Chapter 8 : Quest for the Ultimate gift, part 3
An alarm woke we up in the morning, I jerked awake and grabbed the alarm clock that somehow placed at the lamp table. I stopped it and looked at it. It was 6 AM, I groaned and put it back at the table. I tried to sleep again, but I can't. My eyes are still heavy but I can't sleep and now it's 6.05 AM. Sophia is still asleep, I decided to got up and put my shoes on. I grabbed my backpack and ignoring the Shotgun, I headed outside and opened the door. Lieutenant Frank already awake and watching the tv while drinking a coffee.
"Morning sleeping beauty." He said to me.
I didn't reply, I went straight to the bathroom to take a bath. After I finished, I put some clothes that I brought from Maxwell's house from the backpack. The funny thing is, whenever after the rooster crest on my hair gone when I wet my hair. It will rebuilt again when I put the rooster helmet back. I exited the bathroom and found Maxwell waiting for me, rubbing his sleepy red eyes. He entered the bathroom while dragging his backpack.
"Morning sleepy head." I said to him.
"Morning." He replied lazily as he closed the bathroom's door.
I went to kitchen to grab something for breakfast, I checked the fridge for anything to eat, or at least to cook. Hmm, let's see. Eggs, a carton of Milk, frozen pancakes (yay! But sadly, no maple syrup around.), blue cheese (you kidding me? That thing smells like hell.), and some meats. I decided to cook the egg and pour the milk into a glass I found on one of the shelves.
After I finished my breakfast, I went to check Sophia. Who was now just exited the bedroom and yawning, her purple rooster helmet in hand. "Morning Sophia." I said to her.
"Huh? Oh, morning too. Maxwell." She replied.
"What?" I laughed, "It's me silly."
"Huh, really? It's you?" She rubbed her eyes, "You looked like him."
"Yeah, I looked like him." I said as I noticed what I wearing. Blue hoodie, green short, red socks, and blue shoes. Same as Maxwell. Except for my eyes and rooster helmet that will notice the differences between us. "Probably you could compare us by our rooster helmet." I continued.
"Hmm, yeah." She shook her head, "Anyway, I'm going to grab something to eat." She wore her rooster helmet back on her head and walked to the kitchen.
A few hours later...
"And she got confused and called me by your name."
Maxwell chuckled, "Yeah, just because we are wearing the same clothes."
"Lieutenant was also got confused."
"He too?" He laughed, "So, you wanna check the basement?"
"Basement? What are we going to do there?"
"Hey, Lieutenant said check every part for the house for some supplies. We haven't check the basement, so we going to check it."
"Fine." I sighed, "If, this is not part of your plan to prank me."
"Don't worry, I do not set any kind of trap." He smiled.
We headed to basement and I opened the door, it was dark, we almost couldn't see anything in there. I searched the wall for a light switch to turn on the light, once I found it, I turned on the light and inspected the basement. Well, pretty much everything is here are some junks, shelves contained some paints, and some tool boxes.
"See, nothing here." I said to him and headed back to the stairs, "Let's get back and-" I was cut off by Maxwell who yanked my hood and pulled me back, "Look, a lever." He pointed to a red lever located between the two shelves.
"Wait, Maxwell." He was already walked to the lever, "You always do this back at home right?"
"Yeah, let's be honest. My parents always keep some of their stuff in the basement and attic. So, sometimes I sneak into the basement and attic to find out and take whatever it is." He replied.
"And sometimes, your curiosity could get us in danger."
He pulled the lever down, the room shook slightly and the walls spun, replacing the moldy wall and rusty old shelves with a clean white wall, boxes and shelves containing weapons and artillery. Our jaw hung open when we saw it, how does that guy have all of these? He must be very rich. I mean he actually have a secret weapon storage in this house, this house maybe looks scary on the outside, but in the inside, it's all contain cool stuff.
"Hey, you kids finished?" Lieutenant Frank peeked from upstairs and walked down at the stairs, "We need to go-" He paused once he looked at all the weapons, "Oh my god. How did you find it all?"
A few minutes later...
Alright, I just equipped myself with an ammo pouch, a pistol belt to keep a secondary gun in case if I need it, and an AA-12 Shotgun (My hands are tired of reloading a regular Shotgun). Lieutenant Frank with a Machine Gun, Maxwell with an Assault Rifle, and Sophia only equipped herself with two pistols.
We exited the house and headed to the street. Surprisingly, there's only a few zombies in the street. They looked like searching for something, like one of the zombies is searching for something at a trash can. And weirdly, none of them seems attack us like they do normally.
"That's weird, they didn't attack us, or even notice us." Maxwell said to me.
"Yeah." I replied.
"How if they looking for the gift?" He whispered.
"Dunno, I have a bad feeling about this."
"Just don't provoke them." Lieutenant Frank told us.
We all nodded and continue walking down the street, I tried to not bump into one of them. "Stupid! How could you lost them?" A voice said from an alley.
"Follow me." Lieutenant Frank said to us.
We nodded and followed him to an alley, we hid behind some crates and barrels, "They killed all of my friends, please have mercy sir." Another voice said.
"Fine." The voice seems annoyed, "Did you find the stuff?"
I peeked from the crate I hid behind, I saw three dark figures in the alley, one of them knelt at the other two, "No, we have searched everywhere. But we found nothing."
"You are completely useless! Kill him."
"Alright."
"What, no, no, no. Please, give me another chance!"
"No, we already gave you too much chance. But now, your time is up."
I watched as one of the figure pulled a dagger and slit the kneeling figure's throat, the figure dropped to the ground. Dead. Maxwell peeked to see it too, but a box dropped from the crate he hid behind. The remaining two figure heard it and turned in our hiding location, "Who's there?"
"Ups." Maxwell muttered.
"Hey, it's them! Attack!" We spotted, damn.
All the zombies turned to us and stared us with their yellow eyes, they quickly charged at us. But because their slow movement and their small numbers, we easily finished them off. "Who is there? Show yourself!" Lieutenant Frank shouted to the alley.
The remaining two figures revealed them self from the shadow, "Doppelganger." Maxwell growled.
"And Schwartz." I continued.
"Wait, you know these guys?" Sophia asked.
"Yeah, they are my and Maxwell's evil twin." I answered.
"Evil twin?"
"There's a lot to explain Sophia."
"Wait, I kinda ever heard their name before. But when?" She asked herself while rubbing her forehead.
"You!" Doppelganger pointed at Sophia, "You were supposed to help us, not them! We gave you that notebook."
"Yeah, we made it with some Starites we stole from Maxwell." Schwartz continued.
"Shut up!" Doppelganger elbowed Schwartz, "You just spilled our secret."
"What?! No wonder I lost some of my Starite collection back at home. So, it's you both who stole it all the time." Maxwell exclaimed.
"Enough chattering, now taste this!" Schwartz wrote something in his notebook.
A large green alien-like creature with large wings just appeared from the thin air, it has a claw on it's hands and a tentacle-like thing on it's mouth. What does people call it? Oh ya, Cthulu.
"Cthulu? Seriously?" Maxwell asked Schwartz.
"That should hold them off... For a while, come on Schwartz. Let's go." Doppelganger said to Schwartz.
"Goodbye you two, see you in the port. If you survive." He gave us an evil grin and left with Doppelganger.
"Alright, now what?" I asked Maxwell.
He didn't reply, he quickly aimed his Assault Rifle at the Cthulu's head and shot it a few times. It didn't effected the Cthulu, it only made it angrier and now it growled at Maxwell, spitting some of it's green saliva at his face.
He screamed and ran back toward our direction, he hid behind me and peeked toward my right shoulder. "Shoot it!" He shouted.
We started to shot the Cthulu on it's head, but it seems did not have any effect on it, "Do you know it's weakness?" I asked him.
"Um... It looks like the Cthulu has been modified with an adjective, so-" He was cut off by a fireball shot at us, luckily we can dodge it at the right time, we took cover behind some crates. "Fireball shooting Cthulu?" I asked him.
"Yeah." He answered, "If the weakness is not on it's head, then it will be on it's-"
"Balls!" We said in the same time.
"Guys! Aim for it's balls!" Maxwell shouted at Lieutenant Frank and Sophia, who took cover behind some barrels.
"What?!" Lieutenant Frank asked us to repeat it.
"Aim, for it's balls!" I repeated.
"Alright."
Maxwell pulled out his notebook and write something, a grenade launcher just appeared in the front of him, "Alex, you go. I will distract it." He said to me.
"Alright." I nodded.
"Hey, over here!" Maxwell shouted.
The Cthulu turned it's head toward us and flew right to our direction, Maxwell started shooting it's head with the grenade launcher. I ran toward it and headed under it, I aimed my gun at it's crotch and unleashed every bullet on my clip until it was empty. The creature groaned loudly and clutching it's crotch, "Hey Alex!" Maxwell shouted.
He slid down a sword to me, I picked it up and he grinned to me, "Finish it off." He smiled.
I smiled back and strapped my gun at my back and tried to climb it, it was moving so trying to climb it was hard. I finally manage to grabbed it's arm and climbed on it's back, I tried to keep my balance while it's body was shaking and groaning because of the pain I caused. I headed to it's neck and aimed my sword at it, I let out a battle cry and stabbed the back of it's neck. The creature gave it's last breath and dropped to the ground.
I fell to the ground too, but luckily it wasn't hurt. I was approached by the rest of the group and Maxwell helped me to stand, "That was amazing!" He congratulated me.
"Yeah, I usually climb some trees back at home when I got bored." I rubbed the back of my head.
"Alright, now let's get to the port." Lieutenant Frank said.