Ch6: Leah's Confession
It didn't take much to convince Leah to join me and mom on our quest to defeat the Skeleton King, since she wanted to see him for herself. "I want to see what this Skeleton King looks like. Maybe if I can see it, I may start to believe more of Uncle's stories," Leah explained as we entered the secret entrance to Leoric's passage. It would be a long trek through the bottom of the area, I knew that much. "Well that sounds reasonable..." I gulped, my heart beginning to thump some more as we stood together with mom, the dogs, and Serena in the back.
"Is everything okay, Lisa? Your face is all red and you look nervous," Leah said to me as she shot some bows at some skeletons, my surprise coming when the arrow reappeared on her person after striking the skeleton's skull and disappearing after the damage was dealt. "W-Well... I was just thinking... d-do you have... um... are you available? On the market for relationships?" I asked like an idiot.
"Um... what do you mean? If you're asking if I'm single, the answer is yes," Leah frowned as we continued onward. "Oh, darling. Do you have a crush on Leah?" mom asked with a bubbly smile, making my blush become even more intense on my green face. "MOM!" I groaned in embarrassment at her. "Wait... you have a crush on me? Y-You're in love with your own sex?" Leah asked. "W-Well, yeah... I mean, every time I see you, my heart thumps quickly and I get red hot thinking about us... I really am in love with you," I admitted to her as we continued slaughtering zombies and Skeletons as well as a couple Horrors and the gremlins that lived within them.
"W-Well, I will admit that I admire you as well... but do you really think that it could work? You know, two girls, one being a zombie, together and getting married?" she asked. "Well, where I come from, it isn't really frowned upon to have a relationship with the same sex," I admitted to her. "And where would this place be?" she asked. "Well, that would be the one thing I forgot to mention about me and mom," I frowned at her as we entered the next the 2nd basement level of the Cathedral's basement. "You see, me and mom... we weren't just turned into sentient zombies, but we were also teleported here from a different dimension," I frowned at her.
"Wait... a different dimension? How can that possibly be true?" Serena asked instead of Leah. "Yeah, how?" Leah asked. "Well, in our dimension, the technology is incredibly advanced. And we were teleported to this incident after a freak accident with one of our machines getting zapped by a bolt of thunder. Not only did it warp us here, however, but it also simultaneously shocked our bodies full of electrical current as well as turned us into what you see now," I explained.
"How can I possibly believe that?" Leah asked with an unbelieving face. "Believe, it, Miss Leah. Since I was a Succubus before, I can tell when someone is lying or not. And Lisa has been completely truthful with her description," Serena frowned at her. We hadn't encountered the Templar at all by this point and we were approaching the 3rd staircase that led to the next lowest level, something I didn't expect. But I did expect all the enemies that kept trying to impede us the whole time we chatted with each other.
"A-Are you serious? Well then... I guess I gotta believe you then," Leah frowned. "So can we... you know... become a couple?" I asked her, my heart thumping fast again when she said she believed me. "W-Well... okay, I guess we can be official. But we need to continue onward to find the Fallen Star as well as defeat this 'Skeleton King' before we can have any downtime, okay?" Leah asked me. "Thank you so much!" I exclaimed in pure joy at her acceptance of it, making my heart finally snap and begin to spring up and down like a pogo stick.
"Just so you know, though, no biting allowed. Like, at all," Leah smirked. "I already know that much, Leah," I smirked back at her, realizing her joke. We continued forward a bit more until we arrived at the four different pillars, followed by the visage of the Skeleton King appearing before us, knocking Leah onto her ass. "W-WHOA!" Leah exclaimed when this happened.
"You dare try to stop me?! You will all feel my wrath!" Leoric's vengeful spirit exclaimed. "Fat chance, baldy!" I exclaimed at him, making Serena giggle at me calling a skeleton bald. "You will pay for that ignorance!" the Skeleton King exclaimed as he activated the spirit pillars, making me smile as I began to focus some of my magic on them. I found out that I was able to use all the skills that the Wizard class could and I quickly a Ray of Frost at the pillars one by one while Serena, the zombie dogs, mom, and Leah handled the skeletal armies. It didn't take me long at all to destroy all four statues in quick succession.
"Okay! Now let's kill these skeletons and move on," I said to the group. "Got it!" Serena smirked back as she used some of her own magic to send a ray of flames at a group of skeletons, burning through their bones with ease. "Great! Now let's get going!" mom smiled as we all moved forward on our quest to find the Fallen Star and defeat the Skeleton King.