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Chapter 2: Revelation

At the dining table of the Arc household, Jaune and his friends, those who are still alive anyway, sat around in stunned silence. Their wide trembling eyes staring down at the table. Their bewildered minds still trying to process what had happened just a few minutes ago.

With a shocked Jaune, he had his Glock resting on the table in front of him. Its safety on and angled so that the barrel didn't point at him or his friends.

After what felt like ages, someone finally said something to break this damned silence..

"S-Seriously, you guys.. What the hell happened to Neptune over there?" Yang asked while pointing over to the living room, looking at the others as a cold sweat dripped down her face. Out of all the questions that swam wildly within her mind, that was the one that bugged her the most. It was the same for all the others.

"I-I think we're all trying to figure that out, Yang." Pyrrha responded.

"N-Neptune just.. to S-Sun and.. N-Now's he's de... d-d.." A petrified Ruby's whole figure quaked in fear, unable to get her next word out as she stuttered uncontrollably.

Upon seeing the young Rose struggle with her speech, Ren spoke up to put her at ease, sounding somewhat calm and unsettled at the same time as he captured her attention and she ceased her stuttering. "It's okay, Ruby. You... You don't need to say it.. We know what happened. So please, calm down and take some deep breaths." He instructed softly. "You don't have to put yourself through that stress.." He said lowly. "We're all stressing enough.." He whispered the last bit under a sigh.

"A-All right.." Was all Ruby could reply with as she shakily nodded and did as he said. With the plethora of negative emotions that currently filled the girl, it was a struggle to deeply breathe.

A sweating Nora gulped before finally saying something herself, but saying it hesitantly. "H-Hey guys.." She called out first while looking down at her thumbs that twiddled anxiously, immediately gaining the attention of most of her friends as they looked at her with a mixture of curiosity and panic. The only one that wasn't looking her way was Jaune as he just kept looking down at the gun he used to kill undead Neptune not ten minutes ago..

"What is it, Nora..?" Pyrrha acknowledged the orange-haired girl, her and the others expressing that they were all ears. Even if it didn't look like it, Jaune himself was listening in too.

"Th-This may be me just being.. well, crazy old me but..." Nora managed to take somewhat of a calm breath as she briefly closed her eyes while lowering her head, not wanting to say what she had in mind... But her gut just kept pressuring her. She raised her head and faced everyone again, displaying an uneasy smile. "Did N-Neptune kinda look like a... z-zombie to anyone else? Or is that just me?" She chuckled in an exaggerated fashion with nervousness as she rubbed at the back of her head.

Simultaneously, everyone, excluding Jaune, gasped in shock as they now looked at Nora with appalled expressions. They were all in utter disbelief that she would even say such an insane... yet sort of sensible thing..

"Z-Zombie..?" Ruby whispered with a horrified tone, her already overwhelming fear increasing tenfold.

"How can you even say such a thing, Nora?!" Ren scolded as he gave Nora a light glare, which earned him a wince from the orangette as she lowered her hand. Out of everyone, he was the most shocked to hear her say what she did. "Neptune was our friend. You shouldn't be saying outrageous things like that so out of blue." He said to his childhood friend firmly while maintaining his weak glare on her. The look made Nora frown as her heart stinged a little bit. This is the first she has ever seen him give anyone such an intimidating stare.. and she didn't like it one bit.

"Y-Yeah, come on, Nora. That's... heheh.. that's just crazy talk.." Yang spoke out with unease, stifling a chuckle. "Zombies, they don't... th-they don't exist. It's impossible for them to.. They only exist in movies and whatever.." The blonde said while in complete denial for the moment. She really didn't want to believe the idea of Neptune being a.. a zombie. That's just freakin' nuts, right? Right?! But dammit, the more she thought about it, the more it started to make sense to her. Like, why else would Neptune just suddenly turn into something so.. so hideous and feral? Which are terms that pretty much describe a fucking zombie as far as she knows! Sun was his best friend... and he just killed him by biting a damn chunk out of the monkey faunus like it was nothing. Doing so without any hesitation or remorse. They all knew that Neptune cared a lot about those close to him and would never do anything to hurt them, just as they all do.. So why? Why else would he fucking do something as awful as that if he wasn't a damn zombie?! It's the only thing that made any goddamn sense in this fucked up situation! 'Oh my god..' She thought as terror became more apparent on her face.

"I got to agree with Ren there, Nora. That's... not exactly the most respectful thing to say about a friend." Pyrrha said as she looked at Nora with a frown of her own.

"Exactly." Ren confirmed.

"Perhaps it is just me being crazy then.." A now guilt stricken Nora admitted as she lowered her head in shame. "I'm sorry, I'll.. I'll shut up." She sighed.

"Just be mindful of what you say next ti-" Before Ren could finish talking, Jaune cut him off when he spoke up.. and it was about time that he did too..

"I don't think she's wrong you guys.."

All eyes were on the young Arc, who currently looked deep in thought, in an instant as it was his turn to receive some surprised stares.

"What..?" Ren blinked in confusion at the blonde.

"Jaune, are you.. are you actually going to believe that?" Pyrrha inquired dumbfoundedly, unable to believe what she was hearing Jaune say. Same can be said for Ren.

"A zombie... Neptune.. r-really was a z-zombie.." The freaked out young Rose quivered as her hands came up to grip her head. Her dialated pupils trembled as she stared down at her lap. The gruesome images from earlier flashed in her mind as everything was starting to click for her too.

Yang couldn't even do anything to calm her little sister down as she was quaking in her clothes as well. Jaune's words having fueled her anxiety immensely. 'D-Dammit Jaune! You're not helping here!' She internally cried, running a hand back through her hair.

"Jaune.." Nora whispered under a breath, a bit relieved that someone actually supported her whackjob guess.

"Jaune, you can't possibly think that's the case too. Even you have to believe that that possibility is utterly insane." Commented Ren as he shook his head slightly in confusion.

After Ren spoke, that was when everyone emitted startled shrieks as they reeled slightly away from Jaune when he had suddenly slapped a hand down on the table and got up from his seat, getting up to pace back and forth by one end of the table while in a stressed state. "Yes, I know it sounds fucking insane, Ren! Believe me, I do!" Jaune proclaimed as he stopped his pacing and turned to face his friends, pressing a hand against his chest while the other stretched out beside him. "But just think about it for a sec! Like you said to Ruby, we all saw what happened! Which means we all saw what Neptune looked like and what he fucking did to Sun! Hell, you saw him up close!" He pointed over to the direction of the living room where the bodies of Neptune and Sun still laid lifeless.. At least, they thought they were both still lifeless..

When Jaune began his loud rant, Sun's corpse, which now shared similar features to Neptune's own infected carcass, quietly growled at its eyes swiftly opened to reveal their blood red color..

"For godsakes, he bit out a piece of his flesh and chewed on it like it was the best damn meal he ever had! And judging by the look in his eyes when he turned to face me. He intended to make a meal out of me too!" Jaune pointed to himself as he was shakily panting at this point, gulping before he continued. "Now if that doesn't scream fucking zombie to any of us, than I don't know what the hell does!" He concluded his little rant at that as he proceeded to catch his breath, as well as his composure, while turning and moving to stand by the kitchen island, holding onto its edges as he faced down to the floor. His face had a light patch of sweat on it and his heart was pumping like crazy. "Fucking hell.." He huffed in relief, glad that he got some of his emotions out.

Once again, silence filled the room as the gang at the table simply looked at the panting Jaune with wide eyes. They have never seen him lose himself in such a way before, so they didn't know how else to react.. or what to say for that matter.

Managing to calm himself down a bit after a minute, Jaune steadied his breath as he turned to face the others with slight guilt. "I'm sorry, I.. I didn't mean to yell like that.. But really guys, whatever that thing is that took over Neptune's body... Unless you have any other idea of what it could be, I'm calling zombie as well.. It's just... too damn uncanny.." He declared as he pointed over to the kitchen entryway once more.

Just as he pointed, that was when Ruby let out a terrified scream as she was quick to get out of her seat and step away from the direction of his point.

The others gasped in alarm and quickly followed her lead as they all saw what had the young Rose so startled. They wanted to warn Jaune of what he was pointing at... But their voices wouldn't come out, no matter how hard they tried to push them.

Jaune looked perplexingly at them for a moment before turning his head to look at the entryway. "What's wrong, gu-oh, holy shit!" As soon as he saw it, his body slightly jumped on its own and faced the vile monster that had joined them in the kitchen.

Groaning as it limped its way into the kitchen, infected Sun glared at its potential meals as it licked its rotten lips with hunger in its eyes. Seeing as how Jaune was closer, it set its sights on him and quickly went on the hunt..

With his reflexes kicking in, Jaune swiftly reached behind his waist to pull out his Glock.. But he immediately began to panic more when he didn't feel it there at all. Then a second later, the truth hit him hard in the face as he sharply gasped and his heart stopped beating very shortly there. 'Crap!' Looking towards the dining table, he saw his gun still resting where he had placed it down earlier..

"Jaune, watch out!" Pyrrha, Yang, Ruby, Nora and Ren cried out to the blonde boy urgently, breaking him out of his stupor.

The next thing Jaune knew after he had looked back to the undead Sun, he was forced onto the floor on his back, letting out a pained groan as his head hit the ground, when the monkey faunus had suddenly leaped forward at him and mounted his waist. The whole motion caused the girls to scream in alarm.

Now that it had its meal dazed for the moment, the attacking corpse assured that it had the upper hand as it pushed Jaune's arms back to the floor when grabbing onto his wrists. Holding them tightly with one of its hands and its tail.

The young Arc tried his damnest to get out of this predicament, but holy hell this thing was strong as his arms couldn't even budge from the corpse's grasp. After a couple seconds of pointless struggling, Jaune grunted in pain as his body ceased function when Sun had suddenly grabbed his head and forcefully turned it slowly so he looked off to the side, exposing Jaune's now vulnerable neck to its gaze.

"Sun! Stop..! Please..! Don't.. do this..!" Jaune groaned with a strained voice as he winced, trying to turn his head back forward but he couldn't beat the undead's incredible strength.

Licking its lips as it gazed at Jaune's neck excitedly, the zombie faunus growled as it readied its teeth... and lunged its head down onto the blonde boy's own.

Jaune gasped and just about shut his eyes to prepare for his seemingly inevitable end..

"Sun, no!"

It wouldn't come however as Ren had come to his rescue in just the nick of time..

Having quickly grabbed a rolling pin that happened to be lying on the kitchen island, Ren came up to his friend and the walking corpse and didn't hesitate to slam the wooden object down on its head as hard as he can. With how hard he brought it down, over half of the pin had broken off when coming into contact with the faunus' head, scattering the broken pieces on the floor around them. Conveniently, a sharp piece large enough to fit in a palm had dropped by Jaune's left hand.

Shrieking in surprise when it was hit, zombie Sun ceased its head movement before it could bite Jaune and slowly looked up at Ren with a scowl. Its red eyes glowed as anger now blazed within them, not appreciating Ren for bothering it when it's trying to feast. It now had a different target to eat first, which is why it let go of Jaune's wrists. But before it could leap at Ren..

'Forgive me, Sun!'

Immediately seeing his opportunity to fight back, Jaune grabbed onto the chunk of wood tightly when he spotted it and launched it straight into the walking corpse's neck, shouting as he did the violent deed.

A sharp gasp emitted from every living person in the area as they saw the zombie tense up and its eyes widen when Jaune's attack landed successfully, a startled growl escaping it as blood shot out of the area where it was stabbed.

"Just like Neptune! You made me do this, Sun!" Jaune screamed as he took advantage of its current state, easily flipping the both of them over to switch their positions now that it was weakened for the moment. "I'm sorry!" He cried as he shedded some tears, not wanting to put down one he called a friend... again. But he had no choice, and he knew that.

Just what the fuck is going on around here?!

The last thing the undead saw before going lights out was the frustrated Arc lifting the piece of wood over his head and thrusting it down on its throat once more.. then again... and again... and again..

The crying blonde refused to stop his assault until he was certain that it was dead..

A/N: Heheh.. How's it going followers of this fic, been awhile hasn't it? About.. shit, almost a year. I apologize for how long it took me to update this. I got absolutely no organized schedule when it come to my stories, I really just update what I feel like updating. I know, I'm a mess. But I am gonna be working on fixing up a schedule for myself as I feel I need it now. Nowadays, with the amount of stories that I have up, I've become a mess on what to work on and I just end up frying my brain most of the time. Yeah, I don't what's wrong with me either. Lol So putting effort into grounding myself, I'll be going in a cycle of updating each story. So I can focus on one at a time rather than a lot at a time. Should've done this much sooner, I know. But like I said, I'm a big fucking mess. And I know that's it's my fault for letting things get out of hand. So yeah, hopefully you won't have to be waiting months for updates from this point onwards. I'll try not to let that happen again. Keyword, try. Also, chapters won't be as long as the first two were as writing long chapters just stresses me out too much. Yeah, it's pathetic. I won't disagree. But it works out better for me poor brain. XD Meh, Who knows, maybe I'll make a long chapter here and there. It really depends on how I'm feeling at the time.

Okay, with all that out of the way, onto zeh updated harem!

The Harem!

- Ruby Rose

- Yang Xiao Long

- Weiss Schnee

- Blake Belladonna

- Pyrrha Nikos

- Neopolitan

- Penny Polendina

- Cinder Fall

- Glynda Goodwitch

A/N: Now, I honestly don't think this'll be the final list as I'm currently contemplating on adding just a teeny bit more ladies. The friggin' ideas keep flooding in that I'm just so tempted to do so. XD I don't know, I'm really gonna have to think on this one. So much for trying to limit myself. Lol

Alrighty, that's all I got to say for now. Thank you all for having hope in this story and not giving up on it. It isn't abandoned, I assure you. If it was, this story wouldn't even be up anymore. So again, thank you. Now, I hope that you at least somewhat enjoyed this update and look forward for what's to come! Have a good one guys!

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