never witnessed his fellow blonde-haired person in this state before. He always looks cheerful and lively, for the man being an important person in their group and a representative to the crowd.

For it, she wanted her man’s approval, so Tanya Rushdi goes slightly close to the young knight’s ear to suggest,”What about a consolation, honey? He’s totally under the weather right now.” She whispered.

Of course, a color of gloom from his eyes has also made the young knight intrigued. To her impending suggestion, the young knight drags Tanya Rushdi to approach their leader up close.

“What’s up to the group, Tony?” Zeno Gunnar greeted,”Don’t hide it, please. We know there’s something problematic for you to be looking so sad like that.” He added.

Tony Simmons’ head tilted downward and sighed. He paused a bit to ponder around any better method to explain. At one time, He rubbed his blonde hair as the wind caressed it around, then looking at the unknown zombie for a lift-up before eventually decided to muster words afterwards,“Onda and Gerald has to be dismissed. They could no longer battle properly, and their medal will be given directly to their respective hunter.” He answered.

The vice-captain then avoided both of his subordinates’ eye and kept himself occupied with battered robe of the female beast.

To the news, Tanya Rushdi could only stroke her collarbone and gasped,“Really? They have been with us since the very beginning. How bad their injury are, Tony?”

“A bit near death, unfortunately. They survived, but have to go on critical response for a week at best.” Tony Simmons responded in a lower tone of voice, sounded more like a murmur to his friend’s sense.

Otherwise, Zeno Gunnar falls silent to Tony Simmon’s announcement. Gerald and Onda were a stranger to the young knight in his tenure as a new guy of the group. In his knowledge, both of them carried mid-range firearms to the battlefield and having a knack to utilise dual-wielding mode with their weapon. Gerald could use dual shotgun, while Onda feels refined in putting double submachinegun on both arms.

Either way or another, having to suffer losses will always bitter to swallow, no matter to whose party in that regard. One news of death in this particular competition could never be happening if there was no contest in general.

(hurl)

Suddenly, the young knight puts off the severed fingers from his bag to the empty space inside the cage. He aimed to do such things for boosting their mood after hearing such devastating information. Indeed, nobody realized his intentions to waste away a bunch of fresh-made fingers beforehand, so there are no one that stopped him from doing so onwards.

Until Tanya Rushdi perceives the bundle shortly after, for her to glare at the young knight’s eyes and growls,”Are you out of your mind, Zeno? That sign prohibited us to-“

(tang!)

“Hraaaa!”

The young knight deflected an unexpected assault from the distressed zombie of the cage. She tried to reach Tanya Rushdi’s throat, which was the closest one to the cage and a pile of severed fingers down below, yet happened to have none from her target at all.

In closer look to the beast’s face, there are two scars that were overlapped across the beast’s nose on the middle. The beast’s eyes are bulging out from the socket and rotating freely in the open. On the other hand, she has two types of mouths, standing in vertical shape side-by-side to each other. Both of them work perfectly and has a basic function of a digestive process, other than the left-one that is more similar to a suction cups than an actual mouth of a person.

“I guess that one will be for siphoning blood.” Tony Simmons mumbled, pointing across the left-side mouth to show his deduction to the beast’s appearance,”For the other, I suppose it’s for meat-munching and whatnot.”

“I’m agree with you, Tony. What about the third mouth, though? Could it be that it shaped in double-slap like the upper ones?” Zeno Gunnar rubs his chin in agreement. Nonetheless, Tanya Rushdi nodded to their presumption , but keep on dragging either of them out from the vicinity afterwards.

“Yeah, I second to that, but we are surely have to leave.” She said.