Shining Princess
Chapter 3: Preparations
Disclaimer: I do not own High School of the Dead or any of the characters involved except Guardian L. Light
Takashi and Rei ran through the halls killing any of 'them' that would get in their way. The duo were about to turn out of the building when they looked out and saw that the whole courtyard was full of 'them'.
A scream echoed through the school and they turned around and sprinted off.
Meanwhile, Saeko had arrived at the nurses' office where a student had sacrificed himself to save the nurse. Saeko thanked him and gave him an 'honorable' death by cracking his head open to prevent him from becoming one of 'them'.
"Ms. Shuzuka, are you alright?" Saeko asked
"Yes, I'm fine, but I wonder who that boy was." The nurse replied
"Then let's get going." Saeko said leading the way out of the office. As she entered the hallway she heard a scream and sprinted away leading Ms. Shuzuka
Rhota and Takagi, with Light's help. Had made their way to the bottom floor. They looked around saw they were surrounded by 'them'
"What are we going to do?" Takagi whispered
"Stay calm, you freaking out now will only get us killed." Light replied calmly as she tried to take a step forward.
She put her foot on the ground and accidently kicked a pop-can. The aluminum cylinder crushed under her foot and she gasped through her teeth, she lifted up her foot to see that it was bleeding on the underside. She sighed and held up her right hand, it glowed white and she put it on her wound, it sealed shut and stemmed the bleeding. She looked up contently to see that all of 'them' were moving toward the three.
"Crap, I must've alerted them with the can." She said "Khota!"
"Right!" he shouted as he began to fire, a demonic grin on his face. He downed fifteen zombies and switched belts downing another fifteen. If Khota didn't take care of 'them' and they managed to make their way to the group Light would slice them in half somewhere with her staff.
After a half hour of battling Khota snuck to the back of the group.
"What are you doing?" Takagi asked
"I'm out." He replied shrugging
"That's no good!" She shouted
A door that the trio had sealed behind them burst open as a wave of 'them' poured out from behind.
Takagi screamed and grabbed a nearby power-drill aiming it into the nose of the nearest zombie and pulled the trigger, the small spike began to spin, ripping the flesh from the zombie's face. When she stopped Takagi was covered in blood and the body fell to the ground. She began to cry. Light swung her staff once more taking off the heads of two of 'them'
"Khota! Cover her!" Light shouted "This doesn't look good, at this rate we'll be overrun, I can't afford to lose these kids… or the others."
As Light swung and knocked away another group of 'them' a group of 'them' flew into the air from the back of the group.
Light looked and saw Takashi and Rei fighting their way to them. Another group was sent hurtling into the air as she saw Saeko and Ms. Shuzuka coming toward them.
"Finally, reinforcements." Light muttered to herself.
The newcomers reached them within a few minutes and they began to assist them in fighting off 'them'.
"So, who are you?" Takashi asked as he swung his bat into the head of one of 'them'
"Guardian L. Light" Light replied swinging her staff disconnecting three heads from their bodies
Saeko froze for a second "Guardian?" She asked
"Yes." Light replied as she continued to fight
Saeko regained control and sliced a zombie through the middle.
After another hour of fighting the group stopped and looked around. All of 'them' were dead lying at their feet.
"Now where do we go?" Takashi asked looking amongst the group.
"We need to get out of here, simple as that." Saeko stated
"She's right, this place has become too crazy, we need to get out and see if there's a safe area." Takagi agreed
Light nodded and looked around "There!" She shouted pointing to the courtyard
"What?" they asked
Light sighed forgetting her powers. "There's a bus on the other side of the building there, we could use it to escape.
"That's excellent." Khota said grinning "Let's get going then." He said
The group nodded and ran on into the courtyard, through the hour-long fighting they'd attracted the zombies in the courtyard outside and had killed them as well. So the courtyard was clear. They reached a door and yanked it open before heading inside. In front of them was a mound of desks and chairs
"What the?" Takashi asked
"There must be survivors on the other side and they blocked this way to make sure they couldn't be followed by 'them" Takagi explained
"Damn, that's pretty smart." Takashi agreed
"Not unless there are no zombies behind them and there's only friends." Light added
The group remained quiet
"Come on, we won't be able to clear this all away in time before they wander down here, up the stairs." She said leading the way.
The group followed and she led them around the area until they came to a stair-case that would take them down to the original floor. There they found a group of four other students, two boys one with what looked like a large-scale tuning fork and one with a medical transfusion stand.
"What's going on guys?" Takashi asked approaching them
The student with the medical stand gulped and nodded forward toward a pair of double doors. Takashi walked forward and gasped as he saw almost the entire room was filled with 'them' one of their faces reached up and tried to eat its way through the window.
"What do we do?" Rei asked
"We fight our way through." Saeko answered
"No, there's too many." Light said thinking, a though struck her
Her mind flashed back to the can when she was defending Takagi and Khota.
"That's it! They respond to sound." Light explained
"She's right. When you stepped on the can right?" Takagi asked
Light nodded
"Someone explain please?" one of the two female students asked
"It's simple" Takagi began "They're dead in every sense of the word except their hearing."