"Shinozaki!" Yoshiki yelled as he grabbed Ayumi and pulled her away from the window. She almost ended up falling from the sudden fear, but Yoshiki held her up. She backed away from him, surprised by the sudden closeness.

"Everyone stay calm!" Ms. Yui yelled looking out the windows. People who looked both dead and sick were clawing at the glass.

"That's not gonna hold!" Satoshi yelled. His eyes were wide in fear as he backed away from the window.

"I'm scared." Yuka said as she shivered slightly.

Mayu's eyes widened as she saw some of them wearing their school uniform. "What's happening? What's wrong with them?"

"We have to get out of this room." Sakutaro said. The teacher went over to the door and peeked outside. All sorts of thoughts bubbled in her head. What was happening? How did this happen? How would she get her students home safely? Naomi and Seiko both stared at the windows in shock. "Why do they have so much blood on them?" Naomi asked.

"The halls seem okay." Ms. Yui said. The banging and shaking of the windows became louder as more of them appeared.

"Let's go! Now!" Ms. Yui held open the door and the students along with a middle schooler filed quickly out the door. The sound of glass breaking filled their ears and Ms. Yui shut the door and locked it. "Get to the front of the school!"

All the students and teacher ran towards the front of the school. When they turned a corner they saw a bunch of wild crazed people. They made horrible noises and extend their arms towards the students. the noises they made were a mixture of rough screams and moans. A sound that no human could be able to produce. It sent a chill down everyone's spines. They moved forward in a grotesque fashion towards them.

Ayumi and Yoshiki became separated from the others in the mass of all these things coming together and stumbling towards them. Ms. Yui pushed through them almost falling. She yelped, backing away as a few tried to bite her.

Yoshiki pushed through the crowd and managed to get to Ayumi. He shoved some of them harshly causing some to fall over on top of others. Yoshiki pulled Ayumi farther down the opposite hall away from them, but also away from everyone else. "Dammit there's too many!"

'Mochida-kun! Mayu! Aaah!" Ayumi had yelled out names but became frightened when one of those things leaped for her. Yoshiki had opened a door blocking it from toppling on them. "Aaaughaaa!"

"No way...no!" Naomi looked at the floor where a student was struggling to get away. It was too late though, teeth sunk into her skin, she being eaten and torn apart by the people surrounding the her. Naomi had no idea what to do, but watch as the student was devoured.

"What are they doing?!" Yuka screamed. "Are they eating her?!"

Satoshi didn't know how to respond. These were monsters of some sort. But they looked human.

The school started to shake suddenly. It was subtle at first but then became more violent knocking the students to the ground.

Yuka latched onto Satoshi. Naomi lost her grip on her friend. Sakutaro fell back his head slamming against the floor. Mayu fell to the side into an open room.

...

Naomi awoke to find herself in another part of the school. She didn't even remember fainting or anything. All she could recall were those monsters and the earthquake. She just wanted to go home. All this seemed too surreal. She looked at her surroundings noticing that she was in the art room. She sighed heavily. The art room was at the very back of the school. There was always the backdoor exit option but it was usually locked at this time. She didn't know how she would be able to make it to the front with those things lurking around. If they were real. Maybe it was all a dream or something. She snapped out of her thoughts when she caught sight of her best friend slumped up against the wall.

"Seiko!" She scrambled over to the girl and shook her awake.

"Mm? Naomi?" she wrapped her arms around Naomi and rested her head on her chest. "What are you doing in my house? And in my room no less?" She said.

"Ugh Seiko we're still at school!" Naomi complained.

"What?" Seiko was pushed away by Naomi. She rubbed her eyes and took in their surroundings. "Oh yea...I blacked out." She said. Naomi stood up and went to the door. She opened it and her eyes grew wide. She fell backwards and crawled away from the door breathing heavily and on the verge of screaming. "Ahhgg." Seiko looked at her with a tilted head. "What's wrong?" She asked.

"B-bodies all over. They're everywhere."

"What?" She walked over to the door, but Naomi pulled her back. She pulled her towards a shelf knocking over several pottery. They shattered with tremendous noise in the silence. There was a moaning sound coming from outside. Footsteps seemed to come closer and closer until the door opened. In the entryway of the door stood a teacher in a bloodied shirt. His eyes looked wild and dead. His mouth agape and blood stained his lips and face. "Guffghh!" It made a leap towards the two and they both screamed and moved out of the way. More moaning creatures came into the room. "We have to get out of here!" Naomi yelled. The two made a dash towards the back of the room, where the other door that connected to the classroom next door was. She turned the knob, but-

"It's locked!" She yelled. "What do we do?" Seiko whimpered and moved towards the door.

"Naomi, let me do something!" Seiko yelled. Naomi moved away not sure what she was going to do. Seiko kicked the door right below the knob as she used the wall next to balance herself. She kicked again, but the door still didn't open. She let out a loud scream and kicked again with more force. The door swung open and the two ran through. They ran into the next classroom and then out of the room into the hallway. Naomi and Seiko headed towards the girls' bathroom and closed the door. "What the heck? What were those? People? They didn't seem like it but...but-" Seiko covered Naomi's mouth with her hand.

"I think they respond to loud noises...just..you can freak out but do it quietly." She removed her hand and Naomi took in a deep breath. Her mind went back to seeing that student getting torn apart and eaten. "I'm scared."

...

"Shinozaki... It's alright, please calm down."

"But... you..." She tried to speak between gasps of air, "heard the crash too right? And then... the horrible noises that those things made got louder..."

"I did, but they went away." Yoshiki watched as Ayumi was breathing and gasping for air. She was on the floor holding herself together. He wanted to do something, but wasn't sure what. Ms. Yui looked at Ayumi with concern and then over to Yoshiki.

"Those things left because they heard a noise. They must have gone to see what it was." She didn't know what else to say. It definitely sounded like something fell and broke. A plate perhaps? "Maybe one of those things just accidentally pushed a plate off a shelf." She said. She wasn't sure if any ceramic plates where in this school and it definitely sounded like more than one thing falling and breaking. Maybe it was something that was in the art room. "Anyway I'm going to go check it out." She needed to make sure nobody was in trouble.

"No! Ms. Yui don't leave us!" Ayumi yelled she seemed to breathe more heavily and rapidly.

Ms. Yui looked at Ayumi with concern. "Shinozaki..." She really didn't know what to do she wanted to help if there was anyone in trouble. But Ayumi was in trouble as well.

"It's okay Teach. I'll keep an eye on Shinozaki." She heard Yoshiki say.

"O-okay..."

He looked at Ayumi then back over to the teacher."...or...better yet how, about I take a look and you wait here?"

"Not a chance, I'll go. I don't want to put any student in danger. I need to verify everyone's safety..." She was pretty sure she could outrun those things. If there were too many she could probably slip away. "I want to keep you two out of harm's way."

"...well... okay, I guess be careful, though" He replied with a concerned look

"Nooooooo!" Ayumi shouted weakly.

"Look, she'll be fine! Geez..."

"I'm counting on you Kishinuma, I'll be back in no time." Ms Yui said.

"No problem." Yoshiki replied looking at Shinozaki. Ms. Yui walked out the room and down the hallway. She began to make her way towards the art room. They weren't that far from it so it should be easy to get there. Ms. Yui's legs were shaking as she walked. There was no way around it, she was terrified and had no idea what was happening. Was the school really infested with those things?

She made a turn and walked further. The hallway was empty. "Hello? Anyone?" Ms. Yui called out. She kept walking and made another turn then paused. She didn't remember the art room being this far from the classroom they were in. She looked back around the corner and noticed that the classrooms looked a bit different from the ones she passed before. Maybe she was just forgetting things and becoming nervous under the pressure? She didn't know. She kept walking and finally found the art room. She opened it and saw broken pottery all over the floor. The room was a mess. She heard shuffling footsteps come from the back of the room. "Hello?" She called.

"Hhhhsssaaaak!" Ms. Yui stumbled back as the figure making the awful noise came into view. It was the art teacher. Her clothes were bloodied and her right eye was hanging from her socket. Her mouth was unnaturally opened in a wide-angle. She moved forward with her hands outstretched, bloody fingernails exposed. Ms. Yui ran out of the room and closed the door. She didn't know if she could take all this in. People were going crazy. This has to be some joke. She went into another classroom whose door was slightly ajar and gasped at the sight. What looked like a student was sprawled and spread across the floor. Blood decorated the floor along with exposed bones. She came closer to take a look and gasped. Half his face seemed to have been torn off. His white cheek bone and teeth were exposed to the world with no flesh hiding it.

Ms. Yui walked closer. "No..." She backed away and held her head. "Did I not come soon enough?" The large shelf behind her suddenly fell. Crushing her. She gasped in pain as she felt sharp objects being inserted into her flesh. She could feel warm thick liquid form on her back. Childish laughter emitted all around her in the classroom.

"You know out of all the types of people in this world, I hate teachers the most."

A small barefooted child walked up to her. "Of all my years of watching people, teacher's have become the worst of them." Ms. Yui looked up to see the sneering smile of a girl.