Chapter Three

Drama Brought

Rick's new group were very helpful when it came to the maintenance of the farm. Even though I was able to keep the magic surrounding the farm at bay, I was still struggling with the amount of energy the magic was taking from me every day. I watched closely as Rick and his wife Lori were continuously with Carl, while the rest of the group was looking for this young girl named Sophia. I heard some members of the group discussing the next move they were going to make.
"If you need help finding her I can help" I suggested walking towards the small group that were huddled around the car, looking at the map.
"Emm... how can you help?" the man who drove the RV asked giving me a weird glance.
"I'm a witch so I will be able to find her quicker" I replied, they watched me closely as I stared at the map. I looked at the map and finally caught the young girl's scent.
"She's alive and I'm close to pin-pointing her location" I told them
"Hurry please I don't like that my baby girl out there like this. Anything or anyone could get her" the mother demanded shaking me by the shoulders again. I swear why do people like shaking me, Jesus.
"Okay I'm gonna tell you what I told Lori, stop shaking me" I said pulling her hands off me. She seemed in shock that I had talked back to her.
"Nobody has talked back to me" she said shocked at the fact. She took a step back and looked angry at me.
"Don't look angry at me just because I don't like people pulling out of me" I stated before looking at the map and walking back towards the house to let Herschel know that I will be going out to get this young girl before walkers got her.
"Hey what about Sophia" the archer yelled
"Leave her to me" I replied smirking at him while looking back while walking towards the house. I walked into the house and went straight to the gun locker that Herschel had and took out my two hand guns with some magazines.
"Herschel I know where the girl is and I'm gonna head out now and get her before anything happens to her okay" I told him while gathering my stuff and putting on my jacket. He nodded and handed me a cross, I smiled and clutched it tightly in my hand.

I walked out of the house and towards the forest line. By the time I got to the forest line I got her scent and began to run towards the scent. As I got closer it got stronger and stronger, I finally broke from the forest line and seen a small town that didn't have many walkers. I quickly took out the walkers and walked into the town slowly keeping my eye from anything that could be moving.
"HELLO! SOPHIA ARE YOU HERE!" I yelled as I walked through the town. I noticed that most of the buildings were boarded up. The only thing that wasn't boarded up were the doors. I focused my attention on the scent and noticed that it got stronger. I stopped in front of the house and noticed that the windows were terribly barricaded and the pieces of wood were beginning to rot. I carefully opened the door and walked into the front of the shop.
"Hello, Sophia are you here" I said into the shop. I heard someone shuffling around in the back. "Sophia is that you?" I asked and slowly walked toward the back of the shop. I noticed a small girl walk out towards me.
"Are you Sophia?" I asked bending down to her height smiling gently. She nodded her head and smiled back.
"I know you mama is worried sick about you" I said smiling but the smile fell off my face the minute I said that. Sophia back away from me shaking her head, no.
"Hey it's alright. Can you tell me what she did to you" I said smiling gently holding out my hand and gesturing for her to sit in front of me. When she sat down I noticed she was deathly pale and looked like she hadn't eaten in days. My heart broke for this little girl, I rummaged through me jacket pockets and found an energy bar. I handed it to her and watched to devour it.
"She used to make sure that I would not eat for days and then give me rotten food" I gasped and immediately pulled her to me. She froze for a few minutes before relaxing into me sighing.
"Come you can come back to the farm and I know you mother is there but you can stay in the house and away from her" I said standing up. She smiled back grabbing my hand that I held out to her and we walked out of the shop and in the direction of the farm house.

We spent the rest of the day walking and chit chatting back to the house, Sophia seemed like a nice girl who had this sort of happiness that would make anyone smile when they were talking to her.
"So how long have you been a witch and vampire Rose?" Sophia asked as we slowly walked toward the house
"Well you are the first person I have told this to but I am over two hundred years old" I replied smiling, she gasped looking at me
"Really you don't look like you are over the age of twenty" she said and I smiled at the compliment "Rose I was wondering if you would look after me and be my new mom" that caught me off guard
"Sure Sophia" I replied smiling and wrapping my arm around her. We arrived at the farm just before sunset. I saw the archers tent and before I could say anything Sophia charged towards him.
"DARYL!" she yelled, I watched as he looked up and dropped his crossbow and run towards her. He picked her up and swung her around. I smiled at the image of them exchanging hugs and greetings.