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  Rating:
      Explicit
  Archive Warning:
      Graphic_Depictions_Of_Violence, Major_Character_Death, Underage
  Category:
      M/M, F/M
  Fandom:
      Big_Hero_6_(2014)
  Relationship:
      Hiro_Hamada/Tadashi_Hamada, Other_pairing_undecided
  Character:
      Hiro_Hamada, Tadashi_Hamada, Honey_Lemon_(Marvel), Gogo_Tomago, Wasabi-No
      Ginger, Fred_|_Fredzilla, Alistair_Krei, Robert_Callaghan, Abigail
      Callaghan, random_characters, Baymax_(Marvel)
  Additional Tags:
      Monsters, Gore, Death, Incest, Dark, Insanity, Protective_Tadashi, this
      is_not_a_nice_story, Horror
  Stats:
      Published: 2014-12-25 Updated: 2015-06-26 Chapters: 15/? Words: 33046
****** Hand In Hand We Walk Together ******
by CaptainFairyTale
Summary
     “This must be a dream. In a minute I’m going to wake up… this isn’t
     real.”
     “I’m afraid not Hiro. You died right at 8:30 P.M. in the hospital.”
     Hand in hand we walk together into the unknown. But knowing you're
     there keeps me strong to put one foot in front of the other. So let's
     walk and journey into the unknown.
Notes
     PLEASE READ BEFORE READING THIS STORY!!!!!!!! PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE
     THE STORY!!!!!
     PLEASE READ BEFORE READING THIS STORY!!!!!!!! PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE
     THE STORY!!!!!
     PLEASE READ BEFORE READING THIS STORY!!!!!!!! PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE
     THE STORY!!!!!
     This is not my usually fluffy stories. In fact this is far from it.
     I'm currently working on many horror themed story with friends that
     we would like to incorporate into a game that were all considering to
     make after we learn how to use the unity engine. Since I've never
     really written anything horror this will give me great experience in
     writing the genre.
     This is not a happy story! WARNING! WARNING!: There is death, gore,
     depression, madness and all the bad things! This is a horror themed
     story and I can't keep stressing how dark this is going to be. I need
     to test out horror in all proportion from dark to madness kind. After
     playing probably so many horror games that I'll never sleep I decided
     to make this.
     I'm not going to extremes like certain horror games I have scene, but
     defiantly there will be parts where even I know I'll shiver or be a
     little queasy. THAT BEING SAID I SHALL ISSUE THE WARNING AGAIN.
     THIS IS A HORROR STORY! THERE WILL BE GORE! THERE WILL BE MONSTERS!
     THERE WILL BE INSANITY AND ALL THAT STUFF! IF YOU ARE FINE WITH THIS
     THEN GO AHEAD AND READ ON! IF NOT THEN DO NOT READ! TAKE YOUR CURSER
     AND HIT THE BACK BUTTON OR CLOSE OUT THE TAP/BROWSER! I CANNOT STRESS
     THIS ENOUGH!
     After that enjoy! Kinda weird that i'm posting such a dark story on
     christmas day, but oh well!
***** The Station *****
“Hiro? Are you Hiro?”
“Oh yes, indeed you are Hiro. Well Hiro, you must get up please.”
Hiro slowly opened his eyes and noticed how everything seemed to be a blur.
Like a haze that covered his eyes making Hiro bring his hands up to rub them
away. Eventually eyesight came back to Hiro making him notice that it looked
like he was in a run down subway station.
“How did I?” Hiro asked confused, before looking up to the figure that seemed
to be standing the closest to him.
Instant fear made Hiro’s blood run cold as he looked at he person… no creature
that stood in front of him. The creature looked like a bloody fusion gone wrong
with skeletons and flesh. It almost looked like a dragon with its wings,
reptilian look and long tail that sway back and forth smearing blood on the
ground as it did so. It looked to be holding something in it’s hand making Hiro
look down a bit to see it was holding a rusted looking metal clip board.
“I’m sorry for my appearance, but I can’t help that right now.” The creature
stated, it’s voice sounds almost like a female, but it sounded rusted and old.
“You’re Hiro. Age fourteen, boy, born from Clover Hamada and Tatsumi Hamada.”
The creature stated, reading off the clipboard.
“Ho…how do you know that?” Hiro asked with pure horror.
The creature tilted its head to the side, before shaking it’s head in pity.
“Introductions have never been my strong suit.” The creature admitted, before
shoving the clipboard in its open chest cavity in order to do a little bow.
Hiro felt sick as he watched the skin and… organs the clipboard was in slowly
start to heal with the thing still inside it.
“You don’t need to know my name. But, I am one of the many beings that help the
dead pass onto their eternal resting place.” The creature presented.
Hiro froze as if he heard the creature wrong. “This must be a dream. In a
minute I’m going to wake up… this isn’t real.” Hiro whispered, pressing his
hands to his face. The creature sighed, before it shook it’s head making a few
decayed pieces of flesh fling onto the floor making Hiro pull up his feet as
one got close to touching him.
“I’m afraid not Hiro. You died right at 8:30 P.M. in the hospital.” The
creature stated, before pointing at Hiro with one of it’s long oozing blackened
claws. Hiro looked down to see that he was in a hospital gown. Hiro couldn’t
breathe as he looked at his wrist where a hospital bracelet sat gently around
it giving information about Hiro and the hospital. All of a sudden memories
flashed into Hiro’s head.
Hiro could remember the searing heat and the thick black smoke. He could
remember his mother screams and his father’s shouts as Hiro tried to search for
them in the inferno. Hiro remember something smashing into him… a person. He
remembered it was a frantic person who pushed Hiro to the side in haste to get
away. Hiro was shoved right into the fire…
Hiro eyes widened, as he looked at his hands noticing that they were bandaged.
He looked at his legs to see they were bandaged as well making Hiro opened and
close his mouth. The memory of pain that his very skin sizzled and cooked in
the intense fire was clear as day. The creature in front of him nodded its head
as it looked at Hiro’s bandages.
“You succumbed to your burns when you were at the hospital.” The creature
stated, making Hiro look around to see if he could find anything that could be
a mirror. The teen didn’t have to look far and saw the broken remains of
reflective glass on the ground. Hiro quickly rushed over to it immediately and
looked into one of the reflective surfaces. Hiro’s hands instantly flew up to
his bandaged neck and he could see some of the burnt skin creeping out of the
bandages towards his face.
“How can… I…” Hiro whispered, as he felt no pain.
“Come sit, I shall explain to you a few things while we wait for the other to
come.” The creature stated motioning to the empty chairs.
Hiro didn’t know what else to do. But he walked to the chairs and sat down
gently. It was then that Hiro got a good look around to see other people were
here as well. Each person accompanied by a strange and horrifying creature.
Some people were sobbing, others speaking silently to the creatures before them
and a few seeming to through a panic attack with the creatures watching them
until they calmed into crying messes on the floor. Hiro felt something sting
his eyes before the feel of hot tears escaped down his face.
“It’s alright to cry. This is too much to take in… especially someone as young
as you.” The creature counseled.
“… Please.” Hiro begged, not knowing what questions to ask.
“The reason why you don’t feel pain is because you’re dead. What’s nice about
that is you can’t feel the pains of what killed you in your life. But that
doesn’t mean you still can’t feel pain in the after.” The creature warned,
looking at some of the other people who were sitting in the large waiting area.
“Old injuries from when you were alive won’t bother you here. But if you get an
injury in your after life… well that will hurt.” The creature mused, before
looking back at Hiro.
“… can you…” Hiro sobbed, finally pulling his knees to his chest in order to
hide his face from the creature. The creature tilted its head before shaking it
as it knowing what question Hiro was asking. “You can’t die in the after life.
If your body become too damaged it will regenerate to the form you took when
you first came into the after life.” The creature stated, before grabbing the
rusted clipboard again. Hiro heard the small sound the nails made hitting the
clipboard and looked up just in time to see the creature pull out in a swift
movement.
Immediately the skin that was healing over the metal was torn out and blood
splattered onto the floor again. Hiro felt bile want to come up, but he forced
it down as he looked away from the mess. The creature looked at the blood on
the floor before sighing. It used it’s tailed to wipe away some of the blood
before it sat on top of the mess.
“In any case, I’m the first point in your journey to go to your resting place.”
The creature stated, making Hiro whimper.
“What… what about my parents?” Hiro asked, getting the creature to look at the
clipboard.
“Your parents weren’t harmed in the fire. If it’s any constellation they’ll
move past your death and adopt three teenage siblings. All girls who will grow
up till a ripe old age along with your parents.” The creature reassured, making
Hiro look down to his bandaged feet. He didn’t know if he should feel happy
that his parents would be able to move from his death or not. Everything was
happening too fast that Hiro felt he couldn’t breathe.
“Am I… going to hell?” Hiro asked, making the creature look at him in shock.
“Why on earth would you think that?” The creature asked, making Hiro shrug his
shoulders as he looked around the station. It was then that the creature caught
Hiro’s drift and chuckled at Hiro’s question. The chuckle almost sounded like
the creature was dying before it recomposed itself.
“No child, this station is for the souls who died gruesome deaths as yourself.
Take a look at the other souls.” The creature spoke walking aside for Hiro to
see clearly. Every person looked damaged in a way that Hiro couldn’t possible
image why they wouldn’t feel the pain. One woman had half of her faced wrapped
and from the way the wrapping showed it seemed that her head was dented in. A
man little ways from her looked to have lost his left arm and right leg. He
patiently sat beside his creature and chattered softly to the decaying being.
Another person was even holding their head and seemed to be trying to reattach
it back to their body somehow!
“Every soul starts at a station before going on the journey.” The creature
stated, making Hiro look over at the creature with anxiety.
“How is the journey?” Hiro asked, getting the creature to look at Hiro sadly.
“I cannot tell you little one. You’ll find out for yourself.” The creature
stated, before looking at the clock on the wall. “We won’t have to wait long
though. You’ll be setting off on your journey soon.” The creature stated,
making Hiro try to slow his breathing down as his heart felt like it was going
to burst out of his chest.
“What are we waiting for?” Hiro asked, getting the creature to go silent.
 
“You’re older brother.”
***** Seeing Tadashi And Starting the Journey *****
Chapter Summary
     Sorry again for this being late!
     Hope you all enjoy!
“What do you mean?”
“Your older brother will be arriving soon. He’s been waiting here for a long
time.”
“But… Tadashi…” Hiro whispered in pure horror as he spoke the name. It almost
tingled Hiro’s lips as he spoke it. Like saying something you haven’t said long
ago before a few years later you speak it once again. It was familiar and yet
unfamiliar almost like a dejavu coming over.
“Tadashi…” Hiro whispered, his voice shaking.
The creature’s head tilted before nodding looking at the clipboard again. “Yes
Tadashi Hamada, eighteen when he died from burn wounds. It’s ironic how the two
of you died in very similar fashions.” The creature noted with only a small
amount of amusement.
“Tadashi… never moved on?” Hiro asked, getting the creature to sigh before it
shoved the clipboard back into its chest cavity. Hiro didn’t even flinch when
spurts of blood came out and painted the already messy floor. All he could
think about was Tadashi. Hiro was so young when Tadashi died, but he could
still remember his older brother’s warmth. The way he would smile at him or
lift him up when he fell. Hiro treasured every memory of Tadashi after he was
ripped away from him.
“No, he had the choice to move on as soon as he got here. But he wanted to wait
for you.” The creature spoke, looking around before looking at the time again.
“It’s rare for it to happen, but I must say it’s always what others call
‘beautiful’ when souls wait for their loved ones to come through in order for
the long journey ahead.” The creature added, before it finally stood up. Hiro
slowly got up as well as the creature motion for him to follow.
Hiro shivered at the cold contact he had on the floor as they walked past the
row and rows of seats. The teen couldn’t help, but sneak a few glances at other
spirits who were waiting and other who was following a creature to some place
that Hiro couldn’t imagine what it could be.
The station they were in looked older and more abandoned than Hiro originally
thought. Everything seemed broken or run down like it had been abandoned for
years. The more they walked the quieter it had become before only a couple of
people and creatures were walking. All had pretty much the same look as Hiro.
Fear.
Hiro was surprised when the creature stopped in order to discuss something with
another creature. One that actually made Hiro hide on the side of his creature
because of how gory the other one looked. It’s jaw looked almost torn off and
broken. A long tongue flicked back and forth with blood coming down it dropping
little red spots on the ground. The two chatted for a bit in a language that
made Hiro’s blood run cold. “Then again, maybe it’s because I’m dead.” Hiro
thought, looking down at the bandages in disbelief. He was too scared to look
below them to see the burnt skin they covered.
“Hiro let’s go.”
Hiro jumped at the words and immediately followed the decaying corpse in front
of him. They continued to walk until finally they came to a train station
platform. Five tunnels with train tracks on them all lead out into the darkness
that seemed almost solid with how dark it was.
It was there standing in front of the tunnels that Hiro saw a tall figure that
seemed like a stranger, but the tug of familiarity could be felt. It’s been so
long since Hiro seen Tadashi and the last time he saw him he was healthy and
whole. But the person who was staring into the tunnels wasn’t the same imagine.
“The burns did so much… I didn’t know.” Hiro thought, feeling tears go down his
face as he looked at his older brother.
Unlike Hiro Tadashi wasn’t wearing a hospital gown. Instead he wore a plain
grey long sleeves and long pants with no shoes. The clothes almost looked like
a nurses outfit or a long-term hospital outfit people wore.
Tadashi had… bloody bandages covering almost every inch of his person. The
blood looked old and the color of rust all over it some part being darker than
others. There was even old blood on his clothes. Tadashi’s half of Tadashi’s
face was burned with scars that made Hiro hold his whimper with how painful
they looked. One of his eyes a pure hazy white color that indicated he could no
longer see in that eye. Even the right side of Tadashi’s mouth was burned away
showing the back of his teeth to everyone that was around.
Hiro couldn’t help it anymore and soon his feet started moving. The slow walk
turned into a run as Hiro reach out for him.
“TADASHI!” Hiro sobbed, making the other sharply turn at him.
“Hi… ro?” spoke a soft voice. One filled with pure disbelief.
“Tadashi! Tadashi! Tadashi! Tadashi! Tadashi! Tadashi! Tadashi! Tadashi!” Hiro
chanted over and over again as he finally got a hold of the taller male. Hiro
didn’t realize he was shaking when strong arms wrapped around him tightly. But
he didn’t care; he couldn’t care and didn’t want to care, as he held on tight.
Hiro sobbed in Tadashi’s embrace as his older brother gave Hiro soothing words
and small encouragements. Hiro was becoming addicted to his brother’s warmth
again and couldn’t help, but feel slightly happy that he was finally reunited
with him at last.
“Hiro… I’m so sorry I wasn't there to protect you.” Tadashi spoke, his voice
filled with pure regret as he looked down at the shaking raven-haired teen.
Hiro shook his head and looked up at Tadashi with tearful eyes. “No! It’s not
your fault! It was never your fault…. Just… just… don’t let me ever again.”
Hiro sobbed, pushing himself into his brother’s chest.
“Sssshhhh, I’ll never leave you ever again. This I swear.” Tadashi promised,
making Hiro nod before he slowly looked back at the creature that guided him to
this point.
“Thank you.” Hiro smiled, getting an almost shocked response from the being.
The creature didn’t know what to say at first. The being looked at the other
creature that just nodded it’s head and gave an ‘encouraging’ wave of it’s
stitched claws. The creature nodded, before looking back at Hiro before bowing
it’s head. “You are welcome Hiro.” The creature wheezed out, before looking at
the dark tunnels ahead.
“Boys, from this time forward you’re on your own.” The creature stated, looking
at the darkness before motioning towards something to the side. Hiro looked
over to see two small satchels on the side. While hanging onto Tadashi, the two
made their way to the satchels and grabbed them. They were filled with little
things inside that almost didn’t make sense and yet did.
There were flashlights, matches, a thin blanket, batteries and even a flare.
Hiro looked over inside Tadashi’s bag to see the same thing inside his own. The
two looked back at the creatures in question who just motioned to the tunnel in
the middle.
“Every soul starts a journey to attain a final resting spot… but be wary for
the journey will be long and dangerous.” The second creature stated. Hiro
guessed it had been Tadashi’s guide every since he came to this strange place.
Hiro’s own creature was silent before stepping forward. “Hiro you asked me if
you were going to hell and I said no. Because it’s true for Hell is not your
final resting place… but… that doesn’t mean you won’t be going through hell in
order to achieve where you need to be.” The creature spoke, a tint of sadness
etched into it’s voice.
“There are monster who do not sleep. Creature who will be glad something tasty
will be walking around. But you must press through for even though the journey
is long the final resting place is worth it for it will yours for eternity.”
Tadashi’s creature spoke, before motioning to their satchels.
“The light is your friend. Make sure you don’t run out. Supplies are fickle and
few with other desperate souls looking for the same thing.” The creature added,
making Hiro use his free hand to clutch the strap of his satchel tighter.
“Pick up supplies you think you will need for areas will change like the drop
of a hat. Be wary for each area has it’s own deadly surprises. There is no time
for fair fight instead use all you can and kill all those who hunt you. There
are weapons all around look for one that will listen to you.” Hiro’s creature
advised, before the two walked to the entrance of the tunnel. Both looking into
the darkness they pointed their fingers in and spoke together.
“Now go.” The two stated at once.
Hiro looked at Tadashi, making the other give him a reassuring smile. “It will
be okay… I’ll protect you.” Tadashi promised, making the other nod as they
slowly walked up the stairs and pass the two creatures.
“Hiro…”
Hiro turned around to look at the creature in surprise as it slowly walked
towards the brothers. The other creature seemed surprised as the creature
handed the smaller child a small rusty looking lantern. “I never been given
thanks before… this is my gift for your journey… good luck and farewell.” The
creature wheeze before going back to it’s original position.
“Thank you again.” Hiro whispered, before looking at the darkness head. Tadashi
fumbled a bit before finally light appeared from the flashlight he held. Taking
Hiro’s hand the two made their way down the tunnels slowly leaving the
creatures sight before finally they were swallowed whole.
“You gave them a slight advantage.” Tadashi’s creature wheezed.
“You know as well as I there is really no advantage when you’re out there.” The
other resorted.
“Fair enough, do you think they’ll find it?”
“I shall hope so… or else they end up like the lost ones or even worse...”
“Or they’ll end up like us.”
 
“Yes...”
***** Bumping into Friend and Watching Flowers Eat *****
Chapter Summary
     So I just got animal crossing.
     And there are villagers who I'm like "nnnoooo I don't want you in my
     town".
     .... and tom nook is still the same dang it. XD.
     Anyway, back to explain the chapter!
     This is going to have a nice treat for you guys, so I hope you enjoy!
     In the next chapter there will be a few more treats, until things
     start turning deadly. In fact things already went deadly. So I hope
     you folks enjoy this chapter!
Hiro couldn’t help, but feel the fear of what was going to happen grow inside
him, as they go deeper and deeper within the tunnel. No longer could Hiro see
the light of the station behind him and instead everything was silent except
for their footsteps as they continued walking down the tunnels.
Hiro continued to clutch onto Tadashi’s side while his older brother wrapped
his arm around Hiro’s shoulder. Tadashi’s gripe was tight and slightly painful,
but given the situation Hiro didn’t mind it all too much.
“Hey Tadashi, can we go hungry?” Hiro asked.
“No, but we can eat.” Tadashi explained, making Hiro look up at the older male.
Hiro had been itching to ask Tadashi a question, but didn’t know how the older
male would react. Hiro sighed as he looked forward seeing nothing, but rusted
train tracks and dirt. Hiro wondered what they’d find once they were out of the
tunnel and the feeling of dread came back to him. Hiro gripped onto Tadashi
harder which earned a look from him.
“Hiro?” Tadashi asked, getting Hiro to shake his head.
“It’s nothing… I’m just…” Hiro whispered as they continued in the darkness.
Everything almost looked pitch black except for where the light hit. Concrete
walls donned on either side of the two while rusted lights that no longer gave
any guidance hung limply on the ceiling.
“I know you’re scared. It’s all right to be. But always know, that I’m going to
be here to protect you.” Tadashi reassured, getting Hiro to smile. Hiro was
getting used to having his older brother back and he couldn’t help the
possessive feelings he was having with Tadashi. Hiro decided to finally ask the
question he wanted after another blanket of silence fell on them.
“Tadashi why did you wait?” Hiro asked, getting Tadashi to look at Hiro in
surprise.
“I mean, you could have passed on years ago… why did you wait?” Hiro asked,
getting Tadashi to chuckle. Hiro sighed in relief when he felt large and warm
hands ruffle his hair before going back to gripe his shoulder. “When I died, I
knew I wanted to wait for you.” Tadashi spoke, his words clear and filled with
determination as he stared into the dark abyss.
“So I made sure to wait for you. I just didn’t expect…. To see you so soon.”
Tadashi whispered sadly, getting Hiro to touch bandages. He couldn’t imagine
what he looked like under the white cloth. Already Hiro could see small sneak
previews at the edge of his bandages were the skin looked scared and shriveled.
It made Hiro sick making Him look back at the abyss himself.
“So, how were mom and dad?” Tadashi finally asked.
The two spent time talking about what happened after Tadashi left. Hiro spoke
of the bakery he used to love becoming a big enough to move to a bigger store.
He spoke on all the robots he made and how they named a hospital ward after
him. Tadashi listened carefully to everything Hiro said laughing at some part
almost crying at others. It passed the time for the two who continued to walk
down the dark tunnel that almost seemed endless. In fact Hiro was about to
complain when he noticed something slight brighter that was a bit ways away.
“Tadashi! Look!” Hiro gasped pointing in front of them.
“Let’s go!” Tadashi ushered, making Hiro go into a soft jog as they quickly
made their way to the exit. Hiro couldn’t help, but take in a large gulp of air
as soon as they stepped out of the dark tunnel. Even though everything seemed
almost grey, there was still light. Hiro looked up to the thick dark storm
clouds that casted the area in slight darkness. Almost like a bad rainstorm
during the early afternoon.
It seemed like they were in a city on the account of the sky scrappers. Hiro
frowned as he noticed a few buildings that looked familiar as they came to the
edge of a platform. Tadashi climbed onto the platform first before helping Hiro
up. It was when Hiro saw a sight of a candy store that he let out a soft
startled breathe.
“Tadashi… This is…” Hiro whispered, making Tadashi nod with an uneasy feeling.
“This is San Fransokyo.” Tadashi concluded, before moving them to the side.
Hiro stuck close behind Tadashi as they slowly made their way away from the
dark tunnels onto the cities streets. Everything was empty, making Hiro uneasy
at the barren scene. San Fransokyo always seemed to have life, even when the
night fell over the city. But, this San Fransokyo was quiet and docile. Like
everyone had just up and left the city to fend for itself there were even cars
in the middle of the streets. Looking like someone decided to just stop and
park the care before getting out and leaving it there.
“I don’t like this.” Hiro whispered, making Tadashi nod his head in agreement.
“We need to find a safe place and figure out what were going to do.” Tadashi
whispered, making Hiro nod as they continued their way down alleys to find a
building that didn’t seem like it would kill them. The two had managed to make
their way out of the more city area into a residential area. Hiro looked around
before spotting a familiar café that was nestled up the hill.
“Tadashi! What about the cat café!” Hiro stated, making Tadashi look over to
the friendly place.
It had been Tadashi’s favorite café when Hiro was little. The elder brother
would bring Hiro over to eat their delicious pastries and cookies while downing
a nice warm hot chocolate. It gave both the brothers good memories, making
Tadashi smile as he looked down at Hiro. “Let’s go.” Tadashi agreed and the two
quickly made their way over to the small establishment.
Hiro started running ahead of Tadashi wanting to get inside the café as soon as
possible. But just as he went past a corner something larger than him crashed
into him. Hiro yelped as he landed on the concrete floor, getting a worried
yell from Tadashi behind him. Hiro felt fear stinging his heart and quickly
started smacking whatever it was in front of him as hard as he could.
“Ow! Ow! Ow! Hey man! Ow! Wow for a little thing – OW!”
“Hiro stop! Stop!” Tadashi yelled, scooping his frantic brother into his arms.
Hiro opened his eyes and blinked in surprise at the figure that was rubbing his
face from where Hiro was smacking him. The other didn’t look much older than
Tadashi, but he was much skinner than him. Hiro noticed that the male was also
wearing a patient gown, but he couldn’t see any bandages.
“Yo, dude that hurt. For such a tiny thing you can hit hard.” The male stated,
getting Hiro to pout as he heard the word tiny. “Who are you?” Tadashi stated,
pulling Hiro further into his chest and getting ready if the other was going to
show any signs of aggression. The blond haired male laughs as he raised his
hands up in the sign of ‘surrender’ towards Tadashi.
“Hey man, chill I come in peace. I just started my journey today after finally
getting out of that dusty tunnel.” The male stated, brushing himself off a bit.
He gave the two brothers a reassuring grin before placing his hand out for a
shake.
“Names Fred! I died from multiple stab and gunshot wounds to the chest. The guy
who did it was holding me ransom and kinda went crazy.” Fred stated, getting
Hiro look at Fred in disbelief at how casually he stated that. Tadashi also
gave Fred a look of disbelief before shaking the other’s hand.
“My name is Tadashi Hamada, this is my little brother Hiro Hamada.” Tadashi
introduced, making Fred gave a grin to Hiro.
“Sorry for bumping into you Hiro! I was pretty much in a daze seeing my old
city right after I died. Didn’t think I would see this place again.” Fred
admitted, making Hiro finally gape at the other. “Wait you’re from San
Fransokyo too?” Hiro asked, getting Fred to cheer with excitement. “Finally
some locals! Yeah, I worked as the mascot for the big science college here.”
Fred stated, getting Hiro to look over at Tadashi.
“It’s the nerd school you used to go to.” Hiro teased, getting Tadashi to give
a fake ‘pout’ back at his brother before ruffling his hair again.
All of a sudden the cheery atmosphere was shattered when piercing screams of
peoples sounded not far from them. Roars that sounded like nails to a
chalkboard and a baby screaming soon followed those screams of horror.
Instantly Tadashi grabbed onto Hiro’s wrist and broke out into a run towards
the café. Hiro made sure to grab Fred’s wrist prompting the other male to run
with them.
Hiro whimpered as Tadashi tightened his hold on Hiro’s wrist. Throwing the
glass doors open the small group made their way inside before rushing towards
the back where they knew lead up to the housing area that the café manager
lived in. Opening the wooden door Tadashi pushed Hiro and Fred inside before
slamming the door and locking it shut.
“Quick! Barricade the door!” Fred stated, already trying to life what seemed to
be a small wooden cabinet and bookshelf. Hiro quickly tried to help Fred
prompting Tadashi to do the same. The three pushed the heavy furniture in front
of the door. Before rushing around to push a few more things in front of it.
Once the door was heavy barricaded the group rushed up stairs to the windows.
“Sshhh, make sure you’re not scene.” Tadashi warned as they peaked through
sides.
Hiro grabbed onto Tadashi’s arm as he watched the scene unfold in front of
them. A large group of people seemed to be running away from something. The
group consisted of two older men and two older women all wearing ordinary
civilian clothing. They looked like ordinary people making Hiro wonder how they
died. One of the women’s high heels finally snapped under the abuse making the
women fall backwards. Rolling down a bit because they were running up hill. The
group turned around for only a second before they continued running.
“Wait! Don’t leave me!” the woman screamed, scrambling to get up. But she cried
out and fell again clutching at her ankle that Hiro knew she had sprained in
the fall.
Hiro wondered what was chasing them, until the creature finally showed itself.
Hiro almost wanted to puke in horror, fear and disgust as the thing made it’s
way to the fallen woman. From Tadashi’s harsh gripe on his shoulder and Fred’s
sharp movement he guessed that they too had the same urge.
The creature looked like a mess of parts all strung together. Two torsos looked
to be sew together to form an almost shape of a horse’s body and neck. Legs of
different shade of skin lined up the side. Moving awkwardly as somewhere
smaller than others. Four legs were attached on each side all-trying to make
their way towards the screaming women who finally managed to get up and start
limping away up hill calling to her friends to come back.
The top part of the Torso didn’t have anything. But it bends down and swung
towards the area the woman was running and shouting in. It almost looked empty
until a line opened straight down the middle of the torso. It was almost like a
demented flower in a nightmare opening. The torso opened up to reveal four sets
of faces attached to each ‘petal’. And going down Hiro could barely see sharp
teeth opening and closing in preparation of a meal.
“What is that thing?” Fred whispered as he saw it make its way towards the
woman.
The thing was clumsy and slow almost sluggish in Hiro’s eyes. But the woman
seemed to be too frantic in her haste to get away and kept falling to her knees
screaming as she did so. Finally she took something out of her bag and pointing
it at the creature making it roar in agony with the same sound it probably made
before. Hiro watched as the woman pointed the flashlight at the creature, which
continued to moan in agony. Finally it started to step back from the woman who
started yelling at the creature.
“Run! Run!” Hiro thought as the woman kept on frantically yelling at the
creature.
But, in her hysteria the woman didn’t realize that the flashlight was losing
power. Until finally the creature was able to move forward again this time,
with much vigor. The woman seeing this throw opens her bag and started pulling
out anything else. But Hiro notices the dread on her face as she kept throwing
out batteries that looked to have rust on them. A matchbox she had opened, but
no matched fell on her hand.
Finally the creature was close enough that it flung itself on the woman. The
flower closed around the woman who screamed in horror, agony and disbelief.
Blood sprayed out of the creature’s ‘mouth’ and painted the concrete floor. Her
legs were kicking and convulsing while the sound of bones cracking could be
heard even from their distance.
Finally Hiro face was smashed into Tadashi’s shirt while Fred manages to slowly
and softly close the curtains. The screams soon died off and Hiro managed to
peak from his brother’s hold and through the slit of the curtain the creature
closing its ‘flower petal’. Hiro watched as the creature swung its ‘head’
around a bit. It moved in a clumsy way and even bumped into a car before it
continued it’s way up the hill to probably try and follow the other ones who
were with the woman.
“Dudes… this is bad.” Fred whispered, looking at the curtained window with
fear.
“Tadashi?” Hiro whimpered, getting Tadashi to lean down in order to cup Hiro’s
face. Hiro looked into Tadashi’s determined eyes as he brought his lips to
Hiro’s forehead.
 
 
“Sshhhh, I’m here. I’m here….”
***** The Finding The Plan And The Knowledge *****
Chapter Summary
     Sorry for the long wait folks! I wanted to make this chapter a bit
     longer than what I normally write.
     I hope you all enjoy it! I'm really enjoying writing this story. C8
Hiro was silent as he watched Tadashi and Fred block as much as the door as
possible. After the witness the horrifying creature no body wanted to talk in
fear that they would attract more of those things. Hiro looked around the home
noticing picture frames decorating the walls that lead to the upstairs.
Curious by nature Hiro walked over to the small gallery and looked at each one
with a frown. Each photograph indeed showed pictures of people. But their faces
were scratched out or looking like they were burned from the inside of the
frame. Hiro looked up towards the stairs before deciding investigate. Taking a
few wary steps up Hiro made sure to listen for anything that would be bad news
to him.
Hiro continued going up until he came to on singular door. It looked daunting
to him as he stared at the wooden frame. Who knew what was behind it, but
curiosity was always his weakness and Hiro gulped a breathe of air before
stepping towards he door. Just before Hiro could reach the door something
grabbed his shoulder and covered his mouth. Hiro wanted to scream, but quickly
calmed as he saw his brother’s face.
Behind him Fred held up what looked like a golf club while Tadashi held what
looked to be a large knife. “Stupid! I should have gotten a weapon.” Hiro
thought, as Tadashi pushed him back. Hiro clutched onto the back of his
brother’s shirt as he grabbed the rusted doorknob and pushed open.
No monster greeted them. No horrifying image came out to terrify them. Instead
a large room with two beds and few other belongings greeted them from inside
the room. It looked like a guest room to Hiro for nothing personal stylized the
room. Their small group made their way towards the middle of the room looking
around before finally lowering their weapons.
“Coast seems to be clear.” Fred whispered, walking towards the windows to look
down towards the streets. “No monsters in sight.” Fred stated, before they
finally gave a breathe of relief.
“We….” Tadashi started.
“Need a plan.” Hiro ended, carding his fingers through his hair in frustration.
Fred nodded in his agreement and the small group planted themselves on the
middle of the floor. Hiro got up for a quick second to look around rummaging
through the drawers until he found some papers and pens. Sitting next to
Tadashi Hiro spread out the materials before making a small drawing of the
creature before.
“Okay, so we know that these flower creatures? Are around the area, but we
don’t know if there is any other types of creatures.” Hiro stated, before
drawing a few stick figures of the people they saw escape. “We also know that
there are others like us around.” Tadashi added, with a bit of a grimace. Fred
also had a grim look as he looked at the stick figures. Hiro sighed as he
looked at Tadashi knowing that he was thinking of the words spoken to them
before their journey.
“Okay, first let’s think through what we were told in the beginning of our
journey.” Tadashi explained, getting grunt of agreement from the other two.
Immediately Hiro started writing all of them down while Fred wrote a few
different thing that his own creature told him.
“First off we need weapons. Were not going to last out there without anything
to protect ourselves with.” Fred stated, rubbing at his chin as he looked down
at his paper. “My funny looking creature told me that I’ll know what my weapon
is when I meet it.” Fred stated, getting Hiro to frown at the statement. “Our
creature said the weapon would choose us.” Hiro explained, getting Fred to
scratch at his head in thought. Fred sighed, before waving out the golf club he
had in his hand.
“Well for now, this will have to do until we find better ones.” Fred stated.
“The biggest problems are the creatures… and other survivors.” Tadashi stated
grimly. This made Hiro and Fred wince knowing from how the group reacted to the
other woman in distress that they wouldn’t make good partners. “Sometimes the
worst monsters are actually the people themselves.” Fred stated as if he was
speaking out from a quote he once heard or read. Hiro leaned against Tadashi
prompting the other to wrap on arms around his shoulder as he looked at the
paper.
“Those monsters…” Hiro started, silencing Fred and Tadashi as they looked at
Hiro. Hiro sighed as he remembered the scene vividly almost wishing he hadn’t
seen the poor woman eaten alive by the flower monster. “I don’t think those
monsters can see.” Hiro explained, making Fred perk up at this statement.
“You know, now that I look back. It also seemed really slow and clumsy. Like, I
think that woman would have been able to get out of there if her comrades
helped her or if she didn’t panic like she did.” Fred deduced, making Tadashi
nod in his agreement along with Hiro. Even the young teen saw how slow the
creature was as it stumbled it’s way towards the woman throwing its torso to
the sound of her screams…
“It’s sound! I think these creatures find things by sound. Even when the flower
opened those… those faces… their eyes were glazed white.” Hiro added, getting
Fred to point at Hiro with pride. “Little man! Great attention to detail!” Fred
congratulated making Hiro preen at the compliment while Tadashi wrote down the
observation on paper. The group continued to compile a list of things they
learned from the creature, before it came back to what the hell they were going
to do now?
“We have to keep progressing… but we need to prepare.” Tadashi concluded.
“Every good survivor is always prepared. I mean I watched enough survival
horror movies, read the comics and played the games to know that with
preparation and supplies can bring you a looonnnggg way.” Fred explained,
making Hiro giggle at Fred who was showing his nerdy side by the comment he
just spoke.
“We also have a lot to learn… the creatures said each area will change so that
probably means…” Tadashi whispered.
“Level ups.” Fred stated with up most seriousness.
“Light is a key factor.” Hiro whispered looking at his bags. It made Fred open
his bag to look inside and Tadashi to give only a side-glance at his own before
looking back at Hiro. Hiro looked at all the light sources they had in the bag
and something seemed to click in his mind. “That creature screamed in agony as
the light shown on it… I think whatever these monsters are they hate the
light.” Hiro explained, while Fred rummaged through his own bag.
“And these light sources won’t last forever… I mean we don’t actually know how
long this journey is.” Fred commented, making Tadashi sigh as he leaned back a
bit. Hiro looked up at his brother watching as he licked the teeth that showed
out on his face. It made the teen wonder if it irate his brother in anyway, but
decided to ask that when they were alone.
“Troops I say our plan of operation is study the enemy, get supplies, and find
some weapons…. And seriously get out of these clothes. Like dude, I would love
some comfy shoes right now.” Fred stated, making Hiro look down at his own
state of dress. Even Tadashi made a distasteful look and the brother couldn’t
help, but agree with the blond. They needed something better than what they had
on and they really needed a pair of shoes.
“For now, let’s get some rest. I’ll take a first watch.” Tadashi commented,
making Fred with a grateful salute before grabbing some of the blankets from
the bed. No one wanted to sleep on the bed for fear of being seen from the
window. So while it was unsaid, they all decided to sleep on the floor where
they wouldn’t be visibly to the window. Hiro grabbed the other blankets from
the other bed before throwing all the pillows towards Tadashi.
Hiro was surprised as light snoring could be heard making him look over towards
Fred. “Oh wow, he’s already asleep?” Hiro whispered, seeing the blond sleep
with his head resting on a few pillows. Tadashi just chuckled and leaned back
against the wall with a golf club to his right. Hiro bite his lip, but decided
to be bold and climbed into his brother’s lap. Tadashi didn’t even miss a beat
as he wrapped the comforter around them both.
“Sleep.” Tadashi whispered, rubbing soothing circles to Hiro’s back.
Hiro couldn’t help, but fall asleep in his brother’s embrace.
( - Eight Hours Later - )
Hiro awoke to the loud screeching that seemed to run his blood cold and
instantly fling his hands up to his mouth in order to not make a sound. Thick
arms tightened their hold around him and from the corner of his eye Hiro could
see Fred slowly making his way to the window. Looking outside Hiro noticed that
while it was a little darker it didn’t seem too different. Carefully Hiro urged
his brother to go to the window as well.
Soon they were all peaking from the window to see if they could spot the
creatures. Hiro noticed a few figures running and tugged at his brother’s wrist
before pointing at the rushing figures.
“It’s the same group.” Fred whispered, watching as they ran away screaming
again. Again all around them the screeching of the flowers could be heard. Hiro
squinted a bit before eyes widened at the sight as several of the flower
creatures seemed to be lumbering after the group. Again they all seemed to be
slowly making their way toward the screams. Some were even knocking each other
trying to figure out a good path.
The group from before seemed to have lost another person leaving only one woman
and one male. It made Hiro almost look away at the prospect that they abandoned
another one of their group members. It made Hiro wonder if they were using them
as a meat shield or bait. The screaming group left along with the flower
creatures.
“Guys, this is the best time to get supplies.” Fred stated, getting Tadashi to
agree with him.
“Yes, while the monsters are going to the opposite direction.” Tadashi
whispered in agreement. Quickly they grabbed their bags and made their way to
the barricaded door. Taking all the barricades down the group carefully opened
the door. Tadashi peaked out the door and after inspecting everything gave the
signal that it was clear. Quietly they made their way out of the café and into
the streets.
“Let’s find some clothes.” Tadashi whispered, looking over to Hiro who had
winced at the rough pavement on his bare feet.
“Let’s go to the small shops. We might find trouble if we head straight to the
big malls.” Fred whispered, getting Hiro to blink. “You know a lot about
surviving.” Hiro whispered, getting Fred to grin. “You can thank horror
survival games. Especially the zombie ones.” Fred whispered, before they rushed
to the smaller market district.
Looking around they quickly walked into one of the clothing store making sure
no one was there before looking at the clothes. “Dress quickly.” Tadashi spoke,
making Hiro zoom around. Hiro look around before he came to the hoodies.
Looking at a few of them Hiro spotted one with a cool robot design on the
front. Quickly tearing off his hospital clothes Hiro threw on the large hoodie.
“Big, but it’s okay.” Hiro grumbled seeing as the hoodie went close to his
knees. Looking around some more Hiro found some underwear and small enough
shorts that wouldn’t fall from his hips. Hiro dressed quickly before going back
to Tadashi. Tadashi seemed to take the same ide as Hiro with the hoodie, but
instead of shorts he wore long jean pants. Tadashi looked at Hiro’s hoodie,
making Tadashi chuckle a bit.
“I remember when you used to call me a nerd all the time. Guess who’s the
nerd.” Tadashi stated, poking at the robot on his chest. Hiro just stuck his
tongue out at Tadashi while Fred came towards the two.
Hiro looked to see Fred was wearing a t-shirt with a long sleeve underneath and
short. Hiro blinked in surprise at the green beanie on his head that had the
little character of what seemed like Godzilla smashing skyscraper buildings.
“Shoes.” Tadashi whispered, motioning to the third store down.
Hiro couldn’t help, the sigh of relief when they finally got the shoe store.
Grabbing some socks Hiro slipped them on before grabbing a pair of converse
shoes. Hiro frowned at the first pair was a little too big and quickly grabbed
a pair smaller. “Perfect.” Hiro thought, looking over to Fred seeing that he
got a similar pair. Tadashi on the other hand decided to wear running sneakers,
before motioning them to stay down.
Hiro frowned as they went to the floor. Tadashi quickly ushered them towards
the large counters and chairs. Hiro had to hold is breathe as he heard a loud
grunting sound from outside of the store. Tadashi pressed Hiro behind him,
making Fred pull him a bit closer towards the protection of the desk.
The grunting nose could be heard even loud and Hiro shivered as he heard the
patter of multiple feet hitting the ground. The grunting noise got so loud that
Hiro felt like throwing up from the tension. Tadashi was gripping the golf club
tightly to the point where his knuckles were white as he stared from the
corner.
The flower creature seemed to stumble in the door moving its torso around a
bit. The three males held their breath as they saw the creature ‘look’ around
before finally leaving the store. It stood at the front for a bit until far off
screams were heard. Hearing the screams the corpse monstrosity made a loud
screech. In just a matter of second other screeches echoed back to the creature
before it finally made its way where it heard the human screams.
After what felt like hours did Tadashi give the signal that it was clear to
move out of their hiding spot. “They signal each other.” Hiro whispered in awe
as he saw the lumbering figures in the distance make their way in a certain
direction.
“Dodging one is fine… but dodging more is bad news. Walking Dead taught me that
rule.” Fred stated looking around to see if there were any other signs of the
creatures.
“Tadashi?” Hiro asked, but Tadashi shook his head. “Let’s focus on getting
supplies, we’ll get more clothes later.” Tadashi whispered, taking Hiro’s hand
as they made their way into another store. But, as they studied the broken
glass they noticed that all of the lighters that this store would hold were
gone. There was a small amount of blood on the class and when looking down a
few blood covered shoe prints littered the ground.
Hiro frowned as he saw a few lead somewhere. Eyes widened and Hiro grabbed onto
Tadashi’s waist. Tadashi looked at Hiro with worry before looking at where he
was looking at had to fight his gag reflexes. Fred who noticed the horrified
gasps had no qualms of puking on the ground at the sight they saw.
There strung up like a sacrifice was the male they saw from the earlier group.
He was strung up like a limp body with thick wires wrapped around his throat
that he dangled from. His torso down was gone, but a few organs where hanging
from the body while some piled the ground below. Thick blood stained the ground
and Hiro looked away as he saw the face littered with glass.
“They killed him… they killed him.” Hiro whimpered, while Tadashi could only
hold his brother. Fred who had finished empty fluids from his body looked over
at Tadashi. “You can’t die in the after life.” Tadashi reassured, but wanting
to say he’s dead all the same. “But, his body isn’t regenerating.” Hiro
whispered, making Fred cough from his spot.
“You start over at the station if the body is too damaged.” Fred coughed,
before puking again.
“They have to start over? From the beginning?” Hiro asked in fear, making Fred
wince before nodding his head. “From the very beginning.” Fred confirmed.
 
“We need a new fucking plan.”
***** Hello New Face *****
Chapter Summary
     Saying this now... next chapter is going to be pretty intense.
     Like really intense.
     So I hope you all enjoy this chapter and I hope you get excited for
     the next one!
     And for those being affected by the blizzard. I feel yah! Hopefully
     it won't be too bad!
“We don’t know… how long this will take…” Tadashi stated, guiding Hiro out of
the store for them to look in other paces. Fred who had finished regurgitating
followed on the other side of Hiro while looking out for any monsters or other
survivors. The daunting realization was hitting the group hard for what if they
got far and wind up having to start all over again? It was a terrifying
realization for Hiro who clutched onto his brother for the memories of the
hollowed husk of the hanging body fresh in his mind.
“Hey guys hang on a second.” Fred whispered before walking up to one of the
cars. Carefully Fred tugged on the handle breathing out in relief when the door
opened for the blond. Going inside Hiro watched curiously as Fred rummaged
around the care before cheering from the inside. Getting out of the vehicle
Fred held up one lighter and from the looks of it was half fool of fluid.
“For now dudes, lets gather supplies and then form a plan again back at our
home base.” Fred stated. “I agree, it will get hard and hard to get supplies
when we… eventually move to another area. So let’s stick with the plan of
gathering for now.” Tadashi stated, before leading them to a different area to
harvest.
With that the group set out to grab things they might need for the long journey
ahead. Fred looked into cars that littered a parking lot. Tadashi decided to
take charge on the two gas stations near by and Hiro went into the smaller
stores. Each person was careful to move as quietly as possible and to stay at
least slightly hidden from sight of others that could be prowling around the
area.
“Nice.” Hiro whispered when saw a section that held crayons in them. Hiro
stuffed all the crayons in his bag before proceeding on.
It wasn’t until they heard a screech of a monster that Tadashi made the signal
that it was time to head back. Quickly the group made their way down alleyways
and crossing behind people’s yards to get back to the café. Tadashi raised his
hand up though making Fred grab Hiro from moving anymore before pressing
themselves on the back of the store they were behind.
Tadashi looked around the corner and frowned as he saw a tall figure looking
around confused and frightened at the environment that is around them. Fred and
Hiro gave a pick looking around the corner to see that the figure was a tall
woman.
The woman looked scared, which was understandable to Hiro. She wore a hospital
gown and had bandages covering the side of her head. Hiro noticed she was
missing her ring finger and winced at the prospect of what could have happened
to her. “She looks new just like us.” Hiro stated, getting Tadashi to nod as he
looked at the woman. Fred sighed as he looked at the brothers before looking
back at the other.
“Guys, maybe we should have her join us? Safety in numbers?” Fred asked, making
Hiro look at Tadashi in the eyes.
“Tadashi… someone has to help… right?” Hiro asked, making Tadashi go quiet for
a moment.
Soon a smile bloomed on his brothers features and soon a warm hand was ruffling
Hiro’s hair. “That’s right, someone has to help.” Tadashi whispered, before
walking out towards the woman. Coming up closer Hiro noticed that she had long
hair that was multiple colors of blond and a light brown. She looked at the
group with fear, but noticing Hiro gave a small smile.
“Are you?” She asked, not having to give out the rest of the question.
“Yeah, I died of multiple stab wounds and gun shots to the chest because of
ransom stuff! Names Fred!” Fred introduced, with a smile. The woman gave the
other the same face Hiro and Tadashi probably gave him when he first stated
that. Hiro walked over to the woman and placed his hand out to shake. Instantly
the woman cooed at Hiro before shaking his hand.
“Name Hiro Hamada! This is my brother Tadashi Hamada.” Hiro introduced.
“It’s nice to meet you all. You all can call me Honey Lemon.” She spoke.
All of a sudden another screech pierced the air shocking the pleasant feeling
out of their system. Tadashi grabbed Hiro’s hand and motioned everyone to run
towards the café. It was then that the group froze when one of those creatures
came into sight right in front of the café. Before Honey Lemon could scream,
Fred immediately placed a hand over his mouth shaking his head at the taller
woman.
“Turn back.” Tadashi whispered, making the group turn around only to curse when
another creature started walking towards them.
“Quiet.” Tadashi mouth, giving a stern glance at Honey Lemon who nodded her
head. Carefully the group tiptoed their way to the side being mindful of their
surrounding as the monsters looked around for their prey. Tadashi noticed
something else and lowered to the ground with Hiro in his arms. Carefully Honey
Lemon and Fred did the same keeping close to the brothers as they hid behind a
small truck that was parked on the side.
Hiro looked from his embrace to see a large group coming towards the creatures.
Each one was holding a blunt weapon and one even held a knife. The one thing
that Hiro noticed that there was blood all over them and something was wiggling
in the hold of two people in the group.
“Throw him, he’s useless now.” One of the women stated, getting an agreement
from the rest. Hiro watched in pure horror, as the wiggling figure was a man.
The male was gagged and had what looked like thin wire wrapped around his arms
and legs. He screamed at the group of people shaking his head as he stared at
the monsters. One of the men threw something at the store window beside them
shattering the glass and making the two flower creatures look over towards the
sound.
Immediately they started walking towards group making the other laugh as the
man started screaming and fighting against bonds. Hiro clutched onto Tadashi
and looked up in surprise that Tadashi was shaking. He was shaking from
something that Hiro couldn’t tell, but all he knew was that Tadashi was scared.
It made Hiro feel even worse.
“COME ON! LUNCH TIME!” One of the men yelled.
Hiro didn’t want to watch this, but for some reason he couldn’t close his eyes.
He couldn’t look away from it as he watched the two creatures stagger their way
towards the sound opening their mouths and screeching. Without further talk the
group threw poor man right into the creatures mouth and Hiro saw a large hand
cover his eyes from the sight.
But the sound… the sound was still there.
The sound of muffled agonizing noise and the bones of a body crunching under
the strength of the creature’s jaws. The horrible laughter the group made
before jogging away from the creatures. Hiro didn’t really know what happened
next. One minute he was on the street and the next he was in the café with
Honey Lemon placing a soft comforter over his head while Fred and Tadashi
worked on barricading the door.
“That group…” Fred whispered finally pushing the final piece of furniture in
place.
“They took that poor man’s bag….” Honey Lemon stated, making Hiro draw his
knees to his chest at the thought of it. That man was just like them, trying to
reach a final destination to get the eternal peace. But, people wearing a human
face that was no better than the monsters walking around the city betrayed him.
In fact they were worse than those monsters, but the fear installed into his
heart felt even greater.
He feared that group.
“I’m here Hiro.” Tadashi whispered wrapping his arms around Hiro and pulling
him up into his arms so the group can make their way into the up stairs.
Instantly the group set themselves on the floor again and sighed, as they
didn’t know what to say after witnessing such a horrifying event unfold right
in front of them. Fred looked at the pillow beside him poking at it a bit
before looking at his bag with a deep thoughtful look.
“We should probably get better bags.” Fred suggested, noticing how flimsy their
bags really were. Hiro looked at the bag and couldn’t help, but see truth to
Fred’s words. The bags they were given were small and if the journey the
creatures spoke about were long. They would need something bigger and that held
more things before proceeding to the next area.
“What do you think lies beyond the city?” Hiro asked, getting Tadashi to lean
back dragging his brother with him as he leaned against the wall. “To be
completely honest? The monsters are probably going to be stronger, faster and
more ferocious.” Tadashi truthfully stated, getting Hiro to as he played with
his brother’s fingers.
“Weapons… we really need weapons. The thing that took me to the tunnels… told
me that I should find a weapon before proceeding to the next area. One that
would agree to protect.” Honey Lemon stated, making Fred slap his face.
“I completely forgot about the whole weapons deal.” Fred stated.
“But we still don’t know how to achieve in getting these weapons.” Hiro
informed, getting groans from all three people in the room. Tadashi looked at
the bags before sitting up a bit, making Hiro grumble at the sudden movement.
Tadashi smiled at his brother ruffled his hair again and wrapping him a bit
more like a small burrito.
“So, how about our plan is to gather supplies and find out weapons. We leave as
soon as we get them and at all cost avoid that group. I’m hoping they’ll leave
soon, but we have to be careful.” Tadashi stated.
“The monsters aren’t a problem?” Honey Lemon asked, curiously.
“Actually the monsters are really slow and clumsy. Not only that they’re blind
so all we got to do is not make a sound and they won’t bother us.” Fred
informed, getting Honey Lemon to nod as she looked through her bag.
“I’m assuming we have to get thing that create light right?” Honey Lemon asked,
getting Hiro to nod as he reached over to the lantern he left behind in room.
Honey Lemon inspected the lantern before leaning back against the bed. She
fiddled with her fingers before opening her bag to look through it again.
“I’m guessing the monsters hate the light?” She asked, getting affirmative
grunts from all three of the boys.
“You know, at first I was really scared of you guys and was actually about to
run away.” Honey Lemon informed, making Fred raise a brow. “Really?” Fred
asked, getting Honey Lemon to chuckle a bit at his confused face. “Yes, I saw a
few others like myself running around with such a crazed look that I just
assumed the worse.” Honey Lemon whispered, remembering the crazed eyes each
person had. Those eyes that showed they would do anything to get to safety.
“What made you wait?” Tadashi asked, making Honey Lemon point at Hiro.
“Me?” Hiro asked, getting a protective tug from Tadashi as he looked at Honey
Lemon. Honey Lemon laughed along with Fred at Tadashi’s protective stance with
his younger brother. “That is why I decided not to run. You guys don’t have the
same look as those other people, especially you Hiro.” Honey Lemon spoke,
before closing her eyes and leaning her head back on the bed.
“But…” She whispered as she stared at the ceiling.
“That doesn’t mean I won’t look like that when the journey ends?” Hiro asked,
getting a grimace from everyone in the room.
“Guys…” Tadashi spoke, his voice light and yet strong.
“This journey is going to change us and who knows. We might actually turn into
those people…. But… but…” Tadashi whispered pulling Hiro closer making Hiro try
to turn around to see his brother. But Tadashi shook his head making the other
finally stop his struggles. Fred and Honey Lemon looked at each other and
slowly held each other hands for comfort.
“But, let’s never forget… who we are and what were striving for.” Tadashi spoke
with finality.
“Let’s reach paradise together.” Hiro softly cheered, getting Fred to pump his
fist up in the air and for Honey Lemon to bounce in her spot. “Tadashi!
Remember were geniuses! Let’s figure this out with our brains!” Hiro stated,
getting Honey Lemon to grin as she grabbed some paper from the floor and the
pen.
“Who says you’re the only genius?” Honey Lemon asked, getting a surprise look
from all three of the boys.
“Well, with our brains and Fred’s library brain of survival horror games,
movies and comics… I think we can pull through.” Hiro laughed, getting Tadashi
to chuckle as he leaned down towards the paper to see Honey Lemon writing down
a few things.
“Guys can you feel it?” Fred asked in awe, making everyone to raise his or her
brow at him.
“Feel what?”
 
“The beginning of our origin story.”
***** You're Beautiful It's True *****
Chapter Summary
     Hoho, after the next chapter they'll be finally out of the first
     area!
     And believe me when I say things will start getting a bit spicy.
     I hope you all enjoy this chapter!
“Whoa, this is so cool.” Hiro whispered as he looked at the tiny flask in his
hand. Honey Lemon grinned as she continued to mix different types of mechanical
before placing them into tiny flasks. “I know right? Chemicals are my favorite!
You can make so many things! Especially ones with a destructive force.” Honey
Lemon laughed as she finished a few before placing them in a metallic bag.
The group had work hard for four days straight in scavenging and trying to
figure out the whole weapons deal. They had gotten all sorts of supplies for
light along with new hiking backpacks and sleeping bags. At times Hiro just
pretended that they weren’t dead and that they were all friends preparing for
an awesome camping trip. But with every screech of monsters was Hiro brought
back to the depressing reality they were in.
Thankfully Honey Lemon and Fred had both found their weapons. Fred was the
first to find his weapon by going into an abandoned Petsokyo. While rummaging
around to find anything that would be useful Fred heard a soft noise farther
down towards the back of the large store. Curious to know what it was Fred
silently crept towards the area he heard the sound to see something large lying
in a broken class cage.
The beast sensing Fred raised it’s head and turned to look at Fred. It looked
to be a giant crocodile that had managed to get itself stuck in the cage
display in order to eat some dead bugs that were inside. Fred had proceeded to
help the giant beat by pulling as hard as he could on the creatures tail
popping the creature out of its imprisonment.
“I felt like we were a puzzle piece that were finally complete.” Fred stated
when he brought the large beast home.
At first everyone was apprehensive, but seeing how Fred was sitting on the
crocodile’s head and nothing happening allowed the creature to stay in the same
place as them. It wasn’t until they were cornered by two flower creatures that
the crocodile, named Zilla, rapidly grew bigger and started eating the creature
viciously. Hiro can’t look at Godzilla the same way again because of Fred’s
‘little zilla’.
Honey Lemon on the other hand actually made her weapon. While they were
scavenging a high school Honey Lemon walked into one of the labs and almost
stayed frozen in the closet that held all the chemicals that were stored in the
room. She had then proceeded to make a weapon that seemed to just appear in her
head with the help of Hiro to make her weapon that Fred affectingly dubbed the
Surprise Bag. By imputing the compounds that Honey Lemon wanted she would be
able to immediately make chemical bombs to throw at creatures.
She tested out when a murderous survivor tried to attack Hiro. She threw the
bomb and instantly froze the individual before taping it making the ice
instantly shatter at the touch. It made Hiro and the other guys remind
themselves to never anger the tall woman.
Currently the group were taking a slight break from scavenging to working on
packing their bags and helping Honey Lemon make small flask to contain her
chemicals for whenever her Surprise Bag ran out.
“Hey Hiro! I’ve been meaning to ask this, but why do you get so many crayons?”
Tadashi asked looking at the building pile of crayon boxes in the side of the
room. “Whenever were in a jam and ran out of candle you can light a crayon that
can burn brightly and last for about 25 minutes or more.” Hiro stated, reciting
the information he read when he was alive.
“That is…. Really awesome!” Fred stated looking at the crayons while Zilla
slept beside behind him peacefully.
“When will we be leaving?” Hiro asked as he handed Honey Lemon some of her
flasks that were carefully placed them in her bag. “I would also like to know.”
Honey Lemon whispered, shivering a bit at the thought of leaving the city.
Everyone slight winced, shivered or flinched at the prospect of leaving and
knowing the area ahead will be harder.
It scared them deeply.
“I say, we should gather some more supplies and finding weapons for Hiro and me
before leaving.” Tadashi stated, getting agreements from everyone.
“Also…” Tadashi whispered, making everyone look at him as he gave a mournful
sigh. “We should… visit our homes before leaving… to… say goodbye.” Tadashi
stated, getting everyone to looking down to the floor at the prospect of seeing
his or her homes. Hiro had been putting off in going anywhere near his old
neighborhood.
Hiro didn’t want to walk in the house to see everything abandoned and void of
life. He didn’t want to be reminded of the memories he had with his parents
from the good and the bad. He didn’t want to be reminded that he was dead and
he would probably never see his parents again.
“Yeah… I really want to go to my home and get a few things before leaving.”
Fred admitted, scratching his hair wincing at how greasy it was. Hiro saw this
and couldn’t help, but be reminded that his own hair was greasy as well. Even
though they didn’t have to eat or go to the bathroom their hair and body could
still get greasy and dirty. At first it wasn’t as bothersome during the first
day or so. But it had been four days and Hiro was starting to get grouchy with
how itchy his head felt and disgusting his body was.
“Hiro, you okay?” Tadashi asked with a frown seeing his brother itch more of
his head.
“It’s been awhile since any of us had a bath.” Honey Lemon provided wincing at
her own greasy long hair.
“What should we do? I mean, normally I be pretty fine with not taking a shower.
But with all this running around I’m going to smell as bad as the dumpster
outside!” Fred stated, getting a snort from Zilla behind him.
“Have we even checked to see if the water works?” Honey Lemon questioned,
making all three of the males freeze. “You know, I don’t think we ever checked.
Not like we have to go to the bathroom.” Hiro stated peaking out towards the
hallway where another door stood. Hiro had explored a bit and found that the
door was a lead to a small bathroom that included a toilet and small shower.
“I’m going to go check!” Hiro stated, rushing towards the bathroom.
“Hiro wait.” Tadashi called back, but sighed when Hiro already flung the door
open.
Quickly Hiro went inside and turned the knob for the hot water and waited.
There was a small groan from the showerhead and soon a spray of water shot out.
Hiro waited to see if anything warm came out and smiled he felt the water
slowly head up. Turning off the shower, he gave a thumb up to the group who all
sighed in great relief.
“Honey Lemon, you go first. Fred you go second. Hiro and I will go together
after you guys. We don’t know how long that warm water will last or how long
actual water will come out.” Tadashi commented.
“Do we even have shampoo and conditioner? Soap?” Honey Lemon asked, making Hiro
nod stating that there was some in the bathroom. Quickly Honey Lemon grabbed
some clothes and sprinted into the bathroom. Hiro couldn’t wait for the shower
wanting to feel the pleasure of standing under hot water again and feeling
clean.
It was almost agonizing waiting for Honey Lemon and Fred to finish. Smoothing
out the fluffy towel they found in the master bedroom. Tadashi chuckled as he
stared at his impatient brother who stared intently at the door that Fred was
in. Honey Lemon was beside the brothers in fresh clothes and currently towel
drying and brushing her hair out.
Hiro was being polite in not looking at Honey Lemon as she got ready the fresh
bandages. He had caught a glimpse of Honey Lemon without her bandages and had
seen that part of her head… Hiro shook his head not wanting to think about it
and trying to respect Honey Lemon who had covered her head with a towel in
order for no one to see.
“Okay dudes! It’s all yours.” Fred grinned coming out of the shower with pure
bliss on his face.
Hiro looked down as he rushed into the bathroom with Tadashi following behind
him with everything they needed. Hiro couldn’t help, but peak a bit at Fred’s
bare chest and quickly regretted the action. Fred’s chest looked like a
patchwork of thick stiches and bullet holes making the comment that Fred stated
in the beginning start to haunt Hiro.
Hiro waited for Tadashi to close the door before throwing off the sweaty and
old clothes onto the floor. “Hiro, place them away nicely.” Tadashi scolded,
making Hiro pout before throwing them into a pile on the sink. Tadashi shook
his head before also taking off his clothes.
Hiro stared at the bandages that covered his body and sucked in a breath. With
shaking hands Hiro slowly started to unravel the bandages that covered his skin
with pure reluctance and dread. When only part of the bandages was unwrapped
and the skin that was showing got worse and worse did Hiro finally puke into
the toilet.
“Hiro! What happened?” Tadashi asked as he instantly came to his brother’s
side.
Hiro shook his head closing his eyes as he puked. Tadashi looked Hiro over
before noticing the burnt skin. Tadashi closed his eyes for a few minutes as
well rubbing soothing circles in his brother’s back before opening his eyes
again.
Knock… knock…
“Hiro?? Tadashi? You guys okay in there?”
“Is the little dude alright?”
“Yeah, were good… We might be awhile.” Tadashi called back, rubbing Hiro’s
mouth with some toilet paper as soon as he was finished.
“Okay, take as long as you like.” Honey Lemon spoke, before the sound of
footsteps could be heard walking away from the door.
“I’m here… I’m here… just keep those beautiful eyes of yours closed and I’ll
take care of everything.” Tadashi whispered into Hiro’s ear. Hiro nodded and
allowed himself to relax as he felt familiar large hands started to take off
the bandages that were covering Hiro’s body. Soon all Hiro could feel was the
cool air that war around them before hearing the sound of Tadashi taking off
his own bandages.
“Tadashi… my… my…” Hiro whimpered as he felt some of the burnt skin with his
fingers. Hiro began to weep as he felt more and more of his skin having the
weight of everything come crashing down on him. Hiro felt a hand take his own
before helping him up.
“You’re beautiful Hiro. You’ll always be beautiful to me.” Tadashi spoke
bringing his brother close hugging in tightly as Hiro cried. “That’s all I
need… that’s all I need.” Hiro thought before his brother slowly brother them
into the shower. Soon the warm spray descended down on him and soon Hiro felt
his body relax.
Hiro felt so much as he allowed his brother to do all the work. Washing both of
their bodies down before working on their hairs. Hiro also whimpered in delight
at the feel of the strong fingers work every since greasy strand out making him
fresher than he ever felt before. Once the two were done washing Tadashi just
continued to hold Hiro under the spray.
“Tadashi…” Hiro whispered reaching up a bit to kiss his brother on his nose.
Tadashi laughed at the ticklish kiss before leaning down to press his own on
Hiro’s forehead.
 
“You’re beautiful Hiro… so beautiful.”
***** Hello I Am Your Personal Weapon and Health Care Provider *****
Chapter Summary
     Sorry for the how late this update was!
     But, it's here!
     Just letting you know that two character will be coming in soon! I'll
     let you all guess who it is!
     Enjoy the chapter!
“Are you prepared?”
“As prepared as I’ll ever be.”
Tadashi nodded and griped Hiro’s hand as the group made their way out of their
make-shift base quietly and swiftly making sure to look around before sneaking
their way down alleys. The group didn’t want to be seen by the other survivors
especially where many of their supplies were still being held in that room. Of
course they took the extra precaution and hid the supplies before leaving.
“Fred where is your house is it close or far? What about you Honey Lemon?”
Tadashi asked, while Hiro clutched onto his brother’s hand.
“My house is actually close to yours. It’s just on the tree ahead.” Honey Lemon
whispered before she looked over at Fred and Zilla. “I’ll go with Honey Lemon
to her house before going mine. It’s a bit farther. Do you want to meet up back
at the café?” Fred asked, making Hiro look up at Tadashi before he nodded his
head.
“Yeah, this could be a good chance to scavenge and see if that… group of
survivors is still here. Guys be careful and don’t be seen going to the café.
We don’t want anyone connecting us to that café.” Tadashi whispered, getting
Fred and Honey Lemon nod in understanding.
“Tadashi…” Hiro whispered.
“What is it Hiro?” Tadashi asked, looking down to see Hiro’s frightened
expression. Hiro was terrified of the prospect of going to their old home.
Everything was different in this world and he didn’t know what was going to
happen. The home that held so many good memories could hold unspeakable
horrors.
But, they needed to go home for one last time.
“I’m here.” Tadashi whispered, making Hiro breath in and out before nodding.
The group gave each tried to give each other reassuring smiles. But it all came
out as half grimaces that really weren’t all that reassuring. It was the
thought that counts and it gave each of them something warm to feel.
Quickly the group snuck down alleyways and behind other homes to get to their
destination. At one point the group finally split with the promises that they
would meet up at the café. Hiro hugged both Fred and Honey Lemon before letting
them go.
“Don’t worry Hiro, they’ll be fine.” Tadashi reassured.
Hiro could only give a weak nod as they got closer and closer to their home.
All the street signs and all the buildings seemed to mock Hiro as they came
closer and closer. Until finally houses upon houses was what they were passing
by. Each house was shaped differently and colored differently, but everything
had the same concept in mind to be a shelter and home for a brand new family.
Finally though their footsteps halted and Hiro couldn’t help, but stare at the
home in front of them.
Everything looked unchanged since Hiro had… died. The house was painted a nice
soft yellow color with white frames that gave a comforting look to anyone that
looks at it. His mother’s prized wind chimes hanging onto the porch waiting
patiently for any wind to come by in order for it to sing. Even the flowers
that his mother had planted a while ago were still there although slightly dull
in color.
“Is… everything?” Tadashi spoke, making Hiro look down at his feet.
“We never touched your room after the… accident.” Hiro whispered, making
Tadashi nod before the two bravely stepped forward. Hiro felt his heart beat
faster the closer they got to the door until they were right in front of it.
Carefully Tadashi motioned Hiro behind him before raising the gulf club he had
in hand. Opening the door they were greeted with nothing, but silence and an
empty hallway.
“Careful.” Tadashi whispered as they stepped inside.
Hiro was tempted to take off his shoes, but caught himself before he could even
make the motion. Everything looked the same from the picture frames to the
little class figures on the tables his father collects.
“Nothing seems too different…” Tadashi whispered, in an emotion that Hiro
couldn’t interpret. Hiro wondered what his brother was feeling seeing their old
home after so long only to have no parents to say ‘welcome home!’ as soon as
they came through the door.
“Tadashi… I’m going to go upstairs.” Hiro whispered, making Tadashi nod as he
walked towards their living room.
Hiro walked up the stairs and cautiously made his way to his room. Opening the
door Hiro couldn’t help, but feel depressed at seeing his room. His clothes
strewn about on the floor, a messy desk on the corner with papers all around
and a bed with tolls all over it. It looked exactly the same as he left it to
go to…
“I can’t think of that right now!” Hiro thought before opening the drawers.
Hiro packed clean underwear and a few clothes before going to his nightstand.
Opening the drawer Hiro shifted through the mess that was inside before finally
grabbing the object he originally wanted when he came here. It was a small
album, holding only twenty pictures maximum front and back.
But it held every precious memory Hiro had in life. Opening the Album Hiro
couldn’t help, but give out a small whimper at the picture that was the first.
It was Tadashi and Hiro when they were younger. It was the day Hiro was born
and Tadashi was holding him in his arms with a look of pure love and devotion
that it made Hiro want to run and hug his brother tightly as he could.
For he still gave that same look to him even now.
The next picture was when Hiro was a little older with Tadashi showing him a
little robot plush. Hiro looked to be about a little over one and he was
grabbing Tadashi hands along with the blush. Both of them were laughing and
looked to be having fun. Hiro laughed as he continued down the path until he
sucked a breath in.
Hiro couldn’t remember it too well for he was only three. But, looking at the
photograph managed to scrap up the small amount of memories that day. The
picture was Tadashi kissing Hiro on the head while he was taking a nap. Hiro
remember this because his mother was squealing and he woke slightly to the
noise to see his brother’s eyes. After that Hiro wouldn’t be able to see
Tadashi’s eyes anymore for it was the day he was killed by fire.
Hiro couldn’t look at the photographs anymore and gently closed the book before
giving it a light kiss. Placing it carefully in his bag Hiro looked around to
see if he wanted anything else. But nothing seemed important and Hiro
eventually left trying hard in order to not look back.
“I better go see what Tadashi is doing.” Hiro thought, but froze when he felt
something tug at his heart.
Turning his head he noticed the door to his right was cracked open just
slightly an almost inviting look towards the room that was past the wooden oak
door. “Tadashi’s room?” Hiro thought looking at the door before feeling himself
step closer and closer. Pressing a hand to the cold doorknob Hiro pushed the
door to open fully.
Everything looked the same as his mother kept it. It was neat, organized and
tidy nothing moved, but everything cleaned in order to make the memory remain.
Hiro breathed in the scent of dust and winced as he felt himself wanting to
sneeze. But it ended being a lost cause for Hiro finally let out a loud sneeze
accidently knocking one of the heavy books in his spasm.
“OW!” Hiro whined as he pulled his foot in his hand and landed his but on
Tadashi’s bed.
Hiro tried to massage the aching toe, but his movement froze when he heart a
soft beep. Looking up Hiro felt his heart plummet to his stomach as he saw
something grow from a red box. But instead of something menacing as Hiro
thought it was actually really… plushie looking. Hiro stared in disbelief as he
saw the giant marshmallow blink before looking down at his feet.
Whatever it was looked down at his feet before carefully stepping out. Once out
of the red box it carefully made it’s way to Hiro standing in front of him
before doing a small wave.
“Hello, I am Baymax. Your personal health care provider.” The thing greeted.
“Um…” Hiro tried to answer.
“I activated to a cry of distress. Does your toes hurt?” Baymax asked, making
Hiro raise a brow at him. “No, not anymore.” Hiro stated, which was a slight
truth as he was too surprised to be in pain right now.
“I will scan you.” Baymax proclaimed.
“Don’t scan me.” Hiro ordered.
“Scan complete.” Baymax countered.
“Unbelievable!” Hiro growled, before he heard footsteps coming up the stairs.
“Hiro are you alright? I hea-… Baymax?” Tadashi whispered in surprised looking
at the giant marshmallow in surprise. Baymax turned at Tadashi and waved.
“Hello, Tadashi, I am glad to see you.” Baymax answered, before turning back to
Hiro and went down to poke Hiro toes to see if they hurt when he touched it.
Making Hiro become flustered as he stopped the robot from doing so.
“You made him?” Hiro asked, making Tadashi laugh before nodding.
“Yeah, he was… going to help a lot of people.” Tadashi whispered as he looked
at Baymax before frowning. “But… I never finished him. This was the design and
I had started working on his body and chip… I… died before completing him.”
Tadashi stated with a frown going over to Hiro and standing in front of his
creation.
“Oh, I can answer that.” Baymax answered.
“Wait a minute.” Hiro thought as he looked at what was in Tadashi’s right hand.
“Isn’t that?” Hiro thought, but was brought of his personal monologue to look
back at Baymax.
“I am Hiro Hamada’s weapon, guardian and nursing robot for the after life.”
Baymax informed, pointing one of his large fingers up as he made the statement.
“My weapon is a marshmallow?” Hiro asked, looking at Tadashi who laughed at
Hiro. “Baymax, tell me some of your basic functions.” Tadashi asked, curious to
know if the robot can actually protect Hiro and see if all the original plans
were actually placed into his creation.
“Of course.” With that Baymax chest glowed showing Tadashi everything he wanted
to know.
“Good, you have everything I originally planned for you to have. All the up to
date medical procedures and first aide treatment along with the fast knowledge
of the human body.” Tadashi whispered pressing a few things before nodding.
“Good, you have everything that I originally programed you for.” Tadashi
whispered, with a faint smile.
“That can heal mea, but how is that going to protect me?” Hiro asked, making
Tadashi smile as he stepped aside to give Hiro a better view of Baymax. “Baymax
here is made of tougher stuff and will be able to lift over 1,000 pounds.”
Tadashi grinned, but frown again when he looked at the giant.
“That still doesn’t explain though how you’re here.” Tadashi stated, making
Baymax tilt his head to the side.
“Each weapon is specially chosen for each person in the after life. I was
specifically chosen for you brother because of your devotion to him. That is
all that I have in my memory banks.” Baymax stated, making Tadashi stare at the
other in surprise.
“His devotion?” Hiro asked, getting up and off the bed to stay close to
Tadashi’s side.
“Yes, the only thing left in my memory banks is that whoever was waiting with
you for Hiro was impressed by your loyalty and love for him. So he decided to
give a weapon to Hiro that was from you.” Baymax explained, before bowing at
both Hiro and Tadashi.
“I hope that I may serve and protect Hiro well Creator.” Baymax spoke.
Hiro looked at Tadashi who stayed silent at the whole transaction. Soon though
Tadashi sighed, chuckling as he brought Hiro close. Hiro grinned and hugged his
brother tightly as the brother’s shared a moment. Only opening his eyes in
surprise when he felt something bigger envelope them both.
“I wanted a huggable design?” Tadashi questioned as Baymax hugged the brothers.
Hiro laughed, making Tadashi roll his eyes at his teasing brother. “By the
way….” Hiro spoke looking down at Tadashi’s hand. “Is that?” Hiro whispered,
making Tadashi nod as he looked at the object in his right hand with a powerful
look that almost blew the air in his lungs away.
 
“It’s my weapon.”
***** Don't You Worry Child *****
Chapter Summary
     New stories will be coming in this week or next week!
     It's more Hidashi so don't you worry!
     But, I am going to be releasing other stories to branch out a bit.
     They won't have as frequent updates as my Hidashi stories, but I will
     still regularly update them.
     For now enjoy the chapter!
“Oh this?” Tadashi whispered, pulling up the object that was in his hand.
“Is that?” Hiro asked again, not wanting to finish his sentence.
“Yeah, I believe so? I just feel complete with it. Like it was calling out to
me. It was in your workshop.” Tadashi whispered.
“Tadashi that’s… my last invention before… before….” Hiro whispered with awe as
he looked at the circlet metallic hand that was in his brother’s hand. Hiro
attentively touched the object looking it over before shaking his head in
disbelief.
“If… this is here….” Hiro whispered before he sprinted out the room getting
Tadashi to call after him. But Hiro needed to where the other half of his
invention lied and in doing so he needed to go into his workshop/garage. But
when Hiro threw opens the door and stepped into the workshop nothing was there.
“That makes no sense.” Hiro whispered, looking around but seeing nothing in
sight. Hiro looked in the drawers, the bins and even the garbage can. But try
as he might he couldn’t find where the rest of his invention was being stored.
“Hiro what’s wrong?” Tadashi asked, rushing up behind Hiro and placing his
large hands on his brother’s shoulders.
“I can’t find it!” Hiro expressed with horror. If he couldn’t find the rest of
his invention then how will Tadashi defend himself?
“Hiro, what do you mean?” Tadashi asked, as Hiro’s shoulders started shaking.
“The rest of my invention! I need to find it! I can’t… you have to be safe
too!” Hiro cried, as he started tearing apart his workshop. “You can’t… Not
again! I won’t!” Hiro hissed, throwing drawers everywhere and knocking down
tools.
“Hiro stop!” Tadashi shouted, grabbing Hiro by his arms and pulling him back
before he could do himself any harm.
“I CAN’T LOSE YOU AGAIN!” Hiro screamed, making Tadashi reel back in shock.
Silence enveloped the room like night taking over day. Hiro couldn’t bare look
at Tadashi as he stared at the concrete ground stained with oils and other
fluids Hiro had spilt over the years. He didn’t want Tadashi to see the
desperation on his face. Everything around them was terrifying and in the long
run Hiro knew that as soon as they leave this area things would get harder. The
monsters will become more terrifying and hostile. The landscapes will probably
change to be more damaging and complex.
It was like a sick game one that Hiro didn’t want to play. Death was supposed
to be peaceful and lead to happier things. Hiro had tried to smash his fist to
the floor, but Tadashi caught them before they could make any contact to the
harsh ground.
“Hiro, I’m here. I’m here.” Tadashi whispered.
“Will you?” Hiro asked with a slight mocking tone.
“Hiro Hamada you listen here you knucklehead.” Tadashi whispered turning Hiro
around in order for his brother to face him. Hiro tried to look everywhere
instead of staring into Tadashi’s eyes. But something about his eyes always
made his eyes wander in to look. Like a moth to a flame Hiro couldn’t help, but
look at his brother directly.
“I. Will. Not. Leave. You.” Tadashi spoke, his words filled with promise,
passion and finality. It made Hiro’s heart almost heal and yet break at the
same time in hearing the declaration.
“This isn’t like when we were living. I couldn’t control the fate that tore me
away from you. But in this place I swear I won’t ever leave your side. We’ll
get to our paradise together.” Tadashi promised, making Hiro only nod.
“Beside, I think, this dev-… uuhhh.” Tadashi spoke his voice a little confused.
“What is the- OH MY GUMMYBEARS! TADASHI! WHAT HAPPENED?” Hiro yelped looking at
Tadashi’s hand in pure horror. The device, his creation, looks to be wrapped
around and embedded into Tadashi’s skin. Like it was fused there or melted on
making the burn skin look almost infected by the intrusion.
“Baymax! Baymax!” Hiro called panicking as he and Tadashi tried to get the
device off. But the tugging only gave Tadashi pain and the device seem to have
a mind of it’s own and deepened itself more into his skin by using a few wires
to pierce the skin and spread into his muscle.
Baymax immediately walked over to Tadashi and scanned the arm that was causing
his charge and creator distress. Baymax tilted his head as he examined the arm
before showing up a few diagrams of an arm on his chest.
“It seems that the device Hiro had created has infused into Tadashi’s arm. The
metal seems to be connecting with the skin as if it was apart of his skin. The
wires are moving up, but seem to have stopped at Tadashi’s shoulder. What is
confusing to note is on certain areas of Tadashi’s arm there seems to be…
pockets…” Baymax inquired, making Hiro examine Tadashi’s arm closely at the
‘pockets’.
All Hiro could see was nothing, jut the horrible fresh looking burns his
brother had when he first saw him. “Hiro, what does this device do?” Tadashi
asked, making Hiro frantically pat down Tadashi’s arm to see if he could feel
the pockets. But again nothing seemed to have come up.
“It’s a nero-transmitter that signal to my micro bots! But it isn’t suppose to
do this!” Hiro spoke.
“On a scale of one to ten how would you rate your pain?” Baymax asked.
Tadashi blinked rolling his arm a bit before moving it with a small-bewildered
frown on his face. “I don’t feel any pain. I didn’t even notice the thing
embedding into my arm.” Tadashi confessed, making Hiro stare at the device.
“But, it looks painful.” Hiro fretted, making Tadashi smile as he ruffled
Hiro’s hair.
“It really doesn’t, don't worry Hiro. For now, let’s go. We’ll go back to the
café and figure this out.” Tadashi stated, making Hiro open his mouth to
protest when suddenly loud screeches were filling the area.
“Oh no…” Hiro whispered making Tadashi frown as he went over to one of the
small windows in the garage. Looking through the glass Tadashi almost gasped as
the large group they saw laughed as they ran away from the flowers.
“This isn’t good, we can’t leave with them in the area.” Tadashi whispered as
more and more flowers scrambled their way into the area trying to catch the
group of humans but being sightless and too slow to do so.
“What of Fred and Honey Lemon?” Hiro asked with worry making Tadashi sigh as he
slowly crept away from the window. He motioned every to stay down as they made
their way back into the living room and up the stairs. Hiro instantly went over
to one of the windows in Tadashi’s room to look at the area.
“Tadashi we’re surrounded!” Hiro whispered as he saw flower creatures roaming
around everywhere some fighting with each other and other smashing into cars in
rage.
“And that group.” Tadashi whispered watching as some of them laughed and rush
away into the alleyways of San Fransokyo while the other group taunted the
monsters.
“We have to leave soon. That group… I don’t like it. They look…. Off.” Tadashi
whispered, examining one of the group members. Hiro looked over to where
Tadashi was looking to see one of the women in the group. While she was
chatting loudly to her friend Hiro noticed something about her arm. There were
small black patches on her arm, but the woman didn’t seem to mind them as she
continued chatting with some of the others before vanishing into some
buildings.
“Her arm?” Hiro asked, getting Tadashi to nod.
“That wasn’t there the last time we saw them.” Tadashi informed, making Hiro
frown.
“What do we do?” Hiro asked, as Tadashi walked to the other room to look at the
backyard. “It seems their heading for the alleyways and tall buildings. So
we’re going to take the long way and cut through people’s yards to get back to
the café. Once there… we have to make a plan to leave soon.” Tadashi stated.
Hiro nodded, before looking at Baymax with a bit of a frown. “First though… Bro
I think we might want to upgrade Baymax.” Hiro stated, making Tadashi raise a
brow.
“What, why?” Tadashi asked in wonder, making Hiro roll his eyes as he poked at
the bot’s huggable belly. Making Baymax tilt his head to the side before
looking down to poke his belly as well. “While you’re huggable design is great…
I don’t think this will withstand any harsher attacks.” Hiro stated, making
Tadashi look at Baymax with a thoughtful look.
“You’re right.” Tadashi agreed.
“But for now, let’s head back to the café.” Hiro agreed, grabbing his bag and
taking Tadashi’s hand. The small group managed to get to the backyard making
sure to check that the other group already left.
Hiro shivered in the cold air before he turned back at their familiar home.
Hiro gripped Tadashi’s hand hard as he stared at the home grabbing Baymax’s
hand as well in order to hold in the emotions he felt. Deep down Hiro knew this
would be the last time that he would ever see this house. It was a goodbye Hiro
didn’t expect so soon or to handle with the long journey ahead.
“Thank you.” Tadashi spoke, shocking Hiro out of his thoughts as he looked up
at his older brother.
“Thank you for everything you done for us… especially for Hiro.” Tadashi
whispered, making Hiro look back at the home.
“Goodbye.” Hiro whispered solemnly before finally being force to turn around.
Quickly the two made their way crossing behind other house’s back yards.
Sticking to the shadows and hiding behind large objects. At one point Hiro had
looked back just once to look at his home. But he could see nothing as dark and
heavy fog seemed to have engulfed the entire neighborhood that was filled with
screeching from the monsters.
It was a horrible memory to have of his home and Hiro turned back in hopes to
forget the image. To forget the image of an empty house and a road filled with
monsters and instead remember the warmth of the sun and the smiles of his
parents.
 
“Good bye… Mom… Dad.”
***** Killing Get Easy With Time *****
Chapter Summary
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     I don't know about this chapter. But I hope I made it good.
     New stories will be posted tomorrow!
     I hope you enjoyed this!
Hiro knew something wasn’t right. A few times Hiro had caught himself looking
behind them and peering into the shadows with wary. They were taking the long
way back to the café and Hiro could feel himself becoming more and more
stressed as they inched closer to the café.
“Tadashi.” Hiro whispered, clutching onto his brother’s arm.
Tadashi looked back at Hiro before fully stopping at seeing Hiro’s distressed
face. “What’s wrong?” Tadashi whispered, noticing how Hiro was always looking
back with a look that seemed like he was going to puke at any moment. It made
the older Hamada brother looked back trying to hunt down and see if there was
anyone or anything hiding.
“Baymax, can you can anyone?” Tadashi whispered, making the large robot turn
it’s head and started to scan.
“I’m sorry Tadashi, but it seems that my scanners are not working as properly
as they should be.” Baymax informed, still looking back and trying to scan and
scan again. “Wait, that impossible you scanned Tadashi perfectly.” Hiro
inquired, making Baymax look at the brothers before scanning them. Once
finishing Baymax tilt his head to the side in question.
“I seemed to be scanning you two perfectly, but I cannot seem to scan for
anything behind us.” Baymax informed, making Tadashi tense.
“Hiro…” Tadashi whispered as he tightly griped his brother’s shoulders.
“RUN.”
Hiro felt his ran sprint away at his brother’s command. Tadashi grabbed
Baymax’s hand and sprinted behind Hiro looking behind them to see three
smirking figures running after them. “Fuck.” Tadashi hissed, pushing them all
to weave around the alleyways in hopes to shaking the group off their trail.
But no matter how hard they tried they couldn’t seem to shake the group.
“Hiro don’t look back.” Tadashi hoarsely whispered, making Hiro not as they
continued down alleyway after alleyway. But, soon the small group up to the
docks again got cornered into a dead end on one of the docks. Hiro looked into
the black inky water and instantly felt a sort of horror as he looked down into
the watery abyss.
“Tadashi, we can’t go into the water! We can’t!” Hiro explained almost
hysterically as he looked back at his brother. Tadashi looked into the water
before looking back at the laughing group.
“Well, well, well if it isn’t the little piglets we’ve been trying to find.”
One of the group members stated. Smirking as she stared at the group while
flicking a kitchen knife back and forth. The two others, one man and another
woman also snorted as each one held some sort of weapon.
The only man in the group held a large rusty axe while the other woman held a
blood soaked baseball bat. Each person had some sort of injuries on them that
showed briefly of what they could have died from.
“We don’t want any trouble.” Tadashi informed, pushing Hiro behind him as the
group cackled in their laughter.
“I love it when they say that! Oh please, we don’t mean any trouble! Here take
out things! Just don’t hurt us!” One of the women cackled, making Tadashi grit
his teeth and clenched his fist. Hiro placed his hands on Tadashi’s arm feeling
the tense muscle and something else.
“What the…” Hiro thought as he felt something poke his hand. Hiro moved his
hand a bit and watched in horror as something started poking… from behind
Tadashi’s skin. “Oh no, oh no! What is this?” Hiro thought with horror
instantly wiping his hand away from Tadashi’s arm in favor of clutching the
back of his shirt.
“Oh fuck, did isn’t that cute there is a little version!”
Hiro eyes snapped up to see one of the women staring at him with a hunger he
didn’t understand. But it drove fear into like a sharp knife and Hiro felt
cold. The woman continued to look at Hiro before she started licking her lips
as she looked at him.
“Hey, can I play with that boy? I want to hear him scream.” She stated, with
utter lust in her voice. It made Hiro feel sick and the urge to puke was
starting to become more apparent. Hiro could almost feel the bile coming up,
but forced it down as he clutched onto Tadashi. While the thing poking from
behind Tadashi’s skin was becoming more apparent.
“You will not be touching my brother.” Tadashi stated, dangerously making the
group mock Tadashi’s statement.
“Oh ho! Look here we got a brave one!” The male stated making little air quotes
as he spoke his sentence. “Just for that, I’ll make sure you’re alive while I
make your brother scream and maybe a little bit of moan before I kill him.” The
woman with the kitchen knife informed with a bit of a cackle at the end.
Hiro couldn’t help, but give out a scream when something burst out of Tadashi’s
arm. Blood spurting out and painting the wooden docks below along with
sprinkling Hiro’s pale face. Tadashi watched in horror and fascination as small
blanket little units started pouring out of his arm.
“Hiro, don’t look!” Tadashi ordered, but look back to see Hiro puking on the
side.
“Too late for that!” Hiro groaned, before he puked again.
Baymax patted Hiro’s back and said nothing as he just stared at the individuals
who were now looking at Tadashi with pure disgust. “Oh fuck, what the fuck is
wrong with his arm?” the male stated and even puked a bit on the ground.
“Fuck this! Just kill them!” the woman with the baseball bat hissed charging at
the group with her bat raised.
Tadashi instantly raised his hand up and the small little bots flew and started
covering the woman’s face. She screamed in distress and agony that Hiro
couldn’t comprehend until he studied on of the small bots. “These are my
microbots… but… they aren’t.” Hiro whispered looking at the sharp needle like
edges of the bot before it flung out of his hand to join the others.
Tadashi didn’t show any emotion to the woman as he pulled back the bots.
Quickly though he shoved Hiro’s face in Baymax’s stomach so he couldn’t see the
damage the microbots inflicted. The woman’s face was bleedings and her eye were
nothing, but gorged out flesh. She screamed as she clawed at her face her bat
dropping as she tried to find her way back to the group.
But in her distress she went to far to the side and plunged into the blank
waters below. It was at that point where Hiro looked to see the woman screaming
as she struggled in the water. Hiro watched as… something got a hold of the
woman’s frantic legs and dragged her down.
“Oh fuck! Oh fuck what was that? Oh fuck! Shit I’m out of here!” the man
shouted and sprinted away from the scene.
The woman with the knife was about to run as well, but Tadashi caught her
before she could make it. She screamed as the microbots dug into her ankles and
legs tearing at her skin making blood puddle at her feet. She flung her knife
at the group in hopes to distract them enough so she could dislodge herself.
Baymax was fast enough to use his large body as a shield for the knife. Letting
the sharp object pierce his suit allow the air to escape through the large
hole. Baymax took the knife and flung it into the water where Hiro watched it
instantly vanish before looking at the woman.
“Mercy! Mercy!” She screamed, making Tadashi sigh.
Tadashi started calling back the microbots as they painfully dug out of her
skin and headed towards Tadashi. She screamed in misery as they did this and
flung herself to the side in order to dislodge the last bit from her. She
whimpered and screamed as bits of her legs, ankles and feet were a mess of
flesh and blood.
“Fuck you! Fuck you!” She shouted as she glared at the group.
“I’m going to fucking kill you! You hear me? FUCKING MURDER YOU TWO!” She
screamed and shouted. Hiro clung to his brothers back looking at his bleeding
arm as the microbots started climbing up his brother’s body in order to nestle
into the bag he carried.
“I’m sorry you had to see that Hiro.” Tadashi whispered, watching as the last
microbot jumped into the bag before turning to Hiro. Hiro just shook his head
and ripped a bit of his sleeve off in order to wrap his brother’s bleeding arm.
“Does it hurt?” Hiro whispered, making Tadashi shake his head.
“No, don’t worry.” Tadashi answered honestly before picking up his brother.
“Baymax le-… BAYMAX!” Tadashi yelled out in surprise as Baymax grabbed the
bleeding and screaming woman in one of his hands. Baymax looked over at Tadashi
and Hiro’s faces before looking back at the screaming and swearing woman.
“I am Hiro’s weapon. She has posed an immediate threat to my charge.” Baymax
stated before he started walking over to the edge of the dock. Immediately the
woman started thrashing and screeching as she looked down.
The woman’s blood was hitting the water like a rain shower making the ocean
ripple at the disturbance. Hiro watched in horror as something seemed to move
under the surface and he wasn’t the only one who noticed. The woman saw it too
and soon begged for mercy again. Her brave and vengeful façade let go in favor
of trying to live. Tadashi didn’t say anything else he just stared as Baymax
dropped the sobbing woman into the water.
Tadashi pushed Hiro head away from watching the woman as she begged for them to
help her. But deep down Tadashi wouldn’t give the woman that mercy. Her words
still haunting him and from what he could tell still haunting Hiro as he
clutched onto Tadashi and willingly looked away from the pleading.
Baymax gladly carried their bags as they made their way past the thrashing and
screaming. Tadashi stepped carefully around the puddles of blood and puke
making sure to keep a tight gripe on Hiro as he carried his younger brother
towards the café again. Tadashi gave one last look at the woman who was trying
her to climb her way back up the dock.
She seemed to have a glimmer of a hope as she managed to pull herself up a bit
only for multiple hands to shoot out from water. Pulling at her and tugging her
back in making her scream in terror before she was plunged under the surface.
The bubbles fizzing out in a mater of seconds before the waters were calm and
silent once again.
Tadashi looked forwards and continued walking with Baymax following faithfully
behind. They continued their trek until finally they came to the back door of
the lucky cat café. Carefully Tadashi looked to see if Fred and Honey Lemon
left any signal that they came back. Looking closely at the door Tadashi
noticed a very faint claw marks at the button that looked to be in the drawing
of something.
Being wary and cautious Tadashi opened the door carefully. “Baymax scan the
place?” Tadashi asked, making Baymax nod as he proceeded to scan. “I can see
three figures upstairs. One of them is male and the other is female. The last
one though is not really processing in my scanners. It seems the female one
though is taking a shower.” Baymax concluded making Tadashi sigh in relief.
Carefully told Baymax to block the entrance as quietly and as fast as possible.
Baymax followed the orders dutifully and placed several large objects in front
of the door until Tadashi was satisfied.
Hiro finally looked from his brother’s shoulders as they made their way up and
into the room. Instantly Hiro saw the blood and looked at Fred’s almost lost
expression. Zilla was behind him some smears of blood coming from her mouth.
Fred also had splotches of blood on him and it scared Hiro.
“Fred? Fred what happened?” Tadashi asked, placing Hiro down and himself in
front of him. It was silent until Fred finally looked up at Tadashi.
“They… were hiding in my family’s house… we managed to fight them off and loose
them… Dude… we have to leave.” Fred whispered, before going over to his bag and
started packing things inside. Hiro looked at Tadashi before going over to his
own area.
“Fred, look at me! Look at me! What happened?” Tadashi hissed, making Fred snap
back at Tadashi. “… Dude… they’re kidnapping other survivors and… torturing
them. I don’t know man! Like, nothing prepared me for what was in that mansion!
We have to leave.” Fred hissed, making Hiro flinch earning Fred to blink at the
other in surprise before guilt.
“Sorry.” Fred murmured over to Hiro.
“Did you guys?” Fred asked, seeing the haunted looks in both Tadashi and Hiro.
“We’ve encountered some of them.” Tadashi whispered, making Fred nod in
understanding. “We should all take showers dude, who knows when we’ll get the
next one.” Fred explained, making Hiro nod as he gathered some of the towel
they used before. Hiro perked up as he heard a loud tearing noise making him
look over towards Baymax.
“Baymax what are you doing?” Hiro asked as he saw the robot tears apart the
vinyl that covered his whole body. Even Tadashi seemed to be at a loss of what
his creation was doing.
“My body is not good for our situation. I would be a large target and that
would prevent me from being a good healthcare provider and protector.” Baymax
stated before he continued to tear off the white plastic.
“We have no time either to place something on him… This will have to do for
now.” Tadashi agreed.
“Tadashi?” Hiro asked, looking up to see his brother staring at the window.
 
“We have to leave.”
***** Enter If You Dare But Know Your Not Alone *****
Chapter Summary
     I hope you folks enjoy this chapter!
     Were going to be at level two difficulty so expect some more intense
     fighting.
     SURVIVAL!
“Guys, remember once we get out of this city… everything is going to change for
probably the worse.”
“Real confidence booster Tadashi.”
“He’s just keeping it real little man.”
“Tadashi is right though.” Honey Lemon finally whispered as they started making
their way to the outer limits of the city. The group was quick taking their
final showers and packing carefully before finally leaving the café behind.
Hiking bags were set on their shoulders and Hiro held his lantern tightly in
his hands.
Baymax who had finished tearing off all the white vinyl looked like a large
hulking metallic skeleton. But, as Baymax had wanted as he tore off his own
skin he wasn’t a large target eye sore anymore. At least he’s not a large white
sign that could give away their position.
The only remnant that was on the robot was his white head that was quickly
covered by a brown sack with holes for the time being. It looked terrifying in
it’s own right and Hiro couldn’t help, but cringe away from Baymax a few times.
Instantly though the guilt would come in and Hiro would gratefully allow the
robot to help carrying his bag or even carry him.
The group had ventured further and further away from the city. Taking the route
that was the farthest away from the mansion as possible. From the hollowed
expression of both Fred and Honey Lemon even Hiro wasn’t so willing to take the
fastest route. It took time especially when they encountered a few flowers
roaming aimlessly around.
Finally though the outer limits of the city were coming up. Hiro had squinted
to look past the fog he could see that there seemed to be something. “What is
that?” Hiro whispered, making Tadashi look over and down to Hiro.
“What’s up Hiro?” Tadashi asked, making Hiro look up back at Tadashi before he
pointed towards the front of them. “Do you see it?” Hiro whispered, making the
group look over all trying to see what Hiro was talking about.
The closer they came the more they could see and what they saw shocked the
whole group. Hiro had known San Fransokyo all his life because before he died
he lived in the city all his life. He knew the ends and outs of the city along
with the neighboring towns and cities. What greeted them at the outer limits
weren’t the usual trees and open roads.
Instead towering walls that looked to be almost bleeding rust appeared out of
the mist. The walls seemed to tower over them making it impossible to climb
over. Instead several tunnels lead into what seemed like an ever-lasting
darkness. The darkness was daunting and Hiro couldn’t help, but hide behind
Tadashi as they looked at each tunnel.
The tunnels seemed to cross the entire wall giving them a daunting choice of
picking a tunnel. Where the tunnels lead they didn’t have a clue. There was no
evidence of what each tunnel held. There weren’t even any footsteps that showed
the most popular choices. Even if they saw foot steps going into the abyss they
couldn’t tell if it was the right choice.
“Guys…” Honey Lemon whispered shivering as she looked into a few of the
tunnels. The only sound the tunnels gave out was an almost mournful moan that
was caused by the wind going in to the tunnels. Fred picked up a small stone
and threw it into one of the tunnels. The only sound resonating out was the
soft patter of the rock. Even that seemed terrifying to the small group.
“This is… a decision we all need to make.” Fred informed, making Tadashi nod in
agreement.
Tadashi turned to Fred and Honey Lemon with a serious expression on his face.
The two seemed to know what was happening and patiently waited for Tadashi to
speak. Hiro looked back at the mist before looking back at the tunnels. He felt
the over whelming fear of the unknown start to take over. He never thought he
would feel this way ever.
“Fred, Honey Lemon which tunnel you go into is also your choice. You don’t have
to stick with us if you don’t want too.” Tadashi informed, making Hiro kick at
the ground. It would be selfish of Hiro or Tadashi to ask for the two to come
with them. They themselves were also looking for their resting place. Asking
for them to come with them might also be endangering their own mission in
finding their peace.
“Hiro and I appreciate the company and help you two have brought onto us. We
can’t ask you anymore… your journey is your own after all. Just like how your
resting place is your own.” Tadashi whispered, looking back at the array of
tunnels.
“Like Tadashi said! We won’t hold it against you.” Hiro grinned, getting the
group to give out soft chuckles.
Fred turned at the tunnel a thoughtful expression on his face before he look
back at the brothers. He then turned to look back into the mist with a longing
expression before sighing as he looked down at the small patch of dead grass
they were on. “We also have to account of what could happen to us… we could
change into something that doesn’t even represent the fraction of what we used
to be.” Fred whispered, his words wise and true. Honey Lemon sighed as she
looked down at her own hands.
“That’s right… the fear of starting the journey over again… or being badly
injured forced to regenerate slowly in that spot…” Honey Lemon whispered
shivering at the thought of something like that happening.
“… The monsters…” Hiro whispered, making everyone look up to stare at him. Hiro
clutched onto Tadashi’s fingers before he started playing with them. “The
monsters will also be different… I feel like… they’ll be… stronger and more
terrifying. Who knows what they can do to us.” Hiro whispered, before turning
around in order to burry his face into Tadashi’s shirt.
Tadashi held Hiro, before looking at the other two. “You two talk while Hiro
and I decide which one were getting into.” Tadashi spoke before turning Hiro
around and motioning Baymax to come closer as well.
“Baymax, can you scan anything about these tunnels?” Tadashi asked, getting
Baymax to shake his head. “I am sorry, my scanner don’t seem to be working for
this. It is up to the both of you to decide which path to take.” Baymax stated,
making Hiro wince as he looked back at the tunnels.
“Hiro, which one do you think we should take?” Tadashi asked as he looked at a
few of the tunnels in front of them before looking down the line at the other
tunnels. “I don’t know… too many options and to many out comes. It’s like a
game of chance except with higher consequences.” Hiro stated, making Tadashi
sigh as he examined each entrance carefully.
“But…” Hiro whispered giving a small smile to Tadashi.
“As long as I have you… then I’m always good.” Hiro stated, making Tadashi
smile back. Hiro looked back at the entrances and noticed that one of the
entrances had more moss growing around its edges. Hiro looked at the darkness
and shivered before nodding towards the tunnel. Tadashi nodded, before the two
looked back at Fred and Honey Lemon.
“Guys, we’ve decided to go through this tunnel.” Tadashi spoke, making the two
jumps at the sudden loud voice.
“Have, you two come to a decision?” Hiro asked.
“Yup! Personally, traveling in a group always seems the best way and the safe
way! So you guys are stuck with me.” Fred grinned, making Honey Lemon smile as
she walked behind Fred to join the group. “I agree with Fred… it seems scary to
travel alone and as Fred states safety in numbers!” Honey Lemon agreed, making
Hiro smile before he looked back at the tunnel.
“We each one of use should have a go at using our flashlights. When one goes
out another one takes up the torch. That way it’s far on everyone and not
depleting on a particular person’s supplies.” Tadashi informed, making Honey
Lemon and Fred agree with the terms. Quickly Fred brought out his flashlight
and turned on the device. Immediately light filled into the darkness showing
them the stone mossy walls and stone floor that meets the dirt.
“Well… Let’s go.” Fred gulped before they group started walking to the
darkness.
As the group got deeper and deeper into the tunnel Hiro couldn’t help, but give
one last look behind them. The entrance to their tunnel was now just a dim dot
of light. It almost seemed like a beacon to Hiro telling him to come back. But
Hiro refused and turned his head towards the darkness. Though Hiro hopes that
he would get to see an entrance like that at the end of this journey.
The group went deeper and deeper into the tunnels that almost seemed to stretch
on forever. Everything seemed to be the same thought they made sure to study
things carefully. This was new territory.
Soon the entrance could no longer be seen there was darkness in front and
behind them. Hiro stuck close to Tadashi and Baymax while Fred lead the group
down the cavern. Finally what seemed like hours they came to something new.
“Guys… this is… intense.” Fred whispered in awe as they walked into the large
chamber.
Fred moved his flashlight to examine many pictures that donned the walls of the
cavern. Hiro studied the picture carefully trying to piece together what they
were saying. One picture showed multiple hallways with what seemed to be people
walking on them. Another picture showed large chambers such as the one they’re
in now with little houses and even that had trees.
Another picture showed one large hallway with a lone person that looked like he
was going insane. Around the person were eyes that disturbed Hiro as he looked
at it more. It seems Fred was having the same feelings and ideas as Hiro as he
stayed on the painted picture.
“I don’t think were going to be alone in here.” Fred whispered, making everyone
nod nervously at the accusation.
 
“Are we even alone now?”
***** The Hunger That Lurks *****
Chapter Summary
     I made this chapter a little longer because of the wait!
     Sorry again for the wait folks!
“There are so many pictures.” Honey Lemon whispered, examining some of the
pictures before looking at the large hallways that connected from the chamber
and into the darkness before them.
“Try to see if anyone tells of any monsters.” Tadashi explained, making Fred go
from picture to picture. But all were as cryptic as the next and Hiro couldn’t
help, but feel overwhelmed with the hints about the tunnels they were so
graciously given.
Then again, what if it was the tunnel they decided to go into? What if it was
the luck of the draw and the other tunnels showed something different? What if
there was another tunnel that actually showed the other side of this dreadful
place? All of these questions were swirling in Hiro’s mind before he looked
over at the others.
“Remember the light… is our life line. If anything is hiding in the darkness we
know that they hate the light.” Hiro stated, making Tadashi nod in agreement.
“Guys, keep your eyes peeled, anything that can make light our fire take it
with us. I have a feeling supplies will get harder to come by in this journey
after this area.” Tadashi informed, making Fred salute and Honey Lemon
fretfully nod. Zilla growled a bit looking into the darkness, making Hiro tense
as Fred shined a light at the entrance she was growling at.
“Uh, all in favor of not going into this entrance?” Fred asked, shining the
light into the tunnel. Nothing shone, but Zilla continued to hiss at the
tunnel.
“Well there is only one other way to go then.” She stated pointing to the
entrance to the right. “And look at this!” Honey Lemon explained, looking down
at the stone floor. “Tracks.” Tadashi whispered seeing the imprints of shoes
and other things going into the tunnel. Hiro touched one of the marks before
looking into the tunnel. Something didn’t seem right at all.
“There are so many tracks for this tunnel and so few for this one.” Hiro
thought looking at the tracks for the other tunnel. While the tracks were old
they still held the imprints of those who went on their journey. Hiro studied
the tracks longer when he noticed something strange about the right entrance.
There was a set of footprints leading from out of the entrance to the left
entrance.
The tracks were old and faded signaling that whoever came out of the tunnel to
go into the other was long gone. Hiro frowned as he stared in the tunnel that
Zilla was growling at and straightened his back.
“This one.” Hiro explained, making the others look over at him in surprise.
“I don’t know dude, Zilla doesn’t seem to agree with you.” Fred explained,
while Honey Lemon shook her head at the entrance. She held her bag close to her
chest ready to throw whatever chemicals need to be thrown.
“Why do you think we should go there?” Tadashi asked, making Hiro point to the
faded out tracks. Tadashi kneeled down and pressed a hand at the ground
frowning as he saw what the tracks were coming from and going too. While it was
small, it gave a sign of what could be awaiting for them. Tadashi looked at the
right tunnel before ruffling Hiro’s hair. Baymax who stood beside the two also
stared at the left entrance.
“Someone left the right tunnel to go into the left.” Tadashi explained, making
Fred study the tracks. Honey Lemon also looked, but her facial feature seemed
unconvincing. Hiro stayed adamant though and looked at the left tunnel with a
determined expression. His gut feeling told him to go this way.
“We’re going this way.” Tadashi explained, looking over to Honey Lemon and
Fred.
“Remember guys, you are your own person. If you don’t want to go this way… we
won’t think less of you. This is your journey as well.” Tadashi informed again,
making Fred nod before he gave the two a small smile. He pointed his flashlight
at the left tunnel while Zilla flicked her tail before going in front of Fred.
“Honey Lemon?” Hiro asked uncertain as the female shook her head.
“I’ll follow you guys out of this tunnel… but… I think I’m going to leave once
we get out.” Honey Lemon replied honestly. Hiro frowned, but didn’t try to stop
her. Like Tadashi continued to tell and repeat this was also their own journey.
What right did he have in stopping them?
Fred frowned at this, as he looked at Honey Lemon a thoughtful expression on
his face. But nobody said anything and instead made the first few cautious
steps into the left tunnel. The group continued forward into the large tunnel.
It was large the one they meet at the entrance. But this tunnel seemed almost
darker than the other tunnels. It put everyone on edge as they looked around
for any signs of trouble.
Deeper and deeper did they go into the darkness. Led by Fred’s flashlight as
they trudged into the darkness Baymax at the back and Zilla at the front to
keep guard of the group as they continued their journey. No one made too much
loud noise not wanting to give any attention to where they are for anyone that
was hiding in the darkness.
Hiro had studied the walls in where the light would show. Hiro was amazed to
see graffiti on the walls each one giving their own little message or picture
of random things, terrifying things or beautiful things. Hiro couldn’t help,
but feel his heart ache at one message that was on the wall of the tunnel. It
seemed to have been written by an adult explaining to whoever the mother was
that her child was safe. That they’ll try to wait for her at the end of the
tunnel or they hoped she found them soon.
But, they would only wait a few days outside the tunnel and if she didn’t make
it… they would take her child with them. It made Hiro cement himself by
Tadashi’s side as soon as he read the message. Tadashi who noticed Hiro reading
the message didn’t say anything. Instead he wrapped one arm around him as he
held onto his own flashlight ready to take up the light duty as soon as Fred’s
light went out.
Fred who also noticed Hiro’s discomfort at the message try his hardest to not
shine the light on anymore writing. Trying to read them first quickly in order
to censor what he would see. Honey Lemon, who had decided to walk close beside
Fred, tried to walk in front of Hiro.
Soon, the tunnel opened out and into something that Hiro couldn’t imagine in
his whole life being underground. There in front of them looked to be a small
neighborhood. Completed with a few dead trees and even rusty looking street
lamps.
“What is this?” Honey Lemon whispered, looking at the abandoned looking homes.
There were even cars in the driveways. But, the weird part was that everything
looked old. Like they were back in the middle of the 1950s or something. There
were even white picket fences on a few homes and billboards advertising
products that looked like ancient technology in Hiro’s eyes.
“Keep your eyes peeled.” Tadashi whispered, making everyone nod as they
continued their journey. No one spoke as they traveled through the
neighborhood. It frightened Hiro as they passed by an old playground. In a
small glimpse Hiro thought he saw a shadow by the swing and immediately turned
to get a look. But, Nothing seemed to be there except for the rusty swing set.
Hiro tugged at Tadashi’s arm making Tadashi look down to Hiro.
“What’s wrong Hiro?” Tadashi whispered.
“I think I saw something by the swing sets.” Hiro whispered, staring at the
playground as they walked further and further away from it. Tadashi immediately
went on guard and turned on his own flashlight alerting both Fred and Honey
Lemon. The two watched as the older brother smoothed around the playground
trying to see if he could catch anything.
“What’s wrong?” Fred asked.
“Hiro said he saw something.” Tadashi whispered back, making the group tense
up. “Hiro, how big?” Honey Lemon asked, making Hiro frown as tried to recall
the shadowy figure. “It was like, small. Smaller than me even.” Hiro whispered.
Immediately Fred got out one of his samurai swords that he decided to bring
with him. Honey Lemon got her bag ready and Tadashi pressed a sheathed combat
knife into Hiro’s hands.
“If anything come at you… stab it.” Tadashi whispered reluctantly. Hiro knew
that his brother didn’t want him to fight. But they weren’t in a position to
have that luxury. Even Hiro didn’t want to burden his brother by being the weak
link in their group. Carefully he grabbed the knife and the group quickened the
pace to wards the exit of the neighborhood.
“Look, an exit.” Honey Lemon whispered, pointing ahead.
“Let’s get out of here.” Fred agreed, making the brother nod as they rushed to
the exit. They froze though as the closer they got to the entrance the more
they saw something crouched down. Squinting his eyes Hiro noticed that there
wasn’t just one thing, there were more and all seemed to be crowding around
something. Fred gulped before he quickly flashed the light on the hunched
figures.
The reactions were immediate and soon screams filled the silence of the
neighborhood. Hiro looked at the scene before him in disgust and horror. There
in front of them looked to be small little goblin creatures. But, they looked
too human with skinny bodies and human feature. The only thing making Hiro know
they weren’t was what their faces looked like.
A few strands of greasy and dirty hair clutched at the top of their scalps.
Eyes that looked blind had no eyelids almost like they were cut off. Their
faces were sunken in and they almost looked starved. But the feature that made
Hiro real in disgust was the rabbit like teeth they had. Their mouths covered
in blood and flesh handing in between the teeth.
Burns started to appear on their skin by the light that Fred flashed at them.
Immediately they scampered off screaming in agony as they tore at their burning
skin rushing behind backyards or into homes themselves. Leaving the carcass
that they were eating.
Hiro couldn’t prevent the bile that rushed up his throat and out of his mouth.
He turned his head and puked onto the concrete road. Tadashi hands were
immediately at his back rubbing him slowly to ease Hiro his nausea. Baymax also
was at Hiro’s side giving his stomach a basic rub along with his chest. Tadashi
looked back at the corpse that seemed to be mostly stripped of its skin, muscle
and even organs. Blood was all around the ground and at the side was whoever it
was bag.
Honey Lemon who surprisingly was one of the few in the group who wasn’t puking
turned on her own flashlight to study the corpse with a grimace on her face.
She looked over the corpse before turning to the others. “It looks to be an
elderly man.” She whispered sadly, before she pointed her flashlight at his
things.
Honey Lemon walked over to survey the area before she noticed the broken
flashlight on the ground. Her flashlight continued to search until they hit
something that made Honey Lemon turn away. Hiro peaked and almost felt bile
come up from his stomach again.
All around the area were bloody bones and skeletons stripped from their flesh
like the other. It looked like a battle scene and Hiro could only turn around.
Tadashi gently picked up Hiro and placed him in Baymax’s arms. Silently pulling
his hoody over his head before looking at the scene himself.
“What happened?” Fred groaned, making sure to flash his light at the
surrounding area. The screams from the creatures could still be heard and more
had joined them. Some even had tried coming back only to scream in agony again
at the light that was flashing at them. Zilla roared at them slamming her tail
on the ground in warning that also helped many of those creatures back off.
“… This skull is fractured!” Honey Lemon called looking at one of the heads.
“This one is also broken.” Tadashi explained, examining the skull before going
to the next one. “Tadashi! Bullet holes.” Honey Lemon yelled, making Tadashi
rush over to examine the tree she was looking at. There in the bark were
several bullet holes.
“Shit, could it be that group?” Fred called.
“I don’t know.” Tadashi explained, but something just didn’t seem right about
the scene. None of their bags looked to be broken into. They were just on the
side with a few holes and blood on them. All around were flashlights with all
of their buttons being on, but with dead batteries. It seem the group was
small, only three bodies they could find. From what they could tell two were
female and one was male from the clothes they pulled out of their bags.
“This makes no sense.” Honey Lemon whispered.
“I agree… for now harvest the backpacks. Take anything useful. We can’t do
anything for them.” Tadashi called. Already opening up one of the bags and
immediately finding lights and matches. Having an idea Tadashi dumped out the
backpack that was a side buckle one before filling it with some of the supplies
they found. Walking over to Baymax he was careful in strapping the back onto
his creation.
“I don’t see the gun anywhere…” Honey Lemon explained. “We don’t know the
story, but keep your guard up.” Fred informed frowning, as those creatures
seemed to be finally backing up from the group. But from what the other could
tell they were still circling them. Tadashi patted Hiro’s head before motioning
for them to leave.
 
“We need to get out of here as fast as we can.”
***** Pity The Girl Who Fell In Love *****
Chapter Summary
     This is a long chapter. I made sure it was really long.
     Like it's really long. Longest chapter I have ever made.
     I hope you all enjoy it. C8 kekekeke.
“Are those creatures still following us?” Tadashi asked, looking up to Hiro who
was perched on Baymax’s arm. Hiro held his flashlight tightly in one hand as
the other held the combat knife. The group had decided to have guards in front
and back to make sure they couldn’t get ambushed or caught off guard.
When the small group ran away from the disturbing scene the creatures had
followed them all the way into the tunnel they went into. For hours the group
were forced to walk on as they were followed by the howls and screams of the
monsters behind them. The group didn’t dare stop and rest, the screams were too
loud and the thought of those things sinking their teeth in their skin made
them keep putting one foot in front of the other.
But, after what finally seemed like hours the screams slowly became silent
again. And all that was heard in the tunnel they were in was the labored
breathing and the footsteps the group was making.
“No…” Hiro whispered, his eyes opening and closing more constantly than before.
Tadashi looked over at Fred and Honey Lemon to also see that they too were
worse for wear. Their legs were shaking with each step they were taking and
their bodies swayed with exhaustion. The only one who wasn’t feeling this was
Zilla and Baymax who continued to walk without difficulty.
“We need to stop and rest soon.” Tadashi stated, making Fred nod his head in
agreement. “I used to be all about staying up late, but even I’m reaching my
limit.” Fred explained, making Honey Lemon only nod in agreement.
“Hopefully this tunnel will lead to something that we can rest at.” Honey Lemon
explained, making Tadashi give a grunt in agreement. The tunnel was too nerve
wracking for anyone to even consider stopping and taking a rest. Their only
hope was to come by another open area. But as they continued to walk the long
dark tunnel the more and more did the team realize that they might not come to
another open area so close to the one they just came from.
“You all are showing maximum levels of exhaustion. To cure this I suggest we
stop so you all can get some rest.” Baymax stated, scanning the bodies in front
of him. Everyone twitched at the suggestion from the robot as they continued
putting one foot in front of the other.
Hiro continued to stare behind them his flashlight not leaving in its pointed
direction. But, even Hiro knew that if their group didn’t get any rest soon.
Then eventually they will get caught off guard, which would end in either a
gruesome fast death or a slow death. “Which means, we start all over again.”
Hiro thought, gingerly looking over to Tadashi and the others. Everyone seemed
almost slumped over himself or herself as they walked.
“But at the same time, do we want to risk being in such an open area?” Hiro
thought, seeing as they were only in a large hallway. Confrontation was a point
that they didn’t want with either monsters or deranged survivors.
“So, what do we risk?” Hiro thought.
“Can we risk?” Hiro bitterly whispered.
“What is wrong Hiro?” Baymax asked, making Hiro shake his head as he continued
to look behind them. “It’s alright Baymax. Thanks for carrying me.” Hiro
thanked, getting Baymax to tilt his head as he continued to walk with heavy
footsteps. Baymax stared at Hiro as if he didn’t understand why Hiro had
thanked the robot.
“…You… are welcome Hiro.” Baymax slowly spoke out. Hiro smiled, before looking
back behind them. The light in his flashlight that he got out of Baymax’s bag
was great. The light blazed brightly behind them showing a good amount of what
was behind before the darkness swallowed the rest. Teasing the group as he
tried to inch closer to them as they inched away from them. It was like playing
tag with darkness as ‘it’.
“Hey guys! I think I see something up ahead!” Fred proclaimed, making Hiro turn
back to where Fred was pointing the light. True to his word it seemed like
there was something coming up at the end of the tunnel. In excitement the group
rushed towards the end and looked in surprised at the large wood double doors.
Nothing gave away what could possibly be on the other side of the door. It was
just a plain old looking double wooden door that greeted them through the
darkness. Everyone was apprehensive not knowing if this could be a trap or not.
“Let’s go through it already.” Honey Lemon whispered, anxious to get somewhere
that wasn’t a long stone hallway. “I agree with Honey Lemon, we can’t go back.”
Hiro spoke as well, making Fred and Tadashi look at each other. Motioning for
Honey Lemon the woman quickly got her own flash light out and turned it on
allowing Fred to turn off his own and place his away.
With wary the two grasped onto the doorknobs of the door and gently turned the
knob. To Hiro it felt so loud the rusted sound of the door slowly opening along
with the hinges almost screaming as they opened up the doors.
“Is this...?” Hiro whispered in question as he stared what was in front of him
with great surprise. Patting Baymax’s arm the robot lowered Hiro to the ground
that instantly walked over past the doors and into the open area. “It’s a
carnival…” Hiro whispered in awe at the place. There were stalls, rides and
even large statues all around. But like the other area there was no on around.
What was weird though, about this area was that certain areas were still
running. While yes, many were far out and few between giving small ‘black out’
areas some things were still running. Hiro had to admit that it made the place
all the eerie. He could hear the raspy sounds of carnival music trying to play
and the moaning of rides still running. Light only half flashing the words of
what they were advertising some even off a few sparks.
And in the distance you could see several large entrances that one could take.
They were large and looming on the other side of the area. It was daunting and
exhausting to look at them so Hiro turned away. Not wanting to focus on yet
another hard decision to make once they get rested.
“Keep on guard, who knows if those things are going to lurking here.” Tadashi
whispered in Hiro’s ear, gripping Hiro’s hand that clutched onto the knife.
Hiro made a small noise of agreement before the group ventured into the place.
Closing the door behind them in hopes that if those creatures did follow them
at least the door was loud enough to alert them.
But of course, they already knew if something was in this new area… it has also
already heard them coming in. The group was careful as they examined a place
where they could rest. Hiro looked around before he noticed that like in the
last area there was another playground in this area. It made sense since most
carnivals that Hiro’s been too were usually in or close to parks that held
playgrounds for children.
“Cute…” Hiro thought as he saw the ride animals being little lions, bears and
even a goldfish. Looking around some more Hiro’s flashlight came to a large
playhouse that was in the theme of what seemed to be a zoo. “Tadashi!” Hiro
called, getting Tadashi to turn around. Hiro pointed at the playhouse, making
Tadashi quickly walk over to Hiro.
“This might be a good place to rest.” Hiro stated, examining the playhouse, but
not daring to go in alone. The playhouse was close to a lightened area of the
carnival. Hiro didn’t feel comfortable in actually sleeping or even sitting in
one of those booths. In reality nothing in this place gave Hiro any comfort,
but at least with this at least it gave Hiro the nostalgia of good times.
“Why not in the area where light is running? It would waste less of our
supplies.” Honey Lemon inquired.
“We don’t actually know why those areas are light though. It could be a trap.”
Tadashi explained, making Fred ponder at the idea. “He could be right… we walk
a long time… how long robot man?” Fred asked, towards Baymax.
“You all been awake for thirty hours straight.” Baymax explained.
“Right… I mean Tadashi is right while it seems appealing… those light areas
could actually be a trap.” Fred explained, but Hiro saw in Honey Lemon’s face
that she didn’t want to hear the explanation. Hiro watched as the woman shook
her head before she turned and headed towards the slightly bright carnival
area.
Fred sighed, as he watched Honey Lemon leave before looking at Tadashi. He gave
them a signal to wait a bit as he rushed over to Honey Lemon and stopped her.
Hiro watched as the two chatted and from the looks of it, it wasn’t good. Honey
Lemon had tears in her eyes with a pale expression. Fred continued to calmly
speak to her as if trying to reach in her in a way before she shook her head
once again.
With determination she said one last thing to Fred standing her ground as she
stared at him. Fred could only smile at Honey Lemon speaking a few words to her
that made her eyes water. She spoke back, but Fred also determined seemed to
say something before giving the motion for her to come with him only for a bit.
Hiro knew exactly what was going on.
The two solemnly walked up towards the two brothers and Baymax. Without so much
a single word Hiro launched himself towards Honey Lemon into a tight hug. Honey
Lemon was surprised before she hugged Hiro tightly. Whispering how sorry she
was that she was doing this, but she needed to do this.
Hiro whispered back that she didn’t need to apologize. This was her own journey
as well and she needed to do what she wanted. It was her journey and Hiro would
never take away her decision on what she wanted to do.
Behind them Fred and Tadashi gave each other a good hug before shaking each
other’s hands. The two wished each other luck and gave hope that one day in the
future they would meet each other again. The two gave a bitter laugh at that
before breaking away. Hiro reluctantly let Honey Lemon go in order to give Fred
a crushing hug while Honey Lemon did the same to Tadashi.
“Take care little man… Don’t be too sad were going to see you before we enter
in the entrances… and who knows, we might end up in the same paradise
together!” Fred whispered, Hiro smile at that. He didn’t dare comment on it
though and just told Fred to keep safe with Honey Lemon. Fred gave a huge grin
back and thumbs up before giving Hiro one last hug.
Hiro could only give the two in what he hopes was a bright smile as they walked
away hand in hand with Zilla walking beside them. Hiro watched them all the way
until he couldn’t see the light of their flashlight anymore. A warm hand was
placed on his shoulder and Hiro looked up to see Tadashi. “It’s going to be
okay.” Tadashi whispered, making Hiro shiver at the tone before he turned
around to face the playhouse. Again Hiro didn’t want to comment on those words.
He feared if he did then something would go wrong.
Carefully the two investigated the small children’s playhouse. Using the last
bit of their energy they quickly got enough wood to make two little fires. They
hoped that whatever could be lurking would be deterred from the light and heat
of the flames. But just to be careful Hiro had quickly placed a few candles
they found from the other survivors inside the playhouse. Giving the rotting
play scape an almost comforting feel.
“I shall keep watch and make sure the fires continue to burn while you sleep.”
Baymax stated coming back with bundles of more sticks and even leaves. “Thank
you Baymax.” Tadashi whispered tiredly.
Hiro grunted as he settled into his sleeping bag. His bones ached and Hiro
couldn’t help, but pop a few of his joints. The space they were in was small so
Hiro and Tadashi had to work in order to find a comfortable position while
Baymax was still able to come inside and outside to keep watch over them.
“Hiro I have an idea.” Tadashi whispered, in Hiro’s ear making Hiro blush
before nodding. Tiredly they place on of the sleeping bags under the others
before crawling into the one on top. It was a tight fit, but it at least made
the ground a bit more comfortable. Hiro felt Tadashi’s flesh against his own
and smiled at the warmth. But the two were ever ready and Hiro made sure the
knife he was given was close by him while Tadashi, who also had a samurai sword
place his own beside the sleeping bag along with leaving the arm that
controlled the microbots out.
“When tomorrow comes… we’ll be on our own again.” Hiro whispered. Making
Tadashi nod as he gave soft kisses down Hiro’s neck. This was something that
was new to Hiro, but he didn’t push away or stop his brother. The affection
that came from the action was nice and the kisses left some warmth on his skin
and in his heart. Without anything else to say Hiro closed his eyes and finally
allowed himself to sleep.
 
“AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!”
Hiro bolted up right and grabbed his knife as he looked around of where the
scream could have come from. Tadashi was already out of the sleeping bag and
out of their shelter if microbot and sword in hand.
“Baymax what’s going on?” Hiro cried, running over to Baymax making the robot
lift one of his hands. He pointed towards a direction that Hiro looked over
towards. Hiro looked over towards the black area with confusion, but
realization hit. The area that he pointed towards… used to be softly bright
with a few lights. Now, though, it was completely dark in that area.
In fact all the areas that used to be bright where now dark. The only light
that showed was the ones that came from the candles inside their shelter and
the two fires that burned brightly. “Hiro… pack up… NOW.” Tadashi ordered,
making Hiro jump as he quickly went inside. Hiro was fast as he packed the
sleeping bags away clipping one of each onto their bags before taking out the
candles and placing them in the bag. Hiro threw on his shoes before throwing
Tadashi’s beside him.
…. The girl who fell in love with a man…. Betrayed on the day where she stood
in white... made the choice to drag down the man… along with her good friend…
“What is that?” Hiro whispered as placed his back on before handing Tadashi his
own. Tadashi just frowned before taking one of the large branches they had
beside the fire and quickly as he could Tadashi wacked as much of the flaming
wood and embers in the distance. The flames flickers and revealed large dark
figures moving quickly to doge the light and the flames. But this time nothing
screamed in agony.
….poor girl who fell in love…. her pretty ring gone in blood… and now she
filled with constant fear…. Pity the girl who fell in love…
“They’re singing….” Hiro whispered, immediately taking out his flashlight and
pointing around them. This time getting a better reaction from whatever it was
circling them. Instead of screams though, they heard soft crying that sounded
like sniffles and whimpers. They weren’t as fast as the small creature and Hiro
couldn’t really get a good look at them.
But from what he saw… they looked like people, but they weren’t. While Hiro
could tell from the putrid smell in the air of burning flesh that whatever it
was could be human once in time. But it wasn’t human anymore. They almost
seemed like they were mourning in outfits fit for a carnival. Each glimpse Hiro
saw that they were carrying flowers… It was almost like a circus act that was
going to a funeral.
… now she drags another friend down…. Poor girl who fell in love… keep on
making the wrong choices…
“We need to leave… now.” Tadashi whispered going to Baymax’s own bag to get
another flash light out. Quickly turning it on Tadashi made Hiro perch onto
Baymax’s arm again in order for him to protect their back while Tadashi
protected their front.
“Are they singing… about Honey Lemon?” Hiro asked with horror, as they started
moving towards the exit. Hiro looked over to where the darkness now swirled in
the area that used to have light. Hiro tried to see if he could see any light,
but nothing showed any signs of either Honey Lemon or Fred.
…. Poor girl who fell in love… runs while she still can… while leaving down one
of her kind friends… he fights so bright and now he’s gone… darkness swallowing
him up with his cries now gone…
“Which entrance Hiro!” Tadashi demanded, as they got closer to the entrance.
Hiro jumped and looked at the incoming large entrances they could go into. Hiro
study each one trying to get to see any sign of what was the best.
“THE LEFT ONE TADASHI!” Hiro ordered, getting Tadashi to nod as they started
running into the left tunnel. Hiro watched as the creatures that were following
stopped as soon as they were in front of the tunnel. Hiro stared at them
wondering what exactly they were doing until their next verse came making Hiro
stare at them in pure anguish.
 
…poor girl who fell in love… allowed her fear to cloud her thoughts… now she
and her friend… have failed to see the light again… and fell down to never get
up again…
***** How Lovely The Bride Was *****
Chapter Summary
     Everyone I'm sorry it took so long placing the chapters out.
     I've been... having some hard times in my life right now. So I
     couldn't focus my attention on writing.
     But my life got a little bit better, so I'm back and ready to start
     posting again.
     Sorry to all of those who had to wait.
     I hope you enjoy this! Zombie one will be updated next.
“Do you think they’re starting their journey all over again?” Hiro asked,
looking at the flames of the candles. They only made two candles one large and
one small while having a flashlight at the ready. They wanted to conserve as
much as possible before they go running again. The small group had constantly
run down the dark tunnels not resting until they almost collapsed in
exhaustion. Thankfully small room in the walls came up allowing them to rest
before walking again.
Hiro had difficulty resting the screams of Honey Lemon ringing through his ears
and the ideas flowing through his head of what could have happened to Fred.
Tadashi sighed, pulling Hiro back against his chest as he stared at the door
that hid them from the darkness that was the tunnel. Baymax also was keeping
guard holding a large rock and flashlight at the ready.
“I honestly don’t know Hiro.” Tadashi whispered, making Hiro breath in deeply
to Tadashi’s scent. While muddled by sweat and some grime Hiro could still
smell the unique smell that was only Tadashi. “I want to get to the next area
already.” Hiro stated, making Tadashi to look back down at Hiro.
“Even if it means that area is harder than this one?” Tadashi inquired, making
Hiro pinch Tadashi in the side making the older brother grunt. “Being thankful
for little things nerd.” Hiro stated, making Tadashi to chuckle. Hiro sighed,
turning around in order to also face the door. The door was locked and the
lights were on, but Hiro knew they weren’t safe. They would never be safe until
they finally reached their resting place.
“But you have to keep hoping and keep on fighting. We can’t lose that.” Hiro
stated, making Tadashi breath in deeply. Hands rubbed and soothed Hiro’s arms
before they started massage his chest and stomach. Hiro felt himself blush at
the tender touch feeling his muscle relax. But while his muscle relax his skin
felt the heat and Hiro’s blood ran hot.
“No matter what, I’ll stay by your side Hiro.” Tadashi whispered into his ear
giving it a kiss and making the small one in his arms fidget. The hands that
massaged his chest lowered towards his stomach and Hiro couldn’t help, but
tense as soon as the hand started going a little lower. But it seemed Tadashi
finally allowed the exhaustion to wear at his body as the body behind Hiro
sagged.
“Tadashi?” Hiro whispered, only hearing the even out breathing of Tadashi.
“It has seem that Tadashi went into a deep sleep probably due to exhaustion. I
suggest you sleep as well Hiro. Your body shows signs of great stress. I shall
keep the light on and protect both of you while you sleep.” Baymax informed,
patting Hiro’s head before going back to stare at the door. Hiro couldn’t do
much, but sleep deciding to yet again decide on how he should feel about
Tadashi’s… advances later.
“Though… they aren’t unwelcome.” Hiro thought before closing his eyes for some
more rest.
The dreams Hiro had for that long sleep were sad that made Hiro wake feeling
his moist eyes. Tadashi who was behind him still didn’t stir and continued to
sleep beside Hiro with a peaceful expression on his face.
Hiro looked over at the candles to see that new ones had taken the old ones
place. “Baymax how long was I asleep for?” Hiro asked, making Baymax look over
from his intense staring at the door. “You’ve slept for eleven hours, twenty
five minutes and ten seconds.” Baymax stated, making Hiro stare at the other in
great surprise.
“Really? I’ve slept so long…” Hiro whispered, making Baymax tilt his head.
“Your body’s exhausted. It’s your body’s natural reaction in order to recharge
itself.” Baymax gently informed.
“Did… anything happen while we slept?” Hiro asked, making Baymax look back
towards the door gripping the rock he had in hand tighter.
“Yes.” Baymax stated, making Hiro instantly shake Tadashi’s shoulder.
“Tadashi wake up! Please.” Hiro whispered in haste, making Tadashi eyes snap
open and hands immediately touching Hiro’s frantic form. Sitting up Tadashi
soothed Hiro back down before asking what was the matter. Hiro immediately
explained to him what Baymax said making his elder brother’s eyes narrow.
“Baymax what happened?” Tadashi demanded.
“Five hours after you two went into deep slumber several noises could be heard
outside of the door. From what little I could hear it sounded like something
was trying to get inside. But it soon stopped when it got too close to our
door. After another hour and seven minutes I could hear screams that were
directed that way.” Baymax stated, pointing towards the way they’ve been
heading towards.
“After those screams were heard several other voices were shouted. After thirty
minutes and twenty six seconds everything seemed to calm down.” Baymax
informed, before holding up the large rocks in his metal hands. “I made sure to
keep the room fairly lit and was ready to wake you if whoever or whatever it
was made an attempt to get inside the room.” Baymax informed, making Hiro grab
the knife that was nestled beside their sleeping bags.
“Other survivors?” Hiro asked, making Tadashi frown before nodding his head. “I
wouldn’t doubt it.” Tadashi informed, stretching out a bit in order to relax
his tense muscles. Hiro studied his brother’s face seeing the exhaustion
completely gone from his brother’s features. It made Hiro smile making Tadashi
notice his brother’s all of a sudden good mood.
“What is it?” Tadashi asked, making Hiro chuckle before shaking his head.
“It’s nothing.” Hiro stated, before he got ready to recount their supplies and
pack again.
The two packed and ready to go they journeyed out of the room with caution.
Light flashed into the darkness revealing blood red that splattered onto the
grimy walls and ground. Hiro fought the bile that wanted to rise from his
stomach as he covered his nose with his sleeve. Tadashi grimaced at the sight
and smell, but trudged on with a look of determination.
It was clear that other survivors had come through and was staying in some of
the little rooms for rest. The door leading into one room looked broken and
almost torn off its hinges. It made Hiro wonder how they were able to sleep for
so long without hearing the struggle that happened. But like Baymax had
informed they were on the brink of collapse.
“I don’t see their supplies.” Hiro stated taking a peek into another room that
looked to have been broken into.
“Another group must have come through and taken their supplies.” Tadashi
concluded, flashing a light down at the ground. Hiro eyes wandered over to
where they light traveled to see footprints leading out from the blood and down
the hallway they were going through.
“It seems whoever came through is already gone. Let’s try not to make any
contact… we don’t know what kind of people they are.” Tadashi ordered, making
Hiro wince in understanding. They wouldn’t want to make the mistakes a few
survivors already made in the first area. It showed that fate some survivors
might have down the road when things get even harder.
“Hiro, I’m going to teach you a few techniques for the knife you have. While I
know Baymax can protect you…. I just need to make sure you’ll be safe.” Tadashi
stated, changing the route of his sentence as he looked at the knife Hiro
clutched in his hand. “I want to help out… I’m not weak… so yeah, please teach
me.” Hiro grinned, taking out his knife and already asking Tadashi question on
how to properly hold it.
The hours went on like this as the small group walked. Tadashi would teach Hiro
how to hold and attack with the knife before talking about weak points for both
males and females. Hiro in turn made sure to soak up the knowledge like a
sponge. Doing small moves in front of Tadashi as they moved before asking the
other if he was doing anything wrong or what he needed to improve on.
At some point the two went up a large flight of stairs that made the brothers
catch their breath as soon as they reach the top. “What the hell?” Hiro
whispered as he looked at the open door before them. Tadashi looked up as soon
as he heard Hiro’s words and gaped at the scene before them. It looked to be a
beautiful park in front of them. Certain parts of the area were lit with small
little white lanterns and beautiful white fabric was decorating the rusty dead
lampposts.
“It’s like a festival… or some sort of event.” Hiro whispered as he noticed a
small alter beautiful decorated with flowers and ribbons.
“…. It’s a wedding.” Tadashi concluded, making Hiro frown before one lone
finger pointed out towards something. Hiro turned around and almost dropped the
flashlight in his hand at the figure he saw standing alone under a dead tree.
Just out of the reach of the soft light.
“Oh god, Honey Lemon.” Hiro whispered in horror.
The beautiful woman that Hiro saw with long highlighted hair and forest green
eyes was gone. Replaced with what looked to be a tall corpse standing under a
tree. No longer was her beautiful bright with different shades of blond.
Instead taken it’s place with clumped together greasy strands with some part
missing or others looking burned off.
Her skin, which used to be a pearly white, was now ash grey. Black veins
sprouted around her skin like tree roots going as far and deep as they could
go. Honey Lemon’s eyes… her eyes no longer held the color that reminded Hiro of
the greenest part of a healthy forest. Instead they were bleaching white with
red veins going through it. She wore what could have been a beautiful wedding
dress. But the dress looked torn and burned in a few places. The stains of
blood splattering across the white like paint on a canvas. Little flowers that
were placed on the dress looked wilted and dead.
But the most prominent feature on Honey Lemon that made Hiro look at her in
horror was that on certain part of her body flowers were growing. And they
weren’t just any flowers Hiro could see Nerium Oleander, Blood Root and even
Rhododendron flowers sprouting from her skin. All poisonous flowers that could
either kill or make a human being sick.
“Hiro… look at her legs…” Tadashi whispered making Hiro look down the torn
wedding dress to see her legs.... “Honey Lemon… No…” Hiro whispered seeing the
legs. There were flowers all over Honey lemons legs, but the dribbling of blood
was on most of them. While one flower wilted another flower grew taking it’s
place by popping out of the poor woman’s skin.
“HONEY LEMON! HONEY LEMON?” Hiro cried out running towards her, only to be
pulled back by Tadashi’s arms. “Hiro stop!” Tadashi ordered, making Hiro look
at him with rage. “She needs our help!” Hiro shouted, but Tadashi shook his
head as he looked over at Honey Lemon. “That isn’t… it’s too late.” Tadashi
spoke, but Hiro refused to listen to that. They had to do something!
“Are you there my love? Is that you?? Where are you? I can’t see you…”
whispered the voice from the corpse like figure. Hiro froze at the sound of
Honey Lemon’s voice. It sounded distorted with an almost rusty undertone remind
Hiro of rusty machinery.
“Where are you? Why… why won’t you come out? WHY WON’T YOU LOVE ME? PLEASE LOVE
ME?” Honey Lemon screamed wildly looking around before she stated charging
towards the spot the brothers were in. Tadashi took Hiro and ran onto the other
side while Hiro watched the charging woman. Looking down at her feet Hiro saw
the grass she was stepping on wither and die instantly at her touch.
“Her touch is poisonous.” Hiro whispered to Tadashi as he watched Honey Lemon
grab onto one of the lampposts. At her touch the metal started turning into
rust spreading like wild fire all the way to the ribbons. Even the ribbons
weren’t spared from their fate as they instantly withered away until they were
mere strands of grimy string.
“Wasn’t I good? I was a good girlfriend… a good fiancé… I was so good! Why?
Why? Why??” Honey Lemon sobbed as she wildly looking around for the brothers.
“Hiro were going to quietly leave… she can’t see us… but she can still hear
us…” Tadashi whispered as they quietly as they could make their way towards the
other end of the large park where the exit was stationed. Baymax followed the
brothers making sure to be extra carefully of his steps being heavier and most
likely to make a loud noise if he stepped on something. Honey Lemon continued
to sob and scream trying to ‘look’ around to see if she could find the group.
“Love? …. You’re going to see her… aren’t you? Why is she better than me? WHAT
DOES SHE HAVE THAT I DON’T?” Honey Lemon screamed before she looked up towards
the ceiling. Breathing in deeply the woman let out a horrible screech that
almost seemed to echo off the walls and trees.
The reaction was instant and soon Hiro felt small tremors in the ground. “What
now!” Hiro cried, as something large came charging out of the trees. Hiro
witnessed the large creature stand just a mere few meters from Honey Lemon. As
if knowing if it stood too close then it would meet the fate of grass and
lamppost. The creature circled the woman as if waiting for her command while it
hissing at the withered grass and lamppost.
Hiro couldn’t see the creature too well, for it hid in the dark shadows of the
area. All he could see was its big lumbering form that almost looked wrong.
Something was so wrong about it, but Hiro couldn’t place what it was.
“Hiro… get ready… I don’t think we’ll be able to leave without a fight.”
Tadashi spoke, his voice deadly as he thrust out his arms. Microbots bursting
out while the ones in his bag joined the others.
“Tadashi….” Hiro whispered as he stared at the two… creatures in front of them.
“You realize… that….” Hiro started, but was silenced at the strong hand that
clutched his shoulder.
 
“I know… I’m sorry… Honey Lemon… Fred….”
***** A Hero Died. A Beautiful Bride. And A Hard Truth. *****
Chapter Summary
     Work and College, work and College.
     But I must get through it to get the job I really want.... well more
     or less the job that I can survive an income in compared to the
     retail job I have. DX.
     Oh yeah, did you guys know there is a horror movie coming out that
     has a slightly same concept as my story? I think it's called night
     light or something. I found it interesting, although the trailer made
     the movie look... cheap and boring???? haha.
     Anyways, after a long wait here is the next chapter.
     Things are getting darker folks. Make sure you have a light.
     Because you don't want it to go out.
“What did they do to him?”
“Probably the same thing they did to Honey Lemon.”
Hiro watched as the creature strayed from the light growling and hissing at the
two brothers. Hiro could make out just a bit of the fearsome creature. It
looked like Zilla, but deformed and even broken. The jaw of the creature was
wide open showing five rows of teeth all in an awkward manner making it almost
impossible for the creature to close it’s mouth. The arms and legs were bent in
grotesque angles and the sharp claws looked rotted and diseased. But the most
horrifying parts of the monster were the human parts.
Two human arms dangled in the chest area of the beast moving and groping the
ground as if trying to see what was in front of them. The back legs of the
monster looked to be fused with human legs and feet. It made Hiro still himself
from trying to look away from the danger. And finally the part that made Hiro
clutched the knife in his hand.
At the end of the tail there seemed to be a large lump that was being flicked
back and forth. Making sure to never touch the ground or going near the decayed
form of Honey Lemon. Hiro recognized the blond hair and he couldn’t help, but
feel dread and pity for the fate that Fred was in. No arms, no legs just a lump
body connected at the end. He could do nothing, but move his head and seeing
his face Hiro could tell that Fred could no longer speak or see. Fred’s eyes
looked like they were torn out and his mouth sewn shut. Blood tears looked to
be going down the male’s face, but it seemed like a small smile was on his
stiched lips.
“Trapped in darkness… with only insanity to be his comfort.” Tadashi whispered,
raising his arm and summoning the microbots. Realizing he would need more
Tadashi willed more to be produced from his arm. Tadashi didn’t even bat an eye
when blood burst out of his arm and more microbots started pouring out from his
skin.
Immediately the beast flicked it’s tongue out and sniffed the air. A loud growl
hissed out and soon the creature was making its way towards the group.
“BAYMAX!” Hiro called, making the large robot eyes turn a glowing red. Baymax
quickly made his way to be in front of Tadashi in order to stop the beast
before it could reach him. Baymax managed to land on hit on the creature, but…
there was no effect. The creature didn’t seem to be even bothered by the
powerful punch of Baymax.
“… His skin…” Hiro thought looking at the cracked looking scales. While they
looked weak it seemed they were stronger than meets the eye. “But we can’t just
focus on only him!” Hiro thought as Honey Lemon started making her way to the
group sobbing and yelling as she did so.
“Shit, she can’t touch us!” Hiro thought looking around before seeing a large
rock off at the side. Grabbing the Rock Hiro threw it as hard as he could
towards Honey Lemon. The beast instantly growled dislodging itself from Baymax
in order to take the hit to the face from the rock in order to protect Honey
Lemon. But as soon as she got to close the beast raised Fred and jumped away
wary as she fell in the spot where the beast was just moments before.
“What I a minute.” Hiro thought as he saw the small action.
“I need to test the theory.” Hiro thought unsure as the idea went through his
head. “That thing can’t keep protecting Honey Lemon if he’s attacked too much.
Nor can he get too close her! I’ll figure something out with Honey Lemon, you
keep the other thing busy!” Hiro yelled, making Tadashi nod as the microbots
chirped and moved at his feet. A large pile being made that moved around and
slashed the air ready for the fight.
“Baymax! Help Tadashi! Don’t worry, I don’t intend to get close to Honey
Lemon.” Hiro ordered, making the Robot tilt his head, before nodding. He won’t
step in unless harm comes to Hiro for that was his main purpose in this morbid
place.
“NOW!” Hiro yelled at Baymax who did as Hiro commanded. Baymax rushed the beast
and smashed its fist into its face again. This time making the beast fly a few
feet away into the grassy ground. Tadashi raised his hand and the Microbots
bolted towards the beast. The Beast hissed and roared at the small bots that
slashed at its feet. Hiro watched as the beast raised its tail again while
trying to jump or run out of the Microbots range.
“Okay next one.” Hiro thought grabbing a few more rocks as he watched Honey
Lemon. “Test two.” Hiro whispered before chucking the rocks and making them
hurtle towards the blond. One made a direct hit at Honey Lemon’s face making
the woman cry out in a raspy tone in surprise and hurt. Hiro watched the stone
he threw slowly decay before turning into dust as soon as it lands.
“Okay, test three.” Hiro winced as the beast hearing Honey Lemon’s distress and
seeing Hiro bolted towards the young male. Tadashi also seeing this action went
in front of Hiro and started blasting the microbots at the beast. “Tadashi! Can
you hold them down? Just for a few seconds? It’s all I need to test my theory?”
Hiro asked, watching as Baymax rushed towards the beast as soon as it saw it
heading towards the two brothers. Tadashi gave Hiro a look before getting a
nod.
“On my three.” Tadashi shouted, getting the Microbots to slither on the ground
ready to spring the trap.
“One…” Tadashi spoke, while Hiro threw another rock at Honey Lemon’s face
making her freeze in her advances on the brothers.
“Two…” Tadashi winced, when the ground shook with the combined thundering
footsteps of both Baymax and the beast.
“THREE!” Tadashi commanded, flicking his wrist as the Microbots sprung like a
net. The small bots wrapped around the beast legs and stomach before slapping
its jaw shut. Hiro sprang into action rushing to Baymax and quickly climbing on
the robots back before jumping at the limp body attached to the beast.
“I’m sorry.” Hiro whispered, looking at Fred’s face.
Hiro used his knife to plunge it into the male’s side bringing the knife down
with him as he fell to the ground creating a large gash to be ripped open. “I
knew it.” Hiro whispered, as the effect was instant. Fred screamed through his
stitched lips in pure agony while the beast seemed to convulse in a bit of pain
before shaking out of the trap and running away from the pair. The beast made
pained noises and groans as it brought Fred to its mouth a rotted tongue
licking at the large wound as if trying to close it up. But it wasn’t closing
and Fred continued to scream in agony.
“The creatures weakness is Fred. While their scales are tough, the ones on Fred
are softer. I… we… we have to kill Fred… in order to kill the creature.” Hiro
whispered Tadashi made a small grunt before he looked at Honey Lemon. “What
about Honey Lemon?” Tadashi asked, making Hiro look back at the sobbing woman,
who hearing Fred’s cries, started calling out for him. “When someone collides
with her skin it hits before decaying… We need to hit her with something big
or…” Hiro whispered, looking at his backpack.
“Or… we use light. But… I don’t want to use our resources… Plan A for now, Plan
B if we can’t do anything else.” Hiro offered, making Tadashi call his
microbots to his side before taking out a sword. “Let’s put the bride and the
Hero out of their misery.” Tadashi spoke, while Baymax got ready.
“Baymax! Find anything big! Anything in this place to throw at Honey Lemon!
Keep throwing it at her and don’t stop!” Hiro commanded, making the robot look
around for something suitable to throw. “Tadashi, you and I will take down
Fred.” Hiro whispered, gripping his knife that dirty his hands with crimson
red.
“Distraction?” Tadashi offered.
“Yeah, I’ll distract both creature and Honey Lemon. The creature seems to want
to save Honey Lemon. Were going to use Fred’s heroism that seems to be
creatures though process against it.” Hiro explained, before he looked around.
He needed something to throw at Honey Lemon, but seeing nothing made Hiro
change his tactics. Quickly Hiro ran towards Honey Lemon screaming at her as he
did.
“Always the brides maid never the bride right Honey Lemon?” Hiro taunted,
feeling his inside burn at the statement he shouted at the poor corpse.
“NO! I AM A BRIDE! I AM GOOD ENOUGH! STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!” Honey Lemon
shouted, running after the voice that she was hearing. Hiro looked to where
Baymax lumbering form was in the shadows seeing him raise something large over
his head. “BAYMAX THROW IT NOW!” Hiro yelled, over a bench in order for the
blind woman to fall on it. His efforts were paid off as Honey Lemon did smash
into the bench making the bench decay on contact.
Hiro watched as several chairs were thrown at Honey Lemon who in turn was
oblivious on what was happening. But the beast wasn’t and it soon rushed
towards the bride’s aide by taking the blows of the chairs. Hiro watched the
beast was pushed back towards Honey Lemon from the force of multiple blows. Too
concentrated to block the attack to notice the close distance of both Honey
Lemon and… Tadashi.
Tadashi was quick, his microbots whipping around the tail as fast as it can. It
pierced into the soft spot of the scales making blood splatter as Tadashi drove
a into Fred’s chest. Tadashi looked at Fred’s face seeing the pained and
helpless features, but also seeing the hope.
“You either die a Hero…” Hiro spoke, as Tadashi pushed the sword down before
pulling it out. Jumping away to dodge the splurge of blood and organs that feel
out from the wound. “Or see yourself live long enough to become a villain.”
Hiro finished as the creature screeched in terror. Tadashi watched the creature
bite the nearest thing to it, which was Honey Lemon who go up and walked
towards them with worry etched on her rotted feature.
The contact was quick the creature bite down as hard as it could before
noticing what it actually bit into. It couldn’t even roar as it started to
slowly turn into dust. Tadashi squeezed his hand making the microbots cut off
Fred from the main body before calling them back to his side. Hiro ran to
Tadashi side and watched as the two people who he just started calling friends
slowly die. Honey Lemon was on the ground in disbelief touching her open wounds
making the barely functioning organs inside start to rot away into ash and
dirt.
Fred whose heart could be seen through his wounds was barely alive the heart
slowly pounding making the noise ring through Hiro’s ears like a bad echo. Hiro
didn’t know what to say to comfort the two. He couldn’t even touch Honey Lemon!
But he couldn’t just let them die without comfort either. “I can at least do
this much.” Hiro thought as he walked over to Fred in order to tear out the
stitches on the poor man’s mouth.
Hiro couldn’t help, but feel his skin crawl at the contact of the skin and how
he watched with horror as he pulled the string free from the flesh. Fred
coughed and sputtered his voice raspy from lack of use. Hiro shushed the other
soothingly before petting his head. “You’ll always be a hero Fred, never a
villain.” Hiro whispered. Fred was silent for a bit his heart beating slower
before he gave a pained goofy smile.
“Thanks… dudes… I think… I think though… this hero… needs to sleep…” Fred
murmured his voice weak as he rested completely on the ground his heart beat
even going slower. “You… dudes… were awesome…” Fred whispered, making Hiro
chuckle and Fred give out a faint smile. “You’re good friend Fred, rest now.”
Tadashi soothed, making Fred give one last smile before finally his heart beat
no more. Hiro had pull himself away from Fred in order to get close to Honey
Lemon whose lower body was already turned into dust.
“What did I do wrong? What did I do wrong? Why was I not good enough?” Honey
Lemon croaked, making Hiro open and close his mouth not knowing what to say.
“I don’t know Honey Lemon, it seems you were good enough for a Hero to come
save you.” Tadashi answered back, making Hiro look over at Tadashi in surprise
while Honey Lemon stilled. “A Hero worked hard to try to save you. That makes
you pretty special gal for him to go through all of that.” Tadashi informed.
Honey Lemon features slowly, but surely brightened a bit before a pure chuckle
came out. It wasn’t distorted or even raspy, it was a nice small little
chuckle.
“I’m sorry.” She stated, making Hiro shake his head.
“Don’t be… I’m glad I meet a friend who was as beautiful and as pretty as you.”
Hiro grinned, making Honey Lemon gasped, before what seemed like sand poured
out of her eyes. Honey Lemon couldn’t say anymore as the decay spread fast
turning into fine white dust on the ground.
Hiro couldn’t help, but feel number as he sat around the dead bodies of both
his friends. No even flinching when a beam of light hit directly on his person
making his eyes burn from the contact. Tadashi didn’t say anything either, just
stood behind Hiro with both hands on his shoulders.
“Hiro, Tadashi, we should get going. We don’t know what could be attracted from
all the noise we made and we don’t know how far is the exit yet. It would waste
our supplies and as your guard I can’t allow that to happen.” Baymax informed,
making Hiro grit his teeth and clutched at Tadashi’s hands. But, even Hiro
could feel Tadashi move his hands in order to pick him.
“We can’t do anymore Hiro.” Tadashi whispered, giving his bag and Hiro’s back
for Baymax to Carry in order for Tadashi to carry Hiro and a small flashlight.
“We killed our friends.” Hiro whispered into Tadashi’s shoulder. Tadashi shook
his head as he continued out of the door.
“No, we’ve saved them.”
 
“Oh dear, look at this mess.”
“Don’t be rude, these two have been through too much already.”
“But, they failed. It’s really no use in being nice. I told the two ways to
survive before they left and look at what happened?”
“Your warnings are like a double edge sword, it’s not worth it. Besides one
technically did not fail.”
The tall and skinny figure scoffed at the other as they looked at the one body
and one ash figure that lay sprawled on the floor. The other figure, much
smaller and little large, dug into the chest cavity of the corpse. Moving its
hand around it took out the heart of the corpse pulling until it was finally
ripped out from the body.
The other figure bent down in order to slip its hand into the ashes patting the
particles away until another heart was revealed. The small figure sighed,
looking at the heart in its hand while the taller figure scoffed again.
“Getting sentimental already?” asked the figure with a bored tone.
“These are lives that are in our hands… that didn’t deserve to go through
this!” stated the other figure with distaste, making the taller figure stay
silent as it watched the other. “Every soul who goes through the station… has
to go through these trials as punishment.” The tall one informed making the
other flinch at the harsh tone the tall one gave. It made the other sigh before
it raised a large hand to pat on the other’s head.
“We cannot tell the souls who go through the trails. Because they repent for
their punishment for their crimes.”
“I just feel like I lied… to that child.”
“You didn’t.”
The shorter figure whimpered, making the other groan as it ushered the other
away towards a single door. The two carried the heart gently as they made their
way to the door all the while being watched the creatures that yowled and
hissed at them in the darkness. Hunger in their eyes at the hearts in their
hands.
“It’s sad really.” The small one spoke.
“What is? You find everything sad.” The tall one snapped back. Unbothered the
small one continued as it puled the heart close to it’s body.
 
 
“That the reason why they go through these trails… is because they murdered
someone.”
***** The Travelers Who Run And Repeat *****
Chapter Summary
     To all those who've been waiting for an update.
     I will tell you now on what happened.
     For a short time I had gotten into an accident that greatly injured
     me. I was heavily medicated and my fingers took some beatings. I'm
     finally better, but updates will be slow. My fingers still can't be
     used for too long.
     Hope you all enjoy this chapter. I will be updating the dragon one
     next.
     FOR THOSE WHO NOTICED THAT THE ZOMBIE ONE IS DELETED! It's not dead.
     It's actually going to be revised. I felt as though the Last of Us
     wasn't doing it for me or the story. So I have decided to do a dying
     light. The games a bit fast paced which I like. C8
“I never though I be so happy to see the outside.”
“It felt like we were in those tunnels for months.”
“Although I don’t know how I feel about the new area were in.”
Hiro looked around the area they’ve come into. No longer were they in the dark
and tight space tunnels. Now they were in an open area of dead looking trees,
grass and a long old looking paved road. It was dark, not so dark they couldn’t
see, but dark enough where shadows looked larger and they were forced to have a
light on.
Baymax was looking around alert and yet curious of the new area. “Careful Hiro,
we don’t know what could be lurking. Each area gets harder…” Tadashi informed,
glaring at their surroundings. Hiro looked over at Tadashi a tired and
understanding look on his face before he nodded towards his brother. “Let’s
start walking then.” Hiro whispered tiredly, making Tadashi ruffle his
brother’s hair before pushing him forward.
“What do you think this area is going to be?” Hiro asked curiously as they made
their way along the large desolate road. The only sounds you could hear was the
small wind that blew through the area making a few dead trees groan at the
force and crinkled leaves scatter on the ground. It made Hiro feel restless
after being in an almost soundless dark tunnels for so long.
“What do you mean?” Tadashi asked, wincing as he some of his greasy hair moved
around in his face.
“Well, the first area was a city, the second area a tunnel, and now were in
another open area with a road leading us somewhere.” Hiro stated, also wincing
when his greasy hair whipped at him.
The boys were horrendously dirty. Their skin had a thick layer of grime and
sweat while their hair was thick with grease. All of the clothes they had were
dirty and started to smell an almost putrid aroma. Many parts of their clothing
were almost torn. In fact Hiro was forced to forgo his bandages due to the fact
they had become thick and wet with sweat.
“I would like to shower…” Hiro whimpered.
“Don’t worry, we’ll find something to wash us down.” Tadashi whispered.
“Baymax do you see anything?” Hiro asked, making the robot blink before looking
ahead. “My cameras haven’t picked up anything of the ordinary. I will inform
you when I do see something.” Baymax promised, making Hiro groan as he
continued stepping forward with one foot at a time. They continued on their
journey making small talk or just walking in silence. But Hiro felt himself and
Tadashi tense after each minute goes by. Back in the tunnel they were
constantly reminded that creatures were always right behind them.
But so far, nothing has shown itself. No monsters had been scene or heard. Hiro
had constantly looked around trying to see anything in the shadows, only to see
nothing. It set Hiro on edge making him stick even closer to Tadashi.
“It’s been too quiet. After the last area, this is rather unsettling.” Tadashi
agreed, seeing Hiro clutch onto his knife as he looked around. Tadashi couldn’t
do much to cheer up his brother, for even he was tense at their newest
surroundings. Baymax continued to follow the brothers making sure to always
check behind them as they continued down the road.
After what seems like hours of walking Baymax perked up and stopped. “I see
what looks to be a town in the distance.” Baymax informed, making Hiro look at
other with great excitement. “Really? Let’s go! Let’s go!” Hiro stated, wanting
to get to the next town as soon as possible. The brothers were beginning to
feel their fatigue and Hiro was worried that they would sleep in this
unsettling forest. Even Tadashi was jogging towards the area in front, more so
to get out from being out in the open.
When they finally came to town, Hiro couldn’t help, but have that feeling of
unsettlement even more. “It’s the same with the city and the one town in the
tunnel.” Hiro thought, looking around the town and it’s many buildings.
Everything looked well maintained and in use. There were cars parked on the
sides of the street and sale signs on the windows of a few stores. Hiro even
saw a few plates out in a dinner with mugs at the side ready to have food place
on them.
“This seems to be a common theme.” Baymax concluded.
“Yeah.” Hiro softly agreed.
Before the group could decide on what to do something sounded off in the
distance. It made Hiro jump and Tadashi to take a defensive stance as they
heard the noise. It sounded almost like… a siren in the distance blaring and
ringing out anonymously in the night. But the sound of it almost seemed wrong.
It sounded more like a wailing person than a siren and the sound was distorted.
“Tadashi?” Hiro whispered in confusion. But before Hiro could say anything else
a shout made Hiro jump again and whirl around to the voice.
“What are you guys doing? Come on we gotta get inside!” shouted a short woman.
There was a man behind her having a freaked out expression on his face as he
look around wildly. From past experience Tadashi and Hiro were apprehensive
about following them. But once they started hearing the numerous screeching
heading towards them made them over their feet faster to follow them. Tadashi
grabbed Hiro’s hand and rushed after the other with Baymax running behind them.
It was almost like thunder. Hiro could hear something or more like some things
as they ran behind the strangers. It was at first distant, but soon it was
growing louder and with it the screeching of something.
“GET IN!” The woman yelled as the man threw open a door to a home before
rushing inside. Hiro’s small group rushed inside and the woman slammed the door
shut. Hiro watched as the man threw pieces of wood inside a large fireplace
before trying to light it. The woman locked the door and started pushing a
large dresser towards it. “DON’T JUST STAND THERE HELP ME OUT!” she ordered
towards Tadashi who snapped back to reality.
Running over to the woman he started helping her by pushing the heavy dresser
against the door. Once the dresser was securely placed in front of the door she
ordered for Tadashi to help her move something as she ran towards the back of
the small home.
“Baymax help them out!” Hiro ordered, making the large robot instantly make his
way over to the other two. Hiro could hear the fast pace fumbling of the three
while he looked over towards the large man. It seems he had finally lite a
flame and now he was trying hard to spread it fast. Hiro not wanting to be the
only one who’s doing nothing went over towards the man and started helping
spreading the fire by taking one of the magazines and started fanning the
flames.
Hiro tried to work on the task at hand while he listened to the chaos behind
them. The woman started ordering both Baymax and Tadashi around. Making sure to
lock the windows. Order to lock the windows and pull the curtains was hissed
out. More objects were being moved to barricade the doors and even some of the
larger windows.
“Wasabi! The candles!” the woman yelled.
“ON IT GOGO! Little man, take care of the fire. Make sure it get’s big!” Wasabi
called running over towards the kitchen. Throwing a cabinet open the man pulled
out several large candlesticks. Going around the room they were in he quickly
lit the little candles to be all around the house. Making the inside of the
house glow a soft warm light. “There, we should be good when they come.” GoGo,
the woman tiredly spoke going over to the large man in order to lean beside
him. “That was a close one even for us.” Wasabi whispered, back though also
having a rather tired and strained look.
Hiro finishing the fire felt the familiar warmth of his brother. Hiro clutched
at Tadashi’s side when the rumbling and the screams got louder and louder. It
put Hiro on edge and Tadashi kept flexing the hand the microbots come out of.
“Don’t worry, as long as we have light they’ll somewhat ignore us.” Wasabi
comforted.
“What are ‘they’?” Tadashi asked, making GoGo and Wasabi wince.
“Does anyone really know where the monsters come from?” GoGo asked, walking
over to one of the couches and sitting down with a quiet sigh. Wasabi followed
her sitting down before offering the brothers to sit down as well. Hiro looked
at the couch seeing something so domestic made Hiro feel a bit of homesickness.
For exactly what, Hiro didn’t know. Tadashi herded his brother towards the
couch making sure to cage the other on his side. Still not trusting the
strangers that had helped them out.
“It’s a good thing you came into the town the moment you did. It sucks being
outside when those things are clambering over each other.” Wasabi informed.
Hiro winced as the screams had become so loud that Hiro knew they were outside
on the streets. Crashing was heard and more screeches. The footsteps were
thundering and parts of the house shook because of the chaos that lay just
outside the walls of the home. Hiro flinched hearing a loud crash and a fight
that seemed to happen.
“You guys came out of the tunnels right?” Wasabi asked, making the two wince at
the small twitch at both Wasabi’s and GoGo’s noses.
“Yes, we managed…somehow…” Tadashi spoke, looking down at Hiro with a soft
smile. Hiro looked over to Wasabi and GoGo studying the pair now that
everything has slowed down. GoGo was small, defiantly Asian and had a look of
strength giving off. She wore a yellow tank top, dark blue jean shorts, black
leggings and yellow running shoes. Her outfit looked to maximize her speeds
since Hiro saw her zooming all around the house and having been faster than all
of them.
But her outfit also revealed something dark. All over her body there were deep
and painful looking stitches going around her entire body. There were even
parts were it seems be bullet holes around in her arm. Her neck had scarring
all around it. Hiro wondered if that is how she did.
Wasabi had a bit more clothing on him. He was a big bulky dark skinned man with
knitted green sweater over him. He wore tan pants and white running shoes. Hiro
frowned when he saw that he had similar injuries on him just like GoGo. Even
his neck had the same marking as GoGo. “Was this an accident… or intentional?”
Hiro wondered, subconsciously rubbing at the burns that littered and decorated
his small body.
“Is this everyone in your group? Including… creepy robot thing.” GoGo asked,
eyeing Baymax warily who stayed behind the brothers. It didn’t help that Baymax
could use a good cleaning. Blood had crusted and stained over his entire body
and like the brothers he was covered in grime and grease.
“We had two more… but sadly… the tunnels took them.” Tadashi spoke, the looks
on the other two was surprise and understanding.
“Tunnels did the same with our group.” Wasabi whispered.
“Hopefully some of them get to start the journey over again. But hope dies down
a bit if you constantly have to restart.” GoGo growled, making the brother
looked at each other.
“Have you…?” Hiro asked, though not being able to finish the question that he
desperately wanted to speak. Tadashi had a look of great curiosity and deep
horror as he looked at the two on the couch. Wasabi looked down at his hands,
while GoGo looked at the fire. Both stayed silent for a bit before they both
looked back up at the brothers.
 
“This is our fourth time.”
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