Chapter 16.

Laying down flat on the moving train Chad could feel it slowing down as they passed under a bridge. Emerging from under the bridge he could see that they were now in the heart of the city.

On his right side, there were beautiful tall office buildings and even a large bank. On his left side were industrial buildings, a powerplant, loads of warehouses and a bit further ahead even a massive shopping mall.

Then he noticed those glowing red eyes of the black skeleton staring at him from the open hatch. But it didn't move and simply just waited.

The train started to slow down greatly as it passed the shopping mall, went under another bridge and headed into the 10-tracked rail yard. Then the skeleton acted as it and it's 4 white friends started to make their way up onto the train cart.

Not feeling confident in his abilities to deal with such a monster Chad braced himself and rolled off the moving train.

Landing on the stone-covered hard ground, Chad was sent rolling along it's surface, but to his surprise, the suit he wore seemed to cushion most of his fall.

Coming to a full stop Chad pushed himself up and felt something hurting in his back as he said. " Ahhhhh, my back. "

Food, yes food. The smell of it hit his nose and made his stomach grumble. Looking around he noticed the smell coming from the shopping malls direction just beyond the bridge.

Then from behind himself in the distance he heard the devilish growls of the skeletons. Just like he, they one by one jumped off the train and started to run towards him.

" Aa, what? Why are they coming towards me? Go bother someone else! " Chad whined as he quickly stretched his back and started to run.

Jumping over the two-meter tall brick fence that surrounded the train yard Chad landed in a bush. Looking around, he noticed a small empty footpath running between a warehouse and a small hill that led to the main road.

Pushing the shrubbery out of his path Chad made his way up the small hill and over another fence and onto the main roads footpath.

" Kyaahh! " A woman screamed in surprise as Chad landed in front of her and her man who looked at him warily.

All around people going on the footpath and in cars looked at the strange man. After leveling up Chad now stood at an impressive 188 centimetres tall. Also, being dressed in skin-tight black ninja clothes with a hood on and having some blood on his chest was quite an unusual sight indeed.

Seeing the dumbfounded looks on the people's faces Chad yelled to them. " Everybody, run! Run for your lives! There's a bunch of murderous skeletons coming! "

No one laughed or said anything as Chad then started to run like a madman over the road. Cars honked their horns and people yelled in anger at him. Most of the ones who heard his words just looked on in confusion as some started to call the police.

" Oo, yes hello officer. Please come to the Church Road, right in front of Levy shopping mall. There's a big crazy white man running around. He's dressed in all black and covered in blood. I think he needs some help. "

Not knowing any of this Chad just continued running towards the shopping mall while yelling. " Call the police! There's murderous skeletons coming! "

People seemingly made way for him as he came to the malls entrance where a small black man stopped him. Looking at the man Chad could see him wearing dark blue clothes, a blue safety vest and a blue cap with the letters JSPS. Also, he seems to have a pistol in his holster at the side.

With his hands pushed forward the man then calmly spoke to Chad. " Hey, hey hey, calm down sir. Please stop yelling and tell me what happened. "

Catching his breath Chads pulled his hood down revealing his sweaty and disheveled-looking face. Around his nose were blood stains just like on his chest. Taking a deep breath he then spoke. " Oh, security. Thank god. Please you gotta get as many guys as possible over here. There's like 5 freaking scary ass skeletons coming this way. And the black one. Oh man, let me tell you. His scary as fuck. I saw him just melt a guy right in front of me. No way I'm fighting against that on my own. "

Seemingly concerned the security guard just kept on nodding during Chads rambling and said something in to his radio. Then as Chad came to the end of his rambling monologue the man nodded and said. " I understand sir. Don't worry help is on the way. Please would you like to sit down for a minute as we wait or... "

But before he could continue Chad patted his shoulder and said. " Nah, don't worry man. What I need right now is a drink and some food. I will leave the rest up to you then, bye. "

With that said Chad walked past the slightly startled security guard who then started to follow him while talking into the radio.

Walking inside the shopping mall Chad was surprised at how clean and tidy the place was. Much like any other shopping mall in the west, there was an abundance of clothing stores, restaurants and whatever a person would possibly need. Also, he was quite shocked at the people's respective behavior towards foreign people here.

Wherever he walked to people seemingly automatically made way for him and nobody tried to come and sell anything to him like usually, people did in other countries.

Then he saw it a plane called Pick n Pay. A pretty nice-looking grocery store with seemingly everything a person could possibly need, regarding food.

Feeling hot and thirsty Chad quickly picked a shopping basket and headed to the fruit aisle. Grabbing two big and juicy melons from there Chad figured that they would be the ideal test subjects to see how his storage space worked. Would his food rot inside the storage or could he just carry things in there forever?

Then to satisfy his hot and sweaty self he headed to the cold section and found some milk. Unable to bear the feeling of his own hard and dry throat anymore Chad opened it right there and then and started to drink.

Then a scared-sounding man's voice could be heard screaming behind him.

" Put the milk down, sir! Put that milk down now! And come with us! "

Turning towards the voice Chads eyebrows furrowed as he saw 3 small security guards with extendable batons. They stood there with shaky legs and sweat on their faces as they seemingly prepared to fight him.

Outraged by them Chad angrily growled. " The fuck are you doing! What did I do? And why are you here? I already told you dude the threat is outside there! Why the fuck are you here! "

Hesitating the short man in the middle said. " C-calm down sir and put the milk down. You cannot be stealing here. If it's help you want then it's on its way. We have the police and an ambulance coming to check up on you. But now you need to come with us. "

Hearing all this Chad spread out his arms in frustration and turned then turned his back to them saying. " Man, fuck you guys. I know my rights. I did nothing wrong. "

Deciding to block the men out of his mind Chad simply continued shopping all the while the security guards followed him and kept on yelling.

After picking up his two canisters of milk and some juices he then headed for the sweets aisle. There he could see a wide selection of cookies, many of which he had never seen before. Knowing his storage capabilities he then decided to pick several different options. Then he still needed some meat and cheese.

While Chad was picking his ingredients a group of 7 security guards were now following him closely as they waited for more.

Then as Chad was done picking his ingredients he made his way to the cashier only to see the woman immediately run away in fear. Outraged, Chad tried to look for another one but realized that the entire shop was empty.

Only he and the security guards were left standing there as other shoppers were standing at the shops entrance taking pictures and watching him.

Placing his items on the counter Chad prepared himself mentally for a long stand of as he announced to all. " I am innocent! I did nothing wrong! I know my rights! "

But before he could continue further, panicked screams could be heard coming from the malls entrance. Then some people started to run and like a chain reaction, everyone started panicking and running.

Alarmed by this the security guards ran past Chad and towards the shopping mall hallway.

Seeing this Chad realised that his time was running short here. The undead skeletons were coming. These people didn't heed his warnings so now they were going to pay.

With this in mind and no witnesses except the shopping mall cameras around, Chad sucked all his groceries into his storage. Then without wasting any more time, he ran.

Coming to the hallway Chad could see the security guards in the distance firing their guns as a horde of zombies ran into them. Within mere seconds the security guards were overrun.

Seeing this Chad felt confused. Where did the Zombies come from? Where are the skeletons? But seeing as a black skeleton creates white skeletons then did that mean that white skeletons create zombies? He didn't know.

With the main entrance being flooded with zombies he knew that the back was his only option now. Using his sprint ability he sped past the panicking crowd and then stopped as he noticed a shop.

Right to his right was a fancy-looking jewellery shop which owners were just about to close the security gate to their shop. Noticing this Chads head was immediately filled with dollar signs.

Then right in front of the panicking crowd he activated his camouflage and disappeared into thin air. Some people stopped in utter shock seeing the white man just disappear but most were too afraid to notice.

Nonetheless, Chad quickly made his way under the closing security gate. Then right in front of the owners eyes, he smashed one of the jewellery casings glasses. This caused the two women to scream in fright and it also caused Chads camouflage to deactivate.

Frightened the owners left the gate open and ran out of the shop. Now left alone Chad quickly smashed the glass counters and display cabinets, grabbed all the jewellery and tossed it into his storage. Guessing that the back room might hold valuables as well he then made his way in there and sucked everything into his storage.

Now with all his groceries and jewellery, the storage was over 20 kilograms in weight. He didn't know how much all these jewels were worth but most likely at least a few million in the US, unless everything was fake here.

Turning his attention back into the hallway Chad could see people already being eaten in front of the jewellery store. Turning his camouflage back on he then quickly made his way out of the shopping mall.

Coming to the shopping mall's back parking lot, he could hear sirens, gunfire and lots of screaming in the distance. It looked like the city had within a mere tens of minutes turned into chaos.

But to Chad, the most important thing now was to run. He didn't want to be here once the situation was handled. People would be looking for someone to blame and an investigation would be launched. Before that happened he needed to get the hell out of Zimbabwe.

Once more Chad ran to a car, smashed it's window and tossed the fearful man out. To his surprise throwing the man felt extremely easy, almost as if tossing a sack of potatoes.

Shaking such unnecessary thoughts out of his head he hopped in and drove off leaving the confused man lying there on the road. That was until a zombie pounced on him and killed him.

Driving through the cities chaotic streets Chad set his sights on South Africa. With money on his mind, next on his list of things to do was to get some gold.