☆Hi!! this is my take on the zombie!leon AU inspired by quackysprouts' art that was floating around, this is being stemmed from a fake scenario on how my oc had come to meet this Leon. also this started off kinda serious but then i js couldn't hold my silly by the end.
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"Also..Be sure to say hi to Leon for me."
Marvin's words sat at the back of your head as you ventured back from the west wing to gather more supplies before even attempting to locate one of the other medallions for that statue in order to escape this place. Seriously, You're sure the person who built this place probably thought they were so smart for that one.
But.. back to Leon? You were sure it was just another officer Marvin just didn't have it in him to put down, so you put it upon yourself to do the job instead. You saw the welcome sign in the west office earlier on when you got your hands on one skeleton key. Seeing that really put you in the lieutenants shoes though, who would have the courage to take down a newly recruited rookie? Who was now a newly turned zombie?
Poor guy. He must've been so scared and alone during his final moments..
You make it back to the Main Hall, sparing your friend a hesitant look before making it up the stairs to the library, where the unicorn statue awaited. You open the door quietly, having thought of a stealthy plan to get to the lounge. Said plan backfired when you opened the door wider, only for it to let out only the loudest creak ever.
That caught the pair of two, no, three pairs of eyes and before you knew it, you were booking it to the lounge with maybe four zombies now on your ass. You slam the door behind you, muffling the groans coming from the other side. There were a few kicks to the door and something in you knew that it wouldn't hold for long, so you had to be quick.
Hastily, you took out Elliot's notebook containing the code for the unicorn. Your hands fumbled with the first two dials a bit before getting to the final one, only to have your current worst nightmare of a scenario occur at that untimely moment. The door's hinges gave out and the door came down, a zombie falling with it. The rest of those zombies made way like they were dying, or well, already dead, to eat you!
You shot two in their heads, and the next in their leg. You stabbed them in the eye instead of shooting to preserve ammo while another lunged at you, you used the knife on their neck, which didn't stop them or slow them down much, but they got close enough you were able to shoot it in the mouth, though it caused some blood to splatter on your face. You pushed its corpse away and turned back around to the unicorn once you were sure all of them were dead for good.
The door way was wide open now but you didn't hear the light shuffling of shoes behind you, instead you were busy marvelling at the second medallion you've successfully secured. You turned back around, a smug smile on your face that quickly disappeared when you laid eyes on another zombie, one in full R.P.D attire and vest near the opening in the wall where the door use to be.
You immediately went to put away your prize and take out your gun from its holster and point it at his face..but you did notice something that made you hesitate. In the time it took you to react and reach for the gun while simultaneously pocketing the medallion, he didn't move a step.
Sure you've seen of slow ones before, but this is..slow. No, he didn't even move after you just stood there with your gun out. He just stared. Or you think he was with those white glazed over pupils.
"uhh hi? you gonna come at me now or..?" You muttered before your shoulders softened just a bit, you tilted your head to get a better look of him without your gun blocking the view.
Your eyes widen when you look over and see him..imitating what you did? He slowly tilted his in the same direction as you and let out a small groan almost as if he were questioning what you two were doing. You two stayed like that for what must've been a good minute or two until you came to the incredulous conclusion he wasn't gonna try anything.
But come on, he was a zombie. "You think you're so smart, huh? The pretending like you're not hungry act isn't as convincing as you think" Even still, you swallow down your fear, roll your shoulders and aim your gun high again before you slowly walked towards and around him making sure to not stumble on one of the corpses on the ground. The entire time he kept on staring at you like you were the most fascinating thing he's come across after being trapped in the library with those good-for-nothing boring zombies.
He turned around to see you leaving with your back facing the threshold still eyeing him, which on your part was a grave mistake because it's then you heard it, a loud growl from behind you and felt the bruising pressure of two hands on either one of your shoulders and one hot disgusting breath of air fanned the side of your face. You let out a sharp cry at the grip, stupidly dropping your gun in the process.
You resorted to bending over and trying to roll the guy off your back but it was no use "hell- get Off-ugh!-off me!" It was then you saw from your peripheral, the one with the staring issue make way towards you too. Oh, it was a team effort? Just great, so this is how you were gonna die, Eiffel-towered between two zombies. Fuck, even now you're cracking jokes!?
You close your eyes and let out a deep breath waiting for the moment you feel one of their mouths on your neck. And to think, you didn't even get to say hi to that Leon either. You're bracing for the bite, eyes screwed shut still leaning forwards in an awkward way. But instead of feeling the pain near your neck, you feel it all over your body as you were sent face-first tumbling down on to the floor. You used the time to flip around and grab the knife in your shoe.
But you faltered in your movements when you saw that the zombie cop from earlier was already halfway done eating through the one you'd assume was the zombie who was planning to hit it from the back.
You quickly got up while he pushed that zombie's body near the rest of its friends you took out earlier. He picked up the gun you dropped off the ground and started towards you and held up the gun almost knocking you in the face with it in the process.
"Not acting. Got it.." You still somewhat reluctantly take the gun before deciding to put it back in its holster. Still eyeing the now even more bloodied up cop. You make out the marks of a bite underneath his collar on the right side of his neck and you couldn't help but feel a little bad for how you treated him earlier.
It wasn't until later on when you'd eventually partnered up with him and made your way back to the west office, this time with the code for the safe in there, you'd found a file on Leon in one of the the evidence room desk drawers while scrounging for more supplies. You quickly realised the admittedly cute guy in the file was the same cute zombie you had befriended. It had you tearing up more than you'll ever admit to anyone while Leon just stared at you with the same indifferent look plastered on his face.
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wowie.. i really love zombie leon he's the cutest ever.
Little details like these are why I love the Remake Trilogy. Say what you want. Blah blah plot ghosts. Blah blah "they changed things". That's all fair. But you can't look at it and tell me that it's not a giant love letter to the original. You can feel it. The devs are so passionate and creative about what they do and them adding these cute little references is just so incredibly wholesome.
how i feel knowing that the absolute DROUGHT of Vincent Valentine edits and fanfics is gonna finally go away by next year spring, if not already after all this hype
