Running Towards Fate (High School of the Dead FanFiction)

ACT ONE; GREETING THE DEAD

(Another new story, yay!!)

The brown haired girl entered the school grounds, her duffle bag made her breasts stick out more than usual and her knee length brown boots clicked as she walked down the neat hallway towards principal's office where she was to fill out her forms to go to school here for the next couple of months. In her right hand, she held a long bag that she quickly pulled over her shoulder as she saw some female students walking towards her. They passed her, whispering among each other as they tried to work out where they'd seen her before. She stopped walking for just a moment to look at what looked like blue bather bottoms and white shirt with blue strips down the sides. She made a mental note that she was going to wear her own PE uniform and not the school's. She continued to walk until she reached the office and she knocked and waited before she went in. She stayed standing as she greeted the principal and he greeted her.

"Ah, Bea Voss, famous student athlete who travels the world," the principal said, slapping his hands together. "I'm so glad you picked my school, we're very honoured to have you. I hope you can feel at home here and learn while you train for your compaction."

"Thank you," Bea shuffled her feet as her hair fell over her shoulder. "I wish Japan well in the upcoming compaction and I hope you place well."

"Thank you, Mrs. Voss," the principal stared at her knee length brown hair and grinned. "Your hair really is as long as they say. I hope that it doesn't get in the way too much!"

"Oh, it really doesn't bother me that much, I like having it long," Bea took a hair tie off her wrist and tied back her hair in a long pony tail and the principal looked at her duffle bag and the other long bag.

"What is that you have there?"

"Oh, just a spare change of clothes and my javelin," Bea said as she moved the strap of the bag containing her javelin further up her shoulder. "I also have other stuff that I need for training."

"Well, I'm glad you're here Mrs. Voss. I hope you enjoy your stay and win the compaction," the principal handed Bea some papers and a pen for her to fill out and when she was done, he looked at them then smiled at her. "You can start here tomorrow, until then, I wish you well."

Bea said farewell and then left the room with a heavy sigh and looked down at the map of the school she had gotten beforehand. She followed the map until she was on the roof and looked down on the world from the top of the school. She took off her duffle bag and dumped it on the ground, soon to be forgotten over the next few minutes. Bea took out her dark blue javelin and felt the weight of it in her hands. She closed her eyes and imagined herself throwing it the furthest out of everyone else. She had started competing when she was 10 and ended up travelling all around the world to compete in many different athlete events and she enjoyed it, javelin being the one she liked the best and the one she was really good at, following close is running, shotput, hurdling and, lastly, high jump. She also liked to do some parkour on the sidelines for training her body to withstand the pressure of competing and all that other stuff. Bea heard the sound of feet slapping against the ground and opened her eyes to see that there were some funny looking students with grey skin wondering around the rooftop. Where did they come from? Bea thought as her phone rang. She took it out of her pocket and looked down to see it was a text message from her caretaker, Mrs. Voss.

Stay inside the school. All over the country there are people turning into zombies and they're eating other people! When you can, get out of there and come back home to us. Hurry, and, for God's sake, don't die!

-Mum

"Nice one, Mrs. Voss," Bea grinned, rolling her eyes that she typed 'mum' even though she is just her adopted mum and not her real mum and clicked on the video Mrs. Voss had also sent her.

Bea's eyes widened when as she watched people with grey skin walking down the streets, biting any living person they saw and she could hear Mr. Voss talking in the background, swearing as he tried to get hold of their only blood child but failed. Bea watched the video again and looked at the grey skinned students on the roof with her. Her eyes widened when she realized that they were zombies! Her phone beeped again and she quickly read the information that Mrs. Voss had sent her about how the zombies were blind and relied on their hearing. Bea thought she could use that to get away but as she went to pick up her duffle bag, her glass water bottle slipped out from her bag and smashed, earning the zombies' attention. They all began to gather around her and Bea swung her javelin around, trying to get the zombies to go away. But they kept closing in on her, making Bea sweat and she cursed herself for not being more careful. A zombie threw itself at Bea and she thrusted the javelin where its heart was, but nothing happened. She screamed and kicked the zombie away from her, but another came up behind her, wrapping its cold arms around her and groped her boob, making Bea yelled and kick the zombie's legs out from under it, then she stabbed the zombie right through the centre of its forehead. Bea panted and backed away from the other zombies. She knew she was going to die here, she knew she was never going to see the family that had adopted her when nobody else wanted her. She wished them luck and swung her javelin around more...