Sorry for the super long wait but summer just began, I turned 13, school finished and I'm reading a shit load of books. But I was able to write this chapter. So, on with the chapter.

Prologue: The Beginning Part 5

Rena and Ryo ran four blocks away from the crowd they were just fighting. The row of houses on the street seemed to last forever to Ryo. He was still wondering how the hell this same girl Misaki is friends with, can take on an entire crowd of infected by herself. Once they ran four blocks, they stopped towards the end of the fourth block to a simple middleclass house.

"This is my house. We have to go before the horde catches up with us." Exclaimed Rena.
The door to the house was already opened for a reason that seemed that someone had left here earlier.

"Damn" Rena mumbled to herself. The door to the house was closed but not locked.

"Be on very high guard. Search the house for any infected." She pointed at the right side of the house for him to go this was whilst she goes the other. Both students checked the entire house, weapons raised high...not a single trace of infected was in the house.

"Well I guess it's a good time to lay back" exclaimed Ryo as he jumped onto Rena's living room couch and turned on the TV.

"Don't you have a sister or something? Don't you have parents?" Questioned Rena.

"My parents we're jerkoffs. They both died in a car crash when I was a kid. I practically grew up with my grandparents and my aunt. An right now, my sis is probably safe at home with my grand's eatin chocolate" explained Ryo.

"And you're sure about that?" Rena glanced at the TV. It was a news report saying an epidemic has gone global, that millions are dying and reanimating. The same thing that happened to them.

"This thing isn't nationwide Ryo, Its freaking global!" Yelled Rena. "So? "
"So!? I'm saying that your sister could be out there, she could be one of Them now. Or she could be eaten away by one of those monsters as we speak." Yelled Rena

"That's not possible. My grands live in a nice typical house yes, they live in the suburbs yes. But my grandpa has a stock pile of guns in the basement. And if the house is run over by infected, they can go into the basement which leads to a bunker my grandpa had made." Explained Ryo

"Why do your grandparents have a stockpile of guns and a bunker" questioned Rena.

"Well my grandpa was an officer for the special forces. When he retired, they made legal for him to carry guns. An he was obsessed with the impending apocalypse so he built a bunker. Old fart was right after all." He paused for a moment, thinking about one of his grandpas lectured on the end of the world. "What about you, where your family."

"I live with my uncle, that's it. I don't know what happened to my mom and my dad died a while ago. I was supposed to go to a foster home but my uncle took me in."

"I understand." He said in a low tone. "Soo, what is this amazing plan of your gonna be?" He said in a sarcastic tone. "I believe that you've already seen the horde of infected coming from the left side of this street" said Rena "Course I have" yelled Ryo

"Then you've probably noticed by now that the horde we were fighting and the horde coming our way will meet up to this house and run over the place because of the Sound we've been making. The car, the bat, and our heavy footsteps have drawn both crowds upon us. We need to cause a distraction to rid both crowds away from this street. Since their only sense is their hearing, we need to go somewhere far away and cause a ton of noise to distract them."

"Great plan, but just one question…How the hell you plan on doing that?! The crowds are coming this way as we speak. We won't have enough time to send them away. And how are we gonna get them away from here."

She quietly ran upstairs and came down with an analog clock. "Use this. It`s a wireless clock. I gave it to a friend to amplify the sound of the alarm by 60% because my uncle refused to wake up for work."

"How convenient" Ryo mumbled under his breath. He got up from the sofa and grabbed the clock from Rena`s hand.

"How rude!" she yelled at him. Ryo held the clock in his hand and turned his head, "I never said I wasn't."

Ryo examined the clock trying to find out how that guy had amplified it. he went to the door of the house and opened up Rena`s uncle`s toolbox. He grabbed a Philips screwdriver and opened up the clock from the back. "That's how he did it." He exclaimed to himself. "That's not hard at all."

"What are you talking about? Give me back the clock." Demanded Rena Ryo tried to buy himself some time tinkering with the clock, "Hey hey…I'm trying to do something" he yelled.

Just when Rena was about to grab the clock away from him Ryo exclaimed, "Done!"

"Just what did you exactly do?"

"It's pretty simple actually what that guy did to make the clock louder. He took the speaker of a small desktop speaker and shoved it into this. But I've seen this before, and I know that the switch that controls the volume, can't be taken out easily, so they just leave it in. The guy hooked up a bunch of wires to the clock itself and it worked with the clock. Pretty simple when you think about it. But, right before I tinkered with it, the volume was only at 60% like you said. Now that I opened it and I found the switch, I was able to put the volume all the way to 100%." Explained Ryo.

"Understand?" he asked Rena.

"I guess" she responded. "I figured that you would be the one to place the clock."

Ryo yelled his lungs out, "What make you think I'm going? You can't just tell someone to run outside with something that could spell out their impending doom"

"You don't have to go," Ryo had a spread of relief on his face. "But if you don't go," Rena smirked "I can simply just throw you outside of my house to deal with the two hordes by yourself. Either way, you`ll still be the one distracting both hordes while I sit back and watch you run" She said those last word as scary and sadistic as she can.

"Dyaaah" he screamed afraid of what would happen. "I'll go.

"I'll put the alarm ten minutes ahead of when you leave. You'll have about five minutes to place it and run back."

Ok that wouldn't take too long. I AM one of the fastest runners in the school. How far do you want me to run?"

"I want you to turn left of where we are, then run a whole block down till you reach a cross section. Turn right and run down five blocks. Put the alarm clock anywhere you want and run back."

"Ok so in all you want me to run 12 blocks in 10 minutes, ok that ain`t so bad. When do I leave?" asked Ryo

"Now" yelled Rena. She told Ryo to put the clock back together so she could set the alarm. When Ryo put the alarm back together, Rena grabbed it from him and set the alarm to ring 7:02 am.

"Go now before they come." yelled Rena.

As soon as Ryo went outside, he could see it, both the horde the just fought and the oncoming horde slowly advancing to their home. Ryo wasted no time and started to run towards his destination. Along the way, there were no infected whatsoever surprisingly. "I guess they all went with the herd." He thought out loud. He made his turn at the cross section, alarm in hand, he immediately started to run as fast as he could.

Along the way he was thinking about what Rena had said

"But if you don't go, I can simply just throw you outside of my house to deal with the two hordes by yourself. Either way, you`ll still be the one distracting both hordes while I sit back and watch you run"

She said those last word as scary and sadistic as she can. That was creepy as hell. She freaking smiled when she said that. How the hell is Misaki friends with this girl? He ran all the way to the fifth block and dropped the alarm inside an abandoned car. He checked the clock, 6:56 he has six minutes to spare,. He started to run back to the house but as soon as he turned around, he was met face to face with an infected man.

Ryo was surprised at the infected man in his face. Immediately after seeing the teenager, the infected man grabbed Ryo by his soldiers and went for his neck. Ryo grabbed the infected man by his soldiers and pushed him away. The infected man's mouth was wide open, teeth gaping, Ryo struggled to push the creature away. He guided him and the infected man to the car he put the alarm in. He slammed the infected man`s head onto the car`s hood. While the infected was dazed, Ryo quickly grabbed his neck. He slammed the infected man's head onto the side window of the car, which cracked the car`s window, almost breaking it, but it would not stop trying to eat him. Ryo kicked the infected square in the chest, to buy some time to find a weapon. He ran to a crashed car. He looked for a sharp piece of glass. He found one with a sharp end on both sides, measuring at about 6 cm. A soon as he grabbed it, the searing pain of the glass took him by surprise as it dug in to his hand. Nonetheless, he still had a weapon.

With his new weapon in hand, he charged at the infected as it was regaining its stand. He roundhouse kicked the monster in the face which caused it to fall onto the asphalt. He bent down the he infected and put his knee down onto its chest. It struggled to set itself free, hissing and growling its way through. Ryo stood there for a moment to comprehend that this thing, used to be a human being. He had a life and most probably a family who`s in the same position he`s in right now. But before long, Ryo grabbed his glass and stabbed it into the right eye of the infected. Ryo stabbed it again in the other eye, this time deeper just to make sure it was dead.

Shit he yelled out loud. His right hand was bloodied from holding the glass. His hand was numb and deep glass marks showed on his hand.

"Damn that hurt" he exclaimed out loud. He went into the car and checked the alarm, it was 6:59 am, and he had only three minutes left.

"Oh Shitt!" he yelled out loud. Immediately he started running down the block back to Rena's house but he barely made it in time when he could hear the alarm clock all the way from Rena's house.

"Beep" "Beep" "Beep" "Beep"

Immediately, the same two hordes that were coming towards the house soon turned to the direction of the alarm clock. Ryo continued to run after seeing the crowds move towards the alarm, but slowed to a sprint knowing that most of Them are probably following that alarm he dropped. When he got to Rena`s house, he knocked on the door of the house. "Hey, woman, let me in, I dropped the alarm off and both crowds are receding." Nothing happened. He knocked on the door again "Hello, woman, I`m injured, lemmie in" the door was unlocked and was opened.

Rena stood in front of Rena holding what seemed to be a revolver at Ryo`s head. "Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. Da fuck are you doing pointing that shit at me"

"You said you were injured, show me your injury!" she yelled at him. He grabbed his injured hand with his good hand and showed it to her. "I ran into an infected and was forced to use a piece of glass as a weapon. I injured my hand in the process."

"Ok" she said in relief. "I thought you got bitten. Until now I didn't know that if you're bitten by one of these things that you turn into one of them."

"Ya don't say?" Ryo said in a childish tone while making a face

Rena ignored his comment and continued to explain "I was looking out the windows for any oncoming infected besides the two hordes and I fell upon a middle age man running away from an infected. He ran into an infected which bit him" she explained, "He escaped but shortly after, he fell down for a few minutes and came back as one of Them. You said you were injured so I took caution."

"OK. I understand that part, but where the hell did you get that gun"

"It`s my uncles gun. He`s friends with an army officer in the special forces. His friend gave him access to buy any one of the guns he had. He had an American gun and my uncle said he fell head over heels for it so he picked this one." She held up the gun.

"Can I come in now" Ryo whined

20 minutes later

Ryo sat on Rena`s couch and took a look at his bandaged hand. "This looks so cool" he told himself. He turned on the TV with his good arm to check the news. Rena was sitting next to him eating a salad. The gun she had was on the table in front of him. "Can I take a look at that" asked Ryo. Rena nodded her head and paid attention to the TV.

Ryo took the gun and examined it. It measured around 10cm from his calculations and it shot magnum bullets. It had a 6 bullet drum. But that wasn't the most impressive part of the gun, the barrel where the bullet went through was located at the bottom of the drum. "This is a really impressive. The barrel is located at the bottom of the drum which reduces recoil of the bullet."

"How do you know all this?" asked Rena

"I read it in a magazine. You`d be surprised at how much you'll learn from reading gun magazines" he put the gun back on the table

Rena put her salad down and went to the kitchen. She came back with three bags of chips. She threw them at Ryo. "Chips for dinner, my favorite" he immediately opened the bag of chips and started eating. "How`d you know I eat chips for dinner"

"Misaki told me" Rena said.

"Ooh did she, does she have the hots for me?" asked Ryo with a devilish tone.

"How the hell would I know? She always talking about you yet she always denies that she like you."
"Oh so she wants to play like that huh, I'll see what I c do to change that" he said with a huge grin on his face, rubbing his hands together. Rena tried to ignore his weird out personality. She turned the volume of the TV.

Reports show that an epidemic has swept the nation worldwide. Billions of people are dead. And the world is in a state of emergency. But reports are showing that those infected with the epidemic and die, come back to life and spread the disease

"YADAH YADAH YADAH! All this crap they're saying, I THINK WEVE FIGURED THAT OUT BY NOW LADY!" He yelled out to the TV. He grabbed the TV remote and turned the volume off. "Let's have little discussion" he told Rena
she didn't look amused at his behavior "Why are you acting like a total Idiot? It's the end of the world and your making jokes d laughing."

Why not he told her, it's good to have a sense of humor in the impending death of the human race. It's good to have a sense if humanity left in you after the world goes to shit. Sooo, where do you think Misaki is? I mean, she's not one to go down easily so she'll be one of the survivors."

"She's most probably with my uncle right now. We live next to each other and Misaki is good friends with my uncle and they most probably let case the door to the house was unlocked an the gate was wide-open

Why would they leave the gates open?"

"That's yet to be discovered. They most probably left a note explaining things with them and what really happened."

"Well you do that," he laid back on the couch, "I'mma take a nap" and within two minutes, he was asleep.
Rena finished her salad, went to her room and came back with some covers for Ryo. She covered the sleeping boy. Surprisingly, he didn't snore. Rena left the TV on, went up to her room to find a note her uncle left for her.

How was this chapter? I know it's been a while but summer just started and it's been a while since I could use the computer. Hope this chapter was good because I tried to use all of your suggestions in the story. I will still be accepting OC`s but only in PM. As for the gun that Rena had, ill post a link at the end of this for pictures of it. I will update weekly most probably. I`m currently in the process of drawing an anime form picture of Rena. Ill finish soon and show you guys.

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