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He was choking something gooey and smelly out of his mouth.
{Are you alright?! Please answer me!}
There was a soft female voice sounding around him, but he couldn't focus on it when he was puking whatever this thing was.
{I am sorry operator!} The voice apologized. {It would be hard and awful, but please, I need you to keep expulsing the nutrient liquid from your system until it has completely left your body}.
If he complained, the voice didn't' heard him between chokes. It was necessary to wait another 10 minutes until the nutrient liquid left his body for good, and for the first time, he paid attention to his surroundings. Aside from him being in a puddle of his vomit and smelly goo, he was surrounded by many cylindrical tubes like the one he got out. Many of them were empty or filled with an unknown liquid. The light came from the corners of the room. They illuminated the room enough to see but not to the point of being irritating to his sensitive eyes.
"Wh-where am I?" His voice sounded weak and rasped. And why was he cold? {Operator, I am going to come in. My appearance may fright you, but please, bear with me until I take you the nursery.} Not a second later, a 'zoom' was heard and what he previously assumed was a wall slid and a humanoid form appeared. At first, he couldn't see clearly by the light coming from the hall. Until it came close to him, he could see now. It was humanoid composed of blue metallic plated and wires where its joints were. Its head seemed human, or close enough if it wasn't for the big and green lent in the middle of its face.
He tried to move, but after throwing up for ten minutes, he didn't find the energy in him except to give a few coughs. It kneeled and carried him up gently. The machine didn't find troublesome his weight; he was sure that a least it would be troublesome for it, given its slim frame. They passed through many doors and other hallways. After what felt five minutes, they arrived in a big room filled with medical supplies and other medical gear. It placed him in a big and metallic table located in the middle of the room. It put a big thermal blanket on him.
{Hang on, operator, I will come back with the medical tools to aid you in your recovery} It didn't pass much time for him to go back to sleep.
When he woke up again he was laying in a warm and comfy bed. He noted that there were some tubes connected to his arms and a monitor was checking his pulse.
{Good morning Operator}, he turned his head to the right and there was again the blue humanoid robot. {For a moment I was worried that the sudden expulsion from your cryogenization may have harmed you}. Its soft voice was filled with worry for a moment. {But it seems that it wasn't the case, we will wait until the stimulants injected in your system help you regain total mobilization of your body}. It rubbed softly its cold hand against his head in a soft manner. After fifteen minutes, the fatigue that pressed his body was slowly lifted. With a little help from the android, he sat up in the bed.
{It's good to see that there isn't muscle atrophy}. Its tone was chirpy. He slowly moved his hands and feet fingers. "W-where…is this…?" His voice was still rasped. He trembled a little at the cold air hitting his naked frame. Gently, the android put the mantle that previously covered him over his back. {Tell me, Operator, what do you remember?} The android inquired.
He tried to remember. "I… I was sent here because…because there was so-something, and I needed to… I need to!-Aggh!" He stopped thinking when a strong ache pierced his mind. {Take it slowly Operator. Let's start with something basic, what is your name?} It put its hand over his shoulder. He tried to think about his name. "My name, my name is… my name is-" there was another ache, but this time it wasn't as painful like the first.
"My name is- my name is Adam."
Adam opened his eyes as the heaviness of his sleep started to fade away. He took off his earphones, got up from his bed and went to the bathroom to get ready for the day. A shower and change of clothes later, Adam got his cellphone and checked the hour. He was wearing the same set of clothes, but these were clean.
"What the-? How can it be at half-past two in the afternoon?!" He didn't understand. Sure, during his journey with Siegfried, the two didn't mind waking up earlier in the mornings, but at least they would wake up at nine in the morning, at worst, at mid-afternoon after a hard workday or when they heavy drink night.
"Damn, I wanted to get up earlier to reach Soukai City as soon as possible. Note to me, not sleep with earphones again." He deduced that the earphones were the reason he overslept.
Adam sighed and went to his luggage to equip his weapons. Call him paranoid, but knowing the unpredictable nature of the Honkai, and to always expect the unexpected, he preferred to be ready to defend himself before possible attacks. That and certain close calls with his mentor made him cautious over any situation.
"I can't still believe that we almost died at that time because we thought it was 'safe'." He remembered bitterly. On one occasion he and Siegfried had a job to clean up a nest of angels at South America in a remote village. The Angels' attacks and the presence of opportunist bandits to robe the scarce stuff the villagers had, made the village's people practically beg the duo to help them. The humid air, locating the nest in the jungle and fighting in the dark made the task difficult. But the real problem wasn't the nest, oh no, the main problem was the goddamn bandits. They attacked them when they let their guard down in their way to the village. The raiders thought the duo were exhausted after the battle with the nest. Tired, yes, but exhausted, not exactly.
The bandits wanted the pair gone from the region. The group was forcing the other local villages to give them money and rations in exchange for protection against the beasts. And according to them, Siegfried and Adam just broke their business. The duo had encountered similar groups exhorting people for supposed protection against raiders and beasts. But these people were pure trash. They took some hostages from the village when they were coming back. Adam didn't remember what exactly happened after they shot him when he tried to help a hostage little girl, he saw red. He woke up three days later in a boat with a heavy injured Siegfried. According to him, the two killed the group and went to their den and exterminated the rest of the bandits. Siegfried didn't enter in details, but Adam knew that Siegfried omitted various things. Since that day, Adam's combat powers increased exponentially as Siegfried wariness when Adam over-used his powers and lost a little control.
Adam's trip to the memory lane was interrupted when he heard dull hits on the wall. He got confused and got closer to it. He stood there until he heard the dull 'thuds' again. He started to grow concerned until he picked up the creak of a bed. It took a pair of seconds for his brain to connect the dots. "Blagh!" Adam stepped away from the wall in distaste. He shook his head and finished equipping his two sword handles in a dual shoulder holsters and a pair of HK VP9 pistols in his back dual holster.
"And I was getting worried for nothing." Adam grabbed his wallet and left his room. He heard some growls, but he ignored them. It wasn't his issue if people screwed this earlier. Adam went to the elevator, but find out that it was out of service.
"That's strange, yesterday it was working pretty well." He noted. Shrugging his shoulders, he took the stairs. It took him little to reach the main level. To his surprise, it was completely alone. "….Stranger." Usually, at this hour, people will be moving around, but to not see anyone and the even silence. "Whatever, I will go to the cafeteria and grab something to eat." As he walked through the halls, he noted that they were desolated. "Or I am still sleeping or did I miss today was 'hide and seek day'?" He spotted a person walking in the hall. He was staggering, bumping into the walls as he walked. Adam could only saw his back, but he had a bad feeling about this.
"I hope I'm wrong," Adam muttered as he walked towards the guy. He thought to draw one of his weapons, but seeing that the hallway wasn't big enough for him to wear his weapon without trouble, he decided for a safe option in case that it was just his imagination. Small tendrils formed in the border of his right hand, transforming it into a small blade. "Hey, good afternoon." Adam greeted. The guy stopped moving. "Sorry, but, do you know why it's so lonely…" Adam closed his mouth when the man turned around to see him. He looked like the average office man, but what outstood about him was the unhealthy gray skin, unfocused eyes and the way his mouth opened wider than normally possible. He started to move towards Adam in slow motion. Adam didn't move, his hair covered his eyes as his mouth grimaced. "You have to be shitting me." He thought annoyed.
The man, if that he could be called, got closer to Adam, and in a sudden movement, he lunged at him. In a simple movement, Adam decapitated him. Adam stepped aside as the body fell to the ground, a second later the head joined him. "Tch!" Adam clicked his tongue annoyed. "A zombie in Nagazora City could only mean one thing." As if it was a command, different steps and moans started to be heard around him. Adam didn't wait to see who were. "So a Herrscher has appeared." He growled in contempt.
Adam ran back to his room. When he was about to open the upper staircase door, two female zombies slammed the door open and tried to grab him. Adam stepped aside and using the same movement, he cut one head, rolled on his feet and punched through the head of the second. "Troublesome." He got his hand out of the broken skull and run to his room. Once he reached his room, he closed the door with the lock and grabbed a desk and closet that were inside and blocked the door.
"It will buy me a few minutes. But I don't doubt it won't last much against a lot of them." He went to the bathroom and quickly washed his hand covered in blood and gray matter. He went to one corner of the room, where his complete luggage rested. "I better take the essential." Adam took a medium back-pack from his suitcase and begin to put just the vital necessities in it. He grabbed a change of clothes, a few canned food, a canteen that he quickly filled with water, his 'official documents', a tiny blue bottle with pills and a letter that Siegfried gave to him before they took the airplane. He saved the tiny bottle in one of his pants' pockets. He took eight magazines that his pouches allowed, along with a grenade. A little gift from one of their previous works. Adam left behind clothes and some books and comics that he used to read during his free time.
Once he finished, Adam heard many knocks in his room along with multiple moans from the hallway. Knowing that the door was out of the question, Adam opened a glass door that led him to his terrace. He turned his sight to the main road and street below him and found out that there were a lot of zombies walking across the streets. In the distance, fumes were coming from buildings. Adam shook his head in sorry for the transformed people of the city. He tightened up the backpack's strap as he went back to the room. He kneeled next to the barricade like a runner in a competence. The bangs in the room got stronger.
"Well, I guess it's all or nothing." Adam shot up and ran at fast speed. Little webs appeared on the floor for each step he gave. When he reached the terrace's railing, Adam put a foot on it and using the momentum, he jumped. The applied big force squashed the poor railing. Adam gained a big altitude with his escape-jump.
"Wow." He marveled at the sight. The sky was a little cloudy, some places were cleared, allowing to see the blue sky above the cloudy white-sea. The sunlight and the clouds gave a good effect. Adam noted that the sky along with the buildings below looked like a good picture for a postal.
Adam felt that he started to lose altitude. "Good things tend to end quickly." He sighed in disappointment. Crimson tendrils formed on his back and created a pair of crimson metal-organic winds. Adam used the wind and with his new appendages, he started to guide his descent. He landed on a roof from one of the middle-large buildings. "OK. First, I need to get out of the city ASAP. Two, if possible, maybe find the Herrscher on my way and see if it's possible to kill it. And third…" His stomach snarled in protest. "Have breakfast." It snarled again. "Right, first I need to eat something."
A can of cold soup and few sips of water later. Adam moved through the roofs of the buildings. While there were some taller buildings that he couldn't reach alone with just jumping, Adam transformed his arms into whips with serrated and pointed tips to swing through walls and cornices. It was effective to avoid the groups and forming zombie hordes roaming the now dead city and made the travel between buildings easy. Sometimes he would stop to rest and cool down his powers, or avoid big groups of zombies that were in his way. Things got harder when Knights and Chariots began to materialize. Adam avoided them at all costs. While he could defeat them, he preferred to save his energy and didn't want to be overrun in the large term. This made him wait between long intervals to move again until he saw the Honkai beasts disappeared from his way.
"And I thought this was a calm city." He said sarcastically. Despite his best efforts, he still had a long way to reach the city's borders. He was sitting at a tall build's floor edge that was a pair of blocks apart from a big school. From one of his jacket pocket, he took a cigarette pack and a lighter. He grabbed a cigarette and saved the pack. He put it in his mouth, lighted it up and put away the igniter. Adam took a pair of puffs and sighed with the cigarette hanging from his mouth, white smoke left his mouth as he contemplated the sunset in peaceful silence. Well, as silent as possible, considering the multitude of moans and growls coming from the streets.
"Damn it. At this pace, it would take me another day to leave this city. I hope that they don't destroy it before that." Adam pondered in trouble. He knew that it was a question of time before Schicksal decided to launch a Honkai Fusion Missile to wipe out the city if there weren't signs of survivors in the next 24 hours. That time could get shorter in case Honkai activity started to grow or threatened the region. What happened in the Second Honkai War was a good example.
BANG! BANG BANG!
"Survivors?!" Adam was surprised. After spending time making his way across the city, he was honestly surprised at the possibility of people surviving the Honkai Concentration in the city. They could be Valkyries dispatched by Schicksal, but that may be improbable. "If it was the case, a grand part of the city would already be a war zone if they have found the Herrscher. They have the tech to locate them." Adam reflected. While killing the Herrscher may have been an option before, fighting it was suicide now. For all he knew, the Herrscher may still be dormant, gathering power for its 'presentation' and getting stronger. That and the increased presence of Knights and Chariots were clear signs of the Herrscher growth.
BOOM!
Adam thoughts disappeared when an explosion occurred in the school premises. He saw smoke and fire coming from deep the school. The horde on the streets growled in anger and started to walk towards the school. "Well, speaking of good luck." Adam got up and checked his back-pack was tightened to his back. "Sucks to be you guys." Adam turned back and started to scan where to swing to continue his escape.
"Are you going to leave them to their fates?" He heard a soft childish voice in his head.
"No! Not now. I need to reach Soukai City, that's final." He growled. If there were alive persons in the city, they would freak out at seeing a young man yelling to no one. "They need your help." "I need to leave before this chance passes! I don't know if you can see this, but I'm in a goddamn city infested to the brim with zombies and beasts." Adam saw another building for him to land and continue his escape.
"Siegfried will be disappointed in you." Adam spat the cigar on the roof. "He knows the mission is first. YOU know what is at stake. I'm not risking my life for someone that could be already dead with the stunt they just pulled. And remember, Hestia told me that one must value their well-being above others in survival situations. Heroes are fools who die sooner than anyone else." The voice went silent. Adam smirked in satisfaction. "Seems that you got the point." He went to the opposite side of the roof to create distance and gain velocity before making the jump. He saw a good landing point and started to run.
"Mom, Celeste and Katherine would be disappointed." It immediately created spikes on his feet. Concrete lifted as he swept, barely stopping at the building's edge. Adam rested on his back for seconds before he jumped up. The spikes dissolved from his feet. "You did have to mention them, didn't you? That's low." Adam grunted annoyed with a scowl on his face. Adam turned to the school and saw that a lot of zombies gathered at the big main door.
"You better not bother me if I found them dead." Adam walked to the opposite direction of the school. He kneeled, again, but this time he concentrated. Crimson tendrils formed on his legs, making them stronger and flexible. Adam shot out at great speed, he almost appeared to be a blur. He jumped, leaving a little crater on the edge and ascended a great height. "Well, here I go!" Adam fell towards the school at great speed. The large jump proved to be effective when he went over the main gate and fence. As he got closer to the ground, one zombie, wandering in the large courtyard, looked up, its attention was caught at hearing the whistle of Adam cutting through the wind. Tendrils formed around his extremities, creating a shield under him.
CRASH!
Adam crushed the poor bastard, leaving a red crater, the only proof that there was a person before. The tendrils and the whiteness on his face disappeared. Adam got up and took out a golden sword handle. The grip and pommel were black with enough space to wield it with two hands. Until there, it looked like a normal sword, but the unusual part, (besides the lack of a blade), was the golden guard cross. The guard resembled a distorted crown. On it, there were carved unknown glyphs along with little images of humanoid forms and vines surrounding them. It was a true work of art, but it didn't overshadow the true combat prowess of the sword.
"Drink," Adam commanded. Little pinches grew from the handle and pierced his hand. Adam's lips twitched uncomfortably at the wounds generated by the sword. He felt how his blood was being sucked with a cold sensation running through his hand. After a few seconds, the pinches retracted and from the guard, a red blade sprouted out. The blade's length was 47 inches. The sword name was Omen.
Adam saw a security camera set in a wall. "I just hope the security cameras are out of order. It would be a real problem explaining this before I met with Theresa Baby Doll." The main preoccupation of Adam was getting caught red-handed using his powers by Schicksal. This was due to the unknown origin power that he held. Shit, he didn't even know the exact details about it. It just felt kind of normal for him. Well, as normal for a young man with morphing strange matter powers and physic condition above the normal human being.
"Well, if the survivors told them about my powers, I will just say that it's PTSD. I will rather be on their good side and not in a laboratory for experiments." Adam flinched remembering some of the old abandoned laboratories that he and Siegfried raided during their journey. The pair left these facilities with bitter mouths at seeing the number of corpses and 'failed experiments' in the basements.
Adam shook his head, pushing the bad memory back. Adam ran towards the fire, cutting apart zombies that started to come with clean cuts. Omen was sharp. He left a trail of red as he was making his way to the fire's direction. It didn't take long for him to arrive at the blast zone. Flames were scorching the grass around, pieces of glass and wood from the room that exploded. Zombies' corpses burned around, making a fetid smell that almost made Adam puke.
"Hey, is anyone alive?!" He tried to ignore the rotten smell. Nobody answered. "Does someone hear me?!" He screamed again louder. He only heard the moans of incoming zombies near the explosion. Adam moved around the fire, trying to see if perhaps the people were knocked out after such explosion. He only found more undead corpses and broken furniture. After not finding anyone, he cursed "Son of a bitch." He hissed. "I knew that I shouldn't have to come! Why the hell I listened to you?!" No voice answered. More growls started to get closer. Adam turned and saw that a horde started to form. Adam was about to transform his legs and escape when he heard again gunshots. They didn't sound far away from him.
"Lucky day for you." Adam turned and started to run towards the noise. He cut zombies that got too close to him, leaving the rest behind. He heard the shots were coming from an old building. At its backside, a group of zombies was gathering. He deducted the survivors were barely keeping the zombies away. He unsheathed a gun from his back holster and started to fire. It was effective. Some zombies turned their attention to him. This gave the survivors a little room to breathe. Adam and they kept shooting and chopping heads until the last zombie of the group fell with its head blown off. Adam released the empty magazine and reloaded the gun quickly.
Adam turned on his feet, his sight and hands strained for a new guest. There weren't zombies near to them. "Hey. Thanks for the help." Adam turned again and saw the people he just helped. The one who thanked him was a beautiful girl wearing a white school uniform similar to the zombies they just slaughtered. She had a cute face, pure and snow-white beautiful skin, bright blue eyes and silver hair. Her hair was combed in a pair of braids with black hair clips. He noted that she was 4 inches shorter than him. Adam turned his eyes to the person behind her. She was another beautiful girl. She had long black-bluish hair tied in different places, a cut face and dulled violet eyes. She was also wearing a uniform similar to the silver beauty but this one had a purple theme. She was sitting there, barely paying attention to her surroundings. Adam guessed she was in a state of shock with the zombies and beasts running around.
"You are welcome." Adam lowered his sword and sheeted his gun. He got closer to the female duo. The silver-haired girl raised her hand to shake his. He corresponded the gesture "Hello! I'm Kiana Kaslana. Again, thanks for the help. I could have killed all them alone, but it would have been a waste of bullets." Adam's eyes widened at her last name. "You got to be kidding me. She is that drunk daughter!" Unconsciously, he got closer to her face and passed his eyes quickly over her, paying attention to her features. "Well, the hair and resemblance to that old photo are proof enough. But seriously, what the hell Siegfried's woman saw in him?" Even to this day, it was hard for Adam to believe that Siegfried was married to a beautiful and good woman, according to Siegfried anecdotes.
"E-excuse me. Do I have something on my face?" Adam noted that she was uncomfortable at the close distance. He released her hand and stepped back apologizing. "S-sorry. You just remembered me of someone I knew in the past." "I-I see." She responded flustered. The ambient went awkward.
Adam fake coughed, trying to dissipate the uncomfortable ambient. "Hello. I'm Adam Alighieri. I was running away when I heard an explosion. I came to see what happened." "You would have left them to their own devices. You only came because your 'little conscience' nagged you"A sinister voice whispered in his head. "Shut up!" Adam screamed internally at it. It didn't add anything else.
"Is that so?" Kiana was surprised. "Yeah. Some idiot thought that it could have been a good idea to attract these guys attention blowing up a building." Adam gestured with his sword to the corpses.
"Take that back! I was trying to escape with this girl when they surrounded us near the canteen. It was blowing the canteen or being eaten alive!" Kiana argued.
"And the result, you just called the attention of the zombies outside and inside the school." He explained in an even voice. "Please, don't' be like your idiot father," Adam begged. "It was in the heat of the moment. What you would have done?" Kiana asked challenging. Adam was about to retort when a growl interrupted him. "This isn't the place for something like this. We need to move."
"Later. We need to get out of here before they over-run us." Adam said. Kiana nodded and took a new magazine from a pouch at her tight. Her skirt fluttered a bit, giving Adam a flash of white and blue stripes. She loaded her gun and went for the sitting girl behind her.
"We need to go. Get up." The girl didn't move. Kiana sighed and took the girl's arm. She forced her to get up and pulled her. "I don't know what's going on her head. But she has been like this since I found her alone in her classroom." Kiana explained.
"We will deal with her later. First, we need to go to a safe place. Do you know somewhere?"
Kiana brought her hand to her chin thinking. The Chiba Academy, her school, was pretty big. It was one of the most attended schools in the city. It had many large buildings to house the many classes and clubs for the over-populated student body. Archery, swimming pool, drama club, you name it and they had it. Now the once bright academy that supplied many necessities became into a death trap with zombie hordes inside the premises.
They started walking. Adam and Kiana paid attention to their surroundings. "When they started to transform this morning, I tried to reach the gates, but the emergency exists were being blocked by the panicking students and zombies. I was hiding in one of the classrooms until I heard her screaming. By then, they were chasing us. We were on our way to this old building until they ambushed us by the canteen." Kiana guided the girl and Adam towards another building. It was a large gymnasium. "I guess, this is our only option if we don't want them to get us." Adam nodded, but something in what Kiana said perturbed him. "Since this morning? Then, why the Honkai wave didn't wake me up? I have felt it before, but in lower intensity." Adam reflected gravely. He didn't know if it had something to do with his powers, but he could feel the Honkai energy when it presented in concentrated quantities. It made him feel uncomfortable and anxious. Siegfried told him that it was really helpful when it came to measuring their next move when they were hunting in the wild.
Adam decided to investigate that later. "So, why are we coming here?" He asked Kiana. "The doors in the gym are pretty tough and easy to block. There were complaints about it but they need to attend it. Something to do about prizes and budget." Kiana shrugged explaining.
Luckily for them, the gymnasium premises were devoid of zombies. Kiana and Adam blocked the doors with whatever furniture and gym equipment they found. Seeing that it was almost night, they decided to use some gym mats and towels they found in a closet as improvised beds. Using the lights of their cellphones, they made their way to the roof. Adam blocked the door with a piece of wood he found. Kiana was occupied making the beds and the silent girl was resting against the wall.
"It isn't perfect. But at least is better than sleeping in the cold." Kiana sighed as she was kneeling, finishing making the beds.
Growl!
Adam turned to see Kiana making a frustrated face. "Aghh! I'm so hungry! Why I didn't steal something from the canteen when I had the chance." She whined. A rainy cloud formed over her head. Adam raised an eyebrow at the scene. Deciding to calm the girl, Adam put down his backpack and opened it. He took out the last three cans of food he had. "Kiana, here." Adam handed her the cans. Kiana mood changed in an instant. Stars appeared in her eyes at seeing the canned food. "Oh! Thanks, Adam. I forgive you for calling me an idiot earlier". She chirped.
She eagerly opened a can of soup and started to eat, no, devour it. "Kiana, remember it's for everyone." Adam scolded her. "I know it! I didn't plan to eat all the food. I also consider you two. Meanie" She showed her tongue to him.
"Childish attitude, check. Having a black hole for a stomach, check. Airheaded, check. Kiana, you are truly Siegfried's child." Adam thought. He grabbed a can of meat and vegetable soup and went to the inactive girl. She didn't move except her legs when Kiana dragged her. "Here." The girl didn't answer. Adam sighed at the lack of response. He put the vegetables can in front of her. "Look, I don't know what happened to you. But you better start to move if you don't want to die." The girl didn't say anything." Kiana kept eating while watching the two.
"I know all this looks like a shit storm, but the three of us may make it out of the city. For that, all of us need to cooperate. As how stands now, you are dead-weight and you are dragging us down." "Hey!" Adam turned to Kiana. She had a frown on her face. "That was uncalled for. Give her a breath. I found her among the corpses of her classmates!" She fumed.
"Look, Kiana. I know that I'm sounding like an asshole. But right now she is slowing us down. I'm not saying that we leave her behind. But she better start to move, because sooner or later, you or I could be killed trying to save miss catatonic here." Adam explained. "Still-!" Kiana was about to retort when she was interrupted by a new voice. "D-dead?" Kiana and Adam turned to the girl, who lifted her head. Her violet eyes showed a little spark. "Don't' pay attention to him! He is just being mean." Kiana chided.
"I'm not trying to be an asshole, but-" "W-why?" She asked. By the vacant look on her face, she appeared to be speaking with her-self. "Why what?" Adam inquired. The girl still didn't look at him. "Why, why I didn't die?" The girl started to cry at saying this. Kiana felt cold running through her. She got up and went to the girl. Adam flinched when a stab of pain pierced his head for an instant at hearing this.
"Hush. Don't say that." Kiana said as she hugged her. Seeing Kiana hugging the crying girl, made Adam feel bad. "Shit. I'm sorry. I-I will just mount guard while you two sleep on the beds." Kiana gave a short nod. She dragged the still crying girl to the makeshift beds. They lay down. Kiana covered her and the girl with the towels. Adam got up on the roof access. He unsheathed his two pistols as he paid attention to the gymnasium surroundings.
"Good job at making her cry asshole." Adam hissed. After ten minutes, the girl stopped crying. Other ten minutes later, she and Kiana entered a deep slumber while Adam kept guard with a lit cigarette in his mouth. Zombie growls and regret accompanied Adam that night.
THUNG!
Adam woke up startled. "Shit! How can I fall slept in this kind of situation" He reproached to himself. It was still earlier. The sun still didn't get out. Adam turned his sight to the ground and his breath went still. Around the gymnasium were a lot of zombies. Calling multitude was short. It was a big damn horde of undead surrounding them. The horde didn't show signs of activity except for growling and drooling. Adam saw that the silent girl was at the railing looking down to the horde.
He jumped down to the roof and went to wake up Kiana. He shacked her shoulder a couple of times. Her eyes twitched and were about made a big yawn when Adam put his hand over her mouth. At the sudden action, Kiana eyes shot open and saw Adam with his hand making a gesture over his mouth. "We have a big damn horde of zombies. Don't make a single noise or they will go wild." Kiana nodded. Adam stepped back and let her got up. Adam went to tell the same to the silent girl.
"Hey." He whispered to her. She didn't turn around. Adam sighed. "I'm sorry if I sounded insensitive. But I'm not good with words and yesterday, well, today is also a bad day. You can hit me and insult me all you want, but to do that we need to get out of the city." The girl still didn't turn around. Thinking that she was in another catatonic episode, Adam grabbed her arm to drag her from the railing. It was a mistake.
Adam's left arm went limp. He stepped back surprised.
"What the hell?" He muttered. He tried to move his arm, but it didn't obey him. Neither his hand nor fingers. He saw electricity moving around his extremity.
A feeling of drear filled him as the silent girl turned to see him.
"Adam. You are right we are-" "Kiana step-back now!" Adam ordered her. He heard the horde below going wild. "What the hell, Adam?! You told me to be silent and now you make the horde go crazy. Now we are in big trouble!" Adam gave her a dry chuckle. "No Kiana. We aren't in big trouble." A wing made of electricity materialized on the silent girl's back as she elevated in the air. Kiana gasped.
Adam and Kiana just found out the reason that caused the Honkai Outbreak in Nagazora City.
A Herrscher.
Electricity rays shot out from the girls back as stormy black clouds formed over them
"We are so fucked."