You would think that waking up everyday would be a great thing right, well wrong, with the whole world gone to hell. It's a lot worse than it was before.
Everywhere you look there is a dead corpse walking around and attacking anything that is alive or moving. After a while they come back to life and start attacking like the others.
You can't sleep normally without worrying about getting eaten by the dead everyday, if you run out of food or anything else that you have, you would have to try and find more food without getting caught by the dead, if you ever get ill and you don't have any medicine to help you, well then your just screwed.
I couldn't believe that everything went to hell around me and with me not knowing if any of my family was still alive, well except for my cousin Chris, but I haven't seen him like in two weeks before any of this started. I just hope that he is okay. I did have thoughts of ' What if I had ended my life here and now, would it be all over?' But then it got me thinking again, ' Would it be over, no after finding out that if you die that you just come right back as one of the dead.'
Oh sorry let me introduce myself, my name is Samantha Ross, I'm 27 years old and I've been living in hell my whole life before any of the dead started to walk around the world now. As I was looking around for food one day and I was trying to stay quiet as best as I could, so I wouldn't get caught by the dead that were wandering around the area. I was able to find a Barnett Droptine STR Crossbow along with arrows that would be more useful than a gun along with a 18in. Machete with a serrated that would make it easier to hit the dead in the head.
But what was happening right now was the worst day ever. I was in a pharmacy trying to get a few things while I was in Atlanta, Georgia. I was hiding behind one of the shelves with my crossbow in my hands ready to fire, as I watched the dead walk pass the building I was in. I turned my head to see a back door to the pharmacy and I quietly made my way over to the door and I opened it to a back alley which didn't have any dead anywhere, which confused me even more, ' Why isn't there any dead here, but there are so many in the street?' I thought as I looked back and forth before leaving and closing the door right behind me.
There was a noise that was making the dead walk towards it, ' What is that noise? It sounds familiar to me, I hope it's not what I think it is, but if it is keeping the dead busy enough, then it gives me enough time to get out of town.' I thought as I started to walk away til I heard the same noise again, this time I knew exactly what that sound was and I was dreading that sound.
" Please tell me that wasn't a horse?" I asked myself as I ran over towards where the sound was, even though my brain was telling me to get out of there, but my heart was telling me that I needed to check it out. As I got to the edge of the alley, pressed my back against a brick wall at the edge of the alleyway with my crossbow held tightly in my hands as I leaned over to look to see over a dozen dead ripping part a horse, tearing it to shreds and I had a feeling that there was a person that was riding the horse and I was looking around to see if I could find he or she that was here, but they were nowhere to be found, till I looked over at a tank to notice a bunch of dead trying to get inside.
' I hope that whoever is in there is safe.' I thought as I was looking around at the dead that was around the tank. I was about to make my escape before one of the dead saw me and started to come towards me. I raised my crossbow towards the dead when the hatch of the tank opened and the dead turned back to the hatch as a man from in a Sheriff's uniform came out from inside the tank and turned and fired a few shots from his revolver before jumping out and taking off running.
As I was looking at him as he was coming towards me while I was still hiding in my spot, he was fairly tall and had a slim body. He looked like he was in his mid late 30s, he had dark brown wavy hair and as he got close to me he looked over at me, I gasped.
' It's Rick! Oh my god, he's alive!' I thought as I felt a smile come on my face. He immediately ran over to me and grabbed my hand and I started to run with him while taking out a few of the dead along the way.
As we was running down the street away from the dead, we came around a corner and ran into an asian boy who raised his hands up in the air, " Not dead." He said as he led us towards a metal ladder, the asian went up first, then Rick let me go next and then he followed right behind me. As we got to one of the platforms, we stopped to catch our breath.
" Nice moves there Clint Eastwood. You new sheriff, come here to clean up the town?" The asian said as I was sitting down trying to catch my breath.
" I assure you, that wasn't my intention," Rick said as he looked over towards me as I looked up at him with a smile on my face.
" Long time no see, Rick or should I say Sheriff Rick." I said as I back up on my feet and placed my crossbow back on my back.
" Well, if it isn't miss Samantha Ross all grown up." Rick said as he walked over to me and pulled me into a big hug.
" I'm so happy that you're okay." Rick said as he held me a little tighter. I always thought of him as a father figure after helping me a very long time ago.
" Same here, after I heard what happened to you, I thought I lost you." I said as I had happy tears in my eyes. We finally let go of each, I whipped my tears away as we smiled at each other.
The asian was looking between us til his eyes landed back on Rick, " Yeehaw, you are still a dumbass." He said even though he looked like he was about to laugh.
" Rick Grimes, Sheriff's deputy." Rick introduced himself, while holding out his hand to shake the asian's hand, who shook his hand, then he looked over at me.
" Samantha Ross, Sam for short and you are?" I asked as I looked over at the asian with a small smile on my face.
At first he looked at me in shock with how I could be smiling like nothing happened. But then the shocked look was replaced a smile of his own, " Glenn. What about you Sam, what were you doing out there?" Glenn asked me.
" I was trying to get more supplies to survive like everyone else." I said as I looked at him and then back at Rick who gave me a little smile on his face.
The noise of snarling made all of us look down to see a lot of dead around that bottom of the ladder trying to climb up. Glenn went up another ladder that led to the roof.
" You go first, Sam." Rick said as he nodded towards the ladder that Glenn was climbing up. I nodded my head and turned to the ladder and started to climb with Rick right behind me, we made it to the roof in no time and as we got to the center of the roof, I sat down for a moment to catch my breath and both Rick and Glenn turn to look over at me.
" Hey, you okay?" Rick asked me as he walked over to me and placed his hand on my shoulder with a concern look on his face. I looked up at him with a smile on my lips.
" Yeah, just still trying to catch my breath. I thought I did earlier. But I guess not." I said while I looked down for a moment and then I started to get up but Rick offered his hand to me and I took it and he helped me up to my feet. I looked over at him and nodded my head in thanks and he nodded his head back to me.
" On the brightside, it'll be the fall that kills us." Glenn said which made me and Rick look at him confused.
" I'm a glass half full kind of guy." Glenn said as he shrugged his shoulders and continued to walk ahead of us and we followed right behind him.
' That makes sense, with what he said.' I thought as I followed close between Rick and Glenn.
" Why did you help us out?" Rick asked Glenn as we made our way across the roof.
" I like to think that if I was that far up shit creek, someone would do the same for me. Guess that makes me an even bigger dumb ass than you." Glenn said as he nodded his head towards Rick and me, then started to make his way down some stairs, and Rick being Rick made me go ahead of him while he was right behind me.
As Glenn got to the last steps on the stairs, we were in another back alley where Glenn pulls out a radio from his back pocket, " I'm back, I got two with me and about four walkers in the alley with us." Glenn said as he stopped and we wait to see what was about to happen.
' Walkers? I think I'm going to call them that instead of the dead.' I thought to myself as I watched the two walkers walking around the area and they spotted us and started to come towards us. I was about to grab my crossbow til a door from the other side flew open and two men ran out.
They were dressed in what looked like hockey gear and baseball bats, I lowered my hand from my crossbow back to my side as I watched them try to take out the two walkers.
" Let's go!" Glenn shouts as we run past the walkers and the two guys into the building as the two guys run up from behind us and close the door behind us.
As both me and Rick were about to catch our breath, we both was slammed into some crates and when I looked up to see who pushed us I see a gun pointed at us, which made me bring out my crossbow and pointed at the person with the gun.
" Son of a bitch. We ought to kill the both of you right now!" A woman with blonde hair hissed while I kept my eyes on her and didn't lower my crossbow one bit, while Rick just kept his hands up.
" I put that gun down right now." I said as I glared at her as I pointed my crossbow at her head as I glared right back at her.
" Or what are you going to shoot me?" The woman asked me as she moved the gun over to me and not Rick. That was what I wanted her to do as I locked my eyes on her.
" You want to find out?" I asked her as I started to glare at her.
One of the men that had a hockey mask, took it off and walked over to the woman, who looked slightly hispanic, " Just chill out, Andrea. Back off." He said as he looked at her.
" Come on, ease up." Another woman said that was on the left side of the room looking at this woman named Andrea and us.
' So the bitch pointing a gun at us is named Andrea.' I thought to myself.
" Ease up? You're kidding me right? We're dead because of these two stupid assholes." Andrea said not giving into what other's plead.
" Andrea, I said back the hell off, or just shoot 'em." The hispanic man said, standing right next to Andrea.
As I looked at Andrea, I noticed that her gun had the safety on and I smiled at her, " Before you shoot us, I can I say something, if I was going to shoot someone I would have the safety off, so then I wouldn't hesitate to shoot who was in front of me." I said to her as her eyes went wide from what I just told her till she finally lowered her gun while I lowered my crossbow. But I didn't let my guard down around her or any of the people that were in this room except for Glenn.
But with these people in front of me and also having Rick by my side. Something tells me that is going to be a very interesting adventure.
I hope you like this first chapter. This is my very first walking dead fanfiction and I hope I puting the right words that were a part of the series. Let me know what you think and I'm going to work on chapter 2. Have a great day, see you guys.