Time for some more exposition! Yay!
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Chapter 2: Orange Sky?

And so, seconds become minutes, minutes become hours, and Niko's Cold War lecture is over, as is the History Class. The students shuffle out of the class towards the cafeteria for lunch. Some of the students take notice that the sky is a bright orange, despite it only being 12 in the afternoon, but most pay it no attention. As the bell rings, indicating the end of lunchtime, students make their way towards their next period.

A group of students make their way towards their next class, which is Mr. Krim's class. But before he could start his lesson the Vice Principal comes to his room and leads him away from the children, for the news that the VP was delivering could cause panic among the students, and panic could equal casualties...

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As the VP entered the room, Slavoj turned around. "The orders are finished, but we won't be able to do any experimental work for at least a week. I sincerely hope that the student who caused that will be severely punished..."

Mr. Lording dismissed his class and, a few minutes later, received a text from the VP reading Important Announcement in Krim's Class.

Without waiting any longer, Mr. Lording gathered his things and ran towards Mr. Krim's classroom.

Adries watched as the VP entered Mr. Krim's class and took him aside to talk. 'Wonder what this about,' she thought, doodling in her notebook, 'I really hope it isn't about more protective gear.' Her eyes wandered around the classroom before falling upon the window where the sky was clearly a different color than it normally is for that time of day.

'Wow that is a damn nice color. I think that would go well with the blue,' she mused as she brought out a marker close enough to the orange sky and made a few marks on her page.

((I guess you're going to tell me about the announcement, otherwise my hands are tied))

"Remember students will be having a quiz tomorrow!" Nikolia shouts out.
well i guess i get too relax for an hour or so until my next lecture begins
Nikolia boots of his computer and starts playing computer games

Name:Henry "Mixmaster" Letman
Age: 15
Occupation: Student
Favorite Subject: Chemistry
Items in Bookbag: Scissors,Pencil,Pencil sharpener,3 textbooks,cellphone,laptop,and gum
Personality: a Leader, he leads if he has the chance to, yet he will follow the instructions given to him
Backstory: He was born on a leap year, he saw his mom get beaten every day of his life,until one day he heard the sound of a gun shot he ran down the stares and saw that his dad had...shot his mom when he moved to this school he was so mad, because his mom was shot 3 DAYS AGO he had been put with foster parents that were baptist,he believed in evolution,
so they punished him for being a non-believer, so he moved to this school...as a new kid with no parents...he ran away

What could be so important in Slavoj's class? Lets find out shall we?
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Chapter 3: Krim's Class & Grim News

Almost immediately after Mr Krim's class ended, he announced over the loudspeaker for all faculty & staff to report to the Chemistry lab, and for students to report to the auditorium.

The Faculty crowd into room, ready to hear the announcement from the VP. his walks up to the podium and clears his throat.

"Over the coarse of the day, there's been reports about an airborne virus being spread around the city, it's effects are deadly. But more importantly, it's been said that the virus is changing people... warping their minds... decaying their skin... mutating their bodies..."

"What are you talking about Harris?" Mr Lording said

Mr. Harris turns on a t.v. On every channel, there's breaking news, One of which shows the city on fire, and...things rambling about, turning over cars, groaning, breaking windows, and worse... eating the uninfected. The teachers stare at the monitor in awe at the sight before them. Harris turns off the t.v.

"It won't be long before the infected make their way to the school" he said solemnly.

A teacher jumps up from her seat.

"What are we gonna tell the children?" She said
"They have to know what going on..."

"NO!" Mr. Harris cuts her off.
"Nothing can be said to the students! We don't wanna cause a panic amongst them. And we can't let them get outside!"

"Then we're gonna have a big problem on our hands" Nikolai said looking at his watch.

"Why? How?" Harris asks

The bell rings.
School is over...

Mr. Harris runs towards the main exits.
"We cannot let the students out of the school!" he says running out of the room. The Teachers run after him...
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Slavoj, a bit too old (and asthmatic, anyway) to start running around the school, instead went to the school sound system. "Attention all students still inside school: There was an emergency, and you are all required to stay inside the school. It is nothing serious - just remain inside". After that, he walked to his classroom. The chemical classroom was one of the bigger ones - a lot of people could take shelter in there, if they could barricade it successfully.

"Remain inside, the enemy is Approaching"
Nikolia shouts beginning to have flashbacks while running around the school.

As Henry opens the school doors he hears the announcement. He sees 2 people running in the school, they both look decayed and brainless so he takes out his scissors and stabs one.
As the other one approaches he looks at it and realizes...it is his father. "IT IS TIME TO DO WHAT YOU DID TO MOM!" He jumps for his father but misses, he falls on his head and forgets about everything he has known except for breathing,walking, and the fact that he goes to school...most common scene is what he remembers he stabs his fathers rotted corpse and runs in the school "Wow..." he slides down on his back and begins crying... he had remembered about his mom.

He runs to the principals office...it took seconds though it felt like minutes when he gets there he yells into the PA system, "EVERYONE THERE ARE ZOMBIES OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL!" and starts balling again "ANYONE WHO IS ABOUT TO LEAVE STAY INSIDE...I JUST KILLED MY ZOMBIE FATHER." as he lets go of the button he hears over 300 kids scream and start crying he hears "We are all gonna die in here!"

Adries just stared in disbelief as that one kid from some class she had seen once in awhile came screaming about zombies after she had left the auditorium.

"Holy $*%& on a %*#& sandwich!" she yelled before running off to the Chemistry room. 'Alright. Breathe. Everyone you know and love is dead. Prepare for the zombiepocalypse,' she thought rushing into the room, excitement growing with each step.

"Hi Mr. Slavoj," she quickly said almost running into him like an early encounter that day, "Sir, we have zombies and I've been training for this since I got into them in middle school! We need to start barricading, and rationing and stuff! And we need weapons! But barricading everything is more important at first. No, wait! Calming everyone down is the most important thing! Everyone is going all craaaazzzzaaayyy like!"

Slavoj sighed. "Mr. Krim, Ms. Bixler. Referring to a superior's first name is considered an insult in some countries," he said. "And would you give me a hand with preparing the clasroom for a safe point of some sort? There is a safe with some aspirines and other medication in the headmaster's office - could you go fetch it?"

The chemistry clasroom was in the first floor, and it had two entrances - one lead directly into the cabinet of the science teachers and the other one lead straight to the corridor. It was one of the better places to create a safe point.

"Sorry Mr. Krim," Adries quickly said, rolling her eyes once he wasn't looking. She nodded at her order to get supplies, running out the classroom at breakneck speed.

However getting to the office was going to be a lot harder than imagined due to the sheer number of screaming teens and utter chaos in the halls. After numerous attempts to get past everyone without being pushed to the ground she threw her hands in the air and ran into a classroom. After a few seconds she came out with a table and climbed on it.

"Listen everybody. CALM. THE. $*%&. DOWN!" she yelled clapping her hands to attract attention, "All of you need to chill. We are currently working on barricading the school from the zombies!" With that came a scream and some crying. "Now, if any of you have any sort of useful skill please report to a teacher so that you can help. If not I would say buddy up and get to a teacher and ask what you can do. Huh I basically said the same thing twice... Also, move aside so I can get to the office."

With that she sprung from the table and ran off down the easier to navigate hallway towards the office...

Slavoj checked if the Bunsen burners were still working. Gas supply to the school has obviously not been cut, which was a good thing - fire could be useful, as long as people who knew how to handle it would wield it. He walked to the caustic materials storage closet and punched in the cote. 1410. Simple enough.

He checked for materials. Everything was still there like the last time he checked. Potassium, Sodium, Hydrogen-Chloridic acid, everything was still inside. He could use this for defense, but the potential of burning the students was too great. And most of the stuff would form toxic fumes if used on open anyway. Before he closed the closet, however, he searched in behind for his hidden flask of salamander brandy, tucking it away in his pocket. The flask was currently the most precious thing that the closet has held.

((for more information on salamander brandy, check http://www.grailtrail.ndo.co.uk/Grails/brandy.html. And yes, it's illegal now that we're in EU))

Mr. Slavoj's voice rang out over the loud speaker, waking Leon up (who had fallen asleep during the assembly), alone in the auditorium. He yawned, rubbed his eyes, and stretched his cramped legs looking around for other students. Seeing none, he grabbed his backpack, and slowly shuffled up the ramp to the main hallway.

As he neared the doors to the hall, Leon could hear faint screaming and a strange moaning sound, carefully he cracked the door open and peeked out. Leon rubbed his eyes again to see if he was really seeing what he thought he was. A decomping, foul-smelling zombie was eating a young freshman girl. Leon slammed the door shut, and ran down the ramp to the stage. He knew the zombie had heard him because it was banging on the door, and the noise was echoing throughout the auditorium.

Leon, running once he got to the stage, sitting down in one of the front row seats. "This can't be happening, this CANNOT BE FUCKING HAPPENING!" He screamed to no one but himself. "Okay, calm down Leon, you've seen plenty of zombie movies, you know how to deal with these kind of things." Significantly calmer, Leon walked over to the side door of the auditorium, opened it, and breathed a sigh of relief. This hallway was free of the undead, Leon crept out of the door, and started running. Sprinting as fast as he ever had, he finally ran out of breath near the chemistry room. Where Mr. Slavoj was talking about barricading the classroom with a few other students.

"Ah, Mr. Konig!" Said Slavoj, delighted to see another helping hand. "Here to give us a hand?"

Lording, who had run around to look for Adries, eventually stumbled upon her running down the hallway. "ADRIES!" he shouted. He ran up to her. "We need to get this place organized. Let's find some more students and make our way to the auditorium. It should be safe there."

Adries finally made it to the office and busted in; yelling and panting. "Sir I'm trying to get to the safe so that we can make a safe point in Mr. Krim's chemistry room so I need your help and...oh your not here. Heh. Well then," Adries muttered as she facepalmed and started looking for the safe. After searching all the hiding places for one she realized it had simply been on the bookshelf the whole time.

"Not everyone hides things like you," she muttered as she reached for it...only to realize she hadn't been given the lock code. "ARHG! For $*%& sakes!" She yelled before simply picking up the safe and walking back to Mr. Krim's class, "Damn this thing is pretty heavy for being so small."

"Ah! Mr. Lording!. Sure, but I need to bring this safe to Mr. Krim's class which is currently being built into a safe point," she said.

"Here, I'll help you." said Lording. He then grabbed the safe from Adries. "God this thing's heavy. Do you have any idea what's in it?"

'Um...I'm pretty sure medicine and stuff," she replied not really recalling what she had been told was in it, "Useful things I guess." With that they went off to Mr. Krim's chemistry room, calming down students and trying to keep the peace.

"This is crazy!" Adries yelled, "I mean, I was prepared for this and I thought I was going to be all desensitized but now I'm thinking about how crazy this all is! Gosh, how long can we make it in here? We have no real means to defend ourselves! We have a bunch of stupid, scared teens running around. ARGH!!! This sucks."

Slavoj spotted Ms. Bixler and Mr. Lording. "Oh, I forgot to give you the code to the safe..." he said. He helped them carry it to the clasroom. "Mr. Lording, would you help to organise some students to comehere and help us create something worth defending here?"

"Okay," responded Lording.

"About what you were saying Adrianna..." mumbled Lording. "You're right. We can't really make it in here. But there is a gun store and a supermarket a few blocks away. If I can convince some people to go with me, we can run there and get back before anything else happens... Or we could just try to evacuate and run like hell. See if we can outrun the zombies... What do you think Adries?"

Slavoj entered the code and opened the safe, revealing a bunch of aspirine pills, two painkiller syringes, some asthma medicine and a lot of bandages. Perfect for the situation. "I don't think going to a gun store is smart for two reasons - first, you will probably get attacked. And second - the person who owns the gun store won't just give you guns. Actually, there's also a third reason: A lot of people will be thinking the way you are, going to the gun store. Either they get infected, or you're in a hell of a fight for the guns." He sighed. "I think it would be better if we got the radio transmitter the science class built last year and try to contact the army. Hopefully, they can take us somewhere safe..."

"Your welcome Mr. Krim," Adries said before turning to Mr. Lording, "That can work. Though we need to figure out what type of zombies are these. The new-age sprinters or the slow moving ones. I hope it's the latter, if not then we are fuuuuuuuu.....dge."

Adries sat down and took a moment to think, "We should try to get all the teachers and the students who are zombie-addicts like me together to figure these things out. Mr. Krim is right, immediately going to get guns is not good. We should wait. Same with the grocery store. We need to stay here for about a week before we can go and try to get supplies."

"We won't live out here for a week..." said Slavoj while setting up another table for the barricade. "The number of the infected will hardly decrease, and we only have these things" he pointed towards the stuff in the laboratory. "There are some power tools in the arts workshop, as far as I remember, but it's on the bottom floor..."

((Going to sleep now, see you tomorrow morning...))

"But what if the zombies break through?" asked James. "What then? Do we stab them with pencils? Cut them up with scissors? Sure we have power tools, but most of them need to be plugged in. If more than one zombie got in this place would become a giant death trap." He sighed. "I'll help you find your students. Then, I'm going to give them a choice whether or not to go with me, because no matter what, I'm not letting any of you die."

((Night, night.))

"The zombies haven't overrun the bottom floor. I think only a few have actually even been wandering around school. We can deal with any that have wandered inside and get some of the workshop's stuff. Hammers, the power tools. We can even get wood to make better barricades," Adries said, sitting in the thinker's position as she talks, "What do you think? If we do go we'd need more people to help carry things."

Lording walked back to the headmaster's office and turned on the PA system. "All students, make your way to Mr. Krim's classroom."

"That's going to be a lot of students," Adries muttered under her breathe as she put her head on the table. 'Think, what would Brooks do? The workshop makes sense; clean out any zombies that have gotten in. Help barricade. Try to hold out as long as possible. Then get to the city and get more supplies. I hope we can get outside help, but doubt the government will help.'

Count me in.

Name: Leon Neumann
Age: 17
Occupation: Student
Favorite Subject: English and History
Items in Bookbag: Some pencils, irrelevant papers, and a copy of Michael Chrichton's Sphere
Personality: Leon is not the most sociable type, but can cooperate in a group, and even lead if need be.
Backstory: Leon is a native to the area, his parents having moved here from Stuttgart, Germany shortly before he was born. Growing up, Leon's parents forbade him from speaking English in the household, something Leon resented. He found the English language and American history fascinating. He has always excelled in History and English, but not as much in other subjects. Leon is an avid reader, and can always be seen with a book of some kind. He usually had to hide his English books from his parents, however. Leon is average height, with medium length black hair, and is usually adorned in Steampunk-esque fashion, with a black striped vest, white button up shirt, with dark grey pants and shoes.

Name:Max Flynn
Age:16
Occupation:Student
Favorite Subject:psychology
Items in Bookbag: Phone,Pencil case,Can of cola and a can of links (deoderant)
Personality: Max is a popular guy known to be the joker of the rchool and a leader but has a deep intrest in psychology which he almost takes to obsessive levels, uses his knowllege to exploit people to survive in school. (hated by the unpoplulat loved by the popular)
Backstory: Moved from England four years ago when his dad got a job a job offer. Adjusting to a new school was hard at first but learnt to survive.
Extra:Has brown short hair, usually wears jeans and a shirt with a slogon. (todays: a red shirt saying "make scored not wars" with a peace sign in the middle)

"Mr. Letman I am afraid you have to leave out office." said Mr. Harris
"WHY, SO YOU CAN LET ME DIE LIKE THE OTHER STUDENTS?!?" Henry screamed as it echoed through the school, and he heard much more screaming and crying
"Mr. Letman please keep it down, our school is already freaking out" said Mr. Harris
"NO! OUR SCHOOL IS GOING TO DIE AND YOU KNOW IT." wit ha louder echo...more screams coming
"MR. LETMAN IF YOU DO NOT BE QUIET I AM AUTHORIZED TO-"
"To what?" Henry interrupted " If you send me out there you are letting go one of the most trained fighters you have in this school, I have been here for 3 days and i know more than you."
Mr. Harris sighs...
"I guess we cannot do anything."
When Mr. Harris realizes he is holding down the button on the PA system.
"Oh no."
As he lets go over 300 screams echoes over the school... then they hear glass shatter...
" See what you have done?!?!?!? These kids screamed so loud they broke the windows."

Adries facepalmed once again after listening to the conversation on the PA system. "I'm dealing with $*%&ing retards here!" she yells banging her head on the table.