A long wait but I got it up. I would like to thank all those who submitted your OCs and I will name you all when I have you all written down. Also to those who review as well ^-^ ok enough of the sappyiness.

Yeah That Counts

The survivors had assembled into the dojo keeping away from the steps so not to attract the dead. Medics and helpful civilians check over all those that remained alive. The elders argued in front of them wondering what they should due about the certain situation. In the far back two of the teens are talking about the situation as well.

"What should we do now?" the black hair girl asked, moving her white strand of hair from her face. Albert looks around at the current situation closely and returns back to face his teammate. Still a bit nervous around her he hides his face from her "It seems like we need to gather up some help and head for our homes."

The two stood silent until the perky young teen they knew stepped in twirling her staff. She took notice of her friends and ran towards them. They looked like they were in the middle of thinking too much so she thought she should lighten the mood. "Hey there you two. So what's with the serious faces?" she kicks around her staff, getting looks from the others.

"Carmie…hey. What are your plans from here on out?" Jill felt a bit uncomfortable asking someone she doesn't know all too well that. Carmina smiled "I'm just going to find my mother. My father left the country so I don't know about him just yet."

Albert searched his pockets and pulls out a cell phone. He scrolls through his contacts and calls his house phone. "Let's hope someone picks up."

Ring…ring…ring

No answer.

He calls the next number down the list.

Ring…ring…ring…

"HELLO…PLEASE HELP," the line cuts off.

He tries the next number.

Ring…ring…ring…ring…ring…ring…

"This is Jason please-" Albert hangs up.

One more try.

Ring…ring…ring…ring…

The sounds of someone chewing can be heard through the other end. Albert took that as a sign and stop calling numbers. He shook his before looking over to the two girls, each looked worried. He threw his phone over to Jill so she could use it and sat right next to her. Jill hesitated on calling numbers that she knew, plus the other numbers she wanted to call were left in her phone that was now in her locker back at school. She dialed in the first number that popped into her head. Both Carmina and Albert stared at the girl as she listened to the dial tone.

Jill just hung up after few seconds. They could tell by her face that it wasn't something she wanted out of the call. The perky teen placed her hand on the girls back to hopefully make her feel better. Jill just handed the girl the phone and started to rummage through her bag.

It was Carmina's turn to call someone but she had no idea who to call. So she picked up a coin from the floor that had conveniently been placed there and tossed it. It fell into the air and landed just as fast to reveal the head side of the coin. "ALRIGHT." She dialed the number in and listened to the tone. She hummed a little tune to cancel out the annoying sound. After a few rings someone answers the phone "Hello…Carmina?"

"MOMMMY." The girl jumps up from the floor and dances around at the fact that her mom was alive. Albert and Jill were happy to see that someone can still get lucky in this world. Carmina could hear her mom talking, in her excitement she had completely forgotten that her mother was on the line. "OHEMGEE mom I completely forgot you were there. Can you repeat that?"

"Oh darling I love that you are still the same even after this horrific ordeal. But right now I need you to pay close attention to my words…ok?" her mother seemed serious so Carmina straightened up and replied, "Yes ma'am."

"Ok. Now listen up cause I can't talk for too long. I am not at home so do not come for me here. I have left the house to search for a safe house not too far from San Francisco. I'll try to contact you when I have found it. I know I should have gone to find you first but I know you could manage on your own. Your father raised you well and I showed you the tools on how to survive. Please stay alive my precious jewel…I need to go now. Just know that I love you…"

"I love you too mom." The phone call was ended. Carmina stood there in silence to soak in what she found out. It wasn't like her mother to just run when her only child was in a city full of the dead. But there had to be a reason for what she did, there was always a reason for the actions her parents took. The girl turned to face her friends and tossed Albert back his phone "I guess we can just look for your families."

Albert had to ask, "What do you mean?" Jill shot the man a look and lightly elbowing him in the ribs. Carmina just giggled. She picked up her staff and started twirling it again to try to keep her training with it intact. "My mom left to find a safe house for us. Sooooo, I am left here to gather my friends and lead them there."

The look on her face told Albert that there was more to what she said but getting hit by the girl next to him kept him from asking. He got up from the floor and just like his teammate he began to practice with his sticks to keep up his skills. Jill watched as the two struck the air in front of them. She messed with the chemicals in her bag into the bottles that she had.

From far away a lone skateboarder just watched the three. He didn't feel at all comfortable in the dojo. To him it felt like he was being watched or something was just around him that felt very eerie. To his surprise someone comes from behind him and taps his shoulder. Like a kid he jumps from the shock of fear and tumbles to the floor. "Don't kill me!"

The laugh of a girl snaps him back to reality. It was just Yukiko, the goddess of the dojo. The guy popped up from the floor and smirks at the beautiful girl in front of him "Hey baby…how's about we ditch this place and find a private place to settle this sexual tension between us." The girl looked a bit uncomfortable by the remark he made. Before she could answer him a fist slammed the guy in back of the head and pushed him to the floor.

Jorge walks over the teen and gets a glare from Yukiko. Knowing he did something wrong he helped Ben up from the floor. Too confused to even fight off the man, Ben just took the help and tried staying on his feet. The girl looked the boy over before asking him a question "So what will you do now Ben?"

"Me?...uh…I don't really know. I know that…I have…to find…my brother. The mans all I got yo. So if you two don't mind I'm gonna jump out this piece," he was still a bit stunned by the punch but snapped out of it.

"Oh," she whispered. Some how the girl felt attached to the boy's random sense of talking and the attitude he had with him. To find out that he was leaving sort of killed the vibe around them. Jorge took notice to Yukiko's feelings and stopped the teen from leaving. "We need to plan an escape first Ben. If you go now you will lure those things up the stairs and straight for us."

Ben couldn't argue with the guy when Yukiko and those other girls were hiding in the building. He sighed and just went back to where he was standing, feeling like he's picking cute girls over his own brother. The three stood in an awkward silence.

The sounds of the dead fill the air. Finally deciding to break the ice, Ben points over to the three teens messing around in the back. "Look. I think we need to chat it up with the odd balls over there." Yukiko takes notice of the girl swinging a staff at a male teenager. A huge smile grew on her face and she ran straight for the girl.

Carmina swings her staff around trying to hit Albert. She doesn't know how it got to the point where they ended up trying to hit each other. But what done is done. Jill just watched from the side, the two seemed to get more into the fight. She finished with all of her chemicals and made up two new drinks to try out. But when she got up to show her teammates the girl caught a glimpse of someone behind Carmina. And in a split second the girl jumps in front of the two teens.

Wielding a wooden sword the girl starts to attack the two. Albert jumps to the side and tries to scan the newcomer. Carmina and the girl glance into each others eyes hoping one makes the first move. Jill tries to walk in between the three but is stopped by a man in a long coat. He shakes his head slowly signaling her to stay put and let them fight it out. The girl gives into the situation, watching her teammates fight off one samurai. Albert took the initiative and swung his sticks at both the girls to have it blocked. The girls push back the weapons. Carmina swings down low and the other girl swings up high. To their surprise Albert dodges the attacks with ease, he takes the advantage of their open spots. He spins around the new girl and restrains her with one stick on the wrist and the other on her neck. The perky girl tries to think of a way to take out both of her opponents. It was difficult to even try when the guy was holding the girl in a lock. Again Albert takes the initiative by releasing the lock on the girl and kicked her towards the other. Carmina dodges the girl and runs straight for the guy. Albert prepares for the blow when the girl rams her staff into the floor and opens her legs as she flies through the air. The male teen gets a good look at the girl's underwear through her slight holes she got from fighting, losing focus of the fight. She wraps her thighs around his head and sits on his shoulders. Both of them blush a bit at the current situation but Carmina then thrusts herself backwards to lift Albert from the ground and slams him into the ground.

The guy rolls away from the slam and stops himself with one knee. He felt something touch his throat; the other girl had pressed her sword to his throat to get an instant kill. Carmina felt anger build up inside of her watching the other girl get the win over her friend. "Don't you dare try to finish him off!"

"And if I do…what would you do then?" Carmina's opponent just smiled and nudged the blade closer to his neck. Albert couldn't budge due to the fake sword could easily finish him off. All he could do was look over to petite girl and wait for her to do something. "He is MINE and I won't let anyone have him but me," Carmina twirls her staff around and brings it to a stop in a fighting stance. "Now let's begin. This is just between you and me."

The samurai girl lets go of Albert and takes her place in front of the other girl. Albert rubs his neck if it was gripped by an actual sword, it may have been wood but the fact that he was stuck in that situation made him feel weak. But now he just stood in place to watch the two girls go at it. The two seemed to know each other if they were sparring out in the open now. Even Jill stood aside to watch him and the girls fight against each other. They all stood on end as the two girls scanned each other, neither rushing into move just yet.

After a few minutes Carmina swings her staff upward with all her strength. But the other girl easily steps to the side and swings her blade. The petite girl in her gym clothes slightly dodges the tip and returns back to her stance "You're as quick as ever Yukiko. But that won't help you this time." Carmina twirls the staff like a baton, giving her the edge against the samurai. It kept her at a distance and the way the girl twirled and threw the staff that Yukiko couldn't even try to fight back. The way the girl fought against her was always a problem for the samurai. She would pick up a weapon and soon mastered it in a way that no one else could have thought of. But right now she couldn't focus on her opponent's talents but for her weakness. With every twirl and toss was an opening to a strike; all she needed was a rhythm. Carmina stepped closer to the girl enough that the staff now made contact. There was no time to wait for an opening, Yukiko holds her sword to the ground and places a foot forward. She takes a deep breath before swinging.

In a flash the sword is knocked out of her hand and it lands far away from her. The tip of the staff now really close to the girl's throat. "I can't cut your throat with this…but this should show that I have won," a smile plastered right across her face.

Yukiko felt anger as well as disappointment yet again hit her. The girl in front of her had won once again for the 100th time already. "This means I owe you a soda huh?" she slapped the staff away and went in for a hug.

Everyone but Jorge looked on in confusion. The two were fighting as if they hated each other and then to jump around and hug each other like they are now was just a big change to put a label on it. The small group of teens had moved into a small waiting area for privacy. Albert couldn't take it anymore and faced both girls "Excuse me. Can I get some information here?"

The two girls were too busy talking and giggling that they didn't hear the man. The man in the coat decided to answer the questions for the 3 he didn't know. "I'll keep this short. The three of us were partners in the past…we were the top 3 students and paired off to keep each other in shape. I was second to Carmina and Yukiko was third to us. The two had a rivalry going but always seemed to keep their friendship intact after every fight," Jorge glanced over to the two. "But just like their rivalry. Their fathers were also in a rivalry. Except they weren't friends like these two are…so that put the girls in a bad place. They fight each other for the fun of it…nothing matters to them but that when fighting each other. Spirit like that is rare to find in friends. Especially with the fathers they both have."

Jorge motioned back to the others to find them staring at the two girls. "So those two fine pieces of ass are buddy buddy huh." Jill swung her arm to slap the skater in the face. It was strong enough to knock the guy off his seat and hit the floor hard. In response the guy got back up and moved his seat next to Albert. "So fine lady what's yo deal?" Ben winked over at Jill.

Jill felt a bit of vomit rise up to her throat. It wasn't cause the guy was bad looking cause he wasn't ugly at all, the complete opposite actually. No, it was the way he was that got her to feel sick. She cleared her throat before answering, "You're barking up the wrong tree skater boy."

The three guys stared at her for a few seconds before Ben blurted out "Are you a lesbian?" Albert punched him in the shoulder for his rude way of bringing up the question. Ben rubbed his shoulder with a hurt look on his face. "Well?" this time Jorge punched him on the other shoulder for pursuing an answer. The skater boy was done with trying to ask anything to anyone.

The chemist just giggled at how the boys picked on him for asking a question. She looked them all in the eyes and answered the question "No…I am not a lesbian. But that doesn't mean I'm straight like an arrow either." Ben just smiled evilly while the other two just reddened a bit and tried looking away. The two warrior girls burst out of their little world and start poking fun at the two men. "So a girl likes both sexes a you two start thinking naughty thoughts huh?" Carmina bounced up and down taunting Albert while Yukiko did the same to Jorge. Ben joined in but got punched by both of them so he stopped.

xXx

After a few minutes the girls stopped their taunting and placed their focus on the chemist again. "So was Ms. Gaineshart your first?" Yukiko felt awkward asking something that personal but it was out there now. Jill smiled and shook her head "No. That woman would never have looked at me that way. That story doesn't end will for me…but I don't feel comfortable in telling you all that."

They understood immediately. It wasn't like them to let out information about each other to total strangers. But in a world that's decaying it felt somewhat right to try and understand each other more. Carmina placed her hand on Albert; the guy lowered his hat more to hide his face. She removed it quickly. A little hurt at the fact that the guy still felt uncomfortable around her. All she could do was let it go for now.

Hours go by…

In the night sky a girl lays on top of the dojo singing to herself. The music plays in her head as the lyrics find their way out of her lips. Tears fill her eyes as she sings her heart out, trying really hard to forget the events of the day. But they just plague the girls mind and soon her lyrics start to suffer.

Inside the survivors just try to sleep away the pain that not only struck the heart but the body as well. Many were injured at the moment. Nurses and medical assistants try to keep things under control while fighting off the sleep that built up. Mothers tried to keep their kids from crying; some of the kids were trying to keep their parents from crying.

The place screamed sadness and pain. One teenager popped out of the waiting room he fell asleep in. Three of the people he came into the room with was missing but there was just one person he wanted to find. So he started to scan the place hoping to find the person safe and sound. He searched from room to room but couldn't find the person anywhere. The last place to look was outside so he went out the back way to find actually someone there. It wasn't whom he expected to find. The mysterious man known as Jorge stood above a large rock staring down at the dead below. The howls of the beasts were loud enough to sends chills down the teens back. Although Albert could see that the guy needed someone he couldn't help but wanting to leave. His conscience ate at him; he finally gave in and stepped forward. Only he was stopped by hand on his shoulders. Someone walks right by him; it was Yukiko, she heads for the guy just staring blankly at death. Albert took it as a sign for him to leave and search the last person left to find.

He makes it to the front of the school for the martial arts. A small sound could be heard through the loud moans of the dead. He made his way around closer to the sound that it got clearer. Someone was singing on the roof, the voice was sweet sounding. But there was also a small presence of sorrow inside the melody as.

"You show me…that nothing is whole…and nothing…is broken…" the voice couldn't let it out they way it was suppose to come out. Albert could hear the sadness in the poor girls voice. He spotted a way to climb up onto the roof. It wasn't easy as he fell a couple of times but he made it to the top. And there she was, the hyperactive girl crying her eyes out and singing away her woes. The young man slowly walked right next to the girl and sat right beside her. She hadn't noticed him or cared at that point.

Carmina just kept singing and Albert hummed the melody she sung. He wanted to sing with her but felt a bit uncomfortable to do so.

Around the back Yukiko could hear the two clearly. It seemed that Albert was able to bring her friend some sort of peace for the moment. But now it was her turn to help out a friend who was in need. The man beside her was in desperate need of someone to hold him back. There was a history between them; they knew each other ever since they were kids. She even had feelings for the guy although he would never let himself have feelings for her. The girl places herself in front of him so he could see her instead of the drop down.

"Are you really going to leave me?" she just stood her ground. The man snaps himself from his trance to answer the girl. But no words could leave his throat, after a few attempts he just avoids eye contact and shrugs his shoulders. Yukiko knew he would try to quote LOVELESS at this point. She really didn't want to hear another quote so before he got a chance to do so she took her hand to his chin and forced him to look at her. "You cannot think like this right now."

He looked into her brown eyes. He loved and feared the way they had a red look to them. The quotes were stirring inside of him, but he knew that she wasn't in the mood right now. So he said the only thing that came to mind "I deserve to die. I need to atone for my sins." He didn't feel that way at all but it was all that he could think to say. Yukiko just smacked him across the face "So that gives you the right to leave us here alone!" she felt angry and disgusted. Jorge didn't turn his head back; he left it to the side, ashamed of himself. "If you want to atone so bad then help me and the others fight off the dead! Help others live to see another day! Not just take the cowardly way out!"

Jorge found the courage to face his friend to see her crying. He didn't know how much he hurt her until this moment. It killed him to see her like that and the fact that he caused it made the moment ten times worse. All he could do was wrap his arms around her and try to comfort her as much as possible. The girl just cried in his chest, letting out the tears. "Fine. I'll do things your way," the man lifted her up and jumped off the rock. He carried her back inside listening to the two on the rooftop sing and hum out their feelings.

They needed to make a plan to leave. But tonight they just needed to rest, cause tomorrow was going to be a long day of killing.

Ben had been watching from afar "Yeah…that counts as a bonus for me hahahaha." The teen looked down to his board and then to the sky. The stars were shining really bright. "Darling so there you are…with that look on your face."

He smiled as he heard the two on the rooftop. Jill had been sitting right next to him looking up at the stars as well "Looks like I get to have some fun as well." They were plotting something…

Alrighty. In the next chapter of the CA group I'll go deeper into the Albert and Jorge psychy. You'll find out about their past and read them kick some zombie ass haha. Read, Review, and Reload your guns. Next up is the NY group...coming soon heh ^-^'