A/N: Just saying, that if you don't like this particular ship I chose, then scroll down because there's some stuff you should check out c:!
It was dark. That's all Nico could see. Although she could feel something is pressing her head down, it felt like a hand.
At the moment she slided the club's door open something crushed her down and pinned her head to the ground, face first. She didn't have enough time to progress the situation, but when she heard an 'Oh', she immediately got up and faced the person who pinned her down. When she stared at the person, her eyes went wide, but no words left her mouth.
Umi was standing right in front of her, her mouth was slightly open. They just stared at each other, until a voice interrupted their staring competition.
"Umi, is something wrong? You've been at the door for a minute now, you know it's dangerous out there." When the voice stopped, the person came out from the shadows. It was Nozomi. Nico looked at Nozomi for few seconds, until Umi pulled her inside the archery club. She heard the door being closed gently and quietly, she then felt strong pressure around her chest area.
"Nicocchi, thank God you're alive! I wouldn't have survived without squeezing your tiny chest!"
"N-Nozomi! Let me go, damnit!" With a miracle, she managed to slip away from Nozomi's death grip. She looked at Nozomi, who was wearing a huge, teasing smile. Nico didn't know if Nozomi was faking her smile or if it was real. You never know in situations like these. "Wait, did you just call my chest tiny? What the hell!" She, puffing her cheeks, said. Nico then felt someone hugging her from behind, she looked from corner of her eye, it was Umi. "Just as Nozomi said, thank God you're alive," Umi released her and added, "We're in a serious situation, but judging from your blood covered bat, you aldready know how to deal with those things." Narrowing her eyes, she could feel fear coming from Umi. Plus, wasn't that hug a bit out-of-character?
Before she could give her an awesome answer, Nozomi grabbed her by her hand and started walking towards, what Nico assumed was, the other member's of ยต's. She glanced back to Umi, noticing that the girl had a bow on her left hand. 'Huh, I've never actually seen Umi use a bow, wonder if she's good with it..'
In a split second, she was face-to-face with the rest. Hanayo was pale and looking at her shoes, as if they were more interesting than the fact that she had survived. Rin was talking with Honoka, both were pale, thought you could see from their eye's that they had accepted the fact that an apocalypse had started and they might die soon. Kotori was seated besides Hanayo, rubbing the poor girl's back in a soothing manner. She didn't seem pale, but she was sad and concerned. Now that she noted, she didn't see Eli and Maki anywhere. Nico widened her eyes, they couldn't be dead? Right?
"Where's Eli and Maki?" Nico asked, terrified by the fact that two of her idol group member's could be dead or missing. What made it even worse was that it just had to be her girlfriend that was missing. Of course she was concerned for both of them, don't get Nico-Nii wrong here, but when you're talking about the person you love, she will come first.
"They're still inside the school.." Was Umi's answer, that made her panic level go higher. There were dozens of them outside, who know's how many there are inside the school?
"Nicocchi, I know you're concerned for them, but you know you can't just rush there and save them.. we need a proper plan for that." Nozomi calmly said, while holding one of her tarot cards. Nico didn't see the name of the card, but if Nozomi said that, then it's better to listen to her, otherwise it would probably be just a suicide to go out there. Sighing, she had been eager to see her beautiful girlfriend, but that plan is now under great plain horse shit.
"Nico! If you're planning on saving them, we're going too!" Nico heard Honoka speak up, she glanced at them. She knew those two were really concerned and wanted to save both Eli and Maki. They had developed strong bond with Eli and Maki. Both said girls happend to be, quite the stubborn type, though Eli was easier to speak to, Maki had to be the hard one to reach out. It had taken her few tries to actually get closer to the stubborn redhead.
"Yeah! Just as Honoka said nya!" Rin said.
Nico faced both of them, she observed them for few seconds. Closing her eyes she breathed in and out, calming herself a little in the process, she then opened her eyes and her mouth to speak firmly, "First of all, if I'm going to take you two with me you will listen to me. You do not run inside the school, we have to walk or even sneak to get there. Second is, you two don't have any kind of a weapon, so find one. Agree to my terms and I'm willing to go with you guys."
"Yes, ma'am!" Saluting, Rin and Honoka turned to Umi, who flinched at that.
"Umi! Does this club have anything else than bows?!"
"Yeah! We can't use those nya!"
Umi stared at them for couple seconds, before she turned around and started walking towards a closet. She opened it, and took out two wooden sword's.
"We have these, but these are slightly fragile, so be careful, please." She explained. Both Rin and Honoka turned to face Nico, who also flinched, but only a little. They kept coming closer, which made Nico feel uncomfortable, plus their wide eyes and determined expressions just made thing's worse, "A-alright! I'm going with you guys so back off a little! Privacy, have you ever heard of it?!"
Rin and Honoka grinned, and did a high-five too. Nico turned to Nozomi and asked, "So what's the plan?"
Nozomi sat down and motioned her to sit down too, so she did. "So, after we decided that we will not practice, since you decided to leave.." Nico's face was surely crimson. "Elicchi said that she will be going to the student council office to grab some papers, and Maki insisted that she will tag along, perhaps she had something to ask." Nico nodded and Nozomi took her schoolbag and opened it. Nico frowned when she saw Nozomi taking out a key, "You will go trough the front door and sneak your way in to second floor, and you'll probably be needing this when you get there because the door will be locked. There's probably few tables too so you need to use force when you open the door." Nico took the key and put it in her hoodie's pocket.
"So will you tag along, or will you stay here..?" Nico asked.
"No, I'll stay here with Umi to keep an eye on Hanayo and Kotori." Nozomi smiled gently.
'Ah damn, I hoped Umi would come with us, she would be handy..'
"So, when you've rescued Elicchi and Maki, come straight here and we'll see what we'll do next."
"H-how.. do you know if Eli and Maki are still alive?" It hurt Nico to ask such a question, it really did.
"I've been texting with Elicchi for these past few minutes."
What.
"What the fuck! I thought the connection was lost!" Nico said half-shouting. What the actual fuck!
"Tch tch Nicocchi! Bad language is never good!" Nozomi scolded, shaking her head in disapproval before continuing, "You use Wi-Fi connection, right? So the zombies probably got, somehow, to the basement and shutted down the electricity from the building."
'Huh, never thought of that..'
"How do you know I use Wi-Fi connection?" Literally, she never really used her phone that much, but when she did it was far away from Nozomi.
Nozomi only smiled, good God how she sometime's hated that smile. Without thinking twice, Nico got out her phone and called her girlfriend. She had to hear her voice, just to see if she was alright, she knew Nozomi wouldn't lie to her, but she longed to hear her beautiful voice.
"Hello? Nico?"
"MAKI! Thank god you're alive!"
"Don't shout, you're hurting my ear sheesh.."
Nico rolled her eye's.
"Are you alright?"
"Yes.. but we're locked here inside the student council office, and those things are banging on the door.. and I'm not sure how long that door will last.."
"Worry not! Your knight in shining armor will save you both!"
She heard Maki giggling, "I don't think any armor would suit you and your petite body."
"Wha-! H-how rude!"
"A-are you alright? I-I mean, you did run away from practice early.."
Nico blushed.
"I-I'm fine, And ah.. I.. uh.. geez this is hard! We'll come there, just don't go anywhere and don't you dare to die!"
"W-wait Nico-.."
She hung up. Probably not the best idea to do, is what her mind kept telling her. She turned to face Rin and Honoka who were both hugging Kotori. "We're going now, so hurry up!"
"G-good luck.."
Nico smiled sadly at Hanayo's sentence, poor girl was scared to death, but hey who wouldn't be? She saw Rin and Honoka hug her and say something she didn't quite catch. She glanced at Nozomi who was now standing, she had a tiny smile upon her face, "Though I wouldn't have wanted you three to go there, but ah.. good luck." Nico raised a brow at this.
"What do you mean by 'I wouldn't have wanted you three to go there'?"
"You three aren't really the smartest when it does come down to a serious business.." She heard Umi speaking.
"Thanks a bunch Umi, you really lifted my spirits up.." Nico said dryly while narrowing her eyes. 'Nonsense! I am smart!'
Honoka and Rin, either ignored or didn't care about Umi's remark, marched towards the door with the wooden sword's up on their shoulders. Both turned and said loudly, "Let's go!"
Nico did a final check-up. Her bat was in a fine condition, she didn't mind the blood there, though there were more scratches. Her shoes were tied tight. She glanced at Honoka and Rin. They were still wearing their school uniform which made her frown; they wouldn't be able to move their arms with that tight of a blazer.
"Do you two have your practice clothes with you?" Nico asked.
"I left them at my locker.. why?" Honoka asked, while rubbing her neck with her free hand. "Same for me nya!" Was Rin's answer. Nico cursed under her breath.
"Well, it would have been easier for you two to swing your arms around, but I guess you could just take the blazer off. Plus, I'm pretty concerned for your shoes, they're not for running.."
A gasp, "But I run with these everyday!" Honoka said, frowning. "That's because you're late everyday!" Umi retorted and glared at the ginger haired girl. Nico rolled her eyes. 'At this rate we're never going to get going, those two can argue for a long period of time.. I'd hate to be a person like that.' Nozomi cleared her throat, "Weren't you three supposed to go and save our missing piece's?" Umi and Honoka looked at Nozomi for a second before averting their eyes. Nico snickered at the colour of their cheeks, which were slightly pink-ish.
Umi coughed to her hand, "Right.."
Honoka walked towards her and Rin, cheeks still painted with pink blush. She let out a sigh, "Well, we'll come back soon, just wait for us!"
"Take care and be careful!" Kotori's high-pitched voice could be heard.
Nico poked her head out, glancing both left and right. She had some skill's sneaking around, considering her, ah.. hobby of stalking idols. She saw dozens of them, spread around the school yard, walking aimlessly while murmuring up low moans and growls. Maybe she had said this many times before, but those things are seriously disgusting, she had never seen something as disgusting as this. Dry blood everywhere, there were even entrails just lying around decorating ground. The smell of rotten flesh is even more disgusting than directly going and smelling a compost.. okay maybe not that disgusting.
She stepped out and motioned Honoka and Rin to follow her. When those two came out, their noses wrinkled.
"What is that smell nya?!"
"This smell is killing my nose!"
"Be quiet you two!" Shushing both of them and telling them to 'deal with it, because I did so too'. Gripping her bat tighter, she started heading towards the school's front door.
"Ah, so do we just hit them to the head, in order to kill them?" Honoka asked, while looking around her. The ginger haired girl looked a bit nervous, maybe she didn't expect there to be so many of them. With a simple nod and a 'yeah' they continued forward.
Sooner than Nico would have liked, there was one walking towards the trio. Breathing in and out, Nico glanced at Rin and Honoka. Both were frozen in their tracks. If anything, she would like to stop and dig a hole and stay there, but Maki and Eli needed to be saved.
"Come on! Move your damn butts aldready!"
They didn't move. 'Are they even breathing?' Nico thought and glanced at the zombie who was coming closer and closer every second. Nico started to swing her arms to catch Rin and Honoka's attention. They still didn't move. 'Ahh! Think Nico think! What'll catch their atten-..' The idea came out of nowhere, it was silly, but we're talking about Rin and Honoka.
Clearing her throat she hissed, "If you two won't move your damn asses aldready, you won't be getting any food!"
Snapping out of their trance, both of them looked at Nico, fire in their eyes. "No ramen nya?!" "No bread?!" both of them said, quite loud. Nico facepalmed. "That thing is coming here nya!"
'Thank you, captain obvious..'
"There's more coming from left!"
"What?!"
Turning around, Nico saw four zombies walking towards them.
'Uh oh..'
"What do we do, Nico?!" Honoka asked, raising her wooden sword.
"Uhh.. w-we need to stay calm! Y-yeah! If we do it wisely we might survive!" Was Nico's quick answer. She spinned around, she saw more zombies walking their way towards her and her companions. This was not the plan at all!
"Might?!"
"That doesn't sound promising!" What suprised her was that Rin didn't add 'nya' at the end of her sentence. In all honesty, Rin sounded downright scared. Which is not a bad thing, knowing that Nico too, is scared as hell. And that leads to her next problem; If they're too scared, they will do something, from her own experience, stupid.
Taking a deep breath, she atleast tried to think wisely. Nothing really came to her mind, expect a kind of a risky move, but it's a fifty-fifty chance of her getting out of this situation, without being bitten. She went over her mighty plan few times before declaring that it was good enough to use.
"Alright you fuckers, I'll take that zombie," Nico pointed at the zombie five meters, from her left, away from her. "And then.." She lifted her bat higher and tightened her grip.
"And then what?" Honoka asked, brows furrowed. Maybe 'fuckers' wasn't really a thing for her to say?
"You run for you life."
"Are they gone?"
"I think so.."
Maki let out a sigh, she didn't believe this would happen. She was going with Eli just to ask some.. advice. She didn't dare to ask Nozomi because that would only lead to endless teasing. Umi was out of question. Honoka and Rin were both a bit.. dummy about this subject in the first place. She had tried to talk to Hanayo, but she only started talking about how 'scandalouz' it is. Maki never got to ask Kotori though, but she was next on her list. Then this kind of thing happens!
Sure, she had yesterday heard her mama and papa talking about some 'sickness' that was spreading fast, more and more patients were coming for their help, but they had no idea what kind of disease it was.
Maki sighed, again. She glanced at the door, they had blocked it with tables and chairs to unable the zombies to break down the door. She went next to Eli, who was sitting close to the window, and sat down. She aldready knew that you could not cure those people who were aldready turned to zombies, since they were aldready dead. You can't revive dead people, period. But what about infected people who were bitten, but haven't turned to zombies yet? If anything at first, they would have to find the cause of this disease, was it a virus or a deadly bacteria that could kill you first and then take control of your dead body? Was government involved with this? It might take months, years or even decades to find a cure to an unknow disease, if there are any people left, of course.
She flinched when Eli touched her shoulder. She glanced at Eli, raising a brow at the process.
"What are you thinking, Maki?"
"I-I was just thinking what kind of virus or bacteria could m-make people in to zombies, but I can't find answer to that.."
Eli stared at her, but before she could answer, they heard a loud bang on the door and suprisingly a 'click'. How did the zombies know how to unlock doors? The heck?
"Wh-what was that?" Eli whispered.
"P-probably one of the zombies?"
Maki and Eli stood up and made their way towards the door. Maki glanced at Eli, she seemed worried about something. Maybe she was worried due to the fact that they might not make it alive, never see their families again and maybe she's worried about Nozomi too? Maki had seen Eli take quick glances at Nozomi and vice-versa. Though, it was obvious that they loved each other dearly, but both of them were, perhaps, worried about ruining their friendship? Or just too stubborn to admit their feelings.
Maki's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of chairs and tables shaking and being pushed towards her and Eli. Her quick reflects were coming in handy now. Maki pushed the tables with all if her strenght. She saw from the corner of her eye that Eli started pushing too.
Though they stopped when they heard, 'Fuck, they're coming!' and 'Who are these people with such immense strenght?!'. Both of them stopped pushing and went few steps back. They shared a look of confusion.
Quickly, the door opened and revealed a sweaty Honoka, pale Rin and Nico who was somewhat covered in blood and she had a look of irritation. What they shared in similarities, all three of them were out of breath.
"P.. p-push those.. tables back!"
She didn't have to think twice, same goes for Eli, to start pushing those tables back.
"T-that.. damn zombie just wouldn't die.. I hit it like three times.. for fucks sake!" Nico breathed out, frustrated. Rin and Honoka both nodded. Maki was at the same time both relieved and angry. She couldn't explain why she felt angry, especially towards Nico, who was laying on the floor gathering her breath alongside with Honoka and Rin. Yes, she was happy that those dummies made safe it here, but she was not happy about the fact that they were risking their lifes, and the sound of Nico cursing wasn't something pleasent to her ears either.
Maki glanced at Nico. Her left shoulder was covered in blood, her shoes too, were covered in blood. Her bat was entirely covered in blood. She saw Nico looking at her, grinning like an idiot. "Told you I would come and save you!"
Maki narrowed her eyes, "How could you do something so stupid? What if you died?!"
"Psh, like I'd die that easily!" Nico laughed.
"You almost died though..if it weren't for Rin to grab your collar.." Honoka said, now standing. Rin was mumbled an agreement.
Nico looked at Honoka and Rin with a terrified look, "You traitor.." she whispered. Nico turned her head to look at Maki and Eli. Both of them looked at Nico, with really angry looks.
"D-don't look so angry, y-you'll get wrinkles.. Idol's can't have wrinkles, eh?"
A/N: I sincerely apologize! *bows*
I'm terribly sorry I couldn't update this sooner! I really am! I've been really busy with school. I also had to go to physiotherapist, because of my lower back and my damn shoulders. And I dropped my fucking phone in to the toilet, while I was at school.
I'll try to upload the next chapter sooner. So no worries, I actually have ideas written down this time! :D
I had to think alot about the pairing, we're going with NicoMaki, since it kind of feels easier for me to write about them(and majority of you guys asked for it)? but I feel horrible for not doing a different pairing, since alot of you guys asked for something unique ;; Do not hesitate to PM me what pairing you would definately like to see in the future! Every pairing is warmly welcomed~ Oh! Brotp's are welcomed too. You can also PM me story ideas if you so want to. Or if you feel like talking to an idiot, feel free to PM me :D!
Someone asked if every girl will hold a weapon - Not 100% sure. Reason being I don't know what would suit them best, if you have ideas do tell me.
Again sorry for the wait ^^'
I rushed the ending though, sorry not sorry.