Chapter two: Highschool of the dead.
Dedicated to my hopes and dreams, RIP.
A/N: My favourite song I listened to while writing this was "Who wants to Live Forever?" by Queen. Yikes! Not these guys! Huahuahuahuahuahuahuaaaa!
A/N: Who'll die next? You decide! Write who you want and how so and it just might happen!
A/N: Sorry it took so long, just know that the first chapter took over a year to make. The whole series took years to plan out. I'll try to make this series come out quicker.
A/N: This story is so camp. I really enjoy being able to write such schlock and I hope you enjoy this too.
5 hours after impact
On better days, the principle's room would be full of song. Quite the musical connoisseur, he often played olds records on his antique turn table. Now with the school silent, a single song echoed through the halls. It was Lenard Cohen's "Hallujah", a slow melodic ballad that lingered over what dreams once were.
"I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?"
The soccer field was once lively, with young men trying to fulfil their pipe dreams of soccer careers. Now it was a graveyard.
"It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah"
The hallways, once where bored students trudged around the school, bullies picked on passer-by's, girls reminisce about boys, lovers met up. Life was abundant. Now rivers of blood and desecrated bodies decorated these halls.
"Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah"
The principle now lay, half his body crushed from a fallen staircase. A tentacle now rested in place of said staircase, pushed out from the monster.
"Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you"
The girls showers are still running, no one's there though.
"She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah"
And in the very bottom of the bowels of the school, lies the boiler room. Three people stand, and two lie down. Greullo stood before his two new queens, they would feast on the naked body of Risa. As Gruello talked to the girls, a weakened wall cracked down quietly.
"Hallelujah, Hallelujah"
"Welcome to immortality"
Lala and Haruna smiled.
"Hallelujah, Hallelujah".
4 hours after impact
Silence. Other than the feint sound of a foreign song. Silence.
Ren peeked his head out of the janitor's closet. He had to keep it shut from the zombies. And also the students. But how could he know if they were infected or not?
He slowly crept out, armed with a mop and toilet paper roll armour constructed with only the finest duct tape. He slipped over a wet substance.
"Somebody should clean that up" he muttered
"errr…never mind" he said staring at the pool of blood.
He pulled out a 'CAUTION – WET FLOOR' sign from the closet and placed it in the middle of the pool. The hallways of the school were obliterated, giant tentacles replaced classrooms, and skulls had been placed in neat little piles, presumably for a barbarian-esque warrior to pose on top of them. He walked down the fire escape, the concrete staircase leading to the floor above had collapsed. Ren reached the exit of the school and made a bolt for the gates. He heard a second pair of footsteps running in his direction. Ren made it past the gate and onto the road outside his school.
He turned to see the zombie chasing him…
But he never saw the speeding bus.
20 Minutes after impact
Slice and Dice.
Slice and Dice.
The hordes kept coming and they wouldn't stop.
The alien assassin turned her hair into thin blades to kill her targets, but they just kept on coming!
It took all of Yami's agility, strength and wit to make each calculated move. She had to take off the heads of these things, yet, avoid their mouths, hands and any contact with their fluids. She had seen others successfully take out these monsters, yet fall to infection via saliva or blood.
Unlike some of the poor souls who failed to protect their peers, Yami was well experienced with being forced to kill her loved ones.
On the ground were decapitated heads, snapping at her ankles and half dissected bodies crawling towards her. She turned locks of her golden hair into hammers and crushed them with little effort. She had faced many situations like this on other planets. Fortunately, these monsters were easy to kill for a child assassin. She slaughtered on until the plain white walls and the same sick blue plastic floor tilings were painted fifty shades of red. When the heads stopped chattering and the hallway looked enough like the ending to a Tarantino flick, she dissolved her weapons back into strands of hair. She calmly though cautiously descended the staircase, readied for an impeding attack, but there was none. The next floor had already been cleared, a pure puree of children painted this hallway as well. But at the end she saw a more horrifying sight – Her sister, Mea had been bitten. Her creator, Tearju and the school nurse Mikado were tending to her, but without any equipment or medicines to possible halt the infection it would be unlikely if Mea could make it.
"Yami!" Tearju exclaimed
Yami stood dead in her tracks and spoke without emotion "Have you been infected?"
Tearju stopped too, her hands her covered in blood, probably from tending to Mea, "No"
Yami smiled an ounce, "Good"
Tearju ran up and warmly embraced Yami. Tears poured down her mother's face, "d…don't look at Mea" she stuttered.
Yami gently pushed her mother out of the way and ran up to Mea. Mea looked at Yami with tired, scared eyes, too weak to speak, too weak to move. Her muscles shivered. Yami clasped her sister's hands, they were stone cold.
"You won't feel a thing…my sister"
Monster. Assassin. Inhuman. Those were words many had called the girl, but she had never been called Sister. This was the first and unfortunately, the last time she would receive any praise from her. Mea's last reaction was to shiver out a smile as her life left her. The girl stopped moving. Yami slowly put her sister's hands down and backed away. Yami felt an emotion she had never felt before, she supposed this was sadness.
"I'm glad you're okay Yami" said Mikado
Yami didn't react, she stared at her sister's body.
"How long do we think we have until she turns? …an alien being infected, I mean" Yami asked
Such an overt break from emotion shocked her elders, "I'm not sure" Mikado said after a pause.
"Yami, I want you to take this" Mikado held out a handgun, Yami just looked at it blankly.
"I want you to use this instead of your biologically-engineered-epidermis-mechanical-assault-functions. Just to prevent infection."
Yami stared with a puzzled expression.
"Your hair"
"Oh" Yami said and took the gun and turned the safety off.
A silent pause, a whole minute had passed.
Mikado spoke gently to her college, "Hey, I know you wouldn't want to…But I think we should go, the chopper's on the rooftop."
"NO!" Tearju screamed, Mikado jolted backwards, "There is no way in hell that I'm leaving my daughter behind! There is no way that-"
Mea sprung up and let out a gurgled roar.
"Aaaagh!" Tearju screamed
On instinct, the three rid the zombie in a hail of lead.
The zombie fell down in a haze of smoke and torn flesh.
The three were silent. Faint roars of zombies on floors below could be heard.
"Let's get out of here" said Tearju
With that, they left.
15 Minutes after impact
Mikado, Mea and the Principle charged through the hallways. Their destination, the rooftop. Mikado sent off a distress signal to the PUDA Organization. They told her they would send a chopper to the rooftop. Survivors fruitlessly race down the general staircase to meet their doom. Mea broke down the door to the fire escape and the three ascended the staircase.
"Whoa!" The principle exhorted as he stumbled over.
"Quick!" Mikado screams whilst pulling him to his feet.
Mea halted the others, they were standing on the platform before the fourth floor. A scream could be heard along with footsteps. Mikado pulled out her gun, a small but suitable Desert Eagle.
"Mikado-san, is that a gun?" The Principle whispered
"Being an extra-terrestrial nurse and nurse to said extra-terrestrials requires such a device." She explained
"Sorry? You're a what, now?"
"She's an alien, just roll with it." Mea stressed
"We'll explain everything to you later" Mikado said, "Stay behind me".
She kicked the door open and aimed her gun. Two zombies stared at her. A familiar face ran down the corridor and past a corner.
She shot the first zombie right in the forehead. A small child with large bug like eyes. The second zombie stared at her, Mikado didn't shoot. Because this zombie was once someone special to her, her assistant and friend, Oshizu.
"No. Not you" Mikado whispered.
Oshizu didn't attack her, it was as if she knew of her fate if she were to attack her friends. She took another course – head first out of the fourth story floor, landing perfectly on the ground floor and ran into the other side of the building to join the human smorgasbord.
"Come on" The Principle said, putting his hand on her shoulder, "let's get out of here"
"I-I…yeah" Mikado replied.
The three raced down the empty hallway and passed the corner. All the doors to the classrooms had been left open, no windows were smashed either. A strange change compared to the other floors. A lone figure stood in the middle, racing to the fire exit. It was Professor Tearju.
"Tearju!" Mikado exclaimed
The woman turned around and stared at them with both grief and joy.
"Guys, you're alive!" she exclaimed
They met up with their friend in the middle of the hallway.
"We have a chopper waiting for us on the rooftop" Mikado explained
"Really? I was going to go downstairs" Tearju said
"That's not a good idea" said the Principle
"Oh? Why?" Tearju said in a moment of highlighting her ditzy personality.
The three shuffled or looked away in discomfort, none were ready to talk about what they had seen. Tearju understood that, "S-sorry…l-lets go to the rooftop then"
"Right" said Mea
They began to run to the door, but a sound arose, several zombified children made their ways out of the classrooms.
"Guys, lets hurry, we can take them from the staircase" said Mea
A low rumble. A sound rumble. A heavy sound of footsteps, hundreds of them, all charging towards them from the other end of the hallway. The three zombies were joined by hordes in the hundreds. A chorus of dead moans echoed the school.
"Shit!" exclaimed the Principle
"Run!" Mikado commanded
The four bolted to the door, slamming it shut and proceeding up the staircase. Three made it up to the top of the next floor. They looked below, the Principle had fallen once again. Once getting up, he stumbled again, falling down the stairs.
"I'm fine" he grunted
"For gods sake!" Tearju cried, "Get up here!"
Fists pounded the door. The Principle climbed up the stairs, moving his stubby litter legs as fast as he could. He reached the platform between the two floors before falling once more.
The whole school began to shake. The platform grew cracks. Was this an earthquake?
The principle spoke "What the-" dust arose from the ground and a giant black tentacle pieced the bottom of the school. The lower half of the staircase collapsed and the principle vanished in clouds of black smoke and rumble.
"No!" Tearju screamed
Mea opened the next door and her eyes widened, another horde of zombies. Even more then the last one, all staring at her with a feast in their eyes.
Mikado grabbed her guns, Mea's hair formed into a dagger. The earthquake stopped and zombies had started to pick themselves up. Mea decapitated the first zombie, it neck became a fountain of blood. Mea was sprayed in its juices. Mea lay low as Mikado fired a round into several zombies. Mea got up and whipped her hair back and forth, slicing children like a hot knife through butter. The zombies kept coming, she delivered a double heaping of fists and feet at the horde, received painful bites and scratches. She used her hair to keep on killing. Mikado had her gun ready if she thought Mea as in danger. Too bad she didn't realise the alien was already doomed. Mea roared and massacred every undead thing in her sight. She double tagged anything that twitched after it had been killed.
She held onto her arm and slowly fell forward. Exhausted. However, she didn't feel as tired as she usually can be, she felt like she was in the worse condition of her life. She stared at her arms and legs. Bites, bruises and bashings covered her skin.
"I don't feel too good" she moaned as her head hit the ground.
Mikado her the girl as Tearju shook her head, not knowing what to do. With no medical supplies or bandages there was no way of cleaning or dressing her wounds. Nonetheless, Tearju took off her shoes and stockings and ripped them apart. She rolled one strip into a ball, pressed it against Mea's most severely effective wounds and wrapped a second strip around the ball and tied it together. She repeated this method, getting her hands bloodied in the process.
"Mea…you saved us" Mikado spoke gently
Mea could see death approaching her, "I saved you?…good". Slowly, but surely, she smiled.
The three snapped their heads towards the fire exit door. Someone or something was on the other side.
"Oh god!" Tearju stammered in fear
Mikado readied her gun.
The door opened and on the other side was Mea's sister, Yami.
0 Hours 5 Minutes After Impact
Yokohama Sensei could describe his life like a see saw, when he woke up each morning, he knew his venture into depression was increasing, and there seemed like there was no sign of slowing down. When he got to work though, he lost his troubles and tried to make his students days all a little better. When he got home, it was the same business, watch TV, arrange to fork over child support to a heartless ex-wife, and go to bed. Yet there was always that niggling little voice in his head that worked like a second seesaw, like a yin to his yang. For every bad time, that voice would provide positive support, for every good time, it would be there to beat him down. Boy did he wished everything could just end.
When Yokohama walked into the Sainan high that day, all he could think about was getting home, he began to perform his usual duty, teach the kids a lesson and show a documentary about WWII. Reika, one of his students was feeling ill, so he let the movie play while he escorted her to the nurse's office. On a normal day he would send another student to assist her, but this movie was incredibly boring, he needed any excuse to escape that cruddy movie and those snot nosed losers. He was greeted a friendly face, the beautiful Nurse Mikado. Before they could even speak, a scream came from the other side of the school and a low rumbling. The nurse looked nervous and asked the teacher to stay with the student while she headed down the hallway. He didn't have a time to say no. She just ran off. This was incredibly usual, one of them would have to stay with the student. It was almost like they knew what was happening and what to do. He heard loud conversation from downstairs.
"s-sir, I'm scared" Reika peeped up
"What? There's nothing to be scared of, it was probably just a fight, you know how you kids go coo-coo for that stuff" he comforted her.
He heard a slow knock on the door, the frosted glass prevented him from getting a good look at the person.
Don't go to the door, no one's here. His inner opposite spoke to him.
He cautiously walked to the door.
Don't speak, you know troubles at the other end of that door.
"Who's there?" He said
The knocking stopped.
Don't you dare. Dare. Open that door.
He opened the door. A jittery, bug eyed student stared at him, crying blood and a large chunk of flesh bitten out of the male students neck.
"Oh thank god, finally!" Yokohama said before meeting his fate.
0 Hours 4 Minutes After Impact
Yui Kotegawa sat in her homeroom class, psyched by the sudden explosion. Screaming came from the floor below. The air vents began to moan almost humanly. As the head of the Disciplinary Committee, it was her duty to retain order. The students began to tense up and some began to cry. A student jumped out of his seat but hesitated to leave when he saw no one else was leaving.
"Everyone…hey everyone, I think…I think we should all calm down" Yui tried fruitlessly to reason with her cohorts.
She looked at the teacher, who was too busy staring out the window with several others. Yui had a brief look outside. As the school was built like the outline of a hollow square, she could see the other side of the building, kids were staring out their windows as well. They seemed frightened. On the fourth floor, some girls – probably in an art class, painted on a blank banner a message about 'Evacuating' or something. It was too far away and the print was too small to read.
Something serious was going on, with her teacher acting as worried as the students, Yui had to be the one to take charge.
"Listen up! Please!" she pled
She took a whistle out of her bag and stood on her desk. The whistle screeched over all the student.
"LISTEN UP YOU CUUUNTS!"
She had their undivided attention.
"I know we're all a little scared right now. I am too. But what we need to do is stay together, that way we will all make it out alive-"
An arm punched through the glass door and grabbed the guy close to it. It dragged him close and rubbed his neck against the glass shards. The pupils in Yui's eyes shortened. The attacker pushed its face through, it was a schoolboy, but his eyes didn't look right, probably because he now lack any. It was just a continuous blood flow. The thing bit down of the kids bleeding jugular. A spit of blood splattered on a girl face. She fainted instantly. The thing snacked on the boy's neck until the kid slumped to the floor. The eyeless monster appeared to have ran away. Yui slowly got off her chair. A surge of sickness churned her stomach. The thing moved away. Some students tended to the two injured kids. Students still looked at her.
"O…okay, lets… lets call an ambulance"
It takes 30 seconds for the virus to kill the victim and another 30 seconds for them to reanimate. Even tasting the blood, fluid or secretion of an infected can kill a person.
30 seconds had passed.
Another girl spoke up, "Um, do you have any paper towels or handkerchiefs, we need to apply pressure to Saji's wound. That's what they told me at my First Aid course. And we need to lie Mirai down flat"
"Yes" said the teacher, "Good thinking, and Yui, good thing you kept us orderly"
"Th-thanks" she replied.
"Is that thing gone" a girl cried out from under her desk.
30 seconds were left.
Yui sought to the window for some much needed fresh air. She saw a helicopter approaching. Interesting, that doesn't look like any of the normal choppers we get around here. Is that a medical chopper, its camouflage, did someone call the army? Yui pondered
20 Seconds
The teacher walked up to the student known as 'Saji', students were pressuring his wounds, and trying to talk to him but he wasn't responding.
10 Seconds
Something was stirring in the kid. Was he regaining consciousness?
"Saji can you hear me?" asked the teacher
8 Seconds
A groan came from the kid. The girl known as "Mirai", began to shiver.
"Just hold on Saji I think we've called the ambulance"
4 Seconds
Saji slowly opened his eyelids. Mirai did the same.
3 Seconds
Pure white like the thing that attacked him. Mirai stood to her feet, her head lolled backwards. A horrifying grin as blood shed from her mouth.
2 Seconds
"What the fuck?" the teacher whispered
1 Second
Saji grinned
0 Seconds
CHOMP!
0 Hours 3 Minutes after impact
Oshizu was a four hundred year old ghost girl living in an artificially created alien body, just your typical high schooler. She got a VIP seat to the horrifying explosion. A monolith, floated down and burst a powerful shockwave.
"What's that!?" Tearju, Oshizu's sensei shouted in shock.
Oshizu felt faint, her soul collapsed from her body. Literally. Her ghost form emerged.
Tearju ignored the screaming students and ran over to help the ghost girl. Being said ghost, there was no way for her to be able to straighten her artificial body so she could emerge back with it. Tearju did that, laying the body on the floor. Oshizu rolled around in the air and floated down into her body. She got up and looked around, being the action woman she was, she observed all her surroundings; many of the kids in her class and around the school were escaping, hordes of children barred into tight corridors and mob spewing from the first floor. Everyone was escaping out the other sides of the school, avoiding the open middle ground, where Princess Lala, now resided. However, Oshizu could see people on the other side of the building were trying to get a glimpse of the newly formed monster
"We need to tell those kids to get out!" Oshizu said.
The kids in her classroom rolled out the windows and fruitless screamed out warnings.
Tearju spoke up, "what about a sign?"
Funny that a teacher would see Oshizu as the leader so quickly.
"That'll work" Oshizu replied
Tearju ran to a cupboard at the end of the room and pulled out a long line of poster used for art assessments. Oshizu grabbed permeant markers. Together, the two wrote out one word – "EVACUATE". They taped the top of the sign outside the windows and prayed that the others could see it.
They felt the rumbling of hundreds of feet banging on the ground outside their classroom.
Tearju and Oshizu noticed everyone in their class had ran out. They wondered why?
"Come on, let's get out of here" Tearju said.
The two ran out of the room. Without thinking, Tearju ran to the left, away from the commotion. Without thinking, Oshizu ran to the right and into the wide mouth of a large eyed zombie.
"Help!" Oshizu cried, but Tearju was long gone and Oshizu had met her fate.
An uncountable amount of time had passed. Was it a second? A minute? ...years?
Oshizu mind slowly recollected itself. No longer did she feel pain. In fact, she felt nothing at all, no sense nor taste nor smell nor felt.
Hmmm… what happened, Oshizu Thought?
Oshizu tried to open her eyes but couldn't, then they opened themselves. Her legs moved on their own and Oshizu couldn't control herself. Her body began to attack people on its own. The ghost girl tried to transcend her physical form, but for some reason, she couldn't. Nurse Mikado had stated her physical body must allow her to transcend itself, so what was happening now?
She was trapped in her own body and couldn't even scream.
0 Hours 2 Minutes After Impact
"Heya Mio" said Risa
"Yeah?"
"Did you just hear something?"
"Nope…other than the…hot…steamy"
"Not now Risa. We're already late for class, Shin-Sensei will kill us!"
Risa and Mio were showing in the locker room, their team broke into groups to have a friendly match, naturally, the Mio and Risa's team won. All the other girls had finished and left, the two of them were all alone.
"Oh come on Miiiiiiiiiioooooo, there's nothing wrong with….a….little…"
Mio quickly spun on her heel and swung her arms over her lover's shoulders and for a small moment and gave Risa one the best kisses she ever received.
"Wh-whoa" she replied softly
Mio winks and returns to normal "C'mon babe, we need to hurry"
Risa smiled sweetly, her cute reactions reminded Mio why she loved her.
Right back to business Mio thought as she squeezed the shampoo bottle in her hands, only a drip fell out.
"Hey Risa, that shampoo bottle behind you, does it have anything left in it?"
"Yeah sure" Risa said, turning around.
What the, is that a green tube? I wish I could I see properly!
"Kya!" Risa squealed
"What's wrong?"
"Did…did you just touch my leg?"
"No…wait, Risa, what is that green tube coming out from the piping?"
"M-m-mio…please...come get away from that"
"What is it?" Mio feverishly turned her head. A dark green tentacle was an inch from her face. The pointy end split in two, releasing a hiss. It grew teeth and roared. Tents wrapped around the two and dragged them towards an air vent in the locker area.
The cries of girls being crushed through an air vent system could be heard all throughout the school.
0 Hours 1 Minute After Impact
"Anyone feel this heat?" spoke Saki Tenjouin. She walked beside her friends, Rin and Aya, knowingly using them as a shield to protect herself from the sun.
"We sure doooooo" Rin said with sound cynicism
They reached her outdoors locker, the very last one. It was large and deep enough for a whole human being to fit inside, so she often would hang her clothes in it.
"Whats that sound?" Rin questioned
"It sounds like screaming" said Aya
"I hear it too" said Saki
SPLAT!
Aya screamed
"Whoa! What the hell!"
Aya could only point. Lala Deviluke had fell out of the sky and was lying in a pool of her own blood just a few metres away from them, where the outside lockers end and the pavement begins.
"Is that…Lala?" Saki stuttered
She looked at Rin, Rin was clearly too shocked to speak.
"HELP! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!" Saki screamed
Onlookers peered out from the windows. They were alone in the outdoor locker room but a few people in their classrooms looked like they were running out to help.
Saki began to walk up slowly. The others would follow.
"Guys, please! Please come here! Please!" Saki cried in horror
Aya shook her head and backed away. Rin took a deep breath and followed Saki.
"I'm…I'm…I'm going to call an ambulance" Aya shouted out.
"G-good!" said Saki, "R-Rin, could you see if she's breathing?"
Rin stared at Saki.
"Please, I don't think I can handle this, please…please" Saki begged
Rin nodded. She rushed over to Lala's body.
"Lala, can you hear me? Its Rin, I'm a friend of Saki's, you remember me? Can you hear me?" she said.
She pressed down on the side of Lala's neck to feel a pulse. There was none.
"Oh no" Rin muttered
"Is she okay?" Saki asked
Rin turned around to face her friend.
"I'm sorry…I-I-I I can't feel a pulse"
Saki lost all the colour in her face. She held out a slender finger towards Rin.
"What's wrong?" Rin asked
Rin noticed a second shadow looming over her. Tears spouted. Lala - the first zombie – had her neck snapped and allowed it to fall backwards. A horrifying smile on her face. Lala snatched Rin by the shoulders and bit into her neck.
Rin screamed louder than she ever had before. Lala chewed the flesh and meat off the girl's shoulder. Rin fell to the ground, pupil's dilated, knees shaking. She crawled into a little ball as she felt her consciousness slip away. Lala clicked her neck into place, letting blood drip out. Although her eyes were pure white, Saki somehow knew she was staring at her. With break neck speed, Lala charged at the girl. Saki jumped out of the way and let Lala ram her head into the metal locker.
Lala roared something ungodly. The zombie waved her hands around erratically, trying to hold onto Saki. Saki jumped from side to side and backwards, like a zig-zag motion. She picked up a large garbage bin and shove it over Lala's head. That would buy her a few seconds to escape to another row of lockers.
Saki found the glass doors to the school, it was one single long blank hallway leading to another door with the stairs. School had already started so she was all alone. The hallway seemed to elongate further and further away. There is no way she - with her slowness and clumsiness - could possibly reach the other end alive. Lala screeched, Saki had no time to think, she just ran.
She reached her own locker and turned around. Lala was staring at her, eyes gleaming.
"Lala" Saki whispered, "What's happened to you?"
Lala smiled and charged. Saki wouldn't be able to avoid this attack. Saki held her hands up in defensive, waiting for the horrible end. Lala snarled. Saki felt her weight flying through the air. Something pulled her from the side. It was Aya, whom had tackled her. Saki had landed on top of her.
Lala smashed her head into Saki's locker, the locker slid open slowly.
Lala turned slowly and looked at them. Her tongue now half out of her mouth. Half of the meat dropped off with a squishy 'Splat' on the ground. Aya was about to barf.
"Aya run!" Saki screamed
The two scrambled to their feet and took off around the corner. They reached the middle of another row of lockers. Saki needed a minute to catch her breath. She could feel her temples pulsating.
"Are you okay Saki?" Aya asked
"No…you?"
"Not really…But you look worse…what happened to Rin?"
"What do you mean?"
"I…I thought she was lying down over there?" she said pointing over to a small pool of blood on the concrete.
"Maybe…she's okay?"
"Maybe she's gone to get help!"
Rin, with unhuman-like movements, showed up at one end of a hallway. Lala strode toward the other end.
"Oh Fuck!" Saki and Aya said in unison
The two zombies laughed in unexpectedly deep tones.
"What do we do now?" Aya asked nervously, holding the tip of the fabric on Saki's shoulder.
She gently put her arms around her friend.
"You're my best friend, you know that" Saki said with no emotion in her voice.
"…no" said Aya and shook her head, coming to the realisation of what Saki wanted to do.
"You're my bestie. And I'm weak. You're more athletic than me"
"…no"
"People liked you, I was always just a spoiled rich kid"
"…no"
"You have family that needs you, you bring money to the table. Sure, my family loves me, but they don't need me"
"no… no… no"
"What I'm gonna do is lift you up over these lockers. These things will attack me, but if you aim for the school gates, you can escape"
"NO!"
"Goodbye"
Saki ducked down and grabbed Aya's hips, Aya tried to struggle as Saki pushed her on top of the lockers. Aya kicked and screamed to no avail. Lala and Rin began walking over to the two. She pushed Aya's head and Saki couldn't see her anymore. Saki looked at the zombies, they had stopped dead in their tracks.
"Well? What are you waiting for? You wanna piece of me!"
The zombies laughed.
"Yeah, its funny isn't it? I hope you choke on me!"
The zombie charged…backwards?
"Wait, what are you doing?"
The zombies left the hallway and went to the one Aya was in.
A blood-curdling scream.
"NOOOOO!" Saki belted
Aya's screams were gurgled as the zombie ripped out her throat.
The zombies somehow knew Aya would be more of a fight, so they would take her on first.
A pair of glasses fell on Saki's side, cracked in the middle, blots of bloodied hair entangled at the rim.
Saki bolted, Lala roared and took suit. Saki reached her locker, swung it open, hopped in and slammed it shut. She reached into her pocket for her lock. Fumbling it around between her shaking fingers. She took it out and hung it over the handle on the outside. A bang at the door.
"…shit"
In the distance, something rumbled.
The door creaked, Saki wrapped her fingers around the slit of the air vents of her locker. Two more fist began beating on the door. A pure white eye peered through the door. A horrifying bloody smile. Three pairs of fist were banging on the door. Saki's heart pumped harder. Skin crawled.
Lala reached in and grabbed the bow on her Saki's uniform.
"No nononononononononononononno!"
With her free hand she tugged on the knot of her bow. Lala grasped the bow and pulled Saki towards her lips. Cracked and bloody teeth replaced once sparkling pearls.
The sound in the distance grew louder. An explosion?
Saki flicked the knot and got her finger through it. It came off! Lala must've been pulling hard because she tumbled to the floor. Saki pulled on the door and the lock clicked itself into place. She backed against the wall.
Another explosion. The beats of the locker continued. Fist sized dents began to dent the door. The back wall felt different. She leaned against the back wall. Something behind it shifted. It felt like a brick wall was behind it, but it had been weakened.
Saki furiously belted on the wall. She felt it giving way.
"OOF!"
The wall gave away and Saki landed on a flat surface. The room she landed in must have been a crawlspace, it was in complete darkness. She looked at the door to her locker, fists flailing and rattling continued. She observed the crawlspace, it looked like it lead to somewhere else. Judging by the sounds of steam, it may have led to a boiler room. That means she could find another exit.
She took a deep breath and followed where the white noise lay. Crawling through dust, muck and cobwebs was not going to help her hay fever.
She felt the walls closing in on her, or was she? She could see someone in the distance, was someone crawling too? Its too dark to see. She felt the air began to thin. It's getting way too hot in here. Is she going to burn? Is she going to suffocate? The walls began to press on her skull and her ribcage. It was getting hard to shift her feet and arms around.
She remembered her friends telling her the story of "God's Mouth" around the campfire at school excursions. A mountaineer was trapped in a cave during a snowstorm. Legend has it that he searched the cave, finding itself to grow smaller and smaller. He tried to reach for the exit, but the cave had swallowed him whole. When a rescue party found him, his body was left metres from the exit, but his bones were crushed, almost like he had been eaten and spat out.
No! Saki thought to herself, that's fictional, it's not fucking real, that's not happening.
Saki crawled quicker, the air began to return. She could see cracks of red light from the machines in the distance. Saki felt the top pipes curve upwards. She pulled herself up, finally she could stand up. She could see a thin line of light across the room, it must've been a door! She observed her surroundings, blinking red lights and a warm temperature. She could hear the white noise from the machines, but something else as well. A moaning sound.
"Who…who…who's there?" Saki whispered
"helllllp meeeeee" the thing droned from across the room
It sounded like a girl.
"Are…Are you one of them?"
"nooo"
"Where are you?"
"Near the…doorrrrr, I caaaaant geet up. My jaaaw…huuurts"
"Who…who are you!"
She heard a second voice, like a deep grunt. It came from a few metres behind her. She shuffled towards the voice. Something tubular was placed on the ground.
"Oof!" Saki fell over.
Her mobile phone scattered near her face.
"Son of a…"
She scraped her hands towards her phone. She touched something right next to her, something soft. Some kind of …Flesh.
"What the fuck"
The light flicked on.
Her classmate Risa's soft brains were splattered all over Saki's fingers.
Saki screamed her lungs out.
She rolled over and shined the light on the wall behind her. A blackish green man stared at her with large pure white eyes. He grinned at her, revealing white jagged teeth.
Saki screamed again and picked herself up, the room was covered in tentacles stretching from the man's face and chest.
"Heeeelp! Doooont leave witttthooout meee!" The voice cried from behind her.
She bolted to the door, found the knob, kicked the door open and was blinded by light.
When her eyes adjusted to the light, she spun around and saw the man trying to shuffle closer. A pile of milky white flesh slumped at Saki's feet. A face looked up at her. It was Mio! But…naked?
"Heeeelp" Mio cried
"You haven't been bitten?"
"No"
"Have you been bitten?!"
"check…meee….later"
Saki pulled the girl up over her shoulders, with the poor girl crying in pain. As Saki lifted Mio up, she could feel her bones have been practically demolished, it was almost as if she'd been crammed through a tight space.
"Its okay Mio, we'll get out and-"
Saki stared at Lala, Aya and Rin. They stared back.
They stood in the middle of an intersection, there was no way out.
The slow shuffle of the Dark Man continued from behind the two. A low growl erupted and like bloodhounds they revealed dirty teeth.
A rush of footsteps came out from the hallway on the right. It must have been some other students trying to escape the building. The zombies looked at the other students then back to Saki and Mio. They chose their prey like crocodiles, always going after the biggest piece of meat. The zombies went after the other students. Saki hurried over to the intersection to see the three lay into tons of children.
The Dark Man scrambled out of the boiler room, tentacles crawling out of his whole body. There was no way Saki would wait to see what the thing was going to do. Carrying the weight of her classmate and energized by fear, she sprinted to the intersection, briefly glimpsing at the smorgasbord of bloodshed in the other hallway. She ran in its opposite direction, making her way through the bloodstained lockers and out to the gates of the school. Yes! They were closed, but not yet locked.
Saki spun around quickly to see if she was being pursued. She was not. But she did turn around in time to see giant tentacles smashing out of random places of the school. Chorus of screams erupted from the school. Regardless of whether the students saw it as heaven or a purgatory, it had surely became hell. At the top of the school, a dark green pillar broke forth and ascended the sky. Its tip spread outwards and its innards blossomed. It was a giant dark green and purple flower. Saki wasn't going to wait to see what that thing was going to do.
"You okay Mio?" Saki asked
"Yeah...not reeeally…I'll live" Mio replied
"Good"
With that, Saki hoisted Mio up on her shoulders, opened the gate and fled from the place she once called home.
30 Seconds after Impact.
Princess Lala's sisters, Nana and Momo sat next to each other as they chatted away to their alien friends Yami and Mea. Just two pairs of sisters hanging out. A thunderous 'bang!' came from a room on the floor above them. Their whole classrooms conversations stopped and everyone stared at the roof.
"What the heck was that?" Mea spoke.
Yami was always the type whose actions spoke louder than words. She sat silently…this wasn't one of those times.
"Should we check it out? Do you think it was serious?" said Momo
A minute of silence passed. A scream. Nana watched the windows. Something fell off the building!
"Uh oh" said Nana, "I've got a really bad feeling about this"…