New-world princess

Title: But Ye Shall Die Like Men
Author: afterandalasia
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Wordcount: 12,750
Fandom: Left 4 Dead/Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Pairing: Kida/Milo, background Audrey/Vinnie
Rating: T for violence
Warning: Spoilers for Atlantis: The Lost Empire; moderately compliant with L4D mythos. Violence, gore, minor character death, swearing in various languages.
Disclaimer: I have no rights to and make no profit from this work.
Summary: At first, it was fear that rose in Atlantis, fear of the ancient plague that had almost destroyed the city. When Milo and Kida go to the surface to greet their old friends, however, they find a world that has fallen apart before the onslaught of the infected. Thousands of years ago, Atlantis barely survived; can the surface world now do the same?

Author's Notes: Written for l4d_bigbang Round Two! My unending thanks to the wonderful mods who made this possible and allow us all to unleash more zombies on an unsuspecting world. Furthermore, my thanks to caz2y5 for doing the art for this as well as for other people and writing her own story! Check out the art here! (Though be warned, it's spoilery!) Finally, thanks to darkstar1991 for doing beta-reading on this piece.

More abstractly, I am really glad that this contest introduced me to the Left 4 Dead verse, and that my housemate subsequently bought the game to allow me to kill zombies myself. The story is not fully accurate to the L4D 'verse, but I hope that it at least captures the feel of the games, with an Atlantis-esque twist in the story.