บท 14: So, It Has Begun.

"Hmm?" Leo felt someone staring at him and looked behind him and saw Amanda immediately turning her head away.

"Ohh, Hi, what is it?" Leo put down his rifle and smiled at Amanda.

"Uhmm, I only came to tell you that lunch is ready" Amanda gestured downstairs.

"Already?"

"Yeah, we should go" Amanda said but as she was just about to turn around Leo pulled her hand towards him as he hugged her waist.

"W-what a-are you d-doing!?"Amanda yelped in surprised.

Leo just smiled widely as he pressed his lips on hers, Amanda tried to resist but eventually gave up when Leo invaded her mouth with his tongue. Leo put his hands on her buttocks as he lifted her up and Amanda clamp Leo's waist with her legs as they "french kiss" each other.

What they didn't know was that Michelle was watching them in surprised " What the? They just met today but they are already moving too fast! I won't lose to you Amanda!" she thought as she slowly went downstairs.

Both of them finally separated after a minute, Amanda blushed in shyness when she realized what just happened and immediately ran downstairs holding her cheeks with her hands.

"Heh" Leo just smiled and stored back his M110 as he followed suit, of course he made sure to check his Map to see if there are any Zombies or hostiles converging around them and seeing that there are only wandering Zombies, he closed and went downstairs.

Reaching the dining room, he noticed the weird atmosphere, he looked at Amanda who is still blushing and then the others who are whispering to themselves like they are talking about something secretive and when they noticed that Leo finally arrived, all of them stopped and looks at him with eyes filled with respect, awe and a bit of fear.

"Hi there, I heard lunch is ready?" Leo smiled and gestured with raising his right hand.

"Uncle! Over here!" Leo saw Jess waving at him as she pointed at the vacant chair beside her.

"How thoughtful" Leo thought as he walked over and sat down.

On the table, are foods of a typical American family consisting of sandwiches, salad, a lemon juice and what looks like leftover pizza slices.

"Hehe" Jess cutely laughed.

"Let's eat?" Leo said as he took a slice from the pizza and started eating it.

Only then did the rest started taking food from the table and started eating.

"Huh?" Leo dumbfoundedly looked at this scene.

"We didn't want start without you taking the lead" a whisper came to his ear.

Leo looked behind and saw Joe smiling at him.

"I see" Leo just smiled at him and continued eating.

The atmosphere was relaxing as the Michelle parent's and Amanda's mom chatted and Amanda's siblings also approached him and started a conversation especially about what's currently happening outside or asking to if they are allowed to hold his guns which he made it "magically" appear on his hand out of nowhere which really made the boys wide eyed in shocked, the boys also tried to asks him how he did that but he just smiled at them without saying anything, which made them think that it was probably something that's not allowed to be talked about especially when they heard that he also has a powerful armor with him.

"5 minutes till Apocalypse Host"

Leo immediately stood up in shocked when the system reminded him which startled everyone as they looked at him in surprised.

Leo rushed out towards the front door and walked out of the house as the others sat there dumbstruck as they looked at each other before they also followed suit immediately.

Leo looked at the slowly darkening sky, like a looming danger or an ominous event is coming.

"What is it Leo?" from behind him two voices sounded.

Amanda and Michelle looked at each other awkwardly and smiled and also noticed that the sky is slowly darkening.

"Dammit, I didn't notice the time" Leo cursed in a low voice and turned around and saw the rest of the group.

"Pack up, quickly!" Leo commanded in a stern voice.

Amanda, Michelle and her parents wasn't startled by his sudden commanding tone but Amanda's family was stumped instead when they heard him.

"What?W-"

"No questions ask, just go and pack up your things and gather anything important that were gonna gonna use in the future" Leo immediately cut off Amalie.

"Joe, Micheal, Josh and Tom, go and gather any hand tools you can find and gather them in the living room" Leo said to them which the three brothers hesitated for a moment but when they saw Tom who is clearly much older than Leo immediately heeding his orders, they looked at each other before following behind Tom who probably went to the backyard.

"Michelle, help them pack up their things, after that also gather all of the kitchen tools you can find and don't forget to get any medicines you can find" Leo said to Michelle which the latter immediately nodded and had the rest of the women and a toddler to follow her.

"Hmmp" Amanda softly snorted before going inside the house.

Leo just smiled at it and opened the Map but what he saw shocked him because the countdown finally reached Zero and what he saw inside the System Map was red dots(Zombies/Hostile) continuously popping or appearing on the Map at every parts of the world.

"My god, System what the heck is happening?" Leo immediately asked in a low voice.

"The red dots represents hostiles like Mutated animals and Zombies, Host" replied the system.

"I know that but why are they popping out like mushrooms!?" Leo almost yelled.

"Host, It's the Apocalypse" the system said with no other explanation.

"Dammit! You're not helping!" Leo cursed because he figured out the system probably won't say anything helpful next.

"..."

Leo immediately activated his Halo Armor and took out an AR-15 from his Inventory and leaped out of the gate and started shooting at the crowd of Zombies that started to gather towards them because some Zombies spotted them at the other side of the gate earlier.

"Killed a Level 1 Zombie and gained 1 Defender Coin"

"Killed a Level 1 Zombie and gained 1 Defender..."

"Killed a Level 1 Zombie and gained 1..."

"Killed a Level 2 Zombie and gained 10 Defender Coins"

Then a dog who's mouth is dripping with saliva with eyes red made a mad dashed at him and leaped at him as it opened its jaws full of almost 1 inch sharp teeth than from regular dogs. Leo just smacked it casually with the back of his hand as it sent flying 5 meters in the air before falling on the ground dying as the side of its head where it got slapped flattened.

"Killed a Level 3 Ravage Dog and gained 20 Defender Coins" the system's voice rang within his mind.

"I guess this ain't that bad" Leo grinned when he saw the accumulating coins on his Inventory before resuming on eliminating this threats.

What Leo didn't know was that, he actually had spectators watching him with gaping mouths.

"Awesome, that is soo sick" said Josh from the balcony while holding a bat and looking at Leo with his eyes shining in amazement while his two brothers Joe and Michael also had the same thoughts.