Nico gently opened the door and stepped out. Deciding it was a waste of time to close the door, she glanced to her right, nothing could be seen. Nico sighed, that was the way she didn't have to go, as it would be the end of the corridor there. She glanced to her left, there was wooden pieces all over the floor, Nico assumed it was a broken door. She took careful steps, trying to not to make any noise possible. She knew there was atleast one zombie close, probably eating the meat and entrails out of her neighbours body. She shivered at the thought, being eaten alive wouldn't be nice, would it?
She walked pass the wooden pieces, now walking through the dark corridor. It was awfully silent, she didn't like it. Bad things happen when it's silent.
One thing what caught Nico's attention was footsteps, coming closer and closer. She could smell the rotting flesh of the zombie and hear the low moan, coming awfully close. Her grip tightened around the baseball bat. She was ready to smash this creatures head to pieces, but Nico was scared, she didn't deny that.
'Shit.'
She took a step closer. Nico saw the creature up ahead. It was disgusting. Face pale and stomach was open and bleeding, the zombie had a bite mark around her-Nico assumed it was a girl, because of her bust size- left arm. What even decorated her better was that, one vein was hanging from her ripped and bleeding stomach.
Nico spread her legs a little, lifted her baseball bat up above her right shoulder and took a shaky breath.
'This is it.'
Nico took two steps forward. The zombie, hearing her shaky breath, released a small low moan, and started heading towards Nico. When the zombie was only few meters away from her, Nico gritted her teeth and swung her baseball bat, hitting the zombie to the temple.
The zombie fell to the ground, with a loud thud. Nico wasn't sure if the zombie was dead, so the baseball bat connected once more to the zombies temple. Nico heard a skull crashing sound. There was blood coming from the open wound of the zombies head. The undead didn't move and the blood continued to drip from the open wound. Nico dared to look at the wound and regretted it immediately.
Nico was sure she was pale right now, she could feel her blood running cold at the sight. It wasn't nice to look at that, on top of that she had just killed a person. She was surprised she didn't hesitate at all and had released such a force, coming from her tiny body afterall. Releasing her breath she didn't know she was holding, she shook her head and slapped herself.
'Focus you idiot! They're dead aldready and don't feel pain, plus being scared to kill wont get you anywhere! Your girlfriend and friends are waiting for you to save them! YEAH!' Confident of what she just said, Nico glanced back to see if the zombie, that had killed her neighbour, had hear that loud thud. Didn't seem so.
Nico started walking towards the staircase, the elevator wasn't working because powers were out so she had to use the stairs. She dearly cursed for living in the fourth floor, so many stairs to walk down. Sighing, she glanced to her left, around that corner there would be her escape route, the staircase would be located there, when she turned, she saw something she didn't want to see. A dead corpse laying on the floor, one leg ripped off. That gave Nico goosebumps, blood everywhere, the corpse seemed to be killed just few minutes before, and that means there is something lurking around these corners of the corridors.
As she wandered through the darkened corridos, every hair on her body was standing at attention. Nico had goosebumps from head to toe. Her grip to her baseball bat tightened as she heard a low moan coming behind her back.
She turned around to see two of them walking. Nico eyes widened, sure she could handle one zombie, but two? She wasn't so sure. Nico frowned, what should she do? Take the risk and kill them or run away like a coward? She smiled. If there is anyone who's still stuck here it would help them if she killed those two now, plus it looked like she was a pro, because she aldready looked like a badass. She spread her legs wide, put her baseball bat above her right shoulder, and narrowed her eyes. Can she take out two in one shot? Probably not. Nico ran towards the two walking zombies, took her aim at the zombie that was on the left side. When she was only few meters a way from it, she swung her baseball bat, hitting on the corner of the eye.
The zombie didn't fall down, but did wobble a few steps back, before opening its mouth and releasing a low groan. The other zombie was walking towards her too. She lifted her baseball bat and hit the zombie on top of its head, the zombie fell down. She turned to her right and placed her baseball bat above her right shoulder again. She was so scared right now, she wasn't sure if the other zombie was dead or not, she didn't put much force on those two blow's. She gasped, something grabbed her ankle. Nico looked down to see the zombies hand around her ankle, this is bad. She quickly swung her baseball bat to it's wrist, she heard something cracking. She did it few times before the hand was bloody and the zombie released her. She glanced to her right, the other zombie was closer than she thought. Nico gritted her teeth, this was frustrating. Lifting her baseball bat high, Nico mustered up much force as possible and hit the walking zombie on top of its head. She turned to her left and swung her baseball bat at the temple of the zombie. She did that few times, just to make sure she wasn't going to get ambushed again.
Nico glanced at her ankle to look for scratches, she didn't spot any. Exhaling in and out, she didn't even dare to look at them. She then noticed how hard she was panting, did she really use that much energy? She stood there for a while, Nico was recalling her battle over and over again. What had gone wrong in the first place? One thing was that she swung her bat too early. Other was not enough force, her body wasn't for killing zombies in the first place. She took a glance at her baseball bat, it had blood, but not so much. She dearly hoped it wouldn't get broken in a middle of a battle, the bat was old and seemed to have few, small scratches. Nico sighed, it was time to go.
She turned around and walked to the staircase only to find one of them climbing up the stairs.
'Not again!'
She was furious, these filthy things were coming in her way. Never a calm person, Nico lifted her baseball bat, she ran down couple of stairs and connected it with top of the zombies head with much force as possible coming from her tiny body. She quickly pushed the zombie down with her left leg. That was probably a mistake, because that made a lot of noise, but at the time she didn't care. Once again lifting her baseball bat and connecting it, with the zombies face this time. It didn't move.
Nico left the zombies side and started heading down. If these things were going to come to her way, they're going to get what they deserve. No one is going between Nico and her determination to find her friends and girlfriend.
At the thought of her girlfriend, Nico frowned. They had a fight, and if she isn't quick enough her loved one could die or be dead at the very moment. What was the cause of the fight? Nico blushed, she didn't mean to lash out like that. Everyone knew she was one jealous-type-of-a-girl. But in the end, it was her fault, so she needed to apologize. She knew that, atleast. That was going to be embarrassing as hell. She wasn't the type to apologize.
Sighing, Nico continued her way towards the first floor. When she got there, she was surprised. There wasn't a single zombie, sure there was one bloody corpse laying there in the middle of the lobby, but still, no zombies.
'They must be looking for food, and adults are still working so.. there shouldn't be many of them walking on the streets, I guess.'
She went towards the door. She glanced at the corpse, it had couple bite marks and some deep scars, here and there. Nico frowned and glanced away. She just had to open the door and then just run to school, but what would she do when she got there?
'Now that I think about it, I have no fucking clue what to do then. Should I be a ninja and go look for them?'
Sneaking in sound's easy, so why not? She opened the door and poked her head out to look. There was one zombie in the parking lot, aimlessly walking around. She didn't see anymore zombies so she stepped out and started heading towards the school.
'Ah yeah, I need to check my phone.' Nico looked around, to look that no zombies are going to ambush her while checking her phone. Taking the phone out of her pocket, she had one unread message and one missed call. She opened the message first.
'From: Honoka'
'NICO COME AND HELP US! THESE BLOODSUCKERS ARE EVERYWHERE OH MY GOD I AM SCARED D:! We're at the archery club so you know where we are and don't worry we're safe, atleast for now :D!'
Nico was sure her face was pale. They were being attacked, that means her friends are in danger, but most importantly her girlfriend is in danger. She tried to reply, but alas there is no connection. She was starting to grow anxious, this is really bad. She checked when the message was sent, it read 15:20. She glanced at her phone to look at the time. Literally, it had taken her over seven minutes to get outside. She dearly hoped everyone were alright. She did raise her eyebrowns at the word 'bloodsuckers'.
Now that that's out of the way, Nico started running towards the Otonokizaki Academy as fast as she could. It would take her few minutes to arrive, even if she would run at full speed.
Her run to school was uneventful, she did see couple zombies, yes, but they didn't seem to take any interest to her, not that she complained or anything. Nico's legs felt like jelly, after all she had run the whole way. Not to mention she was out of breath, her stamina is not the greatest.
She glanced around the school yard to see if there were any zombies around. There were many of them walking, she observed them to see if she could spot any familiar faces. She spotted few of her classmates, a culinary teacher and her math teacher. Frowning, she glanced to her right, the archery club is that way. Gathering her breath, she started sneaking her way towards the club. After sneaking, or rather walking really quietly and slow, few meters, she noted how horrible it smelled here, the rotten flesh and blood mixing together was something no one should smell. It didn't smell that bad at the apartment building.
When she felt that the smell was coming closer, she turned around and froze. Right past her walked one zombie. The zombie had no eyes at all and it had a deep scar around its neck. She had no idea where the zombie was going, but she hoped that it didn't come back. Her whole body shaking, she started again heading towards the archery club. Spotting a small rock, Nico decided to test one thing, if the zombies go only towards noise she could throw that small rock and see if the zombies take the bait and go towards it, at the same time it would be easier to walk towards the archery club.
Taking the small rock to her tiny palm, she scanned the area for an object that would make noise if the rock hit it.
'There's that trash can, but can I even make it? That's so far away though.' Nico thought, should she take the risk and go closer or just give it a try and throw the rock? She thought about it twice, last time taking the risk and killing those two zombies almost cost her life. Choosing the latter, she threw the rock as hard as she could. She didn't actually believe she would even hit the trash can, so when she heard a 'clang' she almost screamed out of joy.
Pleased of her actions, she took glanced at the zombies that were now walking towards the trash can. Smiling, she now had a clear path to the archery club, plus she could now tell her friends that the zombies go only towards noise.
Walking a bit quicker than she had walked previously, she was now staring at the club's door. It didn't seem damaged, nor was there any blood near. Nico placed her ear carefully to the door to listen if she could hear anything, living or dead. She didn't.
'If I came here for nothing, someone is going to get hurt!' Mentally cursing, if she literally had gone all that trouble to get here and no one was here.. she was going to be pissed.
Mumbling quiet curses she slid the door open and was immediately crushed under something.
A/N: Yo!
Now I know this is like years late BUT! I had SO many exams and I was literally exhausted during these past few weeks plus something else happend so I had to take care of that! Good news are that my math and english exam went well, lol. I've never been good at math so I'm super proud of myself.
This chapter is short I know. And I know I'm an ass, because I didn't reveal Nico's girlfriend, but hey I'm not even sure who she is :D I mean I'm not sure if I want to go with NicoMaki or something unique. I kinda want to do NicoMaki but I also want to do something different (like some of you guys asked me to do so because NicoMaki is overused) D: LIKE WHAT THE FUCK AM I GOING TO DO?! SHEESH! Also side pairings: I'll do some if asked or just drop some hints here and there. I'm still new at this. Also no threesome because I can't write that lol.
And, Am I the only one who can imagine Nico cursing if something goes wrong? and her being all serious in these kind of moments?! HEHEHEHEHEH I can. Don't worry I'll make her 'Super Idol Persona' come out next chapter :D!
Action scenes are so hard to create. But I tried if. TIPS ARE WARMLY WELCOMED :D! Also romance. Yes, romance is important. This is still an apocalypse AU SOOOOOO... there are going to be kisses and Nico's poor attempt of flirting with her girl. Lovey-dovey and fluff are going to happen, but just in the future chapters. Like near the end. Maybe.
Also, holy fuck. Holy shit you guys are awesome! I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD GET SO MANY REVIEWS QAQ! When I opened my phone and saw like dozens of emails about you guys reviewing and following this story. I screamed to my pillow and said something dirty.
Next chapter is going to be longer. Pinky swear. Review and you'll get a cookie (also tell me if you want NicoMaki or unique pairing e_e?) Tell me your thoughts too damnit! AND MY GOD DO YOU KNOW WHAT WEAPON UMI WILL USE?!