Author's Note
I do not own High School of the Dead or any of the original characters, I do however own this completely original story. Also my first real attempt at fanfiction, please don't eat me with destructive criticism and no flamers or hate either.
Prologue
The humvee clattered and bounced over the debris covered bridge. It had been one week since they had left Takagi's house, and for the most part it had been pretty uneventful for being in the middle of the end. The end of the world that is.
News reporters stopped broadcasting after all their equipment was fried from the electromagnetic pulse. The majority of cars had fried circuits, powerplants went offline, cellphones were broken beyond hope of repair.
"What had happened earlier was just the beginning, now the real apocalypse begins." Saeko had said a day after that nuclear explosion. "We can't contact anyone outside of the group anymore, our means of communication too limited unless you want to yell and encourage Them to find us." Takagi had commented. "We are all just going to have to stick together even more than before, the worst thing we could do is split up when we can't contact each other anymore." Takashi had commented.
The humvee drove over another corpse with a loud crack, another spine being shattered. Another life that shouldn't have ended. But this apocalypse changed people, instead of stopping to find out who or what they had run over the humvee simply continued on. The people inside trying to distract each other from the fact they might have run over another human, but they hoped it was instead one of Them. Now the cracking sounds were happening more and at a higher frequency. Takashi poked his head out of the hole on the humvee and couldn't stop himself from yelling. The bridge was no longer visible as it was buried underneath an astounding number of them. But he could make out a lone figure in the distance. It was sitting with it's legs folded under them and dressed in a strange outfit. Takashi couldn't help but feel he had seen an outfit similar like that somewhere before. A large obi, a strange gei, and large baggy pants that hid most of it's feet. "STOP! There's a guy up ahead, maybe he can tell us what happened here." Takashi yelled.
"What, a person out here...on this bridge littered with them!?" Everyone seemed to shout at him at the same time, startling Alice and Zeke. "YES, now stop before you smash right into hi...STOP!" Takashi yelled again, the sudden outburst startling Shizuka and causing the humvee to veer awkwardly to the left. The tires were already on poor traction due to the uneven layer of Them they were driving over but now the humvee threatened to flip and smash into guard rail. "Don't yell at me so suddenly, because you know I get distracted easily!" Shizuka yelled at Takashi while trying to rectify the tire situation. "Slam on the brakes now! Or we are going to smash that guy right into the railing!" Rei screamed. Shizuka pumped the brakes, knowing from earlier experiences that slamming on them would just lock the tires. But the humvee didn't show any sign of correcting itself, nor did the guy move from his spot. "Hey stupid! Get out of the way unless you want to die!" Takagi yelled through the window. They were speeding right at this guy who refused to budge. 'There is no way this is going to end well, why won't the stubborn bastard just move already!' Takashi thought. The moment of truth was on them and an earsplitting boom echoed off of the calm waters beneath the bridge.
Please Read and Review, might be open to OCs yet haven't really decided. But if an interesting character happens to catch my eye then it will probably be included. Also this prologue was meant to cliffhang because that's what they are there for, also I know it was a bit short but expect a lot more coming up for the first real chapter.
Black Iron Tarkus
