The Dragon Zombie appears suddenly before the two party members right as they're about to exit the mines, demanding that Garr tells him where he is taking Ryu. When Garr informs him that he is taking Ryu to meet God in order to get a straight answer on why the Brood have to perish, the Dragon Zombie scoffs at the remark and orders Ryu, another member of the Brood, to kill Garr to avenge their people. When Ryu outright refuses to do so, the Dragon Zombie is angered and materializes, revealing itself as a skeletal dragon and attacking the two of them. Despite the Zombie's attempt to defeat the duo it fails and is defeated. Fatally weakened, it questions Ryu as to why he refused to kill him; however he soon perishes again, converting into the Shadow Gene, which Ryu uses from then on as one of