the Guard Dog Of Royal Woods

loud amongst the dead

As the sun started to rise, down in Lisa's bunker. Lincoln woke up with a yawn, looking around as he stretched his limbs he made his way to the door containing the generator.

After turning on the power he checks to make sure above ground is devoid of walkers and or hostile survivors. "6am and no walkers... the perfect day" he thought.

After doing his daily exercise he started on breakfast tin of beans with rabbit as the rabbit started cooking he heard the tired shuffling of small feet.

"Morning Lincoln" yawned lilly taking a seat at the table,"morning lilybug" he said as he placed the plate Infront of her. They silently ate their Breakfast till lilly asked "so your going to teach me how to shoot a bow today right?" Since she's now 11 years old Lincoln promised to teach her how to kill walkers, he was gonna teach her 3 years ago but she didn't have the strength to knock a walker to its knees let alone brain it so he taught her to "Waltz" around them instead.

"Not today" "what?!? But you said" Lincoln raised his hand to stop her "I still need to find the right wood to make your bow plus the correct bow string, I'm planning to go out later to find some" lilly nodded in understanding "but when I get back I will teach you how to bring one down" lilly gave a look of excitement which disappeared when she got a glare from her brother "this isn't a game lilly I'm teaching you this so you can survive not to get a high score"

"I know it's just I wanna be helpful to you" she looked down at the floor dejectedly followed by a sigh from Lincoln "being helpful dosnt mean just killing walkers it's also checking on supplies, treating wounds and scavenging, you do help lilly but you gotta understand the risks with each job ok?" Lilly smiled and nodded prompting Lincoln to smile back "good girl now speaking of checking supplies why don't you go do that... After you got dressed ofcourse" lilly nodded and went to get dressed followed by Lincoln who made his way to what he dubbed the fridge.

The first thing his eyes landed on were 9 large cryo pods each containing his sister's. Before all this started Lisa managed to convince the rest of the sisters to be in cryo stasis for 2 months for an experiment. what the point was Lincoln couldn't remember.

The reason Lincoln, lilly and the parents weren't involved was because the parents needed to keep finances afloat, lilly was far too young and Lincoln had to leave video logs and make sure everything went smoothly. And that's what he did in the first month, the second month is when the outbreak started.

At first it was just reports of murder then  once it was discovered that the dead were eating the living the military got involved but they couldn't stop it. This happened all over the world. This prompted Lincoln to extend the experiment to 4 months hoping it would all be cleared up. Ofcourse it didn't and resulted in one of the most traumatic experience in his life.

10 years ago...

Lincoln ran through the streets towards his house ignoring the screams of the innocent and the groans of the dead all that mattered was making sure his family was ok. Once he made it to his house he barged through the door shut it behind him, scanning the room he saw no one in sight "mom, dad? You here?"

Getting no response he checked the kitchen and dining room but found nothing. After barricading the front and backdoors he was about to call them till he heard a groaning from the master bedroom. "Mom?... Dad?" He slowly made his way to the door and opened it and saw both his parents standing near the bed.

Relief and joy flooded his body "thank god your here" but it quickly turned to horror when they both turned to face him both their eyes were grey and lifeless as he examined the rest of their bodies he saw their clothes were disheveled and his father was missing a chunk of flesh on his left arm while his mother had a chunk missing from her shoulder.