I'M SO SORRY! I have so much homework it's like I'm drowning in paper and art projects! And I'm sorry about what I did to Sora!
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Chapter 14: Almost Lover
~ A Fine Frenzy
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"Sora" Riku breathed staring at the blood dripping down the brunette's arm.
The small teen was breathing heavily almost as if breathing was becoming a problem for him. Shivering Sora looked up a Riku. The light behind his eyes was fading "Please, Ku, you promised" Sora rasped.
Stunned Riku aimed his handgun at Sora's head, his hands shaking "I can't" Riku whispered, "I can't do it!"
"Please, otherwise I'll come back...as one of them."
"...I shoot myself as well, we'll go together."
"You have to live Riku, and you have to live for me and for Kairi."
"But-"
"You can do it."
"No! I can't!"
"You can. I believe you can" Sora's voice was becoming softer. His body shutting down on him.
Riku shook his head "I won't do it!"
"Please."
He looked so small. Sounded so shattered. And Riku couldn't bring himself to just say no "I-I love you, Ra"
"I love you too."
Riku closed his eyes and pulled the trigger.
Axel came up behind him and put a comforting hand on his shoulder "At least you got to say you loved him."
The redhead pulled the gun out of Riku's hands and gave it to Aqua who had her arm around a crying Ven. Aqua walked back inside pulling Riku and Ventus with her, Axel pulled Sora's and Xion's bodies into the garden so the zombies didn't eat them.
Riku left to Kairi's room, he rummaged through one of her draws where he knew she had kept her photo album. He flicked through the pictures, from Kairi with him to Kairi with Sora, Sora with Riku to Kairi with Namine and Xion.
They were all smiling, every time, everyone.
They were all happy, smiling and alive.
Now there were only four of them left.
Riku smiled when he saw the picture of Sora and Kairi standing in their Destiny high uniform on their first day, Riku had taken the picture for them. He had already been at the school for a year so showed them where everything was, at the end of the day he had taken the photo.
More than once Riku had to wipe his eyes. They wouldn't stay dry.
After looking at the album for over an hour Riku decided to get some sleep, but he couldn't. When he closed his eyes he saw Sora asking him to shoot him, heard the gun shot. He had agreed to that promise but had no intension of seeing it to the end. He believed they would both live, that they would both survive.
What had happened to Xion? Was the question burning inside him, he wanted, no, needed to know.
What had happened to turn her into a zombie? How had it happened? How long ago?
Riku knew that he'd never know the answers...becasue he'll never ask.
Ventus was in a spare bedroom hiding under the covers. Aqua was sitting on the bed while Axel sat on a fluffy white arm-chair.
"I'm the last one" Ven's muffled voice came from under the covers, "The last Strife."
"Oh Ven" Aqua sighed, "Don't think like that, please."
"Yeah" Axel agreed, "Now isn't the time to lose our heads, we don't know how long this is going to go on for so we have to at least try to stay alive."
"Axel can you go and get him a drink please?" Aqua asked.
The redhead nodded "Sure."
He walked down a corridor without paying attention to where he was going, he ended up in a metal like tunnel. The smooth, cool metal had been drawn on in a felt tip pen.
'Sora was here' or 'Roxas is awesome' littered the walls along with little doodles. Axel ran his fingers over two stick people, both with spiky hair holding hands, the smaller one was labeled 'Roxas' the taller one was 'Axel'.
Axel stared at Roxas's handwriting for what seemed like hours. The redhead banged hs fists on the wall "Damn it!"
The sound of a door opening made Axel jump and look around. He saw zombies falling over each other trying to get out of a room at the end of the hallway, he removed his hands from the wall and saw a red button. He had pressed it and opened the doors at the end, opening hell on to them all.
He ran. He ran as fast as he could looking for Ven's room or Riku's.
He ran through Kairi's door and pulled Riku's arm from under the bed sheets "Come on dude! We gotta go!" He shouted.
"Why?" Riku mumbled not really awake yet.
"Zombies!"
That woke him up "Let me at those bloody bastards!"
"Riku, think! It's not worth it, now grab a gun and let's go!"
The two teens ran out of the bedroom with pistols in hand, they burst into Ven's room to see that Aqua and Ventus were already gone, there was a headless zombie laying at the foot of the bed.
There was a group of walkers running towards them.
"Run or shoot?" Axel asked backing away with his handgun pointing towards the incoming hord, "Run or shoot?"
"Both!"
They dashed down the hall shooting zombies that got to close for comfort. They headed towards the other side of Xion's mansion but were stopped by another group of zombies. They were surrounded.
"Now what?" Axel asked quietly.
"There's a room just to the left of us, if we stay quiet they might not know we're there!" Riku replied running off. Axel followed him. They locked the door and backed away towards the wall behind them, breathing heavily.
"How many bullets have you got?" Riku asked.
"One, you?"
"One."
"So that's two...is there any ammo in here?" Axel asked rolling his last bullet in his hand.
"No, Xion and I cleaned this place out, there was nothing worth using."
Axel jumped when there was banging on the door "Shit! How do they know we're here?!"
"They can probably smell us...I didn't think about that" Riku sighed, "This is it Axel."
'I'll see you soon, Sora.'
"Your probably right."
'I'm on my way Roxas, wait for me.'
"I'm sorry it's my fault, I should have thought more clearly."
"This was going to happen sooner or later."
The door burst open and Riku raised his gun to his head, pulling the trigger.
Axel copied him, he pulled the trigger when a zombie was only a centimetre in front of him.
In the other side of the house Aqua and Ven were huddled together. And they stayed like that.
The sounds of two gun shots chilling them right to their bones.
One chapter left.