Be Careful What You Wish For: A Zombie Apocalypse
Chapter 334: Useful

Chapter 334: Useful

The man simply moaned with pain as the black mist continued to circle his body. "No," he muttered, his face going white right before it was covered in darkness. "No!!"

Looking down at the black mass at my feet, I couldn’t help but cock my head to the side as I studied it. What started off as a mixture of air and water soon turned hard, wrapping itself like a rope around the man.

"Do you know what’s happening?" asked Luca, coming to my side and wrapping an arm around my waist.

"Not a clue," I shrugged. "They make the wish, I grant it, but when it comes to the finer details, I don’t pay too much attention. Last time this happened, Tink got a statue for his moat."

"It looks almost like a cocoon," muttered Tank as he shifted back. For some disappointing reason, he seemed to have found a pair of black combat pants and boots and was now walking around half-dressed.

"Maybe he’ll turn into a beautiful butterfly," I smirked at him before my eyes drifted down to stare at his abs. One, two, six, seven, eight. Yup! They were all present and accounted for. As if he was able to read my mind, Tank smirked back at me before scratching his stomach.

The cocoon shifted and jolted as four white fingers burst from the thread. "Save me!" he gasped before the cocoon quickly closed up again. Whatever was going on inside, it was clear that the casing hadn’t finished cooking yet.

"What’s our next move?" grunted Beau as he, too, walked over. "Are we taking out the base? Taking it over? Taking it apart?"

"Ugh," I groaned, even as the thing in front of me stopped moving. "How about no?"

"Why not? You don’t want to start your own sanctuary and save the world?" smirked Chang Xuefeng.

"Is it really all that fun being the boss?" I asked, raising an eyebrow to look at Dante. "Couldn’t I just want to live a life of doing nothing? Would that really be so wrong?"

The men around me stilled for a moment, making me wonder if I had said something wrong. I mean, I get that some people have ambition, desiring power and prestige more than anything else in the world...

But that wasn’t me.

Give me a bed and a TV, and I could make a good case of not moving for at least a month. Six months if the house fed me and I wasn’t relying on candy to get me through my day.

"Actually," admitted Dante after a moment of reflection. "Being boss sucks."

"You have to work harder and longer hours," agreed Beau, looking around at the other.

"People always be expectin’ you ta have all de answers," nodded Dimitri.

"All meetin’s, no nap," sighed Ronan.

"I really don’t see de fun in it at all," muttered Désiré. "I’m votin’ no on de whole sanctuary thing. We donna need dat type of negativity in our lives."

"She’s gotta point," agreed Salvatore. Hearing his voice from down the corridor startled me. I honestly hadn’t seen him with the others, and man, did this guy like to scare the crap out of me by just appearing out of thin air. "Imma votin’ no."

"Nope fer me," yawned Ronan.

"I have enough shit on my plate that I am obligated to deal with, so adding a sanctuary full of noisy humans is a definite no for me as well," agreed Daddy.

"Dat’s five no’s," nodded Beau. "But we can say all we want, at the end of the day, it’s Hattie’s decision."

"Leave it," I sighed after a moment. It wasn’t like I was actively trying to save the human race, but I also wasn’t going to put forth the energy to destroy it either. "I wanna go home."

It was just my luck that as soon as those words were whispered from my lips, the cocoon in front of me burst open, sending broken, silken threads in all directions.

All of us quickly stopped talking, completely mesmerized by the creature that emerged.

"Fuck dat," hissed Désiré, taking a few steps back. "Tank! Yous kill it, and kill it good!"

"You can’t kill it!" I protested, swinging my head around to look at the Sin. "It’s so cute!"

"It’s an abomination!" screeched Désiré even as he continued walking backward. He almost tripped on the same skull that Jonas had stepped in, but he caught himself before plastering his back against the wall. "Someone burn it! Burn de lab! Burn de entire fucking sanctuary! But dat thing needs to die!!"

"No!" I announced with an almost hiss. "I am keeping it! He’s now my pet, and I’m taking him home with us."

"Dere’s no way I’m steppin’ foot in de same place as dat thin’," snapped the Sin, even as he stared at the creature. "It’s it or me, woman, and Imma putting my foot down on dat."

"You can put your foot down all you want," I hissed back, "But that doesn’t mean I’m not keeping it."

"Hattie," sighed Dante, pinching the bridge of his nose as he looked at me. "Do you even know what it is?"

"It’s cute!" I insisted, my hand flying to my hips as I stared down the rest of my men. I didn’t understand why they were so against it!

"Baby girl," murmured Beau, stepping forward. However, the moment he did, the creature at my feet opened its six eyes and stared at him. "That is a seven-foot tall, half man, half black widow spider. I don’t think that we are going to have the room it needs to be happy in our house. Why don’t we leave him... it down here when it can eat to his... it’s heart’s desire. We can always come back and visit. What do you say?"

Considering that I was looking into the creature’s eyes, I really didn’t think that it was seven feet tall, but with the bright red hourglass on its stomach and venom leaking from its fangs, I guess Beau had a point.

Before I could say anything, though, the spider-man... man spider?... rose up on all eight legs and towered over me. "I still think it’s cute," I grumbled, even as the thing leaped over my head and tackled Jonas, who had been trying to make a run for it.

"And look! It’s useful!"

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