Barely Surviving // TWD // Daryl Dixon #Wattys2016

Chapter III -- Vultures

"She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name."

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi.

I woke up the next day to find Glenn standing right in front of the red car we kind of stole, while three men were getting pieces from it. I went to stand next to him, knowing he was upset about it.

" Look at them," Glenn said to me. "Vultures."

"That was our car!" I exclaimed sadly.

"Yeah, go on, strip it clean," Glenn exclaimed to Dale, who was one of the three men.

"Generators need every drop of fuel they can get. Got no power without it," Dale explained.

"Sorry, Glenn," I said and put an arm on his shoulder. "There must be more around, you know? We could get another one someday."

"Thought I'd get to drive it at least a few more days." Glenn said sadly.

"I didn't even get to drive it," I said shrugging before I walked away.

I could see Lori and Rick talking in the distance, they didn't look that happy to be honest, I also could see Shane driving back on his jeep, he had brought water for the group.

"Water's here, y'all. Just a reminder to boil before use," he said as he parked the jeep.

Everyone was doing their jobs and it was a really calmed morning, probably because both, Merle and Daryl weren't around.

I sighed, I felt a bit bad and guilty about Merle, we should go back and get him. I was thinking about how I could bring it up to the rest as I heard two different people screaming, Carl and Sophia.

"Sophia!" I shouted as I ran to the place where I heard the screams. Lori, Rick, my mother and some other people were running there as well.

I took my knife out as I ran since I left my gun under my sleeping bag. I ran even faster when I kept hearing the two kids screaming for us.

Carl ran into her mother's arms while Sophia ran to me, I wrapped my arms around her thin body since it was me who got there before our mother.

"Are you okay?" I asked her, kneeling in front of her. Lori asked Carl if he was bitten or scratched and I asked the same to Sophia.

"No," she whispered in a terrified tone, she was shaking.

"You sure?"

"Sophia, what happened?" I heard my mum behind me asking. Sophia got out of my grip and ran towards her, crying into her chest. My mum held her tightly.

"I think she's just frightened," I told her. "I'll be right back."

I followed the rest of the group into the wood, Amy and Andrea were right behind me. I lowered my pace when I saw the men standing around something. I stood right next to Rick and saw what the problem was, one of those things was eating a deer, which had two arrows on its side. Andrea and Amy gasped when they saw it.

The male geek probably heard and smelled us because he stopped eating and stood up, facing us. I raised my knife, getting ready to kill it. The male geek lunged at me but before I could stab him, Rick hit him with something and then everyone else starting to hit him as well, except for me, Amy and Andrea.

The geek fell to the floor and Glenn, Dale, Shane, Rick, Morales and Jim kept hitting him but it seemed like it had no effect on him. They kept at it until Dale cut his head off with an axe.