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Axel Dixon and Cath Carver belong to me.
Emily Carver belongs to HiddenTruthandLies2
A flashback will be in this chapter and those characters with wolf-masks are members of the Pack and belongs to SilverWolf1130 (Fanfic Productions) My thanks to my friend for letting me to use them. :)
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Chapter 39: Story in the Train
Axel's POV
2 hours later
It has been a couple hours since the train started to rolling on. I'm standing by a opened side door of the boxcar while leaned against the wall and staring with a mixed look by anger and sad. Right behind me, Lee sitting on floor beside Clementine and next to her on right was Carley, they were talking each other to tried cheer the little girl even they have been little quiet. Katjaa sitting on the floor too at the corner from the door to the train while holding her son who has sleeping or something else like he hasn't speak a word. Cath just sitting on the floor with Emily and Doug right the other side of the boxcar, right front of Clem, Lee and Carley. Ben sitting on the floor, almost middle of the boxcar while Chuck was standing by the opened side door just like me, but on the left while I'm on the right.
We haven't barely talking each other since we started running this train, I guess no one feel to have some fun or something else because we're gonna lose another one of us soon or later but I already assumed it will be soon.
"Got to be hard on ya, eh?" Chuck mumbled as I got attention by him.
"What do you mean by that?" I inquired.
"No offense, but five adults taking care of six kids." Chuck explained as it earned two insulted glares by me and Ben as Emily give him a glance. Chuck did notice and turned his head to Ben and Emily. "Sorry for disrespects."
"It's okay, besides I'm 20." Emily accepted Chuck's apology, but Ben didn't say anything and just look down with a insulted glare.
"And I'm 15 years old. My birthday was ten days ago before this mess started." I said with a boring eyesight.
"Sorry that this chaos shows up right after your good time, kid. Gotten any presents?" Chuck asked.
I'm close my eyes and shook my head. I wasn't home at that time because I was busy to break deals with other criminal people.
"No. I didn't have good time to be in home, plus my mother has passed away one month ago before my birthday." I replied in sad tones.
"I'm so sorry for your mother, but I'm sure you're fighting to survive for her sake." Chuck said and have sympathetic expression on his face.
"Yeah, she even told me once that no matter what I do, she'll always on my side." I said with a smile until it change to sad one. Anyway, about you said early that there is "five" adults and "six" kids here, it were little more of us before you."
"Dead get 'em?" Chuck asked.
No, many people are dead by the walkers, but our own people are killed by living; Mark was killed and almost eaten by St Johns, Larry was already dead by heart attack as I saw his eyes wasn't the same before Kenny smash his head, Lilly accidentally killed Travis but she didn't had any remorse on her face and then we left her behind with the walkers.
"No." I replied.
"Ah... living got 'em." Chuck said.
"No doubt about it." I commented.
"What did you weren't home on your birthday if you don't mind to answer that?" Chuck asked as I wide my eyes by his question, but I realize that everyone knows about my past now and Chuck doesn't seem have a problem with a drug-dealer like me or convicted murder like Lee.
"I was cut off from the school and then become a drug-dealer to make money for my sick mother, but it was too late even I was almost there after two years work." I explained.
"Oh, now this crew have two criminals here now." Chuck scoffed little as I wide my eyes and everyone looking surprised at Chuck. "Don't worry about me, just stealing some stuff, mostly whiskeys."
As I and Lee look each other and shrugs then. No wonder why it's smelling so alcohol in here.
Suddenly, we heard someone coughs, but it sound weak as I knew it was Doug and his mouth is covered by his blood. Katjaa look little panic now, but still keep holding her own son.
"Emily! Em, I need your help! My hands are full." Katjaa exclaimed as Emily stands up and walked over to them with a towel.
Shit! You know what it means? Everyone looking chock and sad at the poor boy that he has no much time now.
"I'm coming." Emily said and bends down to wiping off the blood from his mouth. When Emily was done, she looking the towel and there was too much blood as she shook her head before she stands up on her legs. "There is... no much time. I'm so sorry Katjaa. I'm really am, but we have to..."
Emily couldn't say or don't want say to Katjaa, but the mother looks understandingly and know what will happen next.
"We need to stop the train." Katjaa stated.
"Okay." I heard Lee said and stands up. "Stay with Carley, sweet peat. I'll be back soon." Lee said to Clem who has been little quiet and didn't answer back to her guardian.
"Please." Katjaa said humble as Lee nodded.
"Are you sure Kenny will listen to you?" Carley asked with a doubtful look.
"He will understand, I promise. Just look after Clementine while I talking with Kenny." Lee said hopefully and opened the door to the outside, to the train.
After he closed the door, I got a skeptical expression on my face as I sighed. Honestly, Kenny is in denial, but Lee is smart to make reason with someone else in our group. Well, not that asshole Larry who believed that Lee is a dangerous because he knew the past his past, that old coat was so hateful and angry every time.
Then I look over my shoulder at the others who still look desperation and sad. Hmm, maybe I need to cheer them little up before Duck... I sighed and couldn't think about what will happen when it comes. Then I came up an idea as I wide my eyes. I can tell little about one of stories about my past with Anti-JJ with no blood or no drugs or not kill either. I turned around and walked to the wall where Clem and Carley leaned behind on it. I standing right next to them as I take a breath.
"Me and my friends was going to be executed by bad people." I said as everyone started looking at me now.
"You were what?" Clem asked and didn't really followed what did I say.
"Me and my friends was going to be executed, almost killed by bad people." I repeated correctly.
"Are you talking about your past with Anti-JJ?" Carley realized what I mean.
"That's right." I confirmed.
"Oh, what happened?" Cath asked and getting little curiously.
"Cath." Emily said to her little sister with a warning tone and looking at me. "Axel, I don't think it is a good time to tell a story, especially a violent and danger one."
"It is not a violent or drugs or blood either. Besides, we might need to cheer us little up before... you know." I explained and looking at Katjaa with a sad look.
Katjaa just looking down and thinking if it's a good idea to cheer everyone up before Duck's time is out.
"I think Axel want making us to be less desperation, it is good for everyone before Kenny stop the train. Plus I think Duck wanna hear an awesome story before." Katjaa explained as Emily look now understandingly by the mother's words and Axel smile at her statement.
"Okay, okay, so listen now..." I take a breath as everyone looking at me except Duck as his eyes is close, but probably he can hear me. "It was one year ago, when I and two of my friends were going on some business until we're caught by some bad people who are members of a dangerous criminal organization, The Pack."
Carley wide her eyes then. "What? The Pack? That's a very dangerous and nasty gang over the whole of Atlanta and other cities too. How the hell did you guys survived from being kill by them?" Carley asked in chock.
"Our luck saved us... or their luck turn itself against them. They brought us in an abandoned building and..."
End of Axel's POV
Flashback in a abandoned building. 1 year earlier.
In a big parlor, there was five persons and three of them was Axel, Jessica aka JJ or Ica and Chidike "Chi". They wear black clothes except Chidike have blue jeans. Their hands are tied from behind of their backs as a guy who was right front of them and wears black clothes like a leather jacket and a roaring wolf mask. He holding his gun and aiming at them to make sure they don't any stupidities while there was another a person who wears leather jacket and a wolf mask too, but this mask is a fang bearing one and the left ear of the mask is broken. This member's voice sounds like a man when he speaking on his phone and have his back against Axel and his friends as he didn't noticed many glares from members of Anti-JJ.
"Sure hell, boss. Yeah, it was easy like a golden fish in sack." The Pack's member with a broken ear scoffed.
While he's speaking on the phone, teenagers start whispering each other.
"What're we gonna do? He's calling to him and come here to kill us." Chi said with worried in his eyes.
Axel didn't say anything and just keeping his intense glare at members of the Pack.
"Well, I'd gonna take the risk to see him, face to face like fifty-fifty." JJ scoffed and looking at the member who holding his and aimed at her and her friends. "Hey, you. Look the other way, it might be profitable for you."
"Shut up, you bitch." The Pack's member snapped and turn around to his companion. "Hey, how's going with our boss? I'm tired of this bullshit."
"Shut up back there and don't disturb me." The member with a broken ear said sarcastic and talk on the phone.
"Disturbing you?! These brats are the one who disturbing you, including me too!" The member with a gun barked.
While members of the Pack fuss each other, Axel and Chi just staring at them.
"Eh, while they just babbling around, I think we have a little chance to escape before that dude going back to keep watch at us." Chi suggested to escape now.
"It's too risky while we're still tied up, right Ica?" Axel disagree Chi's idea and then noticed that JJ wasn't right next to them.
They look behind and found JJ who had sneaking behind to a fireplace and leaning her back against it as the boys wide their eyes and the members of the Pack didn't noticed.
"What the hell are you doing?" Chi whispered as Axel realize what JJ trying to do.
"I think she trying to burning up the rope of her hands. Stupid, but smart there." Axel explained.
"Is she's really nuts? She'll gonna burn herself." Chi said and look disbelief at their leader.
JJ leaned little more as she look little grim with her teeth by the pain, but the rope have finally burns up and her hands are free. Then she approach Axel and Chi. Members of the Pack didn't notice that JJ is free as they still barking each other.
"Nice trick there, lady. You always thinking up something crazy like you could hurt yourself." Axel complained as JJ started tied out the rope off his hands.
"You two need think little realistic and stop sending your anger emotions to these assholes while our lives is in risk." JJ complained as Axel sighed.
"Well, you could have die by burning yourself." Chi scoffed as JJ give him a glare and slap on his face. "Oouu-!" but Axel places his mouth from stopping yelp out loudly so the members can't hear him.
"I rather die to be burning than be killed by my archenemy, it feels like a loser if you ask me." JJ whispered with anger tone in her voice.
When JJ tied out the rope off Chi's arms, the boys start to sneak behind of the member with the gun as Axel and Chi glancing each other and nodded.
"Why are we even here then?! You know what? Fine-" But the member cut off when Chi grabbed him with his arm around the throat while Axel grab both of legs. Chi is a strong teenager and have no problem to knock a enemy with a little help. While the boys wrestling the member down, JJ just walking through them and approach the member with broken ear.
"Sure, but you better watch yourself. That Sawyer dude isn't dummy as what you believe it." Member with broke ear still talking on the phone with his boss, probably the leader of the Pack. "Yes, I waiting here with them, be careful if the other three members is probably outside and waiting for you to attack."
Then the member with broken ear stop talking with phone and place it on a table right front of him.
"He, he, here we-" But when the member turn around to see his "prisoners", he got immediately a knock right on his face which it made him to fall on the table and it broke into two parts.
"Go, was it?" It was JJ who knocked the member with broken ear who laying between the parts of the table.
He looking at JJ and then at the boys who just knocked his companion. They can't see how the member with broken ear feels now, but they assume that he's angry now.
"Oh yeah! You wanna piece of me?! Fine, let's see if you can take any pieces like this!" The member with broken ear bellowed and grabbed something under the table.
Then he raise a shotgun up and aiming at JJ but before he could pull on the trigger, Axel came and attack from nowhere. Axel grip the member's shotgun and wrestling the member down, but the criminal force back when he and teenager hunter starting rolling around on the floor. Until they stopped and Axel was on the member with broken ear as they still holding the shotgun.
"Just go! I keep him in busy with me!" Axel yelled as JJ and Chi wide their eyes in shock after heard those words from their friend.
"No fucking way, your moron! We're not leaving you!" Chi shot back and start running to help Axel, but the member notice and start firing his shotgun.
"Watch out!" JJ yelled as she pushed Chi and they both landing on the floor to avoid from be hit by gunshot.
The member still wrestling with Axel while keep firing his shotgun as he don't know where he's firing on.
Some glass, pots and some thing come into many pieces by gunshot when they hit them. Chi and JJ take cover right behind of a piano.
"Geez, what the hell is wrong with him?" Chi said angrily.
"He's the worst of all members in the Pack, after him. I don't why he keep that jackass in his crew." JJ snarled while she leaned her face to see how's going with their friend and the member with broken ear.
They still wrestling each other while the member still pulling on the trigger and firing on everything.
"Well, Axel got little control with that crazy dude. At least we're fine here." Chi said hopefully.
"Fine? You know gunshots isn't just a threat except something else for the Pack." JJ laughed sarcastic.
Chi realize what did JJ talking about as he wide eyes in horror. "Holy shit..."
The gunshot are going to warn the others members who are in another room. The members wears leather jackets and wolf masks too and heard the gunshots as they getting their guns until one of them has stopped the rest from to find out what's going on.
"Stay here, I going to see what's going on up there." A member has a wolf mask and his voice sounds like he's in JJ's and the boys's age, a teenager as he is smaller than the rest of members.
"You are the one who have to find out what's going on up there?!" One of member scoffed.
"I said stay here and secure the doors and windows in this floor, just in case if our prisoners are heading to escape from here!" The smallest member snapped and heading to the stairs.
Back in the parlor, Axel has finally went right behind of the member with broken ear and grabbed the shotgun. He trying to strangle with the shotgun right to member's throat who still holding it and even have his finger on the trigger.
"Drop... that thing!" Axel snarled with angrily tones in his voice.
"Fuck OFF!" The member with broken ear snapped and firing one more time.
Then the smallest member appear into the parlor and saw what just happening. He staring at one of his buddies who fighting with Axel. Before he could react, he notice Chi were going to move away from the piano.
"Hey!" The smallest member yelled as he reach something from his leather jacket and throw a hatchet right at Chi, but the muscles teenager jump back to behind of the piano.
The hatchet hit at the wall and stuck it. Then the smallest member take another hatchet from leather jacket and in his other hand holding a revolver as he start to approach the piano.
"Alright there, just don't make me to throw another hatchet at you! Let just be cool and nobody will gets really hurt!" The smallest tried to reason with Chi and JJ, but shook their heads.
"Go fuck yourself and plus, if you say nobody will gets hurt which that goes double for your buddy who screwing around with one of my boys!" JJ scoffed with a smile and referred Axel and the member with broken who still fighting each other.
"Don't try test me! Just come out there and-" The smallest yelled but suddenly, shotgun firing at a lamp right above of him.
The lamp falling down from the roof and landing on the smallest member's head which he collapse down to the floor. He didn't move then which mean that he's in unconscious as Chi and JJ saw what just happened.
"Ha, that's happen when you just ignore the real problem, jackass." Chi laughed.
"Heh, yeah. I guess the Pack's lucky turn against them now." JJ scoffed and agreed with Chi support.
Then the member with broken ear have managed to grab Axel's arm. The member flung the teenager over his shoulder and into the floor, then he aiming with his shotgun at Axel, but the gun's clicking which the bullets are empty.
"Fuck!" The member with broken ear exclaimed with angrily tone in his voice.
"Hey, dogie! Take this to chill you up!" The member with broken ear looking to the right and see Chidike pushing the piano which it rolling right to him which he yelped upon hitting by piano.
Chi hit the guy with the piano and as he continue rolling the piano and crash right at the wall and the member with broken ear was stuck between wall and piano. Then suddenly...
"AAAAAAAHHH!" The member screamed and jumped as he push the piano away from him so hard.
It appear that Chi must have sent that member to the fireplace which means is the criminal's butt and leather jacket start to burning. The member took his jacket off of him and throw away before it could burn him and the fire on his butt has gone out.
"Or maybe you need a little warm-up again?" Chi chuckled as the member looking at Chi which it's hardly to see how he feels because he wears the wolf mask, but it's for sure that he's angry now.
"You... you... little fucking brat!" The member snarled at Chi and he grabs a firewood from the fireplace as the muscles teenager start to take some back-steps.
"Wait! Don't do this! You'll burn this place with our ten millions-" The smallest member has wake up and exclaimed at his companion, but the member with broken ear didn't listened and throw the firewood at Chi.
Chi move away from be hit by the firewood, but it hit one of curtains which it the fire of the wood start to spread out on it.
"Dammit, man! You've fucking burn this place!" The smallest exclaimed angrily as he carry another member who has the gun and walk away with him.
The member with broken ear grab another gun and aiming at Chi and Axel as the boys run away from him and follow after their leader, JJ who running to a window.
"Hold on back there! Here come's the fun part!" JJ exclaimed.
"I telling you, this is crazy!" Chi complained, but keep running after JJ with Axel as the member with broken ear starting to fire the gun.
"Don't try to escape from me! Hey, come back!" The member with broken ear exclaimed while firing with the gun, but missed teenagers.
JJ jump to the window and crashing through it as Axel and Chi did the same after her.
Back to the present.
Axel's POV
"...and then we landed on a damn dumpster, luckily no one of us didn't broke any legs. Then we run off from that building which the Pack lost their ten millions in there, burned out into ash." I told the story done. "That's how we escape from being killed."
Everyone looks with impressive and curiosity look.
"No way. Is this really truth that guy got fire on his butt?" Cath chuckles as I nodded with a smile.
"Wow, that was really intense but very impressive to mock with some armed bastards." Doug said and look impressed by Axel's story.
I see Duck didn't say or show any expression about my story, but I'm sure he would ask me to tell one more story. But then I see Clementine look more chock than impressive. As then, she stands up and approach me with a curiously expression on her face.
"Axel... you said one of your friends is named Chidike?" Clem asked.
"Ehh, yes. Is there something obviously?" I replied.
Clem's face fell down as I getting little worry about her. "Hey, what's the matter?" I asked and bends down to her level.
She just look away during seconds, but then she looking at me with a sad look.
"Did he have problem with... something like school?" Clem guessed as I wide my eyes.
I looking at her in chock as I looking everyone who staring at me and Clem. Wait, how did she know about Chidike's problems in his life? Cath was the only one who I have talked about the gang's problems in their lives. I don't think Cath could have told to Clem because I heard what Clem asked Lee about what's a drug-dealer last night... Wait a minute... she mentioned something about her family... no, no, no. No fucking way. Then I looking at her with a curiously face.
"Yeah, it is true. He has or had problems like that, but how did you guess right?" I asked.
Clem look down with a sad face and feels guilty now.
"I have... a big brother and his name is... Chidike but me and his friends call him Chi." Clem said slow and I leaned behind in chock by heard the words from her mouth.
"What?" I gasped little as the others looking at me and Clem. "Wait Clem, is that really-" I tried ask but interrupted when we feel the train began to slow which means that Lee has finally convinced Kenny to stop the train.
"Kenny stopped the train." Emily said and look surprised.
I can't believe it that Clem is Chidike's little sister, but she maybe have mistaken but she already mentioned to Lee that she have a older brother and guessed right that Chi's problems in his life. I wanna asking her about Chi's life as he himself didn't talked or mentioned about his family, but I realize that it is not the good time because it's time to say good-bye to Duck before...
Then train stop moving and stand still now as we start to get off of the boxcar now.
To be continued.
A/N: Haha, that was a funny story and after that, Clem revealed to Axel that Chidike is Clem's older brother who was a member of Anti-JJ along with Axel.
Here's the info about Chidike.
Name: Chidike "Chi"
Age: 15 (Season 1), 17 (Season 2)
Appearance: He looks just like his father, Ed. But younger and his nose is little smaller than his old man. He wears jeans and black hoodie.
Family: Clementine (little sister), Diana (mother), Ed (father)
Personality: He is helpful and kind guy. But can be violent sometimes when someone try to hurt his family and his friends. He becomes little instability like being more violent than before and sarcastic. But despite that, even during the apocalypse he still really care his little sister and will always love her. He has muscles and can beat someone down with just a lucky knock, but not people like Larry.
That OC belongs to Destiny Kid "DK".
Letter Hacks:
The smallest one with hatchets and the other one who have a broken ear of the mask with a shotgun are high ranking members of the Pack.
Telltale has originally planed that Clementine should have a big brother, but they scrapped that idea and create Lee then. That was probably the main reason about why DK created Chidike in his old stories.
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