Sigma/Star

Chapter 81: One Special Camp-out Part 2

The student moaned again, holding his head as he rose up behind the three boys. The comic book had fallen to his feet, the weapon of arousal that had alerted the trio of the student's existence at all. "Say Ardwen," Chase said, backing away slowly from the groaning teenager.

"Yes Chase?" Ardwen was also stepping back, though he had run into Raul already, who had yet to move.

"Isn't that one of the people from the bowling alley?" Chase finished.

"Why yes, yes it is."

"And why are its pupils missing?" Chase's teeth started to chatter as he finished the sentence.

"I think they're in some sort of resonance state." As Ardwen spoke his final word, the student took a step forward, slowly at first but then they gradually picked up the pace, closing the gap between them and the three.

"Chi," he moaned. Then he repeated it again, longer this time. "Chi," the teen said for the third time. It was nearly running at this point.

"Z-z-z-z...." Raul stuttered. "Z-z-z-z-z..."

"What's his issue?" Chase muttered to Ardwen, who shrugged in response.

"Zombie!" Raul screamed, grabbing Ardwen and Chase and dragging them away as he sprinted out the cafeteria.

"Chi!" came the student, suddenly angry that the group was gone. Its voice faded into the distance.

"I didn't know Raul was afraid of zombies," Chase stated, bouncing off the floor every so often as his collar was tightly gripped by the running Raul.

"Well how would we?" Ardwen responded. "It's not every day your school gets overrun by zombies."

"But aren't they just people in resonance states?"

"I suppose so but they seem to want our chi, which would put us in a resonance state. Sounds kind of like zombies to me." Ardwen glanced up behind him at Raul and grabbed another comic from the youth's back pocket. He flipped through it for a bit before finding the right page, which he flipped around for Chase to see. "Look here. Zombies kind of slowly move and stumble around and hunt people down for their brains. If they bite you, you become one. That kind of sounds like our situation here doesn't it?"

"I guess so." Chase held his hand to his chin, mulling it over in his head while flying along behind Raul. "Shouldn't we be freaking out too then?"

"You know, the way thing go around here, I'm not really that surprised by this kind of stuff anymore."

"Good point."

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"Oh Gretta it's going to be so much fun." Nami skipped and twirled down the hallway with her doppelganger. They had been surprisingly empty halls to walk through, without much noise or other people to encounter. In fact it had been a bit creepy to not see or hear anybody. But Nami was so wrapped up in the future sleepover in the cafeteria she had yet to take notice the way Gretta had.

Gretta had already voiced her opinion numerous times about how there weren't any people anywhere. Nami had thrown her words aside already and begun ignoring her, listening only when she posed a question to Gretta. That was the only time she cared about what the girl had to say.

"Fun yes, fun. Woo." Gretta's eyes never stopped moving around as her paranoia grew. Back at home she was used to it just being her and Aunt Shauna but when she was in town she knew there would be people. Living in this academy was like being in Easley. There was no difference in her mind. So to be walking through the empty school was like being in a ghost town. And ghost towns were creepy.