《Apocalypse》 Humble Beginnings *Beep* *beep* *beep* The alarm resounded around the small room, reaching the ears of a young man. The young man lazily raised an arm and slammed it down onto a small digital clock, with a loud crack the digital clock ceased to make the annoying sound. With a loud moan the young man threw off the sheets covering him and rolled off his small single bed, landing with a thud on the wooden floor. "Fuck, I think I just pulled a muscle" The young man slowly pushed himself off the floor and started doing some simple stretches, then he massaged his sore back and headed for his shower. He turned the handle for heat as far as it could go and started undressing, he looked at himself in the mirror before he got in the shower though. He was roughly 5''9 feet tall, had dark black hair that reached his shoulders and covered his eyes. He wasn''t fat but he wasn''t ripped either, somewhere in between with no defined muscle. He brushed his hair out of his face, revealing his dark green eyes. Despite having no defined muscle, he still tried to take a pose and show off his non-existent muscle. "Hot damn, Jack Dark you are one sexy muthafucka!" He was somewhat narcissistic. After admiring himself in his small bathroom mirror he climbed into his shower. "Aurgh, so cold! Quality dorms my ass" He just gritted his teeth and washed himself, he always thought of himself as someone who would never back down from a challenge, as if he would let a cold shower hold him back. "Well, I guess it was refreshing at least." The young man called Jack put on a fresh high school uniform and brushed his teeth, then he packed his bag with some certain necessities for school. An iPhone five, some sweets, school books and some other things a typical 16 year old would bring to school. But as he was just about to pack the last thing he might need, an impossibly loud voice echoed in his mind and throughout the school, maybe even the world. "PUNY HUMANS, I am God, the almighty one, the all powerful, the creator, the original g-man, the womanising badass!" The young mans eyes widened as he listened and thought ''did I hear that last one correctly?'' "I''ve been looking over you guinea pigs since like, the beginning of time. And you guys used to be the bees knees, like every two minutes you''d be starting a bloody war and millions would slaughter and fight for survival!" "But recently you''ve gotten this whole peace idea going, and that pisses me off. It''s like your watching a movie and halfway through it your favourite character dies and your all like ''why am I even still watching this?''" Jack was beginning to think this God had a few screws loose. "So I''ve decided to make things fun again, in a few seconds I will start the apocalypse. There will be all sorts of terrifying monsters running around trying to devour you, there are ways for you to get stronger but I''ll leave that to you to find out." Jack was certain this god was 100% insane. "Well without further ado, good luck. You''ll need it." Jack waited a few minutes for the mysterious voice to start yammering again, but it didn''t. "Hehe, well that must have been a really expensive and elaborate prank." Jack turned back to his bag and resumed packing, but he was interrupted with an ear piercing scream. He ran to his dorm window which gave him a full view of the girls dorms and the high school, and he saw something rather grisly. 4 high schoolers were holding down another guy and appeared to be tickling him. "Wait a second, no self respecting guy would tickle each other in broad daylight!" He squinted and tried to look harder, and he saw a large amount of blood pool out from beneath the boy. Jack didn''t think that tickling could do that. Then one of the four boys tore off the other boys arm and bit a chunk out of it, by now his screams and long since ceased. Jack watched as the four boys got off the boy who had been torn apart and shamble away, then the ''dead'' boy got up and shambled away too. Jack was not a stupid boy, he had seen enough horror movies to know what was going on. "They''re zombies, well shit." Jack pulled away from the window, luckily he was on the top floor so nothing could get in through that way. But several screams and shouts started popping up around the high school, some were rather close to jacks room. "Oooooh fuck, I forgot to close my door last night!" Jack rushed out of his room and into his living room, then manoeuvring around around the table and chairs he ran for his slightly ajar door. When he reached it Jack threw himself at the door. slammed it shut and clumsily locked the door and slumped down against it. Breathing heavily. If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. "Aauuuurrhgh.... grrrrrr" Jack slowly raised his head in absolute terror, standing there in the door way to his roommates room was non other than his roommate. Except his roommates eyes were completely white and his skin was unnaturally pale, he twitched and then let loose a deafening roar, sprinting straight for Jack. Jack sprung to his feet and he remembered something he once saw in a movie, because he was so utterly terrified he lost his attachment to reality for a moment. He raised his leg and put his hands and back against the door, then he brutally kicked the zombie in the chest. While at the same time using his hands to push himself off the door, giving himself that extra push. "THIS, IS, SOUTHERN GRAMMAR HIGH SCHOOOOOOL" Faced with this kick, the zombie was launched backwards and actually off the floor. Flying backwards for roughly a metre and a half, landing heavily on its back. Jack wasted no time and rushed the down zombie, on his way he grabbed a large paperweight off the table. Jack jumped onto the zombie and brought the paperweight smashing down onto the enraged zombies face, blood sprayed over jacks semi-new uniform as he continuously brought the cheap metal paper weight clobbering down on the zombies head. The zombie managed to bring up and arm and viciously bring a clawed hand tearing across jacks face before the it went limp. Jack gave it a few more good whacks before he stopped and rolled off the corpse that would now stay dead. But a thought rushed into jacks mind which caused him a great deal of fear. In some horror movies zombies could turn you just by scratching you, Jack hurriedly jumped up and searched around for the medical kits that were kept in every dorm room. While he was frantically searching Jack didn''t see the almost invisible ball of light that emerged from the zombies body and entered jacks. But what he did notice was a notice that seemed to appear in his mind. The first of many: For being the first person to attack and kill a monster by yourself you have been awarded +2 strength +1 agility +1 stamina Jack just shook his head and continued to search for the medical kit, he finally found it beneath the sink. He took it out and rushed over to the bathroom mirror. The zombie managed to scratch three bloody lines across jacks face, running from just above his left eyebrow and down just right of his lip. "Fuck this hurts like a bitch, guess I''m lucky he didn''t get my eye." Jack slowly breathed in and out, preparing himself for a world of hurt. Then he carefully covered his eyes and splashed his face with anti-bacterial liquid. "AAAUUUUURGH!" Despite his best efforts Jack still let out a bloodcurdling scream, the pain was just too overwhelming After this Jack carefully wiped his eye lids free of the anti-bacterial liquids, then he took a sticky thin anti-bacterial pad and stuck it over his left eye to stop blood from reaching his eyes. Next he put some on some bandages, then Jack took some deep breaths and started wrapping up his face. This time he managed to only let out some agonised moans, after this he grabbed some dry black waterproof bandages and wrapped up his face again, covering up everything except his eyes. He looked into the mirror again to see if he missed any spots. "Shit, I look like a ninja." Jack grabbed his back pack and emptied out anything he wouldn''t need, leaving in the sweets and phone. He used the extra space to put the med kit in along with some extra food. Jack silently thanked his father in heaven for all the lessons in survival he gave Jack, and the small bit of basic combat training. "I can''t stay here, the doors and walls are flimsy and offer almost no protection, I need to move out." *Thud..... Thud...... Thud* "GRRROOAAAAR!" Jack turned to the door in surprise, it seemed his agonised screams earlier attracted some uninvited guests. --------------------------------------------------------------- Tell me in the comments what direction I should take this story in. Chapter 2: Status Jack frantically looked around for a weapon until his eyes landed on a large wrench beneath the kitchen sink. He grabbed it and slowly walked over to the door. *Thud* The zombies continued to hit the door, Jack watched as the door started to splinter as more and more zombies joined the fray. *BANG* Suddenly a clawed hand smashed straight through the door, sending splinters flying across the room. The hand wildly tried to grab at nothing, scaring the shit out of Jack. Jack just sprang over and started bashing the arm at the elbow with the large wrench, after a few bone-breaking hits the arm went limp. But as fast as lighting the arm was pulled back out the new hole in the door, Jack sprung back and look looked through the hole. He was greeted by an angry zombie pressing its face up against the hole, "GRAAAAOR!" The zombie roared angrily at Jack. "Must''ve been his arm." Then another arm burst through the door, and another. Jack didn''t have time to take a breath before the door was suddenly smashed open, splinters flying everywhere. Jack raised an arm to protect his eyes from the small projectiles and brought the wrench up, ready to hit something. Jack quickly lowered his arm and saw three zombies shamble through his doorway, once they saw Jack though they immediately let out a screech and sprinted straight at him. Jack jumped backwards and ditched the paper weight in his hand straight into the face of the first zombie which blinded it for a short second. But a second was all Jack needed. In jacks narrow hallway there was only room for one person to walk at once, so Jack sprung forward and swung his wrench straight at the first zombies head. With a loud crack the wrench rebounded off the zombies skull. The zombie shot out a claw that Jack barely dodged by turning to the side, then Jack once again brought the wrench smashing against the zombies skull, which smashed the zombies head in like an egg. But as the first zombie fell to the floor there was another one clamouring over it, this one was limping and had a broken arm. Jack seeing the opportunity launched a kick at the zombie, which caused it to fall backwards and knock over the zombie behind it. Using the small reprieve Jack turned around and grabbed one of the wooden chairs behind him, then he raised the chair up and brought it fast down onto the second zombies body. He could do this because the hallway was quite tall. The chair cracked and two of the legs snapped off, the zombie didn''t fair much better either with several of its bones getting snapped. Jack took another step forward and once again brought the chair down, but on the zombies head this time. The zombies skull caved in as the chair crushed it. "GRAAAAAA" The third zombie finally got back up and screeched at Jack furiously, Jack responded by hurling the chair at the zombie, sending it flying off its feet. Jack didn''t waste any time and ran over to the downed zombie, and repeatedly stomped on its head. It took a good six stomps until the zombie finally died, splattering blood everywhere. Jack took a deep breath, but a notice suddenly went off in his mind. You have levelled up. You may distribute 3 status points, voice your commands. Status: Strength: 15 Agility: 11 Wisdom: 6 Stamina: 12 This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. Jack was shocked into silence, but he quickly regained his senses. Jack couldn''t afford to become distracted in his current environment. "Add two points to strength and one to stamina." Jack felt himself become stronger as a strange new energy circled around his body. But Jack didn''t have any more time to waste, first he looked down at the zombie corpses and saw something which confirmed his suspicions. Next to one of the zombies was a steel baseball bat, near another was a pair of metal fore-arm guards, or gauntlets. "As I thought, with the rpg elements like status points, there are mob drops. This God has a strange sense of humour." He slipped on the gauntlets and grabbed the baseball bat, then he removed his constricting school shirt and put on a jacket with a hoodie, then he changed out i his leather school shoes and put on some runners. All the while staying on guard for more enemies. Once he had finished he slipped on his back pack and slowly walked out of his dorm room and into the hallway, not daring to make a sound. First Jack saw a few zombies standing around the hallway, with about five zombies standing in between him and the stair case that led to the lower floors. "Nope, no way, can''t go that way. Can''t go the other way either." Jack pondered to himself as he slowly inched his way back into his dorm room. Once he was back inside his dorm room he started thinking about what he should do, until he saw a strange black book he didn''t see before next to one of the zombie corpses. Jack reached down and picked the book up, as soon as his hands touched it though, a message appeared inside his mind. Skill book: Inner Demon Rank: Unique Consumption: 60mp This is a unique skill awarded by the god to the first person to kill a monster singlehandedly. This skill causes the user to undergo a transformation into a monster with increased strength, agility and stamina. Degree of transformation depends on master of skill. Length of time transformed depends on degree of mastery. Activate skills by saying name of skill. As Jack read the description of the skill he new that it would definitely come in handy, so he quickly learnt it. The book suddenly turned into particles of light that entered jacks body, Jack wasn''t expecting this so he took a step back in surprise, which caused him to bump into the table. Which caused a glass to fall off the table. Jack watched the glass fall in horror, then it collided against the floor and caused a loud ringing sound to reverberate through the boys dorm. "GRAAAAAAAOOOOR!" Every zombie in the previously deathly quiet boys dorm roared and sprinted to the source of the sound. Sadly the walls of the dorm were thin, so sound traveled quite far in the dorm. Jack steeled his gaze and gripped his bat until his knuckles turned white, sweat appearing on his brow. With a loud thud a zombie collided with the side of jacks ruined doorway, then it scrambled back up and leaped straight for Jack, with a terrifying amount of its brethren in its wake. ------------------------------------------------------------ Just telling all of you that I''ll take a short break from Spartan. I feel that my writing quality is dropping, and it was already low in the first place. So I''ll be re-kindling my writing fezaze with this story. Chapter 3: Zombie vs Baseball bat Jack gave his new baseball bat a swing, and felt it collide with the first zombies skull, turning its head into mush. That zombie dropped to the floor, but Jack watched in horror as eight more zombies scrambled into the room. "Inner demon!" Jack wasted no time and activated his special ability the second he saw the rest of the zombies. A dark crimson red aura swept across jacks body, filling him with an unknown energy. Two thirty centimetre horns suddenly erupted from jacks forehead, his skin turned black with strange red tattoos spiralling across his entire body, his vision was slightly tinged red and his entire being was flushed with power. All this happening in the time span of a second. Almost as soon as the transformation finished one of the zombies threw itself at Jack, but Jack met its rush with a bat swing that hit the zombie in the throat. The bat forcefully tore the zombies head from its body, sending the head and body flying across the room and slamming into two zombies behind it. But just after this another zombie tried to bite down on jacks outstretched arm, Jack quickly backhanded the zombie with his metal gauntlets, hitting the zombie across the jaw. While that zombie was dazed he blew its brains out with a heavy blow from the metal bat, killing it instantly. Two more zombies threw themselves at Jack simultaneously, but Jack crushed one''s head with a brutal downwards swing while he kicked the other across the room. Another zombie ran at Jack, but it was met with a fierce uppercut and then a bat the the face, blowing its foul brains across the room. But while jacks body was turned away one of the zombies managed to tear its claws across jacks bicep, ripping through the jacket like it was made out of paper. Jack jumped backwards and barely avoided another swipe from the zombie, while jumped backwards he managed to cave in another zombies skull with his bat, but now Jacks back was against a window. One of the zombies, seeing an opportunity with its limited intelligence, messily tackled Jack through the window. Jack felt the zombie''s shoulder hit his chest and let out a gasp at the zombies strength, but his gasp was interrupted when he went through the window, glass cutting into his back. Jack lost ahold of his bat and raised an elbow, then he brought it down ferociously on the zombies back successfully separating the two of them midair. But the crisis wasn''t over yet as Jack fell from the fifth floor, he wasn''t able to manoeuvre himself midair so the only thing he could do was watch the ground rush up to meet him, he hurriedly protected his head. *CRUNCH* Jack slammed against the ground with a brutal crunch, he lay there for a second, groaning. But he didn''t have any time to waste as he heard the zombies screech furiously and rush around inside the dorm. He picked himself up off the ground, wincing at his shoulder. "Holy crap that hurts, I think it''s dislocated." In fact it was a miracle that he only ended up with a dislocated shoulder, but it could also have something to do with the inner demon body enhancement. As Jack got up he saw the other zombie that took the short flight with him. It hit the ground head first. "I''ll forever remember you as humpty-dumpty...." Jack thought to himself. Jack started looking around him for some way to escape, but as he was looking a red aura erupted during from his body and dispersed, Jack felt himself revert back into human form again. You have levelled up! You have levelled up! You may distribute 6 points to status: "Brilliant..." Jack looked down at his dislocated arm and clenched his teeth, then using his enchanted strength he repeatedly punched himself in the shoulder until he felt it pop back into place. Jack cursed under his breath and looked around. "Hey! Up here, we have some spare room!" Jack was suddenly alerted by the shouting of a girl, he looked to the source and saw a girl with long black hair, she was leaning out the window of the top floor of the girls dormitory building. Jack frowned and started formulating a plan in his mind, then he started running towards the building at a full sprint. He saw several zombies emerge from the boys dorms and start to give chase, he also saw several zombies between him and the girls dorm. "Assign 3 stat points to strength and 3 to agility!" Then he dodged around the wild swipes of a few zombies and was soon within 3 meters of the girls dorms, Jack jumped and landed on a window sill on the first floor. Then using his new strength and agility he threw himself up and grabbed ahold of a window sill on the second floor. Pulling himself up just as the zombies behind him slammed into the wall where Jack had previously been. Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. Jack continued to climb the dorm walls until he finally reached the girls dorm window. When he reached the window and pulled himself up he was met with three girls and one guy, they all stared at Jack in amazement and awe. Jack pulled himself in through the open window and landed on the floor with a thud, the guy immediately went to help Jack up. "Hey, how he hell did you survive that fall earlier! We saw you fall from the top fucking floor!" Jack looked at the guy who was so enthusiastically asking him questions, he had wavy blonde hair and a handsome face with sky blue eyes. Jack recognised him as the student body president. One of the girls looked at Jack curiously, she was the one who yelled at him earlier. She had long dark black hair that reached her waist and a pretty face, she also had a athletic looking body that would make any man drool. "Guess I got lucky." Jack replied to the guys question. "Well I guess you god damn did! By the way my name is Harry." Then Harry pointed at the pretty dark haired girl. "Her name is Akane, she''s normally rather silent." Next he pointed too a pretty small blonde girl. "Her name is Nisse." He finally pointed at a pretty brown haired girl. "And her name is Amelia." All the girls greeted him one by one, but soon an awkward silence descended across the room. Until Akane asked Jack: "So uh, what''s your name?" Jack looked at her, "My name is..... Dark. You can call me Dark." Jack looked at the floor, as far as he saw it, when the world had ended so did Jack. He would need to change to survive this brutal world, and a new life needs a new name. But Jack loved his father so he decided to go by his fathers name, Dark. Harry looked at dark and said "So can we see your face? I think that''d be the first step to a lengthy friendship." The girls agreed, who would want to trust someone who''s face they''d never seen before? "Sorry, I got scratched up pretty bad, you''ll have to wait until it heals." "Oh that''s okay, sorry for being inconsiderate..." Harry said as he slowly descended once more into silence. But he soon thought up something else to discuss. "So Dark, I have to say you looked pretty damn badass when that monster tackled you out the window! And how did yo-HOLY GUACAMOLE!" Everybody jumped at Harry''s surprise, Harry pointed at Dark''s ruined bicep. "Whoops, forgot about that. Gimme a second." Dark frowned as he looked down at his arm, then he took of his back pack, careful to avoid touching his wound. He grabbed out his medical kit and took off his shirt, the girls all blushed while they looked at him and Harry whistled. Dark looked down and saw that he suddenly had a defined six pack and bulging muscles, "either thanks to the stats or the after effects of Inner Demon" he thought to himself. Ignoring the girls and Harry who he assumed had never had medical training, Dark started to dress the wound with bandages. Gritting his teeth as he tightened the dressing. In a few minutes he finished and put his jacket back on along with his backpack, Harry and the girls looked at him with a sorry expression. "Sorry for not being able to do anything Dark" Harry said. "Don''t worry about it." Harry then stood up straight and confidently. "I don''t think we can stay here for long, while it is good that the girls dorms have steel reinforced doors I still don''t think they''d last long. I''m sure some of you would have realised that the world has almost turned into a game, so for now we will try to ''upgrade'' ourselves." Harry said. He then turned to Dark, "We all have seen what Dark is capable of, I think with Darks help we will be able to leave the school. But that all depends on Dark." "Dark, are you willing to help us?" Harry said. Dark silently nodded, he didn''t have any other plans for now anyway. Might as well throw himself in with this lot. Harry thanked him and continued to explain some things about the world he has realised, some of which were things that Dark also didn''t see. Like the small slightly transparent blue bar in his peripheral vision, this was his mana bar apparently. Dark''s mana was Currently at five points out of sixty, he assumed that his demonic transformation had used up the majority of it. After this, Harry made Dark dismantle their dorms table and give a leg to each of them for protection, whilst Dark would just use his metal gauntlets. "Okay now remember it''s okay if you get scratched, but if you get bitten it''s all over." Harry reminded them before they opened the dorm door. Dark was positioned in front of the door, ready for anything that would come jumping out. "I never was the leader type of guy, but I still cannot believe I''m doing this...." Dark thought to himself. Chapter 4: New gear They had decided to immediately leave, they couldn''t wait for Darks MP to fill up again because as time went on the number of zombies would only increase, and their school would only get more and more dangerous. Dark also didn''t know how long it would take for his MP to fill up either. "3....2....1....go!" Harry unlocked and nervously swung the door open, causing one of the zombies on the other side to hurl itself through the now open door. But the zombie was met with a fierce kick from Dark, launching the zombie into the opposite wall. Dark wasted no time and ran forward, striking the zombie in the face with another kick, and another, and another which caused the zombies head to cave in, splattering its foul brains along the wall. Dark quickly raised up his guard and turned towards another zombie that was rushing him, once the zombie was in range it aimed a wild side swipe at Dark. But Dark raised an armoured arm and blocked the blow, then pushing the hand away and going in for a hard punch to the zombies nose. Blood erupted from the zombies nose, staining its already bloodstained ripped shirt. Dark ducked under another wild swipe from the zombie and executed a brutal upper cut with an armoured fist, then finished the zombie with another brutal punch that spread its brains along the walls. Another zombie rushed Dark from behind, but was clotheslined by a hit from Harry''s table leg. Then Harry proceeded to repeatedly bash its brains out with the bloodied table leg. "Come on Dark! Grab that baseball bat the zombie dropped and let''s move out!" Dark nodded and picked up a baseball bat that one of the zombies dropped, then he took the front of their formation. The group rapidly made their way down the dorm building, with Dark levelling up another two times and distributing four points to strength and two to stamina. Their aim was the bike racks out the back of the school, with the bikes they planned to make their way to Harry''s home. Soon they made it out of the dorm building, Dark clutched his bloodied baseball bat and nervously looked around him. He soon spotted the bike racks and signalled Harry, who brought up up the other three girls. Luckily there was only four zombies between them and the bike racks, but one of the zombies was different than the others. This zombie had blue tinged skin and stood up straight compared to the other hunchbacked undead, he soon noticed Harry''s group and ran at them whilst screeching terrifyingly. "Shit! This ones fast." Dark thought at he got ready for the oncoming assault. But the blue zombie suddenly changed direction, it was previously running at Dark but now it was running straight for Amelia. Harry quickly positioned himself between the blue zombie and Amelia, but he was just batted out of the way by the zombie. Harry turned desperately to Dark, but he was already tangled up with another two zombies. This time, Dark wouldn''t be there to save them. Amelia screamed and desperately tried to scrambled away from the zombie, but it was just too fast. It leaped onto Amelia and tore out her throat with its jagged teeth, Amelia''s horrified screams suddenly turned into a gurgle, then turned silent. Harry and the other two girls could only stand there horrified as they watched her get devoured, but Dark had finally finished with the other two zombies. "Harry! Deal with the other zombie, girls get the hell outta the way, leave blueberry to me." Harry nodded and ran at the last ''ordinary zombie'', he was too dazed to really care what he was doing so he followed Darks orders like they were his life line. The two other girls quickly scrambled away from the blue zombie, even though they both contributed a few kills in the dorm, they both new that the blue zombie was way out of their league. Dark ran up to the blue zombie that had just stood up from Amelia''s corpse and swung his bat straight at the zombies head. But unlike the other zombies that would just stand there with a dumb look on their face and take the hit, bluey ducked under and swiped for Darks stomach with a clawed hand. Dark barely jumped out of the way, then he brought the bat swinging down onto the zombies head. But the zombie rolled out of the way and tackled Dark into the dirt, all Dark could do was hold the zombie by its arms away from his face. The zombie once again displayed it''s incredible strength and slowly got closer and closer to Darks shoulder, gnashing its teeth like it could already taste Dark''s flesh. Dark started to struggle more and more, sweat glistening on his forehead, "Is this where I die? Well that''d suck because this is a pretty cliche death..." Dark thought as he struggled. But Akane, seeing Darks plight, came to his rescue, she mustered up all her strength and hit the blue zombie across the jaw with her baseball bat. While this didn''t do that much damage to it, it did manage to distract the zombie for a second. The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. Dark used that second to kick the zombie off him, the zombie flew three metres away and landed dextrously on his feet. But Dark managed to catch the zombie off guard when he hurled his baseball bat at it, hitting the zombie right between the eyes. Dark used this opportunity to execute a brutal turn kick into the zombies elbow, breaking the joint and throwing the zombie off its feet. Dark immediately jumped in on the zombie and started repeatedly hitting it the face, giving it no time to recover. After a few dozen consecutive hits the zombies face was barely recognisable, but it was still not dead. So Dark grabbed the zombies head with both hands and brutally smashed the back of its head against the concrete, again and again... And again. Eventually the zombies skull finally couldn''t take anymore punishment, so it exploded all over Dark and the concrete. But from within the zombie two objects flew out, and Dark levelled up again. "Put all three skill points into strength." What Dark needed right now was more strength, he only barely made it out alive with the blue zombie. Dark turned and saw Harry and the girls staring at him in shock, Dark saw the zombie Harry had been fighting on the ground with half a head. Dark turned back to the blue zombies corpse and saw a strange glowing blue box about the size of his fist, and a skill book. First he picked up the glowing blue box, which suddenly turned into two steel gauntlets. But these gauntlets were very different from the ones Dark was currently using. Darks current gauntlets was only simple thin metal that covered his knuckles and reached his elbows, but these new gauntlets had gloves with metal protecting the fingers and small iron spikes jutting out from the knuckles. They also covered his shoulders and were made out of thick steel. Dark immediately equipped the new gauntlets and gave the old ones to Harry, he felt the new gauntlets weight and smiled. After this he grabbed the skill book and that familiar message popped up in his mind. Skill: Speed overdrive Rank: D Consumption: 80 MP Description: Causes users overall speed to double Dark looked at the skill book, then tossed it to Akane who accepted it gratefully. The others looked a bit jealous but didn''t say anything. "Think of it as a thank you, for earlier." Dark said while walking toward Dark jumped onto a bike and waited for the others to follow suit, once everyone was on a bike Harry started reminding them of the plan. "O-okay everyone, I know that we are a bit shaken up by Amelia''s death. But I''m sure that she''s watching over us as we speak, let us survive, for Amelia!" "Yeah!" Dark rolled his eyes and waited for the next set of ''orders''. "Now Dark will take the lead until we get out of the danger zone, remember that we have to stay in a tight group so no stragglers, we are only as fast as our slowest person. Once we have successfully left the danger zone I will take the lead and direct us to my house. My parents and family were overseas when this happened but there should be a spare key." "Or we could break and enter.... Always wanted to do that..." Dark said helpfully. Harry looked at Dark and raised an eyebrow, "Or that.... I guess... Well let''s set off!" The four of them started to pedal towards the schools back gates, there were few zombies standing in the way because this gateway was generally banned from student use. They navigated their way around the zombies and made their way out the gate. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note this is not a zombie survival story, this is an apocalypse survival story! There are zombies, but there will also be Orcs, Dragons, Goblins, other Classic rpg monsters, Dinosaurs, yes dinosaurs and horrific mutants. I might even throw in a King Kong or maybe a Godzilla. Well anyway, thanks for reading! Please rate my story honestly and wrote a comment.... Chapter 5: And everything goes horribly, horribly wrong. Hah....hah.....hah" Dark tried to block out the other''s panting, but they had been pedalling for at least 2 hours now. After leaving the schools gates they realised there was a lot less zombies on the streets than they''d have thought. So all it took was some manoeuvring and the angry zombies were left it their wake. Right now they were pedalling through a small forest that lay between the city and their destination, luckily the school was pretty much on the border of the city so they didn''t have to pedal far. Dark looked at Harry and the girls behind him, who looked like they were on the brink of collapse. But that wasn''t Darks problem, that was theirs. So Dark continued to pedal happily through the forest path, until a bloodcurdling howl penetrated their ears. It surprised them so much that Nisse actually fell off her bike, painfully hitting the dirt. Harry stopped and went to help her up, Akane soon followed. But dark leaped off his bike and tore the baseball bat he had strapped to his back off, then he got into a defensive stance. He could feel it, the impending doom that was rapidly approaching them. And it was fucking fast! "WE GOT A PROB-" Was all Dark managed to shout before a gigantic shadow leaped from the bushes and with but a swipe of its clawed hand, tore off Harry''s head. Dark ignored the head that flew past him and just looked at the monstrosity before him, he could describe it in one word, terrifying. It stood at roughly 2 to 3 metres tall, had a wolfs head, a furred human torso and arms and two wolf legs bent backwards, but what made it so terrifying was the look in its eyes. They didn''t look lifeless like a zombies, they looked mad, an insane amount of pure undiluted anger was emanating from the things eyes. The thing turned to Dark and swiped at him, all Dark managed to do was raise his bat to block the insanely fast clawed hand. Dark felt a jarring motion and before he knew it, he was midair. The bat been ripped from his grip and hurled far into the forest. Then Dark felt a crushing impact as he hit the trunk of a tree which splintered on impact and shuddered as Dark pounded into the thing. Dark rebounded off the tree and landed face first into the ground, breaking his nose. He coughed and felt a large amount of blood in his mouth, he assumed he broke several-- if not all of his ribs. He tried to raise an arm to pick himself up but was instead met with a piercing pain from his elbow. "My arms broken too?" He thought depressingly. All this happened within the time span of only one or two seconds, showing that the monster was way out of Darks league. Dark could only lift his head and watch the monster tear a screaming Akane in half, then crush Nisse''s head, then turn and begin walking in Darks direction. If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. "So this is it huh? Wow, I sure didn''t last very long. Oh well, might as well try." Dark muttered under his breath, then he activated inner-demon. He felt his already red vision grow even redder, then he felt two somethings sprout from his head and his canines grow. Then using his uninjured arm, he pushed himself to his feet, ignoring the intense waves of pain assaulting him from his chest. But by the time he was on his feet the monster was already standing in front of him, only a foot separating the two. Dark tried to throw a punch into the monsters torso, using every last scrap of his strength he had left to him. His fist hit the monsters solar plexus with a loud crunch. Dark barely managed to stifle the scream that rose in his throat as he looked at his broken hand. The monster just placed a clawed hand on Darks chest and pushed him down to the ground, Dark could only look into the monsters eyes, which now had a different light to them. An almost sorry light. Then the monster opened its massive jaws and bit down onto Darks shoulder, this time dark screamed openly. The monsters jaws clamped down, crushing Darks shoulder blades and his already broken rib cage. Then the monster opened its jaws and released Dark, who could only look at the beast with hatred. But the beast just looked back sadly, then it did something Dark didn''t expect. It spoke. "I am sorry child, but cannot live with this curse anymore... Forgive me child..." Then the beast slowly turned to ashes, which were swept away with the breeze. Dark just layer there, not understanding a damn thing about what just happened, but his confusion was soon interrupted with a notice. WARNING: The great werewolf of Naazaric has left you with his curse. Upon infection you will painfully and slowly degrade into a uncontrollable killing machine. Time until total agony: 5 seconds. "Well fuck me" -------------------------------------------------------- Just a quick chapter to remind you I exist.