OK, I do not own The Walking Dead, TV show or the comics (although I wish I do (Robert Kirkman please hire me)). Read this now because I will not put it in future chapters. This is based just after the events of the CDC with my own couple of twists that you will see soon. Read and review please, I want your thoughts and ideas on this book, whether it's good or not.

Carl watched as Dale and Andrea rushed onto the RV and drove off. he was in the car behind it with his parents, Sophia and Carol. He turned around to see the CDC building in rubble. Jenner and Jacqui were buried under it, most likely dead. He felt a bit sad as Jacqui was nice to him for the short time he knew her. Carl watched as his dad spoke to Shane over the transmitter on deciding where to go.

"ztt- how about the Grand Canyon? -ztt" Shane said over the transmitter. Sophia lit up when she heard that.

"Can we go? to the Grand Canyon?" Carl said.

"You've already been! you was only a baby, but we never made it. I never new a baby could throw up so much!" Lori told him. "Maybe when this is over, we can go again."

"Ooh can we?" she squealed in excitement. "We've never been there! my dad never let us." she quietened down at the mentioning of her dad, Ed.

"OK, I promise we won't go without you or your mother." Rick smiled, looking at Carol. She nodded in response.

They drove a bit further until the RV pulled over. Glenn got out, as did Rick, Shane, Lori, Daryl and Dale. Carl and Sophia rolled down the back windows to listen to the conversation, but they were too far away. Rick stomped back with an angry expression on his face, followed by an angered Lori. " What's wrong?" Carol asked.

"Huh?" Sophia muttered, she swore she had heard something move in the bushes next to them but she just shrugged it off.

"The Fort Benning plan is off. we won't have enough fuel, so we decided to set up camp at the nearest farm." Rick told her. They turned the car around but as thy were about to set off, Daryl pointed out that there was a herd of walkers coming their way and he grabbed his crossbow and started to fire at them.

"Carl, I'm scared!" Sophia whimpered, latching onto his arm. he looked at her shocked. he didn't know she felt that way, but he just shrugged it off as he was the only person in the back seat with her at the moment. He watched as everybody got out of their vehicles and joined Daryl in shooting.

Boom!

an explosion went off in the back of the herd, making the group jump ten foot. then seven more explosions went off and the herd was vanquished. Sophia, still scared, jumped out of the car and ran into the wooded area next to them, Rick, Daryl and unknowingly Carl, chasing after her.

A group of ten, walked over the rotting corpses on the ground, some carrying heavy machine guns with grenades in their belt. Shane went out to greet them. "Thanks for the help, but who are you?" He asked.

"I'm Daniel, the leader of the group." Daniel had Short brown hair, blue eyes and looked about 20 years old.

"This is my sister, Megan." he pointed to a young girl about Carl and Sophia's age, she had long brown hair and blue eyes.

"Marcus" A man with blond hair and green eyes stepped up.

"Lewis," A smallish man with light brown hair nodded.

"Johnathan" A tall man with short black hair and brown eyes grunted.

"Samuel" had short, blond hair and blue eyes.

"Stephanie" had Long, blond hair and blue eyes.

"Jason" had a small, ginger afro, an Hazel eyes.

"Ryan here, is Jason's younger brother" Ryan looked a bit younger than Carl and he had dark brown hair in a faux hawk, with brown eyes.

"And Anne, is an orphan." another girl Carl and Sophia's age had long ginger hair.

"Right, thanks but we have a bit of a problem now." Shane explained. "You just scared away one of our kids, so you will have to help us find her."

"Sure, no problem with Lewis here. He is a skilled tracker and is our 'Go-to-town' guy." Daniel explained.

"heh, looks like I have some rivalry!" Glenn joked.

"Shit! that girl almost saw me!" A boy whispered, he was wearing all black, and so were the five people with him.

"quiet or they will see us, Rex," An older man said.

"I know dad," Rex said, scoffing. the explosions went off in the back.

"Retreat! they have explosives!" A Woman yelled, they kept running, before running into Sophia.

"Hey! it's that girl!" Rex exclaimed, Sophia backed up against a tree, scared.

"P-please don't k-kill m-me!" she managed to get out. Another member put his hands onto the tree, above her shoulder.

"Oh we won't kill you, just do something bad to you." he said in a creepy voice. Sophia screamed.

Rick and Daryl heard the scream, and started to run in that direction, followed by Carl.

"There's more than one set of footprints here." Daryl mentioned, crouching on the ground. "let's follow them to see where they lead us." He turned around, seeing Carl hide behind a tree, out of the corner of his eye. "heh, budding romances." he said under his breath.

Lori was comforting Carol in the RV, when Shane poked his head through the door, "Carl's missing," he told them, they ran outside, meeting with the others.

"Glenn thinks he went after Sophia." Dale told them, nodding at Glenn. "But Carl's tough, he'll survive and bring back sophia. But if he doesn't, Rick and Daryl will find him."

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