The First Dragon God

"Leo?!" Ms Ves shouted in embarrassment, causing Leo to immediately close the door and an awkward silence to envelope the two of them.

"Ah! I—I didn't see anything!" Leo stammered, turning away so fast he nearly tripped over himself.

Inside, Ves exhaled sharply, her own face red as she hurriedly pulled on her clothes.

"That idiot…" she muttered with a small, embarrassed smile.

He couldn't believe what he just saw. His brain felt like it was about to melt and run out from his ear.

That moment was very embarrassing for them to say the least. For Ms Ves, it was the first time that anyone of the opposite sex has seen her that part of her body.

As an orphan, the children in the orphanage home she grew up in was her family and after she left, she has been busy trying to make something of herself before she decided to go work for the orphanage home.

As for Leo, it was naturally the first time he would seeing the real thing. He has seen them in some movies—very bad movies that Ms Nora has in her phone.

But seeing the real thing was different. He felt his face flushed red and coupled with the hormones flooding his body, he felt his body become strange.

'What am I thinking? That's Ms Ves!' Leo scolded himself and slapped his face.

He could feel his face burning, and no amount of scolding himself seemed to help. But the slap seemed to have worked as his body slowly started returning to normal and in a couple of minutes, he no longer felt the same strangeness.

Leo finally let out a sigh of relief when he felt his body finally return to normal. He stopped standing in front of the door and went to the kitchen of the apartment to see if he can get himself something to eat.

He and Ms Ves haven't eaten anything since the apocalypse began. He would had eaten before going for the zombie hunt but that was before one of them, drawn by his life force, started banging at the door of the apartment.

Leo opened the fridge and luckily for him, he saw some fruits, a full loaf of untouched bread and some cooked food that was packed into some plastic containers.

"Wow. Very nice. Ms Ves' idea of looking for a residential building was the best idea." Leo nodded to himself when he saw the stocked fridge.

"It's very convenient," Ms Ves said from behind Leo, causing him to be startled.

Leo slowly turned back to find Ms Ves fully dressed and smiling at him.

"M-Ms Ves, I'm sorry!" Leo immediately apologized when he saw her.

"I didn't mean to walk in like that. I'm sorry, I should have knocked." He apologized again.

"It's fine. You don't have to apologize. It's nothing serious," Ves said, brushing off the incident.

Leo heard what she said but he felt that he should still apologize again. Even though she seems to be casual about what happened, he has idea no idea if it's going to strain their relationship and he doesn't want it to happen.

"Once again, Ms Ves. I'm sorry." Leo apologized for the third time.

"I said no more apologizing. Besides, it's not like you haven't seen it before and you also said that you didn't see anything, right?" Ms Ves asked, as she turned to give him a sly smile, causing Leo to immediately look away embarrassed.

Leo indeed wanted to say that it was the first time but something told him that he shouldn't, and as someone who always follows his instincts, he didn't.

Leo's face flushed all over again, and he coughed into his fist. "Y-Yeah… nothing."

"Like I said, don't overthink it too much Leo. It was an accident," Ms Ves said, as she took some fruits from the fridge and started eating.

Though She sounded calm, but the faint blush creeping up her neck betrayed her own embarrassment.

She quickly walked to one of the chair in the dining area, took her seat and started eating the fruits she took from the fridge.

That was… awkward," Leo muttered under his breath, shaking his head as he opened the fridge. Despite everything, he found himself smiling faintly. At least she's okay.

He also took some fruits from the fridge and walked to one of the chairs in the dining room, and took his seat.

"Leo, about the building, I was thinking that if we can completely wipe out all the zombies in the building and its surrounding, secure it and other place we would need, like supermarkets, and also some basic amenities and protect the ones we had, living here would be very easy," Ms Ves said, after Leo had taken his seat.

Leo nodded in agreement to Ms Ves' words. He completely agree with what she said. The residential building they are in has electricity and water, two things that are very important.

And in addition to that, it's in perfect condition. From the apartments he has checked so far, none of them has any broken windows or door.

"I completely agree with you, Ms Ves but that isn't what's important right now, is it?" Leo asked, as he looked at her solemnly.

The expression on Ms Ves' face also turned solemn at Leo's question. She looked down at the apple in her hand with different thoughts flying around in her head.

Leo saw the expression on Ms Ves' face and he clenched his fist in worry and anxiety.

The atmosphere between them tensed a little and there was a brief silence between the two of them.

The next moment, Ms Ves raised her head and smiled at Leo, and said something.

"I won't turn anymore. The thing causing me to turn is no more." She laughed heartily.

It was the first time she has laughed since the apocalypse started and it was very genuine.

As expected, Leo was shocked by what Ms Ves said. He looked at her with his eyes wide open in disbelief.

The smile on Ms Ves' face widened when she saw Leo's reaction. She knew that it was something that's hard for anyone to believe and so she decided to explain.

"It all started like this..." Ms Ves said, as she started explaining everything that happened to Leo.

She told him about the shadow creature in her mindspace, the personality of her zombie side and possibly the entity controlling other zombies.

She told him about how she fought it and how she won.

Even after Ms Ves had explained everything, Leo still found it hard to believe. It wasn't that he didn't want to believe but the reason was that he felt that it shouldn't had been so easy to get rid of her zombie side so easily.

He felt that there was more to it but he knew that since Ms Ves didn't tell him anything more, then be should forget about it.

Even though he was suspicious of the whole thing, he was genuinely happy that Ms Ves had regained complete control of herself and her zombie side won't be taking over again.

"That's wonderful,. Ms Ves. I'm very happy that everything is back to normal. This changes a lot of things for us. We can combine our strength and secure the building and the things, and also increase our strength." Leo said, before he continuing eating the fruits in his hand.

Ms Ves smiled at Leo's words. She couldn't help but look at him strangely, trying to study him to see if there's anything peculiar about him but no matter how much she looked, she saw nothing.

She glanced at Leo, who was focused on his food. Her smile faltered for just a second.

"Protect him with my life," she thought. The words echoed in her mind like a whisper, and she didn't know whether to feel grateful or terrified.

'Why did that person mention my relationship with Leo? Why did she help me? Why was I told to protect me with my life?' she thought to herself, as she remembered what happened in her mindspace when she was fighting her zombie personality.