Katawa Zhoujo (A zombie fic. yes i know the title is dumb)
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 10:46 pm
I started writing this around Halloween, but the way I was writing it didn't quite sit right with me, so I proceeded to 're-write it several times until I got this version which I like quite a lot more. Anyway. I hope you enjoy this little project of mine.
Also. Do to technical difficulties with my desktop. I had to write this with my kindle fire, and while I'm confident in OscarWildeCat's proof reading abilities. It would still be appreciated if you could point out any miss spelling that me, or Oscar might have missed.
Anyway...
Table of contents:
Chapter 1 (Lelouch. Half an hour in). (This post)
Chapter 2 (Ikuno. One week in)
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Katawa Zhoujo
Chapter 1 (Lelouch. Half an hour in)
"Well that went straight to hell faster than I thought it would!" Takashi yells as he slides a metal bar through the handles of the main set of doors that lead into the cafeteria.
"Thanks for the update moron!" Taro yells back from behind a small barrier of tables and chairs he's created.
"Hey! I'm just trying to lighten the mood!" Takashi yells once again as multiple loud banging sounds come from the doors he's just barred.
"Oh no," is all I can muster as the doors begin to rattle violently under the attack of those things on the other side.
Takashi quickly backs away from the doors and heads to where me, and Taro are standing.
"Where'd the Nakai guy go?" He asks in a surprised look and tone.
"He tried to go and help Shiina and Shizune, and ran towards the gardens with them. Not sure where he is now though," Taro says as he finishes moving the last of the chairs up to his barricade.
"Damn," Takashi says before he looks at over at me, the anxious expression on his face turning to one of terror as he sees the blood covering my left arm, "Holy hell, Lelouch! What happened to you?" He asks in a terrified voice as he slowly backs away from me.
I quickly look my arm. It's entirely covered in blood from my shoulder all the way down to my exposed wrist. It's like that because while we were running, I saw a girl from our class who sits next to me. She was knocked down by another student as they ran, and I went to help her up, but as I got her to her feet one of those things grabbed her by her hair and yanked her back, so it could bite her neck. When it bit her, some of her blood shot out and covered my arm. All I could do was run as I heard her and several other people begging for help as they were devoured.
He probably thinks one of those things bit me, "Not my blood!" I practically scream, as I show him that there are no bite marks.
Our English teacher was bit; we managed to pry the one who was attacking her off. However, as we got her to the nurse's office, she turned into one of them and killed our classmate Suzu.
"Oh, thank god," Takashi replies in a relieved tone as he calms down a little.
I turn to ask Taro what we should do next, and I see him holding the leg of one of the chairs while in a stance like a baseball player with the leg held at the same level as my head.
Well it isn't exactly like a baseball player since his left arm just dangles uselessly at his side like always, but it still looks like, if he swung right now, he would still either knock me out, or kill me.
I throw him an angry look, and he returns with an apologetic look as he lowers his weapon.
"I just wanted to be ready in case-," he's cut off as the rattling at the doors turns into a very loud and rapid thumping.
We all turn to see that the metal bar that Takashi put in place is just barely keeping the doors from bursting open under the force from the other side.
"We need to get out of here!" Takashi says as we turn back to each other. A look of pure terror is displayed on his face.
"Agreed!" says Taro, "this barricade should slow them down long enough for us to find a way out. There should be an exit in the back. Come on!" He orders as he makes a motion for us to follow him as he heads behind the serving counters.
Takashi and I quickly follow Taro. We run through the area where they prepare the food, and discover a door in the back.
"Thank god!" Taro says as he reaches to open the door.
He turns the knob but it doesn't seem to budge even as he puts progressively harder to open it.
"Damnit!" He yells as he punches the door in anger, and turns to us, "It won’t budge!"
"Crap..." I mutter under my breath as I rub my temple in frustration.
"Maybe we should head back, and try to-" Takashi is cut off by the loud crashing sound coming from out front that is quickly followed by a loud wave of moaning, and the sound of feet shuffling towards us.
Without even thinking, I immediately begin kicking at the door in the hope that it will bust open. As the shuffling becomes louder and I see Takashi and Taro tense up, I back up to the other side of the kitchen and charge full speed at the door ramming into it with my shoulder. I can feel it as the door give way with a crack, and I tumble unto the grass behind the school.
I feel relief as I stare up from the ground, and see the azure blue sky above.
"Hell yeah! I freaking made it!" I think to myself as my relief turns to overwhelming joy.
But then, I hear a shuffling noise commuting from my right followed by a low pitch moaning.
I turn to look at the source of the noise so quick that I swear my eyeballs nearly fly out of their socket. However, that thought is immediately thrown from my mind and replaced with fear as I see one of them shuffling towards me.
It's a man wearing a black three-piece suit, and a bright red tie. However, both the suit, and the tie are ripped and torn, and the man's is face is pale, rotting, and is covered in blood.
More importantly, it's only about yards away, and closing.
I frantically attempt to get to my feet but my hand slips on small pool of blood causing me to fall back down, and as I begin to try and back up again it closes at the gap between us, and lunges at me as time seems to slow. My heart feels like it has stopped from the sight of this thing coming at me.
So this is how I die? Eaten by some dead guy behind a school? This is bull crap!
Just as the thing's shadow begins to spread across me what looks a piece of wood comes in from the side, and smashes into the thing's skull so hard that it instantly breaks and splinter, and send the thing flying towards a nearby tree so fast that when it hits the tree, it's brains splatter against the trunk.
I turn to see where that came from, and see Taro standing over me with the bloody and destroyed chair leg that just saved my life.
He drops the legs, and helps me up.
"Thanks," is all I can say as he pulls me to my feet.
"No problem," he replies with a smile.
"Are you okay Lelouch?" Takashi asks frantically as he runs over to us.
"Yes," I reply plainly, as I dust myself off.
"Good. We should get going-" Takashi stops abruptly as his gaze drifts over to towards the corner of the wall.
Taro, and I look to see what he's looking at, and we Damn near freeze in place when see at least twenty of those things quickly shuffling towards us.
Taro turns around and runs away as fast as he can.
I grab Takashi by the arm, and we run after Taro while running from the dead.
We see Taro turn a corner, and we follow suit; but, as soon as we do, we turn straight into a nightmare.
We turn onto the side of the school that faces the woods and the track field. It usually looks beautiful, but now I can barely describe what I see. There's blood, and bodies scattered everywhere, some of those things are here, either eating the bodies, or chasing down anything that isn't them. And the smell. Oh god. It smells terrible. Like rotting, and blood, and the guts of everyone who’s dead.
What the hell.
I don't know how long I just stand there looking at it all, but I'm pulled out of it by one realization.
I don't see Taro.
I quickly scan the area but only see the dead, or the soon to be dead. Where the hell did he go? I don't see anywhere he could have run.
"Lelouch! Move!" I'm taken from my search by the screaming of Takashi who just blew straight past me, and is running at full speed towards the supplies shed.
Oh, crap! The group behind us!
I quickly look behind myself, and see them lumbering towards me.
I nearly fall over backwards at the sight of them, but I manage to right myself, and gun it to the supplies shed.
I move so fast that everything around becomes a complete blur. The dead, the blood, the god-awful smell. It just becomes a blur.
I finally reach the supplies shed just moments after Takashi does.
Seeing me approach he throws the door open, and hurries inside. As I pass by one of the windows, I catch a glimpse of him through one, and see that he is piling boxes up against them. I reach the door and go inside, slamming the door behind me.
A quick look at the interior tells me that this is not a good place to hold up. There are four Windows in total which is good, but there are so many tools, boxes, and cabinets in here that there isn't much maneuverability which means that if they get in here it'll be hard to do anything without bumping into each other.
Takashi has just finished blocking one of the windows in the back of the shed as the dead start beating at the door.
We both quickly run to the door and use our bodies to brace it against the dead seem to be massing outside.
After a minute of this, the banging at the door is so powerful that it knocks me onto the ground. Takashi looks at me in shock, and tells me to find a weapon.
I get up off the ground, and spot a metal baseball bat leaning up against the far wall on the other side of the shed. As I move to retrieve it, the window behind me shatters. I turn to see one of those things. It's a girl with strawberry pink hair done up in twin pigtails, and emerald green eyes, she's wearing the schools track uniform, and is pulling herself through the window.
As it falls through the window, I can see that it has no legs. They just abruptly stop just after the knees.
It looks up at with it soulless eyes, and starts dragging itself slowly towards me.
I quickly make my way to the other side of the shed, and grab the bat. It's heavier than I expected which should help.
I turn back to the one that came through window, and see that it is dragging itself towards Takashi now who is too distracted with the door to notice.
I run up next to it, raise the bat above my head, and swing it down onto its head with as much force as I can manage, and smash it's skull in.
As the bat connects, the thing’s head is crushed after the third swing. Pieces of it brain are scattered over the floor of the shed.
After that, I turn my attention back to the front door. Takashi looks back and sees me holding the now bloody bat, and gives a shocked look at the sight of the one I just re-killed.
I get into the baseball stance, and aim for where I think they're heads should be.
I tighten my grip as the banging grows louder, and loud along with the moaning of the dead.
They'll be through any second now. From the sound of it there's way more than the two of us can take even with the bats. However, if they keep coming through the door then maybe we can-
My thought is cut off by the sounds of gunfire, and explosions.
The military? That was pretty damn fast. Not that I'm complaining. The noise from them is drawing away a lot of the dead that are around the shed to the point that it sounds like there is only a few left out there.
So, sound sensitive? That's good to know.
There are so few left that Takashi is able to get off the door, and grab his own bat so he can fight with me.
After a while, we end up opening the door to deal with the ones that stayed behind. These ended up only being five. They looked like they had been rotting for a longer time then the other ones.
"Maybe they become less sensitive the longer they've been dead?" Takashi hypothesized as he drags the pigtails one out of the shed.
"Looks like it," I reply plainly, as I clean my bat off.
"We should probably start looking through these boxes to see if we can use anything they might have inside. I'll check the left side while you check the right?" Takashi asks as he walks back in the shed, and motions to the left side of the shed, and then to the right.
"Sure," I reply walking over to a stack of boxes. They're stacked up rather high, and look like they're going to fall if I nudge them slightly.
This will take a while, but we could make this a bit of a base. Well. Let's see what's in box number one!
End of chapter 1
Hope you guys enjoyed!
Also. Do to technical difficulties with my desktop. I had to write this with my kindle fire, and while I'm confident in OscarWildeCat's proof reading abilities. It would still be appreciated if you could point out any miss spelling that me, or Oscar might have missed.
Anyway...
Table of contents:
Chapter 1 (Lelouch. Half an hour in). (This post)
Chapter 2 (Ikuno. One week in)
___
Katawa Zhoujo
Chapter 1 (Lelouch. Half an hour in)
"Well that went straight to hell faster than I thought it would!" Takashi yells as he slides a metal bar through the handles of the main set of doors that lead into the cafeteria.
"Thanks for the update moron!" Taro yells back from behind a small barrier of tables and chairs he's created.
"Hey! I'm just trying to lighten the mood!" Takashi yells once again as multiple loud banging sounds come from the doors he's just barred.
"Oh no," is all I can muster as the doors begin to rattle violently under the attack of those things on the other side.
Takashi quickly backs away from the doors and heads to where me, and Taro are standing.
"Where'd the Nakai guy go?" He asks in a surprised look and tone.
"He tried to go and help Shiina and Shizune, and ran towards the gardens with them. Not sure where he is now though," Taro says as he finishes moving the last of the chairs up to his barricade.
"Damn," Takashi says before he looks at over at me, the anxious expression on his face turning to one of terror as he sees the blood covering my left arm, "Holy hell, Lelouch! What happened to you?" He asks in a terrified voice as he slowly backs away from me.
I quickly look my arm. It's entirely covered in blood from my shoulder all the way down to my exposed wrist. It's like that because while we were running, I saw a girl from our class who sits next to me. She was knocked down by another student as they ran, and I went to help her up, but as I got her to her feet one of those things grabbed her by her hair and yanked her back, so it could bite her neck. When it bit her, some of her blood shot out and covered my arm. All I could do was run as I heard her and several other people begging for help as they were devoured.
He probably thinks one of those things bit me, "Not my blood!" I practically scream, as I show him that there are no bite marks.
Our English teacher was bit; we managed to pry the one who was attacking her off. However, as we got her to the nurse's office, she turned into one of them and killed our classmate Suzu.
"Oh, thank god," Takashi replies in a relieved tone as he calms down a little.
I turn to ask Taro what we should do next, and I see him holding the leg of one of the chairs while in a stance like a baseball player with the leg held at the same level as my head.
Well it isn't exactly like a baseball player since his left arm just dangles uselessly at his side like always, but it still looks like, if he swung right now, he would still either knock me out, or kill me.
I throw him an angry look, and he returns with an apologetic look as he lowers his weapon.
"I just wanted to be ready in case-," he's cut off as the rattling at the doors turns into a very loud and rapid thumping.
We all turn to see that the metal bar that Takashi put in place is just barely keeping the doors from bursting open under the force from the other side.
"We need to get out of here!" Takashi says as we turn back to each other. A look of pure terror is displayed on his face.
"Agreed!" says Taro, "this barricade should slow them down long enough for us to find a way out. There should be an exit in the back. Come on!" He orders as he makes a motion for us to follow him as he heads behind the serving counters.
Takashi and I quickly follow Taro. We run through the area where they prepare the food, and discover a door in the back.
"Thank god!" Taro says as he reaches to open the door.
He turns the knob but it doesn't seem to budge even as he puts progressively harder to open it.
"Damnit!" He yells as he punches the door in anger, and turns to us, "It won’t budge!"
"Crap..." I mutter under my breath as I rub my temple in frustration.
"Maybe we should head back, and try to-" Takashi is cut off by the loud crashing sound coming from out front that is quickly followed by a loud wave of moaning, and the sound of feet shuffling towards us.
Without even thinking, I immediately begin kicking at the door in the hope that it will bust open. As the shuffling becomes louder and I see Takashi and Taro tense up, I back up to the other side of the kitchen and charge full speed at the door ramming into it with my shoulder. I can feel it as the door give way with a crack, and I tumble unto the grass behind the school.
I feel relief as I stare up from the ground, and see the azure blue sky above.
"Hell yeah! I freaking made it!" I think to myself as my relief turns to overwhelming joy.
But then, I hear a shuffling noise commuting from my right followed by a low pitch moaning.
I turn to look at the source of the noise so quick that I swear my eyeballs nearly fly out of their socket. However, that thought is immediately thrown from my mind and replaced with fear as I see one of them shuffling towards me.
It's a man wearing a black three-piece suit, and a bright red tie. However, both the suit, and the tie are ripped and torn, and the man's is face is pale, rotting, and is covered in blood.
More importantly, it's only about yards away, and closing.
I frantically attempt to get to my feet but my hand slips on small pool of blood causing me to fall back down, and as I begin to try and back up again it closes at the gap between us, and lunges at me as time seems to slow. My heart feels like it has stopped from the sight of this thing coming at me.
So this is how I die? Eaten by some dead guy behind a school? This is bull crap!
Just as the thing's shadow begins to spread across me what looks a piece of wood comes in from the side, and smashes into the thing's skull so hard that it instantly breaks and splinter, and send the thing flying towards a nearby tree so fast that when it hits the tree, it's brains splatter against the trunk.
I turn to see where that came from, and see Taro standing over me with the bloody and destroyed chair leg that just saved my life.
He drops the legs, and helps me up.
"Thanks," is all I can say as he pulls me to my feet.
"No problem," he replies with a smile.
"Are you okay Lelouch?" Takashi asks frantically as he runs over to us.
"Yes," I reply plainly, as I dust myself off.
"Good. We should get going-" Takashi stops abruptly as his gaze drifts over to towards the corner of the wall.
Taro, and I look to see what he's looking at, and we Damn near freeze in place when see at least twenty of those things quickly shuffling towards us.
Taro turns around and runs away as fast as he can.
I grab Takashi by the arm, and we run after Taro while running from the dead.
We see Taro turn a corner, and we follow suit; but, as soon as we do, we turn straight into a nightmare.
We turn onto the side of the school that faces the woods and the track field. It usually looks beautiful, but now I can barely describe what I see. There's blood, and bodies scattered everywhere, some of those things are here, either eating the bodies, or chasing down anything that isn't them. And the smell. Oh god. It smells terrible. Like rotting, and blood, and the guts of everyone who’s dead.
What the hell.
I don't know how long I just stand there looking at it all, but I'm pulled out of it by one realization.
I don't see Taro.
I quickly scan the area but only see the dead, or the soon to be dead. Where the hell did he go? I don't see anywhere he could have run.
"Lelouch! Move!" I'm taken from my search by the screaming of Takashi who just blew straight past me, and is running at full speed towards the supplies shed.
Oh, crap! The group behind us!
I quickly look behind myself, and see them lumbering towards me.
I nearly fall over backwards at the sight of them, but I manage to right myself, and gun it to the supplies shed.
I move so fast that everything around becomes a complete blur. The dead, the blood, the god-awful smell. It just becomes a blur.
I finally reach the supplies shed just moments after Takashi does.
Seeing me approach he throws the door open, and hurries inside. As I pass by one of the windows, I catch a glimpse of him through one, and see that he is piling boxes up against them. I reach the door and go inside, slamming the door behind me.
A quick look at the interior tells me that this is not a good place to hold up. There are four Windows in total which is good, but there are so many tools, boxes, and cabinets in here that there isn't much maneuverability which means that if they get in here it'll be hard to do anything without bumping into each other.
Takashi has just finished blocking one of the windows in the back of the shed as the dead start beating at the door.
We both quickly run to the door and use our bodies to brace it against the dead seem to be massing outside.
After a minute of this, the banging at the door is so powerful that it knocks me onto the ground. Takashi looks at me in shock, and tells me to find a weapon.
I get up off the ground, and spot a metal baseball bat leaning up against the far wall on the other side of the shed. As I move to retrieve it, the window behind me shatters. I turn to see one of those things. It's a girl with strawberry pink hair done up in twin pigtails, and emerald green eyes, she's wearing the schools track uniform, and is pulling herself through the window.
As it falls through the window, I can see that it has no legs. They just abruptly stop just after the knees.
It looks up at with it soulless eyes, and starts dragging itself slowly towards me.
I quickly make my way to the other side of the shed, and grab the bat. It's heavier than I expected which should help.
I turn back to the one that came through window, and see that it is dragging itself towards Takashi now who is too distracted with the door to notice.
I run up next to it, raise the bat above my head, and swing it down onto its head with as much force as I can manage, and smash it's skull in.
As the bat connects, the thing’s head is crushed after the third swing. Pieces of it brain are scattered over the floor of the shed.
After that, I turn my attention back to the front door. Takashi looks back and sees me holding the now bloody bat, and gives a shocked look at the sight of the one I just re-killed.
I get into the baseball stance, and aim for where I think they're heads should be.
I tighten my grip as the banging grows louder, and loud along with the moaning of the dead.
They'll be through any second now. From the sound of it there's way more than the two of us can take even with the bats. However, if they keep coming through the door then maybe we can-
My thought is cut off by the sounds of gunfire, and explosions.
The military? That was pretty damn fast. Not that I'm complaining. The noise from them is drawing away a lot of the dead that are around the shed to the point that it sounds like there is only a few left out there.
So, sound sensitive? That's good to know.
There are so few left that Takashi is able to get off the door, and grab his own bat so he can fight with me.
After a while, we end up opening the door to deal with the ones that stayed behind. These ended up only being five. They looked like they had been rotting for a longer time then the other ones.
"Maybe they become less sensitive the longer they've been dead?" Takashi hypothesized as he drags the pigtails one out of the shed.
"Looks like it," I reply plainly, as I clean my bat off.
"We should probably start looking through these boxes to see if we can use anything they might have inside. I'll check the left side while you check the right?" Takashi asks as he walks back in the shed, and motions to the left side of the shed, and then to the right.
"Sure," I reply walking over to a stack of boxes. They're stacked up rather high, and look like they're going to fall if I nudge them slightly.
This will take a while, but we could make this a bit of a base. Well. Let's see what's in box number one!
End of chapter 1
Hope you guys enjoyed!