Daisuke ran down the hallway, panting. He looked through many different classroom windows to see if his younger sister Keiko was in one of these classes, but there was no sign of her. hisHe needed to look for sister. 'Dammit, where is she? Keiko-chan.' He thought as he continued searching. As he ran around the corner, he ended up bumping into a guy. "Guh!" he groaned.
"Ow! Hey, watch it!" Morita said after he fell then started rubbing his head. "Damn."
Daisuke rubbed his head as well. "Sorry, I—" As he opened his eyes, he got a good look at the guy he bumped into. He had a gakuran jacket buttoned open with a green sweatshirt under. He has blonde hair with spike in the middle and light green eyes. His name is Morita. "M-Morita?"
"Daisuke? What are you doing here?" Morita asked as he finally recognized me.
"Look, I'm in an emergency right now. I need to find my sister. Have you seen her?" He asked while feeling in a bit of a rush.
Morita placed his hand on his chin trying to remember. "Keiko-chan? Hmm… if I remember correctly, I saw her heading towards gym class about twenty-something minutes ago." Morita said reminiscing.
"Thanks." Daisuke began to move.
"Wait, hold on." Daisuke stopped as Morita called him. "What's the emergency about? Did something happen?" he asked curiously.
"Look, I saw something crazy happen. A bunch of people outside the school had broken down the front gates and had entered the school. No bullshit." Daisuke answered.
"W-what? Really!?" Morita jumped. "Were they like an angry mob, or something?"
"I can't explain all the details right now. First, I need to find my sister to see if she's alright." He said as he tried to run again.
"Wait!" Morita called again, as he grabbed his arm.
"What!" Daisuke responded irritated.
Morita placed a hand on my shoulder. "I'm coming with you."
"No way. If you're going to try and take a peek at my sister, than forget it!" Daisuke yelled.
"No! That's not why!"
"Daisuke-san? Morita? Is that you?" asked a familiar voice.
Both Daisuke and Morita paused and looked at the direction of the bathroom only to see one of his neighbors Tomomi coming out from the bathroom door.
"What's going on? I could here you yell from the other side of the door." Tomomi asked.
"Tomomi! What are you doing here?" Daisuke asked.
"I took a bathroom break. I'm supposed to be heading back to class in another two minutes." Tomomi answered.
"Uh... there's an emergency."
Tomomi lightly gasped. "An emergency?"
"Yeah. The school's been breached."
"Breached? By who? Why?" Tomomi asked.
"I wish I can tell you what I saw, but I can't right now." Daisuke tried to slightly brush off Tomomi.
"Wait a second, I wanna come, too!" Tomomi said as he ran next to Daisuke.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Daisuke asked, as they made eye contact.
"Yeah, you're my best friend and I've also known Keiko-san for a long time, too. You're like one of the few guys I could rely on." Tomomi said.
Daisuke took a short breather and looked at the both of them. "Alright, we'll all go to the gym then."
"Right!" Morita said.
The three then ran into the gym center and found a bunch of sports equipment and weapons such as bats, different kinds of sports balls, kendo sticks, bow and arrows machetes.
"There's no one here." Tomomi said.
"The fifth period isn't even over yet. Where can they possibly be?" Morita asked.
"If they're not here, than my best guess would be… outside with THEM." Daisuke assumed.
"Them?" Tomomi questioned.
"Yeah. The dead." Daisuke said.
Morita and Tomomi gasped. "Whoa, whoa, the dead? You mean like… the actual walking dead? The kind of dead that comes from a horror movie? THAT dead!?" Morita asked, while shaking.
"Yeah."
"Well now that we're here, we should grab some weapons." The three of them grabbed some weapons.
"Yeah! This is what I'm talking about!" Morita said excited as he practice some swings.
Daisuke handed Tomomi a baseball bat as well. "I'm not much of a baseball fan, but I guess this will do." Tomomi as he grasped the metal bat.
Daisuke grabbed a silver machete. 'Keiko, where are you?' Daisuke thought for a couple of seconds at a time. Daisuke then thought that they about the girl's locker room. "There's a chance that they might be in the girls locker room."
"Eek!"
Both Morita and Tomomi knew what Daisuke was talking about. They both blushed after hearing what Daisuke said.
In Tomomi's mind 'G-girls… L-L-Locker room?! That's insane! I came here for an education, not to be a peeping tom! What would everyone think of me if I get caught in the girls locker room?!' Tomomi became embarrassed after imagining girls in nothing but their undergarments.
In Morita's mind "Is this for real? We're going to go in a locker room filled with girls? This… this is… AMAZING!' Morita's perverted side was starting show. 'I can just think of all the hot babes in that locker room! Busujima-san in nothing but an apron and a thong!' Daisuke saw the looks on their faces. Tomomi all flustered and Morita all perverted.
"Guys! Snap out of it!" Daisuke snapped his fingers bringing them both back to reality. "I know it sounds a lot, but we're not hear to look at girls, we need to find my sister and fast!"
Both Tomomi and Morita looked at each other and nodded. "Right!"
"But, what about those who want to come with us? If we go into the girl's room, don't you think that there might be those who wanna come?" Morita asked.
The boys were on a race against time. We wasted no time heading to the girl's locker room. As we got there, we stood in front of the door where there is a woman's sign written in kanji. We stood there for a couple of seconds. Tomomi gulped and Morita pulled on his collar with his finger because he felt like he was getting hotter. Daisuke took a deep breathe.
"Are you ready?" He asked looking at both of them. They both instantly nodded in return. "Let's do it." He grabbed the door knob and pushed in the door.
There were about four girls including Keiko. A girl who was talking to Keiko about why Ms. Hayashi has not returned.
"Keiko-chan, do you know where Hayashi-sensei could be?" a named girl Yuuki Miku asked.
"Hmm… I don't really know. She told us that she had to handle a problem at the front gate. It's been thirty minutes since she was called and hasn't came back." Keiko answered.
"I hope she's alright." Yuuki said.
"Keiko-chan! Keiko-chan!" the girls had heard a voice from a male that had entered the locker room.
"Wait… is that a boy? What is… HE doing in the girl's locker room?" a girl asked. A few of the girls felt wary and alerted as they hear a masculine voice in their locker room.
"Keiko-chan, why is a boy calling your name?" a girl asked.
"Wait, I know that voice." Yuuki said.
"So do I. Could it be…" Keiko begun to say.
Tomomi, Morita and I entered the room and found girls by their locker. "Keiko-chan!"
A few girls that were still in their undergarments screamed as they saw boys. They others didn't. Tomomi quickly covered his eyes out of embarrassment.
"Onii-chan! What are you doing here?" Keiko asked.
"Wait, you're two are related?" Yuuki asked.
"Mm-hmm." Keiko nodded.
"Yuuki-chan?" Morita asked.
"Daisuke-kun!" Yuuki walked up to Daisuke as she completely ignored Morita.
'I'm here too you know…' Morita thought as he tilted his head down feeling abandoned.
Daisuke and Yuuki had met a year prior to today. Yuuki would sometimes flirt with him and he would ignore it seeing her as any other person. Yuuki has a crush on the latter. Morita spoke to Yuuki a couple of times in the past but was rejected as usual. Yuuki is in Morita's Report as the second hottest girl in school that he knows.
"What's going on? Why are you here?" Yuuki asked him.
"Something is happening at the school. I was at the staircase with Takashi and I saw a random man at the gate. The P.E. teachers went to check it out, they encountered the man and bit Teshima-sensei on the arm."
"What?" One of the girls asked in shock.
"Yeah. He was screaming in pain then seconds later, he stopped moving. Then a bunch of dead looking people went into the school after Hayashi-sensei. We don't know what happened to her or the other teachers." The girls in the room gasped.
"N-no… it can't be." Keiko's eyes had started to water. "Hayashi-sensei is…"
All of a sudden, there was noise coming from near the door.
"What's that sound?" a girl asked.
"Shh. Everyone quiet." Daisuke told the girls.
Tomomi and Morita moved backwards towards me as the gripped their baseball bats. The girls had moved closer to the lockers. There was a noise coming closer and closer. A few of the girls was petrified some of them covered their mouths as they wouldn't make a noise. The sound of a zombie was walking closer.
'It must be one of them!' Tomomi thought as he was scared.
'We should be able to take this monster on, right?' Morita asked himself.
'We can do this.' I thought. Seconds later, a person has stood there face-to-face with the others. His eyes widened and a few girls looked shocked as they saw the zombie. "Darn…"
Tears streamed from Keiko's eyes as she looked. "No way…"
One of the girls started lightly crying. "It can't be…" They all stared at the figure and it happened to be Hayashi-sensei. She was reanimated into a zombie. She has a portion of flesh bitten out of her neck and stomach, blood streamed downwards onto her clothes. She was bitten on her right leg. Her skin was pale and her eyes were gray.
"Hayashi… sensei." One of the girls called. The reanimated Hayashi looked and started to move towards them.
The last time Daisuke saw the teacher was less than an hour ago. He looked into her eyes to see them gray and lifeless. 'They must've gotten her...' He then gritted his teeth. "Guys. Stay on your guard!" Daisuke told both Tomomi and Morita to get ready.
"Right." They both answered.
Daisuke turned his head towards the girls. "Girls! Stay close to one another!" He told the girls to get close within our radiance where they are safe and some they did. One of the girls screamed as they noticed Hayashi was close to him. As Daisuke turned my head forward, the reanimated Hayashi was already trying to bite him by trying to sink her teeth into his neck with her strong white teeth. "Ngh!" He dropped his machete and used a hand and then grabbed her by the throat and tried to keep her head up from biting him, but all he could feel on his hand is the blood gushing from her neck as he grappled her neck.
"Daisuke-san!" Tomomi yelled.
Tomomi tried to rush in, but Morita stopped him. "No! You're only dragging yourself into a situation!" Morita said.
"Daisuke! The legs! Sweep her legs!" Tomomi said.
"I'm trying!" He replied. The undead Hayashi pinned me onto the lockers and continued to attack him. 'It's no use! My hand is slipping!' He could feel my hand slip due to the blood.
All of a sudden, Keiko suddenly picked up the machete and stood behind the undead Hayashi. "Hyaa!" Keiko cried as she slashed off half of her head horizontally. After that slash, Hayashi's body finally collapsed to the floor. "Onii-chan! Are you hurt?" she asked in concern.
"I think I'm fine, she didn't bite me. Thanks." Daisuke smiled at Keiko while getting up.
"No need to thank me. That was nothing compared to what you've done for me a long time ago." Keiko said smiling.
"I'm gonna check to see if they're any more of these monsters." Morita said as he went to check around the door.
"You got it."
"There's more monsters out there?" One of the girls asked in fear.
"Now what, Daisuke?" Tomomi asked.
"We have to go back to the gym. That's the only place we can find weapons that can kill them." Daisuke suggested.
"Wait, them?" Yuuki asked.
"Yes. Them." Daisuke quoted. "There's the dead that walks on this earth again, I call it them. And the living which is us. There's only US and THEM." He turned to Keiko. "Are you ready?
"Yes. Fifth period must be over by now, so I'm ready when you are." Keiko said.
"Daisuke, it's all clear for now. Not another one of them has came in this hallway yet." Morita said as he went on the lookout.
"Got it." The group looked at Hayashi's corpse. 'If they're none coming like Morita said, then how did Hayashi-sensei get here? Could it be that she split apart from the heard? No, that can't be possible. It's like in those horror movies I've seen. The Zombies would usually be attracted by light or sound. If that's the case, how did Hayashi-sensei get here?'
The group then thought back a couple of minutes ago that one of the girls were screaming.
He then looked at the two girls that screamed. One girl has brown hair tied in a bun with two bangs on the side of her face, brown eyes and a small bust. Her name is Misuzu Ichijou. And the other girl standing next to her has black hair in a pigtail with blue eyes, her bust size is average. Her name is Toshimi Niki. "You two."
"W-what is it?" Toshimi answered.
"Can the both of you not scream? Loud noises can attract them." Daisuke asked politely.
"O-okay…" Toshimi said as she lowered her voice.
"What are we gonna do?" Misuzu asked, grabbing onto Daisuke's jacket.
"Our only option is to find weapons, rally survivors, kill them, and get out of here. Now, who's ready to go?" Daisuke asked as he looked at everyone.
"I am." Everyone responded.
"Good. Now let's go."
Seconds later, we left the girls locker room to go back to the gym. Daisuke took the lead and Morita took the rear. As we walked carefully trying not to make any noises. So far, we hadn't ran into anymore of them. We were close to a corner, so he stopped everyone to secure the area. When he turned the corner, he saw a couple of them heading into the main office where the announcements are made. We were a few feet away. 'Shit.' Daisuke silently cursed myself as he saw them walk through the doors. They're going to go after the announcer. He turned to everyone who was behind him. "We have hurry into the gym." Daisuke decided to whisper to everyone.
"But, why?" Tomomi asked.
"They're heading into the main office where the announcements are made." Tomomi told them quietly.
"If they or them get the announcer…" Morita said.
"He's gonna start panicking which will cause everyone to panick." Tomomi finished Morita's sentence.
"Right. That's why we have to go, now." Daisuke looked over the corner again to see that there is none of them in the hallway. "It's clear. Go, go, go, go." Everyone began to move quietly. Minutes later, they successfully made it back to the gym where the activity weapons are still intact. "We made it."
"Yeah. And it seems to that we made it in one piece." Morita said.
"For some reason, I feel safe by having these." Keiko said as she had now carried a quiver filled with arrows and a bow.
"Me too." Yuuki said as she had a kendo stick in her hand.
"I don't think we'll need a weapon." Toshimi said.
"Why is that?" Morita asked.
"Because. As long as we have each other, there's no way we're gonna die, right Misuzu?" Toshimi asked as she held Misuzu's hand.
"Right." Musuzu smiled.
"I don't know about that. We're gonna be fighting against them so the best choice we have right now-"
All of a sudden the school intercom suddenly turns on and there's a voice echoing all across the school. Daisuke and the others then looked at the intercom at the top corner wall.
"Attention. Attention. This announcement is for all of the students. There is an emergency situation happening inside of the school right now."
'Shit, it's THEM.' Morita said. Tomomi then shushed him as he's trying to listen.
'This is about to get worse.' Daisuke thought to himself.
"All the students must follow their teacher's instructions and evacuate immediately. I repeat. All the students must follow their teacher's instructions and evacuate immediately." Seconds later, they heard nothing but silence from the intercom.
Keiko slowly walked closer to her brother and whispered. "Onii-chan… do you think—"
"Yeah. It's started. Soon, there's going to be a panic." Daisuke replied.
"Wait... who are you? Wha-what are you doing? G-get away from me! Get back! Stop! No! Ah! HELP! HEEEEELLLLPPP! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" The man on the intercom screamed in agony for a matter of seconds, then there was nothing but silence again. But this time, permanently.
Misuzu and Toshimi continued to hold on to each other as they were scared. Tomomi's body had started to shake. Keiko stood right next to Daisuke and Yuuki latched onto his arm.
"Armageddon has begun." Daisuke said.
Meanwhile in different areas, Takashi, Rei and Hisashi were in a similar situation as they were currently in a hallway. Highschool nurse, Shizuka Marikawa was sleeping on a desk in the infirmary, Saya Takagi and Kohta Hirano were sneaking out of class. Saeko Busujima was near a bathroom stall with a kendo stick at her side.
Seconds later, dozens of students wasted no time jumping out of their seats, ran to the doors and run straight through the hallways. There were hundreds of screams, students pushed each other, pulled on each other by their hair, shoved people to the side, punched one another, kicked one another, trampled onto others without a second thought all just to be the first one at the door. But they didn't know what was already at the door. THEM. It wasn't long that the high school students had encountered them. Ten minutes later, there were already over thirty casualties.
A few hours pass.
Yuuki's eyes had started to water. "Daisuke-kun, what do we do now?" she asked.
"We need to get out of here, soon." Daisuke answered.
"Why? Aren't we safe in here?" Toshimi asked.
"No. Daisuke's right. The panicking highschool students could draw them into the gym with their noises. They could all enter this court at any moment. We've been in here for a couple of hours. It's four-thirty in the afternoon. The sun is starting to set. The hallways are most likely crowded, so we might to go back outside." Tomomi answered.
"Right. We must find other survivors right now. Be cautious everyone. We are stuck in a matter life and death." Daisuke looked at the clock.
"Right." Everyone said.
After the noises had cleared, Daisuke silently opened the double door and secured the surrounding area. I gave everyone the signal and we started moving. We made it to the hallway.
Morita poked his head out and looked over the corner again, I saw a certain number of them. There were a few of them that were eating the remains of high school students, there were those that was just standing in one spot and there was one that had its face pressed against the wall. Daisuke saw this and Morita hid his head and looked at the others behind me.
"Remember, as we planned. Yuuki and I will assault them from the front, Toshimi and Misuzu will stay behind me. Tomomi, and Morita, you both will watch over Keiko-chan as she shoots. Keiko-chan, I know you're good with arrows. If either me or Yuuki are in trouble, you shoot your arrows, but use them wisely. You can pull the arrows out of their bodies and reuse them." Daisuke instructed.
"Okay." Keiko said.
"Are we all ready?" Daisuke asked the group.
"Yes." Everyone answered.
He carefully stepped out into the hallway prepared to attack them. Daisuke was standing in the front while the others stood in formation. He stomped my foot on the ground and caught there attention. Most of them turned towards the group and started moving.
"Now!" Daisuke gave the signal as we charged towards them. We worked through the numbers together as we planned and managed to kill a good number of them. They fought and made it to the second floor. We took all took a breather for a couple of minutes. They all started panting.
Morita placed a hand on his shoulder. "Dude, we made it up to the second floor. How many do you think there are?" he asked.
"I don't know. But as long as there are more coming in the school, the more we'll have to deal with." Daisuke panted less. He then looked out the window and noticed the sky was turning orange and started to set. "It's getting late."
"Onii-chan… I'm starting to get hungry… do you think we'll find some food?" Keiko asked as her stomach grumbled.
"If there's any food left then—" Daisuke was cut off by a loud shriek coming from the hallway.
"AAAAAAAAAIIIEEE!" It was the shriek of a female. A scream that he knew.
"What was that?" Keiko asked.
"Better yet, who was that?" Tomomi asked.
Morita gasped. "That was Saya-chan!" Morita yelled as we ran towards the shriek.
"Baka, wait!" Yuuki said as the rest followed them.
"It's no use." Daisuke said as he chased Morita.
Minutes later, the group had managed to find them in a science classroom where the shriek came from. As the group arrived, Daisuke saw Saya-chan drilling one of them in the face.
"I can't take it anymore! Somebody please help me!" Saya begged as she continued to cry and drill. He saw a four other people arrive from different areas. He recognized Takashi, Rei-kun, Saeko-san, and a blonde head woman with a large bust.
"I'll take the right." Saeko said.
"I'll take the left!" Rei said.
"Good. Break!" Takashi and I said at the same time as the four of us charged at the four of them that had cornered Saya.
"Haaa!" Rei yelled quickly stabbed one of them in the forehead with the spear-like broom. Daisuke saw one of them moving towards him and gripped onto his machete handle. "Hyyaa!" He grunted as he slashed part of its head off diagonally.
Takashi then jumped and struck one of them on the top of its head causing it to fall on the ground. Saeko then dealt with the last by giving two powerful fatal blows to the head causing to collapse completely dead.
"I think that's all of them." Takashi said.
Saeko looked Takashi when he said that. "Eh?" Saeko then noticed the zombie that he stuck moments ago was still alive. It walked up behind Takashi without his knowing. "Watch out!" Saeko yelled trying to warn him.
"Ah?" Takashi didn't know what Saeko was talking about until he heard a noise behind him. He then turned around to see to the zombie he thought he had dealt with was still standing. "Guh!" The zombie tried to attack Takashi by throwing itself at him. Takashi placed one hand under the chin and the other hand on its torso.
"Takashi-kun!" Rei yelled.
'Dammit! This is harder than I thought!' Takashi continued to struggle until an arrow came out of nowhere and struck the zombie in the head. Takashi then threw the body down to the ground after seeing it was dead. He fell on his butt and started panting. 'What the hell was that? Where did that arrow come from?' Takashi thought as he looked at the arrow.
"Is everyone alright?" Keiko asked.
Takashi looked and saw that there was a girl with a bow and arrow and a few people he didn't know. He also spotted Morita. "Morita!"
"Takashi, it is you!" Morita said as he ran towards Takashi.
"I thought you didn't make it." Takashi said as they fist bumped.
"Neither did I. I wouldn't have if it wasn't for Daisuke right there." Morita pointed towards Daisuke.
"I see that you and Rei-chan are here. Wait a minute. Where's Hisashi? Is he around somewhere?" Morita asked. Takashi tilted his head down in sadness and silence. "Heh?"
"He's…" Takashi couldn't finish.
Morita gasped then turned to Rei who also had a sad expression on her face. "Ah crap. Sorry, Takashi."
"No. Don't be." Takashi responded.
Daisuke spotted Saya covered in blood staring at herself through the trophy glass all traumatized. He walked up and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Takagi-chan..." Kohta turned to Saya and gasped as he spotted Daisuke comforting Saya. Kohta had started to become a little jealous of seeing Daisuke comfort the girl he likes.
"Are you okay, Saya-chan?" He asked.
Keiko stared at Saya from behind whom is being comforted by Daisuke. 'So, she's Saya-chan. The smart girl I heard that has a crush on Onii-chan.' She thought.
Saya slowly turned her head to see Daisuke at her side. "D… Daisuke-kun." Rei and Shizuka has also come to Saya's side.
Saeko walked up to Takashi. "You already know the school nurse. Marikawa-sensei. I'm Saeko Busujima, from Class 3-A." Saeko explained.
"I'm Takashi Komuro from Class 2-B." Takashi explained.
"Busujima-sama! It's really you!" Keiko said hugging Saeko.
"Nice to see you again, Keiko-chan. And please. Don't be so formal. Just Saeko-san would be fine." Saeko said.
"Busujima-san. I remember you won the national championship last year. I'm Rei Miyamoto, from the spear Martial Arts club." Rei noted.
"I'm Keiko Nakamura from class 3-A. And this is my deer Onii-chan, Daisuke Nakamura from class 2-A." Keiko said. Saeko, Rei, Yuuki and Shizuka had begun to giggle after hearing Saeko use Onii-chan.
"I'm Yuuki Miku from class 3-A." Yuuki explained.
"I'm Tomomi Kageyama, from class 1-B. I'm a freshman, by the way." Tomomi added.
"I'm Morita from class 2-B." Morita said.
"And I'm Hirano from class B, for your information." Kohta said while feeling left out.
Saeko then smiled at everyone. "Nice to meet you all."
Both Morita and Kohta gasped and smiled in an excited manner.
'Saeko-san had noticed me! Boy I can't wait to see Saeko-san in nothing but an apron and a thong!' Morita fantasized over Saeko. He then looked at Saya's condition and see her upset and traumatized normally.
Saya then got up off of her knees and acted irritated towards the group. "Why are you all being so nice to each other all of a sudden?" she asked.
"What?" Rei asked.
"Miyamoto, you flunk last year. You and Busujima-san are the same age. She is not your elder!" Saya criticized Rei. "And Keiko! How could you even keep smiling like that in a type of hell like this? Grow up!"
"What are you talking about, Takagi-chan? Keiko-chan did nothing to you." Takashi stood and defended Keiko.
Saya then turned to Takashi all pissed off. "Don't treat me like I'm stupid! I'm smarter than all of you combined!"
"Um, please calm down, Takagi-san…" Tomomi tried to reason.
Saya then turned her attention to Tomomi and glared. "You."
"M-me?" Tomomi asked.
"Yeah you, shrimp! Don't talk to me as if you know me. And don't think for a second, just because you skipped your final year in Junior High and moved onto High School make you smarter than me!" Saya then looked at everyone, one by one. "You should all be lucky that I'm in your presence!" Saya yelled.
Saeko placed a hand on her shoulder. "Saya-chan. That's enough." She said in a calm manner.
Saya turned her head to Saeko then looked into a mirror. She gasped as she saw herself covered in blood. "Look at me… I'm a mess… now my mother will have to take it to the cleaners…"
"It's okay. You're not the only one hurting here." Saeko said as she embraced Saya.
Saya's eyes had begun to water, so she buried her face in my chest and started sobbing. Everyone looked at the sobbing pink-headed girl in sadness.
After a couple of moments of listening to Saya sob, Tomomi then noticed someone was missing. "Wait, where's Toshimi-chan and Misuzu-chan?" he asked.
"What?" Yuuki asked.
"They're gone? We have to find them!" Daisuke asked.