22 Rise of the villain

4th June 2023

After running away from the few zombies, Ali came to the place where he dropped Shashi before he went to meet with Aarvi. Yet when he finally reached there he only saw the little house surrounded by a horde of zombies.

"No, no, no, please not her too." Ali began muttering to himself as he saw the scene around the house. He picked up a shovel which was thrown on the garden nearby and started running towards the horde of intected.

He didn't care about his life anymore, as he knew he wouldn't survive for long now. On his way here, whenever he saw a zombie the fact that he himself would turn into something like that would come to his mind, but there was nothing he could do.

People in these two months had tried everything to stop an infection of whatever is turning people into zombies, but nothing worked. Cutting off the bitten part, sucking away the poison, masking it, treating it - nothing works. Once you're bitten, you'd turn, that's what every method and conclusion led to.

So Ali had given up on himself too. He just wanted to make sure that this little girl who trusted him, wouldn't end up like everyone else who followed him.

Yet it seemed fate wasn't on his side for even a tiny bit. When he reached inside the house, he didn't find anything.

He finally collapsed on the ground, losing strength on his legs as he didn't know what to do.

'Ahhhhhh' He screamed loudly, as he let his rage and pain out. He closed his eyes as a conversation he had with Shiva a few months ago, came to his mind.

"What are you reading? Drop it and let's go for a race." Ali said as he closed the tab he was reading another novel at.

"Why're you always acting like a hooligan?" Shiva said to him.

"You just fought with two guys outside the office, for no reason at all. And I'm the hooligan." Ali said with a surprised look while pointing at himself.

"They told me to stand up and give my seat to them, and when I ignored them, one of them made me drop my cigarette and crushed it under his feet. Being honest, I wasn't even serious." Shiva said, recalling the incident of some stupid dude with a stupid brain.

"That still doesn't explain how I'm the hooligan?" Ali asked again.

Shiva opened the tab again and showed him a manuscript of a novel he received. "This book's first arc is basically your biography, why don't you read it and tell me?"

"Beginning with slapping the licking dog young master" Ali read the title and a black line formed over his forehead. "Really, Shiva. This now?"

"You're the one who started it, don't blame me. And besides what's wrong with it, you have all the traits of half the villains I read across the novels. You're rich, stupid, handsome, dumb, has a crush on the pretty girl since childhood, but still can't impress her _ what else.." Shiva said, as he kept counting all these things on his fingers.

"And I have a minion who's crazy." Ali said with a smile.

"Bitch please, if you're a villain, then I'm the final boss." Shiva replied.

"Yeah yeah every minion has a big dream." Ali said.

"Don't look back, but Aarvi's here." Shiva said, as he looked down and focused on his tab.

"What,.." Ali heard his words and fixed his hair and clothes.

"And you're a coward, definitely a pitiful villain." Shiva said and smiled.

"Fuck you."

–hehehe-

-ahahahahaha-

Ali held his face and started laughing like crazy. The injury he got on his head, where Kevin hit him earlier, started bleeding again, but he kept laughing.

-hahhahahah-

"Guess you really were right eh Shiva."

"A pitiful villain indeed." Ali said as he slapped his hand on the ground and laughed again.

"But not like this, NOT LIKE THIS. You said the villain always loses in the first arc right, then let's just skip everything and go to the finals."

Ali stood up and started walking out. A few infected ones came inside the house again, after hearing the noises. Smelling the blood they started snarling at him, walking with their slow twisted steps towards him with mouth wide open and arms raised high.

One of the zombies came close to him, his hands reaching for his face, but Ali pushed those hands away and held the zombie by the neck and started punching its face. The dried up skin of that zombie got torn apart and the bones on his cheek became visible to the naked eye - Ali himself too had blood coming out his fists, but he ignored it and kept punching that zombie. His senses were already dull with the head injury and the more time he spent after being bitten the more dull they became. So he kept swinging his fists at that zombies face and kept punching him, until its whole face was a mess, with half the bones cracked and their pieces sticking out.

Ali moved his hand from the neck to the zombie's head, and he dragged his face across the wall, "Since it's the ending, shouldn't the villain be crazy by now."

He said and threw the zombie out the window. A loud thud rang out as that zombie's body hit the ground.

"So that's what it feels like huh. No wonder you liked fighting so much." Ali said and turned towards the other zombies, who were coming towards him.

He picked up the shovel and started running towards them, the closer he got to them, the more calm he felt, as the adrenaline rushed in his whole body. He swung the shovel on the zombies head, knocking him down, as he swung the shovel to another infected, he kicked the face of the zombie he knocked down with his full force. Breaking his chin with the leather shoes. He looked down and pushed the shovel inside the zombie's chest and pulled it, making a bloody arc in the air.

"Ahahaha since it's the ending, let me just destroy everything." He said and kicked a zombie who was in front of him. And when the zombie was bent down, he swung the shovel straight. Hitting that zombie's neck with the sharp edge with all his strength, the zombie growled in pain or anger, or maybe just hunger, but next second his neck was limp like a lose stretch connected in place just by the skin of his neck.

Ali grabbed his hair, and pulled the twisted head up and said to him "Since it's the ending, it doesn't matter right. Nothing matters anymore. So why don't I _."

Ali said and slapped the limp neck of the zombie loudly. "Ohh that stings. Doesn't it?" Ali said as he looked at his hand which was blood red now and blew air on it. "Why don't I just kill everyone."

Ali picked up the shovel again and looked at the dozens of zombies coming his way from every side. Yet even now, after seeing so many of them, there was no fear on his face, but the more of them he saw around him, the more twisted and cruel his smile became. His face which was as handsome as those actors and models, now looked like a demon's. Who just walked out of its hell and started a massacre. His hair were fixed in place with the dried blood from his injury, while his face had blood marks, results of his fights till now. His eyes were getting red as if the bloodlust and madness was just oozing out of them. His hand was hurt, as some fingers of his had started swelling and bleeding, it was even shaking a little as he held the shovel tightly. But despite all, his face still had that crazed smile, showing his teeth, which were filled with blood too.

"Let's give this story a proper ending, shall we?" Ali said as he started fighting against the zombies again. When the number of zombies surrounded him, and had him fall to the ground and started to drown him. Even then in between all that growling and snarling of krruhghh rurghrrh , his manic laughter was echoing the loudest.

"Since when is it the turn of mobs to fight against the main villain."

He shouted as he pulled a zombie's face down, and rubbed it against the road. Struggling hard he managed to stand up, he couldn't count how many of these zombies managed to bite him. But he didn't care anymore, he couldn't even feel his body anymore. In the past months, this is the first time he finally felt free. He looked below, and stepped over the zombies head, again and again and again - until he felt his shoes hitting the road and a little sting flashing through his feet. "Mobs should just lie down and die."

On that night, on that street whoever lived and survived till then in the apocalypse, didn't sleep the whole night, as the sound of fightings, cursing and laughter kept ringing out every now and then, making them scared to even look out. Cause they saw, as the man even Killed those who came to stop him or help him, like they were all the same to him.

For tomorrow morning they'll only see the bodies of anyone who came to stop that demon's rampage, lying around from here to the very high of their roads.

While Ali was going on a rampage, two systems on the opposite sides had different expressions, sensing the changes happening in the world.

Kevin's system had a shocked expression, as it started sending numerous notifications to its host.

[Detected an anomaly in the planet programme]

[Restructuring the restrictions]

[Removing the limiter to protect the host]

[The MAIN quest issued - Kill Ali Parker.]

[Limits - None]

[Rewards - All the skills of the host will be upgraded to the limit of the world.]

While Kevin and his system were shell shocked, the second system was looking at Ali from the sky and started laughing like a maniac too.

[For the world to elevate your status to the main villain cause you said so, looks like you're not completely hopeless yet.]

The great villain system spoke, and a tiny dot of red light, dropped from the sky and fell over Ali's head. [Then let me see what else you can do, my future host.]

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A/N - how'd you like that huh. How was it tell me.