The Journey Beyond

by TLRussell

When the dead began to rise, and the government turned on its people, Maddie Turner had no idea what to do with herself. Her problems began to pile up, that was, until she found herself at a Community, where she met a Veteran to the new world order who was about to change everything.

1. Prologue

A/N; All rights are for AMC The Walking Dead, this is a fanfiction from that. I have copyright over my original characters only, Maddie, Jackson and some more in the foreseeable future etc. Hope you enjoy my first ever TWD fanfiction

A lot of people have absolutely no idea what the biggest day of their lives are gonna be. Most will think that it's their wedding day, others it's the day their child is born, and for those who have none of those, it's the day they buy their first home.

Yet none of them realised the biggest day of their lives, was the day the world went to shit, the weeks after the dead, or undead had finally begun to be a danger to everyone, when they began to attack and spread.

The Government tried to hide it, pushing it to the sides, covering up the News surrounding anything to do with it, including the videos people would post online, but all that did was cause more trouble, making the people want to break the rules, show off what they were trying to hide. Then the Police got into play, doing the job that the Government asked them to, forcing them to, getting them to try and police a curfew, cut off any protests that started.

After the dead got worse, the Military were called in, following orders to kill the dead on sight, starting with Hospitals, the Morgues, but eventually, they just turned on everyone, especially if they couldn't distinguish the living from the dead.

A single bite was all it took, and at first, no one knew that, sometimes it took hours for someone to turn, started with a fever, sickness, pain, but then they'd turn and attack us, turning into a cannibalistic animal, but other times it was almost instant, it's like they fall asleep and suddenly wake up a completely different person.

I happened to be in the midst of all that, stuck in a Hospital sitting with my mother, waiting for her surgery, to remove the tumour sitting on her brain, we were so close. Then the monitor crashed, my mother flat-lined, and it was in those minutes of panic, that she suddenly began to move and attack others.

So I did what I felt was the best option for me, and whoever else I could help out of the death trap that was the Hospital, and that's where it started, my new life, running, fearful, lost, doing everything I could to try to survive.

This is the apocalypse; the undead's world. And I'm stuck in it.