I didn't know what to expect, but I sure as hell wasn't expecting what I saw when I looked down at Atlanta. One thing I knew for sure was to tell Shane to get away from the city especially with Lori and Carl in his care. I ran back to where the car was and saw Shane in the same position he was in when I left.

"Shane, we have a problem." I said as soon as I got back to the car. He looked at me and so I told him what I saw. He got up from the car seat and went to get Lori. I told him to walk straight up the road until he sees the people gathering around. I leaned on the car thinking about my next move. I sure as hell didn't want to go into Atlanta now that was for sure, so my best option was to head back to town and see if I can find a house or something to lay low for a while. I got my stuff to go, but before I left I wrote a note so those guys knew where I was heading. Then I got my sword from the back seat and left.

I managed to get back to town without running into the undead, but when I got there, there was absolute chaos. People where running around town being chased, things were on fire, I heard gun shots like you wouldn't imagine. I ran in no particular direction, but when I looked in front of me I saw an African American woman holding her neck and next to her was a boy that looked eight years old, and a man with a gun shooting the walking corpses in front of him and his family. But when the man wasn't looking one of those things grabbed his kids arm, I sprung into action and before the man could shoot the monster about to bite his son, I impaled my sword strait into his dead skull. The black man looked at me with gratitude in his eyes but before he could say thanks I saw one of those things was about to bite his shoulder, so I pulled out my knife and threw it at the dead body.

I got my knife out of its head and looked at the man in front of me.

"This way!" I said to him and when I turned to run, looking over my shoulder I saw him and his family running my way.

We made it to a house that seemed deserted and settled down there.

"thanks for the help back there." The man said as soon as I made sure the house was safe.

"Not a problem." I said looking at the way of this injured wife.

"Did she get bit?" I asked with my hand on the hilt of my sword, with I put back into its holster.

"Yeah, she did." He said with tears in his eyes.

"You know what's gonna happen to her right?" I asked cautiously. He nodded and I saw that he saw what he needed to do.

A few hours past and the guy's wife tuned into one of those things, just like I predicted. He wasn't able to kill her so with using me as some sort of bait, we got her outside. Personally I thought it was a bad idea because I saw it would bite us in the ass later down the road. But it was his wife and as a stranger I had no right to say anything about it. Later he was staring out the window at the destruction in the small town. I sat next to him trying to think of something to say.

"I'm Zachariah." I said realizing that we never really introduced ourselves to each other.

"Morgan, nice to meet you." He said lightly. I looked out at a particular corpse eating what looked like a dog of some sort.

"I'm surprised all these do is walk or limp, I always thought that those things would be able to run." I said mainly I was thinking out loud, but some of me was just wanted to get rid of the silence.

"Maybe we should call them walkers or something like that." I said trying to keep the conversation going.

"Yeah… thanks again for saving my boy" Morgan said. He was still looking out the window at nothing in particular but I could tell he was thinking.

"What's your son's name?" I asked wanting to know a bit more about him.

"Duane." He said.

"How long do you think we have to stay here?" Morgan asked, looking at me now ignoring whatever he was looking at.

"I don't know." I said, and meant it.

A month and a half passed ever since the outbreak, or at least I think. I've never been really good with time, and with there being no electricity and the fact I can't read a clock that's not digital, I really didn't have a clue. I've lived with Morgan and Duane ever since I met them the night all this started. I really enjoyed my time with Morgan and his boy but I still didn't feel comfortable with the arrangement. One reason being that I was still thinking about Troy, I told myself that I would find him even if Atlanta wasn't what it was all cracked up to be.

Another thing I was alert about was my shit luck. I mean let's be honest my luck has never been the greatest in the world. Hell I always joked if I entered thought about looking towards a cash refund I'd end up owing the government money. And considering I was with two people who was barley scrapping along and realized I was putting them in danger. I left once to see what was around, and told them I would be back in a few days, but my intention was to just leave them. I didn't want to put them in danger so I left for Fort Benning. I heard some people on the highway saying that there was safe so I put my intent over there.

When I got there, as it turned out, Fort Benning was a pipe dream, just like Atlanta. It was overrun with walkers (that's what me and Morgan agreed on calling them) obviously from the amount of bitten people that they were taking in. I slipped in and out alive, but just barely. I got to their infirmary and cleaned it out and got things that I had a feeling I'd never use but I felt better carrying them. But seeing the fact that even the U.S. government couldn't even have a hold on it didn't make me feel any better about our current position. I went back to the house Morgan and Duane where at (with the help of a car that I hotwired) and just stayed there.

But one day I got to thinking; what if Troy is out there looking for me? That didn't help my thinking too well but that thought was always played over and over in my brain. I was marking this place on the wall upstairs to see how many days we've been there and decided that I would leave. I got my stuff to the door and told Morgan about my plans.

"Are you sure?" he asked with concern in his eyes.

"Yeah, I'm sure. I just can't shake the feeling that my brothers out there, and sitting here doing nothing about it isn't helping my train of thought." I said

"Where would you go?" Morgan asked.

"I don't know but I thought that maybe I could go to Atlanta. I know my way there." I said. Still thinking about the possibility that my brother was still out there.

"Okay, I can't stop you. But promise that you'll be safe." Morgan said with worry.

"Hey, it will take a hell of a lot to take me down. I've made it this far, haven't I?" I said with confidence. I told him to say goodbye to Duane for me, grabbed my stuff and left.

I walked to the gas station to see if I could find a car that had a lot of gasoline in it so I could hotwire it but what I saw was even better. It was a black Harley motorcycle shining bright in the sun. I've always wanted a motorcycle but I thought I would never get the money for one. I saw a golden opportunity and I took the bike, which I even had the keys in the ignition; it even had a full tank of gas. I put my bag in the compartment under the seat, got on the seat, turned on the motorcycle, and drove away. Considering I had to get my bearings on how to get to Atlanta it was a two day trip. I stopped into a house that seemed deserted and crashed there for the night.

I was about to fall asleep on a couch but then I started to twitch for no reason I turned my head and saw a walker with its back turned to the door. I grabbed my sword and literally sliced it in half. That's when I realized that the twitching spasms that I had were a gift. Every time now thinking about it every time there was a walker that I hadn't expected I started to twitch! And I thought that it was a curse. I fell asleep a little after that silently cursing myself for not bringing a book of some kind. I made a mental note to find one before I head to Atlanta.

I left the house and moved on. I found a gas station to fill up the bike and when I was about to leave it started to rain I didn't really feel like getting wet so I headed inside but I should have probably looked inside before I went in. there were about fifteen walkers inside of that small building. I took a deep breath and charged at the small hoard. Looking back on it I probably shouldn't have just randomly charged at them, and I'm not gonna act like I didn't have a few close calls but in the end I killed every single one of them.

I sat on the counter breathing heavy from the work I had just done and scanned the small room. There was some food there, not a lot, and it was just a bag or two of jerky, but at that moment I was so hungry I would have eaten anything. After spending like an hour in the small convenience store I walked out looking at a map that I found in the store to see how far I was to Atlanta; which wasn't far, about an hour from where I was. I got on my bike and drove down the road to Atlanta. Before the bike ran out of gas, I made it to the city limits of Atlanta. I got off when it finally died and got my stuff.

As I was about to close the compartment I noticed that there was a bag of something in the bottom. I picked up the bag and realized it was a hand gun, and with it was 4 cartages of ammo. (Just so you know I have like no idea what to call the things that go with guns so if I say it wrong so be it.) I stuck that lucky find in my bag; which I traded from a messenger bag to a Swiss Army backpack, which I found in Fort Benning. It was amazing that I found it there but hey you never know what you'd find in this world any more. I closed the compartment for the last time, looked at the city with complete awe and then I walked into the city, which I could already tell, belonged to the dead.

ok next chapter update is here, i looked at the chapters that ive posted

in the past, and I cant help feeling that they're too short. so im trying to make them longer. also i was wondering about whether or not adding different points of view around this point in the story. yeah a little spoiler alert you're about to be introduced to another main character. not gonna say which one though, so just guess until the next update. likes and reviews are appreciated and tell me if im doing anything that could be done better or not at all. thanks ^_^