Welcome back to my first story! I'm hoping things in this chapter will have better pacing than my last chapter. I feel like I can go along with the body of a story better than actually starting the story. So, from here on out, I'm going to try my damndest to write a better chapter here. So, please try to enjoy! XD

Chapter 2: Separated

P.S. The term "walkers" pretty much means "zombies". If you have ever seen The Walking Dead, you would probably know this.

Felix, Marzia, and Cry ran as fast as they could through the hallways of the mansion. They stopped to catch their breath after they had rounded a corner and remained hidden. Felix looked back and said, "Alright, I think we're safe. They're gone." Marzia was silent when Cry said, "Well, what do we do now? We lost everyone else and we've got nowhere left to go!" Felix told them, "We can probably find some place to go and hunker down in to stay safe. But...about everyone else...we lost them all...especially Ken and Minx..." A silence had followed when he said that, but only for a moment as Cry spoke up, "Well hey, man! We can't give up! Come on! We should look around here first before we give up! Maybe we'll find someone in need of our help!" Felix looked back at his friend and said, "Yeah, Cry! I mean, come on! There's gotta be someone that made it other than us, right?" Marzia remained silent, almost looking like she was in deep thought over something. Felix noticed her and felt worried, but was actually more worried about whether or not the walkers would come back and find them. He then concluded, "Well, we can't stay here! We need to get away from here and find someplace safe! Maybe some supplies would be good as well. I really don't want to be here anymore, honestly." Cry agreed with a nod, and Marzia took note of what her boyfriend had said and finally said herself, "Alright...we should hurry." This time, Felix and Cry both noted Marzia's strange behavior, but had decided that they couldn't stay there any longer because of the risk of walkers finding them. So, the three of them got up and got a move on through the corridors of the mansion.

Along the way, they ran into about 5 more walkers, to which Felix and Cry took care of quickly and quietly. Marzia followed behind the two cautiously. They turned around a corner and saw a horde full of walkers blocking their way. There had to have been at least a thousand of them, and they were all coming for them! Felix yelled, "Oh, shit! Look out! Walkers!" Cry then picked off a couple of walkers with this handgun, and Felix did the same. Marzia hid behind them, but behind her was a walker slowly looming out from a hiding place, and it was walking right towards her! She turned around when she felt a presence behind her and screamed when the walker stumbled over and fell on her! Felix quickly turned around when he heard her scream and saw her on the floor with the walker on top of her. "Marzia!" He then pointed his gun and fired at the walker's head. The head exploded upon impact. He then ran over and helped Marzia up quickly. Cry looked over at the two as soon as he heard Felix yell.

"Marzia! Are you alright?! You aren't bit, right?!" Marzia shook her head, "No, I don't think so." Cry ran up to them, "Quick, there's too many of 'em! Let's backtrack!" Felix and Marzia got up, and ran after Cry back the way they came from while the walkers chased after them.

Ken's POV

We were running for quite a while the last time I checked. Anthony and Ian were behind me while Minx took the lead. We passed through so many walkers while trying to escape, though. But, let's just say that my shotgun was enough to blast several walkers at a time backwards several feet.

Minx yelled ahead of us, "Hurry! Through the double doors!" I looked ahead and saw a pair of double doors ahead of us. Anthony and Ian were running as fast as possible behind us as a horde of walkers were following right behind us. We arrived at the double doors and busted right through them. We rushed inside and I closed the doors before any walkers could bust through them. But they started pounding really hard on the doors and they were just about to break through in a matter of mere seconds! I heard Minx yell, "Quickly! Find something to hold the doors shut!" I looked around while everyone else did the same and took note that we were in a corridor with several rooms on each side of the hallway. I checked the first room on the left for anything I could use. It was an empty bedroom, but it still had some stuff left in it. There was a bed, several closets, a TV, and... a bookshelf! That was it!

I yelled out, "Hey! Come and help me with this!" Almost as soon as I said that, Anthony and Ian came in to help me with the bookshelf. "On three!" I said. The duo grabbed the bookshelf, and so did I. I then started, "One...two...three!" We then lifted it up and started carrying it out of the room and out into the hallway. Minx said, "Good thinking! Hurry! They're about to break through!" We then moved the bookshelf in front of the double doors and secured it so that it would stay shut. The walkers continued to bang on the doors from the other side, but now it didn't look like it would burst open anymore. We all took a breather as soon as the job was done, and then Minx spoke up, "Well, that takes care of that. Good job, you guys! Now, what do we do now?"

I offered an option, "Well, how about we get away from here. It's still probably not safe. Let's find someplace safe." Anthony and Ian both nodded their heads and agreed with me. "Yeah, he's right. I don't want to stay here anyways." The former said. Ian added, "Yeah! Let's get the frick outta here!" They both ran on ahead of us, and Minx ran after them yelling, "Hey! Wait up!" I ran after them too.

Minx POV

Anthony, Ian, Ken, and I were running through the corridors of the mansion by ourselves. We had to avoid some corridors because of several walkers we saw were down them. But we kept ourselves running on a set path and only had to kill a few walkers every now and then if we were lucky.

We soon rounded a corner and heard a loud, fierce scream come from the gymnasium. "AAAAGGGGHHHH!" Everyone was startled as soon as we heard it.

We all took cover behind a corner and Ian said, "Dude, what the frick was that?!" Anthony retorted to him, "Uh, that sounded like a scream! Duh!" But then he quickly realized what it actually meant and said, "Oh, no! A scream! Someone's in trouble!" Ken asked me, "Is it worth it to put ourselves in even more trouble? Should we move on or help them?" I looked the bearded man in front of me in the eyes and thought for a minute, and then decided that we should help. I mean, we should at least try knowing we didn't just give up on someone who we could've saved.

I answered, "Yes. Let's go find them. It sounded like it came from the gym." I then lead the way with Anthony, Ian, and soon after Ken following behind me.

We ran to the two double doors that led into the gym and we stopped right in front of it. I looked back at the others and said, "Alright, we need a team plan. First of all, Anthony and Ian, since you guys don't have any weapons as of now, you two have to go in there and distract whatever is in there while keeping yourselves away from whatever is in there. Ken, you're with me as we fight off the immediate threat. OK?"

Anthony and Ian grimaced as they heard that they would have to distract whatever was in there, but they eventually complied. Ken looked at me skeptically, but then complied soon after. I nodded after understanding and said, "On the count of three, alright?" They nodded, and I started, "One, two, three!" I then threw open the doors and we were all surprised at what we saw in front of us.

Grovyle's POV

I was running through the hallways of the mansion by myself. I had no idea where everyone else had run off to, but I had to get away from those...rotting corpses. I'm by myself now, and only one thought was running through my mind at the time. "I have to find her... I have to make sure she's alright..." I then proceeded through the corridors of the mansion, trying to avoid as many of those...walkers as I could.

I ran all the way back to our supposed room to find her, my dearest friend. I found the room and barged inside. Luckily, there weren't any walkers in there. Unfortunately. neither was she. I silently cursed myself, and stepped back out of the room.

I remember when we came to this mansion. We received a kind of letter at our new home. I remember the event clearly. She was so excited, she had heard so much about the Smash Competition, said how great an honor it would have been, that I should have been just as excited. I had heard of it too, but I was more skeptical than she was at the time. I thought to myself, "Well, what about the people we will meet? How will they take us in? What about the competition? Why would they choose us?" So many questions ran through my mind at the time. But don't get me wrong now, the Smashers were very nice and hospitable when we arrived, but I wasn't quite sure why we were chosen to participate. Apparently, she and I were supposed to be a sort of tag-team while we were battling, and we went along with it. We battled well together, her and me,...and then all of THIS happened. Now, I'm running throughout this mansion, trying to find her.

I soon realized that I was running through empty hallways. I mean, they were EMPTY. Besides me, that is. There were no walkers, no other people. Nobody. I had a chill go up my spine at this time. I had a feeling that something was desperately wrong here.

"Hello?" I said. I tried to hear for a response, but couldn't hear any. I stepped forward while trying to be cautious, and almost anticipated something to jump out to try and bite me. "Hello?!" I repeated, with still the same non-existent response. I took another step forward, and then another, until a door suddenly opened up beside me, and something quickly lunged out towards me!

I fell back onto the cold, hard floor as whatever tackled me fell on top of me as well. I then finally got a good look at what had me pinned to the floor. It was one of those walkers! It was trying to bite at me, but I was able to hold it away from me with my hands. I looked around me, trying to find anything I could use to help me. There wasn't anything I could grab onto, and there was nobody around to help me. "Ah, hell!" I yelled, as I tried to break free from the walkers' grasp. I was able to push it away from me, and I managed to push it onto the ground where I soon unsheathed my Leaf Blade and stabbed it in the head, ending its struggle. I got up from it, and took a short breather after the short ordeal I just went through. I then continued onwards, hoping to find her before something happened to her as well.

I hurried through the halls, desperate to find her because I had already checked so many places, and she wasn't even near any of those places. There was only one place left that I haven't checked yet, the Dining Hall. I picked up the pace.

I soon arrived at the doors to the Dining Hall and waited before entering. I listened before I went inside for a few seconds, and heard some kind of crashing inside. I opened the door ever so slightly, and what I saw surprised me. It was her! She was fighting off what appeared to be a huge abomination with her psychic powers. Whatever she was fighting off, it appeared to be big and bloated, with blood all over itself. It attacked with its huge arms, but she quickly dodged and countered it with her own psychic abilities. She injured it by slamming it into the ground, but not without it getting right back up and slamming her with an uppercut with one of its arms. She flew backwards and landed on the ground in pain. The bloated monster got back up and started walking towards her ready to finish her off. I jumped in with no hesitation once I saw her in trouble. I ran in, unsheathed my Leaf Blades, and jumped on top of the bloated monster and stabbed it repeatedly in the head, causing it to go down and eventually die.

Once the beast was dead, I turned to look at her and saw her surprised expression shown across her face. I looked to her and spoke her name since the last time I saw her;

"Celebi, are you alright?"

She looked to me, pleased to see that I was alright and the beast was defeated, and flew up in the air with that graceful smile of hers and said, "Yes, I am fine. And I am glad to see that you are too, my dear Grovyle. Tee-hee!"

And that is the second chapter, people! Now, for those of you that may be wondering, "Oh, there is no Grovyle or Pewdiepie or YouTubers in Super Smash Brothers" don't worry about it! I just wanted to put these characters in the story because I thought that they were pretty cool and that it would be nice to see them in something that you wouldn't normally find them in. And plus, there will be even MORE characters from other places coming into this story in the future, so be prepared for more action with more people! So, in the next chapter, we will focus more on the other groups that had gotten separated from each other. And that pretty much concludes that! Oh, and that supposedly bloated monster at the end of the chapter was the Bloater from The Last of Us. (Great game by the way.) So, now I must say goodbye to all of my fellow readers out there, and good day!