Friday, October 12, 2012

Fate's fate: Undeath at the hands of a former ally

Dunomis “Fate” Fatalis was killed Thursday night by Solomon Razorbane Ruhe.
Ruhe, a human harbinger who is generally immune to undeath, began Thursday evening’s final battle fighting side by side with Fatalis.
Fatalis said before the battle that he was aware that Ruhe had earlier been infected, but was confident in his comrade.
“Solomon can control it because he is a Harbinger,” Fatalis said. “He doesn’t want to eat everyone’s brains. So he will continue to lead the human troops and hopefully find the cure.”
But in the midst of a clash that pitted a small group of humans against a zombie contingent twice its size, old age and exhaustion got the best of Ruhe, a respected zombie-killing veteran.

“It was pretty intense because there was a mass of 40 zombies headed toward our 20 people,” Jordan Fultz said. “We were just trying to fire on them as best we could. We had to think fast, it was really nerve-wracking.”
Fatalis fought his way through the Horde and defeated zombie leaders Alpha and Omega, but by then, Ruhe was far too weak to resist any longer.
“It was really tough to see him finally turned,” Harbinger Tori Winslow said. “He had resisted so long I figured it was only a matter of time. I just hope now he doesn't come for my brains.”
Ruhe turned his axe on Fatalis, who defended himself with his swords for a short time before being disarmed.
With that, Ruhe ripped the flesh from Fatalis’ neck and ate it. The zombies swarmed around the human’s fallen leader, fighting for a piece of his brain.

Fatalis will be remembered as a respected leader of the human resistance.
“Every time I have been with Fatalis I came away alive,” Fultz said. “He had a strong presence. It was kind of comforting to know he was there. He had been through it all and always knew what to do.”

“I had hoped that he'd be around to lead the humans beyond this,” Winslow said. “Now they really don't have a leader.”

UnDeadline reporters Matt Walker, Chris Larsen, Kelsy Ensign, Summer Taylor and Skylar Christensen contributed to this report.