Kingdom of Living III - Part 1

At 11:50, on a sunny day, in a destroyed land of Japan, a ship is nearing the port of Kagoshima, which the locals know under the name of Marine Port Pack. That small ship carries about sixty-two fighters under the name of the "Fishes of Salvation" brigade. This whole group of fighters has been taken from all around East Asia, and from those people, there are Shi Huang Squad members Ri Ku, Li Kay, Ahmed, Yu Tong, and Xin Yan, who are ready for this operation. All these other fighters are Chinese, Indians, Pakistans, Indonesians, and Japanese.

Before they were about to get out of the ship, they were all summoned to be on the main deck, where a commander who leads this operation was named Captain Ralph, an American known for liberating New Zealand from zombies. It doesn't matter who the commander is; all that matters is the operation went well. The commander is looking at the group lineups and says.

"Listen up, fighters! Your mission is simple. Get out there, find the OPSIA Misumi palace, kill the zombies surrounding it, fortify it, and prepare it for the reinforcements. The place is not far from where we were landing, so I want all of you to run. Don't waste ammo, don't shoot recklessly, and be careful around your surroundings! We have enough ammunition for the next day, so we all better preserve it in case something bad happens."

The ship approaches the port, and the moment it gets closer, the fighters are walking to the deck, preparing for their landing; some are praying for good fortune, while others are anxious about this, and some are looking excited to kill Z's. Their commander is in the front of the group, wearing heavy anti-biting armor like all the fighters, and will lead their fighters in the hordes of zombies. The ship approaches the dock, and when it does, the fighters get out of the boat as fast as possible where they start running through the zombies, killing them with their melee weapons such as machetes, metallic baseball bats, swords, hatchets, and even glaive. The said glaive is on the hands of a fighter with a lion head logo on the chestplate of his armor. That fighter is known under the name of Lion and is a ferocious fighter.

This whole run into the horde was intense for inexperienced fighters such as Li Kay, Yu Tong, and Xin Yan, but for some experienced such as Lion and many other commanders, it was just a typical Thursday. The whole fighter battalion fought hard and protected each other from these mindless creatures whose purpose was to eat human flesh until they arrived in front of their waypoint. When to the entrance, the battalion the battalion senses over zombies overrun. This palace entrance is torn down, half of the rooftop has fallen, bodies of zombies lying everywhere, and a helicopter that was ripped apart a long time ago is in the parking lot, still having the pilot's body, who is zombified for God knows how long.

"This is the place we'll have to protect with our lives!?" asks a fighter sounding pissed.

"Apparently." says a commander to that fighter, then he looks at the others. "Are we sure we can pull it off?"

"Yes," responds Lion to the commander. Then he takes off a zombie head that got stuck in the glaive, throws the head into another zombie with force, and the zombie falls on his back. "We take this place, clean it up, and rebuild it with the reinforcements."

"By ourselves?" asks a commander, sounding scared.

"Yes!" says another commander, sounding pissed. "We have to do it! We were all ordered by The Organization to do it!"

"Z's!" yells a fighter, pointing at a group of zombies coming from their left from a nearby building.

Li Kay, Ri Ku, Ahmed, and Lion quickly jumped, taking out the given zombies with their melee weapons. This fight lasted a minute, and when they were done, the whole battalion proceeded to go into the shopping district to clean the insides. While walking to the palace, Lion glanced at Ri Ku's squad.

"You fought well. What's your squad name?"

"Shi Huang, sir!" says Ri Ku to Lion as they approach the main entrance.

"I'll remember that name," says Lion, proceeding to advance faster with his glaive all covered in blood.

In a few minutes, the battalion manages to enter the mall, where they see insides a lot more zombie bodies than were outside and a lot of structural damage from the insides, such as a fallen staircase, floors destroyed, furniture tarnished, and a wrecked bus inside a clothing shop. The whole battalion quickly goes into action, investigating the entire shopping center to see if any zombies are alive.

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On the first floor, Shi Huang's squad enters a store that used to sell sports equipment. They see a lot of sports equipment lying in there, most of it untouched and with dust on it. The group looks around the store. The first thing they see is a zombie crawling from the cash register, with both of its legs broken and one of its arms twisted. Ri Ku takes his machete and puts that zombie out of misery. Then, the group continues their search.

"Do you all think we can rebuild this mall?" Ahmed asks, looking through the baseball bats section. He takes a metallic baseball bat.

"So far, the entrance will be our hardest task, " Ri Ku says to Ahmed, checking the baseball bats as well. It will be a hard job, but we'll make it because we have a lot of people to help us."

"What do you guys think about the others?"

"They are fine," says Yu Tong, who checks the wooden swords for Kendo. "These are all wooden though."

"It's a Kendo section." says Ri Ku to Yu Tong. "I don't think we'll find real swords here."

"That's a shame," says Yu Tong. "And I wished to get a hold of katana."

"What about the machete?" asks Li Kay, joining the conversation.

"It's too small, and it can break easily," Yu Tong says, taking her machete and revealing that the tip is cracking.

"How did you break it?" asks Ahmed, curious.

"I must've hit the zombies too hard when we landed. Back in Thailand, my machete was alright during the run."

"The run," says Ahmed. "Still can't believe that idea worked out."

"It really helped us all," says Ri Ku, looking at Yu Tong. You had a great idea back then, and it saved us all."

Yu Tong did not say anything; she took all the praise and kept her head up, but the smugness couldn't be contained. While they were still searching, Xin Yan came from a storage area with a box with many arrows and two arrows used in archery competitions. These arrows aren't sharpened like the ones in the Olympic Games; they are used by people who would've done this sport as a hobby to entertain kids or themselves on a weekend. The group looks at the arrows, and the bow Xin Yan found.

"These are toys," says Ahmed. "We can't kill a zombie with it."

"We can sharpen the arrows," says Ri Ku to Xin Yan. "And the bow… This may work in combat. Have you found more?"

"Not only this," says Xin Yan. "I also found some real equipment hidden with airsoft equipment and a shotgun."

"A shotgun?" asks Li Kay. "Whatever. I hope the gun works, though."

The group goes to the storage, where they all look at the equipment for a while to see if they can find anything useful. Later, they had to leave the room and go to the main hall, where the commanders of this mission called them to discuss further details of the mission.