The Dead Will Cry
Chapter 3 Dead Info
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything this is just a story for fun.
There was a small town a few miles away from Curien's mansion. In that town was a tavern, where Morrison was currently at to meet the very employee of Curien's staff. Morrison had been contacted by a researcher named Sophie Richards over the phone, who had been very concerned about her boss and his work. At first Sophie had been a bit vague about the work and research her boss was involved with and Morrison had tried to persuade her to simply go to the cops, but then Sophie came clean about her work being involved with demons and using their blood to reanimate the dead. This immediately got Morrison's attention and he agreed to meet with Sophie to discuss what was going on in person. The meeting place was then discussed and agreed upon. Morrison gave a description of himself to Sophie and then he brought the case to Dante, Lady, and Nero.
Dante was slightly intrigued at the thought of fighting zombies, but had to deal with a case involving some demons in a nearby area, so he had Nero and Lady go to accompany Morrison for the meeting and said he would catch up to them, once he was done.
In the present, Morrison was sitting at a table in the back, Nero was sitting at the bar keeping a lookout and ready to deal with trouble, and Lady was outside on the roof of a nearby building keeping a lookout for any trouble. All was peaceful in the tavern as the locals went about their business.
A blonde woman entered the tavern wearing a white shirt, red suit jacket, a red skirt, and red shoes high heels. She looked around the room and spotted Morrison and headed his way.
"I take it you're Sophie." Said Morrison as the woman reached his table and took a seat.
"I am. Thanks...for agreeing to see me. I didn't know who else to turn to with this." Said Sophie.
"You're welcome. It was a brave thing to do contacting me. Demons are a dangerous things to work with even if they're dead." Said Morrison.
"The last...few months have been rough. I feel like I'm in a horror story with what's all been going on." Said Sophie.
"Why don't you start at the beginning." Said Morrison.
"Alright. The man I work for is a brilliant scientist named Doctor Roy Curien, he is a high ranked member of the DNA Bio Reactor Corporation. You heard of them?" Said Sophie.
"I have. It's a pretty famous company with a lot of money and resources." Said Morrison.
"They've made some big strides in medical and bioengineering. The project Curien and I were involved with was the study of demon biology and to see how the bodies of demons could help humanity. Demons as you probably know are much stronger then humans, are capable of living for long periods of time, and some have amazing regenerative abilities. Curien wanted to see if he could give humans the abilities of demons or at the very least use their blood to cure all forms of human diseases. He had a son who was deathly ill, so he was very invested in his work and was determined to help his son and all of humanity. A few years went by with some minor success in the studied and experimentation of demon blood. We tested the demon blood mixed with various chemicals on some human corpses to see how they would react. The first few tests nothing happened, then later on we had some interesting results. A few of the test subjects became fully animated! We had brought the dead to life! Curien was exited by these results and he dove into the work with renewed energy. Eventually Curien developed a formula from the research that was fully capable of curing diseases and gave it to his son." Said Sophie.
"What happened to the boy?" Asked Morrison.
"From what I heard about the boy from Curien, he made a full recovery. It truly was a miracle of science. Curien was thrilled and so were me and the rest of the staff. We had something that cured diseases and possibly make humanity incredibly strong. The possibilities of our work felt like they had limitless potential. Then things began to take a dark turn with Curien." Said Sophie.
"What happened?" Asked Morrison.
"Well Curien became curious and interested in the undead we created and went about seeing he could control them to be used as a form of work or military force. He worked several days straight, until he created some kind of new formula and injected himself with it. Then Curien gave the undead basic instructions, like come to him, go to one side of the room, pick up and carry boxes. The undead did as they were told. In a matter of speaking Curien had become a necromancer, though science." Said Sophie.
"So what happened next?" Asked Morrison.
"Well Curien began to experiment with the DNA of the undead mutating and enchanting making the subjects stronger and more capable of performing various tasks and then he began to test his creations on my fellow workers. The first few incidents were made to look like accidents, like a worker accidentally got themselves locked into one of the holding pens or simply got in the way of a undead doing a task, but as time went on, it became clear that these were no mere accidents. Curien's response to them lacked any concern or empathy and he just chalked it up as accident and sacrifices for science, but I knew things weren't as they appeared. Something was wrong with Curien. I first tried to contact the DNA Bio Reactor Corporation to get help from them, but couldn't reach them. Then I heard about you through a friend of friend. Now here we are." Said Sophie.
"This is a lot to take in, but I'm glad you reached out to me and my friends. They'll be happy to help and put a stop to Curien." Said Morrison.
"Really? Thank you so much! Truth be told, I really didn't know what to expect. I'm just glad to get help for me and the rest of the staff." Said Sophie looking a bit relieved.
At that moment Nero got a call on a earpiece he was wearing from Lady."Heads up Nero, we got a suspicious looking customer coming into the tavern."
Nero turned to the entrance and saw a man with his face wrapped up by a grey scarf, wearing sunglasses, a grey suit with two small jacket pockets, a back hat, black pants, and black shoes. The most noticeable thing about the stranger was the that he was wearing gloves with sharp claws at the end of each finger making him look like Freddy Krueger with more claws.
The man looked in Sophie's direction, before bringing his claws up and charged forward! Nero quickly sprung into action and pulled out his gun Blue Rose and fired a few shots at the assassin. One struck the man's head, one struck his right shoulder, and one struck his chest. The attacker was blown back, but shockingly sprung back to action and turned his attention back to Nero. Nero saw that a portion of the scarf had been blasted to bits revealing decaying pale skin. The man was a zombie! The undead tried to attack Nero, but he fired a few more shots to the head and shoulders and the undead creature fell to the ground dead this time.
"Oh God! That's one of Curien's creations! He knows I'm here to see you!" Said Sophie as her eyes went wide at the dead zombie on the ground.
There was a loud commotion outside getting everyone's attention."Looks like we're about to have ourselves a zombie party." Said Nero as he pulled his sword red queen out to fight.
To be continued.