Ch2: Inn-Vasion and Lisa's Wretched Mom

Upon entering the Slaughtered Calf Inn, as I expected, all the different guests looked at me with shock as I smiled at the patrons and soon found Leah among the group, tending to the bitten people on the different carpets of the left side of the Inn. "Excuse me, are you Leah?" I asked, looking at her with a smile, her shock plain as day when she saw a kind, cute zombie girl talking to her with a kind smile. "Wait... a zombie that can speak? Are you intelligent?" Leah asked. "Well, I was actually alive when I was transformed into this. But when I transformed, I had tons of electricity going through my body. So I think that's how I'm able to still have life or something," I said with a smile.

"Wow... that's amazing... is there a reason you've came here to talk to me?" Leah asked. "I was hoping to gain any kind of information about the Fallen Star. Do you mind telling me if I could also help these injured people here?" I asked with a smile. "What do you mean? They're bitten and they're going to turn any minute... I'm supposed to put them down when they turn... and you're saying you can actually save them?" Leah asked.

It was then that the peoples' bodies began to slowly turn into their decaying states. With no other alternatives, I quickly reached into my pocket and pulled out something that shouldn't have been in this timeline: my cell phone. It was at full power as I tried to focus some kind of magic, any kind of magic, to send the electricity from my phone to the infected's bodies. And, without even meaning to, I did just that, the shock from my phone entering the people's bodies so strong that their skin actually began to smoke as they finished turning and they just laid on the ground, breathing fine. "D-Did it actually work?" I asked as I placed my hand on one of the turned's chests. I was stunned when I felt the tell-tale thumping of a heartbeat.

"T-Thank you... for saving us..." the woman I touched said, shocking Leah as well as the other people in the Inn. "T-They're zombies now, but they aren't wanting to kill us... you're a miracle!" Leah exclaimed. "Well, I'm just trying to be helpful.. and honestly, I didn't think that would work," I admitted truthfully. "Well, it did, and I'm so happy! Thanks for letting me live, miss!" said an 8 year old little girl that had green skin and a large smile on her face. These zombies were terrible if they actually bit and attacked young children like her.

"Now, I would help you go to the Cathedral to look for the Fallen Star, but the path there is full of the undead horde. You'll need to talk to Captain Rumford at the gate to get through and slaughter all of the evil zombies that line the roads. I'll help out after you clear the path for an easier trek," Leah said to me. "Got it. By the way, spread word about this new information. You know, how electricity, when used the exact moment a victim begins to turn, can make them sentient instead of lustful for blood," I told Leah and the inn owner as I walked out of it and back into the streets, most of the citizens talking among themselves about things such as 'how can a zombie talk', how can a zombie skip like a schoolgirl', and my favorite, 'I heard that zombie girl slayed an army of the undead with a single katana on her back'.

When I made it back to the entrance to town, I met up with Captain Rumford and explained what I was doing. "Leah said that she can open the way to the Cathedral, but I need to clear the path of zombies first. Is there any way you can let me through so I can slaughter the undead horde?" I asked him with a smile. "Well, I have seen you fight... you'll need to take the fight to the Wretched Mothers. They're the abominations spewing forth these monsters," Rumford explained as I noticed their barricade start to come down.

"They're attacking the barricade! Look out!" Rumford exclaimed as I prepared to slay the first zombie, doing just that as the debris of the barricade came flying forth. I then proceeded to slice up some more zombies and eventually sliced off the head of the first Wretched Mother, shocking myself and Rumford at how amazing I was with my swordplay, especially since I was a fencer, not a swordplay master. "That's one of the Wretched Mothers. There are more of them down the road as well as their queen. Kill them all and maybe we'll have seen the last of these disgusting monsters," Rumford explained.

"Oh, so I'm a disgusting monster?" I smirked back at him. "Uh... you know what I mean..." he groaned. "Just giving you a heads up, but there are a bunch of infected at the Inn that I saved through the power of electricity. You'll understand when you meat them in the town," I smiled back at him as I proceeded onward and went down the road to Old Tristram.

The way to Old Tristram was more bloody than I anticipated, as I needed to slay five different regular Wretched Mothers as well as any Risen Dead that got in my way. I had managed to kill 50 different zombies by the time I made it to the gates to Old Tristram. And when I defeated some of the zombies on my way to the Wretched Queen, I eventually met said queen with shock all over my face. Why was I shocked? Because the Wretched Mother Queen... WAS MY MOM!

"Ghhhg... L-Lisa... I... I feel so sick... BLEURGH!" my mother vomited, spitting out a new Wretched Mother in the process. "Gross..." i groaned as I killed the newly formed Wretched Mother and looked at mom with worry. "Mom... are you still there?" I asked her, hoping that she wasn't completely turned. "Lisa... I... can't stop puking... it hurts so much..." mom groaned as she held onto her stomach, which looked like it was full of terrible bile.

"Hold on, mom... I think I know how to fix you... just try not to puke when I do this..." I said as I stuck my hand down her throat, surprising both her and myself when I was able to do it quite well with the lesser amounts of ligaments in my arm. When I touched the disgusting bile in mom's stomach, I immediately activated a type of magic I had discovered by destroying the other Wretched Mothers and sucked all the bile out of her stomach with my arm and quickly pulled it out, pouring it on the ground to see what would come out. Guh... I... I feel better now..." mom coughed in relief as the bile began to form into a very large Wretched Mother. I quickly cut off it's legs, then its arms, and finally its head before it could puke once.

"Thanks for that, Lisa... I had no idea what happened... one minute I'm outside your door hoping to give a surprise visit, the next, I turn into what people call a 'Wretched Mother' and I'm puking up monsters from my stomach acids... I didn't even eat any dead people, yet I had tons of them in my stomach... thanks for lifting me of that burden..." mom said to me. "Well, that explains why you came here with me... and FYI, we're in the video game world of Diablo 3," I sighed to her. "I kind of guessed that it'd be a game world... none of this looks like the Earth I know," mom groaned.


Once mom had fully recovered, we both used the town warping circle and managed to warp from our position to town, all of the townsfolk were shocked at mom being with me, since she was, you know, the Wretched Queen. It was Leah who noticed some of the townsfolk sharpen their knives and came to me to talk. "Lisa, what are you doing? Why did you bring the Wretched Queen here?" she asked with worry. "Well, miss, this 'Wretched Queen' is actually this zombie girl's birth mom," my mom said to Leah, making the villagers shocked when she spoke as well as Leah.

"Wait... so you're her mom? By birth? But then why were you puking up an army of the Undead?" Leah asked. "It wasn't intentional, believe me. The minute that I turned into a sentient Wretched Mother, I suddenly got tons of indigestion and began to barf up zombies left and right unwillingly... it was SO gross!" mom groaned as she looked ready to vomit just by thinking about it again. "Wait, are you going to puke again? Stay back!" Leah exclaimed as mom did just that and, instead of a zombie coming out of her puke, a zombie dog came out, shaking itself to get rid of the vomit and immediately going to me and mom and asking to get petted.

"Um... wow... it's not attacking? I'm confused now," Leah said with bafflement. "I think that... you healed me up, Lisa..." mom smirked as she wiped the spit off her mouth. "Okay... sit boy," I smiled to the zombie dog. He did just that, something I didn't expect. "Huh... just like a real dog. Loyal to their master and their loved ones. Okay, boy. Be nice to Miss Leah on our journeys, okay?" I smiled at him. The undead dog barked happily at that as Leah worriedly began to pet its' head, the dead dog sitting there and wagging its tail at the feeling, as well as doing his own version of moaning when she began to scratch its neck.

"Wow. It's like he's just a real dog! What's your name, again?" Leah asked my mom. "Well, my name is Janet. It's nice to meet you, miss..." "Leah. It's nice to meet you as well," she smirked. "Now let's see about getting to that Cathedral?" I smiled. "Of course. Come on, boy! Time to go for an adventure!" mom smiled at the zombie dog, the little guy bounding with our group to the warp circle that would lead us to our quest to rescue Deckard Cain.