Lily didn't know what to do her mind was still processing what was going on, so she remained silent and motionless on the couch.
She could leave but that would leave her out in the open and barely able to move with the injuries she had sustained.
On the otherhand she could stay and wait like the shadow demon said but could she trust him not to hurt her?
She battled with these thoughts for a hour until the shadow demon returned, placing his bag next to the couch "How are you feeling" He asked "A bit confused" She said "What about?"
"Why are you helping me?"
Kai thought for a second "I dont see why I shouldnít." he said "Your hurt and I wasn't sure if you would have made it on your own."
"But I'm your enemy, I was sent with my team to hunt down and kill you?"
"Yes but A: your team was unsuccessful none of you were able to take me down or cause any major damage, and B: You are not my enemy yet. You received orders to kill me you didnít make that decision completely on your own.3: You need help if I can help you I will just like anybody else. Do you have any other questions?"
"For now no."
"Good now did you eat?"
"Yes but I had to force it down"
"That's understandable, you might not have much of an appetite for a while but it'll where off."
An awkward silence set in while Kai walked over to his stove and stared to put it away.
"I want to offer my help to you." Kai stated "What do you mean?" Lily asked a little surprised he was still speaking "I have a radio I found while I was looking for food I can leave it with you, leave and you can call your people to come rescue you but it will take a little while since they were called by your outpost about a Legion attack (Legion: 4x the number of zombies than a hoard) I would say about 5 days with travel time included."
"A Legion?!"
"Yea it doesn't seem too bad but it will still slow down a rescue if they get into the outpost… it might not have been a good idea to send almost all your best to hunt down one guy."
"We had to after what you did." Lily responded angrily "That's no excuse for leaving an outpost with fewer defenses." Kais voice also showed anger at the thought that the outpost may be comprised.
"How do you know this?" She asked "I've been listening to local radio signals, I was about to tell your team where you were but then I heard about the attack so I decided against it."
"So now what, I can't ask for help without slowing them down." She said her voice dampening "There is another option" Kai said "What is it?" She was still unsure if she could trust him "I can…. I can take you to your outpost. It will take about 2 days max due to your injury but it will still be better than waiting on your own for five days."
"You would be willing to escort me?" Lily still didn't understand why "Yea its not a problem I don't have to be back home for a while."
"But what about supplies or shelter"
"When we need to rest I'll lock up a building for the night and as for food I can scavenge for both of us unless you have another MRE for yourself "

"I have one more left, any perishable food was left with the others"
"alrighty then... So...what is your decision?"
Lily sighed "looks like don't have much choice... Can you please help me get back to my outpost?"
"yes"

20 minutes later 9:00am Before they left Kai grabbed some bedding so they could soften where they slept and he also carried lily's rifle.
Lily found a hollow steel rod behind the cashier desk she could use to support herself as she walked. 'This must have been the last thing the girl used to defend herself' she thought "You ready to go?" Kai asked while placing the lock in from the door in his bag "Yea" said lily approaching the door "good now stay close, I'll slow down to your pace, if you start to get tired or you feel like you can't keep going but we still need to try to maintain a steady pace."
They began walking down the street stayed at a walking speed while Kai walked beside her but he was still at least a few feet away from her.
They could both feel the awkward silence between them.
Lily had her gaurd up the whole time ready to run or at least try to.
"It's a little late now but can I get your name?" Kai asked

"What for?" she asked "I just want something to address you with other than 'hey and/or you', even if it's a fake name or a nickname."

Lily thought for a second "You can call me Mini Devastation or Mini"

"Why Mini?" Kai asked curiously

"My dads nickname is Major Devistation so I chose something that related to it."

"Ok"
"What about you?"
"huh?"
"What should I call you?"
"uuummm... You can call me Shade"
"Sounds appropriate"

They continued walking making what seemed to Kai to be painfully slow progress, there where a few infected along the way but they were easily dispatched by Kai.
By the end of the day Lily was exhausted so around 10:00pm Kai began to clear out a small office building while Lily took a break in the lobby. By 10:20 Kai had finished clearing the building so he went to the lobby to let Lily know,
"It's safe now, you should try and rest near the back of the building in case something tries to get in"
"What about you?"Lily asked "I'll be sleeping next to the door incase something tries to get in and if a couple of your team mates decided to stay behind and look for you I'll hear them."
"M..maybe I should stay by the door too then."Said Lily thinking he might not keep his word.
"Alright in that case try and stick close, ok?"
"yea"
They set up some bedding a few feet from each other.
After Kai had finished setting up his sleeping bag he started to heat up a can of beef stew for dinner on the camping stove, Lily watched while she ate her last MRE, as the demon held the can over the flame with a pair of forceps she noticed his hands were shaking slightly.
"Are you ok?" she asked Kai turned his head "Yea, why do you ask?"
"your hands are shaking." she answered Kai looked down at his hands and saw the can was shaking over the flame "Oh, I guess I'm more tired than I thought" he said, Lily gave him a puzzled look.
"It takes a lot of energy to keep the shadow armor up and for the past few nights I've been sleeping in it so sleeping hasn't given me as much rest as I would like." Kai explained "So why don't just take off the armor."Lily asked "I want to, at least for the night but I need your word that you won't kill me in my sleep" Kai said with a chuckle Lily smiled "If I wanted to do that I would have already loaded an anti tank round a long time ago"
"I guess your right, but only if you promise to hold your fire"
"I can handle that"
"Ok can you look away for a sec then"
"um... Y Yea" She said nervously realizing that he might not even have clothing under his armor.
Kai disipated the shadow armor and pulled a painted hockey mask from his bag,the mask was black with a red tribal pattern on the front, he was wearing a black scarecrow style hoody and baggy workers jeans He covered his face with the mask and lifted the hood over his head "Ok you can turn back now"
Lily turned "What's with the mask?" she asked "Can't let you know who I am if I did it could put you and me both in danger"
'I guess he doesn't trust me enough yet' She thought "How would that put us in danger?"

"well.."Kai said"people would go after you for information and intern, come after my outpost"
"oh" It made sence to her but Lily was still curios as to what he looked like underneath his mask she wanted to place a face to the person that was "protecting" her.

"We didn't make much progress today" Kai said while he removed his socks to air out "Sorry, its just very hard to move with my leg the way it is" Lily said "Theres no need to apologize... If you want I can try to heal it."
"What?"
"I have a soul ability that allows me to heal wounds I can heal your leg if you want" "Will it hurt me in any way."
"It might sting at first but that's it"
"Then yes I would like you to heal me. Wait I do you need to..."
She trailed of as she looked down at her jeans "No you can keep those on, I can probably work through the ripped portions"
Kai made his way over to Lily and placed his hands over her leg.
"Do you mind looking away...this makes me feel awkward"
Lily blushed and looked away she giggled slightly at the thought of the shadow demon feeling nervous.
Kai worked quickly, normally he wouldnt need to touch her but he needed to cover the light shining from the palms of his hands so she wouldn't know he was the ark angel as well.
Lily flinched as the light stung along the wound but after a few seconds she sighed as all the pain seeped from her leg and was replaced with pleasant warm feeling,
The wound began to close as skin new skin a mucle formed.
"aaaand... Done. You can look now"
Kai removed his hands so Lily could examine her now healed wound.
She was amazed, the wounds didn't just close, there was no trace of them whatsoever.
"H...how did you do that?"
"don't question it just thank god I was able to."

Thanks for reading this far I know it's not to good but I wanted to wright it down somewhere.
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