Chapter 11

Now that Marvin was feeling better and the fact that he was the only other alive person the girls have found they all decided to take a sit and exchange information with each other.

Claire explained what she had seen and experienced on her way to the police station, about Leon and the fact that the entire city seems to be affected by whatever is going on.

Morgan, Hope, Yuzu, and Karin confirmed Claire's words by explaining what they had seen as they moved around the city and the destruction that seemed to have taken over the city, then they explained who and what they are.

Poor Marvin was left speechless and then catatonic for a few minutes when the girls did their whole intro, Claire giggled and shook her head in amusement "Ah! Seeing it a second time and happening to someone else, I got to say that it is pretty funny".

Marvin recovered from his catatonic state after a few minutes and then frowned not liking what he was hearing and explained as much as he could about what he knew but it wasn't much, the girls frowned while Claire sighed "So nobody knows what caused this?".

Marvin shook his head and then walked over to a computer and began to click away "There's a lot of theories but all that is certain is that the place is crawling with zombies".

Claire nodded "or on me...".

Hope hummed "Whatever is causing the reanimation of the dead isn't supernatural or we would have sensed it by now".

Marvin shook his head "I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that such young and adorable girls are really supernatural entities...".

Morgan smiled at Marvin "It takes a while but you get used to it! Claire is!".

Claire shook her head "It's not like I have a choice, especially since a saw you ripping zombies apart left and right a little while ago".

Morgan blushed and scratch her head while Hope, Yuzu, and Karin smiled at her Marvin chuckled "You girls seemed to be very well trained too".

The girls nodded while Claire smiled "Yeah we can take care of ourselves".

Marvin nodded while Claire suddenly reach over her hip and took out a radio and tried to get a signal, Marvin pointed at it "Make sure you keep that on just in case".

Claire nodded "We're not going to be here for long, as soon as I find Chris we're all getting out of here".

Marvin looked down "You're really Chris's sister?".

Claire turned her head towards Marvin "Yeah, did you find something?".

Marvin's sighed "Well all I could find out right now is that he's on vacation, in Europe I think... he left weeks ago".

Claire frowned for a bit but then felt relieved to hear that her brother isn't in the city right now "Vacation? That's great news".

But Marvin looked down, meanwhile, the girls listened intently to what the two adults were talking about "Well I've got more for you, looks like there might be a way out by using this secret passageway".

Karin sighed and then leaned to the side and whispered to Hope and Morgan "Can't we?... You know? Just fly off with them? We can easily take them out of the city".

Hope shook her head "This is a world with zero supernatural presence, we aren't Daddy who can do whatever he wants in any world without consequences so it's best we don't do anything overly crazy like that".

Yuzu hummed and tilted her head "But there are zombies here, isn't that supernatural enough?".

Hope once again shook her head "As far as we know this is an isolated event, we don't have enough information to decide if we should go all out also we really don't need to go all out or do anything too crazy, all we have to do is protect Claire".

Morgan then grinned "Plus there's a secret passageway! We're in this world for adventure and doing things the easy way destroys that goal so let's just keep going like this for now".

Yuzu, Karin, and Hope nodded while Claire and Marvin continued to speak, Claire grabbed the notebook and nodded "That's good, we're going to head there right away but what are you going to do?".

Marvin smiled "I'll stay here and help anyone else who comes to the police station for help so don't worry about me I can take care of myself".

The girls frown not liking the idea of leaving Marvin here, Morgan walked up to Marvin and looked up at him "Are you sure Mr. Marvin? You can just come with us and we'll protect you".

Marvin smiled and patted Morgan on her head "I'm sure Morgan, don't worry about me and besides as a cop I have to be here to help anyone else that might show up here".

The girls didn't like this but Marvin seemed very serious about his decision, Marvin just smiled at them "All of you get out of this city and go home, Claire I hope you find Chris, now your better take this knife".

Claire shook her head "No I can't take that your going to need it".

But Marvin just smiled and shook his head "Just take it and be careful, if you guys see one of those things... no matter who they were.. you don't ever hesitate, take them out if you can or you run".

The girls nodded and then walked away from Marvin, Hope stopped and turned towards Marvin while everyone else continues forward, Marvin knew that Hope understood what was going on and she didn't want to leave him so he just smiled at her and nodded.

Hope frowned for a few seconds but then nodded to herself and then spoke up to Marvin "My Mommy Death... she'll take care of you Marvin, it was really nice to meet you".

With that said Hope ran off to catch up with everyone else while Marvin smiled "I'm sorry kids but I have seen what happens when a zombie bites you, you might have healed my wounds but I can feel myself turning... it was really nice to meet you too".

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Hope caught up to the group and watched as Claire cut open a metal box and pressed a button inside opening a metal mesh gate blocking their way to where they needed to go.

The gate loudly opened but as soon as it opened all the way the girls immediately stepped inside, Hope, Morgan, Yuzu, and Karin immediately ran around the room and looked for anything useful, they only found some bullets though, which they decided to hold onto for Claire for now.

After that they quickly headed to the door on the other side of the gate and stepped through after opening it, they found another dark corridor and Claire took out her flashlight again while the girls kept an eye out for enemies or anything useful since they can see in the dark.

They walked through the dark hallway until they heard the sound of a radio going off so they followed it until they found the body of a dead police officer, Claire approached it while the girls brought out their weapons and got ready just in case.

Claire lifted the dead body's head only to grimace at how its whole jaw and face were ripped apart "Oh god...".

Morgan shook her head "Poor guy...".

Hope, Yuzu, and Karin nodded but then they heard something metallic bounce on the ground, all of them turned toward where they heard the noise and Claire decided to call out "Who's there?".

Karin frowned "Did anyone see what it was".

But everyone shook their head, Yuzu then spoke up "We should check it out, it might be another person and they might need our help".

The girls nodded ad then took off through the dark hallway towards where they heard the noise, as they walked they noticed an odd metal door with a clover on its frame but they ignore it for now and continue on.

Eventually, they reached a corner and walked around it only to find an open window with a lot of wind going through it but they also ignore it and continue walking through the hallway looking for what had caused that noise.

Morgan frowned "Is it normal for police stations to have hallways this long?".

Claire shook her head "Not really, this police station is really weir- Holy shit!".

Claire jumped up in fright when a zombie suddenly appeared in front of a window ahead of them, Hope sighed and then pointed an open palm towards the zombie, she then closed her fist as if she was crushing something and Claire watched as the zombie was crushed by an invisible force "Is that telekinesis?".

Hope nodded "Yes, I'm a psychic! I got that from my mom Jean!".

Claire nodded and patted Hope's head "Thank you for that Hope, that zombie surprised me".

Hope nodded and cheerfully smiled at Claire "You're welcome~" with that said the girls continued walking through the dark hallway until they found a double wooden door and all of them walked inside to investigate.

The girls immediately walked around and grabbed everything useful for Claire while she looked around, she found a few old notes and quickly read them.

It was a notice letting someone know that the police station was turned into a temporary shelter and that they were hoping to accommodate a lot of people but it turns out that one of the people they were sheltering began to attack everyone else, they pushed it aside as someone snapping under pressure.

The notes then went on to explain that the police station was attacked by a mob and that a few survivors were able to escape thanks to some emergency shutters, it seems like they weren't sure that they'll be able to survive for long, the note was signed by some named David Ford.

Yuzu walked up to Claire "Claire I found a map".

Claire placed the notes back where they were and turned around towards Yuzu "Great find Yuzu, this will be very useful".

Yuzu smiled, Morgan then spoke up "Find anything useful on those notes Claire".

Claire shook her head "Not really, only that the police station served as a shelter but it was eventually overrun by zombies, it seems like this has been going on for days...".

The girls frowned and thought about everything they have seen as they explored the city, Morgan crossed her arms and hummed "Well, there is a lot of destruction around the city and the amount of it is too much to have happened in just one day...".

Hope nodded "But still... don't you guys think that it's still too quick, everything is a mess and there are not a lot of survivors... whatever this is it spread at such a speed that it crippled an entire city in a few days".

All the girls looked down and thought about the severity of the situation when suddenly bangs and groans began to echo from the hallway outside the room the girls were in.

Everyone immediately got their weapons ready, Claire nodded at the girls "Let's talk about all of this later, we have to move or we'll be overwhelmed... I can hear a lot of zombies already".

Everyone nodded and then they all left the room and quickly moved through the hallway, they found a very fat zombie banging on a door but Yuzu immediately shot it with a black reishi arrow and hit its head blasting it off its shoulders.

Meanwhile, the girls continue to move forward while also covering each others' backs, Claire was definitely impressed with the way the young girls moved like a well-trained unit and was very glad to have Morgan, Hope, Karin, and Yuzu on her side right now.

Eventually, they reached some sort of locker room but it seemed that they were electronically locked, Claire frowned a bit "It's too bad... we might have found something useful in these lockers".

Morgan smiled and then took out her smartphone and wirelessly connected to the lockers system, the little Stark quickly hacked it and unlocked all the lockers in a second surprising Claire "Whoa! Morgan that was amazing".

Morgan brightly smiled "It was nothing! These sorts of systems are too outdated and weak for me, I usually use far more advanced technology at home".

Claire nodded while Yuzu and Karin went around the lockers to get anything useful they can find, a zombie suddenly burst into the room but Hope pointed her gauss pistol and shot it in the head with a light elemental bullet.

The zombie was engulfed in golden light and was vaporized in a second, Hope looked around and waited a moment before relaxing and pointing her gun towards the floor "Well that was annoying...".

Everyone nodded, the Kurosaki twins handed the ammo they found in the locker to Claire, and all of them continued on to the next door, they suddenly found themselves in some sort of office room with multiple desks around and the girls immediately spread out.

Claire found a note that let her know that there was a lot of ammo left around the station and that she could even make her own if she finds any gunpowder and another one that seem to describe some of the things a police officer lived through.

Another zombie groaned but Karin quickly stabbed its head and blasted its head off with a blast of black wind while Morgan found some sort of desk with locks on them, she stared at the locks for a second and then shrugged, she then proceeded to rip the locks out.

She then open the desk and found a Speed Loader inside she smiled knowing that it would be useful to Claire and immediately went to her "Claire~ here I found this, I think you'll find it useful".

Claire smiled at Morgan and nodded when she had the Speed Loader in her hand "Thank you Morgan" Morgan smiled and then the girls came over and handed Claire everything they found.

Afterward, they decided to continue on their way and walked to the next area, they did see another odd metal door in the room, this time it had a spade on it but they ignored it and continued on.

Suddenly a very tall zombie walked out of a corner, Claire shot it in the face, and Morgan immediately jumped up and kicked off its head, the girls watched as Morgan landed softly on the ground as the tall zombie's body fell down like a tree beside her.

They all nodded and immediately continued walking going through rooms and hallways, Claire sighed "It seems like a lot of zombies made it through inside the police station...".

The girls nodded not liking the fact that the police station seemed to be filled with zombies, Hope scratched her head "They must have been the people that used the police station as a shelter, it seems that it failed to protect them".

As they walked the girls made sure to seal any windows with wards or boards to prevent more zombies from making it inside along the way they continue to pick up stuff and help Claire navigate the dark and creepy hallways of the police station.

This went on for a while and the girls checked out a lot of rooms along the way, they even found a dark room but nothing important was in there besides a few boxes of ammo and more herbs that Hope put away.

Not finding anything they all decided to head to the second floor and see what they found there, sadly they only found more dead police officers and zombies which were taken care of immediately by the girls.

They eventually found another locker room, this one, however, didn't have any electronic lock so they all opened them to see what they could find, sadly for Claire the locker she opened had a dead body inside which made her jump back "Ahh!".

Hope, Morgan, Yuzu, and Karin immediately turned towards Claire only to see a dead body slowly fall to the ground, they all sighed and Yuzu walked up to Claire "Are you okay Claire?".

Claire nodded "Yeah I'm good... it just surprised me".

The girls smiled at Claire and went back to investigate the lockers, Yuzu and Karin found more ammo, this time it was for a grenade launcher but since no one had one they decided to give it to Morgan to hold in her Boosted Gear inventory.

Hope was inspecting a lock while Claire found a portable safe, Morgan walked up to her and looked it at it "Want me to open that?".

Claire smiled at Morgan and nodded "Could you?".

Morgan nodded and took the portable safe from Claire, Morgan then took a bite out of the lid and ripped it off to the shock of Claire, Morgan smiled as she found a few gun spare parts and then took them out.

She then handed them to Claire "Here you Claire~".

Claire just sighed "Morgan... don't just take a bite of things, you don't know where that portable safe has been, you could get sick"

Morgan giggled "Don't worry Claire! I'm a dragon and dragons don't get tummy aches! Uncle Harry is always eating weird things and he's never been sick~".

Claire sweatdropped but decided not to pull the pin on that grenade by asking Morgan to elaborate and just nodded, after that they all decided to keep going so they all stepped out of the locker room and continued moving forward.

They decided to check the third floor since they didn't find any more open doors on this side of the second floor and they didn't want to risk opening a door only to let more zombies into the hallway so up they went.

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Up on the third floor, they found a key with a spade design after looking around, the girls then remembered that they have seen a door with the same design so they decided to check it out later and continue going to the next room only for Claire to be startled by something crawling on the wall and moving past a window "What was that?".

The girls saw it too and far more clearly than Claire, Karin frowned "That looked like some weird flesh creature... Hope you said that there were no supernatural entities in this world well then what was that then?".

Hope just stared at the window "I don't know... but that wasn't a supernatural being... whatever that thing is, it isn't magical in nature".

Everyone frowned not liking what they were hearing, Claire narrowed her eyes "Let go... but let's be careful okay?".

Everyone nodded and continued on to the door leading to the next area, it was another dark hallway with big wide crystal windows to the side, Claire and the girls immediately walked to the room to the side and checked it out.

Inside after looking around, Hope found a hip pouch which she immediately gave to Claire, she even enchanted it to be bigger on the inside which was something Claire was very thankful for.

The girls found more ammo and a few other things and then they went back to the third-floor hallway they came from and walked back toward the staircase to head back to the first floor to check out the spade door and see what they can find in there.

As they walked back the way they came from they were surprised to see that the dead bodies they had seen on their way were beginning to reanimate and attack them.

The girls, of course, took care of them rather quickly but the fact is that they couldn't ignore any dead bodies they found anymore, Hope frowned "Looks like we'll have to follow Daddy's advice from now on...".

Claire raised an eyebrow "Your dad's advice? What is it?".

Morgan decided to answer Claire's questions "When dealing with undead and in doubt, it's best to burn any bodies you find".

Claire sweatdropped "That's awfully specific advice...".

Hope smiled at Claire and nodded in agreement "Daddy really hates necromancers who are magic users that specialize in using magic to create undead, the way Daddy deals with such creatures and magic users is with a lot of holy fire".

Hope then raised her gauss pistol and began to shoot any dead body with cosmic fire bullets which instantly incinerated the bodies and turn them into ash "And I think I'm starting to hate undead as much as Daddy does...".

Everyone nodded in agreement with Hope's sentiments towards the zombies that keep popping out of everywhere in this police station and thus everyone appointed Hope as the one to deal with any dead body they found.

Eventually, they found the clover door which they immediately opened and smiled when they found out that it was another way to get to the lobby of the police station where they found Marvin again.

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Marvin smiled at the girls happy to see that they were okay "Oh there you guys are, come here a second".

The girls immediately walked over to Marvin to see what he needed, Claire reached him first "What is it?".

Marvin immediately click something on the computer and then pointed at it "Look at the screen".

Claire and the girls turned to look at the monitor and watched as a young man reached the Police station and went inside, Claire smiled "Oh my god! He made it!".

Marvin raised an eyebrow intrigued by Claire's reaction "You know him?".

Claire nodded "Yeah it's Leon! Err Kennedy I think".

Marvin narrowed his eyes and grumble a bit "... Ah the rookie, I thought he looked familiar.. you can make it to that courtyard through the second floor, east side".

Claire brightly smiled at Marvin and nodded at him "Ok, thank you, Marvin, I'm on it".

Claire then turned around and smiled at the girls "Come on we have to go find Leon, I'm sure he could use some help".

The girls nodded but Morgan was curious about who this guy was "Leon? Isn't that who you asked if we saw him?".

Claire nodded "Yes! He helped me when I arrived in Raccoon city, we got separated when the patrol car we were riding got hit by a gas truck and exploded, I was really worried he didn't make it".

Morgan nodded and then grinned "Well then let's go help Leon!".

Yuzu and Karin smiled at their friend while Hope stared at Marvin worried, Marvin of course noticed but just sent her a small and tired smile letting her know that he was okay for now.

Soon after the girls left to head towards the second floor through the lobby this time, Karin sighed as they walked through the long balcony to reach the other side of the second floor "Sheesh... the police station is ridiculous in size".

The girls nodded since they all were pretty tired of the massive size of this building but knowing that for now there isn't anything they could do anything 'or in the girl's cases destroy the walls since they didn't want to make it easier for the zombies to get inside or move around the police station they continued on.

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They soon reached another room that had a sort of front desk, they also found a green herb and a guide pamphlet which they read quickly and then immediately opened the other door with the key they found.

They stepped out of the room and found themselves in another dark and creepy hallway, Claire sighed "This is what happens when you turn a museum into a police station...".

Morgan frowned "I get why they did it, I mean the pamphlet explained it but I still think this is a bit too much and this is me saying it".

Hope giggles "We really can't complain too much though our house is bigger than this".

Morgan groaned because it was true, Yuzu however came to her rescue "But the house was expanded by Harry-nii because all of you needed the space right? Everything is being used in some way or the other unlike here where there are a lot of hallways and rooms which probably stay empty most of the time".

Hope nodded in agreement while Claire who was listening while they were walking grew curious "Your house is this big?".

Morgan smiled and nodded "Bigger! We have a massive basement that has a whole ecosystem and even research labs!".

Hope then went on "The house looks small on the outside but Daddy used magic to expand the inside, we do have a huge family after all and we need the space".

Karin grinned and shook her head "Especially since someone is always doing something crazy or chaotic and don't even get me started about when everyone gets together!".

Claire smiled at the girls who seem very happy to speak about their home "That actually sounds really nice, it's always been Chris and me since we were young, our parents died in a car crash, Chris did his best and I love him for it but sometimes I do wish we had a bigger family".

Morgan grabbed Claire's hand which made her turn to look at Morgan who gave her the biggest and brightest smile yet "Well! Having a big family is fun but Chris sounds like an awesome big brother to me!".

Claire smiled at Morgan and nodded "He really is... he taught me everything I know and even trained me so I could protect myself though because of that I have always been pretty boyish".

Karin gave Claire a thumbs up "Hey! Nothing wrong with being awesome!".

Claire gave Karin a high five while both of them grinned in agreement while Yuzu, Hope, and Morgan giggled at their friends but suddenly they heard a helicopter flying really close to the ground and then a crash.

Claire lost her footing but since Morgan was holding her hand she help her stand up, dust picked up and the building shook, Claire nodded at Morgan to let her know she was okay now and then frowned "What was that?".

Yuzu sighed since she was a bit surprised by what happened "That sounded like a Helicopter but did it crash nearby?".

Hope frowned "I think so and by the sound of it, it crashed really close...".

Getting worried they all rushed through the hallway towards where they heard the Helicopter crash, they ended up reaching a balcony and immediately went outside to see the the crashed Helicopter.

The girls looked around the crash and frowned when they saw that the Helicopter was completely destroyed and the pilot dead, Morgan sighed and look up "This thing is totaled and looks like Mr. Pilot didn't make it either...".

However, a voice suddenly called out drawing the girl's attention "Hey! Claire!".

Claire narrowed her eyes confused for a bit and look down the balcony, once she saw who was calling out to her she smiled "Leon! I'll be right there!".

Leon smiled and then nodded at Claire who turned around and smiled at the girls "Come on guys! we have to get down there!."

The girls nodded but then the Helicopter caught fire, making them shake their heads knowing they couldn't do anything about it right now and instead rushed down the stairs to meet up with Leon, who was trying to open a metal gate.

Claire ranted towards Leon to speak with him "Leon! We really got to stop meeting like this!".

Leon chuckled a bit "Are you alright?" then Leon pointed at the Helicopter "That police chopper came out of nowhere "

Claire nodded "Yeah I'm fine".

Leon then looked down to the gate "I take it you don't have the key".

Claire shook her head "No I don't... it's good to see your face though, how are you holding up?".

Lean sighed "I am hanging in there".

Claire smiled at Leon "Helluva night huh?".

Leon grinned "Yeah it sure is, did you find your brother?".

Claire nodded while still happily smiling that Leon is okay "I did actually, he's-".

Suddenly the Helicopter exploded which surprised everyone, Leon then noticed the girls that seemed to be perfectly okay with having been so close to an explosion "Err.. friends of yours Claire?".

Claire nodded "Yes! It might be hard to believe right now but these four girls are something really special Leon, they have been helping me since I arrived at the police station".

The girls turned around towards Leon and waved at him which made the rookie police officer sweatdrop, Morgan then fist pump and struck a cool pose "I'm Morgan Stark! The Red Dragon Empress!".

Claire began to giggle because she knew what the girls were going to do next, Hope then also struck a pose "I'm Hope Potter! The Phoenix Force!".

Yuzu hopped from foot to foot in excitement and then also struck a pose "I'm Yuzu Kurosaki The Black Arrow Quincy!".

Karin sighed and deadpanned at Leon, she then struck a pose and boredly said "I am Karin Kurosaki... The Soul Reaper of the Moonlit Black Wind".

Leon sweatdropped not knowing what to say at the moment which made Claire laugh when she saw the face Leon was making right now, Morgan, Hope, and Yuzu stared at Leon expectantly which made him feel a bit nervous.

Claire grinned at Leon "They want you to introduce yourself, Leon".

Leon scratched the back of his head and shook his head in both amusement and confusion but decided to do what Claire told him to "Errr r-right, Leon Scott Kennedy just a rookie police officer...".

Morgan, Yuzu, and Hope smiled at Leon while Karin just looked down and sighed feeling embarrassed something Leon understood, Claire smiled enjoying all of this but she then took a look towards the now in flames Helicopter "Just when you think it can't get any worse...".

Morgan then leaned towards Hope "Hey I can break that metal gate in a snap you know?".

Hope nodded "I know but we're trying not to make it easy for any zombies to get inside or move around plus there was that thing we saw in the window... we can't risk it right now Morgan".

Morgan frowned a bit but nodded knowing that Hope was right, it was best to be careful until they knew exactly what they were dealing with.

Claire turned around towards Leon and noticed a dead body on the ground beginning to get up " Leon you should get going".

Leon turned around and noticed the same thing Claire did "Don't worry about me, just get yourselves to safety okay?".

Claire frowned "No Leon seriously, they're getting through the fence, please just go!".

Leon nodded and then began to leave but then he stopped and turned around towards Claire "We're going to make it out of here, all of us will" Claire smiled and nodded to Leon who then took off running.

Claire then grabbed her radio and called Marvin " Marvin this is bad, we've got zombies everywhere!".

But Marvin didn't respond back "Marvin...? Marvin are you there? Marvin!? Oh God you've got to be kidding me...".

Everyone got worried but Hope sadly sighed, she knew what might be happening to Marvin but decided not to say anything now "Let's go, we can handle the zombies with ease but let's not waste time with them now".

Claire nodded, before the girls left they quickly picked up anything useful and gave it to Claire or Morgan so they could put it away in her Boosted Gear inventory and then took off.

A few moments later Claire and the girls stopped by a chained-up door, Morgan excitedly stared at Hope who sighed knowing what she wanted to do, and since they needed to go this way she decided to allow Morgan to do her thing so she gave her a nod.

Morgan's brightly smiled happy to be allowed to do this again, she quickly grabbed the the chain and ripped it off with one strong tug, Claire sweatdropped because she was already holding a pair of Bolt Cutters that she found nearby but Morgan dealt with the chain easily.

Morgan looked like she was having fun, Hope just rolled her eyes amusingly while Yuzu and Karin giggled at their friend, Claire sighed but then softly smiled.

The girls sometimes made her feel useless but she was still very much glad that they were with her and helping her, with the gate opened the girls immediately ran back inside the police station.

They found themselves on a familiar first floor and found another door with a chain and lock, Morgan looked very giddy and immediately rip out the chain off the door with another strong tug while the girls followed her and smiled at her excitement in such a simple thing.

They went through the door and found themselves in another familiar room, this time however they found more zombies inside and a few more outside banging on the windows.

It seems like there were more zombies than before, the explosion was loud enough to stir them up toward the police station, soon the girls will have to fight hordes of the undead and more.