Adaptae

I am in a bad situation. Ghostly army who are carrying swords and shields which are stained in blood of people who they had slaughtered in their path of killing. Their teeth are bloody red. Maybe from eating too much flesh. They look at each other for greed and with bloodthirsty eyes. It looks like they are competing against each other to see who will get which piece of limb of the woman's body.

"Help me!!! Please!! They are dangerous" she screamed again. Even her scared scream is…melody.

Her stares finally fall on me.

"Help me! I don't want to die"

As she screams for help towards me. Those ghostly creatures whose number is 5 look at me.

"Sorry for disturbing your dinner, dudes" I whisper to myself.

Why is my life hell?!

It is nighttime. So, of course, it is their dinner time. They open their mouths. I feel like these mindless zombies are saying 'fuck the girl, let's eat delicious boy'.

What should I do? My whole body is tense from stress. I can't think of anything as they raise their swords and put their shields in front of them.

"AARRRHHHH!!!" they scream as they start to run towards. Distance between me and them is about 3 miles. They are covering the distance very quickly. My body is frozen.

They are face to face with me. My whole life is flashing before me. My heart is saying that you are dead, but my mind is saying something else.

"Fucking shut up, heart. I am getting the good part of life!" I yell.

My brain quickly responds. The response shocked me.

I quickly dodge their attacks and slashes that they throw at me. I am dodging them like it is some sort of muscle memory I got. I jumped over them. Wait…I really jumped over them?!

"What the hell is happening?!"

They try to corner me.

As I was backing down. I step over a boulder. It is a piece of a building that collapsed during the war.

I picked it up. It is very light. Boulder that no man of this time can lift without machinery equipment is lifted by me like nothing.

I throw them. Two were in the range of the boulder, the rock crashed into those two ghostly dudes.

"This is amazing!"

My body is excited. My mind and heart are screaming at the same time. My mind is calculating something that even I don't know, and my heart is pumping me to take action without care. I unconsciously feel that my thinking and my body are working differently.

One of those creatures rushes at me at full speed with its sword. My left hand raises up. I punch him with my full strength. It was an explosive strength. I put all of my efforts into that punch in that instinct. It is directly connected to its stomach and passes through it. A hole is made in its body.

"Ewww" My hand feels like it is inside some slimy shit.

Another one of them rushed at me with its word, and my hand was stuck inside the other one's body, and that dude is trying to use a jaw bite on me.

"Give me a break! Why are you shit?!"

I was somehow able to quickly free my hand and at the same time, I dodge the sword which accidentally slashes its comrade's head.

Only two are left.

I look at them. First time in my life I feel excited and energetic to a high level. I rush at them this time. They drop their swords and shields and start to run.

"Not going anywhere" I yell.

I block their path and as I strike at them. A powerful kick I throw at one. Then I don't know but I start to beat the final surviving dude brutally.

"You can stop now," the woman told me.

I stopped.

"What are you? Are—"

Before she is able to finish her sentence. Kalki reached here. He was panting with tiredness.

"Woah…you…run…fast" he said.

"Kalki where you had left?" I asked him.

"What do you mean by left?! You literally run so fast like a cheetah!!" He yelled at me.

Suddenly, Kalki's eyes fell on the woman whom I had saved.

"Do you know who you saved?" He asked me

"No. I saved her"

That woman started to walk towards us.

"I hope you are okay, miss"

"Director, what's up!" Kalki says in excitement.

Director? Director?! Wait?! Director! The director of that research center.

She bowed her head in a greeting way.

"Thanks for helping me, and also hello to you, Kalki," she said with a smile.

"She is the director?!" I asked.

"Yes, I am the director. My name is Sophie Zerbst"

Her accent sounds flat or more monotone. Her voice is robust, direct, and sometimes feels like she is singing.

"She is Russian," He whispered to me.

Now, I get it.

"So, what happened, director? Were you scared of those little insects?"

"No. He saved me from Draugers"

"Drugs? You do drugs?" I asked her.

"Draugers, Grey. The undead species of creatures. So, it means that Grey is Adaptae?" He asked.

Now, I am confused.

"What is happening here?! Who were those creatures?! What do you mean by Adaptae?!"

I want answers.