Dan

Shun had been asleep for several hours, and nighttime was beginning to fall around the dojo. Murucho was posted as a lookout, and was going from window to window to look for intruders on the property. He's check every twenty minutes or so, and would come back to us in the kitchen. I'd ask him, "See anything?" Every time he shook his head no and we all sighed in relief.

Alice seemed to be holding up pretty well, although looks could be deceiving as I had learned from Shun before. Runo was starting to regain her composure, and accepting the fact Julie was gone. The TV was still on, and now they were repeating that everyone needed to stay within their homes for safety. The anchor man was the last thing we saw before the signal was dropped.

Looks like those things got into the news station. I growled and burst out with, "We can't just stay here and wait for this thing to blow over. Because odds are it isn't. I hate to sound negative, but the longer we stay here the more of those things are going to pop up and our chances of turning into lunch increase." They knew I was correct, but they didn't want to accept it.

They didn't want to think that the living dead was filling the streets of the city most of us had grown up in. Murucho looked at me and said, "Dan's right. But where do we go? Most of the city has be turned into those things."

I sat down at the table with the others and placed my chin in my hands to think. I got an idea, and asked Murucho, "Do you know if your place is safe, Murucho?" The blonde looked at me, trying to see my plan I was hatching in my mind. "It may be, but odds are it isn't. Why? What's there that can help us?" I grinned, the first genuine grin since all of this started. "Your jet."

Alice

What did Dan think we were going to do? Fly as long as we could so those things didn't get us? We'd have to refuel and stock up on food eventually. Runo asked Dan in a soft and fragile voice, "And what is the jet going to accomplish for us?" When Dan grinned this time, I knew he had most of this thought out thoroughly.

He answered Runo's, and all our questions with, "We take the jet to Alice's place in Moscow, and use Dr. Michaels' transporter and go to one of our allies like Vestal, Neathia, or Gundalia. And if we can find any of our family members along the way, we take them with us."

It was a very good plan, but we all realized something when Dan brought up our families. Odds were, they were probably dead. I felt a pang in my chest to think that my grandfather was back home walking around with those creatures and looking for other people to eat and turn.

I then chimed it and said, "It's a good plan, but how do we get from here, all the way to Murucho's place through hoards of once living people?" Dan didn't seem to of added in the variable of that the walking dead outside, and went back to thinking. He shrugged his shoulders and said flatly, "We hope for the best and try to outrun those things." That was basically all we could do.

Shun

The sky had turned black with night outside of my window when I woke up. I sat up slowly, and scanned my room thinking that one of those things could be in here. Once I saw it was clear, I got up and walked out of my room. I was very cautious as I walked down the hallway and stairs. I took the other way into the kitchen, avoiding walking past a bad memory in the sitting room.

The others were still gathered around the table in the kitchen. Dan was the first to see me, and I knew he thought for a minute that I was one of those monsters. Once he realized it was me he said, "Feeling better after sleeping?" I leaned on the cabinets and told him, "Kind of. I don't think I'll ever feel better after what happened though."

Dan understood what I meant. I still felt sick after putting that blade into Julie's eye socket. I might of felt less guilt about it if she had just remained covered and I never saw her face. That cold, dead, soullessface. Chills went up my body at the memory. Murucho broke my silent thoughts, and said, "Dan came up with a plan." I looked at him, questioning him with my eyes.

"Oh really? What is it?" Murucho pointed in the direction of his house and said, "If we can make it to my place without being eaten, we can take the jet and fly to Moscow and use Dr. Michaels' transporter and teleport to one of our allies." I was impressed. For a minute I thought that Murucho may of actually thought it up, but Dan seemed to be highly proud of himself. I asked them, "And how do you just plan on getting there. The streets are crawling with those things. If we take one step out of those doors, we're dead."

They didn't know that the street behind the large wall was a flowing river of living death. I sighed and closed my eyes. "Wait. My grandfather has another car parked in the garage in the back of the house. We could stock it up with supplies and drive out of here. But I don't know how much gas it has left." They exchanged looks at each other. It was the best plan we had at the moment.

Runo then asked me, "How do we open the gate without letting those things eat the one who opens it? And who will be the one to do it to let the car through."

It was true that the minute that when those things saw the gate open and a car full of people sitting there and one of them standing there in the open, that they would start coming after us. And if too many piled up in front of the car, the vehicle may not be able to move. And we'd be canned meat. I stepped forward and said, "I'll open the gate."

Dan

I could of slapped some sense into my best friend's mind after what he just said. Shun basically took a suicide mission to let us have an attempt safety that we didn't even know that existed. I stood up and protested, "Shun! You can't do that! They'll kill you the minute they see you!"

He crossed his arms over his chest and closed his eyes. He knows they'll probably kill him. He opened his eyes and looked right at me and said, "I'm fully aware of the risk I'm taking. But you guys need to try and make it to the jet. Right now, it's your best chance."

I saw the confidence in his eyes, but also saw pure fear. I had never seen that in Shun before. I had seen every other emotion, but never fear. It reminded me how bad things really were out tried to sound reassuring to us, "Listen guys. I'm much faster than those things. And stronger. I'm sure I can hold my own for a while." Yeah, a while. Then they'll finally get you and that'll be it. The others were refusing Shun's decision to open the gate, when I cut them all off and said, "So, when do we start packing up? And what do we need to take?"

Alice

My ears weren't believing what they were hearing. Shun was going on a suicide mission to try and help us. It could all be in vain for all we know. Shun was giving Dan a list of things to take; food, water, and weapons. I shook my head and said, "You can't just let him do this Dan! You can't just let Shun feed himself to those things!"

I didn't even realize that tears were rolling off of my cheeks. I felt a hand grab onto mine, and I looked down to see Murucho was holding it to try and reassure me. He told me, "Let Shun do this. I don't want him to either. I don't want to lose anyone else, but this will be the only chance we have to escape."

I looked at Shun, feeling more tears roll down my face. I nodded my head and said, "Ok. Just don't go down without a fight, Shun." He nodded his head and we began hunting boxes to put food and other things inside. We carried them to the garage, and Shun and Dan searched around for any intruders.

Once we saw it was clear, we loaded the boxes into the backseat and trunk. Shun took us all to this one room, and when he opened the door we were faced with everything from ninja stars to swords. He told us, "Take everything you think you need." Now the backseat of the car was filled with food, water, and weapons. We were a force to be reckoned with.

Dan

I quietly drove the car out in front of the gate. All of our supplies almost blocked my view from the rear window, but I could still see. Murucho, Alice, and Runo were in the passenger seats while I was driving the car. I looked out to my right and saw Shun standing outside of the car, the sword he used to kill Julie in his hand.

He was prepping himself to swing open the gates and release us. He made sure that he was clear and told us to drive the minute the doors opened. Shun I both were taking deep breaths, to try and ready ourselves. I hated seeing this was the way I'd lose my best friend; to the teeth of those monsters. I knew that they'd have problems catching him though. Maybe Shun will make it, but he won't be able to get on the jet with us.

We would end up leaving him anyway. Shun gave me the signal asking if I was ready. I nodded my head and readied my hands on the wheel and foot on the accelerator. Shun walked up to the gate and pushed it open. I slammed my foot on the gas and the tires spun in the dirt before the car took off.

Shun was right. The street was crawling with the flesh eating creatures. The tires finally grabbed traction, and the car flew from the gate. I heard Shun yell out before I was too far away. "Come and get me you bastards!"

Alice

Some of the zombies acknowledged us when we drove off, but most of them started after Shun. I turned around to try and see Shun, but the supplies blocked my view. I turned back around and saw everyone was deathly silent. We were all grieving already.

In reality, Shun was the strongest out of all of us. Our chances would of probably been greater if we had him with us still, but right now he had given us a fighting chance. The car flew past the stumbling living dead, and they'd turn and look at us as we went by.

A few would try and walk after us, but gave up when we were further away. They seemed to be thickening the closer we got to the city. It was to be expected anyway. We were now in the city, and we saw the same buildings in that news video that were destroyed and on fire.

Surprisingly, the streets were pretty empty. I began to think maybe they had all moved to the other side of the city, and that this would be too easy. And that Shun's sacrifice would be in vain. I thought too soon, as one of the monsters ran into the street and attacked the car.

Dan panicked and turned the wheel to get away, but made the car flip over onto its side. Something hit me in the back of my head, and my vision was turning fuzzy. The last thing I remembered, was seeing a hoard of zombies stumbling in the way of the car. Everything then went black.

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