Rebirth in the Apocalypse: Third Time's a Charm



There was silence after my words, like Wang Zi Mo didn't know how to react or what to say.

Technically, what I told him had not happened yet, might never happen in this timeline. But it did. And it was. And those people deserved revenge. They could no more help the fact that they were Asymptomatic than we could help the fact that we were power users. It was a throw of the dice, and they lost.

That group in particular was a lot more peaceful than the other Asymptomatic that roamed around trying to kill as many zombies and power users that they could.

I took a deep breath and wished that Liu Wei and Wang Chao was here. I didn't know what to do next. Would I kill the man that I hated more than life itself and change the very future? Or would I keep him alive because he was Wang Chao's cousin?

"We are on our way, Sweetheart," said a voice coming from my pocket. Never breaking eye contact with the man in front of me, I reached into my pants and took out the phone.

"I'm in a bit of a mood, Wei Wei," I said, hoping that he would understand.

"Not a problem, little girl, you do what you need to do. We should be there in 5 minutes if you can hold on. If you can't, we will be there to clean up the mess." This time, Wang Chao's voice came out from the speaker. Wang Zi Mo's eyes widened as he started at my phone like it had just turned into a snake and was about to bite him.

I closed my eyes, completely relaxing. I did not put my faith in the wrong men this time. "If you need me to wait, I can. But I need to be the one to kill him," I said to Wang Chao.

"Kill me?!? Kill me! You do not have the ability to kill me, little girl, and Wang Chao, you need the old man's permission to do it and you don't!" Yelled Wang Zi Mo, starting to become a bit unhinged. His men raised their guns a fraction higher, ready to shoot me the moment Wang Zi Mo gave the order. "Kill her!" He screamed.

I surrounded myself in my blue flame and stretched it outwards to encompass the bullets far away from me. I knew that the copper bullets would melt at just over 1,000 degrees and my blue flame was 3,000 degrees. The biggest problem would be that the bullets would still explode, and I could still be hurt.

I was about to drop to the floor when time seemed to stop. There was an eery quiet as all noised stopped. I turned to look at the entrance of the warehouse and saw the silhouettes of two men walking towards me. Their men waiting at the entrance.

"Are you ok?" Asked Wang Chao as he took my arm and looked me up and down, checking me over for injuries.

"Sure, I guess," I said, somewhat confused about everything. "What's going on?" I continued, my hand gesturing to the teeny tiny fireworks going on, with me at their center. If he wasn't here, if he didn't come for me, I would have been killed.

Just my luck, I survive the apocalypse and human hunting sharks only to be killed by a few bullets.

"I am not sure how long its going to stay like this, so do you mind if we move a few things around and then leave?" Asked Liu Wei, already drawing my away from the frozen exploding bullets. When he determined that I was a safe enough distance away… which apparently the front door surrounded by his men, he returned to the ring of fire and pulled Wang Zi Mo into the center of the bullets.

After he and Wang Chao also go to a safe distance, Wang Chao waved his hands and time continued as normal. The scream of absolute anguish pierced the air as Wang Zi Mo was gunned down in a blaze of bullets, by his own men. The only thing that would have made it more satisfying would be if he were eaten by his zombie horde instead.

Liu Wei turned to look at the men behind the three of us. "How did Wang Zi Mo die?" He asked in a deceptively soft voice.

"He was gunned down by his own men in an abandoned warehouse," the leader responded. When he received Liu Wei's nod of approval, they saluted and as if one, turned around and left the warehouse. Wang Chao and I continued to watch the show in front of us as the guards, realizing that they had killed their own boss.

I should feel bad, I should feel some type of remorse for what I was going to do next, but I just couldn't bring myself to care.

"I've got no more fucks to give, my fucks have all run dry," I hummed to myself as I felt Liu Wei come up behind me and put his arm around my waist. "I played by all the rules but I've very rarely won…" As I continued to sing one of the greatest songs of all time by Thomas Wild, flames begin to dance up my hands and arms.

I could only assume that their heat was not hurting either on of the guys as they continued to stand with me as I finished this final bow to my old life. I would not let Colin haunt me anymore and all of his victims, including myself, will be avenged. I raised my arms up to the ceiling as if I was doing a sun salutation. As I brought the ball of pink and blue flames to my chest, I threw it out to the stunned guards. Within a matter of minutes, there was nothing left of the men or of Wang Zi Mo, my flames burning them to ashes within a matter of seconds.

"Will you get into trouble?" I asked, looking at Wang Chao. He shook his head and raised my left hand to give me a gentle kiss on the wrist. "How can I be in trouble? His guards killed him and now no one can find a body. Hardly my fault, they weren't even my men. He was training his own army."

I nodded in understanding. It still felt weird to me that the most powerful families in Country K had their own private militia. But then again, having your own military force will be very beneficial in the coming days.

Maybe I had it wrong, maybe the wealthy had always been planning for the apocalypse. Who was I to judge.