Mariel smiled gently when Zentyu admitted that something about Ryan really got on his nerves, it was nice to know that she wasn't the only one who felt that way. Her eyes widened in suprise when he said that he liked her voice and she smiled and directed her eyes to the floor embarrassed "thank you Zentyu" she said softly. She watched as he started to fall asleep and waited until she was sure that he was resting before moving around the room and looking at the pictures on the walls and tables. All of them were much of the same, a woman and a child smiled out of each in different poses and situations. Mariel reached down and touched the face of the woman, so that is what a family looks like, she thought sadly. She reached down and picked up the frame to stare gently at the people in it when footsteps interupted her thoughts, she turned to see Ryan doing some last round checks and she set the picture back down on the table quickly. When he dropped into a chair she made her way into the room and looked at him for a long moment "who are the people?" she asked softly and pointed into the room to indicate the pictures "are they a...family?" she asked and sadness crimped her face. She had never known a family and it hurt her to know that she should have had one.

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Looking at the two then hearing her explain, a part of him was at ease with her then another part just seemed that she could be a problem at any moment if she were to change further. Looking to Zentyu as she spoke, "Manners this day and age are long gone. I'm sorry but after all I have been leaving on my own for way to long to trust anyone just because they say I should." he stated walking back over to the wall to lean against. "My blood." he whispered to himself looking down before back up, "My blood has nothing to do with a cure or for that matter what if it makes us infected.." he paused calming himself down looking back at the boy. "Look I'm not risking my body to find a cure when there is a high chance that there isn't one out there." he stated looking at the two. "I will help you guys but my body is off limits and I hope you would respect that." he stated calmly before walking towards the door to the other room.

"There are bed upstairs and you two are more than welcome to stay all I ask is, keep the noise down and no one leaves the house for anything not unless I know." he stated walking out of the room and towards Momo who was fast asleep on the couch. A smile appeared before shaking his hand and making his way to the front door. Ryan hardly ever slept and when he did it was only a couple hours at a time. Looking out the peep hole he saw only a few infected but they had no idea they were even there. Closing it quietly he walked back into the living room sitting in the chair his gun held tight against his body just keeping watch.

Zentyu was surprised by the voice that echoed from Mariel. It wasn't at all robotic, or anamatronic like he'd at all assumed, but even when she transmitted thoughts to him it wasn't robotic sounding, but to him it was almost like a voice mixed within static. He was able to understand it, but...he didn't hear it.
It was quite beaufitul, and very soothing. He was going to tell her something. He even got as far as opening his mouth, but before he was able to utter a word. Ryan had opened the door. Zentyu immeadiately noticed the rifle in his hand. He thought once he knew it wsa them he would put down the rifle, but as he looked at them his grip only seemed to tighten. "You ran before i could ask you a few questions." Zentyu responded. Again Ryan's attitude felt like somthing crawling under his skin, and the way he spoke to, and about Mariel didn't make it any better. Zentyu was a rather calm individual, but dealing with Ryan was one of those rare occassions when he actually had to concentrate to keep from losing his composure. "Please...," Zenyu said a bit frustrated. "Listen, something very serious is going on, and i'm trying to figure out what, and how to stop it. I need you, that girl, and myself." He looked over to Mariel. "You as well Mariel. I'm not sure how, but i believe in a mixture, or one of our dna's, or blood, or cells there might be a cure. There has to be something about us who were not turned into the infected. I need for us all to work together."
Zentyu released a breath. "I understand that you might be uneasy to trust, but that is no excuse for rudeness. Mariel is obviouly a female, a girl. And she just explained everything else about her." Zentyu didn't want to stay here, but looking outside the sun was nearly down. It would be to dangerous to go out right now. "I hope you do not mind if we stay the night. In the morning i hope you will help me, and tell the girl as well if you don't mind." Zentyu waited until it was just him, and Mariel. "Mariel something about that guy really annoys me." He then turned to her with a smile. "I prefer when you talk you have a very soothing voice." He yawned, and made his way to a corner. He rested his head up against it. He was to tired to even open the journal today. Though he held it tightly under his arm.

Still rummaging through his things as Momo fell fast asleep he was quiet now standing up he made his way back to the closet next to the front door he grabbed an assault rifle out just as the boy had knocked. All in a sudden flash he had the gun pointed at the door standing his ground. Ryan was jumpy but again he was firm on his movements. Looking at the door he could tell right away it wasn't one of the infected. Lowering the gun he opened the peep hole to see the two standing there unlocking the 4 locks then moving the board from the door he opened it slowly waving them in. As the two made their way in he locked all the doors up and slid the board back into place. Turning around he looked at the two before walking past them into the dining room instead of the living room where Momo slept.

"So why are you two here?" he asked pulling a chair out from all of them as he stood holding onto the Assault Rifle. Something about Mariel just didn't set him at ease. Whether she was an android or an infected he didn't feel all that comfortable around her. "Here is what is going to have to happen." he started looking at Zentyu and not the girl. "I'm completely out of food and there is barely enough water to make it but a couple of days." he said telling his plans to him "I'm planning on moving from this city to another one to find shelter and food." he said looking over to Mariel once before back at Zentyu. "What is she, or is it even a She?" he asked bluntly considering he had been on his own for so long manners kinda went out the window.

"No offense or anything Zentyu, but I'm not that sure I like her around, well whatever she is." he stated standing up from a lean looking at her. She just didn't seem right, she was more than attractive an he could see that considering he was a man and men always had that urge. "Not saying she isn't helpful or your property but if you two are going to be around me I would like to know what is around me. Is she infected?" he asked his hands tightly gripped on his gun walking over to her and now walking around her.

Zentyu followed behind Mariel. He followed her to the ledge. He looked over the ledge. "Mariel, there is no way i can jump from here, and come out unscathed i'd most likely die actually." He sighed. "I will run through the building, and meet you at th..." She suddenly grabbed his hand, and jumped. He looked to her wondering if she had some plan. "All he could see was the earth coming at them quickly. He clenched his teeth, tightened his muscles including his grip on her hand, and closed his eye's. He opened his eye's. He coudln't believe she'd absorbed all of that, and didn't even look tired. 'what are you?' He thought to himself looking at her. He didn't have much of a chance to think it before she again had him following her. As they arrived at a row of houses. It was easy to tell which one belonged to the boy even before Mariel said anything . It was the only one fortified. Zentyu nodded as she pointed out the house. "keep close." He whispered. He closed his eye's thinking how best to approach this situation. He clamed maybe he'd been to kurt in there first meeting. He sighed before knocking. While he waited for the door to be answered. He thought now would be a chance to ask Mariel a question. "Mariel...why don't you ever speak to me...?"

Momo noticed the immediate way that Ryan closed down when she asked him if he was on his own, so she knew that his answer was only half true. He must have lost his group just like she lost her dog, she wondered if the people he had been with had been his family. Momo let the matter drop as he stowed his guns on the wall and exited the room into a side room, she sighed softly and leaned back. When he handed her the blanket and pillow she took them gratefully and smiled wearily "I really appreciate this" she said softly before standing up and starting to make her a somewhat comfortable bed on the sofa before sitting back down.

She watched him leave the room with only a slight sense of curiosity still nagging her, something was seriously haunting him from his past but she sensed that she shouldn't ask him about it. Besides she had just met him so what right did she have to know anyways. She reached up and undid her long pink braid so that the strands fell in ripples down her shoulders before she settled back against the softness of the pillow. Her eyes had just started to droop closed when he came back into the room and she opened them quickly so that he didn't think that he had disturbed her. Her eyes widened when he spoke of leaving the city but she knew that it would have to happen sooner or later. If there was no food or clean water then there was no way that she or anyone else could stay, she vaguely wondered what the other two they had left behind planned to do. She sighed softly "I'm grateful that you asked me but...just let me sleep on it" she said softly and gave him a gentle smile "good night" she added before pulling the covers up to her chin and allowing herself to sleep at ease for once.
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Mariel turned her mismatched hues to Zentyu and then off after the path Ryan had taken. When he asked her if she could track Ryan down she nodded slightly, she turned and motioned for him to follow her. The female ran to the ledge and looked down, she switched her vision to heat sensitive and picked up the still warm trail that the boy had left behind. The heat vision she possessed helped her tremendously when it came to tracking uninfected as the infected gave off no heat signature. Mariel grabbed Zentyu's hand and jumped from the edge, she made sure that her own feet hit ground first and that she made his landing soft by catching most of his weight. When they were both safetly on the ground she turned and glanced around until she caught the glow of the boys footprints. Follow me she thought to him before turning and starting to run in the pattern that the boy had taken, lucky for them the infected seemed to be in another part of the city and they were able to make it to Ryans neighborhood unscathed. Mariel slowed down, she wasn't winded in the least, one would have to wonder just what this girl was. She turned to Zentyu and pointed at the house that was Ryans, she could see the boy and the girls heat signatures inside the house. There she said and turned her eyes back to study the house.

Sitting there he began to put the guns back together as fast as he pulled them apart looking to her as she asked him the same question he adverted his eyes back down to the guns, "No..." he stated very bluntly before picking the guns up and now hanging them on the wall where they were easy to grab. Walking into the other room he wasn't trying to be rude but the subject was one that he never enjoyed talking about or ever will want to. "Get some sleep..." he demanded walking back into the room with a pillow and blanket for her. "Your safe here." he stated handing her the two before walking into the kitchen.

The kitchen was pretty much empty besides the drinks in the fridge and the small amount of food which wouldn't last him very long and meant that he would end up having to leave sooner or later to find more food or go to a different city. Walking past the Kitchen he was now in the dining room, pictures filled the wall and tables of a Woman and child. Picking one up he continued to look at the two so happy in the picture as a tear streamed down his face. Quickly setting the picture down he walked out of the room turning the light off and shutting the doors. Walking back into the living room he looked at the girl on the couch before walking to the front door. Opening the little hole he looked out seeing barely nothing around but a few infected walking past as if they weren't even a house where Ryan and Momo were.

Closing it quietly he walked up the stairs and headed to his room. Opening the door he opened the closet looking through everything grabbing his weapons and swords, everything he would need to keep himself protect and safe till he found another place. Turning around he walked over to the bed placing all the items on the bed before sorting through them. He knew if he was going to leave he was going to have to do it Tomorrow morning. Grabbing everything up he walked down the stairs and set them quietly in the living room. Walking to the closet which was right next to the front door he opened it searching through the keys of which car he would take outside then headed back to the seat. Looking at Momo he gave her a friendly smile, "Tomorrow we are going to be leaving to find another place to stay. This place has served me well enough but there is no more food in this city, So you are more than welcome to join me but I suggest you get some sleep so your well rested for tomorrow." he stated going through his things.

Zentyu looked at Ryan as he jumped onto the scene. He didn't even have a chance to respond. Before Ryan pulled out a gun, and fired at him. His eye's focused onto the bullets, in seconds. He could tell it wasn't aimed at him, and so didn't move. However he was surprised to hear a brute behind him scream, and watch it fall. He then turned his attention back to Ryan who claimed Zentyu owed him one. Zentyu didn't know why, but Ryan's attitude got under his skin like no one he'd ever met. He narrowed his eye's. Zentyu calmed himself, and watied for Ryan to finish talking thinking he'd only be given equal respect, and a chance to speak, but before he uttered a word Ryan had scrambled off with the girl. He watched until they were gone. The attitude of that guy... Zentyu thought to himself.
Zentyu nodded. "I know that, He's reckless needlessly so, but he's survived this entire time here. So, whether he is just lucky, or that skilled...remains to be seen." Zentyu didn't really feel comfortable transmitting his thoughs straight to her if talking was an option. Zentyu thought for a moment. Well it seems after being here for hours i haven't changed, also there's that girl, and now this boy. I wonder if there are any more survivors. I wonder if that boy has met any other. He seems to have adapted to this world. "Mariel, you said early you can track right? would you mind trying to find his home. I think it would be beneficial to talk with him, and see if he will help us." He still didn't know how to talk to Mariel as far as asking her questions about her life, and what did she remember. He still held his fathers journal. He still hadn't had a chacne to read it for real. "After you find it we will need to head back to the lab my skyle (his motorcycle) can get us there faster than on foot, besides it has a very powerful energy source i don't think should be left alone."

Momo waited patiently for the girls answer but was slightly deterred when the boy answered for them instead, couldn't the girl speak for herself? Momo felt slightly abashed by his defensive tone but she had felt the same way "I-I'm Momo, as for the boy who saved me I'm not really-" she started but the boy in question chose that moment to react angrily to Zentyu's comment and Momo clamped her mouth shut. He seemed to anger the pair even though he managed to shoot a Brute that was directly behind them in the face, they didn't seem in the least fazed as if they knew it was there. She blanched when Ryan asked her to come with him "well I..." she started but before she could finish he had picked her up and made her hold onto his neck. She closed her eyes and squeaked when he jumped off of the roof and kept her eyes that way until he stopped at his home and let her slide off onto her own two feet. She looked around the little neighborhood and it was clear that this was the only house occupied and fortified. When they went in she actually smiled, it looked so normal. She flopped down on the couch when he offered and sighed happily, when he started talking to her she let her eyes drift open. "Oh, um, yes my name is Momo. I wasn't with anyone...my family...well they turned in the beggining and I haven't really found anyone else" she said and shrugged sadly. "What about you?" she asked him and leaned forward to rest her elbows on her knees.
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When Ryan shot the Brute in the face that was behind Zentyu and said that they owed him something Mariel scowled and the steel claws from before started to lengthen on her hand. She didn't take kindly to this man threatening Zentyu or implying that they owed him anything but she kept herself in check, she couldn't hurt them if she was to abide by her directives. She glanced over at Zentyu, her face still holding it's blank expression, He is cocky...but his body may hold the key to a cure and his attitude could get him killed. she sent out to him. Before Zentyu could answer her and she could even ask him if he wanted her to stop them the man named Ryan had grabbed up the girl and whisked himself over to the ledge. Fortunately he told them where he was staying and Mariel could easily locate the location once she was on the ground again. Even if he hadn't wanted them to know Mariel was an excellent tracker and it wouldn't have taken long to track them down. When they left she turned back to Zentyu and shook her head in a disparraging way, they wouldn't last long without her help and from the smell of the boys blood she was almost certain that something in it could help them find a cure.

Ryan watched the fight with the horde and knew full well whatever that woman was, she wasn't human. Looking at Momo as she spoke her question he shrugged, "The way I see it, they are Heading this way, and the only way you will get off this roof is through the building." he stated looking at the two making their way over to them. Momo stepping ahead to ask her question Ryan grabbed her shoulder keeping her in reach just in case something was to go down between them. "I suggest you stay near me..." He stated looking at Mariel, and Zentyu. Hearing the boy's voice it made Ryan a little uneasy. "Boy?" he questioned walking in front of Momo. "Zentyu...I've heard that name once before.." he stated looking at him. "I suggest you watch your tone when you talk to me boy." he said looking at both of them. "My name is Ryan, And the way I see it." He quickly pulled his gun out shooting a Brute right in the face which was right behind Zentyu. "You owe me..." he stated putting the gun back into the holster and walking to the edge of the building looking down.

Looking back at the three on top of the roof. "Well its getting late and I'm thinking I'm going to turn in." he said looking up at the sky then down the road. "I'm located on Barton St, and well it would be the house that looks Safer than all the rest. I suggest if you want a place you can rest your mind, you are more than welcome to stay..." he started before looking back at them, "As long as your not leading them to me." he said looking to Momo, "You look tired, You want to go with me?" he asked not even looking at the other two because he knew they could make it. As for Momo, She was kinda on her own. "As for you two, your welcome as well but the way I see it, Its better if we split up making it easier instead of having hordes of hordes..." Looking back at Momo, "Lets go." he said grabbing her hand and then placing her on his back. "Not trying to be forward with you but your safer with me than by yourself. " he stated jumping off the building grabbing a pole and sliding to the street.

Starting to run down the street he ran with great speed holding onto Momo and watching out for them both. Running down an alley he knew the city so well he knew where most of them were at night was able to get around them pretty easy. Soon before they knew it without even being seen by them he made his way to the front door of the house. Pulling some keys out he slid one in the key hole quietly as he opened the door letting her in. Reaching onto the table close to the door he grabbed a bottle of vinegar, it helped keep them away and the scent of them there. Closing the door he locked it then placed his block-aid in front of the door knowing it would keep them from getting in. The windows had metal and steel sheets on them making it the best place he thought. Looking to her he then looked around. "Well It looks like we are ok for the night.." he stated giving her some reassurance.

Walking to the living room he began placing his things down onto the coffee table now sitting down in the chair leaning back. A deep breath escaped him as he finally relaxed. " You may sit if you want to." he stated looking to her and pointing at the couch. Leaning forward again he began to mess with his guns, taking the mag out with the bullets he took his gun apart cleaning it once more. He was pretty bad about it, keeping them clean made him at ease when he was to fight with the monsters. His sword leaned up against the table he pulled it out of the hilt cleaning the blood off of it before putting them up. "So Momo?" he started. "That's your name isn't it?" he questioned making sure he had it right. "Are you just on your own or were you with some people?" he asked.

Zentyu felt helpless. He knew there was nothing that could be done. He watched in horror. However a variable seemed to appear to change the outcome in the blink of an eye. He didn't recognize anything amazing about the boy, until he began to move. Zentyu watched his fluid movements intently. He knew his body could never keep up with those reaction speed, but his eye's were able to watch, follow, and analyze. He knew the boy had the upper hand, before the monster was defeated. He released a sigh of relief. Zentyu was about to tell her to assist, but before he could another wave of infected arrived. He hated to sacrifice this humans lives in this way. Mariel made rather easy work of the horde of infected. He still didn't understand what was going on. He didn't understand what Mariel was, or her true purpose. He didn't understand why she was able to talk to him mentally, but from the moment he freed her. She hadn't actually spoken to him, but in the few hours they'd met there really hadn't been much time for talk, and he'd yet to dig through his fathers journal. Was she just a weapon, was she even human. Though that didn't effect the way he treated her. As far as he was concerned she was a sensient being deserving of respect.

Of course when she asked should they follow them . He immeadiately said. "Yes." He followed behind her cautiously though on the surface he looked composed. He looked around at the ruble. He wondered how long, and just how far had this spread. Everything looked like it'd been destroyed for years. Zentyu stepped forward aside Mariel. "Her name is Mariel, and I am Zentyu, who are you, and who was that boy?" Zentyu asked. He didn't want to assume they were human, or anything that could be trusted. "Not here..." His voice was nearly demanding.