WELL WELL WELL WELCOME TO MY NEW STORY, TO BE HONOST I HAD THIS STORY IN MY HEAD DURING MY LAST STORY THE ENTIRE TIME AND I JUST COULDNT WAIT TO WRITE THIS ONE SO I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT AS MUCH AS I WROTE IT.

I was born five years into the cordyceps outbreak or in other words I was born into a five-year pile of shit. my real name is Tony but I call myself Zaroff cause what's more intimidating then a name that starts with a Z? I was born in the small city of New Marais, my parents told me about a wonderful Man named Cole magrath who stopped a creature called "The Beast" about 5 years before the outbreak and cured a major disease only known as the plague and as a result him and everyone else with what was called a "conduit gene" died but that didn't prevent anymore from being born.

That is what I realized at 8 years old, cause I was born with the conduit gene. How I found my powers is a strange tale, I was looking around with my father for some food to scavenge when we were attacked by an infected pack. I tried to run but tripped, as my dad came to rescue me he shot and killed about five of the group of six runners but one of them was on top of me, when I lifted my arm to defend myself I was terrified to see ice magically appear from air and encase me in a fortress made of ice and it destroyed the runners skull. When I looked behind me I saw my dads skull pierced going down his skull past his lower jaw by the ice.

I was broken down in tears by what had just happened but what I ignored is my internal body temperature dropping to a point below zero. When I returned to my mother with no food and one less man she cried as well, she ran over to comfort me. Moment she did she let go from the sheer cold of my body temperature wich was now negative twenty-five degrees farenheit. Her body couldn't handle the sudden change in temperature so now she was suffering from hypothermia, from touching me! When I brought a blanket to warm her she was already dead.

I had survived another seven years drifting from group to group, With that logic I was a fifteen year old conduit traveling america with the ability to control ice. Soon my travels brought me to a place called Boston where I decided to hang out the nearest shelter set up by the FEDRA. I was walking near the trenches of one area when I heard shouting and gun shots, I hid behind a truck while still managing to stay quite I heard a girl saying

"yeah we fucked those guys up"

I heard her shout something when she saw my white hair protruding out of the trucks side. I had curly Hair coming down to my neck So it was hanging down. I heard a middle-aged man and a woman tell me to come out slowly. I came out with my hands up and decided to try something, The night was cold and the rain was freezing so I tried playing the lost little kid suffering from hypothermia. When I came out with my hands out I began to shiver and breathe slowly.

"are you alright kid?" asked the man,

when they lowered their guns I summoned ice shards aimed for their throats

"Put down the guns NOW" I said with sudden energy

"HOLY SHIT" the girl said.

They dropped their guns and I lowered my ice shards but still aimed for them

"who are you?" asked the man

"names Zaroff, tell me yours?" I asked

he said with a calm tone "my name is Joel, this is Tess, and the girl is Ellie" he talked with a southern drawl.

"I'm going to put these down now so if any of you even think of going for your guns I will send these through both of your heads"

they nodded. When I set the shards down I decided to make small talk

"so how are you doing? me? I'm just fine" I said,

Joel picked up the scanner from the dead FEDRA troop and his eyes went wide with shock

"what the fuck!" he exclaimed

"hey let me see that" said Tess

"What are we doing smuggling an infected kid!?" exclaimed Joel

"Wait Would Marlene set us up?" asked Tess

"I'm not infected!" said Ellie

"then explain this!" exclaimed Joel showing her the red scanner.

She rolled up her sleeve and showed them a healed bite mark "This is three weeks old!" she exclaimed.

"No, bullshit people turn within three days of being bit you stop bullshitting" exclaimed Tess

"it's three weeks, I swear" said Ellie.

"I don't think she's bullshitting you guys" I said amazed "are you the cure?" I asked

"I guess, I don't know just please believe me" she started to plead

"let's go" I heard Joel say

"what you can't be serious?" said Tess

"we will get more information when we reach our stop".

After a few more testaments from Tess we heard the FEDRA soldiers radio telling us they are sending back up to our location.

"well crap!" I said

"let's go now" Joel said

"I'll give them something to shoot at you get out of here" I said

"what! don't be stupid kid" Joel exclaimed

"just trust me" I didn't give him a chance to speak before Tess pulled him down the trenches.

I waited for the troops to start looking inside the trenches. I waited for the right time then I sent an ice shard over to a guard looking in the trench who just noticed Ellie.

"HEY FUCK HEAD OVER HERE" I screamed.

Soon I had an entire army shooting at me! This was going to be fun, I ducked and rolled under cover avoiding them and occasionally sending an ice shard in their direction. After a few minutes I saw the last of them enter a pipe at the end of the trenches, I jumped in after them. After climbing through the sewage I came to a clearing with them in it under a grate

"that was awesome" I couldn't help but say,

Joel turned around and said "okay we made it so tell me what are you?" he asked with resent,

"hey you gotta buy me dinner first" I said jokingly, Ellie chuckled at that. Just because we're in the apocalypse doesn't mean I can't have fun does it?

"Cut the crap" Joel said

"fine but you owe me that dinner later, so where to start... I was born with a rare genetic mutation called the conduit gene, and basically people can activate this in situations of extreme duress and can control some form of the elements, as you could see by moi I am Aquakinetic" I explained this to my best understanding.

"so what you mean to tell me is that you were born with fancy magic power's, holy crap that's awesome" said Ellie

"and if you don't mind I can tag along with you after all I managed to distract an entire army for you guys" I said.

"Fine" said Joel angry for whatever reason.

"Are you serious we are actually taking a freak with us?" asked Tess

"YES we get to keep him" said Ellie

"were all going to die" said Tess as we wandered out of the clearing and into the shambled remains of a fallen city.