Town of The Living Death Ch.6
By Ryu Dragon

Inside the hall room is horrible, bodies everywhere, blood and gore, and what is more is that there are dozens of zombies feasting upon the bodies.

“Oh my God !!!” shout Michael, one of the town survivor. They quickly go out the room and shut the door, their breath heavily, trying to calm themselves. "I…I…I can’t believe this… this is just a nightmare, yes this is just a nightmare…” said Michael. “Calm yourself Michael, this is not a nightmare, this is reality. We will survive together, don’t worry Michael” said Ken.

“Yes, we will survive, don’t worry. Now, we need fast transport, and usually in police station there is a chopter, do you know if there is one Joe?” asked RD. “I guess there is one on the roof top, I’m not sure tough” said Joe. “Okay then, to the roof top now” said Ken.

They seem to be in luck this time, not too many zombies on their way to the rooftop. After reaching the rooftop, they quickly look around and found only one chopter. “Damn, only one chopter, how can we all go” said Michael. “Well, do we have any pilot for the chopter?” asked Ryu. “I can, I used to join with airforce” said Joe. “Hmm… its obvious that we can’t all go in one turn, so Joe, you take the kids and Michael go first, the rest of us will wait for you to come back, how’s that guys?” asked Ryu. The others are agree with the suggestion, so they quickly get the kids and Michael to the chopter. “I’ll be back soon guys, stay alive ok!” said Joe to the fighters when suddenly a door on the roof broke and some zombies came through. “Aww… s***, quickly Joe, fly away, we hold those things” said RD. The four fighters quickly kick the zombies away, and after the chopter take off, they run to other exit on the roof.

They run to an empty room, get a rest there and plan what to do next. “Well, now we’re safe for a while, and since we can’t go outside why don’t we check around the station, maybe we can find someone or something that can explain to us about what happen in this town” suggest Ken. “Not a bad idea, beside we’re not really safe here since those zombies can break through the door” said Rogue. The other two agree, they get out the room and start exploring the station.

They explore, fight, search, but did not find anything that can help, most weapons are either broken, out of ammo or both. They did not find any survivors either. And what makes more frustrating for them, is that they have to avoid the zombies because if they fight every zombies they met, they will run out of energy for sure.

While trying to avoid a horde of zombies, they run into a big room filled with books and… yep, zombies. They were trapped, both inside and outside the room are hordes of zombies. “Crap… now what do we do?” asked Ken feeling a bit tired. “I’m getting tired of running away, stand back, I’ll finish them with one hit” said RD. “What ?! you can’t be serious” said Ryu. “Just wait and see” said RD. “What will you use ?” asked Rogue. “Ground Breaker Wave. No other option right ? beside, it doesn’t use too much chi” replied RD. RD then start concentrating, calling the Earth Guardian power from the Earth Gem to his both hands. Suddenly from his behind a giant appears, the giant wears a brown robe, the color of earth, and its height is about 3 meters. As RD moves to hit the ground with both hands, the giant also move exactly the same way as RD. The ground shakes violently and from RD hands, a wide wave of energy moves toward the zombies, and when the energy hit the zombies, it explodes and destroy everything on its path in radius of 6 meters squares.

After the explosion stops, there isn’t a single zombie that can be seen. “Wow, how did you do that?” said Ken in amazement. “I used the Earth elemental power, it’s not originally my technique, that’s my friend super technique. I can use it too, but that techniques also drain lots of Earth elemental power, and now I can’t use any Earth elemental power for some time” said RD showing the Earth gem that turned its color from brown to black. “What happened to that rock?” asked Ryu.

“This rock is the Earth power gem, as I said before my power is Soul Power, and if I want to use the other elemental power such as wind, fire, earth, and others, I have to have the gem with me. Each time I used the elemental power, some amount of power will be taken from the gem depends on how big I used the element power. But if the original owner use it, say like Rogue, she owns the wind power, and each time she uses the wind power, the elemental power won’t get drained from the Wind gem so she can uses it anytime she likes” explain RD. “Hmm… I see, so now that you have used up all the Earth power, what you can do with that gem?” asked Ryu. “I can use it again, if I have recharge it. It took about two hours to make it full again” said RD.

“Ok, now that this room is clear from those zombies, what do you say if we search this room, maybe there is something that can help us” said Ken. “Right, lets do it” replied the others. They search the room carefully, not missing a single inch or a single book, then Ryu found something interesting.

“Hey, look at this” said Ryu waving the book that he found interesting.

“Hey, isn’t that the symbol of Shadowloo?” asked Ken after seeing the cover.

“Yes it is, but how come… Shadowloo was destroyed about a year or two years ago…” said Ryu pondering.

“What is it? What is Shadowloo?” asked Rogue curiously. “Shadowloo is a big crime organisation, they do everything that is dirty and cruel. They also tried to gather street fighters to make their own soldier. About a year or two years ago we, Ryu and I and Interpol, fought together and destroy the organisation… but how come they still…” replied Ken.

“Maybe there are still some parts of the organisation still alive, like in here. Anyway, what is in the book?” asked RD. “Hold on, let me have a look” said Ken.

After a while, Ken had finish reading the book and the others finish searching the room. Then they gathering around Ken, waiting for what he had read.

“This is crazy, according to this book, the PD (Police Department) in here is involved with the Shadowloo. They were to protect a secret lab under this station. They are trying to make a biological weapon, this bio weapon is some kind of poison that can affect the nerves system in human body. I don’t really understand what are the effects, but according to this book when this poison infects someone, he or she has about ½ to 1 hour before turning into a zombie, depends on his or her strength” said Ken.

“How can this poison infect someone?” asked Ryu.

“By liquid and get into the body or if you get bitten by one of the zombie” replied Ken.

“Is there any way to cure its effect?” asked Rogue.

“Well, according to this book, there is a serum for this wound, and this book also point to the location where the serum is” said Ken.

And suddenly, without they know there is a zombie that still alive although its body is only half. The zombie manages to crawl near them and bite Ken on his leg !!!!

“Aaarrgghhh…what the?!” scream Ken as he kicks the zombie on its head.

“KEN !”shout Ryu quickly catch his friend before Ken falls down. RD and Rogue quickly check around them, but it seems that was the last zombie alive. They then quickly check Ken’s condition. Ken’s leg around the wound is beginning to turn black.

“Ken, fight the poison with your chi !” said Ryu.

Ken tries to fight the poison but the poison is so strong that he almost can’t hold the effect. Ryu quickly help Ken by channeling his chi to Ken’s body. RD and Rogue quickly pick the book from the floor and start to study the map to find their position and locating the room where the serum is stored.

“Gosh, the room is on the third floor, and we’re in the first floor. I bet there will be too much zombies on the way” whisper Rogue to RD.

“Don’t worry, you stay here and help Ryu to look after Ken. Ryu must not stop channeling his energy to Ken, otherwise the poison effect will become faster” said RD to Rogue. “But, you’re going alone? That’s dangerous, you know how many zombies will be on your way. I’m coming with you” replied Rogue.

“No, you have to stay here in case if there is enemy come, Ryu can’t stop at this moment, so its your job to protect them” said RD.

“B-but” argue Rogue.

RD quickly kiss Rogue to silent her. “Don’t worry, before I marry you I won’t die yet” whispered RD to Rogue.

“Promise you’ll be back” said Rogue, blushing.

“I promise” replied RD smiling.

Then RD quickly get the map and get out the room and begins to search for the serum for the sake of his new friend…