Hello! Welcome to the first chapter of Tokyo Outbreak! I'll admit, I've been playing Left 4 Dead 2 with my cousin too much again, and that's where this story came from. (I'm also watching the very popular anime High School Of The Dead. It's alright so far.) I'm trying to make the characters stay in character as much as possible. I'm also trying to make the characters look like they're really from those classic zombie flicks too!
Don't worry, I'm going to try and finish this one.~ I like the idea so far, so I may finish it this time. It may or may not be 5-8 chapters, depends. I'm also trying to cram all the characters that people love, and I love, into it too. I may have Mikado stab zombies with a ballpoint pen in their eye sockets. Because it's badass!
This chapter is really just a prolouge, the next will likely be too, just to set things up. Chapter 3 will likely not be like this. Please forgive me.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters. If I did, there would be more Anri action.
Tokyo Outbreak
Chapter 1: The zombie outbreak
It was a perfect day in Ikeburuko, the sun was shining, the birds were screeching, the people were trying to eat each other. Just another ordinary day in Ikeburuko. For a zombie outbreak it was normal, anyway. It was happening all around the world, but there was no explaination as to why this was happening.
Heiwajima Shizuo couldn't care less if they were still human or not. These so called 'zombies' were annoying him so much that he started to carry a stop sign with him so he could cut off zombies heads without getting bitten. Thank God Tom was sick that day, so Shizuo had the day off. Obviously his day was ruined.
Somewhere else, Orihara Izaya was in his office, watching the whole ordeal from his window. He was having a blast, laughing like a maniac and shouting, 'I LOVE HUMANS!' every so often. He was clearly losing it thanks to this zombie outbreak, not like he was ever sane to begin with. Namie just sighed and continued on doing her job, despite the chaos that was happening outside.
Shinra and Celty were just in their apartment building, watching the news. Celty kept on wondering if she would be affected by zombie bites or not, and wondering if she should try and help some survivors escape. Shrina was too busy trembling with fear to really care what Celty was thinking.
Mikado, Anri, and Kida were at school, trying to fight off the teenage zombies. Anri was trying to protect Mikado and Kida with Saika the best she could, by chopping their heads off. Kida was smashing their now non-existent brains with an aluminum baseball bat that one of his classmates had, that said classmate was now a zombie. A dead one at that. Mikado was just in a corner in his homeroom, shaking and trembling in fear.
"They're just a dream, Mikado. They're just a dream, Mikado. You'll wake up perfectly fine tomorrow morning saying how nice of a day it is!" Mikado quietly said to himself.
"Mikado-Kun's slowly loosing it, I think…" Kida said, as he bashed another zombies head in.
'Yeah…' Anri thought to herself as she sliced a zombie in two. Getting blood all over her uniform, not like it was already bloody. Kida's and Mikado's uniforms were really bloody too.
Anri and Kida started to wonder if this was the beginning of the end, was it already the end.
At the same time, Shizuo was really pissed now. At first he was just mad, now he's beyond mad. He finally realized that slicing off zombies heads with a stop sign was getting his bartender uniform all bloody.
Instead of using a stop sign to kill the zombies, Shizuo opted to something much better. A vending machine. He just smashed zombies with the vending machine, instead of slicing their heads off with a stop sign.
He got even more blood on his bartender uniform, but Shizuo couldn't care less. He was pissed off.
"Ah, Namie, you should watch all of this. It's really fun watching, you know?" Izaya kept on saying. Namie ignored him, but he was beginning to really get on her nerves. He thought this was FUN? Of all things, he should be trembling, if anything. But Izaya wasn't even flinching, just laughing like a maniac.
"Ooooo. Shizzy-Chan is really at it out there! I wish he'd get bitten already." Izaya sighed. Namie felt a bit sorry for Heiwajima Shizuo even though they've never met before.
"Namie-Channnnn.~"
"Hm? What is it now?" Namie knew she shouldn't answer him, not in his state. But she did anyway.
"Make me some tea. Lemon tea." Izaya sat down. "I'm tired of watching people bite and fight each other already." Well, finally.
"Um, Izaya. We're out of lemon tea. We're completely out of tea, to be exact. All we have is coffee." Namie said, with her arms crossed. "You never really did go out and get some. As you know, I'm not your housewife, so don't say that it's my fault."
"… Namie, get my shotgun ready."
"You don't have one. All you have are a dozen or so pocketknives." It was weird for Izaya not to have some sort of gun, with all the money he has, but apparently he hated them. 'They cause too much of a racket, and humans use them to kill other humans!' is what he'd say. Even though it's not exactly true.
"Namie, if I give you permission, I want you to kill me." Izaya was now on the brink of crazy, to just plain insane.
"No way. No how." Namie bluntly said.
"Awww, Namie, why're you so harsh?" Namie wasn't even going to bother replying to this. Izaya was just annoying her now.
Celty finally made a decision. She'd go out there and face the zombies on her motorcycle. Try and find some survivors, if there were any, and bring them to her and Shinra's apartment. Shinra was dead-set against it at first, but he gave in when Celty looked like she was about to cry. He read her emotions so well, that Celty believed that he had a sixth sense.
【I have a hunch that Mikado, Anri, and their other friend maybe alive. 】Celty typed up on her cell phone.
"What about Shizuo and Izaya?" Shrina asked.
【Knowing Izaya, he's likely enjoying this from his office. Shizuo is probably mad and knocking down these... 'Things' with a vending machine or something because they ruined his bartender suit. 】Celty got stuck on what to call these undead people. She didn't want to call them zombies, but then again what could she call them?
"You can call them 'The Undead'" Shinra interrupted.
【What? 】Celty was truly lost now. Was he talking about another zombie flick or something? Hollywood has so many of them, that Celty was kind of lost at what Shinra just said.
"Those things that are infecting Tokyo's people quickly can be called 'The Undead.' Calling them zombies would kind of be stupid and insulting, after all zombies don't exist in real life. So, calling those infected people 'The Undead' would be the most logical term!" Shinra said. Sometimes he was usful to have around, Celty had to admit.
【'The Undead'? That kind of makes sense. I'll start using that from now on. Thanks Shinra! 】
"Now how about a ki-OFFFFUUUU." Celty stabbed Shinra in the ribs. That was her 'kiss', he guessed.
Celty got up from the couch, and got her motorcycle. She turned and looked at Shinra, and smiled.
So, how was it? Tell me what you guys think so far? Are there any grammar mistakes? (I don't have a beta by the way. I never do. xD) Are the characters really in character? Please review!~