Demon Lord Shapeshifting System

All the color that just came on Chloe's face had disappeared. In fact, she looked paler than ever.

"I-Is that a…. z-zom…. Ahhhhh!"

She screamed as the zombie man quickly rushed to the sound of her voice. He extended his arms, salivating from his exposed teeth, and launched an attack!

Harker quickly used his hair to wrap around the zombie man's neck. Mina protectively wrapped her arms around Chloe, shielding her from any attack. She bared her fangs, and her claws appeared.

The hair gripped the zombie and ripped the head of its body!

But….

The flesh…. Started moving.

"What the fuck…." Harker cursed. "You've got to be kidding me…."

The headless zombie man just reached out to grab his own head with his hands. Some of his nails were missing, along with his hair. But it seemed to be growing by the minute as well.

It placed it back on its head, and rushed towards the three.

Harker tried to use his Enhanced Succubus ability to get the zombie to move away, but it did not work. These zombies' olfactory nerves were no longer working, making them immune from the  body-controlling effect.

So instead, he quickly went full protective mode and used his hair strands to rip the zombies head, limbs and torso apart. He then tossed some of it out of the window.

That was one zombie dealt with. All that's left was its right hand and limb trying to reach for its missing parts. It still crawled, with the worms and insects eating away at the putrid black and rotten flesh.

Chloe felt like puking at the sight. She has trypophobia, and could not stand many holes and repeating patterns of circles at all. It was much worse since in the flesh.

"Urk! H-Harker…. What is happening…"

Mina took her to her arms. "Jiangshi…. No, these aren't like the regular jiangshi. They can walk but very stiffly. It must be really like the Western depiction of the undead. But where did they come from?"

Harker could sense the others coming soon. He gritted his teeth. "We need to find Dad and the boys first. This hospital might be infected by these fucking corpses!"

He used his hair to do the same trick against the other zombies nearby. Limbs, blood and pieces of flesh scattered everywhere, further scaring the little girl. But Chloe held her vomit in, and instead tried to focus on rationalizing what was happening.

"How did your hair grow so long, Harker? I don't understand."

Harker continued to rip zombies into bits. "I'll explain later! It's better if you close your eyes and forget about it, Chloe! Mina and I will get you out of here!"

The blond girl smiled reassuringly. "Your brother is very strong. We'll save you and your whole family in no time, along with the rest of the people in this hospital."

But just as she said that, screams resounded all over the place. There was a woman's, an old man's, a child's…..

It was too late to save everyone. The zombies were eating the innocent people who were lost in the dark. They sunk their teeth into the flesh, and continued to consume them.

"Fuck!" Harker said as they continued fighting more along the hallway. "If only there's some goddamn light, this would be easier!"

Chloe then sensed something. "Behind that door is the janitor's closet. On the desk is a flashlight, I could carry it for you!"

Mina carried her there and grabbed the flashlight in time. A zombie tried to swipe the child from her, but she was so fast that the zombie wasn't even able to get an inch near her.

Harker saw his sister use the flashlight to help him. This caused the zombies to go after the direction of the light as it shone over their ugly faces. They all wore either funeral clothes or just tattered clothing. Some looked closer to skeletons, but some looked like they could be human.

It seemed that the more humans they ate, the more they regenerated and gained their former appearance.

"Wait a minute…. I recognize that guy from the newspaper's obituary." Chloe pointed out. "That's Ben Dover! He died just three weeks ago, and was buried in the Marble Cemetery!"

"Marble…." Harker mumbled.

That's where their mother, Josephine Jones, was buried.

So it was possible that her corpse was among these walking dead. Harker's chest ached from the thought.

But he focused on saving the living rather than worrying about the dead. They managed to clear the entire floor of these stupid man-eating zombies.

However, there was still a chance for some of them to piece their bodies together as time went by. Harker needed to find his family now.

"Where the fuck is Dad and the boys…." He mumbled anxiously. "Could they have taken the elevator? But they're not working."

He went to the elevator, and found that it was just full of zombies again. The only way to the other floors were the stairs and the ramps.

"The shouting was only from our floor and the floors below ours." Mina told him. "I don't think these zombies have reached the upper floors yet. It's possible that your dad and the boys went to look for doctors upstairs."

"Then we better get moving before these rotten pieces of shit get there somehow." Harker said. "I'll make a barricade."

After getting up the stairs, Harker's hair grabbed all sorts of things like tables, chairs, desks, cabinets, and even beds to barricade the stairs and ramps leading to the upper floors. He was aware of the layout of this hospital, so he knew the location of other stairs to block as well.

The only possible way these zombies could reach the upper floors were if they could climb the walls like Tarantulaman. And Harker sure hoped they couldn't.

"After we find them…. It's better if I use my Hypnotizing Skill to put them to sleep. All of them." Harker said. "Then we'd burn this place down."

"You would hide the truth from hundreds of people while simultaneously trying to protect them from monsters?" Mina asked. "Harker, you know what that caused us back in Las Vegas."

"So what, I'll let the whole world know that zombies exist? That mermaids like you exist, or whatever the freak I am to them?" Harker retorted. "No, that would bring far more danger to the human world. The monsters would find no reason to hide themselves, and there would be war between our kind."

"You're a mermaid?" Chloe's eyes sparkled a little, then she shook her head. "No, it doesn't matter. Harker, you don't need to go so far as destroying this building. I know how to stop this."

Harker turned to his sister in disbelief. "You? Whaddya mean, Chloe? This is serious."

"I am serious. We can easily defeat the zombies and make it so they never existed in the first place, just sudden massacre or terrorist attack, something like that." Chloe told him. "But we need to find Mom's diary. It has all the answers."

"What's in Mom's diary?" Harker was now intrigued.

"It has the source of all this….. The curse of that Satanic G.G. Faust. He promised that shall he die, he would come back to the grave to get what he wanted."