Alice

The sounds of low moans woke me from my unconsciousness, and I opened my eyes to a frightening sight. My friends were all knocked out as well, and a hoard of flesh eating monsters were coming after us. We were sitting ducks at their mercy. I began to panic, and tried to undo my seatbelt and break free. Luck for me, I was laying against the side of the car that was on the ground.

Unlike Murucho and Runo, who were suspended by their seatbelts. I finally clicked the button and was able to move around. The zombies began to try and break into the car. I needed to find a weapon, and quick. I scrambled around in the overturned boxes. Some of the food had spilt from their containers and into the box. I then remembered that the weapons were stuck in the trunk.

I leaned over the seats and began hitting Dan. "Dan! Dan! Wake up! Please wake up!" His eyes opened slowly, and he looked at me. "Alice. What happened?" He had a thin line of blood trickling from his forehead where he must have been hit by something on the impact of the crash. "There's no time to explain! We need to grab the weapons from the trunk and get out of here as fast as we possibly can!"

He looked out the windshield and saw the hoard moving towards our destroyed vehicle. Dan swore and scrambled to break from his seatbelt just as I had. He saw Runo and Murucho hanging by their seatbelts and said, "Alice, help me get them down!" Dan reached for Runo, while I helped Murucho down. Runo fell from her seat and onto Dan. Murucho did the same to me.

They both came to when they fell, and I had wished they stayed out. Because they both saw what was coming for us and began to panic. Dan and I calmed them down and said our only hope was to get to the weapons in the trunk and run as fast as we could. We got ready to open the doors, and Dan counted, "1...2.…3.…GO!" We swung open the doors and climbed from the car. The monsters turned to see their next meal, and started after us.

Dan was the first to the trunk, and he opened the trunk as quickly as he could. He pulled out swords and staffs we had taken from Shun's dojo. Runo, Murucho, and I grabbed staffs, while Dan took a sword. We were now being surrounded, and slowly backed into a wall. They were enclosing us, and fear gripped my body so tightly that I couldn't fit back.

Runo and Murucho were the same way. Dan was the only one who appeared to have enough guts to take a swing or two at them. But he wouldn't get close enough to one to take a head off. I began to think this was the end of us, and that this was as far as we were going to make it. I also wondered if Shun was still alive. He probably wasn't.

The sound of metal cut through the air, and all of the monsters' heads fell from their bodies and onto the ground. Their bodies were the next thing to fall. We all looked around to see what had done this damage, and we looked up to see a shadowed figure jump down from one of the buildings and land in front of us. He held a long whip chain with a sharpened blade at the end, and blood dripped from the tip. When he took off his hood, I saw the familiar jet black hair. Murucho's voice rang out as he yelled, "Shun! You're alive!"

Shun

I didn't have time to celebrate with my friends. I had to get them out of the street before more of those things began to come this was. I looked around the street frantically, ignoring my friends' squeals, and saw an iron gate that was closing off the underground work tunnels. That was the safest place we could possibly be at the moment. I turned to my friends and pointed to the gate.

"Go in there! Now!" They saw where I was directing them, and ran in that direction. The gate had a loosely tied chain around it, and Murucho was the one to remove it and open it. It creaked as it swung open and we ran through it. I grabbed the chain after closing the gate again, and tied it up as best as I could. It wouldn't hold them off, but it would last long enough for us to lose them in the tunnels. I yelled at them, and my voiced echoed off the walls, "Don't stop running till I tell you to!"

They didn't protest. Once I saw they were growing tired, and I was too, I ordered them to stop. There was no use in wearing ourselves out by running when we were probably safe for the time being. They were all bent over panting, and I would have been as well, but needed to stay alert. In the short time we were separated, I had learned that those things could pop out of nowhere in the least unexpected places and timings. As soon as I had caught my breath, I asked them, "Is everyone ok?"

They all nodded their heads, that is, except for Runo. I looked over at her and asked her, "Runo, are you ok?" She looked back at me and then looked down at her wrist. She was covering it with her other hand, and when she removed it I saw a chunk of her skin missing.

Blood poured endlessly from her wound, and the skin around the damaged area was turning black as it began to die. I heard Alice gasp. "Oh my god. Runo!" The orange haired girl ran to her dying friend, and knelt down beside her. I knew that they deserved that time together, so I left them be. Soon, I would have to do the same thing to Runo as I had done to Julie and so many other like them.

Dan

My eyes were fixed on Runo's bleeding wrist. I wondered how long it would take for the virus to take her from us. Would it be as quick as Julie's infection? Or take longer? I thought of something I needed to do, and walked over to Shun, who was cleaning the blade from the metal whip chain in a small pool of water on the ground. It was difficult to see each other in the dark tunnels, but we could make out who was who. "Shun, I need to tell you something." He looked up at him, his amber eyes glowing in the darkness of the concrete tunnels. "What is it?" I looked back at Runo and knelt down next to Shun.

I whispered over to him, "Don't kill Runo." He was staring me right in the eyes, and what I saw wasn't the Shun I seemed to of known almost two days ago when we were over at his dojo celebrating his birthday. "Dan, she's going to die soon. And the minute after she dies, she's going to try and eat us. It doesn't matter that we were her friends. All of that flies out of the window."

I stared down in the dark puddle that Shun was cleaning his blade in, and saw my reflection. Just barely though. I also saw Shun's. Even his composure was different. What happened in those few hours after we left? Shun sighed, and I heard the fatigue in his voice. "Ok. I won't kill her. But we're leaving her here before she dies. So say whatever you want to before we leave. But if she comes after us, I won't hesitate to take her damn head off." This wasn't the Shun that was in the bathroom heaving after he had to kill Julie. I stared at him, then asked, "What did you see after we left?"

His eyes fixed on the still water, and he shuddered. "I saw a mother eating her own child. Neighbors attacking their neighbors. Friends killing their other friends. This world has lost all of its structure. There is no right or wrong anymore." He stopped talking and looked over at Runo once more. "She doesn't have much time. Go and say what you want to so we can leave." I stood up and looked at the raven haired ninja once more. My friend wasn't well in the head. But after what he had just told me he had seen, I wouldn't be either.

Alice

Murucho and I were by Runo's side the minute we saw she had been bitten during the mass chaos after the car flipped over. We watched as she turned from her lively looking self, into a pale corpse like being. I hated seeing her suffer, but I knew it would be short lived. Cause the minute after she died, Shun would be there ready with either the same sword he took Julie out with, or that chain whip.

Odds are his weapon of choice would be that sword. Dan walked over to the dying bluenette, and took her hand in his. He told her softly, "Shun said we aren't going to kill you. That we're going to leave you behind before you die. But he told me if you followed us he wouldn't think twice before taking you out. Please Runo, try your best to not follow us. I don't want to watch your head get cut off."

I was surprised that Shun agreed to let her slide. Dan must of made a pretty convincing argument. I saw Shun was kneeling down beside a puddle of water. Earlier I noticed he was cleaning off something in it, and figured it was one of the weapons he'd used to kill off those monsters that had surrounded us on the street after the car accident. I walked over to him, and he didn't look up at me. "Shun." His eyes darted up and found me, and I sat beside him, not caring if my dress got muddied up from the ground. It was the end of the world after all, so who would care? I told him sincerely, "I'm happy you're alive. I was really worried about you when we left the dojo."

He sighed, and sounded aggravated. I felt myself sadden and I told him, "I'm sorry if I'm bothering you. I'll go back over there with Runo." He grabbed my arm before I had the chance to get up, and I felt my face heat up. I was thankful that the tunnels were dark enough to hide it, but Shun may have been able to see it with his sharp vision. "You're not bothering me. I'm just tired, and it's been a long day. I'm ready to get to Murucho's and onto that jet and get as far away from this hellhole as I possibly can."

I think deep down inside, we all felt the same way. Murucho walked over to us and said, "Runo's fading fast. We better get going." Shun nodded his head and stood up and began walking down the tunnel. I stopped him, and he turned to face me. I asked him, "Aren't you going to say something to Runo before we go? You're the only one who hasn't spoken to her."

I heard the others walk up behind me, and they listened to what Shun would say. "What's there to say? Am I supposed to tell her I'm sorry she's going to die and come back as a mindless monster that only cares about finding an innocent person to eat? Or that if I see her near us that I'd take care of her so no one else gets bitten cause she's a threat? Listen, I don't have anything to say except we're wasting time. Now let's get moving."

I turned and looked back at the others to see their expressions. Dan didn't really have one, and Murucho looked more shocked than anything. I looked over them and back at Runo. She was still and lifeless, and I knew we had to leave then and there.

Dan

I was silent, for what seemed the first time in my life. I wasn't being loud and obnoxious like I was always told I was. I was just being silent. I just had nothing to say. I was happy that Shun didn't kill Runo, but I didn't like the fact that Shun was right about her turning into some mindless, flesh seeking freak of nature. Our footsteps echoed a little against the tunnel walls, and Shun would occasionally turn around and tell us to quiet our steps.

Then tunnels, had been abandoned for several years. But before they were left to be forgotten, they had been a means to go under buildings for plumbing and electrical repairs. But that was many, many years ago. Now, we were using them to walk right under hoards of zombies.

Shun stopped walking and asked Murucho, "How close do you think we are from your place?" The blonde shrugged his shoulders and asked, "Why?" Shun pointed up to the roof of the tunnel, and we saw a metal ladder leading up to a manhole cover. "Because we're getting out of here now and making a break for Murucho's." We all stared at our friend, and we were all thinking the same thing.

He's going senile. Murucho pointed up to the ceiling and said, "We don't know what's up there though! Or where we're even at!" My best friend looked at him and grinned; a senile and reckless grin. "Looks like we're about to find out." He then climbed up the metal ladder and pushed the cover up just enough to look out.

He lowered the cover back down and climbed down the ladder. Alice asked him, "What did you see?" He looked at us and said, "I saw Murucho's place. It's about two or three blocks away." We all had smiles go across our face. All the events that happened recently went away with the promise of getting on that jet and making our way to Moscow and our new lives. "But, we're going to have to cross a sea of zombies to get there." There just went our spark of hope.

as tired as i am, i said i'd upload tonight and gosh darnit i did. -.- thanks again for all the reviews and blah blah blah. i am tired and going to sleep. ~Copperpelt~