"Ready?" Tyreese whispered to Crystal as he looked at her.

Crystal gives a slow nod, with a nervous look on her face. Tyreese nods and peeked his head over the counter slightly to see how many people were in the pawnshop, Tyreese after looking around a while put his head down and looked at Crystal again.

"There are about six." Tyreese whispered to Crystal with a sigh as he checked his shotgun for how many bullets he had left in his clip.

Crystal slowly nods and exhales sharply as her heart beated quickly. "Alright… L-Let's do this."

Tyreese nods and crouched, he then peeked up and shot one of the men in the chest knocking him out of the pawnshop and through the broken window. Tyreese eyes widen as he saw them look at him and they started shooting at him with pistols and automatic weapons.

Tyreese looked at Crystal who kept flinching from the gunshots heading towards them, he then pointed to another part of the counter that connected with another. "Shoot at them from the side…. Go!" He shouted to her.

Crystal nodded and crawled to the side that Tyreese pointed at, she then started panting as she peeked her head out to see the remaining men shoot at Tyreese. Crystal exhaled sharply and start shooting horribly at the men, she caught one shoulder and missed the others as they went into cover. Tyreese took the opportunity to shoot his shotgun, catching one of the men in the stomach making them drop instantly. Tyreese ducks back into cover as they unload on him again.

There were four of them left with one of them injured, two shot at Tyreese and the other two shot at Crystal. Crystal kept flinching and covered her ears because of the loud sounds of the gunshots while Tyreese cursed trying to figure out a plan. Tyreese works his way into a different position, signalling Crystal to fire as to destract the enemy. Crystal nods, firing blindly at the men as Tyreese works to get a clear shot. Once Crystal successfully caught their attention, Tyreese stood, firing upon two men who come out of cover to return fire at Crystal. A man falls to the ground grabbing is arm while the other man's hand is blown off as Tyreese's bullet strikes. The man without a hand drops his gun, and fell to the ground grabbing his hand as he screams in pain. The other two men looked at the guys and their eyes widen, Crystal stood up and pointed her gun at the distracted thugs, she lined up her shot, and shot the man she hit eariler in the head.

Mean while, Maria finishes patching up Dante's bullet wound the best she could. Removing the bullet, she applies alcohol to the wound before wrapping the area. She gives him painkillers that were taken from the pharmacy. Maria slowly helped Dante get up from the floor, Dante sighed and looked at the bandage with a frown. "Who would have known that I would get shot at home as well." He said with a chuckle as he leaned against a wall not hearing the sound of gunfire anymore, he walked slowly to the front of the store to see two men dead and three injured, two on the ground and the other one dropped his gun and put one hand in the air since he couldn't move his other arm.

Tyreese and Crystal hopped over the counter and pointed their guns at the two men on the ground, while Dante walked to the other man who had his hand in the air. Pointing his gun to the man's head Dante stops when he heard a familiar cry.

James took off his mask and winced from the pain in his shoulder as he cried and sobbed. "I'm so sorry… Please don't kill me."

"Son of a bitch." Dante said as he growled and glared down at James.

"James? What the hell man?" Crystal shouted at James as she growled and glared as well at him.

"You two know this guy?" Tyreese asked as he looked at Dante with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah… We spared him in the pharmacy…. Crystal knows him from school." Dante said with a sigh as he continued pointing his gun at James head and rubbed his shoulder.

"I'm so sorry!" James exclaimed as he kept sobbing and looked at Dante with pleading eyes.

"You come after my family! You die!" Dante said as he growled and shot James in the head.

Crystal eyes widen as she saw James body fall to the ground, she ran up to his dead body and started crying for her friend. Tyreese frowned as Dante walked towards him, Dante then shot the other two in there heads.

"James….. You idiot!" Crystal said as she kept crying over his dead body.

Dante sighed and put his pistol away, he then walked up to Crystal. "I'm sorry but… They attacked us…. He led them to us… It's his fault he is dead…. If I were to let him live again he would just do it all over again." Dante said as he frowned looking down at Crystal.

Crystal growled and turned her head to look at him with a glare. "You heartless bastard! You didn't have to kill him!"

Tyreese frowns and sighs. "Crystal… Dante is right… He went back to his people and led them too us… He even shot at us… We couldn't let him live."

Crystal stops crying and dried her eyes, she then quietly walked past the men and hugged her sister. Tyreese and Dante sighed as they rested against a wall. "We need to go… Walkers might come due to all of the noise." Tyreese said as he looked at Maria and Crystal.

"If we are going to find your parents on the highway then we need to go now." Dante said as he folded his arms and looked down at the dead bodies in front of him.

"Yeah… It's about 7 o'clock… It's going to turn dark soon and it will be dangerous." Tyreese added as he put his gun down and searched the shop, then found binoculars and hung them around his neck.

Dante nodded and started collecting ammo from the weapons on the floor, he then walked up to Maria and gave her a pistol. While Dante was giving Maria a quick lesson on how to shoot a gun Crystal went into the back room and got her Bow and Quiver, she then put the gun Tyreese gave her away and went back into the front store frowning as she sat down on a chair.

"Alright… Let's go.. My parents are bound to be there… Where else would they be?" Maria asked as she raised a eyebrow and put her hands on her hips.

"They should be there." Dante said with a smile.

"Hopefully." Crystal muttered as she rested her chin on her hand.

"Alright let's go." Tyreese said with a smile as Dante threw him the keys to his truck.

Dante, Maria and Crystal followed Tyreese to the car while spotting a big group of walkers come there way. The group quickly got into the truck and drove away, since the road getting out of the city was full of cars, Tyreese took the other road into the highway, a couple of minutes later they made it back to where Dante left his car and where the camp was originally at when they left.

The group got out of the truck and looked around frantically. "Where is everyone? They were here yesterday." Dante said as he stopped walking and sighed.

"They all just disappeared… Why?" Maria said as she frowned.

"Well…The good news is…. That our parents might still be alive… The bad news is that Mom and Dad aren't here…" Crystal said with a sigh as she folded her arms, she then heard a girl scream and she took her bow and ran to the scream, Dante ran after her to back her up just in case.

A girl about 5'2 with a skinny build and tan skin with long wild curly brown hair and brown eyes was struggling to fight off a walker. she swung her metal baseball bat at the walker, but wasn't strong enough to really hurt it; Crystal cocked back an arrow and shot it, hitting the walker's head instantly killing it.

The girl panted and leaned on a car looking down at the dead body, she looked at Crystal. "T-Thank you."

Crystal smiled and put her bow down. "You're welcome."

Dante finally caught up to Crystal and looked at the girl. "Are you alright?"

"Yes." The girl said with a small nod as she smiled at the two.

"I'm Crystal Santiago and this is Dante Ramos." Crystal said with a smile as she pointed to herself then at Dante, she then held her hand out for a handshake.

"Nice to meet you…. I'm Rozalyn Bailey." Rozalyn said with a smile as she shook Crystal hand.

"What brings you out here?" Dante asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I'm headed towards Tennessee… I'm going to see if my parents are alright." Rozalyn replied as she looked down and fiddled with her fingers.

Crystal frowns and lowers her head as Dante sighed and directs his gaze at Rozalyn. "Tennessee is a long way from here." He then looked down and frowned. "They may be dead… And you would be risking your life just to get there and find out."

Rozalyn narrowed her eyes on Dante. "How would you know? They might be alive… I can't lose hope."

"I know… I did the same and when I went to see my parents in Atlanta… They were dead and the people with me almost lost there lives…. Unless you know for sure that they are alive… Then you should go but… If not then… It's a risk."

Rozalyn frowns, lowering her gaze, "Maybe you're right..."

Crystal frowns before she placed a reassuring hand on Rozalyn's shoulder, "We're currently searching for my parents...Maybe when we're done we can all head to Tennessee… You have a better chance to survive in a group."

"O-Ok." Rozalyen said with a smile as she looked up at Crystal.

"How old are you?" Dante asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Eighteen, I just finshed my first year of college." Rozalyn replied with a smile as she ran her fingers through her hair.

"Nice… We're the same age." Crystal said with a smile happy that she has a fellow teenager with her.

"What did you major in?" Dante asked as he folded his arms and looked down at her.

"Pre-Med." Rozalyn replied with a smile as she stood up and looked at the two.

"Great… We might need a doctor." Dante said with a smile.

"I would love to help.. I heard I'm quite good for my age… All I ask is if you can get me any books and I will do my best to help you all." Rozalyn said with a another smile.

"Alright… Welcome to the team." Dante said with a smile, he then started walking towards Tyreese and Maria. Dante then spotted Tyreese looking in his direction with his binoculars, Dante raised a eyebrow and gave Tyreese a gesture that asked him what was going on.

"Shit." Tyreese muttered as he looked past Dante and saw a huge group of walkers heading there way. "Get under the cars!" Tyreese shouted to the three headed his way, he then grabbed Maria. "Get under the car."

Maria nods and gets under a car while Tyreese hides under his truck. Dante cursed and looked behind him to see the huge group of walkers. "There is about 100 of them… Get down." Dante said to Crystal and Rozalyn. The girls both nodded and hid under the same car while Dante hid under a car next to them to watch over them knowing that Tyreese was watching over Maria.

The walkers started walking by, all the group can hear were many grunts and groans as they slowly passed the group. Tyreese was breathing normally while watching Maria while Maria put her hand over her mouth to prevent the walkers from hearing her breath loudly. Dante watched over the two girls with his machine gun laying next to him, he had one hand on his gun while he waited for the walkers to pass by.

After a few minutes the walkers finished walking by and the group waited a additional couple of minutes for the walkers to be long gone. The group then got out from under the cars, Dante Crystal and Rozalyn walked over to Tyreese and Maria, Dante introduced Rozalyn to Tyreese and Maria.

"Alright well… It's late… We should get some sleep." Tyreese suggested as he looked at the group.

"We can camp out… There is a bunch of camping equipment out here." Dante said with a smile.

"Alright…. Crystal will come with me to find a good camping spot while you guys bring the equipment." Tyreese said with a smile.

Crystal nodded and followed Tyreese as he headed out to the woods, meanwhile Dante and the other girls started searching for tents and anything useful for camping. After a couple of minutes Crystal comes back and goes into Tyreese truck, she then started taking the supplies one by one to the campsite with the help of Dante, Maria and Rozalyn followed with the camping equipment. Dante and Tyreese started setting up tents while the girls got some fire going and put the supplies in a organize way. A half hour later, everybody started eating dinner and a hour later everyone started going to sleep with Dante having the first shift.

In the bushes far away from the camp two men looked at the group.

A man in his early thirities turned to the man next to him, "John Ross… I'm hungry."

"Don't worry Bobby… We're going to eat real good soon little brother." John Ross said with a grin as he watched the group.