Chapter 18
Jason wakes up as he looks outside and notices that the streets seem to be empty. He gets up from his bed and walks around the house, he notices that Nate, his dads even Tadano and Henry seem to be missing. Jason heads to the front door and was about to open it until he heard a loud bang coming from the otherside of the door. Startled Jason jumps back and tries to catch his breath as the sound scared him a little.
Jason looks out the window and sees a bloody goat hitting the door with his head growling as blood drips from his maw.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING!" Jason exclaims as he reaches for his cell phone to call one of his dads. The phone rings a few times but then goes straight to voicemail. Getting scared Jason begins to breath heavily as he tries to call Haida instead. The phone rings a few times and then someone answers.
"DAD...DAD WHERE ARE YOU GUYS?! WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!" Jason screams in the phone his voice cracking with fear.
"I don't know Jason we just went to go get some groceries and you were knocked out so we didn't want to wake you, next thing we know we are at the grocery store and some people who were bleeding attacked us" Haida says over the phone trying to stay calm as well as calm his son.
"Are you guys ok? please tell me you all are safe," Jason says softly.
"We are fine son, listen we are almost home do you see anyone outside? if so how many," Haida says.
"Um...just...just one goat dad, he's been slamming his head against the door trying to get in but the door doesnt seem to be budging, I mean there is a few pieces of the door missing but other than that the door is keeping sturdy," Jasons says as he backs away into the kitchen.
"Ok got it, now just stay on the phone when I tell you, open the door ok," Haida says.
"Dad are you nuts?!" Jason yells into the phone.
"Listen son, we are gonna take care of the goat, but we got some groceries and if you want us to be ok you gotta open the door for us so that we can get everything in, in one go." Haida says somewhat annoyed, but changes his tone knowing that his son is alone and scared.
"Ok son we are pulling up, Tadano just closed the gates behind us,when I tell you, you open the door and not a second sooner ok." Haida says as he looks over at Jojo who sighs and reaches into his pocket and pulls out a gun. Once they get near the house Jojo is the first out, the goat then sees Jojo and rushes him, once the goat got near Jojo crouched down and let the goat flip over him. Before the goat could get up jojo placed a foot on the goat's chest, Jojo then aims the gun at the goat's face before pulling the trigger shooting him right in the forehead."
Haida then tells Jason that it's safe and to open the door now. Jason opens the door as Nate runs into his brother's arms bawling his eyes out. Jason does his best to comfort Nate but can't help himself and begins to sob a little as well.
Before they go into the house Jason hears some familiar voices calling out to him. He looks up to the front gate and sees Desoto,Rosco, and Anna standing at the gate screaming asking to be let in.
"Dads, Uncle Tadano we gotta let them in please can we let them in!" Jason screams as he rushes to the gate. Tadano unsure simply looks at Jojo who sighs and nods his head.
Tadano and Henry rush to the gate and open them manually just enough for Rosco them get in. But before they close the gates Anai's car pulls right up on the sidewalk blocking the gate as Emily opens the passenger door and gets out of the car with Melody in her arms. Anai locks the driver's door before climbing to the passenger side and into the gate. Tadano them finally close the gates and lock it. Anai leans forward his hands on his knees panting.
"Anai, are you ok?" Jason asks. Anai looks up at Jason and glares before snapping.
"DO I LOOK LIKE IM OK?! MY WIFE AND MY DAUGHTER ALMOST GOT EATEN BY SOME ZOMBIE LOOKING MOTHER FUCKER,SO NO I AM NOT ALRIGHT!" Anai snaps which causes Jason to jump back a bit.
"Babe I know your emotions and your adrenaline is rushing right now but that gives you no right to snap at your nephew," Emily says giving her husband a soft kiss on the cheek.
Once Anai calms down and the group goes into the house Anai apologizes to Jason and the group begins to talk about what happened.
"Uncle Tadano, what happened to your butler?" Rosco asks.
"He...He didn't make it. We were running to the car and we all got in but when we turned to look back he got ambushed and was taken out," Tadano says softly his voice almost a whisper.
Jason and everyone goes over and hugs Tadano who just begins to cry. The family begins to discuss what they are going to do, with food being limited and the power may go out.
"There is only one thing we can do," Tadano says as he leads them to a door in his house. He opens the door revealing a room with loads of guns.
"Terrance, used to take me to the shooting range and we would shoot targets for a good few hours before coming home, yeah I may have never worked a day in my life but creating things and keeping up with the data and security for my networks does cause some stress for me as well, and well going to the range was my way of de-stressing, Until I made friends that is." Tadano looks over at Jojo them.
"So me, Jojo, Anai, Henry, and Haida will be carrying the guns and ammo, we can take the van and go out the back, There will be enough room for all of us and we can put the ammo in the trunk." Tadano says.
Tadano and the other guys begin to grab some guns as well as the ammo and begin to load it in the van. Once the ammo was loaded the group begin to get in as well. But Tadano was wrong, there wasn't enough room for everyone.
Emily and Melody were standing outside of the van and Emily lets out a little chuckle.
"Guess there isn't enough room for us, you guys go on a head me and Melody will figure out something, I will see you soon ok babe." Emily says smiling and leans in the passenger window and gives Anai a kiss on his lips.
"NO FUCK THAT EMILY, YOU AND MELODY TAKE MY SEAT RIGHT NOW, DO NOT ARGUE WITH ME," Anai says as he tries to open the passenger door, but a hand is slammed against it. Anai looks up to see who is keeping him in and sees Rosco standing there.
"You are not getting out of this car Uncle Anai, Emily can take my seat," Rosco says.
As the group was about to argue they hear footsteps coming from the house, Rosco looks behind him and sees Jojo walking out.
"Did you guys forget that I was here," Jojo says in a sarcastic tone.
"But dad, there isn't enough room in the van," Jason says.
"I know there isn't which is why I went back into the house to get Anai's keys, I'm going to take his car." Jojo says wiggling Anai's keys in his hand. Before anyone can protest Haida speaks up.
"Listen everyone there is no arguing with Jojo, Once he has made up his mind, it will not change. Besides I know my boyfriend, He won't die easily." Haida says giving his boyfriend a smile. Jojo looks over at Rosco and tells him that Rosco will be riding with him. Jojo and Rosco get into Anai's car and begin to drive off meeting Tadano them at the end of the street. After what feels like hours the group arrive at a gas station. Tadano and Anai begin to fill up the vehicles as Jojo them go into the store, but before they get far into the store they hear the sound of a gun being cocked. The group look to where the sound came from and sees the worker standing behind the counter with a shotgun pointing at them.
"Who are you?! Are you one of them?!" the clerk says shaking a bit.
"No we aren't one of those things, we just came to fuel up our cars and get some food for the road, then we will be on our way," Jojo says. the group grab some stuff and Jojo pays for it, before Jojo can leave the clerk calls out to him.
"Hey buddy come e're real quick," the clerk says.
"Yeah what's good?" Jojo asks.
The clerk hands Jojo a card, "Listen this card is good for any gas station, and gives you 20% off for gas, take it ok." the clerk says his voice starting to shake.
"You were bitten weren't you," Jojo says looking at the clerk, the clerk begins to sob.
"This store was runned by me and my wife, she got sick one day and I just thought she had a fever. but today...today out of the blue she crawled out of the back room where I made a little bed for her and she bit me in my leg."
"I...I shot my wife already but I am to scared to pull the trigger on myself...I don't want to become one of them so...can you do it for me." The clerk says sobbing.
"Sure...on a count of three I'm going to pull the trigger 1...2" Jojo pulls the trigger shooting the clerk in the heart...
Jason hearing the shot runs back into the store seeing his dad alright but the clerk gone.
"He got bitten son...so he wanted me to save him from becoming one of them." Jojo says as he hugs his son and leads him out of the store.
As they get near the bridge they notice that there are abandoned cars on the road blocking them from going any further, Henry reverses the car and takes another route.
The group eventually ends up in front of the building that Jojo them work at, They get near the entrance and notice that the door is blocked by several what appear to be zombified animals.
"Babe you got the key to the building still right?" Henry asks.
"Yeah I got the keys," Tadano says as he wiggles a little key ring with three keys on them. Jojo parked a few feet behind the van looks at Rosco.
"Listen Rosco once Tadano them get out you are going to follow them ok," Jojo says as he unlocks their doors.
"But what about.." Rosco was about to ask when he sees Jojo open the door and begin to dart to the left shouting trying to get there attention.
"Uncle Jojo!" Rosco screams. Once the seven zombies begin to chase Jojo the gang follow Tadano who unlocks the doors and lets the kids, Emily, Anai, Henry. Haida was screaming that he needed to go save Jojo. Tadano nods and places a hand on Haida's shoulder before shoving him into the building before closing and locking the door.
"TADANO!? WHAT THE FUCK!" Haida screams pounding on the glass.
"Haida shut the fuck up you are going to attract more. None of you have a gun yet but me and Jojo do,now back away from the door I am going to rescue Jojo" Tadano says as Haida chokes back his tears but simply nods his head as he leads them to the elevators. Tadano cocks his gun as he goes the opposite direction as Jojo did hoping to meet up with him around the building.
"I hope Jojo is ok," Tadano says as he begins to breath heavily running as fast as he could around the building, once Tadano reaches a corner of the building he hears 5 gun shots. Quickly Tadano turns the corner and sees two more stalking towards Jojo. Tadano quickly lifts his gun as he pulls the trigger and shoots one in the head as the other turns around and begins to stalk towards Tadano. Without hesitating he reloads and shoots the other one in the head.
"Jojo you're bleeding," Tadano says as he walks over to Jojo looking at the bloody rabbit.
"Oh its not my blood its theirs, luckily we got a shower in the building and a washer and dryer." Jojo says as they make their way to the front of the building Tadano unlocks the door as they get in and find the others safe and sound. He quickly locks the door again.
"Babe I'm so glad you're safe," Haida says as tears filled his eyes he begins to run to Jojo about to hug him, Jojo simply ducks and laughs.
"Wait till I at least get cleaned up babe I am covered in zombie blood." Jojo says as he makes his way to the shower, Haida following not far behind him. Once they get to the shower Jojo takes off his cloths and throws it in the locker room as Tadano grabs it with some gloves and makes his way to the washer. Haida not hesitating takes off his cloths and jumps into the same stall as Jojo.
"I was so worried babe, I was worried something bad happened. You gotta stop being so reckless, I don't wanna lose you...I need you my queen," Haida says hugging the rabbit around his waist from behind him.
"My silly king you know I can't die easy, I am not going anywhere." Jojo says nuzzling his head against Haida's neck, Haida lets out a sigh as he begins to softly sob. Haida was so sure that Jojo would have died but he did have a little hope knowing exactly how strong his boyfriend is.
Once the coast was clear Tadano, Jojo, Haida and Anai go and grab the ammo, guns, and snacks from the van, luckily none of the snacks they had needed to be refrigerated or in the freezer. Once the last bit of ammo was out Tadano closes the door and creeps back to the building. Once inside he locks the door again as about a dozen more zombies come.
"They must have heard me close the van door," Tadano says as he takes a bite of a granola bar, Emily in another room begins to feed Melody her bottle as she gently rocks the baby in her arms. Time flies by and it's now midnight. The group is all laying down in the rec room until they hear the noise of two cars starting. Haida wakes up as he rubs his eyes and walk over to the window, but is quickly wide awake now as he sees the van and Anai's car on before two meerkats drive off with the vehicles.
"FUCK!" Haida screams which wakes everyone with a start.
"Haida what happened?" Anai says rubbing his eyes.
"Two meerkats stole our vehicles," Haida says, slamming his hand against the window. Henry sighs as he grabs a flashlight from a drawer.
"Ok Jojo, Anai, you guys grab a gun and some ammo, does anyone know how to hot wire a car?" Henry asks. Desoto raises his hand.
"My dad had a habit of losing his keys so would have me hotwire the car and once we would get home he would see that the keys fell inbetween the door and the driver seat." Desoto says.
"Good ok you are going to come with us. We will protect you while you hot wire a car or 2 ok bud," Henry says as he grabs two pistols and Jojo grabs a three-shot burst gun and some extra ammo. As Henry them head for the door Jason runs up to his dad and hugs him, "Please...please come back to me dad." Jason whispers.
"It's ok son I will come back we all will I promise." Jojo says kissing his son on the top of his head.
Once out the door Henry hears the door lock as they make there way down the road. Henry in the front Desoto in the middle and Jojo behind watching the rear. About ten minutes into the walk they get near the main road, they see many cars destroyed. Checking the cars they see that they all have flat tires or are literally blown up. They continue down the road as they can hear some low growling.
"Shh quiet, stay still for a moment, do not make a sound." Henry says in a soft voice, they stand still for a few minutes before the growling gets further away. Fifteen minutes later they arrive at a gas station and see two abandoned cars. They check the wheels.
"Ok they look like they are still in working order, now let's see if they will run." Henry says as he grabs the driver door and pulls the handle, the door opens without issue and in the ignition is the keys.
"Huh? we lucked out on this one." Jojo says. The group walks over to the next one and they check the door, and like the other car the door is unlocked but this one the key was gone.
"Ok, I got this but it will take five minutes ok." Desoto says as he yanks a plastic piece underneath the steering wheel. He then begins to mess with the wires and the car roars to life. Just then the group hears loud growls coming from the store and four zombies come walking out.
"You guys go, I will be right behind you." Jojo says as he shoots two of them in the head.
"Ok but you better come back if you aren't back in 20 minutes we are coming back for you ok." Desoto says sternly.
"You got it bud," Jojo says smiling as he shoots the third one in the head.
Henry and Desoto hop in the first car as they take off down the road. After Jojo kills the last zombie he goes into the store and checks the cash register. He notices that there is still power and that the pumps are still running. Jojo searches around the store and sees two red gas cans sitting in the back of the store. He grabs them and punches some numbers into the register and starts the gas. Jojo fills up both of them and places them in the back of the car. It finally dawned on Jojo though, that while he was in the store the car died.
"Shit...Haha I guess I gotta wait now." Jojo says as he grabs a soda and opens it and drinks it. Twenty-five minutes Later Anai and Desoto come back and sees Jojo sitting on the steps with 4 cans of soda next to him.
"JOJO! what the hell you said you would be back?!" Desoto snaps
"Yeah I was but then the car stopped running and I don't know how to do what you do," Jojo says laughing. Desoto just sighs and hot wires the car again. Jojo hops into the car as they begin to go back to the building where everyone is at. Once there they gather everyone as they head back out on the road. They drive to a nearby neighborhood as they search for survivors. The group gets out of the car as they begin walking down the street. Just then the group hears Emily scream. They turn around quickly to see a zombie walking towards her, her scream though attracted nearby zombies as they begin to gather and walk towards the group. Emily in shock is to scared to move, So Anai runs infront of her blocking her from the zombies. Next thing you know bullets fly past Anai as the zombies begin to fall down.
Nate is heard screaming next as a zombie has him in its grasp. Haida grabs the zombie throwing it to the ground before shooting it in the head.
"Haida, this place will swarm with zombies soon, you guys take the cars and go." Jojo says, Haida refuses but then Jojo lifts his shirt and Haida sees that he's bleeding.
"I...I got bit babe, a while back, so please just take our kids and take our family and get the hell out of here." Jojo says as he shares a passionate kiss with Haida before pressing his forehead against Haida's.
"I will always love you my king, please raise our son's well ok." Jojo says in a whisper. Haida knowing that Jojo won't change his mind. Is about to walk away but then hears Jojo calling him. Haida turns around and Jojo has his hand out holding a picture. Haida takes a look and its the Christmas photo that Jason his friends and the family took together, everyone was there even Anai and Emily.
Haida turns and begins to run away, the tears falling freely. Once he gets back to the gang he tells them they gotta leave, Jason and Nate are arguing back refusing to leave Jojo.
Tadano, Henry, Anai, and Haida force the kids into the cars as Jason can be heard screaming for his dad.
Jojo looks back and smiles as he walks into a nearby house and turns on a speaker and attaches his phone to it via bluetooth. He begins to play a song as loud as he could which causes the house to swarm with zombies trying to get in. Jojo begins to pour the gasoline in the house before walking into the kitchen and turning on the stove, he can hear the soft hissing of gas.
Jojo grabs his lighter and lights it. A loud blast his heard as house after house begins to blow up.
Jason and everyone not holding back the tears begin to bawl their eyes out. Jason then sits up in bed and screams, "DADS!" Haida and Jojo rush into the room and see Jason sitting on his bed crying.
"Son, what is it? What's wrong?" Haida asks.
"I had such a bad nightmare but it felt so real." Jason says sobbing into Haida's chest as Jojo goes around and hugs Jason from the back.
"Tell us son, what happened." Jojo says in a calming voice.
"We were attacked by zombies, and we were all doing well until we went to a neighborhood and we got surrounded and Dad sacrificed himself to save us." Jason says trying to catch his breath.
"Let me guess, Jojo is the one who sacrificed himself huh?" Haida asks which Jason simply nods.
"Well you had quite the scare son. Do you want us to lay a sleeping bag in our room and you sleep with us tonight?" Haida asks.
"W...would you...be ok with that dads?" Jason asks finally calming down and wiping his tears.
"Of course we would be ok with it, it seems that this nightmare really got to you and it would make us feel better if you slept in our room just in case you have it again, then we will be right there to hug you when you wake up." Jojo says kissing his son on the top of his head. Jojo then leaves the room as he grabs a sleeping bag and a pillow, Haida leads Jason to the room and Jason lays down on the sleeping bag. Haida and Jojo get back into bed.
"Dads?" Jason asks in a whisper.
"Yea son?" Haida asks
"You guys aren't going to leave me and Nate anytime soon right?" Jason asks.
"Never, we aren't going to be going anywhere anytime soon, we will be here to see you graduate highschool and graduate college." Jojo says.
"You promise?"
"Yes son we promise now go to bed ok."
"Goodnight dads, I love you both...and you both are my heroes," Jason says softly as he closes his eyes feeling safe in the same room with his dads.
"You and Nate are our most precious things in our life, we are glad to have you as part of our growing family. Haida says, as the family finally falls asleep.
