Lukas scoffed a bit. "Good warning."

"The path's right over there!" Jesse shouted, and they bolted for the gravel path, racing along it at top speeds, Petra soaring so fast that she was practically leaving flames from where she was hovering, Lukas racing along the path at the highest speed his ocelot-human limbs would allow, and Jesse had pretty much thrown Ivor onto her back and was sprinting along the bath.

"I must say," Ivor said, his hands clamped tight on Jesse's hair (hopefully he wouldn't yank it), "this is the highest concentration of zombies I've ever seen in one place!"

He wasn't kidding. Behind them and to their sides were so many zombies that to run away other than the path they were already on would mean almost certain death, or at least a crap ton of fighting.

"You think this 'Host' is gonna be legit, Jesse?" Lukas puffed to her. "I just ask, because this place hasn't exactly been friendly so far."

"I'm kinda suspicious too, Lukas- this place kinda has 'trap' written all over it," Jesse responded through puffs and pants, "but we don't exactly have another option. It's the only thing we have to go on right now," and she looked up to see a huge mansion looming through the fog. Unfortunately, blocking their path to said mansion was a horde of zombies.

"I'm going to go out on a limb and say that that's the place we're looking for," Ivor said drily, as Jesse screeched to a halt, scattering gravel pieces everywhere.

"Race ya guys there," Petra said, in a bit of a singsong voice.

Jesse grinned playfully at her Blaze hybrid friend. "Hope you're hungry, Petra."

"Why?"

"You're about to eat my dust!"

Petra smirked and rolled her gold orbs. "I set myself up for that one, didn't I."

"Yes. Yes you did."

And with that they were off.

Lukas and Petra leaped up onto higher ground, but Jesse didn't want to follow. For one, if she did, Ivor was going to yank her hair out by the roots to keep himself from falling off, even though once a person/skeleton is on a spider, it really won't do anything except just sit there, even if they're parallel to the floor. Jesse should know. She'd done it a couple times with Olivia in case Olivia fell off. How the rider managed to defy the laws of physics was probably something they'd never know.

Jesse bolted along, the sound of a sword being drawn hitting her ears, and a zombie that had started to rise from the ground in front of her- thwack! It fell to the side, puffing into smoke.

Jesse was running so fast that she didn't see the break in the ground until it was too late- and with an almighty gasp and splash, the two of them fell in, Ivor kicking to stay afloat and therefore smacking Jesse in the back of the head by accident, dazing the spider hybrid- and when she stroked furiously to the surface a moment later, they were drifting through water that was filled with zombies dumbly walking into the river to get them. Jesse had to kick and flail to keep clear of them.

One spider stared at Jesse and cocked its head as she floated towards it, but otherwise did nothing as Jesse floated past it.

"You hear that, right?" Ivor asked, paddling over to Jesse, "almost sounds like a..."

"Waterfall," Jesse finished with a groan. She started paddling off to the side, just as a zombie swam in the way. Jesse furiously kicked to get it away, which stopped her sideways momentum and sent her pitching over the side of the waterfall-

Her lower arms grabbed a vine that was hanging off the side, and then managed to catch Ivor by the wrist as he went over a second later.

"Get on my back!" Jesse yelled, there was no time- already the vine that she'd caught was starting to break.

Perhaps Ivor heard the urgency in her tone, because he didn't question it or ask about it- just climbed into a sitting position on her back, and Jesse felt him almost 'lock' into place. The moment he did so, all eight of her limbs fastened to the wall, and she jumped over to some vines on a wall next to her, Ivor clinging tightly to her hair again, before crawling back up and racing for the mansion.

Some skeletons started shooting at them, but the zombies that were falling into the little 'valley' that they were in were the ones getting hit by the arrows, since Ivor crouched to avoid them and Jesse was dodging like there was no tomorrow. At one point she nearly did a faceplant before scurrying along.

"Well, I did need to get some exercise," Jesse huffed, as Petra kicked through the monsters on the 'bridge', knocking them down into the valley.

Jesse sprang into the air, over a zombie's head, did a turning flip- she was dimly aware that Ivor was screaming, but at the moment, she was concentrating on the very important task of not dying- whipped out her sword, slashed it through three zombies, resheathed it, and landed running.

Awesome.

The two of them skidded to a wall. Not quite so awesome, but nothing Jesse could handle. "Don't yank my hair, D-Ivor," she corrected herself, feeling cheeks turn rather pink at the thought of what she nearly just called Ivor, before running straight up the wall, legs grabbing at tiny hand-and-footholds in the dirt that no normal human being could've held.

She skidded to a stop in front of an elaborate gate, sending gravel flying, just as Petra landed a couple seconds late. Lukas puffed up to them as Ivor unlocked his legs and clambered back off. "Nailed it!" Jesse cheered.

"Okay, okay," Petra conceded, "you won that one, Jesse. THAT one."

Getting back to her own two feet, Jesse gave them a grin and lead them towards the mansion.

A/N: We escaped the zombies. But wait! There's more danger! (of course)

Toni42's Movie Mode updated, AND I got the day off from school today. Best Monday EVER. :)

rebekahtpe: Mm, probably a cat hybrid. I'd probably be able to doze off more easily xD

A Person: Lol xD thanks. And also: sure, let's set all the zombies, along with all of the very flammable trees and grass. Wonderful idea xD Petra probably would like to have done that, but if she had then she would've set much more than just the zombies on fire.

ChoyofBonk: I know, right? So hyped x)

DemonCatLady: Lol xD And you're gonna love the YouTuber's reactions xD

RapidSammiBackup: Oh dear... :/

Choco: I had a note that it took Jesse almost five years to learn how to hide her arms, so she's not going to be able to remember. It's not a matter of knowing how, it's experience with her limbs. And even though these guys are getting pretty used to it, they're still about four years and ten months off xD

Toni42: No you did not, but thanks :) AND YAISEEE. Also, thanks!

TheRealRedGaming: Lukas is still trying to work it out with his nose. Also, you're gonna see something that Cassie does that's probably going to hide it.

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