A/N So I've decided to rewrite this. I didn't exactly have a direction for where the previous version I uploaded would go, so I ended up deleting it. I got inspired to continue this because of my crossover fanart between Vampire Knight and High School of the Dead. Plus, the simply GORGEOUSLY written Walking Dead game was just...AMAZING. If you didn't cry at the end of that game or at least shed a tear, you're heartless :C Nah I'm kidding. But seriously...I was depressed for reals for quite a while after I watched a playthrough of the game on YouTube. I have NEVER been that attached to any cast of fictional characters to that degree.

Anyways...aside from all that, a lot of people on DA and on FB have stated that they would love to see a fanfiction on the crossover, so here it is. *again*

However, this won't be a true "crossover" with HOTD because I'm only going to be using the zombie plotline, nothing else. HOTD doesn't own zombies or anything afterall. :p
That being said, please enjoy and leave a review if you would like to see more.

One last note before I leave...this will get gory and there will be slightly mature themes in here, but I will still keep it at the "T" rating level. If I need to make things explicit for the sake of the story, then I'll bump this up to an M rating.

Academy Of The Dead

Prologue

"Please...don't let me become one of them, Kiryuu-kun. I don't want my parents to see me like one of them..."

All he could hear in his head after that was the sound of a gunshot going off, the gunshot produced by his Bloody Rose.

What was going on?

How did all of this happen?

How did the world change so rapidly?

Today wasn't supposed to turn out like this. Today was supposed to be like any other day...him attending classes, falling asleep during them, receiving an earful from the teachers, patrolling the academy grounds at night...the usual stuff, but nothing like this.

Their bloodstained teeth suddenly appeared in his head. No...not the fanged, sharp teeth of a vampire...the horrifically blunt, normal teeth of those things...

What were you to even call them?

He thought that vampires were beasts in human form, but he wanted to take it all back after he saw what he had this day.

"...Zero?"

One soft gasp and his lilac eyes shot open. His body relaxed a bit when he saw that it was only Yuuki in front of him.

The young pureblood looked down at him worriedly, kneeling down as she touched his forehead. "You're starting to a get a slight fever. Are you sure you're okay?"

Zero panted softly, still reeling from the shock of the horrors he witnessed earlier in the day. He turned his head slightly to look out the dirty windowpane of the abandoned warehouse they were in.

The sun was quickly setting behind the soft rolling hills, painting the skies in a burning orange red color.

"I'm fine," he reiterated, turning his head back towards Yuuki. He eyed her clothes and saw her white night class uniform stained in dark red smears of blood, evidence of her struggles with those things.

Yuuki noticed his gaze and sheepishly she laughed. "This is nothing...don't worry about me." Her expression grew worried again as she leaned forward towards him. Her fingers went to a rather sizable bite mark he had on his neck.

Zero drew away slightly like an injured baby animal, even when she didn't make contact. "I'm fine," he muttered.

"Don't lie," Yuuki stated, "your fever's getting worse."

She looked around her and spotted a shattered fragment of glass lying a few feet away from her.

Zero saw her pick it up and hold her hand out as she sliced her palm cleanly with the edge of the sharp glass. He widened his eyes at what she was doing, but before he could speak, she moved in close and silenced him with her finger.

"Just drink it. You're the only one I have by my side now...I can't lose you too."

Zero felt her edge his lips apart with the tip of her finger before she placed her bloody palm over his mouth. Instantly, her scent along with the taste of her blood, sent him into bloodlust. His eyes turned a glowing red as he grabbed her wrist and hungrily lapped at the blood pouring from her hand.

Yuuki watched him drink up her blood and waited until the red glow in his eyes disappeared. She pulled her hand back and whispered, "just come to me if you need blood."

"But-"

"I am a pureblood. In case you forgot." She smiled at him. "Our blood has medicinal properties."

Zero brought his hand up to wipe away at the excess blood on his lips. He let out an awkward cough. "Tha-"

Before he could thank her, there was a distant sound of hands banging on a metal door.

Their attention immediately went towards the one door in the whole warehouse. From the other side, they could hear a low, lifeless groaning.

"Already?" Zero asked, pulling out Bloody Rose from his coat and pulling it back, clearing it.

"There's no safe place anywhere in this town. They keep finding us."

"I don't think there's a safe place left anymore..." Zero pulled out a spare round of bullets and shoved it into the bottom of his gun until it clicked.

Yuuki furrowed her brow as the banging sounds grew, indicating that they were intent on coming through into the warehouse. She gripped Artemis tightly. "Zero...? What are they?" she asked, fright creeping into her voice.

The door burst open, unleashing a horde of them...the monsters that fed on living flesh, but were dead themselves.

They growled and roared as they staggered towards them.

Zero raised his gun and simply stated, "I don't know. But they aren't humans anymore...nor are they vampires."

A/N Please review if you would like to see more!