Chapter 168- New World's Fate
Carl's P.O.V
Carl aims his rifle as next to him, Lydia spys through a pair of Binoculars sees a Whisperer in the horde. "Grey shirt, third row down." Lydia informed and Carl shoots his rifle hitting the whisper in the head.
"Two right there, hoods." Mary says as nearby, she pointed at two more figures, John and Gabriel aim their rifles and hit the whispers in the chest and leg, one going down screaming as the Horde immediately turned on him. "I don't see Alpha or Beta."
"You won't." Carl says as Lydia points at another whisper. "They know we're looking for them. They're hiding." Carl says as Mary points at another whisper and John shoots him in the chest. "We keep going until they get inside! Thin them out!"
Alpha's P.O.V
Alpha and Beta enter the building first and look at the stairwell, Alpha already growling.
"They have blocked it my Alpha." Beta growled as well, eager to kill. "They did it to me as well."
"Have all of our people brought inside, we will kill them all and bring the New World to join us." Alpha ordered Beta who nods as he whispers to another Whisperers who nods as he walks away and Alpha and Beta start to go up the stairs with other Whisperers following him, knives and weapons drawn.
Ezekiel's P.O.V
Ezekiel stood in front of a door as around him were Deacon, Boozer, Henry, Clementine, June, Rosita and Morgan. He looked at his son briefly before he heard the door flies open and Whisperers began to enter the building. Ezekiel removes his sword and batted a knife away from him before he jabs his knife into the Whisperers chest.
Henry hits one of the knives away and hits him in the face before he flips his stick around and stabs the sharp side into the Whisperer's neck, sending Henry back paling. Boozer looked over at the Young prince in concern, but barely ducks under a swing with a curse and stabs his knife gauntlet into the attacker's stomach. Deacon pushes a Whisperer and grabs his shirt before he stabs his knife into the Skin Wearer's eye.
Morgan hit A Whisperer In the side of the head with his staff and then stabs it into the attacker's head as Rosita slits a whispers throat. June kills the last one by stabbing it in the top of the head, Clementine barring the door.
"Shit how many more?!" Boozer asked.
Ezekiel answered fiercely "We keep fighting until they stop coming."
Maggie's P.O.V
Maggie stood with Beth, Tara, Alden, Connie, Yumiko, Magna, and Kelly, at the back door of the Hospital. There was a moment of silence but then the door flew opens and Whisperers began to charge in, knives and axes at the ready.
Yumiko shoots one in the chest with her bow as Kelly shoots one in the head with her slingshot, sending them both down Alden hits a whisper in the side of the head with the wooden part of his spear and stabs another in the chest before he removes the spear and swings his spear to the side slitting another Whisperers throat open. Maggie hits another away and jabs her knife into the whispers neck as Beth stabs one in the head behind her. Tara ducks under a Whisperer's swing and shoves her machete into the Skin Wearer's chest before she kicks his chest knocking him to the ground. Maggie side steps a swing and stabs her knife into the side of a Whisperer's neck as more start to come through the door.
Tara grimaced "Oh what the fuck?"
"Keep fighting!" Maggie barked, knife raised as the next wave came through.
Daryl's P.O.V
Daryl dodges a swing from a Whisperer and stabbed him through the throat as the stairway became clogged with both Whisperers and the Dead. Beside him, Rick ducks under a swing and rises back up. He swings his hatchet into the side of a Whisperer's head. On the other side of him, Carol side steps a swing and stabs another in the eye. The three move around each other fighting as their attackers come from both sides.
None of them noticing the blond whisper as she slides into the hall, through the dead as easily as breathing. Daryl ducks under a swing from another Skin wearer and stabs his knife into his chest as Rick cuts one's throat and Carol stabs one in the head. She pushes the whisper down and is grabbed by Alpha, behind the Whisperer, who brings her knife into Carol's chest.
Daryl and Rick turn around and look at Alpha. "NO!" Daryl shouts as Alpha removes her knife and slips back into the crowd. Carol stumbles and and falls against the wall, Daryl quickly cut two down and Rick kills two more. Daryl looks around the halls searching for Alpha, but sees that the whisper leader was already gone.
Grabbing Carol, Rick kicked a door down and yelled "DARYL!" Rushing over, the two carried their friend inside, slamming the door behind them. Pushing a table against it, Daryl turned to see Rick bend down beside Carol. Daryl quickly goes over to them and bends down taking Carol's hand in his.
"You're going to be okay." Daryl says. Her breathing was shallow as she looked at him. Rick takes her other hand, looking at Daryl with a grim look.
"It's okay." Carol muttered, breath shallow.
"No, you can't go, please." Daryl says as tears fall down his face.
Carol takes a deep breath. "It's okay. I know you're going to be okay. I know you're both going to be okay. I am so honored to have known both of you. You're my brothers...your both strong, brave, and so good and I love you."
Daryl nods as Rick grips her hand. Tears also going down his face. "We love you too." Rick choked out. Carol squeezes Daryl's hand making him look at her.
"You have a great family, Daryl. Take care of them and please take care of mine, please look after Zeke and Henry...tell them I love them both so much." Carol pleaded, the stain on her chest growing bigger.
"We…we will." Daryl says as he squeezes her hand. "We'll take care of them."
Carol nods as she takes a deep breath, then...she breathed out. "I'm glad it was you two In the end."
"Carol…Carol—" Daryl says. "No," He says as he leans his head against hers. Rick removes his knife. He grabs Carol's head but Daryl grabs his hand and takes the knife out of his hand.
"Daryl—" Rick tried to say, meeting his gaze with tears.
"It's got to be me." Daryl says as he slides the knife into her head. He hands the knife back to Rick. "We need to move her," Rick nods as they pick her up and carry her into an empty room. They set her down and stand up. They stare at the body of their closet friend and the two brothers share a look then back at the door, saddened eyes fading to a familiar burning rage.
Their wounds didn't matter.
Their pain didn't matter.
All that mattered was that their was an enemy out there that needed killing.
No One's P.O.V
Beta came up the stairway and froze...The hallway was covered with the dead bodies of his pack, dead and alive. He came forward through the Hall, knives drawn and cautious. He is suddenly tackled into a wall by a screaming Daryl, who punches him In the face and removes his knife. Beta grins as he removes his knives. "Today you die."
"This time you ain't walking away," Daryl growls before he swings at him.
A blood drenched Rick walks down the Hall where Daryl said Alpha was seen, heading into a nearby room. He paused and looked at the gurney against the wall, mind aflashed for a moment with memories. He looks out the window at the herd. "They are amazing aren't they?" Rick turns around and looks at Alpha as she shuts the door.
"You killed one of my best friends." Rick says as he removes his hatchet. Alpha grins as she removes her machete.
"Yes I did, this is what I used to kill your friends in that barn. It is fitting that I kill you with it."
Rick stared...then started chuckling with a hint of fury "Everyone whose threatened to kill me are dead or gone now. Your not the biggest threat we've faced, you're not a Monster. To Me?" His face fell to a cold black rage "Your're just another asshole I have to kill." With that he swung his hatchet, Alpha barely dodging.
Daryl dodges a swing from Beta and swung his knife at Beta who moves back. Beta swings his knife and cuts Daryl's shoulder making him grunt in pain as he swung his knife and cuts into Beta's shirt cutting a little bit of his stomach. Beta growls as he charges him swinging his knife at Daryl who ducks under two knives and side steps another. He stabs his knife into Beta's shoulder making the large man back up and rip the knife out throwing it on the ground, unfeeling and almost uncaring of pain
Rick swings his hatchet again at Alpha who blocks it with her machete and swings down on the man who moves to the side. Rick swings his hatchet to the side. Alpha brings her machete up and hits the hatchet away before punching Rick in the face making him stumble back. She brings her machete down into Rick's shoulder making him scream in pain as he swings his hatchet into Alpha's left arm. Alpha also screamed as she backed up, removing her machete from Rick's shoulder as she holds her arm. "This ends now." Alpha snarled as she charges him again.
Meanwhile, Beta brought both of his knives down on Daryl who rolled away stabbing his knife into Beta's side. Beta let's out a grunt as he swings his hand to the side back handing Daryl in the face knocking him on his back. "You should have given me the girl, Daryl." Beta snarled darkly as he prepares to bring his knife down.
Alpha swings her machete at Rick who moved away, swinging his machete down but Alpha caught the swing with her blade. Then grabbing a small rock with her other hand she slammed it into his leg, causing him to scream as he stumbles back and she kicks him in the chest knocking him to the ground.
Daryl kicks Beta in the leg as he brings his knife down and grabs his knife on the ground and stabs it into Beta's side. Beta grunts as Daryl grabs his other knife and stabs Beta in the chest. He removes his other knife from Beta's side and stabs it into his chest next to the second before he kicks up hitting the knives deep as Beta stumbles backwards and falls. Daryl stands up and picks up Beta's knives off the ground. "I shouldn't have. This is for Carol!" Daryl Yelled before he brings Beta's knives up above his head and slams them down into his chest. Beta stares at the roof as the life leaves Beta's eyes and his breathing stops. He panted and layed down...
At least there was one less monster in the world, he thought as he then heard a gunshot, looking up.
"You are a weak old man! You took my daughter from me, poisoned her mind! I'll kill you all in return! Your wife, your son, your daughters. You hear me Rick Grimes?! I'll kill every of them!" Alpha screamed in utter fury, ready to bring her machete down but stops as she heard gunfire. She looks back down at Rick as she feels a sharp pain in chest, and saw a hole near where her heart was. She looked to see Rick had grabbed his fallen pistol and stood up...for a moment they locked eyes as Alpha felt the blood seep down.
"No. You're not." Rick icily countered before he kicks Alpha with all his strength, sending her through the broken window, falling to the ground into the herd. The walkers look at her as Alpha tries to move and realizes she can't stand.
"I won't walk!" Alpha realizes as a walker grabs her arm and bites into it, sending her screaming.
All around her were dead people, wearing dead faces...the blond, the martyrs, her mentor, her husband.
They all stared and faded with Frank last, saying flatly "Goodbye Dee."
"NO!" Alpha shouts as another walker grabs her other arm and bites it and another rips her stomach open and starts to tear her guts out. Blood pours out of her mouth as she let's out a scream.
Rick watches from the window as the walkers start to fall down on her and Daryl comes into the room, standing next to him. Daryl stated "He's dead."
"So is she." Rick says as he heard something...he looked up to see approaching trucks and...white armored men pouring out of them "Who the hell is that?"
"It doesn't matter right now, man. We won."
Thanks for reading. That is the death of Alpha and Beta and the end of the whisper for war. Now let's talk about Carol. I know what I just did and it was a very hard scene to write and I hated it but killing Carol here felt right. I wanted this war to have huge consequences and it has. Put especially for Daryl who is going to have a hard time going into the final arc. So I'm sorry to any Carol fans. I love her too, but it was her time. Next chapter the group meets Lance, Daryl makes a decision and Ezekiel finds out about Carol's death. As always suggestions, ideas, and feedback are welcomed. Until next time.