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Mayhem: Hospital of Hell
I think it's been an hour since the building collapsed and this S.T.A.R.S. officer bruised his hip. I been helping him move around since he can't walk on his own while also fighting off zombies. I'm not really sure where we are going. I'm just concerned about getting away from them, which sadness me because those were people I once knew or saw on the streets in this town.
"ARGH!" The S.T.A.R.S. officer yells out. He loses his balance, causing me to carry more of his weight. It's too much for me that I let go, having him fall to the ground. I try to carry him, but he refuses. "No. Just go Shinobu. I don't want to burden you any longer." He seems to want death over life. I see the terror and fear in his eyes, the same as Sempai had before he died. I can't live with the fact another person trying to save me had to die.
"No! Come with me!" My English isn't too good, but I think he understands what I said.
"Dammit! I can barely walk on my hip. It's killing me! I'm as good as dead. Just go." He seems committed to risk his life for me and there isn't anything I can think of to stop him. Shedding a tear, I turn around and notice the buildings around me. Although I'm far away from the Hinata Sou or my school, it looks familiar. Then I realize where I am. I turn back around to the officer, sticking out my hand.
"Hospital. Two blocks from here." He looks at me with hope now. I help him back up and carry him the two blocks. Once we get there, a group of zombies are surrounding the entrance. I don't know another way in, so we're pretty screwed.
"What's the hold up?" The officer ask.
"More zombies. We can't go through."
"Oh yes we can. Hold me up." I'm not sure what he's talking about until he reaches for his gun. A long gun. I'm no expert on them, so I don't know what it is. Upon request, I hold him on his bad hip as he steadies his gun. He tells me to hold him still before firing. The shockwaves of the gun almost make me drop him. He fires three more shots before telling he's done and to continue on. I'm a little worry about the zombies, but when we get to the entrances, those zombies are dead on the ground.
When we enter, I'm surprise that no one is around. We make our way to the elevator and decide to go to the top floor to find any survivors. When the doors open, we see a massive number of zombies come towards us.
"Get back!" The officer yells, putting himself in front of the zombie herd. I'm not sure what he's doing, but I hear gunshots being fired. I cover my ear from the loud noise until I feel a hand on my shoulder. I slowly turn to see the officer. "Lead the way." I peak through the door, seeing more zombie bodies on the floor.
We make our way in the hallway, but for some reason, all the doors are locked. With no other choice, we slowly go down the stairs. I fear the worse with each step we take. It comes true when we reach the bottom and hear someone yelling for help.
"Go on. I'll catch up," the officer says. I equip my blade and run towards the voice.
I get no less then a few yards when a see a bloody middle-age female nurse crawling away from a couple of zombies. I know she had no chance of survival unless I reach her first. I run as hard as I can going to her. I watch helplessly as a zombie grabs her leg. Before it can take a bite into her, I jump and stab the monster right through head. I forgot about the other one until I hear it groan. I look up, seeing it diving towards me. I struggle to pull my blade out from the floor, but it's stuck. I can only watch the zombie get closer and closer towards me when I hear a gunshot, somehow causing the zombie to move away from me and fall. I turn my back and see the officer.
"Got him," he says, then sighs before falling himself. It might be from the pain of his hip, so I let him rest to help the nurse up.
"You all right?"
"Yes. Thank you." She turns in the direction of the officer and goes to him. I'm concerned about the nurse since she is limping. "You all right, sir?"
"He doesn't speak Japanese," I tell her. She looks surprise, but repeats herself in English.
"I'm fine. Just a little pain on my hip. How bout you?"
"I'm doing all right."
"How long have you been here?"
"I been stuck here since last night, trapped in a room with a few patients, away from those monsters. Out of no where, those patients turned into those monsters and attacked me."
"Have you been bitten any where?"
"No, but one did scratch me." She turns her leg back, showing a bleeding scratch mark on her leg. I know that if you get bit, you turn into a zombie. I'm not sure about a scratch, but I have to watch out for her incase the results are the same. "Enough chitchat. Let's get out of here!"
"Where? The whole town is infested with those things."
"I know of a secret underground pathway we can escape to. I'm not sure where it leads to, but it should be better then this death trap."
"That sounds good to me. You lead the way." We start walking towards the elevator when I remember I forgot my blade. I walk in the other direction, trying to pull it out again.
"Miss," I hear the nurse say. "We have to go."
"Not until I get my blade out."
"What's the hold up?" I officer ask.
"She needs her sword." I pull with all my might, but it still won't budge.
"Let me try," the officer says. I let him try and he successfully pulls it out, but not before he screams in agony again, falling on the floor and holding his hip.
"Sir!" The nurse rushes to the aid of the S.T.A.R.S. officer. "Are you all right?"
"No! My hip..." The nurse lifts his hand, checking the injure hip.
"Hmmm. It's bruised and there is some swelling." She touches it for herself, causing the officer to cry out. "Seems that nothing is broken. I think you need painkillers. Let's get you to the third floor." She carries him over to the elevator. When the doors open, we get in and wait for the third floor. The officer orders me up front, incase what happened at the top level happens again here.
I anticipate an army of zombies, hearing my heart beating loudly as the door slowly opens. When I see none, I jump into the hallway, seeing if they're from the sides. With no zombies to fight, I let my guard down, breathing a sigh of relieve.
The nurse leads us to a room, where you have to have a keycard to enter. She swipes the card through the electric box and opens the door. Inside is a small room with an examining table and a few cabinets. Making the officer lay on the table, she goes to one of the cabinets and pulls out a small bottle of painkillers, handing them to the officer.
"Take two of theses and you should be find within an hour." He pops them into his mouth and swallows.
"Thanks." The nurse smiles and goes back to the cabinet, pulling out a roll of bandage tape. She ask me to help her roll it around her cut leg, which I do. Once we're finish, my stomach loudly groans.
"Miss, are you hungry?" I nod my head. "Come with me. The cafeteria is on this floor. Let's get some food to eat." She turns to the officer. "Do you want anything, sir?" I see him pulling out his gun and handing it to the nurse.
"Protect yourself." The nurse seems uneasy holding the gun, but wedge it in her pants.
"Will do. And please don't leave this room. You need a keycard to enter the door, so none of those monsters should be able to enter."
"Even if I wanted to, I rather have some much needed rest." I smile at him before leaving with the nurse.
The walk to the cafeteria is far, like to the other side of the building. We only fought one zombie before getting there.
The cafeteria itself was empty with blood smeared on most of the walls, tables, chairs and some of the left over food. Whatever was here either walked away or got eaten away. We get some cold food from the vending machine and try to heat it in the microwave, but we got freaked out when we saw a decapitated head with blood inside. Since we only got sandwiches, we sit ourselves at the most cleanest table, eating our food.
"I still can't believe all this is real," the nurse says, taking another bite. I notice her looking at me with a sparkle in her eyes. "How old are you?"
"Me? I'm 13. Why?"
"Only 13 and you can swing a sword like that? You must be an expert swordsperson and really brave the way you don't show any fear when you slice those monsters." I know she's getting to give me a complement, but it actually breaking my heart. I remember Motoko teaching me only the basics. And the bravery is actually anger at the woman who handed out the cookies did to this city.
"Thanks," I half-heartedly say.
"Is the whole city like this?"
"Yeah," I bit into my sandwich. "The streets are full of them. Can't really escape when you keep running going them at every block corner."
"I just hope this pathway will help us do that."
"Where exactly is it?"
"On the ground floor where the stairs are, there is a door that says maintenance. Now, that is an active room, but somewhere along the wall is a switch where the smallest wall open, which lead into the underground pathway."
"Why does a hospital have a underground pathway?"
"This used to be a mental institution. Somewhere along the pathway was where a doctor did experiments on some of the patients. If I remember right, it's was in a small stone room."
"How do you know all this?"
"I was one of the first nurses hired when it opened in 1968. It was always a rumors, but I wanted to know for myself. So I checked it out and sure enough, a wall opened. But I never went through it."
"Why?"
"It closed up before I got a chance to check it out. I never knew how it closed, so I never wanted to try again, in fear that I might never get out." I notice her looking very weak and bobbling her head like she wants to sleep. She drops her sandwich on the ground before falling face first on the table. Before I could check her, I hear an explosion from behind. I turn around and see a giant rat. I grab my blade and go over to the nurse.
"Miss! We got to get out of here!" I lightly shake her, hoping she wakes up. I hear a high pitch squeaking noise from above. When I look up, I see the giant rat in the air, coming towards us. I grab the nurse and dive out of the way before the rat crushes on the table. I gently put the nurse on the floor and have a stare down with the rat.
I can tell in it's eyes that it wants me to eat me, even though my blade is in front of it. Without hesitation, I run towards the rat. It tries to swat me with it's paw, but I roll over to the other side, stab it's side and run, making a long cut from it's front paw to the back paw. It wildly moves around from the pain. I watch as it's tail comes at me, sending me across the room. I hit the wall really hard, but I quickly up. I suspect the rat to be dead with the amount of blood I cut through, but it stares at me like it wants revenge. I get ready with another assault when I see my blade is still on the rat.
"Great! What else could happen?" From behind, I could hear some moaning. I turn halfway around to see the nurse slowly standing up. When she looks at me, I already know she's one of them with her pale skin which is starting to decay and bloodshot eyes.
She comes at me, but I been keeping another eye on the giant rat, who's also coming at me. I move out of the way in time to watch the two of them collide into each other. No damage seems to be done to the rat, but looks a little stun. The zombie on the other hand, flies into a wall. I'm not convince that she's dead and I have to get the cardkey and gun from her.
As the rat is distracted, I run over to it and yank out the blade, making it cry in agony. I run as fast as I can to zombie, who's slowly getting up again. Once she is fully standing, I slice her throat, watching a spew of blood fly all around before she hits the floor. I quickly search her and find the gun the officer gave her. I can hear the rat's paws coming at me with a fast pace. I pull out the gun, aim it at the rat and fire. I shoot it five times before it squeaks loudly, falling to the floor.
Still my the gun drawn on the rat, I slowly walk towards it and lightly kick it's nose a few times. It makes no reaction, so I'm convince it's dead. I make my way back to the dead nurse and find the cardkey, putting it in my pocket. I notice blood all over my arms and parts of my legs, but nowhere on my clothes. There is blood on the blade, but I expect that.
I leave the cafeteria and head over to a bathroom to wash up. I only find a men's bathroom, but since no one is really around, I go in. I walk over to the sink and begin to wash away the blood on my arm when one of the stall doors burst open with a zombie coming out. Not wanting to get into a big mess again, I pull out the gun and shoot at it until I empty the gun. The zombie crushes to the floor as I continue to clean myself.
With all the blood off of me and my blade, I go back to the room with the S.T.A.R.S. officer. I swipe the cardkey and let myself in, seeing the officer sitting on the table. He looks surprise to see me.
"Where's the nurse?" He ask. I look at the floor, not really wanting to tell him.
"She's...dead. Turned into a zombie." He shakes his head and pounds his fist onto the table.
"Shit! She's suppose to lead us to this underground pathway and we don't know where that is!"
"I know where it is. She told me just before she died."
"You do?" I nod. "Great. Let's get going."
"You need help to walk?" He jumps off the table, stretching the side of his injured hip.
"Don't think so. I feel no pain, so I'll walk on my own." He walks towards his long gun, striping it around himself. "Lead the way to our escape." I hand him back his gun before going on our way.
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