The explanations

Lina was running worryingly through the hallways of the hospital and when she finally reached Jamal's room she was almost breathless, however, she didn't even rest to catch her breath. She jumped on his neck tears in her eyes " What did happen? Why are you here? You have never been injured even once since you started to patrol. " Lina started crying, a reaction, one can found, too emotive since he was wounded that grievously.

" Come on, I told you it was nothing to worry about " Jamal tried desperately to calm her, " It was just an accident at the factory. Look, it's just some scratches and some few burns on my belly. Nothing more ".

" Jeez, Lina is always too abusive when it's about your body," Natasha uttered between her teeth while rolling her eyes.

" You shut up, Ms. 'I can't find any boyfriend so I will hang out with other girls' men' " Lina replied while pointing her finger at her, " this hot man here is the one with whom I use to sleep with, so it's totally normal for me to be worried," she added with a condescending tone.

Natasha was fire up like usual when she argued with Lina and she finished with the last word. In fact, Lina was the first one who figured out that Natasha was in love with Jamal, and even though she never said it to anyone she never misses a chance to tease her by keeping recalling her that she was the one whom Jamal was dating.

" By the way, what were you doing with my man? Why were you the one who brought him here? " Lina asked while narrowing her eyes suspicious.

" Oh well, to tell you the truth- " Jamal couldn't even finish his sentence as Natasha cut him, with her eyes glittering maliciously she said " exactly what you are thinking now, I bet you are enough smart to figure out what a man and a woman were doing alone in an abandoned factory, aren't you? " As she said that, Lina turned furiously to Jamal and shouted, " What does it mean Jamie? You're now cheating on me with that not yet developed girl ? ".

" No you're wrong it's not like that- " One more time he couldn't get the occasion to defend himself as he got interrupted in midway. " 'Not yet developed girl'? " Natasha repeated ironically, " If I remember correctly I am the one who won the competition of Miss StainFall this year, am I not? Don't be mad if Jamal got the sudden desire to taste a fresher and prettier girl than you, " Natasha said with a defying look toward Lina.

Indeed after the catastrophe of two years ago, in order to cheer up the spirit of StainFall's people, Lina, Jamal and Natasha worked together to organize some events and festivities. One of them was the competition of the Miss of the city, a few months ago. Furthermore, Lina and Natasha took that competition as an occasion to challenge each other and to prove to each other who among them was the most beautiful, and even though Lina was older than her, it was Natasha the one who won the majority of voters. This win became her principal weapon against Lina during their arguments as until there she didn't have any.

" Jamie, you better explain yourself otherwise you- " Natasha interrupted Lina in her menaces and said, " you what? All that he gets from you he could have even better from me ". Jamal knew that it was that moment, when they were both finally silent, the occasion to quickly put some words to stop that absurd quarrel. " OK, it's enough. We weren't doing anything bad. Listen, I agreed to let Natasha starting helping me out with my daily patrols and today was her first day. It was her who saved Nadine from Edna's furry and the one who carried me here when I foolishly injured myself, got it? ".

Lina stayed quiet for a while staring at him. " You sleep at my home tonight and you will tell me all that happened... without lying " she ordered him in a dry tone before she turned to Natasha and told her to thank her for having helped her boyfriend, then she kissed him and left silently the room. When she closed the door behind Natasha put a triumphant smile on her face and she turned to Jamal as it was the first time she won an argument against Lina. Seeing her face Jamal sighed " Three wins in one day, it seems to be a great day for you. Anyway it's almost time for the fighting training, if you're done we may go now ".

" You really don't want to talk about what happened in the factory? You even lied to Lina about your wounds " she asked him.

Jamal smiled " If we wanted to discuss it now it would have been a waste of time and we would just end frightening ourselves for nothing " he paused and looked up at the roof, thoughtful as he said, " there is only one person who is able to answer at least half of our question ".

Natasha replied as she guessed who he was referring to " Matteo, right? "

Jamal nodded " So we will go and act like it's a normal day and after you finish your class we will go together at your house to interrogate him " he paused " and for Lina, I'm pretty sure she already figured out that there's something, so it's not like I lied to her when I come back I will tell her all the truth ".

...

As it was decided after they finished all their daily routine, they met up at Natasha's home. Jamal came and knocked on the door and after a few seconds, it was Matteo who came to open it. " Oh, such a surprise Mr.ActionMan, welcome, " he said with a bored tone." Natasha is taking a shower, she will be there soon so please wait for her before you start your interrogatory, " he said when they reached the living room. Jamal felt a bit culpable but it couldn't be helped, they had to seek some answers.

Though he was acting cool since the morning with Natasha, in reality, he was a bit worried. For hours and hours, he wondered how such a phenomenon could happen, [they were almost dead, even more than dead, how could they stand up and come stronger again and again?] Jamal didn't stop thinking. He could even say that it was even as worrying as that night from two years ago. The only hope he had was that Natasha has discovered with a new ability which permitted her to get rid of them definitively otherwise they would keep coming.

[Only supernatural people can handle with supernatural problems] he had thought before he made that bet.

It was so long since Jamal started protecting the city from various ordinary criminals, but he knew that he would be no match for opponents like those monsters whom he cannot even kill. From there he would have to rely on Natasha for such similar cases. What he could only do, now, was to assist her. [How did I pass from town's Sheriff to Natasha's acolyte?] he sighed.

They stayed there in awkward silence for five minutes before Natasha came down.

When Jamal had told her that they would meet up at her house she knew that it would be her chance to catch up for before, however, she remembered Lina who accused her of wanting to steal her boyfriend and Matteo who knew her love for Jamal and thought that it would be suspicious. Instead, she decided to just wear a mini short of pajama and a sweatshirt.

" You were waiting for me? " she asked a bit embarrassed when she arrived in front of them. Both Jamal and Matteo nodded. " Well, never mind, have a seat, and let's just begin " she declared while waving her hand.

Jamal began the talk. " Firstly Matteo ... what was that? ".

He stayed quiet a little, then, he inhaled some air before he raised his head and said " first of all let me introduce myself correctly, I'm Matteo Verdez, Natasha must have told you that I have some abnormal capacities, but you still don't know what, right? ", they nodded " Well, in reality ... I describe myself as a kind of detector ".

Matteo understood that they didn't get it as they couldn't reply and so he added some explanation " I can somehow feel supernatural situations or people, that is how I was been able to confirm Natasha's identity ".

" What happened this morning... did you predict it ... can you...?" Jamal asked.

" No I'm not able to see in the future, God didn't bless me with such a power " he shook his head, he paused and thought, " look when there would be a storm there are some signs to predict it, right? My power works with the same concept, I can read through the signs which predicts an upcoming abnormal danger, that is all ".

Jamal thought, then Natasha asked, " For the... stuff of this morning how did you know it? What did you see exactly? ". Matteo gazed at her then he turned to Jamal " the day before yesterday in the park, I saw like dead corpses were rising from the earth and they were walking around the people on a black water lake and I felt like they were invincible until a line of fire came to cut them ".

Jamal and Natasha simultaneously looked at each other, " a line of fire ... which cut them? " he whispered. " Yeah I know it may be weird but that actually what I saw, in fact, it's through weird visions like it that I can be able to know whether a paranormal danger would happen and those appeared in a random manner ".

" Yeah don't worry, the fact is that in reality, we believe in you because that is what happened this morning in the patrol, " Natasha said to reassure him, then she started to tell him all that happened in the factory after she finished Matteo stayed silent. Although he didn't want to rush him, Jamal thought it was crucial to ask him, " do you know or did you get any vision which predicts whether they or something similar would come again? ".

Matteo thought, he seemed a bit doubtful as to if he wasn't sure whether to tell them or not, then he finally decided to answer, " According to my vision... yes there would come more ".

As Jamal asked him to be more precise, he explained " as I told you before, through my vision I'm able to know when something abnormal happens. Even though I cannot obtain the venue or the exact date it would happen, I'm still able to pick some more details. I remember having seen the awakening of about 23 dead corpses, I think it's a sign... since you have already eliminated two of them it still left 21 undead you have to defeat ".

For a moment no one could say a single word as they were shocked. Natasha frowned " 21...?", Jamal turned to her " How is it? Do you think you can do it ?"

" I don't know " she honestly responded " even though we know having a weapon against them, we are still lacking time and information. We don't know how long could I keep holding the sword, as well as we don't even know if they will react to it the way, the last time I took them by surprise. Imagine they react more aggressively when I make it appear, it would be tough to kill them since you never taught me how to use a katana ".

" Don't you have any clue about why people turned into undead after they were killed? It was odd that the two guys awakened and Edna didn't, why? " Jamal asked Matteo who shook his head as he didn't have any idea, " no. Like I said it allowed me to know about an upcoming event, not the cause of it ".

" How could you be able to confirm that Natasha had powers just like you? " he twisted the question.

Matteo thought but he did not find any logical response, " Well ... I don't know... somehow I just felt it ". Jamal asked again, " had you known that you could detect abnormal people before you met her? "

Again he just shook his head. [So he still doesn't know the totality of his power] Jamal deduced. He stared at them while thinking, smiled while his eyes were sparking, and stood up suddenly after he got an idea. He looked at Natasha " Well, tomorrow we will catch an undead and you, Matteo, will use your power to discover why they turned like that ".

They were both stunned and couldn't reply.

" We will what? Did I hear you well? We're not even sure being able to defeat them and you want to catch one " Natasha finally said, it was obvious that for her it was a crazy idea.

Matteo stood up at his turn, " wait! I told you that I'm not able to do such those things ".

" Calm down and think positively, we will do it because I believe in you, " Jamal said confidently. He was reaching the door to leave when he suddenly stopped and turned around, " one thing Matteo. How can we be sure such a phenomenon will not appear in the other cities? ". Matteo bowed his head " We are not sure ". Jamal thought, nodded, and left the house without saying further.