note: i couldn't resist the pairing. lol, my bad. . .

Location: Center for the Mentally and Physically Handicapped; Tokyo, Japan

[After waiting a few minutes, I am led through a hospital's infirmary to an outdoor patio over looking a peaceful garden. At one table sits a beautiful, orange-haired young woman. She impatiently taps her fingers on the glass table top as she waits for her visitor. This woman is Asuna Kagurazaka, student number eight. She turns to face me when she hears my foots steps. She smiles.]

About time you show up. I've been waiting here forever. You have spoken with Yuuna, yes? So, you want to know what happened after the army decided to 'help' us out?

[Her mood suddenly changes]

Those damn bastards! We were all doing fine until they came! Those jerk offs started getting bored and guess what they did? Guess what a hundred army 'men' do to entertain themselves in a dorm full of girls? Those god damn bastards!

[Asuna breaks the glass cup in front of her. The nurse attendants come rushing to calm her]

Fuck! I'm not the one that needs this help! Go take care of someone who does!

[She brushes off the nurses by promising to keep calm. In a much more noticeable quieter voice, she continues]

Those people broke our code of survival. We had secured our building, our food and water supply, our rules for staying alive. Everything! We had everything covered. Food rations, security, patrol teams. If we were left alone, we would have lasted a good while in our small fort. But, of course, we weren't left alone.

What did the army do?

Well, take a guess. We found out what was going on after a girl from another class told us. Apparently one soldier had threaten her if she spoke up so she had been abused for a while before she mustered the courage to tell anyone. But when we found out. . .

[Asuna grins]

. . .we threw him over the side of the roof down onto the hungry zombies below. We thought with that 'example' it would scare the rest of those bastards so they wouldn't try anything else. Instead they got pissed and started a undercover mutiny by taking 'control' and 'confiscating' our weapons, claiming that they were following government orders. I, being the girls' chosen leader, demanded that they fall back and return our weapons. They suggested a leader-to-leader meeting to discuss these issues and come to an 'agreement'. It all ended up being a trap. They captured me and locked me in the basement. I was stuck down there in that darkness for two weeks. While I was locked up, I managed to hear some screaming and ruckus coming from the upper rooms. I got really pissed waiting for a chance to escape but the army people weren't stupid. They didn't send anyone to give me food or water just in case I did plan on escaping. Even though I was starving, my anger fed my determination to get out of there. I beat the walls, the door, the ground, the ceiling, any surface my fists could slam, I crushed. Nothing seemed to work. They had thought of the perfect way to trap me.

How did you end up escaping?

A friend of mine, a classmate, Makie, she broke me out. She risked her life to free me. She also brought me some food and water. Nice Makie. She was such a good person. She told me all that those scumbags were doing. And now you want to know what they were doing to my girls, right?

Yes, please tell.

They had rounded up all the fighters, you know, Mana, Setsuna, Yuuna, Keade, Ku Fei, Negi, and anyone else who was considered a threat. They took all their weapons and had locked them up in individual rooms/cages like they had done to me. How did they do this? Hostages. They had rigged the building with explosives, threatening to blow up the whole place along with the girls in it. It's such a low thing to do: terrorizing others just to gain control of people. Who would've thought our unbelievably strong group would break apart with such a cowardly act.

What happened next?

I went into a blind rage after Makie finished telling me everything that they were doing. I killed every soldier that I ran into as I worked up the building from the basement. I burst into every room, taking them down one by one so they wouldn't alert the rest of the army. I told Makie and some others to free our fighters and to give them back our weapons. In five minutes everything was hectic. Girls running around, our fighters beating the crap out of the army, everyone was screaming, someone even started a fire. You could say I brought hell out with me. But with all that was going on, my priority was finding Negi before everything collapsed and, of course, I did. The poor kid was huddled in the dark corner of a basement room. He was so out of it that I had to carry him out of the burning building. Unfortunately, I didn't plan on what we would do next. Our entire dorm, even the non-fighters, were going up against the zombies outside. It was obvious we wouldn't last long.

How did you survive?

In the middle of all that chaos, I managed to hear Chamo yelling to head to Evangeline's cabin and then I realized her villa would greatly help us out. So I followed Chamo's lead and yelled for everyone to run towards her house and many did, well, the ones who knew where she lived, fighting the zombies along the way. But we wouldn't make it without some kind of miracle. That's when that stupid brat wasted himself.

[Asuna clenches her fists]

Wasted himself?

That stupid head! It still pisses me off whenever I think about it, even though he did end up saving most of us. Okay, so I had gotten all his battle equipment, staff, ring, sword, and gave them to him. He was fighting along side of me, we both knew we would never get outta there alive at the rate we were killing Zacks. I remember he saved me from a zombie who had sneaked up on me then I turned to thank him but he had the strangest look in his eyes, one that no ten-year-old has. He whispered to me after which he started to chant a crazy-strong spell. Before I could stop him, he unleashed it.

[Asuna reaches up to the sky]

Lightening came down and hit every individual zombie, frying their brains, within the radius of one mile. It was a complete shock to everyone. Such a huge shock it was that no one had seen Negi collapse. I guess it was too much for him back then.

Did he destroy all the zombies around you?

Within the one mile radius yes, every single one. There must had been hundreds, maybe even thousands of Zacks, but Negi got them all! I'm still angry he nearly killed himself but I am frickin' proud!

Then-?

We ran like hell before more Zacks could surround us. In the confusion we almost left behind Negi. Luckily, I saw him unconscious on the floor and I carried him outta there, determined to never let anyone hurt him.

[To my great surprise, she blushes and raises her left hand]

And I haven't broken any of the promises I made him.