HEARTLESS !
a collection of drabbles & oneshots
featuring my kingdom hearts oc, shadow kiara.
some chapters may present an AU version or
include themes from other series/fandoms.
Drabble #2
ZOMBIE AU
{inspired by warm bodies}
Hungry. Hungry. Hungry.
A darkened figure stopped and stood over a motionless body, laying in a bloody heap on the cold floor. Even in the darkness of the school hallway, the silhouette was clearly a female's, dressed in a tattered blood-stained jacket and skirt. She slowly leaned over the corpse and gently sniffed, drawing the putrid scent of decay into her lungs.
Too dead.
She stood up with a dissatisfied growl - not the usual moan of a biter, no... It was more animalistic, like the slow aggressive purr of an angered crocodile. There didn't seem to be any more living creatures in this building, and she was growing quite irate with her dwelling hunger. Glancing up, she decided to check out the rest of the hallways before heading back outside. She moved along, not with the awkward stagger of the average undead but with graceful, agile, precise movements.
The portion of her brain that made her human was long gone, but unlike the other walkers, she had something different rattling up there in her skull. Something placed there by scientists, when the outbreak had first occurred, something they thought would act as a vaccine against the mysterious infection that caused the dead to reanimate. Obviously it was unsuccessful, but only in its intended purpose. What it did do, however, was allow most of her brain to reactivate - the primal parts, anyways. Instead of a mindless embodiment of hunger, she had become a full-fledged predator.
As she prowled down the hall, she suddenly stopped, sniffing the air. There it was; life. It wasn't a normal kind of scent, it was powerful and spicy and shot through her nose and struck deep in her brain like a jolt of electricity. Silently, she followed the trail, peeking around the corner to see an older male making his way down the hallway. He had a flashlight, but she couldn't tell if he was armed or not. Yet her hunger overpowered her caution and she pressed forward, carefully stepping over corpses and quickly closing the distance between them. The overwhelming scent of fresh meat was so welcoming, her mouth began to water, her lips parting and her teeth baring themselves as she prepared to attac-
-with a loud thump, she froze, glancing down for an instant to see she'd stepped on the arm of an upright corpse and had knocked it over to the ground.