Lili's cries echoed around the house, growing louder and louder as she gripped Alban's shirt tightly, her knuckles turning white, her fingernails piercing her palms .
Her heart hurts so much. When she said good night to her parents, she had expected to see them alive and well the next time they woke up.
To her, the apocalypse is strange but not to be feared at all. She has always believed that no matter what, their little family will always be together. After all, she knows how powerful her father and brother is. And she believed that her mother,contrary to her petite and weak physique,was also very strong. Otherwise, how can she make Aldrich fall in love with her?
Coupled with her and Big brother's spaces, her young mind had arrogantly presumed that they are very blessed, like those protagonists in the novels she and her mother read. That they are protagonists too.
No matter how intelligent and smart Lili is, and under her father and big brother's guidance and teachings ,she is more matured than her peers, she is after all still a child.
She vented her grief by crying. And her confidence that was built over the years waiting for the upcoming doomsday was slowly crumbling. What are they going to do without Mama and Papa? She is very scared.
Alban tied to endure his grief as he slowly but gently untangle Lili's fingers. Her strong grip had pierced though the fabric of shirt, piercing her soft palms and drawing blood.
Alban is also very sad. He had long treated the couple Aldrich and Felicia as his parents. They had fulfilled his long forgotten childhood dreams. A loving ,warm mother ,and a strict and strong father. Even though Alban and Aldrich always clashes and have a fight every now and then, they really treat each other as father and son.
Alban knew that Aldrich have suspicions on him regarding his ability to predict the apocalypse, but Aldrich never took actions at him and instead treated him like his biological child and trusted him. That, he could not repay.
Like Lili, he never expected his Dad and Mom to die. It's not that he is naive. Far from that. He has experienced many dangerous situations and muddled though the darkness when he was but a mere toddler. He had killed many. He even butted heads with his former superiors and won. He has also experienced and survived the apocalypse.
He just trusted his parents. He believed that with their will power they will be able to resist the corrosion of the energy and awakened as supernaturalists.
Like Lili, he believes that all of them will be together to face the challenges and dangers the apocalypse brought.
He took a quick glance at the big bed, his eyes sour and red. From that glance, he can tell what happened.
Judging from his Mom's state, her skin having a grayish tinge covered with festering wounds, and her mouth stretch across her face to accommodate her fangs, and her mouth covered with blood,he knows that Felicia have failed to fight the violent energy and turns into a zombie. His heart ache at the thought. He remembered that Felicia is an absolute face control fan and would rather die than have her face turned ugly.
Just last week, Felicia had vehemently requested that if she turned into an ugly zombie, they must immediately disposed of her. She refused to wander around in such an ugly state and have people running in terror away from her. It's an absolute disgrace!
Aldrich,Lili,and Alban had jokingly agreed and had comforted her, saying that if she became a zombie, she would be the most beautiful and will be the zombie empress.
Felicia was contented but still insisted the disposal plan.
Aldrich's state was not like being infected and turned into a zombie,eventhough he had a wound on his right shoulder.It is obvious that he had been bitten by Felicia. Alban knew that he had committed suicide. He had told his dad that being bitten or scratch by a zombie will have a 50% chance of surviving.
But Aldrich have directly commited suicide after planting a bullet in the zombie Felicia's head. On his usually stoic and serious face, tearstained can be seen. On his left hand he clutch a gun, and on his right hand he is holding a piece of paper.
Alban's heart ache more fiercely. He looked down at his beloved crying sister.
Lili's state right now is very wrong. They had just awaken and Alban does not know what her ability is. If not controlled,her own ability may end up hurting herself.
Alban can feel a very active energy around him and Lili. It has a familiar breath. Lili's breath. The energy at the beginning had only swayed gently, but as Lili's sadness and cries worsen, it had the tendency to riot.
Alban clasped Lili's hands to avoid hurting herself.
"Lili, Lili! "
Alban called anxiously as he shake Lili.
Lili was in a fuzzy state. Her heart is filled with various emotions. Sad, grief, anger, anxiousness.Negative thoughts began to pour on her mind.
"Why? Why did it happen? Why did Mama and Papa die? Mama and Papa left me. Why did they left me? "
"Papa, Mama, don't leave me, please don't leave Lili! "Lili hystericaly shouted.
Lili began to shake violently. Her swollen eyes gushed out years endlessly, her fair and beautiful face distorted as she breath harshly .She tried to take back her hands that was held by Alban, trying to beat her stuffy chest.
The energy y surrounding Lili and Alban began to distort, growing wild as if receiving stimulus. The energy's tentacles lashes out indiscriminately, destroying anything that it reaches, shattering and tearing apart the ornaments in the bedroom and destroying the sofa by the foot of the bed.
Alban's face grew ugly. He gritted his teeth, and as if making a decision, he decisively slapped Lili.
*Slapped*
The harsh sound echoed. Lili's cries stopped, she looked blankly at the boy infront of her.
Her eyes are still blank, as if not perceiving anything. Alban's chest heaved up and down violently.
"Lili, please wake up.Don't leave Big brother too, okay? "
Alban beg in a low voice, his voice chocking as he tried to hold back his emotions.
That low voice that is barely audible brought back Lili's consciousness.
Her beautiful, but now swollen eyes registered her Big brother infront of her. Her wet eyelashes blinked.
She stared at her Big brother crying. It is the first time she saw her big brother cry.
Alban slowly released her hands. His right arm draw Lili closer into his embrace as his left hand cupped her small face. He put his forehead on her forehead as he cried quietly.
"Be strong,okay?Dad and Mom is gone. There is only the two of us now. Please don't follow them. Don't leave me. Please. "Alban continued to beg. His pleading voice repeated over and over, penetrating Lili's ears.
It sounded very gentle. But to Lili, it is very harsh.She didn't like it. She did like it when he beg. As if he is lowering and humbling himself. She can't handle it. Her big brother should not beg.
Lili cried again. She threw herself in Alban's arms.
"Big brother, wooooh, Big brother! "She cried as she tightly held her big brother, as if holding onto a lifesaving driftwood.
Alban swayed gently as he embraced Lili. He gently look at her head as he kisses her hair.
His firm eyes flashes as in one thought, he brought Lili and the bed containing their parents into Lili's space. The bedroom abruptly returned into silence, the opened doors and the blood on the bedroom walls the only evidence left of the earlier scene.
After the figures of Lili and Alban and the bodies of Felicia and Aldrich left, the ground began to tremble gently. Dark clouds rapidly covered the sky.A second later, lightning flashes and thunder roared, and rain began to fall.
As the rain falls, the zombies howled excitedly, and as if receiving some kind of stimulus, their actions quicken slightly,amd they pounced on the humans with renewed energy.
The worldwide rain drowned the shriek,cries and shouts of all beings on earth.
The ground rolled and quake gently, releasing a mourning cry, as if the Mother Earth is crying helplessly.
The first day of the apocalypse, the Lu family fell apart, leaving the two siblings by themselves.
On the first day of the apocalypse,many perished, all grieved and despaired.
The first day of the apocalypse will hereby be known and cursed at in the future as a world disaster.
The End of the World.
While many also disagreed, and said that it is the start of a big change.
The Birth of the New Era.