Warm Guaridans chapter 5 Day two : The Heiress

Warm guardians chapter 5  Day two: The Heiress or the Dentist?

I found myself staring at the ceiling the night was still young the moon seemed unnaturally bright tonight but I did not care, I had taken advantage of Tooth after killing her boyfriend.  What am I ? How could I live with myself after that Tooth said I was a good person but after what I did I was not so sure.

I needed to know more about her, to help get past our tension but the only thing I knew about her was her love for teeth and her dead crush Jack Frost who obviously could not help him out in this situation. I glanced back at Tooth curled in a blanket on the floor. It must be nice to sleep, but the dead do not dream.

This is as close as we get.

I pulled out Zinc's brain and took a bite, and gasped as the bright light brought me inside the memory.

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I'm Zinc Collins I'm thirteen years old, I just home from school a fresh bruise from Jack on my face, I'm sitting in the living room playing a game of Halo with my big brother Michael who just got off on another holiday break.

He smirked when he moved in for another killing spree on slayer he was always better than me at video games, while I was better at math and inventions however none of my parents knew how smart I actually was, only Jack and my brother knew I was a super genius and of course my science teacher.

"Come on Zinc I know you can do better than that". he gloated as he sniped me from on top of one of the headquarters and gained another point he leapt from the chair and did a michael jackson impression and then sat back down with a blank expression on his face as if it never happened.

I rolled my eyes and said," Forget it things are going good for me right now, if I told mom and dad how smart I really am they might try to send me to Harvard or Yale and then I will never get into  engineering and tech support". I explained as I climbed into a warthog and drove around the map after being  respond again.

I bite down on my lip with anticipation as I glanced over at Michael who was too distracted trying to move to a different spot to notice my character walking through the tunnel of the cliff and shot him with a grenade launcher.

"Gave over". the Xbox said

The end score was  48 to 50 I had won this round,we had been playing Halo all day, until three in the morning by the time we went to bed our fingers were in such pain we filled a tub with ice and took turns dipping our hands in the bucket. The zombie uprising has grown in the last four years it has been around.

Michael and I lost our little sister and her friend while Tooth lost her little sister Baby. It was a tough time for everyone.

It made me wonder about Jack because whenever I go through town and I see him he was always alone. Always. It was really sad, it almost made me want to break the deal and tell my friends that Jack and I hang out in secret.

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The next day Tooth and I were sitting at dinner with Tooth's mother she was has been as hard as a rock since she lost her husband, there was no kindness left in her the corpse had sucked the life right now of her now pale purple eyes and her stare so cold it could make a corpse turn back in fear

She poured a glass of wine in front of us, since  more people were dying everyday anyway the drinking law was revoked and now the drinking age was thirteen she placed the glasses down in front of us and I just stared at it nervously.

"So, Zinc how is school"? she asked emotionlessly as if she had just said it to make Tooth happy and did not really care about how I was at all.

Tooth gave her mother Rashmi a look and she rolled her eyes and said "Sorry, So your mother tells me you want to go into engineering I was hoping you would go into the business like your brother you know on the wall we need good people".

Well', I-ummI don't think that-

"Don't listen to her Zinc mom's idea of saving humanity is to build  a giant concrete box put everyone in it and wait with guns until we grow old and die". Tooth said sternly

Rashmi frowned and said, "Tooth if it weren't for the wall we would be eating brains now instead of rice"

"Mom!" She said with anger as she took another bite of her food. I looked back and forth between Tooth and her mother the woman who had begged me to date Tooth after Tooth had a fight with her mother and had accidently confessed who she liked.

Tooth had explained she did not love me and I was okay with that my parents were too nice to notice that Tooth was faking the whole thing my brother Michael could care less.

My brother always went out after dark no one knows where he goes so none knows about our fake love than my friends and Jack who seemed really pissed off for some reason when he  found out about me and Tooth.

"Why do you have to be like this why can't I just date someone else for a change? Zinc and I have been a couple for three years mom and I do not even like him and I seriously doubt he likes me "?!

Rashmi stopped eating and dropped her fork and knife on her plate and said,

"My decision is finale Toothianna the Collins  are a strong clan that will give us the wealth. We need to survive that street rat is nothing more than a nuisance. Jack Frost maybe a hero to everyone else but to me, he is no different than the things I shot in the head every day."

"Oh come on what sounds better to you mother Toothianna Hummings Overland Frost or Toothianna Collins!"  Tooth shouted out as she shot up from her chair and pounded on the table furiously.

For a moment no one said a word Rashmi stared at her heiress to the Hummings fortune like she was an alien from another planet and had to be shot down.

"We are not having this discussion  again you will marry Zinc that is finale he is the only rich heir left that is not eating brains or locked up in a medical institution ".

I could not take it anymore, I could not stand by and let this witch insult my best friend I mirrored Tooth. I shot up from my chair and said, "Actually I did research on the Overlands and they were around back when Burgess was a village in the colonial era, they were one of the people that founded this town Jack is just as important as I am."

Tooth looked at me with shock she looked like she wanted to say something but could not think of anything she just looked over at me her purple eyes looking into my green ones.

Suddenly the memory ended and I was taken into another one as I took another bite his brains tasted pretty good.

But I was still guilty for killing him that the taste did not matter much to me, brains did not satisfy me like they used to. Ever since Tooth came into my life I felt more human or at least I think I did. Why does everything have to be so confusing.

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Iam 16 years old  Tooth and I were walking around the rusted town of Burgess looking around for supplies and medicine for to take back to the wall, I carried my gun in front of me, Tooth and I were not alone our whole Squad was with us we continued to walk around looking in abandon houses, buildings and stores to find supplies.

Tooth had gotten in another fight with her mother after accidentally slipping out that she knew about Jack and I being friends.

Tooth has learned to love me, she understands that it is important to keep the family line going age has matured Tooth. She has become kinder,wiser she has also become more and more dead inside .

Even though she had fallen in love with me Iam sad because I do not want her to love me because her mother told her to or because our blood that runs through our veins but because she loves me.

Many of our friends started to go out  because of mutual trust and love, Kristoff and Anna still deny they like each other. Let alone love each other but I know they would get together soon enough.

Eugene and Rapunzel are also absolutely clueless about how they felt  each other. The rest  can not go through a salvage mission without getting googly eyed.

Merida one of the few people that show no feelings towards anyone suddenly pulls out her crossbow and pulls it back, she scans the area listening for any Skeletons or nightmares. No one knows why but the Boneys and the nightmares had formed some sort of alliance against us.

Eeep and Guy pull out their knives and stand back to back a smirk playing on their lives I know they already laid down traps for the Corpses I could smell the dry dead blood a mile away.I cocked my gun and inched closer to the foul stench of rot and decay, my leather boots squeaking slightly with every fluid movement.

Everyone gets ready to fight off the dead. Hiccup is up on top of a building carrying a long range gun,great for shooting at a far distance away to decrease his chances of getting infected.

It was near dusk, the sun was starting to set making it harder to spot the corpse. Astrid and Mavis glance at each other briefly I could tell they wanted to seperate, but it was too risky with the amount of members my team had we have more of an advantage if we stick together.

Mavis was not much of a fighter but she was very quick unlike the rest of us she used knives to smash against a dead corpses flesh and drinks some of the blood she had that her father helped her build the immunity to them.

Suddenly a gang of corpses jump out at us fresh blood dripping from the sides of their mouths, some of their limbs looked they had been shot off but since they were dead they did not need much. One of them notices that I was distracted and knocked me off the ground  I rolled out the way and shot it in the head before it could close in on me.

It was then that I gasped I did not take a proper look at the corpse until now, It was My father he had tried to kill me turn me into the monster that he had became. I glance over at the other corpses but it was the one near Tooth that really got my gears moving my big brother michael was now one of them.

Tooth pulled out her gun and shot him in the -

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I gasped and looked around the room, I was sitting in a blue ferrari looking down at Zinc's brain.

I shoved the rest in my pocket and headed towards the cafe I knew he would be there B was always there I needed to talk to him about this.

I groaned slightly as my feet dragged on the floor, I  my head slumped over my shoulder I glanced around for any boneys the coast was clear.

I stood up a little straighter or as straight as my zombie body would allow. B was in the cafe sharpening his boomerangs he notices me coming in but does not say anything at first. After what happened today I do not blame him.

" H-Hi" He said even though he smirked up at me as if nothing happened I could tell he was suppressing the urge to kick my ass.For punching him in the face he stops sharpening his boomerangs and points one of them at me.

"D-don't .....think I have forgotten...this Frost..Bite". he groaned out angrily

"S-S-sorry". I shuttered out looking down at the ground with shame. I sit down in the seat across from him.

He sets his boomerangs down and the gives a look that guys give when they were about to talk about hot girls or sex and said, "W-who was the girl"?

"A friend......Not like what you think... K-kangaroo".

He laughs and says "I know... was kidding around with you".

"Did you bring it"? He asks

I nod I handed him a chunk of another brain I had picked up, I did not give B  Zinc's brain. I need it to find out more information about Tooth. Plus I felt a special connection with Zinc before I killed him.Did I know him?

We eat the brain together several different emotions play out on our faces as the memories came flooding in. I loved watching B have a smile on his face usually he was so uptight. I awaited the moment when B 's face would go blank and he would start to stare off into space yet again.

"Shit", B said with frustration as he ran out and held out his hand, I handed him some more of the brain and slowly pulled out another piece of Zinc's brain and began to take another bite.

I'm Zinc Collins I stopped caring about my age along time ago, age did not matter in another year. I could be grey skinned feeding off brains and groaning what was the point?

I just found out that I'm an orphan now, I have no family left my brother has been shot down,and my mother and father who were once kind and peacefully people tried to bite my legs off. Tooth assures me that they would have died eventually but it does not make me feel better. I had not eaten or slept in days.

Tooth was starting to get desperate and had sent Jack in to talk me down,he climbed up the stadium roof and lays down with me, he does not speak he just sits there waiting.

He is looking up at the orange,pink,and purple sky before he took a deep breath and says," Sorry, I should have been there I could have done something to help you".

I sighed and said, "Do not worry about it Jack this does not concern you".

Jack frowns and said, "So that it? uh you are just going to shut the world out come Zinc I know what it is like to lose your -

I cut him off and said, "No you don't, you were alone in the very beginning ever since I have known you, you are always by yourself, you do not know a fucking thing! So do not come up here and preach wisdom to me when you have no fucking idea how I feel!". I said as I pushed him away from me tears streaming down my face.

Jack fell backwards on the ground with a loud thwack! I  look away refusing to look back at him, suddenly I noticed Jack did not get up he just looked at me. It was the type of look that said What have you done?

Jack dusts himself off and walks away and that was the last time I truly talked to my best friend We had talked but the conversations were very brief and unimportant I should have gone after him but I didn't.

Jack died four weeks later and that was that.

I gasped as I snapped back to reality the last sinking emotions from the memory still lingered on for a while I felt anger, confusion, and regret I look back at B who was too busy eating to know me leave back to  the plane.

Tooth is fast asleep, I take a seat next to her so I could watch her make sure she was safe. I looked over at the moon the sky was a lot lighter I knew that the sun would rise soon and I would not be alone staring off into space. I waited patiently eager to see Tooth's violet eyes open again.

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Hours later Tooth and I are in the blue ferrari she is driving down the strip like  a nascar racer, with no more planes on the run away there was plenty of space.

I have no idea why but she has been teaching how to drive. Judging by the fact my feet were bare when I died, I did not seem to be the type to drive. But as long as Tooth and I were on good terms was enough for me.

"Whoa this is awesome"! she cheers happily as she raises her hands up in the air and then quickly takes the wheel again.

I just stare at her in awe she was so beautiful, I could not believe my luck, being about to sit in the same car with such beauty and grace. I am surprised she has not tried to run away or slap me across the face for kissing her yesterday.

I was worried about her health but she does not appear to be infected she drives for a few more minutes before laughing contently and the asks out the blue " Do you want to drive"?

I look at her with surprise but then get an unfamiliar sensation tugging on my lips I realized I was smiling. I nod she gets out of the driver's seat and then goes in the passenger seat. She smiles at me oddly before gasping with surprise when the car suddenly jolted forward

She gasped holding on to the dashboard of the car and said, "Whoa J use the clutch for crying out loud"!

I know that she is not saying it to be mean. I could tell by the way that she smiled at me she was only joking around. I do not mind much as long as she is entertained enough to stay with me I will proudly be her source of entertainment the whole time.

I look back at her as the wind whipped her shaggy bangs away from her face and I could get a good look at her face now, before her bangs were so long they even covered the top half of her nose, so it was hard to get a good picture of her true beauty until now.

She turned her head towards me and just like when I saw her the first time, I was so captivated by her beauty that I forgot I was the one driving. So, when the car jolted forward again I snapped back into reality and focused on the road.

Tooth laughed and said, "This is fun J I'm having a great time". she said as she used her hand to keep her hair back.

I smiled at her and thought Me too.

I jolted  the car forward again but Tooth did not seem to notice she was looking back at the plane with wonder. She was probably wondering why I live away from everyone else. From all the other monsters in the airport.

I was having such a fun time with her that I forgot what I am and what I did to her yesterday.

She noticed the sad look on my face and put her hand on my shoulder moving her hand around in slow gentle circles and said, "J are you okay you have been spacing out a lot lately is something on your mind"? She asked with concern

"I-I-'m S-s-sorry Tooth for the" -I did not know how to communicate my apology very well. So I gestured to my lips back to hers. She looked at me with confusion at first before looking away from me her cheeks becoming pink.

"It's fine I did not mind the kiss I thought it was actually kind of nice you are the first one I actually kissed,Zinc and I never kissed.

 Zinc was always too nervous to kiss me. At first I was kind of mad that you did that, because I wasn't sure if I was going to be infected; but then I remembered that I was the one who started it not you, you only kissed me back I should apologize."

I was shocked that she had never been kissed before with her ex and they never talked I was starting to wonder if they were actually truly together in the first place. Or if Tooth just said she loved Zinc to get her mother off her case, the same mother that would shoot me in the head in a heartbeat.

I wanted to kiss her again, but was afraid that she might not like me that way she smiled at me and said," J focus on the road".

The car shifts forward again and Tooth holds on to the dashboard again and says "Pick foot a you are using two feet".

After five hours of 'driver's ed' as Tooth called it. I pulled into the parking lot I accidently lost control of the car causing us to slam into another car the front bumper was dented and smoking.

"Jesus J this was a beautiful car"! Tooth expirated.

"recalculating" the navi in the car said.

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There was a long awkward pause between us for awhile and it lingered on for ten minutes we did not say a word, Tooth played with her hair, zipper and basically did Everything she could  but look at me.While, I tried my best to look away but found it quite difficult because Tooth was so odd yet interesting to watch it was hard to look away.

After ten minutes of not saying a word, just staring forward and looking around the dark rotting parking lot. Tooth finally looks at me her eyes so bright they were practically glowing and says,

"Ok J let's  go back to the plane, I'm really tired".   She unbuckled her seatbelt and came out of the car her long wavy black hair all over the place. It amazed me at how long her bangs were the way they covered the top half of her face and stopped halfway to her nose.

I always wanted to ask some of the longer haired corpses if they felt uncomfortable having died with hair in front of their faces unable to do anything about it. I have seem some pretty stupid hair style choices but with Tooth it was different, to me.

Tooth would look good in any hair style she just had a very rare facial structure the heart shaped faces were not very common; but what really drew me in was her eyes. The way they sparkled when she talked about teeth made me smile or at least try too.

I was so absorbed in taking her in, that I did not realize I was staring at her very additively as if I were playing a videogame or drawing a picture my entire focus was on her, the way she took slow steady breaths and how her expressions changed.

I never told anyone but I always had a deep interest in human speech the way they spoke and comminuted their feelings made me wish that things went differently.

That humans accepted us, even though we were not one of them anymore and were technically dead, we still had some brain activity, if only a little bit meaning we were somewhat alive right?

But it was too late to dream of what could have been all we can do now is carry on what little life is in us, we can no longer be filled with ambitious dreams like Tooth or her friends.

I could relate to them finding myself sympathizing  with many of them. But, I could not tell Tooth how wonderful her friends were, or else she would know I ate Zinc.

She would leave me and I would go back to being a lonely zombie that likes records and collecting snowflakes and slides?  

No way. I liked having Tooth around she was energetic, smart, fun and very tough when she wanted to be.

After a full day of me staring at her Tooth finally had enough she looked at me with an expression that was a mixture of frustration, anger and exhaustion and said, "What, why do you keep staring at me J? It is kind of creepy ; I'm sorry for snapping at you I'm just really tired".

I stop staring at her and  looked away Tooth looks back at me when she thinks I Am not looking at gives me a guilty expression before holding out her hand. I look down at it with confusion she just smiles kindly at me and grabs my hand.

I look down at my greyish hand wrapped around her soft tan skin  we started to walk toward the plane I grabbed  her hand tighter holding her closer as we went towards the plane.

I was nervous if Tooth will regret  holding my hand. But, she does not withdraw her hand. She shocks me and does the opposite, she also tightens her grip keeping my hand a firm squeeze and looks up at me with fear.

I looked confused as to why she was scared until I saw a man who appeared to be able to control black sand he smirked evilly and said,

"Finally, I'm powerful enough after so many years in the shadows I Pitch black the nightmare king final rule the world".

He circled the room, a few bones were eying him like he was meat but were holding themselves back from attacking they seemed afraid of this man for some reason. The boneys were scared? The boneys were never scared of anything.

"Ha, Ha the the world has so much fear, it is like the dark ages all over again I can feel the power coming through me in waves and their is not a being in the universe that stands in my way look creatures learned that the hard away".

"J what-what is happening"? Tooth asks as we hide behind a corner of a wall looking over our shoulders trying to absorb the scene that was happening even I did not know what to think. This man was very odd.

"J use your staff, Pitch is afraid of light" a voice echoed in my head I looked down at the object I had since I woke up

It was all I had left it looked like a simple shepherd's staff but their was more to it than that. It had the ability to make ice or snow without it, I felt like all the other corpses wondering about purposeless.

I always felt like there was something missing. Like someone or something tried to save me before I died giving me these powers. Why?

I took  deep breath and raised my staff point it towards Pitch and crept closer towards him, Tooth tried to follow me but I shook my head and pointed towards the direction of the plane.

I knew Tooth would get hurt if she came with me, unlike me she had very noisy boots on that could draw attention and give away our position. The airport lights flickered on and off in a very ominous way as I came closer towards him the hook of the staff in front of me.

Tooth leaned her back up against the wall glancing over her shoulder with worry as I went closer to Pitch. I could tell she wanted to help but if anything happened to her I could not live with myself.

I raised my staff up and waved it in front me it glowed a bright blue before a wave of ice formed in between me and Pitch he gasped with alarm and then turns into nightmare sand and goes around the ice wall I made and then punches me in the face.

He looks at me in the eye and said, "Very interesting, you did infact get infected but MiM stopped you from going full zombie there is still some remize of you still in their I never seen a corpse like you before how does it feel being stuck between Zombie and spirit"?

"I would nothing more than to let them cut you up to see how you tick because you not quite human. But, you are not quite a zombie-Spirit either you must be a new breed MIM had cooked up to stop my breed. Interesting Boney nightmares I found a way to blend my nightmares with these creatures".   Pitch said with a evil smirk on his lips

He forced me to look at the nightmares go into the boneys mouths creating a coat of nightmare sand armor around the boneys. He held onto my mouth to keep me from saying anything.

I looked at the new creatures being formed with shock with this new armor nothing will stop the boneys from taking anything they want. Including Tooth and her friends. I could not let that happen I had to keep her safe.

I tried to fight back but Pitch slams me down on the ground with nightmare sand picks up my staff with boredom and then tries to snap  it in half with his knees I gasp and scream as if he was suffocating me by my throat. He stops trying to break the staff and I sigh with relief.

"Interesting, your weapon is very strong it seems the moon is protecting you".He growled as he looked up at a whole in the ceiling where the moon shined down on Pitch and me.

He dropped me on the floor and looks at the moon and says "So, this is your plan, to create this zombie guardians to stop me nice try I have come too far to be stopped this zombie  apocalypse was the perfect opportunity to strike".

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