Chapter IV

Rodrigo's POV

I don't know what the fuck just happened… I remember I was talking with that femme fatale and I suddenly turned unconscious… so I'm guessing I did say something improper again.

Well, It's still dark, but then again we are hiding ourselves in an underground shelter so, well my head still fucking hurts.

As I move towards the door, still in my underwear; I must admit I love walking in underwear, I feel more free; I hear more than 3 voices outside, giving me two ideas, either Anna really did some heavy damage to my brain, or there are more survivors in here; I'm going to kill Diego… If someone let them in, it's him… I'm not a bastard that would let people to die in normal circumstances, but given the circumstances… the bigger the group, the more dangerous it gets, if someone panics, well I'm not going to think of that for the moment… I'll go and introduce myself… hopefully they aren't much, and we will have to discuss where to go…

I open the door, and see the doors lit in the hall, blood coming from the door, so I'm pretty sure they fought their way here, the doors blocked again… but seems they added more heavy stuff to the door just in case, which means if we are to escape that door is not an option, I'm going to kill Diego… if he didn't do it… I'll still fucking kill him.

My attention turns to my 'buddies' and the new comers, I see two women, one using a very formal attire, a black vest, white shirt and a skirt that matched the vest, a brunette… Isn't that the ethics teacher? I hope she understands the current situation, she looks quite agitated but not as scared as I thought she should… next to her is an Asian woman, either Chinese or Japanese, long black hair, white skin, good boobs… almost as big as Anna's… alright… Rodrigo calm down, don't let your hormones get the best from you, and well her attire looks like the one from Uma Thurman from Kill Bill and well at this moment I'm not actually surprised she's wielding a Katana… but those eyes and that serious look… I think I have seen her before, and how they made through that hell without getting their clothes blood drenched… I will ask them someday…

Now I just realized that I'm the only idiot almost naked in the room, and they noticed me. Anna is throwing daggers at me from her eyes, Diego and Gary are laughing as well as our new guests.

Time to introduce myself

End of POV.

'What you all staring at' hissed Rodrigo 'Never seen a man naked in your damn life?... now do you want me to keep stripping?'

'And this is the jerk that saved my life' pointed out Anna 'His name is Rodrigo' "That idiot has no sense of tact sometimes" she thought still angry of what happened earlier.

'Sorry for that outburst' he apologized still grunting 'My head hurts like hell and I don't know why' Anna flinched at the comment. 'And you are?'

'I am the Ethics teacher, my name is Marie Larousse… you'd know my name if you ever attended to my class kid!' she scolded him, her French accent was still strong.

'And I am Shinegawa Mitzuko' the Japanese beauty bowed 'And well I am not one to be ashamed by the human body but you really need to put some clothes on you friend' Rodrigo smiled shyly as he scratched his head, while the others exchanged little laughs.

'I know I know… I just woke up from a forced sleep' he looked at Anna who just avoided his gaze. 'And nice to meet you two… may I inquire how you got in?' he asked 'And also Diego you damned asshole tell me the hour or I'll kill you.

'Well… it's 5 A.M so…' he answered 'You'll have to do breakfast in a few… and well I was watching the cameras to confirm how fucked was this… when I saw them run into the house… that was like 3 hours ago, so well I gave them directions to come to the shelter once they got into the house, with the microphone… and me and Gary helped them out once they heard me' he smiled making a V sign with his right hand.

'Well it's nice to see more friendly faces around… I'll admit, but that was a really risky move… we could have more of them coming… and by the way you guys locked the door, I'm guessing there are more of them inside the house'

'Well we found another escape route from the shelter, in the surveillance room there is a hidden door, with stairs taking to the Garage, there's a Humvee we can use to escape' Gary said. 'But we don't have the keys'

'You mean these?' the French beauty said, as she held the keys with her left hand 'When me and Shinegawa-san were moving through the living room, I found these next to that poor man's corpse' her face gave a slight hint of sadness.

'That is great… but you will need weapons in case we need to head out of the vehicle and while I am confident of my sword skills… I would find pretty hard to protect you all' the dark haired woman replied

'Well there are some guns in the surveillance room… and we didn't make our way without smashing some skulls in the way' Diego answered, with his trademark goofy grin.

'Well… we need to find where to go…' Anna pointed out 'After that heroic rescue' sarcasm was evident in her tone 'More of those things may come into the house… so we need to move now while we still can… or we will be trapped here until the end comes… the door strong and that furniture adds some resistance… but it will come the moment it won't be able to hold… our escape route is safe, since it's quite hidden… so I suggest we made a move now after this Idiot gets some clothes on'

'I'm ready!' Rodrigo yelled 'some parts are still wet but the hell with it…'

'Well man… let's pack some food and let's go…' Gary said, he as well as the others could hear the sound of wood cracking, which probably meant that them already had broke the basement door, and where heading towards the shelter, no matter how strong the iron door was, they would eventually push hard enough to get in. 'We don't have much time! Grab some guns!'

Anna and Gary led the newcomers to the surveillance room, she turned to see the cameras, and in effect the creatures were moving towards the shelter; fear running on her veins, she grabbed the shotgun she had used to survive and move through the cafeteria, grabbed as much ammo as she could and put it into a black suitcase. Gary grabbed a handgun and the M16 lying in the locker.

'So he was really serious about the apocalypse….' The French woman said to herself 'Poor man… but his paranoia just saved us…' she grabbed another handgun 'You know… I'm a lover and I don't know how to use guns… plus…'

'Don't worry… we'll protect ya' Gary said with a confident smile 'And plus in the way you can learn…'

'Oh yes… the good old Kalashnikov' Diego smiled as he grabbed it, then turned to Rodrigo 'I'm guessing you are keeping the Dragunov man?'

'Yup…'

'But… didn't you tell me earlier you hated guns?'

'This is a rifle…'

'It's the same!'

'Nope'

Anna sighed in frustration; her savior was an odd person indeed. 'Still I'm going to keep the Axe… if these things are attracted by sound well… we may as well as do as little noise possible…'

Mitzuko evaluated the scene quietly, the two other foreigners did seem to know about guns, plus the one they called Rodrigo seemed familiar, perhaps she saw him in another occasion, but she wasn't able to recall it in the moment. She turned to the surveillance console, and saw that in the garage were at least 6 of those things. While she felt uneasy, she kept her calm. 'There are some of them in the garage… that means I should go in there first and clear the room, I noticed with just one clean decapitation and they won't get up again'

'I'll go as well… I got an axe and two of us will make the work much faster, those zombies…'

'Don't call them like that… it's absurd! This is not a movie!' Marie interrupted.

'Do you want me to call them dead people I used to know?... it's already hard for me and I think all of us having to kill something that had a familiar face… at least calling like them helps me to…'

'Think of them as monsters… so you dehumanize them?' Mitzuko interrupted.

'They are not human anymore…'

The chat was interrupted by the sound of the creatures hitting the door.

'We don't have much time…' Gary interrupted 'Me and Diego already packed some water and food enough at least for 3 days… we gotta keep going!'

Anna opened the hatch, motioning Mitzuko and Rodrigo to move out, Rodrigo climbed it as fast as he could to find himself with one of the undead in front of him, before he stood a chance to strike with his axe, the creature tried to bite him, he pushed the creature as further as he could, before it regained balance he got up and hit the creature with the axe, severing it's head, blood gushing out of the wound at a high pressure, probably it didn't happen too much time before that unfortunate person turned into them.

Mitzuko quickly charged against two of them that were next to the driver's door of the Humvee, with two swift strikes, their limbs were removed, and a third one left both of the creatures headless.

Rodrigo saw one of them turn to them, as they realized the survivors, without giving any chance for the creature to strike, a crushing blow with the axe's hilt into the it's stomach and the creature fell, a swift kick in the face stopped the creature from rising.

The two others were disposed quite easily by Mitzuko, as they were no rivals to her skills with the sword.

Marie took the keys and opened the car's drivers door, she didn't realized the alarm, that started to shriek. 'Turn it off!' Diego yelled.

'I'm trying!... shit!... got it!' a sigh of relief came out of the survivors and she shut down the alarm, but those few seconds were more than enough for the rest of them to realize their presence. They started to head to the garage, the wooden door would not be able to hold them all, they had to move soon.

'Eveybody in!' Anna ordered, due to the hasty escape only a few supplies were able to be put inside of the car, that being a few bottles of soda and water, and few packs of snacks.

'Guys… I think we forgot how to open the door…' Diego interrupted 'Shouldn't these people have a remote control to open the doors?'

No one said a word, instead they started looking frantically for the remote control, but luck was not on their side, Marie in the driver's seat, looked devastated, trying to accept their incoming fate, the door that lead the hall to the garage held them, but more and more kept pushing the door.

'There's a manual control outside… next to the door; if we could reach it!' Gary said, hope glowing in his eyes. 'But they…'

'Fuck this… I will catch you guys later!' Diego opened the door and leaped, as the door hall's door collapsed to their weight, he avoided them easily and opened the door, as it started to open, the walking bodies started to trip. 'Rodrigo! Le diré a Jorge que le mandas saludos!' he yelled.

'Fuck!'

'The door is open! GO!' was the last Diego said, as he tried to get the attention from them. Marie started the engine and accelerated to the max, when the door opened just enough for the car to pass, crushing every undead on their way. They were able to escape, but at the cost of one of them. Rodrigo looked crushed, lost another of his friends, he felt the world going on him. 'Idiot… well you were like that…' that's the only he was able to say. Anna tried to comfort him, hugging him, it did seem to do little effect.

'Your friend…. Was a true man' Mitzuko said 'He gave his life to allow other people to live… truly admirable' she concluded with a solemn voice.

'We will never forget him' Gary said 'I didn't knew him for long… but I really liked him, even though with his gay jokes…'

'He was flirting with you actually' Anna said, couldn't help but chuckle, she heard her savior chuckle as well.

'It is true…' Rodrigo said 'But well… I really think he wanted to die… the whole thought of his family being turned into them, would be too much for him to bear…'

'I would like to see my family one last time…' Anna said in the verge of tears 'I'm worried about them…'

'We all are worried about our families' Mitzuko soothed her 'I'm pretty sure they will be fine, my father and mother were at a tournament in Okinawa, so I'm pretty sure they are okay'

'Dad and mom… haven't talked to them in months, but my father being a policeman I'm pretty sure they are safe' smiled Gary.

'I haven't spoke to my family in quite some time, and I really don't care' Marie said, much to the surprise of the others 'We never got along… still a part of me wishes them to be okay'

'Hmm…. At least I know my brothers and grandpa are okay… they went overseas a few weeks ago, they should be returning to land in a few days, but given the circumstances they will just stay on the sea…' Rodrigo replied, looking more calm, still saddened at his friend's death.

'Your grandfather is a fisherman?' Gary asked.

'Yeah, he owns a small fleet of fishing ships, I've been once in his ship… it's really impressive, can store about 100 tons of catch'

'That's really sweet… what does he fish?'

'Anchovies'

'Eww' Mitzuko almost shivered.

Everybody could not help but laughing at Mitzuko's reaction and gesture, yet the sorrow for the fallen friend was still in the air. Still, Gary and Anna started asking about mundane subjects; to help the group keep the calm and the unity.

The road was desolate, a few of them, destroyed corpses, abandoned cars; it looked like hell broke loose last night, but actually hell had yet to be unleashed.

A/N: Sorry about the short chapter, right now I got my mind into some other stuff such as college, any reviews and constructive criticism Ill gladly accept.