Chapter 3 he's changed
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We drive for a while until Michonne suggests that we do the rest of the journey on foot as the place Glenn and Maggie are held up at is heavily patrolled and armed. We get out of the car and grab our weapons and head on into the woods, Michonne leads the way with Oscar walking next to her i follow shortly behind and Daryl and Rick are just behind me . As we are walking through the woods i hear shuffling noises getting closer to us , i look behind to Daryl who is in conversation with Rick. I then out of the corner of my eye see a walker who was walking towards us, i lift my gun ready to shoot when Daryl stops me.
"Get down" Daryl barks
Just then i see more of them shuffling there decomposing bodies towards us.
"no gun fire" Rick commanded
"stay close" Daryl whispers to me
We begin to kill the walkers one by one but it wasn't good seemed for everyone we killed another 10 would appear, we all regroup knowing that we are better off watching each others back.
We continue to kill and slash at the walkers who got close,we need to get out of here.
"Theres too many of them we got to get outta here" I say as calmly as i could
"This way" Rick orders
We all begin running, not knowing how we where going to get out of this situation we had got ourselves into but we just continue to follow Rick, trusting his judgment. We stumble across and old looking wooden shack that looks like it could fall apart at any second, we all run inside knowing we didn't have long before the walkers would be piling through the wooden walls. I look across the room to see a dead dog laid on the floor, i guess thats what the rotting smell is. Not far from where the dog is laid is a bed with a blanket on top, I'm pretty sure theres something underneath it as the covers begin to move ever so slightly, i quickly point it out to Rick who begins to walk towards the bed with his knife raised and ready. Daryl puts out his arm and pushes me behind him and has his knife in the other. There goes the overprotective big brother thing again. Rick begins to lift the blanket off of the mystery thing underneath, when a older man jumps out from underneath the blanket with a big gun in hand.
"Get out of my house" The man shouts
"We will get out off here as soon as we can" Rick reasons
"No get out of my house now" The old man continues to shout
"The house is surrounded we cant go anywhere" Rick continues
" Ill call the cops" the man says shakily
" I am a cop" Rick bluntly says
"Show me your badge"
"Okay, its in my pocket ill slowly grab it out of my pocket" Rick says trying to distract the man
Rick try's to knock the gun out of the mans hand but instead the old man shoots and misses Daryl and I by a few centimetres before dropping the gun to the floor. The man begins to run for the door still shouting as loud as he could, just as he reaches the door Michonne puts her sword straight through the old mans chest, the room finally falls silent.
"Whats the plan now?' Oscar questions
Daryl and Rick give a quick nod of approval to each other before picking the man up.
"Michonne open the door" Rick orders
"You got to be kidding" Oscar says looking mortified
"Theres got to be another way" I suggest
"Yeah this or getting eaten alive by those things out there" Rick adds
"Gracie go check the back door" Daryl speaks
"Its clear" I reply
and with that the old man is chucked out the front door to the walkers as a distraction whilst we are busy running as fast and as quietly as we can to escape them.
We finally arrive to a heavily patrolled gate, there were lights shinning everywhere. We duck behind a car not wanting to be spotted, how the hell are we suppose to get in there.
Michonne appears to the side of us motioning us to follow her, we walk into another little place it looked like it was being used as an office or something. Daryl looks out the window to see people still walking through the streets of this place they called Woodbury.
"I thought you said there was a curfew" Rick spat
"Curfew was hours ago, there just stragglers" Michonne snarled
"well we need to get out of here before somebody finds us" I add
with that a knocking sound comes from the door, we all scatter trying to find some place to hide.
"I know your in here i saw you from outside" The man speaks "You know your not suppose to be in here"
Rick jumps out and shoves the gun in-front of the mans face
"Where are our people" Rick asks
"i don't know" The man says innocently
"Your holding our people somewhere, where is it?" Rick says assertively
"I said i don't know, please don't hurt me" The man pleads
Rick shoves a piece of cloth into the mans mouth and Daryl then hits the man across the back of the head knocking the man out. Thats when we hear the sound of guns being fired.
"It might be them" I say
"Stay close and follow where the sounds are coming from" Rick says sternly
"lets go" I nod
We run out into the streets and follow the noise of where the gunshots where coming from which brings us to a big building made of metal panels, we quietly enter the building to see Glenn and Maggie on there knees and then something catches my eye. Merle Dixon. He was just going to let these people shoot Maggie and Glenn what the hell is wrong with him. I jump up and run to the doorway so that Merle could see me, I was so preoccupied with seeing Merle that I didn't even think what the men with the guns might do to me.
"Merle" I scoffed with a disappointed look cross my face
"Gracie" Merle say shocked
Im suddenly tugged backwards by Rick who chucks a smoke grenade, Daryl grabs Maggie and Oscar helps Glenn as he was struggling to walk, whilst Rick was held onto me. Shots start to fire and we all run out of the building into another one across the street. Glenn falls to the floor and Maggie runs over to him.
"Wheres the girl gone?" Maggie asks
"She was right behind us" Oscar says confused
"Ill go after her" I volunteer
"No you stay here" Daryl warns
"This was your brother" Glenn groans
"I don't understand why he would do this" I sigh
"Your saying my brother is the governor?" Daryl asks
"No he's his lieutenant or something" Maggie adds
"I need to find him maybe he can help us" Daryl says trying to convince Rick
"Why should we, look what he did to Maggie and Glenn, he was going to kill em" I shouted
"No one is going anywhere i need you both here incase we get over run with walkers or the governor catches up with us" Rick nods
Daryl and i both nod back, Daryl more reluctantly than me.
We head outside and run for the wall, we were being fired at from multiple direction. I shoot down the two men stood on the gate with ease, we all continue to shoot as many of these damn people as we could before running to some cover behind a wall.
"We need to make a run for it or we are going to get trapped" Rick admitted
"You guys make a run for it, ill cover ya" Daryl suggests
"no i'm not leaving you' i plead
"Ill be right behind you" Daryl promises "Just follow Rick and stay out of the line of fire"
"Cmmon lets go" Rick says leading the way
Glenn and Maggie are the first to climb the wall, then Oscar begins to climb but then he's falls to the floor with a bang, damn they shot him. Rick runs to him but its to late i can tell he's already gone.
"We need to go" Rick shouts to me
"I need to find Daryl, just get everyone to safety" I shout back
"Grace" Rick screams
I run as quickly as i can between cover before i finally see Daryl ducked behind a car, he spots me out of the corner of his eye and runs to me.
"What are you doing here" Daryl says angrily
"I told you i wasn't going to leave you here" I argue
"you need to get out of here" Daryl begged
"arnt you coming?" I ask confused
"I need to find Merle" Daryl says bluntly
"Your risking your life in the hopes your going to find him, he's changed Daryl he has shown who his loyalty lies with" I angrily admit
I suddenly see Daryl jump up "No" He shouts
I'm grabbed from behind and knocked to the floor and something is placed over my head. everything is dark i can't see anything, is Daryl okay?
