Late, i know. I made my first reviewer dissappointed by not publishing new chapter for the past 4 weeks, i have reasons for it nut i won't mention it
I might change the story view to a first-person, maybe since i'm not so good with the third-person so far...
Sorry for any misformats or typos, i have a shitty connection
Disclaimer : I own nothing but the story
Occurrences
"Che! Can't believe those fuckers survived this shit!"
"...They saved our lives though..."
"Wha- Even if they HADN'T i can get here getting away from this hell by myself anyway!
The bus that X decided to use for his friends and teachers to escape the school, currently drived by miss Cinnamon, have made their way out of the zombie infested yard
Cerveau choose to follow his students plans, particularly Xavier since he know the kid well enough.
"Hey shut up! Those guys gonna hear you..." Said a student to his loudmouthed friend
Apparently, the bus are somehow divided into two groups, one belong to X and another belongs to some third years X saved earlier, or that's how Cinnamon perceived from the bus mirror.
While the other 7 students, consisting of 3 males and 4 females discuss of how the world is doing with all this zombies by searching through the internet, X and his group has their own discussion...
"...Anything from your parents Enzan?" X asked as Enzan tapped the call log in his smartphone
"Third time and no response..." Enzan said, his worried expression getting worse for each call he make
X didn't get as worried as his friends about parents, he knows his mother are somewhere safe, either that or she went with the army and fight zombies... THAT made him worried instantly, so he took out his cellphone and dialled his mother
To X utter relief, his mother responded "Hello? Xavier are you okay? Are you hurt? Where are-"
"I'm fine mother, i'm not bitten nor i'm wounded, how about you?"
There is a loud exhale from the other side, which made X tensed to hear his mother's answer "I'm fine too, i'm planning for an escort mission on the Prime Minister's convoy, they got to an accident...I will find a way to get you out from there soon so find somewhere safe to stay! Where are you now?"
X looked out from the front window and spotted Tokonosu castle, which is heading toward Onbetsu bridge "We are heading out to Onbetsu bridge, we-"
"NO! Don't cross Onbetsu bridge! You can't get through there, only childrens and parents are allowed first. Wait, you said we..."
People around X heard of their conversation"Yes, me, Zero, Ciel, Forte, Enzan, Roll, Milan, Cerveau and our school nurse. Also 7 students that i don't know with our vice principal along. So that's about..."
"18 people, that's quite a lot, i'm relieved there are some teachers around. But still don't cross Onbetsu bridge, just find somewhere with enough supplies and stay there, i will fin-"
The phone were suddenly cutted off, X yelled "Hello!" numerous times before checking that his cellphone were out of credits, he should have top up his cellphone balance today, but with all the chaos now he doubt that anyone would be stupid enough to sell any
"Damn! Anyone have any cellphone i can use?" X asked, Cerveau stood and give his smartphone to him
"Check my phone credit first, i doubt that it still have any" He says, X follow the suggestion. True enough, it's zero, X curses mobile network and social media in his mind
"It's out, thanks" X said, giving the phone back, then he turned to Zero
"i don't bring it" He responded, making X turn to Bass, he gives the same response
So lastly, Cinnamon who is focused on driving look at X from the mirror "Check in my bag"
X searched her bag located beside the driver's seat, there are bandages, alcohol and about 3 serums inside, and some medical tape thing by the look of it, after rummaging through those X found her smartphone at the bottom
And just as X somewhat expect, her phone can't make pre-paid calls, which only worsen X mood, still he gives his thanks and took a seat beside Zero
"The world gone to hell and no one can call anyone...You Enzan?"X asked, earning Enzan attention
"No...and my batteries are low, Roll's too...guess we have to endure not knowing our parent's condition..." He answered, his tone were gloomy and so is his younger sister's mood
All the while, X remembered that Milan and Ciel are staying around the rear seat, just next to the third years they saved, so X approach them and tell them to seat around the front. X know that Ciel hated the vice principal, and with him sitting behind them X felt that they should move away to prevent unwanted conflict.
The vice principal felt like he will have to handle the girl later, but for now he will plan on saving his own life, using other's mediocre level of logic of course...
"Facebook? How about that?" X asked to Enzan
"My parents are not the techy type, they still use pre-paid phones until now" Enzan replied, mumbling "Especially my father..."
"Zombie invasion are trending on Google now" Roll chirped "Everywhere throughout the world... The U.S, England, China, Africa...Japan..."
"That fast huh?...Guess zombie movies wasn't so accurate" Enzan commented
True enough, after a few minutes the bus are riding through dozens of vehicles wreckage, a result of the mass panic
"Either that or we are lucky to face them last..."
Looking at the road ahead of them, Cinnamon know that this bus won't go safely much further
"Zero..."Ciel whispered, Zero who is looking at the wreckages responded with a low "Hmm?"
"I'm not going to went through this with THAT GUY here!" She whispered loudly
Zero turned to look at her, then to the guy mentioned on the back, he sighed audibly and responded "Just bear with it, as long as he didn't bother you then it's fine"
"He IS bothering me! The air from his breath are bothering me..."She whispered again
Zero gave her a 'seriously?' look, he is aware of the history between the vice principal and her, but with all the chaos he preferred to settle it down, it's too much for a hassle anyway
"You want me to kick him out?" Bass offered, smirking at Ciel
"No we are not kicking anyone out, like i said. Bear with it" Zero ordered, Ciel clicked her tongue loudly and went back to her seat beside Milan, she mumbled about something offensive, but Zero couldn't care less
"Well, what do you think?" Bass asked, Zero turned at his brother behind his seat, giving him a questioning look
"If he were a bother later, would you kick him out?" Bass continued, Zero looked back outside not bothering with the question, Bass went back to his seat afterwards, he know that the answer is yes in Zero's silent look
"Alright, my mother told me that we should'nt pass Onbetsu bridge, she said that it's too crowded and only children's with their parents can pass...So is there anyone who lives nearby?" X announced, everyone looked toward each other, as they stay silent X took it for a no
But after awhile of silence, Cerveau stepped forward "I might have a good idea for where we can stay..."
Everyone looked at Cerveau, questioning his suggestion
Meanwhile...
"...Hey Blue! You went silent for awhile there, everything's alright?"
"Yeah... I was just busy that's all, these guys are BIG"
"Haha! Well they are russians...So got anything?"
Somewhere in Russia, inside a cheap looking apartement, a young man shuffled through dozen of dead bodies lying around in a cramped room. After searching through their coats and pockets resulted nothing he realized that he should have keep some of them alive
"Nothing...all i found is an order ciphered in numbers...they seem prepared to move out, either that or they expected us coming for them"He said, clicking on his intercom
The women on the other side replied "I don't think they expected us, i think...they were expecting those zombies instead"
"True, but they should know that i'm much more of a threat than some walking corpses. Either way we have to decipher this code, i'm heading toward extraction..."He clicked on the intercom, expecting a reply...
But nothing came, the line became silent as he keep calling "Control do you copy...?"
It's still silent, this prompt him to quickly exit the building realizing that things might go south if he don't... Just as he reached the door...
'BRAAK!'
The sound of door being rammed open echoed through the hall, the young man freezes as his hand still grip on the doorknob, then the sound of someone screaming were heard... and then another as the sound of crashing and screaming are coming closer toward his position
Wasting no time he quickly hide behind a couch and grabbed a rifle from the dead body near him, expecting the worse breaching through the front door
He double checked his surroundings, is it at my advantage? Which way i will escape? Anything i can use against them? were racing through his mind, calculating each step he will took in a brief moment and keeping his breath steady as he peek on the door from the couch's side
He waited for them to come, imagining every scenarios possible in this small room, but in the end he know that he have to improvise, that's what he is good at
One minute... Two minutes... Five minutes... Ten minutes... Nothing came inside, all he heard are boots shuffling and occasionally someone groaning outside, now he is sure that he will be surrounded out there
Jumping out of the window are stupid, he is on the twentieth floor with no emergency stairs, there is no way but through the elevator or the stairs inside the apartement
'Nothing is ever easy...' He thought, after awhile he decide it would be pointless to stick around any longer
He tiptoed to the door, making sure that everything went silent, the hardest part is opening the door where the hinge are probably rusted.
So he took a bottle of cooking oil from the kitchen and lubricate the hinge with it, after the oil seems to went through the hinge's gap he proceed to open the door very slowly...
Taking a peek, he nearly flinched when a half ripped face are facing him closely. He is used to a life and death situations but facing a real zombie is a whole new experience
He stood still as the zombie groans, after awhile he realized that the zombie did'nt see him at all
'Sound' The word clicked in his mind, staying quiet is the best way to get through
There are a small gap between each zombie lurking around the hall, he is in the last room of this level so the elevator are quite far
He put down the rifle slowly, then took off his leather shoes and proceed to slowly walk pass the closest zombie...
Calm is the key to succeed, normal people would have panicked when they were faced with a walking corpse so close to their face, but he is no ordinary person. He is trained to suprass the ordinary
He crouched and dodged any zombie that suddenly move toward him, he knows that if he even graze their clothes then it will be over for him
' Zombies... I always want to kill one, but for now i will let these live' He thought, trying to amuse himselves as he went closer to the elevator
At the sight of the elevator he realized that it won't be the best idea to go down with, who knows how many of 'them' are waiting downstairs?
His eye darted toward the green EXIT sign just across the elevator, that would be a better way to get down, he kept his slow pace despite having no zombies in his way
The bulky door would make a noise no matter how he open it, so he just opened the door quickly, making a loud clinking noise from it's knob
He did'nt bother to close the door as the zombies he pass through earlier realized that they had missed their prey and walk towards the source of the noise, but the man already went halfway toward the bottom
Reaching the ground level, he continued his silent approach, taking a peek from the small window of the door revealed the empty reservation room so he casually exited
He quickly realize his mistake as a zombie suddenly lunged at him from behind, but he responded the attack like anything he usually faced before. He used the attacker's weight against him, resulting in the zombie somersaulted to the floor
He took a quick view at the zombie's appearance, then stomped on his neck, the zombie groans...
'Tougher than human it seems' He thought, he took a small knife straped on his wrist and stab the zombie on his neck, yet he is alive enough to groan from the pain
'Do i really have to crush his head?' He thought again, but since he don't want to spoil his socks nor his shoes he slit the knife through the zombie's neck, after some blood squirting from it the zombie stopped groaning yet his hands still flailing around
The young man clicked his tongue, he really didn't want his expensive tuxedo have zombie's blood on it so he carefully cut the zombie's head off not wanting the blood sprayed toward him
"That took care of that" He said to himself, cleaning his knife using the dead zombie's shirt
"Hey!"
His eye jolted toward the entrance as his hands gripped at his handgun strapped on behind his suit, but soon relieved as the approaching women is his ally
"Glad to see you alive Rogue..." The young man said
"You too, let's get out from here" Rogue replied as she cautiously scanned the room
"Can you tell me what happen earlier?" The young man asked, Rogue walked toward the entance while saying "I will explain on the way, let us find a car first"
The young man complied, after he stepped outside the apartement he realized that they are surrounded by zombies everywhere, he gulped at the threat that is practically as far as his eye can see
"Sacre bleu... This all happened in half an hour?" He whispered as the two walk toward a nearby brown sedan
Rogue only nodded, her tinted visor glinted as she look sideways
The sidewalk are covered by a thick 5 centimeter snow so it is quite hard for them to move quietely, nevertheless they managed to reach an old sedan, Rogue make a quick work of the engine from the wires beneath the glove box, Rogue took off the straped PP-2000 on her chest and put it on the rear seat
Rogue stepped on the pedal and the car drove through several zombies on it's way, the young man remind her of his question earlier
"They breached through our room and swarmed on us, as sudden as that... I'm still alive because i was stupid enough to jump through the window and land on a car..."
"And lucky..." The young man chirped "So what plans do we have?"
The car slide through a tight corner, grazing a zombie on the center of the road...
"The plan is to went to the airport and wait for a chopper in case of a 'fail' scenario, and that is told by sending the panic button. Which i have-" She was interrupted by a wrecked car in the middle of the road forcing her to throw the steer to the left, sucessfully evading it
"...Which i have pressed, and we are allowed to force our way to the airport's runway" She continued
The young man expected more details on the plan, but Rogue remained silent as she drive through the icy road, with zombies for the obstacle and occasionally wrecked vehicles
So he let Rogue focus on the road, leaving him wondering of what will happen next, now with zombies are probably taking over the world now he become more unsure of his bosses plans...
The young man were stunned for every block they passed, humans fought their way here and there against zombies that block their path of escape, but no matter how many were killed there are always more... The road were empty, as if it was reserved for him and Rogue to have a quick trip to the airport, or maybe because they are the only people lucky enough to get inside a running vehicle
Gunshots can be heard through the sedan's closed window, he knows that those are the sound of AK's, the Russians pride and iconic weapon.
Guns or any noisy weapons is the least of things he would use against zombies, because no matter how big or how many guns you have you can't face a thousand of rampaging cannibals charging on you. Stealthy approach is a much better option, avoiding 'them' would save a lot of benefits
Still, if one doesn't have any knowledge in any hand-to-hand combat then one would easily panic over one zombie grazing them, so bravery is also taken into account, so is athleticism... You won't run fast enough if you can't even see your feet
As his mind wonders on and on about survival methods, the car suddenly pick up speed, he looked forward and realize that Rogue will ram through the airport's security gate
He doesn't bother to put on seatbelt, he knows the gate can be easily snapped, still he braced for the impact...
The car reached 100 kilometer as it crash through the gate, denting the sedan's hood a bit
The young man took a glimpse of the security post, not surprised that it is empty
Rogue decide to stop near the runway, exiting the vehicle and strap her smg back
"What now?" The young man asked, Rogue took out a small walkie talkie
She pressed a button, after a minute the other line responded "This is Charlie 5... Ground, identify yourselves"
Although the voice are disturbed by a constant static Rogue know that the man on the other side are Americans, she have heard all kind of language and his thick accent quickly reveals his race
"Charlie 5, this is Blue's operator, we have arrived at the extraction point, over..." Rogue replied
"Roger that, we'll arrive in 3 minutes, anything to confirm your position?"
Rogue took out a grenade, smoke grenade, from her army belt. She pulled the pin and throw it nearby , the grenade spray a thick green smoke"Charlie 5 our position is marked with the green smoke around the east part of the runway do you copy?"
There is a short silence from the other line, but after Rogue and the young man heard the sound of an approaching helicopter the other line responded "Copy that, standby for landing Blue..."
They looked upwards toward the helicopter's sound, but the raining snow are quite heavy that they manage to saw the helicopter's silhouette only as it approach the ground
It's a Blackhawk, but this one seems different as it is colored in jet black coating, the young man suspect them from a secret agency or something alike
As it landed smoothly, the Blackhawk's cabin door slide open and reveals a man dressed in a flight suit
"C'mon! Get in!" He yelled
The gusting wind from the chopper's blade blow away the raining snow from the nearby ground, the young man and Rogue ran while ducking slightly toward the helicopter, after they went inside the pilot shut the door
"Welcome aboard Frenchie! I'm Rick, your co-pilot for today, and that is Thomas" He said, pointing toward the pilot in the front
The pilot in front simply waved his hand, then he focused on the sky ahead as the snow made it hard to see through the night
Rick gave them a headset for communicating, assuming they already know how to use it he quickly went into the cockpit
The young man are quite suspicious of the pilots hospitality, if anything, they shouldn't speak to them at all. To confirm whether they are allies or not he asked them "Who sent you to pick us?"
"You guys from that DGSE right? General Director of-of...?"
"General Directorate of External Security..."The young man continued "Yeah that! Sorry i never speak french ya know" Rick responded
'It's english you dimwit...'
"Where are we going mister Rick?" Rogue asked through the headphone
"The sea is the safest place now Miss, so we're headin' to 7th fleet near Korea. Every top brass from the world are sailing toward our fleet as we speak" Rick replied
"Believe it or not, zombies have taken over the world! We only got 28 presidents and sorts for now" He continued
"7th fleet... why would they gather there?" Rogue asked, to the young man apparently
"Discussing of how to resolve this invasion?' He answered while rubbing his chin
"I know that!" Rogue retorted "What i mean is why would they sail all the way there? Why not in the UN?" She continued
The young man sighed "Didn't he says that the sea is the safest place? I would'nt mind sailing off the shore as long as those 'things' can't touch me"
Rogue opened her visor and wagged her long, brown hair. She wipes her visor with her coat, then rise it toward the dim green light above her, contrasting the clarity each time she wipes it
"Say that you were to do as such... Then other humans follows you, then would you be safe from those who follows your step?" She asked as she wipes her visor
The young man looked outside, his sight are absorbed with the night sky clouded with the raining snow, still he took some time to think of what she wanted him to answer
"Of course i won't, if i were their leader then my people will follow suit, and so is those who are not. And then so is the other leaders that is either my ally or they simply acknowledge my superiority over them. This opens the opportunity for the rivaling sides to kill us while we gather in one place... Is that what you think of this Miss Rogue?"
The young man can see Rogue's stunned face from the glass's reflection, he smirked as much as he is amuses with her face like that. There is a reason why he was picked by French to be their eye, ears and mouth in the street, and sometimes their violence. Since Rogue were recently transferred to his division it's no wonder she is not aware of his confidental history
Rogue looked outside the window afterwards, she did'nt want to make any conversation she can't win for the time being. And so the flight continued in silence for them...
Now back to the main group...
"That street is quite far, are you sure his place are safe?" X asked, wanting to confirm Cerveau's suggestion
"I might sound exaggerating, but from every house in this town, his house is probably the safest" Cerveau replied, giving a smug look
"Really? Well i guess we should head there then"
X turned around, gaining his group attention as he says "Everyone listen, since we can't cross the bridge now, we have to find somewhere safe for the time being. Cerveau has a friend who is vacationing out of the country so we should borrow his house for awhile until we can cross that bridge"
Ciel rised her hand, X were confused by such behaviour but let it slide anyway "Yes Ciel?"
"Should'nt we check the bridge first?" She asked, making the group attention shifted toward her
"It's definietly crowded with at least half the population of this part of town Ciel, and we should be relieved if there are more people there than zombies"X explained
The group seems to not buy it though, they all have seen their school were overrunned by 'them' in a matter of minutes, what made worst is Zero said that they were originally three of them from outside
If they were able to infest their school in such a rate, how hard it is to kill this town with it's crammed residential area?
The bus suddenly shook, nearly throwing X off balance, taking a look to the front the bus's window are partially covered with blood. The road are not so smooth apparently and since X had made his point to his group, he take the seat beside Cerveau
After another while the bus took a sudden brake and made everyone bended forward, the bus screeched as the brake locked the tires and halted just mere inches to a passing black car
The man driving the black car cursed Ms. Cinnamon as he passes
"You should'nt drive like that! It's dangerous!" Yelled a student from the rearest seat as he stood
"Yeah! We should find somewhere safe to hide and wait for help!" Yelled another student
"Why do we even ride with Zenjuro and his assholes!? They decided to go to the city without telling us! Their seniors!"The standing student continued
X wanted to retort to his ranting, but decided to go against it as it might worsen the situaton
"We should find somewhere to hide! Continuing this way will kill us!"
Sweat are pouring from Ms. Cinnamon's head, her mind were unable to focus on the road as the students behind her keep ranting loudly, to make it worse, just as her eye look up to the sky a helicopter were flying uncontrollaby, because people are hanging by it's landing bar... Eventually, they fall from a thousand feet into the ground...
That does it, Ms. Cinnamon stepped on the brake pedal hard, stopping it on the side of the street
"Shut up! I can't drive if you keep yelling like that!"
Zero took a glance at Ms. Cinnamon from the mirror, her face are showing a complex anger that is usually showed by those under great stress
Zero shifted his eye toward the disturbing senior, the older student caught his eye staring at him
"What? You want a fight blondie?" He retorted
"That's what you want..." Enzan said from the front, Roll nodded at that
"I hate these assholes! And this fucking ignorant 'gaijin'!"
"What did i ever do to you?" Zero retorted as he stood up
"You think you are some kind of hero!? C'mon! I will-"
He was cutted off from his words, quite literally... Bass launch a surprise from his seat toward the senior by sending his elbow straight to his mouth. As if that wasn't enough, as the senior staggered back Bass quickly grab his hair and pulls them toward his thrusting knee, resulting the older student knocked out from the tremendous blow to his chin
This made everyone flinched, mostly were amazed by Bass moves, while some were horrified, and Bass decided to give some words to add the fear...
"You think you are older and that made you stronger? You fuckers become a delinquent because it made you tough? You bitches don't even know a thing about robbing people! Let alone killing them..."
X rose from his seat and approach Bass, but just as he about to, the vice principal stood up
"Such a sight Forte! Well showed technique!"
The vice principal stepped over the unconcius student, standing closely to Bass and looked at him closely "However, this proves that we need a leader..."
"...Don't you think, young Xavier?" He asked, looking at X standing behind Bass
"Sit down Bass" X ordered, but Bass shrugged X's hands off his shoulder
"Shut up X! Don't you dare order me again! And don't think i won't knock you out of your feet!" Bass yelled as his index finger are pointing toward the older man
The older man are not intimidated however, in fact he found that Bass's rebellious trait will prove useful to him "I'm sure you are capable as such Forte, but you see, all i want is to get all of us to safety! There is no need for violence against one another! Think about it..."
The older man turned toward the rear seats, smiling as he says "We all want to get out of this place safely! But it can only be achieved if we work together! For a team, needs a leader!"
"So how about it? Who will choose me as the leader?" The older man continued, waving his hands upward in a grandeous manner
"Remember, for intelligence...won over brawn..."He says
The seniors hesitated to rise their hands at first, but at his last, convincing statement, they raised their hands and clapped at their now, new leader
"Thank you" He says as he slightly bows to the seniors "I, Dr. Albert Weil, shall show you! That we can survive this chaos! While others, cannot..."
The front group were slightly disgusted at how their seniors just voted Weil as their ,supposedly, new leader... Everyone knows that X is the one who put all the trouble in his hands to save them
Of course they won't... Since their pride would prevent them from acknowledging X as the one who saved them
Bass really want to punch everyone who is seating behind Weil, but he managed to contain his emotion by smoking, even if there are teachers around he doesn't care... Well, he never cares actually
"Smoking again Bass? That aside..."
"Miss Cinnamon! Open the door!"
Everyone looked toward the front, apparently Ciel is rushing Cinnamon to open the door
"Huh? But umm..."
"Just open it!" Ciel yelled again, fearing Ciel's wrath Cinnamon quickly pressed the door's button
"Ciel!" Milan called, but Ciel already went out on her own away from the bus
It didn't take long for Zero to realize what Ciel is doing, so he went out from the bus to catch up with her, but Weil interrupted first "Too bad, if she can't co-operate then she is just a lost cause" He said, shrugging his shoulder
Upon hearing that, Zero turned around and stare at Weil with a grim look "I will deal with you later..."
"Ciel! Wait!" Milan yelled, grabbing Ciel's hand and stopping her
"What? I told you that i'm won't sit in the same room as that bastard!"She retorted, forcing Milan to let go of her
"Why do you hate him so much?" Milan asked, but Ciel turned away while crossing her arms, refusing to answer
"Because he held her back a year"
Milan turned around to see Zero walking toward them, his eye remains on both side of the street as he walk
"C'mon Ciel, just bear with him until we-"
"Until what!?" Ciel retorted, cutting Zero off his words
"Until he find some more ways to make me miserable? Or humiliate me? Is that what you want?" She continued
Zero sighed, not having much in response "Whoa, whoa, what happened? Ciel what did mister Weil do to you?" Milan asked, Ciel merely turned away and keep walking further from the bus
Zero wanted to stop her, fortunately his eye caught a speeding bus heading toward them first
The couple sees it too, but they remained in silent as the approaching bus kept it's high speed, as it gets closer Zero is the first to break their trance
"GET BACK!"
Zero quickly jumped toward Ciel and Milan who is standing at the course of the collision, Milan jumped out of the way in time, Zero chose to tackle Ciel out of the way as the bus crashed to a car. The collision made the bus turned slightly to the right, to where Ciel and Milan stood before, as Zero tackled Ciel to the ground the bus pass at a mere inch from Zero's feet
The bus hit a wall nearby them, a second later the bus exploded, making everyone duck reflexively. The flame from the explosion quickly burns the trail of gasoline the crashing bus had left, this made a wide wall of flame between Zero, Ciel, Milan and the bus they travel with
Zero tried to leap through the flames, but realizing that Ciel can't do the same he throw the idea out and think of another way around
'We could wait for it to extinguish' He thought
To their horror, sound of groaning came from the dazzling flame, Zero took a step back as several zombies burns inside the flames. That didn't stop them though as the zombies are advancing toward Zero
He can't fight them while they are burning, and he is not stupid enough to try whether it's better than fighting them normally...
X jumped out of the their bus's entrance "Zero! You okay!?" He yelled
Zero spotted him from the other side, the zombies are slowly approaching him so he made his plans quick
"Yeah, meet us at the East Police Station!"
"At what time!?" X asked again
Zero took a second to think of the distance, as he estimated it without obstacle he answered "Morning! Meet us there in the morning! If we don't then tomorrow again at the same time!"
As the burning zombies went too close to Zero's comfort zone, he urged Milan and Ciel to climb the freeway's fence
"Ciel, you go first!" Milan ordered, but Ciel refused because...
"No! You-you could see my..."
A thought clicked in Milan's head, although he does fantasize about seeing what is contained under Ciel's skirt quite often, he couldn't see this as a golden opportunity to realize his fantasy. Probably because their life is in danger of being eaten and burned at the same time, but mainly because Zero is there with him
"Wha-? Just go! I will watch after Zero's back and not your... Well...J-JUST GO!" Milan ordered once again while shyly keeping his eye from Ciel
Zero took a glance at her, one look at his eye and Ciel knew she can't say anything more in this predicament
As Ciel brace herself to climb the sturdy, side road's fence the other side will have to find their way around...
"Let's go! Miss Cinnamon we have to find a way around to the East Police Station!" X ordered, trying to get a clear look at across the flame, but fail to do so as the flame are too wide
"O-Ok! Then we are going toward Onbetsu bridge, the left turn from the intersection there should-"
"Alright i got it! Just go Miss!"X ordered again, cutting Cinnamon who is about to rambling
Cinnamon step on the clutch and change to first gear then push the pedal as hard as she can, resulting a strong backforce that made X nearly fell
"What a fool..." Bass said, earning the recovered X's attention
"Hey! It's not like i-"
"Not you dumbass!" Bass continued, cutting X off as he took a seat
As the bus left, Zero climbed the fence following Milan and Ciel who is already at the other side. Now, they are facing the once, bustling street of the business district
"Alright, the plan is to wait for X at the police station. No matter what, stay together!" Zero ordered, the couple nodded solemnly
Looking around Zero realized that they won't make it without a vehicle on foot with all the zombies lurking around the corner of the street, he need a vehicle
Zero scanned the are for any car that is the least wrecked and safe enough to approach
Ciel checked her watch, showing 3 p.m past 14 minute and 43 second
"It will be dark soon Zero... But i hope you have other plans beside going back with them" She said, but Zero paid no attention as his eye are focused on a seemingly fine car
"What's going on between you and mister Weil Ciel?" Milan asked, his curiousity are reaching it's limit about this girlfriend of his
Ciel sighed, her expression are that of between wanting to tell him or keeping it to herself, in other words, she is conflicted...
It's not like it's THAT personal, it's just that... well, she is kind of feeling selfish to tell it to Milan about it
"... It's... complicated... so-"
"It's fine... if you don't want to then it's fine alright?" Milan said, his soft voice made Ciel comfortable
"Thank you" She said, then Milan gave her a hug while caressing her hair slowly
Ciel and Milan are deeply sunken at the comfort of each other, for a second they forgot just how scary the world is. They both know that, even if the world collapsed they will stay strong as long as they stay together...
Well, it's sweet really, until Zero smacked a zombie right behind them
"Whoa!" Milan yelled, reflexively shielding Ciel from the zombie's blood
Zero swing his wooden sword to the side, splattering the blood from it to the pavement
"Sorry for that, get inside we are going now!" He ordered while pointing toward a white SUV
"You can drive?" Ciel asked
Zero smirked as he opens the back door for her "It's automatic..." He replied
That didn't reassure Ciel though, still this is a better choice than walking
Zero looked around the area, making sure that there aren't that many zombies that might block them. After that Zero went inside the car, put on seatbelt and... "Put on your seatbelts, this will be a rough ride" ... order the couple to put on seatbelts while also warning them of the dangerous travel
With everyone ready, Zero put on the L gear and stepped on the gas slowly, trying to get the feel of the first car he ever drive, he is sure that he will learn how to drive fast enough since he won't have to worry about any traffic around, just zombies
"Don't you need a driver license for this?" Ciel asked
Zero shook his head while sighing, can't believe she just asked that "I don't think anyone cares about driver license anymore Ciel..." he replied
"Hm, guess you're right"
Something is bothering Zero though, and that is the glowing fuel sign right next to it's digital indicator that shows one bar toward empty...
Trying not to concern that Zero step on the pedal hard, the car jolted out of it's parking space and ran through a zombie underneath it, after that he slowed down and keep a reasonable speed as he drive through the tall office complex around...
I felt like everything that happened are planned...
Ciel ran away from the bus, then another bus come crashing on us, the fire it made block us from the others
Now i'm driving a car, despite never even holding a wheel steer before. Could it all happened just so i can drive a car?
Or maybe we will drive to a certain doom by crashing, or ran out of gas while being swarmed...
Either way, i can't tell. Maybe there is a bigger picture along the way?
Now it's me, Ciel and Milan heading to where we suppose to meet X and the others...
I don't believe this is planned though, i'm skeptic. Just hope we can make it through, the night is approaching
I felt like i can do much better with this, but i am suffering a 'writer's block' so i can't refine it much.