Hetalia ZOMBIE chapter 14
Disclaimer: I don't own Hetalia or any of it's characters or plot
Author's notes: okay I'm going to be picking up the length of the chapter on this one, I won't finish the whole war in one chapter it might take a few chapters but we will see. Also I would like it if I could get over 100 reviews before I finish the war. Mostly because I will have a time skip after this war.
Sounds of War
WHIP! CRACKLE!
"AAHHHH!"
The sounds of a whip broke the silence in the air as hundreds on hundreds of slaves are whipped pulling along carts containing other slaves, the warlord and his commanders, zombies and even the mutants. Their handlers whipping them forcing the slaves to work harder, cries of pain from both men and women from all ages cried as their backs where ruthlessly marred by the cutting pain of the whip scarring their backs.
"Such pathetic creatures" Darakus sighed his six legs tucked behind his back his bare upper body still just as pale despite the deep orange light shining through the windows of his carriage from the setting sun. Darakus just glanced at several slaves in front of him many of which where much too old to do much work. "Eating all these old people taste like stale meat, I want to eat some fresh meat" Darakus sighed.
"Lord Darakus you can't eat any of the capable slaves or we will quickly fall short on workforce" Trevor sighed sitting across from Darakus in the carriage not paying much interest in the fact that there were old and decrepit people lying in front of him, there only for the soul purpose of being meals.
"Fine" Darakus sighed grabbing the closest person near him, and brought the man's arm up to his mouth, but just before he bit the man he stopped.
"What is it Lord Darakus?" Trevor asked noticing Darakus stop prematurly of eating his meal.
"We've got some flies" Darakus sighed looking out the window of his carriage.
On a hill not to far away
"Crap man this is bad" said one male wearing the Combatants colors.
"Is it really the Hunters?" the second asked standing near a patrol jeep where two more men where inside.
"Yeah it is and by the looks of it, it's their entire clan" the first man said dropping his binoculars.
"What! Their entire clan?" the second cried catching the interest of the other two in the vehicle. "What could the possibly want from Sacramento?"
"Well, we did destroy their branch base several months ago" the first Combatant said standing up.
"Oh, right, they're probably here for a little payback aren't they?" the second man said.
"Well if they are, why don't we get out of here and report back to Anthony?" a third man said popping his head out of the vehicle window in the back passengers side.
"Well, there isn't any rush" the second man said.
"Um, actually" the first said as he quickly got to his knees. "I think they spotted us"
"What makes you say that?" the second man said.
"Because I think he's got a...RPG!" the first man cried as he jumped to his feet and dived as an RPG rocket hit a tree nearby sending splinters of wood and shrapnel of the rockets metal coat flying everywhere, several pieces slamming into the first man's back and legs effectively crippling the first man leaving him immobilized on the ground.
"GOOD FREAKIN HELL, JOHNSON GRAB DENIS AND GET HIM IN THE CAR!" a third man cried towards the second man named Johnson, pointing towards their immobilized comrade.
The one named Johnson quickly ran up to his immoblized comrade, and grabbed him by his arms, while the fourth man jumped into the drivers seat and started the car, the third man grabbed an M4 assault rifle and pooked his head back out the window on the rear passengers side to see Johnson dragging Denis towards their vehicle.
VROOM!
the third party looked after hearing seperate engines roaring beyond the slope down towards the Horde of Hunters. The third Combatant looked towards the fourth man who was still fumbling with the keys for the starter of their car.
VRRRROOOOOOMMMMMM!
suddenly several ATV's leapt into the air engines and wheels roaring as the small vehicles carrying individual members from the Hunters Clan each equipped with a small machine pistol or a sub-machine gun.
"GET DOWN!" the third Combatant cried as he fired several shots at the incoming wave of Hunters.
RATATATATATATATATAT.
Four of the some seven Hunters were killed by the desperate spray of bullets, the remaining three attackers quickly redirected themselves away to avoid the one shooting at them.
"Good shooting" the fourth Combatant said as he finally found the right key and started the car. "COME ON GET IN!" the driver cried as the sound of the ATV engines started growing louder as the Hunters were retunring for a second round, likley with more allies.
Meanwhile back at the Horde
"I thought I said silent" Darakus sighed in an irritated tone as sounds of more gunfire echoed through the valley they were traveling in.
(Outside Darakus's personal carriage)
"What's going on?" said one male slave pulling Darakus's carriage. The man has white skin with spiky dark brown hair, and is rather tall standing a little over six feet.
"No idea" responded a female slave. The Female slave has almost pale white skin, with brown eyes and long brown hair pulled into a pony tail. Looking no more than 16 or 18 years old and standing at five feet and ten inches tall she seemed like a strong young girl.
"Why are we even traveling like this anyway? I heard that something big was going to happen in Sacramento but no idea what" said the first slave.
"Again no idea" the female slave replied. "But brother"
"Yes" the male slave replied.
"Many others are saying that there is going to be a big war soon" the female slave said.
"What makes you believe them?" the male slave asked. "You know half these slaves believe that God is going to send them an army of angels to kill Darakus and free us from slavery, and then bring us all into heaven"
"I know" the girl answered. "But I've heard rumors, rumors of something happening in Sacramento that will change the face of this world for time and all eternity"
"What kind of rumors?" the brother asked.
"You know the rumors of the Reapers Clan" the female said.
"Oh, them, yeah I heard all the rumors" the brother answered.
"Did you hear that Sacramento is now considered by many slaver groups to be forbidden territory because of them, and that they made and alliance with Four other strong clans" the sister continued.
"No, I didn't hear much about that, what clans are they now?" the brother asked again.
"You really don't pay much attention do you?" the sister said with an annoyed tone. "They are the Reapers Clan, the Combatants Clan, the STARS Clan, the Black Knights Clan, and the Street Stalkers Clan"
"Those are some interesting names" the brother said.
"Also" the sister began.
"Also, what?" the brother responded.
"I wonder if they found sister" the young girl said her voice clearly expressing her hope.
"I would like to hope so, but you and I know better than most people that miracles don't happen to just anyone, especially after how we lost her" the brother sighed.
"But" the young girl began again. "It's like my soul is yearning for me to escape right now and find these clans, like my freedom is searching for me, all I need to do is find them"
the brother took a moment to think after hearing this, spending the next few minutes in silence as the sounds of gunfire died in the distance, meaning that the ones being chased were successful in getting away or at least getting some distance away. The more the male slave thought on what his sister just said, the more he could feel his soul urging him to do something rather stupid. Suddenly the carriage they were still pulling, and who was inside it seemed almost, obsolete.
"Hey Lux" the brother said.
"Yeah Ned" the girl called Lux answered.
Ned turned his head towards Lux and smiled "Don't forget me" Ned whispered, a shocked look swept across Lux's face when realization hit her.
2 minutes earlier inside the carriage with Darakus and Trevor
The sounds of battle died in the distance either due to the fight being over, or they were well beyond ear-shot, it didn't do anything to calm Darakus's temper at his followers inability to carry out the task with as little noise as possible. Though Trevor doubted he could do much as Darakus was in a foul mood already when hearing the fate of his brother Robert. Trevor held no respect for Robert in general, in his opinion who ever killed him was doing the world a favor, Robert had never been a model slaver if there ever was one, he seemed to be much more interested in his sexual desires than dominating the slaves, Robert's methods for Grabbing new slaves was effective but little to no fun in Trevor's opinion, trevor much preferred doing the grabbing himself, and not hiding as he does it. Darakus on the other hand, he was a natural born leader, leading with fear and strength not to mention being much harder to kill made him an even more optimal leader, though that didn't quench Trevor's interest in taking the clan away when he has the chance, though with how hard it is to kill Darakus Trevor couldn't shake the feeling that he would never get the position. Except in a situation like this, it was possible.
"I will make a meal out of them" Darakus said, though his external composure was seemingly calm, Trevor knew better than he was boiling with rage on the inside.
"Now Lord Darakus, lowering the numbers of your fighters before a big fight isn't going to help us in any way, you know very well who we should be up against, all rumors and theories aside" Trevor said doing his best to keep Darakus in the carriage and not throw a fit outside and damage their efforts to retake Sacramento. Trevor eyed the six spider like legs each the same length of Darakus's body resting comfortably folded behind Darakus, the legs truly frightened Trevor as they were an asset which gave Darakus incredible speed, his climbing ability, and above all else, they were an effective weapon. Trevor had witnessed several fools being impaled effortlessly on the ends of those legs.
"Do not patronize me Trevor, I have heard the rumors, it doesn't matter if the Reapers or any one clan involved in the Sacramento Alliance is responsible for the destruction of my base, I will enslave them all, or eat them" Darakus said with much confidence and resolve almost frightening Trevor at the carelessness that Darakus might be playing this move at.
CRASH!
The carriage came to an abrupt halt, Trevor was thrown out of his seat and sent sprawling along the floor, Darakus however remained in his seat, not fazed physically by the abrupt stop.
BOOM!
A second shock impacted the carriage yeilding the same result as the first, Trevor thrown off his feet, and Darakus seemingly unaffected.
"What are those worthless slaves up to now" Darakus sighed as he got up and left the carriage leaving Trevor to get himself up and dust himself off before following close behind.
After exiting the carriage Trevor looked towards the front where the slaves where pulling the carriage, the long wooden and metal make-shift axel the slaves were using to pull the carriage was run into the ground, the tip of the axel buried deep within the ground and several of the sticks jutting out the side for the slaves to grab onto was broken off. Not far from the axel several men were wrestling with one slave who despite being underfed and hadn't had proper sleep in months was putting up a rather good fight against them. Trevor then looked behind them where a second carriage was carrying a large wooden crate, the crate was broken now and splintered from the impact with the Carriage carrying Darakus. Something moved inside the box, but Trevor already knew what was inside. Darakus didn't seem to care as he walked up towards the slavers and the one slave.
"ENOUGH!" Darakus cried using his six legs swiping at everyone in front of him, sending the slavers and the slave flying and sprawling across the ground. The Slavers quickly regained the balance and got on their feet, Ned however slowly staggered to his feet exhaustion evident in his eyes and body.
"Heh" Ned smiled looking Darakus square in the eyes.
"What's so amusing?" Darakus asked irritation in his voice.
"I (huff) win" Ned sighed before slowly dropping to his knees, the fight completley exhausting him, a couple of slavers walked up to Ned and grabbed him by the arms, some of the others apparently clueless as to what Ned was talking about.
Darakus however quickly caught on. "How noble of you" Darakus said as he squinted in the distance, watching a figure run frantically away from the Caravan of Hunters.
Trevor watched as the figure inside the wooden crate started moving even more as if begging to be let out, Trevor seeing the hinges and the reinforcements of the crate start to give way Trevor quickly stepped away and behind Darakus's carriage as the crate exploded and a Juggernaut jummped out of the wreckage.
"Troublesome fools" Darakus sighed as he heard the Juggernaut break free from it's restraints. Slowly turning around to see Trevor hiding behind his carriage, and the Juggernaut getting on it's feet, followed by Slavers and slaves struggling to get away from the beast. The Juggernaut turned and started swiping at people and even a second crate, but thankfully the second crate was full of food and not another mutant. Darakus had enough. He let his six legs down which effortlessly lifted him up in the air holding him easily six feet off the ground, making Darakus almost nine feet tall. Darakus turned towards the Juggernaut and rushed at it. The Juggernaut saw Darakus coming and took a swipe at him, Darakus however expertly dodged the swipe by leaping into the air, grabbing the Juggernaut by the ear and with strength that would stop a train Darakus slammed the Juggernaut into the ground.
CRASH!
The ground shook as the Juggernaut hit the floor slaves and slavers alike remembering why they feared him so much, the Juggernaut sat up, seemingly unhurt but even more so joining all others in their fear of Darakus. When Darakus set himself on the ground the Juggernaut seemed to just stare at him, Darakus then smiled to himself thinking up something fun.
"You" Darakus turned to Ned.
"What do you want?" Ned responded his hatred for Darakus overtaking his fear of him.
"I'm not going to kill you, I'm not going to eat you either" Darakus began, with both a confused and relieved look on Ned's face. "I am however going to make an example out of you, and to start, I'm going to order this Juggernaut to chase that other slave you let get away, and bring her back when I will make her a personal slave, maybe even a meal" Darakus gave a low evil laugh that sent chills up Ned's spine.
"D-d-don't you d-dare" Ned said horrified that Darakus was taking interest in recapturing his sister activating a form of psycological torture.
"Or you'll what?" Darakus asked challenging the weakened and harmless slave. Ned could only grunt in anger realizing the futility of threatening or trying to bargan with Darakus. Darakus knowing that Ned couldn't respond, he turned back to the Juggernaut. "After her, and bring her back alive"
The Juggernaut quickly brought itself off the ground and with several bounds it took off after Lux.
'Juggernauts are powerful, but with all that bulk it slows them down greatly' Ned thought, 'but Juggernauts still go much faster than humans, and they can keep that speed up for a long time, Lux might have a chance to make it to the city before that thing catches up, and if she does, she just might have a chance.'
"Thinking of her chances?" Darakus asked Ned in a snid tone. "Even if she does escape the Juggernaut, she still has the city of zombies to worry about, and may I remind you that we are starting war with the clans in that city" Darakus said.
"So the rumors were true" Ned spat venomously.
"They usually are" Darakus replied before turning away and towards his men, "Forget my carriage, we need to keep moving"
Ned however was left there still held by two slavers his head only filled with horror and dispair as he could only contemplate the horror he let his sister into.
Meanwhile in the city on a over pass no where near any of the hideouts
Alfred, Matthew, Ivan, Arthur, Ludwig, Feliciano, Vash, Francis, Im Yong Soo, Im Yang Soo, and Gilbert were standing on an overpass, staring down what seemed to be hundreds of members from the other three clans, the Street Stalkers, the Black Knights, and the STARS. on opposite sides of the crowd of clans members were several cages containing zombies. The Reapers were all sporting their new uniform, Black long coats, with a winged reaper stitched onto the back of each coat, underneath they wore different attire of military combat uniform, but the clothing was all dyed black so that they were wearing regular black tee-shirts, dyed black cargo pants, and black combat boots, some of them having random stitches of Reapers on them, but none of the stitches aside from the ones on the coats weren't that noticable.
"Remind me why we are doing this again?" Alfred asked as he stared at a large number of zombies being held in cages.
"Because Anthony asked us to teach the other clans fighters to be as effective in combat as us, and the Combatants" Matthew replied being sucked into this annoying favor that Anthony asked of them.
"What are you all blabbering about, they will never be as AWESOME as me" Gilbert puffed up hitting his chest.
"Yeah, don't go getting too full of yourself Gilbert, as we don't teach, we're just naturals at it, not to mention that, we don't even properly fight half the time, we just goof off" Matthew responded.
Upon hearing this Gilbert immediatly slummped to the ground in a depressed state, "I g-guess" Gilbert sighed almost crying at the sad realization.
"No worries da" Ivan said patting Gilbert on the shoulders, "our dysfunctional mays are probably what make us so good da" Ivan said.
"NO IVAN!" Alfred cried but it was too late, Gilbert was already back on his feet.
"You're right" Gilbert began sticking his nose and chest in the air regaining his arrogant self (hey that's why we all love him right?) "It's not about how proper you can be, it's about how much you can screw around and screw your enemy just as much HAHAHAHAHA!" Gilbert laughed.
"Well, at least the bloke is in good spirits" Arthur sighed.
"But it isn't a very beautiful spirit" Francis joined Arthur in sighing.
"Please tell me that we aren't going to be doing this all day" Ludwig asked almost pleading as an extatic Feliciano was behind him being his usual goofy self annoying the crap out of Ludwig.
"Fortunatley we aren't" Alfred answered relieving Ludwig of his predictions of mental horror.
"Then what will we be doing?" Vash asked.
"Well" Alfred began, but couldn't seem to form a continuing speech.
"You have no idea do you?" Vash asked facepalming.
"No" Alfred slunk to a fetal position looking depressed, "No idea what to do at all"
Matthew sighed, "Let's start with effective ways to fight zombies close quarter, and we will include ways to get them off you". Matthew suddenly found himself in Ivan's, Alfred's, and Francis's arms being bear hugged.
"That's a good idea Mattie" Alfred said almost crying. "You're a genius, and you saved us from a world of embarrassment"
"Not really all that hard" Matthew sighed already wanting to be released from the three's iron hugs.
"Alright, let's get started" Alfred cried earning cheers from the crowd of fighters from the three different clans. "Ludwig, let out a zombie"
"Alright" Ludwig sighed.
"Wait!" one fighter from the Street Stalkers cried.
"Yes, the creepy one in the front" Alfred said without any tact at all.
"What? Creepy? Anyway, I was wondering, shouldn't you be restraining the zombie before you let it out?" the man asked.
"I believe in being as realistic as possible" Alfred gave a cocky thumbs up as Ludwig let out the first zombie.
AAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHH!
The zombie charged at Alfred it's arms outstretched and it's mouth wide open.
"No I don't want a kiss" Alfred said as he turned his attention to the zombie and pulled out his bat his eyes gleeming with excitment.
CRACK!
A sickening crack echoed as Alfred scored a direct hit on the zombies head, the zombie collapsed to the ground twitching.
"WHAT WHY AREN'T YOU DEAD!" Alfred cried stepping up to the zombie and proceeded to smash it several times more with his bat.
"I don't know if he is teaching, or just having fun smashing zombies" Matthew thought outloud.
"Just let him do what he's doing" Arthur sighed not wanting to be the one teaching.
"Did everyone see that?" Alfred called to the other clans earning some nods and some confused looks.
"Alright Lidwig, time to let some more out" Alfred called to Ludwig to nodded in response.
"What? Who for?" another person asked.
"Why, for you guys of course" Alfred smiled.
"WHAT ARE YOU INSANE, YOU HAVEN'T EVEN TAUGHT US ANYTHING!" the group yelled.
"I believe in hands on experience" Alfred said much to the horror of everyone else.
The zombies poured out of the first cage picking a random person out of the crowd and started chasing them around.
"Oh, now this is sad" Alfred began. "COME ON, YOU WON'T LEARN ANYTHING JUST BY RUNNING AWAY!"
"BUT WE DON'T HAVE A WEAPON!" one of the chased clans members cried.
"Kick Them In The Balls!" Matthew cried in a bored tone.
"YOU SERIOUS!" One man yelled in disbelief.
"They have a working nervous system, if they have a working nervous system, then they should be able to feel extreme pain" Matthew responded.
One man actually got the courage to stop turn around and give it a try. "Alright, here's goes my life" the man said as he wound up his leg and swung, the zombie did nothing to stop the kick as the kick slammed straight into the creature's testicle area. Adreniline making time seem slowler, the man who kicked the zombie saw that in time that it didn't work. "YOU LIE!"
"That's a female you moron, she doesn't have balls" Matthew responded.
"Oh" the man said in realization. "WELL, WHAT'S A FEMALE ZOMBIE'S WEAKNESS!"
"You're not groping her" Matthew sighed.
"WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT'S WHAT I WAS HOPING FOR!" the man cried dodging the zombies swipe.
"Because I can see it in your eyes" Matthew replied not being too serious about the whole deal.
"LLIIEESS!" the man cried.
"I don't know, I usually shoot female zombies, um, insult her make up" Matthew said.
"HOW WOULD THAT WORK!" the man cried.
"If it doesn't, I'm stumped" Matthew said giving up.
"Fine, YOU LOOK OLD AND UGLY" the man cried desperatly dodging another attempt by the female zombie to grab him. The man ran a few feet and looked back but stopped as he noticed the zombie wasn't chasing him anymore, the zombie was right where he left it, but on it's knees hiding it's face.
"Seriously da?" Ivan looked shocked.
"That really worked?" Matthew looked surprised and a little proud of himself. But when he saw the zombie hiding her face he almost felt sorry for her, almost.
"I can't believe that worked" the man gasped as he was free of the zombie trying to eat him.
"Indeed it did" Alfred said as he walked up and hit the zombie square in the back of the head killing it instantly.
"I somehow feel much better now" Matthew said.
"I (huff) hate (puff) you" the man gasped at Matthew.
"Meh" Matthew replied not really caring.
A second man decided to try it.
"YOU LOOK UGLY!" the man cried at the female zombie, but however the zombie either didn't care or its mind was too far gone to comprehend what he said because unlike the first, it didn't react.
"Okay" Matthew said slightly intruged, "it only works on some zombies"
"HELP ME!" the man cried as the zombie seemed to be gaining on him, as he got tired from trying to stay away so long.
Alfred just held out his bat, "Take this and kill it yourself you pansy".
"THANK-YOU!" the man cried as he sntached the bat out of Alfred's hands and turned to see the zombie rushing at him. "DIE!" he cried as the second man started beating the life out of the zombie.
"IT'S GOING TO EAT ME!" a third man cried as he desperatley held off a male zombie from biting him.
"Like need a hand?" Feliks walked up towards the two.
"YES PLEASE!" the third man cried expecting help.
"I don't give my hands to men" Feliks said earning a round of confusion and disgust from some. "I give a foot" Feliks said as he wound up his foot and canned the zombie square in the testicles.
BONG!
the zombie grabbed it's testicular area and looped off the third man, groaning in immense pain.
"That was just cold da" Ivan said looking rather pained as if he could feel the zombies pain. However that look was short lived as a fourth man from the Street Stalkers ran by with a zombie right behind him. Ivan stuck out his hand grabbing the zombie by the head and with full force slammed the head into the ground. The zombie twitched as Ivan slammed it's brain into the ground but wasn't fully finished. "And squish" Ivan narrated as he brought down his heel on the side of the zombies held, it's brains bursting out of a crack in the zombie's skull created by the force of Ivan's stomp.
"SO COOL!" a group of clans members not being chased admired Ivan's effort.
"Well Ivan-san, you now have a fanclub" Kiku sighed rather annoyed that they were here to begin with, and not at all interested in the attention they were getting.
"I want a fanclub aru" Yao said pouting with jealousy.
"Yao-san" Kiku said pulling his chines.e friend towards him and looked him seriously in the eye and waved a hind slowly in front of Yao's face. "You do not want a fanclub"
"I do not want a fanclub aru" Yao responded as if in a trans.
"WHY DO YOU GET JEDI POWERS!" Alfred cried.
"We're not being serious Alfred-san" Kiku said.
"We're not being serious Alfred aru" Yao said.
"I hate you two" Alfred growled at being fooled.
"Hey, Alfred, what can we do?" Im Yong Soo and Im Yang Soo asked simultaneously.
"Um, go, have a party somewhere" Alfred sighed not all that interested in dealing with the two brothers.
The two Koreans then slinked off disappointed at how little they were wanted or needed.
It wasn't much longer until all the remaining free zombies where killed.
"Well, that's wasn't all that interesting" Alfred sighed. "Matthew your plan didn't work"
"What are you talking about brother" Matthew growled. "You didn't even have a plan to begin with, and I didn't tell you to release all those zombies, you're the one who said "I believe in hands on experience" right?"
"I hate it when you have a come back" Alfred sighed.
"Well what now?" Vash asked as he watched the groups of clans members mixed feelings of irritation, admiration, and interest mixed within the crowd of the other three clans.
CRASH!
the overpass shook as the unseen Juggernaut chasing a distressed Lux collided with one of the support pillars of the overpass. The whole overpass shook sending everyone off their feet.
"WHAT IN THE BLOODY HE-" Arthur began.
"LANGUAGE MY DEAR ARTHUR!" Francis cried being his cheerful creepy parent self despite being upside down.
"Ow" Alfred said rubbing hi head as his vision cleared and saw that he was lying flat on the ground.
"BROTHER LOOK OUT!" Alfred heard Matthew yell as he saw out of the corner of his eye a zombie leaping at him.
"Oh, boy" Alfred gasped as he reached out and managed to grab the zombie by it's collar and with one foot on its chest, he managed to keep it off of him, but since it leapt at him, and he was holding the core of it's body with his leg, the xombie was now off the ground. Alfred watched as the zombie's mouth gapped wide open eager to take a bite out of him. "GO AWAY!"
Alfred threw the zombie off of him, and it flew past the railings and fell to the streets below, a sickening crunch and splat was soon heard afterward.
"HA" Alfred punched the air in triumph. "I'M NOT THAT EASY, EVEN IF I AM LAYING DOWN YOU PERVERTED ZOMBIE!" Alfred cried.
"You have quite the imagination da" Ivan sighed.
"Can it Ivan, by the way where did that zombie fro-GAH!" Alfred cried as he saw the remaining zombies all smashed and dead on the street the wreckage of the cages strewn about, the shaking of the overpass broke the cages freeing the zombie forcing the Reapers to kill them all. Alfred turned his attention to the other clans who were eyeing the other Reapers stars gleaming in their eyes.
"SO COOL!" they cried. Alfred could only guess that the other Reapers had made quick and interesting work of the zombies.
"By the way, what caused that tremor?" Alfred asked.
"No idea" Vash replied.
"AAAAHHHHHHHH!" a screamed echoed.
"QUIET WE'RE TALKING HERE!" Alfred yelled to silence whoever was yelling.
"LET GO OF ME YOU BIG BRUTE!" everyone heard the voice again, but it wasn't the reply they were expecting.
"Not exactly the reply I was expecting" Alfred sighed.
"Alfred-san, that's coming from the streets below" Kiku said as he walked over toward the edge and looked over. "SWEET KAMIKAZE!" Kiku screamed as he jumped back and tripped falling to the ground before scrambling back onto his feet, after regaining his balance he inched forward to look again back over the edge.
"Kiku, what is it aru?" Yao asked frightened at the Japanese man's shocking reaction.
Kiku by this time was looking back over the edge and just staring. "It's a Juggernaut" Kiku said.
"WHAT NO WAY!" Alfred cried in excitement as he got up and rushed towards the edge. "It is"
The Juggernaut some how didn't seem to notice them even though some of them were screaming, he seemed primarily focused on the thing in his hands, which Alfred quickly noticed, is a young girl. The young girl had long brown hair wrapped in a ponytail, and from where they were standing Alfred could only guess that she was only a teenager, however what amused Alfred the most was that the Juggernaut seemed to be acting like King Kong when he got his hands on a beautiful girl, he was holding her, and seemed to be playing with her momentarily, before it started to carry her off towards the edge of the city.
"First you play with your food, then you take it back to the cave to eat, what a guy" Alfred narrated sarcasticlly.
"Should we help her?" Vash asked not seemingly concerned about the girls saftey, he had spent too much time with the Reapers, their careless, and carefree attitude has already corrupted him.
"I don't know, I don't feel like dealing with a bloody Juggernaut, and it doesn't look like it's noticed us" Arthur commented.
"Ah, but it would have been so nice to have another girl in our clan" Francis sighed.
"Shut up pedophile" Alfred snapped, earning a wink from Francis. "You are the devil"
"ALRIGHT, STAND BACK!" Im Yong Soo and Im Yang Soo cried as the stepped up to the edge of the overpass, with two RPG's, one for each of them.
"Oh, and what are you planning to do with that?" Ludwig asked somewhat intruged.
"Oh, just make a huge meat fountain" Yong Soo and Yang Soo said simultaneously.
"Wait! What about the gir-" Vash didn't get a chance to finish when.
"FIRE IN THE HOLE!" Yong Soo and Yang Soo cried at the same time shooting their RPGs.
WHIZ! BOOM!
Both RPGs found their mark in the Juggernaut's back, the Juggernaut was thrown forward several feet, crashing into the ground, the girl let go and sent sprawling seemingly unconcious. The Juggernaut however is still alive and got back onto it's feet, but the RPGs took out huge chunks of its back making standing rather awkward for the zombie tank. But it seemed to favor crawling as it rushed at the overpass.
"AW CRAP!" one fighter from the Black Knights freaked. "WE DON'T HAVE WEAPONS, WE CAN'T FIGHT A JUGGERNAUT WITHOUT GUNS!"
"No worries" Alfred said smiling as he held up his Shotgun.
"WHERE'D YOU GET THAT!" One man yelled.
"YOU'VE HAD A FIREARM ON YOU THE ENTIRE TIME!" another screamed.
"Well, duh" Alfred replied. "We're in a zombie appocalypse, the first rule is KEEP A SHOTGUN WITH YOU AT ALL TIMES!"
The overpass shook as the Juggernaut grabbed onto the pillars of the overpass and started climbing up.
"GAH, WE'RE GONNA DIE!" a third clan member screamed.
"No we're not" Alfred pouted.
"OF COURSE WE ARE!" the same man cried. "WE ONLY HAVE ONE GUN AND YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY KILL A JUGGERNAUT WITH JUST A SHOTGUN!"
"Well, that is only partially true" Alfred said.
"IN WHAT WAY AM I WRONG!" the same man cried back.
"There's more than one gun here" Alfred pointed towards the rest of the Reapers Clan. Who in turn had their personal weapons shouldered.
"WAIT, THEN WHY DID WE COME WITHOUT WEAPONS!" a fourth man cried.
"Because you're all idiots" Alfred sighed.
"BUT YOU SAID -" the fourth man continued but was intereupted by Alfred.
"We didn't tell you anything, it was your own asumtions, and Anthony from the Combatants who told you to not expect the need of weapons." Alfred explained.
the rest of the other three clans went dead silent, at a loss for things to complain about. The overpass shook more violently as the Juggernaut neared the top of the overpass.
"Ah, he's here" Alfred said as he turned to see the Juggernaut's right hand appear from the side of the overpass.
"AH, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" the other clans returned to screaming.
"Up close and personal, just the way I like it" Alfred said as the Juggernaut's head appeared, it's eyes burning with anger, and mouth wide open, and large enough to swallow five people whole. "Say hello to my little friend" Alfred held out his shotgun with one hand pointing it directly at the Juggernaut's eyes.
BLOOM!
Alfred fired the shotgun, the bullets pierced through the Juggernaut's soft eyes and it ripped through the Juggernaut's skull shredding anything inside appart. The Juggernaut stopped moving after that one shot. The Juggernaut held onto the overpass for a few more seconds before finally death getting the better of it and it let go. A resounding thud echoed across the overpass and in the block nearby as the Juggernaut hit the pavement.
"And that, is how you kill a Jugg-" Alfred began to act cool until.
"FIRE IN THE HOLE!" Yong Soo and Yang Soo cried with Yong Soo throwing a block of C4 that they happened to have on hand.
BBOOOOMM!
the C4 landed on the Juggernaut, Yang Soo flipped the switch required to set off the explosive, and the Juggernaut to say the least was disintegrated.
"HEADS UP!" Ludwig cried as bits of Juggernaut started raining down. Everyone started dodging left and right some hiding under cars, Arthur used Francis as an umbrella. Ludwig used a pile up of cars as a over hanging shield, Matthew and Alfred hid underneath a large truck, Feliciano, and a couple others hid behind a lamp post which proved to be effective, at least for Feliciano it was, because the others where hit randomly with a flying piece of Juggernaut.
"Hopefully the Juggernaut doesn't have any unmentionables flying anywhere" Alfred thought.
"Why's that?" Matthew asked.
"Because" Alfred began pointing at Francis. "I dread on trying to predict on how he will react."
"You're right, it would be hard to tell what he will do if he was hit by that 'thing'" Matthew agreed.
"You two have a wild imagination da" Ivan said apparently sharing a car with them.
After all the pieces which weren't that many, and thankfully there wasn't a blood shower to follow, everyone emerge relatively unscathed. Alfred however was repremanding the Korean brothers.
"WHY DID YOU TWO DO THAT!" Alfred cried doing his best to scold the two.
"But we were bored, there was no where to hold a good party, plus we wanted to blow something up" they said in unison which reminded Kiku of the twins in the Oruan High School Host Club manga that he read one time.
"Brothers with too much time on their hands, are the devil" Kiku said.
"Well, now that that's overwith" Ludwig cut in. "Let's go see how that girl is doing, if she didn't die from the explosion or the flying Juggernaut bits"
Everyone nodded in agreement as they went down to see if they could find the girl and see if she was sill alright. After several minutes of searching, Alfred found her behind a garbage can looking almost traumatized.
"Guys I Found Her!" Alfred called getting everyones attention. "You alright?" Alfred asked as the remaining Reapers gathered.
The girl seemed to snap out of her trauma as she heard Alfred's voice, she saw his hand reaching down to her to pull her up, which she cautiously accepted, which caught the attention of the Reapers as they saw her hesitation.
"What's your name kid?" Alfred asked.
This however seemed to strike a nerve in the young girl. "I'M NOT A KID, I'M 17 YOU KNOW!" the girl cried.
"Ah, okay" Alfred said withdrawing his hand as he saw the girl was okay. "Then what is your name?" Alfred repeated the question.
"Uh" the girl seemed to hesitate when Alfred asked the question.
"Don't worry da, we aren't slavers da" Ivan said with his big usual smile which seemed to give the girl confidence.
Everyone gave Ivan a quick look of surprise that, he was able to see what her hesitation and understand it, recognizing that the girl hadn't been in much good company for a long period of time.
"Um, my name is Lux" Lux answered.
"And we're you from Lux?" Matthew asked.
"Um," Lux seemed to hesitate again.
"You were a slave up until a little while ago weren't you?" Vash said.
"Yes" Lux answered.
"Which slave clan did you escape from?" Ludwig asked her.
"Um, the Hunters" Lux answered.
"The Hunters!" Alfred exclaimed at the familiarity of the clan.
"Yes, I just escaped from the Hunters, my brother caused a distraction so I could escape, but of course he didn't get away. ALSO" Lux said catching the Reapers attention. "I need to find the Reapers, I have some important information to tell them" Lux said in a desperate tone.
"Ve, You're looking for the Reapers?" Feliciano asked clarifying if he heard her right. Everyone was wanting to ask the same thing, afterall they wondered what would make them so important that she would escape a slave clan to find them.
"Well, you're looking at the Reapers da" Ivan said.
"Really!" Lux almost cried in excitement as Ivan said that they were the clan she was looking for.
"That we are Lux, We are the Reapers Clan" Alfred said slooking proud of himself.
"PROVE IT!" Lux yelled not believing that she had found them so easily, but to be more precise they found her.
All of them turned around to show Lux the Winged Reaper stitched onto the backs of their coats.
"You guys are the Reapers" Lux said in slow realization that it was true that she did find them.
"Yup, now what did you want to tell us" Alfred asked.
"Um" Lux hesitated.
an hour later after returning to their hide out
"ANTHONY DID YOU HEAR!" Alfred cried over the radio.
"AH, ALFRED IT'S YOUSE!" Anthony cried on the other side.
"THE HUNTERS ARE COMING TO FIGHT US!" Alfred yelled.
"THE HUNTERS ARE COMING TO FIGHT US!" Anthony yelled as well.
"Wait?" Alfred quickly became confused. "How did you know?"
"Well" Anthony began. "Some of my men partolling along the outskirts of the city spotted the convoy of Hunters heading towards Sacramento, they then came under attack, two of my men are greatly wounded but, they will survive, the other two were injured but they were able to fight off the Hunters chasing them."
"Oh, that's good" Alfred sighed with relief. "Oh, how many Hunters do they think there is, I have an escaped slave from the Hunters and she tells me the whole Clan has come to wage war on us" Alfred explained.
"THE WHOLE CLAN!" Anthony exclaimed.
"Yeah, that's what she said" Alfred replied worried about Anthony's outburst. "What's wrong with that?"
"The Hunters clan is the largest Slave clan in the whole region, my men told me possible roughly around a thousand Hunters Clan members is what they could say with little doubt, but if what she said is true that the entire Hunters clan has come out to meet us, we are looking anywere between two to three THOUSAND Hunters, including their zombies, and any mutants they may have tamed." Anthony explained.
"That's a lot" Alfred said now growing worried, he knew that they were used to fighting numbers much greater than theirs, but that was a huge number. "How many fighters can we muster up in total with the Sacramento Alliance?" Alfred asked.
"Let's see" Anthony began silently counting, "You guys have roughly twenty-five to thirty fighters, and that's including people like Elizabeta who won't be fighting as she has to take care of her daughter, my clan has a hundred strong fighters, the Street Stalkers, have 92 fighters, the STARS have 42 fighters, and the Black Knights have 123 fighters" Anthony summed up. "That would bring our total numbers to roughly 382 fighters. 382 fighters against an army of 2 to 3 thousand slavers is a harsh disadvantage" Anthony said.
"True, but what choice do we have" Alfred sighed.
"None" Anthony replied. "But you and I know better than anyone else Alfred, Sacramento is our home, and we aren't going to give it up all because we have a losing war on our hands"
Alfred and Anthony finished talking, Anthony left to go prepare his clan and inform the other three clans. Alfred left the radio room, to find everyone else in the Reapers clan save for Lux, who was isolated in the infirmary with Eduard, waiting for him to tell them the news.
"Well, brother?" Matthew asked, seeming to know what the answer was, but needed to hear it himself.
"What Lux said was true" Alfred sighed. "The entire Hunters clan is coming to wage war on us, Anthony tells me that the Hunters have anywhere between 2 to 3 thousand fighters"
"Over two thousand fighters" Roderich said almost in disbelief.
"So, we are outmanned, outgunned, and without much to help us in fighting them" Kiku said. "Alfred-san, what do we do?"
"Kiku" Alfred said looking down at the floor. "I'm not the official leader of this clan, it's only because I'm the one with the boldest ideas and always the one to take inicitave to do things no matter how right or wrong they may be, I don't have the right to tell you all to do anything in this situation"
"You're wrong da" Ivan said, Alfred lifted his head in surprise. "You may not be the official leader, but you are the one who lead us to this point. You have your head full of hamburgers, and fries, not to mention you can think of nothing beyond trying to be a hero. But truth is Alfred, heroes or not, we aren't giving up our home da" Ivan finished.
"Guys" Alfred looked around to see smiles and nods of approval from everyone else. Alfred felt his heart swell with happiness, and he no longer felt any doubt in his mind about what they were going to do, suicide mission or not. "Alright everyone, prepare everything we have, weapons, ammo, maps, books on traps, I don't care what, anything to prepare for the Hunters. They want War, well, WE WILL GIVE THEM HELLLLL!"
"AAAAHHHHHHH!" the entire Reapers clan cried in approval as they dispersed to prepare for their fight with the Hunters clan.
"Heroes or not" Alfred said to himself as he watched everyone else disperse. "History for our clan, and for the future that we all seek, starts now".
Authors notes: WWAAAA SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG, PREPARING FOR UNI SUCKS! Anyway, I added a twist to the whole story, I have two new characters in here, of course they are Ned and Lux, but I challenge everyone to guess who they are, their names are a hint as to who they are. I am eagerly awaiting the reviews, and I'm hoping to get over 100 reviews before I post up the next chapter. And as a reward for the one or two people who guess the two new characters right, will give an idea that I will do my best to include in the next chapter.
PLEASE REVIEW, it is a motivation for me, so PLEASE!