Planning this kind of event takes long and with the adults supervising them, it got much longer than expected
Jeniel look at Christian and nods at him ‘at last’ the three of them thought and blow their last attack to the monster’s abdomen
One of the monsters’ wings got cut off and with their last blows, its abdomen burst out of black liquid indicating that they already finished it
With their chest going up and down, Lorey teared up “We… we did it” he laugh cryingly hugged Jeniel who accepted the warm embrace “We can come back now”
Christian doesn’t know how he can react, all he knows is the live stream that they are doing will put them in the spotlight… the heroes who defeat a great monster
And just like the old days… they will come back to houl company, where they truly belong
“We… we did it” tears run down through his eyes and some of his soul army look at him
‘It’s all thanks to them’ he thought and come closer to them, lifting his chin up and with a swelling eye, he said “Thank you” the souls only look at him, doesn’t know how to response
“I think it’s alright now? We can let them get out” Christian nods his head and bring out the controller, letting the doors open
“YOU BITCH! WHO TOLD YOU THAT WE CAN BE A PRISONER LIIKE-” someone got closer to Lorey and the latter one hugged whoever it is tightly and declare “WE CAN HAVE A NORMAL LIFE NOW!” she laughed while the tears still glistening in her eyes
The outsiders fell in silence and can only watch how can this girl cry beautifully “LET’S GO TO CAFETERIA! OUR TREAT!” Jeniel announce with her megaphone “ALL OF THE PEOPLE HERE! GO TO CAFETERIA!” she laughed with her mouth still on the phone and everyone heard how happy she is
“Whoever got there least, without using any ability will be the one who will tell mister soldier about the money that we’re going to spend… ready?” Lorey challenge and the other nods their head “GO!”
Laughter filled the hallway and not even the school staff can stop them
“What… What’s happening?” after drinking her water, Lina can come back to her senses without traces of illness and weakness, Nathan realized that she already know everything even though they didn’t explain it to her fully, and she has a desire to cure it… seeing that the water of the [fountain of desires] bring her back to normal herself
“Is that… Thraia’s bees?!” the moment she woke up, she tried to look for any hole and studied their current situation “WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY HEAR?!”
Nathan tried to keep her shut by putting his hands in her mouth “shhh, even though they are insects, they are pretty intelligent” he sigh and put down his hands when he noticed that she calmed down
“Where’re my children?!”
He wants to laugh with the term ‘children’ but he knows that she, being her normal self will make big trouble if she heard him laugh “they… they are in school”
“They are safe… right?” she look at him with hopeful eyes and Nathan nodded “I just speak with Ren earlier, it seems that the bees are not yet there… he seems pretty oblivious about the situation” Lina heaved a sigh ‘Thank God’
“Wait… bees?” she blinks twice and look at Nathan’s eyes seriously “bees stings… right?” he slowly nods and Lina’s mood becomes gloomy
She slumped back in her seat and look at the ceiling “why does it have to be the infectious creatures?” she muttered and Nathan ask what she was worried about
“The situation is… it will be much worse than this” she heaves a sigh again, making the half demon’s forehead crumpled “what do you mean?”
“You see, if the humans got stung of that… bees, they might get infected”
“Infected?”
“Every creature has a different heritage and blood. We figured out that if humans ever interact with those foreign bodies, changes will appear and it will lead to madness” she sneak again to the hole and look outside for survivors, she noticed someone standing not far from where they are
“It’s hopeless”
Nathan tap her shoulder and inquire more “I know about genetics and basic kinds of stuff but what do you mean… infected?” she looks at him with pity ‘if he only has half of my master’s wits, this man can surpass me’
Rolling her eyes, the woman explained “Infected act like a fucking zombie”
“Zombie?”
Her eyes shot up and look at him with distraught “didn’t Jeniel force you to watch those kinds of movies?” she ask and the man shakes his head “unfair”
She signaled him to come closer and put his eyes through the hole “that’s what zombies are”
Nathan fell in confusion when he just saw a human, standing outside aimlessly “there’s a survivor, shouldn’t we rescue him?”
Suddenly, Lina pressed him aggressively in the wall and angrily said “Look closely! That will happen if ever humans acquired monsters infection”
And just a matter of time, when they heard a loud shriek outside
A woman was running for her life while shouting “help!” and at that moment, they both think of the same thing ‘stupid’ the infected heard her and rushed through her direction “Oh! Thank god! Please help me! Please!”
She also runs through the infected’s direction as if she saw a light of hope and salvation, but it’s the opposite “that’s her end”
The monster run through her and they both fell to the ground, the two can only hear her cries
“And that’s a zombie”
“Drink! Drink! Drink!” all of the students are chanting while banging their cups at the table “I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT THIS BITCH BEAT ME UP IN CAT FIGHTS WHEN SHE CAN’T EVEN HANDLE HER ALCOHOL! C’MON! DRINK MORE!” One of the intruders, Sarah, lift her drink in front of Lorey and pushed her more to gulp it down
“THAT’S IT! THAT’S MY GIRL!” they all cheered
They also want to Jeniel to be drunk, but they know that if they force her more… they will get a black eye “Christian! My boy!” instead, they jumped at the next target
He only looked at them blankly for a while
With only stares, they shivered. The bully, Sarah remembered why she didn’t push herself to get close to the handsome boy ‘He’s the most creepy one of the group!’ recalling the rumors that Christian is mad, talking by himself all day long and even smiling!
She witnessed the phenomena one time, looking at his pretty face while smiling- she can’t deny that it’s a wonderful view but… it’s still creepy, he’s talking to the wall like it’s one of his friends!
When Christian finally shake his head, they didn’t force him “How dare you teach this innocent boy to drink alcohol?! Apologies!” one of them demanded and they all bowed their head in front of him
“Lorey! Best girl, drink more!” Lorey, who’s celebrating their victory earlier- drink the alcohol in one gulp! “YES!”
The rebellious students field the bar with their noise, even though they should be in the school cafeteria right now… they got kicked out because of all the troubles that they caused and only the intruders tailed them to celebrate
“What’s wrong with mister soldier? He doesn’t even answer my call! We need to know if the HQ already receive the impact of our live stream” Jeniel muttered “even mister Nathan!” she slammed her phone to the desk and all of them fell in silence
“Huway art thou hangry?” Lorey point at her and ask a question dizzily
Christian took the glass in her hands and throw the liquid away from her “you should drink responsibly” covering his nose, he smell the annoying smell of alcohol
“Aww what a boomer”
He heard it but didn’t say a word against it “we should go home now” Jeniel look at him, nodding her head while picking up Lorey’s belongings
The others want to go against it “this early?” Sarah hold Jeniel’s hand but immediately back off when she glared at her “the night didn’t even start yet!” she declare but the other two didn’t care about it
“We’re leaving” Christian announce while shaking his head, he doesn’t even know why they are here, to begin with. They’re all minors! Who would have known that there’s a bar allowing minors inside?!
But before they even reach the door, a shout was heard “LOCK ALL THE DOORS! HURRY!” the manager rushed through it and immediately trap them inside
The music still playing and the lights make Jeniel eyes hurt but even all of that circumstances, she witnessed the troubles outside
“Wa… what’s that?” it’s her first time witnessing the infected people attack some humans because all of their mission in houl company only includes clearing of islands and keeping it secret from the outside world
“Zombies! It’s zombies!” Christian, who had already experienced this kind of situation, was confused “why did they appear here?” Jeniel looks at him and asks “You know those kinds of monsters? And do you mean zombies? Those in films?”
He nods “Yes, we call it zombies but the sister said that they’re just infected… and no one knows the cure to bring all of them back” Jeniel smiled at his response “Infected? A monster like those movies that we’ve watched? Cool!”
Christian look at her in surprise ‘what do you mean, cool?!’
“Can we let her sleep here?” she ask and mouthed Lorey, who’s asleep after drunken herself “Let’s go! Smash these evil creatures!” letting her knuckles sound, she stretch more and wait for an opening to attack
They didn’t notice that Sarah got close to them and she heard their conversation “Wa… what do you mean? You’re going to fight those carnivore men?!” demanding for an explanation, Jeniel did not even make an effort to have a conversation and hand her friend, Lorey to her
“Wait!” Christian stop for a moment and look at the wall again, Sarah once again felt the shiver on her spine “You mean that we need to know their core? What core?” the boy talks to the wind… again
Jeniel move closer to him like it’s a normal thing, Sarah find the situation funny
“We… we need to know its weakness. Within its body? Yes, within their bodies… thankyou” he smiled in the air and look at Jeniel after “We need a weapon”
“Hey, how can we know where’s the weakness in their bodies?” Christian once again look at the wall and ask it to the air “this is so hella unbelievable” Sarah muttered and watch him change his attitude and tone as if he’s respecting the wall
Nodding his head, Christian muttered to himself… again “we can notice it if we look and feel it intensely… what does that mean? Enhance our senses? Hmmm…”
Scoffing, Sarah look at him like he’s really a crazy psychopath “can you believe-” she looks for a person that can relate to her feeling but only saw Jeniel, getting ready for another battle
Putting on her gloves, Jeniel reach for the doorknob
“No one will go outside” the manager block her and bring out a gun from his pocket “Go back to your seats and wait until rescue come here!” he insists after pulling the trigger once at the ceiling, threatening them that he can also pull it twice
Jeniel put her hands in the air, surrendering. She nonchalantly carries Lorey’s body like a sack of rice and put her randomly on the couch “You figure out how to know their weakness point first before we go out” commanding her friend, she goes to the kitchen to get more weapons
“NO! it’s too late! Jeniel, MOVE!” with some words, Jeniel forcefully put whoever she’s within her reach down. Flipping the table, they take it as a shield
The manager saw it and tried to put some words in their heads but the unbearable noise came closer and not long after that, the glass windows break- allowing the small but countless bees to rush inside
“DON’T GET STUNG! EVERYONE! TAKE COVER” even though they don’t know anything about the situation, the students copied what Jeniel did
“Where’s Lorey?!” Jeniel nervously ask but no one can answer, afraid that they might get caught of all the bees and shattered glass that’s flying all through the vicinity “where did I put that girl?” she recalled her memories
Moving her eyes around, she tried to figure out where her friend is, not until “WAAAHH!! The bees already stung her!” Christian cried out
“Wa… What the hell?!” Sarah saw the swarm of bees in Lorey’s body, sucking all of her life force out
Seems like a flower petal, the bees who noticed her body rushed through her- who knows what the bees are doing with Lorey’s body?! And the bitch still has the audacity to sleep in this kind of situation!
Being unfocused, Sarah didn’t notice the shattered glass which is flying in all directions- she didn’t even notice the other bee who was targeting her ‘Bang!’ she did not also expect the flying pan which just bump in her head, making her dock and avoid all the threat on her
Her ears rang, making it hard to focus more “WHO’S THAT BITCH?!” she can only shout
“YOUR WELCOME, BITCH!” one of her friends declare, lifting her middle finger
Jeniel saw what happened and noticed the weapon in her hands “That’s cool! You’re from the kitchen? What’s your name?” the girl abruptly face her with a blush on the cheeks “yes, I’m Rin”
“Well, Rin. Thank you for bringing this knife to me. You’re much appreciated” she sincerely smile and without further notice, take the knife out of Rin’s hand
Rushing through Christian’s direction- Jeniel forcefully lift him up and slap him “Wake up! That fairy will not die easily. We should be thankful that she becomes a distraction” the crying boy look at her with distrust
“Our friend is in trouble and all you can say is you’re thankful?!” with his chest, moving up and down, Christian felt discouraged of Jeniel… ‘she reminds me of my sister, why did she acquire that hateful trait, Abandoning a friend is the worst lesson we got form sister’
Wanting to save his long time friend, his shadow moved to its own accord- saving Lorey from the stinging bees… the girl is still unconscious from all of those dangers
Swiftly turning her knife, Jeniel examines the place cautiously and waits for the right timing to go out… Luckily, Christian just made the whole situation right for them “RUN IF YOU WANT TO SURVIVE!” with no further explanation, the minors find their way to any exit they may see
When the bees saw Lorey’s body, being carried by Christian’s shadow- they tailed it
Looking back, the two saw that there were so many people who have been following them Christian felt relief when he saw that most of the people followed them. The chance of them, surviving will be 80% if they’re with them, who is former assailant of company houl… Jeniel thinks differently
She knows that they will be nothing but a load of rocks, burdening them as they go further. These people will only bring them into danger! Like what’s happening right now, they are being targeted because of the crowd that they made
Grabbing Christian’s hand, Jeniel tried to go faster- hoping that those who follows them will be left behind and not bother them anymore
“SHIT! IT’S THEM! REN!” not far from the children’s situation, Dionelle who rush through the school when the outbreak happened, tap Ren’s shoulder before pointing at them “Catch their attention! No! I mean, don’t catch the bees’ attention! For Pete's sake!”
He frustratingly grabs into his hair and thinks deeply about how to call them without any harm that will come after them
Ren and the other students watch him as he strides back and forth
Luckily, the school has an old cafeteria. The small shelter is secluded from the other buildings, the history of the room made the students think twice if they’ll use it, and honestly they are even more scared of the ghosts stories and legends from their school than the current situation that they are facing
One of the students, Carla thought of something when she saw the bees- flying around the school vicinity “Mr president, earlier, your friends showed us some amazing act… isn’t this one of it?” she tilt her head sideways and look upward, Ren is too tall for their age
Dionelle heard her question, he abruptly look at the boy and seeks for an answer “they did what? I did not know that they have an act?” he took a step closer, letting himself look down and face Ren with eye contact
“What kind of act? Playing heroes? Defeating monsters? Saving princesses?” he paused and think again
Not long after, realization struck him. What Astran said finally sink into his mind and he realize the children’s suspicious actions from the past few months “NO” he shakes his head
“I’m sure that you won’t do anything that will harm humans, that’s one of our agreement- YOUR agreement with Lin… and all of you afraid to break her command because…” he muttered more vague words which made Ren wonder what his friends truly did
Carla’s friends come closer while laughing, their conversation continued and their voices become louder- their funny and silly theories were heard all over the room. The other people can’t help but let their voices flow inside their head, building up a great feat of feeling called, fear
The girls giggle as they continue conversing “what if this is just one of their acts? You know how talented they are! They even make the show earlier more realistic than ever!”
“The principal will scold them for the trouble that they made… they are great but you all know that they locked us all up in our rooms!”
“Yeah! How dare they?! I really want to touch the large bee’s costume, can’t you imagine how detailed it is? It’s amazing from afar but… I want to know what it looks like! How dare they lock me up, missing my chance to witness an awesome handicraft!”
Carla calmed them down and speak “we should save our energy, we don’t even know the situation outside. We can at least be rational as of the moment and think about the other things later”
“C’mon! They are already outside, which means that it’s the last act! I can’t believe that it took them long enough to end their show”
The girl wants to leave them be and let them think what they want, it will help them calm down… but not all the people want a peaceful and naïve atmosphere “WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! Didn’t you see those sharptails, stinging all the people that they can sting?! Cant, you see all of our classmates acting crazy, trying to kill us?!”
“STOP IT, CHILDREN! Cant, you see that it’s already chaotic outside?! Can we keep the peace here? I’ll go crazy if even here will become a battlefield because of your sharp words” one of the school cafeteria’s chefs shout, lifting her favorite knife while pointing it to the students
Dionelle can't help but step up because of the building tension, massaging the old chef’s back to let him calm and motioning the girls to behave
He can’t help but think that they’re the other version of houl company’s ace team
He sigh
“IT WORKS! They saw us! they are coming!” someone announced and all of them watch their classmates, running for their life
“And they also brought a hoard of zombies”
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A/n: I’m sorry for the very slow update… many kinds of stuff happened in my life RN and I can’t think straight. I might take a break for a while (I’m not sure)
Chapter’s note: to be clear, Infected are those people who got bite, claw, sting, or acquire any monsters/other species genetics. Of course, they are like zombies when they bite someone to infect it also but their difference is zombies are undead (they will always get up even if you kill them a hundred times, IDK about the movies you watch but that’s what undead means here. Undead are like Lich’s army, they cant die) while the infected are just human/people who got a disease and act violently, they can be starved and die just like normal humans are but being infected by a monster- they will have a physical enhancement but their minds will still the same.