AN: Mathew Yan- My last story had a small amount of gore any the occasional vulgar language so that's why I put it as M rated. As for this story; it has blood, gore, vulgar language, cannibalism, murder. Its basically the most 'M' it can get.

Septorex- What I plan to happen will happen. I'm not saying Ram will be dead by the end and I'm also not saying she'll be alive by the end. All I'm saying is that only time will tell.

Tyler- Glad you like it lol.

Thanks to my main man JDUBZ! The man, the myth, the legend.

Chapter 3: Realization

April 27, 2015

2:33am

Subaru gasped loudly, sitting up in his bed. He started to take deep, shaky breaths, his chest rising and falling in an uneven rhythm. The first thing he did was check the time. What he saw, strangely, didn't surprise him. Next, he called his parents. Neither of them answered. This scared him more than it had before. The same went with 9-1-1, nothing. He let the phone drop from his hand and onto the floor. He stared at the ceiling for what seemed like forever, listening to sounds at the front door.

Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!

Subaru did nothing as the banging continued on and on. Sweat poured down his forehead and seeped into his pillow as he tried to collect his thoughts. What that nightmare was...it was no nightmare. I had become one of them.

It was all too real to him. The fighting, the screaming, the gore, and everything about the...the people, it was too real. He truly felt the aching sadness in himself when he watched himself attack his friends. It had nearly made him go mad just knowing he could've killed other people. It was all too real. Too real. Too real.

Subaru could still feel the ripping of his flesh from his first 'nightmare' and the penetration of the bullet into his skull in his last 'nightmare'. Nightmare, nightmare, nightmare…...they're not nightmares.

How could they be? Never had he felt physical pain from a dream. But now he has. Was it even possible for the pain and suffering he'd gone through in these 'nightmares' to transfer to his own real body? The others had felt so life-like he couldn't tell where he was. Perhaps, this was a dream too?

Slowly, Subaru moved his arm to his cheek and pinched himself. When nothing happened he applied for pressure u til he drew blood. He stopped due to the pain and looked at the blood that was on his finger nails. Placing a hand to the wound he found that he had indeed managed to break through his skin.

So...I'm not asleep.

The banging at the front door, the time, the fact that his parents wouldn't answer their phones, and the emergency lines were always busy, they all happened every time he woke up. And every time he woke up, it was because he died. Every time I die...I come back here.

Subaru rubbed his eyes, he didn't understand what was happening, but whatever it was, he was stuck in an endless loop of dying and suffering. But still, Subaru had doubts about the possibility of him having the power of time travel through resurrection. What did I do to deserve this? To Subaru, this wasn't a blessing, but a curse. He was forced to relive this same moment every time he died. It just wasn't fair.

Subaru finally got out of bed. He walked over to his room window, looking outside towards the front, he saw two figures emerge from the shadows and make their way towards the front door. A blank look was on his face as he followed the figures until they disappeared from sight. He flinched as he heard the people bang on the door harder and harder.

Bang! Flinch.

Bang! Flinch.

Bang! Flinch.

Subaru did nothing as he heard the door from across the house start to crack and snap.

2:50am

No…. I'm not going to die.

Deciding that he wasn't going to just give up, Subaru marched his way to his parents room. The door began to crack more and it finally broke when Subaru reached his parents closet. Relying on his previous….memories, Subaru grabbed the metal bat where he had found it in his previous loop. He shut his eyes when he found it. It all already happened.

"RAAAAAHHHHHGGGAAA!"

The three people finally broke through the door for the third time, except this time Subaru was ready. He stepped out of the room as they went into the kitchen. Seeing there bloody wounds and disgusting features once again frightened Subaru, but he knew what to do in a sense. The purple veins, were still visible on their skin. Some sort of infection, it must be. Subaru thought that whatever was making these people crazy was because of a virus or infection that spread through..saliva? Whatever the means were, getting bitten was a way to get infected.

So, are they zombies? Is this really happening?

It was all too surreal, but he felt he'd already been through this enough times to figure out that these people every right to be called zombies. They ate other living people but their own, they had no reasoning to them, and they seemed to only act animalistically with no sort of knowledgeable human qualities to them.

He'd played many zombie survival games, but no game could compare to the real thing. In his virtual world, he could slay waves upon waves of the undead without breaking a sweat. But now that he was here and in actual danger of dying a painful death he could ignore the fear inside him that made him hesitate.

"Rrrraaaaggggghh."

The sound he'd recently grown to fear was closer than he'd like. Slowly, one of the zombies, the bloody one, stumbled into his parents room and cocked its head around as if listening for anything. Raising the bat, he tried to summon the courage to kill him. This thing was evil. Just looking at it he knew it had killed someone already. Someone innocent had lost their life to this monster, and Subaru had a chance to avenge them.

However, he still couldn't bring the bat down. He was scared, not only of this person but also the thought of taking a life. He'd never though got in his entire life he'd have to kill someone.

This isn't a person. This isn't a person. I have to kill it or it'll just go and kill someone else.

Subaru told himself this over and over again in his head. He knew he had to do it, but no matter how bad he thought gf the monster he couldn't bring himself to just bring down the bat and end it's life.

After what seemed like an eternity, the zombie decided to listen elsewhere and walked away. At this, Subaru lowered the bat. He watched the monster go around the corner and out of sight.

Scared, Subaru fell to his knees. He used the bat to balance himself as he silently started to weep. This all too much. Before, he was confused and had no idea as to what was happening, but now that he knew and was fully aware of the situation he felt he couldn't win. He weeped selfish tears as he asked himself why this was happening to him. Was he expected to survive in this world? He could barely even handle high school. How was he expected to beat this? Or better yet, was he even supposed to beat this or was this his pesonal Hell? Had he died already and was sent back to relive this memory since he failed to do anything worthwhile when he was alive?

"No."

This was all too crazy. These thoughts in his head were stretching too far from what was understandable to what was just flat out crazy. While a small part of him was still skeptical about his power to reset time when he died, he felt it was the only thing bringing him further into this world. His current ability to see what had happened in his previous 'attempts' allowed his to live this far. He had a clean slate and a desire to live. He was anted nothing more than to be safe, but he knew he couldn't go out on the streets. He'd seen the chaos and knew that some zombies were out there waiting to intercept him at some point.

Subaru wiped his nose and cleaned up the tears at the corners of his eyes, wondering what he should do next. This was truly a nightmare come true.

In his own words, "I'm in some deep shit now."

Slowly, Subaru used the bat as leverage to get up onto his feet. He needed to figure something out, but for now he didn't want to be interrupted. He quietly made his way across the room and very slowly closed the door. As he did so he clenched his teeth harder with every inch. And when one of the hinges squeaked just as he was just about done it felt like a bomb had gone off.

"Gahhh..."

Subaru heard one of the zombies make a noise and slowly start to make its way to the door. Just when it reached the door am bumped into it, Subaru had already closed it and backed up a couple feet. The zombie scratched its nails against the door, feeling the wooden surface before moving along to a different part of the house.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Subaru sneaked his way into the closet.

Next he tried calling Emilia. Nothing. Rem. Nothing. Otto. Nothing. Garfiel. Nothing.

No one answered. Frustrated with the outcome, Subaru growled to himself. He had no contact with anybody. He was alone.

The silence was deafening within the confineds of the closet. The darkness was comforting, sheltering his vision from the horrors that walked around only a few feet from where he was. He wanted nothing more than to stay there, but knew he couldn't. He had to find somewhere safer and collect himself. He needed time to think. He had to find his parents himself somehow despite not knowing where they even went. Then it hit him on where to go.

Rem. Her neighborhood was free of these zombies.

If there were no zombies in her neighborhood then that would mean he would be safe there for the night. All he had to do was to safely make it there... Unlike last time. I hope Rem doesn't mind me popping in unannounced.

Slowly, Subaru opened the door and made sure the coast was clear. The door was still closed so it was safe to assume nothing had gotten in yet. He could hear the groans of the zombies coming from different parts of the house.

Subaru opened the window that let to the back and took the bat with him. A gust of fresh air hit him, as if congratulating him for his efforts on staying alive this far.

3:04am

Subaru opened up the back gate of his backyard that led to a thin gravel path, closed in with a vine covered wall. He turned left, making his way towards Rem's house. On the way were other gates that led to other backyards, but they were locked of course. A few houses down, a zombie reached through the bars of the gate, trying to get Subaru.

"Oh shit!" he involuntarily shouted when the zombie screamed out of nowhere. Subaru recognized him as the same zombie that bit him in the previous loop. He shimmied around the zombie's reach with his back pressed against the wall. The fingers brushed his cheek as he went by. Ahhhhhh….

When Subaru made it to the other side of the arms he let out the air he had been holding. "Phew…." He laughed a little, what else could he do in a situation like this? "That, hehe, was something."

He continued down the path until he hit a dead end. A brick wall stood in his way, almost as high as the vine covered wall.

"Can't anything just go my way for once." He tried the gate next to him, but it was locked. He would have tried to climb it, but the pointed tips of the bars didn't look too inviting. He turned and looked at the vine wall, "Think you can support this?" He pointed to himself. "Well we're about to find out." He grabbed hold of one of the thicker vines.

The vines were twisted together tightly so I wasn't any real problem grabbing places to hold. The only problem was the strength of them. As soon as Subaru was hanging onto the vines with all his weight, they began to weigh down, threatening to break. OK, nice...and slow.

Subaru slowly climbed his way to the top, at halfway he only had 5 more feet to go. The vines at the top started to rub against the hard edges of the wall it was on and snap. At 7 feet up, Subaru began to notice the vines were snapping at an alarming rate. This made him forget about being careful and quickly climb to the top. When the vines broke, Subaru lunged at the top, his fingertips barely caught the top of the wall.

"Ggguuuuuuuhhhhhh." Straining his fingers, Subaru held on for dear life. He was able to throw his other arm up and grab the top of the wall. Ooooo, this sucks. He used his feet to climb the wall until he was able to lay at the top. He panted from his efforts of climbing the wall, and rested.

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"

The scream of terror almost made Subaru fall off the wall, but he caught himself before he did.

The scream came from the house that he was next to.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! STOP IT! AHHHHH!" The scream was a woman, it sounded as if she was in trouble. From the back window, a chair came smashing through it. Subaru watched as a woman in a night dress stepped through the window and into the backyard. She was scared, terrified, and screaming her head off.

The woman screamed when a big man in overalls came running out of the window too, but he tripped on the ledge and fell face first into the glass. "Harold! Stop this!" The large man, who could only be Harold, got up, his face was embedded with pieces of glass. His skin was pale with purple veins. He must've turned while defending the house

Blood dripped down Harold's mouth as he regarded the woman with clear, bloodshot eyes, filled with rage and hunger. Harold got to his feet and roared at the woman, his mouth and teeth coated in blood. "RRRAAAAGGHHHHH!"

Subaru couldn't just sit back and watch this woman get killed, so he stood up from his spot and balanced his way over to the top of the brick wall. By this time, Harold was already on top of the woman, she was fending him off, but his strength was quickly overpowering her.

Subaru made it to the top of the brick wall and jumped down into the backyard.

"Harold, please!"

"RRRAAAHHHHH!"

Subaru looked around to find a weapon, he needed something now, no time to go inside and look for a knife. His eyes rested on a good sized pot that held a shrub and soil in it. Good enough.

Subaru grabbed it by the top and ran to the struggling couple. It was too heavy to swing like a bat so he came up with another solution. He set the pot down and jumped at the side of the walker. He kicked both his feet into the side of him, pushing him off of the woman. She instantly started to crawl away on terror.

Subaru saw that the woman escaped so he retreated back to his potted plant. The walker got up as well, his eyes fixed on Subaru now. Standing up, the walker was easily a foot feet taller than him.

"RRRRAAAAHHHHGGGHH!"

Subaru picked up the pot and waited for the walker to charge. When it did, Subaru was ready. The walker was only a foot away when Subaru heaved the pot up and slammed it into the walker's chin, jerking his head back. The walker fell to the floor, motionless. Subaru dropped the pot, and walked towards the woman who was shaking in fear. Her hair was unkempt, puffing up as if she had just gotten out of bed. Her eyes darted everywhere as if she was afraid everything around her. Her legs were tucked under her and her hands were at her chest as she cowered in the corner of the yard. When Subaru approached her she looked at him with fearful eyes.

"Are you OK?"

Tears fell from her eyes as she asked Subaru, "Why…...why did my Harold attack me?"

Subaru bent down to her level, "Well in not exactly sure myself. An infection maybe, but whatever it is, it's spreading. Other people are getting it and I'm not sure how much longer we have before more of them show up." He tried to gently take her hand, but she jerked it from him. Subaru took as a sign to back off, "I'm sorry. I need you to trust me. You can't stay here, please follow me. I'll take you somewhere safe." Subaru didn't want to leave this poor woman, leaving her behind just wasn't human to Subaru.

That was when he saw it, the wound in her arm. The arms shed jerked back had what appeared to be bleeding teeth marks. And from the wound came small purple lines that slowly stretched out to cover other areas of her body.

"No….." The woman's nose began to leak mucus as she stared at Subaru. "You said that it an infection, right?" She lifted her own arm to look at the wound.

Subaru heard more of the walkers groan from somewhere inside the house, "Raaaaahhggggg…."

"Then that means I'm going to turn into something like my husband, right?" Hot tears began to fall from her eyes as she suddenly realized her fate. Doomed to become something horrible.

Subaru wanted to say something to reassure her. "Maybe you won't turn. I'm not entirely sure how it works so please just come with me so we can figure this out.

He looked through the broken window of the house and saw the silhouette of someone that had turned. Her screaming must have attracted him. He whispered to the woman, "We have to go now. They're already here."

"Grrraaaahhhh…" Harold the walker groaned. He threw his body over to face the two survivors on the ground. He extended a grisly hand towards them, "Raaaggghhhhhh…."

The woman looked up at the monster, a tinge of hope in her voice, "Harold?"

Harold got to his feet, as did Subaru, pulling up the woman with him. He kept a tight hold of the woman's hand he used to pull her up, "That's not Harold."

Harold sprinted at the two. Subaru shoved the woman out of the way and dodged. Harold stormed past them and hit the wall, stunning himself. Seeing his chance, Subaru wrapped one arm around the waist of the woman and put a hand over her mouth.

The woman tried to speak, but Subaru's hand kept her mouth shut. He had to keep her quiet so she didn't attract any more unwanted attention. He began to drag her to the gate that led to the gravel path.

"Mmmmmmmphhhmmm!"

Harold recovered from his mild shock and turned to where Subaru was dragging the woman. He looked at the sight and pounded his chest, letting out a powerful roar, "RRRRAAAAAHHHHHHH!" As if responding to the call, three more zombies exited the open window and began to run at Subaru, both blind and visually unimpaired. Oh fuck no.

Subaru kept dragging the woman, he reached behind himself for the handle to the gate. He found the handle and pulled it open, just as the turned were about to be on them. It's now or never!!

Pulling down on the handle, Subaru threw him and the woman against the gate, launching them into the passageway. Harold lunged at them, but Subaru had already slammed the door shut. Crashing into the gate, Harold's body blocked the other zombies from advancing any further.

The woman watched, with Subaru, the zombies try and claw at them through the bars. They both stared at them, the woman watching Harold most of all.

"Thank you," the woman said quietly. She looked down at her bite wound again. At this point, the purple subsctance had covered most of her arm.

Subaru inspected the wound and told her, "I can help you get to safety. Maybe you can get treated and we-"

"Thank you, dear, but no thank you." The woman turned to Subaru and took his hand in both of hers. "I already know I don't have much time. I watched my own Harold turn into one of them because he'd been attacked. But I couldn't deal with the fact that he'd change so I tried to reason with him."

The woman traced the lines across her arm, watching them slowly move closer to her chest. "You best leave before it's too late," she said sadly.

"Since you won't come with me, what will you do now?"

Looking up, the woman smiled. "Sit here with Harold and talk to him until the end."

Subaru couldn't believe how calm this woman was about the fact she was about to turn into one of those things. If the roles had been switched, Subaru was sure he would be freaking out. Either this woman was brave, accepting, or giving up.

In the end, Subaru stayed with the woman for just another minute before she insisted he leave. He wanted to know her name just for the sake of it, but she refused to do so.

"No need to know my name since we'll never meet again."

3:53am

Subaru went to another part of the vine wall and climbed it again. He reached the top much easier this time and used it to reach the brick wall. On the other side of the brick wall was the continuation of the gravel path. Subaru jumped down, moving forward in an unfamiliar area.

The occasional groan and the crunching of gravel was all Subaru heard as he walked the path. There was one time when a walker saw him walk by the gate and proceeded to try and get him through the bars. They're not very smart. They can't open doors so they so they try and break them down. Subaru watched as the walker grabbed the bars of the gate and shook them, red saliva flying from its disgusting mouth. He's not going anywhere.

Subaru left the walker to himself. Even when Subaru was out of sight for a good while, the walker never left its spot. The only thing that broke him away was when a loud scream from somewhere behind him caught his attention instead.

The gravel path ended into a tiny vacant lot filled with dirt and dead grass. Subaru checked the street signs and head down the street on the right. At this point, there were no walkers in sight. Me must have reached the point that the walkers haven't gone yet. He continued on with hope, he wasn't bitten so that meant he would make it to Rem, not infected.

Somewhere not far, screams plagued the night.

4:41am

When Subaru neared Rem's house he saw people were outside of their homes. Men and woman, with the occasional child, stood in their front lawns with worried expressions. With horror, he realized they were looking at Rem's house. He started to run to the house, scared on what he might find.

When he passed by somebody in their yard he heard them say to their spouse, "9-1-1 isn't working."

Ahead he saw a police cruiser with their lights on, flashing red and blue. Yes! Thank you! This must mean that Rem and Ram's dad was home.

Subaru reached the house's walkway and noticed, with absolute horror, that a trail of blood led from the cruiser to the house. Walking up to the door, Subaru saw a bloody hand print on the door.

Subaru tried the doorknob, but it didn't open. Rem and Ram didn't know about the infection. If their dad was infected and they let him in to help him, then…..It could only mean one thing. Subaru banged on the door. Why didn't he just go to a hospital?

"Rem!?"

Nothing.

"Ram!?"

Nothing.

Rem's face appeared in his mind, so innocent, so care free. She didn't deserve to die like this. I'm coming, Rem!

Subaru threw his shoulder into the door. Someone from next door called out to him, "Hey, kid! Whaddaya' doin'?" Subaru ignored him and busted the door open, the lock flew from the wooden door.

Subaru had lost his balance a bit when he busted the door open. He glanced behind him, no one followed. He wondered if that was the best plan, to wait and see what happens, but he knew he couldn't do that with his friend's life at stake. He followed the trail of blood, it was soaked into the carpet flooring and led to the couch not too far from the front door.

One side of the couch was soaking with blood, it's metallic smell wafted around the whole room. It took a moment for Subaru to realize that no one was on the couch. Then he also realized, the house was silent. No sounds of people packing bags or frantically trying to gather their things to leave, just painful silence. Thinking back, Subaru remembered the gun Ram had, the one she used to shoot him. He went over to the safe below the same shelf, but it was already open, the gun was gone. Hopefully she used it wisely. Subaru made a short stop for at kitchen to get a large kitchen knife. This time, he was ready to use it.

Subaru slowly followed the trail of blood that had begun at the couch and ended towards a hallway, the hallway where Rem's bedroom was. No. When Subaru was about to round the corner he flipped up a switch, turning on the hallway lights.

Subaru held the knife in front of him and rounded the corner. On the floor laid Ram's body, a pool of her own blood surrounded her. A chunk was taken from her neck and right cheek, exposing her teeth below. Her skin was paler, and in her hand was the gun.

Subaru fell to his knees in grief. Ram was deadOne of his life long friends was dead and he was sure it was his fault. He'd been too slow to act. He struggled to hold back tears as his shaken hand reached out to touch her intact cheek. It felt warm. This sparked some hope in him that maybe she wasn't dead.

Subaru held her hand, checking her wrist for a pulse but found none. Slowly, he opened one of her eyes and saw the lifelessness. There was no light in them, the same light he'd grown to hate and love. He started to cry as he looked at the peaceful looking girl, dead on the floor. In anger, he punched the floor. If only I didn't stop to help the woman. But he knew that wasn't it, he had stayed afterward, listening. It was his own fault that he didn't get here sooner, deep down he knew that. He just wanted some else to blame while he mourned.

Looking up from Ram's body, Subaru saw the broken down door of Rem's room.

"No." Subaru stopped holding Ram and got to his feet. He stumbled across the hallway, his body reacting to his hopeless belief that Rem would be alright. Slowly, he walked into her room. The only thing he saw was her father bent over her tiny body, tearing a piece of flesh from her body. That was enough for Subaru to charge her dad and sink the knife handle-deep into his head.

"You fucking bastard!" In anger, Subaru grabbed the back of Rem's dad's police uniform and threw him against the wall. He was already dead, but Subaru still took the knife from his head and plunged it in again. Subaru stabbed him 10 more times in the head before giving up and calming down. His face covered in blood, a hateful look on his eyes.

He regretfully turned to look at Rem's body. A large hole was in Rem's neck, no longer gushing blood. Subaru dropped to his knees and into Rem's pool of blood. What did I do to deserve this? Subaru didn't understand why everything was being taken from him; his life, his parents, his friends, and his sanity. He was sure the last one was going to go completely soon. Looking at Rem's body, Subaru wondered if he could bring himself to kill her when she turned. He could never do such a thing and probably never would, but a small part of him wondered if Rem would rather die than stay as one of those things.

Subaru had feelings for Rem, anyone at school would tell you that their friendship was a bit closer than normal. It was the flirty type that really went nowhere when it came to starting a relationship. Rem loved Subaru, but Subaru felt more attached to someone else. He had known his friend Emilia longer and used to hang out with her a lot, but nowadays they hung out less. Still, Subaru chose Emilia for her unrelenting cute, naive nature.

A dark purple substance started to travel down Rem's neck and into her chest, arms, and legs. The substance traveled up her face and sunk into her eye sockets and straight towards her brain, A shiver ran down Subaru's spine when Rem's body twitched. He used his fingers to check her eyes, bloodshot and clear.

He started to cry again when Rem woke up and lunged at him with an ugly expression. Subaru held Rem down by the neck with his hand and grabbed the knife that was on the floor. The thing that was Rem had a look of pure hatred as she tried to take a bite out of Subaru's arm. She kept snapping her teeth at Subaru. Her hands reached behind his head and tried to pull him towards her, but she was weaker than him so it did nothing.

Subaru held the knife against the side of Rem's head, readying it. He looked at Rem with a look of sadness, "Please forgive me, Rem."

From behind Subaru came a new sound, "RRRAAAAHGGGGHAAGG!"

Subaru turned quickly to see Ram, her skin pale and purple, charge at him. Before he could do anything, Ram bite down into his neck taking a chunk out of it.

"GGAAAAAAHHHHHH!" The pain he felt was intense as his neck was forcefully ripped open by teeth.

Ram pushed Subaru onto his back, onto Rem. With Subaru no longer holding her, Rem sat up and bite into Subaru's left shoulder, down to the bone.

A new bite brought more pain to Subaru, "AAAAAHHHHHHHH! AH AH AH AHHHHHH!"

Using his good arm, Subaru was able to throw Ram off of him while she was chewing. Ram hit the wall and started to get back up. With Rem also busy chewing his flesh, Subaru was able to tear himself away from her and make his way to the door. Both Rem and Ram followed him as he went into the hallway. He headed for the bathroom door, but was grabbed by Rem in the back of his shirt.

Subaru turned around to see Rem's teeth coming at his face. He reached up with both hands, his left shoulder hurting like hell, and shoved her hard into her sister. They both went crashing down onto the floor as they slipped in Ram's pool of blood.

His vision was blurry and his body was weak when Subaru made it into the bathroom and closed the door behind him. As his life slipped from him, Subaru waited for Rem and Ram to start bashing on the door. When Subaru lifted his hand to see the dark purple substance travel down it, Rem and Ram started to hit the door, breaking it easily. They destroyed it together in only a few seconds. When they crashed in, Subaru was ready to die, he just hoped he bled to death quickly so he wouldn't have to endure so much pain.

However, Ram lunged at Subaru but didn't bite him. Her red irises darted around his face and inspected his bite, cradling her head to get closer, before she backed off, leaving Subaru to die. Subaru gave a small chuckle as he slipped into unconsciousness.

5:02am

Subaru woke up. Once again unable to control his own body. This Subaru rose his head to looked up, taking in his surroundings. He was still in the bathroom, the door was still broken down, but Rem and Ram were gone. Subaru did nothing but stay sitting against the wall.

At least move damn you!

"Hello?! Is everything OK in there?!" It was a call from someone outside.

Of all times to care, you choose to help now?

Subaru's head jerked to the doorway and stood up. He cocked his head to the side while shambling out and into the hallway.

Where's Rem and Ram? This question came across his mind. They've gotta be somewhere in the house.

"Hello?!"

Subaru heard the voice and turned to head towards the front door.

Nonononono!

When Subaru stepped outside, someone pointed him out. "Look, there he is!"

Someone else said, "He's OK!"

Subaru's face twisted with rage as he stared at the people before him. He roared at the small crowd in front of the house, "RRRRAHHHHHGGGGGAAA!"

A feeling of uneasiness went through the crowd.

Subaru charged towards the nearest person he could see, a blonde woman in a nightdress. She was frozen in place as Subaru bit into her shoulder, a scream escaped her lips.

From behind Subaru came Rem and Ram. The twins each went for their own victims, grabbing onto them and biting whatever exposed flesh they could find. The people scattered in fear.

STOP THIS!

Another woman came to try and push Subaru off of the woman he was currently eating. Subaru looked at the woman and tried to grab her. The woman jumped back and started to run when Subaru got up to chase her. She had made it across the street when a man exited the house in front of her with a shotgun. She ran past him and into the house as the man lifted the shotgun. Subaru flew back as his chest was blown away by the tiny pellets entering his body. What should have been fatal to a normal human, did not affect Subaru. He got up to his feet and ran towards the man, his chest a bloody mess of ripped flesh. When Subaru reached the shocked man, he was knocked away by the butt of the shotgun. Subaru quickly got to his hands and knees, but was kicked onto his back by the man. He put a foot on Subaru's chest to prevent him from getting up. Subaru still clawed the air in front of him to try and grab the man.

Pumping the shotgun, a shell fell out of it and hit the floor. The man aimed the shotgun at Subaru's head and left a bloody stump in place of it.

5:08am