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Jun slowly moved out of the basement door, her arm wrapped around Richard's shoulders. After the man had, less than carefully, bandaged her obvious wounds, the real challenge had been getting her to her feet. She was in no condition to be fighting, or running, from mutated freaks... especially ones that tended to throw her out windows. She had never seen something like that happen in a video game...
The two of them began towards the parking lot of the girl's dorm - using Jun's car to make it to the hospital was idea for now. It would be the easiest, and quickest, way to make it. After all, the faster they reached the others, the faster they got the hell off this campus.
"How long will it take us to make it to the hospital?" Jun turned her head slightly, catching a glimpse of the side of the man's face before she was forced to look forward once more. She didn't take too kindly that her head was still throbbing from the loss of blood she'd endured. Richard had said it was a miracle she was still alive... No kidding.
"At this speed? It'll take us 'til morning to reach your car." His voice leaked with sarcasm, which angered the girl slightly. What was wrong with him? They were in the middle of hell and all he could think about was making cruel jokes... Err, wait, he was joking, right?
"Ha-ha..."
"Really, you need to pick up the pace - just a bit, even. And I hope you get used to moving around soon, because if one of those things show up, we're going to have to run for it."
"I thought you had a gun?" Jun's eyes widened in worry. She knew what he was going to say before he even said it...
"Out of bullets."
Wasn't that just fantastic! She hoped that Mei was better off than they were. Whatever the situation they got into, she had a bad feeling it wasn't going to be the best moment in her life. In all honesty, she figured that this would probably be the worst night of her life. Never before had she dreamed of something like this happening... and it was obvious that Richard hadn't either, even though he kept such a cool attitude. She'd had him as a professor every day for the past year... she knows when he's serious or not.
But this was something she'd never expected to see from him - false bravery.
"I guess I'll suck it up and run for it if that happens," Jun pointed out quickly, realizing she had let herself get lost in her thoughts. "Hopefully nothing catches up though. They didn't seem that fast.. Well, the flying things seemed pretty quick, but the fat ones-"
"There are more," Richard cut in, his gaze flickering over to the girl he supported. "Those aren't the only two breeds. The others are faster... much faster. And there are larger ones - more damaging. A man that was with the other group... he said that they were called Super Zombies."
"Super Zombies?" Jun echoed, her face twisting into disgust. She never really thought about the possibility of these things being zombies. But who the hell would have known what they were? "Which person said that? Corey?"
"No. If you mean your sister's boyfriend - he barely knew anything." That didn't surprise her. "His name... Kenny? It was Kenny Matthews, I believe." Jun's breath caught in her throat. Could it be that...? No. It wasn't possible. All the stories she'd heard - they couldn't be true.
"He went to Leafmore High School," Jun choked out, her eyes widening. "But I thought those were just urban legends? There's no way something like that could have actually happened."
Everyone who was anyone knew the stories about that school. It'd been printed in the paper by a detective that had spoken with the three kids who 'survived' Leafmore. He'd been put in a mental hospital out of the fact he was hell-bent on proving that it'd happened. The three students had made it somewhere else before they could get commited. The story was something along the lines of a boy going missing, and his sister and a few friends stayed behind. It turned out the principal had been kidnapping children and testing on them with some virus he'd created, turning them into mutant monster... zombies, if you could call them that.
The kids had survived the night after some struggle, but not without a loss. Two of the kids died - what had their names been? Ashley Thompson and Josh Carter, right? The three who had made it out approached the detective, and told him everything.
But, the students in that story... Could Kenny have been the one that went missing? If that was so - then Shannon Matthews must have been playing the role of the distressed sister that followed after him. It had to be the only explanation for Kenny knowing what was going on...
The thought sent shivers down her spine.
"Ms. Wang?" Richard cut into her thoughts, giving her a slightly worried look. "Are you okay? You zoned out! Your sister will have my head if I let you die on my watch."
"I'm fine," Jun said quickly, suppressing an amused smile. "And, seriously, Mr. James, you can call me Jun. I don't feel like worrying about formalities at the moment - fearing for our lives seems more appropriate."
"Ah, err, alright... Jun." Richard fidgeted slightly - she got the impression that her was more for formalities no matter what the situation. He didn't seem like the type to speak to his students more than needed, either. "Look!" His voice broke the small silence that had engulfed them, and she followed his gaze obediently. "That's your car, isn't it?"
A red vehicle sat not for from them, it's perfected paint-job clashing with the horrors of the night. Call her crazy, but Jun could almost understand Corey's love for his car right about now. She felt like running up to hug it... if it weren't for the various wounds restricting her from doing so.
"Yeah! That's the one!" Jun pushed herself off of Richard's support, much to his displeasure. It was obvious he didn't think she was ready to walk on her own - not without good reason anyways. But he got the sense that she didn't care, so he simply followed along as she bounded - or limped - the rest of the way, closing the gap up between them and the car. She seemed eager.
"Calm down - it's not going to just fly away, dummy." The professor caught up with her quickly, nearly yanking her back as she reached for the driver's side. "And your most certainly not driving. Not in that state. Give me your keys."
Jun puffed out her cheeks in protect, but did as she was told. Reaching into her pants pocket, she pulled out a slightly red-stained key, gasping in shock. "W-Whoa... I guess my blood soaked through." She glanced down at her pants. The side of the material was blood-stained from where the red liquid had dripped off her hand earlier. "Sorry..."
Richard rolled his eyes and snatched the keys from her. "Whatever. Just go get in." He opened the car door and sat down in the seat - checking the area around them before he slammed the door shut once more. He watched as Jun circled around the car, coming to a stop on the other side. A look of pain crossed her face as her injured hand gripped hold of the door, pulling it open.
"Ouch..." Jun sighed and plopped down in the seat, not bothering to see if there were any creatures around before slamming her door. She detected an annoyed grunt from her professor, before he put the key in the car and turned it - the engine turning on soon after. It rumbled for a moment before turning into a straight, as some would say, 'purr'.
"There we go," Richard muttered, slowly backing out of the parking spot. "Now we'll hopefully get to the hospital before everyone is gone. Do you still have your radio?"
"Yeah, but the batteries di-" Jun cut off, getting a skeptical look. They had died... but didn't the radio start working again once she fell? Maybe when the monster threw her out the window, the radio's batteries had been jolted... either way, it was working again. "Never mind. Why?"
"See if you can contact any of the others. It seems like they'd be worrying about where you are." Richard glanced over at her for a moment before pressing his foot on the pedal with slightly more force - the car began to quickly pass through the parking lot, coming towards the exiting road.
"Oh!" Jun smiled and pressed the button down, opening up the comm signal. "Hello? Mei - can you hear me? This is Jun!" She tilted her head slightly and waited, eyes closed. When she got a reply, she instantly knew it wasn't her sister. In fact, she didn't know who it was.
"Who is thi-" The voice had broken off before the man had gotten a chance to finish, but he must have had the button pressed down, because she could register the sound of a voice in the background.
"Stan!?" A female voice broke out behind him, one that was vaguely familiar to the girl. It must have caught Richard's attention for a moment as well, because his gaze shifted from the road in front of him - which proved to be a fatal mistake on his part.
When he turned his gaze back to the front, the car rammed into something hard, causing the air bag to pop out between them. Jun, engulfed in it, coughed a few times, as if she were choking on the cloth. "Mr. James!? What happened?" No response. Worry clouded her mind as she tried to move from the seat she was in, but the bag restricted her, and as injured as she was already, it was nearly impossible for her to go anywhere. But she could hear just fine. And the sound beside her made her blood curdle.
At first, everything seemed fine - she could hear Richard groaning on the other side of the bag, but the next sound she heard disturbed her. Whatever they'd hit had been alive, and the sound of it's feet pounding against the pavement hit her senses. The creature grunted and stopped on the other of the car... the sound of metal being ripped apart was heard next.
Jun gasped and squirmed, trying to break free from her personal imprisonment. "Richard! Get out!" It was no use, she didn't even have to be over there to know that he had blacked out from the crash. "Mr. Jaaaames!" Her voice laced with hysteria as she begrudgingly rose her bandaged hands up and began to claw at the bag, trying to ignore the growl from the other side of the car - followed by a slight dragging noise. She couldn't assume the worst... she didn't want to.
Finally, she'd had more than enough. Simply smooshing the one in front of her down, she struggled to turn to her side, back facing the hidden driver's seat. Pulling her feet up, despite the pain she felt in her stomach crunching together, she forcefully pushed her legs into the car door - allowing it to fling open. Not so much as hesitating, she pulled herself out of the car, and circled it, stopping in the font of the car.
Jun examined the driver's side for a moment, her face twisting in horror. The front door was torn off it's hinges, the area around that was dented and bent. Not only that - but a few claw marks suggested exactly what had done it. Much to her disliking, that wasn't the worst part of it. Richard was missing... and a small trail of blood was smeared on the road - leading into the nearby forest.
Now was time to make a decision. And she didn't think she wanted to.
Slowly, the radio began to static again, back in the seat she'd come from. A voice emitted from it a few seconds later... Jun barely heard the person out of her own shock.
"Hey!? Jun, are you there? We just met up with Shannon and her friend - she said that you had gotten through to them! This is Corey... please pick up!" Despite her dislike for the boy, she couldn't help but notice the sorrow lacing his voice.
Taking her attention off the blood for a moment, she ran back to the door she'd kicked open, rampaging around the front seat before finally finding the radio had fallen to the floor. Grabbing it, she pressed the button down and sighed. "Th-this is Jun... Is everyone okay?"
Corey made a choking noise from the other side of the link, as if he were trying to struggle with his words. "Not... exactly. Kenny... he... he mutated. He turned into one of those things. And... Mei... she's..."
Jun's eyes widened, and for a moment, she completely forgot the tone he'd used when mentioning Mei. "Kenny!? He became one of them!? What the hell!" She paused for a moment, a horrid thought hitting her. What if...
"That's not it. He got away from us earlier..." It sounded like he was trying to forget mentioning her sister as well.
But that isn't the first thing to occur to her. Richard... he had been dragged off by some huge mutant, right? And now, there was a chance that Kenny was the one to do it. She had to hold back a scream of frustration. "Dammit... Corey, look, I have to go! Can you guys stay at the hospital for a while?"
"Uh... hold on." There was a pause and a few voices spoke in the background, and ultimately, one spoke up. It was that woman's voice again...
"We should wait for her! Mei would have wanted us too..."
Jun felt a bad pang in the bottom of her stomach - and she had to contain the fear she was experiencing. "Corey? What did she mean 'would have'?"
There was a paude on the other side of the line, but finally he answered. "We'll talk about it when you get here. Just hurry!"
"It'll be a while... I need to do something first." Jun glanced back to the trail of blood and held her breath.
"What could you possibly need to do!?"
"Look, don't worry! I'll be quick. Just stay safe - all of you." She cut off the connection before he could reply and moved back towards the attack site. Her eyes grazed over the damage on her car - and struggled for a moment as to rather it was worth it or not. But she couldn't walk away and not feel guilty...
Richard had damn-well saved her ass back there, and as much as she wished she didn't think that way, she knew she owed him one. Whatever had dragged him off - she just prayed it wasn't Kenny. By the sounds of distress in Corey's voice, he hadn't exactly been too kind when he'd mutated.
"Okay, Jun," she muttered to herself, hesitantly beginning to follow the small trail of liquid. "It's time for some false bravery."
[That was the last filler-chapter xD Next, the action/horror/drama stuff starts. Yay... . Anyways, I'm proud of myself for updating quickly. -cough- I had nothing better to do... -cough- x3]