High School of the Dead

T'was Persona 3 FES, and I'm proud to say after putting it off for years, I've completed the sucker with 100% completion 

Sorry for late chapter I ended up playing for -let's just say an unhealthy amount of time- to grind everyone to level 99  Will have next chapter up soon. Please keep bumping.


Karina approached her bedside and double-checked her vitals before standing back with that creepily wide smile. She leaned in towards the confused woman's face, smirking as Antoine leaned away. She made a cooing noise as she pried open Antoine's good eye with gloved fingers and stared into it. After making some non-committing noises she turned back to Kira, eyes gleaming.

“How long did you say it's been Kira?”

“At least 10 hours,” Kira said, looking down at her clipboard and tapping a pen across the page. “Although the tests are still not completely conclusive of course. This hasn't been seen before.”

“This is perfect. A carrier Kira, we have a carrier!” Karina whipped out her cellphone from her pocket and hit speed dial, practically bouncing up and down. “Hello? Oh yes, Sgt Mocroft? Yes, yes I know I'm late... No, stop, just listen to me...”

Kira stepped forward and gave a reassuring smile to the shaken woman, but it was for naught because right then the door slammed open so hard it banged off the wall. A rather fat man flanked by two MP's walked in, his belly shaking as he strode towards the bed. Antoine found herself cringing in disgust as he approached her, breath smelling of greasy food.

“This?” he said, nose crinkling at the sight of the frail woman, who was doing her best to stare defiantly back at him. “Move her to the lab then, right away. If she's uncooperative, bind her, drug her, beat her, whatever. Get her down there now! What are you waiting for?”

The two men rippling with muscles saluted him and moved forward. Antoine having about enough of this, attempted to push them away as they came for her. A harsh slap across her cheek made her gasp. They lifted her onto a stretcher despite her wriggling and quickly bound her arms and legs with leather restraints. She bucked off the bed, angrily shouting.

“No drugs,” Karina said, her tone cheery yet stern. “She's been pumped with them enough, and I rather need her to come off the ones she's on already. For my testing.”

“Fine, whatever. Just shut that thing up,” Sgt Mocroft said, his eyes flashing angrily as Antoine spouted some rather nasty things about his pudgy figure just then.

“Now look what you've done,” Karina chided, “She's gone and ripped open one of her scars.”

Antoine felt the blood trickling down her arm but ignored it, seeing the men approach her again. She attempted to turn her face away as one of them gripped her cheeks and forced her mouth open. Although she tried to bite him, she was unable to fight his strength and he pushed a cloth into her mouth. Next they covered her eyes. Fuming, Antoine resorted to muffled shouts as they began wheeling her out of the room.

Kira looked down at her clipboard and began writing notes on Antoine's behavior. Karina stepped behind her and clapped a hand on her shoulder. “Don't distress Kira,” she said, unable to stop smiling. “This is a great breakthrough. We can find a cure.”

Kira looked up at her, bright blue eyes unusually somber. “I hope so...” she said softly and walked out the door leaving Karina standing by herself.

 

Raven watched as the military escorted James and the others into a black truck. Her heart felt broken as she saw Melly being shoved roughly inside. Gripping the steering wheel she made sure her headlights were turned off as she started the car. The truck had pulled away with surprising speed, and Raven felt nervous accelerating through the darkness with no headlights.

Raven tried to predict where the truck would go next, and it didn't take long for her to realize that it was heading towards the military compound on the outskirts of town. Holly Glen was a unique smaller town in that it seemed to have been just small enough that the military had decided to set up an enormous eyesore of a facility. Although Raven thought that it had just been to manufacture and store mechanical parts for weaponry, but perhaps in light of recent events Raven would have to reconsider.

Raven turned down a different street, praying her Jeep could handle a bit off off-road driving. She flicked on the headlights and braced herself as she careened through someone's backyard and through their fence. Her bumpy ride continued, as she cut through backyard after backyard, attempting to shave some time off her commute. Her car tires squealed as she pulled back onto the road, having cut through an entire neighborhood.

Raven laughed nervously, downshifting to avoid sliding and then quickly shifting again to pick up speed. Although she had cut some time by making an illegal shortcut, she knew the military truck wouldn't have slowed and she still needed to catch up. She glanced down at her speedometer, her heart racing as she realized she was going over 65mph through the tiny back streets.

Raven pulled out onto the long winding road that led up the military structure. Her high beams cut through the dark and she faintly could hear the sound of a vehicle behind her. Had she made it? Her heart started leaping as she realized she hadn't thought of a solution once she beat the truck here. Would they just shoot her before she could explain? What was she going to explain anyway?

Her thoughts came to an abrupt end as she hit someone and was flung forward in her seat. Her head hit the steering wheel and she felt herself drifting into unconsciousness.