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I have been a fan of the Walking Dead since the first season and I just couldn't resist. This show is amazing for many reasons, one being, ZOMBIES (duh), but the other being the characters and their personal development. So many things in this show make me rage, make me cry, make me feel everything under the sun and I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to give my own spin on it. Creative ideas came and I decided that I would finally post something I've been working on for a while now, my own, personal take on the zombie apocalypse shown in the Walking Dead through the eyes of my original character and insane teenager, Jay. This story will mainly focus on the actual plot and will only have slight deter from the storyline due to the added character. I am not sure if romance will be involved so, sorry, but it will mainly be centered on friend and family relations with the original Walking Dead characters and Jay. I hope you enjoy this take on the end of the world! Thanks for reading 3 3 3
I do not own any of the Walking Dead plot and/or characters and have rights solely to the bits of changes I have added and my own, original character, Jay. If you have any questions or critiques please leave them in the reviews. Thanks for reading!
A Blue Jay on the Highway
A blue jay fluttered over the abandoned highway, its small wings carrying it far from the horror down below. But one blue jay could not escape, for her wings were broken long ago and she was sentenced to walk the barren world below. With only a dark furred mutt as her companion, she walked across the cluttered highway in the sweltering, Georgian heat. Soft growls echoed from the forests on either side of the pair, yet neither paid it any mind, continuing on their trek through the graveyard. Every so often, the blue jay would pause, yanking open car doors and rooting through the leftover belongings within.
She leaned into the backseat of a dusty Toyota, digging through several bags and dumping out the contents of each. She shifted through several bits and pieces of clothing, hastily folding a few shirts and pants that seemed about her size into her backpack. Her lips quirked up in a half smile when she found a lighter in the glove compartment and she shifted it into her back pocket before retreating from the rusty car altogether. She heard a soft growl emitting from her companion and turned, pale brown eyes searching the surrounding area with an intensity not seen quite frequently in fifteen year olds. She spotted three biters. Stumbling and growling, slowly heaving their rotting bodies towards her still living form. She blanched at the one in the middle, eyeing its jaw that seemed to be unhinged, the skin of its chin hanging off the bone rather disgustingly.
Its left eye was gone, leaving a bloody hole in its wake and its left pant leg had been torn off along with the skin coating its muscles. Her nose wrinkled at the smell of death hanging heavily in the air and she clicked lowly to her stiff companion. The dog glanced once towards her with deep, emerald eyes before dashing forward and barking quietly at the biter on the far left. He stayed close to it, gently drawing it away from the other two until both him and the biter disappeared behind several cars and a towering truck. Handling two biters on her own was nothing too difficult for the blue jay, so she quickly lunged forward.
She kicked at the one with the unhinged jaw and skinned leg, knocking its knees back at an awkward angle and causing it to tumble to the ground. With one less threatening to her, she turned on the still standing one, unclipped her knife from her side, and rounded on it. She slipped past its reaching hands, raising her arm in a jerky movement before bringing it down into the back of the biter's skull. She retrieved her blade with a wet squelch and let the biter collapse in on itself. The biter that could no longer stand went quickly, her knife plunging into the top of its head with a familiar slick, crunching noise. A sudden noise drew her attention, causing her hairs to stand on end and her shoulders to stiffen. A bark, a warning bark.
Without another thought, she yanked her blade back from the corpse and darted through the abandoned cars towards the noise. She froze at the discovery of her mutt, cornered by not only the one biter he had led away but two other tag alongs that apparently freed themselves from a car a few feet away if the scrap of skin on the car door was anything to go by. With a click slightly louder than the last, the dog slipped between the threatening biters and bounded past the blue jay. Relaxing her shoulders, she sighed to calm her racing heart and burning nerves. Then, she moved.
With a movement far too violent to be considered graceful, the blue jay had stabbed the nearest biter in the eye, easily retrieving her blade. She slashed at the biter nearing her, cutting through its throat and causing its head to hang back at an angle. Taking advantage of its disability, she barreled her shoulder into its ribcage, shoving it back with ease. She heard it hit something, a gurgled growl yearning for her attention, yet she paid it no mind. Turning just in time to grab at the shoulders of the last biter. It snapped at her, blood spurting over her tanned skin from its gaping mouth. Furrowing her brows at the disturbing feeling of blood on her face, she stumbled back at the weight of the monster. She lost her footing in a moment of lost concentration, falling to the cement with the creature still snapping its jaw at her.
Her breath fled her when the biter fell atop her and she bit her lip hard, twisting her knife upwards and using the biter's own momentum to stab through its jaw and up into its brain. It collapsed on top of her, bleeding into her hair as she dropped her arms and let it cover her entirely. A moment of silence went by, her breathing evening out as her adrenaline left her. She felt a wet nose snuffling her cheek and finally rose, roughly pushing the corpse from her before she could stand. A soft smile was sent to her companion, a sign that she was okay, and then she turned towards the last biter, the one she had shoved. A part of her, the sadistic bit that she tried hard to hide in her old life, stretched her face into a twisted smile.
A hysterical laugh burst from her throat, low and thick due to lack of use. The biter had stumbled back into a bent car door, the broken metal piercing its stomach and keeping it stuck in place. Its greying flesh had begun to droop from its bones and its frail hands reached out for its nearest meal. The blue jay was quiet when she ended it, completely silent as she broke through skin, muscle, and bone. She stepped back when it went limp around her blade, tugging out the weapon without a word. Turning to her only companion left in the end of the world, she left the tiniest hint of a smile show on her face and crouched down to softly scratch behind the mutts ears. "You got yourself into some trouble," she rose to her full height, "huh?" Turning back to where she had come from, she began to walk in quick strides towards the car she had previously been looting. "Let's find ourselves somewhere to sleep before dark."
She cranked open the door to the Toyota, shuffling all of the rough objects out of the vehicle. She tucked most of the leftover clothing onto the floor, creating a makeshift mattress, leaving only an old quilt to use as a blanket. She stuffed her backpack against the opposing door, being sure to lock it, and slumped into the ditch between the front seats and back seats. She patted her lap to make her companion join her and shut and lock all the doors afterwards. Leaning back against her pack, she pulled the quilt over both her and the dog and made sure both of the entirety of their frames were hidden. "Goodnight, Wolverine," she muttered to herself, closing her eyes and letting her exhaustion take over.
The beginning of the end.
Thank you so much for reading, I hope you enjoyed. I will be posting weekly (though I might miss a few installations due to my schedule) and I plan on getting from the timeline before Season 3 all the way to the recent Season 7 (as soon as it airs!). If any of you have any suggestions or critiques, they will be greatly appreciated. Again, thank you so much for reading! See you next week
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