Hey everybody!

How's your Christmas? Bet it was nice. I don't celebrate Christmas but it was nice seeing everyone acting all jolly and gay (the happy kind! Not the homo kind!)!

Anyways, we survived the so called Apocalypse day. So that means I can still type more chapters for ya'll! My Bros and Shadows!

Woah, totally copying Pewdiepie right now! XD I'm a BRO now!

ALL THE BROS IN THE HOUSE SAY 'AYO'!

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DICLAIMER: Still don't own Prototype. WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM MEEEHHHH?! Join the Bro army or the barrels will hunt you! T^T

Ria was tight-lipped on top of the roof, her legs joined together with her eyes on the ground in shame. She wanted more then to hightailed out of there. How much longer would she have to stand Alex's nagging?

In front of her, pacing whilst talking at speeds that emphasized his disappointment in the girl was Alex. He had rambled on for a while now, nearing 5 minutes. He was enraged, babbling on how risky Ria could have in exposing herself to BLACKWATCH. He ranted on the limits to her freedom and threatened to increase her curfew time to 9pm.

"Alex!" Ria cried out in protest, angry that her companion wasn't giving her her freedom.

"No buts! If you ever go to the Red Zone again without my permission, your curfew will be 9pm, missy!" Alex growled, his hands instinctively going to his hips. He had scolded Dana like this before and old habits are hard to break.

"You're not my dad! You can't tell me what I can do!" Ria puffed her chest up in rebellion. No way was she backing down.

"I'm responsible for you, you prick. I gave you this new life so that gives me rights to boss you around!" Alex yelled back.

Ria glowered at him, angry that a firm man can be such an ass. She wanted freedom, she had just got it in her grasp for 4 days and here comes strict Alex, pulling up curfews for shit. She can take care of herself easy! "I didn't do anything stupid when I was at the Red Zone. I behaved! There weren't any BLACKWATCH around and I steer cleared of the Hives. I only wanted to experiment! Why are you being so bossy?!"

Alex stared back at Ria's eyes, trying to see if she was lying at any of her proclaimed statement. Ria was confident. She had no secrets to hide. What she said was the truth.

They had a little staring contest until Alex let out an exhausted sigh. He realized he had crossed the line in scolding Ria. Ria being such a close resemblance in Dana's rebellion had rekindled his bossy side. He had to stop being such a pain.

"Fine." Alex sighed and continued. "Tell me how you got them." He nodded to her wings.

Ria smiled, knowing that their petty argument had passed. Ria stretched out her wings for Alex to see and felt immensely proud. The feeling she got was somewhat like a peacock fanning out his feathers for display. "Like I said, I consumed some Flyers and focused on their DNA other then the others."

Alex scrutinized the wings in deep concentration. He circled Ria, prodding her wings, gripping them slightly to see their texture. Ria felt somewhat like a new specimen in a lab. It felt wrong. Alex gestured for Ria to hold the claws on her hands and took a glance at them too.

"Fascinating." He muttered under his breath and Ria rolled her eyes. He reminded her of a crazed science fanatic.

"Done with the observation, Einstein?" Ria crossed her arms and shifted her weight on to her right leg. She was getting irritated at being observed like some animal in a zoo.

"Yeah yeah. I'm done. I think I might wanna try it out too. See if I can get the wings." Alex spoke and Ria's eyes glittered.

"That means we can go to the Red Zone?" Her voice was raised an octave at the last word. Alex looked at Ria, contemplating whether to bring her or not. Instinctively, Ria pulled out her 'Puppy Dog' eyes and Alex turned away quickly.

"Fine." He spoke and Ria squealed a silent 'Yes!'. "But you better behave." Alex quickly added.

"Sure sure." Ria spoke and spread her wings out and the latter made their way to the Red Zone. Ria soared through the sky with Alex merely gliding like some over-sized squirrel. Ria giggled at how weird he looked from up high.

They reached the zone soon enough and both of them perched at the roof where the Flyers were circling a Hive. Ria pointed to the flock of Flyers. "There. I consumed few of them and retreated back to the Yellow Zone. No harm done when I was here." Ria spoke as Alex had a contemplating look on his face. He turned to her.

"Attract their attention. I'll catch them from down here." He spoke to her. Ria merely rolled her eyes and jumped off, flying towards the flock.

She was in midair, riding on the wind as she let the Flyers notice her intrusion. Feeling territorial, the Flyers started to turn aggressive and Ria hightailed back on the roof where Alex was. Ria landed behind Alex as she watched Alex bringing out his Claws. Ria didn't envied his Claws anymore, she got her own afterall.

The Flyers flocked down and Alex started grabbing them and consuming them in a split second. Ria grabbed the other Flyers that were trying to get away and threw them to Alex direction where he consumed they too. Soon, the flock was all but consumed into Alex and Ria stood next to him on the roof.

"Well? How'r you feeling?" Ria asked, slightly curious.

Alex shrugged. "I don't know. I've never consumed animals before." Alex burrowed his head. It was hard to concentrate his thoughts, unaccustomed to the wild nature of the Flyers in his head. He could never imagine that a couple of birds would bombard his head. Their annoying chirps made his head dizzy and it was hard to block out their loud noisy screeches.

"Now, just single out their DNA and focus on them." Ria egged him on with instructions. "Don't try to force yourself into it though. You'll just get dizzy."

"You don't say. Their so noisy." Alex growled in annoyance, trying his best to concentrate. Ria answered with a smirk.

Alex steadied his breathing and filled his mind with the Flyers DNA. His whole head emptied out all the other DNAs, the Walkers, Brawlers and everything else. He focused hard on the Flyers, trying to will himself to adapt and take on their DNA. But the more he started to get it, the more irritated he got. The Flyers loud screeches and the other DNAs clashing in made it hard for him to focus on the DNA.

From Ria's eyes, she saw black-red tendrils emerging on Alex's body in small forms. The tendrils grew bigger and smaller, never completely changing Alex's body mass. It receded just as it was about to engulf Alex. Ria bit her lip, slightly nervous as she watch him concentrating hard.

Then, the tendrils started getting bigger, engulfing Alex's body in huge masses. Wings started to protrude out of Alex's back and talons grew on his limbs. Ria fisted a silent 'yes', encouraging Alex on when the tendril snapped and receded back into Alex's body as fast as lightning with Alex letting out an annoyed gasp.

"Fuck! Why can't I get it?!" Alex growled angrily, sweat beading on his forehead as signs of his exhaustion. Ria sighed out and walked towards Alex.

"Maybe you're not ready yet." Ria reasoned, her limitations on science and biomass leading her to that excuse.

"No." Alex shook his head and brought his science hat on. "No, there must be something wrong. I should be able to do it but the Flyers seem to be rejecting me." Alex tapped his chin, contemplating the possible explanation. Ria rolled her eyes, hating that Alex turned all Einstein-ny again. As much as she liked him, she hated science nerds.

"Ria." Alex snapped his head to her and Ria flinched in surprised at his sudden action. "How did you single out the DNA? Was it hard at all? Weren't the other DNAs clash in together?"

Ria raised her brow. "Um, it wasn't that hard. There weren't any other DNAs to clash in my head. The only creatures that I consumed were the Walkers, Hunters and Flyers. The Flyers weren't that difficult to single out. It was actually quite easy to adapt to it." Ria shrugged again.

Alex tapped his chin. "Maybe it's because of the amount of creatures you consumed. I consumed a hell lot more then you and to single out the DNA might be harder." Alex breathed out. "But I didn't have much trouble when I got my other abilities. I got my Hammerfist from a Juggernaut and back then there was a lot of creatures I consumed. Weird." Alex spoke.

"Maybe it's because Flyers are animals?" Ria spoke out sarcastically after a stray thought went through her head. Ria chuckled a lil at the probability of it.

Alex eyes widened a bit. "Hey, maybe that's it. Maybe it's cuz their animals. Maybe it's because I can adapt more to human-derived creatures then animalistic ones."

"So you're saying that you can't adapt the Flyer DNA because you can't somehow adapt animal DNA?" Ria pondered out loud.

Alex nodded. "Yeah, maybe. Looks like we'll have to find that out." Alex smirked and poked Ria square on her forehead. "You've just got you're first mission, missy."

Sorry if there's mistakes here and there. Updated quite in a rush. ^_^;;

See you guys later!

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