Alucard's little sister: Disclaimer, I don't own Oomph! (German band) and see first chapter
Editor Cain: just finish the story this time.
New member arrives
On 13 Williams Street was a small duplex that was once just a house. It had two floors and a half-finished basement. The master bedroom on the second floor was turned into a kitchen and a walk-in closet was turned into a bathroom. It was one of very few houses that were still standing along the street.
A bright, blue light flooded the duplex. In the basement, Paul Artman sat on a rubber mat. He was wearing a fireman's fire suit and welder's glasses. His rubber gloves holding on to two wires. "Ok, that didn't work," he said. "Let's try another wire set up." He connected two more wires together. He shut his eyes tight and connected more wires.
"Gott ist ein Popstar," shouted the iPod upstairs making Paul jump.
He dropped the wires. "It worked," he said taking the glasses off. "Now, we don't have to worry so much about those generators. We got power from the grid." He slowly got up. "Now, I just have to rig the power plant like the generators." Slowly, he walked up the stairs. The first thing he noticed was the sun setting. "Damn girl," he said turning the iPod off. "What's taking her so long?" The alarms went off. "Yea, yea, I'm getting to that!" He shut a metal shutter over a window. "Goddamn it," he growled grabbing his leg. "It fell asleep!"
The front door opened. Ichigo bounded in and sat next to Paul. Leona soon followed. "I'm back."
"You're late," he snapped. "Now bolt the door!" He noticed John.
"I found someone," she said. "He's a doctor."
"Actually, I'm just an intern."
"Good enough. Now help with the windows!"
Leona put the metal bar down on the door and pulled a metal shutter down. "Come on, we'll get the upstairs windows." She grabbed John's arm and ran up the stairs.
He chuckled. "I never thought anyone would show up." He shut the kitchen shutters. "Hey, Leo! Turn the traps on in the basement for me," he shouted.
"The upstairs windows are set," she said running down into the basement.
John watched him nervously. "Uh, what do you want me to do," he asked.
Paul pulled a magnum from his jeans. "You get that urge to touch my daughter," he loaded the gun. "And I will not hesitate in putting a bullet in your head, got it?"
John put his hand in the air and slowly nodded.
"Good," he put the gun away. He ran his hand though his brown hair. "By the way, what is your name?"
"It's John Silivo," he said without looking at his wallet.
"Well, John, just sit in the kitchen. Dinner will soon be served."
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"This is dinner," asked John staring at the container of Ramen.
"That's it, unless you want to eat dog food with Ichigo," said Paul.
"Or cat food with Momo," said Leona.
"No, that's ok." He pulled the tab and opened the lid.
"So, tell us, John, where have you been staying all this time," asked Leona. "From your smell I'd have to say somewhere with no water."
"There was water just only enough to drink. I was on the top floor of some hotel. There was no power and the only water was on the first floor. Today, I found a radio with a battery in it and that's when I heard your broadcast," explained John. "So I ran to the pub as fast as I could."
"Did you go to the docks," asked Paul, "On the night of the quarantine?"
John stiffened. "Yeah, I was there. And, I don't want to talk about it again. What about you two?"
"Nah, we went here during the quarantine. This was my mother's house and she left it to me. We've been here since."
John finished the spoonful of Ramen in his mouth. "This is probably going sound rude but why did you start the radio broadcast?"
"Well, we figured that if we find more people we can afford a group rate for the ferry," he said sarcastically.
"Huh? But I thought everything fell apart when the virus attacked."
Paul and Leona looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"What? What did I say," cried John.
"You really haven't been near people in a while have you," said Paul. "I was being sarcastic."
"Huh?"
"Never mind, Leona why don't you show our new member his room."
"Ok," She grabbed his arm and dragged him upstairs. She brought him into a large room.
Most of the things were still there from when the room was a kitchen. The tile flooring, the stove and the refrigerator. Lines were all that were left of the cabinets. The bed was next to the stove.
"I hope you don't mind sleeping in a kitchen. Oh, and the walk-in closet is a bathroom."
"That's fine. I use to sleep in the kitchen of my apartment." He followed her back down the stairs. "What are you going to do now?"
"Oh, Dad and I usually play a game."
Outside the sun fell from the sky and night took over.
"Here it comes," said Paul.
The air raid siren went off.
John's heart began to beat faster. Oh, god, here they come, he thought.
The monsters began to prowl the streets. Their growls and screams could be heard in the duplex.
"Don't worry," said Paul grabbing a pack of cards and shuffling them. "They can't get us in here."
One of them screamed in pain and the others jumped on it.
"What's that," cried John.
"Oh, just them killing each other. They do from time to time," said Leona.
Sweat ran down John's face then everything went black.
