Chapter 3: Escape
With more of ‘them’ put out of their misery by Vital and I, we finally made it to the nurse’s office. By the ear splitting screaming coming from the room and the small line of the undead entering the room, I would say Vital and me made it in time.
I bum rushed the nearest zombie and split its face with the ax while it was on the ground. Vital came up behind me and bashed a zombie’s face in with his mini shovel. For good measure he stomped on the undead’s head caving in its skull. I cut off another head and finally entered the nurse’s office to see Shira battling three of ‘them’ on his own, Luna clinging to the school nurse on the bed, and a student with glasses holding his shoulder pleading for those things not to come any closer.
Shira ducked a swipe from the zombie on his right and returned with a vicious hook to the thing’s jaw causing it to fall. He moved his upper body away from the other two pale demons hands and positioned his whole body under the both of them. Shira then launched both his fists into the bottom side of those things jaws delivering two uppercuts at the same time. It was tempting enough not to yell, “Shoryuken!”
Wasting no time, I swung my ax to end the thing’s life while Vital stabbed the face of another until it died. Both Vital and I stood up at the same time just as the middle one stood up as well. At the same time, Vital and I swung our weapons at the blind undead. My fire ax decapitated its head first while Vital’s shovel smacked it’s head across the room into the hallway like a baseball.
“’Bout time! You guys took your sweet ass time to get here.” Shira excitedly stated.
“Sorry Shira, I forgot to turn in an assignment to history class.” I joked.
All three of us let out a chuckle but we cut it short due to a symphony of loud moaning coming from the front door. Vital and I turned around and sure enough, more of ‘them’ approached us. I gripped my ax to battle the first zombie coming for me and swung at its head. As the first zombie fell another one followed looking to tear into my face with its blood-stained teeth. Fortunately, Vital smacked the moaning in the face knocking it into the other zombies. I closed in on another zombie to chop it down to pieces until I noticed a purple blur behind it. Before I could chop the pale demon, the purple blur smacked the zombie across the room. I stopped, no; I was stopped in mid swing by the purple blur’s hand on the belly of my ax. Upon closer inspection, the purple blur was actually a girl with purple hair and a wooden sword. Hm, she looked familiar.
“An ax? Too slow for my taste.” The purple cutey stated surprisingly in English.
I replied, “Hey leave Old Dusty alone. At least ‘they’ don’t complain.”
The violent beauty smirked, turned around and smacked the shit out of the nearest undead with her wooden sword. I didn’t even see the damn thing coming. Suddenly, the mysterious violent beauty struck three of ‘them’ with a beautiful spinning horizontal swing.
“Wooow.” I heard Vital say. Before I knew it the moaning and zombies had stop.
“Well you guys sure make a brother feel useless.” Shira said with Luna beside him.
“Yeah… I second that,” said a low voice.
Everybody glanced to the guy on the floor with the glasses and a gaping bite mark with blood gushing out of it.
“Holy hell what happened to you?” I said.
“I was… trying to protect Nurse Shizuka from those things and I got bit.” He involuntarily coughed up some blood onto the floor. “That’s when this guy came in and started slugging the thing that bit me to death. Of course, I couldn’t help when more of ‘them’ came in here. Now, I am going to turn just like ‘them’ because I am too weak. I’m so sorry…” His voice trailed off.
“This is a problem.” I started, “We can’t help him, he’ll eventually turn just like the rest of these guys. Hell we’re lucky he didn’t turn when we were fighting ‘them’ just now.”
“Well what can we do?” Vital began, “It’s not like we are going to get rid of him right?”
A dead silence carried throughout the room.
“No, we can’t do that. There has to be some way to help him! Maybe if-“
“Cut it out Vital.” I interrupted as I stepped in front of the guy on the ground glancing back at me with a fearful expression. “Unless you prefer to be an animal like the rest of ‘them’, we have to do this.”
The guy on the ground continued to look back at me with the same scared expression. After a few moments his expression shifted from fear to understanding. Also to my surprise he smiled.
“I guess you’re right. I rather die than eat other living people. Please… don’t miss.”
I simply nodded, gripping my ax even tighter.
“Yung…” Vital called but stopped seeing that there was no stopping my decision.
Mere seconds seemed like an eternity as I raised my ax in the air. Taking someone’s life? I never would have imagine that shit in years, yet here I was playing an improvised God. To make matters worse the guy on the ground was smiling. Smiling and waiting for me to end his life; to grant him peace was his final wish. To leave this world of pure hell was what he wanted.
I had the ax over my head now, panting and sweating simultaneously.
I began to cast the ax down on his head.
Between his eyes with his smiling face.
I couldn’t do this.
I slammed the ax between his legs through the tiled floor and fell down on my backside. I was shaking and breathing rapidly. I almost took a life. I could’ve… Me taking…
Suddenly, I felt a soft hand palm my shoulder. I turned around to see the violent beauty walking past me and standing in front of the guy on the ground. She kneeled down in front of him and asked for his name in Japanese. I did not catch his last name but it appeared that he said his name was Isshi. The purple girl nodded and said something else in Japanese before she stood up.
Isshi continued to smile as she raised her wooden sword in the air. Before she brought her weapon down on his head, Shiki looked in my direction and nodded at me. After that, his blood splattered on the window courtesy of the mysterious girl with the wooden sword.
“Holy shit!” Vital exclaimed as he dropped his shovel. “I didn’t think you guys would actually do it! Now he’s just laying there with his head open! I think I’m going to be sick.”
Sure enough Vital went over to the trash cans to puke out his breakfast. The violent beauty stood up, grabbed a bed sheet to cover Shiki’s remains and turned around.
“You ok?” She questioned.
“I… I’ll be fine.” I stated as I wiped my tears of some unformed tears. “ It was just too much too handle.”
“That’s understandable, you’re only human.”
“Yeah I guess you’re hugbuh.” I finally looked up and saw the girl’s full features to realize that she was extremely cute… and she had a nice rack. Just, just throwing that out there.
“Is there something wrong?”
“I guh buh,” I coughed to stop from bumbling my words, “nothing’s wrong. I uh, what’s your nam (and number)? I’m Quin.”
“My name is Saeko Busujima, Captain of the Kendo Club. It is a pleasure to meet you Quin...”
“Oh Bryant. Quin Bryant.” I waved my hand in the direction of Vital and Shira. “This is Paul, Joseph, and his girlfriend Luna.”
“Nice to meet you all.”
Shira spoke up, “So what’s the captain of the Kendo squad doing in the nurse’s office?”
Saeko responded, “Well, when this whole, ‘mess’, happened, I figure I look for survivors while I was searching for someone else. Obviously, he is not here so I’ll keep moving. Would anybody like to come with me to escape?”
The huge breasted nurse Ms. Shizuka spoke for the first time with an adorable voice, “I’ll come with you! I don’t want to be here with these things!”
“Alright, anybody else coming?”
“Sorry,” I started, “We have to look for our friend Byr- I mean Trelon. Speaking of our friend, have you seen him? I think he’s in the same club as you.”
“Oh Trey,” Saeko smirked as Ms Ms. Shizuka stood out to her, “I believe he’s in gym class. Anyway we have to go, later.”
“Thank you, hopefully will meet again.”
Saeko nodded and left along with the nurse who left saying, “Be safe!”
With the two of them gone Vital finally spoke, “Damn that chick was sexy! Damnit why did an outbreak have to happen today!”
Shira retorted, “Man please, you wouldn’t talk to her even if it was the end of the world 10 years from now.”
“Damn, that’s some cruel shit right there.” I said as Vital fuming in his place with no comeback to deliver. “Listen, we do not have time to talk about Vital’s hormones. Our buddy Byrd is out there and we are going to find him before we get the hell out of here. Luna stay close to Shira, Vital keep your business in your pants. Let’s go.”
I picked my ax up and nodded back at the guy on the ground; still smiling. A little late but I had to show some respect. Vital gripped his shovel while Shira held his girlfriend by her hand. I readjusted my uniform jacket collar, slid open the door, kicked a zombie in its temple and ran with my friends behind me. Clearing a path to get out friend and escape this hellhole.
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