Chapter One: Just An Average Day, Right?
Harry's POV
He shifted slightly while laying against the rooftop. It was a nice day, bright sun, decent heat, overall a good day to relax on the rooftop of his school. He didnt think himself lazy when he first got here, but its been months having made a few friends, the two biggest being Saya and Takashi. He had meet Saya in a class and due to his past experiences he could see past her, something that both annoyed and interested the girl. Takashi was a easy going guy, and he found himself in the position of the mans best friend, which is probably how he got so lazy since they hung out regularly, and he became an avid gamer due to the guy.
He still kept up on athletic training, and some habits he gained in the war but he had mostly dipped into living life like a normal teenager in a foreign nation in a regular high school. He gazed in the clouds sighing in contentment and letting himself relax easily. He grinned softly as he saw a shadow block the sun. "Why must you act like an idiot?" The clearly female body asked him making him chuckle slightly as he relaxed further. "Because I find it amusing Saya, Besides its not like I'm missing much." He said laying his arms behind his head smiling slightly at the girl getting a small amount of pinkness to cover her cheeks.
"Arent you worried at all about getting expelled?" Saya asked haughtily standing up straight peering down at him through her glasses. "Now now, you and I both know that currently we both are the highest ranked students at school, the principal can afford to lose us." He said getting a small glare and pout as he turned her point around effortlessly. He watched her turn quickly in annoyance the skirt billowing outwards for a moment before walking to the door having opened it quickly in anger. "Saya, You should watch where you're standing next time, didnt know you liked pink and frilly until now." He said seeing her eyes snap to his quickly. He grinned lopsidedly at her seeing her face flush a deep red before slamming the door behind her in embarrassed anger.
He chuckled slightly as he laid back against the rooftop. He found himself adopting a lifestyle that seemed to be a mix of Sirius and Remus, he got his charming actions and attitude, along with his raunchy humor from Sirius, on the other hand he got his studious and more open nature from Remus. He sat up quickly as a dull ring echoed through the campus. He frowned softly as a feeling deep in him screamed silently about an impending danger. He sighed lazily not letting it outwardly affect him, something that the mental control teaching's, somewhat similar to Occlumency, helped him with.
He walked over to the edge of the roof leaning against the railing with his hands in his pockets looking over the front gates where four people approached another that seemed to be walking into the gate. "Huh wonder whats going on down there." He mumbled aloud watching intently. He knew Takashi was below him on one of the balconies for the stairwell but he didnt feel like walking through the school to join the boy since he had enough of a view from his place. He rolled his eyes as Tejima pulled the strange man into the gate of the school trying intimidate the man.
He frowned deeply and tensed as Tejima screamed out and fell to the ground. He narrowed his eyes seeing the signs of blood even from the far distance he was at and knew after looking over the still man that he was dead. He stood up straight as Tejima reacted to the enviroment and suddenly lunged at Hayashi bitting into her neck. He stepped back and turned to run for the door into the school. That clearly wasn't normal human behavior the man was clearly dead and now seemed like the Inferi he had faced in the middle of the war, mindless vicious, almost similar to zombies from that movie Luna had been obsessed with.
He jumped down the stairs as quick as he could running for his locker. He slid to a stop having put his combination half way in before the speakers went off with notice making him stop moving to listen in. "This announcement is for all students. A violent incident is taking place inside the school right now! All students must follow your teacher's instructions and evacuate." Principal Hiori said his voice echoing through the entire school. He spun the dial quickly unlocking the one lock in between him and what he needed. He pulled the door open quickly trying to keep the squeak to a minimum in order to hear the rest of the message.
"I repeat. A violent incident is taking place inside the school right now. All students must follow your teachers instructions and-" Hiori said before stopping, he glanced up at the intercom and narrowed his eyes, the screams that were broadcast made him snap into action again. The man was dead and he couldn't help him but the sooner he got his items the sooner he could successfully leave the school and hopefully with a group, he would need to find Saya and Takashi if possible. He pulled his bag out and reached into it pulling the Velcro false back pulling out the touch phone of the three he owned, and the Military Ka-Bar to take with him.
Nothing else inside the locker mattered he turned stopping suddenly as screams echoed through the hallways from all the terrified people. 'Fools most of you will kill each other in the panic, the rest wont know being silent may save your life.' He thought waiting for most of the panic to die off, getting caught up in that shit storm wouldn't help him at all. He clipped the sheath of the knife on his belt and held it in reverse before walking down the stairs slowly. He sighed slightly in mild relief at the empty hall way. He moved down it in the silence frowning at the lack of even a person. They didn't need to be alive, after all more than likely anything on this floor would have been a trampled body that couldn't have survived. He looked at the walkway to the second building and internally debated moving across. The only place to have keys to vehicles or any way out of the school would be in the second building, but its possible more people were over there and have turned. He pulled the door open slowly looking over the walkway to see if there was anything hidden.
He moved quickly not liking the exposed place and sighed slightly at having reached the second building. He was surprised his nerves lasted this long, with everything that happened they should have been fairly shot. He cursed diving back as a body stumbled towards him. He yanked his arm upwards towards himself stabbing forwards into the monsters head with the blade and pulled back letting the now finally dead body drop to the floor with a thud. He glanced seeing two other stumbling bodies react to the noise and head towards him in a slow pace.
He moved forwards passing one body to stab it in the back of the head and turn back quickly pushing the blade through the forehead of the second. He let the bodies hit the floor and opened the nearest classroom hoping it would be fairly empty. He sighed in relief and moved two desks silently near the door jamming it shut tightly allowing him any amount of time he could stand waiting to relax. He needed to get back to his house in order to arm up. Especially if he wanted a decent change of clothes that could last in extended periods of time. On top of that all his necessary tools were at home in order to survive like he had done before.
He glanced out the window seeing the orange coloring of the sky and knew that a few hours had gone by meaning the school probably was less populated and that could help him in leaving the place. He popped out the room looking over the darkened hallway seeing the lack of people and moved through the hall quickly. 'Where the hell are they, I mean they are to stubborn to be picked off and honestly to smart to die like the rest of these plebs.' He thought darkly blinking in surprise at the rather dark and angry thought. He shook it off and turned a corner jumping back away from the lunging form and felt it collapse on him.
He used his left hand to hold it by the neck away from him and stabbed it through the head before flipping the body around. He tensed as a scream echoed quietly down the hallway. He recognized that voice anywhere and broke into a dead sprint towards the sound. He turned a corner kicking a body down forcing it a few feet down the hall and stabbed forwards at the slowly rising body pulling the blade out slowly letting the body drop and glanced over at Saya who had just finished using a drill on the bodies head. He blinked in surprise at her before glancing over the rest of the group relieved to see Takashi among them, along with Kohta, while the kid was a little odd, he felt the guy was nice enough.
He felt a shiver roll up his spin as someone came behind him. He tensed slightly as two large mounds impacted against his back for a second before feeling himself be turned around forcefully and then have his head shoved in between them. "Miss Shizuka, I cant breath." he wheezed out lightly from the friendly doctor he hadn't talked to in over a few weeks. He looked up seeing he pout as she let him step back to breath. "Mou. I haven't seen you in weeks Harry-kun." Shizuka said making him cough and nod ignoring the way her breasts bounced when she leaned over a stern expression on her usually ditsy face.
"Sorry, I've been rather preoccupied of late." he said scratching his head trying to play it off. 'That and I doubt id survive your hugs long.' he thought knowing Sirius was relishing the opportunity to watch his life and see this exact situation. "You know I cant stay mad at you!" Shizuka exclaimed happily once again dragging his face into her breasts making him sigh as she was suffocating him again. He felt her release him and turned around seeing Kohta watch him with admiration and Rei give him a glance of annoyed curiosity. He coughed to ease the tension. "Seako." he said to the girl getting a small Ojou-sama like smile and nod.
He never could get over how she could make him feel so tense but waved the tension off to look at the rest of the group. He watched Rei and Saya talk to each other, He frowned feeling sympathy for the girl who was clearly not prepared, but then again he doubted the rest were either. "Its clear Introductions have been made, and I am assuming you all know who I am, we should get to a more secure area though, this hallway isn't the best area to talk." He said getting a nod from Takashi. "In the teachers lounge, we can talk more there." Takashi explained opening the door to let everyone in. "Kohta, mind helping me block the door." Takashi said gesturing to the desk inside near the door after everyone entered.
He leaned back against a desk as the two finished blocking off the door for the moment. "What do you think?" Takashi asked making him raise an eyebrow. "Looks like everyone is exhausted, lets take a quick break." Rei said wiping her hands off. "That's fine, but we will need to move soon." He said getting attention. "Why?" Rei asked making him sigh. "Currently we are blocked into a small room of the entire campus of this school, a school mind you is currently full of those things out there, we don't have unlimited food and I doubt this place is the best location to survive this issue, let alone the fact that the desk wont hold the door forever." He said glancing at everyone in the silence.
"He has a point, Dr Marikawa, where's the car key?" Takashi asked after grabbing a bottle of water from Rei. He raised an eyebrow at the guy. "Oh it's in the bag." Shizuka said sticking her arm almost elbow deep trying to find the keys. "Is the car big enough for all of us?" Seako asked making him cough. "A beetle like that might have enough room for maybe three of us." He commented off hand remembering what her car was. "What about the Microbus we use for the clubs away games?" Seako asked glancing over at the wall hooks for the keys. "The key is on the wall after all." Seako commented. He glanced over at Kohta seeing the kid glance out the window. "The problem at the moment is two things." He said standing from his seat.
"First is the fact that, we need to get to the bus, second is the fact that we don't know how much fuel it has, which might be a problem later." He said getting a small nod from Takashi. "Normally the bus is filled, It does need to be ready for its use." Seako commented smiling in her usual pleasant way. "True enough." he said slowly trying not to show how the smile could throw him off. 'It's a little off putting.' he thought internally glancing over at Saya. "We will want to think of clothes as well. I doubt our current clothing will last forever and its best to clean blood off clothing so we don't accidentally get whatever made everyone like this." he said glancing at the blood stained shirt and skirt.
"That's fine, but, where are we going?" Shizuka asked confused. He sighed softly at her confusion, he oddly enough wasn't annoyed he actually was happy to see it. "We're going to make sure that our families are okay. We'll start with the family that lives closest to here. If you are worried about your family we'll bring them with us." Takashi said simply making him shrug. "I moved all the way here from England, that's about as far as you can get so you'll be fine besides I have no living family." he said simply getting silence from everyone. "What?" he asked getting a small clearing of the throat.
"How are you so easy with that topic?" Takashi asked making him blink in surprise. "I haven't had parents since I was born, as such its not so difficult to get over that fact." He said remembering how much of a moaner he was about the unfairness before the war, after the first few months of it, he learned that there were worse things to have lost. "Right, after that we'll look for a safe place and-" Takashi said stopping as the TV played a news broadcast fairly loudly. He shifted his gaze quickly staring at the TV with narrowed eyes. "The government has considered emergency measures against the outbreaks that are occurring all over the place. However, all political parties are expressing their uncertainty." The news reporter read off calmly.
"Outbreak? What do they mean outbreak?" Takashi asked angrily. "Over 10,000 victimized in the Saitama area so far. The governor has already issued a state of emergency." Another news reporter said as the channel changed. He tensed at the gunshot watching as the camera swiveled towards two body bags as they rose up and were immediately shot by the police. The scene quickly turned to show the camera hitting the ground and capturing the sight of bleeding limps stumbling by as the reporter screamed. He stared into the screen of snow a little surprised and resigned. 'Here we go again.' He thought tiredly.
A/N: Alright so where to begin, I have been gone for quite a while, and I know this chapter is a bit shorter than I'd like, However the amount of actual Material I have to work with early on in both the Anime and Manga is limiting me with material with which I can use to extend the chapters, later one, perhaps after the HANE incident I will have more freedom to extend the chapters. Moving onto pairing, No matter what I do I always seem to be swept up in trying to create a hidden romance plot behind the actual story, I will continue to do so, however I am unsure of who to place him with, the Manga and Anime have alluded to the fact that since regular society is gone multiple people may be paired with one person, so that gives me some creative freedom, while I can see possible Shizuka and Saya with him due to their current lack of attachments, or clear attachments to anyone in both Manga and Anime. I'm tempted to try Seako, after a certain series of events pass maybe but I am unsure if I really want to screw with Takahi's character to much, I don't really want Rei with him, but I am willing to be amenable to what the reviewers want in that regard, However Takashi does need someone, Kohta I already Have a plan for, and well theirs a little surprise I have for further down the road. I'll have a small poll ready for voting on Seako and a poll ready for you to vote on whether I should give Rei some more thought.
Another note for you all: I will be mashing both anime and Manga together, both have a lot of detail and allow me a small bit more detail and information to make the chapters better and longer. Not only that but I shouldn't restrict myself so much, especially since the Anime is only one season, and the Manga goes further.
I have a small outline detailing what gear he has and its actually helped me begin structuring future chapters, I plan on actually sharing this list with you as having the character list off what he has every chapter as some sort of recap is a bit of a cliche. His character is more dynamic, Clothing is simply clothing, and will switch as the chapters situations call for, I dislike the school uniform as its not really appropriate for surviving. I have a much larger Outline than the small smidgen you see below but, will hold onto it only releasing a full list as more builds up and more of the outline is given out. Basically if half the outline I have right now is known I'll release that half and hold onto the rest so if you want a full list of what he has both used and currently has it will be available as requested at the end of the chapter.
Current Equipment:
1x Sneakers
1x School Uniform Pants
1x School Uniform Jacket
1x Blue Undershirt
1x Cheap Digital Watch
1x Ipod with Head Buds (Amusing even though its not necessary)
1x K-bar
3x 100 Yen Notes
Also I will try and use my outline of used resources to make sure its accurate on the following chapter, and will keep a tally of spent resources as everything progresses so I know what I am dealing with in having to form resource gathering chapters. A small notice I will be taking some liberties and pulling a bit of DAYZ into this, basically its more the atmosphere and resource side of DAYZ, Not ammo mind you or weapons but food items, like they are mostly found in homes and stores not offices or such. Most medicine is found in Clinics Hospitals and pharmacy not just all over the place.
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