La lumière dans l'obscurité

Keeping her hand on her Fiancee's until she felt the anger in her begin to subside Ayita took a breath, What could have driven the people here to go to such an extreme? Why would you take your own life like the people they found downstairs? why would you shoot someone with an arrow like the diary of Ziggy's friend described? Frustrated she tried to figure it out, understand the reasoning behind it all. Was it just that they didn't have the mental fortitude to stay alive? maybe. "beschuldige dich nicht, Baby.."(Don't blame yourself baby..) Ayita said gripping her Fiancee's hand tighter. "I'm sure that, even though she may have believed that before the end. She's seen that it was false, I imagine she's looking down at us at this very moment smiling knowing the fact you're still alive, still kicking ass like the girl she knew before." She explained further in an attempt to quell the thoughts that Ziggy was having.

A number of encouraging words and loving actions later Ayita felt Ziggy kiss her forehead and smiled at her, thankfully that her words and actions had broken through the anger and sadness finding out about her friends fate had brought Ayita Returned the smile and kiss before looking to Sara, nodding to her letting her know Ziggy was alright she then turned back to her Fiancee and followed her form while she began rummaging through her belongings. To her dismay she came to find that her clothing, all the way down to her underwear had been looted, shaking her head Ayita shared the annoyance the action had brought to Ziggy but chose to stay quiet on the matter and let her go about gathering what she needed. Making her way to a cork board above her bed Ayita looked among the scattered images on it, among them rested an image of a good looking man with a guitar, a man she soon learned was Ziggy's father. "So that's where you get your musical side from?" Ayita teased.

Staying seated on the bed as Ziggy went about gathering a number of other things, namely her passport and official documents that thankfully hadn't been touched she then watched on as Ziggy gave one of her late friends figures to Sara, smiling Ayita got to her feet and brushed herself off. "That's sweet of you babe, I'm sure your friend would be happy to see it go to a good home." She said coming to stand beside her.

Standing next to Ziggy and Sara Ayita soon heard the sound of approaching footsteps from the hallway, her guard going up she reached for her bow but quickly relaxed when the source of the noise was revealed, Seeing Ellie standing in the door Ayita nodded a greeting which her friend returned in kind. "Hey, we found something you guys might wanna take a look at." She said.

Looking to Ziggy and Sara before back to Ellie Ayita sighed. 'what now...' she thought, letting Ellie lead the way the group soon came to a door bared with as many pieces of furniture as the nearby rooms contained, from the other side of the door they could hear the growls of the dead, there had to be at least twenty of them by the noise.

"We found this when we were clearing the place out. Someone's lured them in and locked them away." She explained looking back to them. "We should probably be on our toes, someone may still be living here."

Chuckling at the banter between her two companions on the matter of Ziggy's fathers looks Ayita shook her head in amusement upon hearing her Fiancee's reaction to Sara's words about her father. "He's looks younger than I expected." Ayita commented. "How olds that picture?" She asked, discussing the matter further for a brief moment Ayita and her two companions soon heard movement from the hallway, their guard raising as the sounds approached Ayita raised her bow. Listening to the sounds of movement get ever closer the three soon found themselves in the presence of Ellie, she mentioned that they had found something that they thought the three of them might want to see, curious and a little concerned Ayita followed close behind the rest.

Reaching the ground floor Ayita continued to follow Ellie and the rest, reaching the bottom floor they met up with Brody and Thomas who waved them all to follow. "What is it?" Ayi asked.

"We may not be alone." Brody answered shooting a quick glance back in her direction.

"Not alone?" Ayi questioned. "Did you see people?"

"Not quiet." Ellie answered stopping Brody's words before they could even start. "But we did find this." She said as she pointed towards a door barricaded and locked up tight, whatever was in that room wasn't getting out any time soon. "There." Ellie then said. "Someones lured all the dead in this building and locked them in there." She explained further. "I can say with a fair amount of certainty that there's someone else here, No one would go through this amount of trouble just to loot and run."

Looking to Ziggy after hearing Ellie's theory Ayita gripped her Fiance's hand. "I don't like it." She whispered. "We should get out of here as fast as we can." Looking back to her friends Ayita heard Ziggy agree with her and begin conveying their thoughts to their friends, who, thankfully, seemed to be in agreeance on the matter. 

"Yea, let's not stay here any longer than we have to." Thomas answered.

"Agreed." Ellie added.

"Yea, this place gives me the creeps anyway." Brody then added as well.

Gathering what they could the group began heading out of the building, gathering Laura and Cam from the roof the group made their way across the campus to Mason hall, the building that had served as home for her older sister Adahy, or at least it did at one point. Looking up at the large red brick building and the white accents boarding each window and roof top Ayita took a breath, a strange feeling had settled on her. Was Adahy in there? Would they find a death note from her as well? God she hoped not.

Taking a breath Ayita reached out and took a hold of her Fiancee's hand and smiled to her. "bereit, wie ich jemals sein werde."(Ready as I'll ever be.) She answered.

'Please be alive Adahy..'

Crossing the threshold into Mason Hall Ayita surveyed her surroundings, Finding herself in a common room of sorts with a desk directly in front of them her eyes shifted from one wall to the next, each adorned with the colours and decorations of the campus, and all still fairly intact. Someone had defiantly gone through some effort to try and keep this place pristine. But why? Watching Ziggy hop over the desk at the head of the room Ayita looked back to the rest of her companions. "Someone should watch the door again." She said.

"I'll do it." Cam answered, "I can get up to the roof fairly easily anyway, no sweat."

Nodding to her friend Ayita watched her quickly make her way out of the building, check her surroundings and then start her climb. Looking back to her friends she waited for Ziggy to gather the information she needed, from the sounds of it she had pulled out a log book of some sort, and listening as she read she quickly put together what she was trying to find, her sisters room number. A few seconds later she found just that, room sixteen, which according to Ziggy was on the third floor. Hearing these words Ayita looked back to the rest of the her companions, Brody and Thomas were exploring some of the other doors while Lauren and Sara stayed close by.

Getting out from behind the desk the group heard as Brody said that they were locked tight before moving towards a car jetting out through the wall, the sight of it caused a flash of fear to shoot through her. Did someone die in that car? Where they still dead? Watching as Brody got closer to it she soon heard a splitting sound of the car alarm going off which quickly died out, following it though was the sounds of the dead, it may have only gone off for a few seconds, but that was plenty of time to awake what lied dormant in the rooms and hallways. Sighing she looked to Ziggy who was currently laying in to Brody for his stupidity. "Babe! You can yell at him later, we need to get out of here, the dead'll be swarming this place before we know it." Ayita shouted. Turning back to the exit she began making her way to it taking the lead when the doors to her right began to burst open taking the wall with it.

Looking back to her companions she saw the dead begin crowding through the doors from their tombs. "Where do we go?" She asked in a rushed tone, looking to Ziggy she heard her call to go up the stairs, following her the group made it up as the dead swarm grew larger and larger. Getting to the stairs Ayita made sure everyone was up before looking back to Ziggy who was buying them some space, drawing her bow she joined too and landed a number of arrows square in the heads of about five of them, but those arrows would never see her quiver again and she didn't have an unlimited supply. Once everyone was up the stairs Ayita tapped Ziggy "Come on!" She called, reaching the top of the stairs Ayita looked back down, it would take the dead a bit longer to clamber up them.

Letting Ziggy take the lead Ayita followed as she took them down one hallway then the next before reaching a door blocked from the other side, pushing hard Ziggy couldn't get it open and so she and the others joined too, forcing it open she saw a figure stumble back onto her back and a number of heavy items slide to the side, instantly Ziggy went on the defensive and raised her weapon at the figure demanding her to speak. Covered except for a pair of brown eyes and locks of brown hair Ayita raised her bow as well and waited for her to speak.

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Having heard whoever or whatever was downstairs releasing the herd, as well as setting off the alarm of the car she had used to lure them all in the first place Adahy shook her head in annoyance. "Dammit." She cursed under her breath as she retreated up the stairs and down the hall towards her section of the building, or what was her section at one point or another anyway. Closing the door leading back out to the main hallway she set to blockading the door leading towards her room, Frustrated at the fact that a full days work went down the drain in a single moment due to the incompetence of whoever was downstairs she huffed in annoyance while dragging the first of two benches to the door, getting the first situated near the hinge point of the door she turned to move the second when she heard movement approaching from the stairs. "Shit, really? You have to come here?" she said aloud. Bracing the door she felt a push, then a second.

The next thing she knew she was on her back, sent to the ground by the force of the door flying open she looked up expecting death by horde, but instead, she was greeted by humans, living, breathing humans, with guns and a bow pointed at her head. Raising her hands she sucked air through her teeth, "Don't shoot." Adahy answered as her eyes moved to the faces before her. Catching sight of two in particular her jaw dropped 'Ziggy? Ayita? No fucking way.' she thought studying them further, it was them though, it was really them. Here, right in front of her. And.. Currently pointing weapons at her.. "Wait!" She called. Lowering one hand she pulled her mask down. "Don't shoot the third wheel Zigs." She said raising her hand again.

Seeing that the girl knew Ziggy and how her sister reacted in a delightful manner she put her gun away while Laura stood next to her. Seeing the moments unfold before her brought a warm feeling to her heart and she had a smile on her face as it brought her joy to see these two friends come together. But then it was known this this girl was Ayita's sister and Sara removed her glasses to wipe away a few tears before putting them back on. She gave the girl a nod and smiled at her before turning to Brody and Thomas who were trying to hold back the horde. Soon Adahy motioned for the gang to follow her and she did with Laura next to her holding her hand. She could tell that this girl was nervous and Sara just slightly tightened her grip on her hand. "It's okay." said Sara softly to Laura who looked at her slightly confused. "W-What yeah I'm fine totally." said Laura trying to sound confident yet Sara could see that this was a front and she just smiled at the girl before turning her eyes forwards as she kept following Adahy. Once they reached the ladder Laura started to panic. "I-I can't do it. I'm afraid of heights. I mean what if the ladder falls? What if I slip and-" said Laura in a panic before Sara stepped in and grabbed Laura by her face. "Listen to me okay? We are going to get out of here okay? All of us are and we need you to remain calm." said Sara in a calm tone as she looked Laura in the eyes.




"Boys you go first and show her that's it's okay."  said Sara to Thomas and Brody. Once Thomas and Brody went Laura took a few deep breaths and then she went. She was a nervous wreck through it but she made it with Sara right behind her. Once they both were on the ground Laura rushed over to Sara and hugged her tightly. "Thank you! Thank you so much!" said Laura as she hugged Sara who chuckled and smiled as she was glad to help her friend get over her fear if only for a moment.








What she didn't expect through was a kiss on the cheek from Laura even if she mean't it only in a friendly way it made her chuckle but seeing the looks on Brody's and Thomas' faces she just laughed at the guys as did Laura. So she returned the favor and gave Laura a smooch back. "You two are so funny, it's like as soon as you see two girls kiss you are so into it." said Laura to the boys. "What? No way! I mean Ziggy and Ayita kiss all the time!" said Thomas. Hearing him only made Laura laugh even more and she turned to Sara with a smirk. "Really now? Sara care to do the honors?" asked Laura with a smirk followed by a wink hoping she would get the hint. Sara's face turned slightly red and she leaned in going to kiss Laura. Thomas looked on with much anticipation like a dog waiting to get a bone or juicy steak.






Sara was mere inches from Laura's lips and just before their lips could touch Laura turned away and laugh much to the disappointment of Thomas and Brody. "OOh come on that's not fair!" said Thomas annoyed. Laura looked at him with a smirk followed by a shrug. "Tough luck. Then you two kiss and then we will." said Laura to Thomas. Sara took a deep breath and she just looked at the boys and laugh shaking her head as she wouldn't forget this moment with her friends. Even if Laura was just teasing it still did get her feeling a little hot.

Pulling up the rear as the group made their way out the window and down the makeshift ladder Ayita's long lost sister had devised to get out of her room Ellie took one last look through the window at the Native American decorations littering the walls, intrigued by some of the designs she studied them for a moment before hearing the door in the hall give way snapping her back to the moment. Quickly she descended the ladder and her feet met ground.

Looking towards the group she made her way to stand next to a now beaming Ayita who was staying close by her older sister and Ziggy, not that she blamed her, if she had a sibling she imagined she would have the same reaction to an extent. "Where now?" Ellie asked looking back up at the window, the sounds of the dead wrecking the room making it clear that they had found their way through.

"Further in." Adahy responded. "We're held up further in towards the admin buildings."

Nodding in acknowledgment of Adahy's words Ellie turned her attention to the commotion going on behind her, turning to face the sounds it would seem that Lauren and Sara were currently partaking in an act that had no place, nor goal in their current circumstances, a fact Ziggy made clear shortly there after. Frowning Ellie crossed her way towards Thomas as she heard Ziggy laying in to Lauren and Sara about what they had done, crossing her path as the attention turned to the boys Ellie yelped as she felt a hard slap on her butt, her face instantly going red she looked to Ziggy with embarrassed annoyance  "What the hell?" She asked, but the answer quickly came as she began talking to Thomas, saying that he had a 'perfect piece of American womanhood at his disposal right in front of him.' Her words causing Ellie to blush even harder she shook her head and glared at a now embarrassed and ashamed Thomas.

Taking his hand she pulled him along as Ziggy did the same with her until they were abreast with Ayita and her older sister. In the distance she could hear Cam calling out from above.

"What's going on down there?" Cam called as she climbed down the building, hoping from a ledge to the ground she landed in a role in quick order and joined them. "Whoa. Who's this?" She asked.

"That's Ayi's sister, so it would appear." Ellie answered quickly.

"Look, people." Adahy said abruptly. "You can bicker about whatever you like when we get back to admin, Nanye is probably back by now and she doesn't do well on her own." She explained.

"Nanye's here too!?" Ayita responded in an uncharacteristic excitement.

"Yes squirt, she is. And you know how she is on her own, so if we could hurry I would appreciate it." Adahy answered looking to the rest of the group. "Say what you need to say when we get there." She added. "This way."

Without another word Adahy turned and began walking off in the direction of the administrative buildings. Looking back to the rest Ellie nodded. "Look, she's right, we can bicker and talk when we're safe. Now isn't the time nor the place for it."