The warning already teaches us something, that there's impending darkness coming our way, and great storms flood our house with emotions, while they burn what we held intact. Thus the only way to deal with danger is to understand it and adapt to it. For that, we need POWER, and to own power means to CONTROL through the wisdom we already earned. Now to control this power and ultimately control yourself, it requires a great deal of power, which may ravage your home in the process if you let yourself to its feeling. But either way the worse has already happened. The vast population of this neighborhood already drinks from the wells of power, so let me put it this way: we're doomed. But there's still hope. If at least one will learn how to resist the storm, then it can further develop new ways of living intelligently. Should one fail, the rest of the walking zombies will have another person in plus. For our humanity to survive, it is imperative that we go through such test when we have a steady base and remember that once POWER is ON, the electricity of its feeling, will run through your veins until someone will strip you from it by taking your life. It's like the sex drive one has, almost irresistible, giving a sense of ultimate possibility, being free to act and do whatever it can, feeling very good while at it. Here, many have lost their lives already despite looking alive. Hence why we're calling them zombies. In this dangerous time, you must understand that a person with power does not have a sense of responsibility anymore, when it's completely changed, all it has will be the power which they let themselves be taken over by. If the character and will shall allow it, then they can cure themselves, but the more the natural imbalance stands with them unable to control such a thing, the more people will suffer and the more someone will take their head in the end. It is always the case for tyrants if you remember. To actions, there's always a reaction, and to learn how to use power and how to control yourself is a requirement because with enough responsibility and with the courage to act, nothing can stop you but you yourself. And as we covered in the wishes, it really depends on how you are. While we will apply the wisdom and your homework that you yourself had to do, we can make the silent river agitated and the most talkative of birds stop singing. 

The first lesson of the day is how do we apply wisdom? The storm is coming and we only got a few amounts of resources to work with, the wishes for despair, happiness, courage, family and love. A storm is coming, what do we choose first? Considering it's dangerous, we'll start with courage. It will give us the strength to move around and be productive about our choices. That is the first power source, let's use it wisely. As for despair, we'll have it anyway as our happiness will be stripped, but we've learn to counter despair with happiness, we've made a simple lifestyle with them and we cannot let go of that if we are to hold on the balance. As for family, it's relative, but we've learned to make a family stay stable we could use that to our numerical advantage. Maybe there's still one person from the neighborhood who is still alive. By knowing how to maintain a family, we also know how to respect each-other as individuals and letting our desires apart for a greater understanding of people around us, acknowledging that they are independent only when they have passed the trials of maturity and that their individuality relies heavily on their sense of responsibility towards one-another. With love we have learned how to maintain a relationship and how to look for one, the ways through which the wish for family and the one for love make a deadly combo and forge harmony in the end. Woah, you're strong already, look at you. Learned so much in so few days. But nonetheless, if we value our humanity we've got to spread our wisdom unto others and we must help each-other even if it means passing through all those zombies outside. Well, I know I haven't given you anything to defend yourself against them, but that you will learn only by experience and experience forces you to use your head in order to counter future dangers. Come on, let's go out the door in the neighborhood. See if anyone survived. 

Such a weird atmosphere, people cheering, but there are also screams. The air is relatively heavy but so charming, wonder what the others are do-ahh there they are gathered in a circle. Apparently, they are boasting someone who just slain someone. Don't worry we're not going to use the typical ''let's check it out'' technique used in horror movies, we shall watch from a distance. Hide behind a car and use your senses, meaning your ears right now. Listen to what the crowd is cheering for, and what the person in the middle is saying. Looks like there are some very interesting features on that person, a very strong aura, something that instills terror but everyone is cheering. And I cannot hear a thing, but there's one attribute about situations like this: stay away and report to someone who's in charge. You're currently in charge so I'm reporting this to you, that thing over there is a gathering and praise of a person who has given itself to power. The other human slain is another victim of power and depending on their character you may see how they will change if they face that whole crowd. Here, use your eyes, look at that person turning into a zombie and raising back to life just to slay its enemy...just to be struck back and the person that is praised is considered a hero as through his mighty power, revive the dead only to kill them again for credibility, pride and a feeling of self-worth that is somewhere high up, thinking that he's more precious than life itself. Such people are called control freaks. People who push you to do bad so they can take the credit later while messing with everything you have and gathering the worst people on earth to worship them for it. Usually coming with words full of hate for that thing that just sprung back to life, we must save them. 

Unlike the zombie there that has missed everything in life and doesn't know what to do, the only animal instinct it has is survival, and thus why it chooses to fight till the end and mess up its life, but since the system it lives in kills it if it does something about it, we must act now. I know you're afraid, that is a high end enemy, and you need to find a way to pacify both them and the zombie. Now what do we know already to do such a thing? We know that the zombie is a zombie there because it tries to fight for its life with someone who is not only imbalanced but enforces unjust judgment and takes unjust praise for it. Usually, what you should do is between two choices: gather and swarm or ram in. Let's use the ramming now, since it's my simulation and you need to be properly stimulated to danger without being in actual harm. Since you're going to solve this issue, know that the desperate zombie that tries to live will be aggressive towards you if you side with the criminal here. It will consider you just as bad and what it will know is that the world is bad enough to kill it entirely. You will make a demon from a zombie, and the possibility of such case is making the quest almost impossible. Always remember these things in your journey, as they will save your life and many others. A power-hungry maniac like the one in front of you will always have a pattern, which makes it a high-end enemy but with a pretty easy-to-take-out method. A demon forged out of these things, you cannot control, and you cannot kill it either. It would be wrong to do so as nature made it an anti-biotic for these types of people. You will see the demon develop into an extremely intelligent being that will use tricks to trick these types of people into showing off, and then will kill them. These demons are also having one weakness: their lack of self-control. If they have it, you can let them roam and kill freely, but if they don't...pray you get or have the power to deal with it. After all you cannot kill an innocent and an antibiotic that's born to get rid of such things through utmost cruelty is an innocent until the line is crossed and people that try to learn are taken out as well. Because in their mighty power, they lose awareness of when someone is actually trying to know something for answers and when someone is actually like that. Which usually can be shown by behavior, but they will forget it as they will become the same as their own killers, power hungry, pride filled monsters. 

As you're left to deal with this situation, considering I gave you the necessary information, you already know you have to side with the zombie, but in a place where you find such situations happening you need to hear both sides and not only that, but you've got to think impartially too. You cannot hold sides when solving something, and when two sides find themselves having the same ugly attribute but different ways, they will ally against you. 

Everyone ignores you as you enter the crowd, but you're not cheering, someone pushes you to do so, and you yell for the murderer to have a talk with you in a normal tone without being aggressive. Both of you have a civil conversation of life and the murderer tells you normal things which you would expect. The zombie tries to make up its mind and you've got limited time until it bursts again into a rage. Finally, the murderer gives you something to treat the zombie. Because you're naive you accept it and give it to the zombie. The moment you do everyone praises you too, the zombie now dies completely. You're held in high regard and you became the hero alongside the other who holds you like family. Happy ending~

No actually you failed. You're happy everyone praises for you but you have let the murderer get away. Not only that but the zombie will now become a demon later on. How will you deal with that not even I know and it's not my quest, it's yours. I have now learned from you not to be too quick in my judgment and so I tell you the same. It's imperative to pay attention to details as in real life, you will encounter these scenarios and you won't have a narrator tell you who is who. Sometimes it can be the opposite, but not concerning yourself with it is a crime. Not only that means that you cling to your sense of comfort, but you also won't learn how to adapt to those situations and when someone will be in danger, you will let them die. Not death can be physical or metaphorical, and most people die metaphorically first, then physically. Told you before and I tell you now again, your actions have consequences. Should you not know how to apply them, you break all the rules, and since you broke all the rules, you now know that by not saving that zombie, you have broken your own wish of courage, through which you now wish despair on such people and your happiness is for validation, thus artificial and so you learn that the love you will look for is only by desire and not a genuine one. 

I told you, handling power, is a challenge and to control yourself in these situations is even worse. Nobody can say they don't want power, because everyone requires power to function. Without power and without the balance of it, you will not know these things or try to work on yourself. Because then you will become just another zombie walking around breaking the rules of life and further making scenarios such as the previous one an impending possibility and danger. 

Ah, and we haven't done any progress, I mean I can stop the pace of this but not the storm, we have to get ready somehow...let's search the neighborhood for more experience. If you feel guilty remember that failure is normal to learn. Some have a talent to understand directly because they use their heads more than others, and so it's nothing bad to fail a couple of times. So as long as you learn something and you refine that experience by reliving it to the point you know how to fully solve the problem at hand, you have won yourself more than money could buy. 

You walk around the neighborhood now safe that you have received the praise and respect of those around you. But at what cost? A dog passes your way and puts its paws on your knees happily asking for food. You give it food and it pulls your shoes with the mouth playfully to show you a way. The following starts and the path ends at a home next to many others, as it's a neighborhood, what did you expect? From the inside screams are heard and you rush for the scene. Yet there...is nobody? Curiously enough you still hear the screams. Who knows, maybe there are some ghosts? If only they were real, but apparently the dog has left you to chat with his fellow neighbors of the canine version as you're left alone in a stranger's house with nobody in. Let's verify the rooms. Through the hallway...a kitchen to the right, a bathroom to the left, leading towards another very tight hallway, and there are two rooms, a bedroom and the way to the garage. Of course we'll go in the bedroom and- well, what did we find here? A hamster, and a cat screaming their lungs out. Let's hear what they yell about.

Cat: A rat!
Hamster: Water!

Oh well that's an interesting chat, I guess they try to communicate? Sadly their natural ways of communication are not refined to another level as they do not see the need to do such things. As you can see animals are quite intelligent, a lot more intelligent than we humans claim to be, but you don't understand them since you don't think of them as beings, you call them pets, and if you don't get an interest into observing them and how they know how to talk, you'll never find out what are they trying to say. 

Huh, guess it wasn't ghosts. Well since we now know what animals talk, let's hear what the dogs outside try to say. More of that in the next chapter of this journey.