Welcome to my story. I hope you enjoy it. Obviously, there's gonna be gore, violence and (Especially where Edward Elric is concerned) a helluva lot of swearing. At the moment, I'm unsure whether or not the rating is appropriate – I'm a bad judge of suitability, so message me if this is rated too low and I'll jack it up to M. You've been warned ;).
In this world by the way, it's Amestris – but they don't have alchemy although there still is automail. If I had put in alchemy, Roy wouldn't have a problem unless it rains...xD
If you wanna know basically why there's a zombie apocalypse, go to http : // theoatmeal . com /comics /zombie _ how
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Chapter 1: How It All Began
'The zombie apocalypse is a particular scenario of apocalyptic fiction that customarily has a science fiction/horror rationale. In a zombie apocalypse, a widespread (usually global) rise of zombies hostile to human life engages in a general assault on civilization. Victims of zombies may become zombies themselves. This causes the outbreak to become an exponentially growing crisis: the spreading "zombie plague" swamps normal military and law enforcement organizations, leading to the panicked collapse of civilian society until only isolated pockets of survivors remain, scavenging for food and supplies in a world reduced to a pre-industrial hostile wilderness.' Wikipedia 2010.
January 8th, 2009: Xing
The prince and heir to the throne of Xing looked out his window, until he heard a knock at the door. He turned around to see his bodyguard, Ranfan. She was tall and had medium length black hair and dark, beautiful eyes. She smiled softly. "Young Master, would you like me to accompany you anywhere today?" She asked.
The prince shook his head, approaching her. "You know you can call me Ling, when it's just the two of us."
She sighed and gestured behind her, to signal there were people who could over-hear nearby. "That would be disrespectful, young master." She said, grinning mockingly while keeping her tone completely respectful.
Ling laughed. "Of course. It's your choice. Let's go for a walk today."
She nodded. "Lead the way and I shall follow."
They walked with her two paces behind until the were out of sight, then ducked into the forest surrounding the sixteen year old prince's palace, where the walked for a little while until stopping.
Ling smiled and brushed her hair out of her face before sighing. "I wish we didn't have to be so secretive about this."
Ranfan stood on her tiptoes before pecking him on the lips. "But your father would kill me if he knew about us."
It was true, as royalty, Ling had to marry nobility, and having a relationship with someone as lower class as Ranfan would cause the Emperor to execute her, rather than taint his son.
Ling made a face. "Gah. It's not your fault I had to fall in love with you. My father should understand that."
Ranfan walked over to a nearby lake, before setting herself on a rotted tree trunk, that had fallen over in a massive lightning storm two years back. Ling joined her and put his arm around her. "At least we can spend all day here alone."
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Risembul
Edward Elric walked down the main street of his sleepy town with his brother, Alphonse, as they bought their weekly groceries.
"This is so boring. I wish we could be in Central. I bet it's exciting in a city like that." Ed moaned, as his brother smiled patiently.
Four years ago, when Edward had been twelve and his brother eleven, they had been in a car crash, with claimed the life of both parents – Trisha and Hohenheim, as well as taking Edwards right arm and left leg (Which had been replaced with automail, by his neighbor). Alphonse had been incredibly lucky and had left the wreck relatively uninjured, apart from a mild concussion.
"Well all we need is a loaf of bread brother, then we're done." Al replied, smiling.
"E-excuse me sir?" A man in tattered clothes held out his hands in the general beggar's fashion. "Spare some change?"
Ed glared at the man. "Nope."
"No? Oh, well how 'bout a bite?" The man said, grabbing Ed's gloved right arm and biting into it.
"What the fuck you psycho? Get the fuck off me!" Edward kicked the guy in the face.
"Mmerrrmph!"
Ed looked up to see a woman limping towards them, although her skin was ghastly pale, and blood covered her white blouse.
"What the fuck?" Edward asked, looking at the contrast of the blood to the woman's face.
"Grrereegugh..." The woman groaned unintelligibly, before gaining an animal look in her eyes and charging at Alphonse.
Edward punched her in the stomach, then grabbed his brother's hand and pulled him down the street. A lot of people were doing the same, running for their homes and grabbing their family, while pale, blood covered people started charging. Alphonse watched in horror as one of them tackled a man and began ripping his throat out with its teeth.
"Holy Fucking hell! They're fucking zombies." Ed screeched, as he and his brother ran to the house of the person who they associated as family – Winry Rockbell – to warn her.
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Central
The renowned Doctor Roy Mustang grinned at the female he walked past in the halls. "Why, Nurse Hawkeye, why don't you and I go to the rest room for a break?"
"That's Doctor Hawkeye, thank you very much." The woman, Riza, answered coldly.
Roy smirked. "But calling you nurse is so much sexier."
Riza raised an eyebrow. "You know, Roy, I'm very good at using guns, I grew up on a farm and my grand father taught me well."
"Hehe, never mind... Doctor." Roy said, ready to make a hurried escape.
A loud alarm sounded, one that was all to dreadful to the ears of both doctors.
"Quarantine." Riza murmured, with an annoyed expression, as every door and window in the hospital was automatically locked.
"Dammit and I had a date tonight." Groaned Roy.
Riza shook her head, then looked up suddenly as the sound of screams broke through the ward. "Every time there's a quarantine, people over react. I'll get the sedatives." She sighed.
"Shit!" Roy shoved Riza and punched at the blood covered man pouncing at her.
Riza looked down the hall, to see the reason of the screams weren't from over-reaction, but from the insane cannibalism going on.
"Oh my-" She was cut off as Roy pulled her into an empty office and shut the door tightly, locking it.
"Look for anything that could be used as a weapon." He commanded, and Riza smiled weakly as she lifted up her skirt slightly revealing a handgun.
Roy laughed humorlessly, then pulled out several disinfectants from a cupboard. "Highly flammable." He explained, then pulled out a lighter from his pocket, with a grin. "I think I was a pyromaniac in a past life."
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"We're so late." Ling murmured watching as the sky grew to twilight. Ranfan smiled and slipped her hand out of his as they reached the end of the forest. They walked silently back to the palace, and when they were about halfway there Ling glanced behind him and stopped.
"Ranfan, look!" He said, pointing in the direction of the main city, quite a few miles from the palace. There were bright glows from buildings that could only be explained as fires. "Something big must've happened."
"Master Ling!" A voice came and the couple looked up to see one of the guards running towards them. "There's- It's- Chaos! Cannibalistic living dead everywhere. You must save yourself!"
"Living dead? Like zombies?" Ling asked.
"Exactly." The man agreed, then winced, his gaze traveling to his arm which was bloodied. "I've been bitten Master. You must kill me before the infection spreads."
"What!? No. You don't. There can't be. This has to be a joke. Tell me the truth, that's an order." Ling commanded.
The man smiled sadly. "I wish it were a joke Sir, I wish it was." He had gotten deathly pale.
Ranfan looked at Ling with a sorrowful expression. "Master." She said softly. "It would be best if we killed him."
Ling looked at her with indecision. "But, it's impossible."
The man growled as he jumped at Ranfan, catching her off guard and latching his teeth onto her left arm.
"Ranfan. No!" Ling cried, pulling the sword he always carried on him out of it's sheath and killed the man.
He grabbed Ranfan, falling to the floor. "No. I can't loose you! I'd rather die."
Ranfan smiled weakly, pulling a kunai from her belt with her right hand. She held it to her shoulder. "Let's see if I can stop it from spreading." She murmured.
Ling's eyes widened as he comprehended what she was about to do.
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Ahhh. Scary. As you can probably guess from the pen name, I love horror. This is my first fanfic, so Reviews will be very appreciated. Please tell me what you think of this story and whether I should continue with it or not. Thank-you.
~ Little-Miss