The Life And Death Of Lili Kwan - Chapter 1

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cw: violence, death, blood

Lili's POV


It has been two weeks since that crazy zombie apocalypse happened. I have never imagined I would be witnessing such a thing. I'm still wearing the amulet that Sam gave me. They said it could protect me from illnesses and I didn't take it off since then out of superstition. Not like I believe in such a thing, but damn, I didn't believe in zombies and shapeshifting dogs before but here we are. But I believe there's enough time passed so it's better that I take off the amulet and give it back to Sam.


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Sam's POV


I wake up to Oswald sitting in bed and staring at his phone. I look at his face and his eyes are wide open and he barely blinks. It looks like he is in shock.

'Something is wrong?' I ask.

'This is Lili.' he says.

'What? Who?' I have no idea what he is talking about. Then he shows me his phone. He was reading the news about a rabid woman attacking people. The attached picture showed a figure who indeed looked like Lili, even though the picture was pretty bad quality. 'Oh...'

'We have to find her.' he says with a panicked voice. He then jumps out of bed and starts dressing up. 'We might need backup. Call Ethan!'

'Why me?' I ask. He rarely freaks out like this but since he hates losing the ones who are close to him it is not surprising. Still, I'm concerned for him.

'Because he listens to you.'

'Okay, I'm going to call him.'


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It wasn't easy to convince Ethan to help us, even for me. At first he didn't want to believe me that his honorary aunt might be on the loose, then he said that it might be a misundertanding. But after I scolded him he agreed to help, although reluctantly.

Soon we are on our way, heading to the latest sighting of her, that Ethan was checking constantly.

'Alright. This is the last place she was seen half an hour ago.' he says. 'But we don't know how fast she could be, for now she could be anywhere.'

'Sam, could you follow her scent?' Oswald asks.

'Uhm… I'll try my best.' then I start sniffing around. Soon I find a familiar smell, yet there's something odd about it, but I can't put my finger on what it could be. The scent leads us into the woods, where it becomes stronger, accompanied with the smell of blood. Then finally we find her, crouching over the half eaten carcass of a deer, with blood on her mouth. What happened to her? She looks like she is... No, that can't be! That happened weeks ago and everyone was cured. Or at least that's what I thought. I swear, if that damn imp played all of us! But how could be that she didn't show any symptoms?

Then she notices us and starts growling. 'Sam, can you hear this?' Oswald asks.

'No... I'm sorry but I don't know what you mean.'

'She has no heartbeat. She is dead.' the look on his face is heartbreaking. Who knows how long she's been dead and we didn't even notice it.

She then attacks us. Her movements are so fast and sudden that it takes even us off guard. She barges at Ethan and sends him to fly into a tree. Then she comes at me. I try to fight back but in addition to her becoming inhumanly strong she already had the exeptional martial art skills so I have no chance against her.

'What are you two doing?!' Oswald chides at us. 'Come and hold her down, I try to hypnotize her!'

When it's Oswald's turn to fight Lili, he can hold up himself against her but just barely. I heard that they used to learn martial arts together when they were kids. As Oswald earns some time for us Ethan and I get ourselves together. Finally we are able to overpower her just enough so Oswald can grab her head, look deep into her eyes and use his mindcontroll on her.

'Lili, go to sleep.' he says and thankfully it works as she slumps into our arms unconsciously.


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We were able to bring Lili to the Iceberg Lounge and lock her into a room in the basement. Since then she woke up and now she is constantly screaming and growling and trying to get out. It is really sad to hear. But I wonder what possibly could have happpened to her. Did she really contract that desease that ravaged the city? If she did then why didn't we notice it? Or is it possible that it is the start of an another plague? If it is I will find that imp again and wrang his neck until his face turns blue. But aside Lili noone else got sick since then. So it's probably not a resurgence. She just got sick and somehow we didn't notice it. So that means that amulet I gave her didn't work. Then it hits me. The amulet! She's not wearing it now, right? Is it possible that she just took it off now? Maybe it surpressed the symptoms meanwhile she had it on herself.

'Oswald. Do you remember if Lili was wearing an amulet in the last couple weeks?'

'Hm? I can't recall.' he can't remember, but that doesn't mean anything. Sometimes we don't pay attention to details or she just hid it under her clothes.

'We need to go to her place right now.'

Oswald grins at me. 'Do you have an idea?'

'Yes.'

'Then let's go.'

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