So FINALLY, after many trials and tribulations, we made it to the safety of Saya's house and got some much deserved, rest... Or as much as we could because of the racket going on in the next room. "Ugh... They really need to keep it down in there." We all grumbled at once.
In the next room...
Rei was completely naked, leaning up against Takashi. "Takashi..." She said softly.
"Rei..." He replied also rather softly.
Suddenly, Shizuka walked onto the screen, her hands covered by some strange white liquid. "Ready or not, here I come. Don't let her escape, Takashi." She said, rather darkly for her character (Hold up!).
"Uh... Okay." He said awkwardly.
"It's gonna hurt!" Rei whined.
"A little." The nurse replied, still in a dark tone.
Takashi pinned Rei's shoulders down, keeping her laying down on her stomach as she looked back in fear at the nurse (hold up, what's going on right now?!). "NOOOO!" She screamed as the screen panned upwards.
The screen comes back down and we see the nurse applying the lotion or whatever the hell that liquid on her hands was onto Rei's back. Well, that's not bad, I was expecting A LOT worse than that. What I was expecting, you don't need to know, I have a dirty mind. "It's for your own good." Shizuka said almost tauntingly as she continued to rub in the lotion, much to Rei's protests.
Still, this was the most normal time we've had since everything started. The non-humans were all rested up and rejoined the gang, Alice and Zero were looking in awe at some form of desert they'd been offered and Kohta was cleaning his guns as usual. We get a nice view of the place: a large mansion that was more like a castle with a nice fountain out front. "So, what's the plan now?" Aisu asked.
"We're gonna take one episode to wind down, relax and ruin Kohta's opinion about guns and swords, then we're going to finish off the rest of the zombies." I explained (Kohta says a line later in this episode, I'm pretty sure, that REALLY irritates me and Damion).
"Good idea. It'll be nice to chill for a while. This place isn't so bad." Damion said.
"Yeah. Besides, we've gotten a little chance to rest, but none of us are back at full strength quite yet." Erika says.
"Where are senzu beans when you need them?" Aisu asks.
"Eh, who needs 'em? Give us like 2 hours and we'll all be good as new." I said, waving it off.
Back in the room with Rei...
Shizuka giggles as she finishes applying the whatever it was on Rei's back. "Did it burn? That was my special formula!" She said, spreading her hands apart (I don't think I want to know).
"You traitor!" Rei said, looking at Takashi with a hurt face.
"Why?! I only held you down while she rubbed your back!" He said defensively as Shizuka left.
"That's not what I meant!"
"Then what was it?!"
"Can't you guess?"
"Guess what?! Guess not!"
Rei held the blanket closer to her face as she pouted, the perv cam going to her ass. "All I need is a little bit of medicine on me, you don't need to call in the school nurse." She pouted.
"Huh?" He asked, confused.
"Get out of here." She ordered.
"What is it all of a sudden?!" He asked defensively again.
She glared at him because of this. "MY BOOBS ARE KILLING ME BECAUSE YOU USED THEM TO BALANCE AN AK-47! NOW GET OUT!" She screamed as he ran out (not that she cares, but I don't think it was an AK).
He ran down the stairs quickly and sighed. "Whatever, she loved it." He said.
The non-humans also came in the room at that moment as a couple of guys dropped a box of something. "Idiot. You're walking too fast!" The guy in the back snapped.
"Need some help?" I asked.
"No, kids, we got it. You leave this to the big boys." One of them said.
"The big boys?" Takashi asked.
"Aisu?" Damion said, looking at the Icegen.
He simply smirked, walked over, put one hand underneath the box and effortlessly lifted it above his head. "Well, that wasn't so hard." He taunted.
"And he's the weakest out of us 4." Erika added, causing the alien to face-vault, amazingly not dropping the box.
"Oh, man... Not cool." He complained.
"Uh... Right this way!" They said, leading Aisu where they wanted the box.
"What's their problem?" Takashi asked.
"They're adults and they're men, they're trying to seem all macho in a time of crisis." Erika said.
"Don't worry about it too much." Saeko said, stepping out of the shadows in a beautiful blue kimono.
"Amazing how you can make being so beautiful look so easy." I said.
"Suck up." Damion said, so I punched him in the face. This resulted in the classic cartoon fight of rolling around in a giant dust cloud, fists and feet flying everywhere. Saeko started to giggle at this, which turned into full on laughter and eventually we all joined in, Damion and I no longer fighting and ending on peaceful terms as always.
Alice then entered the building and ran up to us. "What is it? Did something happen? Why are you laughing?" She asked.
"Well, we were just saying we're glad you're okay." I said.
"Good dodge." Damion said quietly.
"Yeah, better she doesn't know." Erika agreed silently.
"I'm more than okay." She said happily, telling us a little bit about how she's been around her and sleeping with the nurse (pause tho).
"Yep, everyone's all happy and healthy!" Aisu said, walking back.
"FINE! YOU'RE ALWAYS RIGHT! ALWAYS!" Saya screamed from further off.
"You had to jinx it." Damion said.
Saya stormed down the hallway, so I decided to stop her. "And what is the problem this time?" I asked.
"You don't have to say it like a prick." She snapped.
"Oh I'm sorry. Whatever has put a stick up your ass now, madam?" I asked in a gentlemanly tone.
"He's not even trying, is he?" Aisu asked.
"Hell no." Erika and Damion said at the same time.
"Maybe prick wasn't the right word. What I meant was ASSHOLE!" She snapped.
"Meh. I'll take it. I hear worse from Damion all the time." I said nonchalantly.
"Just drop it. I don't want to talk about it. Just leave me alone." She said.
"Screw it. I tried." I said, jumping back down to my friends.
"You don't try very hard, do you." Damion asked.
"Only if I like the person, which in this case, I don't." I replied.
"Sorry to draw you into our little... Discussion." Saya's mother said, walking down the stairs towards us.
"It's fine. I'm used to hostility. This little entourage alone is like playing Russian roulette." I said, gesturing to Erika, Aisu and Damion, all who looked prepared to kill me. "And apparently, I get more turns than anyone else.
"Saya's always a little hostile. You get used to it eventually." She said.
"I don't think I'll be staying that long." I said, but then looked around. "On another note, your house looks really nice. Sort of an older European style. My family prefers ancient Japanese, but this is still really nice." I commented.
"Thank you, I appreciate that." She said.
"But I've also heard you don't stay here long?" Damion asked.
In the garage or something like that...
"This is the spring ejector system." Kohta said, taking apart his guns to clean them.
"I see you're enjoying yourself." Saya said, leaning against a wall. "Enjoy it while it lasts. We won't be here for long." She said.
"Why not, Saya? This house is almost like a fortress!" He said.
"Haven't you thought about how hard it is to secure things like electricity and water?" She asked.
"Oh... Oh, well..." He started, sounding like he was trying to turn the situation positive again, but then she drug it through the dirt even more.
"Even under normal circumstances, which we're NOT, we'd have to find basic necessities. You think we could all just BUILD a water treatment facility? Or a power station? Maybe the zombies would help us do it." She said, mockingly at the end.
At Mt. Fuji...
"Lance, how is the generator coming?" Ryu Blade, our father, asked him.
"Just about finished. Once properly tuned, this thing will make electricity seem like wifi, powering up all the homes in Japan without even being directly connected to it. The wonders advanced science and a demon with the intelligence of 10 supercomputers can pull off." Lance replied, finishing the generator. "Done." He said.
"Good. Now we just need to finish making the dam and life will be as easy as it was for the humans before the outbreak." Dad said.
"With proper food rations and supplies, yes." Lance pointed out.
"The dam's finished, Dad. It was pretty easy when Kinshiro just made a wall of Earth to create it." Serena informed them.
"Well, then. Looks like this situation can finally be turned around." He said in a pleased tone. "Now we just need to wait for Sai to finish his job. Surely he can at least handle a bunch of walking corpses." He said.
Back to us...
"When the dead started attacking people, the commander sent the self defense forces to the power plants at his own discretion. He's not the kind of man to sit around and wait for the Prime Minister's incompetency." Saya's mother told us.
"He can't have kids?" Aisu asked.
Erika groaned and face-palmed and Damion punched him in the back of the head. "That's impotency, you idiot." He grumbled.
"If that's the case, maybe they'll keep things working a little longer." Takashi said.
"So optomistic..." Saya's mother said. "How much longer do you think those maintenance workers will stay there? They have families, too, don't they? And those family members AREN'T at the power plants." She said.
"Meh. My family's probably coming up with something as we speak." I said.
"So, you're going to take the buses and..." Takashi started.
"Correct. But only the ones that we're responsible for... Or rather: we'll only be taking the ones that can survive outside of this place. It's Darwinian, I know." She said.
"Well that's somewhat dark." I said.
"Sometimes you have to sacrifice the few for the needs of the many." Damion said.
"Damn, this dude is dark." Aisu said.
"You have no idea." I told him. We both looked back at him as he started to release some of his demonic energy. We looked at each other, back to him, then back to each other.
"Run!" We said, the mansion becoming a scene from Benny Hill as we attempted to escape the murderous vampire.
Back in the basement...
Kohta cocked the shotgun and aimed it. "Hey, hey, hold on!" A voice rang out. He turned back to see a dude who straight up looked like an asshole. "That's a real gun isn't it? A kid like you shouldn't be playing with it." He said.
"I'm... sorry, sir." Kohta apologized (That's it? I would've said something like "hey, motherfucker, these guns are pretty much mine at this point! I'm one of the only people around who can use them right, anyway!")
"Mr. Moto, is that all you have to say?" Saya asked, leaning against the wall beside him.
"Oh, lady Saya (what is she, a fucking princess or something? Say Ms. Saya or something). I just wanted to let you know we've finished the tune-up on the car. The HUMV you came here in." He said.
"Thank you, that will be all." She said, at which point he left looking like he was about to sprint off (with his arm movements), but simply walked off.
"You come from such a prestigious family, wow!" He said, TOTALLY sucking up by the tone of his voice.
"As a matter of fact, I do. Like that matters now. And why would you let him talk to you like that?" She asked.
He looked at the gun and then back to her. "Oh, well, because he's an adult." He answered (the wuss in him is coming back...).
"You think that means anything? We've been through just as much as they have. War. I'm sick of how they're treating us." She said, then looking back towards the house. "We'd better talk to Takashi and the others about this lack of equity." She said.
Meanwhile...
The non-humans were in lawn chairs, soaking up the sun with a crowd of people around us, listening in awe to the story we were telling. "So THEN- oh, thank you." I paused, taking my drink from the guy who brought it to me, continuing the story you all already know.
Back with Takashi...
He was walking through the halls of the mansion, thinking of what Saya's mother said to him. (I want her to understand me. But no matter what I do, she won't listen to me. Maybe you could talk to her?) Her voice rang through his head.
"She thinks that I can convince SAYA? I've never been able to convince her of anything my whole life." He said, the screen going black (now, someone correct me in the comments if I'm wrong, but if I know my facts: in Japanese culture, you refer to people by their last names if you aren't really friends or close enough to refer to people by their first name, but if he's known Saya since kindergarten, I'm pretty sure they're on good enough terms to call each other by their first name. And in a zombie apocalypse, you'd think you could drop the formalities, or that this group of survivors would be close enough at this point to be on first name level).
Back in the room Rei's in...
The little group of survivors reconvened, much to Rei's annoyance. "I don't see a reason why everyone has to gather around here." She said annoyed, still naked, laying down on her stomach so her boobs were hidden from view and her ass covered by a towel.
"I can think of at least 3 reasons!" Aisu said with hearts in his eyes, trying to paw all over her, Takashi grabbing his horns and holding on for dear life trying to pull him back, only managing to keep him so Rei was just out of his reach.
"You can barely move. What else are we supposed to do?" Takashi asked her, still straining to pull back the Icegen.
"I'm sorry, but what were we talking about again?" Shizuka asked, sitting in a chair and peeling a banana.
"I feel like we're about to step into some rather suggestive territory." I said to Damion, who nodded while Erika rolled her eyes.
"Whether we can continue to move forward as a group or not." Saya said as Shizuka took a bite, looking like she choked a bite as Saya said this.
"As a group?" Rei asked, confused.
"It's a good point. The group's bigger now. We might have to think more democratically since there are more of us than before. It's only fair." Saeko said.
"Right." Saya said.
"Is now really the time to worry about fairness and democracy? At this point, we should be focusing on what is best for the group as a whole." Erika said.
"That does make sense, but how can any ONE of us decide what's best for the entire group?" I asked her, which she stopped to consider.
"We have only to options. To be absorbed or..." Saya started.
"Separate from them. But wait, do we really have to split from the group? Things are only getting worse and worse in the city. And your father seems to know what he's doing. And your mother, too. I've even heard recently that Sai's family is creating generators and dams to solve our power and water situation." Takashi said.
"OH! Called it!" I said, raising my hands in the air and pointing down at me.
"They have a plan." He finished.
"Oh, don't they always." Saya said, her voice breaking up a bit. "No one knows more than I do." She continued, Takashi looking at her, confused. She then began to tear up a bit. "Her achievements... Don't think she won't shove them right in your face. Maybe if she'd have been as dedicated at home as she was-" She continued.
"Saya..." Takashi said softly.
"Didn't you literally run and jump into your mother's arms the instant you saw her?" Aisu asked.
Damion looked shocked at that moment. "Oh, dear god, he made a valid point." He said in disbelief.
"She's such a bitch..." She said quietly.
"You shouldn't talk bad about your parents." Takashi said.
"Looks like one certain family needs an intervention." Erika said.
"Considering the situation we're in, it must be hard on everyone." Takashi continued.
"Did I ask you to weigh in on my family life?!" She demanded.
Meanwhile, I was on the phone. "Hello, Dr. Phil? Yeah, I've got a family here that would make you millions if you could solve whatever the hell their problem is. It's definitely stemming mostly from their daughter." I told him.
"Takagis. The Takagis. How fabulous their life must be! Everything had to be just perfect! The house! And the lawn! And the parties! And most of all their daughter! It was positively SUFFOCATING!" She snapped.
"Hey, there are plenty people worse off than you. Damion's father disowned his sister and my father and oldest brother treat me like I'm not worthy to be anywhere near them. At least your family cares about you." I said to her.
"They wanted to know where I was and what I was doing EVERY MINUTE of the day! The leash they kept me on!" She continued to whine.
"Well, I doubt they ever threw you off a cliff or ran you out of the house." I told her. Seriously, she was not gonna get any sympathy from Damion or me on this subject.
"That's enough." Takashi snapped.
"NO! It was NEVER enough! Where was that leash when I was lost out there in the streets fighting for my life?! WHERE THE HELL WERE THEY THEN?!" She screamed.
"On the other side of the city, obviously." I said.
"Stop it, Saya!" Takashi said, grabbing her by the shirt and lifting her off the ground, everyone in shock and disbelief, none of us knowing how to react.
"Takashi!" Saeko said.
"Alright, Takashi, manning up!" I said, giving him a thumb's up.
"That's one way to deal with her, I personally think she needs a good spanking." Aisu said, hearts in his eyes as he pulled a ping-pong paddle out of nowhere, which I then took and smacked him in the face with.
"You don't know... You could never know... What I feel... You don't know anything about me." She said.
"He's known you since kindergarten, I'm pretty sure he knows a few things about you by now." I said.
"It's not just you! We all feel the same way! WE ALL FEEL THE SAME WAY!" He growled, shaking her a bit. "Don't you know how lucky you are?! At least your parents are safe! So quit whining!" He shouted, shaking her more.
"Finally, someone's putting this bitch in her place." I said.
"Okay... You're right... You can put me down now..." She said quietly and softly.
He did so and backed away a bit. "I'm sorry." He said.
"Yeah... You'd better be." She said, still on the quiet side.
"So, who wants to help Dr. Phil and I stage an intervention for these guys?" I asked, raising my hand. For some strange reason, I was completely alone on this one...