"Hm...fancy couch, but not fancy enough for me." With a wave, the ancient looking couch in the living room vanished, and a plush blue velvety couch took its place. "There's no TV? Though I didn't manage to snag a generator, I'm confident I'll find a way to get one running." Whoosh! "This rug is also ugly." Whoosh! "The mattress is too small..." Whoosh! From the first floor, to the second, to the last...Ella went through the Stone Mansion and checked every nook and crook. The place, though smaller than the Vaahid Mansion, was everything a mansion should be. Large and spacious, with crystal chandeliers and sprawling staircase. Now that she wanted to make it into her stronghold and future palace, she wasn't stingy in using the furniture in her space to change up the place. As they say, a home was only a home when one decorates it themselves. After scouring the entire mansion and replacing everything that needed to be replaced, Ella decided to check the kitchen. She needed to st
They were f**king real! Ella's already hazy mind seemed to inflate, and grow as her temples throbbed at this discovery. 'Why am I surprised? If vampires and werewolves can exist, then why can't mermaids?' At this thought, her pounding heart immediately settled. "Why is a human here? Are you trying to take shelter in our waters after your land went up in flames?" The beautiful mermaid swam around her in curiosity, her crystal blue orbs shinning like two-beams of sapphire light under the blue-green waves. "Well, speak!" She commanded. Ella raised a brow. She wasn't a fish. How was she supposed to speak underwater? Pointing helplessly at her mouth, she tried to sign her difficulty to the other woman. She must've gotten her meaning across as the mermaid's eyes lit up in realization. "Oh! I almost forgot you two legs can't breathe underwater." The dark blue scales on her forked tail rippled with the water. Ella's eyes couldn't move away from shimmery beauty. She felt an urge to t
"I wonder how Irene and the rest of the group are doing?" Ella wondered out loud, and felt gleeful at the thought. Since the start of the apocalypse, she'd been taking care of the three. While the rest of the world was in turmoil and people entered a killing frenzy for food and supplies, she kept them fed with the food cans in her backpack, sparing them from such an ordeal. But now that they had been separated for a few days, the three would get a taste of true hunger. "It's good for them to suffer a little. Only then, would they appreciate what I give them." Humming under her breath, Ella entered the mansion to begin the next step of her plan. Meanwhile, a few miles from the Stone Mansion, a group of five were trudging through a swam. Their faces and clothes were coated in mud and vines wrapped around their wrists. Battered and on the brink of collapse, they crawled out of the sinking hole with haggard expressions. "The he**! Wasn't this island supposed to be a paradise?" Celio
Celio's eyes brightened at the mention of food. "Marcus, let's take them along. We won't be responsible for their lives." He whispered. "Don't lose your mind over food. Even if we don't take responsibility for their lives, they'll still drag us down with their numbers." Not to mention, the noise they make would attract unwanted trouble. Celio's rapidly beating heart slowed when he heard Marcus's words. Then he cursed under his breath and turned his head away in embarrassment. As a reborn individual, he couldn't even control his own emotions. Then how would he get his revenge? Marcus's expression was cold as stone, causing the group of regular humans to shudder and step back. They approached the group with the intention to secure a safe journey through the woods for themselves. And though they had food, they didn't dare to bring it with them in fear of getting robbed. As such, when they met the cold eyes of the group of five, they wondered if they would be murdered for food and felt
"Roar!" Right at this moment, a ferocious growl split through the air. Irene and Celio leaped to their feet and stood back to back, while Marcus and Brad got into a fighting stance. Charlie merely narrowed his eyes and didn't move. Sparks of lighting danced across his fingers, shrouding his features in a ghostly light. "What...what was that? A zombie or...mutated creature?" Jax stammered. "We'll know soon enough, won't we?" Brad nonchalantly smirked. Though he didn't awaken a superpower, his aura wasn't any weaker than his four friends. Jax wondered how the man managed to stay calm and confident in such circumstances, when he was just as powerless as him. The roars grew stronger, and as it drew near, the ground began to shake. Irene created a protective shield around her friends, while Celio focused on stabilizing everyone's balance. By now, the humans were frozen stiff and as pale as a corpse with fright. "Is it...Naomi Miller?" One whispered. "I don't think so. If it was, sh
She had been wandering the woods ever since she escaped, lurking and preying on the frail creatures to sate her thirst. The thirst. It was insatiable. Always there, scorching her heart and setting her throat on fire. The crimson liquid would douse it for a while. But only a short while, and that too, when she was feasting. Then the moment she ran out, it would return with greater fury. Her heart no longer beat, and she no longer felt tired. She would walk for days and hunt for nights without experiencing the slightest discomfort. All would've been fine and well if it wasn't for the nagging urge to eat, eat, and eat. She knew her name. Naomi Miller. She knew she had a brother. Kaiden Miller. He loved her and spoiled her, giving her whatever she wanted without hesitation. She knew he was probably worried. Maybe even shocked silly by her transformation. She should go to him and ease his worries. She knew she should, but for all that was flesh and blood, she couldn't bring hersel
Roaring thunder crackled and boomed, rippling across the crimson sky of Sapphire Island, bouncing from misty mountain to dense trees. "Radiance, fly faster!" Ella excitedly rubbed the crane's back. The murky clouds roiled as a flash of lighting seared the sky and painted her face in an eerie flare. "Kweee!" The white crane crooned and flapped her wings, kicking up gusts of wind blades and whirlpools of scarlet rain in the sudden downpour. This was the first rain after the descent of the meteor. Due to its blood-like hue and its mystical quality survivors of the zombie virus would later label it Armageddon Rain. As a manifestation of a union between a lighting ability superhuman and a level 4 zombie, the scarlet rain would raise all level 1 zombies to 2, and level 2 zombies to level 3. 'I don't know if it's Charlie, but even if it's not, it doesn't matter.' She only needed to find the location of the superhuman and level 4 zombie's union before anyone else. As a level 4 superhum
BOOK 2: The Superhuman Queen Chapter 1: Building A Fortress "Haha! That's payback!" Ella chuckled gleefully at the sound of the angry zombie's roar. Their last exchange severely affected her mental balance, to the point where she turned into a hermit. Other than going out to smash zombies and crash mutated plants and animals, she hadn't left her spatial space in a quest to reach level 4. Thankfully, she didn't need to find a healer for Radiance because of the spring water's healing ability. Her crane's mangled wing healed and became sturdier than before after a little splash with the water. "Now that I have a Lighting Manifestation Orb, I just need to consolidate my foundation. After a week, I'll consume the orb and aim to step into the fifth power level and awaken a lighting ability!" With this thought, Ella guided the crane back to the Stone Mansion. Swooping down in the front yard, she didn't wait for Radiance to land, before she hopped off her back and skipped into the mansion