The End Of Life

Looking at David's desperate face, Mark knew he gave the teenagers a hefty promise which he would have said he would get it done. Mark could only sigh seeing how David wants to redeem himself. He knew he was going to make another bad decision. But after seeing the cool and calm man like this, he couldn't handle it. 

He slowly nodded and said, "Alright. I'll somehow talk to the General about this and see what I can do. But I am reminding you, David. You keep them by your side all the time. I don't want to hear another death story from your mouth anytime soon." Making David happy. 

David knew how much Mark hated doing this, and he felt gratitude towards the man. He nodded and said, "Don't worry. I will try to keep them safe. Even though my skills aren't the best, they should be able to keep them safe." He patted his chest at the end. His expression turned 180 after Mark's ok. 

Mark sighed, seeing him happy with it. He felt he was too easygoing with his teammates. He didn't want to be like that, but for now, he decided to keep it like this. He also trusted the man's skills with the fun a little. After fighting for weeks out on the street, he got better and was now better than the rookie he was before. 

Standing up from the seat, he looked down at David and said, "David, you better change fast. Your way of thinking is too good for this dog eat dog world. The quicker you change, the better would be your and Daisy's life. If it continues like this, I am sure because if you even Daisy would be in trouble. I am sure that is the last thing you want to happen. So you better change." He said the same things they talked about a lot of times once again. He is trying to make it as clear as possible for the dude.

David's face turned pale on the last sentence. Daisy was his sun in the world. Her smile was like a cure for all the mental pressure he faced the last few weeks. She was important to him and would do anything for her. But if it's because of him that something would really happen to her, he didn't find a need to survive and would kill himself to reunite with his wife and daughter. 

Mark walked out of the dining room and went directly into his room. He was in no mood to play games with the others anymore after the talk with David. He closed the door and laid on the bed, looking at the ceiling in his own thoughts. 

'Damn it. I shouldn't have even allowed David to do and get close to the people in Loshin town. Now it became an enormous mess for him. I should have just kept my mouth shut when David asked for ideas, even when I thought it was too risky.' and sighed. 

He already had a rough idea of how he wanted to attack the base. He knows how the rough structure of the school was and had a rough plan. It was a simple diversion. The people from the military would be a distraction with Suzie and David, now the two kids, while only he and Kevin would sneak in quietly. 

With Suzie's strength, it would not be too hard for her to make a nice distraction long enough to take down the camp smoothly. After taking out those people on the base, they can strike from the back. He planned to make changes if necessary after learning the abilities and specialties of the soldiers provided. He could only hope Donald doesn't provide any lackey people.

After getting these thoughts out of his head, he started thinking about the next day. It would be the riskiest day of his life, depending on how things could go. He planned to test out his abilities, which he kept as a secret from the rest. He didn't want the military to lose their sanity and run tests on his body to find the truth behind something magical. 

No person with a logical mind would believe if told he got the abilities from two beings which were generally only mentioned in religious books, no one would. So he would keep it to himself until there is another case of such powers erupting throughout the area. He planned to test the power from the dark circle inside him. 

The power which seemed like it either paused time for him or something even crazier, control the zombies. Both of them were really helpful depending on how he used them. But it was obvious that both had a major drawback, the headaches after using it only for a single second. 

He looked at the bag on the side and saw the box of pills David gave him 2 days back inside the bottle holder. He wanted to avoid them as much as possible. He knew the addiction which comes with using such pills based on the past. He used them before when things were all dark for him. 

His plan of testing was fighting the zombie hand to hand and try to push his mental capacity to the limits such that it would trigger. The last time was when his emotions went haywire and the sense of urgency. Fighting the zombies without weapons filled the criteria because a slight scratch from a zombie would be his doom. So being on his toes could probably bring it out. 

This was all his theory, and he planned to improvise based on how things were going to go. This was a mental idea, but this was all he got for now. He could only pray that things would be as easy as he predicts. 

He closed his eyes for a nap and woke up for dinner before going back to sleep once again. He wanted a nice rest before the crazy next day.