AN: Ergh, I know I said I was going to be busy writing papers and studying for finals, but two of my professors cancelled their finals, and I finished writing the papers early. Plus, I couldn't stay away.

Ah, warnings. So in this chapter, there's blood, gore (it IS a zambie fic), and a pathetic attempt at trying to be kinda funny. Enjoy ;)


"Shit." Demyx jumped straight into action. "Roxas and Xigbar, check this floor. Larxene, there aren't a lot of exits on the second floor so you can go there alone. Xaldin, you get floor three." The ones with instructions grabbed a flashlight from behind the cafeteria serving area and ran off. "CHECK EVERYWHERE!" Demyx yelled after them.

"Is there any way we can help?" Leon asked.

"Yeah, you and him—" he pointed to Cloud, "can get the forth. Just go along the edges, search for exits. All inside doors should already be unlocked, so no problem there," Demyx explained. Leon nodded and grabbed Clouds arm, leading him toward the long staircase.

"Luxord, go up to floor five." Luxord grinned and grabbed a flashlight and a shovel that was resting on the floor. Then, he jogged off in the direction that Demyx and Leon left in.

"The rest of you, wait here. Axel and I will get floor six," Demyx finished and grabbed a carbine that was on top of a table. He threw me another, which I stumbled to catch and dropped.

"Aww, why can't I help out?" Sora whined. I bent down to pick up the fallen gun.

"I think they've already got it," Riku smirked in his direction. Naminé was still clutching onto Kairi's arm.

"Sora, he's right," Demyx said. "But there is a way you can help. If they come back, here you go." He handed Sora a small pistol. "Fire three consecutive shots if you see them." Sora nodded and tucked the silver gun into his pocket.

"We won't run away or anything while you're gone," Kairi promised, smiling wholeheartedly.

Demyx smiled at her. "Okay, I won't get worried," he said. "Alright, Axel, let's go."

"Wait a second," I started, "I just got stabbed, I'm pretty sure I would just be dead weight." Of course, per usual.

"Hmm, didn't think about that," he scratched the underside of his neck. Even Demyx realized that I was, and I had barely been around him. "Alright, I'll take you two then," he pointed two fingers at Kairi and Naminé with a flick of his wrist. Kairi grabbed the gun I handed her, and Demyx grabbed the flashlights. The three of them walked to the stairs together. Now it was only me, Riku, and Sora.

I looked at Riku, hoping to start some conversation, but he was staring intently at Sora, eyes shining hungrily. Instead of seeing that smirk he really held on his face, I saw fangs dripping with salivation. It's almost as if I was watching a wolf carefully watching a rabbit, ready to attack. Of course, Sora was completely oblivious to his stare (in school, Sora was notorious for being an airhead and for not realizing when people liked him—a common occurrence and gossip topic).

Damn, Riku, go get it. I'm over him, anyway. I'm glad I found Roxas, or I would be straddling Riku's stomach and punching his face so far into the ground that he'd see the mantle of the Earth. Probably not quite that drastic, but I would've punished him for stealing my property somehow.

I was going to ask Sora if he recognized me, but after seeing Riku's stare, I dropped it. Riku got the first word out anyway, so it all worked out.

"So what's your name?"

Sora looked up from his flashlight that he was filling batteries with to determine where the voice came from. I watched awkwardly for a couple seconds at them staring in each other's eyes before Sora asked, "Me?"

"Yeah, you. I already know that bonehead over there," he gestured to me. Sora's blue eyes flickered from Riku to me, a grin creeping on his face.

"Heehee, you're funny," he grinned. "My name's Sora!" Sora grinned and placed his thumb in the center of his chest proudly.

Riku returned his grin with a small smirk and extended his right arm. "Riku, nice to meet you."

They shook, and that's when I realized it was my cue to leave. I shook my head slowly, mouth a small smile. I'd seen this somewhere before: Riku's Temptation Technique.

Back in the day (meaning months ago) Riku had a thing for Kairi. He would go on and on about her huge boobs, how beautifully-colored her hair was, and her 'amazingly' blue eyes. One day, he collected up enough courage, and walked up to her with that same predatory glare in his eyes. All he did was have to introduce himself, and she began to melt at his feet. From then on, all was lost. He acted friendly at first, as if he genuinely wanted to get to know her. Gradually, he would lay on the allure with one goal in mind: to charm the pants off of his target. Eventually, he did.

Waking up the next day without Riku in the same room could have only meant one thing. Later, he had come down from the top floor, wrapped in a light blanket and nothing else. His hair was tangled messily around his face.

He had said: 'She's a monster in bed! And not in the good way, mind you.' I had just rolled my eyes.

From then on, Riku avoided her. I never really found out why. Perhaps it was the bad sex he had mentioned. Whenever I brought it up, he pretended he didn't hear me. Kairi hated him for his ignorance, but liked him too much to take out her wrath on him. Instead, she took it out on the next best thing. In this case, a best friend that went by the name of Axel. It's been that way ever since.

I walked away from the two of them, allowing Riku to work his magic. Good luck, my silver-tongued friend. Based on the sparkling look I had seen in Sora's eyes, it wouldn't be that difficult to get him between the sheets. However, I was feeling slight remorse for Sora's position. I just don't want to be around when Riku ignores him, because I don't want two people coming after my guts.

I strolled over to my backpack and rummaged around until I found my own flashlight. Cans clinked together and echoed throughout the courtyard. Eek, I didn't want to interrupt their 'courtship'.

"Sorry," I called into the air.

I think I'll take a look around the permanent dinosaur exhibit on the first floor. It wasn't far from the cafeteria, and I want to see how much of it I can remember. Before my dad left, we would come here often. I would always ask them to visit this exhibit, because I loved dinosaurs, and always will. They're just so fucking awesome.

The area was dark, so I clicked my flashlight on, shining the lonely blue beam across the various bone structures and displays. I put on one of the overused plastic headphone sets, designed to tell small children about the eating habits of the 'Tri-pronged Stegosaurus'. Mom and I would…

I told myself to drop the subject. I felt sick to my stomach.

Instead, I dropped the headset and sauntered around the exhibit, the ray of my flashlight acting as my tour guide. There was absolutely nothing different about this room than what it had been before zombies overran the world. No piles of the dead, no litter cluttering the ground, no weapons, no splattered blood.

It was strangely calming, yet extremely eerie. Odd, seeing something that wasn't tainted by the ghastly world we live in. This room reminded me of this song I'd listen to back home. It was a melancholy tune with no apparent name that I'd downloaded off the internet for some light entertainment.

A series of high notes were played on a baby grand, then sets of even higher ones. Next, they combined to create a beautiful, somber melody. It was saddening, but the artist played it with so much feeling, it would whirl up a gust of emotions in me. I loved that song. It always made me cry.

I was fed up with this trip down memory lane, it was doing nothing but bring me sorrowful memories. I decided to return to the main room where Sora and Riku were. They were just going to have to put up with me.

Not a surprise in sight, they were laughing and flirting with each other up a storm. Riku sat cross-legged with Sora's head in his lap, and was obliviously caressing brown hair. I shone the flashlight into each of their faces.

"Any sign of 'em?" I asked, watching their faces scrunch up in discomfort at the bright light.

"Yeah, I have," Riku drawled, "right out of this room. You should go check it out."

I rolled my eyes. "You dick. Fine, I'll leave you two alone then." I walked in the direction of the staircase, but didn't get very far. Down the dim hallway to my left, I saw two blurred figures sprinting toward me.

Shit. I crouched low, hiding behind a wooden display, hoping that they wouldn't see me. Sora had the pistol, not me. But as they got closer and as I peered around the edge of the wood, I saw that it wasn't Xemnas and Saïx, but Xigbar and Roxas.

"Oh, thank God," I called out, arising from my clever hiding place. "I thought it was Xemnas!"

They just kept on running, either seemingly deciding to ignore my comment or were just too exhausted to respond. As they kept coming, I saw why.

Zombies began to pour around the corner, following Xigbar and Roxas. They just kept on coming. I was frozen in shock as they almost tripped on themselves trying to get closer to the two pieces of meat in front of them.

"Shit!" I gasped, turning to dash toward the central area once more. "Fire the shots, NOW!" I yelled frantically to Sora.

Sora bolted up from Riku's lap and yanked out the pistol with a sturdy expression crossing his features. He aimed it at the wall that Xaldin was previously throwing knives at and shot thrice against it. Awesome quick thinking on his part.

"What's going on?" Riku was now standing, head keening to see what the disaster was.

"A horde got in," I hurriedly explained. By this time, Xigbar and Roxas had reached us, and they each grabbed another gun.

"Riku, grab Cloud's sword!" I yelled, heart pumping rapidly. I beamed the flashlight upon the piles of rubble where our backpacks were to grab Riku's fire poker. I heard moaning and shuffling footsteps… and I couldn't see that well, but I could feel the zombies getting closer.

"Quick," came Xigbar's gruff voice. "To the stairs."

We followed behind Xigbar and Roxas as they jogged to the right side of the staircase, as the zombies were trailing in the hallway near the left. I handed Riku his fire poker, and he grasped it along with Cloud's sword.

"How did they get in?" I panted, asking the two who were scouring the first floor as we climbed the stairs.

"Oh, we found where those dickwads left all right," Xigbar growled. "Those stupid fuckers opened all eight of those damned doors. Let the whole city in."

We bounded up the stairs to the second level. Larxene was running toward us on our right.

"What was that?" she asked, holding her gun nonchalantly by her hip.

"Up, up!" Sora cried, grabbing her elbow and forcing her to join forces with our running group. As we were making our way up to the third floor, Leon, Cloud, and Xigbar were running down.

"What happened?" Leon asked, brown eyebrows furrowed on his head and mouth curled down. His scar across his face became distorted as he frowned.

"Zombies, a lot of them," Riku quickly explained.

The three of them quickly leapt over the wooden center railing to run along with the rest of us. Our group moved up past the third and fourth floors, and made our way to the fifth, trying to find Luxord.

Instead of finding a blond mass of facial hair, we found a mass of a blond mullet, shortly followed by a head of dark red and beach-blonde. Demyx, Kairi, and Naminé were rushing down, surprised looks on their faces at seeing the lot of us together.

"Why are you all—" began Demyx.

"Zombies," was all Sora said, pointing down at our feet and cutting Demyx off. The blond-mullet-of-a-head peered over the edge of the rail onto the steps below us and he coughed. The moans of the zombies could be faintly heard as they climbed up after us.

"Where's Luxord?" He whipped around, eyes feral. "He should have heard the shots. LUXORD?!" I looked beyond Demyx. Poor Naminé was trembling, clutching onto Kairi's arm tightly. Kairi tucked a stray blonde hair behind her ear and whispered into it calmly. I glanced over the wooden railing at the scene below myself, and saw a shit-ton of them ambling up the stairs a mere flight behind us.

"We've gotta move, guys!" I hissed desperately. "We have to leave him!"

"NO!" Larxene screamed. "WE CAN'T!" Her face was full of rage, green eyes blazing.

"I'm sorry, Larxene," Demyx placed a firm hand on her shoulder. "We've got to move. Now."

"NO!" She screeched, dropping her gun. "FUCK YOU, DEMYX!"

Next thing I know, she slumped down on her knees, eyes closed. Then, she fell flat on her face, unconscious. Sora stood behind her, the butt of his gun placed where Larxene's head was and an unreadable expression on his face, eyes trained on her. He turned his head to look at all of us.

"Well?" he asked. "Someone carry her!" Demyx shook his head as if to clear it and hoisted her up in his arms, carrying her princess style. His somewhat small frame made the job look somewhat difficult, as he struggled under her weight. Xaldin, seeing Demyx's endeavor, walked up to him and grunted.

"I got it," he said gruffly. Not complaining, Demyx carefully passed her over to him.

"Let's go," he motioned for us to follow him down the fifth floor hallway. I picked up Larxene's forgotten gun. It would be hard to shoot with my arm being impotent, but I would try my best to help.

We followed Demyx, and emerged in the large area where we first arrived in. It was easy to make out details in this room, as the ceiling and walls were both made of glass. However, this area was absolutely huge. It was almost as big as a professional theater. Hearing the moaning getting louder, I deduced that we'd need to move fast if we were to make it to the other side without meeting trouble.

I ran after Xaldin, watching his thick back sway from side to side as he carried Larxene's weight. I snuck a quick glance behind me… Roxas was running behind me with Kairi and Naminé taking up the rear. Unfortunately, we were being pursued by the horde another forty feet back.

"MOVE, MOVE!" I nearly screamed, whipping back around to face forward again. Apparently, one of the girls had looked back and was now screaming at the top of their lungs. I heard gunshots behind me, so I quickly spun around, Larxene's gun ready to fire. Shit, these zombies were really fast, as they had almost caught up to us, even though we were running. I aimed beyond Roxas on his right, careful as I lined up side-by-side with him. Kairi and Naminé were struggling to catch up. One zombie reached for them, but Roxas shot it down with ease, hole going through its forehead. Naminé was screaming, and Kairi was yelling at her to hurry it up. That's when the inevitable happened.

Naminé tripped, and as a result, Kairi stumbled forward, instinctively letting her elbow go and tumbling down at our feet. We tried to save her, but we were too late.

A zombie reached Naminé and pounced on her, mouth going straight for her arm. The zombie's teeth took a huge bite out of her pale shoulder, the blood spurted in crimson arcs, and Naminé let out a horrifying scream. I felt sick to my stomach watching it, but I was standing in shock at the scene in front of me, I couldn't do anything. Next, he took a huge bite out of her breast area. Along with the blood pouring like a waterfall, a yellow brain-like mass flowed out as her chest was ripped open. Next thing I knew, the zombie was shot dead by Roxas, a straight hit through the head. Naminé's screams didn't die, however, as she bled and bled onto navy blue carpet.

"KAIRI! KAIRI! ACKKK… AHHH!" She screamed words incoherently and violently, blood erupting from her mouth and coloring her chin red. I didn't hear Kairi throw up over Naminé's defenseless wails, but there she was, wiping her mouth with an expression on her face that was breaking my heart.

Tears were running down her dirty face, mouth open in a silent scream, and nose scrunched on her face. She didn't make a sound as her entire life flashed before her eyes. Naminé was her everything, and now she was bleeding her life out on the floor, which means Kairi's life was leaving as well.

I don't know how Kairi got the guts to do what she did next. She yanked the gun out of Roxas's grasp, pointed its barrel at Naminé's head, and suddenly pulled the trigger.


AN: Please don't hate me. Namine is actually one of my favorite characters in KH, but in this story, I made her into too much of a wuss :/ I will still be going to Puerto Rico, so don't expect to hear of me for about two or three weeks.

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Love, MaddeThee

PS why does chapter 5 have a ton more views than any other? Huh...