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Chapter 36: Confrontation

***Nadia's PoV in case you guys need this kind of information***

"Mathew..." Nadia muttered under her nose.

She sat down directly on the ground, right on the edge of the broken floor. Her eyes were directed straight down towards the hole that replaced the once-grand staircase of the school's compound.

'Just where the hell are you?' the girl thought, pulling her knees closer towards her chin and then wrapping her hands around her legs.

It's been only about two hours since Mathew decided to jump down. Even a little less since the outer chunk of the floor collapsed, bringing down all of the police officers but two.

"This is outrageous!"

The commotion took place just to Nadia's back. A bunch of students from the group Mathew saved were now arguing with the two remaining policemen.

"This isn't the world from yesterday anymore!" One of the students shouted, heavily gesticulating with his hands. "Police is no more, the military is no more!" he claimed, only to end up with his hand pointing at the older of the two policemen. "In other words, what makes you think you can tell us what to do?!"

'This fucking idiot,' Nadia thought, squinting her eyes as she took a glance at the situation.

"How about this?" the policeman didn't bother arguing with the group. He simply pulled out his gun and retracted its safety. Yet, even though his threat was obvious, he notably didn't point the gun up, keeping its muzzled aimed at the ground instead.

"How dare you!" Another student joined in, the policeman's action turning into the water for the man's mill. "Threatening students with a gun?! Do you really think you can..."

"Yes," the policeman answered, raising the gun and pointing it at the troublemaker. "I have a gun," the officer stated as if pointing the weapon at the group wasn't enough to nail the point. "And what are you going to do about it?"

Like a wave, the group of students backed off, not expecting the policeman to be so forward with his threats.

'This is bad,' Nadia thought, bitting down on her lips.

She then stood up and circled around the uppermost floor of the school, trying to keep as much distance from the commotion as she could.

"A small reminder," one of the saved girls spoke out while hanging on the arm of the burly student that kept at the back of the group. "When Mathew went to fight zombies, he didn't bring any guns with him," the girl pointed out with a smirk.

'Who gave you the right to utter his name?!' Nadia screamed out in her thoughts, clenching her hands into fists.

The feeling of powerlessness surged through her soul, filling the girl's mind with sour thoughts.

Nadia was always athletic. From the times of her childhood when she turned a local acrobatic park into her own playground, through the primary and grade school when she excelled in various sports clubs. She even managed to reach a black belt in a well-known martial art, even if she always considered it to be just a fluke.

'All of that won't help me in a crowd's brawl,' Nadia thought, her teeth threatening to crack if she were to tighten her jaw any further.

"Ah..." Nadia suddenly moaned when her vision blurred.

The girl momentarily lost her sense of self, her blurry vision then turning into the red world she saw before.

A world where she could see everyone's heart beating, everyone's blood flowing. A world of no obstacles and complex problems.

"Are you alright?" Nadia heard a voice above her.

'Huh?' the girl struggled on her feet. She then shook her head and blinked her eyes, only to realize she somehow ended up on the floor. Only thanks to her outstretched hands did she manage to keep her head from hitting the ground.

"Girl, are you okay?!" the voice from above turned strange.

'Who?' Nadia raised her eyes only to see that both of her visions now merged.

The crimson world from before now seemingly faded. All its wonders were still there... just that Nadia had to specifically focus on those peculiarities to notice them.

"I think?" Nadia replied, slowly gathering herself up from the floor. Yet, when she looked up to see the owner of the voice, her entire body froze.

'The other policeman?' she thought, instantly turning her eyes towards the man's partner.

"You won't scare us!" the turmoil in the middle of the floor continued.

Nadia turned her eyes, already knowing by heart what would happen, even before it would happen.

The older policeman aimed his gun at the students in the front. Yet, with his partner helping Nadia up, there was no one to watch his back.

"DIE!"

Someone smashed a makeshift bat at the back of the policeman's head.

BANG!

The law enforcement officer likely developed his sixth sense to its limits... Or he simply paid attention to all the noises and clues of the situation he was in.

The second the idiotic student shouted and then swung his improvised weapon, the policeman bent his knees, twisting his waist as he intentionally fell on his bottom.

BANG!

The powerful noise of the nearby shoot filled the open space of the floor.

'FUCK!' Nadia nearly screamed out when the loud noise seemingly threatened to split her head open.

The unlucky student never finished his swing. At first, he simply froze in place. Then, the metal pipe fell out of his hand, only for the man to follow it right after. By the time his head struck the floor, the student was already dead.

"STAY WHERE YOU ARE!" The policeman paid no attention to the corpse. He swung his torso back only to pull the gun closer towards his chest.

Rather than going for the cinematic long-hold with his hands stretched out, he opted for a more efficient and maneuverable stance.

"Drop down or drop dead!" the policeman who helped Nadia before joined the fray, pulling his gun out and aiming it at the group.

'So that's why he came to me,' Nadia noticed when she realized just how smart the law enforcement officers' position was.

By staying together, they would be susceptible to a rush attack. A charge heated enough for the group not to stop even if one or two shots were fired would be enough to discount the advantage of firearms of the policemen.

Yet, by splitting apart, leaving the more experienced soldier close to the danger while putting the other one a bit away, with a better angle over the entire group...

Now, the students had no physical ways of subduing both of the officers at once. Since they numbered around twenty, there was a huge chance both the policemen had just enough ammo in their guns to kill them all before reloading!

And in this new situation, despite one of the students dying, the rest quickly fell to the ground.

'Right,' Nadia released the air from her lungs, only now realizing that she held her breath back. 'They are only students, not zombies nor veterans,' she thought, her body relaxing a bit.

Yet, there was one thing that kept the girl worried, despite the situation quickly de-escalating.

Now that everyone's blood was pumping under the kick of adrenaline...

Nadia could feel a strange lust for that rushing blood as if an ancient, innate hunger awoke inside her!


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
MotivatedSloth MotivatedSloth

Everyone, I'm super sorry for not writing for the last two days.

After over half of a year of writing EVERY LAST FCKING DAY, and writing quite a lot an said daily basis... I had enough.

I knew what to write. I wanted to write. But I forced myself to ignore this habitual call. Because of a simple reason.

Now that I got some good rest (hahahaha, I wish but let's keep up the appearances) I no longer feel like screaming when sitting down to write but can do it with joy and happiness instead.

Not sure if you can expect more chapters to come before the reset, but you can surely expect a better release rate soon!

Chapter 37: Move!

"I'm sorry, little miss, but I don't think we can hold on here for much longer," the policeman said in a low voice while keeping his eyes and muzzle still on the group ahead.

"But we don't really have anywhere else to go, do we?" Nadia muttered, fighting off her newfound desires in order to maintain the clarity of her mind.

Everyone who followed Mathew before ended up on the topmost floor of the school. Yet, by destroying all the staircases, they locked themselves out of the ability to run anywhere else.

'Sure, it was a good idea to stop zombies from swarming us...' Nadia thought, bitting down on her lips. 'But now, this gaping hole only serves to remind us that we cannot escape any further.'

"That might be the case here," the policeman whispered before taking a step forward.

"Back off!" he shouted, pulling the hammer of his gun back with his thumb.

It was a tiny threat, especially for those who didn't really understand it. But in the era of movies, shooting games, and a general glorification of the gun, hardly anyone could fail to understand the policeman's meaning.

"Fine, fine!" the leader of the student group finally came forward, his hands raised in the gesture of defeat. If anything, only his girlfriend still cuddling herself into the man's raised arm made him look strange.

Once ahead of the entire pack, the burly young man brought his hands to the sides as if he wanted to embrace the air ahead in a bear-hug. Yet, rather than going forward, he pushed backward instead, using his spread-out arms to force the rest of his group along.

Strangely enough, though, he didn't seem to be perturbed by the death of one of his classmates just now.

"We backed off. Are you happy?" the young man shouted over, alternating his eyes between the old officer in the middle of the room and the other policeman by Nadia's side.

"Back off," the younger officer repeated his words.

'Huh?' Nadia shrugged a little when she raised her eyes and noticed a small peculiarity.

The officer's hands... were sweating.

'He sure knows how to put on a bravado,' Nadia thought, her facial muscles tensing up.

Sure, his understanding of tactics against mob might be great, but...

'Compared to his senior, he is an amateur,' Nadia thought, sending a quick glance at the other officer.

"Peter!" the policeman shouted over. "Get the supplies and head for the nearest staircase!"

The sound of the old man's voice filled the floor. And for different people, this message bore different meanings.

For the students that wished to do away with the police supervision, it was a dream come true. Since officers wished to retreat without a fight, there was no use and any real point in stopping them from doing so.

Yet, the supplies thingy...

Given the current state of the world, it was debatable whether getting rid of the police was worth the cost of then snatching the precious little resources the group had!

'Huh?' Nadia shrugged, shocked to her wits.

'What's the reason for this move?' She racked her brains, desperately attempting to see through the strategy of the senior officer. 'Weren't all the stairs blown up?'

For the policemen, retreating was likely the only option. They saw the hell and the bottom floor. They saw the hell that nearly reached them all the way up there.

But contrary to what one could expect, it wasn't the zombies that were the greatest threat to them.

It was the unruly students.

The situation right now proved it. Sure, they managed to handle it so far, and it appeared as if a single shot was enough to convince the young ones about the futility of their attempts...

But it was only a matter of time before the shock of what happened would pass. And in a world ruled by an apocalypse, people would strive to grow more and more resistant to the sight of death, indicating the officers had only a little time.

Because once the push would come to shove, they barely had enough bullets for the first wave of the students. If anything were to happen, if either of them were to fall to an ambush...

"We need to run right now," the younger officer whispered, his forehead sweating just as much as his hands. "The stalemate will crack any second now," he warned. The officer then rubbed his fingers against the handle of his gun, shaving away the slick sweat to ensure his grip.

"Excuse me..." a voice from behind felt like a hammer for Nadia.

She was so focused on the events ahead that she didn't pay even the slightest attention to what was on her back!

'Fuck!' Nadia cursed under her breath, rapidly turning her head around. "It's on me!" she uttered on half of a breath, hoping to stop the officer from looking to the back as well.

But it was too late.

"KILL!"

This time, the students didn't hesitate.

With the younger of the officers no longer paying close attention, they only had the older of the two to be worried about.

'Too quick,' Nadia thought, looking at the face of the remarkably cute student and likely her boyfriend that approached her. Even though she moved her eyes away, she could somehow sense the events happening in the back of her head.

The students rushed forward, all eager to get the situation over with.

The other officer raised his hand.

Nadia could see it clearly despite not looking, as if the rushing blood in the officer's veins produced some sort of information that the girl's subconsciousness could somehow process.

'I can't see the gun,' Nadia thought, realizing the limits of her strange, new ability.

BANG!

The officer fired his first shot.

Alerted by the exploding sound, the younger of the two turned his attention back to the fight, fixing his grip and raising his muzzle back towards his desired target...

And then, he simply stood in place, watching how four more students fell to the ground, only for the rest of the group to tear the older officer apart.

"I'm sorry..." The officer's face turned into a snotty mess. Tears appeared in his eyes. And yet, all he could do was utter the words of apology with his trembling lips.

"Move!" Nadia shouted, some sort of force pushing her into action. She reached out and grabbed the two that approached them. She then squeezed out her thigh, sending a kick towards the officer's butt.

'What's happening!?' Naida screamed out in her mind, her eyes widening beyond their healthy limits as shock filled every last nook and cranny of her soul.

Yet, her lips moved again, uttering a quick, simple shout.

"MOVE!"


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
MotivatedSloth MotivatedSloth

First chappie for today, at least one more will come later, hopefully will manage two before reset.

All in all, once I get over with the visit from my friend (that happens after the reset, don't worry :D) I believe you guys (and galls) are in for a threat!

Now then, offer your power stones to summon Sloth's motivation!

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