Chase and Trey have made it back. Trey drove the last armored truck back and Chase brought back the UPS van full of hardware supplies.

"Trey did you see Scott and the girls?" Joe asked.

"No man I didn't see them they were still in the grocery store when we left." Trey answered.

"Shit guys, well me and Autumn will go look for them Chase is in charge when I'm gone alright?" Joe said angrily

Joe walks down the stairs with a flashlight looking for his stuff to get ready to find Scott. Autumn sneaks up behind Joe and covers his eyes. "Guess who?" she said happily.

"Hey you, mind going with me to look for Scott and the girls?" he asked casually.

"A trip with you, that sounds great." She said.

He kissed her. Then strapped his Katana to his side and grabbed his bow. "We are going in silent, don't want to attract that group from yesterday we saw" he said

"Sounds like a plan!" she said excitedly.

He smiles and hugs her. Then he grabs his quiver of arrows. Then follows Autumn up the stairs. "Alright Chase I should only be gone for maybe three hours at the most if I don't come back by then just keep the group going till I make it back, ok?" Joe said

As Joe heads to the little town of Temple Creek, he sees the remains of the group they spotted yesterday. "Wow seems like they let their walkers loose and they got them. Let's stop and gather some supplies?" Joe asked.

Joe gets out and scans the area "looks like 10 walkers and a lot of bitten people we need to make sure they don't turn take the hatchet in the back of the truck and began taking care of the remaining dead before they turn I'll take out the walkers." Joe said as he unsheathed the Katana and began walking towards the small group of 4 walkers.

He quickly sliced the heads of the two limping hungrily towards him. Then he flicked the blood off the blade and walked towards the other two and sliced the top of the head off one and it tumbles down. The other one gets too close and an arrow flies through its skull and it falls to the ground in a loud thud. The loud thud attracts the other six and they stumble hungrily after Joe. He quickly climbs to the top of the car beside him and pulls his bow out. He quickly shoots one in the skull and it drops tripping two other walkers. Autumn runs up and takes out one as another arrow flies past and hits a walker dropping it immediately. The two walkers that fell were now staggering to their feet and Joe pulls out his hunting knife and leaps from the hood of the car and takes out one as the other reaches for Joe, Autumn pulls back its head buries the knife deep into the back of its skull. It then tumbles to the ground. Joe looks around for anyone that was shooting the arrows and he faintly sees the eyes of a human hiding in the tree then he sees the camouflaged bow drawn back and ready to fire.

"Listen whoever is out there we don't mean you any harm. We are just passing through, we will be on our way now" Joe hollered into the trees.

The stranger climbed down the tree and walked slowly towards Joe. "Hey you! Stop I want to talk to you and your girl" a loud raspy woman's voice rang out as she walked towards them pulling off her camo mask. "Where are you two from Hun?" she said in a curious voice

"Well we have a camp… But I'm not gonna say much more about it" Joe said

"Well as you can see my group didn't make it, I need a place to go… please let me go with you too" she asked pleadingly

"I got some questions about your group" Joe said in a mild angry tone.

She put her weapons down and said "ok man I'm not like them… they did horrible things… I was just a passerby and they took me in, fed me, and gave me shelter…. I thought they were nice people till about three or four weeks ago they started using walkers for camouflage." She explained.

She was a young black girl no older than 17 years old. She had long black hair. Her skin tone was about as dark as the night. She had scars on her arms and new ones on her face.

"Ok why were you with them?" Joe asked in a calmer tone.

"I was just gonna stay long enough to heal up some battle wounds until…. This crazy girl let the walkers loose and they attracted more walkers and it turned from paradise to hell in ten minutes. I gathered my stuff and climbed a tree until you guys came along" she said

"How many walkers have you killed?" Joe asked.

"Too many to count" she answered truthfully.

"How many people have you killed?" he asked in a stern voice.

"I had to kill my boyfriend and his brother… my boyfriend got bit…. His brother turned abusive and I put an arrow in his head when he tried to rape me…" she said in a sad voice getting choked up between sentences.

"Ok you're going to come with us to find three of our group members that went on a scavenge mission yesterday and haven't returned..." Joe said "have you seen a middle aged man with long blonde hair with two girls?"

"Are you talking about a guy named Scott and Kate and Jess?" she asked.

"Yes where are they?" Joe asked with an astonished face.

She looked down "The leader of this group here found them and… I think he killed Scott and took the two girls with him when shit broke loose here… I don't want to make you angry but he had the two girls bound and gagged naked in his ten here… they had bruises on them." She said holding her hands in fists.

"Where did they head?" Joe asked grinding his teeth as he spoke.

"To the nearest town I think… Temple Creek apartments were the place to go if everything turned to shit here he said" She told him grabbing her bow and hatchet.

"I'm going for them" Joe said in an angry voice.

"Me too" Autumn said readying her pistol and checking her ammo.

"Well I guess I'm in… my names Mary" the black woman exclaimed.

"Didn't take you for a Mary at first glance but the name suits you." Joe said laughing in amusement.

"Hahaha my friends called me little Ass-Kicker before this all started" said Mary before climbing in the back of the truck.

Joe smiled and climbed in the driver's seat with Autumn in the passenger's seat.

They drove to the apartments really slowly and crept along keeping their eyes peeled for the two girls.

They reach the apartment buildings and one room is boarded up so Joe knocks on the door.

"Go away I haven't done anything to you people!" The man said.

Joe can hear crying and screams from the room. He goes back to the truck and grabs a pump shotgun from the back and points it at the door.

"I'm giving you one chance to open this door before I blow it down" Joe said.

"Fuck off" the man said.

Joe cocks the gun and points it at the door. He pulls the trigger and the top of the door falls apart.

The man points a gun at the head of Kate. Jess's dead body lay in front of her. A stab wound in her chest had killed her. Joe cocks the gun again and says "it doesn't have to end this way man." Mary has her bow drawn and pointed at the man's forehead. Autumn is on the side behind the wall hidden from the sight of the man.

"If I put down this gun you're going to shoot me… this is the only way I will get out unharmed." The man says looking directly in Joe's eyes.

"We will let you go; you can leave the room using her as a shield if you want till you get to the car then you gives her to us." Joe says in an angry tone.

He pushes her forward and holds her to him still pointing the gun as he heads to the door he pushes the handle and the door opens Joe and Mary turn to the other side of the door with their weapons down. He turns his back to Autumn and she cocks her pistol and puts it to his head.

"Let the girl go right now and get on your knees before I blow your brains all over the wall." She yells at the man.

He lets Kate go and puts his hands up with the gun still in his hand. He gets on his knees and Autumn lowers her weapon and hugs Kate. He points the weapon at Kate and pulls the trigger blowing Kate's brains all over the side of Autumn's face. Kate's body falls lifeless to the ground.

Joe unloads the shot gun on the man and his head platters against the wall behind him and he falls motionless to the ground.

Autumn begins to cry and holds Kate's body against her. Joe checks for a pulse on Jess there is no pulse and he pulls his knife out and stabs Jess's head. He shakes his head. Well we better go before anymore walkers head this way and we get trapped. He holds Autumn close to him as they walk down the stairs with Mary.