[IC] The Dead Rising [HOTD Closed]

[joeycbee]

@TheHangedMan
Realizing that there were more zombies in front of her and on her right side. She quick changed the target to the zombies and turned her back to the boy. This time ready she took a few steps and swung her katana with less force letting the blade do the work for her. This time the head came clean off without it getting stuck. She then swung at another hitting it with the back of the sword and stabbing it in the head with a knife. She left the knife there and swung at a third zombie once again slicing through the neck no problem. She swung at a forth but was off and hit just below the neck getting the blade stuck there. "Dame it!" She yelled. She was about to pull it out but th zombie was still trying to grab her. She let go and took the few steps she had taken forward, backwards. She he a gunshot from somewhere in the hotel. She quickly pulled out her revolver and pointed it at the zombie. She pulled the trigger and shot it straight through the head, though it wasn't rely much of a accomplishment since it was from nearly point blank range. She took a few steps backwards from the shot hitting the boys back and then fell down.

[TheHangedMan]

@joeycbee

Jose grimaced. This girl wasn't as unreliable as he had thought, but she was still too reckless (the irony of him calling another person reckless when he was punching zombies was not lost to him, however, he did have the excuse of not being able to get one); he watched her take down three zombies using a katana and knife individually, and was all set to let her watch his back, letting him deal with the remaining walkers. That didn't last too long, as a shot rang out, followed by her unceremoniously crashing into his back.

Jose stumbled for a bit, however, he was much larger than she was, so thankfully he didn't topple over. Looking around him, he realized slowly that there wasn't really any need to fight anymore - there were only five zombies left and the to the hallway was right behind them.

Making up his mind, Jose did the first thing that came into his mind: He picked up Anselma and threw her over his shoulders in a fireman carry, then proceeded to run out of there as fast as he could. Tired as he was, Anselma wasn't all that heavy to him - in fact, by contrast she was relatively tiny.

While running, he asked her: "Are you okay? Do you have any companions?"

[Jangel13]

Angelo knew that he couldn't take down a bunch of zombies with just a heavy briefcase so Angelo went back into the bus to check if they had any weapons. Much to Angelo favor he found a bat and it was one of those aluminum bats so they wouldn't break when they hit skull like a wooden one would. Once he grabbed the bat he ran back into the hotel and went after anselma to help her

[ChronoBovino]

Glenn stayed at the front of the hotel just in case someone stole the bus like those two weirdos from before. He seen something run by him holding a bat and saw it was Angelo he then heard two gun shots unsure of the gunmen. Glenn was then approached by the dead, he was about to call for help when he realized He could handle them. The first one he lead into the hotel and pushed it against the then smashing the head with the back of his hammer. Just when he was going to turn around to fight the walker his hammer got stuck "Crap!" he ran to the other side of the hotel to lead the remaining walker to him then Axle arrived.

Axle looked in all directions unsure of the destination he then seen one of the dead drawing nearer and nearer to him he sprinted to it bringing his fist to its face and it fell to the ground Axle bent down and started punching the face on the laying dead and after a few moments he realized it was dead. He dragged them outside again so the smell wouldn't effect the room. He then walked inside and ran looking for the others forgetting his hammer.

[karamonnom]

Amaya, despite the fact that she went to help Anselma earlier, was starting to feel very afraid. There were a lot of them. She tried to find a safe spot as she swung her bat in attempt to keep them all back. "Uhm, sorry to bother you all, but I could use a little bit help here," she said, trying to maintain a calm facade.

[RumikoOhara]

Miki had the .40 cal glock and it's attendant clips tucked into their holster an slung over her shoulder as she exited the office and heard Amaya call for help.

With a snarl she charged towards her bat raised and brought the bat down with all her strength cracking the skull of the nearest horror. As her first target fell Miki swung the bat. In a half circle crushing the next horror's face in and caused it's eye's to pop right out of the orbits. Then pivoting on her feet Miki went into a backhand swing striking a third in the spine causing it to stagger and fall where she broke it's head open swinging her bat like a golf club.

As she recovered Miki stood facing Amaya her eyes glowing with excitement as blood and gore dripped from her spattering the floor. She was like a blood doll from some homicidal nightmare as she trembled with energy seeking her next target.

"Amaya if you aren't hurt we need to finish off these horrors before we can rest. Don't worry all we need to do is secure the ground floor then the first floor. They're too dumb to use the elevators or open the fire doors to the stairs. she says finishing with a bright smile.

[joeycbee]

@TheHangedMan
As the boy pick her up she began to squirm and and yell. Though all her attempts to free herself had fail and was easily overpowered. As they he ran away with her the adrenalin began to fade and her thoughts became clearer. She had realise that she had killed four, or was it five...people? Whatever it was killing was not in her nature and she began to feel extremely nauseous and quickly went limp. She moaned out at him, "I don't...feel...so good..." She was still loosely holding the revolver in her hand unconsciously. After a few seconds the question registered and she responded, "Yea I have friends...there...around." Unfortunately she didn't realize that she said this in german. Things began to slow down, or speed up, she couldn't tell. The boy spoke some more but nothing registered to her, all she did was moan and stare off into space. She began softly mumbling "It hurts." in german as they past through the halls.

[TheHangedMan]

^{@joeycbee &@RumikoOhara & @karamonnom & @ChronoBovino & @Jangel13}
Jose frowned at Anselma's response. She wasn't speaking in Japanese, or any language he was familiar with. He cursed silently. That wasn't good - that practically meant that communication between them was a dead-end. After running through the hall for a bit, he approached the stairs, and suddenly realized that Anselma had gone silent - the only sounds she made were pained and nauseated groans.

Panicking, Jose set her down slowly, letting her lean on the wall. He furrowed his brows. "She doesn't look well. This isn't good," he thought. He looked around, checking if there were any nearby zombies. Seeing none, Jose said to Anselma in a calming a voice as he could manage: "I don't know if you're able to understand me, but rest here for awhile. I will see if there is help nearby."

Saying that, Jose got up and approached the nearby balcony, not taking his awareness off Anselma. Looking down the balcony and down the ground floor, he saw, much to his delight and relief, four people; two males and two females. They were making short work of the zombies down there. Good, that meant that they were clear to go down.

The large young man waved at the four, ignoring the blood dripping down from his wrapped hands - he could get that patched up later, the girl comes first. "Excuse me, I have someone in need of help here! She doesn't seem to be feeling well, and I wont move her in case it's serious. If you can help, I will appreciate it!"

After saying that, Jose left the balcony and checked up on Anselma again. A nearby moan alerted him to the presence of a Walker, however it was quite a distance away, and like all of them moved slowly. Jose frowned, and stood next to Anselma. He would not engage the Walker until it came close enough. For now, he wasn't leaving the girl next to him.

[RumikoOhara]

Miki heard the unknown boy call down to them from the balcony and seeing as she and Amaya were on the ground floor knew it must be Anselma he was talking about. Her protective instincts kicked in and she said

"Amaya sounds like Anselma needs help, follow me an stay close."

With that said Miki was in motion and heading up stairs

[karamonnom]

Amaya obeyed Miki's instructions and followed her closely as they both made their way up the stairs. There they found Anselma against the wall with a boy they never met before. "Thanks for watching over her," Amaya said to him. She was genuinely grateful for his help. She then got a better look at Anselma, but saw no visible wounds or bad injuries. "What's wrong, Anselma?" she asked, in a very concerned voice.

[RumikoOhara]

Miki stood off about four paces from the stranger her bloody bat at the ready should she need it as she looked Jose over. His hands were bloody but at least it appeared that like her's it wasn't his own and he'd at least been smart enough to tape his hands.

"Hi I'm Miki, that's Amaya seeing to Anselma who's a member of our group. We came here seeking a secure place to rest, clean up and to find food. You are welcome to join us if you'd like, if not then respect our right of passage and we'll not get in your way." she said her voice neither commanding or submissive.

Miki is quite a sight to behold as not an inch of her is free of blood or gore her long red hair matted with dried blood and when she shifts her weight blood even oozes from her shoes. Her old friends if they were still alive would have trouble telling that the gore queen now present is actually a girl they all called Usagi.

"I'm sorry if I sound demanding but I think it would be best if for at least for the night you stayed with us, there is safety in numbers. If that is acceptable then welcome aboard." she adds as she considers giving him the .40 caliber glock. She decides against it till she knows him better and instead looks at Amaya trying to help Anselma.

She knows they need to get her to a safe place and elevate her legs and keep her warm or at least she thinks that's part of treating shock.

"We need a safe room, a suite large enough for us all to hold up in. We can put Anselma in bed and leave her under guard then make a sweep for food and clothing. Tomorrow we will head out and secure a sailing yacht from which to base ourselves. Water between us and them will give us protection and prevent them from cutting off our chances of escape. she says her weary body beginning to tremble.

[TheHangedMan]

Jose should have been bothered by Miki's appearance, but in all honesty, she was not the weirdest nor the most repulsive thing he had seen today.

"Very well, take what you need; there is plenty of supplies here," answered Jose simply. "Take what you need, and if you can, spare me some supplies," Jose wasn't an idiot - he slow, but not stupid. Unfortunately, he was also altogether too caring. The fact that he was willing to give all the supplies here to Anselma's group was proof of that. It didn't matter to him; in his own mind, they were in need of the supplies more, especially with the condition Anselma was in."Bandages in particular would be nice," he continued, gesturing with his wrecked fists. "As for where you can stay, I am unsure about the higher floors, but the first and second floor halls and rooms are free of undead."

I've made sure of that, he added silently in his head.

Looking at Anselma and Miki, he creased his forehead in worry. He tossed Amaya a ring of keys that hung from his pockets. Obviously, they were the keys to the hotel rooms, straight from the front desk. "I think that you should rest as well, Miss Miki, you're not looking very good either," he said, staring sternly at the girl, before turning to Amaya again. "There is unsoiled food in the canteens, Miss Amaya. It's sparse, but it's better than nothing. Get someone else to scavenge for them. I think you should look after Miss Miki and Miss Anselma.

Without another word, he descended down the stairs. In his own mind, Anselma had done him a favor, and had helped him out of a tight spot. He would pay her back thrice as much; he had no plans of his own asides from 'survive' so simply following her and her group until the debt was paid was good enough for him.

[karamonnom]

Amaya caught the keys and nodded at the man who has yet to state his name. She took Anselma and wrapped one of her arms around her shoulder and lead her to one of the hotel rooms. She fidgeted around and tried a bunch of the keys until one of them finally unlocked the door. She gently placed Anselma on one of the beds and hurried her way back towards Miki, who was trembling from exhaustion. She did the same thing to Miki as she did with Anselma and placed her on the other bed. She checked the rooms just in case, but it was safe and there was no place for the undead to get in from.

"Both of you, get some rest. I'm going to go look for the supplies like the guy mentioned earlier," she told them, though she wasn't really sure if they were listening or have already passed out. She left the room, and locked the door just for more insurance. She shouldn't be gone for too long anyways.

"Angelo! Glenn!" she shouted, unsure of where they were. "Anselma and Miki aren't doing so hot... We're going to have to go look for food!" She hoped they heard her and would begin to search. Oh, she almost forgot. "They're in room 105! So we're going to meet in front of there since I'm the only one with the keys, okay?" she added.

Then she ran down the stairs with her bat and began to search for supplies.

[Jangel13]

Angelo soon heard Amaya call for him so Angelo quickly ran to where she heard her then as she explained it Angelo simply nodded at her as she explained that they would meet up at her room after searching Angelo then went on his search for food and where would one expect to find food? in the dinning hall, no doubt their would be horrors their but Angelo knew how to be quiet and he had the intelligence to avoid them when he needed to and if need be find a way to outsmart them by maybe throwing a pan in a different direction knowing they would be attracted to the noise and as such would go after it but Angelo also needed to see if he could connect to the hotels computer knowing it must be connected to the public systems better then his laptop...

[ChronoBovino]

Hearing Amaya called Axle he wondered where would he find the supplies and it then hit him the staff room he ran looking for the room down the stairs seeing his hammer he quickly pulled it out of the head of the corpse. He ran quickly hoping to find the staff room sadly it was boarded up with a table. Axle moved the table and opened the door, finding a man with a bullet in his head, it confused Axle very much then Glenn returned wondering why he was here he then saw the food in the lunch boxes and grabbed 3 of them holding 1 under his arm and the other 2 in his hands putting the hammer in his back pocket as he turned around he looked at the dead man against a cupboard he then started running back to Anselma and the others.

[TheHangedMan]

Jose wanted badly to just do as Anselma and Miki did, to simply crash into a bed and fall into a long, deep sleep, but he forced himself to stay awake an alert. He'd given his word - he would keep watch until it was determined it was safe. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw the other companions of Anselma looking for food and supplies. He hoped that they would have spare bandages, his hands hurt like hell.

Currently, there was nothing out of the ordinary, and as the clocked ticked by, slowly but surely Jose was falling asleep. The young man slapped himself awake. He considered asking one of the others to switch with him, but decided against it. He wasn't part of their group; they wouldn't trust him. He resolved to keep awake for awhile longer.

[joeycbee]

@TheHangedMan
Anselma slowly wakes up putting hand on her head for it was throbbing. She groaned and rubbed her eyes.She thought it was just and dream till she turned to see Miki in the next bed over covered with dried blood all over her. She looked at herself and she wasn't far off as Miki with herself cover with blood, Hough not as much as Miki. She turned noticing the clock read 1:00 am. She thought about just going bac to sleep but she saw the boy before that saved her keeping watch about to fall asleep from exhaustion. Feeling that it would be unfair she got up from the bed. Still feeling weak she stumbled a little knocking over the clock as she hit the table to stop herself from falling. She got got up balance a little and then walked d slowly around examining the room for clean close.

By the looks of the room it looked like someone didn't even bother to pack and ran out the door, at least she hoped they made it. She opened a suitcase that had girls clothing in it. She found some jeans that would fit her nicely. Unfortunately all the shirts were either ridiculously small of to big. She took a big whit shirt since she found being comfortable was better, because who knows how long till they come across more clean clothes. She folded them up, grabbed a towel, and put the revolver on top of the pile of clothes, and told the boy, "I'm going to take a shower and if I find you peeking I'll shot your balls off. After I'm done I'll take over watch for you. She said the first sentence in a strict and threatening voice with her eyes giving a deadly stare to him, though the second second sentence she closed her eyes, tilted her head and gave a big grin at him. She walked into the bathroom without waiting for a answer.

She turned the shower on and underdressed. She first place all the clothes on next to the sink and place the towel on top of the toilet, next to the shower. Can never be to careful. She said putting the revolver on top of the towel. She grabbed all the complementary shower kit and took it with her in the shower. She did her best to use as little as possible with all the conditioner and soap. She tried her best to rub all the dried blood of her and used a lot more soap then she intended to use but got the blood out after scrubbing awhile.

[Mtntopview]

Night sure was difficult to travel without some kind of light source. Not only that, but Samuel was also hefting around a 5 gallon bucket full of water and fish. He had been raiding fish stores all day, determined to save as many aquatic slaves as possible. He simply could not tolerate their deaths because of the humans incompetence. Anyways, he had been planning on taking these particular fish to the ocean. They were salt water, and were matched correctly to the nearest source of salt water. What he did not anticipate was how long it would take him to get to the ocean, with the undead and utter chaos and all. The sun had set before he could deliver the fish to freedom, so he now found himself looking for shelter. He found himself searching way too long.

The streets around him were relatively quiet, only the footsteps of the occasional infected could be heard. Shapes were harder to make out in the dark, and Samuel had increasingly relying on hearing to navigate through the darkness. He had already gotten into multiple close calls, and if it weren't for his slow speed due to the 5 gallon bucket he likely would have slammed into the undead. He could definitely say for sure that they were blind, but he didn't want to see if he could get away with physical contact.

As he drew closer to what sounded like a commotion, he had to dodge more of them. They were all around him, moaning and groaning, being generally creepy. Several times he had to duck rapidly just to dodge an outstretched arm. By the time he found himself inside some kind of hotel, he was glad that he could finally rest. It had been a tough day, and he was physically exhausted.

Voices. His exhaustion was rapidly replaced with adrenalin. Humans were much more dangerous than the undead. The undead were predictable, humans were not. He had already seen several gangs formed that were wreaking general havoc and rioting. He had barely made it out with his fish alive after a certain interaction with them. He did not want to meet them now, and so he decided to quickly retreat into the shadows. He would fight to his last breath to defend the fish, for they needed a guardian who could stand up to protect their right to live.

[RumikoOhara]

Miki woke with a start clutching at her bat and looking all around her as she bolted from her bed. After realizing that she was safe the next thing she became aware of was how tight her skin felt on her own body. It was only after seeing her reflection that she understood why she felt as she did; the blood on her body had dried to a crust. Her hair was nearly as hard a crash helmet and her school uniform stiff.

She decided that a bath was in order and when she approached the door to the one in her room she could hear that she'd been beaten to the shower. Sighing she turned to the door leading out of her room and walked out into the hall checking first to see it was secure. Satisfied that their were no horrors she walked to the next door and took the card key she'd lifted from the hotel security man's pocket and was pleased when it's lock flashed green then opened.

Miki checked before entering and found the door was partly blocked by what appeared to be the maid's cart. Carefully without calling out which might attract attention she entered the room. It didn't take long to find out what happened to the maid nor all that long to dispatch the horror that had killed her. After quickly crushing the skull of the shambling creature that must have once been the occupant Miki looked the room over. She found it was now empty of all except herself and then turned to the maid's cart checking out it's contents.

There were boxes of soap, the little kind they left in hotel baths along with shampoos, conditioner and body wash. Cleaning products, towels, wash clothes, bath robes, slippers, trash bags, tissue paper and various other products you expected to be used to refresh a room. None of the things on the cart were critical to survival but they were useful to morale..

After accessing the supplies on the cart Miki searched the rest of the room and was mildly annoyed that the woman who they belonged to was obviously one who enjoyed dressing provocatively. In some ways it was lucky because she was two sizes larger than Miki but her clothes chosen to fit tightly might be actually just a little loose fitting.

Gathering up some clean clothes, towels and soaps she went into the bath and placed them on the sink counter. Then as an after thought took a magic marker and wrote

"IN HERE BATHING MIKI"

on a sheet and drapped it over the outside of the door and closed it.

Once inside Miki stripped and filled a sink with water and shampoo and ducked her underware in it to soak. She hung both guns in their holsters in the shower stall from the grab rails then she propped her bat in the corner near the shower door in case a horror or sicko interrupted her Then that done she turned on the shower selecting a temp. as hot as she could stand and climbed in and allowed the water to cascade over her.

She didn't dare close her eyes and actually relax and kept facing the door in case so she'd be ready to fight. She did glance down at her feet and was shocked to see the water swirling down the drain was bloody red like the water in some horror flick and it made her giggle. She laughed as release of a storm of conflicting emotions.

[Jangel13]

Angelo soon found his way to the kitchen near the lobby floor and he quietly walked through seeing a pile of zombies or rather one pile and one group of them just staring off into space as Angelo silently made a beeline for the kitchen itself and he looked through the kitchen and found a couple of canned foods that still looked edible however the organic stuff like the fruits and veggies were mold and done for. Angelo soon got some into his bag before grabbed a frying pan and he slowly walked away and when he felt close enough to the door Angelo threw the pan at a far away wall to cause a commotion over their as they slowly shuffled over to them and Angelo closed the door behind him as he silently walked back to find that room that he needed to meet the others in. The food he had wasn't much but it was enough to last a few days a week at best...