We are the end of the world

Chapter 19 We are the end of the world.

1 week after the events occurred at the CDC.

POV Unknown

The days pass slowly, I have lost everything that mattered to me in this world, I have no purpose, I have nothing.

I spend my days taking refuge alone in an abandoned hospital, with the sound of the dead to keep me company, they are my only comfort.

I walk through the abandoned hospital facilities until a mirror stops me in my tracks, on the other side of the mirror I am with my face covered with a balaclava. At this, I close my fist tightly and hit the mirror until it breaks into hundreds of pieces. I am not fazed by the blood that runs through my fist and continues walking through the corridors.

After a few hours, the sound of a vehicle approaching the hospital catches my attention. Given this, I take my ax and approach one of the windows. The vehicle stops right in front of the front door.

Without thinking twice, I start running in the direction of the front door, most likely these people are looters or worse. People are more dangerous than dead people, that's a sure thing. "I will not go down without a fight." I whisper as I approach the front door with my ax in hand.

However, I was not prepared for what I would find. As I approach the main door, the first thing I hear is music that I know very well, that music is mine, I composed that song. Whoever is here knows me, at this I grip my ax tighter and as I cross the corner I stop in my tracks.

In front of me is a little kid no older than 10 years old holding some kind of music player looking me up and down with a slight smile on his face as if he had found a prize. Behind him is a fairly tall man in a leather jacket with his back to the kid looking at the door they entered, which is on the ground.

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"Wesker, take care of the door." The boy says simply as the man begins to walk towards the door where some of the dead were gathering as a result of the music. At this, the subject draws a knife and begins to eliminate the dead quickly, after which he simply stands in the doorway killing anything that gets close enough. The strangest thing is that the dead don't seem interested in him in the least.

"Who are they? What do you want? Why do you play that music? I ask in my deep voice swinging my ax. In that, the boy stops playing the music and keeps the device in his pockets.

"Do you know how many hospitals I went through just to find you?" Says the boy bowing his head slightly. "I mean, the roads aren't safe nowadays with the dead and muggers everywhere." Says the boy scratching his head.

"You haven't answered any of my questions." I say approaching the boy with my ax in hand, ready to split him in two at any moment.

"Calm down Calm down." He says raising his hands. "If I had wanted you dead, you would already be dead. However, I consider that you can be a very valuable asset for my empire." Says the boy placing his hands on his waist and doing some kind of pose. "My name is Justin, the next ruler of humanity." He says puffing out his chest and raising his head proudly.

At his statement, my ax slips from my hands and falls to the ground, so I did what I hadn't done in weeks, I started laughing nonstop.

"Hey, don't make fun of me!" The boy yells at me while he crosses his arms with his face red with embarrassment, it seems that he speaks before thinking.

"You a ruler? Don't make me laugh boy, go suck your mommy's tit. Get out of here now, before I decide to kill them." I say picking up my ax and placing it over my shoulder.

"Fine, it will be the hard way then!" Says the boy pointing his hand at me with a smile spreading across his face. "Wesker plays with him."

At this, the man who was at the door throws his knife aside and starts running towards me quickly. "Damn." I say swinging my ax at the man, however, this guy grabs the ax by the handle before making contact with his face. He then kicks me in the stomach sending me several meters back hitting a wall, while the man now has my ax.

I fall to the ground gasping for air as this guy begins to slowly approach me, letting go of the ax. I reach out and grab a piece of a wood splinter from the ground as I lunge at him stabbing him in the stomach. At this, He just pushes me back again as he takes the splinter and pulls it out of his stomach without flinching.

"Shit." That is all I say when he lunges at me knocking me to the ground as he begins to choke me. I start to writhe on the ground as I hit him in the ribs, in the neck, however, he doesn't flinch and keeps strangling me until I lost consciousness.

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I wake up shortly after, lying on the floor as a rather pleasant smell assails my nostrils. "Oh, looks like you've woken up, do you want a burger?" Before me is the boy with a smile on his face as he eats a hamburger. Where do I get a burger from? I quickly get to my feet as I look at the boy sitting across from me.

"Where is the other one?" I ask looking in all directions, however, there is no trace of the person who attacked me.

"Are you talking about Wesker? He is guarding the door so that no walkers enter." Says the boy with his mouth full as he eats his hamburger. "Are you sure you don't want to? It's delicious." The boy asks me, holding out a hamburger in my direction. Given this, I take it quickly and slightly lift my balaclava, making only my mouth visible, after which I begin to devour the hamburger. How many days has it been since I ate something like this?

"This rich truth?" Says the boy placing a soda in front of me. "This food is a luxury these days, luckily Wesker is quite proficient at some things." Says the boy smiling a little. "Why are you wearing that balaclava? Are you a bank robber? The boy asks me tilting his head a little.

"You know very well who I am." I say quietly. There's no point in lying, obviously, the kid knows who I really am, otherwise, he wouldn't have reproduced that music.

"I know, I know. Your songs are shit. Says the boy mocking me as he finishes eating his hamburger. Did he just insult me?

"The guy from a few moments ago I stabbed him, I'm sure, how is it possible that I acted like nothing happened?" Before my question the boy only remains silent, until he begins to drink a soda, belching shortly after.

"I am the next ruler of this world, it is normal that I have capable people under my command." Says the boy with a giggle. "However, I offer you something that no one can offer you."

"And what could that be?" I ask with mockery in my voice, this damn kid has too much ego.

"I offer you a purpose." The boy says slowly as he puts his hands behind his head. "I offer you a new life, a new identity." He says with a smile on his face.

"I'll show you something." I say standing up and walking out of the room as the boy follows me. We walk to an empty room where there is a chained walker. "He was my best friend and now he is dead. We will all be like him sooner or later." I say holding back my inner rage. "No matter who we were, no matter who we are now, we will all be just like him."

"He's dead, you're right about that. Yet another bites the dust in the great game of life, yet you are alive. Why are you still alive? The boy asks me, before this, I stay silent, I don't have an answer to give him.

"Life is a game and we are the players!" exclaims the boy nodding his head. "Who are you?" The boy asks me, while the chains hold the corpse of my best friend, who only moans when he sees me and tries to reach me. "Who are you?" The child repeats again.

"I don't know." I say quietly. "I don't know who I am, happy?" At my words, the boy pulls a knife from his pocket and throws it at my feet.

"Then it's time for the old you to die and be reborn." The boy says with a smile walking out of the room while I just take the knife with many thoughts in my head.

Minutes later, I walk out of the room without my balaclava, instead my face is now covered by my best friend's skin as behind me he stands with a knife through his brain.

A feeling of release runs through my body after leaving the room. At this, I approach the boy and stand in front of him. "The old me is dead." I say in a deep voice kneeling in front of this strange boy, who has saved me and given me a purpose to continue living.

"You can get up." The boy says nodding his head. "From this moment you will be called Beta." Says the boy with a victorious smile on his face. "We are the end of the world and we are the beginning of a new world. A world under my whims." He says stretching out his arms dramatically.

I simply nodded my head as I stood up. "We are the end of the world." I repeat forming a slight smile on my face. "I like how it sounds."

"What should I call you from now on? I just can't call you a kid all the time. If I am Beta, then will you be my Alpha? At my question, the boy looks at me strangely before flinching.

"Nooo." Exclaims the boy quickly shaking his head. "That sounds really bad, never say it out loud again. Never." Says the boy scratching his head and sighing a little. "Did you forget my name?" He says crossing his arms and making a pout.

"You can call me Justin or rather, you can call me Your Highness Justin." Justin says with a smile spreading across his face. At this, I just rolled my eyes sighing a bit.

"What's the plan now, Your Highness Justin?" I say gritting my teeth, I'm already regretting all this.

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POV Justin

My body fills with joy at having Beta kneeling before me, this strong man will serve me a lot in my future plans, it took me a while to find him, however, the effort was worth it. I need tough, strong people who follow all my orders without question.

I could have gone with Rick's group, but they are very weak right now and would slow me down a lot. They will eventually learn that the world isn't like it used to be, so when they're ready I'll look for them if they're still alive, but I guess the plot armor will protect them. I hope so.

I decided to look for one of the strongest and most capable characters, in this case, Beta, in the television series he was one of the antagonists, it could be said that he could only eliminate the entire main cast if he wanted to, however, the power of the script is more powerful. But under my command that will not happen.

"Well, about the plan…" I say scratching my head.

"You don't have a plan, do you?" Beta says looking me up and down.

"The plan is to rule the world, but that is not as simple as it seems, it would take a lot of people, supplies, weapons, planning, and time, a lot of time." I say waving my hands dismissively. "However, we can start with something small for practice, you see this is my first time attempting world domination." I laughed a low voice covering my mouth.

"So as a first order, we will conquer a small settlement." I say with a smile spreading across my face. "And your Beta, you will be my second in command." At this, I put both hands on my waist looking directly at Beta.

"What about the other man?" Beta asks me.

"Don't worry about Wesker, just follow my orders, sometimes too literally." I say with a shudder remembering some things.

Wesker takes things very literally. "And just don't take the glasses off of him." Wesker has red eyes, that's why he gave him the glasses. At first glance Wesker doesn't look like an undead, he doesn't smell bad either and the wounds he suffers in the rest of his body heal with some time. I still don't want to check if a headshot is capable of killing Wesker, I don't want to lose my attack dog so quickly.

As a fun fact, I can only control subjects that are under the influence of my blood. That means that if Wesker bites a person, this person will become a mutated walker, stronger and faster than the others, however, it will not recognize me and will attack me like any other living being.

But if this person is supplied with my blood, he will become the same as Wesker and T-Dog thus creating absolute obedience. However, I don't like to give my blood to just anyone. What if over time they become self-aware and turn against me? I am very paranoid.

"Come on, Beta gather your things, we have a long way to go." I say happily with my hands in the air. "By the way, Wesker liked your ax so I suggest you don't try to take it from him."

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Hours later.

"Was this part of your grand plan?" Beta exclaims as he holds two knives ready for combat. Wesker has an ax slung over his shoulder awaiting my orders as he surveys the surroundings.

We are currently on the side of the road in the dark surrounded by a group of armed people.

"Give us all your supplies and we may let you go." Says one of the assailants stepping forward with a gun pointed at Wesker.

At this, a predatory smile spreads across my face, these guys were unlucky to meet us, very unlucky, I almost feel sorry for them. Almost.

"We are the end of the world." Repeat Beta over and over. Soon after, the screams of the assailants became music to my ears.

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"We are the end of the world!"