Survive ( twd carlgrimes)

Chapter 97

MADISONS POV.
Suddenly I feel a fist connecting with my face and I'm knocked to the ground hitting my head hard off the concrete floor. I feel blood trickle down from my nose. Small black dots cloud my vision and I blink until they're gone.
"Dawn how did you get out? And Matt and Eathon?" I spit. She blows out the lit splint and lays it on her table.
"Well first things first, you don't need to worry about them, they're already dead. It's me you should be worried about" she smirks while lifting her hands either side of her with a gun in each. A bang goes off and both Matt and Eathon drop to the ground. Dead. With blood pouring out their skull.
I scramble back avoiding the bodies and Dawn.
Nobody knows i'm here.
She smiles and grabs a red can off her desk and walks up to me. I see her tilt the can and I shut my eyes just in time as she pours the liquid from the can on me. I get to my feet and shove the can out of her hands and it pools on the ground.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?"
"Petrol." She admits calmy.
She lifts a new match to the box and lights it. I imediately take my jumper off and my top leaving me in a vest top.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? YOUR CRAZY!!" I scream.
She lights the candle on her desk and blows out the second match.
What is she doing?
"You want this place back, you've wanted it since we took it from you. So why are you pouring gasoline on every floor. Your gonna burn this place to the ground." I yell at her.
"You think i'm not aware of that. It's my every intension to burn it." She says.
"Why?"
"Like you said, it's yours. Nobody will ever want to go back to the way I ran this place. To the way I treated people. So... If I can't have this place nobody can." She smiles as she reaches her hand out and pushes the candle to the ground. Fire ignites the room and my body shoves its way back away from the Light. The heat burns my skin. The fire trails in a line inside this room to the hall. This fire is gonna kill everyone if they are asleep or not. I'm tackled to the ground by Dawn who has a knife in her hand. I hold it back but she has so much pressure ontop and all I have is my upper body strenght. The knife inches towards my shoulder. I can't help but scream. Either in frustration or for help, I don't know which. The knife gets closer to under my shoulder and I feel the tip of the knife pressed against my skin. One last shove from Dawn and I feel the piercing pain rip through my skin. I shriek in pain and pull the knife out. I throw it at Dawn, getting her in her thigh. She cripples in pain. While I have the chance I get to my feet and pull the fire alarm to warm everyone on the top floor. The bell sounds loud and clear. The fire has surely gotten into peoples rooms by now. If they aren't already dead, they will have crawled out the window. They would be lucky to survive the dead outside. I turn to Dawn who has gotten the knife out of her leg.
"Quite iconic isn't it? You stab me when you first came here and you stab me when you leave." She smirks.
She charges at me and pins me against the wall. She drags the knife down my cheek, grazing it and making blood streak down it. I lift my hand and pull an arrow from the bag on my back. I shove it into her arm and she stumbles back. I start to cough from the growing fire inside the room. Dawn throws the arrow at me and I grab it from the ground noticing she's making a run for it. She opens the door and screaming people run in all directions. I quickly get up and try to grab her by the neck but I miss and end up grabbing her hair. I pull her back bybthe hair and push her to the ground just beside the growing fire. I reach down and cry out as my hand gets burned by the small licks of fire against my hand as I pull the bobbin out of Dawns hair. Her hair spreads above her in a halo. The fire catches and her hair is sizzled away as the fire reaches her head she screams in pain as the flames tear the flesh from her scalp. She squirms and I load my bow. I shoot the arrow into her stomach and she eventually stops moving. Small tears fall from her eyes but now her face is like a pacaso painting. I don't know where her mouth or nose is. Her skin melts and I see her skeleton like skull. Her chest stops moving and I take my arrow from her stomach and run out into the hall. The hall is deserted, nobody to be found. Burned walkers roam the hall. These are the kind people I had lived with for months, now dead, burned, killed.
I shoot an arrow to the walkers head and collect it. I run upstairs to our floor where the flames are not as bad but the smoke could kill you in minutes. All the doors are closed and I run with my top covering my mouth and nose.
"CARLLL!!!" "ABBIEEEE!!" I scream
No responce. I run into Ricks room and find it empty with all weapons and clothes gone. I run to the window and open it. I squint my eyes and see Glenn, Maggie, Beth and Tara. I scream to them to wait but they couldn't hear me. I look further and see Sasha, Michonne, Abraham and .... Eugine.
EUGINE??? WITH NO JUDITH! I LEFT JUDITH WITH HIM.
On que I heard a wailing coming from the room next door. I run into it and find Judith in a corner on the ground bawling her eyes out.
I lift her from the ground.
"It's ok baby, it's okay! Shhhh!"
I grab my bag and stuff clothes and any useful objects in it. I run to Rosita's room and grab her first aid kit. I'm in a fit of coughing and Judith screams louder. I find the baby pouch in Ricks room and I slide Judith in it and I carry her on my front like a mother kangaroo. My bag is on my back and my bag of arrows easily fits in it making it easy availability. I run out into the hall with my Bow loaded to leave until someone grabs me.
"Thank god! You have to help me. I have a baby and sh-" i'm cut off by it's loud moaning sound.
IT'S A WALKER!!
I shove it off me and pull back the string of my bow until I realise the familar face.
I hesitate and lower my bow. Tears fall down my face. Blood and tears mix on my face and I can't help the sobs that escape.
"NOOO, please no." I cry.
The walker only come closer and I have to shove it back again. His recognisable hat is burned and smoke leaves his skin.
"I'm so sorry Thy!" I sob as I pull back my arrow and shoot the burned walker Thyrese in the head. His body falls to the ground and I take my arrow. I run downstairs which was a bad idea as fire swarms the walls, doors, everywhere. I use a stray wheelchair to knock down a door. It comes off easily and a walker comes out. I push it to the ground, not bothering to kill it. I run in the room and open the window. I climb out of the window and run through the huge courtyard. I run past the gates and push a few stray walkers away running even faster. Judith cries but I have no other choice than to ignore her and run before we're taken down by a swarm of walkers. I need to find everyone. I cross the road and run into the forest. They had to all have gone this way, I saw Maggie, Glenn and the other go this way.
"CARLL!" I yell.
"ABBIE!"
"LUKE!"
"BETH?"
No responce. I decide to climb a tree to gain higher ground maybe I can find them from a birds-eye view. Judith finally quiets, I think she's asleep. She is sucure on my front. She can't budge let alone fall. I quickly climb the tree and look around. I see nothing except the tall hospital that lies in ruins and flames.
I can't find anybody.
There's nobody in sight.
I'm alone.