Happy New Years!
We were fighting so well in that moment. The first ones in the world to get to Lvl 99 together. The famous party composed of the strongest! But more importantly, we were friends, lovers. All of us had fought in a hundred battles, killed thousands of zombies. We were the top party and we were family. Then one of us went too far. And everything came crumbling down. Blood everywhere...that's all remained of us...
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"Hey, you alive?"
"Hah!" I sit up so fast that I knock into the girl in front of me. My forehead explodes into pain but I'm just relieved that I can move. Just a dream...no...wait, please no! The black-haired girl in my face is too familiar, too real. She still looks cute, not covered in mud and blood. Completely different than a moment ago when her cleaver cut down on my neck, just the way I taught her to kill.
It's Yin.
"Oww!" The cute girl stumbles as our foreheads clash and her companions stare at me with wide eyes. This time, I am not impassive, for I remember what they did to me...what they will do to me! Jumping up, I reach into my coat and pull out my cleaver. What happened? I came back again! Yin must have succeeded in killing me. But then these bastards...
"Yin, give it up!" Donovan yells, his blonde hair and mistrustful eyes hiding the bastard inside. The pink-haired girl watches him protect Yin with jealousy. I can see that now. "This guy is wasted, look at him, he looks like he's seen a ghost!" At that moment, I almost consider stepping forward and cutting him down here and now. Rage fills me, the moment Yin's warmth was torn away from me.
I was at peace in her arms for the first time since...ARGH!
"Y-yea..." Yin grows afraid when she sees my terrifying expression. Backing away, she retreats to the safety of the group and that poisonous hoe, Rui. The pink-haired pixie wraps her traitorous arms around Yin as if she's just an innocent girl protecting a friend from a homeless person. But I know her true form underneath the pretty face and bubbly pink-hair.
She's a witch! A goddamn disgusting witch! No one like her should be classified as part of the human species!
My hand stays white-knuckled on my cleaver. I watch them leave, trying to control my rage. Right now, I'm practically a zombie myself. Except I don't want to eat them. I just want to kill each and every last one of the people who betrayed me. Before she goes, Yin calls over her shoulder, "We're going to the city! If you need help, you should go too!"
"Shush Yin, he's not welcome. He could be dangerous. Don't tell him where we're going!" Rui whispers insidiously and then they disappear. My blood boils. Acid presses against my throat and the wretched taste of bile fills my mouth.
Maybe I'll turn with green if this keeps up.
Staggering to the crumbling building next to me, I put a hand on the rough-worn wall and lean against it. The shock of dying, the terror of being taken over the Gray, it's all still so fresh in my mind. I can remember the taste, every touch, all the blood. Even the pain of having my fingers trampled and my neck severed. A sobbing girl forced to chop off my head. It is these memories which convinces me of what I need to do.
"I won't save them." I whisper to the empty sky. As the sun sinks once more, I set my path towards the river once more. My parched lips feel so much drier than they should be when I drink from my canteen, long and slow. I let it fall back into my coat pocket and swish my cleaver, listening to it part the air.
Every time I die...am I going to keep coming back to this moment? Yin doesn't remember anything that happened. None of them recognized me. This time was different, I hit her accidentally when I woke up and that changed her behavior. That means I was right. This world is the same as last time, but I can do things differently.
