《Undead Nightmare》Chapter 4: Navigating Through The Dead
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A lot has happened since this morning, I watched as my school's gym teacher had his throat ripped out and then he in return bit down into another teacher's neck. After that everything went to hell, the school became overrun with zombies and people began to die. Students and teachers were ripped apart and came back as the things that killed them only to repeat the cycle. I was one of the lucky few who was able to survive that nightmare and get out. I wasn't the only one though, I had managed to find other survivors. While we weren't exactly friends, I would say that we trusted each other with our lives.
We forged that trust saving each other and watching each other's backs as we escaped from that undead school. Unfortunately things happened and we got split up and now we had to regroup with one another. I knew that Busujima would be able to keep the othere on the bus safe while Komuro would be able to keep Miyamoto safe. I on the other hand was alone, I started off this way so it wasn't something new for me. As I headed for Onbetsu Bridge, I stopped by a certain pawn shop and I decided to check it out.
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Pawn Shop: City
Y/N approached the glass case and saw that it hadn't been broken and nothing from it had been stolen. Inside of the case was a large old looking six shot revolver that looked like it had belonged to a cowboy in the old west.
Y/N walked around the glass case and saw that there was a lock on it, instead of breaking it and possibly setting an alarm off he went to go find a key. Y/N went over to the counter and grabbed a key ring that had multiple keys on it. Taking it back to the case with the revolver in it, Y/N found the key and unlocked the case. He took the revolver out and slowly examined it, he checked the firing cylinder and saw that it was empty. Everything about the gun seemed perfect like nothing had been done to it. Y/N grinned as he grabbed a black leather pistol holster and attached it to his belt, putting the revolver in it.
Walking around the pawn shop, Y/N found a case on the wall that also had something in it that was extremely interesting. In it was an old rifle that also looked like it was taken from the old west like the revolver. It had intricate designs on the copper part of the gun.
Y/N unlocked the case and took out the rifle and looked at it, he tested to see if the trigger worked as well as the reload. Once he was sure it was all good, he grabbed something so he could hang the rifle of his shoulder. Now all Y/N needed to do was find ammo for these new weapons that Y/N found. Going to the back of the pawn shop, Y/N found the cage that was the storage area. Using the keys, Y/N opened the cage door and went into the back and began to look for ammo. Quickly, Y/N found plenty of ammo for the guns, he quickly loaded them up and made it so he could easily access more when he needed to reload.
Still searching through the back of the pawn shop Y/N found something struck his interest. It was a tactical sickle weapon with a collapsible blade on it, it looked useful so Y/N took and attached it to his belt with his blades.
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As Y/N went on his way out of the pawn shop he saw an old looking shotgun in the window that hadn't been taken by anyone. It looked like one of the shotguns the U.S army used in World War 1.
"Trench Gun, very interesting" Y/N said
He grabbed it and loaded it up with some shotgun shells he found and strapped it to his back along with the rifle. With that he left the pawn shop and continued on his way to Onbetsu Bridge where he would meet up with the others.
One might ask themselves why I took the old colt revolver and the repeater rifle. Normally those types of guns wouldn't be of much use in the zombie apocalypse since you need a gun that can shoot a lot of bullets rather quickly without any problems. I would say that they don't know what these two guns mean to me. When my parents died, my sister and I inherited a quite a few things from them. On my dad's side of the family they had come to America before the start of the old west days. When people started expanding out to the unexplored western part of the state so did my dad's family.
My dad would tell my sister and I that they became cowboys and such and that these two guns were used by one of our cowboy ancestors. We didn't really believe it but the two of us weren't going to question it. When he died I inherited the guns and was able to bring them over to Japan as long as I labeled them as antiques that didn't work. I obviously lied about the not working part but no one tested to see if they did. Unfortunately my aunt and uncle weren't having any part of that, so without me knowing, they took the guns and sold them to a pawn shop.
The same pawn shop I went to and found them, luckily the owner had sold them and no one stole them when the looted the place. I also found an old trench gun that appeared to have been used in World War 1. I could tell because all of the parts were original and didn't look like modern copy of the gun which gave it more personal value to me. Now that I had some guns I would be able to take on a lot more zombies. I'd also be able to get to Onbetsu Bridge without running into any trouble. However there was just one thing that I was missing and that was a pair of wheels.
I need to find a car or something that could get me to Onbetsu Bridge faster, I couldn't walk forever and the sun had already gone down. The street lights were still on which was good but there were certain areas of the streets that were completely dark. I could hear the zombies walking around, there weren't any near me but I could see some up ahead of me. At any given moment I could be surrounded by zombies I could possibly end up in trouble or worse. Slowly walking down the street, I took out my combat sickle and looked for a car or something other vehicle I could hotwire to get out of here.
Eventually I came across a motorbike parked up against a brick wall, the drive was hunched over on it and appeared to be dead. I slowly approached the bike and the body and poked it to see if it would move. Once the body fell to the ground I was sure that it was really dead. I began to search the pockets of the dead body to find the keys to the bike. Once I found them I went to get on the bike but the dead body slowly rose and grabbed my ankle. I quickly pulled out my revolver and fired two shots through the faceplate of the helmet the zombie was wearing.
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Those two shots killed it and ankle was let go of, before I rode of I saw the gear the zombie was wearing and figured he didn't need it. The body armor the dead zombie was wearing appeared to be a heavily modified version of airsoft armor. It was light but it was also thick and would be able to protect my lower body from being bitten by zombies. I put the body armor on and hopped on the bike and road off down the street as zombies slowly shambled over to where I was.
Y/N had been riding on the bike he got for hours now and he had made some real progress making it to the bridge. His goal was to get there before the others did so he could make sure it was clear of any zombies. While on the road Y/N quickly noticed that the bike was running out of gas. Seeing a gas station up ahead, he pulled the bike in and was going to fill the tank up. While at the gas pump, Y/N noticed a few things about this gas pump. One, you had to pay inside to use it and it needed power to work. Looking at the gas station, Y/N could see that all of the lights were off which meant that the building was either out of power or all of the electricity had been turned off.
Either way, Y/N was going to have to go inside of the gas station and figure things out so he could get back on the road. Y/N got off the bike and slowly walked towards the doors of the gas station. Before he went inside he found a roll of duck tape and taped a flashlight to his shotgun. Now with a source of light, Y/N didn't have to navigate the gas station in complete darkness. Walking around Y/N could see that shelves were knocked over, all types of stuff was laying on the floor. It was just like in the city, it had been looted and anything worth value had been taken.
Y/N kicked opened the door to the back room of the gas station and looked for the electrical box. So far he hadn't run into any trouble which was a good thing but Y/N wasn't going to be letting his guard down. Once Y/N found the electrical box he opened it and saw that everything had been switched off. Quickly Y/N turned everything on which caused the lights to turn on inside the gas station as well as outside.
"That was easy" Y/N said to himself
Walking back to the front, Y/N walked to the counter and along the way he picked up a sno ball. He looked at and then tossed it to the side and continued walking.
"Hate those things" Y/N said to himself
Behind the counter, Y/N activated the gas pump and made it so the system though he had paid for gas. Once that was done, Y/N walked outside back to the bike and began to fill up the gas tank. Y/N filled the tank up all the way and once he was down he was about to leave until he felt something on the back of his head.
"You aren't going anywhere" a girl said
Y/N heard a cocking sound and realized the girl behind him had placed a shotgun to the back of his head
"This is just great" Y/N said to himself with a sigh
Out of nowhere another girl stepped in front of him and hit him upside the head with a baseball bat.
Time Skip
Gas Station: City
That crazy bitch with the bat knocked me out, I woke up and found myself tied to a column in the center of the gas station. I looked around and saw three girls sitting on the floor looking at my stuff. They had my guns and my blades laid out on the floor along with all my ammunition.
"Look who woke up" the girl with blonde highlights said
"Hopefully he didn't get any brain damage" the girl with red highlights said as she at a sno ball
"How do you eat those things?" I asked disgusted
"He may have a mouth but he is kinda cute" the girl with blue hair said getting uncomfortably close to me
I tried to move away from her but the rope I was tied with was just a bit too tight
"So, care to explain why I am in this situation?" I asked the girl with blonde highlights since she was clearly the leader of other two
"Well now that you mentioned it, we're just doing the usual robbing, we've taken bikes from two other guys but we needed a third and that person just so happened to be you" the girl answered with a smile on her face
"We also planed on taking your guns and ammo as well as any other weapons you might of had on you" the girl with blue highlights said trying to act cute
"Unfortunately your weapons are old and totally don't work in a zombie apocalypse, the shotgun does but not the other two" the girl with the red highlights said
"My sister is right about that but we will take the ammo just in case we do find a gun that uses it" the girl with the blonde hair said
I could already tell by just how these girls talked and acter that they were the typical popular girl group at school who bullied other girls
"Your blade weapons could be useful but we really don't want to break our nails trying to hit a zombie with them" the girl with blue highlights said
"And since you don't really have anything else useful the three of us decided to just kill you" the girl with blonde highlights said
"But Hitomi, you said I could play with him" the girl with the red highlights said with a whine
"Yeah Shizuma, you said we could play with him for a bit since he's the only guy we've kept alive this long" the girl with blue highlights said
I really wasn't liking how the two of them were talking like that and saying all of that
"I guess I did say that and if I am being honest, it's been awhile since I've had some fun" the girl with blonde highlights said looking at me with a grin as she licked her lips
"God please kill me now" I said creeped out
"Sorry but that isn't going to be happening" the girl with blue highlights said
"You see, there's really only zombies guys left and I'm sure you know they have a hard time well...keeping it hard so you are our only real option" the girl with blonde highlights said
They were gonna do God knows what to me, part of me wanted this to happen while another part didn't. For some reason a memory of Busujima played in my mind. Seeing that memory made me really not want to let these girls do whatever to me. Quickly I tried to escape and get away from these three crazy girls. They had forgotten to take my tonto away from me so I dropped it down from sleeve and unsheathed the blade. Quickly I cut through the ropes that were tying me to the collomn of the gas station. As they tried to take my shirt off I kicked all of them back and got up off of the floor.
"How'd he cut through those ropes?" The girl with blue highlights asked confused
I showed them the tanto in my hand and the girl with blonde highlights smacked the girl with blue highlights upside the head
"You idiot you forgot about the knife" she said to her
"Look ladies this has been fun but I've got places to be" I said
They all went to attack me at the same time, easily I dodged them all and grabbed my revolver. I shot one of them in the leg and the other in the arm. The two that got shot had fallen to the ground and were holding their wounds.
"You shot us" the girl with red highlights said
"That really hurt" the girl with blue highlights said holding her leg
"No means no" I said as I put my revolver back into its holster
All that was left was the girl with the blonde highlights, in front of her was the trench gun. Immediately she looked down at it as I did and in that moment both of us rushed forwards to grab it. She was a bit quicker and got her hands on the gun, she pumped it and was going to shot me.
"Looks like you are going to die" the girl said to me
All of a sudden I punched her in the face knocking her back and causing her to drop the gun. I grabbed it and put on my back before the girl could try to use it again.
"You hit me, you hit a girl" she said holding her broken nose
"Look sweetheart, I am an equal opportunity ass kicker, mess with me and you'll regret it" I told her
I went back over to the rest of stuff and grabbed it, I made sure not to leave anything behind. I could hear zombies coming towards the gas station, they must of heard the gun shots.
"Just great, more deadheads are coming" the girl with the red highlights said
I walked over to the counter and grabbed the gun they kept under the counter. It was an old glock that still had some bullets still left inside of the clip. I cocked it until there was only three bullets left inside of the glock before I tossed it over to the girls.
"What is this for?" The girl with the blonde highlights asked me
"I'm not going to kill you but that doesn't mean I have to save you" I told them
"Why'd you unload all the bullets" the girl with the blue highlights asked
"I left you with one gun with three bullets between you, you've got a choice to make now, you can kill me but you'll only have two bullets to deal with all the zombies or you can kill as many zombies you can and try to escape or you've got a third option" I answered
"What's the third option?" The girl with the red highlights asked
"Two of you have been shot and injured while one of you is fine, I'm sure you can do the math and get the picture" I answered before I walked out the gas station doors
As I walked to the bike, I avoided the zombies walking by me, I could also hear the three girls fighting amongst themselves. I hopped back on my bike and drove off as more and more zombies walked over to the gas station. I stopped a bit up ahead on the road and heard two gun shots before I heard the screams of the girl with the blonde highlights.
"Looks like she chose herself over family" I said to myself before I drove off down the road
Time Skip
Road: City
After escaping the three crazy girls at the gas station, Y/N had enough gas to get him back into the city. It was still dark out but that wasn't going to stop Y/N from getting to Onbetsu Bridge. He still couldn't believe what happened with those girls. While he may of not killed them he still felt a bit responsible for their deaths. However Y/N also figured something like that was bound to happen to them. Seeing how they acted and how they treated one another, being sisters wasn't going to stop them from offing one another. Besides those crazy girls, there was something else on Y/N's mind that he couldn't quite shake.
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