Location: Class A - Abandoned Mahora Academy: Junior High Division
[I've waited so long to find this special group of people. Tracking down each one of the famous "Mahora 3-A Survivors" was an arduous task. At last after months of searching, my efforts are rewarded as I sit in a dusty, ruined classroom located on the grounds of the once beautiful Mahora Academy. Across from me is the first survivor, a ghost girl, student number one, Sayo Aisaka. She hasn't aged a day since the War started or for the past seventy-five years for that matter. Sayo looks sadly out a dirty window as she waits for my permission to begin.]
It all started when the staff heard of the Ridge incident across town, you know, where a group of towns people were attacked by those seven 'crazies'. I don't know exactly how it happened but I was able to sense the panic in the air. The Dean was constantly coming back and forth from the school to another place. I could sense his uneasiness as he stared out of the window in his office. Being a ghost, I'm very sensitive to human emotions.
How did the staff react to the Ridge incident?
They put up barriers, believing it to be a magic attack and such. In that time, we had a lot of attacks lately and the Dean was on edge. Of course, no one knew the real reason why everything was going on.
[Sayo turns to look out the window again and says no more]
What happened when they came?
It was still dark, the sky was turning light but you could still see the stars. The Dean hadn't left his office. He was still trying to find a way to stop them. Nobody here was waiting for it. Everyone was either asleep or on single patrol. Nobody thought that it could get through the barrier. No one thought that the infection could spread so silently and so quickly. Nobody thought that they could withstand so much magic attacks, they didn't think to shoot the head. We were caught totally unprepared, just like the rest of the world.
Where were you?
I was here like always. I was eagerly waiting for the school day to start with Negi-sensei and everyone else. I didn't think any of it when the clock chimed seven forty-five and there was still no one here. So I waited.
Waited for what?
For everyone to come.
And when they didn't come?
I started to get worried but that didn't last long.
What do you mean?
At around eight fifteen, the screaming started.
Then?
I saw a large group of people running toward this building. I watched from the window as they all ran in here. I heard when people started shouting to barricade the windows and doors. I heard when people started fighting with each other in panic. I heard some people crying, saying they were injured and needed help. And I heard people dying. That's when I got really scared.
Scared? Why?
I'm a ghost and I fear death, why else?
[She chuckles sarcastically]
No, but I was the only one paying attention when they broke in. I was watching in shock as the wave of zombies came from the main street. There was hundreds of them, perhaps thousands and those were the ones I could see. I don't know how many there truly were.
Did you try to alert anyone?
Absolutely! But I couldn't tell anyone. I'm a ghost that only some people could see and there was no one here that could hear me, not that anyone would even notice me in all the chaos going on in here.
[She looks from the window to me with sad eyes on the verge of crying]
The humans in here were killing themselves while the zombies that were out there got inside! I had to watch helplessly as the humans who were trying to protect themselves were murdered either by their own or by the zombies! I couldn't do anything to save anyone! All I could do was watch!
[She turns back to look out the window with a sad smile on her face]
I had a front row seat to witness the end of Mahora Academy. I saw how everything started and how everything finished for this school. I still don't know if any of my old friends survived the Z War since none of them have tried to contact me after the school was declared clean. But I don't blame them. If I could leave this place, I wouldn't come back either.
