Chapter 29: The Dome Refugee: Part 1 (1/2)

”Hey… Are you listening…? Gray…?”

A voice called out to him, snapping him out of his thoughts. He opened his eyes only to find a worried Aurora, looking at him.

”Yeah- Sorry, did you say something?”

Upon hearing this, Aurora narrowed her eyes.

”We're all waiting on you.” She replied, turning towards the kids.

Gray turned to them to before apologizing. They had finally woken up, both of them. The girl was confused at first, but her brother managed to calm her down and explain the situation to her.

Her name was Lita she was 9 and her brother was called Kylo, he was 10. Ever since they had woken up, Lita had remained constantly wary of Gray, almost glaring at him from time to time. Whereas for Aurora, she seemed to admire her.

Gray hadn't noticed this however, as ever since, she had given him that vision, which apparently she couldn't recall doing, he couldn't think of anything else.

'After the girl had swung on me, it ended… But more importantly… Those ships… Does this mean what I think it means?' He wondered.

”Sorry, but yeah. Is that the place?” Gray asked as he pointed at the large hemispheric dome, branched off from the main roads, beside new York city's vast river.

A place which had recently been constructed. Large walls surrounded it, and a single gate was but the only way to enter. The place, constantly had military vehicles entering and leaving the vicinity. Power also seemed to be operating based on the fact that there were bright lights outside.

As for the safety, it seemed to be holding up pretty well. There were countless armed troops placed on top of the walls. Firing off at any zombies which approached.

Because of all the sounds however, more zombies were constantly being attracted, making it seem like it could crumble at any moment. But there was one factor which was stopping that from happening and that was the ability users.

There were small groups of people all around the dome, each and every one of them had an ability.

Some could manipulate flames, burning the approaching zombies to the ground as the men reloaded. Others manipulated the earth, creating quagmires for the zombies to fall in, causing them to become immobile.

There was even one with an ability which allowed him to propel solid objects, at whatever he aimed at. Telekinesis, A psychic power is the closest thing it resembled based on Gray's knowledge.

To see that such a place actually existed in the apocalypse, it was quite interesting.

”Yeah, I think that's the place…” The Lita replied.

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”Josh, hey you having fun?” Said one of the gatekeepers.

He carried an AK-47 and stood on top of the gate, all he could see no matter how far he looked was a dark city which had lost it's light and a bundle of corpses, covering the grounds.

”Well it's not like, going out to the beach fun or making out with your sister fun, it's more like having a gun shoved up your ass or getting hit in the balls fun. Ain't that right Steve?” Josh replied.

”Couldn't have said it better myself, jackass.” Steve replied.

A military truck approached, stopping just ahead of the gates.

”ID and Vehicle pass.” Said Steve, his rifle positioned steadily on his arm.

The driver in the vehicle brought out an ID, placing it just outside the vehicle as he spoke up loud and clear.

”Here's my ID SIR! Vehicle Number 3098, Ammunition, Sir!”

”Anyone else in there?”

”No Sir!”