Disclaimer: I don't own Hetalia or any of its characters or plot.

Author's notes: I'm going to start something different, I'm going to refer to "groups" now as "Clans" simply because it's easier and it sounds cooler.

Hetalia ZOMBIE chapter 11

New Clans New STARS New Born

Usually there wasn't much that would please Alfred unless it meant better survival, and a luxurious way of life without any troubles. But however since the zombie outbreak and the Battle of the Reapers and Hunters which the short one night fight between the Reapers and the Combatants against the Hunters became known as. As a recap on what happened a large clan known as the STARS operated and ruled the North Western District of Sacramento, that was until they fell victim to a grabbing to the largest slavers clan the Hunters. Escapees barley managing to escape the grabbing found themselves down in the South Western District of Sacramento where they met the new and mysterious Reapers Clan who more than gladly offered their help into destroying the branch group of the Hunters and freeing the STARS that were still alive and enslaved. Majority of the now rescued STARS Clan were with the Combatant Clan until they decided to restart or permanently remain with the Combatants. A smaller group of the STARS now resides with the Reapers slowly finding themselves more at home with the mysterious clan. But however the image of mysterious slowly disappeared as they realized that Dysfunctional Family was much more accurate. But this didn't stop the ex-STARS members or any of the original members no. This only lead to more dysfunctional life and ironically enough given their current situation of lifestyle and what they were surviving from, it's what kept them all sane. As for Alfred's interest or lack thereof unless it meant a better and more rich like life style, well let's just say that the news that is about to reach the Reapers door would grant exactly that, but not without making Alfred's life more difficult.

"PARTY!" Yang Soo cried down the hallway as he walked with his twin brother Yong Soo towards the food court.

"NO!" everyone replied back at the party animal known as Yang Soo. Yang's idea of life was to have a party for every little thing.

"SHELTER DA!" Ivan cried rushing past Yang and Yong Soo apparently trying to escape his sister's horrifying grasp.

"NO! Wait what?" Everyone cried expecting another call for a party form Yang Soo but however they got a cry from the frightened Russian instead.

"SHELTER DA!" Ivan cried again but this time diving underneath a table where Arthur, Alfred, Matthew, and Francis sat.

"Now that's an idea I like" Matthew commented not the least bit perturbed that a slightly psychotic Russian just hid underneath their table, hiding from an even more psychotic and relentless sister known as Natalia.

"I agree but IVAN GET OUT FROM UNDERNEATH THERE THAT'S DISTURBING!" Arthur yelled.

"Now why didn't I think of that" Alfred said to himself out loud.

"Probably because you've never had to experience the unbeautiful situation of having to run for your life from something more terrifying than zombies" Francis said.

"Franciiss" a voice evilly sang which caused Francis to tremble uncontrollably. Everyone turned to see Elizabeta glaring death at Francis from a distance, with Roderich desperately trying to keep her by his side.

Matthew turned his attention back to Ivan. "Ivan I don't see your sister, why don't you come out of there" However Ivan didn't seem to be listening.

"I'm surrounded by sunflowers and vodka, I'm surrounded by sunflowers and vodka, I'm surrounded by sunflowers and vodka, I'm in my happy place, I'm surrounded by sunflowers and vodka" Ivan chanted.

"Never thought his sister would be that traumatizing" Matthew said looking at everyone else at the table.

"I would be too in my sister got all incestuous on me" Alfred stated.

"You know that there not blood related right?" Arthur asked the clueless American.

"What!? They're not?" Alfred asked looking shocked, while everyone nodded.

"Ivan himself said that they were adopted, I don't know how you over look that" Matthew said annoyed with his brother's cluelessness.

"But if they're not blood related then what's the problem?" Alfred asked.

Francis coughed up all the coffee he was sipping and spat it all over the table. "She's unbeautifully psychotic, I thought you would have known that by now" Francis sighed.

"Say that to the Belarusian when you meet her" Matthew sighed.

"Maybe I will" Francis piped up looked full of pride and courage.

"Good then you'll have both Elizabeta and Natalia chasing you looking to kill you" Matthew smiled as he watched Francis's expression turn from full of pride to full of absolute terror just thinking about it.

"Wait, Natalia isn't Russian?" Alfred asked. "What's Belarusian?"

"AUGH! She's Belarusian because she's from a country called Belarus" Matthew answered, he thought his head was going to burst open with annoyance.

Alfred still looked clueless. "Okay I get that there is a country called Belarus, but where is Belarus, is it near here?"

"YOU BLOODY IDIOT!" Arthur screamed.

'He's American alright' Francis and Matthew thought simultaneously.

"Brrootthheerr" another voice sang evilly as Natalia stepped into view.

"SUNFLOWERS AND VODKA, SUNFLOWERS AND VODKA, TAKE ME TO MY HAPPY PLACE, SUNFLOWERS AND VODKA!" Ivan leapt from underneath the table and dashed deeper into the food court. But it didn't stop Natalia from jumping on Francis then Alfred as she chased directly in the Russians wake to chase him.

"Why me" Francis slowly weeped as he soothed his stomped on forehead.

"Forget about you what about me" Alfred whined as he pointed to his forehead where a clear shoe print was now visible on Alfred's forehead.

"What can I say, you have a big forehead" Arthur sniggered as he insulted Alfred.

"WHY I OTTA!" Alfred exclaimed as Matthew and Francis held Alfred down to his seat.

"Alfred" Belana approached Alfred and wrapped her arms around his shoulders as if trying to console him.

"Oh, hey Belana, how are you?" Alfred asked.

"I'm good, I had a really good night last night" Belana said as she continued to hug Alfred's shoulders closer to her.

"Good to hear because I – DON'T TAKE THAT THE WRONG WAY!" Alfred yelled realizing what Belana said sounded like, but as he looked and pointed at Matthew, Francis, and Arthur, even Yao joined them in chanting slowly and evilly.

"Blackmail blackmail blackmail blackmail" they chanted evilly.

"I HATE YOU ALL!" Alfred yelled.

"PAPARAZZI!" Peter had apparently joined in by jumping around the group taking several hundreds of pictures he was still having so much fun with the camera he got during Christmas.

Meanwhile Kiku, Yang Soo, Yong Soo, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Thailand sat at another larger table looking around wondering where Yao suddenly went. After several seconds and locating Yao who was threatening Alfred with blackmail they returned to their conversation.

"Hey Kiku" Taiwan turned to the Japanese man.

"Yes Taiwan-chan" Kiku answered.

"Just Taiwan will do, but anyway, what is the clans next big move now that we have a larger group, and have more stability over the area?" Taiwan asked.

"That's still a ways away Taiwan-chan, but in the mean time the Combatants have contacted us and told us that the STARS are returning to the North West sector of the city and are going to try and rebuild their clan" Kiku told them the news.

"Oh really!" Thailand looked surprised. "When did this news arrive?"

"Last night" Kiku answered.

"Hm" Everyone turned to Vietnam who was waving her hands in sign language, which she quickly took to as her ability to speak or lack thereof prevented her from communicating by any other easier means. As they watched her they could make out 'Do we have to send help to help them settle?' Vietnam asked through her hand signs.

"No they said that they wanted to do that themselves Vietnam-chan" Kiku answered smiling.

"I THINK THIS CALLS FOR A PARTY!" Yang Soo cried while Yong Soo cried.

"PARTIES ORIGINATED IN KOREA!" Yong Soo cried.

"NO!" every yelled for the umpteenth time today.

'Now I suddenly realize why fate has made these two brothers' Kiku thought to himself.

A few hours later the clan had dispersed and decided to return to their daily activities and chores. Most of the females working together to create new clothing especially for the expecting newborn who is due any day now. Most of the males were wandering the halls inspecting needs for repairs and trying to come up with ideas to strengthen the mall. Matthew, Ivan who had by some miracle escaped his sister, Antonio, Ralph, and Randal were just finishing the last touches to the large pool they had installed in the center section of the mall. Kiku had taken several others to empty more areas near the front to fit more vehicles in as a suggestion was made that they use vehicles as transportation for items or for warfare should the situation demand as such.

Alfred and Roderich were inspecting and talking on the third floor.

"When's your wife due?" Alfred asked Roderich.

"Any day or moment now" Roderich answered.

"Any idea if it's going to be a girl or a boy?" Alfred asked again.

"Why are you so interested in my child?" Roderich asked looking suspiciously at Alfred.

"Don't look at me that way, it's just so interesting that this will be the Reapers first blood born member, and well, we might need to think of a spot for it in this clan as well" Alfred explained.

Roderich understood why Alfred was so interested, but he still didn't like how others were already trying to plan the life of his son or daughter. "But even then could you refrain from planning the future of my child before he or she is even born" Roderich said in an almost demanding tone.

"Of course" Alfred smiled getting the picture that they shouldn't discuss this further unless he wanted to feel the wrath of Elizabeta too. "Anyway getting to the topic about the skylights" Alfred pointed to the glass ceiling overhead. "What do you think we should do about them?"

"Well they're fine the way they are against normal zombies, I just worry about if a Jumper or a Juggernaut finds their way here" Roderich said.

"I agree with the Jumpers, but Juggernaut, well Juggernauts aren't the smartest zombies to roam the earth, and even if one does find it's way here, not even thirty foot thick walls of steel could protect us from them." Alfred laughed as the said this.

"I guess your right" Roderich agreed. "But even then what about Jumpers? They are a rather intelligent species and are even stealthy, so we wouldn't know one was there until it jumped through the window panes" Roderich said.

"Well the good news for us is that Jumpers are fast, smart, and stealthy, but however they aren't all that nimble, and on top of everything else aren't that strong even compared to a regular zombie, they just out manoeuvre you and use the momentum of their jumps and their body weight to take you down. So if we reinforce the window panes with tempered glass, and bulletproof glass it would definitely keep them out" Alfred explained.

"But where are we going to get all that glass?" Roderich asked.

"No idea" Alfred answered which caused Roderich to sigh. "But I'm sure we will be able to find ample amounts at nearby factories or banks" Alfred said.

"Alfred!" Alfred heard his brother Matthew calling him.

"Yeah Mattie!?" Alfred leaned over the railing of the third floor and stared all the way down to the main floor where Matthew was looking up at him.

"We finished the pool, me and Ivan are going to try and see if we can't get a more effective radio system set up in the War Room" Matthew called back letting his brother and the Reapers unofficial leader know where they were going.

"Alright" Alfred replied as Matthew turned and left to the War Room.

"With all the electronic equipment we are installing will the water mill that Heracles and Sadiq set up be enough to support the whole store?" Roderich asked.

"It's holding up for now, but you are right, if we keep this up we will need more than one, or make the original even more powerful to sustain the whole mall" Alfred replied.

"And if such a time comes were will you get the parts for it?" Roderich asked.

"Oh here and there, we don't have the proper equipment to hoist a large turbine so we will need to build the whole thing by hand and small parts so it will be more difficult" Alfred answered.

"Well I guess we will have to deal with that when the time comes" Roderich said.

Meanwhile with Kiku and the others

"Well that's the last of the bank aru" Yao sighed as he sat down after hauling the last bit of junk they needed to remove from the bank.

"Yao-san" Kiku addressed his old friend.

"Yeah aru" Yao replied.

"How many vehicles do you think we can fit in here?" Kiku asked pointing to the large open space they made in the now empty bank.

"Roughly hm, ten to twelve cars aru" Yao answered.

"What about larger vehicles?" Kiku asked.

"I was taking large vehicles into account aru" Yao answered.

"So give or take twelve large vehicles" Kiku repeated putting hand to his chin expressing himself deep in thought. "We are going to need the ability to store gasoline"

"That shouldn't be a problem" Kiku and Yao turned to see Yang Soo and Yong Soo approach them with a large red jug in each hand.

"Is that gasoline Yong Soo-san?" Kiku asked.

"Yes it is" Yong Soo answered struggling to lift the large jug above his head.

"Were did you get all that gas aru?" Yao asked.

"You forget that there are hundreds of abandoned or destroyed cars that still have plenty of gas in them, we just simply siphoned the gas out of their tanks" Yong Soo answered.

"The only problem is we don't have a place to store large amounts of this gas" Yang Soo explained.

"Well I guess it wouldn't be a stretch to build a silo, but that will have to be later, until then, I guess we will have to be satisfied with just using these jugs." Kiku decided.

"Oi, Kiku" Kiku turned to see Vash walk up to him after spending some time outside.

"Yes Vash-san were you successful?" Kiku asked Vash.

"Yeah I was, but I was only able to find four good vehicles in the immediate area of the mall." Vash answered.

"That's good four will be more than enough for now" Kiku said turning to Yao. "You might want to get Arthur-san, Francis-san, and Thailand-san we will need their help pushing the cars"

"Got it aru, but what about Hong Kong aru?" Yao asked.

"Hong Kong-san is currently working with Eduard-san and Raivis-san in preparing the medical bay for Elizabeta when she becomes ready to deliver" Kiku explained.

"It takes three people to help one woman deliver?" Yong Soo asked.

"Eduard-san is proficient in medicine, but he isn't a doctor, and on top of all that we don't have all the proper equipment here to be considered a medical ready clan so Eduard-san will need all the help he can get" Kiku explained.

And at that Yao went to get extra help while Vash, Yong Soo, Yang Soo, and Kiku went to get started on the first vehicle, since it was within eye sight of the mall they didn't really worry about their weapons or the door being left unprotected, though the left Feliciano in charge of the door until they came back.

Meanwhile with Matthew and Ivan

"Matvey can you hand me that wire cutter please da" Ivan asked pointing to the small pair of wire cutters.

"Sure thing" Matthew answered as he passed the wire cutters to Ivan. "How much longer until your ready to install this new receiver?" Matthew asked holding up a small processer unit which helped the radio receive signals better.

"Almost there da" Ivan said as struggled to rip out the old receiver, and Ivan threw the old one away. "Alright Matvey da, I'm ready to install the new receiver, and can you pass me the rubber tape da" Ivan pointed to the roll of black rubber tape that is used to cover exposed wires.

"Sure, now that that is done" Matthew sighed as he handed the receiver and the tape to Ivan. "I'll see if those headsets and hand radios will work now that the new receiver is in" Matthew picked up a number of headsets and hand radios and turned them on. After checking a few after Ivan turned the main radio on, they found that the headsets and hand radios did in fact receive each other, the only problem was since the main radio was so old it didn't receive the signals as well as it should have. But at the very least you could clearly understand what was being said on the other side.

"Looks like we are going to need a new main radio if we are going to get better connection" Matthew said patting the old main radio on the top like it was a precious treasure.

"Well we do have several new parts for newer radios da, so maybe we can build it from scratch" Ivan sighed sitting down.

"Yeah but let's see if we can't find a already made brand new radio first" Matthew said as the two turned off all the equipment and left the War Room.

Meanwhile Alfred and Roderich arrived at the front entrance to find Kiku, Yao, Yong Soo, Yang Soo, and a few others putting the last car away to accompany Arthur's Ferrari.

"I see you guys managed to get us a few more cars" Alfred smiled at the group as they closed the door.

"Yeah two Trail Blazers and two Jeeps. Plus Arthur's Ferrari I'd say we have more than enough transportation ability for now aru" Yao sighed now officially exhausted after all the lifting and heavy work.

"Yeah that will be enough, besides we aren't really planning anything big that involves a different location so we don't have a big need for vehicles just yet" Alfred agreed.

"Hey Al" Alfred turned to see Matthew on the second floor, along with Vash both having their sniper rifles slung over their shoulders.

"Yeah what's up?" Alfred called back.

"Me and Vash are going to the roof for our target practice" Matthew answered.

"Yeah go on, whatever you do, don't shoot survivors" Alfred responded jokingly.

"Just be careful you don't end up in the crosshairs" Vash retorted as the two made their way to the roof.

"Anyway" Alfred turned back to the others. "I'm hungry let's go eat" Alfred smiled as the others agreed to accompany him to the food court.

With Matthew and Vash who were already on the roof, large bowls of heat food next to them so they could eat and snipe at the same time, Vash took his turn in eating while Matthew looked for something to shoot.

"Looks like the zombies are migrating back to this side of the continent" Matthew said eyeing several zombies aimlessly wandering the streets.

"Well it's not surprising, they seem to do this every year. After all they just spent the last half a year on the other side of the continent." Vash said scooping some mashed potatoes into his mouth.

BANG!

Matthew pulled the trigger firing off one round, Matthew watched as the round ripped through one zombies skull and landed in the shoulder of a second. Matthew chose a different target and fired again.

BANG!

This next bullet hit the zombie in the balls, Matthew giggled evilly as he watched the zombie stagger grabbing what was left of his testicles and slowly continued to stagger. Matthew stifled his laughter as he was suddenly so greatly reminded of what happens when you canned a real person.

BANG! BANG!

Matthew then emptied his clip and sat up to switch places with Vash. Vash quickly complied as he let Matthew sit down and started eating, while Vash fire five rounds.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Vash fired three rounds shooting three different zombies in the head. As Vash looked at several remaining zombies Vash soon came across the one that Matthew shot in the testicles.

"Seems you and I have more in common than I thought" Vash sniggered as he watched the zombie staggering still clutching his now, non-existent testicles.

Matthew couldn't help but laugh as he knew Vash was talking about him shooting the zombie in the balls.

"Good to know that I'm not the only one who enjoys torture in such a method" Vash said as he fired two more shots emptying his clip.

BANG! BANG!

And then Vash switched places with Matthew again. Matthew quickly reloaded his clip and placed the clip in his rifle. Matthew spotted five more zombies wandering towards the mall. Matthew fired twice to see what they would do.

BANG! BANG!

Matthew watched two of the five zombies drop dead while the remaining three continued to still wander aimlessly but towards their home.

"It's no fun when they don't react to someone shooting them" Matthew said out loud.

"I know what you mean" Vash replied.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Matthew fired three more times killing the three remaining zombies.

Matthew switched with Vash again as Vash reloaded his clip and readied his gun.

RUMBLE!

"Looks like a storms rolling in" Matthew sighed as he looked for five more zombies to shoot before heading back inside.

"Aw just when I got comfortable too" Vash complained as he picked up a couple half empty bowls and slung his rifle over his shoulder. "Come on Matthew, the zombies have already taken shelter, there's nothing left to shoot"

"You're no fun Vash" Matthew sighed as he picked up his rifle and a couple other bowls and retreated back inside.

Meanwhile with Alfred and several others were listening to Eduard and his problem.

"What's the problem?" Alfred asked.

"The problem is we are going to deal with Elizabeta who is soon to go into labour since she is due any day now, and we are DEAD short on supplies and medicines" Eduard opened several cupboards revealing that only one or two bottles of different types of medicine occupy each shelf for some, while others where plain empty.

"That is a problem, not just considering we have Elizabeta being due soon" Alfred responded surprised at how empty the shelves actually where.

"But even then it has become a bigger problem since we need them NOW! Elizabeta is due any moment, and even if that goes well in not needing much medicines to fight infections many new mothers come across, we won't be ready for an emergency." Eduard finished hoping that it would get on the priority list of Alfred's.

"Yeah, that's definitely gonna have to be a priority" Alfred began.

'YES!' Eduard silently cheered.

"However I would get that done right now, but with the storm rolling in, I don't know how willing, I am and any others are to go venturing in a storm" Alfred continued.

'Crap' Eduard sighed inwardly, as he mentally began beating himself up for picking such a bad time to bring up the subject, he should have seen this coming.

"But I'll ask around and see if anyone is willing to brave the storm, after all we can't risk that this storm will take several days, and if Elizabeta comes down with a fever after delivery, that will make the situation even more serious" Alfred said to himself as he left the medical bay.

'Maybe we might get those meds before the day is over' Eduard silently thought.

Several minutes later Alfred called everyone to the war room where he quickly filled them in on the situation they were in.

"So to sum it up, we don't have enough medicines to aid a sick or ail person, we need to get medicines now, or we need to try and weather the storm and hope it clears up before Elizabeta goes into labour" Alfred said. Everyone seemed to ponder this for a moment, realizing how serious this was, after all they knew they needed medicine for their everyday lives otherwise they would become sick and die, or become more prone to falling victim to even worse infections. But however this storm was almost over top of them, and judging by how dark it got and so quickly they assumed it would be a big storm, none of them wanted to go out in the rain and the lighting, but they didn't know how much of a choice they had.

"So, I'm for going out into that storm to get the medicines we need, but I can't do that alone" Alfred explained.

"Well I'm with you bro" Matthew raised his hand.

"Sounds like fun da" Ivan said looking rather happier about saying yes to this more than usual, which confused everyone until they heard Natalia whisper something in his ear, which earned another shudder of terror from the Russian.

"I'll come along too" Arthur sighed as he glared at Matthew remembering what happened the last time they went out alone on Arthur's birthday.

"I will come aru" Yao raised his hand.

"As will I" Kiku raised his.

"I'll say behind with everyone else" Thailand said holding Vietnam close to him.

"I'll stay with Elizabeta and the others" Roderich said as he too brought Elizabeta closer to him.

"I'll stay" Vash raised his hand.

"I'll come along" Francis sighed as he shivered under another evil glare from Elizabeta.

"We'll stay" Yong Soo and Yang Soo raised their hands.

"NO PARTIES WHILE WE'RE GONE!" Alfred cried already predicting what he will find when he comes back from the storm.

"Aw" Both Korean's sighed sadly.

"Of course I'm staying" Eduard said raising his hand.

"So will I and Toris" Raivis raised his hand.

"I like guess, I'll go with you guys" Feliks raised his hand.

"I'll go" Heracles raised his hand but then Sadiq raised his hand quickly as well.

"I won't be outdone by Heracles, I'm coming too" Sadiq said earning a glare from Heracles, and it quickly grew into a staring contest.

"Not again" Alfred sighed. "Ivan"

"Kolkolkolkolkolkolkolkol share a room with me da kolkolkolkolkol" Ivan chanted which caused the two bickering males to stop in fright.

"Ne, I'll stay"Feliciano sighed not wanting to wander out in the rain and the frightening lightning.

"I'll stay as well" Romano said.

"I guess that means I'm staying too" Antonio said as he glomped Romano, and started cuddling the poor Italian.

"GET OFF ME YOU TOMATO FREAK!" Romano yelled as he struggled to get the obsessive Spanish man off of him.

"I'll tag along" Ludwig raised his hand and Gilbert did the same.

"What would you guys do without the AWESOME Gilbert by your side" Gilbert gloated.

"I wanna come" Peter jumped up and down waving his camera around.

"NO YOU WON'T!" Everyone yelled.

"Aw, why not" Peter almost demanded and answer.

"Because your too youn-

"Because we need you to help look after the mall while were gone" Alfred quickly interrupted Arthur.

"Really!?" Peter looked ecstatic. "Does this mean I get a gun!?"

"NO!" everyone responded not willing to leave an overly eager child with a dangerous fire arm.

"Aw" Peter pouted.

"I'll stay" Berwald raised his hand.

"I'll stay too" Tino raised his hand.

"We'll stay and watch the place" Randal said also pointing to Ralph.

"And the females will be staying to accompany Elizabeta just in case, and to help keep an eye on the place while we are gone" Alfred said.

"Alright let's go then" Alfred knocked on the table to emphasise that the meeting was over. Alfred made his way over to the entrance with his twelve brave volunteers, himself, Matthew, Arthur, Francis, Ludwig, Ivan, Gilbert, Feliks, Sadiq, Heracles, Kiku and Yao proceeded to the front door.

As they arrived at the front door they could feel the thunder rumble so loudly it felt like it was drumming on their chests. But mostly unperturbed they grabbed their rain gear, which consisted of a large black or dark blue rubber rain coat, which covered all the way down to the middle of their shins. Thick sturdy rubber boots or their military combat boots since their combat boots are fairly water resistant as it is. Their coats had a hood on it so it allowed them to be worry free about their hats blowing away in the wind. They also had thick rubber gloves also black or dark blue which they wore underneath the cuffs of their jackets wrists preventing water from getting in, and the gloves reached about half way up their arm to make it more comfortable. For their eyes they had ski goggles or regular diving goggles which most preferred as it was designed to be water resistant. To cover their mouths they had simple ski mask wear as water in their mouths wasn't the problem, it was breathing during a heavy rain storm that would be the problem, because the heavy rain fall could have them end up breathing water rather than air, so the mouth covers were to keep their air ways free of water, and if enough water was soaked in the mouth pieces, it would provide a quick and clean sip of water. Plus it kept zombie bits, and blood from entering their mouths by accident. Finally the group of volunteers were ready to go, they quickly wrapped their weapons in rubber wrappings to keep the weapons as dry as possible, though it wouldn't be a problem if they got wet, it just meant several agonizing hours to clean, and dry the gun and it's parts.

"Alright, ready to go?" Alfred asked everyone as he slung a few bags over his shoulders.

"Yeah, only one questions aru" Yao raised his hand.

"Yeah Yao" Alfred responded.

"Why don't we use one of the vehicles to travel in this weather rather than walk?" Yao asked.

"Too many vehicles abandoned on the road, and in this weather it would be too much of a hassle to deal with abandoned cars, on top of all that the urban area where we are going to start scavenging is quickest by foot, it would take several minutes by car to get there" Alfred explained.

"Are we heading to a hospital da?" Ivan asked.

"Yeah, its roughly thirty minutes from here but we will go there, plus there are several buildings, and offices nearby so we can also check there" Alfred answered.

"Feliciano" Alfred called to his Italian friend.

"Ne, what do you need?" Feliciano asked.

"I need you to watch over the radio equipment in case we call, so I need you or anyone responsible staying by the radio" Alfred explained.

'RESPONSIBLE!' Everyone thought immediately. 'THEN WHY IS HE ASKING FELICIANO!?'

"Also have Antonio, Randal, and Ralph help you if you need it, and if anything breaks or any message gets missed. NO MORE PASTA FOR YOU!" Alfred growled evilly as Feliciano shook with fright at the thought of living life with no Pasta.

"Y-y-yes, s-sir" Feliciano saluted still shaking at the horrifying thought.

"At ease Feliciano, it isn't a hard task, so don't worry, just make sure you don't miss a message" Alfred said in a more encouraging tone as he turned towards the other only to find himself facing a wall of inquisitive, and disapproving looks. "WHAT!?"

"You know some would define you as evil" Matthew sighed.

"No not really, but I do believe it" Alfred smiled.

"Come on genius let's get going" Matthew sighed again as the group left the building.

RUMBLE!

"Ne, good luck" Feliciano said before he turned to head towards the war room where the radio equipment was set up.

Several minutes later at a random residential block with the twelve searchers.

"Nothing" Alfred sighed as he closed a few wooden cabinet doors. "Just random plastic bags, and Tupperware"

"Nothing upstairs da" Ivan sighed.

"We haven't had much success in this block aru" Yao said as he followed Ivan down from the upper level.

"Well, the others are quickly checking out the next few houses let's see how they're doing" Alfred said as he took Yao and Ivan with him into the street, into the relentless pouring rain.

"THIS IS REDICULOUS ARU!" Yao yelled as he followed his two companions through the rain.

"I KNOW!" Alfred yelled back trying to make himself heard over the intense lightening and thunder rumbling overhead.

"I thought it would be bad, but this is almost like swimming da" Ivan said quietly struggling to see, and to work his way through the two feet of water that had began making a torrential river on the street they were on.

As they continued they made out Kiku, Heracles, and Sadiq coming out of a house not far from them.

"ANY LUCK!?" Alfred cried.

"NONE ALFRED-SAN!" Kiku called back the best he could. Just then, Arthur, Ludwig, and Gilbert came out of another house.

"ANYTHING!?" Alfred called to them too.

"NOTHING!" Ludwig responded. Alfred looked for his brother, and found his brother emerging from a house half a block away across the street. The nine others rushed over to see if they had found anything.

"PLEASE TELL ME YOU HAVE SOMETHING!" Alfred pleaded, not interested in staying out in the rain much longer.

"ACTUALLY WE DID FIND SOMETHING, BUT NOT MUCH" Matthew responded.

"AH THANK HEAVEN, WHAT DID YOU FIND?" Alfred asked.

"LIKE A COUPLE BOTTLES OF PENICILLEN, ANTIHISTOMY, ADVIL, AND SOMETHING LIKE TIGERBALM?" Feliks answered.

"I CALL ARU" Yao cried at hearing the mention of Tigerbalm. Everyone stared at him weirdly. "What!? I Have Back Pains aru" Yao explained.

"Yeah, sorry about that Yao-san" Kiku whispered.

"No worries aru" Yao whispered back.

"What!?" Alfred asked as he couldn't hear what they were saying.

"NOTHING!" Yao and Kiku answered at the same time.

"Well, You Found Something, So We Won't Be Going Back Empty Handed, But I still Want To Check Some Other Places First" Alfred said as he pointed further up the road. "Up There Is A Clinic, And Beside It Is A Pharmacy, We Might Get A Good Haul There" Alfred said, and with that he and his group began making their way up the street towards the Clinic and Pharmacy.

Meanwhile back at the Mall.

"Ne, I know Alfred told me not to let any messages go by, but" Feliciano sighed as he stared at the radio and then around the room. "NE!, THERE'S NOTHING TO DO!"

Knock, Knock, then the door opened, Feliciano turned to see Antonio, Ralph, Randal, and Romano enter the room with bowls of food. "Hey bro" Romano began. "We missed a fair bit of dinner and also heard to screaming about being bored so we thought we would come to join you" Romano said as he and the others began setting up the food around the war room table.

"Ne, thanks" Feliciano said sincerely as he was growing deathly bored of his current job.

"No problem, anyway, any messages from them yet?" Antonio asked.

"Ne, nothing yet" Feliciano turned his gaze to the radios worriedly.

"Don't worry about them" Ralph said as he began eating some food. "I'm sure they'll be fine, I mean they have Alfred with them"

(LONG PAUSE)...

"They are so screwed" everyone in the room said at the exact same time.

"AAHH!" a scream echoed throughout the mall. Everyone scrambled out of the war room, to find out what was going on. They ran out onto the second floor, looking up, down, left, and right trying to find what was happening, then they spotted Elizabeta on the first floor with Roderich.

"Elizabeta's Water Broke, Someone Get Eduard!" Roderich called to the group on the second floor.

"Feliciano, get on that radio and tell Alfred and the others to hurry up" Randal pointed to Feliciano.

"Ne, got it" Feliciano ran back into the war room and went to the radio, while Randal and the others split up to find Eduard. But as Feliciano ran into the war room and approached the radio, only did he just suddenly realize that he had no idea how to work it. "NE, HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING!" Feliciano began fumbling switches and buttons hoping to figure out which one was the one to get the radio working. Feliciano then stopped fumbling with the buttons and began to try his best to read the labels.

"Remember Feliciano, you want the radio on frequency 2, and once you do that pick up this (Picks up a speaker) and talk into it to try and get our attention" Alfred said as he explained the radio to Feliciano.

"Ne, so I turn this to frequency 2" Feliciano said to himself as he turned a dialwhich eventually clicked onto the number 2. "Then I pick this up" Feliciano said as he brought the microphone to his mouth. "Ne, Alfred You There!?" Feliciano cried into the microphone.

Meanwhile Alfred and his group had finally arrived at the pharmacy and hospital and where in the middle of trashing the place for both fun, and looking for any medicine they could find.

"Hey, Ivan Batter Up!" Alfred called as he raised his bat. Ivan responded by tossing two wine glasses that they found in the lounge for the now non-existent employees for the hospital.

SMASH! SMASH!

Alfred successfully hit both wine glasses smashing them to several pieces. "YEAH LET'S DO THAT AGAIN!" Alfred cried as Ivan searched for more things to throw, but this time was going to try and find something disgusting, or hard to possibly hit Alfred with.

"Ne, Alfred You There!?" Feliciano cried over the radio. Alfred put his bat down and pulled out the radio he had tucked onto his belt.

"Yeah, Feliciano I'm here" Alfred responded over the radio.

THWACK!

"OW, IVAN!" Alfred yelled and glared at the Russian.

"Ah, you never told me to stop da" Ivan said smiling back at the irritated American. However Alfred decided to let it go for now. "Fine just don't hit me with anything"

"Alright" Ivan acknowledged.

"Yeah, Feliciano what is it?" Alfred asked over the radio.

"Hey, Ivan me and Ludwig found several fake skeletons in the upper levels of the hospital, care to join us in destroying them" Matthew appeared to invite Ivan to the destruction party of fake human skeletons.

"Ne, Elizabeta's water broke, and we are taking her to the medical bay as we speak" Feliciano explained.

"What! She's in labour already!?" Alfred stood shocked.

"Yeah, we need you to hurry back with those medicines, because Eduard is probably going to need them" Feliciano said.

"Alright, we'll be there soon." Alfred said and ended the conversation. He left the room he currently was in and went up a level, and heard screams of joy, crashing sounds, and cheers after the sound of something shattering echoed throughout the hall. "Guys!" Alfred called and opened a door.

As Alfred opened the door, he only glanced inside to see a fake skeleton launched at him, and even though he did see it, he didn't have enough time to react. The skeleton collided with his body and Alfred dropped to the ground with the skeleton on top of him, when Alfred regained his bearing, he found himself staring into the empty void of the skeletons eyes, which to say the least sent shivers down Alfred's spine.

"Aw, look the skeleton's fangirling Alfred" Matthew teased as everyone else laughed hysterically, except for Kiku, Heracles, and Sadiq, who most likely didn't get the joke or was too serious to laugh about it.

"I HATE YOU ALL!" Alfred threw the skeleton off him, and stood up. "Anyway we have to hurry" Alfred began explaining Elizabeta's condition back at the mall, which sparked a sense of urgency in everyone.

"Well, the pharmacy and the hospital were both stock piled of medicine so we can go back without any worries" Ludwig said as several of them picked up their bags which were plenty full of medicines and anything that could work as a medicine. They quickly picked up their weapons, put their coats back on and they left the building. Fortunately for them the rain had settled a bit, though it was still hard to see they could wade their way through the torrent of rain much more easily. As they left and jogged down the street they originally came to get to the hospital they heard rumbling. They turned around and looked past the hospital where they were and through the distortion of the thick rain they could see blurs, and blogs making their way around the corner.

"What's that aru?" Yao asked as he squinted trying to make out the images much more clearly.

"No idea da" Ivan replied as he squinted as well. But as everyone continued to squint they could make out the individual figures, sure they were still over a hundred and fifty feet away so they were still blurry, but however they could tell the figures were human, or at least human figure.

"Zombies?" Ludwig raised his assault rifle and aimed it at the on coming group.

"No" Alfred said as he encouraged everyone to lower their weapons. "They are moving to humanly in order to be zombies, plus the cold from the rain would slow them down, so they wouldn't be running" Alfred explained.

"They're running?" everyone looked more closely as the large group of blobs got closer, and everyone could see their feet and legs moving in quick balanced succession which was in stark contrast to how most zombies moved, even during a rain storm.

"Okay, it looks like there's give or take over two hundred of them" Yao guessed the number as the group got closer.

"Maybe way more than that, but anyway, who could they be" Ludwig asked out loud.

"No idea" Alfred answered.

"What's that behind them?" Gilbert asked pointed to another large group of blobs appearing behind the first group.

"Again, no idea da" Ivan answered this time.

"Hold on, can anyone tell how they are running?" Matthew asked as he struggled to get a better look at the first group running towards them and being followed by the second group.

As Matthew asked the rain seemed to let up even more making their vision even clearer, they could see the first group more clearly and could tell definitely that they weren't zombies. But as they did their best to analyse the second group they could easily make out sluggish movement, differing movement patterns, and varying cloths none of which were rain jackets much like the first group, though the first group didn't have very good rain coats they were rain coats none the less. But the second group didn't have any proper gear or any seemingly defensive formation that a large clan would have while searching a city.

"Guys" Matthew spoke as he grabbed his rifle though wasn't in any panic to raise it. "I have a feeling that the second group are zombies" Matthew finished.

"I think your right, but they are moving a lot faster than I would expect from zombies out in the rain" Alfred said as he watched the groups come closer. "Isn't that an interesting sight though"

"Indeed I've never seen this many people aside from the Combatants da" Ivan said as they watched the two groups come closer. As the two groups got closer, through the thunder, rain, and lightening, they could clearly hear and see gunfire coming from the first group.

"So the second group are zombies" Kiku said as he gripped his rifle even tighter.

"But I don't think we need to worry, after all those zombies are moving relatively slowly, and that group down there" Alfred pointed to the large groups of people. "Seem to be handling them well."

GRAAWW!

A loud roar was suddenly heard from behind the two groups, as the small party of Reapers looks on, they see three large figures emerge from around the distant corner, and these three figures where HUGE, though the rain was thick enough to make it difficult to clearly see them, it still sparked some fear in the Reapers.

"And what are those da?" Ivan asked staring intently at the three large figures.

"Those look like" Kiku squinted and he finally recognized what they were. "They're Juggernauts!" Kiku cried taking a few steps back in surprise.

"Wow, I've never seen a Juggernaut before" Alfred stepped forward in curiosity trying to get a better look at the Juggernauts.

"Yeah, and those Juggernauts are coming right at us" Matthew said grabbing Alfred's shoulder to both encourage Alfred to run, and to not get any closer to them,

"Ah, crap didn't really think about that" Alfred said as he turned and ran down the street with the rest of the Reapers. Little did they know that the first non-zombie group was close behind and following their path.

Meanwhile back at the mall, Elizabeta had arrived at the medical center, and Eduard was doing his best as to not screw up anything, with Raivis, Katyusha, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Toris were in the medical center with Eduard, helping to try and get it done right, because Eduard isn't a doctor and has never done this before so he definitely doesn't want to screw up.

"Aw, I can't see, I wanted to get some pictures" Peter sighed his camera ready, but the medical center was covered in white sheets, and paper, to prevent anyone from seeing inside.

"Why would you want to take pictures?" Randal asked looking somewhat disturbed.

"Because, my mother told me that it is a magical moment when a person is born, so I wanted to take a picture of the magic" Peter answered pouting.

Everyone outside hit the floor comically, Randal however decided to be the one to describe the situation differently to Peter.

"While it is a magical moment Peter, there isn't any magic used to give birth to a child" Randal said hoping dearly that Peter would understand.

"But I still want to take a picture of the magical moment" Peter said holding up his camera.

"Or three hundred" Ralph muttered quietly.

"No I don't think you would want to take a picture" Randal repeated but with a more disgusted look on his face.

"Why?" Peter asked.

"Most would find it disturbing" Randal said putting on the most disgusted look he can manage to try and make it more convincing. Peter however he agreed still pouted not fully understand the process of the birds and the bees.

Feliciano was still in the war room with Romano who decided to stay in the war room, because they couldn't watch the "magical moment" either, not that once they saw it they wouldn't have thought anything magical about it anyway.

"This is so boring" Romano sighed.

"Feliciano, Respond, Respond!" Alfred's cries were heard over the radio.

"Ne, I'm here Alfred what's up?" Feliciano asked.

"Get(Static) ready, three (more static), I repeat three Juggernauts are (static) way, plus a few hundred survivors are following us" Alfred called over the radio, but with his constant movement it made it more difficult for the radio to pick up the signal clearly.

"WHAT!? JUGGERNAUTS!?" Romano cried. "I'll get everyone" Romano rushed out the door and towards the medical bay.

"Ne, How far away are you guys?" Feliciano asked. As the reply came, Feliciano could clearly hear gunshots.

"Not That Far, Give Or Take Five Minutes" Alfred answered as Feliciano heard a loud Shotgun shot, assuming that Alfred had fired his Shotgun.

"Ne, were getting everyone, just get them to the parking lot, there is plenty of open space, and some cover from abandoned cars there" Feliciano instructed quickly thinking up a place.

"Nice thinking Feliciano, Yeah we'll Lead them there, Just Get Everyone Ready!"

"Got it" Feliciano hung up the radio and quickly ran out the room.

Romano ran up to the others who were still crowding the front of the medical center. "WE GOT JUGGERNAUTS!" Romano cried as he ran within earshot of the group, luckily no one inside the medical center was able to hear.

"WHAT!?" Randal turned to look at Romano as the Italian ran up to them.

"Three Juggernauts are chasing Alfred's group and a large group of survivors they are heading towards the Mall Parking lot right now!" Romano explained as quickly but as clearly as he possibly could.

"THREE!" Ralph exclaimed staring in shock.

"We'll let's go then" Randal announced as he lead everyone towards the entrance. "Peter You Stay Inside, We Need You To Open And Close The Gates!" Randal called to the slowly falling behind young boy.

"Alright!" Peter cried as he tried his best to keep up with them.

Back on the main street, where the Reapers and the large group of survivors were running towards the Mall.

"How Much Farther!?" Arthur cried trying to desperately keep ahead of the Juggernauts and see through the thick rain at the same time and not trip.

"No Idea!" Alfred answered, not being able to see that clearly disallowed them from being able to tell where they were, but they had a good enough sense of direction that they were still able to know that they were heading the right way.

"I Think I See It!" Francis cried seeing a large clearing up ahead and a large structure on the horizon of the view.

"Hopefully!" Alfred cried as he sped up to keep ahead of the Juggernauts.

"Alright Peter Open The Gate!" Randal called to Peter on the second floor over hang near the entrance where Randal, Ralph, Yong Soo, Yang Soo, Feliciano, Romano, Natalia, Antonio, Berwald, Thailand, and Vash were at the entrance rain gear on and their weapons in hand. Peter pulled a lever and the mesh gate that sealed the front entrance opened, and the group ran out into the rain. They didn't run far before they could see several blobs coming towards them through the rain. Randal and the others split themselves up and hid near different cars, and since the parking lot was full of them, it didn't take much effort to find a hiding place. After all of them hid they raised their weapons over the vehicle they hid behind and aimed at the incoming blobs. As the blobs became clearer, they could clearly make out the rain gear similar to what they wore, and as they came even closer, they could recognize almost each individual as Alfred, Matthew, Kiku, Yao, Ivan, Feliks, Ludwig, Gilbert, Arthur, Francis, Heracles, and Sadiq came into view.

"Where Are They!?" Randal called.

"Behind Us!" Alfred answered as he jumped over several rows of cars before taking refuge behind another. The others followed suit, but split up and hid behind different cars.

"Is That Them!?" Ralph pointed to a second group of blobs fast approaching.

"No!" Alfred answered.

"Then, What's Behind Them!?" Antonio asked.

"ZOMBIES!" Alfred answered. "SHOOT THEM!"

Everyone tried to aim past the group of hundreds of survivors, but couldn't do it without risking in hitting the survivors. Matthew got the first idea of standing on the roof of the car he was near and got a better view of the zombies behind him. Matthew however couldn't see clearly enough to feel comfortable about taking a shot, until the rain let up even more. Matthew could see clearly now and he could make out the zombies and the survivors. Matthew took careful aim, and considered the distortion of his aim due to the rain and fired.

BANG!

The bullet soared and flew overhead of the survivors and nailed one of the zombie's in the head. The zombie groaned and dropped to the ground dead. The sudden death of the zombie caused several other zombies to trip and fall over their new dead body slowing their progress a bit, and increased the gap between the survivors and the zombie horde even more. One of the survivors who was one of the few holding a fire arm, looked back to see the bullet hit the zombie in the head and trip several more zombies as it hit the ground. Several more gunshots rang out, and the man could feel the bullets distort the rain fall above him as the bullets soared over him and the rest of the survivors and find their mark in the chest or the head of the zombies close behind them.

"Keep Running!" the man yelled to the others ahead of him. "Help Is Just Ahead!" This seemed to boost the morale of the survivors as they seemed to run faster hearing the gunshots ahead of them, and cries of pain from the zombies behind them.

"Keep Firing Guys, Romano, You And Me Near The Front!" Alfred ordered as he leapt a bit ahead with Romano as they both used Shotguns they waited at the edge of the parking lot for the survivors to run past. "COME ON!" Alfred yelled at the large group of survivors. Alfred and Romano stepped aside to let them past, where Alfred was able to see Men both young and old, plus women heavy with child, or with newborns, or just young girls in the mix. At the very back Alfred made out several men with rifles, hunting shotguns, rusty hunting rifles, the odd one carried an assault rifle, but was much older, and poorly kept. Alfred stepped up as the zombies came in closer, there were only ten of them, but if they were allowed to roam while they were dealing with Juggernauts, their fighting would end up disaterous.

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Both Alfred and Romano fired three rounds from their twelve gauge shotguns, but they neede to fall back and ket some ground before the Juggernauts arrived, who where entering fifty feet away. Normally Juggernauts would be faster, but like their normal infected counterparts, they are heavily affected by the cold from the rain and it slowed them down.

BANG!

Vash fired his sniper rifle and killed one of the four remaining. Ludwig and Ivan let their assault rifles loose and killed the rest quickly.

"TAKE COVER HERE THEY COME!" Alfred cried ducking for cover as the Juggernauts charged into the thirty feet mark.

BANG!

BANG!

RATATATATATATAT!

Matthew, and Vash emptied their sniper rifles, while Ludwig, Ivan, Gilbert, and Kiku fired their assault rifles into the Juggernauts, but it didn't stop the three Juggernauts let alone slow them down. Everyone dived for cover as the Juggernauts charged into the parking lot their huge mass tossing several cars left and right before they slowed down. Matthew, and Vash dived behind a car as a airborne car flew over them and landed on top of another car behind them. Kiku jumped out of the way in time as another airborne car quickly collided with the one he was standing on top of. Ludwig and Ivan ran to the left to get clear out of the path of the charging Juggernauts. The Juggernauts came to a complete stop in the middle of the parking lot, one grabbed a car and threw it at Vash and Matthew as they poked their heads out from behind the car they were hiding behind. Matthew grabbed Vash and dived out of the way as the thrown vehicle slammed into their covering car and both vehicles rolled and crushed each other in the several feet they rolled. Alfred ran up closer to the Juggernaut hoping to get a good shot at one of their heads. Romano tossed a grenade and it landed successfully at the feet of one Juggernaut.

BOOM!

The grenade exploded but only succeeded in severing the left leg of one of the Juggernauts. Ludwig tossed a second grenade and it landed near the left leg of another Juggernaut, but the explosion only took out a large chunk of the leg, but rendered the leg useless.

As Alfred got closer he could make out details of the Juggernauts. All three of them were grey in color, standing roughly eight to ten feet tall, their arms, almost as thick as the cars that surrounded them. Their faces ragged and cave troll looking. Their eyes glowing a brilliant golden yellow but also giving off an evil aura. Alfred could also see their muscular features which made them so fearful, the bullets did penetrate their skin, but their skin must have been so thick that it managed to protect their organs from most rounds. Alfred also noted that they must have retained enough traits of their individual gender before becoming infected to tell which one was once male or female because for one particular Juggernaut Alfred noticed.

"Oh, look Chesticles" Alfred pointed to the chest of one of the Juggernauts as it had that woman chest but Juggernaut body. Though luckily Alfred wasn't too interested of the exposed chest of the once female Juggernaut because unlike human females, Juggernaut female chests looked like rotting and smouldering mounds of flesh which to say the least wasn't attractive at all. If anything it was repulsive which gave Alfred no qualm for shooting the she Juggernaut.

Alfred stepped out from his hiding spot raised his Shotgun and fired twice.

BLAM! BLAM!

The two shots pierced the she Juggernauts body and tore chunks out of her stomach and side, but it still didn't seem to phase the Juggernaut but it did catch its attention and it turned to Alfred. Alfred ducked and ran as the Juggernaut swung its arm which effortlessly tossed the car that Alfred was hiding near. Alfred dived behind another car and pulled out a grenade. They didn't have a whole lot of these so he had to be sparing and careful with them. Alfred looked up to see the same she Juggernaut above him raising her arms and swinging them down onto the car as Alfred dived out of the way just in time.

Ivan fired his assault rifle several times catching the attention of a second Juggernaut. The Juggernaut charged at Ivan, Ivan dropped a grenade and dived out of the Juggernauts way, the grenade laded on the ground by the car. The Juggernaut swung his arm at Ivan, but the Juggernaut was too big and bulky to be nimble enough to stop or change the course of its swing. The arm sent the car flying, and the Juggernaut stepped on the grenade that Ivan dropped. But as the Juggernaut stepped on it, the grenade exploded and claimed the whole Juggernaut's leg in a display of red mist and fire. All three Juggernauts were crippled but were far from dead. Ludwig fired his assault rifle at the newly crippled Juggernaut to cover Ivan's get away, the fire from Ludwig's rifle did little to harm the Juggernaut as the skin of the Juggernaut and the rain made the rounds next to useless. A Survivor ran up close with a double barrelled Shotgun and fired both rounds into the Juggernaut's side. The Juggernaut felt the rounds but it still didn't hurt it much, the Juggernaut swung it's arm at the man, the man ducked but didn't duck in time to prevent the arm from clipping his right arm. Ludwig heard a sickening crack as the man's arm shattered, the man hit the ground crying in pain, Ludwig observed the Juggernaut turn its attention to its newest victim. Ludwig ran up and fired everything he had left in his assault rifle into the Juggernaut's back, the Juggernaut stopped momentarily but resumed its movements to finish the man below it. Ludwig watched hopelessly, but Ludwig heard more rifle fire and saw Ivan to his right trying to catch the Juggernaut's attention. Ivan was successful and the Juggernaut momentarily forgot the man below it and turned on Ivan, Ludwig grabbed the man and carried him off to the side where another pair of men took him and ran to find cover. Ludwig quickly reloaded his assault rifle and charged back into the fray.

Kiku and Yao danced around several cars as a Juggernaut swept it's arms repeatedly at them. Kiku ducked and dived to the side where Yao followed, their diving behind cover seemed to have lost the sight of the Juggernaut as the Juggernaut stopped swinging, and was looking around in confusion. Berwald ran up behind it with Heracles, and Sadiq and fired at the back of the Juggernaut. The Juggernaut finding new targets turned its attention on the three new men behind it. The constant assault rifle fire tore chunks out of its chest, neck, shoulders, and remaining leg. Once all three of them ran out of ammunition they ran diving behind cars losing the Juggernaut as the Juggernaut was now swinging at random cars infuriated that it lost its potential victims. Kiku and Yao crawled out of their hiding spot and watched the Juggernaut search cars and destroy a few others. Yao ran up to towards the Juggernaut hoping to get a better shot at its neck and head. Kiku ran off to the side to draw the Juggernauts attention away from Yao, the Juggernaut didn't notice Kiku running, so Kiku began firing at the Juggeranut. The Juggernaut spotted Kiku and picked up a nearby car and flung it at Kiku, Kiku managed to dived out of the way, but a large shard of glass pierced Kiku's leg, it wasn't enough to fully cripple Kiku but it was enough that Kiku was going to become slower. The Juggernaut slowly made it's way towards Kiku.

"Yao-san Fire NOW!" Kiku cried desperate as the Juggernaut began getting closer. Yao rose from his hiding spot and fired a few rounds at the Juggernaut's head. The Juggernaut wheeled around to see Yao, Kiku took this moment to limp as fast as he could away from the Juggernaut. The Juggernaut advanced at Yao, and Yao fired repeatedly at its head, the bullets tore through the cheeks and the neck, but didn't stop the Juggernaut. Yao gave up firing precision and fired everything he had left in his assault rifle at the Juggernaut's head. Though Yao wasn't aiming, one of the bullets hit the Juggernaut's eyes, and effectively tore a part of the Juggernaut's head off as it exited the temple on the same side as the penetrated eye. The Juggernaut grasped and roared in pain, its hands covering its missing eye and stumbled backwards to the point of falling down onto it's back. Yao was shocked as the Juggernaut hit the ground causing the whole parking lot to shake.

"Good Job!" Feliks, Thailand, and Ralph ran up towards the fallen Juggernaut and began firing at its head. Yao reloaded his weapon and ran up to the Juggernaut, the Juggernaut struggled to get up, but Yao jumped onto its chest quickly and began firing even more at its face but Yao aimed for the remaining eye, and the other eye socket. The bullet's tore through the hardened skin of the Juggernaut and pierced its brain, several of the bullets ricocheted inside the Juggernaut's skull furthering the damage. As Yao emptied his clip the Juggernaut's limbs went limp and the Juggernaut died in a heavy groan.

"Grrraaahhh"

"Alright, Yao-san" Kiku limped up and they high fived each other. "Not just for the other two" Kiku pointed to the two remaining Juggernauts. Kiku, Yao, Ralph, Feliks, and Thailand ran over to help in anyway they could.

Alfred dived out of the way of another swing from the she Juggernaut, as Alfred dived out of the way he saw Romano, and Feliciano standing behind the Juggernaut and fired at its back. Alfred looked to the Juggernaut's front and saw Heracles and Sadiq firing at the Juggernaut from the front. Alfred rolled out of the way of the Juggernaut's fist, as the fist hit the ground and cracked the concrete Alfred pulled a second and his last grenade off of his belt. Alfred looked up at the Juggernaut and the Juggernaut brought its ugly face down towards Alfred growling as it got closer. Alfred watched the huge mouth come closer, and Alfred quickly pulled the pin off the grenade and chucked the grenade into the Juggernaut's mouth. The Juggernaut recoiled as it began to choke on something, the Juggernaut staggered backwards as it was sticking it's hand in it's mouth to remove whatever it was choking on.

"GET AWAY, GET AWAY!" Alfred yelled as he dived behind a truck and the others did the same.

BLOOM!

The grenade exploded while at the back of the Juggernaut's mouth causing the Juggernaut's entire head to disappear in the explosion. The bits and pieces of the Juggernaut's head flew everywhere and the sprayed all the nearby cars. Luckily Alfred and the others weren't affected by the spray as the vehicles they were hiding behind took the brunt of the spray, their jackets did the rest, but it was still very little. The second Juggernaut's body hit the ground shaking the parking lot again. Alfred rose from his hiding place and observed the body as it smouldered from the grenade's explosion, Alfred also saw most of the Juggernaut's chest was blown out too, or hanging by bits and pieces of skin. Alfred turned away feeling incredibly sick at the sight.

"Alfred-san" Kiku approached Alfred limping.

"Yeah, Kiku are you alright?" Alfred asked as he noticed Kiku limping.

"I'm fine, I see you took care of the second Juggernaut" Kiku nodded towards the second dead Juggernaut. "There's one left" Kiku pointed to the last Juggernaut swinging at Ivan, Gilbert, Ludwig, and Natalia.

"Come On Let's Go!" Alfred yelled as he ran towards the last fight.

Ludwig ducked as the Juggernaut threw a vehicle at him and Gilbert, the vehicle passed over them and smashed harmlessly into another vehicle. Ivan ran out of his hiding place and fired several shots at the Juggernaut's head. The Juggernaut quickly turned its attention towards Ivan, and swung his fist in a sweeping motion at Ivan. Ivan watched horrified as the Juggernaut's fist came closer, Ivan couldn't dodge in time.

"BROTHER!" Natalia screamed and dived checking Ivan out of the Juggernaut's way. But however Natalia wasn't so lucky. The Juggernaut's fist grazed Natalia's right arm, and the side of her body, Natalia's body was sent flying and sprawling on the ground stopping several feet away. Ivan got up quickly and spotted his sister, feeling horror wash over his body as he saw his sister lying there he rushed over and quickly examined her. Ivan felt her heart beating and her chest still breathing, but she was groaning in pain and half conscious. Ivan turned to the Juggernaut, who in turn was advancing on both Ivan and Natalia, despite several other Reapers firing their weapons at it slowly tearing away its back. Ivan in horror quickly fired what was left in his clip but to no avail. Ivan grabbed his sister and tried to make a run for it but slipped on the wet pavement. Ivan watched as the Juggernaut raised its hand in an attempt to crush them.

"HEY FAGGOT!" a cry came and caught the Juggernaut's attention. Ivan spotted Vash and Matthew several feet away Sniper Rifles poised. Matthew and Vash fired their rifles; the bullets whizzed over Ivan and found their way into the Juggernaut's mouth. The bullet's then tore through the roof of the Juggernaut's mouth and through the top of its skull. The Juggernaut reared in pain as Vash and Matthew fired two more rounds. The rounds pierced the Juggernaut's neck and the Juggernaut collapsed onto its knees, and its upper body full forward resting on the ground. Ivan feeling a surge of rage overcome him he reloaded his assault rifle and rushed up to the Juggernaut. Ivan jabbed the barrel of the rifle into the Juggernaut's eye and began firing. Ivan let out a roar of rage as the fired every bullet he had in his clip, Alfred quickly joined him emptying what was left in his shotgun into the other eye socket of the Juggernaut. Both men retracted their weapons and the Juggernaut's body went limp.

"It's over Hugh" Alfred sighed as he collapsed onto his rear and dropped his shotgun. Everyone dropped to the concrete to let their nerves settle after that nerve wracking fight, Ivan went back to his sister and pulled her into his lap, and instinctively tried to protect her from the rain.

"I forgot it was raining in all the excitement" Matthew chuckled slightly as he sat down next to Vash.

"Yeah, me too, afterall the rain was rather irrelevant at the time" Francis laughed in agreement.

As they sat down to relax they heard the slow rise of cheers and clapping. They turned to see the hundreds of survivors several feet away clapping and cheering for their success.

"I forgot about them too" Arthur sighed.

Everyone got up and walked over to the large group, however Alfred and the others were approached by two individuals.

"Thank-you" one man on the right said, Alfred saw the man is white and no taller than five feet and seven inches, the man had jet black hair and dark tattooing all over his face which looked a lot like tribal art.

"Thank-you indeed" the second man thanked them. Alfred saw this man is a black American, and roughly six feet tall, he didn't have any tattoos on him, but he did hold and air of seriousness about him that Alfred could have mistaken him for a military officer.

"No problem" Alfred replied. "I'm Alfred F. Jones, the leader of this clan, who are you?"

"I'm Tommy" the white male introduced himself. "I am the leader of my clan the Street Stalkers."

"And I am Andrew" the black male introduced himself. "The leader of my clan, the Black Knights"

"Wait, there are two clans here?" Alfred asked shocked looking at the mass of people behind the two men.

"Yeah, we combined together as we traveled down from San Jose" Andrew explained.

"Well, that explains why there is so many of you" Matthew said eyeing the large group of survivors.

"Yeah, we heard of a clan down here called the Reapers, who took on the Hunters and made such a name for themselves that Sacramento is now one of the safest places on the Continent" Tommy stated. "You wouldn't happen to know them would you?"

Alfred chuckled a bit. "As a matter of fact we do, may I introduce you to us The Reapers" Alfred held him arms out as he referred to everyone behind him.

"You guys are the Reapers!?" Andrew looked surprised.

"That we are my friend" Alfred said looking rather proud of himself.

"No kidding" Andrew continued, you guys just took on three Juggernaut's and didn't lose a single fighter. "Looks like the rumours about you are true" Andrew said nodding his head in amazement.

"Yeah we heard some of them" Alfred sighed remembering his rumour.

The three groups conversed shortly before Alfred, Tommy, and Andrew split up, the Street Stalkers, and the Black Knights agreed to move into the mall for just the night and the following day they would head out for their news homes. The large stack of medicines came in handy as hundreds of the new visitors needed the medicine from the poor living conditions and the long travels.

"ALFRED!" Eduard cried rushing towards the edge of the second floor railing. Alfred with the others was down below on the first floor making all the new comers as comfortable as they could.

"Yeah!" Alfred responded.

"Elizabeta has finished giving birth!" Eduard cried.

"NO WAY WE MISSED IT!" Alfred cried rushing towards the medical center the other Reapers in closer pursuit.

They rushed up the stairway and arrived at the medical center, they entered quietly as to not disturb Elizabeta or Roderich. As they entered they saw Ivan there but he was sitting next to Natalia who was now unconscious after undergoing intense surgery to reconstruct her bones, and make sure none of her internal organs weren't damaged which luckily they weren't. Alfred approached a semi conscious Elizabeta who was holding her new born child. Everyone crowded to get a good look at the new baby, and Elizabeta obliged by brushing aside some loose cloth that was obscuring the child's face.

"Aw, so cute" Alfred said his eyes shining along with his adoring of the newborn.

"Not so close Alfred" Roderich said as he noticed Alfred subconsciously moving closer to his new child.

"Oh, sorry" Alfred backed away. "A boy or a girl?"

"A girl" Roderich said happily as he petted his daughter's head in affection, the baby stirred at the touch, but didn't wake.

"That's great" Alfred said as he began to usher everyone out of the medical center. But before he left he turned to Ivan. "How is she?"

"She'll survive" Ivan answered he placed a hand on top of Natalia's.

"Good, she loves you very much Ivan" Alfred said as he left eh medical center.

Ivan smiled at the comment. "But sometimes I think she loves me too much da"

Ivan stared at her white features, her body had gone into shock with the sudden damage to her body, and was cold. Ivan stayed with her even long into the night as stayed with her in the medical center. But when Natalia woke up the next morning she was in for a surprise.

The next morning Natalia woke, her eye lids felt heavy and he body felt stiff. It hurt to move her right arm and most of her right body, she turned her head as she felt something solid pressed against her restricting her movements. She turned her head to see Ivan in the bed with her, he removed his jacket, and any heavy clothing. Afterwards he tucked himself in bed beside her and wrapped his arms around her trying to keep her warm, and to prevent her from shifting in her sleep hurting herself more. Natalia couldn't help but blush deeply her pain now long forgotten. She continued to watch Ivan sleep peacefully and decided against waking him, since this was the closest she had ever gotten to him. She closed her eyes and tried to go back to sleep, but felt Ivan stir. She watched as Ivan slowly opened his eyes and stared into her's. Ivan stared out the windows and saw that the storm had passed and the sun slowly began rising over the horizon.

"You feeling better da?" Ivan asked.

Natalia nodded, any aura of evil she used to have while in such close proximity of Ivan was gone. Ivan himself realised at how peaceful he felt despite being so close to the sister that tried to rape him several times. Natalia snuggled in closer into Ivan's chest causing Ivan to blush, but he didn't argue, she saved his life, this was the least he could do without complaining.

Several hours later Natalia felt well enough to get out of bed and was welcomed along with Roderich and Elizabeta at the food court. The Street Stalkers and the Black Knights where there as well the large food supply and successful searches for food in the large neighbour hoods left the Reapers with a large supply of food. More than enough to feed three clans, Alfred along with Matthew, Ivan, Ludwig, Arthur, and Kiku spoke with Tommy, and Andrew and gave them directions to two different malls one in the Northeast, and the Southeast. Alfred gave the Street Stalkers and the Black Knights some ammo, and a few better weapons that they had as spares. And shortly after the two new clans were on their way.

"Looks like we will have better company in this city with these two clans in town" Alfred sighed.

"Yeah, looks like surviving might be easier from here on" Matthew said as they watched the two clans disappear into the city.

"We may have a chance just yet" Alfred said turning back into the mall, and resume their duties.

Author's Note: IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, THAT TOOK MUCH LONGER THAN I WANTED! Anyway hope you enjoyed this chapter it's probably the longest one yet, and I didn't even intend it. The Juggernauts didn't get a whole lot of admiration or review from two chapters ago so I thought I'd bring them back into the picture. Plus no matter how I think about it, I might have to do a time skip sooner or later, but that won't happen in the next few chapters, plus, if I get that deep into the story, I might as well as write a movie script and send it off to the publishers and see if it get's accepted. No matter, anyway, I'm taking opinions on what Elizabeta's and Roderich's child should be named. REMEMBER IT'S A GIRL, so I don't want any male names like Ryan, or John. I will accept unisex names, like Pat or such, if you don't feel comfortable enough to post your opinion in the reviews you are more than welcome to send your opinion to me through my personal messenger.

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