Snippet #2027049

"What-the-hell!"

Aika could only manage out between his ragged breathing, born from running down entire hallways, scurrying and down the flight of stairs that filled the academy...escaping from...what? Zombies? He strained his ears to listen for the inhumane moaning that was often accompanied by an...Undead, as the games he had been playing often described them. He tensed his back on the door before turning around and opening the door just a crack to peer out into the hallways. Not a single body in sight, living, dead or undead. He sighed in relief before closing the door and locked it. It took Aika a while to begin registering what had happened.

"....zombies? Like, seriously?" he thought out loud, absent-mindedly twirling a lock of his sideburn that had started curling from his sweat. He shrugged before reopening the door and stepping out. This hallway was surprisingly clean, compared to all the blood he had seen from the previous ones he had ran through.

"Wonder how zombies are here? Chemical outbreak? Secret government experiment? Some hoodoo voodoo, hocus pocus? " he asked no one in particular, walking down the hallway like a casual day at school...with no zombies. Turning the corner he was greeted with the overwhelming stench of rust and a gruesome sight of dead bodies sprawled all over the floor in pools of blood.

"Ugh..." Aika muttered to himself, eyes watering, covering his nose and mouth with a hand to block out the smell. He made his way towards the hallway slowly, careful not to slip over the pools of crimson liquid. While doing so he ignored the dead bodies, finding the walls more interesting.

'Wonder how blood got that far up the wall? ' he thought to himself, staring at a bloody smudge near the ceiling. The next thing he knew, he felt something grab hold of his ankle, and he freaked out, yelling loudly before turning around to stare at an undead pulling itself closer to Aika's leg. In his fear, he backed away quickly but slipped, splashing down on a pool of blood. Aika gasped, trying his best not to gag over the rusty smell while dragging himself down the hallway, along with his undead companion hanging onto his ankle.

"I don't even...! GET OFF ME!! You are not getting a taste of me!" he yelled at the zombie, trying to kick the undead into relinquishing it's hold on his ankle, surprisingly, it had a firm grip. Aika continued to drag himself down the hallway whilst preventing himself from being bitten. Whenever the zombie tried to bite Aika's leg, Aika kicked it back down with his other feet. Eventually, the zombie ended up chewing on Aika's sneakers.

"Those were my only shoes..." Aika groaned. But at least he could spare some time with the distraction. He needed something to use as a weapon. At least for the time being. Anything to knock this undead's head off. He recalled the layout of the school, to the left of the end of this hallway should be a fire extinguisher just at the corner. Aika dragged himself over, coating the floor with a trail of red liquid. Just as Aika reached the extinguisher, the undead seemed to have noticed that the sneaker was tasteless and was now moving for Aika's leg.

SMASH!

Aika panted, eyes wide with fear, as blood spurted from the zombie's crushed head. The fire extinguisher clanged onto the ground as he got up to his feet, trying to wipe his hands over his bloody uniform. With no choice, he used his hand to wipe a trace of blood away from his cheek, leaving a red mark there. Aika was lucky to have gotten away without being bitten. He glanced back at the hallway as the other bodies started stirring. More undead. He shook his head to clear his thoughts, sending drops of blood flying everywhere from his soft, green coloured hair, now caked with red from blood in several spots.

He ran for the stairs, he was on the 4th floor, and his target was to get to the ground floor then make his way to the dorm...or at least if he's the only one alive. Maybe he'd meet survivors?

Unluckily for him, a group of zombies were shambling over towards him from the bottom of the stairs. With a wall to his right, he looked to his left, the zombies from the bloody hallway had already risen and moaning at him. Trapped. His only choice... Aika looked at the windows behind him. If he had remembered the layout properly...then there was an entire row of flower beds that could possibly soften his fall...from a 4 storey building. He looked back at the undead.

"...heck. " he crashed into the windows and spread his arms wide to slow his fall. If he had to choose between being slowly eaten to death or a swift fall to hell...the fall it is then. It was too fast though. Before he knew it, Aika crashed into the flower bed and curled up in pain,tears in his eyes. He hissed in pain as he gingerly cradled his wrist. His entire body hurt, but his wrist hurt the worst. He tested it by moving it, but it seemed unresponsive. So there he was... concealed deep within flower beds that had somehow kept him alive despite a 4 storey fall and suffering a broken wrist. With his uniform entangled amongst the branches and a broken wrist that Aika wished not to aggravate any further, he stayed there in a fetus position, hoping someone would find him. Someone that was still alive of course...and not undead.