Heroe’s

What defines a hero?

Someone who thinks of others first?

Someone who is never mean? 

Someone who inspires others?

Someone deafening a belief?

Because if that defines a hero that means you’re a hero and you don’t even know it.

Perspective, is the only opinion that matters,

perspective is everything.

There’s no good or bad, just 2 different schools of thought.

there’s no such thing as happy or sad,

it just depends on who you ask.

the so called villain,

or the so called protagonist.

one might say it’s real,

the other might say it’s just a chemical in your brain.

you’re never given the full story,

movies are examples of this

we see a strong hero rise up and defeat evil

but what if that’s just an egotistical person who twisted the stories to make themselves look like the hero.

you’ll never know unless you learn perspective.

The ones that we call “Heroes” are often the true villains, and the ones that we call “Villains” are often merely victims…

Your eyes remind me of bright blue blueberries in snow.

your nose reminds me of pumpkin spice candles,

your mouth reminds me of fresh cut roses,

your perfume smells like a warm summer day,

your emotions remind me of the beach.

Everyone stood where they were, too scared to move. I was very confused why they didn’t start running out of the building, so I yelled.

“Everyone out before they all come back.”

And as soon as I said that, they ran for the doors screaming. They were all pushing each other, trying to get out and some people were getting trample. I brought back the tentacles, pointed my palms out toward the five people on the floor, and they grabbed the people around the waist. When I got them away from the crowd at the door my tentacles pulled them to their feet.

“Are you Ok,” I asked one, helping him up.

“Yeah, thanks,” he replied.

“You guys need to get outta here, but it’s gonna take a while for that door to clear up,” I said looking back to see that there was still a huge crowd by the door.

“There’s a small office building by this bank, I’ll get you guys on top of the roof and you can get down by using the fire escape,” I continued turning back to them..

And without waiting for them to respond, I used a tentacle to pick up each person, and decided to summon four more to climb.

I turned towards the side of the bank, looking up there was a window big enough for everyone to fit through. I used two of my four tentacles as legs and jumped next to the window, which was right next to the ceiling. I used the other pair to stab the wall and hold me and the people in place, then used my leg tentacles, to break the window. Luckily the other building was about as tall as the bank, it was just 20 feet taller, so I threw the people I was holding to the top of the building across from us and went back down to ground level using my tendrils to stab the wall and lower me. I looked a lot like Doc Ock from Spider-Man, but with more tentacles.

When I got to ground level I turned to go to the back of the bank where the crooks were probably breaking into the vault, but when I was about to land on the ground two of them ran out of the back door to face me.

One was wearing the frankenstein mask and the other was the zombie. They leveled their guns at me and were about to pull the triggers, when I shot one of my tentacles into a column and used it to pull me behind the column out of their line of fire. They tried to shoot me while I was moving, but I was able to dodge and weave between the few bullets that almost hit me. When I had my back to the column-and some protection- I used two of my tentacles to grab the column that was in front of me, they wrapped around the center of the column and I pulled out a piece of it. Then used my two tentacles that were attached to the column I was hiding behind to push me away from it, out into the open. Where I threw the column at the two thieves, crushing them against the back door.

I had a feeling that these guys had powers as well, but if they did then they must’ve been using their guns because their powers require them to be close up to their target, so they might have super strength, and when the rock I hit them with started to move, I knew I was right. The rock lifted off the ground by two giant hands that were the size of a school desk, and when the rock was lifted up completely, there stood the zombie mask guy, but he looked like a metal statue, and the frankenstein mask guy threw the rock to the side. I was shocked. They both had rare powers, the frankenstein was twice his normal height and a lot muscular. His mask seemed like it was about to fall apart at any moment . The zombie mask guy’s metal arms melded with his hands, his fingers fused together and elongated. forming swords for each hand.

They both charged to me, the big guy reached me first and tried to punch me using all of his momentum, but I easily dodged back, out of the way, jumped up, flipped in the air, stretched out one of my legs, put all of my force behind the heel of my foot, and hit the top of his head. The blow from my foot made him fall to the ground unconscious, and I landed on my feet with one hand on the ground, the other one raised in the air in a crouched position. I turned around towards the man made of metal just in time to see him bring down both of his swords on me. I quickly grabbed my hook-like weapon (that has two scythe-like ends in front of it, and a short handle) from behind my back, and brought it up just in time to stop the swords from coming down on me. I used his momentum from running towards me by falling on my back, and using my feet to pick him up and throw him off of me, which was really hard since he was made of metal. I kept rolling and when I was about to roll on my head, I used my hands to push myself up, still holding my hook weapon, and landed on my feet, facing away from the metal guy, and pushed the button on the handle of my hook, and one of the hooks rotated around until it was protruding from the handle. I then swung the front of it with one of the hooks to my right, and then rotated it and swung the handle with the other hook in it, to the left. Transforming my hook into a double sided scythe.

Everyone stood where they were too scared to move, I was very confused so I yelled to them.

“Everyone out before they all come back.”

And as soon as I said that, they ran for the doors screaming. They were all pushing each other, trying to get out as soon as possible, some people were getting trampled, so I decided to help them. I brought back the tendrils, pointed my palms out toward the five people on the floor, and they grabbed the people being trampled around the waist. When I got them away from the crowd of people at the door the tendrils pulled them to their feet.

“Are you Ok,” I asked one of them, while helping him stand up.

“Yeah, thanks for getting us outta there,” he replied.

“You guys need to get outta here, but it’s gonna take a while for that door to clear up,” I said turning towards the door to see that there was still a huge crowd by the door.

“There’s a small office building by this bank, I can get you guys on top of the roof and you can get down by using the fire escape.”

“How are you gonna get us up there?” a trampled person asked.

I pointed to the big windows that were up by the ceiling.

“I can take you guys to one of those windows, and get you to the top of the office building,” I replied.

And without waiting for them to respond, I used a tendril to pick up each person, and decided to summon four more so I could get to the windows. I used two of the four extra tendrils like legs and jumped next to the window. I used the other pair to stab the wall and hold me and the people in place, then I used the leg tendrils to break the window. Luckily the other building was about as tall as the bank, it was just 20 feet taller, so I threw the five people I was holding with my tendrils, to the top of the building, they screamed when I threw them, probably thinking that I was about to let them fall to their deaths, but when they were five feet above the building and fell on top of it with with a thud they stopped screaming. When they didn’t see them get up from the side of the building I thought i killed them somehow, and right when I was about to go check on them I saw the head of the people pop up over the side of the building, realizing that they were fine, I went back down to ground level using my tendrils to stab the wall and hold me, I looked a lot like doc oct, but with more limbs. When I got to ground level I turned to go to the back of the bank where the crooks were probably breaking into the safe, but two of the crooks were at the front of the back door that led to the safe, one was wearing the frankenstein mask and the other was the zombie. They leveled their guns at me and were about to pull the triggers when I shot one of my tendrils from my sleeve, shot it at the wall, and used it to pull me up and behind a column on the other side of the thieves line of fire. They tried to shoot me while I was going over there, but I was able to dodge and weave between the few bullets that almost hit me like spiderman. When I had my back to the column I sent two of my tendrils out to grab the column that was in front of me, they wrapped around the center of the column and I pulled out a chunk of the column. I used my two tendrils that were attached to the column that I was behind to push me away from the it, out into the open. Where I threw the column at the two thieves. Hitting them and crushing them against the back door which caved in when the piece of the column hit it. I had a feeling that these guys had powers as well and they were using their guns because their powers require them to be close up to their target so they must have super strength, and when the rock that I hit them with started to move, I knew I was right. The rock lifted off the ground by two giant hands that were the size of a small round table (the ones that can sit like 4 people at max), and when the rock was lifted up completely, there stood the zombie mask guy, but he looked like a metal statue that came to life, and the frankenstein mask guy was twice his height and a lot buffer and his mask seemed like it was about to rip apart at any moment. The zombie mask guy’s metal arms melted and became longer, and his fingers on each hand fused together and elongated as well and formed swords for each hand. They both charged towards me, the big guy reached me first and tried to punch me using all of his momentum, but I easily dodged out of the way, jumped up, flipped in the air, stretched out one of my legs, put all of my force behind the heel of my foot that was stretched out, and used the heel of my boot to hit the top of his head. The blow from my foot made him fall to the ground unconscious, and I landed on my feet with one hand on the ground, the other one raised in the air, standing in a crouched position. I turned around towards the man made of metal just in time to see him running at me and bringing down both of his sword hands on me. I quickly grabbed my weapon that has two hooks in front of it right next to each other from behind my back, and brought it up just in time to stop the sword hands that were coming down on me. I used his momentum from running towards me by falling down and rolling on my back, and using my feet to pick him up and throw him behind me and landed on his back, which was really hard since he was made of metal. I kept rolling and when I was about to roll on my head, I used my hands to push myself up, still holding my hook weapon, and landed on my feet, facing away from the metal guy. I pushed the button on the handle of my hook, and one of the hooks rotated around until it was protruding from the handle, I then swung the front of it with one of the hooks to my right, and then rotated it and swung the handle with the other hook in it, to the left. Transforming my hook into a double sided scythe with both metal hooks facing away from each other on opposite sides of each other.

I walked into the bank and got in line to get a loan. It was my student college loan, but after thirty minutes of waiting in line. The doors slammed open and five people wearing different monster masks, black hoodies, jeans, boots, and gloves, walked into the bank, guns in their hands and leveled at people.

“Nobody move!” yelled a guy wearing a frankenstein mask.

They all carried different weapons, the frankenstein and zombie carried sawed off shotguns, the clown and mummy carried M15’s, and the scarecrow carried an AK-47.

Everyone in the bank instinctively raised their hands like they were being arrested. The guys wearing monster masks slowly walked up to the front of the bank.

“Get on the ground now,” said the mummy mask guy.

Everyone did what they were told, except for me. The person wearing the zombie mask noticed I wasn’t obeying in blind fear to get on the ground like everyone else, so with his gun still raised he walked over to me. 

“Get on the ground man, or we’ll shoot you,” He said.

“No,” I replied.

“What did you just say?” he asked.

“Why did you guys do it”

He lowered his gun and his stance a bit, I couldn’t see his face but I could tell that he was confused

“wha-”

“I know that you guys are robbing this bank so you can pay the guy that gave you the Project Nova drug, which gives you powers, but knowing you addicts, you want more of Nova because it makes you feel invincible, so you’ll probably take more money than you’re supposed to.”

“How did you know,” he asked, raising his gun and guard back up.

“Because no one would rob a bank that’s 20 minutes away from a police station guns blazing with only 5 people and have no way of opening the safe.”

Even though I couldn’t see his face, I knew he was shocked

“Either that or you guys are just stupid and decided to rob the first bank you saw.”

“What are you doing!” yelled Scarecrow Mask. The guy wearing the zombie mask turned toward him

“You’re suppose to get the people on the floor so they won’t try to run away or fight back,” said the scarecrow, walking towards us.

“Why are you chatting with this guy,” he said annoyed.

“He knows why we’re here,” replied the zombie.

“What are you talking about?”

“He said we’re here so we can pay the guy who gave us Nova,”

The scarecrow looked at him for a second then turned to me.

“Who are you?” he asked.

“The guy who’s gonna stop this little bank heist of yours, but first I’m gonna need to know who’s your supplier” I responded

“Ok, Ok, well. We’re gonna have to kill you now” said the scarecrow, raising his gun at me.

I opened my trench coat and out shot my misty black tentacles which hit the gun out of his hands and slammed him and the zombie against the main desk and glass

I then forced my tentacles to go after the clown and mummy, but they heard the scarecrow and zombie hit the wall, so they turned around just in time to see the tentacles coming towards them, they raised their hands and the clown froze one tendril and the mummy burned another one.

“Ah, I was wondering what your powers were,”

“Mike get the others, tell them we have company,” the mummy said ignoring me.

The one wearing the clown maske whose name was apparently Mike, ran through the door that led to the back of the bank.

“You’re making a big mistake messing with us, we outnumber you,” said the mummy.

Without saying another word he shot out his hands and sprayed fire towards me like he was carrying two flamethrowers. I shot my tendrils up and wrapped them around the top of a column and pulled me up, out of the way. I made more tendrils come out of my jacket, put them against the ceiling, and had them push me towards the mummy, but he turned his hands towards me- still spewing fire.

Before the fire could roast me I quickly wrapped my tentacles around one another, melding them together, making a two foot thick wall in front of me, to protect me from the fire. When I was sure I was about to hit him I made the Tentacles disappear in a mist, and dove right into him, rolled around and landed on my feet facing him, to see that he was already on his knees.

He got up and pointed his hands at me, palms raised, but I was too fast. I ran up to him, hit the front of his throat, grabbed his arm, spun around behind him, held his arm out and twisting it around his back so he couldn’t move or use it which forced him to kneel down, he turned his free arm around towards me and before he could use it. I grabbed his arm then pointed it towards the ceiling right before he shot a huge burst of fire, blowing up part of the ceiling, letting huge rocks smash the floor. 

He rotated the palm of the hand he used which blew up the roof to my face, so I grabbed his wrist and let go of his other hand, pulled him towards me and swung my arm back to elbow him in the face, then threw him over my back and onto the floor. 

He was very slow, like I wasn’t expecting a black belt, but I was expecting at least some fast reflexes or to put up more of a fight. 

He raised one of his arms towards me when he hit the ground, but again he was too slow, and I used the heel of my boot and kicked him in the face, knocking him out.

I walked into the bank and got in line to get a loan, it was my student college loan, but after thirty minutes of waiting in line the doors slammed open and people with monster masks on walked into the bank wearing black hoodies, jeans, black boots, and black gloves, guns in their hands leveled at people.

“Nobody move!” yelled a guy wearing a frankenstein mask.

 There were five crooks. They all had pistols in waist holsters, but they all carried different main weapons, the frankenstein and zombie carried a sawed off shotgun, the clown and mummy carried M15 machine guns, and the scarecrow carried an AK-47.

Everyone in the bank instinctively raised their hands like they were being arrested. The guys wearing monster masks walked slowly up to the front of the bank

“Get on the ground now,” said the mummy man.

Everyone did what they were told, except for me.

“Get on the ground man, or we’ll shoot you,” said the guy wearing the zombie mask

“No.” I replied

“What did you just say?” he asked

“Why did you guys do it”

He lowered his gun and his stance a bit, I couldn’t see his face but I could tell that he was confused

“wha-”

“I know that you guys are robbing this bank so you can pay the guy that gave you the project nova drug, otherwise known as  that gives you powers, but you want more of  because it makes you feel invincible, so you’ll probably take more than you’re supposed to.”

“How did you know,” he said raising his gun and his guard back up

“Because no one would rob a bank that’s 20 minutes away from a police station guns blazing with only 5 people, and have no way of opening the safe.”

He looked at me stunned

“Either that or you guys are just stupid and decided to rob the first bank you saw.”

“What are you doing!” yelled Scarecrow Mask. The guy wearing the zombie mask turned toward him

“You’re suppose to get the people on the floor so they won’t try to run away.” said the scarecrow walking toward the zombie

“Why are you chatting with this guy,” he said annoyed

“He knows why we’re here,” replied the zombie

“What are you talking about?”

“He said  we’re here so we can pay the guy who gave us the drugs that gives us powers,”

The scarecrow looked at him for a second then looked at me.

“Who are you?” he asked.

“The guy who’s gonna stop this little bank heist of yours, but first I’m gonna need to know who gave you the drugs” I responded

“Ok, Ok, well. We’re gonna have to kill you now” said the scarecrow, raising his gun at me.

I opened my trench coat, used my powers and grabbed the gun. My black tendril that looks like a tentacle that was inside my trench coat hit the gun out of his hands and slammed him and the 

I forced tendrils to go after the clown and mummy, but they heard the scarecrow and zombie hit the desk, so they turned around just in time to see the tendrils coming towards them, they raised their hands and the clown froze one tendril and the mummy burned another one.

“Ah, I was wondering what your powers were,”

“Mike get the others, tell them we have company,” the mummy said ignoring me.

The one wearing the clown maske whose name was apparently Mike, ran through the employee door.

“You’re making a big mistake messing with us, we outnumber you,” said the mummy.

Without saying another word he shot out his hands and sprayed fire towards me like he was carrying two flamethrowers. I shot my tendrils up and wrapped them around the top of a column and pulled me up, out of the way of the fire. I made more tendrils come out of my jacket, put them against the ceiling, and pushed me towards the fire guy, straight into his spray of fire. The sooner I took this guy down the sooner people could get out of the building. I wrapped my tendrils around one another, melting together making a shield, so the fire couldn’t hurt me. I ran right into him, and when I hit him knocked me down, but I was able to roll around and land on my feet in front of him. He got up and pointed his hands at me, palms raised, but I was too fast. I ran up to him, hit the front of his throat, stunning him, grabbed his arm, spun around behind him,held his arm out, twisting his arm around his back so he couldn’t move or use it, grabbed his other arm that he turned towards me, and was about to shoot fire with keeping his hand faced away from me, but some people were right in front of me and were about to get roasted. So I pointed his arm up towards the ceiling right before he shot a huge burst of fire, blowing up part of the ceiling, letting huge rocks fall smashing the floor. 

He rotated the palm of his hand he used to blow up the roof to my face, so I used my hand grabbing the wrist of his arm that just blew up the roof let go of his hand. Turned my arm around and swung my arm back to him to elbow him in the face. I threw my weight forward and used my hand that was holding his arm to throw him over my back and onto the floor. He was very slow, like I wasn’t expecting him to be like a black belt, but I was expecting at least some fast reflexes or more of a fight. He raised his arm toward me when he hit the ground, but again he was too slow, and I used the heel of my boot and kicked him in the face, knocking him out.

When I’m home alone it’s quiet,

not the calming peace of mind quiet,

the quiet that’s so powerful it engulfs you,

making it feel as if you were to say anything the world would turn it’s ears to you,

and just stare with an uneasing blank face.

The quiet that’s so powerful it forces you into following it’s spell,

and at night the dark mixed with this quiet creates a fear we all know.

the kind that makes you see things in the dark,

and when you hear something big getting knocked over,

or even the tiny tick of 2 coat hangers hitting each other,

it makes you think someone else is in the house or that there’s some kind of monster.

And even though you know there’s no such thing as monsters,

that’s the first thing your mind thinks of.

This is the quiet we all fear.

Every word I speak is a tick closer to death,

even the unspoken words,

even the breaths I take from the world are ticks closer to the hour of death.

But most of the time I don’t even realize I’m breathing or talking in my head

and when I try to think as little as possible and breathe only when I can’t hold it anymore,

the clock still ticks and I’ve only save a few seconds.

I do this everyday and after a week there’s only a minute saved,

and seeing that one minute saved makes me remember what it cost.

I didn’t talk to my friends or see them for days just to save a minute,

and this made me realize that the clock will always strike death,

no matter what,

so what matters is how we spend those few words and breaths we have and do what we love.

Brutes- big zombies (around 10 feet tall), unproportional body parts due to the inflammation of muscles during mutation.

They have dark or tanned rotting skin, and their bodies are swollen to the point where it looks like they have no neck. Their upper body will be the most swollen part of the body, but that doesn’t mean their legs don’t get swollen.

These zombies take longer to rot and their skin is more fresh compared to average zombies. These things are like the size of a Grizzly bear, and the head is the only weakness if you have to take it out, but taking out the legs will slow them down and make them easier to kill or escape from, if possible the best way to avoid them is to wear the zombie skin. (they have the average eyesight of a zombie but have sensitive smell and hearing (just like a grizzly bear) so if the skin isn’t fresh then they’ll know you’re not a real zombie and squash you.

even though they may seem slow and dumb, they’re very fast like a rhino, they can charge around 30mph. But they can only do this in short bursts, like a hunter they’ll walk slow but when they’re hunting they charge. If you do manage to shoot their head they won’t automatically die, they’ll be able to move and run for about 2 hours before they’ll die.Extremely dangerous. Avoid at all costs.

Pinballs- have sharp rib cage bones sticking out of them randomly, their teeth are sharp and uneven so they can’t close their mouths, some of their bones around their arms fuse together.

While looking for Pinballs to study I’ve noticed that some of them are different from each other.

Some have long and sharp bones protruding from their fingertips like a crawler but nails that are 3 times longer. Some have crab claw hands, and there are Grapplers.

(Most pinballs have different hands (ex: nail bones on one hand, and a grappling hook on the other) I’ve only ever seen 2 of the 10 pinballs I’ve seen through my life with the same mutated hands. )

Grapplers have one hand which is a weird claw with 3-6 tips, like those old claw machines with toys inside them. They can shoot these hooks at you with some muscle flesh stuff (I don’t know what to call it) attached to the end of it like an actual grappling hook and can close the hook around their target and pull things to them, I haven’t been able to get to close to these zombies so I don’t know how they do this, but I think that the weird rope part that allows them to retract their claw back to them is a stretched out piece of muscle in their arm that’s compressed near the wrist and when they flex that muscle it shoots out with the grapple attached to it, and another muscle inside the arm pulls the bone hook with the wrist attached to the hook on the end back towards them, and they have muscles in the weird wrist bones (I don’t know what their called I’m not a doctor, but they’re the small bones in your wrist) which makes them open and retract the claws which can make them grab onto things, sorta like a moving your fingers.

The only way to avoid them is to wear the zombie skin. These guys have great smell and hearing just like the brutes so make sure the skin you’re wearing is fresh. These guys are a lot more territorial than other zombies, and if you get too close to them, they’ll kill you. Always stay at least 100 feet away from them. If you have to fight them, the best thing to fight them with is a gun, the sound of the gun will bring a lot of attention to yourself from the other zombies in the vicinity but getting close to a pinball is too dangerous. The bones protruding out of them could easily stab or wound you, and they have incredibly fast reflexes, and a thick hide so it’s gonna take more than one stab from a knife to kill them. And just like a runner, they’ll only run if they see prey.

I normally wouldn’t make this segment since it’s common knowledge how a zombie infects people, but I’ve made a recent discovery that the Pinballs infect differently from other zombies. Part of me is glad to say I’m lucky enough to know that but it’s so horrifying that I wish I never saw it.

While studying a wandering pinball while in my zombie suit (allows me to travel among zombies and not be noticed) I saw an unfortunate soul stumble  across it, all bloody and bruised, clothes torn, and no weapons to protect himself and immediately saw the pinball. they stared at each other, like when you make eye contact with a wild animal and you’re both frozen in place, and as soon as you move, the animal runs. That’s what happened. The person slowly tried taking a step backwards and the pinball jumped onto him in 1 second (which was impressive because they were across the street from each other). The pinball pinned the person’s arms down, then injected it’s tongue into the person’s mouth, like how a snake strikes its prey, and the person spasmed for a second and he went limp . After 10 seconds of them sitting like that, the pinball rolled it’s tongue back in its mouth, got off the guy, and as soon as he did the guy started spasming again and his eyes rolled back in his head, but he was changing, his ribs started to distort and protrude out of his body, his teeth got longer and sharper, the muscles in his arms and legs got bigger, the bones in his arms started to elongate, and eventually ripped through the skin showing his bones fusing together to make a weird crab claw on one hand and on the other hand were huge claws. It was horrifying. I had to cut my day of studying zombies off to just take a breather, and as soon as I got home I threw up.

Another species that’s rare among zombies are what I like to call mimics. These guys look like normal zombies but if you get close to them, they’ll take to their true forms. Their limbs stretch 3 feet longer, the skin around their joints will be torn apart and you’ll just see their muscles. Their mouth doesn’t have a jaw, so their mouth is just droopy skin with teeth sticking out of the lips. They have really strong muscles to make it look like they have a jaw like normal zombies.

They’ll unretract their bones out of their body, and shoot out one of their hands attached to a long rope (actually it’s more like a tentacle because they can make it move while it’s in the air, it’s very weird) made of muscles and can use their hand as a whip. The hand will have bones protrude out of it like a little mace, but their hand can still grab onto things.