This is a short little oneshot I finally decided to type up. I've been wanting to put something up here for a while, so I hope you like it.

Disclaimer: I don't own Lucky Star, I'm not making any money here, yadda yadda, hope this pleases the lawyers in the audience.


Putting Them Out Of Their Misery

In the bombed out shell of a building, a small blue haired girl lies in a prone position. On the tripod in front of her rests a high-caliber rifle. " Right side of the street, blue shirt, no left arm." Konata spoke in a calm voice.

A small strawberry haired girl named Yutaka lies next to her with a range finder. "Two hundred yards, no wind." She says in a weak voice. Konata changed the angle of her rifle to compensate for the distance. She slowly squeezed the trigger until the gun went off with a sound that echoed off of every surface in the surrounding area. The built travailed the two hundred yards before ether of the girls could even blink. It hit a corpse of what once was an average, Japanese male square in the head.

Konata ejected the now spent round and reloaded the gun. She yet again lined up the shot and called out the description of another one of the walking corpses and Yutaka again called out the range and wind strength. Konata could not stop herself from thinking of the past, before this living nightmare had started. She wondered if she could ever go back to the fun loving otaku she once was. The shooting went on. some of the corpse she put down looked vaguely like people she had once met, yet others were hardly distinguishable as the humans they once were.

After fifteen shots Konata heard the pang of the magazine falling out of the gun. She reached into her pack on the ground next to her and grabbed out one of the ten magazines that were left. "One hundred and fifty left. I pray its enough" She thought.

"We should reposition soon don't you think?" asked the smaller girl. She was now visibly shaking. "They are slowly getting closer and I know we don't have many bullets left.

Konata sat and thought while she was reloading her weapon. "She's right. They're just like the rising tide. if you don't get out of the way fast enough, you'll just get swept up in it." Konata sighed in defeat. "You're right Yutaka, but I'm finishing what I came here to do." She said in a hollow voice. She reset her gun on her shoulder and continued to call out her targets.

Konata went through two more magazines and started to reload her gun. She glanced at the small girl next to her, who was now on the verge of going into the fetal position. "I can't believe I got her involved in this. she should be off safe in her room." "Yutaka," said Konata in as soothing a voice she could, "I'm so sorry I got you involved in this. I just need another minute." The small girl's shakes slowed down a little bit and she gave a quick nod that showed she was relatively okay.

Konata repositioned her gun and continued firing. After another ten shots, she finally found her target. The reanimated corpse of her best friend was staggering down the street in front of her. The thing that was once a girl wore the same outfit that she had worn the day everything went wrong. It was not even torn up. The only true outward signs of her condition were the bites in her arm that did not bleed and her dissolved hair She attempted to call out the shot to her cousin, but she suddenly felt like she had swallowed a gallon of sand.

"Is she here? You need to give me some direction." Yutaka said. "I can't find her in the crowded." The fear that was in her voice before was gone. She knew what this meant to her cousin and she knew she had to be strong.

Konata could not have spoken to save her life. She looked trough the scoop at her best friend. She could not help but notice what was missing. The lilac haired girl was normally so emotionally charged, her feeling always showing on her face. For the first time, there was nothing there. Just a listless face. The next thing Konata noticed was the eyes. The piercing blue pools of intelligence she could get lost in for hours were just plain out gone. The color was still there but the shine, the little twinkle that showed that the girl was always thinking was nonexistent. It hit her suddenly that she was about to KILL her best friend.

"Settle down konakona. Its not her anymore." She tried desperately to calm her self. "But she could still be in there just under the surface!" The irrational side of her brain screamed. There was a sudden moment where it took everything she had to not run out to the girl and hug her. "If there is anything left it's just trapped in that bloodthirsty shell. I'm doing her a service. She tried desperately to convince herself of this last fact.

After a few seconds of deep thought, she suddenly felt stable again. She lined up the shot and in as steady a voice as she could mange she called out the position.

"Seventy-five yards, slight west wind. I'm sorry." said Yutaka in a voice far weaker then that of her cousin.

Konata compensated the needed amount and as a single tear traveled down her cheek, she slowly pulled the trigger. The bullet left the gun and traveled to the head of the being that was once Kagami. It hit her square between the eyes and exited out the back of its head. The body stayed up for a second and then slowly collapsed. The knees went first, the shins meeting with the pavement. Slowly, the torso and what was left of the head tilted back to the ground.

DING DING DING DING DING DING

The screen in front of Konata flashed bright colors and said in an epic voice. "You have earned the achievement ,Take Them Out of Their Misery." Konata stood up from her crouched position and did a short little dance.

Yutaka was siting in the corner as far from the television screen as she could get. Her legs were attempting to find a way past her ribcage and her Knuckles were white from the grip of the game controller.

"I was safe in my room, but then she just had to play truth or dare." Yutaka thought, feeling a mix of fear and anger at her cousin for making her play the scariest game she had ever she looked up at her cousin, she felt her anger very suddenly disappear. "Onee-chan, why are you crying?"

"Oh just getting into character. I mean come on, I was in a way killing my best friend ." Said Konata as she wiped the tear from her cheek. She looked at the distraught girl in the corner and had a great idea.

Yutaka notice the cat grin spread across her cousin's face and knew something bad was about to happen.

"You know Yu-chan, if we go play truth or dare with Minami I bet we can get her to play too. And then you can kill off your future lover also." Konata said in a happy tone.

Yu-chan could not tell if the last part of the sentence was a slip, but to avoid the subject she instantly agreed to the proposal.

"Now come on we're all about to switch sides. If we team up, we can turn Kagamin into a zombie again." Konata yelled as she grabbed her controller and rand out of the spawn zone.


In the house of a certain lilac haired girl.

Kagami heard the shot trough her TV but by then it was too late. Her screen flashed with the words, " You have been sniped by Konakona."

"Damn the little menace, I swear next round I'm getting here back." said Kagami. As soon as the next round started, Kagami grabbed her controller.

Tsukasa was lying next to Kagami on the floor. She was curled up in a tight ball and her eyes were closed as tightly as they could possibly be. A low muttering of rainbows, puppies and stuffed animals could be heard from her. When she opened her eyes, she saw the fires of revenge burning in her twin's eyes. She was suddenly no longer afraid of the game. In fact, after seeing that she thought she might no longer be afraid of anything.


First, I want to thank my beta, Smusher6. If you haven't read his stuff, go read it now!... Well review this first, then go read his stuff. The idea for this story came from The Walking Dead on AMC, an awesome series. Also there is a slight possibility that I will write a alternative to this story where the gun jams and Kagami wins.