Hi! I finally updating! Really excited to keep going with this! Hope it turned out okay and sorry for the delay but I had a rough previous 2 weeks. – –" …..
UPDATE!: The chosen oc's are Haruko Fujioka, Kanshou, Button, Aure, Raymond McTire, Mayumi Tendo, and Mordechia Okràgly. I have ONE! Spot left! I hope people will go all out to try and get the last spot! Hope you guys like! ^^ and good luck to anyone who decides to enter an oc!
) DISCLAIMER (I don't own anything. T, T end of story.
Everybody wants to be remembered. One way or another it's a normal human aspiration. When you're as close to death as we've been and have encountered it countless times you think 'they'll cherish my sacrifice.' After tomorrow when the violence has set I will be remembered. That's what we want to think though the truth is that it's uncertain if you'll live long enough to even make yourself be worth remembering, or if there will even be people to remember you! It's crazy and tedious! Still all we alive keep a shard, just one as small as it may be of the cracked mirror that the dead were. Whether they were your wives, or sons, teachers, friends, or lovers. We hold onto it tightly even if the shard cuts and wounds deeply. At one point the shard makes you smear so much of your own life essence that you grow delusional to the point where the rotten arms of person and now corpse reach out and you reach too accepting the putrefied cold as warmth. And we fall. With the thought of being remembered still bright in our head.
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Mangled carcasses lay around us crimson decorating the white walls of the lone hospital. Moans and wails of the undead reached and filled every crevice giving sound effect to the horror we were living. Our plan like always failed and we were fighting against things we were unprepared for. Takeo and Saeko were cornered and Takeo was killed. Despite Saeko shaking she still did her best fighting and keeping her ground. Miss Shizuka got her arm hurt but managed to escape the hospital along with Rei and Arisu. They'd gone to look for a ride and I could only hope for their safety.
I currently found myself panting trying to catch my breath. My arms ached from swinging the bat and my hands shook. My knee's felt weak but I knew I had to keep going. After the burning in my lungs stopped I started running as quietly as possible. As I made my way through the hall they came one by one and I willed the strength deep within me to swing again. Over and over again the cracks of the skulls playing a psychotic melody that I became too caught up in as my eyes looked straight forward at a drooling set of teeth ready to latch on to me. My hand swiftly made its way down grabbing the pistol in my jacket's pocket before pressing it to its head and pulling the trigger. I pushed through the rest turning on the ball of my foot to slam their heads will my bat. Before long they lay there like the others and I kept on running. The continues cycle of bloodshed went on my eyes becoming familiar with the sight of dark red painting my face.
"TAKASHI!" a scream from a familiar voice broke me out of my thoughts bringing me back to reality. My brown looked to meet with Saya. Her magenta eyes glimmering with recent tears and her bright smile giving this hellhole some light.
"You idiot! If you space out like that you'll get killed!" her warm arms wrapped around me hugging me tightly. Slowly I hugged back embracing the strange warmth.
"Where are Tohru and Shujin…?" had they been killed? Were Saya and I the last standing?
"I don't know. There was a mix up! He ran out of bullets and said he knew where to find more. He gave me this stupid empty shotgun and ran off with Tohru. I….couldn't stop it." I looked down seeing that indeed her hand was grasping a scratched up shotgun slightly wet with blood making me assume she used it.
"It's okay." I said hopefully with compassion. It really was. I couldn't say anything else. It wasn't her fault.
"Let's go." I nodded grabbing her wrist and pulling her along as gently as I could.
Warmth flashed in my heart and it felt…..kind of nice. I hadn't felt that since Rei but….what she had for me wasn't love. At least not anymore. I was like a spare tool. Someone who she could portray her feeling to. As nice as it was those feeling of genuine love weren't for me and I'm no thief. Maybe the warmth my heart felt for Saya was genuine too. I felt lighter now my heart even daring to skip a beat at the sappy thoughts. I wonder if I'd be a tool for Saya too. A replacement Kohta. Maybe. Still even thinking about it that way my heart feels content.
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"Fuyu!" a girl panted chasing after another girl a wide smile on her face. "Wait up!" the second girl turned around quickly smiling back.
" I'm glad we got into the same school!" the read head said flushed from running.
"Of course we did! Did you think I was gonna let you go alone!?" the second with short brown hair asked smirking teasingly ."Even though there aren't boys in the school there's a school with boys close by! And I don't like sharing!" she stated this happily, her pointer finger wagging in front of Akaya's face her other hand resting on her hip.
"Wha..?" Akaya's face flushed and she innocently cocked her head genuinely not knowing where she was going.
In an instant Fuyu tackle hugged Akaya grinning madly.
"I'm never gonna let you go! You're mine Akaya! Mine!" she shouted teasingly giggling and soon the second girl joined in giggling too and hugging back.
"Don't worry. We'll always be together." Said Akaya getting out of the hug and slowly walking on.
"Of course. I'll never abandon you, Aka-chan. As long as you allow me too I'll protect you in every aspect." She said earnestly her eyes glazing and slowly walking side to side with Akaya.
"That sounds nice." Akaya said smiling childishly. "My queen in shining armor!"
"I'll always protect you Akaya. And we'll never part."
Moss green eyes opened cold sweat running down the owner's brow. The girl wore a torn up black and orange uniform while her brown hair lay still and slightly wet from the sweat. She stood up and stretched grabbing the crowbar and making her way out of the room. Since Akaya's death the lone Fuyu had started wandering the halls of the melancholic hospital somehow looking for an answer to her own sadness. Should she really live on for Akaya? Would she have wanted that? Her back was slumped and her blood stained clothes uncomfortably clutched to her skin. Her head was looking down bangs cover her eyes from public. Her steps made echoes through the walls. A shell of a person she now was. The one dearest had been snatched away. She was blinded by a promise bound by friendship, love and madness and pushed the person she promised to protect, away. Unfortunate tale of the crazed counterpart. She slumped to an empty room and locked the doors tightly and barricading it before collapsing on the ground. She looked up to the ceiling. Her eyes seemed more lifeless. Like a broken doll she stayed there her thoughts traveling to the distance and searching between scattered memories.
"Akaya!" she ran after her calling her name and smiling. The other didn't turn but instead looked around; a couple girls approached talking rumbonxiously, chatting with Akaya before taking off.
"She didn't even turn around…." Since they entered high school a group of girls had approached Akaya befriending her. The girls, Hitomi Tanaka, Nanako Yamazaki and Toya Oshirou were snotty and stuck up. Just the kind of people she wished to keep away from Akaya. Akaya was kind hearted and sweet hence she deserved people equally nice. They'd wrapped the idea of 'friendship' pretty tightly around Aka-Chan's head and she had started to ignore Fuyu. They ordered Akaya around and made her do there assignments! But apparently Akaya wasn't seeing that. Fuyu's frown deepened and she continued to walk through the halls many people scurrying around her. After class she approached her locker and smiled as she saw Akaya looking around looking pretty as ever.
"Hey! Who ya looking for Akaya?" she asked grinning.
"Ah…oh no one!" she responded blushing and flailing her arms around as if making the negative of her answer physical.
"Wanna hang out today? My brother's out for the night so we can play video games and watch movies nonstop! Plus its Friday!" she suggested smiling.
"I can't. I'm going to help Hitomi senpai and her friend with her homework." She said a sad smile on her face.
"What do you mean? That Hitomi hag and her slut crew are having a party tonight! How can you help them with their homework if they'll be too busy making whores of themselves at the party?!" Akaya asked frustrated.
"Fuyu!" she whined. "Please don't call Hitomi senpai a hag! She's really nice you know! And the rumors about her being a slut aren't true! She told me so!" she continued. Fuyu scowled pissed off at Akaya's naive-ness.
"And umm….I'm not really helping them….well…umm…it's complicated…" she said nervously sweat running down her face. She continued as Fuyu's intense stare urged her too. "S-she said that I'll wait in her room and that they'll drop by to do the rest!"
"OH MY GOD! ARE YOU THAT DENSE AKAYA! They're using you!"
"No they're not! You don't know them like I do!" and with that she stormed off.
Days after the party Akaya came back in tears asking for forgiveness.
"I'll always protect you. When the world tumbles down I'll still be here."
She smiled weakly remembering the day Akaya understood that. Akaya hugged her and wouldn't let go! She was something that need strength to be given to them and Akaya was glad to hand hers over.
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'How did it all go so wrong!?' I kept repeating that over and over again! We had a plan and everything had gone smoothly….we'd gotten the chance to meet some nice people. I'd even forget that this was the end of the world we were living in. I was an adult but I couldn't deny that this was out of a child's nightmare. I felt pretty helpless. I couldn't even protect a couple of high schoolers….
"Miss Shizuka, look!" Rei whispered lowering herself and hiding behind an abandoned car. I followed ducking as well adjusting Arisu in my arms. My eyes looking down most likely glazed with sadness. Poor child so young and living such a life…. In front of us some people were running….wait People! More survivors! I couldn't contain my smile as I thought of not being alone. My eyes widened slowly as one tripped and they…..got her…
"AHHHHHHHH!" the screams… I closed my eyes letting my head nuzzle Arisu's small warm shoulder. I flinched when a hand tapped me. I looked up to see Rei smiling.
"Don't cry Miss Shizuka….It's hard I know but we have to remain strong." She whispered. I nodded standing up.
"Let's go. Don't make any noise. Since they're eating they should be distracted." She murmured low enough for me to hear. We trudged along but pretty soon fear ran up on me. My view grew blurry and negative thoughts ran through my mind. My legs grew weak and the pain in my broken arm became stronger. My mind shouted to keep going. To not let myself fall and expose Arisu to danger. The haziness turned to black and I saw myself walking on a thin line. I looked down and saw millions of hands reaching out. There were faces I recognized. Others I didn't but they all had the same pleading look. I felt a cold running down my cheeks. Tears had started flowing…
'How long ago?'
Something cold gripped my ankle. I looked down crying harder. The hand was fleshless! It was rotting.
"Shizuka! Please help me! I'm scared….are you going to abandon me again!? Leave me in this hellhole!?" The corpse shouted crying too. Beads of water gliding down her scared face. Short sand colored hair. The locks were messy and dirtied covering only parts of the head. An eye was missing. The place where it should have belonged looked clawed out but you could see that the remaining eye was a light brown.
"Kohana….sister….how….?!" my whisper was weak and it trembled. I'd left my home long ago because of an abusive step- father. At the time I didn't care about my younger sister and how she would be that molester's next target. I just wanted to get out.
"You thought I'd be fine with him!? That a…. that…..THAT A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL WOULD BE ABLE TO DEFEND HERSELF!?"
"No I….I'm sorry but…I was so scared and I felt awful!" I answered my voice barely coming out.
"I suffered so long…." She said. Her voice was as sweet as I remembered it.
"Don't abandon me…..Don't leave….." she whispered her eye pleading me and making me forget this was a corpse.
"I ….I won't…" I answered.
"Say it loudly! You won't leave me! Say my name! Please Shizuka….."
"Kohana…."
"My name, Shizuka… please….I don't remember it…and I'm pretty sure slut isn't it." Her words made my heart tighten and twist. Had I really left my sister in hell…?
"Kohana Jin Marikawa…."
"Louder…"
"I WON'T LEAVE YOU! I PROMISE, KOHANA JIN MARIKAWA!" The darkness faded leaving only small shadowy traces as I returned to reality I felt weight on my arms, the pain increasing. My knees felt gruff concrete and I blinked away the tears looking down at Arisu's sleeping figure. Moans were heard all around me. I'd attracted 'they're' attention. Were we to die or to die..? I don't know.
'If I do die….I only pray the hell I receive for being too weak is nothing like that.'
Oooh! People are going crazy ! X)! Already! I feel generally good about that chapter. I kinda feel like I left things hanging but I'll do better in the next. Thanks to all the people who reviewed and entered there oc's! Makes me happy that some people cared about my story! ^^ special thanks to XDreamKillerX and forgottencharacter who both showed interest for my story since the beginning and who not only entered oc's but actually commented on my writing! ^o^ shout out to you guys! made me feel special! You get *Best Comment Award* for this chapter. Yeah there's gonna be awards for reviewers. The one who makes the best comment 3 times in a row earns or get the *You made the Author feel like a Princess* YOU get the right to give a special weapon or medication to an oc who is in danger or needs it (or will need it in the future) and wants to give it to them! Yeah things here will be hunger game-ish. Till next time! We are so close to seeing the new oc's! 0o0 so excited! The oc's I've chosen so far will be posted on my profile on Saturday! And remember there's still ONE! Oc spot remaining! And SUPER DUPER special thanks to my awesome beta LittleTrancyGirl!