The Walking Dead: only trying to do the right thing

Chapter 8: arrival at Savannah

Sorry this was a little late. I was busy, but I have a little vacation for a while so I will have time to continue writing my stories. Enjoy.

After an hour or so had passed, the group finally made it to Savannah where the city looked completely deserted. Lee did not have the chance to talk to the Clementine about the man he heard on the radio, not knowing what to say. Just to be safe though, he kept the radio at the side of his pants.

The remaining group members walked down towards the abandon road, making their way to the river where there should hopefully be boats for them to take them to freedom. The wind blew as abandon cars made creaking

Lee walked down the road silently with Clementine at his side, Christa and Omid walked together due to Omid having a trouble walking, Carley held her shotgun firmly, in case of any walkers, and Kenny held the sniper rifle while his son and wife walked close to him. As for Chuck, he held a shovel over his shoulder he kept with him in the boxcar.

"Can't I just hold it?" Clementine inquired to Lee, obviously wanting it in hopes she mind find her parents soon while she looked at her radio. "Just for a little while? We're getting close to where my mom and dad are, maybe I can-"

"Not now, Clementine. Maybe later, okay?" Lee answered, really concerned about his adoptive daughter ever since he, Kenny, and Duck first heard about the stranger through her walkie-talkie.

"Okay." she replied, deep down, she was slightly disappointed.

"Kenny, how much further to the river front?" Lee asked, looking over the others shoulders to see Kenny, who was leading the group from the front.

"Should be just a few more blocks up ahead." Kenny answered, keeping an close eye on all of the buildings around him, thinking that any moment now, walkers would suddenly emerge.

"And they'll be boats there?" Christa asked

"There sure as hell better be." Lee hoped, obviously knowing that if there was no boats, then what? They could not exactly go back to the Motor Inn.

"There'll be boats." Kenny assured, mumbling to himself slightly as they continued walking down the middle of the road. "Have to be. Have to be."

"Don't worry, everyone. Kenny is sure that there is boats there, and I have faith in him." Katjaa assured the group, getting a slight supportive nod from her husband.

The group continued their way through the ghost town until they all suddenly froze in their steps when the bell from the church nearby was beginning to ring out loud. Who in their right mind would ring a bell in this day and age?

"What the...?" Lee said, looking around in every direction for any sign of life, or however rang that bell.

"Maybe this city's not so dead after all..." Christa said, now concerned that they are not alone out here.

"Keep moving." Kenny ordered, turning around towards the rest of the group to assure them they were fine before they would end up panicking. "No-one's ringing that bell, it's automatic, on a timer."

Lee lifted his left arm and looked to his watch, realizing that a bell would never go off at this time, even if it was automatic. "What kind of church bell goes off at twenty past the hour?"

Lee then looked towards the bell tower roof, and what he saw next shocked him. He saw someone, despite it being just for a quick second, he knew one-hundred percent fact that he saw someone. "Someone's up there."

"Are you sure?" Carley asked, looking in the same direction Lee was looking, only to see nothing there at all. "I can't see anyone."

Before Lee could respond, a static crackle emerged from the walkie-talkie at the side of his pants. He and the others watched as the voice on the other end spoke to them, and Lee knew that this was the same person he heard on the train.

"If I were you, I'd get out of the street. Now." the voice on the other end warned, immediately cutting off afterwards.

"I thought you said that thing didn't work!" Christa asked, placing a hand near her hip, recalling when Lee had explained to her why Clementine had the walkie-talkie when they first met.

Lee ignored her for a moment while he lifted the walkie-talkie up into his face and held down the button in an attempt to respond to however this was. He suspected that this could be the same person he saw a moment ago, so there was a start. "Who is this? Is that you in the bell tower?"

Silence filled the air for a few seconds as they waited for the voice on the other end to respond to Lee's question, but unfortunately, he did not reply, meaning he was not going to either.

"What the hell was that?" Omid asked, suspecting that he and the others may have just walked into a trap. "Is someone trying to fuck with us?"

"Sounds like a warning to me." Carley said, scanning the area closely with the sniper rifle held tight in her grip in case that bell noise had attracted any unwanted attention.

While the others discussed, Chuck had turned around for a moment where he spotted trouble ahead. He remained calm as he spoke. "Ask not for whom the bell tolls..."

"What're you yammerin' on about?" Kenny asked, turning his attention to the older man, not understanding what he meant exactly with the words from a novel.

Everyone else turned towards the direction Chuck was facing where they saw trouble was coming. Many walkers had been attracted by the sounds of the bell ringing, and now they were looking for a fresh meal to eat, and luck for them, nine people just happened to be there.

"It tolls for thee..." Chuck finished, gripping his shovel slightly, expecting a fight with the walkers.

The bell finally stopped ringing as the walkers moved in on them in every direction while the group all remained still, not sure on what to do until Lee finally shouted in a panic to escape. "Everybody, RUN!"

In a split second, everyone ran off in almost different directions, desperately wanting to escape. Carley, Kenny, and Christa fired a couple of shots from their weapons while everyone else ran, except for Chuck, who was easily knocking them away with his shovel.

As they were running, Kenny had turned around in a split-second when he spotted his son had been grabbed by a nearby walker stuck under a car. The young boy panicked as he desperately tried to crawl away. "HELP! DAD!"

"DUCK!" Kenny screamed, doing a U-turn from where he was running as he made haste to help his son from death before it was too late. He watched the walker was about to take a bite out from his leg. "NOOO!"

Before the walker had the chance to bite his leg, a bullet suddenly shot through his skull, killing him instantly.

Kenny didn't both to check if he was dead or not, but he did grab his son and picked him up tight in his arms, just like he did when he was almost killed by the walkers at Hershel's farm. He turned his head where he saw Lee standing nearby, and he assumed it was him who saved his son's life yet again. "Thanks, Lee. Little too close, don't you think?"

"It wasn't me!" Lee replied, realizing that he did not have Carley's pistol in his pocket.

As confession spread the air, Kenny and Lee turned around where they saw Katjaa holding and aiming the pistol in the direction where Duck was, shaking slightly as she lowered it down. She did not like guns and wanted to avoid danger, but like it or not, she knew a gun is what saves your life from now on. And now she had just saved one.

Lee gave her a slight nod as he took the pistol from her hands, knowing that he was better in using them than she was. He did not have the chance to calm her down from her first time shooting a gun when he heard cries for help coming from nearby.

"Lee!"

Lee swiftly spun around where Carley and Clementine were trapped against a wall as walkers moved in on them in every direction. Carley attempted to shoot them, but the shotgun had ran out of shells, and her pistol was currently in Lee's possession.

"No!" Lee screamed, not wanting to lose the two people he had feelings for as he took out his pistol and began to pick them off one by one. "Hang in there!"

As Lee continued to clear them off the best he could in an attempt to make an exit for them both, he spotted another walker moving in on Clementine's side, and Carley was in the way for him to make a clear shot.

"Ahh!" Clementine screamed, seeing the walker move in on her as Carley grabbed her in a protective hug like a motherly-figure to her.

The walker did not have the chance to get them as he was knocked down by a strong slam of a shovel, and when he was done, the end of the shovel was impaled into his stomach.

"Get her the hell out of here!" Chuck yelled to Carley, who picked up Clementine in a similar way to Kenny picking up Duck and ran off towards Omid and Christa's position. "I'll catch up with ya!"

"Keep moving, we're almost there!" Kenny shouted, running with his family down the road until he spotted more walkers blocking his way, yet again, another obstacle blocking his way from getting a boat. "Oh, gimme a fucking break!"

"Wait, where the hell's Chuck?" Christa asked, realizing that the older man was nowhere to be seen.

Everyone turned around where they saw Chuck fighting off all the walkers that came towards him with his shovel, keeping them distracted long enough for the others too escape.

"Shit! He's in trouble, we gotta help him!" Omid said before he and the others knew that there was too many of them moving in, and there was no way they could make it to Chuck in one piece.

"There's no time! We gotta go, now!" Kenny shouted, him too knowing that they could not help him now.

"I'll be fine!" Chuck assured, calling out to them as he whacked another walker with the end of his shovel. "Just go!"

The group soon obeyed the old man's request and ran down the road until they spotted a nearby gate that lead them towards a house. Without any other choice, they charged through the gate and ran towards the backyard of the house where there was yet another gate. The group made their way in and closed the gate behind them, hoping the walkers did not see them go into here.

Everyone collapsed as they fell down onto the ground, exhausted, and relived that they all of them got their in one piece.

"Man, that was close." Kenny stated the obvious, making his way to the backdoor in an attempt to get inside, only to discover that it was locked. "Shit."

Lee studied the house as everyone summoned the energy the calm themselves down. He noticed that the house was boarded up good by whoever lived here. If they could get inside, maybe this could be a good place to hold up for a while before they got the boat.

Lee walked back over to Kenny, who was struggling to get the door open. "Kenny? How's that door coming?"

"I'm working on it, Lee." Kenny answered, his eyes securely locked towards the door lock.

"Well, try and work faster." Christa suggested, crossing her arms slightly as she looked towards the way they came. "We don't know if they saw us or not."

"Let me see if I can find us a way in." Lee said, observing the house closely, looking for any possible way for them to get in.

In the meantime, everyone got themselves comfortable until they were in. Clementine near near the way they came while standing next to the house too, Christa and Omid sat by the way they came in, Carley stood near an old doghouse, Katjaa and Duck were sitting together near an old shed.

Before finding a way in, Lee walked towards Clementine to check up on her, thinking that she might be feeling a little dramatized ever since she came to death a moment. He knelt down to her height while she young girl was panicking a little.

"Do you think the dead people saw us come back here? Are they going find us?" Clementine asked, afraid that they might be trapped and will soon be hunted down by the walkers.

"Try not to worry. Even if they saw us, they can't in here." Lee assured her, smiling slightly.

"We did. Why can't they?" Clementine inquired, confused slightly by how humans and walkers were different.

"We're a lot smarter than they are. They're just like dumb animals, they can't open doors." Lee explained to her.

"I used to have a pet hamster. One night he figured out how to open the door to his cage, and when we woke up he'd eaten half a box of cookies." Clementine replied, trying to put together how her old pet hamster and walkers were similar by how they could get smart.

"I don't think this is quite the same, Clem." Lee replied, knowing what she was trying to say, but was still different in so many way's.

"Yeah, right. This time, we're the cookies." she said innocently.

"Just stay away from the gate." Lee calmly warned, standing back up to his full height. "I'm gonna see about getting us inside the house."

Clementine nodded slightly as she walked away from the gate and sat down next to Christa and Omid.

Lee trusted Omid and Christa to watch Clementine for now while he made his way over to Kenny, who was still trying to figure out a way to open the door. He walked next to Kenny, who stopped what he was doing and shifted his attention to his best friend. "Hey. How're you holding up, man?"

"I'm doing fine, Lee." Kenny answered, gazing over towards his wife, who still looked a little shocked after she had just killed her first walker, and the first person to ever be killed from her. "Not sure about Katjaa. She's a little shaken up."

Lee understood this so quickly tried to change the subject before Kenny would say anything further. "You think maybe someone's still inside?"

"Nah, we'd have heard from 'em by now, all the racket we're making." Kenny replied, looking towards the boarded-up windows where he had to admit was pretty well done. "But whoever was here did a pretty good job fortifying it. Nice place to hole up...if we can just figure out how to get in. But the door's locked up tight. Too heavy to force it without making a whole lot of noise."

"Maybe there's a better way in." Lee suggested, always's believing there was always an alternative to situations.

"Well, if there is, I ain't seeing it." Kenny replied, shifting his attention back towards the backdoor of the house. "Maybe you should have a look around. See what you can find."

Lee nodded in agreement as he walked away from Kenny, trying to figure out exactly how to get into the house. All the doors and windows were boarded up, it was too risky to go around and try the front the door. What could they do?

For now, Lee had to stop and figure this out. He stepped back as he leaned against the wall with his arms folded, thinking this whole situation over.

Chapter 8 is complete, and Duck cheats death yet again the lucky kid. Will our friends find a way into the house? Stay tuned for chapter 9.