Chae Rin's POV
I gripped the metal pole tighter within my hands, taking my own stance as I watch them get closer before I race to them. Jumping on one of them as I stab it in the neck, making it fall limp on my hold as I raise my head to look as the others raced.
"Su Hyeok to your left!" I yelled, the boy dodging just in time as a Zombie attacked him from the side.
Nonetheless, he manages to hit him, throwing him off and striking him with the shovel, Dae Su taking his lead and hitting him in the head.
I tried my best to control my own instincts as I felt my neck crack and dropped the shovel, grabbing onto the zombies with my bare hands, snapping their necks and pulling off their jaws.
Not forgetting to look back at the others who too fought with them.
Dae Su was suddenly pinned to the ground and I hurried to his side, grabbing the zombie by the hair and throwing it against the wall.
Ha Ri grabbing it off and Mi Jin stabbing the wood pole through his head.
Nam Ra caught onto my technique snapping their necks.
"Shit!"" I cussed, Su hyeok pinned under a zombie.
"Nam Ra! Bare Su" I called out to the girl as I removed a zombie from On Jo who had been using a small metal fence to hold it away.
I pulled the zombie off, grabbing onto Hyo Ryeong's tool for a quick second as I stabbed the zombie in the neck.
Watching Nam Ra run to the rescue of her boyfriend, pulling the zombie away by the hair and then striking its neck with a shovel.
Ha Ri was on the floor and I raced over to help her up as Mi Jin stabbed a zombie with her wood stick
"Ha Ri!" I heard Wu Jin's voice call I turned around, eyes widening as the boy tried to run faster than the zombie.
I turned myself around, laying myself on top of Ha Ri as I used my leg to kick the boy in the stomach pushing him away from his sister, who groaned at the sudden weight.
Not only that, but I could feel my vision get red, my blood pumping as I felt sudden hunger and grabbing the zombie by the inside of the mouth I teared his jaw off before I snapped his neck.
Wu Jin at the side watching stunned.
I kicked the dead zombie off of me as I stood up, hand out as I grabbed onto Ha Ri's hand and pulled her up with me.
"Thank you" She exhaled, I nod with a small smile.
"We'll take later" I glared at Wu Jin.
"Joon Yeong! Pass me my metal pole on your left" I yelled as I walked to him, he crouched down to grab the pole, a zombie chasing after him in the split second that he turned his attention off of them.
With a sigh, I ran to him, jumping over his crouched figure and onto the zombie.
Straddling over the zombie I grumbled as I stared at a shocked Joon Yeong, the metal pole in his hands.
"Hurry up with it. It feels weird to be in this position with a dead guy" I groaned.
With a nod he finally stabbed the zombie in the face, killing it instantly as I stood up with the help of his hand.
"Thank you" I smiled sweetly at him, he nodded, a smile of his own as the two of us separated, noticing there were no more zombies.
"Ya! You. Come here!" I shouted angrily as I pointed at Wu Jin, hand on my waist as I looked to the side as I signalled him over.
Soft steps getting closer to me, as I saw his shoes I looked up, his eyes looking elsewhere.
"Look at me" I snarled, following my order he lifted his eyes to face me, and I slapped him, head turning to the side as he stood quiet.
"Chae Rin -"
"Shut up!" I shouted, glaring at them all before my eyes turned back to Wu Jin, who lifted his head to look at me again.
"How many times do I have to repeat myself for you all to listen. I don't know how to turn people into hambies. I don't know how to make you NOT dead! So why?! Why do you keep putting yourselves in danger like that?!" I shouted, eyes turning to everyone who stood in silence.
"We just lost someone, and what? You want to play here? I told you, I'll help. Call for me and I'll get bitten again. I don't care! I don't die!" I continued.
"Why... why do you-" I choked up, his eyes meeting mine, that brimmed with tears.
"Why do you keep sacrificing yourselves" I cried, shoulders shaking as I looked down.
"I hate you" I muttered.
"More are coming, Chae Rin. We need to go" Nam Ra informed, I sniffed, using my hands to wipe away the falling tears.
"Take my hand" I said extending my hand to Wu Jin, who didn't inch closer to take it.
I lift my head, he too having tears brimming.
"You said you hate me, why are you trying to take my hand" he whispered.
"You're still one of my best friends. And I refuse to let you die" I told him, grabbing his hand forcefully as I walked us closer to the group.
"Let's go that way. There aren't any there" Nam Ra said.
"Dae Su, let's go" Su Hyeok said, grabbing his friend by the shoulder, Joon Yeong switching with Wu Jin whose hands I had in mine, and helping Su Hyeok.
Nam Ra watched Ha Ri who had gotten closer to the prez, asking which way would be better to run and if she could sense any humans. Nam Ra's face was contorted, I could hear her breathing quicken, and she suddenly turned around, her back to the senior as she tried to control her breathing.
My eyes didn't stray away from her figure as she spoke.
"If we run now, we can all live. We have enough time" she breathed.
Her eye seemed to just get more and more red, and I too wondered if my eyes looked the same, but didn't dare to either ask, nor touch it.
Mi Jin nodded at the girl grabbing Ha Ri's hand as the two walked in front.
"Wu Jin, go with them" I hurriedly pushed the boy away as I walked, rather rapidly to Nam Ra, her mouth snarling as her neck cracked sideways, and her breathing was faster.
Su Hyeok hurriedly grabbed Nam Ra's hand for a second and after seeing the girl move he ran back to the group, nodding at me as I ushered him back.
"Come on" I whispered, grabbing onto her hand.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling hungry again?" I questioned her, she nodded.
"You'll be okay, don't worry" I assured her, the two of us starting to run back to the group who was already ahead.
3rd Person's POV
Running through empty roads, cars left behind, some people dead inside them as fog covered their figures.
Nam Ra and Chae Rin stayed a few meters behind the group, Nam Ra as she tried her best to suppress her feeling of hunger and Chae Rin who was trying her best to be of help to her best friend.
"We're almost there" Chae Rin assured the prez, but it didn't have an effect as the poor girl's head was filled with a voice repeated the words "Eat them".
"Why not? You're hungry? Kill them" The voice echoed in the head, the girl running a bit faster every time until her hand reached to grab at Su hyeok.
Chae Rin's eyes widen at the sudden action, however Nam Ra's hand went limp to her side.
The two girls staying behind as they watched the group continue on their way.
"Nam Ra" Chae Rin called out, the girl racing to a nearby wall leaning her body against it.
"Stop it" she panted in pain.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Chae Rin asked worried, shrieking rather quietly as she started banging her head on the cold stone, Chae Rin placing her hand, so she wouldn't hurt herself more than she already was.
"You're okay. You're okay" The shorter female whispered as the prez banger her head again before she bared her teeth.
"Bite me, it's okay" Chae Rin said, placing her hand near the prez's mouth that after a look at her friend bit down onto it before sighing.
"It's going to be okay. You're okay" Chae Rin hushed the girl, the two sliding down the wall.
Nam Ra finally stops biting the girl's hand, a little drop of blood falling from her lips which Chae Rin wipes.
"I'm so hungry" The prez cried, falling into the other girl's arms, Chae Rin patting her back before the prez stood up running away from her.
"Where are you going? Nam Ra!" She whispers/yelled at the girl chasing after the fast girl.
Standing where the group had previously fought zombies, Nam Ra was now feasting on the stomach of a dead zombie, much to Chae Rin's shock.
But the girl nonetheless kept her silence, she knew how hard it had been for the prez to suppress her needs of hunger, and although Chae Rin's wasn't as bad she couldn't help but also fell a slight hunger.
"Nam Ra" On Jo's voice cuts the girl's silence, bringing a new sound to them besides Nam Ra's mouth chewing on the zombie's intestines and Chae Rin's thoughts.
The zombie fell from Nam Ra's hand as Chae Rin turned to look at the small girl, Su Hyeok behind her.
Nam Ra spit a little part of the intestine out, trying her best to contain herself at the smell of the two human friends.
Chae Rin gulped as she looked away, ignoring the voice in her head.
"Nam Ra, what are you doing here? Let's go. Why did you and Chae Rin runway alone?" the small girl said, her voice wavering, scared to see what had happened to her two friends.
"Stay away" Nam Ra said, her tone dark as she remained with her back faced to her friends, Chae Rin snapped herself out of her trance like state, blinking as she shook her head a few times before she walked closer to the prez.
"Come with us. Okay?" On Jo asked again.
" I said stay away" Nam Ra snapped, turning around and yelling at the poor girl.
Blood all over her mouth, the wound on her forehead still with dried blood and her eye redder than before.
That scared them all, especially as the prez ran her way to Chae Rin pushing her to the ground and reaching down to bite her.
Su Hyeok tried to push the girl off On Jo, even Chae Rin tried, but Nam Ra grabbed her by the collar and swung her off.
Chae Rin landed a few meters behind them on her ass, a groan falling from her parted lips.
"Nam Ra. It's me. On Jo"
"Nam Ra, don't do this. Choi Nam Ra" Su Hyeok pleaded the girl, who too struggled to not let herself bite onto the girl under her.
Su hyeok pulled away from trying to push her off, aware that he didn't have the strength to.
Getting up he grabbed onto a shovel besides them and had it over his shoulder, ready to hit the girl.
But he just couldn't, On Jo's eyes on the boy as she gave up struggling. Su Hyeok's eyes in tears as Chae Rin tried to fix her broken anckle as she tried her hardest to get closer to the friends.
Finally giving into Nam Ra, knowing fully well the boy wouldn't be able to kill the girl he loved, Nam Ra places her head near On Jo's neck, smelling her scent before she screaming lifting her head up.
"You can bite me. I'm okay. It's okay, Nam Ra" On Jo cried softly, head to the side with her eyes closed.
With another groan of frustration, Nam Ra stood up. Chae Rin standing up, limping behind her as she felt her anckle slowly heal.
Sparing a look behind her as Su hyeok helped On Jo sit up.
"Nam Ra, wait" Chae Rin had called out to the sobbing girl, but soon she had lost her on the fog, hearing the other's call out to the prez she too found the two on the center of an intersection.
"Did you see her?" Su Hyeok grabbed onto the girls shoulders.
"She ran off, I lost her in the fog. I don't know where she went too" She panted, hand on her forehead as she looked at all the possible ways she could've gone off to.
"We have to get going... we won't be able to find the others" Chae Rin muttered.
"I can't leave. I won't leave, without Nam Ra" Su Hyeok insisted.
"Listen to me! She won't come back! You know her, she has felt like a danger to you since she was bitten" Chae Rin told him.
"She will be fine. We can find her after finding the others" On Jo tried to console the boy.
"I know how you feel. Trust me, she will be fine. And we'll see her again" Chae Rin said, hand on his shoulder.
The boy's head falls, as he stared at the ground, silent tears falling from his eyes as the two girls pat his back.
"Let's go" Chae Rin quietly said, the three of them taking their time between running and walking as they tried to catch up to the group.
Finally seeing them near a train track, them all rushing to them, immediately noticing the absence of one of them.
"Where's - " Chae Rin hushed Wu Jin, shaking her head as she covered her head.
"We'll see her later. Let's just get ourselves out of here safely" Chae Rin told the group, nodding confused and conflicted with the sudden disappearance of the girl.
"Maybe I should stay back too..." Chae Rin muttered, stopping a bit behind the group.
"Why would you stay behind?" Joon Yeong asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I'm life Nam Ra... I'm not fully human" She muttered.
"But you've been able to control yourself. Have you felt hungry?" Hyo Ryeong asks her, to which she shakes her head.
"You'll be fine. We'll protect you, come on" On Jo, tugging onto the girl's hand.
Hand in hand the two girls walked in the center of the group through the train tracks, Mi Jin in the front of the group, her almighty friend, the wood stick in her hand as they caught onto the sound of guns.
"Stop..." Chae Rin muttered
"What is it? More zombies?!" Wu Jin whined.
"No... guns..." Chae Rin continued, going a bit ahead to Mi Jin's side.
"Up ahead!" the group heard a shout, soldiers in their military uniform pointed their big guns at the group.
Mi Jin placed her friend down as everyone raised their hands, walking closed.
"Survivors confirmed" she spoke, a few of them racing over to them.
Memories of everyone they had lost, played in their memories, they all held in their tears at those that had sacrificed themselves for them, those who had died within their group and those who died around them, making their survival a little easier.
"I love you, you know that right?" Gyeong Su turned to the girl, who watched him, lips curving into a smile.
"I love you too, idiot. Why so sappy all of a sudden?" The girl wondered as she munched on her cupcake, Gyeong Su just stared at the girl.
The two of them sitting on the rock seats overlooking the grass field in the school yard.
"Just... thought I should say it. And remind you that, you know...You never know tomorrow" he shrugged, looking away.
"As if something bad would happen tomorrow. You need to stop overthinking" She muttered, a blush on her cheeks.
"Yeah, yeah. I know. Anyways, when will you confess to Cheong San then. Hurry it up, so I know when to make my move" He joked, lightning the mood between them.
"Ay, you can't rush this kind of stuff. Plus he likes On Jo. There's nothing I can do about that"
"Be with me then" He said, his tone was playfull, but both of them knew it was far from a joke.
It hadn't been the first time he had said such words, neither of them replied anyways.
"We're going to Cheong San's mom's restaurant tonight right?" she changed the subject, He nods.
"I'm going to watch Train to Busan after"
"Again? You and zombies. I swear if an apocalypse were to happen, you'd live because of how much you watch that" the two laughed.
How ironic...
If only Chae Rin had been able to stay with him in that recording room...
If only Chae Rin had dragged the man outside the tennis court by the hands using her new strength...
If only Chae Rin had been standing closer to the window when Gwi Nam appeared...
If only Chae Rin had been able to heal quicker and chase after Nam Ra sooner...
If only...
If only she didn't blame herself for it all.
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