Hey! I'm back! I'm just gonna sort out a few issues here. Sebastian didn't have any powers in chapters before. My school bus actually does have seat belts. Ciel and Sebastian did cross paths before but I didn't mention it. Ciel was just surprised that his form tutor was Sebastian. And yes, I am pure Filipino. Anyway, please read my friend KillerBriefcases story, Now or Never, he reviewed my story so you can get to that through there so… here we go!
Viridian's POV
The impact hit hard. And I mean, really hard. I had to admit, it was funny, no, hilarious, to see Grell thump his head on the seat in front of him, but… I did it as well… It's not that funny when you receive the pain as well. I mean but gheeze! Sebastian man! Bloody hell! Couldn't this guy have made a clearer charge at the gate? Well, he wasn't inhuman anymore so he couldn't really be the perfect butler anymore. But still! Bloody hell! You made me sound British! You can't really have much control when you're in a school mini-bus, coach or whatever it was, when I rammed into a big metal gate. Well, at least we were alive. Then I looked back at the school… Memories shattered… I had lost so much in one day. And I had seen so much in one day. Lives were lost and new memories, no, horrors were burnt into my mind forever.
The streets were lined with fires and emptiness. My world was now in ruins… I turned away from the window and leant on Grells shoulder. I didn't understand why I had liked Grell so much. He was like… I don't know. He said he couldn't have a child of his own, and that him 'being a male a biiit of a problem," so I guess he treated me so well because of that, even if he was my teacher. He treated me like a parent should… My parents. I didn't know where they were. God. I didn't know where the hell my parents were in the middle of this hell!
"Are you alright?" Grell moved away my hair. "That was an awful lot for you to see at your age…" Of course he was right.
I looked back at the school. Memories shattered… I had lost so much… It was a lot for me to take in. And I was only thirteen, nearing fourteen. It was two months away from my birthday.* December was drawing near. Christmas, my birthday. I had watched so many zombie movies before. The gore, the blood and the horror… Society was totally desensitized from it. I used to hear my classmates say that they'd survive all of this. The zombie apocalypse was something that wouldn't fade after a week, or a month… I mean, it could take years for this all to clear up. It was too much for me to take in. I'd seen my friends bitten, turned, and then I had to kill them… I took up the sword for real. I… I only thought it would be a hobby. I knew martial arts were only for self-defence… but…
"I'm fine," I pulled away from him and smiled. "I'm going to talk with the others. You know, to see how they're doing." I unbuckled my seat belt, luckily, Sebastian was driving at a pace slow enough for me to move about, but fast enough to evade the bizarre dolls as we passed them. I decided to go to Alois first. I mean, it would be easier to work with the people I hated the most first, and then I'd work my way up.
"You're lucky I went back and saved your ass," I laughed as I say down next to Trancy. "I thought about leaving you to them but… it's not really in my nature to do that.
"Then I'm lucky that you thought otherwise and you were in a good mood," he said with his head against the window, his pale blue eyes looking at the destruction outside "But… why though?"
"What do you mean?" I gave him a look.
"You wanted to jump out of a window because of me and now you just saved my life," okay. Now that I realised, it was pretty weird.
"I don't know Trancy…" I was weird. When I saw him on a TV show, I instantly hated his creepy butler and booty shorts. Everything about him just pissed me off, but… I couldn't leave anyone behind. I guess it was because he had two other people with him. I mean, I couldn't let three people die because I hated one of them. "Just… make sure you're useful," I laughed and went onto the other two who Trancy was with were okay. I was supposed to work my way up with who I hated, the next would've been William no doubt, but I didn't really care. I can never stick to plans.
"Hey," I sat down at the back next to the boy and girl. The boy had short messy brown hair. His eyes were green behind his large red glasses, on his lap sat a black trilby hat with a white strip going around it. The girl had light brown hair tied in a ponytail by a ribbon. Caleb Matthews, the classic smart ass and Eden Mackenzie, a usually calm and collected but respected person. "How's it going?"
"I was pretty shook back there," Caleb said with a laugh, trying to act cool. He put an arm behind his head and rested his head on it. "We're glad you guys came along."
"We were lucky that you were there," Eden said. There was a pause. "What was that about jumping out of the window in class?"
"Oh I was joking about that," well. I didn't really know anymore.
"Lol, seemed to me like you hated that Alois kid," he shifted then rested an arm on my shoulder. "Wanna tell us a little bit?"
"I don't hate him," I denied. They gave me looks.
"Are you sure?"
"Of course I'm sure."
"Well then," Caleb laughed. "I think that you two should hang out more often then."
"I've just met him."
"Then you should get to know him," Eden joined.
"Not you too!"
"Oh but"-
"Excuse me," I looked up. I literally ran out of words. "You mind not buggin' the lady? She's 'ad a rough day y'know." The newcomer held his hand out for me to take. "See ya," he winked at the two. I stood up with no words… And probably the most surprised look on my face.
"Y-you're..." he sat me down then adjusted his thickly framed glasses.
"Ronald Knox," he smiled. "Grim reaper at your service." O could've died right there, and right then. Why the hell didn't Ciel tell me he was with us! Oh... yeah… I would've screamed like the fangirl I was an attracted them. "And you're name?"
"V-Viridian San Dero," I stuttered. I was a Kuroshitsuji fan. I mean, everyone knew that. But the particular character that I really fangirled over as Ronald freaking Knox. If the zombies weren't going to make faint then this could. "9R prefect." He smiled, his yellow-green eyes glinting.
"I was in 10R before all this started," he said. What? That meant he was… fourteen? Fifteen? "Guess we were on the same side before all of this started eh?
"Yeah…" I laughed a bit. Phew! Regained my composure… a bit.
"I mean, it would've been bad to mess with you, since I ain't a shinigami no more. My deathscythes just a plain old lawnmower no y'know?" he said. "I mean, I could summon it no problem, but it can't collect no more souls. Summoning the thing's the only power I got left."
"By the way," I said. "Did you happen to see and 9H or S students back there?"
"I don't really know any 9 students as a matter of fact," he sighed. "So I'm 'fraid I can't 'elp ya there."
"Okay." I was really worried about Kenneth and Nicole. But I was also tired. I had no idea where we were going. "Anyway, thanks for earlier on Ronald."
"Hey, no problem," he waved it off with his hand. The coach stopped. What? I headed to the front of the bus.
"Why'd you stop?" This was Hyde Park. A place I'd known as almost always busy… yet there was hardly anything here. Not a car, not one of them. Just… nothing.
"We need to think of a rational plan first," Sebastian said. He got up out of the drivers seat, stepping past me to address everyone. "Everyone, listen up." The chatter stopped. "First of all, we're all glad that all of us are sage… We were lucky that we escaped." He may have been a demon in his world, but now he was a mortal. He acknowledged that he could've died, just like the rest of us. "Now. Our next course of action is to think of a plan."
"Isn't it just escaping?" Alois said in a bored tone."
"It's not that simple," Eden argued. "We have families. We need to look for supplies and stuff. Besides, you idiot, where the hell are we supposed to escape to?" Woah… That was the first time I'd even heard her raise her voice.
"She is right," William said, adjusting his glasses as I came to sit on the armrest of one of the chairs. "So then, Mackenzie, Matthews, San Dero. We should prioritize looking for your families at your homes. If they aren't there, we could at least stay for a day at the most then we gather supplies."
"It sounds like a plan," Caleb muttered. You see, the thing is, whenever he tries to mutter something… It's never muttered, it's just saod.
"Eden, where's your house?" Sebastian asked. Under certain circumstances, normal people would be scared that a teacher was asking where your house was, under fangirl circumstances, Eden being a closet fangirl, a bystanding fangirl would be very jealous if the teacher was Sebastian Michaelis. If you were the girl who was being asked, there was a possibility that you could die on the spot right there. Eden just held in her fangirls squeals but I could see it in her eyes.
"Bayswater."
"Mines near Covent Garden," Caleb pointed out.
"That's easy then," Ciel spoke up. "We go to Edens house which is closest, then Calebs then Viridians last."
"Since the rest of us don't have families here, we can just move out of here as quick as possible," Edward said. I remembered. Ciel didn't have a family. Lizzy and Edwards were in their world. So Eden, Caleb and I were the only ones who had people to look for.
"This is your house Eden?" It was a terraced loft on Caroline Close in Bayswater. And it was luxurious. Caleb coughed.
"It's big," Alois said… pointing out the obvious.
"Yep," she said. "Nine bedrooms, six bathrooms, a roof garden."
"Impressive," Ciel said. "But I prefer my small flat." That was a surprise to hear those words coming from him. He was adapted to a more luxurious lifestyle than this but his words were just surprising. Anyway, the floors were cleanly polished wood tiles, the walls were cream coloured, and there were small cherry blossom banzai trees in certain places. Like most of the students, this house was adapted to her families interests, mine being music, her being Japanese things. It was like we were in a more peaceful part of Japan, the part you see when you get away from all the J-Pop and anime. Well, we looked in a bit deeper… There was the modern part!
"A lot of rooms…" Ronald muttered. "Hey Eden, are you fine with us crashing the night here?"
"Sure," Eden smiled. "Besides, my parents are out of town."
"How did you know that?" Lizzy looked at her. "I thought you said that you wanted to check on your parents?"
"Did you not see the notice when we came in?" Eden said. "It was in Japanese. Mata raishuu." There was a silence.
"See you next week?" I guessed. I didn't read katakana, hiragana or kanji etc. I thought that it was just there to match the theme. Well, thinking about it now, the fact that it was on a sticky note should've struck me as odd. Well, it was in Japanese! I only read romaji! "Then where did they go?"
"They said something about Iraq…" Wait what? Wasn't there a freaking war going on there?
"Hopefully they made it out of here before things all went to hell here," Ciel said.
Nine bedrooms, eleven people. Luckily I didn't have to share. I had a bath, dried my hair and changed my clothes. Eden had leant me a different shirt to replace my blood stained one, a new skirt and tights for the torn ones, and a black blazer since I felt out of place in this outfit without one. My shoes weren't good for running but they'd served me well. I sighed, setting them to the side of the bed and jumped, my back landing back on the comforting softness.
I was tired. Too many things had happened in one day. I knew my parents were still somewhere… I kept thinking about that. But… I wasn't tired enough to stop back my curious urges. I hopped off and went to the closet, something that wasn't Japanese styled. I tried to open it… Damn. Locked. Then there was a knock at the door.
"Come in!" I said. I leapt onto the bed and sat crossed legged in the centre… not the most natural thing to do right now but okay. Eden came into the room holding a set of keys.
"Heya," she swung the keys. I noticed her brown hair looked wavy. I guessed she must have noticed when she glared at me. "So what?! I straighten my hair!" She sighed. It really wasn't like her to get angry. She went over to the closet then inserted a key. There was a click. She opened up the closet and pulled something out. I literally jumped off the bed and got to the other side.
"Gah! An MP5SK!" I screamed. I knew that somebody could've heard me but… What the hell was this girl doing with one in a closet?! "The MP5SFK is the single-fire carbine version of the MP5 sub-machine gun, used by many law enforcement institutions around the world where a better firepower than common service pistols are required! But with concerns, that fully-automatic firearm would result in uncontrollability! Where in the world did you get that?!"
"My dad's in the army, and my mum's a gunsmith," she smiled. "It's nothing."
"Nothing?!" I was going to lose my voice soon. "I thought you were normal but you seriously aren't!" I crept over the bed. "High five sister!" We smacked hands then laughed.
"So then…" she said. "How'd you know about these guns?"
"Movies and all that." But still. Her mother? A gunsmith? And her father was in the army, so that explained why they were going to Iraq.
"When'd they use this in a movie?" she asked.
"Can't remember," I said. "Actually not only movies, also anime." I sat back on the edge of the bed facing Eden.
"You can use it if you want," she tempted.
"What?" The question came as a complete surprise to me. I mean, I could shoot a gun, I just didn't feel right with one. I had used bows, cross bows, guns and all that, but my sword had helped me a lot recently. And I couldn't just replace it. "I don't mean to be rude but I'd prefer to use my sword. I-I mean… it's a cool gun and everything, but it belongs to your family so shouldn't you use it?"
"Okay…" Eden trailed, flicked her brown hair to the side. "But you're welcome to use it anytime you want. At least take a hand gun just in case," she went back to the closet and fished out a gun.
"A Kiku Crest Luger P08…" First of all, I thought that she was right. I did need to at least have some sort of fire arm… and it did have something in common with a certain anime character I liked. "If it's fine with you Eden, it's fine with me." She smiled and went back to, what I now called, 'the firearm closet of doom.' She pulled out a belt which had a holster for the gun, much like Ciels. She gave it to me and I gratefully accepted it, putting the gun in the holster. I put the belt on and looked down at myself. It was slightly concealed under my black blazer but I could still reach it.
"Thanks," Eden said. "It's better if it's used rather than it sitting dead in the closet."
Dinner was quick. Nobody talked. It was awkward. I went back to the bedroom to sleep. I didn't want to do anything else. I was tired. I- keep getting interrupted by people knocking on doors. I sat up in bed and sighed, still wearing the clothes that Eden had given me since the rest of the laundry wasn't done.
"Come in..." I said in a lowly voice. The door opened a crack and a head popped out.
"Heya," Ronald said. "Mind if we talk?" He stepped in a bit, only his blazer was gone so he was just wearing a shirt, pants and his glasses. I was trying hard not to glomp him since he looked kinda tired but sooo cute... Yes. Ronald fan girl, officer, take me away.
"Yeah," I got out of bed and joined him on the edge. "So what did you want to talk about?"
"I wanted to ask about how you did that."
"What?"
"You with that sword," he said simply. "That was awesome. To think you're just a regular mortal as well." I laughed.
"Regular?" I giggled. "I have to say I'm kinda weird."
"Isn't everyone?"
"Yeah," my hands fidgetted. "I guess so." He ran a hand through his hair.
"I think that's cooler than my lawnmower y'know," he laughed. "If it was still a death scythe then it would be way cooler than yours."
"Well tough," he laughed at my comment. There was a pause.
"What's gonna happen to us?" He said breaking the silence. I looked at him.
"What do you mean?" His usual cocky smile had faded.
"I mean," he said. "Is it just surviving? Why do we have to survive?"
"I don't know," I didn't really think he was one to ask such questions. I laughed. "Those are some really big questions you got there."
"Tch," he sighed. "You know, being a grim reaper, I thought that I would live forever, just taking a persons soul and then onto the next. But now? Demons, reapers, mortals. All of us are on the same level. We can all die now." I looked at him. He adjusted his glasses and smiled. "It's getting late, you should get to sleep if you're going to be as badass as today." I laughed. He was nice to be around.
"Thanks, have a good night Ronald," he stood up and went to the door, looking back for a second.
"You have a nice night too Viridian," he nodded with a smile then left, closing the door behind him. I laid back on the bed and sighed.
I really was tired. He was right, I should get some sleep. We were to leave in the morning. And, as he said, 'I should get some sleep if I was going to be as badass as today.' I readjusted my position, getting under the blankets and turning to the side, where resting against the nightstand was my sword and on top was the Kiku gun. Hopefully, now, I wasn't going to have any trouble sle-
Okay, so I fell asleep in the middle of my thoughts. Don't blame me, I was tired. Oh yeah, like you can battle zombies with a sword, jump onto a bus going at highspeed with one hand and then crash into a steel gate. Anyway, Grell came and woke me up, his hair a mess. When I pointed out, I was screamed at but I just ignored it and got my stuff. Not that I had much, there was my sword, gun and the clothes on my back. I remembered my phone and tried to call my parents as I went downstairs. Nothing. I was still lucky though that there was working electricity and that I had a blackberry like Eden. I put the phone in my new black blazer pocket and sighed. My school style... Hard to think that yesterday I was at school then this. Now, my blazer was pitch-black, I had a belt with a gun holster and my sword in it's scabbard. As I came down the stairs I realised that they weren't loading some of the supplies into the bus, rather it was one of those army humvees. The ones with a hole at the top for someone to shoot and huge tyres. I wasn't proficient in car models, guns, anime, movies and all that was more my thing.
We still used the school bus but the army humvee was in front. In this humvee was Sebastian driving, Edward and Lizzy in front. Below the hole were Ronald and I. Grell was reluctant to leave me but ended up driving the school bus, with William, Eden, Caleb, Ciel and Alois inside. Our next stop was Caleb's house, near Covent Garden. His house was just a small flat so the guys on the school bus, except Caleb, stayed inside, ready to warn us if trouble arose.
Caleb knocked on the blue door. No answer. He put his ear to the door. He took out his keys then unlocked it. He pushed it open to let us see his house, bowing like Sebastian for us to enter. His house was nice as well. It was classy for such a small house. Paintings lining the walls, clean tiles. Then there was a sound. My hands moved to the handle of the sword.
"Gheeze..." There was a voice then a yawn. A girl with dark brown hair in her pyjamas, grey shorts and a white top which showed one shoulder, came out of a room. "What took you so long Caleb? I was waiting for long!"
"Chanel," I'd heard about his sister. I never thought this'd be her. Her eyes were a different colour to his. Caleb's eyes were silvery grey but her's were a shining gold colour. "You're alive?!" He stared at the girl who simply stood there stretching.
"That's a bit mean to say to her," Ronald laughed.
"Well I don't really give a damn." She was the older one out of the two. She seemed to be the immature one now. "I was bored just waiting 'ere. You should've come quicker."
"What about your parents?" I asked. "Where are they?"
"Why'd you think I'm here by myself? Them things got to ma mum," they were a single income family. In fact, I think they were only half siblings. "Serves her right for having three husbands and divorcing them all."
"That's a bit harsh isn't it?" Lizzy said.
"So is this your girlfriend?"
"What?!" Lizzy backed away and hid behind Sebastian.
"Um, Chanel was it?" I interrupted. "She's someone elses, anyway, we came to get you out of here."
"Why'd I want to?"
"You're not safe," Edward said. "In numbers, we're stronger."
"You sound like somebody from a movie. I'm perfectly happy here."
"Oh?" Sebastian tilted his head. He was going to try something, I knew it. At least Chanel was, what, twenty? So what ever Sebastian was going to do would probably be legal... Unless he was going to tie her up and shove her on. "But we'd like to have someone like you on board," he said in that 'seduction voice' of his. "We only want to protect you."
"You sound like the devil talking in whispers," she looked unimpressed. Well that's a first. "But I'll go," she shrugged her shoulders. "My brother's nothin' without me anyways." It looked like Caleb was going to protest but he held a comment back, probably just to get her on board. "Take whatever we have, we're gonna need it for survival anyway," she shrugged and went into one of the rooms. "I'm gonna go change, do what you want to this place!" With that she went away.
Before we went down to the cars, I looked over the balcony. Shi-iiiiiiya. Sorry, can't say any words. There was a lot of them. Sebastian knelt next to me with his gun, a modified Springfield M1A1 Super Match with a dot-sight and silencer. He looked through the scope at the bus.
"None of them are moving." Who would be in the middle of this? "Fine then," he readjusted his position. "I'll stay here and shoot them, some of you go down and help them out."
"We're on it," I took my sword out as I ran ahead of Lizzy and Edward who followed, Ronald staying behind and taking out his gun, an Ithaca M37, or the 'Featherlight.'
It was too much to just go to the front entrance and get out. I was going to try something.
"What are you doing?!" Edward shouted as I perched on the edge of the first floor balcony.
"Isn't it obvious?" I said, looking back, gripping the sword. "I'm going in to help," with that, I jumped.
"Viridian!" On the mark, I stabbed downwards into one of their heads and used it to stop me from falling before landing on the ground safely and taking my sword out of its head.
"Now then," I whispered with a smile. "Let's have some fun shall we?"
Red. Blood. I loved the colour red. It had dyed my sight as I tore through the hoard, Ronald and Sebastian shooting the others in my way as Lizzy and Edward came to accompany me. I loved to fight. I spun on my heel and attacked the ones behind me. I had never fought like this before. This had brought me life. Happiness. Bliss. Seeing blood splatter had made me feel like this.
It took longer than I had expected, but then we were clear to go. I panted as I took my sword out of the last one, kicking the corpse away. Ronald, Sebastian and Calen came down to the bus with Chanel, all of them holding more supplies. I had suddenly gotten tired.
"That was a great job," Ronald said as he put down the supplies and Sebastian opened up the coach. "You did really well."
"Yeah..." I coughed. "Thanks." I coughed a bit more. My breath was weezy. No not now. "Shi…"
"Are you okay?" Then it hit me. My sword clattered to the floor as my vision faded.
"Viridian?" I heard Sebastian, Lizzy, all of them. Then nothing.
This was my longest chapter ever! And my craziest at that. But… I think I might end it here. Or not. I'll leave you to find out. I might start a different story, I might not. Anyway, the part about the gun was a reference to Hetalia! OMG, like have you seen Japan! He's freaking adorable. *cough cough* Sorry for the fangirling. Since Viridian is based on me, I showed this asthma attack. I have really bad asthma so it affects me in PE. What's even worse is that I can't do sports day because something happened to my leg so I have to get it checked out. To any of my form, though I doubt that you shall read this, good luck! I'm rooting for everyone! And also Ken and Nicole's form as well! By ze way, ze awesome Prussia says no stepping on people!