Chapter 127 - I Will Find You Part 2

Zell continued to follow the faint magic energies left behind from the spells that Rose had used. Eventually it led him to a sewer grate, it appeared as if Rose was hiding beneath the surface of the city. Zell ripped off the cover and descended the ladder. He found himself in a dark damp tunnel. He was standing on a concrete platform and on the other side of the tunnel was a raging river of wastewater.

Zell's armor emitted enough light to illuminate his path, although the smell was horrific. Zell covered himself with a personal barrier that blocked out the horrible smells from the raw sewage flowing next to his feet. He picked up the trail as soon as he entered the sewers and continued to follow it. He came to a large iron door along the side of the tunnel that the trail went into. Zell grabbed it with one hand and tossed it behind him, ripping chunks of the wall out with it.

As he continued, he could hear voices talking. He knew the voices. Rose was talking to Yrag.

"You and I have the same goal. We work for the same god; you should join me." Rose could be heard. "Stop trying to resist, you know that I am telling the truth, just think of all the horrors the humans have committed. It is the lord's will that they be wiped from the world so that it can grow and prosper."

"I will never join you." Yrag replied. "Zell has found another way, one that does not end in bloodshed and builds a better future for all peoples."

"I knew I should have just killed you." Rose said. "No matter, it's an easily fixed problem."

Having heard enough Zell punched the wall from where he was hearing the voices. A loud explosion of dust and debris stunned both Rose and Yrag, but as the dust settled Zell could be clearly seen in all his glory.

"Rose!" Zell yelled, shaking the very foundation of the planet they were on.

"How?!" Rose cried out. "How did you find me?! That should not have been possible!"

Zell quickly encapsulated her inside a full barrier and lifted her helplessly into the air. He then turned his attention to his grandson. "Are you alright?" He asked. "How did she even capture you?"

"She attacked out of the shadows and grabbed your mother." Yrag explained. "There was nothing I could do, and she drained all the life from your mother and turned her into a walking dead. It was one of the most horrible things I had ever seen. She told me she could change her back and would as long as I did not fight back. I knew how much you cared about your mother, so I decided to comply."

"You turned mother into a zombie?!" Zell yelled at Rose, as he caused his barrier to rip one of her arms from her body. It then quickly sealed the wound so that she would not die of blood loss.

"You Damn fucker!" Rose yelled out in pain. "That fucking hurt!"

"Did it?!" Zell replied, ripping her other arm off. "Where is mother?!"

"You son of a bitch!" Rose yelled out again. "The hell is wrong with you! You don't just start ripping people's arms off!"

"Answer my question!" Zell demanded as he twisted her leg at the knee breaking it so that the bone was exposed. "Do it now or I will rip the leg from your body!"

"She is in the next room!" Rose cried out. "But you need me to change her back you fool! You are helpless if you wish to save her!"

"The hell I do." Zell answered back and he began constricting the barrier around her slowly crushing what remained of her body. He continued to crush her until her mass was that of a softball. Then tossed the barrier into the raw sewage flowing through the tunnel.

Again, Rose's skill activated, and she found herself alive and well on the morning of her death. "That damned bastard killed me again!" She cried out.

"What are you talking about?!" Yrag said. "You have just been sitting there!"

"What right, forgot your ass was there." Rose replied. "Don't worry about it. We need to change locations, like right now."

Thinking back Rose realized she had less than ten minutes before Zell arrived. She cursed that fact her skill revived her the morning of her death instead of giving her a twenty-four-hour period. "Actually, there is no time, I don't have time to deal with you or the damned zombies." Rose complained. She used her soul magic to open a random portal anywhere, she did not care where, as long as she got out of there now and put some distance between herself and Zell.

As soon as the portal opened, she leaped in, and it closed behind her. No more than Two minutes after that Zell made his entrance into the room. He saw his grandson and was relieved.

"Are you alright?" He asked. "Where is Rose? Where is my mother?!"

Yrag was both excited to see Zell, but also filled with sorrow for the bad news he had to deliver. "Rose she…"

"She did what?" Zell asked. "You never answered if you were alright? Are you okay? How did she even capture you?"

"I am alright." Yrag said. "I had to come with her for a chance to save your mother, but she… she left. Now I fear your mother may be lost forever."

"What happened?" Zell asked. "Where is my mother?!"

"She is over in the next room." Yrag said. "But I warn you, Rose has turned her into the walking dead. It is a horrible sight that will haunt my dreams. I am so sorry I could not save her grandpa!"

Zell put his hand on Yrag's shoulder. "If that's all she did, then everything is fine." Zell said. "I can restore her back to life, it is not even a challenging task for me to do."

"One more thing grandpa." Yrag said. "Rose acted odd before she left. She yelled out that someone killed her and seemed frantic. I don't know what she was talking about, but she seemed to know of your arrival and wanted to get out before you got here. Do you think she has some kind of skill that brings her back to life after death? I saw an anime like that once, so it is plausible."

"That is troubling if that is the case." Zell said. "I will have to endeavor to not kill her then. So mother is in the next room?"

"Yes." Yrag said.

"Alright." Zell said as he walked over to the door containing the zombified people. He healed them one by one, including his mother. Her eyes ran like rivers at the sight of her son and from the horrible trauma her daughter had just subjected her to. She wrapped her arms around him and hugged him tightly.

"Thank you for saving me." She said, smiling. "There is really nothing you cannot do is there?"

"Of course, there is." Zell said with a smile. "I could never replace you."

Zell's kind words just made her cry more as she squeezed him tighter.