Find the truth ( part 1 )

" Undead ?!! " Lina shouted as she was shocked making her voice resonate in the entire, " how could it be possible? Even the day of the catastrophe wasn't that scary ". They were on the bed when Jamal was relating to her the weird and worrying phenomenon that happened in the last patrol.

" I had the same reaction as you, they were really hard to defeat " he nodded then shrugged as he said, " in fact, their fighting skills alone were not so impressive, I could easily take them down... however it was the fact that they couldn't die which was problematic. The faster I kept killing the quicker they would come back, they were still standing up and coming even faster and stronger than before ".

Lina imagined the scene as Jamal described it to her [it could have been very awful if both Jamal and Natasha hadn't been able to stop them. I cannot even imagine what would have been happened if those monsters achieved to spread in the town ] she thought while a cold sweat was running down her back.

" And how did you manage to kill them definitively? It seemed impossible according to what you've said " she asked after thinking for a little while. Jamal smiled after remembering how straightforward when it came to interrogating someone.

Since he left the hospital, Jamal decided to tell Lina all the truth, however, he couldn't know whether it was good to tell her about Natasha's abilities, so when he was about to leave her house that night he took her aside and asked for her opinion.

" Since it's all about you, I thought it would be better if it's you the one to decide " he explained

Natasha didn't even hesitate neither did she think for too long, instead she immediately responded to him " Yes, of course, it's okay, you should absolutely, tell her ".

Jamal was more shocked than confused when he heard her reply. " ... should I? " he asked a little hesitant, " you really don't mind? I mean you are constantly fighting and arguing with each other, I thought that maybe... ".

" Maybe we hate each other? " Natasha laughed uncontrollably, " Is that what everyone thinks when looking at us? ".

That ended to make him even more confused, he asked her " it is not the case? ".

" Of course not " Natasha's laughter became louder " she keeps saying to everyone that I don't like her even though she knows that it is the opposite. " she exhaled happily when she calmed down a little bit as she explained, " We love each other as sisters do, I can't deny that there are some moments I really hate her but it's totally normal for sisters ".

Natasha was amused by Jamal's confused look, she smiled happily and added " don't worry there is not a single problem if you tell her, I fully trust her as much as I trust you and I even don't know why didn't I do it earlier ".

" ... hum ... OK if you don't mind " Jamal accepted.

Thus Jamal was resolute to tell Lina everything and her reaction was just like he had imagined after hearing Natasha's confession.

Lina took a moment to assimilate all that he said, she nodded as he said with a low voice, " oh I see, so that's it, Nat' turned to a superwoman who slays zombies with a Japanese sword and not a nasty woman who wanted to steal my man with her vulgar yet sexy body, huh? ".

" Said like that, it looks like an old Hollywood movie " Jamal sighed, " Can't you at least take it seriously? ".

Lina stood from where she was sitting and went to lay down on his chest, " what do you want me to say, as you keep talking, things are becoming more and more weird and confusing " she paused, " the only thing I can think about is the poor Matteo who so young yet with so many weights on his shoulders, " she continued with a low voice full of compassion. She changed her tone, " and I somehow feel relief that for all this long time I have been thinking you cheated me with Natasha you were just helping her to control her power. Have you a little idea of how worried I was, thinking that you could leave me for her? ".

" Mmm Really? But you look so proud before us when we're together, who could have been imagined that you are such a jealous and insecure woman " Jamal said to tease her as she rarely expressed herself so honestly while playing with her hair. " But more seriously, what do you think about the mission of tomorrow? ".

" I think despite being very dangerous it might be a great idea. I agree with Nat' when she says that we don't know how they will react however we can't just keep lacking information while problems keep coming to us, don't you think? " she looked at him, " You have... no we have to take this risk. For my part I will try to know from the other cities' chiefs whether similar phenomenons happened to them, if not I will try to come up with an idea to protect them a little ".

As they didn't know yet the real extent of the situation, she thought they should at least avoid taking any useless risk, " However the biggest challenge would be to convince them to avoid as much as they can killing the criminals without telling to them the real reason behind that decision until we get to know much about this case ", Lina was convinced that it would put them in the panic if it didn't happen yet [No I should just close my mouth about this problem].

Since it's already hard for them to reduce the number of criminals by killing them, how would they protect themselves if she achieved to convince them to not kill people, it was looking like a desperate situation [anyway it's my part of the mission to convince them and avoid them to be hurt more, I have to find an idea, just keep in mind that it will not be a deal of one day it must take a long time before I finish to convince them] she told to herself.

She sighed as the thought of the crisis they were in, " it's exhausting, how long do we have to fight before we obtain some peace ".

Jamal laughed loudly " It sounds like me when I'm complaining ". He suddenly changed the subject and asked her after he recalled something, " why didn't you tell me that you and Natasha are almost like sisters? ".

Lina smiled, lifted her head, and put a kiss on his lips " Good night and good luck for tomorrow, honey ", she laid again her head and a few moments later she slowly fell asleep. Jamal, later, finally decided to follow her, swallowing her disappointment.

At the usual time when he reached the point of rendezvous, Jamal found that Natasha and Matteo were already there waiting for him, which made oddly happy " Why are you here so early? " he asked with a big smile on his face.

Natasha who was wearing her usual sports outfit jumped off from the spot she was sitting to come to salute him " Hi, in fact, Matteo was too stressed and scared to sleep, I spent all the night trying to calm him down, I thought it might be a good idea if we come early ".

Jamal turned to Matteo " Are you okay now? If it's too much for you, you still can return back home waiting for us to finish the job and we will call you later ".

Though he said that, Jamal was hoping that he would be more courageous for a boy of almost 14 years. " Boldness a natural quality that all boys should have or strive to have it " his sister used to keep tell him " listen, for wishing to be a great man you must be brave ".

" No need I'm alright, Natasha was exaggerating, I... I just had some sleep trouble and I woke up early, that's all " Matteo replied a bit embarrassed.

Jamal stared at him and the boy had the feeling that he saw through his lie, however, he just nodded and said, " good if you say there is no problem ".

Jamal understood why Matteo was feeling so uneasy. They were badly lacking information about the undead like how much there would be, how they would react, whether Matteo would achieve to obtain answers to their questions or not... in brief, they didn't have any plan neither any guarantee that they would succeed. However, Jamal also knew that they would never achieve if they went through the danger without any resolution to win.

" Well, you will wait for us at the entrance of the factory, Natasha and I will go after the evil guys, it would take one to two hours ". He added with a smile " two hours because Natasha is a bit too slow ".

Matteo smiled " It's surely because she loves taking her time to enjoy torturing her opponents. A real villain ". They both started to laugh when Natasha pushed Jamal by his shoulder to point that she didn't find that funny and she shouted that she was the fastest between them.

While Natasha and Jamal went to take the motorbikes, as they had left them nearby after the last patrol and headed for the barrier, Matteo walked alone to the factory. There was a place Jamal indicated to him where he could hide until the end of the patrol.

They proceeded with the same strategy as before. Arriving at the barrier they took opposite directions, walked along it to make the usual work, and 30 minutes later they met up at the control post. Natasha reported three infraction cases with only one broken device, for his part Jamal found two infraction cases and zero broken device. They checked for the identities of the guys reported through the security cameras and they found out that they were all men.

" Ha five, it's more than I expected I hope everything will be alright ". Natasha sighed exasperatedly.

" It will be fine, we just have to fight them one by one, like that it will be safer and faster," Jamal replied to reassure her.

A few minutes later, the alarm rang and a spot appeared on one of the computers to indicate where it came from. Jamal looked at the screen and noticed that it came from the new citizens' sector, Natasha checked into another screen looking for the number of villains. " Only two," she let him know " I'm off, I already memorized the place " without waiting for any agreement or protestation she left the factory, her knife in a little sheath on her right leg motivated to catch the outlaws.

The second alarm came a few seconds after, when he looked at the screen to confirm the number and he found out that there were only two," I hate when it comes like that ". In fact, such cases often happened in the past, at that moment he would have to carry with him a wearable little device that would indicate the location of the last target. However the problem was that the network was very bad and the position given was never enough clear, so he would have to roll around for a while before he found his target.

He took so the little device a little bothered and left the factory to jump on his bike. He rolled at his maximum speed through the streets, he arrived at the foot of a little building where the entrance was broken. He went in, reached the security post which was on the left just a few steps ahead of the entrance, he checked at the screens of the surveillance cameras to see exactly where were the villains.

[The third level? Oh okay, they are still in the elevator and didn't reach it yet. Seems like the alarm was given quickly] he was happy to observe.

[If I want to take the elevator as they did, I might be noticed or, all simply, arrive there too late and I go for the stairs, it's the same. The doors here are not enough robust, if they panic or force too much they can eventually break through and rush into a random home what might be problematic] as he was working his brain as fast as he could the two guys were still trying to force into someone's apartment, he had to hurry to come up with a plan. Suddenly, he saw a window at the end of the hallway.

[It's a stupid idea but I don't have any choice if I want to come on the time] he said to himself while he was heading out of the building.

He quickly reached the east side of the building and without thinking too much, he started climbing along with the building. And less than 15 seconds later, he reached the window on the third floor.

With a blow of his head, he broke down the glass, and with a roulade, he penetrated in the hallway. As they were stunned by what just happened, they couldn't react on time, Jamal took the opportunity to make a sprint toward them. Once he reached he grabbed their faces pushed them hard and smashed both of them on the ground and with two blow fists in their noses, he put them K.O.

He put them on a little wagon used for cleaned he picked in a locker room, he dragged them until the foot of the building and after he attached the wagon to the motorbike he got on it and rolled to go looking for his third target. He was rolling through the streets while checking time to time the location device and at a moment when he turned at a corner, he saw Natasha with three bodies at her feet.

" A real scary warrior " Jamal commented after he realized that she was supposed to be after two outlaws only,

" What's happened? The third one must have been my prey " he asked when he reached her position.

She lifted up two of her 'victims' and put them on Jamal's little wagon. She tied the last one on the back of her bike and then responded, " I found him while I was chasing the other two along the streets. It was very funny, I should do it more often ".

On the way, she related to him that her targets were localized in front of a house where 3 young women lived, she saw them as they were trying to force their way in and decided to roll towards them. She said that when they noticed her coming they got scared and ran away, that was when she suddenly got a funny idea and decided to slow a bit in order to exhaust them. The chase lasted for a long while before they met another villain-- the third of Jamal's prey, she decided to finish them at once and then accelerated. When she was enough closer to them, she jumped off from the bike, and let it roll to go crash on them. She then said that as they were completely K.O, flattened on the ground, she put out the motorbike and leaned on the wall thinking about a way to carry them when Jamal came.

" You're a very scary woman. Matteo was right when he said that you love to torture your opponents " Jamal said with a large smile when she finished her story.

Natasha laughed slightly " it was not that awful ".

Then, they went straight to the factory. There they met up with Matteo in the exact place where Jamal advised him to hide. After they put all the sleeping guys in. Jamal told Matteo one more time to wait for them outside of the factory and also told him to never intend to enter before they finished to catch one undead. He nodded and went out while Jamal and Natasha were preparing the villains by tying them down with heavy chains.