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CHAPTER 4 - THE FIRST 'MUNDANE' SURVIVORS
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In a small clearing near the treeline of a forest, Harry talks lightly with the shape-shifter wolfman named Damian Wolfe and asked him on where he's headed and offering a lift.
Damian shook his head as he turned it to look at the forest behind him with worry and concern in his face.
"Truthfully, I'm not alone. There are others with me and I've been their protector ever since the start of this apocalypse," he said solemnly, sounding like he and his surviving group has gone through so much and he's getting so tired of it both physically and mentally.
Harry sympathized with him and requested. "If you'd like, there is a place where you can stay and live safe and in peace. It's not far from here."
Damian looked at him surprised and wary. "Are you sure? I don't want to impose me and my group with your people."
Harry smiled at him kindly. "It's fine. There is plenty of space where I'm from. You won't be imposing at all."
Damian was hesitant for a bit before he nodded and walked off to where he had left his group, he didn't mind that Harry was following behind him as the two men walked towards the path where Damian's group would be.
It didn't take long for them to reach the spot and the survivors of Damian's group instantly went to greet Damian and voices were scattered as they asked and fussed over him on what took him so long and wondering what had happened.
They didn't notice that he had company, though Harry stayed behind a little, looking stunned shocked at the sight he's seeing.
Harry didn't expect this at all as he stared at the kind of group of living survivors Damian is with.
For they are all normal…normal as in…mundane humans.
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…FEW MONTHS LATER IN SAFE HAVEN…
Time had passed by in a blur and Harry was watching over from the balcony of his house that is nearby the walled gates at the entrance.
It was decided for Harry as the leader of Safe Haven to stay nearby the gated walls to ensure the safety and security of the magical sanctuary.
Right now, he's looking over to the place where he's watching the new survivors he had brought into the haven months ago. The first mundane human survivors.
To be honest, at first, some of his magical people and beings that were living inside the Safe Haven were wary and cautious of the newcomers when Harry brought them back, but after the usual law the main leaders of the community had created of a week-long trial for new survivors, all the mundane humans had passed their tests and had earned their place to stay inside the magical fortified safe land.
Harry turned his head a little upon sensing someone's approach and saw that it's Luna coming to him. He smiled at her and greeted him. "Hey, Luna."
Luna nodded back in greeting. "Have you heard from our far-away runners yet?"
About two weeks ago, Harry decided to make a risky decision and let some runners go farther out from the Safe Haven to look for more supplies to survive through the apocalypse and search and rescue any more living survivors that are still out there.
Harry replied. "I've already gotten updates from the supply runners that went out to the further South and East. And for the survivor runner from the North is coming back with a new group of survivors he had found and had found a bonus pile of supplies along. I haven't gotten word yet from the West runners."
Luna instantly looked concerned at this and asked. "You think something happened?"
Harry shook his head in a negative. "Even if something did, then the magic-comms would've gotten dark here in my end."
For those he had sent farther out into the zombie-infested apocalyptic world, he had given each of the runners a magical communication device, that is infused with magical energy and needed no mundane battery. The kind of devices they had made for the magic communications or 'magic-comms' are either enchanted mirrors or normal-looking walkie-talkies or mundane electronic radio callers.
The mirrors are only used for the magical kind, while the normal-looking electrical devices are for the mundane.
Luna understood and looked a bit relieved then suddenly she remembered something that she was supposed to report to Harry and he noticed that she looked very amused.
"By the way, Harry. It seems it's going on again," she said humorously and mysteriously in her voice tone.
Harry blinked and looked at Luna confused. "What do you mean?"
Luna didn't answer but what had happened next answered Harry's question in a very loud way that the two can hear even from high above the building.
"For the love of Merlin-will you leave me alone already, you bloody wanker!?"
"Ah…let me guess, it's him again?" Harry asked with a soft amused chuckle when he heard Draco's yelling, that almost sound like a drama-girl shouting from a distance to where he is atop the balcony he's standing on.
Luna giggled in her mysterious way and her eyes twinkled amused. "Well, you have to admit. Despite how Draco tries to keep his distance from him-he seemed to start to have a fondness towards one certain survivor."
After rescuing the group of few Mundane survivors that weren't prejudiced or biased when they know about magic (partly in thanks to their shape-shifting magical protector), one of them, a buff Samoan male, who calls himself 'Blade', had become interested and started 'pursuing' Draco when he first met him.
Unfortunately, Draco didn't like him at first sight when they met and one time he had told his friend Blaise that there was something about him that he didn't like and it's not because he's a mundane human.
Draco didn't know that Blaise was amused at this and gossiped about this to the others just as Luna had told Harry this before when he got surprised upon catching sight of Draco being almost chased by an over-grown puppy-like big buff man.
Harry laughed a little and shook his head. "At this rate, I'm sure Draco's going to put him out of his misery and it will only be for the sake of himself."
"Oh dear, that won't be a good thing. Blade seems to like Draco, even though he's being overly-pushy." Luna said blithely.
Harry snorted, "Pushy?"
It didn't take long for Harry to catch sight of Draco below, running out from behind a corner of a building and trying to walk away in a brisk stride as a muscled tattooed-armed man followed after him hastily.
Harry almost burst out laughing when he watched Draco hiss and snap at his pursuing stalker, trying to make the mundane male leave him alone but he didn't.
Harry sighed as he saw the two leave and then turned to look over the newly-accepted survivors, the mundane ones.
"I guess it's good that there are some people in this world at least that they accepted magic," he said.
Luna pointed out. "You do know that it's thanks to that new shape-shifter friend of yours, Harry."
"True, but still…"
Luna understood what Harry is thinking and she felt sympathy for him that he had to suffer a bad childhood from magic-hating relatives before. Luna felt relieved that Harry had gotten over it and believed that he is a good person instead of believing the lies from those prejudice muggle magic-haters.
She was also glad that Harry had long cut ties with his former relatives before the apocalypse happened. Internally in her mind, she deviously wished that the Dursleys had suffered when the zombie apocalypse had happened. Sometimes she hoped that one day she might catch sight of them may be turned into Walker zombies or dead remains of their corpses being torn apart to pieces from Runners.
Luna didn't show her thoughts in her face and was being her usual mystical charming self as Harry turned to smile at her.
"Well, I better get down and check on Teddy. He might be overwhelming my new roommate too much," he said musing with a fond smile.
Luna smiled widely at him and said, "Be sure to give my regards to Mr. Wolfe, Harry."
Harry nodded to her and he watched Luna leave first before he followed after her as they went downstairs.
He had just seen Luna already leaving and shutting the door behind her and he turned one corner and stood by the side, watching with a smile as the roommate who wanted to stay with him in his home with Teddy is the very man he had encountered and saved before, which is the wolf shape-shifting man Damian Wolfe.
He almost smiled wider when Teddy babbled begging Damian to lift him higher and the man did, almost throwing the little boy up in the sky, making him squeal with glee.
Harry smiled, even though he's also thinking and worrying over what's been going on and what's happening with the runners he had sent farther West and why he hasn't heard from them yet.
Little did Harry know, it is that the West runners will be rescuing and bringing in more survivors of the mundane kind.
And that they are familiar people related to one of the mundane survivors they have in Safe Haven.
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"Merle, are you sure you know where you're going?" asked a young 17-year-old teenage boy from the passenger seat of the truck he's riding in with an older 30-year-old looking man on the driver's side.
The buff man named 'Merle' huffed as he glanced at the map he's trying to hold up with his metal prosthetic right hand while driving the wheel with his other hand.
"Of course I know where I'm going! Even without a map, I know the place at the back of my right hand!" he said with a joking slight bark.
The boy scoffed and looked away to the other side as if bored. "Yeah right. I'm surprised that you've lost it anyway."
"Hey!"
The male teenager Merle is with is named Colt Gunner, he's from one of the first group of survivors of the Safe Haven and he is a half-magical human. His mother back in the magical sanctuary is a mundane human while his father (who died long ago before the apocalypse) was a magical wizard.
Though Colt was home-schooled from birth in both subjects of magical and mundane by his parents, he was mostly used to doing the mundane way than doing the magical way. And that might be because when his father died from a simple mundane car accident, he was raised by his mother as best as she could do, even though she's a normal human.
But Colt didn't mind at all and right now, he's looking a bit irritated and bored at his adult companion who seemed to have lost his way wherever he's been trying to go to.
"Hey, Merle. Maybe we should call it in and head back. I don't think we'll be finding anything in this part of the farthest neighborhood, so to speak." Colt said.
Merle huffed again. "Nope! We ain't going back until we find something. I got a deep feeling in my gut that there's something out there that is needed to be found and caught by us. I just know it!"
"You sure it ain't your cravings for alcohol again?" Colt asked in deep sarcasm.
Merle ignored him as he kept his focus.
Colt sighed again and laid back and look out his side window boredly as if he didn't expect anything.
But little did he know…is that they will be finding something.
And it's something that they will not expect at all.
And got the two runners to bring something more back to the magical Safe Haven.
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AUTHOR'S NOTES:
Another chapter finished!
Hope you like it!
Ah! I hope you're happy to see that Merle is alive and he is among Harry's people!
In the next chapter, there will be more to show how he's alive and everything.
So stay tuned and keep on following this story!
There will be much more soon, I promise! Enjoy Readers!
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