Well this is it, the final chapter of Ruined. i enjoyed writing this story, and i hope you guys enjoyed reading it.
Words can't begin to express the amount of blood, body parts, and broken bones that were present that day in the field. Namine and I were surrounded on all sides by the zombies. When one died, 10 popped up in its place. After a while, my arms went numb, but I guess it was for the best; if I could've still felt them, I would've passed out from pain and exhaustion. Next to me, Namine was blasting zombies left and right with a shot gun. Despite the circumstances we were under, there's no way I couldn't admit how good she looked with that gun in her hands. Hehehe….it's a guy thing.
After a while, Namine threw her gun to the ground and slid the gun slung over her shoulder to her hands. This one was an automatic machine gun and she sprayed the bullets all over. Most of the zombies who were hit died instantly, but for the ones who didn't, I had to destroy them myself. Not that I minded.
At one point in the brawl, Namine ran out of all of her ammo. From her pocket she pulled out an electric night stick, a telescopic metal rod that was, well, electrocuted. It was shocking to see how much damage the thing did. The body parts that it touched immediately exploded, and if they didn't, they caught on fire. I kept going with my usual techniques, which included stabbing, slicing, hacking, decapitating, bone breaking, and cutting zombies into halves and pieces.
After hours, literally hours of fighting, neither of us could stand anymore. We were holding each other up by leaning on each other back to back. Eventually, Namine just collapsed, and I was about to follow…until I heard the screams and gunshots.
I weakly looked to my left, holding up my keyblades to protect Namine and I, and I saw 3 people storming onto the battlefield. They were all dressed in black leather cloaks, but aside from that, everything was different. The first guy had long pink hair and – I kid you not – a large pink scythe. There was no way I was going to make fun of him, though, because he took out waves of the zombies in simple little swings.
The next guy was just as weird. He had an eye patch and a long black and white ponytail. He wielded guns unlike anyone I had ever seen before. No matter what gun he was using, and he kept switching between snipers, machine guns and pistols, he always got a headshot. He seemed to almost teleport as he dodged and jumped away from zombies, still getting those headshots in the process.
The last guy was a beast. He had long black dreadlocks and weird sideburns. He used six long spears at the same time and totally decimated hordes of the zombies. Some were impaled and some were cut when he spun the spears around. Others were just completely obliterated by both blunt and piercing attacks combined. The three of them fighting was a spectacle.
When they reached Namine and I, I was already half unconscious. The last thing I remembered before passing out was watching as the pink-haired man carried Namine bridal-style towards the camp and being hoisted over the soldier of the sharpshooter.
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When I woke up, I looked around to see that I was in some sort of clearing on a stretcher. Nami was in a similar one next to me, still sleeping. I groaned as I rolled over and saw a girl near the edge of the meadow. Even from about 50 feet away, I could see her long wine red hair. I slowly raised myself into a sitting position and shook Namine lightly.
"Nami, wake up. We made it."
She rolled around a bit with a bothered expression on her face before muttering "5 more minutes…" I chuckled, but hoisted her up into a sitting position where she could lean on my shoulder. She seemed like she was still half asleep when the girl walked over to us.
"So you guys finally woke up? You were out for so long!" she laughed at the end of her sentence for some reason.
"Uh…yeah. I'm Roxas, this is Namine." I really wasn't in the best mood (I was sore), so I introduced us a bit rudely.
"I'm Kairi!" she seemed completely unfazed by my impoliteness, "and welcome to 'The Camp That Never Was'!"
I just smiled and hopped off of the stretchers. Namine followed my lead.
"I'm just waiting for my boyfriend and then we'll show you around." She said and looked out towards the woods. She was about my age (and Namine's) and had what looked like an unlimited supply of energy and optimism.
A few minutes later, her boyfriend, who we later learned was named Sora, walked in. Namine and I picked up our weapons and supplies. The duo led us away from the stretchers and deeper into the camp. All around us were modest sized homes which looked homemade. People were walking in and out of the houses and going about random business like chopping wood. Kairi explained that, in the camp, everyone had a job and a part to play.
We passed the mess hall where all of the meals were served and eaten and eventually we met two more people. Sora and Kairi were good friends of theirs.
The two people looked to be our age. One of them was a girl named Shiki with shoulder-length hair the same color as Kairi's. She shared Kairi's and Sora's enthusiasm and couldn't have been more different than her boyfriend. He was Neku, a quiet, antisocial looking kid. He had spiky orange hair and large purple earphones around his neck. I kinda liked him; I knew I'd get along with him better than happy-go-lucky Sora, at least.
Finally we reached the heads of the camp, where Kairi and Sora dropped us off, probably to go and do whatever it was that they needed to do around the camp.
We stared up at 10 people situated in high stone chairs staring down at us. They all had the same black leather cloaks on, albeit with a few modifications here and there. The group exuded an air of leadership about them.
"Hello. I am Xemnas." The main man said in a booming voice. "We are 'The Organization' and this is our camp."
"I'm Roxas Aoki, this is Namine Grey." We bowed "We are in your debt for saving our lives."
"We require no payment back. It is our duty to save those in need. We do, however, need you to leave now."
"What?" I started getting angry and I raised my voice. "We didn't travel for over a year to find this place, only to be pushed out. My father didn't use his last breath to lead me somewhere that I wouldn't be accepted."
"Who was your father that he would know of this place?"
"Cloud Aoki."
"Ahh…I knew him from long ago. What happened to him?"
"He married a beautiful woman and had two kids. They…turned and because I was the only one immune, I had to kill them. Is that enough info?"
"Such a tragic fate…I hope you two don't suffer the same."
"Why you-!" I pulled out my keyblades, but Namine touched my arm and shook her head.
"Come on." She spoke sadly. I followed her, though I was still angry.
We turned around when someone yelled "Wait! Where'd you get those chakram?"
Namine turned to the group. "They were my brother Axel's. They're my last link to him."
"When did you meet Axel?" Xemnas asked, intrigued.
"A few weeks ago." I spoke up. "He sacrificed himself in an explosion to save us."
"AH! So THAT was the explosion we saw yesterday!" a mulleted man, who later knew to be Demyx, said.
"We also met another man in a black cloak named Vexen. Was he with you too?"
"Yes." Xemnas spoke slowly. "We sent Axel and Vexen out to scout for other survivors to bring them here."
"So, can we stay?" Namine asked pleadingly
A thoughtful look crossed Xemnas' face. "What can you offer to the society?"
"Well we can both fight very well against the zombies, and Namine here has some medical training as a nurse." I answered. I remembered when Namine told me that on the way to the camp.
Xemnas looked to the other members slowly and deliberately. "Should we let them stay?"
8 of the members raised their thumbs high in the air, signaling a yes, while one blonde woman pointed her thumb down for no.
"It has been decided." Xemnas looked to us strongly. "You may stay. There is a house on the far side of the field, closest to the meadow where you were placed. You may stay there."
"Thank you! !" Namine cried happily.
I just nodded with a smile and, with my hand around her shoulder, walked us to our new home.
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A year passed, and not many things changed. I was put into the "Immediate Zombie Assault Team", so I was one of the first to go out and take care of any zombies who were trying to get in. Namine was in the second wave team, and she came in if one of the first wave team members were too injured to fight. She was also part of the medical team.
During that year, Namine and I got married. It was a little ceremony with only our close friends coming. After the actual wedding, we went to the camp's only bar, The Winchester, which was owned and operated by a man named Shaun and his friend, a cowboy who named himself Tallahassee. Tallahassee had a weird obsession with twinkies….
On the anniversary of when we joined the camp, Namine and I went out to the front gates. Many zombies were shuffling in and we wanted to get ready to take them down. When the clearing was filled, we jumped down from our hiding spot in the trees and took out the zombies right under us. Namine had gotten trained by Xigbar, so she was getting many headshots. I smiled at her from the little empty spot we made when we landed.
"Love you. " I gave her a quick good luck kiss.
"Love you too."
We jumped away from each other and slashed, shot, stabbed, blew up, and utterly destroyed every zombie in the area. It took us a while, but when we finished, we smiled at each other. I put my arm around her shoulders and we walked back to our home together.
i'd like to thank everyone who reviewed. you really inspired me to write this and it's my first story to get over 30, hell, over 23 reviews. that makes me really happy too. you guys are awesome!
there's something about the middle part with xemnas and parts of the end that i don't like, but i definitely like the beginning.
did you guys catch the references to other zombie movies? when i respond to your reviews i'll tell you what they are, that is, if you don't guess them first!
this chapter was inspired by "Monsters" by Matchbook Romance and "The Fantasy" by 30 Seconds to Mars
So please review! and thanks again!
