InFected
Chapter 3:
"Hold on, wait up a second" Kenta halted, raising his finger up. "These are your Pokemon, Myra?" He asked her.
"Um, not exactly. The Umbreon is mine. I don't know about the Luxio or the Pikachu." Myra responded, letting out a smile. Finally being able to be reunited with her Pokemon. "Say hi to Kenta, Oscuro." She told Oscuro. The Umbreon only reacted by glaring at Kenta. His yellow eyes staring motionless at him.
Kenta ran his hands through his pockets, grabbing and revealing a pokeball. "Well, since it doesn't look like these Pokemon have any owners, I think I'm going to catch them." Kenta planned as he was about to throw the pokeball towards Arashi.
"Wait! The Pikachu has a collar with a Lightball!" Jay pointed out as she grabbed Kenta's arm and lifted it down.
"Well, I don't see an owner, so here goes nothing." Kenta answered back as he chucked the Pokeball towards Arashi. Arashi quickly reacted by striking the pokeball with an iron tail attack, making the pokeball to crash into the stone wall. Arashi turned towards Kenta, eyes filled with anger and immediately jolted out a thunderbolt straight towards Kenta.
"Gah!" Kenta shouted as he was strucked with the bolt of thunder. He collapsed onto the floor.
"That's what you get." Arashi scowled, turning her back towards him.
"Next time you shock my trainer, you'll get a taste of your own pain you inflict." Stan threatened, emerging behind Kenta.
"From who?" Arashi questioned as she faced him, "You? You're just a Cubone. You aren't going to do anything, you won't even show your face. You hide it behind the mask."
"You better watch what you say." Stan warned, gripping his bone club tighter.
"You better tell your trainer to not throw a pokeball at me." Arashi responded, her cheeks letting out little sparks of thunder.
Stan hesitated to respond. Letting out a heavy exhale, relaxing him a little bit. "Look, there's a bigger threat out there, and the last thing we need is everyone to turn on each other. So I suggest we both let this go and forget this ever happened." Stan answered as he turned his attention to Kenta.
Arashi only grunted back. Mumbling a few words in a low voice.
"Kenta, are you okay?" Jay worried as she helped pick him up off the floor, grabbing his arm and helping him back into his feet.
"Yeah," Kenta twitched. "I'm alright, Damn, that hurt." He admitted, dusting himself off, occasionally twitching from the aftershock.
"Alright, so since I was shocked, I think these Pokemons either already have trainers or don't really want to get captured." He believed as he continued to wipe the dust off himself.
"So, where are we going now?" Jay asked, looking around. Keeping look out in case something else was in here with them.
"I'm thinking." Kenta replied. A long pause of silence struck as he began to think of ideas. "I think its best if we find an alternative route out of here." He concluded.
"What if there isn't another way?" Myra worried, raising her hand near her mouth.
"Listen Myra, you gotta stop worrying so much." Kenta answered. "As long as we all stay together, we'll be alright. I promise." He assured.
"Well let's go." Jay ordered. She began to lead the group through the dim lighted hallway. Searching for another more safer route out the mall.
"Do you people know what we need to survive a zombie apocalypse?"Jay questioned as they all walked through the hall.
"Hmm..." Kenta thought, "Well, I think maybe Food I guess." He said as his stomach let out a loud growl. He put his hand over his stomach.
"Yes, but the proper word is resources, we need them to survive." Jay explained, "There's probably a warehouse somewhere around here." She added.
"How do you know?" Myra wondered. The sound of everyone's footsteps echoed through the hall.
"I saw one before I came inside the mall." Jay confirmed.
The group finally reached another door with the green lighted exit sign over it.
"Do any of you have a plan?" Myra asked.
"Yes." Jay replied, giving out a short grin. "RUN!" She screamed as she burst through the door. Sprinting away from the group as the sound of grumbling faded in.
"Jay!" Kenta yelled, reaching his hand out trying to grab a hold of Jay, but it was too late, Jay was already at least 10 yards away from him.
Kenta then began to run trying to catch up to her, then suddenly, something clutched his the back of his shirt, making him stop right in his tracks. The feeling of something yanking him back began. "Kenta, get back in here!" Myra screamed while pulling him back inside to building. "What are doing?" She yelled at him as soon as she brought him back into the mall.
"Why'd you pull me back? I was going to go get her back here." Kenta answered, agitated. "If she dies, its going to be your fault." Kenta added, putting the blame on Myra.
"It's not going to be my fault, She's the one who ran through the doors without waiting for us."
"I could have brought her back in here,but you grabbed me."
"If she does die, its better to have one person die than two."
"I know, but it would have been better if we didn't lose a single person."
"I get it okay, but I'm not risking losing two people."
Kenta exhaled, "I'm sorry I yelled, But right now.. we don't know if she's alive or not. I'm worried, what if she gets infected." He worried.
A faint buzzing noise echoed through the hall. The noise hit everyone's ear drums with a very light tap.
"What the heck is that?" Kenta wondered, his eyes flickering around, cautious to what might be near them.
"It's the Walkie Talkie, Kenta, relax." Myra replied, grabbing the Walkie from her pocket. "Hello? Jay?" She spoke into the Walkie Talkie. No response. "Jay?" she repeated.
"Myra...?" Jay replied.
"Jay!" Myra repeated. Relieved to hear the sound of Jay's voice.
"Myra... I-I don't got much time.."
"What?" Kenta blurted out as he quickly snatched the Walkie Talkie out of Myra's hand. "Jay!? Where are you? How are you? Are you okay?" He questioned.
"Kenta? Kenta, I don't have much... time." Jay gasped.
"Jay!? Listen to me, you're going to be okay, we're going to go get you." Kenta assured back. His voice sounding as if it was filled with grief.
"Kenta... it's over.. for me... go on without me." Jay replied, her voice echoing through the walkie talkie sounding so cold and near death.
"Jay! We're going to get you. Where are you?" He asked.
No response.
"Jay?" He waited for a response,
Still none.
"Jay!?" He screamed into the Walkie Talkie.
Still no response.
Kenta dropped the Walkie Talkie into the floor. Collapsed onto his knees, covering his face with his hand. He couldn't believe it, just like that, he lost a member of his group.
No one said anything. Silence was a part of them that stuck for a moment.
"Hopefully, that will teach you to not play jokes on people during an apocalypse." Jay noted.
Kenta raised his head up and immediately grabbed the Walkie Talkie from the floor. "Jay? You're still alive?" He asked. His voice filled with hope.
"Yup."
"Where are you?"
"I'm in a warehouse."
"Where?"
"It's down the street" she informed, "be careful, though. I was just lucky being able to get here unharmed, there's a ton of infected out there, so I suggest you two to use the Pokemon to help you guys reach the warehouse." Jay Informed.
"Alright, thanks for the information, we will see you soon." Kenta assured. "Okay, Um... Stan, The Pikachu, The Luxio and Oscuro. Myra and I are going to need your help for us to get across the to the warehouse." Kenta commented.
"What?" Arashi said in shock.
"He said he ways us to help him and Myra get to the warehouse." Craft answered.
"No. I understood that, but why do we have to help them? They're humans." Arashi pointed out.
"Dam it Arashi, just do what he says for right now. I know you don't like humans, but if you want to survive, I suggest you listen." Oscuro replied.
"But.. why don't they also help?" Arashi asked. She already knew the answer, but those words just blurted out of her mouth without thinking.
"Do they have powers we have, can they defend themselves like we can? No, so we have to help them, in order for everyone to survive." Oscuro answered.
Arashi exhaled. "Just help the humans, if you help them, you're more likely to survive." She kept thinking to herself. Trying to make it seem as if she wasn't helping the humans just because they asked for it.
"Alright, I hope you're all ready because we're leaving in 3. 2. 1." Kenta counted down. Giving a long pause of silence.
"Go!" He yelled as the cold metal door busted open, The group quickly scurried out of the mall into the open as they ran towards the direction of the warehouse. Infected humans and Pokemon turned their heads and attention to the group. Immediately each of the infected quickly sprinted towards the group.
"There's the warehouse." Kenta pointed at the building. It was surrounded by another group of infected, some limping around and others running towards them at a steady pace.
"We're going to have to cut through the herd." Kenta announced.
"Oscuro, Shadow Ball them, now!" Myra ordered her umbreon to attack.
Without hesitation, Oscuro immediately charged and blasted a powerful shadow ball that erupted towards the infected, causing a small group of them to get thrown onto the floor, some unresponsive after that, and other infected slowly getting back up.
"Stan, Bonemerang! Now!" Kenta ordered, pointing to the infected swarm still coming towards them.
Stan launched his bone club into the dry air, the club kept spinning in an extremely quick speed as it smacked an infected. The bone club wasn't finished there, as it collided with a few more zombies before it started to swing back into Stan's hand. He catched the bone and looked at his bone club, seeing as it was stained with infected blood.
"My turn!" Craft nodded as she lunged into the air. Her body building up electrical energy as she felt the adrenaline rush of electric energy flow all around her before she let out a Discharge attack. The electric attack bashed a very large handful of the infected. Temporarily paralysing a few of the infected and killing a few.
"Good Job! Now hurry to the doors." Kenta panted for air while running.
Out of nowhere, an infected swarmed before them, blocking the path to the door of the warehouse.
"What the heck is that!?" Myra screamed.
This infected looked more odd than the others. Large tentacles squirmed around from its neck, its arm bent backwards,the gray skin on his face seemed as if it was slowly dripping off his face, as pieces began to fall down onto the floor. The infected's jaw freely dropped down, revealing its thick lizard like tounge that rolled open as it reached his stomach.
Kenta's eyes opened wide in disgust, "Stan, throw another bonemerang towards that.. thing!" He ordered.
The infected lunged it tentacles, stretching them, towards Stan as Stan raised his hand up. The tentacles quickly wrapped around Stan's arm before he was harshly tugged towards the infected, being viciously dragged on the cold, hard cement floor.
"STAN!" Kenta screamed in horror.
A dash of dust zoomed from behind Kenta, quickly rushing towards the infected. A bright yellow flash appeared when the cloud of dust collided with the infected.
When the dust disappeared, there stood the infected, with a large visible hole in its stomach. The infected's yellow eyes, slowly revolved backwards before its body began to slowly disintegrate into ashes. As the ashes fell, behind the smoke appeared Arashi. Her yellow skin was spilled with spots of murky, green, infected blood.
"Stan!" Kenta cried as he sprinted towards Stan who layed on the cement floor, motionless, covered by the remains of ashes from the tentacles of the infected, eyes closed, his body inscribed with scrapes and cuts. Kenta fell onto his knees, picking up Stan from the cement floor.
"Kenta!"
Kenta turned his head towards the sound of the voice.
"Hurry up inside!" Myra said.
Kenta rose back up onto his feet, carrying Stan as he ran towards the door. Barely managing to dodge a few infected as he busted through the doorway. Immediately after entering, the door behind him closed.
Kenta collapsed onto his knees once again. Laying Stan down on the floor, faced up, and promptly putting his finger on Stan's neck, hoping for a pulse. His eyes filled with worried, he didn't know what he would do without Stan. They've been friends ever since Kenta was 8 years old. Ultimately, Kenta finally felt a pulse coming from Stan. Kenta let out a long sigh of relief. "He's alive." He assured, letting out a smile.
Kenta turned around towards Arashi, giving her a grin. "Thank you." He smiled as he crouched, stretching his hand out to pet Arashi. Arashi swayed away from his hand, not allowing him to pet her head.
Kenta let out an exhale, "Thank you." He repeated, giving her another smile.
Kenta looked towards Jay, "So, is the any food here?"
"Shhh" Jay answered, "There's someone in here." She believed. "Whoever is in here, we are not infected." She screamed.
"Don't move." An unfamiliar voice ordered.
Myra, Jay and Kenta all turned towards the sound. Seeing an 18 year old-looking boy wearing a black shirt and jeans, with white sneakers on his feet, holding a 9mm Pistol pointed at them.
"Woah, We're not infected. No need to point that gun." Kenta stated as he, and the rest of the group put their arms in the air.
The mysterious man immediately pointed his gun at Kenta, his long, shaggy hair swaying around.
"You sure you guys are bitten or infected?" The man questioned.
"No." Myra replied, her hands still in the air. Frozen in fear, scared to do anything else that may make the man shoot them.
The man didn't ask another question. Silence was the result of the stand off, no one saying a word as the man still pointed the gun towards Kenta.
The man finally put the gun down and exhaled "Alright, I believe you." He began, "Sorry I threatened you guys, ever since the infection broke loose, I've learned to be extra cautious" he continued, "My name's Jason and that's Gash." He introduced as he pointed behind them towards a Gallade. From a very dark corner of the corner, emerged the Gallade slowly coming into view of the light.
"Well... I'm Jay, That's Kenta, and she's Myra." Jay introduced the group.
Stan slowly began to move his head, tilting it slightly right. His eyes squinting open a little as he made a little noise.
"Oh, um, that's Stan, Oscuro, the Pikachu and the Luxio." Jay also said, pointing at the Pokemons as she said their name.
"Do you have any food?" Kenta asked, remembering how hungry he was. Grabbing his stomach in pain of hunger.
Jason frowned, "I'm sorry," he apologized. "Most of the items in this part of the warehouse are just novelty items. I was looking for food too, but only managed to find this pistol here in this part of the warehouse, laying on the floor."
"Is there any more weapons?" Jay wondered.
"I'm afraid not," he answered. "You want to go and find some food?" He said as he turned to Kenta.
"I would, but, I'm more worried about my Pokemon." He stated as he turned his head to Stan. Smiling in relief, knowing his partner wasn't dead yet.
"Myra, go with Jason to go and get some food, please." Kenta ordered.
"I guess so," Myra answered, her voice sounding as if she only was going because she was told to. "Oscuro, come on." She said as the Umbreon began to follow them.
"So, where exactly are we going?" Myra asked as she began to walk away from the group and into the unexplored area of the warehouse.
"Gash, Guard these people for now, I'll be right back." Jason
Gash, the Gallade, nodded as he moved around the area, inspecting for anything strange.
"Well, I haven't inspected the whole warehouse, so we're going to explore a bit, see if we can find any food." Jason answered.
Jason and Myra cautiously walked into the unexplored areas of the warehouse. Carefully taking their steps, just in case something else was inside the warehouse with them.
Gzzz...
"What was that?" Myra worried, standing frozen in place, her mind filled with fear as she quickly twitched around her head. Her mind filled with anxiety, wondering what and where the noise came from.
"I think the sound came around the corner" Jason whispered, as he stood next to the wall and slowly side stepped to the corner. He let out a long exhale before he swiftly turned his body around the corner,seeing a man with two Pokemon. "Freeze!" Jason yelled, pointing his gun towards the man.
"Woah, Don't shoot!" A man in a black suit with a red tie said alarmed, raising his arms up. His two Pokemon froze in place, not moving a single muscle.
"Are you infected?" Jason asked, still pointing his gun towards the man.
"No." He replied.
Jason slowly lowered his gun, "what was that noise. It kind of went something like, Gzzg" Jason interrogated.
"Oh that noise. It was just this vending machine." He replied as he moved, revealing a vending machine behind him. "My names Phillip by the way." he added.
"I'm Jason." Jason introduced himself.
"I'm Myra." Myra also introduced herself.
"Do you guys want anything? I'll pay for it." Philip offered, reaching in his pocket and pulling out money.
"I got a better idea." Jason commented as be pointed the gun at the vending machine. Squeezing the trigger and immediately a loud bang sound came from the gun, causing a bullet from the gun to break through the glass of the vending machine.
Phillip gave a surprise look, "Hmm.. why didn't I think of that?" He said out loud to himself. He looked around, staring at the Umbreon that was next to Myra. "Does he have a name?" He asked Myra while pointing at the Umbreon.
"Oh yeah, his name is Oscuro." Myra said with a smile, she looked over at his two Pokemon, one of them was a Lucario that had a monicle over his eye,a top hat on his head, and black dress pants with a silver ring on his hand. The other Pokemon was a Gardevoir, who stayed behind the Lucario. Her appearance wasn't nothing too different than an average Gardevoir, other than having a silver ring on her hand.
"What are the names of your Pokemon?" Myra questioned.
"Oh the Lucario's name is Yuanfeng, and the Gardevoir's name is Grace." Phillip introduced.
"Sorry to bother you two" Jason apologized, "but can you guys help me carry some of the food back to the group."
"Group? You mean there's more people still uninfected?" Phillip wondered, as he helped pick out some of the food from the vending machine.
"Yeah, we have a small group here." Jason informed as he handed some bags of food to Myra.
"Well, let's hurry up. The larger a group is during an apocalypse, the more likely more people are to survive." Phillip informed.
After they picked all the food they could carry. Myra, Jason, Phillip and their Pokemon ventured back to the group.
"Hello people!" Myra greeted, giving a smile.
Kenta rose onto his feet, "What happened?" He asked.
"Nothing." Jason answered.
"Why was there the sound of a gun going off?" Kenta asked.
"I shot the vending machine." Jason stated.
"Who's the new guy? Jay asked, pointing at Phillip.
"Oh, say hello to Phillip, Yuanfeng and Grace." Jason introduced their newest members of their group. Phillip gave a quick wave to the group.
"Well, here's a bit of food. Eat up." Myra informed as she gave Kenta a bag of food.
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Author's Notes:
There you have it. Chapter 2, and I plan to make each chapter about 3,250-4,000 words each, so I can update more frequently and not over fill one whole chapter. Yeah, tell me what you think about that, do you like it or not?
OCs aren't closed yet but I'm going to be way more strict, I'm tired of getting OCs with very little information, I will reject if OCs do not have a good bit of information, in fact if I received a pm about an OC with very little info, I maybe will be sending a PM asking for more info. I'm sorry but that has been a problem that stops me from continuing my work. And if you don't respond, your OC will be denied.
The reason this chapter took so long to update was I moved, so most of my time was spent arranging stuff and school.. and I'm not going to lie, I kinda slapped this chapter together because I had less time to write.
If I didn't get your OC here don't worry, next chapter I will reveal all new OCs. I promise. I'm sorry, Gemstone Gal, Fiammajoule, Timberstar, AnimeGirlieGirl. DarkerThanBlack12 and Kitten is Spunkedelic and Random Visitor Girl that I'm keeping you guys waiting. I honestly am sorry. I'm especially sorry to Fiammajoule and Timberstar, since both of you are the ones who gave me the best detailed OC.
Again, I'm sorry if this chapter wasn't great. I've been real busy lately, and I have had a shorter time to write. Ill try to make the next chapter way better than this.
The next chapter will be up soon, Hopefully by the end of this month.