Silent warrior: A Daryl Dixon Fan fiction

Chapter 11: Clearing Out

It takes hours upon hours of walking before we finally get to the town we were heading to in New Jersey. We were able to find some cars to drive along with the way until they either ran out of gas or didn't have a clear path to go through. The rest of the trip was pretty uneventful and we were able to avoid or take care of any biters along the way without any trouble. We reach the storage unit and the gates have kept majority of them out. We hop the fence and slowly work our way to the front door. We get inside and pause after the door closes. "There's 132 units to go through, they won't be easy to find either" I say from the back of the hall.

"Did she tell you what we're specifically looking for, or how many there are?" Tara asks me. I barely hear her though as I wonder how this place stayed so intact all these years. The town is relatively small on the map, but I wonder why no one has gone in here and broken the locks to see what's inside. Tara nudges me, "hello?"

"What? Sorry?" I pull back out of my trance and look for her to repeat herself.

She rolls her eyes but obliges, "did she tell you what we are specifically looking for?

"Just that we'll need to go through all of them." I tell her the truth.

Daryl's eyes roll this time "sounds like she wants to keep you busy" he mutters. He lowers the back off his shoulders and takes out the two sheers he's been carrying in his bag and passes one to me, "we'll go ahead and cut the locks off all the units with ones still on them. Tara, you start searching through units."

"Okay, leave open the units so there are no surprises and I'll shut them once I go through it." She follows us forward as we come to the first unit. Daryl places the lock in-between the sheers and presses the handles together. The lock breaks open and falls to the ground as he releases it from the grasp. Tara takes a deep breath when she bends down and holds it in. The heavy door slides open and we prepare ourselves for what could be inside. Her breath pours out as the empty room comes into view and nothing but old furniture lies in front of us. Tara nods us forward as she steps inside and moves things around. The two of us step forward to other units. He takes the one directly next to the one we just opened and I go to the one across. We cut the locks open and he counts out to three with his finger to open them together. Our backs touch as we prepare to take down any danger. 2 rooms clear and we continue down the hall.

It's the 5th door down the second hall when I open a unit and 4 biters are staring me down, "Daryl!" I shout out while raising my hand to smash the head of one in.

"Duck!" He hollers back and I listen. Dropping my blunt object to the ground. One of them takes an arrow to the head and falls into another. I pick up my object quickly and smash the occupied biter dead. Daryl took the 4th one down with his knife.

"Keep moving" His voice is lowered a bit as he picks his sheers back up and finishes opening his door. I move forward, stepping over a dead body and opening more units. Some more time passes before Tara makes her way over to where we are. Her face is covered in sweat and she's carrying a gun around her shoulder, "had some luck?" Daryl speaks up when she turns down the hall we are on.

"Found about 40 guns or so.. Some have clips in them, others have nothing. Found some ammo also, this is the mother load!" She smiles big taking the gun off of her shoulder and passing it over to me. I shake my head no and she passes it towards Daryl. He also declines and Tara slings it back into position. She grabs the water canister from Daryl's bag and takes a swig. She replaces it before heading back to look through more units.

Two more hallways and we kill biters in 3 more of the units, "Ima check on Tara, take a break" Daryl pops his head into the unit I'm scanning through. I nod and take a seat on an old piece of furniture in one of the units for a small break. I open up one of the food bars we packed and eat it slowly, letting it fill my stomach. When I finish the food, I put the wrapper into my pocket and take a swig of the water I have.