High school of the dead: Living amongst the dead

'You are a disgrace to your country son, that is why we are using you to test the serum, maybe because of it you will actually do something good for once'

The room was bright Benjamin Sokumoto was strapped down to a metal table bright lights shown around him, there were others in the room, they stood in a group with clipboards in their hands, two others stood beside him a man and a woman. They prepped the vital machine and the woman held a syringe in her hand as she stepped over to him slowly.

'Now Benji stay still and be a good boy for mommy make me proud for once.'

He felt tears in his eyes but he couldn't speak his mouth was covered, his body lay paralyzed as she slowly stuck the needle into the I.V. inside his arm.

He began to drift away as he heard the two speak, the male spoke to the female as he began drifting from the world.

'Don't worry he is just a worthless piece of shit his sacrifice was worth nothing… we will drop him off at the hospital but he is brain dead now and he won't ever come to, the serum has failed'

He drifted off into the darkness..

'I'm dead, all there is left is darkness' his voice echoed throughout the darkness…

He was in silence as his own voice echoed, another voice broke through as he began to waken.

'Benji?! Benji get your ass up we gotta move come on!'

He sat up quickly his hand touched the back of his head causing him to wince in pain, his fingers covered in blood.

'Ouch! What the hell happened to me?'

He looked up at Sakki Uguisu with a pained expression. This was the first time he actually noticed her appearance. Her long copper hair was tied in a ponytail at the base of her neck. Her eyes were grey, with slight circles beneath them, probably from the lack of sleep. The navy button up she wore was smeared with blood, and her sleeves were rolled up. Her grey pants were torn slightly at the knee and the laces on her boots were undone.

She smiled hesitantly 'Well-er-I kinda hit you in the head on accident' She stood with a smile as Benji began to speak. 'But…I dragged you into this abandoned building for safety…problem is they are started to break down the door'

Benji began to stand up, his head felt swollen and he was dizzy but he stood onto his feet just fine, he picked up his baseball bat and held it tightly in his hand, he turned his head and snarled at Sakki.

'We will talk about this later, but right now we gotta find safety far away from all this bullshit going on'

He turned and looked around the room it looked like the lobby of the apartment, there was the clerk counter and a few elevators, but the power was out so those were useless, there was two doorways at the end of the room, one which lead to the rooftop and the other into the supply closet.

'Okay first let's get our asses into the supply closet, so I can hopefully find something to bandage my head that you decided to use batting practice with!'

He stare glared into the dark regions of her soul.

'It was an accident, gosh!'

He turned and headed toward the supply closet and kicked it open, there were two shelves of medical supplies and a few bottled waters, two duffle bags lay in the corner and a few flashlights and batteries were on the top shelf. He grabbed the bags handing one to Sakki as he began to stuff his bag with medical supplies, a few bottled waters and two flashlights and batteries. Sakki did the same as they split up the supplies equally. Just then the front door began to creak as it began to bend. The hinges began to break off and the door suddenly fell to the floor and the undead began rushing inside.

'Quick! Get up to the roof!' Benji yelled as he kicked open the door and began running up the stairs as Sakki quickly followed behind. The horde followed behind them as they raced up the steps to the rooftop.

'Benji wait!' Sakki yelled from, behind him, he stopped as he turned and glanced down, Sakki began to slow down as she tried to catch her breath, she fell into the wall her body slid to the floor. He watched as the undead began to crawl up the stairs toward her, he looked up toward the rooftop door at the top if the stairs then back at her.

'I'll be damned if I let her die!'

He dropped his bag and bolted down the stairs the baseball bat held tightly inside his hands as he lifted it up and swung it into the forehead of the closest zombie near her. He pushed them back as they tumbled down the stairs and began to rise again and proceed up the staircase toward them.

He knelt down as he lifted her up, her breath was weak and she was limp. He tossed her over his shoulder as he swung the bat in his other hand at the zombies who came close to them. He turned running up the stairs and through the door to the rooftop. He set her down against the door side and ran back into the staircase. Immediately he was met by a zombie, he pushed the bat inside its mouth and pushed it back as he swung his weapon sending blood splattering all over his face. He pushed them back as he reached for his bag. He turned headed for the door again once had the bag in his hand, before her could exit the doorway he was grabbed and pulled into the clutches of one of the undead.

He felt a sharp tear in his left shoulder as a chunk was tore for his body, he screamed as he flipped the zombie over his shoulder sending it landing on its back onto the staircase, he took his bat and shoved the end of it through its face as it fell limp and dead.

He pushed the rest back and shut the rooftop door and put his bat between the bars so it wouldn't open.

He covered his bite wound and ran over to Sakki as she lay weak, she lifted her arms and pointed to her duffle bag.

'M-my inhaler…I put-it-in the bag'

Benji turned and searched inside her bag and pulled out a small blue circular inhaler and handed it to her as she took a deep breath and exhaled from it.

'You could've told me you had asthma, I think I'll let you off the hook for hitting me'

She smiled and looked at him as she grabbed some of the bandage from her bag and slowly wrapped the wound on his head. 'Good and thank you for saving me'

He grinned and sat back as he popped his neck wincing slightly from his bite wound but brushing it off.

'No problem, just doing my job…But we can't stay here we gotta move soon'

He looked around and noticed a ladder sitting over at the edge of the building boarding onto another.

'It seems someone had the same idea as me'

He stood up, his left shoulder hunched as he fell over in pain on the floor.

Sakki rushed to his side turning him over onto his back as she noticed the blood leaking through his shirt.

She began to move the shirt from his shoulder to examine the wound but Benji pushed her hand away.

'No, please'

She looked down at him and pushed his hand back as she moved the shirt revealing his bite wound, he turned his head and covered his eyes.

'You were bitten?!'

She sat back and shook her head as she stared at his wound.

'That's not good, not good Benji you know what happens when you get bit right? I'm gonna examine it to see how far the infection has spread, okay?'

He looked at her as she stared down at him kindly but her eyes were worried, he nodded his head.

She touched it with her pointer finger and he let out a soft groan in pain, she took a pair of tweezers and a flashlight and began to examine the wound.

'That's weird' She said lifting her head in confusion. 'Your skin is deteriorating, it's actually healing itself'

Benji lifted his head confused.

'What do you mean!?'

'I mean that you aren't turning Benji, you are actually healing'

She quickly wrapped up the bite wound and helped him to his feet.

'Where did you say you came from?'

He stood up and rubbed his head.

'I told you I don't know I woke up in a hospital bed'

There was a thud on the door that led to the stair case.

'For now let's get out of here'

They rushed across the ladder and pulled it over the edge with them. The rooftop had no doorway access or fire escapes.

'Okay we will rest here for tonight, then figure it out for tomorrow'

'Benji? Do you know what this means, About your bite mark I mean?'

'What?'

'You are immune, we can actually make an antidote, we may have a chance. We just need to find somewhere to make it… better yet someone who knows how'

This was it…first day of my new life and I've found I am immune…. Maybe there is hope after all…maybe there is another chance… but the journey is still long and there are still many obstacles to overcome…But we aren't gonna be saved… that we have to do ourselves.