The high ponytail girl named Alicia feel resented in her heart. If not because of that damn girl who foolish enough to go down from their safe hiding place, she would never expect herself to faced the situation that she tried to get away from it.
Liam sneered when saw the looks on her face.
"You can just wait up there. Don't bother making that face as if we force you to come down." Liam said at the same time also reminding the other two girls in their group.
Alicia frowned at jeered and let out her thought.
"That girl has gone on her own. Why we must looking for her in this state? Why don't we wait for the rescuer?"
Jared glanced at her for a bit before turn away. This girl has to many question since they formed a group.
"We're not only looking for her, we're also looking for other survivor. It's already almost four hours and sooner or later we will die from hunger if the rescuer didn't come. Now can we all shut up and kept alert." At the last words, Jared sound strict as he used to be..
They're walk until the end of the corner and then Kris stopped them.
''Wait here, I will go and check." He volunteer since it's better to move alone in order to avoid being notice by the creatures.
"Be careful bro." Liam nodded at Kris departure before disappear behind the corner.
They wait and wait until they can't wait anymore.
"Where did Kris go?" One of the girl said with worried.
Liam also fidgeted in his place. "Don't you guys feels this situation is eerily quite." The others neither said yes nor denied Liam's feelings since they feels the same thing. From the very beginning of this incident, there is no denying the fear that enveloped them because of the screams of the people who were in this school mixed with the roar of the creatures and yet now all of the sudden the, voices died down with only the sound of winds blows.
Jared decide to find Kris and letting the rest go back to the rooftop since it's not too far from here. Before he can voicing out his thought, Kris come back with an unusual cheerful looks on his face.
"You guys, see who I brought back.'' Their lost friends Alex and Kevin emerged from his back.
"Bro!"
"Hey Liam! how could you still be alive."
"Same with you, Kevin." Bastard. At the last words, Liam muttered under his breath. Feels happy at the same time annoyed with his friend. Still it's a happy reunion after losing contact with each other almost half day.
"What about others?" Jared words broke the happy reunion. There was a worried frown on his face thinking the worst possibility but Alex give them a reassuring smile and tell them about others.
It turns out that the school take a drastic measure and quickly bring the students and teachers who survived in the closed hall at the main building as soon as they saw the situation getting out of their hand. There also pretty much supplies that they manage to secure and now the other survivors also take refuged in the hall. Alex and Kevin manage to convinced the teacher to let them out to find their friends and also to find some supplies. After all, the two of them are famous for their martial arts and they are also active in sports. Therefore, their stamina is more stable than the others.
Liam almost want to cry when he hear that they willing to find them. This is the true friendship!
Before Liam wiped his snot at the others, Alex opened his mouth with serious looks.
"We don't have enough time. Let's head to the hall now and we must be fast."
"Why? is that things still here?" Liam said in nervousness.
Alex shook his head.
"You will know when we get back."
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Exhausted.
She feels so fucking exhausted as if she had run a full marathon. Truth to be told she never fond in doing any sport or the same kind of thing because she will easily get tired. Maya staggering. The baseball bat that she had been carried for a while has been smeared by blood. Her hand touch the wall along the corridor to support her body while walking.
Her guess is right, the infected can't die from merely a wound on their bodies, even when they missing legs or arms, they would still going on finding 'food' since they can't feels pain.
But of course every creatures has their own weakness even the undead. Watching the zombie movie was never a useless thing and from that 'experience', she only wants to try. Who would know that their weakness lies on their head. As long as their head was busted open, they won't be able to rises again.
The only thing that irritated her the most are their speed. They walked very slow as if they're sleep walking but the moment they saw prey, they will run as fast as tiger to catches their victim and Maya had a hard time to handle them.
"Haa..this kind of shit is tiring.'' Maya end up falling on her butt and buried her head between her knees.
When thinking back, she questioned herself for trying so hard. Instead of finding that girl, it would be the best if she continued living on the rooftop without shelter to cover her from the rain and slowly dying in hunger. At least, dying that way sound painless, right?
She didn't even know that girl's condition. Is she still alive? If so, then where on earth that she's hide?
Maya realized that she being shallow-minded. If she thought of the worst possibility then Lica can't never survived this disaster.
Maya clenched her fist. Behind the glasses, her eyes glimmered with cold gaze.
'No. She must be alive. She has to be alive.'
Maya once again continued her journey. Her destination now is in the next building. If she ever looking back, she won't find any human corpse instead the dead infected pile up making a small mountain with bloody trail along the corridor.
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Jared don't know how he should feel about the scene he witness right now. Even the friends that he's reunited with not long ago also still can't recovered from their shock.
"I'm also find this quite shocking.'' Alex muttered under his breath when seeing the surprising faces of the others. He and the other two has been through this path and...it's like a bloody hell.
"How..how could this be?" Jared also can't get over his shock while covering his nose because of the nauseating smell.
In front of them is not only the corpse of humans but the corpse of monster like human that has run rampage around the school a while ago also scattered on the floor with shattered head that ended up dirtying the wall and the floor with their brain matter. When the sight of the disfigured bodies make their stomach churning, one of the girls can't stand the nauseous building up in her throat and start throwing up the breakfast she ate this morning making the boys and the two remaining girls stay away from her.
Even so, no one make any remarks since this gross scenery is appalling for human.
"The fu..what the hell happened here? Did they also eat each other?" Liam said with obvious disgust on his face.
"That's not the thing that we should concern right now. The biggest question is where are this things comes from?" Alex stated and lead the way while the others follows his step. However, no matter how much they want to avoid, the blood that spread on floor are too much and ended up dirtying their shoes making the original white color turn into reddish black.
Facing the gory moment in their life, the group of eight people decide to takes the other routes that much better than the former. Although the latter way also in a mess but its much more better and bearable to walk than walking on the slippering floor full of blood.
"Whatever it is, our priority right now is to be safe. This is not something we can handle." Kris seemed troubled.
The walk went for about 10 minutes before Kris stopped." Alex, how long we gonna walk? can we take detour?" Kris urged the boy in front him.
"What's wrong with you? This is the fastest way towards the main building."
"I just feels uneasy." Kris can't explain the feeling that he's facing right now. As someone who always takes action before words, he's a type of fearless boy at his age despite his calm facade. Even to his closest friends, Kris is not someone that unreasonable.
"Everyone are at the edge, Kris. Moreover, the more time we take, the more dangerous the situation around us. Don't worry man, it's gonna be safe the moment we reach the hall and gather with others." As soon as Alex finished his words, he was flinched to see a figure appearing in front of them.
"Shit." Liam swears while holding his breath.
Even though only a few hours passed after this horrific incident happened this morning, seeing their schoolmates and the people in the building being devoured by an unknown entity, the group knew that the 'person' was no longer a human but a monster.
"Keep calm. It's just one of them." Kevin said a way too late when two of the monsters come out of the nowhere.
The three of the monsters looks a bit different from the others that they had watched on the rooftop. From the looks of it, they looked much more fierce and their bulk seems much bigger. It's don't seems that they got those muscle from their former human self.
"Wh..what should we do now?" Alex muttered under his breath. Truth to be told, on their way to find their other friends, the two of them has come across some monsters. Although they moved fast but with the expertise of the two of them as martial artist, the monster was defeated. Even if they are difficult to deal with and seems that they can't die but they are not smart and weak so that those two can easily immobilized the monsters. After all, the deadly strength of the monsters lies in their numbers.
But right now, for the first time in his life, Alex feels the fear clouded his eyes.
'Shit, is this the different type of them?'
"Stay back guys." Jared speak briefly to the three of the girls that looks paralyze in fear with calm voice but only god knows how mess the storm in his heart. Yes, that's monsters are the different ones.
The monsters not rushing towards them like the ones they observed earlier at the rooftop. In fact, right now the monsters are the ones that observe them. Jared thought they should take the chance to run when suddenly the monsters moves towards them with ferocious expressions.
"F-!!."Alex almost cursed as he sprang into action.
"QUICK! RUN!" As there is no other choice but to run, Kevin shouted at the bewildered people behind him and pointed towards the other side of the corridor. The path that they avoid earlier. He give Kris a slight glance with regretful eyes. Just now he ignored Kris worries and now they have to deal with this.
Then they saw the state of the corridor behind him. Six, eight, ten, sixteen...the corridor that they deemed safe is filled with the monsters that chase after them including the three of the abnormal ones taking the lead.
"SHIT! SHIT! WHERE THE HELL THEY COME FROM SUDDENLY LIKE THAT!" Liam can't keep his cool anymore as he screamed with his deep voice.
The three girls in their group also screaming while crying, not minding the mucus flowing from their nose. They used to be the delicate flowers among the peers but now they run with unsightly looks as if their life depend on it. Yeah, if they don't run they will die but if they run they will also die but the chances to get away alive much higher than to just stand still. That's the only thought they had in their mind.
But even if their courage to stay alive getting stronger, the fate said otherwise. As they come across the corridor that full of the corpse they saw early, the floor also become slippery because of the blood. That is when one of the girls in the middle of running slipped and fall down. Because of how slippery the floor is, the boys that running behind can't manage to stop their pace in time until they realized that the girl had fallen.
"ARGHH! HELP ME! PLEASE!" It was too late to help her when the fastest monsters grabbed her before being surrounded by the others. The chased stopped as the monsters only focused on the girl that has fallen in their hand.
Alex with his sanity slowly losing almost want to run to help the girl but Kris immediately stopped him.
"Alex! Don't"
Kris shook his head. He was not a heartless person. When his eyes saw the girl been torn to pieces with the searing scream of pain until the voice died down, he also want to rushed to help but he also know his limit. It was too late and Alex knows it too. In fact, the moment they run away hiding themselves at the rooftop or gathered in the hall, they know the state they are in right now is only for the sake of survival.
If they lend their hand to help everyone out then can everyone do the same for them?
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Maya glanced at back when she heard the commotion on the third floor. It seems that the infected have come out of their respective 'nests'. Sure enough, they are not an intelligent creatures since they act like an animals. Making 'nest' and stuff, gathering 'foods' and when they run out of their 'stock', they will come out to find the new ones.
But Maya can't help but think the impossibility of the infected that can evolve like those three she encounter earlier. Her instinct instantly warned her to stay as far as she can from faced head on with them. In this exhausted state, she only has the strength to hold the baseball bat with her two hand.
The building she is in now has three levels and she has managed to get down to the middle floor. Resisting the fear as well as the rare excitement in her, Maya managed to face the creatures whose strength depended only on their speed and numbers except for those three aberrant.
But she don't have much confident in facing them and don't want to wasting much time in finding Lica before the night comes thus she decide to use the quick way to reach the first floor by getting out of the window and descending by climbing the wall only to find herself falling by a slight mistake.
Maya facepalm at how stubborn she is right now. She really overestimate her muscle after smashing some broken heads. Luckily for her, although the distance from the second floor to the ground floor was quite high but the flower beds that adorned around the building cushioned her so that there were no injuries other than small scratches from flower branches.
Eventually she managed to descend safely without attracting the infected attention.
Seeing the building that she aim to was in front of her eyes, Maya only hope that it's not too late.