Hello there my fellow dragons and other mythologies and here is the first "official" timeline that Romeo, Katja, and Deez will go on in this chapter and trust me...I needed to do a bit of research and viewing to remember how things work again in the Left for Dead series with the zombies
With that being said, enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 3: Days of the Dead
Earthland 0987-ZO
A blue portal sparking with electrical energy appears over a city before three individuals fall from it in the sky and landing into the roof of a building with a "THUD"! These certain people happen to be Romeo, Katja, and Deez
"Please tell me that this won't be a repetitive thing..." He says rubbing his head while Katja is behind him a few feet doing the same thing while dusting herself off
"I hope not" Katja answers him before looking around for Deez before spotting him a couple of feet away from her by the edge of the roof. "Hey Deez, you okay" She says before letting out a small gas of shock. This causes Romeo to stop rubbing his head and turn around to her.
"Katja, what's wrong?" Asks Romeo concered before Katja lifts Deez up and showing it to him in which he goes up to her and lifts it up closer to his face.
What they both see is normal, its Deez in his normal form with no injuries whatsoever, however there was a problem. Deez looks more like a plushie than anything and he isn't moving or speaking at all.
"What do you think happened to him?" Romeo asks Katja, still observing Deez
"I-I don't know" Katja says standing up, "When I came over here he was like this...maybe one of my summons will know the answer". Katja then attempts to do a summon with one of her lower level creatures, as nothing happens. "What the..." She attempts again...and again...and again before realizing that she couldn't summon anything at all.
"Romeo, I can't summon any of my creatures" Says Katja
"Why not?" He asks, finally done observing Deez and looking at Katja. "Did you try Purple Flare?"
"Good idea. PURPLE FLARE BUBBLE!" She tries to summon a bubble around her...and that does nothing at all.
"This isn't working either" Says Katja, clearly confused
"Really, let me try. APOCALYPSE DRAGON'S DESTRUCTIVE CANNON!" Romeo exclaims while holding his hand out with the expectation of a blue and white beam of magic to shoot from it...and nothing happens there either.
"This timeline, is very weird..." States Romeo as he continues trying to shoot out his magic
"I agree" Katja sys, nodding "Maybe this timeline prohibits the use of magic...?" Katja observes, causing Romeo to stop what he's doing and cross his arms, starting to think over his friends statement
"That would explain a lot. How both our magics work, and why Deez is like the way he is since he is a magical creature. Since the world just can't erase him it decided to make things more normal" Romeo says a little annoyed
"Oh...my...God" Katja says while covering her mouth with one of her hands, barely hearing Romeo's words and looking out into the city.
"What is it-" Romeo begins to question while walking over to her before cutting himself off and widening his eyes a little, not expecting what he was witnessing.
What they both see is a huge city that looks to go on for a couple miles, but that's not all. The landscape is horrible with the building looking destroyed and bombed to hell with debris everywhere and even roads scrunched together or rising upwards a little. There were cars turned over onto their sides or backs as the same was with the trucks and buses. The tunnels and shops were completely caved in with rocks and more cars while there also seemed to be fire covering the area's where there were a lot of cars. Speaking of cars, if they weren't turned on itself they were in the road crowded or on top of each other in a whole mess. The bridge connecting the city seems to also have the whole middle blown to hell as if to prevent any escape...not that the other side was much better.
Sure, the two had seen destroyed cities a huge bunch of times. Hell, some of them they had caused but it still shocked them to see it.
"Yeah, no. Katja, can you get us off this shit hole?" Romeo asks Katja
"Yup!" She says quickly, not wanting to be here anymore and types in a random Earthland and pressing the button and pointing the tip of the gun on the ground...and nothing happens.
"Its not working...!" She says and she tries pressing the thing over and over
"What do you mean its not working?!" Romeo exclaims
"Its not working!" She exclaims back at him. She wonders why the thing has such a hard time opening the portal before realising a small, thin blue screen on top of the small screen that shows them the Earthland they are on. This screen reads 13hrs 25mins 10sec and counting down.
"Umm, Romeo..." Katja says worriedly
"Yes" He answers
"How do I put this" She says nervous while rubbing her head, "We aren't getting of this planet for another 12 hours, 25 minutes, and 2 secs"
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"Are you fucking kidding me...!" Romeo says a little pissed off
"Umm...no" Katja asks looking away
"Do you have an idea why, Katja" He questions. If it wasn't for the fact they couldn't use magic, she would be sure his eyes would be glowing white in anger.
"Maybe its because this device has some magic implemented in it but not fully so as a result...the device stops working for a while?" Katja tells him, trying to calm him down a little.
Thankfully, this somehow works on Romeo as he just sighs and pinches the brim of his nose.
"You know what. I'm not even surprised anymore" Romeo says simply before looking around. "I guess lets try looking for survivors and ask them what the hell happened to this city"
" I agree" Katja says before looking behind him as her eyes widen a little "Umm, Romeo. Look behind you" She says pointing behind him
"Oh what know?" Romeo says before looking behind him to see something that made his eyes widen a little
What they saw there was a table but had three guns, a pipe bomb, a crap ton of ammo, a radio and some wrapping on it. Romeo then goes up to it before picking up the M16 with his hand before chucking it at Katja, who barely catches it.
"We don't know what we are about to deal with in this dimension" Romeo begins as he picks up two pistols and puts ammo in them as well as giving Katja one of his swords and some wrapping. "So its best you got some type of defense long, mid, and short range. Keep Deez close and don't die" He says as he walks towards the door
"..." Katja stands in shock for a second before quickly getting herself ready. She grabs the ammo and puts it in her gun and whatever was left in one of her pockets, she then wraps Deez around her waist along with her sword.
"I'm ready" Was the only thing Katja says
"Good, now lets explore" Says Romeo before opening the door and walking down the stairs, with Katja close behind. While they see nothing at first besides for the beaten up walls with marks, blood, holes, and even writing saying "ESCAPE!" or "HEAD TO THE ROOF" on it, the two still go down before spotting a guy staring at the wall.
"Hey there" Romeo says going up to him "We're new here, do you know what happened" Romeo asks. Not seeing any response, Romeo tries to turn around before the man suddenly launches itself onto him.
"What the fuck!" Romeo exclaims as he attempts to push the man off of him
"Romeo!" Katja screams a little and without thinking runs up to the man, grabs him off of Romeo, and throwing him into a wall which both shatters the wall and launches him into another room. It was then she decides to help Romeo up.
"Romeo, you okay" She asks concerned
"Yeah, I'm fine" He says staring at her. "I guess we know that our strength is still there...well you at least"
"Yeah..."
The two then hear a noise and look back at the man and what they see shocks, and slightly creeps them out, a little. The man is bleeding all over with his eyes being nearly pure white and devoid of life. His skin is pale and his clothes are torn as well as pieces of flesh being gone from his body. The two didn't even have a chance to comment on this before they hear a scream as dozens of individuals appear and starts running towards them at full speed.
"Katja...I think we are dealing with the undead here!" exclaims Romeo while aiming his dual pistols at the zombies
"I think so too!" Katja exclaims back while aiming her gun as well. She hated fighting these things. Back in their original timeline they had worked with a necromancer who could use the dead to fight for him but back then it was only skeletons. After a while, the people that they were working with learnt that they were planning on betraying Acnologia and wiping out all of creation. When her, Romeo, and two friends went to hunt him down in a city he was rumored to be in, they found out he was experimenting his magic and actually managed to make actual zombies. Shivering a little, she could still vividly remember the sight of people getting eaten alive as they tried to escape the undead. Thank the Gods Romeo and her other friend read a lot of comics in their spare time so they knew how to deal with these threats...
"AIM FOR THE HEAD!" Romeo screamed before unloading onto the undead with Katja following suit, both only needing one shot to completely take them out before moving onto the next one and the next, not stopping while moving forward as the zombies continued coming. Eventually, the two managed to make it far into the building and finally getting close to the doors before finally out running zombies chasing them and killing anyone near the doors. When hey get outside, Romeo quickly shuts the door and places a conveniently placed piece of wood in the doors handles as one latches onto his back and tries gnawing on his body.
"I think that's the last of them" Katja states with a pant while crushing one's skull in as blood flies onto her clothes. Not that she cared since she was bloody anyways.
"I guess so" Romeo says while throwing one off of him and into the wall before using the butt of his gun to smash its skull in. Granted the only way they even knew how to do this was because of that one necromancer and the similarities to this world so he thanks that guy for being useful.
The two then finally is able to get out of the building, while sporting a lot of blood on them in the process as dawn starts approaching near.
"Wow, I honestly thought there would be more after that..." Comments Romeo looking around
" Yeah, there should be way more considering how big this city is" Katja agrees, before she spots another zombie at the edge of the road
"I'll take care of it" Romeo says before shooting at it, hitting it directly in the head as it falls onto the ground permanently dead. The noise however, attracts a few zombies from that direction as they start running at Romeo and Katja full sprint.
"Shit, well this sucks" Romeo says, wiping off blood from his cheek with his hand
"I think we got this!" Exclaims Katja positively as Romeo groans a little and aims his pistols at the zombies
"You are way to damn positive right now!" Romeo shouts as he starts unloading as Katja smiles a little
"It helps keep me upbeat!" She exclaims back before firing her gun
However, all of a sudden they hear louder noises as dozen upon dozens of zombies appear in which it looks like a horde appears onto them. In this horde, they see the zombies trampling over each other continuously as they attempt to catch their prey. Looking back behind them in the other direction, they see what looks to be hundreds of zombies coming after them and if that wasn't enough, they begin to fall from the building they were previously in.
"Katja, we need to get out of here RIGHT NOW!" Romeo screams at her before pulling her arm and starts running in a direction hopefully free of zombies
"I KNOW THAT BUT WHERE?!" Katja screams back at him. She didn't understand how there was suddenly so much of them, they only shot one and there was plenty of other noise that could attract them.
"ANYWHERE BUT HERE!" Romeo then notices a huge horde coming after them before spotting a flaming car near them. Deciding that this might be their best chance at survival, he takes off to it while ignoring Katja's protests to come back. "HAVE SOME CAR MOTHERFUCKERS!" Romeo screams before; lifting the car up and throwing it in the direction the horde, thankfully killing a few of them before an explosion goes off which a another huge portion of them with any other one near the explosion being caught on fire. This however, gets more zombies attracted to the area as they runs towards Katja and Romeo as they take off.
"I don't know if I should thank you or scold you for bringing more zombies towards us!"
"How about not talking and more running!"
"...Good idea"
The duo continue on running as they either shoot and or slice down any zombie that gets near them as they begin to head towards the tunnels as night finally falls.
"Do you think the tunnels are our best shot!" Katja asks while gunning down a few zombies before smacking one with her gun and shooting at it.
"Its the best option we have!" Romeo exclaims while slicing a few zombies with one hand and shooting with the other.
As they are approaching the tunnel they are suddenly overflooded with even more zombies so the two decide to just their guns and spray them down, all the while running across the tunnel in hope of some sort of salvation. They then hear a huge crash and look to see a huge, buffed out, steroid looking creature running towards them while knocking away a crap tone of cars.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING?!" Now Romeo doesn't usually swear this often but hey, he didn't even care anymore
"I DON'T KNOW!" Katja screams as she tries to spray the thing down with her gun. After what felt like 20 shots, the ting finally goes down as Romeo starts chucking cars in its direction.
"Do you see any place near that we can hide out in Katja?!" Shouts Romeo, suddenly having to shoot in both ends of the tunnel as zombies begin coming from both sides.
"Actually..." Katja begins before going into the area to find a iron door and slides it to the side. "I found a place!"
"Well get inside!" Romeo screams while running towards her and shooting any zombie that follows.
"Alright!" Katja says heading inside just as Romeo makes it there too and both closes the door just in the knick of time since dozens of zombies just made it to them. The two then slowly back up against the opposite end of the room they were in.
"Do you think that'll hold them?" Asks Katja panting
"I...hope so" Romeo says, also panting
The two then manage to calm down a bit before checking in their surroundings. They find a mostly empty room but it has a table full of ammo and there is a sleeping bag next to it.
"This...has to be the universe giving us a break" Romeo says staring at the table
"Yeah..." Katja agrees before heading towards the table
"Well then, get some sleep, I'll take watch" Romeo says simply while Katja stares at him shocked
"What, what no no no!" Katja tries to argue "You should rest and I'll take watch-
"Katja I've already rested and we both know I can be awake longer than you...unless I'm on a vehicle" Romeo says in a tone that meant there was no more room for discussion as he sits down in the middle of the room but not before putting the table on the door to barricade it and making sure the iron door is locked.
"...Sure thing" Katja says before laying down on the bag and falling asleep
Romeo and Katja were currently back in the city wandering around, trying to buy out the timer they have on their gun while also helping any survivors they see, which had been none so far. Suddenly, Romeo see's a zombie before slashing its head clean off without even looking. The two opting to only shoot their guns when absolutely necessary.
"Hey Romeo, how many people do you think actually survived this?" Asks Katja, now starting to doubt the possibilities of survival
"I honestly don't know. But that's why we came back out here right, to help others in need." Answers Romeo, now staring at her
"We-" Katja is suddenly interrupted when they hear bikes coming in closer to them. Getting ready, the two pull out their guns as they get in a defensive stance, ready to kill if needed. Not even a minute later, the bikers manage to surround the two as they circle around them before stopping with what looks like there to be 15 of them.
"Well well well, look what we have here" One of the bikers say while getting off his bike "A purple haired male with blue tatoos and a...fine looking lady with him" he says, leering at Katja
"Hey boss, wanna kill the guy and take his lady back home with us!" One biker said laughing
"We shall" The boss replies
At this development, Romeo slowly puts Katja behind him in a defensive position. Sure she knew that even without magic she could take these guys no problem, but seeing them stare at her like that got his blood to boil as he lets out a low, animalistic growl. When he did this, Katja gains a bit of pink on her cheeks though tries to hide it and acts serious.
"How about no" Romeo growls at them and about to make them wish the dead were killing them before-
"GET DOWN!"
All of a sudden silenced gunshots were heard as 5 out of the fifteen bikers were killed. While the bikers stand there shocked, Romeo tackles the boss and starts pummeling him into the ground while Katja jumps and starts using her sword and kill two of them by slashing at they're hearts and then they're heads. When the other remaining bikers attempt to shoot the two, three fingers come out and kill the 8. One shoots three in the head with a silenced rifle as another one knocks two onto the ground and stomps they're heads in while the final ones knock the remaining ones on they're backs and curb-stomps them. In the end, the only one remaining is the boss as his face is bloodly, his eye is swollen, and some of his teeth are missing while Romeo beats on him with a sinister looking smile.
"You like that?!" Romeo asks as he punches him in the face again
"Please man! Stop it!" The biker begs before getting punched in the mouth again
"Hmm...sure" Romeo says with a shurg, letting the man fall onto the floor before heading to Katja "You alright?"
"I am" Katja says smiling as he gives a smile back
"Umm..."
The two look back to see who their "saviors" were and saw...not what they were gonna expect. They see the faces of Natsu Dragneel, Gray Fullbuster, and another version of Romeo before looking up on the roof where the scream came from to see Wendy Marvel there with a gun in her hand, aiming at the them.
"Hello there" Romeo says while walking up to his double, though being cautious "Names Romeo"
"...You were just waiting to do that, weren't you?" Katja questions while staring at him with a deadpanned stare
"...Yes" Romeo answers before realizing the confusion on the other three's faces "Umm, any questions?"
"Yes, many!" Answers Natsu as he glares at the two "Why does he look like Romeo?! Who are you two?! Are you threats?!"
"To answer your questions" Katja begins "We a-
"WE DON''T HAVE TIME! HORDE OF BITERS COMING IN CLOSE!" Wendy screams at them as the group on the ground looks onto the zombies running towards them.
"We'll talk later!" Katja exclaims "Lets get out of here!"
The group looks at each other hesitantly before shrugging and begins to parkour up the building.
"HEY!" The beaten up biker boss "WHAT ABOUT ME!"
"Oh" Dragon Slayer Romeo says before picking him up, "You're our decoy!" He says as he throws the boss into the zombie horde, in which some stop in order to rip him open and begin eating him as his screams of pain and anguish ring over the city.
With the new Group:
The now group of 6 manage to make it back safely to their hideout as some of them either close the doors and re-barricading it while others sit down on the couch to take a breather
"Aaaand done!" Says Natsu happily as he finishes barricading the doors
"Great job pyro, you did it" Gray says, taking a small drink of water before putting it back in the fridge
"You use a flamethrower in elementary school ONE TIME and everyone thinks your a pyro!" Natsu exclaims at him
"You probably are" Answer one of the Romeo's
"STAY OUT OF THIS ROME-...actually what do we call you" Natsu questions the second Romeo while the one they knew looks in curiosity
"Hmm...I would say the Dragon King since mine is now dead and no other slayer is stronger than me at the moment...though that would be a bitch to explain to non-magic universes so maybe ARC, short for Apocalyptic Romeo Conbolt...yeah, I like that" Romeo contemplates for a second before deciding on his new name
"So ARC" Wendy starts while squeezing her Romeo's hand softly "How do you look like our Romeo?"
"Yeah, this is very confusing" Romeo states. As far as he knew he didn't have a twin so how did this guy look like him.
"To put it simply, me and Katja here are from a different universe filled with magic and dragons and- you get the jist" ARC answers while noticing these people's scarred bodies.
This Romeo here has a huge line moving from his right shoulder down to his wrist and what looks to be burn marks on the lower left of his neck to his left shoulder. he is also sporting a bandage on his cheek as other small marks adorned his torso with a 5 inch long line placed itself on the area his ribs are located.
This Wendy has a small line on the right side of her cheek that probably passes 4 inches with a whole wrapping on the entirety of her left arm.
The Natsu here has a line adorning his right cheek that reaches 4 inches and another one that located itself on the bottom of the left side of his chin. He also has small marks grazing his arms and multiple lines on his torso.
This Gray looks to be as bad as the others but a little worse. Compared to the others he has little scars but the main thing he was missing his whole right eye.
Granted, he wasn't the biggest fans of these guys, minus himself, back home. If he could, this Natsu and Gray would be dead and this Wendy...he wouldn't even know. Though, he knew these guys weren't like the ones back home so he decided against attacking these people who are just trying to survive.
"Wait...magic and dragons?" Gray questions. These guys homeworld seems like it comes straight out of some type of fairy tale but they live in a world where the undead come back to life and eat you and they were staring at a complete double of their friend so he didn't see much of a reason not to believe them.
"Yep" Katja answers before looking at the device again
"What's that" Romeo questions
"A portal to other timelines" ARC answers
"Wait, you can take a portal to other dimensions with that thing?!" Wendy asks surprised
"Yes, like I just said Wendy" ARC says
"So can we like, get out of here?" Natsu asks hopeful, not wanting to be in the place that tormented him and his friends for almost 5 years now
Katja and ARC stare at each other for a second before looking at Natsu with a small smile. Well mostly Katja, ARC had a blank face
"You can Natsu. Speaking of, we can leave right now, the thing is ready" Katja answers him
This gets the four survivors and scream out in pure happiness as Natsu and Gray hug each other while Wendy sheds tears of joy while Romeo holds her.
"We-we can't thank you enough" Wendy says to the two
"You don't have to, lets get out of this hell-scape-" ARC says before he is interrupted
"Wait...we need to go get them" Gray says while looking down
"Gray..." Natsu begins as he puts his hand on his friend's shoulder "They haven't been back for days, they are probably dead"
"We don't know that!" Gray exclaims
"We know how you feel about her, we know that you guys are a thing...but ever since they left we haven't had any signs of them returning-
"But if we can escape I wanna make sure we don't leave our friends!"
"Hold on a minute, who are you guys talking about" ARC questions as Romeo sighs
"They're talking about Juvia, Gajeel, and Levy. They went out for food 2 days ago and never came back. We've been hoping that they're okay but because of the amount of these things in the city and how no one can survive at night without pure luck...the chances seems slim" he responds sadly as Wendy squeezes his hand again, knowing how difficult it is to talk about their friends supposed deaths.
A.R.C looks at Katja as she looks back before giving him a nod, which in return he scoffs and looks away.
"If...you want to look for your friend then me and Romeo here will help you" Katja interrupts. The four survivors stare at her in shock
"You-You guys will-" Gray begins
"Don't mention it. Lets just find them then get out of here" ARC interrupts
Gray begins to thank them before Natsu, Romeo, and Wendy stare at each other and sigh
"Alright, we're coming too" Natsu says
Now, its the other three's turn to look at the three shocked
"You guys don't have to-
"You forgot they were our friends too, we need to make sure they're okay" Wendy says with a look of pure determination as Romeo slightly chuckles
"Not to mention that my best friend is out there, if she's dead who'll annoy me half to death. Yeah, I can't live without her" Romeo states
"Well then, lets go rescue your friends" ARC states with a smirk
After getting ready, the new group sets out to find Juvia, Levy, and Gajeel
Timeskip to them getting to the place the three were sent:
The group were in front of a deli that the three were supposed to go to while looking around.
"You sure this is the place?" ARC questions as the group walks in and observes the area
"This should be it" Gray answers
"Even if they are here be careful guys, we don't know how many biters will come for us" Romeo warns while Wendy agrees
As the group continues searching around, they uncover a basement area and ARC, being ARC, kicks it down without warning. This causes the group to look at him wierdly.
"What...What?!" ARC questions while everyone else just heads downstairs as he scoffs and follows.
While going downstairs, they see two people who look to be bloodied up and slightly dirty. One was male and has spikey black hair reaching down to his waist with multiple piercings on his body while the other is female and has sort of wild blue hair and looks to be on the small side.
"Levy!" Gray exclaims as he runs to her as the female looks up with a shocked look
"Gray...GRAY!" The girl runs up to him before embracing him
"You're okay, you're okay" He says as tears brim in his eyes "I thought I lost you" he says before Levy wipes his eyes
"Don't worry, I'm here now" She says before pulling him in a loving kiss, which he returns
At this, the others smile at this while ARC and Katja stare with a bit of shock.
"This is...weird" ARC admits, completely expecting her to be with Gajeel
"Wait a minute! Who are you two! Why does one of them look exactly like Romeo and the other like Wendy's long lost sister!" Gajeel questions while holding his pistol at the two newcomers as the female of the two gains a tick mark on her head
"Wait Gajeel! They are here to get us out of this world!" Wendy tells him
"THEY'RE TRYING TO KILL US!"
"NO RUST BUCKET!"
One explanation later:
After the explanation, Gajeel and Levy look at the two in disbelief
"You two, can really help us escape?" Levy asks with a shaky voice
"We can and with you guys here lets go!" ARC says ready to leave
"Wait..." Romeo starts "Where's Juvia?" He asks the two as their faces darken
"Rain girl...We were being chased by a horde of biters and she decided to be a hero and lead them away from us a couple of days ago...We haven't heard from her since..." Gajeel explains to the group as Gray and Natsu look at him
"How long ago has it been?" Gray asks as Levy looks up at her boyfriend
"About two days" She answers as Natsu gains a determined look
"So...she could still be out there. We have to go get her!" Natsu exclaims as Gray looks at him with a smirk
"Weren't you trying to tell us that these two were dead..." Gray says as Natsu growls at him and looks at him with a glare
"They've been gone for over a week! If she's just been gone for two days then she might have a chance to be out there! I made a promise to keep her alive and I will make sure that will happen goddammit!" Natsu shouts as the groups gives a solemn look at the pink haired male. Seeing this, ARC and Katja gain a confused look as the Grand Summoner leans towards Wendy.
"Umm...were Natsu and Juvia really close here?" Katja asks as Wendy turns towards her
"Very close. Actually, the two were dating like how Gray and Levy are. When this apocalypse thing started here about five years back Natsu vowed to make sure she lives through this after he lost his father Igneel and their friend Lucy to the virus in the first year of the outbreak. After that, he made sure that she wouldn't ever die and was truly against her going out on a noon time supply run. After the first week of no return he had actually begin to accept what would happen if she were to die due to all of the biters and its mutations outsiders..." Wendy says with a shiver towards the end as Katja looks at her confused
"Mutations?" Katja questions
"It seems as if they learnt to adapt to kill more humans over the course of the years of this outbreak. Some spit acid, some explode, some can attract more biters, some are silent and jump at you while others are just defensive brutes with stupid levels of strength to where they can huck cars and even buses at people. We don't really have a name for these creatures so we just scream spitters, screamers, brutes, and...you get the idea." Wendy concludes as Katja processes this new piece of information
"Mutations...zombies that can throw cars...was that one zombie in the tunnel was?" Katja questions as ARC finally decides to speak up
"So...are we gonna go find Juvia? Cause right now I'm hearing some gunshots outside with a girl screaming "FOR NATSU-SAMA!" ARC tells them as all of their eyes, minus Katja's, widen
"JUVIA!" Natsu screams out before running out of the basement, gun in hand to go find where his girlfriend is as Gray and Levy chase after him
"WAIT UP FLAME BRAIN!" Gray screams as Wendy and Gajeel soon follow, leaving only this world's Romeo, ARC, and Katja in the basement
"How...did you hear that...?" Romeo asks as ARC shrugs
"Enhanced senses." ARC answers simply before walking up the stairs. Katja looks over at Romeo and smiles with a chuckle before leaving as Romeo realizes he has some serious questioning to do when he gets the chance.
After five minutes of running towards the direction of the supposed voice that ARC had heard, they finally arrive at the location to see a little over a dozen zombies surrounding a broken in half bus as a blue haired girl in black jeans and a blue and black coat with white fur backing up trying to shoot but finding herself out of ammo.
"JUVIA!" Natsu screams before grabbing his pistol and starts shooting at the zombies near her; but due to him being in such a rush he only manages to get them in the neck or in the back though, he makes them stumble a little.
"Natsu you idiot! Are you trying to attract more biters?!" Gray yells at him before taking out a knife and rushing towards the zombies with Natsu, Gajeel, Wendy and ARC
"Do you see how they were backing her up in that bus you ice dancer?!" Natsu exclaims as Gray gains a tick mark
"You do ice skating for a month because of a dare and all of a sudden I'm an ice dancer...!" Gray mumbles under his breathe as the group of five finally make it towards Juvia's location
"Let arguing more killing!" Gajeel tells them as all of them take out any melee weapons they have and starts beating down on any zombie near them while everyone who wasn't charging was making sure to keep guard and make sure no other zombie got near them. After about 2 minutes of zombie killing, Natsu rushes towards Juvia and embraces her in a tight hug.
"Juvia! Your still alive!" Natsu exclaims as the bluenette winces in pain from the tight hold
"N-Natsu-sama...t-too tight...!" Juvia tries getting out before Natsu quickly releases her. After catching her breath, the survivor looks up and is shocked to see another Romeo and a girl looking very similar to Wendy.
"Alright, so to be short here rain girl these two are from a different multiverse, they are gonna get us out of here and no! You are not on drugs or dreaming!" Gajeel tells her as Juvia's eyes widen
"W-We can leave this place...?" Juvia repeats
"Speaking of which, when are we gonna leave this shithole? Two days here is enough for me so lets get on a move on." ARC says while eyeing some blood dripping down from the inside Juvia's coat
"Alright, time to leave!" Exclaims Katja and starts to work on the device as Natsu looks at his girlfriend
"You hear that Juvia? We can finally get out of here." He tells her, but soon gains a confused look at the girl's now solemn face. "Hey...what's wrong?" He asks her as tears start to brim in the corner of her eyes, making him more worried
"Natsu...Juvia-"
"FUCKING! RUN!"
Juvia is cut off when ARC shouts the statement and points towards the road and everyone's eyes widen in shock and fear as they see hundreds and hundreds of zombies just rush the group at an insane pace.
"TATOO ROMEO IS RIGHT! FUCKING RUN!" Gajeel screams out as the group all start to run through the streets in the opposite direction only to find zombies approaching in all directions minus one in an alleyway...so they all decided that was the best place to go.
"How and why are so many chasing us?! We didn't cause much noise when we were shooting at the zombies!" Levy shouts in confusion as some random zombies begins to chase them
"Maybe it was the zombies Juvia here was killing before we arrived!" ARC theorizes, causing Natsu to glare at the dragon slayer
"I DOUBT THAT WAS IT! MAYBE SOMEONE ELSE WAS AROUND SO THE BITERS KILLED THEM AND NOW THEY'RE AFTER US!" Natsu shouts, not liking how the slayer was essentially blaming Juvia for the mess they were currently in as his Romeo suddenly cuts off an incoming argument with a realization
"Look! A screamer!" Romeo points out before shooting a female zombie off of the roof, causing it to fall on a couple of zombies. With this, both ARC and Natsu clicks their tongues in realization.
"Well, I guess we were both wrong" ARC points out as the group stops in front of a rather tall looking fence in front of them
"Umm Katja...how long until the device is ready?" ARC asks as Katja looks again
"About 10 minutes..." She tells the group, making them all widen their eyes
"10 minutes! That's gonna be a whole day in this situation!" Gray exclaims before hearing the shouting and roaring coming from the their side of the fence and looking back to see all of the zombies piling onto each other and rushing into the alleyway
"Great...just fucking perfect." Gajeel mutters to himself as ARC and Katja jump completely over the fence and the summoner looks around the corner
"I don't see any zombies over here yet! If you can, hurry yet!" Katja says as the ground gets over their shock on how they just jumped over the fence and quickly starts climbing over the fence. ARC, when he looks back, see's that they aren't gonna make it so he does what any other person would do; he speeds to the nearest car, picks it up, speeds back to the group, and jump over the fence.
"EAT THIS!" ARC exclaims and slams the car onto the close zombies and looks back at the group
"Go ahead, I got this!" ARC exclaims and starts unloading his pistols onto the group of zombies, trying to buy some time for the group to get over the fence.
The gets the group to look back at him for a second before some of them like Gajeel, Natsu, and Levy used a free hand of their hands to aid the slayer defend them from the top of the fence while the others attack any stray zombies around the corners.
"If you guys want to get out of that alleyway and to somewhere safe then I suggest you all move now!" Wendy yells at them as they all quickly look back at her
They didn't need to be told twice as the three on the fence quickly climb over the fence while ARC jumps over the fence again as everyone starts running the street with the horde of zombies crashing through the gate and chasing them as some start jumping off the buildings and trying to hit one of the survivors.
"Shit! They're raining from the sky's!" Gray exclaims before jumping out of the way from a falling zombie as ARC punches one away
"Does this usually happen!" ARC asks before kicking away another
"Not really!" Romeo answers to his double
"Everyone! To the nearest building!" Katja yells while pointing to an apartment building. The group was about to argue how bad of an idea that would be, they decide to do it for two reasons. One, they were starting to run out of ammo and were fearing how many zombies would appear before they find another area to hide out at. Second, more zombies were running towards them due to all the noise from the alleyway and the all of the other zombie's noises.
"I mean we don't really have a choice!" Levy says as she, Gray, and Katja all run towards the building. Not even a second later, the rest of the group all rush towards the building as well and closes the door and rushing conveniently placed items towards the door in order to barricade it from the zombies outside. Unfortunately, the windows were broken or mostly broken so the zombies were able to crash up against them or stick their hands through them. As a result, the group backs up against the wall and away from the stairs.
"That won't hold them for long; we need to get to higher ground and figure things out from there" Romeo states
"So how much longer until we can leave this place?" ARC asks Katja who looks at the machine
"About 5 minutes..." Katja tells them, making Natsu point towards the stairs
"Then we need to hurry up and get somewhere towards the top floor so that we could get out of here with no interruptions!" Natsu exclaims
With this idea, everyone nods their heads in agreement as starts to head towards the staircase all but Juvia. She, however, instead collapses onto her knees and leans back onto the wall and starts to pant and clutch her side in pain. Hearing the thump made, everyone looks back at her and rushes back towards the blue haired girl.
"Hey Juvia, you alright?!" Natsu asks while holding her before widening his eyes at her current form. She looked paler than she usually did and was looked to be way tired than ever before. Her eyes also seemed bloodshotted and more tired than she ever looked, including when she would have to stay up nights on end. The wound on her side was beginning to leak even more blood as some blood also leaks out of her mouth, making her feel lightheaded and weak.
"Wh-What's happening to her?" Katja asks before ARC decides to speak up before anyone can answer
"Maybe you should check the wound underneath her coat and see if that has anything to do with it." ARC points out all the while shocking the group as they did not know that their friend was injured at all. Deciding not to waste time, Natsu quickly opens his girlfriend's coat and lifts up her shirt to see the wound that ARC was talking about and is shocked by what he see's.
"A...scratch mark..." Natsu couldn't even fully process what he was seeing as the situation was finally becoming clear. Hearing him say this everyone, minus ARC and Katja, to widen their eyes in shock as they also come to the realization of what that meant.
"Umm...Is there something bad about the scratch cause I'm guessing its bad?" ARC questions before his double looks at him with a serious gaze
"The infection that turns people into the biters and mutants you see outside spreads through a multitude of ways...one of which includes scratches." Romeo answers, making ARC nod his head as he found this interesting. On his Earthland, the zombie-like creatures had never spread the virus since the necromancer had infected most of the city and had his army only attack to eat and kill, not spread.
"H-How did this happen?" Gray asked, still in shock of how his friend was now infected
"It was a few minutes before you arrived...Juvia was jumped by...a zombie and it clawed on her a little and got her s...side." Juvia gets out, occasionally spitting out blood in between her sentences. "Juvia came...with you to see you off...guess that won't happen anymore, hehe..." Juvia finsihes
"But-But Juvia-
CRASH!
Everyone in the room at the moment looks towards the entrance way of the apartment building to see a brute had smash its fist into the building wall as some zombies has gotten their hands through the defenses they had set up.
"Alright! If anyone has to say their goodbye's to Juvia here then please do so now or forever hold your peace cause we gotta get our asses away from here!" ARC exclaims at the group
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"...What my friend here meant to say was to please say anything you have to Juvia because the zombies are breaking through our defenses and I'm sure none of us wants to get eaten today..." Katja clarifies
"Could have said it nicer..." Levy comments with a glare towards the dragon slayer, who returns it back at the blue haired girl. However, Katja suddenly comes to a realization and rushes over to Juvia and takes out a green vial.
"I completely fogot! This could help her live!" Katja exclaims as everyone examines the vial in the summoners hand
"Umm...I'm confused as to how this vial is gonna save Juvia." Gajeel points out as ARC facepalms
"I'm so stupid, how did I forget?" ARC asks himself, making everyone even more confused
"What is it?" Wendy asks, a little cautious of the vial with the slightly glowing green liquid in it
"Its a healing vial we got from the last Earth we were in. The guy who gave it to us told us it was meant to heal fatal wounds so maybe it will work for Juvia!" Katja exclaims, happy that she found a way to try and save this version of the water mage she knew back home
"What if it doesn't work?" Natsu asks, still cautious on what will happen if they fail
"I don't know, I've never tried it before..." Katja responds while opening the vial as Natsu's eyes widen
"Wait you've never tried it before...HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WILL WORK?!" Natus yells out, not at all trusting this vial but Katja shoves the vial and liquid down Juvia's throat anyways, making the bluenette's eyes widen
"NO TIME!"
"HEY! DON'T JUST SHOVE IT IN HER MOUTH SO SUDDENLY!
"That sounds wrong..."
"SHUT IT GAJEEL!"
Everyone shuts up quickly once they see glowing green marks and lines starting to appear all over Juvia's body as she screams in pain from the sudden closing and healing of her wound and the infection being shot out of her body. After what seemed like forever, thought its only been about six seconds, she widens her eyes and stands up.
"J-Juvia don't feel it anymore..." She says as Natsu shoots up
"You don't feel the pain...or the symptoms?" Natsu asks her, making her nod
"Holy shit, that actually worked..." Katja says in shock
"Good good now lets get our asses upstairs so we don't become these creatures lunch okay!" Exclaims ARC as they all nod and rush up the stairs as the zombies finally bust down the down and chase after them
"Holy fuck! It's like they waited for us to heal Juvia before they started going after us again!" Gray comments
"That would be weird if they did!" Wendy replies
"Less talking more running!" ARC screams at the two
"Sorry-
Before anyone can finish any word, a brute comes out from no where and strikes Wendy right in the torso, probably cracking most of her ribs, and launching her through a wall and into a nearby apartment room.
"WENDY!" Romeo and Levy screams as ARC, Natsu, and Gray aim their guns at the burte and starts firing at it. All the while Romeo and Juvia go to check on Wendy as Gajeel Levy, and Katja shoot at the zombies attempting to interrupt the ongoing scuffle between the group and the brute.
"Wendy, are you okay?!" Juvia asks worriedly as Wendy coughs out some blood
"I don't think that mean she's okay!" Romeo says as gray throws his gun at a nearby zombie's head
"I'm out!" He exclaims before taking out his knife, running up to the brute and stabbing it repeatably.
"You idiot ice dancer! That obviously won't wor-
Natsu then quickly jumps back as the brute falls backwards, falling into a bloody pool.
"Wait a fucking minute...did you do-You know what never mind..." Natsu says, actually convinced Gray had done some damage before seeing ARC with two pistols smoking while aimed at the brutes head
"Grab Wendy so we can go somewhere higher so that we can leave here in one piece! Scratch that! All of our pieces!" Gajeels exclaims as he finally is out of ammo and starts running up the stairs, followed by everyone
"I got Wendy, just guard me holding her!" Katja says, rushing over to Wendy and grabbing her bridal style and running after everyone while Romeo and Juvia guard her with their guns or, in Juvia's case, the gun with no ammo.
After what seemed like forever, the group finally makes it to the fifth and final floor and on the room at the end of the hall. Unfortunately for them, the undead also made it and came crashing into the wall or the door and on top of that the door's lock was broken, so Natsu quickly rushes to hold back the door while Romeo helps. Even worse is the fact some zombies from outside the building heard all of the commotion and decided to be like hungry ravenous ants and climb up the building to chase after them. Thankfully, Levy and Romeo still had some ammo so they dealt with shooting the zombies from a nearby window.
"How much longer Wendy clone?!" Gajeel cries out from near Wendy, making Katja's eye twitch
"About one minute!" She answers as Natsu sighs in relief
"So we just gotta hold them off for another minute. I don't know if this is good or ba-AAAAAAAAAAADD!"
Why did Natsu scream you ask? Well a zombie peaked its little head through the door and began to take a munch out of Natsu's arm.
"NATSU-SAMA!" Juvia screams before running over to Natsu and trying to bash in the zombies head with her gun
"Wait a minute...if he just got bit and people turn if they're bit then..." ARC starts thinking to himself before unsheathing his sword and running up to a now sitting down Natsu who's holding his arm in pain
"Alright, this may or may not work so I hope you don't feel anything...probably." ARC says before raising his sword up
"What are you gonna d-
In an instant, ARC brings his sword down and slices Natsu's arm clean off, causing blood to squirt and spill all over himself, ARC, Juvia, and Gray. Meanwhile with Katja, the gun finally glows and beeps as the summoner quickly presses some buttons and opens a portal.
"IT'S READY!" She yells as ARC grabs Natsu and throws him into the portal
"NEVER THOUGHT I'D SAY THIS BUT FOLLOW NATSU!" ARC screams as he grabs Katja and jumps into the portal, followed by the rest of the group
Earthland 1498-A
It was a normal day in the Fairy Tail guild. Cana is drinking, Mirajane and Kinana are working at the bar, Erza is eating cheesecake, Levy is discussing her book with Lucy, and Natsu causes a guild brawl which somehow gets a bunch of people involved.
"YOU WANNA DO THIS ICE PRINCESS!"
"BRING IT ON ASH BREATH!"
All of a sudden, the guild hears a crackling noise as a group of 8 suddenly fall from the sky and into the guild.
"EVERYONE ON DEFENSE! WE DON'T KNOW WHAT JUST LANDED THROUGH THE GUILD!" Makarov shouts as he prepares for battle
Natsu gets in front of Lucy, Erza, Mira, and Lisanna as he incases his fists in fire, Gray does the same to his fists but with ice, Wendy gets ready to battle, Laxus powers up, Cana prepares her cards, Gajeel stands next to Levy and prepares an attack along with her, and Juvia says something about protecting Gray before getting ready. What they see however, questions them. In the mini crater formed, there is two Romeo's, a Wendy, a Natsu, a Gray, a Levy, a Gajeel, and a girl that looks a lot like Wendy with a white puffball creature on her back; all of which are bloody as hell.
"Ack! What just happened? I went through the portal and all I saw was black!" Deez question, just now being able to speak
"Deez, you're back!" Katja says before hugging the little guy
"...I should black out more often" Deez says as she presses him against her harder
"I thought we wouldn't be doing that again!" Exclaims ARC before he realizes something "Wait a minute..." He says before incasing his fist in blue and white energy. "MY MAGIC IS BACK!" ARC exclaims before looking at Makarov
"Listen here Gramps, we have a guy losing blood at a disturbing rate and a girl who's probably had all of her ribs broken so go get them help!" ARC exclaims at them while pointing towards Natsu and Wendy
"O-Of course! Wendy, Gajeel! Get these two to Polrlyusica!" Makarov screams to the two who nod and rush to the two
"I'm coming too! I can't let this other...me die!" Natsu exclaims before grabbing his double as Gajeel grabs the Wendy and runs to Porlyucia with the younger Wendy following close by; following them are the older version of Romeo and Juvia, wanting to see their friend/boyfriend okay. Seeing them leave, Makarov turns towards the group in the crater.
"Now that they're gone...WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?!" Makarov screams, clearly just as confused as his guild
"That will come in a second but for now." ARC walks over to the bar "Hey Kinana, can I please have one of everything." He says as the girl stammers before hurrying off to complete his request
"To answer your question. We are from a different Earthland, I'm Katja and the guy about to eat is another Romeo or as he calls himself ARC, and these other guys are from a world overrun by zombies" Answers Katja
"Is that what they're called, I just called them biters" Gajeel says while his friends observe the guild, though remembering the multiple times the two referred to the creatures as zombies
"So this is a guild, this looks neat" Admits Gray as Levy gets closer to him
"I guess" Levy comments
"At least I look the same and not a chicken" Gajeel comments as ARC looks at him weird from his spot at the bar
"Why a chicken?" Natsu asks
'INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OTHER ROMEO! INFINITE WORLDS!" Gajeel screams dramatically
Seeing the groups covered in blood and in slight confusion, the guild master walks up to the group in the crater
"It would seem as if you all had it hard." Makarov states
"You can say that Mr." Gray starts "We all only had each other and lost a lot of good people" He says sadly
"Well if you guys would like you can stay with us and join Fairy Tail" Makarov says as the zombie survivors give him a ashen look
"Re-Re-Really?" Levy says with her hands over her mouth
"Of course my child. Even though your different versions of my children here, you are still them by heart even with your lives" Makarov states
"THANK YOU SO MUCH OLD MAN!" Gajeel says as tears spill from his eyes, though he swallows it and tries acting tough as the old man chuckles
"No problem child." He says before looking at ARC and Katja "If you two want you can stay here too."
"Thanks Makarov, but I think we'll be fine" Katja states while Deez just questions what happened
"Yeah, we are out to help the multiverse I guess" ARC responds walking up to Katja while thanking Kinana for the meal
"Are you sure?" Survivor Levy asks
"Yeah, we'll be fine." Katja answers as she opens the portal
"Master, can you tell me what happened" Deez asks, clearly confused
"I will" She answers before turning towards the guild "I hope you guys take care of them, they've been through a lot of shit for God knows how long. Also, I hope your friends get better so...I guess say that we hope for the best to them. Bye!" Katja waves as she walks through the portal with Deez.
"Also, teach them magic. They will need it." ARC says before waving off and walking through the portal
"So...What do you guys do in a guild?" Gray asks as Makarov smiles
"We are gonna make noise...SO LETS THROW ONE OF FAIRY TAIL'S FAMOUS PARTIES!" Makarov shouts as his guild cheers
Earthland 0987-Z0
As zombies ran through the city in attempts at chasing survivors or finding them, a red and blue portal opens in the sky and out comes a man. he seems to be on the tall end and has black hair that runs to his elbows. He has blue eyes and multiple tattoos on his arms and torso as he is shirt;ess. He also seems to be wearing black and grey pants and has a huge staff in his hand.
"Such an impure world" he starts while spinning his staff. "This multiverse owned by the God's have no place for it at all! INDRA'S WHEEL!" he exclaims before a light and electricity begins swelling up inside the planet before in combusts and blows up into tiny pieces, leaving nothing behind but dust.
Earthland 0987-ZO has been destroyed
Ooh, things are starting to pick up with my story as the real plot begins unfolding and I can't wait to explore more!
Now I know how happy things were at the end and trust me, I intented to make it darker by having the group fight millions of zombies in the city and Gajeel, Natsu, and Romeo dying with Wendy losing a foot but decided to give them a happy ending instead.
In the next chapter the two will just be hanging around before a huge battle ensues though I won't spoil what it is. Also, if you personally have an Earthland that you would want me to create and explore you can post it or pm me if you want, I would be happy to know your ideas.
With that being said, have a nice day everyone and see ya in the next chapter, PEACE!
Edit: Yes, I did add more to this chapter towards the end as of 4/12/20. I didn't like how it ended looking back so I redid some stuff.