Red Hallway

Finally Nathan and his team was going down to first floor. walking down the stair, they saw some traces of blood on the ground. facing the stair was the gate made of iron bars. it's about ten feet tall and seven feet wide, it was the entrance to school building they were in. it was wide open, blood can also be seen on it.

after a few more steps they reached first floor. they reached a walkway. to its right was the hallway, after they turned, what they saw made them feel nauseous. they turned their gazes immediately after they saw a bloodbath. the hallway was dyed red with blood, there was even some guts and pieces of human limbs. they can smell rust from the blood.

Annie saw this and can't help but cry. she unknowingly held Nathan's left arm. Nathan was surprised when he felt a soft hand touching his arm. Nathan looked and he saw Annie crying, Nathan felt his heart broke at the sight of Annie, he placed his hand on Annie's back and patted her. Annie looked at Nathan and wiped her tears and said

"sorry about that"

"it's fine, no worries"

Nathan cleared his throat and smiled gently at Annie.

they started walking through the hallway. determined to find any survivors, they checked every room. the first room on the first floor was the Dean's office, Nathan opened the door carefully without creating any sound. there was only a pool of blood on the floor. the whole room was messy. they left and got to another room facing Dean's office. it was a room specifically for BSHRM students, its quite big there are also blood scattered on the floor the shelves were the cooking utensils placed was destroyed. the glass frame is broken, the shards of glass was everywhere. the cooking utensils were scattered on the floor.

they went to the room adjacent to it, it was a computer lab for IT students. computers was scattered everywhere, the monitors was broken, there were still man pool of blood everywhere still no survivors or at least a dead body. the group was starting to wonder where did the bodies go?

they repeated the same thing. there were still seven rooms left to check. they checked every room but all they could find was blood and more broken things, no bodies or survivors.

"sigh"

'this is really creepy, did those monsters really carried all the bodies there? what the hell are they going to do with the bodies?'

Nathan had several questions on his mind. they just got out of the tenth room, in front of them was another entrance to the building although its a bit small, only two people cab pass through it simultaneously. and to their right was a staircase leading to second floor.

the team pass through the entrance, in front of them was the school canteen. it was just a small store where students and professors can buy foods and school supplies. on the left side of the store was the metal tables with long chair on each side of the table enough for three people to sit side by side.

on the right side of the store was the student lounge. normally at this hour, it would be full of students just chatting or doing school works. there were benches on the left and right side of the student lounge. facing it was the school grounds, with lush green Bermuda grass. there were also four simple hut houses facing the school building.

after seeing the school was now really empty they prepared to go back to third floor.

at the fourth floor.

it was a four manned team with Andrew being the leader. they quietly moved up. after a few steps they saw the wide area of the fourth floor. not like the other floors, the fourth floor had no classrooms, it was as wide as a basketball court. although there were no classrooms, it was still used by the teachers to teach their students. often multiple classes were simultaneously using the fourth floor so it was rather noisy there most of the time. it was also used for a large scale meeting with the students as it can easily house at least a couple hundred students.

Andrew's team saw the neatly arranged mono block chairs. originally, there were supposed to be a meeting held by the teacher's with the students, it was about the upcoming events like intramurals and prom night. the fourth floor was too wide for them so they separated to cover more grounds while searching.

after carefully searching the premises, they didn't find anything, not even a speck of blood. they went downstairs and there they met with Nathan's team that just got up from second though.

they greeted each other. Andrew reported what they saw on the fourth floor to Nathan the. they proceeded to go to their classrooms.

Nathan saw nurse Josephine applying first aid to the injured students while Michael was looking at his phone. Nathan approached Michael and asked.

"did you find out anything about what's happening? are there any rescue or relief operations?"

Michael looked up to see Nathan. Michael looked grim and he answered in a low voice.

"apparently, this also happened all over the world. there were some videos of the red sky and red snow falling but it's just videos from after a few seconds the red snow started falling. also there were no monster videos or anything, i guess they wasn't able to upload because they turned or got eaten before they clicked upload"

Michael continued

"there were a lot of Facebook post though. they are asking for rescue and 'they can't go outside because there are monsters' there are only a handful of pictures of those monsters. look at these."

Michael showed a picture posted on Facebook, it was a red thin man. he was wearing police uniform, he looked completely different from the ones they have seen. the man has still black hair on his head. his hand was long and his legs were twice the length of his body making him at least eight feet in height. unlike other monsters, its eyes were completely white and had a very big ears it was shaped like a satellite.

'there still other types of them?'

Nathan looked troubled as he thought of this. Michael saw his expression and said in a sad expression.

"also, seems our government wasn't able to do anything. our military force might have been already annihilated or at least at the brink of destruction. just remember, this happened during the day, many people are out on the streets even the police and military won't be able to do to this monsters. with so many monsters turned including the military, it's reasonable to not expect rescue operations from military"

"hah, damn, fuck, shit!"

Nathan cursed without stopping. then he asked Michael a different question.

"by the way, i have been wondering, when we fought that monster on our floor why didn't the monster on the second floor rushed here?"

"yeah, i have also been thinking about that. to be honest, i have no clue at all. they might be territorial or just because they're aliens, i don't know"

Michael gave Nathan a shrugged. then he asked a question back.

"so what happened on the first floor? any survivors?"

Michael was curious. surely there will be at least one survivor there, they survive so it's only right to think that way. but Nathan's answer was different than he expected. Nathan looked at Michael's eye and solemnly said.

"unfortunately there was none, all we saw was blood bath. there were a lot of blood on the hallway, the rooms i mean everywhere we can only see parts of human body but that's all. we checked the school grounds too, but it's also empty not a single body or monster there. we are alone here now."

"what? there's not a single body? what the hell happened there? also, why would those monsters just left? i really can't understand them"

Michael exclaimed in a high pitch voice with a disbelieving look on his face while frowning.

"yeah, we were asking the same thing. well, now that the school is all cleared, we should tell the students what we have to do next"

"yep"

Nathan turned his head left and right to look for Annie. he saw Annie staring at the windows again. he hesitated to approach Annie because she looked a little sad but he muster he strength and approached her.

"hey"

"hey, Nathan"

Nathan cleared his throat stood on Annie's left side. he was starting to have a conversation.

"the snow has stopped, maybe we can now go home. what do you think? are you still in contact with your family?"

"yep, but they're both OFWs(Overseas Filipino Worker) so i don't really have someone waiting for me back home. I'm an only child, my uncle who's taking care of me was on his work in Manila when this all happened. how about you?"

"i only have my dad right now, he was also at work when this happened. well, he barely even come home so I'm used on being alone. at least I'm not alone right now even in the Apocalypse haha"

Nathan chuckled. he saw Annie formed a slight smile on her face.

"yeah, me too"

Annie looked at Nathan and smiled. Annie asked Nathan.

"so what do the students? what are your plans now?"

"geez, i feel like I'm your leader or something. we'll just have to conduct a meeting with all of the students. since your the most popular here, you tell them we will have a meeting, 'campus crush' hahahaha"

Nathan let out a loud laugh. a lot of students knew who Annie was, there were a lot of guys confessing their love to her so she was given the nickname 'Campus Crush'.

Annie shook her head and pouted, after a while she smiled and started talking to students.