Chapter 2: Panic! The Outbreak Begins
While Takashi walked over to that girl sitting behind me, I shook shira out of his sleep to tell him about the incident I just saw.
“Shira! Psst Shira!”
“Hm?” Shira rubbed his eye and groggily replied, “What’s with interrupting my nap Yung?”
“Look out the window. A couple of teachers ate another teacher near the entrance gate.” I responded lowly so the whole class wouldn’t hear.
“What are you talking about?”
“Just look out the window damnit!”
Shira and I glanced out the window but we didn’t see the bodies of those two zombie teachers. Instead, we saw a giant pool of blood on the sidewalk and some footprints heading towards the school.
“Oh shit.” Shira replied. He tapped Vital’s shoulder, who was on the right side of him, and said, “Vital take a look out the window bro.”
Vital’s reaction was the same as Shira’s. After he verbally expressed his shock, he instantly got worried. “What should we do?”
Shira replied, “We should take care of them.”
“Nah that’s stupid,” Vital said as he was deep in thought, “if we went up against them we would probably end up getting infected due to the lack of weapons. Yung and mine’s switchblades would not work unless we got close. We should tell the principal to call the police before those things cause harm. Plus, they have firearms.”
“Huh, well that plan does sound better than mine’s.” Shira stated. “How do we go about it? We can’t exactly tell the dude that zombies are taking over, he’ll think we’re high.”
“True.” Vital said, “Tell him that a sketchy man is carrying a weapon around the school and that we need the police.”
“Yeah that sounds like it could work. Alright, I’ll go tell him, while I’m at it I’ll check on Luna too. Be right back guys.” Shira said as he stood up.
“Shira be careful.” I said, “If someone is moving or limping slowly stay the hell away from them.”
Shira smirked and said, “Don’t worry mother, I’ll be back before dinner.”
Both Vital and I smiled as Shira excused himself and left the classroom.
It was an antagonizing time of five minutes before we heard the principal speak. The PA system finally snapped on as the school’s attention was held in place as our principal began to talk.
“Good morning students. An issue has brought itself into the light this morning involving a man with a weapon walking around the campus. Do not be alarmed. Remain in your classes as the authori- Mr. Akira? I am in the middle of an announcement, what can be so important to interrupt me?”
The PA system cut off leaving the school in curiosity and silence. Vital and I were preparing for the worse while the rest of the school was clueless: However, two students, a pink hair chick and a big boned dude, already left the class already including Takashi, that auburn haired girl and that grey haired kid. It was almost as if they knew what was up.
I was about to follow the same suit with Vital until the A system suddenly cracked on.
“No, stay away damnit! AAAAAAH!!” Following the principal’s terrified pleading was the sound of books falling and blood spilled onto the floor. The PA system was still running as the entire school heard ‘Mr. Akria’ feasting on the principal’s fresh corpse.
The whole class, no, the ENTIRE school was silent. No activity occurred as time stood in place. Then it happened. Almost in slow motion the teacher’s chalk rolled it’s way down the podium and broke when it reached the floor.
Students across the school began to panic and scream replacing the endless silence. My class rapidly exited the rooms practically stampeding out of the room and tripping over each other. Vital was about to leave as well but I yanked him down to the ground by his collar.
“What the hell Yung?! We need to get the hell out of here!” Vital shouted.
I replied, “And get bitten with the rest of these dumbasses? Even if we didn’t get eaten by those things we would probably be trampled by the fleeing students then left for food. Just wait until we have an opportunity to run, but for now we wait.”
Vital looked worried as he looked to the door and back to me. Eventually he gave a slow nod to let me know that he was going to stay. We placed our backs to the wall underneath the windows and waited.
Personally, I was not a fan of horror movies or games. Hearing the sound of students screaming for what seemed like hours always made me flinch. It was rather hard thinking of the next step of our plan while someone would scream, “Help me!”
Finally, the screaming stopped altogether. I took out my cell phone out of my pocket and saw that only 10 minutes had passed. It took only 10 minutes for those things to devour most of the student body.
“Alright, time to move out.” I stated as I stood up.
“Where are we going to go?” Vital said as he stood up as well.
“First we find Shira, Luna, and Byrd. Then we try to find a way to get the hell out of here.”
“Ok shouldn’t we find some weapons first? Are switchblades won’t be enough to take on a bunch of ‘them’.”
“Yeah we’ll try to find some along the way, unless you know where the gun store is within the school.”
“Haha pretty funny Yung.”
I gave a little smirk but it instantly went back into a serious frown. Before we left the classroom, I glanced out the window to take in the environment around us. Besides the blood on the ground, smoke pillars amongst the city and the dead eating people; the sky seemed to scream, “What a beautiful day!” weather mocking us.
“Let’s go Vital.”
We approached the door and quietly slid the door open and was met with a horrible smell and the gruesome sight of blood everywhere. Vital nearly gagged while I looked around for ‘them’. To our left there was one of ‘them’ casually chewing down on a female’s student’s neck. That’s when I nearly gagged. Thankfully, the thing didn’t notice us. Maybe it couldn’t see, I don’t know I wasn’t taking the chance to find out. We quietly snuck out to the right and ran down the hall.
“Alright the main office is to the right along with the nurse’s office. That is where Shira will be along with Luna. Byrd has gym class I believe so we’ll run into him eventually.”
“Sounds like a plan. We should get Shira first since he’s on the second floor while Byrd is on the ground.”
“Alright that’s fi-“
I cut myself off as we round the corner only to meet with a horde of ‘them’. Their gray flesh and soulless eyes seemed to question the next source of food in the school hallway. Vital and I remained silent as we slowly backed away thinking of our next step to move through ‘them’.
“What are we going to do?” I thought aloud. “We can’t simply pass through them, they’ll eat us right away.”
“Yeah but I don’t think they can see, I think they only react by sound.”
That would make sense. When we first opened the door the first zombie didn’t even notice us.
“Yeah I guess, but let’s not test that out. Let’s-“
“What the f!ck are you guys doin’!?”
Vital and I peek our heads around the corner out of curiosity to see who was stupid enough to approach ‘them.’ Didn’t this guy know a zombie outbreak when he saw it? … Oh damn not this guy.
“Look at the mess you ers made! Now you guys expect ol’ Janitor BB to clean this shit up!?” The Janitor furiously exclaimed.
Janitor BB, he was a crazy, senile old man who was the only janitor on campus. He would blurt random things while cleaning the halls and other places. I found myself questioning why this old, overweight janitor still had his job. Maybe he made the staff laugh.
Anyway as we continued to watch Janitor BB rant towards ‘them’, the horde picked up on the loud noises and slowly made their way to the Janitor.
“Oh! So yer gonna clean all this mess all by yerselves!? I guess yer’ll nee’ the keys then!” Janitor BB took his key ring and launched it into the horde. “Tak’ em’! I quit this damn job!” He finally stated as he stormed off in the other direction yelling out curses of the sort while the enormous horde followed.
“That was pretty damn stupid,” Vital said, “Alright let’s head back.”
“Head back?” I questioned. “Opportunity is knocking Vital.”
“Huh?”
“You see those keys? That’s our ticket to get our weapons. Besides, the janitor’s closet is right down this hall.”
“Janitor’s closet? So I guess we’re going to kill zombies with mops and brooms then?”
“Hey it’s better than something. Maybe will get lucky.”
“Yeah you’re the one to look on the bright side while other people are getting eaten.”
“Somebody has to. Alright, let’s get moving.”