The First Dragon God

Bang!

A loud banging sound was heard as a zombie smashed it body against the door of an apartment.

The door held but a faint crack could be seen on its surface, at the point of impact.

The zombie seeing this, was enraged. It roared and smashed it body against the door again, but the door didn't give way, angering the zombie further.

It roared again and was about to smash it body against the door, when it stopped abruptly and turned to look at the end of the access hallway, where the elevator was located.

Slowly, it saw the elevator's door start to open slowly. The zombie snarled and immediately dashed towards the elevator.

The door of the elevator opened completely and the zombie got inside only to find it empty.

It looked around, seemingly in confusion , before sniffing the air. After sniffing the air a few times and raised its head to look up at the now open hatch, that looked to have been torn open.

Standing outside the hatch was Leo, with a solemn look on his face. He looked at the zombie with complicated expression on his face as he gripped Nightshade in his hand tightly.

The zombie roared in anger when it saw Leo. It clawed at the air as it tried to reach him but its actions were futile.

Leo sighed grimly when he saw this. His grip on the black sword tightened further and his eyes moistened as he bit his lip, swallowing the sob that threatened to come out.

"Is there no other way," he muttered to himself, as he watched Ms Ves who had now completely turned into a zombie, doing her best to get to him, clawing at the air and the elevator wall.

He saw her milky eyes, her elongated nails and he felt from her, the same intense malicious hunger other zombies has.

His chest tightened as he felt like his heart was been squeezed by unknown force when he saw her appearance. He felt so angry with himself as he didn't know what caused Ms Ves to turn completely, but he felt responsible for her current predicament.

He thought of what to do and any possible be could turn her to normal but no matter how hard he thought, nothing came to mind.

A tear rolled down his cheek when he realized that there was really no saving Ms Ves anymore. She had completely turned into a zombie and there was no way he was going to turn her back into human.

Leo squeezed Nightshade's hilt, tightening his grip on it as he realized that the only thing he can do was to kill her, or the thing she has become.

He smiled wryly as he remembered how she used to smile at him back at the orphanage—memories that now felt like they belonged to another lifetime. He remembered how beautiful she looked in her white tank top and blue jeans when she came to call him from his room yesterday.

He remembered her laugh and how she played with the children in the orphanage. As he thought of all this, the tears flowed freely down his cheek.

His grip loosened but tightened back the next moment. He immediately forced back the tears flowing his cheek as he closed his eyes and sighed.

He opened his eyes and muttered something to himself, before disappearing from his location.

The next moment, the shadow behind the zombie rippled as Leo appeared from it and slashed.

The blade of Nightshade was barely some inches away from the zombie's nape when he heard it call his name, with a hoarse voice.

"Leo."

Leo nearly froze up when he heard her call his name but he was quickly able to react, as he switched the sharp edge of the sword for the dull side before it reached her neck.

The next moment, the zombie—Ms Ves, collapsed and fell to the ground as she was hit by the dull side of the sword.

Leo was shocked when he saw this. He had already made up his mind, steeled his heart and was about to finish Ms Ves, now turned zombie, off. But this happened.

He has no idea on what to do and he could be only continuing looking at the unconscious Ms Ves on the floor.

It was times like this he needs Tatiana but after their little episode outside, he doubt that she would be willing to help him out. He felt that he was actually lucky that she didn't get mad and kill him.

Leo continuing observing Ms Ves and he notices something; her body was starting to change back to normal.

He saw her elongated nails go back in, the intense malicious hunger radiating from her before, couldn't be felt anymore.

His eyes narrowed and his fist clenched when he saw this, and a hopeful thought bloomed in his heart as be continued observing her.

...

Meanwhile, inside Ms Ves' head, a chaotic war between her remaining shred of consciousness and a massive, formless dark creature that looked like it came from the abyss, was ongoing.

The creature towered over her, a monstrous amalgamation of shadow and malice. Its massive, formless body seemed to be woven from pure darkness, with tendrils of black mist spilling off its edges and pooling on the ground like ink.

Its body couldn't be outlined and the only thing that was visible was its glowing red eyes, that promises chaos, blood and power.

Compared to the creature, Ms Ves looked more like an ant, as she stood in front of it. But the even with the overwhelming disadvantage, she didn't falter as she glared daggers at the creature.

She knew that the dark creature was her zombie's side personality and what is causing those those zombies to rampage, but the main thing is that it's the reason why she's rampaging in the real world.

Her fist was clenched and her eyes burned with rage and defiance. She refused to allow herself to be controlled by the creature.

"You fucking creature, release my body this instant," She roared as she charged towards it.

"Life force!"

The creature roared as it moved a part of its massive, formless body and also attacked.

After Ms Ves lost control of her body to the zombie side of her, she found herself standing in front of this creature.

Immediately after she appeared, the creature tried to swallow her but she resisted and they have been fighting each other since then.

"Releasing my body!" Ms Ves roared as she rained punches on the creature.

Even though the creature looked formless, Ms Ves' punches were hitting something solid as she was getting feedback from her fist.

The creature roared once and a sharp gust of wind—that shouldn't exist where they are—blew and Ms Ves was forced back.

Ms Ves didn't allow herself to be sent flying as she dug her feet into her ground, of what should be the ground, skidding across the space.

Enraged, her eyes turned completely white as she looked at the creature now rushing towards her.

She hissed as she took a battle stance. She immediately bolted towards the creature and squeezing, and gathering every single of ounce of strength she could, she roared and punched.

"I said release my body, you fucking beast!"