He awoke with a nauseous pain in his forehead. His eyes were rapidly opening and closing as his vision started to take in the world. He was starting to struggle as he panicked.

"Please, remain calm. It's probably been a long time since you've awoken."

He stopped his struggling after hearing an unknown voice soothe and calm his body down. A small pang of familiarity is what he felt for a second, but he doesn't know why it was familiar…. He doesn't remember something like this…. In fact most of his memories were drawing blanks.

His eyes adjusted to the world around him as he could make out that he was in a bed of some sort. The room was a blinding white and yet again another familiar pangs, but no memory.

In front of him a man in a black suit and sunglasses was sitting on a chair.

"You're awake, good. You're probably wondering where you are, are you not?"

He would try to reply, but nothing came to.

"Don't worry it is completely normal for those who have reawakened to forget how to speak for a while. They also usually have little to no memories of their past lives, but sometimes that can be proven false as well. There are some who can regain their memories after so long, but that is also rare."

He was listening well, it may seem confusing, but he was speaking clearly to him….. another pang, but nothing.

"Let's try this again. If you can, can you state your name if you can remember it? It may be a huge help to your identity."

He actually did have something to say to that, but what was it again?

You can call me Ishmael, from now on you're Ahab. You got that Ahab?

"Ahab." He managed to say clearly.

The man in black smiled at the reply, "Thank you, Mr. Ahab. Now let me explain this to you in a very straightforward sense. You are not what you used to be. You are what people would call a zombie. A monster, an unholy abomination, a sign of the apocalypse, some even call them demons."

I'm already a demon.

"However those are names of the past. You are now what one would call a Liminal, an extra species. The question is Ahab, will you conform to society's norm, or prove to people that they have a reason to fear you?"

People have a reason to fear you, you are the living legend after all.

It seems the days passed by quickly after that. He is simply known as Ahab. Ahab learned of these Liminals, extra species that have recently been discovered. That didn't really turn out to be truly interesting though. It does turn out that people could easily mistake him as an Oni from the small horn-like-shrapnel attached to his head.

He was told that they could easily remove it, hell even do it while he was awake since zombies can barely feel pain. Ahab rejected it for reasons even he didn't know. They told him it would be hard to learn new languages, but he still pressed on. The same thing could be said about replacing his messed up eye with a new one, but he still rejected. He felt as though it held great importance to him.

He didn't know why, but he decide to join a group called M.O.N…. basically a group of Liminals that protected humans from other Liminals as humans can't simply defend themselves from Liminals, lest they get arrested….. something was seriously wrong with that.

Learning Japanese was hard as hell, due to the shrapnel in his head. Even after a million attempts by others to remove it, he persevered in the end and learned Japanese…..

My name ….. roughly means peace in Japanese.

It was just another flashback. He's been having them, but didn't tell anyone about it for months.

"We're here." His new boss, simply known as Ms. Smith, stopped the car in front of HQ.

"This is where you'll meet your team Ahab. Hopefully you can get along with them."

Inside the 'HQ' all of the current members of M.O.N stood at the door, waiting for the new blood.

Zombina smirked as she waited, "What do you think the new guy will be like?"

Doppel shrugged, "No idea, but heard from Smith that he's a zombie like you. You'll probably get along with him."

"I'll be the judge of that." Zombina chuckled.

"I hope he's nice." Tio simply smiled as she readied a cookie for the new blood.

"You do know that zombies don't eat, right?" Doppel commented.

"Doesn't mean we can't eat. Food is delicious, even if it takes a while for us to taste anything at all."

Manako just hoped that he wouldn't stare at her eye.

They all refocused their attention on the door as Smith put on a smile and allowed the new blood to step in the door.

They all had different reactions to his appearance, but Zombina obviously had the strongest.

As soon as she saw the horn like affixation in his head, his unmistakable facial hair, and the most defining eyepatch in existence, she couldn't help herself as she immediately saluted.

"Boss?!" She shouted in surprise and excitement.

She couldn't remember much of her past life, but there is one thing that she'll never forget. Big Boss….. a name that no matter what she would never forget, even if she knows nothing else. She mostly remembered him by quotes, even if she can't completely remember them.

And here I thought you were going to hold back because I'm a woman, Boss.

It doesn't matter what gender you are, a soldier is a soldier, nothing more, nothing less. You are all my children, so I must train and protect you.

.. Thank you, Boss. For everything.

"You never call me that, what did you do Zombina?" Smith was easily mistakened

Her other teammates were looking at her strangely as she saluted fast. Everyone else was also surprised as she immediately charges the new blood.

Ahab's instincts kicked in as he grabbed Zombina's fist mid-punch, he kicked her feet, turned her around, put her in a choke hold, and crouched down with her in tow. He also almost instinctively tried to grab something from his pocket, but it wasn't there.

Everyone else was surprised that he could easily take Zombina down in a few seconds, just who is this guy?

Zombina beamed a perfect smile, "It really is you, Boss. I'd recognize this iron grip anywhere. It's an honour to finally meet you again."

Everyone was still at a complete loss at what was happening right now. Ahab just raised a rather high brow at what she was saying, he let go of her.

She immediately got up and saluted again, "The legend has once again returned. I wonder what he'll do now?" Her smile never left her face as she said that, "Diamonds do always come clean out of the rough."

Ahab smiled at the statement.

"You're all diamonds. We are Diamond Dogs." He actually said that one aloud.

Literally something I came up with in the shower. Facts may be incorrect, but just wanted to create this little short. Even though it'll probably make no sense.

Who knows I may continue if people actually like this…. Or when I want to.