Disclaimer: All original characters belong to my cousin and me. Only the Sailor Moon stuff belongs to someone else. Yup. Also, I decided to take someone's advice and broke these chapters up to make them shorter. It's easier for the reader and for myself.

Episode II; Part III: Monsters Galore and More

Special Halloween Edition

The three stepped into the room. There was a brief moment of tension, but it soon faded as they realized that everything in the classroom was normal. Maddy and Annie took their usual seats in the back. Angela decided to follow them this time and passed over her seat near the front.

As Angela observed the students and the teacher, who began the lesson, Maddy and Annie chatted about a new movie. The mere fact that zompires were invading their school didn't seem to bother them.

Angela began to shift her attention back to the lesson at hand. Nothing seemed abnormal until, out of nowhere, the class heard a scream.

"Excellent! We've welcomed back a friend!" said the teacher.

He changed into a zompire and so did a few other students. Angela jumped up from her seat and shouted for the rest of the students to get out of the room to a safer place. Meanwhile, Maddy and Annie charged at the zompire students.

"Thanks for interfering with our conversation, jerk!" Annie yelled as a pale classmate tried to grab her. She managed to evade him and knee him in the stomach.

Maddy, on the other hand, tackled the teacher down. She grabbed a pencil from the desk and was about to stab him.

"Wait! They're still humans!" Angela cried out to her as she got the last normal student out of the room.

Instead of stabbing the teacher to death, Maddy landed a powerful punch on him and thankfully, knocked him out. She was surprised at her own strength. She glanced over at Annie, who rammed her head against the jaw of a zompire who had her in a head lock, and then at Angela, who was already at the door.

"Ange! What now?" Maddy said as she dodged more and more zompires.

"Come! We must get ourselves to safety!" Angela replied.

"C'mon bull head!" Maddy said to Annie as they both got to the door by skillfully evading the oncoming zompires.

The three were now at the door and the small group of frightened students was waiting in the hall for them.

"There's no time! Let's get them outta here," Annie said.

Angela turned to the group, "Follow us. We must escape the school."

The students nodded as they began to run down the hall. Maddy was trailing the group. She looked behind her and saw a hall full of zompires coming after them. Two short figures were charging through the zompire crowd.

"I-It's Veronica!" Maddy yelled, "And Vivicka's right behind her!"

Soon, the two girls caught up to Maddy and put a considerable distance between themselves and the mass of zompires.

Angela and Annie led the students to the base of the stairs.

"Alright, we've gotta find the other students who aren't... crazy," Annie said to them. "You people hafta get the hell outta here and alert somebody."

One of the guys wearing shades shouted out, "We can't leave you guys in danger! Let us help."

"Listen, you will be helping by keeping yourself and the rest of the group safe. Please, take charge and lead them to safety," Angela said to him.

He nodded, "I will."

Annie handed him a bottle of holy water, "Take this and sprinkle some on the zomp—not normal people and you'll be fine. We'll come after you when we're sure that nobody's left behind. There's an exit downstairs."

He nodded again and ran down the stairs. The small group of people consisting of four girls and five guys hurried behind him.

Maddy, Veronica, and Vivicka caught up to Annie and Angela.

"I thought you were at home," Angela sternly said to Vivicka.

"I can't miss a day of school... Even if my teacher is a zompire," Vivicka whined.

Before Angela could continue to scold her, Maddy urgently said, "I think you should save it for another time because it looks like they're coming."

Indeed they were. The zompires were making their way down the hall and were coming closer.

"Right," Angela replied.

They rushed up the stairs. As they were mid-way up the staircase, a crowd of zompires flooded down toward them. They had burst out the door the girls were heading for.

"Cripes!" Veronica exclaimed as they stopped and evaluated their situation.

"Okay, go back down," Maddy said. As she turned around to head back down the stairs, she heard the groaning of the zompires that they were previously running from. "Okay, nevermind!"

Angela looked at Veronica and Vivicka, "How did you get through them before?"

"Whaz ya mean?" Veronica asked confused.

Vivicka pointed to her bandaged head, "This had something to do with it and Veronica's wrapped up right arm."

"Right. Go do it again."

"Sure..."

"Alright! Charging through more zompires... I like it!" Veronica yelled as she charged down the stairs.

Vivicka ran after her. Her head was tilted forward, ready to go through the crowd of zompires.

"What are they doing?! Ange, you can't just let them do that!" Annie said.

"It's working! Let's go before we lose them!" Maddy said as she ran down the stairs.

Angela and Annie did the same and soon they were running past zompires who were backed up against the walls. Obviously, they had a run in with Veronica's arm and Vivicka's head.

Veronica made it to the front doors where a zompire was standing in front of it. She grinned as she pressed her arm against the mindless student. It groaned in pain and fell back against the doors, which crashed open.

"Come on! If we make it to the sidewalk, we can escape!" Veronica said, as she jumped over the fallen zompire and out the door.

They all ran as fast they could to their freedom. The sidewalk was only a few more steps away when Vivicka fell to the ground.

"Viv!" Veronica yelled as ran to her cousin.

Vivicka was kneeling in the grass and she kept ramming her head into the ground, while scratching her bandages. Her eyes were shut closed and she growled in pain.

"Viv!" Veronica yelled again. "Stop it! We're getting out of here!"

She grabbed Vivicka's arms so she wouldn't scratch anymore. Vivicka slowly stopped struggling and opened her eyes.

"V-Ver? What's going on? Ow... my head..." she whispered.

Angela knelt down beside her, "Vivicka dear, I believe you are reacting to the purified water in the bandages."

"I was? I am?!"

"Yes. Do not worry though. You still have a lot of time before you completely turn. Let us get to safety before more zompires arrive."

Angela and Veronica helped Vivicka up as they stepped onto the sidewalk, where Maddy and Annie anxiously waited.

"Okay, we've ditched school, now what? And how did you two twerps get through that crowd of freaks?" Annie asked.

"Very easily Annieboy. It's these holy water wraps," Veronica replied while showing off her bandaged right arm.

"Oh I see! You're like zompire repellant!" Maddy said as she patted Veronica's head.

"Repel your hand before I bite it off," Veronica snapped.

"So, anyway, what're we doing Ange?" Maddy cheerfully said as she patted Veronica's head one last time.

"Tomorrow is the last day for me to stay human! We have to defeat this Azure guy," Vivicka shouted. She had to lean on Veronica for support.

"We should gather enough holy water to fend off everyone and then move to kill Azure, wherever he is. Agreed?" Angela said.

"What about the normals stuck in the school? We can't just leave them!" said Annie.

"Well, they're technically not fully dead when they're turned right? And they haven't hurt anyone out of school yet right? So, why not just leave them all in one place so we can go back and 'holify' them all at the same time," Maddy commented.

Annie, Veronica, and Vivicka stared at her blankly.

Angela, on the other hand, nodded her head, "I actually understand your logic Maddy."

Annie turned to her, "Wait, I'm the one who usual says stupid things, not that I'm saying that I do say stupid things, but doesn't her reasoning seem a bit... callous?!"

"It is the only thing we can do right now. We need to acquire more supplies. Until then can we hope to rescue anyone at all."

"Fine, where can we get holy water?" Annie asked with a sigh.

"A church!" the other four replied.

"Oh, yeah!"

"Maddy and Annie, get all the spray bottles and containers you can find. The girls and I will obtain the holy water."

Angela, Veronica, and Vivicka called a hover-taxi while Maddy and Annie dashed to the mansion to empty out bottles and search for their water guns.

XXXXX

On top of the biology building stood the youngest pure-zompire alive. Azure looked down to see a group of five girls conversing. One was leaning on another. He smiled to himself.

"So, they think they can get away? I dun't think so. What about you, love?" Azure said as he turned away to face Levita, who was standing at the center of the roof.

"What are you doing? You can't just let people escape! And you say 'love' one more time and I'll knock your teeth out," she said as walked to the edge of the building and joined Azure in looking down at the group.

"Look at them. It's so bloody amusing. That's why I do it."

"So, is this the first group to escape at least?"

"Oh, no! There was a group before them of about ten or eleven kids. That was fun, love. You should have seen them whimpering and crying pitifully."

Levita clenched her fist and tried to remind herself why she bothered to awaken this moron.

Suppressing her anger, she asked, "Have any of the Senshi brats appeared yet?"

Azure cocked his head to the side, "No, actually. Scared to death I suppose. Who knows, maybe they've turned and I didn't even know it. Now, wouldn't that be fascinating, love?"

Levita glared at him, "It wouldn't be that easy. I'll be leaving now. Prolonged exposure to idiocy tends to make me violent. Get me what I want before tomorrow night or you know where you'll be going."

"Of course, love," Azure said smugly.

"Good."

Levita disappeared in a blaze of blue light.

"Now, what do we have here? Splitting up, are we?" Azure said as he observed the group breaking up and running in opposite directions. "That woman doesn't know what she's missing."

XXXXX

"Wow! Look at those wooden stakes!" Veronica said. She and Vivicka ran to check them out.

"Not to mention that they are in the trash can with leftover Chinese food," Angela mumbled. "Come on, we should do this quickly."

Angela had to drag the girls away from the trash can and into the church. Veronica and Vivicka were sanding their stakes when they entered.

"Where did you get the sand paper?" Angela asked.

"In the trash box," replied Vivicka.

Angela chose not to question this as she began to look around the church. Vivicka and Veronica stood by the doors splashing holy water on their stakes.

"Vivicka! Veronica! Cease, please!" Angela whispered.

"Sorry, Angela, but we need to boost the effectiveness of our weapons!" Vivicka said.

Veronica continued to eagerly splash her stake. Suddenly, Angela remembered that they did not bring anything to store the holy water.

"Well... where can we put the holy water since Maddy and Annie are getting the bottles?"

"Why don't we just take that barrel of holy water in the priest's room?" Veronica suggested.

"No, that would be wrong," before Angela could finish her lecture on stealing, she saw Veronica and Vivicka carrying two casks of holy water out the church doors.

"Hey! Get back here!" shouted a priest.

Angela dashed outside and called for a cab. She whistled for Veronica and Vivicka to get in.

When they were inside the hover-taxi, Angela looked at the two girls, "Why did you steal it? We could have gotten it by some other means."

"We really need it though! It's for a special cause so it makes stealing okay," Veronica tried to explain.

The cab stopped in front of the mansion. Angela sighed and got out while Veronica and Vivicka almost tumbled out of the door because they were hugging their casks.

"Come come," Angela said as the two girls rushed to the door and unfortunately, Maddy was the one who opened it. She was bombarded with the various retellings of the two girls' adventure.

"Okay, okay! Silent time okay? We're about to kick some zompire butt and you guys are just a little too chippery for me," Maddy said as she let them in.

"Wow, and I thought Maddy was always the excited, cheerful one," Vivicka said to Veronica.

"Yeah, well don't let one of the twosome gruesome fool you. They're always grumpy, especially the other one," Veronica replied.

Maddy ignored their comments, as did Annie who walked into the living room to greet them.

"Hey guys, get enough?"

"I do hope so," Angela responded.

"Heck yeah!" Veronica said as she tapped on both of the barrels of holy water. "Let's start fillin' up!"

They began to load their 'weapons' with the liquid. As they did this, they discussed Azure's whereabouts.

"Okay, so I'm just gonna ask the most plainest, obvious questions," Maddy said, "Where in the world did this guy come from and why is it invasion of the living-dead at our school?"

"Well, in response to the most obvious question number one, I will give obvious answer number one: he is probably involved with the Sinistar Warriors," Angela replied.

"Uh... who?" Veronica asked absently.

"Y'know! That weird burgundy haired lady that made me jump out the window! She's part of some Sinistar team," Vivicka said.

"I knew that..." Veronica muttered.

"What about question two?" Annie said as she filled up a bottle.

"The answer would have to involve us somehow," Angela said.

"Why us? Because we're Star Buds? They seemed to think we were Senshi or something last time, didn't they? I thought you told her to scram too, Ange!"

"It is not always that easy. With psychotic minds like hers, they never listen."

"I just can't stand that someone would do all this just to get us. I mean, we aren't that important. Besides, why not just capture us again like last time if they know where we are?"

"I believe they only know we attend Jujo High. Nothing more. As to why they want to destroy us, I have not a clue."

"Why can't it just be because it's October?" Maddy interjected.

"What?!" Annie and Veronica said at the same time.

"Boy, you guys better stop doing that," Vivicka said with a laugh.

"I mean, what if they're just doing this because it's this kind of time of year? It is the time for all the ghouls and ghosts to come out! Think about it people!"

"Riiight... Could I punch the brains back into her Angela?" Veronica said as she readied her fist.

"No, no. This has got to be more than just some Halloween incident," Angela said, ignoring Veronica's offer.

Vivicka was about to say something but she felt her throat become dry. Her hands began to shake and the bottle she held in her hand splashed out holy water. Some of it splashed onto her arm.

A hoarse, low shriek came from her.

"Viv!"

"Vivicka! Calm down! Maddy, Annie, get her to the couch. Veronica, get some hot tea."

They went about their jobs as Angela began to ponder about Vivicka's condition. The time was definitely getting closer. They needed to have a plan. They needed to save Vivicka. They needed to find Azure. More importantly, they needed to know what to do once they found him.

XXXXX

The next day...

"Is everyone armed and ready to rumble?" asked Annie. Everyone nodded except Vivicka, who coughed and lightly swaggered.

"You alright chump?" Veronica asked her.

"I think I'm getting weak because the zompire me is trying to take over. But... I'll be alright," Vivicka replied.

The five walked to school once again. This time, they were on the alert for any strange vibe that might appear. Each had a water gun in their bag, two spares, and a spray bottle.

"Let us go over the plan," Angela said, breaking the apprehensive silence.

"Not again!" Annie and Maddy complained.

"It's because she don't think you guys remembered the plan!" Veronica remarked with a grin.

Maddy and Annie sighed as Angela began to recite their strategy.

"When we get inside the school, we split into two groups. One group is in charge of finding Azure. The other group is in charge of rescuing any student, staff, or teacher from the clutches of these zompires."

"I thought we weren't going to care about the 'normals' because we're going to defeat Azure and they'd turn back to normal anyway!" Maddy said.

"Now that we have the right weapons, we can start saving those innocent bystanders!" Vivicka said, almost in a whisper.

"Good answer Vivicka."

Maddy and Annie glared at the sick little girl, but then felt bad for doing it because she looked so unhealthy.

"Remind me why we're not transforming and not kicking whatever life that's left out of those zompires? Because I think we can do it," Annie said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"I knew you guys don't remember! It's 'cause we want the elemento of surprise," Veronia replied, "If we know that they want to kill us, we could just sneak up on them and y'know the rest..."

"What Veronica is trying to explain is that we could defeat the ones responsible for this without them knowing that we know what they know, it would be much more effective."

"Okay... Confusing, much?" Annie said.

"She's trying to say that it's better to surprise them than just barge in and waste a perfectly good attack!" Vivicka shouted and then quieted down, "I-I'm sorry... it's the zompire thing... honest!"

"I see the grumpy little zombat is starting to take over, or is it? Anyhow, let's go do it!" Maddy said cheerfully as the five got to the school grounds.

Like the day before, there was nothing unusual about the place. People walked around normally and there was no sign of zompires or such.

They walked into the school building, ready to fire at anything that moved. However, nobody was around. The halls were silent and empty.

"Heck! What's the fun without hackin' and slashin'," Veronica cried out furiously.

Then, out of the deep dark corners of the corridor, a loud growling emerged. They looked at each other. The growling sound became louder. Zompires poured down from the stairs, they came through the front door, and marched through the hall.

"Great! Open your big mouth, Ver!" Annie yelled.

"Shuddup!" snapped Veronica and she kicked an oncoming teacher back.

"Do not forget the plan!" Angela shouted above the noises of the zompires.

"Yeah, spray 'em!" Maddy exclaimed.

As she was saying, there were spraying... (Sorry, I had to rhyme there. I couldn't resist!)

Meanwhile, on the rooftop...

She touched her long burgundy hair and then looked at the pale man.

"You have until tonight to fulfill your mission. If you try anything like pitting your followers against me, I could wipe them out in one blast—without hesitation."

Azure smiled, "Of course you would, love. It's working out just as I hoped it would. In fact, the five are here as we speak and I will crush them."

"Azure, you shouldn't brag so much unless you have the strength to back it up, which I have yet to witness," Levita said with a wicked smile.

"I will not only crush them then. I'll bring them to you so you can see me crush them!" he said and added with a wink, "I'll see you here again, love."

With that, he disappeared and left her standing alone on top of the building.

End: Part III of Episode II