Surviving the Apocalypse-HSOTD- (Dake21 x Poppy)

[Poppy]

Taiei Shopping Town couldn’t withstand the forces of the zombies. What the group of Fujimi Academy students and teacher had believed to be an impenetrable fortress fully stocked ended up being just as flimsy as all of their previous hideouts. The worst part of the building being compromised was that it all happened so fast. The group had felt cocky there, so they had let their guard down. So there was no escape plan, and no back up location. It was all Saya Takagi could do to get out of there alive and unscathed.

The self proclaimed genius honestly should have seen such a situation coming. The apartment they hunkered down in briefly wasn’t safe-mostly due to Takashi’s insistence on being a hero for the defenseless little girl. Alice had turned into a sort of unofficial mascot for the group, proof that there should still be hope and innocence in such a cruel world. And not even her family estate could withstand the forces of Them. Even with all their loyal guards and money, nothing mattered in the end.

Without having a disaster plan when the over-glorified shopping mall fell, the pink haired girl was quickly separated from her group. She had long ago lost her Fujimi Academy uniform, dressed instead in an outfit she picked off the racks from the shopping mall. Her hair was still styled in the high twin tails, her glasses still in perfect condition. Saya wore an olive green midriff tank top, with the letters “HQ” emblazoned across her chest. On anyone else, it would have been a full length t-shirt but thanks to her voluptuous body type, it was tighter and shorter than it should be. A pair of shorts in the same shade barely brushed the top of her thighs, and thin suspenders kept them up thanks to her wide hips and bubble butt.

Saya had left with no supplies whatsoever, and her only weapon was a serrated pocket knife. Honestly, she would have given her left arm in that moment for an automatic pistol. Thanks to the screams of one of the survivors they had been hunkering down with, the zombies were very distracted. The undead tended to follow their hearing more than their seeing, and that person was making enough noise to literally wake the dead. Thanks to such a distraction, the busty girl was able to put some distance between herself and the site of the tragedy.

What the haughty teen couldn’t have anticipated was seeing a shop with lights on. She had to rub her eyes and double check, thinking that it had to be her imagination. No thanks to the EMP that detonated over Japan, electricity was now a thing of the past. But this building must of ran off of a generator in order to retain electricity. Saya cast her orange hued eyes up to the sign to see exactly what sort of place would still have power. After she read the sign once over, she had to stop to do it all over again thanks to shock.

It seemed the only building left in Japan with power happened to be an adult shopping center. She silently wondered what could the odds possibly be as she made her way towards the shop in question. There were flyers in the front windows, advertising upcoming dvd releases. Saya approached the entrance, looking about to see her current situation before she would devise a plan to get the attention of whoever was in the building. Without a zombie in sight, Saya thought it prudent to begin to bang on the door to get the attention of whoever was inside.

“Open up! Open up right now!” Saya was striking the door with both of her fists balled up. She needed to draw attention to herself sooner than later, if she wished to survive. “Please, I’m alive out here! Alive and no bites!” As much as the heir to the demolished Takagi estate didn’t want to beg, she figured it best to appeal to whoever would be the person to seal her fate.

 

[Dake21]

Hirou Uzumeki used to be your average rebel and delinquent kind of guy from his own high school. Though not really the stereotypical way you think one is, but more on the fact not many couldn't get near him due to his appearance and his strange "ways" at times. He always felt there always something unpredictable would happen to the world and it be something that we humans at least for the majority might not be prepare for. These type of thoughts stay with him during the start of his high school to his second year and it would be then on how much he realize how close to the truth he possible was. One day, he saw the janitor of the school acting weird as he started groaning and moaning while walking around kinda aimlessly around the school ground when he came in.

At first, he thought the janitor got an hangover or something from drinking too much since some of the students like Hirou himself know he is a drinker and even drink on the job few times, but not too much it would sabotage his work. Hirou soon see him dripping an reddish stuff off from his body that was spilling on the floor. It didn't take him long to realize along with some students and few teacher staff to realize he was injured. Being good people, few of them came to the janitor's aide to see if he was ok and want to take him to the nurse office if he was really injured. Though, when the first person touch him, he acted out wildly and soon bite on the arm of the person helping him, causing a screaming from the persona and utter shock from everyone around while Hirou was in-between of being shock and calm from the ordeal.

The janitor bite down onto his arm hard enough to rip out both his clothing and some of his flesh to the horror of the victim and everyone. The others nearby preferably the staff tackle the janitor down and keep him in check after what he has done while the student with a injured was checked on by others now. During the course, the janitor began bite and hitting around the people holding him down which led to a somewhat big brawl that led to them accidentally killing the janitor to everyone's horror yet again. At this point, it would be best to call the police about what's going on here, but sadly there was no time especially as the ones who kept the janitor at bay and the victim who got bitten began acting strange around the other people who were helping them out. They began having same symptoms like the janitor had before suddenly they began attacking the other students and teachers nearby them. Hurting the people around the same way the janitor did which began to cause mass panic as everyone including Hirou began getting away from them.

The young rebel was trying to get his head together on what was going on before hearing on an intercom from the school's principal about the situation right now and telling everyone to evacuate from the school right now as some "disease" is plaguing the surrounding area they were in and affecting some of the people around. This cause the crowd of people in the school to grow even more massive panic as everyone ranaway to survive from this mysterious outbreak that was hitting their school. Hirou couldn't believe what was going on and that his prediction of something "unpredictable" to happen was really going on. As Hirou ran away and far from the school, he get various of horrific sites as he saw people being attack and devoured by others who were sane moments ago, but once they were injured by someone "sick", they become sick themselves and began killing anyone around them.

This wasn't just the case around his school, but the whole city was suffering from this too as he look around within the streets while he ran and time to look at TV screens from stores that sell them that shows an epidemic of incidents similar to his own from his school happening around within the city and spreading outward to other living areas, if not the whole country of Japan. What change from yesterday of a day of peace and cool environment within the country have just change into an apocalypse nightmare in the blink of an eye. During these events, Hirou have to watched innocent people ranging from children, teenagers, adults, elderly, etc. being killed and mauled by "sick" individuals or by crazy and hardcore survivalist trying to save their own skin and trying not to get killed. Seeing stuff like that for the next days, really left a impression on Hirou as he could truly see it was a "dog-eat-dog" world and you can't seem to trust anyone.

Not the disease victims or even the people who are alive and doing everything to survive, even If it means killing their non-affected people to get by. During the course of several days and weeks that the epidemic has pass, Hirou did his best to survived as he soon found a place he could hide out at for the time being. It would be an apartment building slash ground adult shopping center floor. He never thought he will need to be in an porno store to survive, but what choice does he have in a time like this one. He stayed in this building for few weeks now and surprisingly the whole building miraculously have the supplies needed for his survival for food and water. There would be times he secretly go outside of the building, but only to get weaponry and gear needed in case of the zombies coming inside his new home.

He also need stuff to help create an makeshift barrier and security system to stop anyone or anything coming inside unless Hirou was the one with the special code to stop the system. Though, it doesn't seem to be working at the moment as Hirou heard loud sound of knocking coming from the door along with a voice. He could already tell that it wasn't a zombie as they wouldn't be this loud and vocal, but was hesitant on letting the person inside his place as he didn't know if this person's mind is no longer sane due to the current events and is trying to take advantage of his hospitality to kill him later. Hirou merely sighed about this as he slowly walked to the door. "Could you please stop hitting the door, if you know better, you should know sound can bring those freaks near, so knocking that loudly will really wake up the dead." Hirou said as he scratched the back of his head.

"Also no way on letting you inside. Just because you don't have bites or not, you could still be dangerous. I seen how this stuff make people insane, so how I know your still sane 100% and won't try to do some bullshit betrayal on trying to kill me and take my stuff in this "survival of the fittest" type of scenario?" Hirou said asking the person from behind the door.

 

[Poppy]

Saya was relieved to hear a human voice, but not thrilled with what he had to say to her. What sort of asshole could he be? Here she was, a seemingly defenseless woman all alone. But, she couldn’t exactly blame him. It had been the very type of behavior he was wary of that caused the downfall of her family’s estate. It seemed that some survivors couldn’t get it through their heads quickly enough that the zombies needed to be put down, and fast. A few had the nerve to think that they could be cured! She grit her teeth at the memory, not planning on letting up anytime soon.

“Listen up, asshole!” Saya had a trump card up her sleeve. A parting gift from Hirano happened to be a grenade that he had stored away in his arsenal. It seemed that the pervert otaku was managing to help her out, even if he wasn’t near her. “I’m willing to do whatever it takes to get inside this building! You look like you’ve managed to secure it...and I have to commend you for such! But, if you won’t allow me in, I’ve got a grenade here. How long you think you’ll last once I blast a hole through this building?”

Even if it would mean the end of her life, the pink haired girl believed death to be better than turning into one of them. She had her hand poised on the pin, ready to draw it at a moment’s notice. Saya hoped that the person inside, who sounded to be about her age, wouldn’t call her bluff. The tactician knew that if she pulled the pin, she would die as well. But, whoever was inside and refusing to help would be at the mercy of them. And who knew if they were prepared enough to have guns?

“Conversely, if you let me in, you can have my weapons. Strip me naked if you want to make sure I don’t have any others or I’m not bitten….” She had stopped beating the door, in order to not be so noisy. But out of frustration, she kicked the door, leaving a sizeable dent in the roll-down metal guard door. “....Just don’t let me die out here!!”

 

[Dake21]

Hirou merely sighed before scratching the back of his head as he hear how the woman was talking to him. Well for the most part, he can definitely tell for sure she has energy inside of her which means she isn't infected one bit, but still not into her attitude much honestly. Now she was even threatening to take the lives of both her and himself due to having a grenade in her hands as she wasn't planning on dying and letting those things get after her. Hirou have to admit he likes her strong-will and testacy as she wasn't willing to give up on this and even choose death, but that didn't really faze Hirou much if she wanted to use fear on him to get her way. "You go right ahead. See if I care. I have many other places to go, this is just one of them. Be my guest in blowing yourself up as it's not like your the first one I seen or in this case heard on rather dying than becoming "them". Hirou said as he shrugs about it.

"Hell somehow if you actually manage to kill me, it won't be much skin off my shoes as I don't my dying this way too, but don't think threats can get through someone like me who also been through this same hell you been through. Dying is easy, but it's the commitment to it that's hard. Do you have the commitment to actually kill yourself right here and right now? Are you that bold enough, I wonder?" Hirou said as he began walking away from the door. "Do what you feel like. No skin off my bones honestly." He said as he lazy wave his hand back a bit before slowly walking away from the door that Saya could hear. She probably was going to scream her throat out towards his attitude and seemingly leaving her in the dust right now, but that would be a bad idea as it seems she isn't alone as she started to hear some groaning nearby.

If she choose to turn, she can plain see zombies were coming slowly towards her area after hearing her shout and banging against the door wildly before. Now it really seems that Saya is in a tough spot as with the man behind the door seemingly won't open for her, she either tries to do what she can survive right here or is she really going to blow herself up like she said early as the zombies slowly began to close in on her and preventing any case of her trying to escape due from both left and right sides.