As the group got walked out the gate leaving the canyon village Kankei turned to their newest member Tomoko. "Tell me have you ever been this way before Miss?"

Tomoko shoulder a spear as she said, "Yes on hunting trips, But not beyond the growling forest?"

Takagi adjusted her glasses, "Growling what?" At that moment they heard growls and came to a forest of trees that had the undead tied and nailed to them.

Everyone paled, Touka covered Hikari's little eyes and said, "Ok I get the name now."

Shizuka covered Alice's eyes, "What is this crap?"

Tomoko then answered, "We don't know, I mean the canyon tribe sees this place and normal turns around and goes either to the left or right, not through this messed up sight."

Kaneki cracked his fingers as he summoned his Kagune and impaled eight infect nailed to trees in the head, "Well too bad through it is up the mountain where we want to be. So everyone stand card and stab this thing in the head, or smash their skulls in if you don't have a stabbing tool."

Nishiki used his tail to smash a head in as he said, "at least there to stuck to charge at us."

Takashi was thinking as he used the butt of his gun to bash a head of the infect in, "This is weird not because of the dead bodies nailed to trees thing, but because the undead normal stay in cities or near the area they died. I don't think a group would have this many of their own die."

Utu punched a skull in killing an infected, "So what some sickos brought the undead from the cities to do this? What the hell kind of shit is that?"

Kimi held on to Nishiki and begged, "Can't we stop talking about the nightmare and just get the hell past it already!"

Kaneki used a tentacle to pull Hikari closer to him when he noticed one of the infect had a free arm, his other tentacles killed it as he petted Hikari's head, "Watch out more Hikari we don't want to lose you."

Tomoko then speared on in the head, "this is why we stayed away from this place"

Zeke the dog barked.

Saeko was stabbing them in the head, "It's like killing fish in a barrel in this horrid garden of humanities end."

Yoriko looked at her, "Garden of humanities end?"

Kohta smashed a head in with his gun, "Let's face facts this is the fate of all humans we will all day and all who are human will become this until there are no humans left. Leaving the planet to the ghouls who no longer need humans around as they can now eat normal food thanks to how the virus infects them."

Hinami rained shards from her wings killing them and said, "Come on don't be so down humanity will live on through the one eyes and other hybrids." She added the last part as she looked at Kaneki his eyes now both ghoul like.

Kaneki then looked back to her and said, "Yes but for how long? How long till the humanity is breed out of the ghoul Gene pool leaving only ghouls? It's just a whimper that signals humanity's end, they are unable to go out with a bang or live on, That's what makes this fate truly horrible Hinami."

Takashi clapped as he said, "and boss ghoul hits the nail on the head!" Kaneki then cracked his fingers as they came to a burned and ruined shelter for a group.

Dead bodies with smashed in heads littered the ground, all in dove armor. Utu then said, "who wants to bet this are the guys who made the nightmare show we just had to walk through?"

Alice hide behind Takagi and shivered, "Why is everything so scary now?"

Kaneki looked to her as he cracked his fingers, "The end of the world will either bring out the best or worst of someone, clearly it brought out the worst out of most people."

They all then walked through it what was clearly ghoul corpse where missing parts that where cleanly butchered off the bodies.

Kaneki cracked his fingers as he looked at them, he was the only one not frozen in horror as he said, "How ironic."

Soon they all moved along up the mountain patch taking them to nothing but rock around them, no signs of ghouls, no signs of people, no signs of animals, no signs of plants. But chard looking rock.

Hikari then tripped and almost fell over the side only to be grabbed in and saved by one of Kaneki's tentacles, he then put her on to his shoulders before leading go. "Now you hold on we don't want you falling."

Hikari nodded happily, making Touka smile a bit.

Tomoko looked around, "Why does it look like a fire was here? I mean nothing and chard and burnt rocks, That spells fire to me."

Utu then said, "Let's see now no fire fighters so the chance that a forest fire charged a massive part of the forest are pretty high Tomoko!"

Kohta then adjusted his glasses, "Who to say it's a was a wild fire, I could have been started by human or ghoul hands to either try and kill something living in it, starve people out, or force animals in to a trap, then it just got out of hand fast!"

Takashi then stepped on something and bend down to pick it up it was a lighter covered in ash and dust it looked like it was used, "I think I just found proof of that theory."

Takashi then struck it as a small flame appeared, "and it still works!" he then flipped it closed putting out the fire as he pocketed the thing, "It may come in handy."

Takashi then held on to Hikari as he spotted a burned skeleton out of the corner of his eye he rolled his eyes and walked past it without a second thought "the world ends and people both ghoul and human lose their minds so fast, makes you wonder how the civilization held it's self together in the first place."

Utu then said, "the only difference between man and animals is civilization made the beast within the hearts and minds of man sleep, but it was always there waiting for a chance to wake up, once the song of civilization stopped singing it to sleep."

Takagi blinked as she said, "That was tragically beautiful, and pretty philological."

Utu then said, "beauty can be found anywhere, and beauty is art, we need that in our lives to motivate us to continue on no matter how dark the skies are."

To be continued.

Group status!

Survivor group name hybrid horde

members.

Kaneki (appointed leader), Hinami, Utu, Nishiki, Touka, Kimi, Yoriko, Hikari, Takashi (de facto second in command), Zeke, Alice Takagi Kohta, Shizuka Tome, Tomoko and Saeko.

Former members Rei(dead)

Status moving

One-eyed watch tower.

Members Skull-face and other unknown members.

Status Radio station for survivors

Canyon village tribe.

Members Dear face (leader) unnamed gate keeper, unknown ghoul member other unknown members.

Former members Tomoko