Yurabashi Sector
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+000 Z-Day
12:03 a.m.
You ever get that feeling that everything's just going perfect? Yeah… Me either. Koyuki just text me saying it's over and now while my entire high school's out celebrating, I'm stuck at home, throwing a tennis ball at the wall because I'm too embarrassed to even see somebody who might recognize my face. But I should have known it was coming. She was way into that Kudo guy anyways… Should've known it'd only be a matter of time before she left me for him. They would talk all the time, even while I was around, it didn't matter to him. He had no morals; and neither did Koyuki. Guess that makes them the perfect couple.
"I need some air…" I tell myself though my body doesn't respond for a good ten seconds. A quick walk over to the sliding door I just got fixed is made torture by my sleeping legs. I breathe in the smell of gas and fumes of a once-grand-now-left behind section of the city and realize just how lame my life really is. To make matters worse, no ones even text me to see what's wrong, why I'm not at the big party, or even a simple "where you at, bro?" from some of my closer buddies.
"What is it with the world these days…?" I ask myself. "What has this world come to?"
I plague myself with these questions constantly, and even though most health experts would just say I'm crazy, I seem to like the stress. It's ridiculously calming knowing I'm not the only screw up. This world is just falling apart. It's only a matter of time before…
The phone rings.
"What the…?" I look over at the phone. "Who the hell would call me this late…?"
I answer the phone without even checking the caller ID. "Hello?" My voice is strained as I haven't really had a regular conversation all day.
"Sai…Sai-S-S-Saike…Saike! Please come quick the…" the phone cuts out momentarily and the static makes communication impossible momentarily. Suddenly the phone comes back on, "…are everywhere! I don't know what to do! Saike please… this isn't a…" The phone cuts out for good. I lose connection. She's gone.
I'm sprinting like I used to when I ran track, back before I got caught up with the wrong kind of people who made breathing anything possible without coughing. My heart was pounding and I was chasing after a girl who, earlier today, had just dumped me via text message. Crazy right?
The place where they were having the party was someplace called Huyo's, close to the drug store where I always buy my soft drinks before school. I make it in record time thanks to the fact that there was zero traffic, which was weird even for a rundown district like this place, in the middle of the night, to have. I hear nothing at first from outside but the silence some stopped when I opened the door.
Blood. Everywhere.
On the walls. On the ceiling. It was horror movie magic in the making. I saw what looked like hundreds of my classmates, lying on the ground. Murdered.
"Those basterds…" I whispered to myself as I look around. I can hear a low-pitched moaning off in the distance from every direction.
"…Sai…ke… you… came…" I hear from my left. I dart of towards the voice and see koyuki laying there, missing an arm and covered in blood.
"Koyuki, what… what happened…?" I ask trying to sound calm as to not scare her. She opens her mouth and barely gets a word out.
"…Them…" She points over to a group of what look like more students except they're standing.
"They did this?" I suddenly feel a ridiculous amount of rage surmount into my chest. How could this happen…
"I'll kill them." I whisper to her as I start to see the life fade away from her eyes. "I'll kill all of them…"
Koyuki died.
The next moments are simply blurry visions of red and frantic screams of pain. When I finally come to, I'm standing in a pile of my recently deceased classmates. I look closer at them and I can the details now that my eyes have adjusted to the dim lighting. Their faces… Flesh was hanging off and their skin was bone dry. The looked like they had been infected with some type of rabies. Maybe that's what made them crazy.
I look around for any survivors, hoping someone could give me more details. No one was left alive. I guess that's why I was able to surprise those guys so easily. It was like they didn't even see me.
I walk out to the nearest payphone. I look around for change but instead I just call 911.
"911, what's your emergency?" the lady says on the other side.
"Hello? My name is Saike Ichiro. I go to Yurabashi High. My friends were at a party and I got a distress call from my girlfriend. I ran over here as fast as I could and now… Some group of crazy looking people murdered… all of them…"
"Where are ou right now? I'm call the ambulances and police to your location."
"I'm at the…" I look over at the street signs, "corner of 101st and Yazuka. Please hurry."
"They're on their way, sweetie. Do you want me to stay on the line?"
She doesn't get a reply to that.
"Hello? Saike?"
Still nothing.
"Mr. Ichiro?"
I'm running as fast as I can away from that site. If the police see me there, panting and covered in blood, they'll account me for everything. Even the people I really did kill.
+000 Z-Day
12:46 a.m.
I finally get home. I'm covered in sweat and blood. A shower is the first thing that pops into my head but I can't; there isn't enough time. At Huyo's I didn't realize how dire the situation was, however on my way back, I got the full view.
Those things had taken over most of the Yurabashi sector in what seemed to minutes. As I ran, I witnessed countless neighbors get slaughtered, right inside their on own homes. The only thoughts on mind were get home and get out.
So the first part of my plan was complete.
