Pixie: Welcome to the next installment of S.U.T.W.C!
Dragon: Yeah…
Pixie: I wanna thank everyone who read this and reviewed! In response to Iheartwritingsothere, I am maybe thinking of changing the parings. Instead of Hikaru/Akari I'm putting in Kyoya/Akari, and taking out Ryu's paring. Thanks for the tip and review. You have no idea what this has done for my desire to write, now that I know people like it! Their gifts might be revealed soon…
Dragon: Now I don't have to get on her as much. Thanks for that. Reviews welcome, flames will be used to cook dinner. I would like to thank myself for adding all the delicious blood, guts, and gory details to this and the ongoing chapters (Pixie got nothin on dis). :3
Pixie: Happy reading!
~3 MONTHS LATER~
Ryu and Akari sat in the room, waiting for the club to be finished.
A few hours after the guests left, the almost unbearably awkward silence of the after-club was broken when a random girl came running into the room, screaming her lungs out. Her school dress was torn and dirty and she was panting as if she were running away from someone or something. She then proceeded to cry and spazz out.
"Oh my god!" The girl screamed, her eyes wide with fear, "They're everywhere!" The random girl dropped to her knees, clutching her head in her hands and started sobbing harder.
"What's everywhere?" Tamaki hurried over to the girl, followed closely by the other hosts.
"I don't know what's going on out there, but a whole bunch of people just came running toward me! And they all looked like they had rabies or something!" The girl suddenly passed out on the floor.
The hosts and the girls exchanged glances. "Whoa," Ryu said, fanning the air in front of her face, "Do you guys smell that?" Akari looked at her, with an expression that said 'are-you-seriously-asking-that?'
"No one has a special nose like you," Akari told her, crossing her arms and leaning towards the window. Ryu glared at her "twin" and smacked her in the back of the head. Akari's head slammed into the window, but not enough to do any damage.
"OW! WHAT WAS THAT FOR, JACKASS!" Akari screamed at her.
" Cut back on the "special" comments, Por favor." Ryu replied.
"Non, tu putain de biscut." Akari mumbled while rubbing her forehead, and Tamaki gasped, putting his hand over his mouth.
"Young lady! There is no need for that kind of language here!" Tamaki scolded, wagging a finger at her.
"DID YOU JUST SAY WHAT I THOUGHT YOU JUST SAID!" Ryu yelled. The hosts were amazed; this was the first time that they heard Ryu raise her voice since they met her.
Akari just giggled, looking around, and said, "Oui."
"Gut, du bust ein arschloch!" Ryu started growling –yes, growling- at Akari.
Akari was quick to throw out another insult, "Well, your mother is a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries!"* She stuck her tongue out at Ryu.
An awkward silence filled the room. Ryu glared at her and growled again, then raised a hand and slammed Akari's head back into the widow she was leaning on, said window shattering into pieces.
Everyone in the room gasped at what Ryu just did to her "sister".
"I told you never to bring up my parents! And you got that line from a movie!" Ryu punched the wall, giving it a crack and Akari a death glare.
"I know, I'm sorry." Akari shook the glass out of her hair, trickles of blood dripping down her face.
"Mon Dieu! Are you ok?" Tamaki asked her.
"Yeah, I'm fine," She picked the pieces of glass out of her face whispering not so nice words and wiped the excess blood on her sleeve.
"Ryu, what's wrong with you? You could have killed her!" Kaoru yelled, running up to her, Hikaru following his brother.
Ryu just glared at Kaoru, "None of you need to get involved,"
Tamaki could only stand there and stare, slightly cowering behind Kyoya who simply pushed his glass up the bridge of his nose.
Honeys' eyes started to tear up, "Takashi, why did Ryu-chan hit Aka-chan?" He tugged on Mori's pants leg. Akari stood up, pushing the hair out of her face. She glared at Ryu, walking over to her. She had a dark aura surrounding her and her eyes almost red. She went right up to her, inches from her face. Everyone could feel the tension in the air.
"That was uncalled for." Akari said, serious and angry. "You need to control that temper. It's getting worse."
"I don't have a fucking temper." Ryu growled.
"You're pupils are slitting again!" Akari sang, serious moment gone out the window.
"Well, pardon my anatomy!" Ryu huffed. Hikaru and Kaoru eyes snapped to Ryu's eyes, and immediately stepped back.
"Whoa… they are slits." Kaoru whispered, backing away from her. At that moment, Kyoya walked over to Akari.
He stared at her for a second before asking, "Didn't you get glass in your face?"
"Yeah…" Akari replied, confused.
"Then where are the cuts?" He asked her, arching an eyebrow.
"Ummmmm...Hey! Check this out!" Akari yelled, gesturing towards the window and successfully changing the subject. Ryu looked over, and the smell she noticed earlier had gotten worse.
"God, what is that smell? It's horrible, I feel sick." Ryu said, walking away from the window, gagging.
"I still don't smell anything!" Akari told her.
"It smells like rotting flesh and nasty stuff." Ryu said to no one, holding her nose.
"Well, I think I know why. Come look at this sis," Akari said, waving her over.
"Oh. My. God…you've got to be kidding me. It's way too fucking early in the morning for this shit." Ryu grumbled. The scene outside was like what might come out of a deranged horror movie. Bodies were scattered all over the courtyard, some of them obviously students. Worst of all, walking among the dead, were the undead. Only one explanation could be reached between the pair of idiots. Zombies. The two girls immediately looked at each other, faces filled with…Glee?
"YES! ITS ZOMBIE SLAYIN TIME!" Akari yelled, jumping up in excitement. The girls high-fived each other, excited for the aforementioned 'slayin time'.
The club just stared at them. "What?" Kaoru spoke, his voice shaking with nervousness, "What did you just say? Z-zombies?" his voice raised in concern. He backed up toward the door; Hikaru followed him and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Well, take a look," Ryu gestured to the broken window, "I don't think we can come up with any other explanation."
The hosts joined the girls at the window ledge, staring down at the chaotic courtyard. The king spoke, "Oh my god!"
"Well, it looks like we have a serious case of nom-noms here." Akari told everyone seriously.
"What the hell are nom-noms?" Ryu questioned, staring at her sister incredulously.
"A nickname for the zombies! The term 'zombies' is overused, so I wanted to be creative! Nom-noms just rolls off the tongue!" explained Akari excitedly, complete with bunny ears.
"But why nom-noms?" Ryu asked.
"Because they nom-nom your brain, silly!" replied Akari, giggling. All of the hosts, except for Kyoya and Mori, looked nauseas and mortified. Ryu nodded, knowing the way her sisters' mind worked.
Ryu cleared her throat, everyone turning their attention to her. "Well, I guess this means we're gonna need weapons and supplies." She turned towards the window, observing the decaying corpses as the world turned to carnage.
"W-what do you mean, 'supplies'?" Tamaki asked, hiding behind Kyoya.
"Kyoya, since you know everything, where's a place where we can find lots of weapons and supplies?" Ryu asked, going into survival mode.
"Well, there is a weapons shop about eight miles north from here, why?" Kyoya told her.
"We need weapons to survive, idiot! Now, I'll go get the weapons. Akari, keep them in the room, and check the school for any nom-noms using your crystal." Ryu barked as she ran to the broken window.
"Kay!" Akari said. Ryu braced herself to jump.
"Don't die!" Akari smiled a little too happily at her, flapping her hand up and down in an idiotic goodbye kind of motion.
"I won't. Well," Ryu sighed, "Wish me luck… I'm sure as hell gonna need it." She walked over to the window, climbed up onto the edge, then turned and gave her own two-fingered-salute, and fell. The hosts gasped and started freaking out.
"OH MY GOD!", "SHES GONNA DIE!", and "WERE DEAD NOW!" all flew out of the hosts mouths. They all started running for the door when Akari stopped them. She began to barricade the door with various couches and tables. When she was satisfied she turned to the hosts.
"No one leaves this room until I know that the building is secure!" Akari yelled at them. She pulled open the satchel that was slung on her shoulder, and handed it to Mori. She stretched open the bag to a size that could fit an average person and jumped into it. Every one in the room was shocked to see that she disappeared into the bag. There were loud bangs and crashed, and particularly bad language coming from inside. After a few minutes, she jumped out victorious, holding what appeared to be a crystal ball in her hand.
Akari sat on a couch and concentrated hard on the vision coming up in the crystal, seeing the all the doors in the school were still locked. "Phew." She sighed in relief. "None of the nom-noms have gotten into the building."
The hosts breathed a collective sigh of relief as well, all except for Tamaki who passed out on the floor when Ryu first said she was going to leave. Akari reached into the now dubbed "crazy bag of magic" and pulled out some smelling salts. She waved them under his nose and Tamaki shot up, frantically looking around the room, "Aaahh! Where did Ryu go?"
Ryu's POV
Ryu fell backwards from the ledge of the three-story window then quickly transformed to avoid hitting the ground, unfurling her great, sapphire wings and soaring upwards. She made sure to be careful not to be spotted by any of the hosts. She angled herself northward as Kyoya had said and followed the highway toward the supply storage. On the way, she took note of how fast the world was literally turning into mush; mangled and torn bodies everywhere, and the undead who feasted on them lumbering around on unsteady, rotting limbs, groaning like the stereotypical horror monsters they were commonly referred to as.
She came up on a sign that said, "Sokawa Armory and Supplies Shop (also sells cookies)." She descended onto the roof as not to call attention to herself, and dug her ebony claws into the shaky, rusted roofing, cutting a hole large enough to squeeze her reptilian body through. Once inside, she quickly located a rack of guns and proceeded to collect them and stuff them into an oversized duffle bag that hung on her right shoulder. After collecting an adequate pile of rifles, machine guns, handguns and a couple .44 Magnums for herself, she flew back up to the roof and set down the bag. Then, she descended back down to get supplies.
Ryu grabbed another duffle bag off a shelf and started filling it with boxes of ammunition, food, water bottles, and medical supplies. After the bag was filled to the brim, she stared loading it onto her back. She was almost ready to lift off again when a loud noise from the back of the isle snapped her out of gathering mode and into hunting mode.
The sapphire beast crouched down on all fours, sniffing the air, pupils dilating into slits. 'Good, there's only one of them here.' She thought. 'I'll need to take it out silently so more don't come and ravage this supply store. We might need it in the future.' Ryu stealthily padded down the isle, her razor-sharp claws making a light clinking noise on the marble floor. She spotted the monster sniffing a box of mochi, blood dribbling from the corners of its mouth, making a disgusting gurgling noise. She crouched back on her haunches, ready to pounce. Then, Ryu sprang on the nom-nom, effectively biting of its head, crushing the brain between her long, white fangs, the rotting, congealed crimson blood streaming out of the eyes and mouth of the foul creature.
She dropped the head, wiped her long, forked tongue over her teeth, tasting the sweet liquid that had become so rare to her. 'NO!' Ryu shook the thought from her head, 'You will not act like a blood thirsty monster!' She bent down her long blue neck and scooped up the duffle bag between her jaws, and set off toward the roof. Ryu pushed herself through the hole she made in the roof earlier and collected the other bag. She glanced back at the store, hoping it would still be there the next time they needed it. Then, she crouched back onto all fours once again, and charged of the roof. After catching an updraft, Ryu soared upward, beating her wings several times and flew off back toward the school.
Normal POV
Akari had calmed the hosts down enough to set up some basic rules of survival. "Always be ready for a Nom-nom to attack you, keep ammo in your gun, aim for the head," and things of that nature. She was currently adjusting her crystal to inform her if any Nom-noms had breached the building. Suddenly, a loud siren came from the crystal. She looked and saw that they had successfully broken down a door and got inside the school.
"What was that!" Tamaki screamed, as the others looked around in fear.
"That was the sound of Nom-noms getting inside. They'll probably find us soon, so pray that either Ryu gets back in the next five minutes or that our barrier holds up. 'Cause if not… well, we're screwed." She explained, voice becoming serious. She watched as all of their faces became pale in fear. She hoped that Ryu was close, the barrier would hold, or that she could protect them.
Within minutes of the siren, the audible groans of the Nom-noms could be heard. Loud bangs on the door soon followed. Akari could tell that they all were scared, even stoic Mori and emotionally detached Kyoya. She could hear the wood groaning with the pressure of the Nom-noms attacking the door, and she realized it would be mere seconds until they broke through. She moved in front of the hosts, who were huddled together, and got into a defensive position.
"What the heck are you doing?" Hikaru yelled at her.
"I'm savin' your asses!" She yelled back to them. Akari took a deep breath and willed herself to transform into her natural state. She felt the sharp sting of her pale lavender coloured wings coming out her back, and heard a gasp from behind her. Her ears became more pointed, her teeth like a sharks, eyes turning molten silver. Her pale skin became more of a violet color, vine-like tattoos appeared over her entire body. She felt the power rush through her body, and she was ready for action.
The second after she changed, the door was torn open, allowing them to get a good look at the five hideous creatures there. They were almost textbook zombies, with glazed eyes and blood covering them. A few had a missing limb or two, and a blackish blood oozed out of the wounds. Akari stood there, waiting for them to strike. One soon ran forward on unsteady limbs and Akari held out her hand, shooting a blast of blue energy at it, successfully disintegrating it in to a bloody pile of mush.
"Who's next?" She asked them, voice a bit lower than normal. As soon as she spoke, two others came straight at her. She ripped off a table leg and got both with one swing. She then shot at the remaining two with a violet fireball, bringing them down. In the aftermath of the slaughter, Akari went and jabbed each one in the head with the table leg, making sure they were dead. The hosts were standing there in shock and fear, just staring at her, most likely scarred for life.
"What? I have to make sure they're dead!" she told them, flashing a sharp-toothed grin. Kyoya was the first to recover as he began to chuckle.
"There's certainly more to you than meets the eye." he stated, opening his black book and scribbling something down.
"How the hell can you say that after what just happened?" Tamaki yelled at him, his facing hosting the expression off "scared-shitless".
"No, really?" Akari giggled sarcastically at Kyoya's comment, starting to sway. Then Akari fell face first on the floor, passed out cold.
Then, the most awkward silence in the history of forever filled the bloodied room. That is, until the strange crystal started spazzing out, the siren it gave off sounded about three times louder than the last one.
"Does that mean more are coming?" Haruhi asked nervously, holding onto Mori's leg.
"Unfortunately, yes." Kyoya stated unemotionally, walking up to the crystal ball to look inside it. "I can't see anything in it. I guess only Akari was able to figure out the images inside it." He backed away towards the others again.
Just then, a very strange noise came from outside the room down the hall. "What was that?" Tamaki asked, standing up to see what was behind the busted door. What was outside made him stagger backward, whimpering like a lost child.
"Well, this can't be good." Hikaru said, trembling alongside the other hosts.
"Well of course this can't be good!" Kaoru snapped at his brother, "Our only hope of getting out of this alive is unconscious on the floor, we have no weapons to defend ourselves, and there is a mob of man-eating mutants outside waiting to gorge themselves on us!"
Everyone stared at the younger twin like he had two heads, but were snapped from the trance when the groans from outside the door started getting louder, the sounds of the nom-noms lumbering feet coming closer.
"What are we gonna do, Kyoya?" Tamaki once again started freaking out, running around the room in circles and waving his arms around.
"How the hell should I know?" Kyoya snapped back at him. "Wait, everyone start piling things against the door, NOW!" With that, he grabbed a couch, dragging it over to the door, "Well? What are you waiting for, Christmas?"
It took the rest of the bunch half a second to realize what Kyoya was getting at, then all scrambled up to start gathering various pieces of broken furniture to combat against the raging horde. After gathering all the furniture they could find, they knew it wouldn't be enough to keep the nom-noms at bay for more than a minute or so.
"Akari, please wake up!" Honey pleaded, shaking her shoulders as the nom-noms started tearing down the makeshift blockade.
"Gah! Its no use!" Hikaru said, "That door will be gone in a minute!" Everyone started backing up unto the corner of the room, Akari being carried by Mori, waiting for their demise.
Then, the compromised door gave way in a corner at the bottom, and a nom-nom squeezed its way through. The hosts almost gagged at the sounds of the nom-nom's ribs breaking in the tiny space it was jamming itself into.
The flesh-eater managed to crawl through the gap, and stumbled toward the cowering teenagers, blood oozing from the missing bottom jaw of the foul creature.
Just as the hosts thought it was all over, the window across from the bunch broke with a deafening crash, shards of glass flying all over the room. In the middle of it all, Ryu jumped from outside the window into the room, and dropped-kicked the nom-nom right in the head. The undead cannibal flew backwards against the wall on the other side of the room; a satisfying "crack" was heard as the skull was smashed in.
"PLAYER 2 HAS JOINED THE GAME!" Ryu yelled excitedly, tossing the two duffle bags she was carrying onto the ground. She bent down and opened the bag, pulling out a pair of .44 Magnum hand pistols, pointing the muzzles toward the oncoming horde. Ryu glanced back over her shoulder at the hosts, who had the most hilarious expressions on their faces, and said, "If I were you, I'd cover my ears." She smirked and turned back to the pile of nom-noms scrambling towards their chance of fresh meat.
Ryu pulled back the triggers of the .44's , unleashing a deafening rain of hot lead square into the heads of the nom-noms.
The hosts quickly put their hands over their ears, trying to block out the booming sound of the Magnum rounds as they discharged into the undead skulls in front of them.
The nom-noms were dropping like flesh-eating flies. Two by two the mob was dispatched by the pair of weapons wielded by the 16-year-old girl. Blood sprayed up against the walls, bodies tumbled down to the ground, heads yanked from the rotting tendons in their necks by the force of the onslaught of bullets. But, in only about 30 pulse-pounding seconds, it was over.
It took the teenagers a few minutes of staring at Ryu to figure out what just happened within the last hour. Haruhi was the first to speak. "So, um, are they all gone now?"
Ryu continued to stare out into the hallway, not replying to the question. After a moment, she turned toward the group and placed the .44's in the duffle bag they came from, "Yeah," she said, "They're gone. For now."
The whole room seemed to breathe a collective sigh of relief. "Hey, where the hell is Akari?" Ryu asked, looking around the room for her 'twin'.
"Oh, she's over there." Tamaki gestured a trembling hand toward the unconscious body of Akari Itazura.
"Oh, brother." Ryu mumbled, walking over to her friend. She crouched down and shook Akari's shoulder, "Oi, Fucktard." Hearing no response she grabbed the girl's shirt collar and started shaking her back and forth, "Hey, dipshit! Stop using all your fucking power at once!" Ryu gave Akari a good face-slap, knocking the 'twin' out of her sleep.
"Ow!" Akari sat up, rubbing her forehead, "Why did you slap me?" she glared at Ryu.
"I didn't slap you dumbass, I high-fived your face." Ryu smirked, holding out a hand for Akari, who took it and stood up, swaying on her feet. "Well," Ryu brushed some dust and glass off her shoulders, "I think today went well. Don't you?" She looked back at the hosts for an answer.
The hosts all exchanged mortified glances, then the twins spoke in unison, "Yep, we're gonna die."
I bet you thought it would take forever to update, but I wrote fast! I hope you enjoy this update! The next chapter should be up soon!
- Pixie