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˙ 𓎟𓎟 . 𓎟𓎟 . 𓏵‧₊˚ ┊" 𝐎𐓣𝖾 ᑯα𝗒, 𝚰'ᥣᥣ 𝗀ⱺ ω𝗂𐓣𝗀𝗌. " . 𓎟𓎟 . 𓎟𓎟 ˙
it was 8 pm on a supposed peaceful Thursday evening, in the dormitory of the halls of Unstable High. A specific dorm with the tag '687' belonged, to a messy living young adult, called spokeishere— formally, for short, he likes to go by his first name, spoke.
At this time on a evening, Spoke was in the bedroom of his dormitory with the Television, his own laptop and his phone all active and burning the electricity bills to its max content.
Minutetech would be going to go bankrupt from paying them.
While, Spoke was in his comfy bedroom, which had a lot of plushies and a lot of rainbow like decor, He was playing games—well, likely illegally brought from suspicious websites again. No wonder he's broke as hell.
After suddenly losing the game he had brought from illegal websites, he got pissed and threw the closest plushie he had onto the wall in his frustration, which flew across his room and into the laundry basket which was empty cuz his chair was holding all his clothes.
In the middle of this probably historic throw, The Television which was playing music, flickered to the news channel. which was if not to get more annoying, it was so to it's full volume as the reporter said worriedly speaking onto the microphone.
"As of late, news from Merchant City and the Great Sea Cruise states that a new disease has starting growing in parts of Capital City, and has caught approximately 30K-to-80K citizens within 6 hours. Reports say that it spreads through physical touch and close contact, any contaminated food or water items can cause the disease within 2 hours of it being poisoned. This is not a drill, this is an emergency. May God be with you all."
Spoke thought it was a movie or drama channel which just switched on the tv, then the haunting realization hit him, he was alone. oh yeah, mapicc left college a couple months ago. Then another realization struck him, If he hadn't put on the news on the television, it was probably the ACTUAL news.
The young voilding, vividly froze as he looked at his phone when a notification popped up lightening its screen — the notification followed, announcing:
!!ALERT ALL CAPITAL CITY CITIZENS!!
THIS IS NOT A DRILL, THIS IS AN EMERGENCY, A NEW DISEASE OUTBREAK IS HAPPENING IN PARTS OF CAPITAL CITY BOARDERS!!
EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY STAY INDOORS AVOID GOING OUTSIDE OR BEING CONTAMINATED AT ALL COST.
Seeing this horror of a notification on a supposed normal day, the voidling stood in his messy bedroom, processing this new information, before he heard loud creaking and gut wrenching shouting through the hallway, NO ONE would be walking the campus halls at this late of an hour.
Spoke walked to his front door, looking the narrow cracks in the door. because, the campus was apparently too broke to buy suitable doors for the students because they were greedy ofc. Through the cracks, he saw it clearly, the infected zombies.
The Infected - They had dullish blue skin faded with human skin tones, Black pupils and fish like skin, The clothes of humans looking torn. The face was dripping in saliva from the open lower jaw and the eyes we're black and they look like they were deaf but could run fast but the greed of hunger was bigger than walking, Idiots really.
Spoke, carefully stepped back away from the door, shocked as he tripped over an empty can of energy drinks, and fell to the ground with a thud, and rolled off the can and just crushed it till it disappeared, seriously. how did the dude made that can disappear to god knows where?
[Spoke being a voiding hybrid has the ability to send things to the void, it just drops onto the void, and happens when spoke is jealous, angry or genuinely pissed.]
After Spoke knew what was outside he immediately started to be weirdly excited, it had been a very, very, very long time since he had a adventure in a while, After he was done jumping around in excitement like a 5 year old, He came to the conclusion that he should pack his bags but just then, he heard the horrifying sound of scratching on his front door, the infected were near. they apparently good sense of smell, Time was ticking, and spoke knew about, as he ran to his bedroom to pack important stuff.
Spoke was genuinely packing what he would want to do in the apocalypse than the supplies he actually needed.
Like, WHO WOULD WANT GUMMY BEARS IN A FUCKING APOCALYPSE??!!
Spoke would, of course, he's Spoke after all.
Midway through packing he heard the gut wrenching sound, his front door falling off it's hinges and the infected spreading in fast and quickly searching for him.
"Aw man!, i paid my part time salary to get that door fixed!" The voidling hissed annoyed by the fact his door broke down rather than he was minutes away from his death.
The infected had a reeking smell filling the room, like rotten - tuna fish, skin oil and horrible decaying human acid..
Spoke immediately disgusted at the smell physically recoiled with the wall as he said "NUH UH- I ain't dealing with this horrid smell bro."
The infected hearing Spoke's shouting immediately charged to his direction as the voidling screeched and ran around the room—it looked playing merry-go-round before—Spoke threw one of the mini pop-pop bombs into a corner of the bedroom, then picked up his half packed bag pack and dashed out, his soul which was already scared for his life, got even more frightened, to see like fifty infected people in the hallways with him, out in the dirty, filthy looking hallways of the campus dormitory.
the young voidling ran until the stairway was clear, But to his great luck, The infected were everywhere on the staircase, The staircase was the one way to a specific person in Unstable High—ParrotX2, The second smartest person in the university, His dorm was upstairs and so were all his other brothers.
Spoke, then thought of a brilliant idea, and then with his backpack on, climbed on the railing of the rusty and filled stairway, making balance then holding onto the next bar of railing on top of him and then climbing with all his strength onto the next set of rails of the stairs going up the stairs with fast and easy, but in a risky because one slip and he's gone to his death. (Literally.)
When the voidling, reached the desired floor, he jumped of the railing and almost slipped,
"WOAH-, gosh I almost slipped. that would've been embarrassing as hell."
Spoke looked around the infected filled hallway of the dormitory and the voidling, pulled out more pop-pop bombs from his pocket, throwing them in the room, immediately catching the infected attention, But then again, this was spoke, he had to make a explosive entry to his friend's dorm, he'd live up to his name ofc, a very explosive entry.
Finally, he was minutes away from reaching parrot's doorstep, Spoke being his usually sneaky self, planned to open the door with parrot's key, He had keys to everyone's rooms even a couple of the staff rooms, that's how the dude cheats on tests and STILL got caught cheating, weirdly enough. But, before spoke could reach the door, which opened itself as Parrot looked out and Spoke immediately slipped in and Parrot shouted "BRO. SPOKE! GET INSIDE HERE! QUICKLY."
As the voidling ran and slipped inside his dorm room. But, Not without spoke turning and throwing another smoke bomb behind him last minute as he rushed inside, As parrot immediately locked the door and hurriedly, pushed a dinning chair against the door's hinges.
The voidling looked around, taking in its new surroundings inside parrot's dorm, It was strangely simple and plain but had little personality to him like the curtains and parrot's childhood and teen photos, As the Avian immediately started bombard the poor voidling with many questions.
"What are you doing?" "Why are you here?" "Did you not see the news, spoke??" "What are your ties with the fireworks and smoke bombs, Spoke??"
Spoke, just blandly shrugged as he dropped of his bag on the side of the couch, as he plopped onto the couch himself, like he owned the place, and he stated how he got to find about the disease, how he decided to come here, what the infected looked like, and how many there were, all while he lazed around on the couch.
Parrot heard out spoke, as he sat himself on one of the dinning chairs, and ruffled his hair, and tiredly looked at spoke, telling him about what led to this disease to being let out.
"Look, spoke. I know what's been going on around Capital City, It's a disease. it was originally planned to be tested on fishes and creatures from the Great sea in the underground marine labs owned by the LAW's scientific industry, but—it seems a mistake happened and, I.. I think it led to it being turned into a contamination and one of the workers had already contacted out in the overworld, I have contact with Wifies and Dean, they're still stuck in the labs. uncontaminated but safe, But time's cutting short, we'll have to pack up and evacuated them with us immediately."
Spoke, who barely even listened on parrot's speech on what's been happening, as he then enquired parrot, about there other two friends.
"Yeah-Yeah! Dalright, wait we cant do this alone,—if were going to go on this adventure, shouldn't we go with wemmbu and flame??, It'll be like the old days—from middle school summer camp! ah!, it's been a time since we had a proper adventure!!, please parrot, can we??"
"spoke this isn't a adventure, this is serious! but i guess you are right, we need to get wemmbu and flame here, they can tag along in our group, i guess they can be helpful."
"anything can be a adventure, if you believe Parrot!"
"Fine ugh, just go and get wemmbu and flame from there dorm rooms."
"who said i had to get them??"
"i did, now skedaddle, before i throw a chair at your lazy ass"
"did your coffee machine broke or something"
"WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING I JUST SAID????"
After a long, long talk about how parrot's coffee machine broke due to him drinking caffeine too much that the machine had physically given up on him, seriously, the poor thing was used till it's last living moments. Spoke, was kicked out of the dorm by parrot, he found himself onto the dormitory halls, now strangely empty with a eerie silence, Spoke made his way to the end of the hallway, where dorm "897" was, which belonged to wemmbu and flamefrags.
As, spoke stood infront of the door, which was closed, but not soundproof, to the yelling coming from inside. he opened the door with his spare keys, like stated, he just had a bundle of keys all the time.
The voidling, entered the dorm room, to it's living room, standing in the doorway of the living room, to see his friends, wemmbu and flamefrags, on the two opposite corners of the rooms, annoyed and violently throwing pillows at each others like little kids, seriously. where they 20 or 12 ??
More in the unserious nature, it grew more violent when spoke got hit with a pillow by flame when he noticed spoke just standing there observing them, the voidling stood back up from the throw and violently threw one back at a concerning good aim at flame.
Which was somehow strong enough to throw flame's sense out for a good couple of seconds and then flame shouted at spoke, annoyed and preparing for another pillow attack,
"BRO! SPOKE WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!" Flame, exclaimed rubbing his head annoyed
"Yeah wait, spoke when did you get here?" Wemmbu asked, putting a hand on his hip as he noticed and realised How in the world did spoke get inside,
"Like 2 minutes ago." spoke said already moving to throw another pillow at flame.
"Why are you here bro?? like bro you could've knocked??"
"I got the keys, so—it's alright. Anyways, uhm Basically, we need to move at parrots dorm, cuz of some sort of disease he was yapping about, I-i don't know he was yapping to hard, so he'll tell you guys, what went down like an hour ago"
"Dalright" wemmbu said plainly trusting spoke, as he moved to pack up for the night,
"I do not trust you with this, spoke you sure your not going to blow us up like last time with you uncountable amount of TNT collect?" flame said doubting the whole thing, as some set up for a prank, like last time.
"I swear for the void! I'm not lying" spoke, exclaimed.
"you sure?"
"nope." and with that, spoke pulled out some more firework bombs, and threw them at flame's legs, the bombs popped with tiny smoke flowing from them, as flame jerked and stepped back in shock, as he then hissed and looked at spoke annoyed, who was already dashing out the dorm, down half the hallway, with flame chasing behind spoke, pissed and to catch the voidling and beat him, while wemmbu was dying from laughter in the living room, with his and flame's packed bag packs in hand.
After wemmbu checked around the room, and packed everything he and flame would need for the night, he shortly after went out in the hallway, slowly catching after the other two idiots.
As Wemmbu, was walking through the hallway, he felt something off through of the dorms doors—as he stood in front of it, staring at the door, suddenly, with a grunt and growl erupting from inside the dorm, an infected zombie— leaped out and attacked wemmbu, pulling his head back, by his long purple hair back as wemmbu, hissed and grunted and turned around—looking at the infected, who screaming a horrific scream both a mixture of something human and a zombie like, just as wemmbu, was about to turn and attempt to kick off the infected he saw a metal rod fly from behind him, narrowing hitting him in the back, as it hit the infected perfectly in the eye.
As wemmbu, let lose of his hair from the tight grip of the infected, and turned to see flame and a cheering spoke, jumping like he just saw a sheriff do his job like in those live action movies, as the duo was celebrating as wemmbu ran away from the infected and flame and spoke look confused until they turned and genuinely saw like a army of the infected about 50-60 zombies as wemmbu dashed past them with 2 bags, running for his life.
Flame, looked confused at first but then he turned to see the army of infected flowing into the hallway from the stairways, as he slowly turned to spoke, and bent down and threw him over his shoulder, and ran up ahead to parrot's dorm room. meanwhile Spoke, stumbling on flame's shoulder, tried to light fireworks and throw them from behind flame as he ran at increasingly fast speed, while laughing like maniac as they made it too parrots dorm. Just as flame and spoke skedaddled there way in and parrot slammed the door shut on them almost.
Wemmbu was already settled in the dorm out of breath clearly, but still standing upright somehow, Now. Parrot's living room, was filled with 4 idiots, Flame and Wemmbu in one corner betting over who would most likely gets infected first, while—Spoke was passed out on the comfy sofa taking up at least—95% of the space with his blanket he kept in his backpack, While—Parrot was collecting his notes in his book, which were in horrible messy writing.
after a while parrot finally got them to settle and make a plan.
"Okay, Any Ideas of what the infected have done till now?"
"I don't know bro me and flame didn't even knew sum shit what happening"
"We'll be announced dead within 24 hours at this rate."
"bro like uh I saw a exit ladder out of the building last week while I was watching the sunrise that like bro like might work as a escape route like bro you see the vision?"
"Im hungryyy parrot do you have food?" spoke whined as his stoamch growled
Parrot looked like he was going to malfunction from the rate of this group.
And he threw a lunchable at spoke to shut his whining for being hungry.
"Okay, We need a plan, We can't stay in my dorm forever, I have a plan of some sorts, I planned that We can stay the night here, hopefully. Until early dawn we leave through the exit route flame told us about right now. Then we will look out from there, Right now We need to gear up for tomorrow, We wake up at early dawn and leave this building."
the other three just nodded with the plan cuz without parrot's smartness welp, they'd be lost and at the death screen rn.
so everyone unpacked there bags this is what they had:
Spoke: A blanket, headphones, His tablet, Gummy bears snacks, literally candy enough to make a island of it.
Flame: PvP material, A book of literally a guide of PvP, Potions from chem lab?, A sword, Snacks,
Parrot: he owns the dorm thats it.
Wemmbu: A stolen mace and a bottle of water, And like notes from fashion class, and snacks, and pots from chem lab.
Parrot looked at the material and knew they were cooked, Not cooked they were deep fried brunt, then he sorted the material of essential material between the 3 idiots, before they started arguing who deserved what more.
They each got a weapon on choice, A water bottle and food and tons medical supplies because Parrot was a medic major.
After that as fortunate a rest sounded flame surprisingly took on the duty of making whatever food they could, As they all ate, flame was surprising a good cook for being a pvp major.
Wemmbu took a shower and changes into a hoodie and pants because the infected had touched his beautiful long purple hair, He ain't letting some fish oiled zombie touch his majestic hair and get away with it, made him disgusted
being a fashion major and being unaesthetic AND with your hair touched by a fish zombie? blocked. immediately.
After eating dinner, they all rooted for sleeping and one person to stay awake with was parrot. poor bird didn't get sleep tonight either, might has well rebrand to night owl atp.
parrot was awake looking through his notes and everything while he looked at the others, Flame on the sofa while Wemmbu laid his head on flame's lap, his legs over the sofa probably snoring, and Spoke like a little gremlin glued to Flame greedily taking all the heat around him for himself, As spoke's blanket over them barely covering Wemmbu though since Spoke literally burrito-ed himself in it.
Parrot smiled at the scene, It was adorable too see them sleep with one another even though they argued alot as kids and even as adults.
Parrot then turned to his table, As he began making notes about the infected, What the plan was at dawn. what they could do and what places they could stay at for nights.
In the mist of his note taking he started to fall asleep, and after a long couple of hours, it was 2 am.
That's when spoke woke up, and saw parrot he carefully moved away from Wemmbu and Flame and walked to Parrot wrapped his blanket.
"What's doin?" spoke, whispered sleeply to parrot as he rubbed his eyes
"GAH! Spoke you seriously scared the life out of me, What are you doing awake at this hour?" parrot said freaked out by spoke and his sudden appearance.
"awake, And now you tell me what you are doing?"
"Making notes for tomorrow."
"dude you know this is a apocalypse, not some exam right"
"Yeah, I know"
"Why are you preparing for exam then? you know what, just go to sleep."
"What? I can't go to sleep someone has to watch over for the night!"
"I'll watch then parrot, Trust me."
"You'll fall asleep."
"Nope."
"You promise?"
"Nope."
"yeah no."
"I'm just kidddingg, I'll stay away okay, I'll wake you up if I hear anytthhinnggg just go sleep."
"you sure?"
"Super duper sugary sure"
"Alright bro,"
with that, parrot went to the couch laid where spoke was originally resting and drifted into a rest less sleep.
spoke on the other hand turned to the window as he looked out onto the capital city,
ruined. completely buildings shattered. the air misty and once a lively town with people now empty and the roads once so full of cars now empty with a few cars parked on the sideways.
His home city. The city which he lived in for years, All gone just like that. Within a couple hours.
spoke looked disappointed and then he felt sleepy again so he sat at parrot's desk, he looked around, it was as usually neat to almost perfection, parrot had ocd atp. hell even the pens were color coded, spoke didn't even carry pens he carried the same one since 3rd grade.
spoke tried to stay awake but he found himself snoring 3 minutes later, And was only wakened up by the low shuffling noises, A voidling's senses are heightened even in a deep sleep, Spoke looked around and saw the door, The chair holding the door to it's hinges and them separated from the infected was shuffling noises as if, oh no. someone or something was trying to get in.
˙ 𓎟𓎟 . 𓎟𓎟 . 𓏵‧₊˚ ┊" 𝐓ⱺ 𝖿ᥣ𝗒 ⱺ𝗋 𝖿αᥣᥣ α𝗀α𝗂𐓣 ᥣ𝗂𝗄𝖾 𝗒ⱺυ αᥣωα𝗒𝗌 ᑯⱺ? " . 𓎟𓎟 . 𓎟𓎟 ˙