Hey everyone! And welcome back to- *drumroll* THE HELLISH WORLD WE LIVE IN!* And also, about the OCs. Yeah, if you submit an OC just please have them do something other than being a big morale boost. To many of them of them, no offense to the people who actually had morale characters before this chapter. Why not have someone who decreases morale? Someone who is actually SMART? But anyway, enough of my ramblings, time for the story! Also, I don't own WD or Telltale, to my heart's disappointment.
Drew's POV (Also, if you do want other POVs just tell me in the reviews)
I had to save them, letting them die would be inhuman. I nodded at Sal, showing him I approved of the plan. Sal grinned at me while Cristina looked at both of us.
"You can't be serious you two! You'll get killed out there!" Cristina complained, wide eyed.
"Sorry princess, we have to save them." Sal said, looking back over the bush at the bandits. I looked back over there myself to see the first bandit pull out his rifle and point it at the kid. The kid immediately started to get visibly nervous, rambling on things we couldn't here. As the bandit started to pull the trigger-
*Bang*
The bandit stood there for a second, wide eyed as he instantly died and then fell to the ground. The kid pulled what I assumed his sister into cover being a tree as the other bandits shouted to one other. And that's what I realized something.
We were only behind a bush.
The bandit took aim and fired at us, hitting Sal in the leg. Sal let out sudden cry, falling to the ground, clutching his leg. I picked up the shotgun he had with him and began returning fire. I'm not letting you two down. Not like John! I thought, hitting one of the bandits in the chest, sending him sprawling toward the ground. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see trying to hold onto his life, until with one wheezing breath, went dead. Two down, one to go. The other bandit looked shocked at his two dead companions and jumped into cover behind a tree. Cross fire continued for a while until I heard a rustle from one of the bushes next to the man. Jumped out was what I dreaded. More bandits. Five to be exact, the man couldn't keep missing now. Time to get to solid cover! I pulled Sal who was crying out in a pain and a dumbstruck Cristina over to a conveniently large rock. I could hear the bandits firing at us; one bullet clipped my ear, bringing forth blood.
"Cristina, do your job! Make sure Sal doesn't die of blood loss!" I shouted for myself to be heard over the whizzing bullets. Cristina shook her head, as if coming from a trance and immediately began working on Sal's wound. I struck two more bandits in the head, sending them to the forest floor. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see the first bandit get up, reanimated and started making his way over to the other bandits. One of the bandits, the one to shout for reinforcements, tried to warn the other but it was too late. The man got mauled by the walker, the man screaming while it tore open the man as easily as walking. I looked down while he got eaten, the other bandit I could see was on the verge of tears, he just witnessed seven of his people die, and then gets eaten by one another. The man killed the walker and rushed over to the other, kneeling over the other while the man whispered his regards. The man put a bullet through his friend's eyes and then turned to me.
"I'll kill you! I'll goddamn kill you, you hear me? I will get my revenge!" The man shouted before running farther into the woods. Right, bandits had been taken care of, what about my people? I looked over to Sal who was at first I thought dead, but then saw his chest rise up and down. I turned my gaze on a bloody handed Cristina, holding the extracted bullet. I thanked Cristina and got up; I don't think the woman even heard me. I walked over to the boy and his sister and looked behind the tree. The boy faced me, hands shaking, holding a crossbow. At my face.
"W-who are you? What do you want?" The boy said, shaking. The poor kid was almost friengtend to death, paler than anything I'd ever seen. I raised my hands.
"Look kid, I'm not going to hurt you, just lower the crossbow. I did just save your life." The kid relaxed and lowered his crossbow.
"What's your name?" The boy asked.
"Drew" I said, extending my hand. The kid looked at my hand and then hesitantly shook it.
"What's your name?" I asked. The kid smiled.
"William. William Harrington." William said. I smiled.
"And who's this?" I asked, kneeling down to eye level of the girl. At first, she ducked between her brother's legs again but slowly peeked her head out.
"My name's… Tess…" Tess furrowed her brow in a cute way. "Harrington… I think." My smile faltered for a moment. This kid couldn't even recall her last name; this just goes to show how the apocalypse changes people. I looked at both children for a moment, actually bothering to see what they looked like. William had brown hair, a jets baseball cap, and who were they again? Anyway, green eyes, blue flannel T-shirt, green jeans that were covered in dirt and black dirt. Tess had green eyes, dirty blonde hair, going to her shoulders, a purple shirt and blue sneaker shoes.
"Alright, it's safe to come out you two." I said, urging them out. William looked around the tree and nodded to Tess. As Tess came out, William turned her away from the dead bandits and made her look forward. Tess looked up at William.
"Will, what happened to those bad people?" She asked, an innocent look on her face.
William's face hardened. "Their gone Tess." He said, directing Tess away from the dead bodies. It was nice how much William cared about Tess. Sal. I thought, rembering how he was hit and checked up on him again, waving for Tess and William to follow. I turned the corner to see Sal good, a bandage on his leg where the bullet hit. Sal began to gain conscious and I knelt to him and shook him.
"Hey, you alive?" I asked.
A "Shut up Drew" Was all I got in response. Sal opened his eyes and looked over to Cristina, who was now packing her medical equipment.
"Thanks Cristina, if you weren't there, I would have been dead now." Sal said, making Cristina blush. I introduced William and Tess to them and they decided to come with us, deciding it was too dangerous to go on without anyone else.
*three days later*
We were walking along when Sal abruptly stopped. The rest of us followed suit, William looking for any possible enemy, getting out his crossbow. Sal pointed to a bridge.
"That's the bridge I fell in!" Sal said, excited. He looked around for his brother to see no sign of him.
"We should go through that bridge!" Sal said. "If you guys won't go, I'll go, I need to find Lex."
Cristina nodded. "Don't see why not." On the other hand, William shook his head.
"I heard a group lives up there. We don't know if their dangerous or not and I'm not taking any chances." Tess in suit, nodded.
Sal looked at William. "And if this group is friendly?" William hesitated but then hung his head.
"Fine, let's go." As if on quee, a moan came from behind us. We turned around to see a big horde of walkers walking toward us.
"Damnit! They must have heard the gunshots!" Sal said, backing towards the bridge.
"Looks like we don't have a choice on where to go now." I said, turning to the bridge as well. We all run across, luckily not trigging the fragile bridge to break underneath us. When we got across, I turned to see the horde advancing on us. To my left, I saw some levers. One red, the other green.
"Hey, those might pull up the bridge!" I called. Sal looked at them.
"Which one though? We only have time to pull one, and that is if the thing still has power!" Sal was right but I still needed to try.
[Green lever]
[red lever]
Pkay, the only choice that is actually hard! So what did you guys think of that firefight? I loved it! To be honest, if that hadn't happened, this chapter would have been a lot shorter and boring. So what about the team so far? I like them! As always, Fav, follow and review!