"Alright everyone!" Monika happily cheered.

It's been a week and a half since Monika and Yuri were at Tridon's house and now it was time for another workshop session.

"I do believe we have our submission from Tridon this time, right?" Tridon was already standing up with his packet of paper ready. Monika smiled and chuckled before continuing, "Alright, so he submitted this last week and I've been looking forward to the workshop for it."

"Alright," Tridon stood up as light started to shine on only him, "are you girls ready for a story of action, drama, friends, and zombies!"

"Can we turn the sun back on?" Sayori wondered, "I know you want to keep it dark and ominous, but it sucks if we can't even read what's on the paper."

"Right." Tridon snapped his fingers and instead of the sun being turned on, they were now in a broke down city where cars piled on one another and buildings were close to collapse, "Better?"

"How are we here...?" Monika wondered, "How'd you do this?"

"Doesn't matter." Tridon quickly responded, "Anyway, we are in a broken down city." Tridon walked through the city with the girls following her, "Society has collapsed due to the rising zombie menace."

"A few questions." Yuri interrupted, "1. Why am I wearing jeans? 2. Are these fast or slow zombies?"

"Yeah." Natsuki agreed, "We need to know. I've never worn leggings."

"I think those are yoga pants." Monika interrupted, "I don't know..."

"Oh," Sayori intervened, "I think they're yoga pants. Since we're in this type of setting, it would be obvious that they're yoga pants."

"Girls," Tridon interrupted, "we have to move." Tridon looked past them as a large group of zombies started sprinting towards them, "Run!"

"Ah!" The girls yelled and followed after Tridon who was miles ahead of them.

"Tridon!" Sayori yelled, "Wait!"

"Ah man..." Tridon turned around and ran past the girls, "Just go to that building over there!" Tridon pointed over to a small building to their right and the girls ran over to it. However, they stopped when they saw Tridon staying with the zombies.

"Tridon!" Sayori yelled, "What are you doing?"

"In the story, the main character stays back while his friends get to safety!" Tridon answered, "Don't worry! I'll be fine!"

"No Tridon!" Monika yelled, but was stopped by Natsuki, "Huh?"

"Remember his story girls." Natsuki responded, "He'll be fine! Let's go!" The girls followed Natsuki inside the building, "In the story, it says we make our way to the roof and wait until he comes back."

"What if he doesn't come back?" Yuri questioned, "What if things don't go as planned?"

"Don't worry girls." Natsuki answered, "I'm worried too, but if things go as planned like the story, then everything will be fine."

Once the girls approached the roof, they all huffed and puffed after going up multiple flights of stairs, "Whew..." Monika breathed, "What else happened in the story?"

"If I remember correctly," Natsuki started, "we should see Tridon running through the door right... now!" Natsuki pointed at the door, but nothing happened, "Huh?"

"Wait." Yuri interrupted, "I also remember a part of the that the main character does get infected and dies."

"Ah!" The other 3 yell.

"I forgot about that part." Natsuki quickly commented, "We gotta go check on him!"

"Girls," Sayori called out, "I found him." They joined her by the edge of the roof where they saw Tridon in the middle of a large group of zombies attacking him, "We gotta help him!"

"But we don't have weapons!" Natsuki responded.

"Wait," Monika interrupted, "if I remember too, there should be a dead guard with a gun over there." Monika pointed behind them where some of goods scattered across the ground, "I've never used a gun before."

"It shouldn't be that hard." Sayori stated after picking up a shotgun, "Ya' just point and shoot." She cocked the gun and nodded, "Let's go. Who knows how long that idiot will last with all those zombies around him."

"Right!"

The girls rushed back downstairs and arrived at ground level winded again, "Key note." Natsuki started, "We should probably try and not bust our lungs rushing down 30 flights of stairs like that."

"Noted." They say in unison.

"Let's go!" Sayori yelled and ran ahead of the other girls. Sayori fired at a zombie, but was blown back by the kick from the shotgun.

Tridon noticed this and barreled over multiple zombies to get to her, "Sayori!" He yelled. He picked up Sayori and the shotgun before running to the girls, "I thought the story said head up to the roof!"

"We were up there!" Sayori explained, "We just got worried about you!"

"In the story, the main character gets out fine." Tridon retorted, "I wasn't gonna get hurt or anything!"

"But Tridon..."

"I know you were just worried." Tridon interrupted, "But you're gonna end up worrying me if you got hurt."

"Alright..."

"Follow me girls. There should be a mall somewhere near here. We can fortify there."

"Oh yeah." Natsuki nodded, "The mall part."


Once they arrived at the mall, they stared at the locked door, "Uh," Monika started, "how are we gonna open this?"

"If someone had remembered in the story about the crowbar on the roof; we would be inside already." Tridon sighed and looked behind them, "Uh oh..." Tridon aimed behind them and shot a few times, scaring the girls.

"Tridon!" They yelled. However, when they turned around, they realized what was wrong, "Get the door open!"

"Get back girls!" Tridon moved the girls behind him and shot the lock off the door. He pushed the door open and pulled the girls inside, "Inside now!" Before the zombies got to the door, he quickly closed it and held his body on it, "Find something to block the door!" The girls nodded and ran off, but Tridon stopped Natsuki, "Wait Natsuki."

"What?"

"Take the shotgun and if any of them sticks their head or hand in..." He tossed his shotgun to her and continued, "Blast 'em!"

"Why would you tell the smallest person in the club to do this?"

"Just do it!" Natsuki jumped when Tridon yelled at her and only did as he said. Tridon struggled as some of the zombies peaked their heads in, "Natsuki!" Natsuki fired and stumbled a little.

"Ow..." Natsuki stretched her shoulder before firing once more, "Tridon...!"

"Girls!" Tridon yelled, "Come on!"

Monika eventually joined with Sayori helping her push a TV stand in front of the door. Yuri joined pushing a steel shelf and Tridon ran back to help her.

"More stuff..." Tridon ran off to look for more stuff.

Natsuki looked down at the gun and sighed, "This story is pretty interesting huh?"

"Yeah." Sayori agreed and breathed heavily, "It's also exciting!"

Tridon arrived again with some chairs, benches, and other items to effectively block the door. Tridon bent down and sighed, "Oh yeah. This story gets interesting and exciting." Tridon slid down on the wall and chuckled, "How are you girls enjoying it?"

"It's exciting from the get-go." Monika started, "But since it's a zombie story, I expect it to dial back soon."

"Yup." Tridon looked down at his hand and nodded, "Well that was unplanned."

"What was?" Yuri quickly asked. She looked down at his hand and noticed a bite on it.

"Yikes dudets..."

"Oh no..." Sayori crawled over to Tridon and checked his hand, "That means your infected now?"

"I guess so?"

"No..." Sayori hugged Tridon and sniffled, "I know this is some weird imagination of your story, but I don't want you to turn."

"Sayori, I don't think..."

"Hey man," Sayori interrupted, "I just said I know it's fake." Sayori looked at Tridon with a raised eyebrow and flicked his forehead, "It's for the story."

"Still though." Monika intervened, "If this was real, the thought of needing to put him down because of a bite would be hard to think about."

"It'd be messy too since we have a shotgun only." Natsuki commented, "I doubt none of us would want that blood on our hands."

"Look," Tridon stopped everyone and stood up, "if that does happen, just shoot me. I don't wanna be one of them. Hypothetically that is."


The girls all looked at each other just as the setting around them turned back to normal. Instead of being under the tree, they were now in the school halls.

"What are all of you doing so late after school?" Tiffany interrupted them and tapped her foot, "Clubs went home 30 minutes ago."

"Sorry." Tridon apologized, "We were just having fun with one of our stories."

"Well, don't stay later than this. I'm letting this go once."

"Thanks. Come on girls." Tridon walked ahead of everyone with the girls following behind him.


Later that night, Tridon finished brushing his teeth and was about to head off to bed, but his phone started ringing. He checked who it was and didn't recognize the number. He shrugged his shoulders and answered, "Ye'hello?"

"Tridon, it's Natsuki."

"Oh hey Natsuki." Tridon fell onto his bed and stretched, "What's up?"

"I wanted to tell you that I loved your story."

"Really now?" Tridon laughed and added, "I'm glad you did."

"Also, I wanted to ask you about the part when you got bit."

"Yeah?"

"I'm pretty the other girls wanna know too, but why were you so insistent on us shooting you?"

"Well, think about it. A quick shot to the head would be a better fate than to slowly die from whatever virus it was. Not to mention dying and becoming a zombie. A nice, quick shot to the head is a lot more merciful than waiting for the virus to take you."

"Right. I guess we just didn't want to think about it." Natsuki sighed and berated him, "You shouldn't have gotten bitten in the first place. You knew those things were fast because you wrote them to be. You should've been more cautious."

"Sorry dudet. I'm sorry for worrying you."

"I-I wasn't..."

"Yeah, yeah. You weren't worried about me or something along those lines..."

"Do you want me to kick you in the shins while Sayori chokes you out tomorrow?"

"No thank you please..."

"Good!" On Natuski's end, she had a bright smile on her face before asking, "By the way dude, I'm doing a bake sale this weekend to help a friend out. Do you think you can lend a hand?"

"No problem. At your house?"

"That's right."

"Alright, I'll stop by. What time?"

"Early. Like 7 or 8. The bake sale starts at 12 downtown. I need to start baking."

"I understand. I'll be there."

"Thank you so much Tridon."

"No problem Natsuki."

"Well, I guess I'll c'ya at club tomorrow."

"Same to you Natsuki..."

"Bye Tridon."

"Night Natsuki." Tridon hung up and placed his phone on the charge going straight to sleep.

Natsuki smiled brightly and hugged her phone and pillow, "Take that girls. This is what happens when you leave me out of chapters. Yee-hee!"


A/N: Sorry for another short chapter. I think I'm just trying to get these out quickly. A little too quickly. Still, I hope you're all enjoying this as we're reaching 400 total views already. I know views/reads don't mean much. The Favs and Follows are where it's at. So if you enjoy it, favorite or follow it so that you don't miss out on the next chapter. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter and I'll see all of you in the next chapter. Peaces outta!