Are they sick or are they DEAD!?

[devilman93]

Seo was looking for his mom at the hospital because she broke her arm and leg. the light in the hospital were dim and most were flickering as he walked through the almost deserted halls. all that was in the hall was a few half eaten dead bodys covered in blood and the occational one of "them" that did not seem to notice him at all. He just gentally pushed "them" out of the way as not to make a loud noise and alert anyothers to him.
He walked down the hall and turned a corner that a window was broken in. he leaned out the window to see three bodys. two of them and a young girl that must have triped into the window as she was running from "them."
he turned to countinue down the hall as he stepped on a piece of glass and out of what seemed like nowhere appeared five of "them." Seo unsheethed one of his twin swords, almost as quickly as they appeared their heads hit the floor and his sword was backin its sheeth.
he made his way to the room where his mom was in before everything happened. as he stood in the doorway all he could see was blood on the bed and the floor. he did not want to enter into the room anymore then he was but he had to see whos blood it was. he walked to the side of the bed to see his half eaten mother on the floor he ran into the hall and leaned on the wall.
he leaned there for several minutes and he started to hear something coming from down the hall. so he stood up took out both his swords and went to see what the sound was. as he quietly steped into the room he was hoping it was something to kill and get his mind off his mom. when he got in the room he saw this girl rumaging through medical suplies, which he thought was a good idea. he stood there for a sec and then saw one of "them" enter the room from the other door and noticed that the girl did not see it so he lanched at it and took his head off and said to the girl as she stood up and looked at him. "Hi, my names Seosang, you can call me Seo." They just stood there for a minute looking at the dead body.

[Adrastia]

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Mae had spent the last two days on “vacation” from school, as her aunt, whom she lived with, was in Beijing visiting her parents. She tried to be a good student, but if there was no one home to make her go to school it was hard for her to convince herself to go. However, she would never miss Wushu practice, so on the second day she strapped on her backpack and wax wood staff, tied up her long white hair, and left for the school, which was on the south side of town.

As she walked she noticed that there was no one around. This is too quiet, Mae thought to herself. Usually there would be a child playing, or a dog barking. She instinctively reached for the staff at her back, but nothing jumped from behind a building. You always scare yourself... she thought, but didn't speak aloud. Her mother always said that talking to yourself was the first sign of madness.

Her well worn feiyue shoes made no noise on the sidewalk. As she walked closer to the south side of town she noticed the emptiness more and more, but tried to put it out of her mind. When she was passing the hospital, she was confronted by the sight of a body on the ground. She approached it carefully, but it seemed like the person was either passed out or dead. He has a huge bleeding—bite mark? Mae thought as she looked closer. She hurried into the hospital to try and find help for the man.

There was blood everywhere inside the building. She looked around herself as she walked, trying to find sign of human life, but there was nothing. She went into a room and saw a medical kit lying open on the floor. As she was rummaging through it, she heard the sound of someone jumping, and a wet crunch. She looked up and saw a man standing with a sword. He seemed to have killed the person who was now lying on the floor.

"Hi, my names Seosang, you can call me Seo." Seo said. Mae just stared at him for a moment.

“I'm Mae,” she replied. She got to her feet slowly. “What's going on?”

Seo looked at her oddly. “You don't know?” he asked.

“No, I’ve been cooped up inside for the past two days. I guess I’m a little behind on the news.”

“You definitely are,” Seo told her. He proceeded to recount the events of the last two days for Mae, who tried to hide her astonishment.

“Well, I guess we should stick together then,” she said when he was finished. “We have a better chance against these monsters with two live people and more weapons. What do you think? Where should we go from here?”

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Seo looked at the girl and thought to himself that it would be easyer to stay alive knowing that there was someone that had his back. so he put his swords back in their sheeths and started to think to himselfwhat to do.

"Okay lets work and travel together," he said as he looked at the dead thing next to him. "we shold probably look for some metical stuff in case we get cut or something and a see if theres any food im feeling kind of hungery. what do you think Mae?"

[Adrastia]

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Mae looked up at Seo. He seemed trustworthy, or at least more trustworthy than an undead monster. She wasn't that into "teaming up," but there didn't seem to be much of a choice. He also seemed like he knew what to do with his weapons, and she appreciated that.

"Okay, that sounds like a plan. I have my backpack, so we can put the medical supplies in there. I also have some protein bars, but I think we should see if there's a cafeteria around here somewhere. It probably has better food, and some water."

Mae started loading basic medical supplies into her bag: band-aids, alcohol wipes, and gauze, among other things. When she was finished she zipped up the bag and shouldered it. It had straps that tightened it so it would lie flat against her back and give her a good range of motion. She fastened her long hair into a tight bun and transferred her staff into her hand.

"Are you ready to go?"

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Seo looked at Mae and thought that her backpack must be geting full and he didnt want her to think that he wanted her to carry everything so he looked around and saw a bag on the ground. he walked over to it and picked it up.

He looked at her and said "Sure lets get going the cafeteria is down the stairs and to the right. Heres a bag so i can carry the food, so you dont have to carry to much stuff."

Seo hated working with people in school, but he thought that if push came to shove Mae could kill the ones that he missed if any and he did not no how to drive and hoped she did.

As they headed for the stairs Seo asked Mae "Mae do you know to drive cause i dont and it might be usfull?"

[Adrastia]

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"No, I don't know how to drive. I like walking. But if push comes to shove, how hard could it really be?"

Mae followed Seo down the stairs because he seemed to know where he was going. She looked over her shoulder constantly, worried more monsters would jump out to attack them, but the hospital once again seemed to be deserted.

There was a lot of blood but no bodies in the cafeteria. They made their way back to the kitchen and found it deserted, with no sign that any fighting had occurred. The electricity seemed to still be functioning, and they found a lot of food in the refrigerator as well as the cabinets. Mae loaded stuff that seemed like it would hold up into the bag Seo had found and then made a sandwich for herself.

“I didn't see anyone on my way here. Do you think there are any more survivors?” Mae asked, eating her sandwich like it was the most delicious thing she had ever tasted.

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Seo looked a Mae and smerked at the face Mae was making as she ate her sandwich. He turned to look at a small fridge that they missed the first time over.

"Dont worry, it is impossible for us to be the only survivors. It is a big city after all."

Seo walked over to the mini fridge and opened it, he lppked at it for a second with a weird look on his face. Then he looked at Mae and then back into the fridge. He reached in and pulled out a couple of burgers from McDonalds.

"Someone must have brought these for lunch, do you want one or should we save them for later and where should we go now?"

[Adrastia]

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"You can have them," Mae told him, making a face. "I think that we should go try to find more survivors. It would probably give us the best chance of, well, not dying. I don't know where they would be, though. I guess we'll just have to figure it out as we go."

Mae wiped her hands on a paper towel and put on her backpack. She was about to start walking toward the exit when she heard a noise, possibly coming from the cafeteria. It was very faint, almost unnoticeable, but the rest of the building was so quiet it was easy to discern.

"Hey," she whispered, "Do you hear something in the otehr room?"

Mae crept close to the door, her staff held at the ready. The noise didn't change in volume as she approached, and she was unable to tell what it might be.

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Seo throws his bag over his sholder, so if he needed to move quickly he could without droping it. He pulled out both of his katanas and dashed to the opposite side of the door that Mae was on and looked at Mae.

"ya I think I hear it to."Seo whispered, "Okay, im sure its probaly just one of them, I'll go in first ok?"

He said as he started to get closer to the door. As he crept to the door he noticed that the door was partly ajar and it would be better to know what and where the thing is before he dashed in. He thought that Mae might be able to see through it.

"Hey Mae," he whispered "can you try and see through the crack in the door?"

[Adrastia]

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Mae was seething a little bit at the thought that Seo would need to go in first. She was perfectly capable of taking care of herself! Teaming up was one thing--

Seo cut her thought short when he asked, "Can you try and see through the crack in the door?"

She kept her face serene. "Sure," she replied, with no hint of the antagonism she was feeling.

Creeping forward, Mae peered through the crack in the door. "There's a chair over there... it's moving. Like someone is kicking it. I can't see a person though. Could someone be laying on the floor? I don't think that anyone was here when we walked through."

Mae continued to stare through the crack. The chair continued to move, but she never saw a person. Finally, she got tired of staring at it. "Okay, we just need to go in there. There's two of us, and it's not like there's a horde of monsters or anything. Let's go."

Before Seo had a chance to respond, Mae opened the door silently and stepped into the cafeteria. Teach him to think he should go first... she thought.

[devilman93]

Seo looked at Mae weird for a second because he did not know if she was that good in a fight also that he did not know if she could kill something without thinking about it. But then he fallowed her into the cafeteria he looked around the room quickly and didnt see anything.

He walked over to Mae and in a quiet voice asked, "Where did you see the chair move Mae. I cant see anything that could make it move."

[Adrastia]

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"It was over in the corner. It's stopped now. Let's go look," Mae said. She didn't wait to see if Seo would follow her, she just recklessly started across the room, though she was sure to be quiet. Her shoes made no noise on the floor as she approached the chair.

Seo might have been behind her, but she really didn't care. She knew that he probably didn't think that she was capable, because that's what everyone tended to think when they saw that she was small and a girl.

She focused her attention on the chair in front of her. There was a table blocking her view, so she slowly edged to the side of it. When she gained sight of the chair, she noticed that there was a body underneath it. It wasn't moving.

Mae extended her staff in front of her and prodded the hand, keeping the chair between her and the body. It didn't move, but she was still wary. She shifted her weight towards the unprotected side. She was about to stand up when she heard a slight moan from the body on the floor. But it's dead! she thought to herself.

The body groaned again, louder, and its eyes flicked open and closed. Mae rose to her feet and held her staff tightly between her hands.

It sat up suddenly, faster than she could have believed. Before she knew what she was doing she brought the staff down on the top of its head. Blood splattered everywhere as the skull caved in, soaking her shirt and speckling her pants and face.

She turned around a looked at Seo, a determined expression on her face.

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Seo watched as Mae caved its head in, in amazement that she did not hesitate and just acted.

Seo turned around and said "Nice work Mae u have a pretty hard swing," he then looked around the room "that seems to be all of them maybe we should cut off the heads of the dead we see just so we that does not happen again."

Seo went over to the bodys and cut there heads off. "Mae i think we are done here where do you think would be a good place to go to next?"

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Mae looking around thoughtfully, picking up a few napkins and wiping off her face. the blood on her clothes was already drying and she thought nothing of it. One more napkin went to wiping off her staff before she slid it behind her back, within easy reach.

"I think that we should go try to find more people. I think there are some houses around here. Maybe people could be staying there?" Mae said. She looked at Seo thoughtfully. "It could be dangerous, too," she continued, "but, at this point, what isn't?"

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Seo looked at Mae and said "Sure we should look in those houses." Seo turned around and put his sword back in its sheeth. As the blade slid in to the sheeth the blood that was on the blade dripped off.

Seo and Mae went to the entrance of the hospital. when they got there Seo looked around and wispered to Mae, "The coast looks clear," he looked around again. "I have not been in this part of town that much do you know where the housing complexes are?"