So here we are with yet another chapter. This chapter will be a direct continuation to the last. Hope you like the new characters so far. Old man Sasaki…we all know where this is going…let's just see how it DOES go.
On With the Chapter
Prologue: The Beginning Part 7 Final
Hiroto and Misaki walked slowly into the house. Katsu guided them to the couch to rest for a while. Katsu sat across from them on the other couch, "So what happened to bring you all the way here?"
"Didya look outside yet?" yelled Katsu "Friggen zombies out there!"
Katsu looked at her student and scolded her, causing her to be quiet. "I`m asking," looking at Hiroto now, "Why did you come here, don't you two live in giant houses or something?"
"Well we do live right next to each other but all those monsters had chased us out from the rear of the house. We didn't know what to do. We had to fight the monsters eventually killing a few." Explained Misaki
Hiroto started next, "Eventually we both fled meeting each other in the front of our houses. Misaki here said she knew a place…I had no idea it was your place."
"She comes here for tutoring that's all" says Katsu
Out of nowhere, Satoko comes and jumps on top of Misaki and hugs her. "I haven't seen you for so long Misaki."
Misaki, surprised quickly asked Katsu as to why Satoko was living with them. Katsu simply says, "Ryo is my foster brother, he lives here with us."
"Then why haven't I seen him here when I`m here for tutoring" she says confused
"Whenever it's the time for you to come for tutoring, no matter if you`re coming or not, he grabs Satoko and says he`s going to the arcade. He`s just running away from you because he doesn't want you to know where you live afraid of the consequences." She says in a tired tone
Misaki was mad now, "What consequences?"
"I dunno, that kid`s a total idiot, romanticist and…I can't even start describe to you what he does."
"Well, where do you think the boy is now?" questioned Hiroto, "Shouldn't he be in school right now?"
Katsu hesitated "That's what I`m worried about, if that school was overrun by Them…" she stopped talking from there.
A long moment of silence until Satoko broke it again, "Don't worry, big brother knows how to get out of tight situations. He`ll defiantly come back." She had the most determined face on, as if she had no doubts to her brother not coming back at all.
"She sure has that one right" started Misaki, "Plus I told my friend Rena to watch over him if anything happened at school and I wasn't there."
"Well we have that covered," Old man Sasaki walks into the room with bandages over his shoulder, "why don't you stay here for a while."
15 minutes later
Everyone sat on the sofa waiting for the two to arrive. Hiroto was especially anxious to hear from his niece and his last relative. He wasn't worried about I she was coming back, no, he knew she was coming back. He was afraid if she'll do anything stupid again…
Everyone sat in silence, unable to speak as to what exactly was happening. Hiroto got annoyed at the silence and decided to start a conversation of importance, "I think I know some information regarding the weaknesses of these 'things' and how to counter them." He started, "when they came into my house from the backyard, they were incredibly slow, as if they barely had control over their muscles, like they were dead. So far I've observed that they might in fact be dead. When I attacked one of them with a kitchen knife, I sprayed its blood all over the floor, but I noticed something odd. The blood of the creature was incredibly thick and slightly bubbly. In school a while back I learned that when someone dies, their blood becomes very thick."
"Ok so we get it that their dead," started Old Man Sasaki, "how do we counter them, besides shooting them in the head."
"Well," Hiroto started, "in school I also learned that at the moment of death, all the primary muscles in the body relax, a process called 'primary flaccidity' I think it was called. Next the eyelids lose their tension and droop, the eyes themselves roll into the head. In most cases I think, the jaw might drop open and the limbs are incredibly flexible and droopy, which explains why the bodies were limping."
"And of course," he says, "the body loses temperature as well, temperatures drop from 2 to 3 degrees Celsius every hour. But what still puzzles me is the reanimating part, once the heart stops beating your dead, once your brain stops your dead. I don't understand at all, unless…" he pauses, putting his hand to his chin. "Unless…" he begins, "the brain were able to restart."
"Wait how is that even possible?" yelled Misaki
"I had a nut for a biology teacher in college and he explained very thoroughly, that if the brain were to be restarted, the person could live again. It was an insane idea but he explained it so well that I had believed him. And it is possible, it's just never been tried before, if somehow, the brain were to have a spark, that could power it up, it could work again, but we don't know the consequences because it's never been tried before."
"So," started the old man, if what your saying is right, we just have to smash their heads right. That`ll be the end of them right?"
"I guess so."
"So what turns you into one of those things?" asks Katsu
"That," Hiroto starts in a low tone, "is yet to be discovered."
"One of those monsters bit grandpa." said Satoko, still on Misaki`s lap.
"You think it'll be like the movies, once your bitten you turn into one of Them" started Misaki
"I doubt it," said Hiroto, "there is no possible way for that to be the case."
"Our neighbor Megumi was bitten, she was being eaten by one of those monsters. When she died she became one of Them within seconds."
"My theory is, once you die, you turn into one of Them. That or if your bitten and you die, then you turn into one of Them. I still don't know the situation and how it works. So I think your number one priority right now Mr. Sasaki is to not die. But still confused on how you turn into one from a bite."
"Who knows?" yells Misaki, "If he dead can walk, anything is possible now."
There was another long moment of silence until there a loud groan came from the outside of the house. The now alerted old man, Katsu and Hiroto stood up.
"You two go check the front" old man Sasaki says, pointing at Katsu and Hiroto, "Me and this girl will check the backyard." He grabbed his rifle and went started walking towards the backyard entrance. "Keep Satoko inside at all times"
Misaki and the old man ran outside, "Do you have a weapon?" asked Sasaki. Misaki pulled out a small dagger with a 4 inch blade that was really skinny. "Small but effective" he responds.
They walked outside only to see three of Them in the backyard. Sasaki shot one in the head with his rifle, sending gore and brains splattering onto the yard. Misaki ran up to the second infected and tackled it to the floor and without warning, slammed her dagger into the monster`s left eye.
The last infected was still far away near the fence that bordered the house. The fence seemed to be knocked down from the infected. "I got this." said Sasaki raising his rifle as the infected came closer. Its grey skin and gapping jaws disgusted Sasaki. It limped towards him slowly. Then he realized that this monster was his very close friend Takeshi. He had turned into one of Them and it hurt Sasaki all the way down in his heart. He kept telling himself that that monster in front of him wasn't human anymore, it was just another monster. He hesitated. "What are you waiting for" yelled Misaki angrily, "shoot the dammed thing!"
Then out of nowhere, Satoko ran out to see what was happening. "Grandpa…" she yelled
The old man turned his head quickly to look at Satoko who was currently running up to him, he was too distracted at Satoko and isn't pay attention to the inching infected behind him. But it was too late. Misaki was too far away too reach the infected in time and everyone else was at the front. When Sasaki finally turned around, remembering what he was supposed to do, the infected was already one inch away from his face. Its eyes were rolled into its head leaving only the white pupils to gaze upon. Its skin was grey and its jaw wide open. Before Misaki or Sasaki could do anything, the monster had bit into Sasaki`s left shoulder. Immediately, a fountain of blood spurted from his shoulder onto the yard`s grass as the monster`s jaws clenched to his shoulder.
Satoko's thoughts were too clouded by her grandpa`s screams and what was happening to her grandpa. But Misaki took no hesitation to quickly run up to the infected to shove her dagger into its head. She left it in to quickly look at Sasaki. What she didn't notice was that another infected was walking behind them into the house. Sasaki laid on his back, barely able to move, a huge chunk of flesh missing from his left shoulder. Misaki sat next to him unable to do anything to help him she knew that he`ll die, and then turn into one of Them, it was now just a matter of time. But he struggled to move his hand. Eventually, he was able to get his right hand on Misaki`s shirt, he pulled her over to his face.
"Take care of my family," he says in a raspy voice, "Especially Satoko and Ryo." Those were his last words until his hand broke of its grasp of Misaki`s shirt and he passed.
Satoko stood there unable to think, unable to blink, unable to move. The only thought that ran through her head was 'It was my fault'.
Seconds later, Katsu and Hiroto came to the back, "We heard a scre…"started Katsu but was cut off when she saw her grandfather lying on the floor in a pool of his own blood. Unable to say anything the only thing that acme through her mouth was, "Wha…" before there was another scream from inside the house, this time it was female. Everyone ran inside except Satoko only to find one of those monsters feasting upon Satoko`s grandmother`s corpse. She laid there in a pool of her own blood, her face ripped entirely open and the monster chewing away at the woman`s face. Everyone was speechless, except Misaki who quickly ran up to the monster and stabbed it in the head from behind with her dagger. "What are you two doing?" she yelled at Katsu and Hiroto, "Let's go! The noise we made attracted more of Them"
Everyone ran outside only to see more infected coming their way from the back. They had no choice but to run. Misaki yelled yet again, "Let's go! We don't have much time until they come and we end up like them!"
"Pack your things, anything that we can use, be sure to pack it in a duffle bag." She grabbed Satoko and ran into the living room and plunked her on the sofa, "You Satoko, have to stay here until we`re done" she told her.
After about five minutes, Katsu and Hiroto came back with two duffle bags, one entirely filled with ammo and one filled with guns. Katsu held her grandfather`s car keys in hand, the car keys to their hatchback. Misaki grabbed Satoko and ran out to the front to put the supplies in the trunk of the car. When everyone was buckled, Katsu gave the keys to Hiroto, "Start the car, I have to go get something."
Katsu ran back into the backyard and looked at her grandfather`s corpse. She grabbed his rifle, it was a Remington 7615 Centerfire, the gun he always slept with and the same one he pointed at Ryo when he first met him. She grabbed it, took one last glanced at her grandfather and ran off back to the car.
When she made it to the car, the window was open and Misaki was yelling as always, "Get the hell in the car!"
When Katsu looked in front of her, she saw more of Them coming their way, all the noise they made, the gunshots, they attracted all these monsters to their house. Katsu ran to the back seat of the car and yelled "Drive!" Hiroto stepped on the gas pedal of the hatchback and off they went.
Katsu sat next to Satoko and put her arm around her sister. "What exactly happened?" she yelled at Misaki.
"He hesitated, and he had a problem loading the gun, the monster was too close and it was too late. And I was taking care if the first one and was too far away to stop the monster…I`m terribly sorry." she responded.
Katsu now on the verge of tears asked Misaki, "Then how did that monster get into the house?"
"I was too busy tending to your grandfather and didn't pay any attention." She said in a very strong low tone.
Katsu couldn't hold it anymore, she burst into tears unable to pull herself together.
Satoko sat there, eyes wide open, unable to think, unable to move, the only thought that ran through her head,
'It was my fault'
'It was my fault'
'It was my fault'
'It was my fault'
'It was my fault'
Meanwhile
Ryo wakes up from the sofa and sits up, he has a huge smile upon his face, "I wonder what Satoko and the others are doing?" he says to himself before yawning and going back to sleep.
Hirano758: Cmon cmon, how was that, I tried my best with this chapter, hope you guys liked it. I know what many of you are probably thinking, Hiroto is a copy of Saya Takagi but that's not the case, these new characters will be introduced and explained more in later chapters. Hope you like the new character. Poor Satoko. I wonder what happens next.
Rena: I do not understand your point in making this crap called a fanfiction Ryo.
Hirano758: wait what?! What're you doing here Rena, don't you have a book to read or something, im Ryo yes of course viewers, and Ryo is an anime/manga version of me.
Rena: Then explain to me why you right this garbage.
Hirano758: I want to be a writer when I grow up. But my writing now cant even match up so that's why I made this…cause I enjoy writing what I love and I need viewers to give me constructive feedback to help me on my quest. I might only be 13 and have a long road ahead of me to become a writer but it's better to start now.
Rena: well he`s gone now to sulk in pain for such the loser he is. I think I`ll have to wrap things up. Currently, the author is practicing for his SAT exams for high school. Although he is in the 8th grade, he is practicing for the 9th grade state exams plus the 8th grade state exams and the SATs to get into the high school he wants. In America, if you fail the SATs, you're screwed for life as well as his regents and the 9th grade exams. Its summer so he is to study as much as he can. He'll have some problems typing and setting a new chapter but he says he promises to update weekly if he can. Hope you like the new character he says and wishes you a good time. Wimp. He wants constructive feedback
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