The group jumped as a series of shrieks echoed through the woods. "Oh God," Lori whimpered as everyone darted towards the noise.

"Mommy!"

"Carl!" Lori yelled as she raced with everyone down the hill where Jacqui and the children were running out to greet them. Carl and Sophia were swept up by their mothers as Jacqui pointed further down, where a Walker was feasting off a dead dear. Rick and the other men approached it carefully, weapons in hand.

As soon as the walker noticed them, they beat it down until Dale managed to decapitate it with an axe. They relaxed and caught their breath. "That's the first one we had up here," Dale informed.

"They must be running out of food in the city," Jim pondered.

A rustling came from the bushes behind them. They turned and held up their weapons as Daryl and a young woman came into view.

The woman had dyed her hair deep red with purple tinges at the ends. She has deep blue eyes that complimented her pale white skin. She wore a leather jacket over her dirty plain white T and had on black ripped jeans and red Converse. Strapped securely on her body was a regular book bag.

"Son of a bitch," Daryl cursed. "That dear was mine."

"It was, til you slipped up and let it get away," the woman commented.

"You sayin' this is my fault?" Daryl questioned accusingly.

"I didn't say that," she dismissed and turned away from him. Daryl growled as he retrieved his arrows and kicked the Walker's limp body. He bent down and looked at the deer.

"Think we could cut around this chewed up part, right here?"

"Not unless you want to die," the woman remarked.

"Now that's enough Victoria," Dale told her, thinking it better that Daryl wasn't already pissed off when they told him about his brother. Victoria scowled but was quiet.

"We caught some squirrel. That'll have to do," Daryl passed the meat to Jim. As he did so, the decapitated Walker head began to move again.

"Ew," Amy recoiled and was led away by Andrea.

"Come on people, what the hell?" Daryl said and raised his crossbow at it. Before he could fire though, the Walker head was already split in half by a M48 Ranger Hawk Axe. Victoria smiled sadistically as she dislodged the axe from its head, creating a sickening gushing noise as fluid ran out from the wound.

"T'ch," Daryl scowled and put away his weapon.

Everyone began to walk back to camp. On the way, Victoria caught sight of Rick. "Who the hell is he?"

Dale held up his hands, "I'll tell you later."

Victoria made a line with her mouth and continued on to the camp where Daryl was calling for his brother. "Daryl, I need to talk to you," Shane stated.

"About what?"

"About Merle," Shane anticipated. "There was a problem in Atlanta."

Daryl paused. "Dead?"

Shane shook his head. "We're not sure."

Now, Daryl spoke up. "He either is or he ain't!"

Rick stepped in. "There's no easy way to say this so I'll just say it."

"Who're you?" Daryl demanded.

"Rick Grimes."

"Rick Grimes, You got something' you wanna say to me?!"

"We left your brother hand cuffed on a roof."

"You left him there?!" Daryl yelled. He lunged at Rick who dodged. Shane tackled Daryl, but he recovered quickly and pulled out a knife. He tried to attack Rick again but was overpowered by the two. Rick explained what happened and T-Dog told his side to the story.

"Jut' tell me where e' is, so I can go get 'im," Daryl ordered.

"I'm going back," Rick declared.

"So you and Daryl? That's your big plan?" Lori asked doubtfully. Rick turned to Glenn. Glenn groaned and took off his hat, letting his fingers run through his hair. "Fine," he said, putting his cap back on.

"Well that's just great. Now you're gonna risk three men huh?" Shane condescended.

"Four," T-Dog announced.

"And one woman," Victoria added.

"Just gets better and better," Daryl scoffed at the two.


The five of them raced up the stairwell and busted through the metal door as soon as the chain was cut.

"Merle!" Daryl shouted. "No!" he shouted as his brother's severed hand. "No!"

"Holy shit," Victoria breathed.

"This is your fault!" Daryl turned on T-Dog with the crossbow.

"Shut up Dixon!" Victoria called his attention and pointed to a trail of blood. Daryl huffed and stepped away from T-Dog. He quickly retrieved his brother's hand and stuffed it in Glenn's bag, ignoring the younger boy's grimace as Victoria began to track Merle's trail.

The Atlanta crew entered a nearby building, quickly coming across a Walker. Victoria smiled as she took out her axe, however, Daryl shot the Walker before she could get any further. She gave him a dirty glare in response. The group walked further in and found two Walkers already taken out.

"Only needed one hand to take out these two sons of bitches," Daryl commented.

"That's Merle for you," Victoria complimented.

"I'm sorry, who are you?" Rick asked.

"Victoria. I thought we went through our introductions on the way here," she replied skeptically.

"She traveled with them," Glenn answered. "They aren't related but when we all joined up, she came with the Dixons."

Rick nodded while Victoria mouthed an 'oh'.

"Merle!" Daryl called.

"Hey! Quiet, we're not the only ones here," Rick silenced him. Once he did, noise could be heard coming from a nearby room. Everyone exchanged glances.

"Merle?" Daryl tried again, "That you?"

They approached the door and listened. By now, the noise had completely stopped. Rick and Daryl prepared to move in, but Victoria beat them to it. "This one's mine!"

She flung the door wide open, axe raised, and came face to face with startled copper eyes. The teenage girl flinched automatically and clutched onto a large, furry object. The girl had dyed her hair to a silver and wore an odd outfit consisting of a cut out back, designed and decorated, lilac leotard and brown shorts over it.

Victoria lowered her weapon and moved aside for the others to see. The girl cowered away from them and clutched harder on the unknown object, causing it to move. Sensing it's masters fear, the animal quickly jumped to its feet and let out a loud growl.

"Holy shit! Is that a lion?!" Glenn exclaimed, as he and everyone took a wary step back.


A/N: Hope you enjoyed this first chapter:) It was very canon and very short, I know. Trust me, it was really only for this chapter. With the new OCs, things are going to change:) Possibly for the better;D

OCs are still being accepted but not many slots left. If you want to boost your chance of getting picked, choose a boy! I only have the female race…

And who has been keeping up with TWD? Are the writers trying to kill our hearts?! Because mine can't handle it! D'X