Highschool of the Dead (Demon Edition)
Chapter 1: The Dead Beckon...
1996/Japan/Tokonosu City/Shepard Residence.
That memory... I remember it as it was just a dream... I was born in the United States... Texas I think... we left the states and moved to Japan because my Dad who was a Marine got transferred to be stationed in Japan in case North Korea went on the offensive, since my Mom was in the Military too, only she was in the Army Corps of Engineers she was too transferred to Japan... My first thoughts of being here... I hated it... it wasn't home, I may have been five at the time, though I had a few friends.
Damon sat at the playground alone and away from the other kids, Hannah sat at the park bench talking on a cell phone to her husband about the moving. Damon was playing in the sandbox with his Green and Tan army soldiers deploying them around the sand in makeshift trenches. A shadow loomed over Damon, causing him to look up. Above Damon was a Pink haired girl who had her hair tied in a ponytail, her eyes a light brown looked down at his crimson red eyes. The girl adjusted her glasses seeing the boy playing in the sand with the soldiers around him.
"um... Hi?" Damon asked the girl who just leaned down to look at his eyes.
"Hello... what are you doing in the sand?"
Doesn't take a genius to figure this out...
"I'm playing, Army soldiers..." Damon stated getting up dusting the sand off his cargo shorts.
"I see... You're not from around here are you?" The Girl asked, Damon who was now sitting on the ledge of the sandbox.
"No, I'm from... umm the U.S." Damon replied to the girl who cocked her head, giving off a brief smile.
The Girl extended out her right hand to Damon. "I'm Saya Takagi" Saya told Damon where he shook her hand. "I'm Damon Shepard... its umm nice to meet you Saya... do you umm... do you want to play with me?"
Saya smiled sitting right by Damon entering the Sandbox with him, Hannah smiled seeing her son make his first friend in their stay here. Yuriko Takagi took a seat by Hannah seeing her daughter with her son.
"It seems my daughter has taken a liking to your son... I'm Yuriko Takagi by the way." Yuriko smiled at Hannah extending her right hand to Hannah. "Hannah Shepard... it's nice to meet you." The two gave each other a firm handshake while getting back to watching their children.
Years went by and Me and Saya hung out all the time, we went to the same school, movies, food joints, the works... Then I met a girl by the name of Rei Miyamoto... We went out together to the point where we were kind of dating... I didn't want to ruin Saya's friendship by messing up something with her if I did date her... now I regretted not asking her out... at the time she didn't seem to care that I was dating someone she knew nothing about... though deep down... I think she was hurt... I continued to go out with Rei and with a promise made with her... she broke it... and like the promise... she broke me by dating another one of my friends Hishahi Igou... Saya was there to pick the pieces back up we started to hang out more and more.
Around the years advancing towards 2011 I met a transfer student new to the country named Nick Orion, He is a young man with dark brown hair, and dark green eyes, standing tall at 6'3, he was born in a US embassy in Germany, born from a young woman whom ...worked at night, his father a U.S army officer, before facing a dishonorable discharge, his father pulled as few strings with some higher up friends, and was relieved of duty, where he then moved to Japan, to start a business with an old friend.
May 13th 2012 /Fujimi Academy...
Damon stood by the railing of the stairs that led outside viewing the entire academy.
Summer can't come soon enough...
"Damon what are you doing up here?" Saya called out to Damon, which he turned around leaning against the rail to see his friend giving her a soft smile, which she in responds puts her hands on her hips giving him a cocky smile.
"Nothing much just enjoying the view..."
"You know you can be so lazy sometimes, I'm surprised you been keeping up with your classes... like the one you should be in right now..." Saya scoffed crossing her arms across her chest.
"I'm good for now, shouldn't you be in class right about now?" Damon asked Saya who closed her eyes while giving him a smug expression.
"hmph Unlike you, I'm an A student, where I can miss non essential lectures."
"Well sure you're the smartest person in the academy..." Damon stated causing Saya to blush from hearing that while cracking an embarrassed smile.
Damon stepped forward grabbing both her hands gently, she looked up into his crimson eyes.
"Saya... I..." Damon wanted to say how much he cared for Saya's friendship, and maybe something about attraction, but didn't know how to voice it.
Saya's hands began to travel up his arms across his shoulders, while Damon's hands moved from her arms to her back. The two were locked in a dead stare, not knowing what to do, however before Saya could lean up, the two heard shouting in the courtyard down at the front gate leading into the academy.
"What the Hell...?" Damon asked slowly letting go of Saya's back with much protest from Saya as she made a noticeable 'Hmph', while joining Damon seeing the disturbance from the entrance. An Unknown man kept slowly bumping into the entrance gate, while three of the teachers began to investigate. One of the teachers grabbed the stranger through the gate slamming him up against the gate. Though what caused Damon and Saya to lean tightly against the railing was when they saw the stranger bite the teacher in the neck causing him to collapse with blood gushing out of his jugular.
"Holy shit..." Damon said quietly, causing Saya to grab on to his arm from the sight she just saw.
One of the female teachers got close to the downed teacher, she sounded relieved as she saw movement, though what Saya and Damon saw next caused their eyes to widen, the downed teacher got back up taking the female teacher down biting her.
Fuck this, got to get out of the school!
Damon turned Saya to his direction, grabbing on to her shoulders.
"Saya... we need to get out of the Academy..." Damon said to her in a nervous voice, obviously shaken from what they just saw.
The two quickly ran back inside the building running through the vacant hallway.
"We have to hurry Saya, we got to beat the announcer before the school is sent in to a fucking panic." Damon told Saya who was running with him.
"Less talking more running!" Saya told Damon while spotting their door. Damon and Saya quickly rushed through the halls to find their friends.
Have to run faster... must run fucking faster!
Sliding across the hallway on his shoes, Damon slid the door open causing the students and Teacher's eyes to concentrate on him and Saya. Damon quickly walked towards Hisashi and Nick's desks, with Saya following him.
"Damon, what's going on?" Hisashi asked, while Damon was catching his breath through his nostrils.
"We need to go... right now..." Damon said between breaths.
"What, why?" Nick asked.
"People outside just got killed, no Fucking horshit, we need to go." Damon grabbed Hishahi's arm pulling him up from his desk, which caused Rei to get up from her chair pulling on Damon's arm, which caused his heart to race seeing Rei's face angry at him..
"What's with you, I can't understand what the Hell you're always tal-" Saya had enough of Rei's disrespect towards her friend, her hand came into contact with Rei's cheek leaving a red mark.
A minute later, Damon, Nick, Hisashi, Rei, Saya, and Kohta were moving through the hallway trying to get off of campus grounds.
"That's insane! Why would the P.E. teachers just attack each other." Rei shouted at Damon while running.
"It's not crazy I was with him when it happened!" Saya yelled back.
"Well maybe they finally just got tired of one anothers shit? eh?haha" Nick says taking this as a bad joke.
"Nick if this is seriously happening do you think this is the time for jokes?" Hishashi asked while making a sharp turn.
Nick laughs and shrugs "Well, if it is seriously happening, then this may be the last jokes I get to make, so yeah, I think it is" he says with a wide smile as he pulls a piece of chewing gum from his pocket and sliding it into his mouth.
A moment later the speakers across the school were activated with the announcer who began explaining the situation.
"Shit I expected us to be at least on the first floor!" Damon yelled while taking a stop seeing a workbench in the janitorial room.
I got an idea!
"Damon uh what are you doing?" Kohta asked seeing Damon move near the workbench.
"Give me a sec... Nick give me your bat..."
Giving a shrug Nick handed Damon his bat, a few seconds later Damon handed back the same bat with nails everywhere on it.
"hot...damn!..I wanan try this thing out now!.." he looks around at the others.. he even has to admit.. he sounded a bit too excited about that.
Damon seeing more tools began combining multiple objects followed by him doing something with duct tape and nails inside a socket wrench casing. The groups eyes widened seeing Damon making a shotgun that fires nails.
"Just like Mom taught me..." Damon said with a sense of accomplishment.
Seconds later Damon built a gun for Hirano that was mobile with pressurized gas.
"Wow! you even go a crosshair sight for this!"khota shouted with glee.
"D-Damon where did you learn to do all this?" Saya asked obviously surprised that Damon turned tools to weapons.
"My Mom got me into the area of messing around with stuff, Taking stuff apart putting back together... or creating something entirely new, my Mom said I was some sort of a handyman, told me I could make anything and everything better," Notices the remaining items "Not much I can do now... let's get a move on there should be a flight of stairs on the crosswalk outside, we need to hurry or we might not get out of the school..." Damon pointed behind him hearing the screams erupt from all over the school.
On their way to the crosswalk, Damon tried several times to contact his Mom's cell number, hoping she's safe at the house, but the line was busy, causing him to worry.
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U.S. Military Base : Fort MacArthur
"Move! Get the fuck in gear boys!" yells a captain to the men under his charge, he was given the order to deploy his men in the crumbling city dubbed by the military simply as "city T" for Tokonosu.
"Captain Shepard!" Col Jackton called Captain Alan Shepard.
"Sir!"
"Get your men down to the city T and assist the local forces with evacuating and containing, you understand? you'll be under the charge of the superiors in that area, coordinate with the local police and SDF."
"Sir the official orders declared it a riot, why is this under U.S. Military Jurisdiction? Is this even a Riot?" Alan Responded to his superior.
The Colonel sighs putting his Cigar back into his mouth, and whispers to the captain "Rioters don't bite and eat people..." then turns on his heels and leaves to coordinate the light relief column
Alan's eyes widened hearing that the first thing that came to mind was the safety of his family.
"Sir... My Family is in Tokonosu... My wife is in the Army Corps of Engineers and my son is attending Fujimi Academy..." Alan says hoping for support on evacuation since they were Americans.
The Colonel turns to look at his Captain and nods " While in the area, you may dispatch a squad to secure them."
Several Black Hawk Helicopters could be seen with either the SDF insignia or the U.S. insignia on it, while M1 Abrams began moving outside of the gate accompanied by HUMVEEs, APCs and Bradley light tanks.
The colonel leaves to coordinate the rest of the soldiers, leaving the Captain to ponder what he said to him... people eating one another? Hannah... Damon... I'll get you out of this place...
An APC stopped by Alan opening it's doors for him, along with several Non Commissioned Officers.
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*Thump...*
"Hishashi!" Rei cried out seeing the teacher with a pole in his heart biting Hishashi's arm latched on to it.
*Thump...*
Nick and Kohta could be seen trying to pry off the teacher from Hishashi's arm.
"Get the Fuck off of him you prick!" Nick yelled trying to pull him off.
Damon took a few steps towards the others, causing Saya to yell stop.
*Thump... Thump... Thump...*
Damon grabbed the head of the teacher, moving it sharp to the right smashing it on the railing causing it's head to crack, blood came gushing out as the teacher became unresponsive, not even a twitch.
Damon just looked at his hands... blood... while sprinkles of blood covered his face. The world around him was spinning, high pitched ear ringing could be heard while the faces on his friends were of shock. Rei shook Damon's arm calling out his name.
"Da- …... Dam- Damon!" Rei shouted his name on the third try.
Damon snapped out of it, seeing that they were still in the school.
"Holy Shit... Dude Damon... I think you smashed his head in..." Nick pointed out seeing the corpse below them.
"Thanks Damon... I guess that was one way to get that bastard off..." Hishashi commented on.
Saya tugged on Damon's arm causing his attention. "Hey come on this is no time to be fazing out, we still have to get out of the school..."
The Door in front of their passage busted open with bloodthirsty undead students.
The roof... we need to see what's going on from up there... and barricade.
"Guys there's no way we're heading through that... we need to get to the roof and barricade ourselves until we wait for rescue or find another way out." Damon said moving to another direction that led to the stairs.
"W-wait shouldn't we go to the teachers in the faculty room, maybe they know what to do..." Kohta stated which earned him a smack on the back of the head from Saya. "Don't you think others might have thought of that... look let's find out shall we?" Saya said pointing at the floor above them on the outside.
Several students could be seen bashing their hands on the door hoping for an answer, the door opened up revealing an undead teacher grabbing the student's face biting him.
Kohta stood in shock and silence only, turning towards Saya to accompany them up the stairs. On their way to the stairwell leading to the top of the roof, Damon discharged his makeshift shotgun into a group of the Undead on the stairs causing them to collapse as most of the ammunition fired were lodged into their heads.
"Nice Shot!" Hisashi complimented, soon followed by Kohta firing perfect headshots on his targets.
"Holy shit man..." Nick said as he watches Kohta fire and every time landing a kill shot.
Kohta did not reply, completely absorbed in his slaughter of the mindless monsters before the group.
Nick shrugged his shoulders... "here goes nothing!" he rushes and slams his bat into the skulls of a few infected..the nails helping with the sheer brutality...he stares in shock.../why did that feel so good?../ he wonders.
Getting to the very top of the roof was no walk in the park, beating the undead to get to the roof was a challenge though the survivors pushed onward to barricade the stairway. Most of the group was out of breath, while Hishashi, Damon, Nick, and Kohta tried to find anymore materials they can use to fortify the barricade. Three sets of Helicopter blades could be heard thundering overhead as they pass over the school, Rei took that as a sign of rescue and began moving her arms trying to get their attention.
"Blackhawks? Are those American Choppers?" Damon asked seeing the front one had the U.S. symbol, while the other two didn't.
"I think they were Self Defense Force..." Kohta said trying to make out the insignia on the other two.
"Hey! We need help! Down here! " Rei screamed at the top of her lungs hoping to gain their attention.
"Rei it's no use, do you think they came all this way to rescue us?"
"The short answer is...no, no they didn't...by the looks of it, they are headed for the plants to keep the power running...godspeed guys.." Nick says leaning his back against the rails of the rooftop.
A noticeable gag came from Hisashi, followed by the floor below him being painted with blood coming out of his mouth, Hisashi's skin was becoming paler and his skin around his eyes darkened. the young man sputters more blood from his mouth as he falls to one knee..Rei coming to his aid to hold him up, expressing her concerns.
"Hisashi! what's wrong? are you okay?" Rei asks, her eyes becoming misty as she fears the worst...
Hishashi cough and shakes his head "No.. I don't think I'm gonna make it guys..."
"Rei... get away from Hisashi..." Damon said with an blank expression.
"No! He's not going to turn!" Rei yelled at Damon, leaving Damon to walk towards the two.
Damon pryed Rei off of Hishashi, with much protest from either her fist hitting his arm or his chest.
"Stay away from me Rei... I don't want you to see me when I turn..."
Hishashi grabbed his arm that was bitten screaming in agony as it felt like it was on fire. Hishashi rolled around on his back he took one last breath before exhaling his last breath before death.
Rei's eyes began to water seeing Hishashi was now gone, while everyone's head was lowered down in respect. They all stopped when they heard a gurgle cough followed by blood being spit out from Hishashi.
Rei's mood heightened thinking that Hishashi was okay.
"See he's okay! Hishahi?"
Hisashi stood up turning towards his friends, the others stood in horror seeing the zombified face of their friend. Damon looked at his shotgun turning it around readying it for a blunt attack with the stock of the weapon.
Damon's fists tightened on his weapon, running towards his reanimated friend screaming out a war cry as his weapon came down on hishashi's skull cracking it and destroying the brain.
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Okay so this story is going to be a Damon X Saya X Saeko X and maybe Rei... Okay Rei..
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