Day 472:
It's been one hell of a struggle in this war for who rules Earth. It seems that we're losing though. Those 'things' out there… There's hundreds. Maybe even thousands, probably millions! There's no way of winning this battle. So why are people even trying? They should know that… That these things just multiple like flies! One turns into Two, Two turns into Four, Four turns into Eight and Eight turns into Sixteen; and so on. I tried explaining this to everyone but no one would listen to me. But oh, I made them listen. Yeah I made them listen alright! Made them listen by putting a bullet into everyone's damn head. It was the only way you see. The only way they would find peace. Only way they would find their families. Even though it may seem dramatic, my mistakes shall be forgiven… They shall be forgiven and no one will need to suffer any more if they just listen to my words. So to whoever finds my corpse is the holder of this note; keep it with you, because maybe in times of need, it shall show you the way in darkness. Always keep one bullet in the chamber my friend because you may need it.
Goodbye. [Page covered in blood splatter]

The Note.
Well this is the start of my new Walking Dead Fanfiction. It's based off of all the seasons (Hopefully not really quite sure on where it shall begin or end). This story follows behind my OC Character Cherry Ami but people just normally call her Ami because her parents were slightly hippies. (No hate intended!) So I hope you enjoy the story! Always feel free to PM me your ideas or write your ideas in the Reviews. I always read my PM's and Reviews! ^^
Disclaimer: I do NOT own The Walking Dead, I only own my OC Character that I have created for this story.
Side-Note: Cherry starts out at the lovely age of 12 when the Zombie Outbreak begins (Now currently 14). Through-out the story she progresses to age. If at any point you get confused on how old she is in a certain chapter, feel free to ask in the Reviews or PM me with your question and I will be sure to notify you as soon as possible.
Chapter 1 – "Always look on the bright side."
"Wow. I can't believe this." Cherry looked around at the scene of the 'crime'.
'This man was absolutely crazy!' She thought to herself as she stepped over the rotting corpses. They all seemed to have one to three bullet wounds to their heads. The smell… The smell in the room was almost unbearable to the point where it had Cherry gagging and needing to put on a bandana to keep at least some of the smell out of her airway. As Cherry searched the desks that were all around this abandoned office building; all she ever really found was paper, pens, paper-clips, some old cartages of dried out ink, pencils, and a few small staplers.
'None of this is of any use to me.' Cherry was frustrated with the thought of another failed scavenger hunt. The only real thing that could have been of use to her was a dried, moldy sandwich that was in one of the drawers but of course; that would only be used to feed the animals back at the camp ground. She couldn't possibly take that old thing to bring back for the group. I mean it was utterly revolting, there was maggot's roaming across the old piece of food.
Cherry made her way over the bodies and headed for the door but then remembered that if that man killed all these people… Then he must have a gun or at least some ammunition somewhere!
A smile appeared on Cherry's face underneath the bandana as she leaped and ran over the brittle bodies to make her way over to the man's body that she took the note from.

Kneeling down to his body, she searched his jacket pockets; pant pockets; even resorted to rolling him so she could see if it was underneath his body but sadly, nothing was there. Only flies came out of the man's bullet wound in his head.
"Disgusting." Cherry gagged and got up to her feet to get away from the strong putrid smell, "How could someone slip this low into insanity to the point where they would kill everyone in the room?"
She mumbled to herself and figured to have been at least twenty to twenty-five people just lying on the ground. This once a lively room had more people/corpses in it then her group does with living people.
Looking down at the man's body, Cherry couldn't help but feel sorry for this stranger. But there wasn't any time to be feeling sorry for a corpse, so Cherry just carried on with her way out of the building so she could return back to her group.
'How disappointed will they be?' She thought to herself as she exited the building.

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After returning to her camp ground where she heard the three smallest children playing together, adults washing clothing, the men were out hunting of course but the eldest were always staying in their tents.
"Oh there you are Cherry!" Cherry's cousin Tami waved to her as Cherry made her way over to her.
"Hi Tami, how was everyone while I was gone?" Cherry questioned as she sat down beside her cousin and watched as she washed some of the children's clothing.
"Everyone was alright. Edna and George of course had another fight."
Edna and George were probably the oldest in this group, being around the age of 60 – 75, everyone thought of them as their replacement grandparents. Specially the three youngest; Kenny, Jeremy, and Sophie. They were a happily married couple; or at least that's what they told us at first. Turns out there marriage was arranged and they were not allowed to ever call it off; it's been this way for the past 45 – 50 years Edna says. Fighting, Ignoring for a few hours, Fighting again, then they would make-up for a day or two and then they would fight again.
"Another?" Cherry raised an eyebrow at this statement.
Tami nodded.
"What was it about this time?"
"Edna wanted to sleep and George wouldn't let her because she was taking up too much space on the bed that they share. It's such a stupid little argument and one of these days it's going to get one of them killed with all that yelling."
Cherry laughed and started to help her cousin with washing the clothes, "Yeah no kidding. It's a miracle that they made it this far into an apocalypse specially with all the yelling."
"Exactly my point!" Tami laughed while getting up off the ground and hanging a shirt up on a tree branch. Turning her head back over to talk with Cherry; the shirt was clipped onto the branch.
"Hey Cherry pass me another shirt will you?"
Cherry nodded and took the shirt she was washing out of the wooden bucket, ringing the shirt out so there wouldn't be as much water in the article of clothing; she gently threw the damp shirt over to her cousin.
"Thanks kiddo." Tami smiled and clipped the shirt up on the branch.
"Welcome and I'm going to see how our supplies are doing okay Tami?" Cherry got up off the ground, wiping her jeans off as Tami nodded.

While looking inside the army case box they found while searching a military out-cove, there wasn't much supplies left. Probably only a week's worth of food if some people skipped the already small portioned meals, three bottles of water left that needed to last everyone since the men had a suspicion of the water being contaminated with walker blood, and just a few small boxes of matches left. We hardly had ammunition mostly because a few nights back we had one of the couples that stayed in our camp before practically rob us of most of our supplies before they ran off and left our group.
'Times are tough but we have supplies at least.'
Cherry thought to herself while closing the box back up.

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The sun was dying in the distance as the moon was appearing over the tree line. Cherry was lighting the nightly fire they all had. After using a match and getting the wood to begin burning, Cherry got up away from the edging of the fire pit as the three youngest came running over.
"Cherry! Cherry! Can we use your flashlight to go gather the berries Sophie found earlier today?"
"What? No of course not. It's too dark out to go 'berry picking' kids. If you noticed the berries before then why didn't you go pick them during the day?" Cherry was beginning to question if the kids actually wanted to go berry picking or if they just wanted to go loli-gagging around in the forest at night.
"Please Cherry! We won't be long! We promise!" The kids begged Cherry as she rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"No means no. Now go back into your tents if you're not going to listen to the rules."
The kids let out a frustrated growl towards Cherry as they ran off to their parent's tents.

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Everyone was sitting around the campfire, having some of the food that the men brought back from their scavenger hunt. Cherry almost felt useless because she hadn't found anything while she was looking on her own scavenger hunt.
As Cherry took the last bite from her plate of corn and peas, she placed her plate down on the ground. Standing up to stretch and go to her tent; she waved goodnight to everyone and proceeded to walk over to the tent area. While walking, there was a rustling of the leaves and a small branch being snapped. Cherry didn't take any notice to it as this would happen on a daily basis while being directly on the edge of the forest. Unzipping the entrance of her tent; Cherry crawled inside and closed the entrance back up.
While turning on her gas lantern for a moment so she could change into some pajama's for the night; a thought had crossed her mind.
'Where did those guys find all those supplies? All those bottles of water, cans of food, even a working car! It's been a good year and a half and we're not that lucky…' Cherry sighed and turned her lantern off so she could lay down in the darkness of her tent.

Cherry was woken up by a series of gunshots and screams; along with some maniacal laughter after a large series of gunshots had gone off. Then it was silent. Cherry didn't bother turning her lantern on as she knew for a fact that the voices coming from outside her tent were not ones of her group members.
They were talking about having sweet revenge over the people who had taken their supplies, along with burning the bodies; possibly even checking the tents but thankfully that idea was passed up.

Well this is the first chapter! What did you think? I tried really hard to improve on my writing skill because I know from before that it really wasn't the best to say the least... Anyways! Will update either later tonight or during the weekend when I have time ^^
Side-note: If I get more than 10 reviews from any giving chapter (Over the course of the story) then I shall have a contest where one lucky reader/reviewer will get a chance to have their very own OC added into the story! ^^