Caspian shade, was the only heir of the once mighty shade enterprise.
A wealthy and powerful family with roots and stock shares in some of the worlds most powerful companies.
Caspian became an orphan right out of high school when he lost both his parents in a car accident in Washington.
He didn't know much about the family business, and his aunts and uncles who where already working in the company because of their connection to his parents, took over most facets of his parents company.
And since he was only sixteen, they petitioned the court that they would manage his parents assets and relinquish the assets when he turned eighteen.
He got into Stanford to study business, but when he turned eighteen and it was time for his relatives to hand over his inherited assets, he found out that almost the entire company had be sold off to the Albus family_ a long time rival of the shades_ and the company was in so much debt that it was tethering on the edge of bankruptcy.
Now he was fighting a different battle to avoid inheriting the company's debts and at least hold on to his current living space, a penthouse apartment at the top of a fifty floor sky scrapper, smack dab in the middle of California, and was one of the only properties his parents placed directly under his name.
While these series of unfortunate events were going on in his life, his only comfort was his high school girlfriend who luckily also secured admission into Stanford with him through his parents connections.
Elizabeth Gonzalez, who had been his crush since high school as he continued to chase her throughout high school till she finally agreed during their college exams.
Elizabeth was a beautiful Latino lady, brown eyes, sculpted face, with exquisite features that only seem to blossom with age.
She had long flowing black hair, caramel smooth skin, with long legs, a thick figure with voluptuous busts and ample buttocks, and they only appreciated further as she came fully into adulthood at Stanford.
Caspian himself was no slouch when it comes to looks, he had a very tall frame standing at almost 6.7, a very slender build but does not look malnourished.
Searing blue eyes, long black hair that streaked to his elbow, a chiseled jawline, with a perfectly complementary nose and mouth.
Honestly, Caspian looked like a model and got a lot of attention from a lot of girls but he was a principled man who only had eyes for one lady.
Even though through the years, Elisabeth hasn't consented to them being intimate like is expected of long term couples.
He still respected her Choice to maintain her virginity till marriage and he too refrained from being with anyone else, only the the girl he loved would do.
Elisabeth came from a modest background and always needed alot from Caspian, but he didn't mind because he loved her and he understood her situation.
Even if she isn't always there for him, at least she picks his calls sometimes and lends a ear to his struggles, showing him he's not alone in this world.
October 19 2025
Caspian was in his penthouse apartment in California casually going through some school files on his computer_ when he started hearing screams and explosions outside.
People were screaming, vehicles loosing control and slamming into buildings and people.
Planes falling from the sky and exploding.
people who looked deranged with black liquid oozing from their eyes and mouths, their faces looking gaunt and skin looking like a rapidly decomposing corpse, as they launched after people growling and the people ran screaming.
Anyone unlucky enough to get caught will be eaten voraciously by these crazed individuals, and they in turn become crazed themselves and start pouncing on other people.
News started flooding all over the internet.
people were screaming , zombies were attacking , pastors screaming endtimes are here.
And videos upon videos of the same incident happening all over the world spread like wildfire.
Caspian taking all this in, in his penthouse suit had his heart in his mouth and with adrenaline rushing through his vein, made his way rapidly to his phone and started dialing Elisabeth's number.
That's all he currently cared about, even though she had been basically ghosting him for the past few months now, he still loved her and he didn't read too much into it, afterall she usually responds once in a while when he called her.
He had suggested they stayed together in the penthouse after they got admission into Stanford and he got the apartment but she had already secured a place of her own by then, so they didn't stay together.
He tried her number a couple of times but since she wasn't picking up and seeing the disaster unfolding outside, he feared for her safety, and foregoing every rationale, he bolted for the exit of his apartment.
Outside in the corridor, he boke the glass case on the wall holding the emergency axe, knowing the world had changed and safety came first he grabbed the axe and started on his way to the elevator.
He took the elevator straight to the base floor with the garage, and just as he got there he saw a car pulling in and he held up his axe in a defensive stance.
The door swung open and the visage of his neighbor Emma Witherspoon, who lived just one floor below his penthouse and has been relatively nice to him since he moved in some two years back.
Always cooking for him, checking up on him and whenever he wants to complain about his girlfriend, she was always there to hear him out.
Emma was a sweet girl, with a curvaceous body on par with Elisabeth, the busts on her chest are even slightly bigger, with long golden hair and green eyes that you can lost yourself in.
Her body was a thing of beauty, round face with a normal milky prestine complexion that showcases the care she takes with her skin.
Emma was a self employed artist, with an art studio downtown, she's also an orphan and they bonded on that fact when they first met.
Caspian had an incline she wanted more from him and knows she wanted them to at least pursue a more intimate form of relationship.
But he had a girlfriend whom he loved very much and he simply can't do that to Elisabeth so he only kept thier relationship on friendly bases.
"Caspian!_ get in quick !"
Emma opened the door and called to caspian, Caspian soon learned that Emma actually came driving over in a rush because she was worried about him.
Caspian hearing this was actually ashamed by the fact that Emma didn't even come to his mind when this whole thing started and he only had Elisabeth on his mind.
Still he shamelessly told her he couldn't stay there with her and he was actually going over to Elisabeth's place to see if she was ok.
Even if he had never been there before and she never sent him the address, he still got the address by looking at some of her Instagram posts.
Emma hearing this looked crestfallen but she immediately beamed a beautiful smile at Caspian and said she would like to go with him so they can at least use her car as Caspian didn't have a car and he had to get there fast.
Just as he was about to step forward and walk towards the open door of the car and get in, he saw Emma launching out aggressively through the vehicle straight at him with a grave look on her face.
He was dumbstruck as he was about to ask what was going on, only to hear a loud growl and see a gaping maw aimed at his open neck directly from his back.
Just in time he was shoved to the side by Emma as the zombie landed on her and tore into her aggressively.
"Aaaaah!"
She screamed in pain and fought off the zombie with her bare hands, as Caspian came back to his senses and swung the axe he was holding right at the zombie's skull.
First strike was shallow, so he had to do it over and over again while the zombie kept tearing at Emma who was screaming on the floor, bite marks and blood all over her mutilated frame.
The zombie finally died, and Caspian heaved it's corpse off Emma as he stared at her mutilated form on the ground, bearly hanging on to life.
She smiled at him, her green beautiful eyes glinting with resolve, she asked him to finish her off, she didn't want to become one of those things and endanger caspian_ and he did, that's the least he could do.
Caspian was heartbroken, looking at the mutilated corpse of Emma, but he knew where his priorities lay, he had to get to Elizabeth, the love of his life, so he got into Emma's truck and just as he started the truck.
A translucent blue screen appeared before him and everyone else on earth and it stated in a computer format that the earth is going through it's awakening process.
And individuals who awaken can get resources and grow stronger through killing zombies and getting gold coins used in the store, one normal zombie equal one gold coin.
You can call your status and check your innate awakened talent.
It also introduced a world chat, Regional chat and local chat and many other functions.
Talents are graded from F Tier, the lowest to SSS Tier, the highest grade, and they can all be upgraded up a to a maximum of seven levels.
Talents could be upgraded from the system using gold coins, and many more functions and skills of the talent can be discovered.
But it was dependent on the grade of said talent, and the price for upgrading talents was sky high for every grade, more so for higher grade talents, and it was almost impossible for people to upgrade thier talents, not to talk of people with very high grade talents
Caspian was curious and he checked his own talent, but it simply said_ Gold Mine.
And the grade was unknown and the only function it currently has is that he receives ten times the amount of any gold he earns.
It was a pretty good talent, it didn't show a level cap which was strange, but when he cliqued on upgrade and saw the amount of gold required to level up the skill, he almost fainted.
From the world chat he saw that even SSS level talents required at most a thousand gold coins to raise the first level, but he required one million gold coins.
Meaning he had to kill a hundred thousand zombies to upgrade his talent from level zero to one.
Caspian resolved himself, started the vehicle and made his way into the chaos of the streets, zombies everywhere, people running and screaming, he ploughed through zombies repeatedly as he made his way towards Elizabeth.
Also gaining gold that multiplied by ten, by the time he got to Elizabeth's place, he had killed five zombies and gained fifty gold.
Caspian came before a luxurious looking two story modern home, he knocked on the door frantically as he screamed for Elizabeth, there were a couple of zombies he drove by and didn't want any to find this location and endanger Elisabeth.
Elisabeth opened the door with a bat in hand, she was shocked to see Caspian and she asked him what he was doing at her place.
He said he came to see if she was ok, and as he spoke he noticed the appearance of a burly looking man wearing a simple armless top on the couch in the sitting room while going through his phone.
The guy had a large frame, almost as tall as Caspian but built heavily, he had long brown hair and brown eyes with handsome features.
He noticed Caspian at the door and a smirk formed on his face which he quickly hid, he was a very intelligent young man, he knows the world had changed and he wanted to make sure Caspian wasn't a real threat before making any move, as he made his way to Caspian.
Caspian seeing Tristan Albus, the youngest son of the Albus Family, in the apartment of his girlfriend, lost all complexion on his face as he staggered and stammered, he asked Elizabeth what he was doing there.
Tristan had always antagonised Caspian through middle and high school since coincidentally both their families sent them both to the same school in Washington.
Caspian had always outshown Tristan academically and Tristan had clashed with Caspian all through middle and high school for it, they got into fights all the time and they basically hated each other.
Elisabeth seeing the look on capian's face was about to say something when tristan interrupted her and told Caspian that he and Elisabeth attended the same gym since he lived in the same neighborhood as her and she offered to give him a chill drink after their workout.
Caspian was relieved when he heard this explanation and immediately believed it since he knows Elisabeth was a pure virgin and could never do what he assumed earlier.
Elisabeth shot Tristan a look and he gestured for her to remain quiet, then Tristan innocently talked to caspian about what was going on outside and suggested they joined forces to stay safe.
Caspian didn't like Tristan, infact he hated him but since Elizabeth was onboard he also agreed to it.
Tristan secretly texted Elisabeth to ask Caspian if he had a talent, what the talent was and what grade, which was his goal all along.
Elisabeth asked Caspian what was his talent and it's gradee, Caspian said he didn't know it's grade but he could gain ten time the gold by killing zombies.
Tristan was flabbergasted by the convenience of Caspian's talent, a wicked grin plastered his face which he quickly concealed.
After his family destroyed the shades, he also has been enjoying Caspian's virgin girlfriend for a year plus now, and he had been planning a way to let Caspian find out and completely destroy him.
Now the world had changed and wealth and status means nothing, only strength and gold coins are important.
And the fool before him is a walking ATM, he would use him to grow his and his family's empire and later get rid of him in the most delicious way possible.
Tristan suggested they joined forces and he showed he had a powerful SS rank thunder talent.
So he can follow as they hunt and can take the last strikes and multiply their gains while he's also protected.
Caspian was reluctant but Elizabeth was fully in support and more or less carjoled Caspian into joining forces with the Albuses.
And so it went, for two years straight, Caspian was always on the move with the forces of the Albus family as he took the final strikes in kills and relinquished almost all the gold to the albuses and the rest to his girlfriend who used it to increase her stats and leveled up.
During this time, the albuses became the top forces on earth, having already been powerful with connections in the millitary.
Thier overall levels averaging level fifty, and the patriarch of the family, Sterling Albus , grew to level eighty five, and he had an SSS level talent.
Even Tristan was a level seventy two powerhouse since he was always with Elisabeth, and Elisabeth herself even though she did not awaken any talent, she got to level forty through Caspian's efforts.
She had all sort of treasure and rare powerful artifacts, gotten from the system store, and she lived like a queen wanting for nothing as the gold was always coming.
Caspian, who was just level twenty by now, had been roaming about and thought it was about time he got hitched with his long time girlfriend.
it's been two years, so he used a couple of hundred gold coins out of the coins he's been carefully setting aside for his talent upgrade for the last two years, he got a physique enhancement ring to propose to his girlfriend.
He hadn't been able to upgrade his talent, since almost all he had been making has been going to his girlfriend and his partners the albuses who had been at least leaving him enough for his survival and some he saves to upgrade his talent apart from all that he spends on Elizabeth, which takes nearly ninety percent of his earnings.
Considering the zombies where getting ridiculously strong and he would have been dead meat a long time ago if he tried to fight them alone, since he didn't have a combat talent.
Caspian got to Elizabeth's house and knocked a couple of times, the outside was scorching with radiated heat, and the inside was installed with state of the art advanced cooling tech.
Caspian, desperate since no one was answering pushed open the door and was glad to see it was open, but was also worried.
The moment he stepped inside the living room, he started hearing a slapping sound like flesh hitting flesh and light moans and grunts.
Caspian thought Elizabeth must be watching a movie, that's why she's not responding, so he went up the stairs and made his way to her bedroom, ready to finally propose to his long time girlfriend.
The bedroom door was ajar, and sounds of flesh slapping against flesh was getting louder, grunts and moans became louder the closer he got.
Fear gripped Caspian and a part of him dreaded a possibility, but he still pushed through and stepped inside the massive bedroom.
On the bed was Elizabeth, his girlfriend, the love of his life and the most pure and innocent girl he knows.
She was completely naked and on all fours, tongue out and dripping saliva, her eyes rolled to the back of her head in pleasure, only showing the whites of her eyes, she was moaning erratically, and her huge caramel breasts were swaying freely back and forth.
Tristan also completely naked, was behind her, thrusting his seven inch dick with the strength and force of a high level awakener, as he slammed into her from behind, flesh to ass, repeatedly and he grunted like a wild boar.
They didn't even notice Caspian who was now on his knees, bloody tears dripping from his eyes as he planted his vision on the unbridled joy on the face of his beloved virgin girlfriend, Elisabeth Gonzalez, as she's continuously penetrated from behind.
Tristan lifted Elizabeth's left leg up in the air for better access as he slammed his dick into her wet and dripping pussy repeatedly, with new found vigor.
"Thwack !"
"Thwack !"
"Thwack !"
.....
Tristan noticed Caspian on the floor and a wicked grin plastered his face as he grabbed Elizabeth by the hair and locked her arms in his _ as he increased the speed of his thrusts, pussy to dick connecting with such force that the entire bedroom quaked repeatedly_
Elisabeth screamed in pleasure, pulling at the sheets of the bed, body slightly stretching as she thrust her waist up in pure Bliss, slamming her wet pussy hard against the shaft of Tristan's penis.
She let out a gutteral moan as her juices blasted out from her gaping pussy, splashing all the way up to the ceiling of the bedroom.
Then her body convulsed a little as her muscles became flaccid and she passed out on the bed from pure Bliss.
Never once realizing Caspian was on the floor in the bedroom, ring in hand and bloody tears on his face.
Tristan picked up a sheet and cleaned the juices from his face as her paraded his burly form through the bedroom and towards Caspian.
"The jig is up Caspian_ just look at you, you are an embarrassment to your dead parents"
Caspian was still staring at Elizabeth on the bed with a wide smile still plastered on her face from the immense pleasure she just experienced.
"A waste and a nobody, you lived a simp and you will be dying a senseless simp"
"You invested all you had into that whore and I have been fucking her for years, while you where playing the role of the biggest fool to have ever existed"
Caspian at this point was looking like a corpse himself, his eyes had lost all light.
"Hahahahahahah_ she even got you to work for people who killed your parents"
At those words, Caspian raised his head slightly and looked at Tristan with those dead eyes, understanding dawning on him.
"You wanna know the kicker ?_ "
"She knew _ she knew my family killed your parents, yet she still played along to completely destroy you "
"It's no longer fun playing these games with you anymore_ we are now god's, and you? _"
"A pathetic existence, ruined by a woman"
"hahahahaha_ ok, you've outlived your usefulness, we could try to force you to keep providing us gold like the slave you are_ but looking into your eyes, I can see you've already gave up living and would rather die"
"So_ just die, you pathetic weakling" Tristan raised his hand and lightening gathered in his palm and then they surged and striked Caspian square in the chest.
As Caspian hit the floor from the strike, the life draining from him, he realized what a fool he'd been, he served and worked for a family who had killed his and made him an orphan.
Sponsored a bitch who was fucking his enemy and sponsored his enemy as well.
He realized he actually deserved death, for being the most pathetic existence to ever live.
'If i get a chance to start over, I will become a devil.' Caspian murmured in dissolving consciousness
'A devil that would consume this world, a heartless emotionless demon'
'And i will make them all suffer, suffer in the most Barbaric manner, then die in the same fashion.'
Caspian bled from all orifices as every of his internal organs disintegrated from the strike.
He took his last breath and this Caspian Shade was dead.