Naomi turned to another side, her eyes were bulging after seeing the gruesome sight. Her heart suddenly started racing. For a second she thought Ryan was dead.

'His- his pulse!' She quickly jumped on the seat beside Ryan, pulled his hand out from the covers, gripped her fingers over his veins, and waited to sense his pulse.

'On. He- he is breathing,' She declared, Naomi could hear her own heart beating inside her chest. She threw his hand under the covers again.

'B- but how could? How come?' She pulled down the cover around Ryan's neck to check the marks once again.

Her hands automatically reached his neck. She could feel the marks on Ryan's neck, the marks of being strangled brutally.

"Uh.. Naomi Mitsuda?" her body trembled when she heard her name. Her heart raced once again after skipping a beat.

In a panic, she pulled her hand from Ryan's throat pulling the covers back on his neck.

In front of her, Rigid and Rosy were totally confused why she would panic that much.

"Hey, Naomi" Rigid leaned closer to Ryan, "What's wrong?"

Naomi lifted her head and saw two looming figures over her. One of them was very intimidating for her right now. Rosy was giving her hard stares as if she had found out about the marks.

"Nothing. Nothing's wrong."

"No. something is wrong," Rosy stepped forward. Naomi panicked, she pushed herself back in her seat.

"Hah, what's wrong, Rosy? Do you know what's wrong?" Rigid asked.

"Uh-huh. I know very well." Naomi gulped, "She and her Ryan is sitting in our seats,"

"Huh?" Naomi unclenched her fists.

"Hm." she nodded, "You are sitting in our seats," Naomi let out a sigh of relief.

"C- can you please sit in my seat? I mean, please, he's sleeping so...?"

Rigid and Rosy took a glance at Ryan, who indeed was sleeping like a baby. They found it useless to wake him up and disturb his sleep when they can just sit in Naomi's seats.

Only a few hours were left till they would reach Japan. They decided to sit in Naomi's seat and let Naomi enjoy her time with Ryan.

"But wait- was not Ryan Gwen's?" Rigid asked Rosy while through the aisle.

"Was he? I thought he was Cheryl's,"

"Even when you called him Naomi's?"

"Hm~ you are right though,"

"You know, there was a strange rumor about Ryan dating a teacher!"

"That's insane," Rosy commented.

Naomi resumed her inspection, "Should I tell someone? Wait, I should inform Dr. Mary about it," She looked around the flight.

The first class was full, students were sitting with a few seats remaining.

She didn't spot Doc neither did she spot Devon, 'I should let Devon see this first,' She thought, 'Where are you, Devon?! Come quickly!'

Meanwhile, Devon was talking with Brandon about vampire business, they took their time talking inside the washroom,? the flight departed but they didn't come out of the washroom.

Naomi's anxiety was dropping, her patience was running out, she was getting tired without sleep. It was past midnight.

After a few more minutes of waiting, Naomi started feeling sleepy. She was still sitting beside Ryan, whenever her eyes fell on Ryan who was sleeping so peacefully, her tiredness started taking over her.

She closed her eyes for once, her head fell hard on Ryan's shoulder, she came back to her sense and looked at Ryan. he was not awake.

She dozed off sitting beside Ryan. her head firmly rested on Ryan's shoulder. Her hands were on Ryan's thighs, her head on Ryan's shoulder as she fell asleep.

*****

"W- where am I?" I thought as I slowly opened my eyes. My eyes felt heavy for some reason so did my body.

When I finally managed to open my eyes, I was not able to control them. When I tried closing them, they won't close.

When I try to move my arms, I could not move them. There was this view of a dark ceiling in front of me for a while when it was interrupted by loud screams and shrieks.

I got off the bed on my own. Then my vision went dark, everything blacked out.

The first thing I saw after opening my eyes was a disgusting, gruesome sight.

There was a person- or a dead person standing in front of me. It had blood flowing from its both eyes down to his neck. Blood was flowing from its neck, the neck was attached to the body, its throat was cut open.

When my eyes fell on its torso... It had a huge hole right in its stomach, guts were flowing out from its stomach. I raised my eyes to see the person in front of me was no one but Pete. yes, yes, Pete Parker.

I realized he was not the only one that way, behind him were many other familiar faces. From Rigid's unit, Cheryl's unit. Some had their eyes popped out, others didn't have arms, some had a huge hole in their guts.

But there were two things in common or most of them had. First, most of them had their necks cut off. And the other thing was... They all were dead.

A horde of the undead. A horde of zombies. Yes, that's the right word. They all looked like zombies. And I don't know where we were because the building was nothing like our Academy.

Suddenly, all of them started attacking anyone they see. Teachers, students (who were still living human beings), wardens. The teachers and wardens didn't look like Americans. But before I even got time to figure what's going on, my unit was attacked by, at least, ten zombies.

The teacher fought them with their Traits but the zombies seemed unharmed unless their heads were smashed. Next. even the undead students used Traits!

Some used fire Traits to kill humans. Naomi on my end used her voltage to throw the zombies.. but that only attracted even more of them.

None of them seemed like they were getting hurt. Finally, Pete rose from the ground. He walked straight towards me, towards us.

I staggered. Pete jumped forward and grabbed Gwen.. with his disgusting yet frightening look, he started devouring Gwen.