residents of the dead

outbreak pt2

Hisashi walked past rei and takashi shock-frozen forms and into a tunnel-like overpass.

"What are you doing?" Takashi asked him.

"The classroom building is too crowded, we'll have a better chance if we go to the roof, plus it seems like Jin is thinking of a plan we can't just sit here and wait for him to come up with something" said Hisashi.

Rei moved to follow instantly, thinking it was a pretty solid plan. but Takashi didn't move a muscle.

"Hisashi is right," Jin said with a glare when it looked like Takashi was about to start arguing. "Just shut up and do what he says for now until I come up with something, there to much unknowns right now to make a plan."

Takashi hear the way Jin said 'for now' moved in to join without another word.

As they moved across the overpass until they came across someone who wasn't part of the crowd. It was one of the teachers, but … he didn't look quite like he should have. His skin had gone pale, turning a sort of grey colour, and his eyes appeared to have rolled back into his head, showing only white. He looked almost like he belonged in The Exorcist.

The four stopped, but he seemed to know we were there, and he began shambling toward us. He seemed to be zoning in on Rei in particular.

"Rei! Stab him!" said Hisashi. Rei looked hesitant. "Don't hold back! Give it all you got!"

Rei still seemed to hesitate, and the zombified teacher drew closer, moaning out in a dead sounding voice. Her hesitance very nearly cost her, and the zombie grabbed onto her. They struggled seeing as Rei and the zombie were so close together, and if Takashi and Hisashi's lack of action was any indication, they thought much the same – and Rei tried to hold the zombie back by holding her makeshift spear out between them. The struggle went on for only a few more moments … and then Rei got angry.

She shoved the zombie a few feet away from her with some new burst of strength. "Don't fuck with me!" she said in an angry growl. She leapt forward and punctuated her words by whacking the zombie with her broom handle. "I'm a member of the spear martial arts club!" In her rage, she stabbed the sharp end of the spear into the left side of the zombie's chest, and the dead thing went limp.

Takashi fist pumped and said, "Yes!"

And then the zombie moved again. It grabbed the spear that was still impaled in it and swung it to the side, forcing Rei into the wall, and she collapsed to the ground. The zombie went to move toward her, but she grabbed the handle end of the spear and pushed him away, struggling to keep him at bay.

"I don't get it!" Rei yelled in a panic. "I'm stabbing him in his heart … why is he still moving!?"

"… Because he is dead …" hisashi heard Takashi mutter beside Jin. "He's dead but still moving!"

Jin and hisashi took the initiative and ran forward, grabbing the zombie by its arms from behind. It seemed as though was relatively safe in doing this and then the zombie turned its head and despite an obvious struggle to do so, got it to do a full one-eighty opening it jaw and biting hisashi's arm forcing him to let go and screaming in pain. It opened its jaws again.

 "sorry" Jin said before suplexing the zombie on its head making it pop like a grape against the ground."but I'm not a snack" he said letting go of the body.

The four teens ascended some stairs and found ourselves on the roof … and when takashi was the first to laid eyes on the city below, any hope of this ending quickly was sucked straight out of him. There was smoke rising up from several places, and the sheer amount of destruction was baffling to behold. It hadn't even been an hour, yet already the entire city looked like a scene from World War Z.

"What happened …?" asked Rei, a prominent shake in her voice. "Everything was fine a minute ago …"

Jin was about to answer but The deafening sound of helicopters approached rapidly, and then a number of military grade choppers flew right past the school, creating a gale of wind that blew up Rei's skirt, giving them all quite the view, and lead to Hisashi having to hold her up so that she wasn't blown over by the strong wind created by the choppers. As they passed by, Rei began waving her arms in the air.

"Hey!" she shouted at the top of her lungs. "We're over here!"

"Don't bother," said Hisashi.  "I wouldn't even waste your strength. That's the self-defence force. They probably have some kind of special mission. They aren't here to rescue us they aren't even doing anything about that." He nodded toward the school grounds below us, where the few students and teachers that remained were either running for their lives or screaming in pain whilst the dead swarmed over them, ripping out chunks of flesh and bone with their teeth.

"Wrong... the self-defense force should have been deployed" Jin said as he watched the dead attack the living.

"Then who are they?" Rei asked Jin said nothing he just turned around.

"Let's get to my house first and I'll explain more later" he said scanned the roof for a safer place to think.

"Hey, guys," takashi said, getting the attention of his three companions. He nodded toward the stairs. "If we can get up there, we can use the tables and stuff to barricade ourselves in, maybe wait for the situation to clear up a bit." He said

"Good eye takashi" Jin smiled Curiously – and luckily them – the zombies apparently hadn't noticed them at all. Rei briefly checked with Hisashi to see if he had a better plan but he had nothing.

"Let's go!" said Takashi, and they all sprung into action.