chapter 5 : supernatural abilities

6:32, The Strait of Gibraltar, located between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Kingdom of Spain.

“Quickly shoot...”

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

An exchange of gunfire took place between a group that was on board the cargo ship and a large crowd of people whose skin was red, in addition to some of them who were injured by numerous gunshot wounds but were still standing.

“Dammit, Ryan, stop wasting ammo.”

BANG!!

“Shoot them in the head, you idiot...”

A man in his forties shouted at a young man who looked to be in his early twenties.

“Everyone retreat and secure the lifeboat...”

A young man in his early twenties shouted, his right arm was dangling strangely.

“Rafael, you are injured , Go with them...” the man who shouted earlier spoke

“Varane...” Prosecutor Rafael tried to protest, but Varane interrupted him.

“This is not the right time, Rafael, you are just a burden now...”

He put the gun down and picked up a metal bar that he was hanging behind his back

“Raph, if I don’t come back in five minutes, sail off without me...”

Rafael's body froze when he heard his father's words. He gritted his teeth and left.

“Come to me, you damned monsters...” Varan shouted, then ran towards them and began swinging the metal bar violently, crushing the zombies’ heads.

Varan stopped counting after the number of zombies he killed exceeded 11.

The strange thing was that even after killing dozens of zombies, he did not feel tired. In fact, he felt illusory that he was getting stronger every time he took down one of the zombies.

Bam!!

He hit a tall zombie and sent him flying backwards. He felt like he was hitting a baseball and not a zombie who was a huge man.

Varane stopped and looked at his hands with wide eyes. Given the current situation, he forced himself to calm down, and here age played a big role.

“I don't know what's going on here, but without confirmation I've gotten ridiculously stronger...”

He looked around and found that he was standing in the middle of many zombie corpses, all of which had their heads smashed!! .

However, more zombies attracted by the sound of fighting were slowly moving towards his location.

Although he did not feel physically tired, for some reason he felt mentally exhausted. If it were not for his will and his eagerness to prevent the zombies and provide time for his only son to escape safely, he would have fallen unconscious, and if this happened, no matter how high his strength was, he would have fainted.

To become a victim too.

Varane was of Spanish descent and had one son from his late wife.

For 17 years, he had worked at a port transporting goods, and today he had offered his son to come with him to see the work there, but it never occurred to him that this was the worst and best decision he had made in his life.

Without this decision, he would have lost his son.

These beings did not just appear in the transport ship, on the contrary, it seemed that the entire world was going through the same thing

That's why Varane felt lucky to offer his son to come with him.

He was unlucky because he felt like he might fall here.

........

...

"Man, let's go before those monsters come!" A middle-aged man shouted at Rafael, who was still waiting for his father to come.

“Raphael, my son, don’t let your father’s sacrifice be in vain, also even if you stay here what can you do against those monsters let alone your arm is broken!”

“Fuck it, let's go, I don't want to turn into one of those monsters...” another person in the group shouted and then started to strap on the lifeboat.

Raphael looked at the person who spoke angrily

“A bunch of selfish hypocrites, why did Father stay behind to protect those ungrateful motherfuckers?” he thought indignantly, then gritted his teeth. He took one last look before boarding the lifeboat with eyes red with anger, despair, and sadness.

“Good boy, don't let your father's sacrifice go to waste...”

Someone tapped him on the shoulder

Raphael didn't respond, he just looked down, but what he didn't notice was that his eyes were glowing with a faint red light, and there was also a mysterious aura constantly entering his body.

Raphael held his head with a pained expression on his face, a painful moan escaping his mouth.

The others noticed his condition and quickly retreated back

“What’s wrong with him!?, wait...”

“Could he turn into one of those monsters...”

“Quickly throw him out of the boat before it turns.”

The group became confused and afraid. One of them tried to advance with the intention of throwing Rafael from the boat, but the man who had previously patted Rafael on the shoulder blocked his way.

“What are you turning into?! No, I don’t think he’s turning into those monsters, those monsters have red skin, the boy looks normal...”

The man who came forward to try to throw Rafael frowned and said

“Man, I am not willing to risk my life. It is true that his father saved our lives, but would this make any sense if his son killed us after transforming into one of those beings...”

“Get out of the way, Javi!!”

The man named Javi took a look at Raphael, who was still holding his head while making a painful groaning sound.

He sighed and moved out of the way.

The man came forward, along with another man. They caught Rafael, who seemed to be oblivious to what was happening around him

“Nothing personal, boy, I just want to live,” the man murmured, and then they threw him from the boat.

Raphael opened his eyes wide as he felt himself starting to drown

He ignored the headache and the strange things that were happening to his body and then began swimming to the top.

He looked with reddened eyes at the lifeboat, which was far from its location, and shouted in anger and indignation

" Why !!? "

As if his anger and indignation had stimulated something inside him, Raphael clearly heard a cracking sound coming from deep within his body as if something had broken.

Immediately after that, a wave of information appeared inside his mind out of the blue.

His facial expression changed, feelings of indignation and anger were replaced by feelings of shock. He was shocked and in disbelief at what had happened now, but soon his feelings changed again to joy and hope.

“I can save the father!” he thought hopefully. He dived into the water and then started swimming towards the cargo ship. A shocking thing happened. When Raphael started swimming, he launched like a torpedo towards the ship. His speed was simply unreasonable, so much so that he reached the ship in a short time.

When he arrived, he came out of the water, and then something shocking happened again. The water seemed as if it had a life of its own. It began to surround Raphael's body and rise until he reached the deck of the ship.

Raphael easily jumped onto the deck and then started running towards the location of the sound of the zombie gathering.

When he got there, his eyes widened. In front of him, a one-sided massacre was taking place. His father, Varan, was holding in his hand something similar to a sickle, which was apparently made of blood!! He was waving it right, left, cutting at the zombies who for some reason were running excitedly towards him with saliva drooling from their mouths like dogs.

Raphael sighed in relief

"Hmm!! Great, thank God, he's alive and well."

“Even my father got powers like me. I think it’s similar to what happens in those anime and novels about the end of the world, where people get superpowers after the end of the world comes, and in return, some turn into zombies...”

He would be lying if he didn't say that he was excited. After all, he had obtained something he had only seen in science fiction movies. He had obtained a supernatural ability. According to the information that appeared in his mind, he could manipulate water within a radius of ten meters and there was no limit to what he could do. With this ability, the only limit is his thinking.

“Father...” Rafael shouted, then started running towards Varane.

Varan, who was fighting against the zombies like a wolf inside a flock of sheep, his body suddenly froze, he quickly turned around to look back.

"Raph!!! What are you doing here?! Didn't I tell you before to run away?!" Even though he had the situation under control and there was no danger, he was still angry to see that his son did not run away.

Rafael ignored his father's words and said quickly

"Father, quickly let's leave this place..."

Varan's facial expression softened, he nodded

"I wanted to kill all the zombies here and then catch the lifeboat, but I don't think I have the strength. I feel like I'm going to faint at any moment..."

He rubbed his temples and thought

“It seems that this ability you obtained consumes physical strength...”

“Let's go and catch the boat, where are they by the way!?”

Rafael's facial expression turned ugly when he heard his father's question

He gritted his teeth in anger and said

“They threw me off the boat and sailed away...”

“What!!?” Varan’s face had a dark and frightening expression

“Very good, Very good , I will never forget this matter. Next time I see that group of killers, I will carefully show them the consequences of their actions!!”

“This transport ship has one lifeboat. Okay, get ready. We will head towards Morocco by swimming...”

" Morocco !? "

“Yes, we will go there. I own a house there in the city of Tangier. As far as I know, it is a sparsely populated city. Even if they turn into monsters, there will be no great danger. It is also the closest area to the transport ship...”

"Get ready to jump..."

Raphael shook his head and said while pointing with his hand towards the sea below

“Father, you are not the only one who has obtained a supernatural ability...”

Under Varan's eyes a column of water rose to their height

“Ha-ha-ha, very good, as expected from my son...” He patted him on the shoulder and praised him highly.

It took them only 15 minutes to reach the beach of Tangier, but Raphael's face was very pale. As soon as he arrived at the beach, he lost consciousness immediately.

Varane wanted to pick him up and leave the place, but unfortunately it seemed that he had used all his strength in the previous fight against the zombies on the ship.

He also fell unconscious next to his son's body. Fortunately, it seemed that the trap was empty. Otherwise, they would have immediately become a victim of one of the zombies, and what use would it be if they now had supernatural abilities if only one of the weakest zombies bitten and they could survive! .