"the soldiers saw us at school" namra was the first one to speak, we had been walking for around 30 minutes now, and no one spoke a word until now

"they left us without helping, then bombed us..."

"they wanted us to die, didn't they?" gyeongsu said "they don't care about us"

"maybe it's because of me" namra said "maybe they could tell, they must have thought we were all the same, like me"

"would it be fine to keep you with us?" nayeon said, earning glares from almost everyone "oh come on! you know I'm right"

"she is" namra looked down sadly "i don't think i can stay"

"you haven't turned fully" onjo pointed out "maybe you never will" namra smiled slightly, but she turned her gaze to you

"y/n?" you looked towards her "yeah?"

"thank you" she slowed down to walk next to you

"for what?" you replied

"for everything, you make me feel alot better" you smiled gently at her, you were tired, and it showed through it, namra wrapped her arm around your waist, her grip was tight

"we should that again" namra said, looking ahead "the fire, it was my first time ever being around people like that, we'll be able to, right?"

"maybe" you replied "but not for awhile"

"shit" mijin groaned "i think we're lost"

"are you kidding?!"

"seriously?"

"theres not a trail?"

"not for awhile, we feels like we're going in circles" heesu sighed

"this is why i said to let onjo take the lead" gyeongsu whined "she knows this place better"

"shut up dickhead, im older and wiser so i lead" mijin said

"what about ms park? shouldn't she have led? she's the teacher!" wujin replied

"dude look at her! she looks like she's about to die, you really want her to do the work?" hari sighed at her brother and his friend

"im fine, guys, really" sunhae said "maybe we should take a break?" she suggested

"whats that?" cheolsoo pointed at something in the distance, it looked like tape wrapped around a tree branch

we all walked behind hari and mijin, hari touched the tape "woah, who did this? they're a life saver for sure!" mijin said "maybe a ginseng digger!"

"what's that?" they ignored hyoryung as hari spotted another one

a few of us stayed behind while hari investigated, but onjo walked over to a flashlight on the ground, it belonged to her dad, making her and the others around her realize it was him who did that

around a hour later we all had followed the tape as a trail to get out of the woods, finding ourselves in a abandoned neighborhood, there were dead animals spread through the streets, it made you want to vomit, seeing the poor, defenseless animals ripped to shreds

"i thought we were to yangdong?" daesu said "are there zombies here?"

"probably not" gyeongsu replied "they probably ran off or got killed"

"i have a bad feeling about this" eunji said, holding a makeshift weapon close to her chest

"it'll be okay" cheolsoo tried to comfort her "none of the windows are broken, and there's no blood on the streets, it wouldn't be so clean if they were here"

namra stopped walking all of a sudden, suddenly jerking her body to look behind us, she looked confused

"what's wrong?" nayeon asked "do you hear something?"

"zombies" she said

"where?"

"everywhere?"

"are there alot?"

she started counting quietly to herself

"six...seven...eight" she jerked upright "run" is all she said and we were began running, or trying our best for the injured ones

we ran through a back alley, we started to hear the footsteps that namra was hearing, meaning they were close

namra ripped the piece of a shirt clinging to her eyes off

as we got out of the alley daesu fell, bringing the two holding onto him down aswell, suhyeok got up and grabbed a shovel from a basket infront of a shop

daesu and joonyeong grabbed one too "we can't run from this' joonyeong said "we have to fight"

everyone began grabbing their own shovels or other sharp objects they could find in the baskets

"if i die im so gonna kill you" mijin said, bumping her shoulder to joonyeong's

we all stood together, preparing for our final fight