Thanks for all the reviews again! This story will be ending soon, with the next chapter maybe being the final. But I loved writing this story and you're all awesome for reviewing! Thank you! I'm so surprised and happy with all the feedback this story got!
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[Give Gun To Kenny]
[Give Gun To Luke]
[Give Gun To Clementine]
[Keep Gun]
Sarah quickly decided to give the gun to Clementine, because the walkers were closing in fast and she didn't have enough time to think about it. She handed the gun to the little girl who nodded at her and began shooting at the walkers, with most of the bullets hitting them in the forehead. One fell by Sarah's feet and she yelped and jumped back. Kenny and Luke shot a couple more walkers before their guns clicked, indicating they were empty. Sarah shot at one walker but it missed and hit it in the shoulder, making it jerk backwards but continue moving. Her second shot killed it but then her gun clicked too. The walkers continued to move towards them.
"Shit!" Kenny cursed angrily as he backed away, accidentally hitting into Luke. All of the survivors realised they were cornered, while Clementine continued to shoot. "We've gotta run!"
"We can't! We're-ARRGHH!" Luke cried out, letting go of his gun as a walker grabbed his shoulders. Sarah screamed and Kenny gasped while Clementine kept shooting, oblivious to what was happening due to the sounds of the gun. Luke tried to push it off his shoulders but its strength overpowered him and he fell to the ground, holding it up. "Help me please! HELP! CLEM!"
"Clementine!" Sarah shouted, tears in her eyes. Clementine turned around to see the walker about to bite Luke. She gasped and aimed her gun at it. But Kenny had other ideas.
"Save the bullet!" He snapped, hitting the gun and making it fall to the ground. Sarah and Clementine gasped. "He'll only slow us down! We need to go!"
"No! Please! Kenny!" Sarah cried, grabbing his arm in an attempt to persuade him, but Kenny shook her off. Sarah stumbled backwards and fell onto the ground, crying out in pain. Kenny looked regretful for a minute before he resumed his cold expression.
"We're going NOW! Come on, Clem!" Kenny used his free arm to grab Clementine while he held the crying baby with the other. Luke continued to yell in worry, while more walkers began to crowd around him. Clementine pulled away from Kenny and shook her head fiercely, bending down to grab her gun. But it was too late.
A walker bit down into Luke's stomach, making him scream out in agony as the rest of the walkers began to devour him. Sarah's eyes widened. She was watching the final cabin group member get eaten alive. Blood splattered down from Luke's stomach onto the walkers, and Clementine screamed and began shooting at the walkers around Luke before her gun clicked. Sarah stared at Luke's body, tears in her eyes. His face was showing an expression of fear and pain, and Sarah couldn't take it anymore.
Sarah clutched her hair and crouched down into a ball, letting out a ear-piercing scream that attracted every walker in the herd. Sarah cried frantically, trying to catch her breath, but she couldn't because she was having an anxiety attack. Rebecca...Pete...Nick...Alvin...Pete...Carlos...she couldn't take it anymore. As her father said many times...
She was ceasing to function.
Sarah couldn't move, and she knew walkers were walking towards her, but she didn't care. She had been through so much in a matter of weeks and she couldn't take it anymore. She wanted to be with her father. She wanted to die. Unfortunately, her idiotic actions affected someone else instead.
"Sarah! What are you doing!? Get up!" Kenny handed the baby to Clementine and ran over to Sarah, grabbing her and pulling her up. Suddenly a crawling walker sneaked up on Kenny and bit into his ankle. He cried out and fell to the ground, right next to Sarah. She screamed in terror and shuffled away, and she watched in horror as more walkers gathered around Kenny and began eating him. She glanced over at Clementine who was screaming.
"KENNY!" She cried, watching as her old friend died in front of her eyes. Her eyes brimmed with tears, but unlike Sarah she didn't break down. When the walkers turned to her she ran away into the woods with the baby. Not wanting to be alone, Sarah quickly followed after her, trying her hardest to stop crying.
In a matter of moments her group had been brought down to three people. And as the two girls ran away from the horrors of the hoarde, they had no idea where they were going. They didn't have any supplies anymore, except two empty guns and a book that was in Sarah's backpack. Dust skidded up behind them as they ran from the walkers, and when Sarah glanced behind her she fortunately didn't see anything, but she kept running. She felt awful for Clementine; it was her fault that Kenny died. And now Clementine hated her for it. Her final group member hated her...
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The sun was starting to set when the two females stopped running. The baby was sleeping soundly, and Sarah wished she could too but she doubted she would ever be able to again. Her innocence was gone. It had disappeared in a matter of weeks. She didn't have any more hope for the world, she only cared about surviving. The world would stay like this forever. The two girls sat down on a log, staying completely silent. Sarah knew she needed to say something...she needed to apologise.
"Clementine...I'm so sorry." Sarah said quietly, looking at her. Clementine didn't reply, and instead rocked the baby slowly. "It was just...after Luke I couldn't-"
"I'm used to it..." Clementine said and Sarah looked at her. "Everyone around me dies...every single person I've ever been with has died...so I'm used to it. We need to...we need to get to Wellington."
Sarah let out a small smile, happy that Clementine wasn't mad at her. The two stood up and started walking along the pathway. They had many long days ahead of them before they got to Wellington, but if they were together Sarah knew they would be safe.
The two continued walking along the pathway until the moon was high up in the sky and Sarah was feeling sleepy. She noticed that Clementine was also getting tired, as her head was drooping.
"Clem...maybe we should rest for the night." Sarah said, exhausted from the day's events. The little girl turned around to face the teenager and nodded.
"Yeah...you're right. Here, there's an opening in the woods." Clementine said, ponting to an opening in the hedge that actually looked comfy. Sarah nodded in agreement and the two walked away from the path. Clementine gently laid the baby down on the ground. "We should probably make a fire..."
"But wouldn't that attract walkers? Or set fire to the woods?" Sarah said, looking around at the grass and hedges around them. Clementine seemed to only just realise that and nodded. Sarah knew Clementine wouldn't be back to her old self for a while and she sighed. "How long do you think it will take to get to Wellington?"
"I don't know...maybe a couple of days." Clementine said, shivering from the cold. "I just can't wait to get there. I hope we're on the right track."
"We are, because this is the way Ken-" Sarah stopped, not really wanting to bring up Clementine's old friend after the traumatizing events she went through earlier in the day. "...We are on the right track. I know we are. We'll make it to Wellington, Clementine. We need to have hope."
Clementine slowly looked over at Sarah and let out a small smile, and Sarah returned it happily. Sarah looked out of the opening to see the night sky, with twinkling stars staring down at her.
"We should get some rest." Clementine said, and Sarah nodded and went back inside the opening, shuffling backwards and curling up on the floor. "...Goodnight, Sarah."
"Goodnight, Clementine."
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"...rah..."
"Sa...rah..."
"Sarah..."
"Sarah!"
"Huh!?" Sarah jolted upwards, glancing around. She noticed Clementine looking at her with the newborn baby in her hands. "What's wrong?"
"It's morning!" Clementine said. "We need to get moving if we want to get to Wellington!"
"Oh, okay!" Sarah said, grabbing her dirt-covered, scruffy backpack and swinging it around her back. The two females stepped outside of the opening, the sun shining down on them.
"Let's try and not find any walkers today, okay? I've definitely had my share, and I'm sure you have too." Clementine said, holding her gun that had extremely low ammo. Sarah didn't have a gun, as her pistol ran out of bullets in the walker hoarde. "We just need to get to Wellington and have a peaceful life...we can put all of this behind us."
"Right." Sarah nodded, and the two started walking along the dirt path, both of them now enthusiastic as they realised they had a chance to survive and escape the apocalypse for good. Sarah would always miss her father...but she needed to move on.
"We need to find bullets...or a new gun or something." Clementine said, nodding at Sarah as if to say 'for you'. Sarah nodded, feeling weird without something to protect herself with in her hands. But Clementine would protect her...hopefully.
After a couple of hours the background had changed from an endless dirt path to a town, with a church towering up over buildings and many houses and shops. The two girls were relieved; hopefully they could find some supplies there. They entered the town and looked around. Walker bodies and blood was everywhere, but neither of the two girls were disgusted anymore and they just continued to walk. They eventually found a gun shop with a large blood smear on the window. Sarah shuddered.
"We'll probably find ammo and guns in here." Clementine said, opening the window which slowly swung open, hitting the cracked wall which made glass fall onto the floor. "Look around, I'll tell you if I find some."
Sarah walked around the shop, seeing many toppled over shelves with most of what was in them gone. However, she did see a small pack of bullets at the end of the shop, over a shelf. Sarah moved carefully over the fallen shelf and grabbed the packet of bullets, but at that time a walker lunged at her and grabbed her hand. Sarah screamed as she was pulled forward, letting go of the pack of bullets.
"Cle-Clem! CLEMENTINE!" Sarah cried out, desperately trying to escape the walker. It snarled as it tried to feast on her, but Clementine was quick and she leapt over the shelf, aiming the gun at the walker and pulling the trigger. The bullet hit the walker in the brain, killing it, but now Clementine was out of ammo. It was lucky Sarah found ths bullets. "Are you okay, Sarah!?"
"I...I'm fine...thank you...Clem..." Sarah was breathing heavily and her fingers trembled as she opened the pack of bullets and poured half of the pack into Clementine's hands while she kept the other half for her own. She slowly inserted them into her pistol and smiled in relief, happy that she had a weapon again. "We should probably go..."
"Yeah...but I'm sure I saw a supermarket while we were walking to the gun store, maybe we should check that out quickly before we go." Clementine said, adjusting her hat to her head. Sarah nodded and the two exited the gun store, with the sleeping baby in Clementine's hands.
The two walked into an abandoned, broken down supermarket, with blood and shelves everywhere. There were even a few walker corpses lying around, but the two girls avoided them. They walked around the whole shop, but they didn't see anything useful. There were only kids toys and books left, which Sarah would have loved a couple of years ago but now she found them useless...apart from the books, where she took two and stashed them in her backpack.
They walked to the back and sighed in relief to see a stale loaf of bread on the floor, which Sarah picked up and placed in her backpack. They also found a couple of bottles of water, which were also kept in the teenager's backpack. As soon as they were about to leave they suddenly heard moaning in the distance, and they spotted walkers slowly approaching.
"Oh no!" Clementine whispered. "They must have been attracted to the gunshot! Crap! Get back inside, Sarah! Hurry!"
The two girls ran back inside the supermarket and tried to push the automatic doors shut but they wouldn't budge. The walkers were getting closer and the two girls' eyes widened as they turned and ran further into the supermarket. The two glanced around, their eyes darting left to right as the walkers entered, hungry for a meal.
"The back! There's an emergency exit! Come on, hurry!" Clementine remembered and dashed to the back, almost slipping on a pool of blood. Sarah followed, and although she wasn't as fast as Clementine she still kept up. She panted heavily, hoping there wouldn't be any walkers around the back.
They luckily made it to the back of the supermarket where the loaf of bread was, and Clementine pushed the emergency door. It opened, and the two girls screamed to see walkers standing there. The two backed away, but Clementine couldn't pull out her gun in time and a walker fell onto her, throwing her to the floor. The force made her gun and the baby fall out of her hands. Sarah gasped and went to kill the walker but another one took her by surprise, also throwing her to the ground. Sarah screamed in terror as the walkers leaned in to bite both of them while the baby was crying in the middle...what could she do!?
[Save Yourself]
[Save Clementine]
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Results Of The Voting!
Give Gun To Clementine: Ten Votes.
Give Gun To Luke: One Vote.
Give Gun To Kenny: One Vote.
Keep Gun For Yourself: One Vote.
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And there we go! I know I made this choice super hard, I'm sorry! But please review the chapter as well as the vote because I spent really long on this and it's descriptive and long and just please review the chapter as well!
This choice will affect Sarah's fate at the end of the story. So choose wisely, (you can also choose based on favourites or whatever) and also review the chapter please!
Luke died first in this chapter between him and Kenny because throughout the course of the story you guys chose to side with Kenny in more choices. See what they mean by 'The Story Is Tailored By How You Play'?
I'm sorry for killing Luke and Kenny because in the reviews people were saying that they hope they don't die but I already planned their deaths ever since Clementine had more votes. :/ Maybe they would have survived (or one of them at least) if they had the gun, but I don't know. Sorrrrrrrryyyyy. :(
