Riley-The Walking Dead

Chapter 1

May 10th 2015
6 years later
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A bright light shined at my eyes, blinding me, pulling me towards it I felt as it my body was paralyzed. My mind was telling me to pull back to stay away but I stay motionless. I wonder if this is what a comatose patient feels like, like they're in a dream that they can't get out of, can't escape. But is this really a dream? Are you dreaming? Riley wake up! Wake up! C'mon wake up!

My chest lifted as I gasped for air. The words wake up echoing in my head then leading to an intense ringing noise, I covered my ears in pain but it didn't help the noise was coming from the inside.

"Stop!" I screamed and in an instant the ringing stopped.

It wasn't until all the commotion had stopped that I realized I had no idea where I was let alone how I got here. The walls were made out of worn out grey wood, peeling in some parts. It had a door with a rusty handle and one small dusty window that let in a small amount of light that shined right at my eye. Was that the light I was saw in my dream?

I looked at my feet I was wearing the same combat boots I had on when I left for school but my leggings had been replaced with black cargo pants and I had a white tank top on with a black jacket. As I began to get more confused I realized I don't remember anything that happened after getting into my moms car in the morning to get to school. wait. mom.

I jumped up from where I was sitting, so fast that I ended up seeing stars and falling back to the ground. I yelped in pain as my back had landed on something quite hard. I rolled of the item and held my back rubbing the part I had hit. When I sat back up I realized that what I had landed on was a gun in a holster belt. I picked it up without even thinking. Why in the world would I have a gun? But as I picked it up I realized there was a note attached to it.
Find Rick Grimes.

Rick Grimes? My confusion only grew larger as time went on, but then I realized what the biggest thing I need to focus on was and that was finding my mom, Mally and Erick.

I debated with myself whether or not to bring the gun and finally decided that it might be a good idea considering I'm pretty freaked out right now.

I stood up again, more carefully this time and then looped the belt through my pants and placed the gun back in the holster leaving the note attached to it.

I reached my hand over to the handle of the door and felt the peeling rust against my hand, it screeched as I turned it causing a shiver to run up my spine.

I opened the door and stepped outside. The air smelt like death, a smell I fortunately was not used to. I felt myself gag uncontrollably and threw up in front of the door. I waited a minute to see if the smell would go away but it didn't. I tried not to think about the smell and just focused on what I needed to to.

I took a deep breath and began walking, I was in the middle of a fucking forest! And by the sounds of it no where near a city or town. I was beginning to get extremely frustrated because I had no idea what was going on. I woke up in the middle of no where with no memory that had happened and a note attached to gun telling me to find some mysterious guy I have never met.

I kicked a rock out of anger and it hit the bottom of a tree making a loud thump like a foot stomping against the ground. When I looked up from where I had kicked the rock I noticed something moving in the distance. It was pretty far but from what I could tell it was walking on four legs couldn't be anything bigger than a moose though, I'm just lucky it wasn't a bear of something worse. Out of curiosity I began walking up to it, as I got closer I could easily tell it was a deer.

I watched from a distance and smiled. It was nice to finally see something familiar. At home we always see deer's walking around our front yard and the street because of the country area.

I decided to get a closer look so I tried to be as quiet as I could as I snuck up by the deer. The leaves crunched underneath my feet, quietly at least and all was going good until I stepped on a twig and it snapped. The deer ran as fast as it could away.

"Damn Walker!" A voice yelled.
"I was so close for fucks sakes."

My heart began pounding. Walker? was he talking about me? I was frozen still unable to move, it felt much like my dream. I heard the crunching of leaves, not coming from myself getting closer, closer towards me.

I saw a man pushing through bushes and tree branches, he was staring at his feet and I don't think he had seen me yet. Run. Riley run.

My body finally caught on to what my mind was saying and took off running away man.

"Da hell?" I heard him say in shock, then began chasing after me.

I ran faster than I ever though I could, but I guess you'll almost do anything if you think your life is in danger.

I took a quick glance back to see how far behind he was and my foot hooked onto a tree root and caused me to go flying forward.

I cried in pain and looked at my ankle and tried to move it.

"AHHH!"
I think I sprained it. I looked back again and saw that the man was not only chasing after me but was also holding a crossbow loaded with arrows. He could reach me in a matter of thirty seconds so I forced myself up and limped away.

"Wait!" The man called.
I ignored him.
"Please stop! I can help."

Yah right! Like I'm going to trust a man chasing me with a bow and arrow to freaking help me. All of a sudden I heard a growling type noise.

"Watch out!"

It was too late. The thing had pushed me to the ground before I could even see what it was. It smelt like death but 10x worse. As I examined it more, it looked like a human but decayed and it was acting as if it wanted to eat me, like a cannibal.

"Get off!" I screamed attempting to push him, or her off I couldn't tell because of how dead it looked. I had no luck, the person was three times my size. My arms finally tired out and I couldn't push anymore.

"Keep pushing!" I heard the man yelling panicked. He was extremely close to me now.

I had no more strength and the thing forced itself to my neck and I screamed as felt the teeth against it beginning to bite.

I tried to close my eyes but they were forced open. Then just as my flesh was about to be ripped off, my skin began turning a sparkly pure white colour. There was a flash of white so bright I had to turn away and when I looked back the person had been disintegrated.

I looked around and saw that the man had now reached me and was staring at me as if I was a robot that just saved humanity. Not only was the man there but I was surrounded in what looked like a force field protecting me.

It began to disappear slowly, I was in so much shock that I couldn't even speak or focus on anything. I looked up at the man who began walking towards me with his hand out. I hesitated to take his help but I honestly didn't care at this moment because I was scared. I brushed off my pants that were covered in leaves and dirt.

"You're coming with me."
"No I need to go home." I said angrily.
"Is home going to able to fix up that ankle of yours?"
"No but a hospital will."
"Hospital?"

He looked at me as if I was insane.

"Yah a hospital, the building that had doctors that deal with stuff like this instead of untrained creepy ass Rednecks." I said stereotyping his appearance.

He wore a black vest with a string of squirrels swung on it. His hair was quite long and was an extremely dark brown if not black and his face was covered in dirt and blood.

He took ahold of my wrist and I tried to pull back but his grip was too tight, he then took ahold of my other one and began tying them together behind my back.

"I said you're coming with me."

He held the knot of the tie and we began walking to god knows where. I would've fought back but I clearly wasn't in the position too.
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