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30 June 2017, HEC Paris. 19 year old Yasmine Fournier has a job interview at Paris Zoological Park the next day, but is enjoying what is her last day as a college student. Making her way back to class after lunch with her best friends, Emma Leblanc, Iris Moreau and Lila Dupont, when she hears her bf, Axel Martin, talking to his friends, slagging of Lila and calling her a “dirty hoe” for having sex with her bf in a public unisex toilet. Yasmine turned her head to face Axel, her face twitching like a rabbit’s nose in absolute disgust at what she had just heard. After about a minute of staring at Axel with her face looking like a mangled chair that had just been hit over a professional wrestler’s back multiple times, thinking about those words, Yasmine made her way over to him. She looked him in the eyes and said “Axel, come with me a minute. There’s something we need to talk about.”

They went over to near an open door that leads out to the parking lot outside the college. Yasmine started by saying “I heard a conversation you were having with your friends as I was walking back to class with mine, and I heard some comments about Lila.”

Axel quickly responded by asking “You mean about her having sex with her bf in a public toilet?”

“That was exactly what I heard,” Yasmine answered, with her tone of voice dropping, “you and your friends calling her a dirty hoe. She’s not been going around sleeping with half the boys here.”

Axel joked by saying “I wouldn’t be surprised if other boys started coming out with claims that she had.”

“Funniest joke of the year,” Yasmine commented sarcastically. “Back to being srs, I don’t want to be in a relationship with someone who thinks such things of my friends bc of where they have sex. I’m sry Axel, we’re over.”

Axel’s eyebrows started sinking between his eyes, like the Titanic. He told Yasmine in an increasingly angry tone “If I can’t have you, nobody can!” He pulled a knife out of his pocket, and tried to stab Yasmine in the chest with it. She put her right arm up to block. As it went in, everyone around fell silent and looked at them. As Axel retracted it, Yasmine kicked him in the thigh, bending him over, and dropping her left elbow on his neck. He immediately got back up, and tried to stab her again.

It was at this point that Emma rushed in, punching the knife out of Axel’s hand, sustaining a small cut on one of her fingers. She then made some distance between Axel and Yasmine, by chopping him in the chest about ten times. While this was happening, Axel’s best friend, Elias Chastain, to spear Yasmine through the open door, spilling the fight out into the parking lot. As he got up, he felt an arm wrap around his neck. Lila had managed to lock him in a sleeper hold, and shouted at him “You think I sleep with boys behind my bf’s back? I’ll make you sleep and when you wake up, ask one of your friends if I slept with you! If they have any form of decency to tell the truth, they’ll say no!”

The fight was brutal. Iris had received a black eye from Axel, and there was a huge dent on the bonnet of a staff member’s car from where one of Axel’s friends had thrown Emma into it. It was at this point that Elias regained consciousness, he got up and ran at Yasmine, leaping into the air with his elbow pointed towards her, but she managed to catch him round the throat, looking for a chokeslam. Elias broke free with a forearm to Yasmine’s ear, and tried to kick her in the face, but she ducked, and with a sweeping kick low down, managed to tackle him to the floor and started throwing punches.

Axel fought off Lila, at which point Yasmine stood up from beating Elias up. Slowly and quietly, he crept up behind her, and got his knife ready. Emma shouted to Yasmine “Watch your back!” but it was too late, Axel had stabbed her in the back, going between two ribs and piercing a lung. As Yasmine felt the knife sink in, her eyes went open as wide as a double French door will open, and when it was retracted, turned around to look at Axel. It then started getting more difficult to breathe, as blood poured out of the stab wound on her back and multiple on her right arm, staining her clothes a deep red. She fell to her knees, and started coughing.

Axel walked away, and Iris went to Yasmine and noticed her experiencing breathing difficulties. She shouted to Emma “Go to reception and ask them to call an ambulance. Yasmine’s struggling to breathe!” Emma did just that. Yasmine’s parents were also called and notified that she was being taken to hospital.

On the way to the hospital, Yasmine started coughing blood. When she arrived, her injuries were examined by doctors, who found that it was too late to save her. They broke the news to her when they had come to the conclusion, and her parents when they arrived. When her parents got there, they were taken to see her by the doctor that had diagnosed the injuries as fatal.

Yasmine was coughing when her parents entered the room she was in, but she stopped, and looked up at them. She said “Thx for giving me a wonderful life. It was short but very enjoyable. I love you.” The last thing she saw before closing her eyes for the final time was a tear trickle down her mum’s cheek. A few seconds after her eyes closed, as that tear fell onto her cheek, she passed.

4 March 2019, Saga, Japan. Yasmine wakes up w/ a fireplace welded around her neck in a mansion. In confusion, she shouts “why is there a fireplace welded round my neck!? And how am I awake rn!? I died!”

Sakura heard her from the other side of the wall. “Saki, I think Yasmine has woken up. You should go get her out of the fireplace.” Saki goes and does just that. Yasmine sees a blonde girl, 5ft tall, enter the room. She turns around, Yasmine sees that she’s a zombie. She gets her fists ready, but then the girl takes her head off, drags her body a couple feet, and puts her head back on. Yasmine leaps up w/ and uppercut that knocks the girl’s head off.

The girl snaps at her w/ “Why the fuck did you do that, bitch?!”

“Just defending myself from a zombie. Don’t want to become one,” Yasmine replies. “Anyway, why did the doctors lie to me when I got to the hospital after being stabbed? I didn’t die.”

The girl tries not to laugh at the irony as she puts her head back on her body. “You did die, and you are a zombie.”

Yasmine was about to walk out the room, when in the shock of hearing what she just heard, span round w/ a surprised look on her face and said “wait what?!”

The girl replied w/ “Let me explain. I’m the leader of the world’s first, and so far only, zombie idol group, and our manager decided you’d make a good addition to it. So Yasmine, have any questions?”

“Why was my head stuck in a fireplace and what’s your name?” were the questions Yasmine asked.

The girl’s answers were “last night before me and the others went to bed, we were watching a TV premiere of a new movie, when you came in and attacked. So to stop you, I took you down and pinned you to the floor, one of the others took your head off, I placed your body near the fireplace before your head was put back on. And for my name, Saki. Now, why don’t you come for breakfast with us?”

“Ok,” Yasmine replied, slightly confused at how she’d become a zombie but excited to meet the girls she’ll be performing as an idol alongside and their manager.

After breakfast, Kotaro led the girls into the prison cell where he tells them what their next performance is, but he had a huge, shock surprise for them this time. “I see we have a not-so-dead Yasmine Fournier with us today! Maybe I should introduce her to all of you!”

“And the other way around?” Yasmine asked out of curiosity.

“NO! I DID THAT BEFORE YOU WOKE UP BAKA ZOMBIE!” Kotaro screamed in her face. “Now with that out of the way, I’ll get to the introductions. Leading the group is a girl that, in the 90s, took over all of Kyushu with the biker gang Dorami. Number 2, the legendary kamikaze squad leader, Saki Nikaidō! Next is a participant in the great idol war of the 21st century, finding great success with Iron Frill. Number 3, the legendary Heisei idol, Ai Mizuno! Also in the group, an idol from when idols were on the rise in the 80s, successful aswell, but this time on her own. Number 4, the legendary Showa idol, Junko Konno! Next, going back to the 18th century, a top oiran in the Meiji era. Number 5, the legendary courtesan, Yūgiri! And from being born a boy to the youngest transgender star this world has ever seen, she is destined for great things. Number 6, the legendary child actress prodigy, Lily Hoshikawa! There’d obviously be someone stand out in this group, and that’s what this girl does, as she never was famous for anything. Number 1, Sakura Minamoto!”

“And Sakura is the legendary, what?” Yasmine cut Kotaro short.

“She is not legendary,” Kotaro answered before introducing the final member of the group. “Number 0, the legendary Tae Yamada!”

“Tae is legendary for?” as another question leaves Yasmine’s mouth.

“YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW THAT!” Kotaro shouted loudly. “Anyway, on to what I want to tell you all. For the first time, we are going on tour!”

“T-tour?” Junko muttered, hoping it wouldn’t mean she’d have to get on a plane.

“We are going to France!” was the next announcement about the tour to come out of Kotaro’s mouth. “14 day tour, one performance every two days. In the order that the performances will be in, you will be performing in Lyon, Monaco, Nice, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes and Paris.”

Realising that Yasmine is French, Ai asked “is that why you bought Yasmine back as an eighth member?”

Kotaro then revealed why Yasmine is no longer dead. “In case I failed on bringing back one of you original seven, I had Yasmine as a backup plan, but then I decided on doing a tour of France, and since she’s from France, I decided it wouldn’t be a good idea to have her miss out because she was too busy being dead. She will be performing before the tour, but due to how she died, she’ll only be performing once every two concerts, and then she’ll start doing every concert with the tour. Just to see if she can still keep breathing healthily with that much work.”

Yasmine thought to herself wow! I can’t wait to shine in front of the people I grew up with!

Kotaro then continued “it wasn’t easy getting you lot passports to make the tour possible. In order to avoid giving away your zombie identities, I had to get birth certificates that say you were born the number of years you were dead for later than you actually were and give you all different names.”

Realising that they’d have to go on a plane, Junko showed a little fear in her eyes. Remembering when Sakura told her that Junko died in a plane crash, Ai told Junko “remember at Saga Rock when there was lightning and I was scared, but you supported me so I could finish the show? Now its time for me to return the favour.”

While that was happening, Yasmine’s eyes went as wide open as they would, she covered her right eye w/ her right hand and a huge psychopathic grin formed on her face as she silently chuckled. All the other girls didn’t notice it due to admiring how supportive Ai and Junko are of eachother, that is except for one of them, who out of the corner of her eye noticed Yasmine looking like she wanted to kill someone. It was Saki, who had killed many ppl when she was alive. She asked Yasmine “are you having unhinged thoughts?”

At that point, Yasmine removed her hand from her face as her expression went back to normal. She then simply replied w/ “no.”

Saki didn’t trust that answer.