Busy...busy...week for me haha. Sorry this took so long to post but I fought with the idea of making this a two parter. So please enjoy. XD

Saving The Past

The streets were crowded with screaming people and dead bodies on the floor or walking around eating others. Rants of religious nut bags or conspiracy theorists spread through the city with radios or TV stations. God has flooded the world with the dead to rid the planet of evil. The government experimented on alien artifacts and caused the dead to rise. Scientists created a virus from all other viruses combined and mutated into one. Everyone clings to the random ideals that pop up to try and make sense of what's going on. But one girl tears through the dead with two black katanas in her hands. Her belief is that this isn't the time to make sense of anything but to try and survive. And to save someone that used to matter or still matters.

Aya runs through an alleyway hoping that no more of the dead were a head of her at this point. She has cut through so many that it has started to eat at her a bit; dissection was something she wanted to try but not like this. The feel of taking someone's life still stuck to the dead that roamed the city. One of the dozens of reasons that she tells herself is that she is releasing the trapped souls stuck in the undead. This removes the guilt of decapitating anything that got in her way.

She had to get to her school to retrieve some items and a certain someone she was talking to before this started.

"Listen…Yes I know what's going on…Yes…I was just attacked in my own home…I'm fine…Emma…Emma…I told you that I am fine…Yes…Listen…Listen…I SAID LISTEN. *Sigh*. I will head for the school to find you, please stay alive until then. Goodbye." Aya hangs up her phone. She walks over the corpse that broke into the apartment to get her laptop and swords. Pieces of a broken mirror are scattered all over the floor with the blood seeping from the body that lay on the floor. The girl grabs her bag and runs out the door, ready for what may attack her.

The girl had a way of getting to Aya that no one ever got a chance to do. It irritated her that she even got so close to her the way she did. But the girl had a charm about her. And cause of the history they shared the girl ran off to save the tiny girl that befriended her. Some weird way of saving the past she held close to her.

After spending about an hour of running through the piled up streets of cars and buses. She made it to the front of the school she attends. The moans of the dead can be heard from inside, this wasn't going to be easy. Screams from the side of the school caught her attention. Hesitating about what to do she just sucked in her doubts and ran to the side. Buses full of students are fighting off a crowd of the undead while trying to get out. They must have gotten inside when the other teens were running inside the buses to escape. Whatever the case, they needed help and she was there for that.

The girl takes her blades in hand and rushes into the assault. She cuts off the head of one and stabs the chest of another. Turning the blade to its side to cut through it and she kicks off the top half. More of 'Them' turned up one after another. Aya twirled the blades in her hands, this was the part she enjoyed the most. Using the skills she honed for self-defense is now used to kill the walking corpses. Every cut and slash she made gave her a thrill of enjoyment. Her body felt warm as she gutted three more of 'Them' and cleaned her blades of the blood. The excitement was about to take its toll on her when a voice broke her from the fighting. "We need to get back into the school! Everyone get inside! Go…go…goo!"

A petite girl in pink runs through a group of 'Them' in order to lead the way for the others. She used a piece of wood to fight off any of the oncoming walkers with force, something no one expected from a girl like her. She couldn't kill them but she did knock them back and dropped them to the floor with each hit. Dodging and hitting showed how versatile she was with her weapon. Aya just smiled at the tiny girls actions "She always takes on more then she should". Two of the dead students crept up behind her while she watched the girl move. Without even looking she took down the two by shoving both blades into their skulls "Sail into the light for you have been set free". She pulls the blades upward causing the blood to spray over her like a sprinkler has gone off. The spectacle caught the eye of the tiny girl; a big smile crossed her face.

"AYA!" she ran towards her while pushing through the group in front of her.

"Emma. I can see that you have been busy" The girls pink outfit was covered in blood.

"Yeah…I know…I won't be able to wear this again" she pouts and plays around with her clothes.

Aya just giggles. Even in the most dreadful of situations that girl can still be so normal. She lifts up one of her blades and points at the school "We need to grab some things in there".

Emma looks over her shoulder to the school. It wasn't safe in there but it's not that safe out in the city either. But there was something in there that she needed to get before going anywhere. The girl nods and they head inside, cutting and bashing anything that got in the way.

The school proved to be more restricting then they expected it to be. There was no room for the girls to pull off any hard swings or many movements. The halls were lined with the dead so each floor they traveled was a challenge. But they made it to the security office of the school without much trouble. Inside Emma runs towards the gun locker located in the office while Aya works on the computers. The video monitors show the gruesome killings of each floor and hallway. Some of the dead that continued to kill the living, others show some of the teachers and students running around. Aya tried to look away from the monitors but she needed to check on a specific room. It held a key to her plan on surviving this chaos. Emma walked up from behind her and placed a golden Colt 1911 .45. She ignores Ayas stares and just stares off into the monitors "So what we lookin for?".

"Where did you get that?" Aya points at the gun wondering why she even had to ask.

"My dad gave it to me. The principle took it away from me when I brought it in for show and tell. It's a Colt 1911 .45 ACP, 1991 series 80".

"I see. Never mind that for now. So I am looking for the army recruiter's office. I recall him being in the primacies for about a week now"

"Soooooo that meeeeeeaaaannnnss?"

"It means that he should have a card key that will grant us access to the military base I set my sights on" Aya continued to scan the area. "I have gained access to his security cam and located where he placed that key. Now the only task at hand is to obtain it by not getting killed on the way there."

"Oh" Emma looked confused. So she places her index finger on her lips to try and think.

"Don't hurt yourself Emma"

Aya had finished scanning the area of any possible routes and obstacles. She calculates the perfect path to take by folding her arms while closing her eyes. It always played out like a 3D map, all the paths laid out in front of her. Each obstacle placed conveniently where they were marked and the paths they would take. All chances or outcomes are played out in her head until one reasonable course is left for a one hundred percent success rate.

"Sooooooooo how did you hack into the school system?" Emma had finally let out her thought breaking Aya away from her thoughts.

"What?"

"How were you able to hack the system?"

"Any low grade hacker can get through such an easy wall. Are you investigating me?" she asked almost offended by the girls intentions.

"Oh NO!" quickly waving her hand in front of her

"Come on we need to go" Aya walks out of the room with Emma close behind.

After going through the desired route a noise is heard from afar. People around them were running around not knowing what to do. Bodies and screams are what the two run by trying to get to the office.

The screams on the courtyard were possibly the worst. Suddenly, a thunderous boom interrupted the sounds; a shockwave throws everybody in the yard on their back. In the aftermath of the explosion a fresh smoking crater marred the concrete. Attracted by the loud noise, dozens of 'Them' began to swarm in from every direction. This time, a small vial could be seen sailing out through a ground floor window before it detonated among a particularly dense swarm. The girls took the advantage of the distraction.

"Tiny little organ parts for everybody!" an accented voice joyously shouted. By now, the room was recognisable as the school's chemistry lab, and someone was running to and from the classroom gathering materials of some sort. Groups of 'Them' in the meantime gathered around the base of the wall, trying to get close to the source of the sound. This only served to cluster them up nicely for a third vial, the biggest yet, and body parts flew in every direction again. Unfortunately, the school building, while sturdy, was not up to such abuse and started to collapse.

"Oh bozzer." the person said, before the entire wall came roaring down. Some of 'Them' were crushed, but most survived and started to scale the rubble. The unknown person retreated back into the classroom, messing with the side of a cupboard.

"Use in case of emergency.' Vell I guess ze dead rizing count, no?" he mused out loud as he brandished a fire axe. The first dead body that reached for him got an axe to the head with full force. Before the majority of the swarm could reach him, the person tossed an empty flask into the glass cabinet at the far end of the room. What little glass had remained unbroken caused enough of a ruckus to draw their attention away enough that the man could sneak around them relatively unnoticed. When he got to the busted wall however, one of the crushed zombies reached up and grabbed his ankle.

"Nein, now is not ze time to play!" the young man cursed. Immediately all of the zombies in the classroom homed in on their new target.

"Lessee, eins, zwei, drei, oh scheisse." He counted and desperately tried to get away, hacking down at the stubborn arm multiple times before freeing himself. Another vial appeared in his hands.

"I have somezing you need, demons." the person said evilly before tossing his bottle at the horde. He turned and ran, not looking at the ensuing detonation as he noticed the two girls running up to him.

"Ah, you're not one of zem! How wunderbar! Um, can I come wiz you or are you wun of zose loner types?" The girls didn't expect to run into someone who wanted to go with them but the horde chasing them made up their minds.

The three ran for a while since the scene in the chemistry lab caused a major detour for them to the office. It wasn't too long of a detour since they made it to the office quickly. But there was a giant mob right in front of the door and hallway that it might prove useless to go forward.

"So now what?" Emma whispered to Aya.

Aya folded her arms again and shut her eyes. "Hmmm"

"Maybe if I had some of ze chemicals I could make a boom" the young chemist let out.

"Oh Helllllllls yeah. KA-FUCKING-BOOM!" the girl got excited about the thought of using explosives to clear the way that her yell got the attention of the mob.

Aya snapped out of her thoughts and turned to the man next to her. "What's your name?" the look on her face made him flinch a bit.

"Uh…my name…is Martin. Vy are you looking at me like zat?"

She pointed at the can that was strapped to his waist. The young man looked down and noticed she was pointing at his reserved weapon. This gave him an idea, one that the girl had as well. "I zink we have ze same idea". Emma took that as her opening to take the front and block them from the on coming mob. She took out her gun and checked its clip before she fired anything. The piece of wood she still had with her finally started to break down so it won't last long. She spun the gun on her finger and stopped it to point at her target to fire a shot.

The corpse falls to the ground and twitches from the bullet to its head. She slowly walks towards 'Them' and whips out her stick. Using it to push back any of the ones that come too close and fires off shots. Soon the gun runs out of shots and she had pushed too many around her that now she was completely surrounded. Using her gun as a blunt object, all Emma could do was push them back. But it failed as one took her arm as she swung. She tried to pull away from its grip only to have three more grab on her. The dead tore up her clothes trying to get to her skin, they lean in for a bite, the girl yelled for some help. On cue, the two dark blades and an axe fly right by her. She falls to the floor with a sigh of relief to being saved by her companions a moment there she felt death creeping up on her. Her clothes were torn up now and it made her upset to even look at them. But the face she made was changed when she smelled something around her burning.

The two others were cutting the mob behind the girl with their weapons. Weapons that are on fire and set anything it touches on fire. Aya tore through the dead with her blades easily, anything that still stood on its legs were set ablaze. Martin did the same with his axe and killed what he could to clear a way. With the two now rushing forward, the numbers of the dead decreased rather quickly. In a matter of minutes the mob was gone and piles of charred bodies lay on the floor. Emma stepped right next to Martin who looked more tired then he let on. There were times that he felt sick but the fear of dying got him to kill everything. The petite girl placed a hand on his shoulder and reassured him with a smile. It made him feel better in a way, she reminded him of his mother. He leaned up against the wall next to him so he could catch his breath. Almost in one smooth motion the two turned to look at the girl with the two blades. Lost in some sort of trance, the girl looked out into nothing.

The darkness had taken over her again. The feel of adrenaline from the fight still ran through her veins. She couldn't shake the feeling of wanting to cut through more of 'Them' out of her mind. She needed to dissect them and get that taste of her blade slowly opening up the skin to reveal the inside. Finding out what goes on inside them by going through them inch by inch. It ate at her core. She needed to know what they were, what made them tick, why they exist. The idea of opening them up got her body to warm up. A tiny voice makes its way to her thoughts; she chose to ignore it and embraced the feelings with in. The voice got louder with every second that passed to the point that it snapped her out of her trance.

She opened her eyes to see a familiar face in front of her. The look of worry was written all over her face for some reason. "What's wrong?" she turned to Martin as if he did something

Emma ran in front of her and shook her head to stop her from doing something she would regret. "No no no…it was you that did something…or should I say…something you didn't do"

Aya felt confused and rather annoyed so she dropped it and walked into the office. It had been looked over from top to bottom seeing as papers were scattered everywhere. Someone had been there recently question was though how early since the room was fine when she checked up on it before in the security room.

Both of her teammates walked in a few moments later to find the place a mess. "Ok vat happened in here?". They separated to search for anything useful that may have been left behind if anything was left behind.

Several minute passed by the three when they stopped and piled together their findings. Emma brought over a big box that seemed too heavy for her but she slammed it on the desk with ease. "I think I found something for our lovely new friend here" she opened it up and took out a grenade launcher. The look on the chemists face lit up when she handed it to him. He put on a sadistic smile and pointed it all around the room. It was going to be a loud escape from the school that was for certain. He put the weapon down and reached into his coat pockets to pull out a small box of pistol ammo. Emma took the box with delight and counted the bullets before loading her clip with bullets.

Aya watched as the two played with the weapons they now possessed. She looked down to her blades and cleaned them up with a cloth she kept with her. They had taken on a bit of damage from the fire but nothing too serious. Made from strong steel wrapped around with a thin skin of a metal painted black. It would be hard for the blade to be damaged by the flames but marks were left behind. She placed them back into her sheathe and faked a cough to get the attention of the two.

It worked since the two put down the guns and looked her way.

"I found two things" she pulled out a radio and a small black card from her bag. "I found the key card. This will get us in the military base we need to find out certain things. Plus it is one of the main bases for defense and a place for celebrities to hitch a ride out of the city. Now this base is disguised as a building so it will not be easy to find on foot" she stops to toss the radio to Emma

"Zen how vill we locate zis base if it is disguised?"

"There is a very easily traceable wave coming from the roofs antenna that we can use to locate it" she looked at the man and pointed towards the radio.

"I see. Ze radio can pinpoint ze location of zis base by tuning into ze frequency. Very intriguing" he reaches for the radio but Emma pulls away and starts turning knobs.

"Stay away! I need this for something first" she continues to tune the radio for a certain signal when Martin turned back to face the leader. "How did you find zese? Ze place vas ransacked and somezing tells me it vas for zose items"

"You're right. But luckily for us the man was not that trusting of others and hid these things from viewing eyes. Which I happened to have caught on camera" she smiled at her work.

"Lucky us indeed"

The two turn to the petite girl as she yells at radio in her hands.

"FATHER! ARE YOU THERE?"

Like a gift from heaven a voice replies to the yells from the girl. "Emma is that you? Baby where are you?"

"Oh daddy I thought you were dead" she started to tear up

"Baby, princess, listen…we need to get you home. Hey get off that! You! Yes you with the green hair! Stop bashing the register! Sir! Can you please calm her down? Listen Emma…you need to get to Grand Central. We have a post set up there for civilians to hide out. Please. Get here as quick as you can…I am heading for your mother now" the radio was cut off and nothing else is heard but static. Emma knew better then to yell at something that won't get across so she sadly handed it over.

"It's going to be ok Emma. Ve vill go to station and zen we find your family zere safe and sound" he tried to be sympathetic. It wasn't his best quality as the two girls can plainly see.

"Thank you Martin" she grabbed her gun and stood next to Aya. She looked at the girl with a stern look in her eyes. Even though the station wasn't a part of her plan she didn't argue against going. "Fine. Martin do you want to find your family as well?" the young man takes his place next to the woman.

"My family is located at Germany. So no"

With that they left the office to its emptiness and scattered paper. The walk to the front was silent and awkward. Not only between the group but all around the school as well. Nothing got in their way towards the exit, it seemed odd to them since the school was pouring with the living and dead. With stepping out into the streets they find out why that was.

"No way!"

"Great"

"Lessee, vun, two, three, ah shit"

A giant crowd surrounds the school, streets, and buildings. The undead lurk around for something to sink their teeth into. This left the team with no way of getting out of the school safely or without being noticed. Martin got that sick look on his face again and took out his M79 and loaded it with a round. The two girls move away from him to hide behind the statues out in front. They plug their ears with their fingers to block out the sound that's to come. In seconds the explosion erupted and sent the bodies flying everywhere. He reloaded and shot off another round into the huge crowd. The bodies were blown into bits with every shot. Round after round was fired from the gun, Emma had enough so she ran to him and placed her hand on the launcher. The mad man smile he had on his face faded away. He looked away from her, ashamed by his actions.

Whatever may have happened it opened up a huge pathway for them to get across to another building. They had no time to think about it since the crowd started to pick up its numbers. Without scanning the area or checking inside the building, the three rush inside to find out why the crowd was outside. Two survivors were surrounded by a group of 'Them' inside the lobby. More kept pouring in from the windows and staircases. The three had no choice but to help clear out the room so they can head out. When they rush in the girl in the dress yells out "Please help us!"

The three spread out to take care of the group as quickly as possible. Emma used the tables around her to make it close to the other two "The names Emma…and you guys are?"

The girl in the long red dress shot off her shotgun and flew back a bit. It was obvious that she hadn't used a gun before this crisis. "My name is Patricia and the silent hunk of a man over there is Rhys. And I think I speak for the both of us when I say Thank you for the help"

The man named Rhys swings the bat he held in his hand taking out two of 'Them' with one swing. He looked over to Emma and nodded before turning back to the fight. Patricia swings her shotgun before firing off another shot. Emma kicks anything coming towards her and shoots its head.

Aya and Martin both took out the crowd near the stairs for an escape route just in case. "Looks like things may get to complicated here". The girl shoves her blades into two heads of the dead. "Ve need to head for ze roof. Its our only chance" slicing off a arm that grabbed his coat.

Unknown to the five another survivor was hiding in an office watching them through a door. The more they took out the more that seemed to flood the area. The lonely survivor just stares on and fights with himself to go out and help.

"Things are starting to get a little out of hand here!" the hooded Rhys yells out

"Yes. Things seem to be getting worse comrades. Any plans for a daring escape?" the fiery red head said while shooting at the crowd.

"Aya!" Emma let out as she shot another corpse.

"If ve can just take down ze numbers ve can get to ze roof" he reaches for his gun when Aya stops him and shakes her head no to his plan.

"Everyone! Try to make it to the stairs. We won't make it if we continue to fight off a thousand of these things!"

While moving towards the giant mob both Emma and Patricia get caught by the dead. Rhys and Martin try to get close enough to save them but are too over crowded to get close. Aya was too busy clearing the stairs and the area around her to try and help. The girls screams echoed through the lobby as the dead pulled them ever closer to their jaws.

Something snapped within the lonely survivor and he kicked the door open. Everyone looked on as the man went in a fit of rage and charged through the crowd like a bull. The girls were broken free from the death grips that were on them. The berserker swung his sledgehammer around knocking everything back with each swing. In a matter of seconds the crowd had been knocked down to the ground.

"That did the trick" Aya lets down her weapons to approach the man in the leather coat.

"Thank you for the help good sir" the red head bows in gratitude.

"What's your name stranger?" Rhys asked making his way to the stairs.

The young teen just smiled and scratched the back of his head. He nervously blurted out "Patrick"

Before anyone could say anything the dead got back on their feet. Letting out a group moan as if to signal the ones outside to storm in. Not wasting any time the team storms up the stairs to stop at the roof. Aya places a pipe on the door to stop the horde behind them from storming the rooftop. The group tried to catch their breaths from running up 6 flights of stairs. The leader of the misfits stumbled her way to edge and scanned the buildings around them. Two buildings seemed close enough to jump from but only one was in the direction they needed to go. She returned to the group who regained some stamina.

The door to the roof banged every second Aya was gone to plot something. She came back to the group with a look of concern. "We are going to jump onto the building on the north of here. It has a apartment we can hide in for the night"

They all looked at her as if she was crazy but couldn't get a word in since she left for the jump. Each of the survivors looked down the building having major doubts about the jump. The door behind them has broken loose and the mob just poured onto the roof. They had no choice and jumped hoping for the best.

I know...cliffhangers lol. You will find out what happens next time they pop up. Some holes in the story but of course those will be brought up in the future. So please Read, Review, and Reload your guns. Also thank you for the reviews to all the people who follow this fic.