A/N: Well, here's the story you all were waiting for, the zombie apocalypse action/horror/thriller/slight comedy & romance story~
The story is going to be mega awesome and epic. I'm so excited I might just explode. I did my best on making your guys characters act like you guys wanted, and you'll have to read to see what couples everyone asked for. I hope you enjoy, and I hope you stick around long enough to really get why this story is going to be so awesome. So Let Your Journey Begin~

WARNING: [THE FOLLOWING IS RATED T(16 AND UP) FOR: Blood, Violence, Swearing, Gore, Suggestive Scenes/Dialogue, Possible Nudity, Possible Adult Themes]

Disclaimer: I do NOT own the OC's in this story other than Hiroshi Takahiro, and I do NOT own the original H.O.T.D. show/manga/story.

Note: They're in the same high school as the original cast of H.O.T.D. but just pretend that the original characters aren't there.

R.A.D.
[Rad Attack of the Dead]

By Momo7902

To think that we didn't know that this was going to happen the next day.
Everything was so normal, we expected tomorrow to be just like yesterday, that nothing would change.
We were wrong though, our fates did change,
And they will never be the same...

Chapter 1: the Beginning of the unDead

The sun was high in the sky, white clouds drifting across it like a canvas painting. Eiji Kurihara sped down the street with both hands on the steering wheel as he looked out the window. Everything seemed quiet, which gave him an odd feeling. Usually he liked the silence that hovered in the air, because it gave him time to think to himself, but this silence seemed awkward. He knows it's not just him, he really thinks something is wrong.

He was wondering, Why does today feel so bizarre? Eiji was driving to Himoto High School (Just a made up name for the high school) after his friend told him something was going on over there. He can recall the exact words his friend used. "On the news they said there was a situation going on there. They won't say what and I'm kind of nervous. I'm telling you this because I thought you'd be interested on finding the scoop and maybe getting the story before anyone else does."

I'll have to remember to thank him, Eiji thought. He stopped at a red light, combing his fingers through his short, shaggy brown hair. I've been hearing a lot of stuff like this lately, Eiji began to think. Stuff all over the world is starting to happen, but no one's willing to say what it is. Oh well, I guess I'll have to find out for myself.

Suddenly, the song he was listening to on the radio was cut off. He sighed, prepared to hear what the reporters or the government had to say. "This is an emergency broadcast. Please listen carefully while we instruct you on what you need to do," a deep broad voice said. Eiji curiously looked at the tiny speaker as he groaned. "What?" he said under his breath.

"This is a state of emergency, I repeat a state of emergency. If you can, you need to evacuate the city immediately. If you can't, we advice you to stay in your home or in the building you're in until an officer has come to escort you out. We also advice you to NOT go outside unless it is necessary for you to leave."

Eiji stared at the small speakers in disbelief, wondering what the heck was going on as he saw some people running down the sidewalk frantically, their faces pale.

The light turned green and he sped down the street, determined to get to that high school... to see where all of this started.

Three hours ago...

Hiroshi rested his back against the gray walls, his hands in his pockets as he stared out the window. Sakura petals fluttered in the sky like a million butterflies as he sighed to himself. He itched the back of his head as his brown eyes skimmed the outside area. He thought about his parents, the big argument. He's not the smartest kid in school, but he's a pretty intelligent guy. But he doesn't put much effort into his work, so he guesses it doesn't count if he's smart or not.

His dad was yelling at him loudly yesterday, telling him his future was going to be all screwed up. And his mom was still bugging about the fact he got held back a grade. Hiroshi just told them they were both full of it and went to school this morning.

"They never understood me to begin with," he said to himself, proceeding to stare out the window.

"Skipping class like always? You never change, Hiroshi," he heard a male voice say.

Looking up, Hiroshi saw none other than Souske Hitori, or commonly known as 'Azure'. He had his hands in his pockets and a huge grin on his face. Hiroshi smirked, pushing himself off the wall using his back as he placed his hands in his pockets as well.

"What about you Azure, shouldn't you be in P.E. class?" Hiroshi retorted. Azure chuckled, staring Hiroshi dead in the eyes as he smiled. "Yeah, Mr. Tanaka sent me to the office because he wanted me to go and give the principal some papers. While I was down there I saw that one student Sadie and she started talking to me for a minute or two before the principal told me to stop," he explained.

Hiroshi groaned, not expecting Azure to give him his whole story to why he wasn't in class. "When isn't that chick in the principals office?" Hiroshi started walking down the hallway, not caring whether Azure was following or not.

"You going back to class Hiroshi?" he asked. Hiroshi rested his hands behind his head as if he were about to lay down and lounge on the hard floor. "Yeah, I'm gonna go get my stuff and maybe ditch school or something."

That's just like him, Azure thought. They reached the gym which was almost completely empty due to the fact students were going to the lunch room. "Wow, we missed the whole class," Azure commented. Hiroshi glanced at him coldly, walking inside of the gym. What do you mean we?

Azure glanced over at a girl who was sitting on the bleachers clutching a wooden stick in her hands. She was staring up at the ceiling with a blank expression on her face, even her eyes looked blank. "Hey, you OK up there?" Azure called.

The girl didn't respond. "Tsk." Azure looked over at Hiroshi who was staring at the handle angrily. "Damn it," he said under his breath. "What's wrong?"

"The damn door is locked." Hiroshi stared at the door aggressively, as if hoping that by staring at it, it would magically open. Suddenly, they could hear the intercom come on with a loud static like noise.

They waited silently, wondering what the principal had to say. "Attention students, this is an emergency announcement so listen carefully. There's a situation going on inside and outside of the school right now, so we need you to meet up with your core teacher and evacuate the school in an orderly fashion. Once you've all done that, I'll issue more instructions," the announcement said.

"I repeat, this is an emergency announcement. There's-"

Suddenly, there was a loud bang that arouse from the intercom, along with more static. Then they heard the principal screaming loudly. "No! Let me go! Someone help me-"

The announcement turned off with a loud crash noise. After that, it was as if the whole school was silent, like it was a ghost town. Hiroshi stared at the intercom, his eyes wide and his face pale. "W-What the hell..?" he stammered.

After a few seconds had gone by, Azure and Hiroshi could hear screaming coming from behind the gym door, followed by a chain of thumping. Hiroshi blinked and gained his conscious again as he looked at the locker room door and started bashing his shoulder against it.

"What are you doing Hiroshi?" Azure asked. Hiroshi didn't answer, he only continued bashing his shoulder against the hard gray door until it finally burst open, slamming against the wall with a loud crash. What await the two was a ten foot long dark hallway with another door that led to the locker room.

"Did you hear the principal? We need to get out of here, and if something is going on I'm not trying to look for a fight," Azure told him. Hiroshi looked over at Azure crazily. "Don't you think I know that! That's why I'm going to get my stuff out the locker!" he shouted.

The two ran down the hall and into the empty locker room as Hiroshi rushed to his locker. He quickly rotated the lock around with his aggressive fingers as he put the combination in, literally ripping the lock off its handle. He opened the metal door, grabbing a black bat he had in his locker. "You're not taking your stuff?" Azure asked.

"My text books will just slow me down," Hiroshi responded. "What about you? Do you got anything in your locker?" Azure remembered about all his stuff and ran over to his gym locker as he opened the lock and pulled his small gray bag out.

Hiroshi stared at the tiny bag. "That's all you want to take with you?" he asked. "What are you talking about? If we're going to be running then I don't want to lug a bunch of things with me."

When they had all their things, they dashed out the locker room and into the gym which was now vacant, even that girl with the wooden stick was gone. The silence was dreadful now, because they both were just waiting for something to hop out of no where. As they walked over to the exit, they could hear screaming from some girls, and swearing from a nearby teacher.

"What do you think is going on out there?" Hiroshi asked. "I don't know but don't let your guard down," he responded. Hiroshi opened the door and walked down the hallway, looking out the windows that spread all across the wall.

They could see a few people outside slowly limping down the dirt pathway, blood spilling out of their open wounds. What the hell is all of this? Hiroshi thought as they both jumped a bit, hearing a door break down in front of them.

Ahead of them was the P.E. teacher who was slouched over kind of like an animal. His skin was pale (almost a grayish blue) and his eyes looked big and glassy, carrying no life in them. But to top it all off, his whole right arm was covered in blood. He stared at the two boys with a monstrous expression on his face.

"Are you alright?" Azure asked. The P.E. teacher dashed towards him, grabbing at his arms as Azure took a step back. "Hey!" he shouted, throwing him off as the grown man fell to the ground. The teacher merely stood up and dashed at Azure again, who swung a fist and punched him right across the face. He fell once more.

Azure shook his hand around as it throbbed a little. "What's his problem, he's seems a bit off," Hiroshi commented. Out of no where, the teacher stood up in a flash and grabbed both of Azure's arms as he squeezed them tightly. "Get off me!" he shouted, raising a leg as he began to kick the man in the chest a few times. Some of the kicks were fatal and Azure knew that. Those kicks should be knocking him down right now, so why is he still standing. Unless-

Finally figuring out what was going on, Azure tried prying the man off him. "H-Hiroshi! This guy's already dead!"

Hiroshi stared at Azure with wide eyes. "I can tell he's dead... because he's not even breathing- And he's pale too!" Hiroshi gripped the handle to his bat with both hands. "Help me get this dude off me!"

Without hesitation, Hiroshi ran over to the teacher and slammed his bat against his skull. The teacher's grip on Azure softened, and he fell to the ground, his blood getting all over the floor. "You OK Azure?" he asked.

"Yeah." They stared at the body, sweat dripping down their faces. They then heard screaming and saw a girl running down the hallway as she tripped. Two students got on top of her and began gnawing and ripping at her skin as a bloodcurdling scream filled the air.

"So if that guy was already dead, and those guys over there are dead, does that mean that half the kids here are now dead right now, kind of like an infection or something?" Hiroshi asked. Azure brushed the dirt off his uniform and grabbed his bag from the ground as he stared at the now dead girl being eaten by the students.

"I'm not really sure myself, but I'm just going to go with the idea that this is just like a movie. Those things, they're like zombies," he said. He watch as the girl stood up as if her wounds weren't even there, her skin pale now. "Once you've been bitten then you turn into one of 'Them'. And you can't kill them by just hitting them in the heart or by letting them bleed to death, we have to do what you did and bash their heads. It's simple logic, they're already dead, and they're resurrecting from the dead and spreading their disease around."

Hiroshi sighed, resting his bat on his shoulder as he stared over at Them, those zombies. "If that's what you think is going on then I'll go with it for now, and if it means I'll stay alive then I will smash their heads over and over if I have to. But standing here isn't going to accomplish anything."

Hiroshi ran over to the zombies and hit them across the face, sending them flying out the glass windows as they flew down to the ground (They're on the third floor). The two ran down the hallway and into the school, prepared for what they were about to encounter.

Good first chapter, Yes? No? I guess I'll see in the reviews. The next chapter starts with different characters in the story, but it'll switch back and forth until they all meet up. So just Stay Tune for some more ACTION!