AN: Damn, my writing groove is getting interrupted by Bubbline (Marceline x Bubblegum from Adventure time) fictions these days and I always end up procrastinating. I just can't get enough of the couple, they're so fucking adorable. Now I'm working my ass off this whole Sunday for this, I now sort of regret procrastinating, but then again, Bubbline~!

...I should've really started the summaries in my word document earlier so I could just directly write it on FF with ideas ready, like how I normally write stuff. I'm just so stupid sometimes, but I'm sure you'll understand if you ship another couple so hard that you can't just get enough of it, but still Negitoro will always be my one and only, OTP.

EDIT: This came out a day late than planned, I was suddenly struck with high fever—probably due to the flu-ish thing spreading in our school, it's actually infecting a lot of students too, even my classmates, a lot of 'em were absent due to sickness and I was also one of the victims—this Monday and well, I was sent home from school but too tired to do anything so I put this aside for the day. Sorrs 'bout that, but it's better than never!

Anyways here comes the actual chapter!

Horrified, the group saw bodies on the floor, drowning in their own blood. The owner of the bodies' faces all horrified, terrified, and scrunched up in fear, some even had their eyes wide open making them shiver. But then, they knew that in a little while, all of them would rise and immediately, mindlessly slaughter people, animals, anything with life blocking their eye sight, just like the monster that bit them.

Students were running around, trying to get away from those monsters' rabid attempt to ravish them, eat them. Their faces were evident with fear, some almost crying as they ran, some even wetting their pants. Miku's group averted their gazes at a man who is fighting back, fighting for his life instead of running for it.

"Get the hell away from me!" Miku heard a deep male voice shout, when the voice had processed into her mind, a vein appeared on her forehead.

Him...?

Miku quickly searched for the owner of the voice and immediately identified who it was, it was from a man who's currently in his early-twenties, has a long pony tailed lavender hair, and has weird obsession with eggplants. The tealette squinted, her eyes full of hatred, she clenched her fists.

Gakupo.

She mentally hissed. While Miku was busy hoping for her beloved sensei to fail protecting himself and just die, she was completely oblivious to a certain pinkette's worried gaze at her.

Luka understood why the tealette hated their math teacher so much, she had been assaulted by him after all, but she can't help but feel a bit thankful to him—no not because she likes him, there's no way in hell she'll ever like that disgusting eggplant head—she was a tiny bit thankful to him because if he didn't do that.

She and Miku wouldn't be friends, be this close, and most of all, she wouldn't have realized her feelings for the tealette up to this point at all. That she loved her to bits, more than a friend.

Just as Luka was about to place a comforting hand on Miku's tense shoulders—the others completely forgotten at the moment, who're currently amused at the scene before them, because they themselves didn't like that arrogant womanizer either—the man in question let out a rather girl-ish squeal.

"K-YYYAAAAH!" Gakupo squealed when a zombie swatted his bokken (wooden sword) away from his hands, his feminine face scrunched up in fear. "N-No! This... This isn't suppose to happen!" He ran away from the monster and aimlessly ran for his life—which he should've done in the first place—a group of zombies gathering behind his back as they chased him blindly.

He continued hollering incoherent sentences as he ran, thoughtlessly luring more undead people, his figure getting smaller and smaller as he ran farther away from the lot, a wave of zombies hot on his heels.

Miku sighed, "That was pretty convenient actually." They all nodded, completely agreeing at what she said. Luka's hand, that was halted just a few minutes ago was finally placed on the tealette's tense shoulders who seemed to have relaxed considerably under her touch.

"Thanks Luka." She smiled, making Luka avert her gaze from Miku's teal orbs.

"No problem, Miku."

"No! Get away from us!" An unfamiliar female voice was heard not too far from them, when they turned at the owner of the voice, their eyes widened.

There was a group of students being chased by another horde of zombies, like how wild lions chases their prey, their goal to eat and kill the poor creature never wavering, it was even terrifying to imagine being in their place.

"We should help them!" Gumi said, voicing their exact thoughts, but was afraid to tell, since it had bad consequences.

"We... We can't." IA managed to croak out, guilt evident in her voice. With dread starting to fill her up the greenette looked at Neru, as if asking for her to side with her, Neru could only avoid her hopeful gaze as a response.

Gumi whimpered, and thought about it more, then decided to begrudgingly agree with them.

Miki just sighed, not liking what was happening at all. "You know guys," She started, gaining their attentions, except for a certain tealette.

"I take back what I said earlier, this is bad." The redhead breathed.

SHICK

They heard a foot being dragged on the floor, it was from Miku who's eyes are locked onto the group of chased students, Neru and Luka widened their eyes when they realized what she was planning to do.

Before Miku could do anything rather than easing to run, she was immediately held back by arm, Neru and Luka struggling to keep her from getting away. They somehow knew she was going to do this, being so kind hearted and all.

When they thought that they had finally managed to stop the tealette since she seemed to have halted her actions—forgetting about her incredulous strength—Miku suddenly stepped forward dragging both of them with her, despite Neru and Luka already literally pulling her back, much to their chagrin.

"What the hell is with her monstrous strength?!" Neru exclaimed as she attempted to stand back on her feet.

"I have no idea! And not too loud!" Luka whispered loudly, shutting the blonde side pony tailed girl up.

IA and Gumi joined in restraining Miku, the tealette struggled to move forward with burning determination, her eyes never leaving the terrified group of students, dragging four of them as she slowly moved forward—much to their amazement—Miki and Len, being both left out of helping them, joined in as well and pulled her with all their might

"Here! Lemme help!" The brunette walked in front of the tealette, and started pushing her back. While Len pulled on both of her shoulders.

Half-effectively slowing her next step.

Luka quickly looked at them one by one, while the others did the same, then nodded.

"One, two!" They counted in unison, somehow making an harmonious sound.

With all their might, the group tackled the tealette to the ground, her back meeting the cemented floor with an audible thud, the whole group however, wasn't stable at doing so and fell on top of the tealette, adding more pain and weight to her body.

"O-Owwrghhh..." The tealeatte growled in pain, her eyes closed.

"What the hell were you planning to do Miku?!" An aggravated Neru yelled, not caring if she was loud anymore, her still not getting off of her, so was the others.

Miku just closed her eyes and listened, her lips pressed into thin line.

"We... You shouldn't waste—endanger—your own life for those fools!" Luka started, while others just stared angrily at the tealette's face, her eyes still closed.

"It's their fault that they got into that situation anyways! You have us right? So there's no need to add up untrusted strangers!"

Miku raised her head, opened her eyes and her mouth to protest but was stopped when her friends' glares intensified at her.

She sighed in defeat, leaning her head back on the concrete ground.

Suddenly screams of pain erupted in the whole lot, and they knew very well where it came from. They just didn't acknowledged it, because if they did, they'll just see a very sickening scene that will be forever engraved in their minds, and chose to not face with something like that.

Not that they were cowards, it was for their own sake too.

"STOP! PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!"

Miku winced as she heard their agonizing screams, closing her eyes, she tried to ignore their pained cries, the sound of their flesh getting ravished, and blood spurting as they cry and cry and cry "Help me" over and over again until their voices croaks and dies completely. It was a truly heartbreaking moment, the group thought so too, it was so brutal. That Len can barely even handle.

Looking nauseous, the said shota quickly got off of the tealette and went somewhere to let out his breakfast just this morning, much to his dismay. He really did not like that thought of gruesome things, or to puke at all.

Especially when seen doing it.

He added in his thoughts as he continued throwing up, feeling his friends' stares at the back of his head.

"Please," Miku started, catching her friends' attention, except Len who was busy cleaning himself up. "...Just get off of me already, it's not like you're all light you know?"

They got off of the tealette with a huff, "Says the girl who singlehandledly dragged five of us who has different weights earlier." Neru retorted, crossing her arms.

"Whatever—" Miku was cut off when she heard a vicious growl near her, turning to the owner of the growl, she found herself staring right at a zombie, its mouth fresh with blood, with its comrades at its back, all just yards away from them.

The tealette paled.

"Fuck."

Her eyes widened.

"FUCK RUN!" She quickly pushed them ahead, her gaze returning at the horde who're now alerted. The group, after being brought out of their stupor by the tealette took time getting themselves together before they started running for their lives.

The undead took action, and prompty ran after them in a crazed manner, some even chasing after them on all fours, just to catch them by any means necessary.

Miku's group ran, passing by dead rotting decapitated corpses—their deaths unknown to the group, but they figured that those were probably done by an unknown fighting survivor(s) that they have yet to meet—, abandoned cars and even other undeads that adds up into the wave of semi-alive/dead people chasing after them. It was a very exasperating situation, one mistake in running and your dead, in a very ugly way too.

Luka being the one who's not really fond of running, or anything athletic at all for that matter, is unfortunately, currently having trouble running herself.

"Why does running have to be so fucking hard for me?!" She cussed to herself, trying to run faster, her body was not fully abiding however.

"Fuck sports," She lowered her head.

"Fuck the undead,"

"Fuck everything! They should all just disappear!" Raising her head, she focused on making her legs move faster, not minding her surroundings at all, completely unaware of the dangerous dent on the ground not far away from her path.

THUD

"FUCK NO!" Luka tripped on the cursed dent, Why the fuck am I in so bad luck today?! and was frozen in place when she realized something.

The pinkette felt everything happen in slowmotion, even when she looked back to see the undead only a few small car lengths away from her was in slowmotion, her eyes slowly widened.

Is this it…? Is this is how my life will end? How dumb.

She thought grimly.

I didn't even got a chance to kiss Miku.

"LUKA!"

"Eep!" Luka suddenly yelped and found herself being scooped up bridal style by the said tealette, startling her, nearly falling from Miku's arms but quickly hugged the tealette's neck to prevent it, but much to her embarrassment.

They—or rather, Miku, immediately ran back to the group after the tealette's retrieval of the pinkette.

"Luka what the fuck?!" Miku glared at her, anger and worry clear in her eyes, making the pinkette shrink back and whimper on the tealette's arms. When she saw the pinkette's frightened reaction at her outburst towards her earlier, she gave up trying to scold her and just sighed, her eyes softening as she focused on running.

"Just be careful next time…" She whispered. Luka, who's currently burying her face on the crook of the tealette's neck, shivering, just nodded as a response.

They're already out of the lot, zombies still behind their back. Unfortunately, Miku's friends are almost near their limit, all they've been doing ever since this happened was run around and it was draining them, they weren't really the most athletic people in the world after all.

Even Miku herself is getting tired, add in the extra weight on her arms, not that the pinkette was heavy anyways but it was definitely weighing her down, the thought of it does, no matter how light she is.

They were now on the streets, no other human in sight, even undead people except the ones chasing them. The sunny rays of the sun that was showing earlier was now dissolving into clouds, the sky getting dark, indicating that it was gonna rain.

Just great.

Miku bitterly thought.

She looked back to check her friends, only to find them panting heavily, swaying side to side.

"Tsk. Hang in there guys! And take a sharp turn left into an alley!" Miku instructed them with words of reassurance, they just nodded and obliged.

They ran deeper inside the long alley after taking the sharp turn, meeting a dead end. The first line of the line of wave of the zombies ran past the alley but the half of the horde still managed to follow them, much to their dismay.

Tsk. These freaks just won't give up!

Panting, they backed as much as they could when they saw the undead detect them, their flesh rather. When they felt the cursed wall on their back they can't help but widen their eyes in fear.

They felt it, they felt their lives flash before their eyes.

Until they saw Miku put down Luka who's currently looking at the tealette with wide confused eyes as the tealette walked in front of the now charging horde, but is still in a distance far from them.

"Miku! What the hell are you doing?! You're just gonna die! We're all just gonna die!" Luka tried to reason her, but it just went through the tealette's head and just waved her off.

"Not that I will allow that." Ignoring her friends pleas, she positioned herself in a fighting stance, her eyes, definitely burning with determination and… passion. Her friends' faces went slack when they saw the tealette's devotion in sacrificing herself, all of them feeling a burning sensation in their chests.

As Miku awaited for the undead to be close enough so that she could charge, she squinted her eyes in anticipation, however as seconds passed, she squinted her eyes more when she saw a flash of a figure with black—from what she could comprehend—hair appeared and walked in front of the horde with ease, as if nothing was happening at all.

She finally identified the dark haired figure as a girl, wearing an unbuttoned long sleeve steel gray cardigan sweater that has two black horizontal thick rectangles around its left upper sleeve, an untucked black button up shirt over it with a loose teal tie—her uniform was similar to theirs, her tie as well which is only for 1st years, teal—white hemmed dark gray skirt and a black thigh-length socks clad with converse sneakers.

Miku also took notice of her black dual blades on her back, its handle colored pitch black while the blade itself is a lighter shade of it, both are just a straight simple blade but the sharpness of it is very evident thus making it very dangerous.

The said girl completely faced the horde, her back facing Miku who loosened her stance. The others got confused at the tealette's actions who is so focused on something ahead, even putting her guard down. Curiously and worriedly. They averted their gazed from the tealette and looked ahead, finally taking notice of the black haired girl—clothed with the same uniform and tie as them—who appeared out of nowhere.

Few seconds passed, in a blink an eye, the coal haired girl with incredible speed, unsheathed her dual blade and silently, in an assassin-like manner, charged the horde, much to the others surprise, it all happened so fast. They were brought from their shocked daze when they heard pained growls and bodies falling from the ground, they turned their attention back at the dual blade wielder and saw how she effortlessly, sliced their heads off, almost dancing around them, her looking graceful as she did so.

After she killed off the last one, her left knee on the ground her right upwards and her arms spread next her, still holding her weapon. She stayed like that for a while, she then sheathed her weapon back, stood up and started walking away from the amazed group. Miku immediately took action and ran after her, followed by the others.

"H-Hey!" The girl didn't look back still walking, but slow enough as if actually wanting them to come. The tealette grinned and said, "Thanks for earlier, can we uhm… come with you?" Miku hoped that she didn't misinterpret her slow walking and at least, let them come with her.

The coal haired girl just hummed in agreement as a response, all of them were relieved that the girl wasn't all that cold as they thought she was going to be. As they walked, following the mysterious girl, Miku pressed on.

"Are you in some way our classmate? Since we have the same uniform and all, I have never seen you in school though." She started by asking the first thing in her mind, if she was a student in their school.

The coal haired girl who had been closing her eyes the whole time stopped walking, turned to Miku and opened her eyes, surprising her, even the others as well who saw.

Her eyes was a bright shade of sky blue, resembling the blue of the bluest sky, her sky blue orbs almost glowing. They had never seen such beautiful eyes before, it's as if they're looking directly at the sky as they gaze into her eyes. It was so serene, so… exotic.

The sky blue eyed girl looked around the group, all of them focusing on her. A small smile appeared on her already beautiful features.

"I get that a lot, weird isn't it?"

"I was supposed to be transferring today but was met with ugly dudes on the way, so I guessed school's out of the question and didn't continue. So much for my first day of edu. in Japan." She sighed.

The others woke up from their daze when the light cerulean eyed girl started talking with her soft, deep, melodious voice which quickly got focused on by the others as well, returning to their lala-land. She scratched her cheek when she noticed that their minds seemed to be occupied with something while staring at her face and sweat dropped. Of all places why my face? She thought.

She coughed into her hand to gain their attention, which she successfully did so.

"Everything alright?" She asked, a bit concerned on their dazed stares, especially on her face. Seriously, was there something on her face?

"Wha…?" A small blonde haired girl murmured, seemingly out of it.

"N-No everything's fine." Another blonde reasoned, either for the girl or herself.

"Y-yeah." A braided pinkette added in agreement, the others who didn't have anything else to say just nodded.

She chuckled at them and started walking again, much to their relief.

They just followed her—forgetting to introduce themselves—never asking her where they were going, somehow, they knew that she was going to bring them to a safe place. They had no idea why, but they just felt like that. Her presence was reassuring too, much like Miku and she wouldn't have killed off those zombies if she didn't want to help them so they figured that she doesn't have any ill intentions. If anything, she even seemed content with them.

The streets were oddly quiet, deserted, only the decapitated bodies of the undead in sight—now known to be most probably done by the coal haired girl they're currently with—. Even though the completely dead bodies of the zombies wouldn't do any harm on them, they can't help but still feel anxious, not just because of the bodies but for another reason as well.

They felt vulnerable, as if in any minute now someone—something—will pounce at them and eat them silly. They shivered at the thought it, except Miku and the new girl who carefully examined the surroundings, their guard up high, their faces not showing any emotion as they did so.

After a few minutes of tense silence while walking, suddenly with dashing speed—they can't help but always refer it to that, it was just so fast—, the new girl unsheathed her dual blades. She gripped the left blade tightly while she tossed the right up in the air, positioned herself in a one-handed sword stance as it flew back down just above Miku's head, the said tealette then caught the other blade and stanced herself as well, their backs against each other.

The others were utterly confused on what was happening until they heard monstrous growls around them, they turned to the source of the growls and saw six rotting undead dogs barking at them with such terrifying ferocity.

AN: Aaand I'm gonna wrap things up here for now, phew. My initial goal for this chapter's word count was actually 4,000 to 5,000 words, there's more to this chapter in fact, I just cut it since it's already 11 PM here. Even though I slept the whole damn day and started this in like 5 hours ago, for some reason I want to turn in early today. *shrugs* I also really want to update this story too, so uhm just bear with me, exxdee (lol). Part two of this chappie may come in this week or if I get too lazy and sleep around or read fanfics—totally admitting in procrastinating—chances of it updating may be extended for at least, next week. This'll be edited tomorrow, so uhm sorry if you ever spot misspellings or mistakes in advance.

Anyways, bye! *yawns* Night/Morning peeps.

EDIT: SEPTEMBER 21, 2013