Everyone that wasn't entangled in the bear trap froze stiff, Sarah gripping Carlos's shirt in fear. Travis looked around with an expression of fear on his face. "Oh no..." he nearly panicked. Immediately, he bent down and attempted to free Mr. Parker from the bear trap.

"How are you gonna unlatch that?" Ben questioned, looking around as the walkers began to show themselves.

"Ben, shut up!" Travis chastised. "My dad was Special Forces, I know what I'm doing!"

"Oh God, please! Get me out of here!" David begged.

Carlos then heard running footsteps, and saw two men, one with dark skin and a leather jacket and another with glasses, bolting towards them with weapons in hand. Sarah gasped and gripped her father's shirt tighter and stared at them with eyes the size of saucers. They didn't look like the bandits who had raided their camp, but what if they tried to hurt them?

"Jesus Christ..." the man with glasses spoke as the two strangers watched the situation. That's when Travis and Ben turned their attention to the new people, and finally noticed they were standing there watching.

"Please don't kill us!" Travis begged, "We're just trying to help our teacher."

Sarah stood, still clutching her father's shirt, whimpering in fear at the situation. And that's when she saw another man running up, he had a mustache, and was wearing a hat. "Lee! Are you guys okay?" the new stranger said.

"Dad, what's going to happen?" Sarah whispered as she hid behind her father.

"Just stay quiet honey," he replied back.

"Just get this fucking thing off me!" David yelled loudly, clutching his leg in pain. The walkers were getting closer, and everyone knew they didn't have much time.

"Travis, maybe they can help!" Ben suggested, trying to stay positive.

"These might be the same guys that raided our camp and...we barely got away from that!" Travis argued.

"Why the fuck is there a bear trap out here?!" the mustached man inquired.

"We don't know!" Carlos exclaimed, his arm around his shaking daughter protectively.

"Lee, we have to help!" the man in the glasses turned to his friend.

The walkers were beginning to appear more noticeably now, and Sarah's breathing began to pick up. Carlos desperately hoped that she wouldn't go into one of her anxiety attacks out here. The raven-haired teenager couldn't keep her eyes off of these new people.

"Please, try to get him out of there!" Ben nearly yelled. "I swear, we'll never bother you again!"

"Lee, this is fucked up, we've gotta help him," the man with the glasses said.

"Was he bitten?" the man, Lee, spoke.

"No!" Ben answered immediately. "Just please, get him out of there, and then you can leave us or whatever..."

"Okay," Lee said. "Let's get him out of there."

"You have to hurry," the man with the mustache said. The man with the glasses then bent down to look at the trap. A confused look rested on his face as he looked back up at Lee.

"The trap's been altered, there's no release latch..."

The growling of the nearby walkers was beginning to get louder, and Sarah squeezed her eyes tightly shut. Carlos used to tell her that there was no such thing as monsters, but now he was definitely wrong on that aspect.

"Shit! Walkers! It's now or never, Lee!" the mustached man shouted.

"Oh God, please..." David trailed off.

"Mark, get everybody back!" Lee instructed his friend in the glasses. He turned to the mustached man. "Kenny, keep those walkers off of me."

He bent down and tried to release the trap once, but to no avail. He knew that he had to do the inevitable now: Cut David free from the trap. Lee stood up and raised the axe he was holding, and looked down at Mr. Parker with a regretful expression.

"I'm gonna have to cut you out," he said.

"No no no!" David pleaded. "Try the trap again! Anything, please!"

"Sarah, don't look," Carlos ordered.

She looked away and squeezed her eyes shut tight, and then she heard the bone crunch when Lee brought the axe down on David's leg. He didn't cut all the way through on the first try, so he had to do it again, and again, and again, and again, until finally Mr. Parker was cut free. Once his leg was off, he passed out.

"Is he..." Mark trailed off while Travis puked at the sight of his teacher.

"He passed out." Lee said.

"What do we do now?" Carlos asked.

"If he's alive, grab him and let's go!" Kenny ordered. The walkers were right upon them now, so they had to act fast.

Travis retched violently at the sight of his teacher's one leg. The walkers were beginning to close in on him now. Lee's eyes widened, and he warned him. "BEHIND YOU!" The boy screamed and began to back away.

Carlos had to do something fast, wanting to prevent Travis from getting eaten. He told Sarah to stay close to Ben and ran to help. Quickly, he ran over and grabbed Travis before he could fall over, pulling him away before he could get devoured.

"We have to go!" Carlos demanded.

Mark scooped up David, and the whole group ran away from the oncoming walkers. Sarah clutched to her father as they ran, until finally, they arrived at a motel, which must have been the stranger's camp, or where they were staying.

"Get the gates open, we've got wounded!" Lee yelled as they approached the entrance. Sarah noticed a woman guarding the camp, as she sat atop and RV with a gun. When they were inside the motel parking lot, they were approached by more strangers.

"What's going on?"

"Who the hell are these people?"

Sarah only hid behind her father, not wanting to get yelled at any more today.

There was pandemonium and commotion coming from quite a large group of people, including a little girl. Sarah was a little more than uncomfortable since she wasn't used to being around so many strangers at once.

"I don't have time to explain!" Lee called over all the noise.

"Lee, are you okay?" the little girl asked.

"Get him into the truck, I'll see if I can fix him," a woman with blonde hair ordered.

Carlos was about to say something when the woman who was guarding the camp spoke up.

"Lee! LEE!" she yelled. "What the hell? You can't just be bringing new people here! What are you thinking?!"

"Hey! You wanna calm down for a fucking minute?" Kenny asked angrily.

"Watch your mouth!" an older man yelled.

"I want to know why you thought bringing more mouths to feed was a good idea!" she yelled, causing Sarah to flinch.

"He would have died if we left him," Lee retorted.

"So what?" the older man said.

"We are not responsible for every struggling survivor out there. We have to worry about our own group, right here!" the woman yelled.

"Well hang on," another girl with short brown hair interrupted. "We haven't even talked to these people yet, maybe they can help us," she suggested. Sarah decided that she liked that girl, she was nicer than all the other ones.

"Come on, Lilly! These are people! People trying to survive just like us!" Mark backed her up.

"The only reason you're here is because you had food, enough for all of us! And that food is almost gone." The woman, Lilly, turned to Carlos and Ben in a sarcastic manner. "And I don't suppose you guys are carrying any groceries, are you?"

"Um...no," Ben responded.

"Fine, you guys fight it out," Mark wasn't going to be involved in this. "Welcome to the family, everybody." He walked off.

Just then, the little girl approached Ben and took his hand. "Come over here and see what I drew."

"What? No, I-" Ben was interrupted when the little girl began to drag him away.

"Just come on, okay?"

The little girl took him over to Sarah, and looked up at her. "Come on, you guys can color with us."

Sarah didn't know what to think. There were other kids she could play with here, but not all of the people seemed very nice. She turned to Carlos for his approval.

"You can go sweetie," he told her, and she gave him a small smile before walking off with her hopefully new friends.

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