Chapter Three: Alcohol Isn't for Drinking in Survival Horror

"You don't love me! You just want me for my flesh!"

|Axis's POV|

I scramble to my feet, screaming bloody murder as I do. I look down to see what just touched my hand. I'm relieved to see that it's just a bottle of beer… Wait…what?

Then I grin. I realize two things. One: Sai's so dead if Rinslet finds out about this, and two: this bottle could be our ticket out of the house!

"Axel, look!" I say as I shove the bottle in Axel's face. "It's a bottle of beer!"

I think Sweetie O's too preoccupied with the people downstairs to take a noticing to us. Thanks goodness too.

Axel quickly pushes the bottle away, mouth wide open and everything. "Axis, as much as I'd love to get drunk and wasted, this is no time for drinking," He lectures, "You're underage and we're trying to survive. We need you sober."

I stare at him blankly. "What the hell? No man! Alcohol isn't for drinking in survival horror. Are you f'ing stupid?" Axel just stares right on back, and I figure he has no clue what the hell I'm talking about. "Molotov cocktail, you idiot."

"Ooooooohhhhh…" He scratches the back of his head, "We're gonna use it to kill your dog, right?"

"Mmrgh…" I groan, "No. We're gonna sneak out my mother's window and make a run for the mall. We can use this in case we become surrounded."

"Good idea, kid," He says walking towards the door. He stops a bit short.

"What's wrong?" I ask, playing around with the bottle of alcohol.

The next thing I know Axel's running at me. He grabs my arm and tugs me over to the window.

"Someone's upstairs and I don't think it's the police," He says, opening the window. "Jump onto the porch roof."

He ushers me out of the window. I shimmy over on a skinny piece of metal to the porch roof. I wait as Axel does the same.

As I'm waiting I look off into the distance. The city is burning. Red and orange lights up the night sky. I wonder if maybe… it's happening all over the city.

The two of us look in the driveway to see a very familiar dark blue Jeep Grand Cherokee parked in the driveway.

I immediately look over at Axel, pissed off.

"Ahahaha…" Axel laughs, nervously, "I kinda forgot I had a car…" His face turns red from embarrassment.

How the fuck can you forget something as important as that! We could be at the f'ing mall by now!

I maintain my temper, though. If I get pissed off, I'll be so focused on being pissed off that I might accidentally fall off of the porch and break my leg… even worse… LEGS!

"Idiot…" I mutter underneath my breath. "Let's get going before-"

Suddenly Sai's bedroom door flings open. We see Sweetie O charging for the window.

"JUMP!" Axel screams as he slams the window shut on the dog's face. The glass shatters, and a fragment of it nicks Axel on the cheek.

I do as I'm told and jump onto the pavement next to the ambulance. My hands burn as they touch the ground. I scramble towards the car.

Axel rummages through his baggy pants in search of his keys. "Found them!" He cheers.

We hear Sweetie O bark.

Axel drops his keys.

"This is not the time to be dropping your keys!" I scream, "Open the fucking doors!"

"Shut up, kid! You're makin' me nervous!" He snaps.

"You should be nervous! Our lives are on the line here!"

I hear the doors click open.

Without a second thought I hop into the car, as does Axel.

The front door of my house is wide open. I see one of the policemen lying on the front porch, clearly dead. There's a huge chunk of his neck missing. I begin to wonder where the others were.

Suddenly a hand hits on my side of the window. One of the EMS people is banging on the door. Axel, of course, drops the keys on the floor, while I contemplate whether or not I just pissed my pants.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" We screech.

"Help me!" He screams, shortly before a hand reaches around his face, and pulls him out of view.

The man's shrills fill the air. I press my face against the window to get a better look. I see a red liquid pooling out from corner of the window. Then I hear the sounds of munching. I look away for a brief moment, trying desperately not to throw up, then I gaze back and there's a dead guy, who I shall now refer to as zombies, standing by my window.

"ARGGHHHHHHH!" I shriek, as I clamber towards Axel, who is trying to find his keys. "Hurry the fuck up!" I panic.

"It'd be a lot easier to find if your elbow wasn't jabbing at my side!" Axel snaps.

I'm almost fully in his seat screaming bloody murder at the zombie who is snapping at the window. It starts to hit its head against the glass.

"Ahah!" Axel says triumphantly. He pushes me back into my seat and turns the car on.

Suddenly, "MakingDamnSure" by Taking Back Sunday blares out of the stereo system. I cover my ears. I glance towards to the front door only to see Sweetie O stampeding towards the car.

Axel starts to back up, and Sweetie O jumps at the windshield.

"HOLY FUCKING SHIT!" We screech as Sweetie O does so. I'm holding onto the door handle and the compartment that's in between the two of us. Axel's doing the same.

Sweetie O just slides off of the hood of the car motionless. There is now a giant crack in the windshield.

Axel recovers from his shock a lot quicker than I do, so he finishes backing up, then hightails it outta there.

"Oh…my…god…" I pant, holding my chest. "I-I… That was flipping scary…"

"Yeah…" Axel nods his head, clearly just as scared as I am, "My poor car…"

|With a different set of survivors: Rinslet, Zexion, Saikoro (Sai), and Abigail|

|Saikoro's POV|

This is so…surreal. I'm in the back of older sister's mini-van with my two best friends. My sister's boyfriend is sitting in the front. What the fuck happened…?

Oh yeah, that's right…

We were at work…at the bookstore… I was sitting at the cash register, chatting about some pretty useless things with Zexion, and Abigail was sitting in the manga aisle reading the new installment of Fruits Basket. Then our manager, who looked sick, waltzed into store and tried to bite me. The next thing I know I'm on the floor struggling to get the fucking douche bag off of me. It took Abigail a few seconds to realize that things are getting really outta hand. Zexion immediately starts trying to pull the man off of me. And the next thing I see is blood. Lots of it. Abby just stared at us as she held the now ruined mascot pole. I think I fainted after that because everything is a massive blur.

I glance over at my two friends. The brown haired blue eyed Abby has a big smile on her face and Zexion's staring out the window. Then I turn my attention to my sister. Rinslet's silver hair is tied up into a ponytail. It's like she's ready to kick some zombie ass. She's so focused on getting us to the mall. Then I stare at Julius. He's tapping impatiently on the door handle. I want to tell him to knock it off, but if it's the only thing that's keeping him from screaming like a maniac, then I'm not gonna be the one to ruin it.

Everything would be just peachy if Axis was with us. We wouldn't have to go to the mall to wait for him. Gee… It'll suck if Axis dies.

Then I go back to looking out the window.

Jesus, everything's burning…

It's true. Everything is actually a game store. I used to work there up until… well… Never mind. That's a story to be saved for the events before my death. Damn, I'm pretty darn optimistic aren't I?

"Hey… Are you three all right?" I hear Rinslet ask.

I don't respond, I don't even look at her. I pretend that the outside is just so much more important than she is.

But, of course, innocent little Abby responds. "Yes, Miss. Oracle." I assume she's still smiling.

"Sai? Zexion?" She asks.

The two of us just look up at her in the rear view mirror, then we direct our attention to the outside.

"I'm taking that as a no…"

Silence, apart from Julius's annoying finger tapping, fills the car once more.

I watch as a zombie trips over the curb of a sidewalk, and falls into sharp metal pipe. I close my eyes before I see any more.

"What do you think is going on, love?" Julius asks.

"Mmrghh…" Rins groans, clearly irritated, "Jules, I don't know… I just know I have to get these kids out of here alive… I'll take time after this is over to wonder why this happening."

I see, through the corner of my eyes, Abigail glance through out the back window. When she turns around her elbow hits at my side, I look at her to give her warning look, but I notice she isn't smiling anymore.

"M-M-Miss… Miss. Oracle?" She says, stuttering and all. All of us direct our attention to the shaking girl.

"What's wrong, Abby?" Rins asks, her eyes still not wavering from the road.

"T-t-there's… s-something cha- chasing us," She replies.

Zexion and I immediately look out the back window. Sure enough, Abby is telling the truth. An extremely tall man, rather deformed- since it looks like he has third degree burns everywhere, is chasing us. He's very muscular, and is wearing some type of trench coat thing. Let's not forget the fact that it has a rocket launcher in one hand and a machine gun in the other.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" We all scream in unison.

I feel the car start to go faster. Rinslet is making the mini-van go as fast as it possibly can. I never knew that they could this fast.

I look back out the window, just to make sure we're actually getting some distance from that… that… thing. Unfortunately, the monster has kneeled down… and is now holding the rocket launcher to the car.

"ABANDON CAR!" I scream, sliding the door open. I don't even wait for the car to stop.

I hit the pavement pretty hard, and as a result the outer part of my right arm is covered in road burn. There are little pebbles sticking to peeling of my flesh, which make it hurt twice as much.

I hear the mini-van come to a screeching halt.

"Sai!" Abby and Julius's voices scream. She kneels down beside me, and tries to help me to my feet. I muster up all my strength, then slowly I get to my feet. Abby puts my arm around her shoulder, and around my waist… Julius does the same. Then we start to make our way to Taco Bell.

I turn my head to see if Rins and Zexion got away, and sure enough I see Zexion tugging Rins towards the Wendy's that's across the street.

Then the mini-van explodes. Red, orange, and yellow illuminates the darkness.

A piece of the car slices at my arm. But it's only a little nick. I feel my arm slip from around Julius's shoulders. He disappears from my view.

"Jules?" I say looking down at him.

And then Abby and I throw up.

Julius lies on the floor… missing his head. A piece of the car had sliced his head clean off.

Oh…my…god… And then there were two…

The monster lets out a piercing roar behind us.

I wipe the sides of my mouth. "Abby, we have to move."

She's crying.

"Abby, that…that…thing is gonna get us too if we don't move!" I yell.

Abby nods her head furiously.

We stumble into Taco Bell… only to have a few dozen guns being pointed at us.

Abby gasps.

"We come in peace," I say holding up my free hand.

End Chapter Three

The Pinball Wizard: Happy face. I had to kill someone. Okay, maybe not just someone, cause two people died in this chapter. Oh yeah. Thank you everyone who has been following this. I write the chapters in advanced so I don't get side tracked with other fics. Until next time, Assassin's honor. Or something like that…

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