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Disclaimer: I do not own Highschool of the Dead. I only own the OC George Edwards.
'The world is fucked.' George thought to himself as he sat beside Takashi and Rei with their backs against the wall. In front of them was the corpse of what was once their friend, Hisashi, which was covered by a towel.
After several minutes of silence, George finally sighs and stands. "We need to get out of here, or call for help somehow."
Rei sighed and relaxed a little, before standing up. "Well, I guess that I should let my dad know that I'm alright if that's the case," she said, before holding out her hand to the black-haired teenager. "Let me use your phone."
Takashi stood up and reached into his pocket, before giving her the phone without protest. "I understand that he's a police officer, but we can't even connect to 1-1-0," he said as Rei dialed the phone.
"I know this secret number that he told me not to call unless it's an emergency," she told the boys before pressing call and put the phone to her ear. Setting it to speaker for all three of them to hear. After a moment of waiting for someone to pick up the other end, the sound of a person answering the phone made her gasp. "It got through! Dad?!"
"Hello? Takashi?" Rei's father came from the other end of the phone.
"Dad, listen. Daddy, we're at school and…" Rei started, but was cut off.
"Hello, Takashi? You must have gotten this number from Rei. Is Rei okay?" George took note of this. They could hear Rei's father, but he couldn't hear them. Static began to be made through the connection, with only bits and pieces coming through.
"Daddy! What's the matter!? Can you hear me?!"
"Listen carefully, the entire city is…" Rei was started by the sound of gunshots. "You need to get out of there…you understand? The city is already in panic mode. You need to evacuate…"
And then the line was cut. All that was heard was the sound of the phone. Rei looked at the phone and saw that there was no service. "But I just called him! I don't understand!" She frantically pushed buttons on the phone. Trying to get it to work.
"Rei!" Takashi shouted. George could only stand by and watch. He wanted to help, but without any other way of getting in contact with someone on the outside, it was useless.
Rei turned to Takashi with tears pouring out of her eyes. "Takashi…my dad. He didn't know it was me at all. He didn't even know me," she sobbed. All Takashi could do was hug her again.
"Time to get out of here." George said as he picked up his axe and leaned it on his shoulder. He turned his gaze to the barricade, where he can see several zombies behind, trying to get in. "Looks like we'll need to deal with the dead heads. It won't be long before they break the barricade down and swarm the roof."
As if to proof him right, the zombies managed to break the barricade down. George rolled his shoulders before he ran and started swinging the axe, as well as kicking back any zombies that were too close to him.
Once the remaining zombies on the roof were all killed, and Takashi and Rei picked up their weapons, the trio got over the barrier and started making their way down the stairs. Walking around the dead zombies. "Not bad, George," Takashi said with an impressed look and a small smile.
"They should be glad I don't have a gun... yet." George chuckled. "We could have also used the water hose. Would have saved a lot of rounds."
"That's right," said Rei, carrying her spear. "The water pressure would have been strong enough. Don't you remember during the fire drills and we were in junior high, you, Takashi, and Hisashi got…"
George stopped and flinched. Rei saw this and stopped. There was a silence for a moment. "Yep. Those were the good days," George said, trying to keep an optimistic tone. He then turned his head towards her and Takashi and smiled. "You two lovebirds stay close." That comment surprised the former couple and they blushed brightly. They looked and each other before averting their gaze. George smirked and continued onwards.
"So…where do we go?" Rei asked George after getting over her embarrassment Takashi also looked at him for directions. As if George was their unnamed leader.
"First, I'm getting you two out of here." George said seriously. "By now the school's overrun with zombies, students and staff will be getting chomped on or have been bitten and turned. As for where we go once we're out of here... I'm not sure, but I'm sure you two would want to meet with your families, make sure they're safe and haven't been turned."
Rei's eyes widened slightly. "Oh yeah, I bet you guys are really worried about your families too," she said, sounding ashamed of herself for only thinking of her own family.
"My parents are dead." George said flatly as he turned away and walked on with Takashi and Rei following. "Only got my aunt Rika, she's a sniper on the force. She isn't my aunt by blood, she's a close friend of my parents that she's an aunt to me. Takashi, we should call your place and see if anyone's there."
"Waste of time. Nobody's home," Takashi said with the bat on his shoulder. "My dad won't be back in town till next week, and my mom's a school teacher so she won't be home until after 5:00. Besides, they get on my nerves." George and Takashi started making their way towards the roof's exit. As for Rei, she giggled a little.
"Well, they are parents. That's kind of comes with the job," she said as she followed after the boys.
George was in silence. He knew that the guy didn't really mean that. If he had to guess, he was trying to act strong to hide the fact that he was scared. Seeing the things that've happened at this place, and the fact that Takashi's mother was a teacher, George could only image what's going on in his friend's head.
The three students went back into the school through the roof and were now walking down the hallway. Takashi and Rei were behind George, who had his axe in hand. They moved down the bloodied and death smelling corridors with cautions.
Suddenly there was a loud banging sound that made them stop. George looked around in confusion, trying to find where the noise was coming from. Then there were these strange sounds that sounded like gunshots. "Were those gunshots?" Takashi asked.
"Not loud enough," George said with a shake of his head. "Though they could be using a silencer while shooting a bigger round, but it doesn't sound right."
"It's coming from the faculty room," said Rei. The three of them took off towards the direction of the gunshots. Suddenly they heard a girl screaming bloody loudly in terror. George knew who that was from and ran faster. But in his head, he was dreading who it was.
But nonetheless, he still had a job to do.
The group turned the corner near the faculty office, as another small group of two women came. He then saw that the screamer was none other than Saya. His eyes widened when he saw her drilling a zombie in the head with a power drill. Brain bits and blood splatter everywhere as the tool ripped into the dead adult's head.
"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!" She screamed in pure shock, terror, and anguish. "SOMEONE, PLEASE!"
A axe was suddenly impaled through the zombie's head, killing it instantly while the axe was impaled in the wall.
"Bullseye." George fist pumped before seeing the others handle the remaining zombies. George grabbed his axe from the wall and looked over who was with them now.
Saeko Busujima and the ditzy school nurse, Shizuka Marikawa. She was a very tall buxom woman, with ridiculous curves. That wasn't an exaggeration, her physique was most pronounced by her humongous breasts. She had long blonde hair that extended down, pass her waist, and hazel eyes. Several bangs of her hair came down into her face, with two bangs coming down at the sides running all the way down while also framing her face. Shizuka was dressed in a white dress shirt with a brown skirt which was later ripped on the sides.
George knew her personally as she was actually Rika's roommate. He looked and saw the one with Saya.
That person was the gun-otaku and George's other friend, Kohta Hirano. He was short and overweight young man, which presumably hinders his endurance. He had shoulder-length hairstyle that had bangs reaching down from the side of his temples stretching outwards and obscuring the sides of his face. But while he was lacking in the body strength department, he more than made up for in with his skills as a marksman in shooting. It didn't matter what kind of gun you gave him; he'll talk all about it and shoot it like he had a built-in targeting system.
Right now, he was looking at Saya with worry. "Takagi—" Kohta started, before Rei ran past him, and then Shizuka followed her. Resulting in Kohta getting his face smacked by the nurse's monstrous boobs and knocking him down.
"Takagi, are you okay?" asked Rei as she kneeled down next to her.
Saya didn't look at her, but whimpered, "Miyamoto…"
George checked the doors and corridor for any more zombies as Saeko spoke up to him and Takashi. "You already know the school doctor Marikawa, right? And I'm Saeko Busujima, from Class 3-A."
"I'm Takashi Komuro from Class 2-B," said Takashi.
"George Edwards." Was George's response.
"Ms. Busujima, I remember you won the national championship last year," Rei said with a delightful expression, as she stood up. "I'm Rei Miyamoto. I'm in the Spear Martial Arts club."
Kohta got up and rubbed the back of his head. "Oh, and I'm-I'm Kohta Hirano from Class B." He started.
"Nice to meet you." Saeko says with a small smile, making Kohta gasp with a surprised look and blush.
Kohta looks at George and smiles. "Hey man!"
"Hey Kohta." George greeted back as they fist bumped. "Glad to see you're still alive."
"Yeah, well..." Oohta rubs the back of his neck before spotting the axe. "A fire axe?"
"Hey, not like I have a gun you gun-nut." George said teasingly, causing Kohta to chuckle. George then gestured to Saya with his thumb. "How'd you get stuck with this annoyance?"
That snapped Saya out of whatever funk she was in. "What did you just say?!" She demanded with a glare, merely making George smirk.
"We should get into the faculty room and take a breather before we do anything else." George said seriously, and nobody dared to argue with him as they went into said room...
And that's it for this chapter folk.