"Well, what now?" Zion asked. Rein groaned before glancing over at Myoko who had her eyes tight shut and was still trembling in fear. Rein raised an eyebrow before they popped open as Myoko started screaming bloody murder, getting the attention of everyone in the car except Ven who was yes, still asleep. Myoko continued to scream as Shun reached out to calm her down, but she panicked even more. She screamed again and began to hit him in a desperate attempt to get him away.
Even Ciel reached out, "Myoko! What's wrong?" She cried.
Rein groaned again, "damnit, Myoko! What the hell? Chill the fuck out!" Michael glanced back, putting his hand on Ven's seat as Ayumi looked over the seat with a worried expression.
"What's wrong with her?" Michael glanced at Rein as Myoko continued to scream, this time Zion reached out in an attempt to calm her down but was quickly slapped away. Now even Star in the back started barking in response to Myoko's screams.
Rein hissed, "Myoko! Shut up!" With that, Rein reached out. Myoko's eyes went wide before they closed and she collapsed on top of the shocked Shun.
Everyone's eyes widened and Ciel hissed at Rein in anger. "Rein! Why'd you knock her out? What if you killed her? You could have missed where you're supposed to hit in the back of her neck!"
Rein blinked before raising her hands in defense, "I panicked! What was I supposed to do? It's not our fault we can't all fit in the damned car!"
"Can somebody please tell me what's going on?" Michael asked, the tone of his voice somewhat agitated. Rein sighed again as Zion reached out and lightly put his fingers on Myoko's neck who now leaning on Shun as a result of her being unconscious.
Zion sighed in relief, "she's alive."
Rein nodded, "of course she's alive! I know how to knock out someone. I'm not stupid!"
"Is no one going to answer my question?" Michael spoke up again making everyone glance at him except for Myoko who was still unconscious and Ven who again still slept through it all.
Rein blinked, "oh yeah. Long story short, apparently Myoko is terrified of men."
Michael raised an eyebrow, "why?"
Rein shrugged as Ciel spoke up, "no one knows." Michael sighed again.
"AGH! Why are car's so damned heavy? Can't we just leave the damned thing?" Rein hissed as she pushed on the back of the car beside Ryou who was on the right side of her and Shun who was on the left side.
"Hell no!" Michael's voice boomed from where he pushed the car, which was beside the door of the driver's seat, he also steering the car.
"This thing's my baby! I'm not letting it go!" He shouted.
Rein groaned, "men and their cars..." She muttered lowly, but Michael had heard.
"What was that?" She heard him hiss making her eyes widen.
"You heard me!" She hissed back making Shun beside her cover his mouth as a result of him trying not to laugh.
Zion sighed, "let's focus on getting the car to a gas station, okay guys?" Zion as well had his own spot where he pushed the car, which was right beside the passenger's seat where they let Ven sleep and Ayumi watch everyone push the car from her lap. Star and Shadow also remained in the back and Myoko, who was still unconscious, was sprawled out on the two of the three seats they originally sat while Ciel sat on the last seat, just watching the slow movement from outside the window.
"HEY! Why the hell am I the only girl helping to push the car!?" Rein hissed, directing the words to Ciel.
Ciel rolled her eyes despite her being blind. "Because YOU knocked out Myoko! You should be the one to take full responsibility and help the boys push the car! Why the hell did you even do that anyway? We would have had to get out since we ran out of gas, you know."
Rein blinked in realization before she grimaced. "HOW THE HELL WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT!" She shouted in agitation making Ryou beside her flinch slightly from her loud voice as he pushed at the car.
Ciel smacked her forehead, "because we RAN OUT OF GAS, idiot!"
Zion sighed again, "stop fighting, will you?"
It was silent afterwards, making both Zion and Michael sigh. Suddenly, Michael spoke up again. "So! Do you guys have family or are you just a family of friends or something?" Rein blinked at the sudden question and glanced at Ryou and Shun beside her. Shun seemed to look away with a nervous expression and Ryou just seemed like he was a bit troubled making Rein sigh.
Finally, Rein spoke up. "Ven's parents are dead if it helps."
Michael raised an eyebrow, "oh?"
Rein nodded, "she had to kill them back when we found out they turned when we met Zion."
Zion nodded, "I almost forgot about that. It feels like it was so long ago when now that I think about it, was only really a few days ago."
Michael frowned, "well, that's a shame."
Rein, though she couldn't see Michael from her position, looked in his direction with curious eyes. "And your family?"
Michael shrugged. "I don't know about my father, but i've been looking for him."
Shun nodded and spoke up, "same here! I've been looking for my sister who I lost when this all started."
Rein grinned, "well, i'll just have to make sure this goes on the top of our 'To Do List' as we head to the evacuation point!"
Zion laughed before looking over through the passenger window to Ciel who continued to look out the window. "What about you, Ciel?"
She glanced over at him and shrugged. "My mom is dead but my dad is missing... I want to find him..." Just as she said that, Rein shouted about putting that on her 'To Do List' as well making Ciel secretly smile.
Afterwards, Shun glanced to Ryou. "Are your parents missing too?" Ryou glanced back before turning away. Shun could already tell he wasn't going to respond.
Shun then glanced over to Rein with a sigh, "what about your parents?"
Rein froze before she slowly stood up, cracked a smile and scratched the back of her head. "Ah ha, see, my parents are somewhere I guess. Who knows." She shrugged.
Michael blinked, "you lost your's too?" He asked as Ryou and Shun looked up at her.
"Well, I didn't exactly lose them, more like they left and I never found them." She laughed. Ryou and Shun's eyes widened.
Michael nodded, "so basically your parents abandoned you before the apocalypse started?"
Before he could say anymore, Rein went back to pushing the car with a smile. "Forget it! It's not important! What's important is finding everyone else's parents!"
Rein suddenly stopped cold at an eerie feeling and stood up and stopped pushing the car. Shun and Ryou looked up at her, "what's wrong?" Shun asked.
Rein felt a bead of sweat roll down her temple. "I have a bad feeling..." With that, eerie moans could be heard in the distance, it was low but it was enough for everyone to hear and they stood up, looking down the empty road where they came from.
With a growl, Rein turned and threw her hands up in the air. "Damn it all!"
Michael grimaced as Ciel and Ayumi got out of the car. "They must of been following us from all the noise!"
He turned to Ciel, "you, Rein and Ryou fight! The rest of us will get the car, just make sure you got our backs!" Ciel nodded and ran to the back of the car with Rein as Ryou stood up.
Rein glanced back at Michael with an irritated expression, "who the hell said you can order me around? I don't take orders from anyone!"
Ciel groaned and took Rein's arm, forcing her away from the car with Ryou. "Damnit, there's no time for this! We have to make sure they don't get near the car!"
Rein sighed, "oh fine!" The rest of the boys began to push the car harder as Ayumi reached into the back, getting their respective weapons and climbed half way out the window, tossing them their weapons which they all easily caught.
"Thanks, Myu!" Rein grinned before pointing her gun off to the distance where the hoard of zombies could now be seen coming into view. Rein snickered at the zombies, it was a lot but not compared to their most recent battle. They would be fine. Suddenly, Rein nearly jumped up at the growl beside her. She looked down and grinned at Star who bared her fangs, letting out feral snarls at the zombies as Shadow appeared beside her, also letting out hisses that if Rein hadn't been used too, might just have been scared of. Ciel smiled down at her cat before holding out her dagger to the slowly approaching zombies.
"LET'S PUNK SOME NOOBS!" Rein shouted as she held up her gun. Ryou and Ciel glanced at her before she began to charge at the zombies.
"THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOOOOOME!" Ciel laughed at Rein before quickly following after her along side Ryou.
"Keep pushing the car!" Michael grunted as he continued to push harder, now being a bit harder due to the loss of helpers. Shun pushed harder from the back and Zion from the side, occasionally staring back at Ryou, Rein and Ciel who had already reached the zombies and killing as many as they could with their weapons.
Rein shot at a zombie's head, "you dead!" She laughed
She shot another zombie's head, "who dead?"
"YOU DEAD!" She laughed again upon shooting another zombie's head.
"Rein! Stay focused!" Ciel shouted as she sliced a zombie's neck with her dagger and Ryou with his katana.
"Yeah, yeah!" Rein grinned before jumping up and kicking the side of a zombie's head before pointing down and shooting at his head before he could get up. Rein ran off deeper into the crowd of zombies, screaming in excitement as Ciel also moved to more crowded parts to kill more zombie's easier leaving Ryou to keep zombies from getting any closer to the slow moving car. Ryou easily sliced at a few more zombies that got close with a swipe of his katana, occasionally he kept an eye on Rein and Ciel, making sure they didn't get hurt. Suddenly, there was a familiar painful pounding where his scar was which he kept hidden under his shirt. He gasped and gripped onto his chest as he fell to his knees. Rein instantly noticed something was wrong, she glanced over to Ryou and her eyes widened seeing he was on the floor seemingly in pain.
"Ryou!" She cried, running through a narrow path of zombies but was stopped as the path closed. She growled and furiously shot more zombies trying to get through. Ciel heard Rein's cry, she didn't hear movement from Ryou anymore. She gasped and sliced through as many zombies as she could, desperately trying to cut a path to where she last heard Ryou. Even Star and Shadow noticed, Star barked as she tried to jump on top of zombies, biting at their throats and trying to get to Ryou. Shadow was the only one that could make it, she easily jumped on top of zombie to zombie until she finally leapt in front of Ryou, hissing viciously at the zombie's who were approaching him.
"Damn it!" Rein hissed, unable to find a way through the zombies. Shadow launched herself at a zombie that got too close, but was unable to stop the other one that came up behind it. Ryou flinched as the zombie got closer, only a few inches away and leaned down, his jaws wide open as it let out a loud moan.
Rein's eyes widened, "RYOU!"
Just then, there was a gunshot and the zombie collapsed to the side of Ryou. Both Ryou and Rein looked and Rein gave a laugh in relief. There stood Ven, several feet away from the mob of zombies, holding her gun and pointing it at the dead zombie. Rein grinned, "good timing, Ven!" She called making Ven smile before she ran in front of Ryou, shooting the zombies that were ahead of her. After what felt like hours, Rein collapsed to the ground on a clean spot that wasn't littered with dead zombies and panted.
"Fuckin' zombies!" She growled before tilting her head back and looking up at the clear sky that was beginning to brighten with the color orange.
Ciel nodded as well, leaning down and putting her hands on her knees for support. "They always show up in such big groups!" Meanwhile, Ven knelt down beside Ryou, he glanced at her slightly before she put an arm around him and helped him stand up. Hesitantly he put his hand around her waist to aid in the support though he felt incredibly uncomfortable, but he couldn't deny he needed the help.
After catching their breathe, Rein and Ciel ran over to Ryou. "You alright? Do you need a doctor or something?" Rein asked. Slowly, Ryou shook his head at the final question.
Ciel sighed in relief, "good." She turned to Rein, "we better catch up with the guys." She said. Rein nodded and they walked slowly so they could keep in pace with Ryou and Ven and continued on down the road where they last saw the slow moving car disappear too.
"SHIT!" Rein hissed, Ciel, Ryou and Ven looked up at her as they reached a four way intersection.
Ciel raised an eyebrow, "what's the problem?"
Rein pointed to the road that led in three different directions. "Where the fuck do we go?"
Ryou decided to speak up then, "they definitely had to go in a direction wherever there's a gas station."
Ciel nodded, "he's right."
Rein growled in agitation and peered down the three roads, minus the one they came from. "I don't see anything!"
Ven blinked with a blank expression that showed no panick whatsoever. "Michael must know this part of the town well. He must of known where a gas station was."
With a growl, Rein shouted again. "FUCK MY LIFE!"
"Where is everyone else? Do you think they're alright?" Zion asked as they finally managed to push their car to a gas station.
Michael nodded as he put money into the machine and put the tube inside where the gas tank was. "I'm sure there alright, don't they know this part of the town?"
Shun sighed from where he leaned against one of the machines, "I hope so." Ayumi sighed as well from the passenger seat and glanced back at Myoko who was still unconscious.
Zion sighed again, "I just hope they're alright."
