She watched with sparkling eyes and a flushed face walking towards him slowly.
" I was right," she whispered loudly to herself," see you came back perfect."
She looked at him as though she had found the light.
" Lady, I respawn not exfoliate. It's fucking disgusting," he said as he moved backwards. There were times he wished he could remain dead but this time he prayed to the Gods watching his misery. To release him.
She dragged her sword along the floor, creating noises and sparks appeared occasionally. As she approached him he felt like he was staring at his punishment incarnate.
She looked at the blood all around him and said with a kind smile," you still have cracks. Let me fix them."
Shawn had had enough, he wasn't about to be mutilated by some crazy bitch as a thank you.
The moment she brought down her sword he dodged to the side, he then kicked her on her side. His kick sent her to the side wall hitting it with a bang.
" I knew you have cracks remaining how can you hit a woman?" She said as she moved towards him fast and slashed the sword aiming for his neck. He bent backwards narrowly avoiding it but she raised her kneels and tried to stomp him down.
" You hit me first," he said as he went down and kicked her standing leg tripping her .
She landed on the floor expertly and twisted sending a kick right to his stomach.
He was thrown back skidding against the floor but managed to stay upright. He kick had probably ruptured some organs .
She seemed to be proficient in combat while he was just fighting on instinct.
He coughed blood, but it was just from biting his cheek. He ran straight to her and they both met in the middle. He extended his arm and Punched right in the stomach but she had managed to stab in straight through the heart. She slid across the floor until she hit the other end of the wall. Shawn could clearly hear her impact on the wall.
They'd really done damage to each other. He thought.
" Fuck!" He mumbled as he watched her cough blood and stand up groggily and walk towards him.
" Let me fix you," she said after reaching him and pulled out the sword blood spraying from his heart. He never planned on killing her but just teach her not to mess with him.
He watched as she raised her sword and stabbed him again.
His vision went black.
( You have died)
Across the hall a little further from her a blood drop expanded and Shawn formed sitting on the ground breathing heavily.
Things were now getting out of hand. He looked around trying to locate her. She was standing a few meters from him looking at him with the twisted affectionate smile.
" You don't have to do therapy again," he shouted at her," I think I'm fixed now."
She walked towards stumbling a little on her feet. Shawn stood up fast preparing for another fight but the moment she reached him she only stood there smiling.
" Look I get it, we can do it some other time okay, I need clothes do you want me walking around showing my body to everyone?" He said carefully as he backed away a little.
" But the cracks will get bigger.." Shawn felt like face planting into the wall. Can't she just forget about this , he thought to himself.
He decided to look at her status since he just wanted a bit of understanding.
[Name:LYRIA VALTZ.]
[Class: Awakened]
[Level: 1]
[Abilities: Swordsmanship]
[Current Mental State: Extreme excitement]
[Hostility Rating: 0 — Completely Non-Threatening]
When he read the name he thought it sounded familiar then he turned to look outside the window. There it was the her name right below his.
She was the second in the murder list with him on top. He really has shit luck to meet her on day one.
Looking at her emotional state and the hostility level he was surprised. How was her hostility level zero when she was brandishing her sword Infront of him like a manic.
He'd though the love therapy was a hauxed but it seemed she really thought that. He really had the worst kind of luck .
" Just wait for one second, I can't keep dying on an empty stomach right?" He tried another persuasion.
Hearing that, she paused and looked at him then she finally nodded and lowered her sword.
" Alright. A break."
Alaric breathed in the biggest sigh of relief. This was the first time he'd begged for his life.
He felt like she was pulling him away from his goals. When he shakes her off he will resume his search for death.
Then she added abruptly," but when we continue, I'll help you properly, until your mind stops hurting."
Had she just said that something was wrong with his mind. It was the other way around. He stared at her in disbelief.
".. you call murder help, that's crazy," he said to her not hiding his shock. She didn't care about his shock.
She walked to him and took his hand before he could react and smiled shyly her face starting to blush .
"That's love."
Shawn felt a shiver run down his spine and goosebumps appeared on his skin.
He tried to pull his hands from hers but she just wouldn't let go. She just smiled at his struggles.
" Shall we go and feed you," she said pulling him towards the staircase direction.
Shawn could only sighed in defeat.
" I can't wait," he said sarcastically as they reached the stairs.
He looked outside the window again just to confirm wether he was imagining things. Nop she was still second rank.
He opened the stairwell door slowly half expecting something to jump out from behind the door but nothing. The place was just dark with a small light coming from the window.
He exhaled softly then said," alright. Down this staircase, across the bridge, through the engineering hall and then straight to the supermarket easy."
He was hoping they meet nothing else since he had nothing on. He felt like he would eventually became a nudist at this rate. He just badly wanted to stockpile on clothes the most.
As they went down the staircase Lyria leaned on him, he flinched.
" If anything attacks I'll handle it ," she said as she caressed his hand getting blood on herself," but if you die.."
He cut her off mid sentence rolling his eyes," I know, I know. 'The therapeutic reset '" he said making air quotes," spare me the pamphlet."
Her smile grew wider after hearing his affirmation.
" You're learning," she said hugging his arm more pressing it to her breasts. Shawn acted like he didn't feel a thing. He wasn't about to give her a response. He had definitely learned the hard way.
As the bridge came into view Shawn mummered under his breath," yeah, well...if love means being repeatedly stabbed to death, then this apocalypse is way kinkier than they had advertised."
They crossed the bridge and reached the final hallway leading to the school supermarket. Shawn found it extremely weird that for once nothing had tried to kill him.
He had become a magnet for this monsters . He looked at Lyria who was humming a small tune beside him her sword scrapping the ground occasionally.
He didn't try to talk to her and they settled into a comfortable silence with only her humming being heard.
They arrived at the last hallway. The place where seniors made out. So the name called it.
He was looking outside at the sky when he felt a pull on his hand. He turned to see Lyria looking Infront with that serious expression he was used to.
Infront of them were two people male and female their backs turned to them. Lyria gestured for him to be quiet as they observed them .
That was when he noticed something weird about them. Despite looking as though they were walking away from them, they had not separated and we're walking in what looked like a line.
Their footsteps were also in sync. If one foot moved forward they would both move the same one.
A loud bang echoed through the hallway suddenly. Shawn immediately knew it was from the Stairwell door closing. It's echo reaching them.
The sound seemed to have started the two people walking at the front and the man turned his head.
Shawn was surprised by his space. It looked rotten as though it had been decaying for a long time and the mounth and nose were missing. It looked like it had been torn apart from it's face.
From the clothes he knew that was a human turned monster.
Then the monster turned around fully.
Shawn gasped in surprise. They two were connected and seemed to have formed one monster. The female one had her face intact but it was still rotting and it seemed to be the one that ate the male one's face since he could see extra skin hanging from it's mouth.
Shawn scrunched his nose looking at them. At that moment Lyria stepped before him her sword drawn. She was clearly ready to protect him like she had promised.