Survival

CH8 – Night-time Encounters

A/N:

Sorry about the delay on this chapter, I've been really busy as of late and as such I have been extremely tired, considering I usually write these stories at about 12'o clock at night. I've been thinking of starting up another fic. And ill leave details as to what it might be in the next chapter. On with the story!


Z-DAY +1 – 09/09/16 – 1:00pm

We stared at each other intensely as I heard the car alarm shut off, ending the barrage of beeps emitting from it, allowing the horde to disperse in the direction of any horde. Deacon stood to my left and Cody to my right, Alice behind us looking through a green crate.

"Overbeck?" Hirabayashi simply asked, wanting to know if he was talking to the right person. Simply smiling, I held my hand out and said "Yeppers" casually. I respected this man after he stood up for his fellow club members when the daft idiot known as Shido held one of his members back a grade.

I hadn't talked to him much, but when I did it was about different situations and how we would deal with it, as it's extremely interesting for me to see how someone else would react or change in different situations, while obeying to their code (if they have one).

He simply lowered his wooden Yari and shook my hand calmly. "Overbeck, it's good to see that you've made it out of the school. Do you know where any of the Sojutsu club members are?" he asked respectfully, to which I replied "I know of Miyamoto's last location, but that's it. I split from their group while leading a horde away with some Meme Music and Harmonic Rock" to which he nodded.

"Hirabayashi, let me introduce to you my current group! To my left here we have Deacon Maresato, and to my Right we have Cody Izamuri. Behind us searching through that crate is Alice Maresato, Deacon's Daughter" He nodded once again, before looking at all the crates "I haven't searched those crates, only the ones near my sleeping bag. Most of them have camouflage clothing in them, so I just gave up on searching through them"

I gave him an odd look as I thought of what might be in these crates. There's at least 98 Crates still untouched, and this IS a military surplus store, so who knows what we might find. "Do you know what store we are in?" I asked with a devilish grin, knowing he had been sleeping in here for hours, probably having come in last night.

"Err…" he looked around in desperation, hoping to find something to help him out of this little situation "It's a military surplus store. Which means there might be some fairly decent loot in those crates" I said, still smiling at his embarrassment as Deacon smirked and Cody went off to open a crate.

I heard a gasp from behind me and I quickly turned around, only to see Alice wearing an oversized black tactical combat helmet. She looked ridiculous in it! I snickered a bit, but restrained my laugh in fear of attracting the horde located outside.

Taking another helmet out the crate she immediately cried out in protest "Hey! Those are mine!" Deacon lightly laughed as they began talking. Motioning for Hirabayashi to follow me, I took him to the door we opened.

"If you've got a key, can you lock it? I'll close the door window too." I requested before closing the window quickly, it closing with a resounding click. Taking a better look at Hirabayashi, he looked the exact same as when I last saw him in school, Pale skin, Short spiky red hair that's buzzed on the back and sides, Watchful Golden eyes with a 6'4 Toned buff build. He could knock me clean out when it came to Melee combat, although that's what I believed.

He reached into his pocket and brought out the small silver key, using it to lock the door before hastily shoving it back into his pocket. "So, wanna help us search these crates?" I asked politely as I smirked, knowing he would hate breaking open crates for an hour or two


We sat around our pile of loot, Alice happily digging through the stuff as we watched in mild amusement "Like a kid in a candy store" I thought casually as she put on a Beret.

We had found multiple things that would be useful, such as an assortment of Knives, most of them are rare or military grade, NVG's, Bags and such. Our main objective now is to sort out who's carrying what. We had 14 NVG's, 2 Karambit's, Another Butterfly Knife, a Swiss Army Knife, An Old LRPS Scope, 7 Flashlights and 9 Combat Helmets with flashlights on the side. There also was a gas mask that I immediately claimed to be mine.

Also in the pile were 2 Bulletproof Kevlar vests with side holsters for pistols. With me being the only one with a gun I obviously took one, while Cody took the other. The beret had been renamed to "Comfy Berewhatsit" In Alice's exact words. Looking at myself I still had my classic hoodie and tracksuit bottoms, although under my hoodie was the vest, the holster going down to my leg and being attached to it by some straps. The holster was occupied by my P226 and in my left pocket I had the suppressor.

On my head was a black combat-helmet with a flashlight with a pair of NVG's under it, allowing us to see in the dark, even if the gas mask I adorned slightly blocked it. It was decided that Hirabayashi would do the heavy lifting and carry the 9 Combat helmets and the 10 spare NVG's in a Carryall backpack we found.

Cody had a Burgen Multicamo Backpack with the spare knives mentioned inside, all the flashlights and the LRPS Scopes packed inside, the flashlights lying dormant inside it, considering that we didn't need them now since the helmets had lights on them.

"We need to keep moving" Deacon announced to us as I had a thumb war with myself "Agreed" Cody replied before standing up, Deacon following behind as Alice stood up shortly after she realised that we were moving. Me and Hirabayashi stood up as we made our way to the door, Hirabayashi having long since decided to come with us to help his fellow club member.

Hirabayashi, having unlocked the door, stood in the middle of the group, Alice in front of him and Cody behind him, as I went in front of the group, Deacon following behind me as we creeped out of the building and back to the front of the door, encountering no resistance. We had been in that store for a good couple of hours, so it came to no surprise that most of the infected were gone

Alice began holding onto Deacons hand as we walked down the middle of the road back towards the river. We only knew the way to the river because of the amount of noise being generated by those on the bridges.

I heard rapid footsteps to the road on the left as I quickly motioned for the group to get to the wall. We didn't have our flashlights or NVG's on yet, as we needed to conserve their power for when we needed it. We all pressed up against the wall in panic as I peeked around the corner, only to spot someone running towards me.

He stood at 6'1ft tall and had deep black eyes and messy red spikey hair. He has tannish skin and a well-built body, a shirt with some anime character along with blue jeans and blue Nike shoes. It didn't seem as though he had noticed me, what with him being more focused on running. As he came running around the corner I quickly grabbed his mouth and pulled him towards me, stopping him from shouting in surprise

He looked around fearfully and began struggling "Calm down and shut up!" I whispered into his ear as his eyes widening as he realised he wasn't going to become a mere snack today. He calmed down and stopped struggling, which was when I let go of him, hearing a large amount of shuffling and groaning heading towards us.

I motioned for him to follow us as we continued to walk down the road, their groans masking our steps as they simply ignored us. I spotted a house with all its lights on to my right, a concrete wall and iron gate surrounding its entrance allowing for a small defence. All of us except from Hirabayashi were tired, as none of us had slept, with our newest arrival being an unknown.

We opened the gate, walked in and closed it behind us as Deacon desperately began banging on the door, his wrench in hand "Hello? Is anyone in there? We need help, we're starved and dehydrate-" He was cut off by a yell from inside "Go away! Leave us alone!" The muffled voice stated

Deacons face contorted to one of sheer anger as Alice stopped holding his hand and backed up a bit, her Beret being slightly askew on her head. Cody watched with a confused expression at Deacons sudden change of mood as I simply stood there, our new arrival and Hirabayashi watching idly from the gate, chatting to each other.

"How dare you! We have a child – My daughter out here and we need your help! If you don't let us in then we'll let ourselves in!" He snarled as he lightly hit the door with his wrench, intimidation tactics coming in to play.

The door swung open slightly as a knife on a pole pierced Deacons chest, Alice watching in idle horror as we all looked at the man who began apologizing "Sorry… Sorry… Please forgive me, Sorry…" as he tore out the knife, blood splattering across the concrete, the door slamming shut, all of us too shocked to do anything.


A/N:

Sorry if the chapter's a tad bit short or different from other chapters, I'm extremely tired. I hope that you will enjoy what I could write given my schedule, and a big thanks to ScarletArmory1 for sending his OC For use in the story! (31/01/17: Sorry I've been inactive as of late, I've been coughing like mad and it's hard to write when your coughing to the point where you cant focus on anything but coughing. I'll be fine, just dont expect a chapter a day like i used to)

-Panzer