Emma was cuddled in bed with Ellis, both sleeping off a raging hangover. Nick was hugging the toilet for he had been vomiting all through the night. The house was full of sleeping people. Dreaming sweet dreams, and forgetting for a moment what world they lived in now. It was around 3p.m when someone finally awoke. Dale felt his bones ach as he hoisted himself off his bed. He shuffled to the kitchen and poured some fresh coffee into his mug and drank it slowly. He exhaled deeply and made his way outside. He closed the front door quietly and walked up to the railing of the porch. He looked over the land beyond the wall and saw nothing. No walkers no birds nothing. Everything was quiet. The breeze was nonexistent and the air was heavy. "strange." he said to himself. He settled himself on a lawn chair and sipped at his coffee, enjoying the quiet morning. The air kept getting more and more stiff. Dale set down his almost finished coffee and laid his head back in the chair and drifted off to sleep again. He would occasionally bob in and out of sleep and when he was awake for a few moments he could hear people stirring inside. He then fell into a deep, deep sleep. "You better get up old man." Dale jolted awake to see everyone, everyone that lived in the house was outside, in a line, holding every gun they could at the ready, staring at the wall. Shane was glaring at him, holding out a shot gun to him for Dale to take. He did and stood up quickly. "What the hell is going on?" Dale asked his eyes bugging out in wonder. "It's coming." Nick growled to him. Dale then began to feel the ground shake. "hey Rick, remember when I told you if you were right you can feed me to the walkers," Emma began. "I know. don't worry about." Rick mumbled to her as he continued to stare at the wall. Dale getting in line between Hershel and Glenn, still had no idea what was going on. "What's coming?" Dale looked to Shane and Emma. "we call it a Tank. It is a walker that morphed into something else. A monster. Its beyond huge, bigger than this house. Nothing but muscle and rage. He picks up chunks of the ground and chucks it at you for Christ sakes." Emma looked around at Dale. The ground started to shake again but more violently. Dale gulped, "right, so what are we going to do?" he asked. "We've taken down one before with only four people and not as many guns. We just pour as much led into him as possible." Nick chuckled at the terrifying memory. Suddenly they all jumped for they heard a very loud rawr. Blood curdling screams came from the walkers as they limped out of the way. Everyone was scared to the core. "I've never heard them scream. This is sick." Rick's voice was shaky. Everyone's feet now left the ground it was shaking so hard. And there it was. The tank came running around the corner taking down a small house in the process. "Shane, get ready." Emma called back at him and he nodded and flung open the door and held his hand near the button to lower the wall. "What the hell is the plan here?" Dale asked franticly. "It's simple, when he gets close, we lower the wall and through everything we have at it. And if that doesn't work, we run." Emma turned to look at him. Her eyes were strong. She griped Ellis's hand. The tank ran faster to them. "Now!" Katy yelled, and Shane hit the button. The wall clamored down quickly. The tank moved his tiny head on top of his huge shoulders over to the wall. Katy felt her heart stop and her throat tighten up. Then, it came. Raging itself towards the house. Shane was the first to shoot. "Come at me you bastard!" yelled Hershel as he unloaded his clip into the thundering beast hurdling towards them. They were now all shooting at it. The tank didn't even slow in pace. He halted for a moment to dig his fingers into the ground and gripped a chunk of the ground and threw it at the group. Emma was yanked down by Shane and the huge chunk of asphalt hit Hershel square in the chest. "HERSHEL!" Glenn yelled and dropped his gun to heave the rock off of him. It toppled off and Glenn pulled Hershel and leaned him against the wall. "don't worry about me son. Just protect the rest of the group. I believe in you." Glenn wiped his tears and stood up to stand next to Katy and Rick. "DIE!" Glenn yelled franticly and unloaded his round into the tank. Emma realized that even though they had such powerful guns, the beast was not slowing down. "We have to make a run for it!" Emma yelled at the group. "But we have to make a stand! We can't leave this place!" Shane yelled back at her. "Shane, you will die if you stay here. We have to leave!" Emma grabbed his shoulders and yelled in his face. "No, you guys go. I'll stay here." Emma looked at him deep in his eyes. "Shane, no!" Emma yelled. "You need to get away. I want you alive." Shane stared down at Emma and kissed her forehead. "Now everyone, GO!" Shane yelled as he turned back to shoot the tank. Everyone ran inside and grabbed everything they could. Katy tripped as she ran out the door and Rick ran back to lift her up over his shoulder. Emma lead everyone through the horde of zombies. She took one look back at Shane fighting for his life and hers. They were axing zombies in the head if they got to close. Dale was last in the line. He was running as fast as he can trying to catch up to Glenn. He was to focused on jumping over some rubble to notice a walker fling his claws at dale. He chocked down a scream in pain as the fingernails dug into his side. He kept running. They finally got out of the sea of zombies. They ran into an old wear house and Dale slammed the door shut. It was dark. Emma held onto Ellis and Katy began to cry. "What now?" Carol asked as she held onto Sophia. "Well, last night, I heard something on the radio." Katy spoke up. Everyone turned to look at her. "Someone was calling to anyone who hears, that he is docked at the shore and is leaving today at sun down." the room was silent. "So what you are saying is, there is a source of help that is a few blocks away?" Rick walked up to her and got in her face. Nick stepped between them and glared at Rick. "Yes. But, we had a good thing going. I didn't want to leave!" Emma stepped forward. "Sometimes you got to ask others. We need to make it to that ship. We need to leave this hell hole. We have all lost so many." Rick walked over to the door. "we need to go now." everyone walked towards the door. Rick opened it and the sun blinded him. He waited a moment to get his eye sight back, and scanned the area. "No walkers. Lets go." Rick led the way. They skimmed the wall of a few old buildings. "I hear the ocean!" Katy exclaimed. As they rushed around another building, they saw a crowd of people. Living people, all trying to get on the huge ship. People were being separated. Dead bodies laid everywhere. "What the hell?" Glenn stared at the scene in horror. "there separating the infected people." Emma gripped Ellis's arm. Daryl stepped forward holding Carols hand tight. A man in a hazmat suit came up to them with a device in his hand. "Show me your eyes!" he yelled at Daryl. The device scanned his eyes and it binged. "Okay your clean. Now you!" he held the scanner up to carol. It started to beep franticly. "She's infected! Move over to this side!" he started pushing Carol away, then Daryl grabbed the mans arm and yanked him back. "Scan her AGAIN!" Daryl yelled at the man. "Scan her again, NOW!" the man looked at Daryl for awhile the turned to Carol and scanned her again. It beeped. "S-she's clean." carol ran back to Daryl and Sophia and began to sob. The man scanned everyone. He finally reached Dale. He scanned him and it beeped madly, more than it did on carol the first time. "he's infected. Move over here now sir." "No Dale!" Emma reached for him and he stepped back. "No, guys, he's right. I was scratched. Now go. Leave this-" but before he could finish they heard someone yelling from were they had come. "Hey! Guys! I killed it!" Shane came running towards them. "Shane!" Emma ran up to him and hugged him. "Sir I need to scan you." the man scanned Shane and he was clean. Suddenly a thunderous roar sounded near them. "Another one?"
