Welcome fanfiction readers to season 3 of my story. It's now two years since I begin this story. For that, after I finish writing a chapter, I will post up polls. This season is going to be a blast. Enjoy!
Chapter 21: Seed
The group has been on the run moving from house to house through rural Georgia for the last eight months.
The story begins as we get a close look at one of The walkers eyes as it pans out we see three walkers just standing right by the door way, and out of nowhere Shane quickly opens the doors and shoots one in the head with his Glock 17 with an improvised suppressor, T dog quickly uses his fire picker to jam the other walkers head with, Rick uses a Carpenter Hatchet to plant a good hit on the third walkers head, Daryl, Carl and Michael walk in right after, Daryl goes his own way. Rick searches through a hallway closet while Carl looks through the kitchen for Walkers and supplies, Michael looks through a bathroom and goes through a Medicine cabinet. He finds a medicine case that reads " Ibuprofen", he looks in and sees theirs only two pills left, he puts the case in his jacket pocket. Rick slowly searches through the hallway, he carefully opens the door to the other side, as he has his Hatchet up while he opens the door, Daryl's on the other side, they were both relieved to see each other, Carl goes to another room and shoots a walker that was in it with his Beretta 92FS handgun with an improvised suppressor. Both Daryl and T-Dog go upstairs to see what they could find. Rick opens the back door to the kitchen to let in Glenn, Maggie and Amy into the house as Carl searches through the kitchen. T-Dog goes into a girls room and finds nothing, Daryl goes into the other room and spots an owl he shoots it with his crossbow and starts picking out the feathers as he is going downstairs, As they knew the coast was clear Rick whistles outside to get everyone elses attention. Beth, Carol, Pregnant Lori, Hershel, Sophia, Jacqui, Dale, Otis and Patricia they all head for the living room. Carl looks through the bottom cabinets and finds two cans of dog food and he heads for the living room to catch his breath.
Glenn takes a couple of crackers out of the bag and hands Maggie one. Everyone tries to get comfortable.
Carl sits down and opens the can of dog food. Rick goes over to Carl and picks the can up, looks at it in disgust and throws it on the ground in frustration.
T-dog peeks out of the Window and notices walkers are coming there way, Break time was over. they all started to gather there things and head for there vehicles, Maggie, Glenn, Herschel and Beth go into there vehicle. Rick, Lori, Carl, T-dog, Sophia and Carol go into there vehicle, Daryl and Michael go on their Motorcycles, and Dale, Shane, Amy, Jacqui, Otis and Patricia go into the RV. They all drive off before the walkers got any Closer.
Moments later
Everyone starts to stop there vehicles after they knew they were at a safe distance from the walkers. everyone gets out of there vehicles except for Lori.
"Fifteen, your on point." Rick said to Carl.
Everyone Gathers to the map that Maggie and Glenn sets up pinpointing all the places they have been,
"We got no place left to go." T-Dog said.
"When this herd here meets up with us, we'll be cut off. We won't make it south." Maggie said.
"What would you say, there's about 150 ahead?" Daryl asked Glenn.
"That was last week. It could be twice that by now." Glenn said,
"This river could've delayed them, if we move fast, we might have a shot to tear right through here." Hershel said.
"Yeah, but if this group joins with that one it could spill out this way." T-dog says.
"So we're blocked." Maggie said.
"The only thing to do is double back at 27, towards Greenvllle." Rick said.
"Yeah, we picked through that already. It's like we spent the winter going in circles." T-Dog said.
"Yeah, I know. I know. At Newnan we'll push west. Haven't been through there yet. We can't keep going house to house. Need to find someplace to hole up for a few weeks." Rick was saying as he was staring at Lori in the car.
"All right. It cool if we get to the creek before we head out? Won't take long. We got to fill up on water. We can boil it later." T-Dog said.
"Knock yourself out." Rick said.
Hershel starts to look at Lori. "She can't take much more of this moving about." He said.
"What else can we do? Let her give birth on the run?" Rick asked.
"Do you see a way around that?" Hershel asked back as he walks off.
"Hey, while the others wash their panties, let's go hunt. That owl didn't exactly hit the spot." Daryl said to Rick as Michael decided to join them. He is bringing his crossbow.
Rick, Daryl and Michael all start to walk on a train track, and as they are walking they notice a huge prison, filled with walkers.
"That's a shame." Daryl said looking at the prison.
Rick suddenly started to produce a smile.
(a few minutes later)
Rick starts cutting a hole in the fence with some cutters while Michael was covering him. Everyone huddles up together. to fend off the walkers. Glenn stabs and pushes one walker onto the fence and Maggie hits it with a hammer.
"Watch the backside." Daryl said to Lori.
"Got it." Lori said back.
Rick finishes cutting a hole big enough for everyone to get through. and after they get in, Daryl and Glenn start, wrapping the hole up with some wire. They all start running towards the gate that leads into the fields. Rick takes a good look at it.
"It's perfect. If we can shut that gate, prevent more from filling the yard, we can pick off these walkers. We'll the field by tonight." Rick said.
"So how do we shut the gate?" Hershel asked.
"I'll do it. You guys cover me." Glenn said.
"No. It's a suicide run." Maggie said.
"I'm the fastest." Glenn said.
"No. You, Maggie, T-Dog, Beth, Shane and Amy, draw as many as you can over there, pop them through the fences. Daryl and Otis, you two go back to the other tower. Carol you've become a pretty good shot, take your time, we don't have enough ammo to waste. Hershel, You, Dale and Carl take this Tower." Rick said.
"All right." Carl said.
"I'll run for the gate." Rick said.
Michael and Patricia are on top of the bus covering Rick from the ground level.
Everyone was in position doing as there are told, Rick was ready to get a head start, Lori opens the gate, Rick goes on and runs up the hill shooting the walkers as best he can, Rick finally makes it to the gate and kicks a walker out of the way and binds the gates together he then runs into the other Watch Tower.
"He did it." Carol said.
"Light it up!" Daryl yells at everyone.
Everyone starts shooting the walkers, left and right. As they all mow down the walkers, there was only one left, which Rick shoots it with a Winchester Model 70 bolt-action rifle.
Everyone stops what there doing and now see a field completely walker free.
"Fantastic, You okay?" Carol said to Lori.
"Never felt this good in weeks." Lori said back.
They head out to the field.
Carol laughs, "Oh. We haven't had this much space since we left the farm." She said.
Glenn finishes off a Walker, T-Dog "Whoos" in excitement for everyone to hear.
Moments later
It was now night time everyone was around a campfire. They cooked a little bit of rabbit.
"Mmm, just like Mom use to make." Glenn said while trying out the rabbit.
Everyone was all silent eating there food, Lori looks at Rick patrolling the gate.
"Tommorrow we'll pull the bodies together, keep them away from that water, if we can dig a canal under the fence we'll have plenty of fresh water." T-Dog said to everyone.
"And if the soil is good we'll plant some seeds, grow some tomatoes, cucumbers, soybeans." Hershel said while looking at Rick patrolling.
"That's his third time around, if there was any compromise, he would've found it by now." Hershel said.
"This would be a good place to have the baby, safe." Beth said to Lori who smiled.
"Bethy sing Paddy Reilly for me, I haven't heard that since...your mother was alive." Hershel said to Beth.
"Daddy not that one." Maggie said.
"How about... The Parting Glass." Hershel said.
"No one wants to hear it." Beth said.
"Why not?" Glenn said.
"Okay." Beth starts to sing a little bit of it, then Maggie starts to sing with her. Everyone was just sitting there listening to them sing. Rick sits right by Lori Listening to it too.
"Beautiful." Hershel said to his daughters as they sang the song.
"Better all turn in, Me and Mikey, we'll take watch over there. We got a big day tommorrow." Rick said to everyone.
"What do you mean?" Glenn asked Rick.
"I know were all exhausted, and this was a great win, We just have to push a little bit further. Most of the walkers are dressed as guards, and prisoners, looks like this place fell pretty early, could mean the supplies might still be intact. They could have an Infirmary, commisary." Rick said,
"An armory?" Daryl asked.
"Might be outside the prison in, but not to far away, The Warden offices would have the locations, Weapons, food, medicine. This place could be a gold mine." Rick said,
"We're dangerously low on ammo, We'll run out before we make a dent." Hershel said to Rick.
"That's why we have to go in there... hand to hand." Rick said to everyone,
Everyone gives him a worried look.
"After all we've been through, we can handle it, I know it, These assholes won't stand a chance." Rick assures everyone and leaves with Michael to take point, Everyone else gets ready for bed.
( Daytime at the Prison)
"Ready?" Rick said to everyone.
He unhinges the chains holding the gate, and Rick, T-Dog, Michael, Shane, Glenn, Maggie and Daryl head in. T-Dog hits one with his fire picker. Daryl gets one with his knife. Michael Kicks one over, kills it with his kantana. Rick, Shane and Maggie get one with a machete. They all continue to fight with there Melee weapons, as everyone else draw there attention to the gate.
"Don't break rank!" Rick yells to T-Dog as he leaves the huddle for a second.
T- Dog gets a riot shield and knocks one over, Maggie finishes it off. They all make it under the bridge to the door, Rick slowly opens it, and sees nothing, he peeks over the corner and see a load of walkers in a closed area with a gate.
"Shit." Rick said to himself. Suddenly a few walkers wearing body armor and helmets start walking towards them. Daryl tries to shoot one but the helmet deflects it. Rick and T-Dog try to hit them but no avail, Michael and Shane try to take out just one but they couldn't do it.
"DARYL!" Rick yells tackling an armored walker and then slicing another walkers head off.
Rick kicks a walker into the area and both Rick and Daryl close and binds the gate. One tries to get Maggie but she lifts the walkers head up and stabs underneath the helmet.
"See that?" Maggie said.
Everyone starts to do it. Michael accidental hits a mask so hard it knocks a Walker's mask right off, ripping off it's skin off it's face. Michael kicks it to the ground and Shane stomps on the walker's head with his boot. Everybody took out the walkers in the area.
Glenn jogged back to get the others, but Rick's voice stopped him.
"Stop." Rick said.
"Well, it looks secure." Glenn said.
"Not from the look of that courtyard over there," Daryl pointed out first the other courtyard and then to a female walker, "and that's a civilian."
"So the interior could be overrun from walkers outside of the prison," T-Dog sighed, wearily glancing at the stone walls.
"If there's walls down, what are we going to do?" Glenn asked, "We can't rebuild this whole place."
"We can't risk a blind-spot," Rick said, "We have to push in."
Rick turned and walked towards the cage the rest of the fighters following. Rick had found some keys on the dead guard in the control room and they pushed into the cellblock, killing the walkers still trapped in cells and dumping them off the upper level.
"Alright," Rick finally said, satisfied that the cellblock was secure, "Go get the others. We'll spend the rest of the afternoon getting everything in order."
Glenn jogged outside to retrieve the rest of the group.
"What do you think?" Rick asked proudly as they came in.
"Home sweet home," Glenn quipped sarcastically.
"For the time being." Rick said back.
"It's secure?" Lori asked, glancing around the cellblock with a mixture of amazement and unease.
"This cell block is." Rick said.
"What about the rest of the prison?" Hershel wondered.
"In the morning, we'll find the cafeteria and infirmary," Rick told him.
"We sleep in the cells?" Beth asked, looking a little put-out at the idea.
"Found some keys on some guards," Rick answered her, "Daryl has a set too."
Everyone looked upwards to where Daryl was leaning against the rail before they moved tentatively into the cellblock to claim their sleeping quarters.
Everyone gets into a cell block and others Share, Maggie and Glenn share one, Jacqui gets her own, Shane and Amy share one. Otis and Patricia share one, Lori and Rick share one, Carol and Daryl share one, Beth and Hershel share one, Carl gets his own, so does Sophia, Dale, Michael and T-Dog too.
Earlier mornin
Rick, Daryl, T-Dog, Michael, Shane and Hershel were all checking the equipment that they found in the cell block.
Daryl picks up a helmet, and walker slime drips from it. "I ain't wearing this shit."
T-Dog picks up a glove with slime on it. "We could boil them."
"Ain't enough firewood in the whole forest. No. Besides, we've made it this far without them."
Michael picks up an assault rifle. But it is not just an assault rifle, it's an Armalite AR-18. The same gun that The Terminator used during the police station shootout scene. He finds out it has not been used but still works.
After that, Rick, Glenn, Maggie, Daryl, T-Dog and Hershel went into the tombs to clear it of Walkers while the others wait.
If you all seen the first episode of season 3, then you know what happens next. That being said, that does it for the first chapter of season 3. I will post the first poll on my profile. Please read, vote and review. And May The Force Be With You!
