The Antic Six, Mzamo Duke, Sifili [good books to read for beginners txt] 📗

“How is it still alive, didn’t they die in sunlight”, asked Russ.

“They did but these guys mutated and maybe this one had cancer or any other disease and their cells were empowered by that to cover their weakness”. Said Jake and shot it's head. And turned it's face trying to examine it.  He found veins all over its body and knew that he was right he had a disease and passed it to each zombie they bite. But to the townships it took time to arrive.

They got inside the car and continued their journey. They drove passing the Maitland. The gun shot intrigued all the zombies at Maitland. As they were talking they noticed a crowd of zombies and drove even faster.

As they are running away from them they noticed someone standing in the middle of the road. Jake tried to hoot at him and the guy turned his head at him and roar. “Shit that guy his the one who started this thing”, said Jake. Russ asked that how did he know and Johnson answered, “It is simple to tell, the first doesn’t scream it roars and it is not showing any signs of aggressiveness but its powers are more capable of lifting a car”.

“You mean were dead”, asked Zintle. “No we're here aren't we, we will protect you”, said Johnson trying to cover the point that they are doomed.

Jake managed to swing the car from him. And in a slow motion he could see that the guy was Marcelous Brandon, as written on his name tag and was a security guard at some property. They passed Goodwood and Parow, entering Bellville. They made a quick turn and joined with R302, as they looked at the back they could see more of them joining and these guys had the speed to keep up with them. Jake was almost happy.

He was finally here and he turned to the O’kennedyville, M31 road. Her work place was there and he couldn't wait to see her.

They parked out side the entrance door and remembered there’s a head coming this way. They took their weapons and Marcelous was there on top of the bridge, he was watching them and knew what they wanted, they were there to rescue the survivors left.

They entered the building and they shouted Jenny's name. There were some zombies inside and they heard the noise and attended it. All those who popped at them were shot, everyone was shooting at every zombie, the zombies were falling from the stairs to the floor. Jenny and his colleagues heard the noise and thought that they were here to be rescued. They opened the door and before it could open, one zombie heard a noise and waited for the door to open and grasped Bathini. Asemahle and Jenny ran screaming. Jake knew that voice and ran up the stairs, she stopped and saw Jenny. They both stopped and Asemahle was confused. They both ran to each other and she hugged him so tight. “I missed you, where have you been”, she asked and didn’t want to let go again.

“I know I’m sorry I took too long”, said Jake, she looked him in the eyes, they kissed and Jenny couldn’t stop.

His friends arrived killing all the zombies in the building. “Guys meet Jenny and Jenny meet my squad, they helped me to get here and to rescue you.

“Hi everyone this is Asemahle”, said Jenny and everyone greeted. “Come on we gotta leave, the zombies are coming this way”, shouted Phiwo.

When they reached the exit, the zombies stopped for a sudden and opened a way for Marcelous. He came in forward and looked at them, his head bent and roared. His puppets ran to them, Jake and his friends ran up and when they fired, their weapons were empty. Jenny slipped and fell and Jake ran to her, fighting every zombie that tried to touch her. His punches were slamming them to the walls.

He lifted Jenny, “I can't loose you, I love you Jenny, too dam much to let go”, emphasised Jake.

Jenny forgot about their situation and was drifted by Jake's word and kissed him for one more time. They quickly climbed the stairs and he put her down. “Wait for me I'm coming and I'm not gonna be late again”, said Jake.

“Guys, it’s been too long, let’s take out our weapons and take this matter personal”, said Jake.

Asemahle was amused by this and saw that Jenny was so happy by this boy's arrival and was happy for her. “Come Asemahle, all we can do is to develop a cure”, said Jenny. They called Zintle and Phiwo for assistance. They entered the experimentation room. Bathini was eaten and he entered the room and before Phiwo could kill it Asemahle stopped her, she told her that they will need it alive and need to test the cure at him. They found out that the cells were needing the blood cells to survive so but they had to first destroy the blood cells for the cure to work.

Jake took Marcelous, Johnson took the left and Russ took the right. They killed more zombies and Jake was having a match but he could let it intimidate him. They fought and fought until they could finish all of them. Marcelous was still alive he's been killed countless times by Jake but was slammed by Marcelous. “OK, then you are tough, I give you that but not for long”, said Jake. He focused his powers and ran straight to him. His punches were faster than Marcelous could see. He hit till some of his organs died.

His friends went to to join in the fun. They combined all forces and took them almost all their powers to defeat him. They aimed for the head and Marcelous was being careful. Johnson quickly grabbed the head, Russ tripped it down and it was their chance to to kill it, they all cut the neck and his head went the other way. “We did it, the king is down”, said Johnson. Now they were exhausted. Many zombies entered the building. They all ran upstairs. “Guys in here”, Zintle called and ran to the experimentation room. “What are you doing?” asked Jake. “We're creating a cure that will wipe out the virus”, really can you do that, I mean its your job right all we have to do is wait and hope it works”.  They designed the cure and kept on testing it on Bathini. “The cure should kill the host and regenerate it’s organs”, said Asemahle.

The zombie, Bathini had a seizure and stopped for minutes and he gasped for breath and some of his wound closed within seconds.

Now they had to do it to all the zombies all over. More zombies gathered and smashing the door hoping to open. Asemahle thought of how about they could electric send it to all the zombies but they would need a high peak to do it and someone must do it. Johnson volunteered and because he had the speed, he could fight gravity, he could go up quick before he could fall. So he opened the window and waited and he disappeared in the blue. Jake waited to catch him. He landed in Jake’s arms and got inside. So quick everything was done and waited for Asemahle to activate the cure. She pressed the button and boom a sound cracked in the sky and all the zombies dissolved to the ground. They were like dead two times. Jake, Johnson and Russ also felt weak and fainted. They also died and Jake fell into Jenny's arms. “This isn't right, this cannot be happening, they cant die, Jake you can't die please no, no, no, no, God please no”, said Jenny as tears start falling down her cheek. Asemahle brushed her back making her strong.

They didn’t die, they were also infected as everyone but they activated the virus giving it limited access to their body and took the majority advantage and use it for their will. So they fainted because their body was separated from the virus cells and was weak from all the commotion and their powers were exhausted.

Their organs too were generated and now they had new phantasmal abilities of regeneration, their cells would never die. In an instant they woke up. Jenny saw a change in his body he gloomed again. “Your body absorbed the cure and boosted you cells they can regenerate, this is good”, she said with excitement. “I'm gonna stay with you, till I die I’m not gonna leave you again”, promised Jake.

Every citizen of South Africa woke as if they lost their minds and people went to their houses. Bathini was so confused, why was he tied in a chair. Well it was a long story. Everyone wanted to know why they had blood on their clothes. Bit by bit things came to normal. Jake, Russ, Johnson, Jenny, Asemahle, Zintle and Phiwo were our heroes and heroins. They called themselves the Antic Six.

We were saved from extinction and we are alive, we don’t remember what happened.

Jake and Jenny went for their picnic at the hill everything was back to normal.

Jake holding her hand tight, “You see this, I’m never letting go”, said Jake and kissed her.

Marcelous's body regenerated and he disappeared.

Marcelous shall have his revenge...

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Publication Date: 02-28-2020

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