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Bab 12: Crafting Necessary Tools

It did not take much for Zane to realize why this building had even more Walkers than the main one… Whether the students and faculty had failed to get the notice to barricade themselves in time, or something more sinister had occurred. There was not a single living being that still drew breath in the second building.

At least not other than Zane and the girls. Curiously enough, though, Zane suspected there might be something far more dangerous at fault for this, because several of the doorways were smashed in by some kind of blunt force. Whatever had caused this, it was extremely powerful.

Because of this, Zane proceeded with extreme caution as he entered the wood shop classroom. Luckily for him, there was nobody inside, but more importantly, the tools and supplies were unmolested.

With this in mind, Zane sighed heavily in relief, before explaining to the girls what his plan was.

"You two guard the door. I'm going to make some weapons for us to use. Thankfully, the power is still on, but it won't be in a few days…"

Elena stared at Zane as if he had gone mad before questioning his sanity outright.

"Guard the door? With what, exactly? You know I'm a black belt in Judo, but there is no fucking way I'm fighting one of those fucking things with my bare hands!"

Zane sighed heavily before pulling his combat knife out of his belt and handing it to the crimson haired beauty, where he spoke to her in a cold tone.

"Aren't you also a black belt in Kendo? Use this…"

Elena frowned, a combat knife was hardly a sword, and besides she couldn't help but feel Zane was mocking her, because he knew damn well the term "black belt" was improper when it came to her Kendo and Iaido training, thus she couldn't help but grab the knife reluctantly while scolding the man for his deliberate misusage of the proper terminology.

"It's called a Dan! And Yes!"

Despite her actions, which could be qualified as "cute" in a tsundere sense, Zane had no reaction as he began to turn o the woodworking equipment. When dealing with zombie like creatures like these Walkers, the best melee weapon would be a blunt instrument. At least from Zane's perspective. And thus he got to work on the woodworking lathe and made a two handed club that was similar in shape and size to a baseball bat.

After finely tuning several of such instruments, Zane fire hardened them, before leading the girls into the metalworking class next door, where he fashioned several steel bands, which he bound to the top section of the baseball-bat like clubs.

Once the three weapons were finished, Zane applied several layers of electrical tape towards the thinnest section of the clubs, creating a makeshift grip. With these weapons completed, Zane tested them out by taking a practice swing like he was the star hitter for the major leagues. Once he had done this, he nodded his head, almost as if he was pleased with his work, before handing one of the said clubs to both Elean and his former homeroom teacher.

The women were both baffled by what Zane had created. They never knew that the school's facilities could be used to make such weapons. But then again, few people had the violent mindset Zane had. Given enough time, the man could fashion a dagger, or a set of knuckle dusters, but neither of those two things would be as useful as a war club.

Elena was quite impressed by Zane's handiwork, and was quick to compliment him on his efforts.

"It's a unique design, for sure. Where did you learn how to make such a thing?"

Zane scoffed as he rested his own club on his shoulder. Since they had time to waste, decided to let the girl in on his methods of madness.

"I mean, I have taken both wood shop and metals class. As for the origin of the design, you could say it's inspired by the ancient burda war clubs that the Celtic tribes used, but with a modern twist. Anyway, these should be extremely efficient, and since you have some weapons training, I'm guessing this will be far more useful than the knife I lent you. Speaking of…"

Zane then motioned for Elena to hand him back the knife, which, after a moment's hesitation, she begrudgingly did. As for Olivia, she was inspected the quality of Zane's craft, before sighing heavily, almost as if she regretted not understanding the talent the boy had, despite having him in her homeroom for the last four years.

"I'm starting to think I know nothing about you…."

Zane didn't even dignify such a statement with a response. Instead, he swung the club off of his shoulder and into his hands as he approached the door to the classroom. His words, however, were quite terrifying to the older woman who had not yet mentally prepared herself for this brave new world.

"Let's go hunting…"

Elena's gaze narrowed, almost as if she had suddenly decided to follow Zane's lead, while Olivia tried to ask for answers on just what Zane meant by this.

"Wait, a second. What do you mean by that? Zane! Elena? Will somebody answer me!?!"

But neither of the two former students responded, instead they walked off into the hallway, leaving Olivia all by herself. After a few moments of internal dread and paranoia, Olivia chased after the two of them while practically in tears.

"Don't just leave me behind!"

As for Zane, he was stepping up the stairwell, ready to fight the first Walker he came across, and as he gazed out the window, he saw something chilling. Standing in the Main building he had just left a few hours before was the Stalker, who stared at him with a murderous gaze from the opposite window.

Zane stopped in his tracks when he saw this, felling a certain chill down his spine, but when he looked back at where he swore the Stalker had just been a second ago, it had seemingly vanished into thin air.

One thing was certain… Zane was being watched, and he had a feeling there was no chance in hell he would be able to beat that monster known as a "Stalker" at least not until he had time to properly consume his blood crystals and "level up". Whatever that entailed…


Bab 13: Clearing the Second Building

After entering the second floor of the second building on campus, Zane was not entirely surprised to find more Walkers waiting for him and the girls. Why was this the case? In fact, Zane honestly thought it was a miracle that the noise from the shop classes had not aggro'd these monsters.

Zane was emotionless as he gripped his club in both hands as if it were a baseball bat before swinging it like a designated hitter straight at the skull of the first walker who pounced at him. A normal baseball bat in and off itself was more than capable of caving in the skull of a human being. Or, in this case, a walking corpse.

But these bats were even more brutal as they were fire hardened and coated in steel bands at the top. The Walker's hand was practically smashed into bits in a frightening display of violence. Yet Zane did not have time to rest, because immediately afterward another walker charged at him, closing the distance in a second.

Realizing that he was in a difficult situation, Zane wrapped the club around the creature's neck for control, and quickly grappled it to the floor with a sweep, where he then caved in its skull with a solid strike.

Elena was already accustomed to fighting with sticks, but they usually took the form of a sword rather than a club. Still, she had experience fighting either in judo competitions or kendo competitions. And because of this she quickly joined in to assist Zane, taking a front line position as she wielded the club with expert efficiency, smashing skulls part left and right.

The only member of the trio who hesitated to engage in violence was Olivia, who trembled with her club in her hands, not knowing what to do. While Zane was dead inside, and could not care in the slightest about doing something like killing. And Elena was accustomed to fighting already and had entered a state of fight or flight. Olivia was a different matter.

She had never once encountered a violent situation, and to see herself suddenly forced to swing a bat at what used to be her students, or at least students at the school she taught at. It was a terrifying thing for her to do.

Her body was telling her to run away to safety, but where exactly was safe in this world now that the apocalypse had begun? It wasn't until Zane shouted her name in a monotone voice did the young woman snap out of her terror.

"Olivia! Don't just stand there… Start swinging!"

This was probably the first time the teacher had heard Zane raise his voice in the last four years she had known him. And though his voice was as emotionless as ever, the fact that he shouted meant he desperately needed her help. Thus, the mature silver haired beauty took a deep breath before charging at one of the Walkers, which was attempting to attack Zane from the side.

She swung the bat with absolutely no technique and bonked the creature on the head. While it didn't outright split the skull open, the attack did successfully manage to knock the creature to the ground. Where Olivia finished off with tears in her eyes.

"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!"

By the time Olivia had finished hitting the undead monstrosity in the skull, Zane and Elena had finished off the others that were an immediate threat to them. Leaving Olivia to stare at the coagulated blood which coated her club and her hands with trembling vision.

There were tears falling from the teacher's blue eyes as she gazed at her own gruesome handiwork. This was the first time she ever had to kill anything before, and it was a truly dreadful feeling to know that she had just "murdered" a student.

Zane, however, scoffed as he gazed upon the distraught appearance of his former homeroom teacher, before outright mocking her for her weakness.

"What are you crying about? They were already dead. If you continue with that attitude, you won't survive for much longer…"

Elena was outraged by Zane's utter lack of humanity, and immediately chastised him in between consoling Olivia with a hug.

"It's going to be alright Miss Bennett… Everything will be fine… Zane! How can you be so cruel! It's obvious that Miss Bennett hasn't ever been involved with such violence before! Can't you see she's shaken up?"

Zane was just about to mock Elena for consoling a lost cause when Olivia interrupted him. The mature silver haired beauty wiped the tears from her eyes, before wearing a stern expression on her face, all the while pushing Elena aside.

"It's fine, Zane is right… I don't have the luxury to be so weak, nobody does. Such a thing will only get you killed. Oh, and by the way Elena, I'm no longer your homeroom teacher so you don't have to call me Miss Bennett anymore, just call me Olivia…"

After saying this, Olivia picked up the club, which had slipped from her trembling fingers, and walked over to Zane's side. There was a look of fierce determination on her pretty face, almost as if she had come to some kind of conclusion thanks to Zane's harsh words. She then stuck very closely to Zane as she said the words, which shocked Elena, who was watching from afar.

"I will do whatever it takes to survive! But… I can't do it on my own… Won't you take pity on me and keep me by your side?"

Zane looked at his former homeroom teacher with a curious expression. Though his dark eyes were as dull and expressionless as ever, there was a hint of complication in them. He had until recently decided to walk this path alone. After all, if he was on his own, then the dead would pose no threat to him.

There was just one problem with this line of thinking. The most dangerous beings in this world weren't the hordes of walking dead, but those living beings who managed to survive in this apocalyptic wasteland. This was made evident to him by the encounter with Ryan and his gang earlier.

If those fools were bold enough to try to rob him, then who's to say that everyone else he encountered wouldn't do the same? It was with this in mind that Zane decided he needed allies in this cruel world. And by the looks of it, neither Olivia nor Elena had cause to betray him.

Olivia took Zane's silence as a sign that he was rejecting her, and thus she had a downcast expression as she tried to think how to entice the young man into accepting her as a companion.

While Zane continued to debate internally, the mature beauty grabbed hold of his hands, pleading with him, and even offering something she had never thought of doing before in exchange for his protection and guidance.

"Please Zane… I'll do anything… I mean anything! Just protect me!"

Zane scoffed at the mature beauty, who had quite literally just offered her body to him in exchange for his protection. But rather than take advantage of this situation, he instead simply reached into his pocket and pulled out two small blood crystals, one of which he presented to his former homeroom teacher.

"I have more important things to worry about right now. If you really want to stay by my side, eat this, and maybe I can keep you as a pack mule."

 

 


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