soon after dimond had left the trash bin naeus rounded the corner walking down the hallway with dodge and oliva seeing them dimond froze in place looking at the bloody crowbar in naeus hands and seeing all the guns dimond pissed himself and dropped to the ground on his knees.
he thought for sure he was gonna die but naeus just tried talking to him asking him where tansy and becca were at but dimond was still in shock and when he didn't say anything naeus just ignored him and kept walking leaving dimond in a puddle of his own piss .
dimond tried to get up but he slipped and fell
scrambling to get up he grabs hold an open locker and steadies himself seething with hatred for that damn giant he thinks to himself that the first chance he gets he will do whatever it takes to make him miserable.
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naeus dosen't have time to deal with that creepy little shit he's worried that something happened to his friends so he just walks on and goes to open the door to the cafeteria when Mathew pops up out of the trash bin holding a knife.
naeus can tell hes scared but he holds up the kitchen knife with shaking hands and says stop right there whhhat is youur business here he stutters.
naeus tells Mathew that he got a text from his freind saying she was in trouble and that he came to help.
Mathew says okay you can talk to principal reiddu but dont give her any trouble with that he knocks on the door which is opened by two students one who leads him past the lunch table barricade and says just u the others have to stay by the barricades before motioning for him to go into the kitchen where principal reiddu is sitting on a countertop with her makeshift spear in her hand.
naeus liked principal reiddu she was the one who argued for suspension instead of being expelled when naeus shoved dimonds head into the locker.
mr renaud I'm glad to see your safe and adapting to are situation quite well she said while glancing at his weapons.
your not doing so bad yourself I'm glad you managed to keep some of the students alive i like ur spear anyway I'm her because I'm looking for tansy and becca. I got a text saying tansy was trapped somewhere at the school but I dont know where to look.
becca actually went looking for tansy it was her idea to use the trash bins it's been awhile so I was thinking about sending a search party but the students are too scared and I didn't wanna leave them by themselves.
ok thank u I'll look for them myself he pulls out a handgun and offers it to her but she says she doesn't know how to use it and she dosen't like guns. naeus says he dosen't think it matters anymore that he hadn't used a gun since he was a kid hunting with his grandpa and handed it her anyway showing her how to use it before leaving to go find tansy and becca.
looking around the whole school is gonna take forever should we split up? asked Olivia
what do you think this is scooby doo? no we stick together you know they could have just ganged up on the so called ghosts and kicked the shit out of them or just shoot them in the leg case solved.
anyway traps are a good idea for munchers though we should dig some pitfalls later.
the shop class is nearby we should check there first if there not we'll start checking the classrooms on the way to the principals office if we dont find them we'll use the intercom system.
killing a few straggling munchers along the way they make their way to the shop class
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becca had gone to the bathroom to clean up after throwing up seeing all that blood and gore was too much for her. she was worried about naeus for nothing he had anilated those munchers like it was nothing but even so she was still worried about his wound opening up or getting infected so after cleaning up she made her way to the cafeteria carrying her trashcan with her just in case .
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dimond was still fuming with rage he had made his way out the the parking lot but slipped on a pile of vomit and tried to stop himself from falling but ended up painfully doing the splits.
if anybody saw this they probably would have laughed and he even ripped his pants after letting out a few choice curse words he pulled himself up his legs shaking .
covered in blood and vomit and angrier than ever dimond made his way over to naeus stepbrothers car he took out his kitchen knife and proceeded to slash all the tires.
with a self satisfied smile on his face he made his way back inside to find some clean clothes.
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Josiah had been busy raiding nearby buildings
him and sherlock were stockpiling everything they could get their hands on weapons,food,toilet paper,books,tvs,gaming systems even money not that its worth anything anymore.
some people didn't want to part with their stuff and Josiah killed them scared people started bringing him their stuff so that he wouldn't hurt them.
now he was recruiting saying the only thing he didn't have was an army
thinking to himself soon brother you will regret
choosing that brat over me.
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part two
the shop teachers armor is invincible?
naeus dodge and oliva head to shop class cause that's the only place naeus can think of to find more weapons but they never make it because the long hallway leading to miss tailayans shop class is filled with armored munchers someone had welded together peices of scrap metal to make some sort of makeshift armor.
up till now it had actually gotten pretty easy to kill the munchers but now it wouldn't be .
naeus tried to hit one upside the head with his crowbar with a clang sound it rebounded drawing the other armored munchers close and causing naeus and the others to retreat.
seeing as they couldn't get by with their arsenal of weapons naeus said he wanted to use shop class to improve their weapons but he dosen't think becca and tansy came this way so they'll leave it for now.
luckily on the way back to the cafeteria they ran into becca who told them that tansy was trapped in the vice principal's office with a dead body and about what had happened to her.
making his way to the principals office naeus told tansy to get back and had dodge blast the lock with his shotgun opened the door and started pulling books off the heavy shelves so tansy could crawl through grabbing her hand to pull her up naeus said they should go to the library make sure it's clear and rest for awhile.
When they got there the doors were locked
naeus didnt want to blast open the doors cause he wanted to use the library as a base and messing up the locking mechanism wouldn't do him any good.
they looked around inside but the lights were out and they couldn't see anything the librarian obviously wasn't here at the moment.
let's go find the teachers lounge she might in there said dodge.
good idea olivia said petting dodge on the head.
not knowing where it is naeus asked becca to lead the way.
becca said I don't know where it is either .
tansy says I know where it is I passed it before I ran into mr doaud,she said before leading them back toward the vice principal's office .
they get to the teachers lounge not long after
and try to get in but the door wont budge the door doesn't lock so it must be barricaded from the inside.
that's a good sign it means someone is probably alive in there.
renaud decides to knock on the door,theres a loud noise a clattering like a bunch of chairs and desks being moved and the doors opens just a crack miss sycamore the librarian speaks through the opening what do u want ? she says .
miss sycamore is quite old and has a rep for being very rude and grouchy.
we need the key to the library renaud says could we please get it? we wanna use the library as our base while we figure out what to do next .
miss sycamore said she was running out of food and she'll give them the key if they go to the cafeteria and get her some canned goods as much as they can.
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elsewhere renauds stepbrother Josiah had been busy stockpiling weapons, food and any valuables he can get his grubby hands on.
he had already cleared all the houses near the convenience store and he was recruiting more and more lowlifes for his army .
he was also sending out black people asians and Jews to scavenge for supplies not caring if they died and if they came back empty handed he would beat them mercilessly he had even killed a few of them.
he kept all his loser freinds close so nobody could even get close to him,he treated the room above the convenience store like it was his throne room.
soon he would gather his army and go and find renaud and make him pay for choosing that little black kid over him.
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nearby under the floorboards of an abandoned daycare in a secret panic room a group of women,children and minority's hide in fear of the monster that Josiah had become.
with little food and water their situation would soon become even more dire,among them is a pregnant girl who's daughter would one day put a bullet between renauds eyes.
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back in the cafeteria renaud and his freinds had a problem they were talking to principal reiddu
about the can goods,but she said there wasn't enough to go around. fortunately tansy said there was some in the vice principal's office but she dosen't want to go back there choosing instead to stay in the cafeteria.
could you get my bat while your there? she said
it's on top of the bookshelf.
making their way back to the vice principal's office they ran into one of the armored munchers it must have wondered down here after they ran into them earlier .Olivia and dodge immediately raised their weapons,but naeus motioned for them to stop.
Olivia u have a taser gun right ?said naeus in a quiet voice.
she responded yeah but I dont know how long it'll last I haven't had a chance to recharge it.
that's fine give it to me when I hit you two run past and get the can goods ,and dont forget tansys bat I'll keep it occupied.
with that naeus aimed the taser gun at the munchers armored skull and pulled the trigger it immediately started jerking around the smell of roasting flesh prominent in the air.
the armored muncher finally stops jerking around and falls to the ground it head hitting the ground with a loud cacophony the taser gun finally out of charge.
naeus then seeing the muncher not moving at all he walks up to it pries the metal coating off its head with his crowbar seeing its definitely dead he stomps it head in for good measure I guess electricity is effective against them.
the others come out with duffle bags full of can goods dodge holding up tansys bat proudly saying mission accomplished.
naeus hands Olivia her taser gun back
taking the duffle bags off her hands as she hands off the bag her hand brushes against his and she quickly turns away her cheeks blushing naeus didn't notice but dodge did and he wasnt happy about it.
every since Olivia saved his life in the parking lot he had been smitten 'sure she was quite a bit older then him but that didn't matter anymore it was the apocalypse and he wasn't gonna let anyone take her from him.
oblivious to any of this naeus was already walking toward the teachers lounge so dodge had to run and catch up.
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elsewhere in the cafeteria dimond was plotting something when he got back to the cafeteria he had found out that naeus had given principal reiddu a gun and now he was trying to find out where she kept it if he could get his hands on it then he could do whatever he wanted and the first thing he wanted to do was show that bitch principal reiddu who was boss she had never liked him but if he had a gun he could make her like him and maybe even get rid of that loser naeus.
he even had a plan he'd set a trash can on fire to distract everyone so he can look for the gun, cause he know she's too scared to keep the gun on her. hes just about to do this when naeus walks in and he decides to wait till later when that asswhole is not around.
....already having went to trade a duffle of can goods for the keys to the library he came to pick up tansy for the others who were already wholed up in the library he saw dimond scurry away and had a strange urge to chase him and pick on him like a cat playing with a mouse but he ignored it never having felt an urge to bully someone before he would later regret not paying heed to his instincts.
he walked up to tansy and handed her her bat saying let's go to the library the others are waiting for us.
when they got back to the library every one was sitting around a table eating canned goods
naeus felt dead tired he hadn't slept since he passed out from bloodloss in the woods he didn't even bother eating he just layed down on the couch and went to sleep.
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the next morning naeus awoke after hitting the ground apparently becca had climbed into bed with him during the night and had pushed him off the couch in her sleep.
Olivia,dodge,and tansy had piled up some bean bag chairs and were sleeping on them
not wanting to wake them he went and found a book to read until they wake up the book he picked was called warriors it was about a house cat that joined a clan of wild cats and the adventures they go on it was pretty captivating so he went to find all the volumes he could there were seven volumes and he stuffed them all in his bag,he was reading the second volume when dodge woke up.
they had some canned beans for breakfast while waiting for the girls to wake up.
After the girls woke up naeus told everyone his plan about how electricity is really effective against the metal heads whitch is what he had started to call the armored munchers,so he told them that they were taking the shop class today all they needed was two gallons of water and some soldering equipment from the computer technology class.
having gotten the water the previous day before going to sleep all they needed was soldering equipment from the computer lab it was practically on the way the group only needing to take a slight detour before continuing on to shop class removing electrical panels from a outlet at the entrance to the hallway naeus rigged up some circuit boards and wiring and connected it to the outlet then he set up the jug of water to spill out with the arrival of the metal heads using the other jug to fill up some water balloons using some condoms he found in one of the lockers he pulled on some insulated rubber boots and handed the "balloons" to dodge,Olivia,and the girls.
he told them to throw them at the metal heads furthest away drawing them all together.
thinking it wasn't enough naeus started banging his crowbar against the wall and finally the metal heads started slowly lumbering into my carefully constructed trap.
the team finally ran out of "water balloons" just as the metal heads knocked over the jug of water and with a blinding flash of light all the metal heads crumpled to the ground.
unplugging the makeshift trap from the outlet naeus and the team preceded to pry off the armor and make sure their all dead.
naeus brought a duffle bag he had emptied the can goods into the librarians desk before they locked up the library.
he gathered up all the bloody armor he could fit in it thinking he could rework it and something they could use.
finally they could use the shop class they slowly entered the classroom worried there might be more munchers or metal heads
but only the shop teacher Mrs.mathers was there but it looks like shed been dead for awhile face down at her desk with a butcher knife in her back her journal open it looks like someone killed her while she was writing in it.
naeus picked up her journal and read it
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dear journal almost all my students are dead but they didnt stay that way and being unable to kill them again I decided to prevent them from spreading their horrible infection I melted down some metal and poured it over their heads now they can't bite anyone I even managed to herd them out into the hallway.
I had a few surviving students but they all went the cafeteria all except for dimond that little kid creeps me out he keeps coming back around saying he wants to protect me.
earlier the little shit tried to kiss me and even grabbed my boob I being old enough to be his grandmother pushed him off me and slapped the hell out of him the look on his face was just strait up evil.
I hope he dosen't come back ....
and here it scrawls down and little droplets of blood dot the page .
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in the cafeteria dimond was looking everywhere for the gun he knows it here the fire he set wasnt gonna distract them for long
when he found it he was finally gonna get what he wants he is going to make principal reiddu his slave ,he was gonna make all the stupid bitches his slaves no one would ever reject him again hell even that hot old bitch in shop class rejected him the bitch got what she deserved .
he looked everywhere and that stupid fucking gun was nowhere to be found so he punched the pan on the stove knocking it off spilling out the contents some kinda stew but looking down he found a ziploc bag with the gun in it with a twisted smile he picked up the gun.
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to be continued