The Walking Dead Alone: Mel Season 1

Episode 1 "Trauma"

The blizzard raged hard through the forest as Mel was now 3 days into being alone. She was watching as her faint breath filled the air around her as she walked out of the forest slowly, she was just entering Tennessee. Mel was trying to take deep breaths but struggled, she slowly marched through the snow hoping to find a warm fire and shelter soon before she freezes. Mel would occasionally look back and try to figure out if she should turn back or not. Mel took her little music player out and hit play as she put the freezing earbuds in, there was no danger due to the snow so she would be safe.

Mel pushed on with the only thing keeping her warm is her coat and the tears falling. Mel wanted to turn back so bad but also didn't she just wanted the pain to go away. Mel eventually looked at the sunrise in the distance with a faint smile, Mel wiped the frozen tears away as she pushed onward. She saw a sign advertising a school, she saw this as an opportunity, Mel picked up the pace, she hasn't eaten or slept in three days and only had melted snow to drink, Mel eventually reached the exit of the highway she was on and she just sat on the icy road and slid down to make it go faster. Mel landed on the bottom and stood up, she dusted herself off and began to walk more, she was having trouble moving but the idea of food was motivating her more than anything.

Mel approached the old elementary school slowly and looked at the old military setup there, she walked through the rubble in search of the entrance. She looked at the frozen walkers everywhere and heard faint growls. Mel kept going slowly up the stairs that led to the front door, she opened it slowly and peaked around the corner, "h..hello?!" She slowly entered with her knife in her one good hand. Mel had injured her left hand in her travels so she had to adjust to the one handed life while it heals. Mel saw as the air filled with the smell of corpses, she walked through the entrance area and into the first hallway with classrooms, Mel skimmed through each to find out they were all picked clean. Mel just walked a bit faster after she heard glass break, she assumed all rooms were the same so she pressed on. She didn't see much of anything or expect much but any bit of food would help.

"The storm's gotta pass eventually, too frickin' cold...." Mel noticed her coat wasn't working much anymore. She felt the air warm up a bit, she didn't care too much, it felt odd that out of nowhere the air warmed up and lights became visible. Mel slowly walked in and heard faint voices of children playing in the gym, she walked down the hall as if became the way it used to be, Mel was seeing things. She felt as a warm tear fell when she saw her old classmates from before the fall, she remembered the wholesome moments they had before it all changed for her. She was seeing the final moments before all hell broke loose. Mel walked in and wiped the tear away as she walked through, she saw her younger self playing with her classmates there, they were in a place where the infection hadn't reached yet, life was normal until the riots. Mel smiled as she saw them laughing and playing, she heard the door crash open as she saw the one who caused the downfall of that day. One of her turned classmates entered from the locker room with her teacher following.

Mel pulled her gun out and remembered she was out of bullets, she then was unable to move, she felt cold and numb again. She tried hard to fight it and to get their attention, they couldn't see or hear her, she cried as she saw things fall apart quickly, Mel fell to her knees as things fell apart around her. She saw a blood puddle form below her as she passed out, Mel was lying on a table in the gym of the current building, bleeding from a poorly sewed wound. Mel tried really hard to keep awake as she saw a thawed walker approaching her slowly, Mel eventually gave up and accepted her fate knowing there was nothing she could have done.

2 Years Ago:

Mel sat just inside the school gym where the surviving people were grouped up at, night fell fast and they all only wanted to go home. Mel was covered in blood and was shaking, she stared at her hands and then glanced at the people sitting around, the once smiling faces turned upside down. Mel saw the moon peeking through the windows, it was the only light they had to go off of, her best friend Ally sat beside her. The room was silent with the only noise being the moans of the dead behind the doors, Mel saw as the shadows of the feet from under the door moved around fast. Mel let a tear fall as she pulled her dying phone out, with no power they couldn't charge them, she looked through her pictures one last time, then looked at the last text to her parents begging for help.