They went to clear the next floor by the shredding and scattering method. Burning them inside the building might cause too much damage, or activate the sprinkler.
As they did this, Josephine just observed the duo with an innocent look in her large doe eyes. Her brown skin was almost gleaming with full health now. Unlike the corpses, she looked the most animated and alive.
And that means that she had eaten many humans to get to this state. It has been 7 years since she died, so she would have started as a skeleton.
Harker couldn't help but be distracted by her. "Do you remember any vague memories, Mom? Your childhood, your family….. Anything?"
He specifically wished she would remember a little bit about him.
She furrowed her bows. "Afraid not, son…. You say my name is Josephine Jones, right? And my husband is Howard Jones. This G.G. Faust is our friend…."
"Yes, and besides me, you have a daughter named Chloe who's 10 years old now." Harker said. "And finally, two twin boys named Samson and Samuel. You…. You died upon giving birth to them."
She digested this information. "Three sons, one daughter…. A loving husband. A man obsessed with me. This is a lot to take in…."
"My daughter…. How is she? What does she look like?" She then asked.
Mina crushed a zombie's skull with her pectoral fin, which was strangely positioned on the sides of her arms instead of her actual pectorals.
"She's beautiful just like you, Miss Jones." Mina told her. "Even though she have illnesses, she had a strong willpower and courage."
"She had an illness?" Josephine asked worriedly. "What is it?"
Harker made his hair razor sharp and impaled three zombies at once like a kebab, and then shred them from inside out.
"Lupus disease. She's alright now, Mom. No need to worry."
"I see… May God save her soul, then."
Harker was truly pained by how little his mother remembers. She may have her consciousness, but it felt like talking to a stranger now. He could understand what Chloe said about her feeling closer to fiction than reality. The person she was only remained in Harker's imagination now, and what was left was a confused hollow shell of a human.
But he could still feel that she's trying. Her chuckle, her kind demeanor…. It was still there.
No matter how little it was, like grains of sand, he still wanted to hold onto those semblances before they completely slipped from his grasp.
He went to put a hand on his mother's shoulder, brushing her soft and wavy hair. "Mom…. No matter what happens, you should know that we all loved and missed you."
Her gaze softened at this. "Thank you, son."
Harker smiled sadly. He distracted himself by focusing on the task of looking for a Satanic zombie master.
"I don't see G.G. Faust anywhere." Harker said as they were close to clearing up this floor. "Did he hide in the bathroom? Or did he already escape from the window?"
Mina double-checked everything. "He looked like Roland, right? Are you sure he looked completely like him?"
"He does. He may have rotten too, but none of the zombies we killed so far even resembled him a bit." Harker frowned. "My Snake Ability's Duration is running out soon. I might have to borrow some of your DNA instead, Mina."
Jospehine looked down at a window. "That man…. He has long black hair. Look."
Mina glanced at a corpse approaching the gates of the hospital. "Is it really him? It's too far to tell."
"Only one way to find out." Harker said sternly as he jumped down once more.
They rushed to stop this zombie, the sound of police sirens coming closer. With Harker and Mina's superior hearing, they could hear them even though they were still 10 minutes away.
"We need to finish this quickly." Harker exclaimed. "George Gordon Faust!"
He yelled to the zombie that walked with a limp. It slowly turned….
And revealed a barely recognizable face. But his hair was shoulder-length and black, his remaining eyeball hazelnut. Most importantly….
It rushed towards Josephine Jones upon seeing her.
"GRAAHHHHHH!!!!" The zombie yelled.
Harker yelled. "Eat fire, asshole!"
He quickly burned him up with the torch, causing the zombie to shriek in pain. Harker used his hair, not caring if it gets burned, to pull him apart like he was a paper man.
The corpse of G.G. Faust disintegrated slowly and turned into nothing but dust. Not long after the cold wind blew the fire off, and Harker spat on the remaining ashes.
"That's for sending my Mom creepy letters and bringing her back from the dead just so a creep like you could fuck with our family." Harker crushed more of the flesh with his shoes.
Eventually, the police arrived.
Mina gulped. "We may have been a little too late. They're going to see the zombies—"
But as she said this, the remaining living zombies went to reattach themselves and started walking calmly towards the back of the hospital. They were all grouped into neat little lines, possibly heading back to Marble Cemetery.
Harker was relieved. "We fucking did it….. But…."
He turned to his Mom, who was looking blankly at the moving zombies. She just watched them with those empty eyes.
"Is it my time to go now? So soon…." She mumbled.
Harker placed a hand on her shoulder. "Mom…. I don't know what to say. I'm not ready to…. But I have to. You have to go back."
She placed her hand over his. "I know, son. May God bless you, and the rest of our family. You'd done grown up to be such a good man. Not many people could do that, especially after everythin' ya been through."
"Take care of yer pretty girlfriend, eh?" She winked at Mina. "And I wished I have seen my daughter…. I wonder if she's really pretty with smooth skin and untainted innocence. Bet she'd have all the boys after her soon once she gets better from that disease."
Harker chuckled awkwardly. "Haha, I bet if you'd grown up with her, you'd know Chloe has no time for that. And also didn't you always tell me to focus on my studies first before I think about girls?"
Josephine just shrugged and smiled. "I don't recall it, son. But still…."
"Take care of yerself." She patted his shoulder, and followed the others.
It was difficult to watch her go. Mina held his hand, and Harker turned to her, smiling.
"I'm fine now. I accepted it already." Harker said.
But….
The zombies did not go to the cemetery. Instead…..
A bunch of black cars appeared out of nowhere, and dragged all of them inside! Including Josephine Jones, who was just grabbed and tossed inside by big burly men in suits. They droved through an old and abandoned road that was supposed to be demolished and replaced with estate lots.
Harker tried to reach out. "No! Mom!"
But it was too late.
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