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Prologue

'It all just happened out of nowhere.. without a warning.. without even a known cause.. what started out as a day of celebration that felt like nothing could possibly go wrong.. turned into absolute hell on Remnant in just the blink of an eye.. There's no way we could have prepared for this kind of shit show..'

"Please man, don't make me fucking do this!"

"W.. What the h-hell.."

"Oh my god..! Suuun!"

"W-Why does he look like that..?!"

"Rrrragh!"

"J-Jaune, you got to do it now!"

"St-Stop this already! GODDAMNIT NEPTUUUNE!"

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

For a few moments, there was nothing but silence after the loud bangs of what sounded like four gunshots coming from a pistol, followed by terrified female screams and something heavy falling onto the wooden floor echoed from within the Arc residence.

"Ha.. Ha.. H-Ha.." Standing by the living room entryway, sweating and breathing heavily with a horrified expression on his face was none other than Jaune Arc. In his trembling hands and aimed forward in front of him was a black Glock 17 Gen4 Pistol that had smoke emitting from the barrel due the weapon just being fired.

Also present in the living room with him and appearing to be in the same state as the blonde boy was Pyrrha, Yang, Ruby, Ren and Nora. Nora was in the process of helping Ren back up to his feet as it looked like he had just suffered the pain of being tossed aside with brute strength judging from the large dent in one of the walls behind them. The crying and fear stricken Ruby was hiding behind her older sister Yang while whimpering and peaking out from beside her. The mentioned blonde girl had one shaking arm slightly sticking out beside her as she had just pulled her little sister behind her for herself to act as a shield for Ruby, though she was not crying, her shock and horror was still visible. Meanwhile, Pyrrha had her hands covering her mouth as tears were rolling out of her widened green eyes.

Everyone that was present in the living room area... or at least those that are present and still alive that is, were currently gazing at the bloodied corpses of two of their closest friends, Sun and Neptune. Sun, who had a large chunk of his flesh ripped out of one side of his neck, was lying on the ground sprawled out on his back over the bloody and shattered glass of Jaune's living room table, and Neptune was laying in a thick pool of his own blood on his front with his face planted on the ground and his body was sprawled out as well.

Neptune did not appear to look normal, not in the slightest. From what they can see now, his skin complexion was a deathly pale shade, and pure black veins were bulging and throbbing at the sides of his head. The others were absolutely certain that those specific details were not on him ten minutes ago.

"I.. I had.. h-had to do it.." Jaune whispered as he began to slowly descend onto his knees and his hands also began to lower the pistol. "D-Damnit, why did you make me do it Neptune!? What the hell has gotten into you?! W-Why.." The blonde boy's own waterworks were beginning to come, putting the safety on before he placed the gun down on the floor by his right knee. "Aaah!" He suddenly cried out as he then suddenly slammed the side of his left fist down onto the floor, and his breathing became more rough. His teeth were gritted as he fought back against the pain he received from his strike and the immense stress of what had just happened began to take a toll on him. "W-What the hell.."

Kneeling down beside the blonde boy was Pyrrha as she had snapped out of her state of shock when Jaune had his sudden outburst, now trying to comfort the one who just had to make most likely one of the hardest and stressful decisions of his life. Putting down one of his friends. "Y-You had no choice Jaune." The redhead uttered before she sniffled and wiped her tears away with her left hand while her right hand was gently rubbing at Jaune's back, trying to compose herself now. "If you had not done what you did.. H-He would have.. did the same thing to all of us. You saved us Jaune." She finished as she then fought through the emotional and psychological pain to give the blonde boy a small, but comforting smile.

Jaune looked to the redhead beside him silently for a few seconds, letting her words process through his mind as to understand that what he had done was for the good reasons.. though he still did not like it, not even a little bit. He gulped as he nodded while closing his eyes, starting to pull himself together by taking a deep breath before he began to get back up to stand. "R-Right.." Though it felt like he could barely stand as he was feeling weak in the legs and the lower limbs wavered.

The leg motions did not go unnoticed by Pyrrha as she aided him in keeping him standing. "Easy, easy.." She softly instructed him.

With Nora and Ren, the orange haired girl had just got the black with pink haired boy to stand up after taking it steady, one hand bringing one of his arms over her shoulders and the other gently held onto his chest. "Are you okay?" Nora questioned as she looked to her childhood friend with a anxious expression.

Ren groaned softly as he still felt some pain pulsing in his back from what had just happened to him, but other than that, he knew he would live. "Yeah, I'm fine Nora, thank you." He nodded to her with a reassuring smile, which had Nora immediately relieved as she let out a soft sigh and a nod a few seconds after. With that, the two began to make their short trip to huddle with their other living friends in the room.

"What the hell just happened?!" Yang uttered in bewilderment and frustration as she ran her right hand through her thick golden locks on her head, her sights not leaving the two bodies that were near them.

"N-Neptune.. k-k-killed S-Sun.." Ruby quivered in fear behind her blonde sister as she clung to her back.

"H-He didn't look like that just a few minutes ago, did he?" Nora questioned in genuine confusion as her and Ren had walked up beside the two sisters, the orange haired girl beginning to wonder if her memory was beginning to betray her.

"No, definitely not." Ren answered softly as he looked down towards Neptune's abnormal looking corpse with narrowed eyes. 'He wasn't the Neptune we all knew.. What changed him to this.. abomination..? So quickly as well.' He began to wonder, then gulping as a very bad feeling was now starting to settle within him the more he began to dwell on the question. 'Something's going on here.. Something big... and disastrous.. I can feel it..'

Finally gathering his bearings, Jaune took another deep breath when he had got back on his feet, then he knelt down for a second to pick up the Glock he forgot to grab off the floor before holstering it under the back side of his jeans, as much as he did not want to, he had a strong feeling that he was gonna need it again.. for obvious reasons to him. His stomach turned when he looked back to the bodies of his friends, struggling to maintain a calm demeanor as he felt like he was just a second away from vomiting up the contents of his stomach, but he managed to hold it together with the help of another deep breath.

"Are you gonna be alright, Jaune..?" She asked with worry, but with caution as well, not wanting to cause another outburst to come from him if she was not careful with her tone.

Jaune was silent for a moment before he then let out a deep sigh and shook his head in denial to the question, after what he just had to go through, it was gonna be awhile before he was to be alright. "N-No.. I'm far from it Pyrrha.." He replied in a soft whisper, the response causing the redhead to frown as she looked down to the floor with a guilt stricken look.

'Yeah, of course he wouldn't be okay..' She thought to herself before speaking with words to respond to her blonde friend. "I-I'm sorry, that was.. ridiculous of me to ask something like that.." She uttered apologetically.

Jaune then put a hand on her shoulder, which immediately had Pyrrha looking up at him with a surprised gaze when she saw him giving her some hint of a smile as he then hummed while shaking his head. "It's okay, I honestly would have asked the same thing.." He responded in hopes of putting her worries at ease. "I appreciate the concern." His words working as the redhead began to look at him more calmly.

Ren then did something that had surprised everyone in the room, he began to walk towards the two bloody bodies with a curious look on his face after he had lifted his arm off from over Nora's shoulder, the black with pink haired boy now able to walk well enough on his own at this point.

"W-What are you doing, Ren?" The young Valkyrie questioned nervously, shaking her head slightly in a baffled manner as she looked to him.

Ren raised a hand slightly to put herself at ease while keeping his eyes still set on the bodies. "I'll be fine, don't worry Nora.." He responded, now biting down on his lower lip when feeling himself step onto the blood around Neptune's corpse, the thick red liquid coating his socks and feet. 'Damn.. Did not think about this..' Seeing as how it was too late to try and back up now. He took a deep breath and continued on.

"C-Careful Ren.." Ruby warned as she peeked around her blonde older sister. Ren now bending his knees forward to get himself into a crouching position.

Now being the cautious one that he was and not wanting one of his best friends to be close to the possible potential threat, Jaune brought his hand down from Pyrrha's shoulder before he reached behind him to carefully pull the pistol back out and held it in front of him with both hands, then taking off the safety and he was now at the ready in case there were any other 'surprises' waiting to pop out on them.

Knowing what he had to do, Pyrrha did not object against his action as she remained silent and allowed him to walk over to join Ren. Though she was uneasy about that decision.

How Ren had the courage and stomach strength to try and approach the bodies, Jaune, nor the girls, had no idea. But they knew he was always the calm and composed one out of their group of friends.

When hearing Jaune approach, Ren looked at the young Arc for a moment with a slightly confused gaze, blinking a few times before lifting a brow slightly when seeing Jaune aiming the gun down towards Neptune's body.

Jaune knew that whatever Neptune was just a few minutes ago, it was not him. It was not his friend, their friend. Whatever he had just shot, was nothing more than a monster. A monster that had so eagerly killed their monkey faunus friend without even a hint of hesitation. So he knew what would need to be done in order to protect the rest of his beloved friends from suffering the same fate as Sun. His hands sweated and were visibly shaking a little bit, but he managed to keep himself composed and would go through the deed. Even though he hated to do so, but what choice did he have?

"Are you sure you are up for this Jaune?" Ren questioned out of concern to the Arc boy, the emotion evident on his expression as he awaited his answer.

Jaune let out a trembled breath as he closed his eyes for a brief moment to do so. But put on a brave face when looking back to his black haired friend, nodding confidently as he aimed the gun towards Neptune's head. "Yeah, just.. be careful, alright?" He urged anxiously.

"Of course." Understanding the demand, Ren nodded back to him before looking back to the dead blue haired boy, at least this hideous version of him. Even though his exterior made him look like he had it all together. On the interior, he was afraid, very afraid. He was just always skilled at hiding the emotions that would worry his friends. Even with a situation like this, he was surprised with himself that he was holding it together at this point, but he was well aware that his curiousity was overpowering that fear.

Taking another deep breath, Ren reached to begin pushing the corpse to roll it over onto its back, Jaune, as well as the girls, tensed and Jaune gripped onto the gun tightly when hearing the sounds of the blood squelching when the body was being moved, holding back an intense cringe as the sound was absolutely sickening to him, though the same cannot be said for the girls as they allowed the disgusted facial expression to show. But he powered through it and he continued to keep an eye on for any sign of movement the corpse may make, thankfully, he saw none.

After rolling the corpse onto its back, Ren began to examine it. Being cautious as he did though. "My god.." He uttered in a shocked whisper upon seeing Neptune's face as his eyes were widened and pressed a curled index finger against his lips.

When Jaune saw the facial features, he too looked down at the corpse in shock as he let out a sharp gasp. Once again, he was feeling the urge to vomit at such a gruesome display, but he still managed to keep it together. The sight making it certain to him now that this was not the Neptune he knew. This was indeed a horrible monster that had taken full possession over his body and completely changed it.. and he had a dreadful feeling that Neptune was not the only one to suffer such a horrid fate. 'Weiss is really not gonna like this..' He thought to himself nervously as he quietly gulped.

What were once dark blue eyes, were now a dark, crimson red. What were once healthy, sparkling white teeth, were now suddenly rotten, decaying and covered in blood with some bits of flesh, Sun's flesh, stuck between the teeth and in its gaping mouth. When looking past all of the blood, more of the bulging black veins were on different areas of the face. There were three bullet holes visible on the corpse's chest and one right at the center of the forehead, the bullet holes being the sources of the blood that was making the small pool of the liquid on the floor.

'But.. let's go back a little to before all this crazy shit happened..'

Hehe, once again, tearing myself apart even more by making myself work on another story. Haaa.. Man, I'm dumb. But I just couldn't help it, been wanting to work on a zombie apocalypse fic for awhile now and just thought this series would be a good way to go about it. In a normal world AU of it, of course. So there will be no semblences, no aura, no awesome transforming weapons, sadly, and no crazy, superhuman like abilities. Cuz that would all just make surviving too easy in my opinion. Though, there will be dark magic involved and faunus will be a thing, because they're awesome. So I hope the prologue was interesting enough! With a genre like this, expect dark themes, coarse language, blood/gore and lemons. So I'm warning you now about it! Anyway, Thank you kindly for reading!

Jaune's Harem:

- Ruby Rose

- Pyrrha Nikos

- Yang Xiao Long

- Neopolitan

- Weiss Schnee

- Blake Belladonna

Gonna add just a few more girls at some points, these are just the ones I'm certain of. So this isn't the final list, because I'm dumb like that. The maxium will be 9, I'm certain of that as well. Want to keep away from the double digits. Alrighty, all I got to say for now! Again, thanks for reading!

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