The Walking Dead: A Broken Empire

Chapter 4: Paths We Carve (Stay Down)

Chapter 3 Recap:
Javier was successfully accepted into Mathis, thanks to Clyde. Javier, Connor and Clyde went out to search for their runaway leader, Dave. While under the assumption that Javi was lying, Connor ordered the group to turn around and head back. They were quickly ambushed by a hostile group known as the Grizzlies.

Javier stayed put as he watched Clyde attempt to defend himself. There was nothing he could do. He would be risking the lives of the people around him and himself if he tried to retaliate. He quickly saw the mask ripped off the face of the leader.
"Oh my God." Javier said.
It was Dave. The old leader of Mathis, brother of Clyde. Javier couldn't believe it.
"D-Dave?!" Clyde shouted in disbelief.
Dave was angered that his identity was now obvious. He quickly raised his pipe and smashed it on Clyde's head.
"This was for never being there for dad! He was always so fuckin worried about you, you reckless pile of shit. He never even noticed me!" Dave shouted as he continued to beat his brother to death.
Javier watched as each blow from Dave would concave Clyde's face in. A sudden hit from the pipe sent Clyde's eyeball popping out from his skull, though was quickly smashed in as blood continued to seep from Clyde's head. Eventually, after obsessively beating Clyde's corpse, Dave threw down the pipe, and stomped on Clyde's face, one last time.
"I hope that when I die in this hellhole of world, I see you again, so I can do this all over again, forever." Dave yelled.
Suddenly, a gunshot was heard. Dave quickly turned his head to see one of his men shooting a member of Mathis who had a gun aimed at Dave.
"Javier, come here." Dave demanded.
Javier complied. Eventually Dave sighed.
"Fuck it, kill them." Dave demanded.
Before anyone from Mathis could stop Dave, bullets from the Grizzlies were exchanged through the air, hitting several members from Mathis. The rest of them jumped up and ran as the Grizzlies chased after them. Javi jumped up as Dave slammed a scoped rifle onto him.
"Hope you're a good shot with snipers, because I need you to shoot every one of those fuckers that are running away." Dave demanded, quickly taking off to chase down the members of Mathis. As he ran, Javi lifted the rifle and aimed it at Dave. He looked through the cross hairs and had Dave in his sight. He pulled the trigger.

Connor ran through and tripped over a doctor that just got shot in front of him, as bullets shot past him. Suddenly, a sharp pain went through Connor's shoulder as he winced in pain. He was shot in the shoulder. He fell down and shouted for everyone to start shooting back. He turned as he saw a man stepping over to him. The man had spiky blonde hair, as well as a gotee.
"Time's up, assface." He shouted.
He lifted his pistol up but was quickly shot in the arm by a flying bullet, dropping his gun. Connor stood up and started running as the man retrieved his pistol and unloaded his magazine at Connor.
"Fuck you, Jake! You're a damn traitor."
"You can't run forever, asshole! Your fate will soon find you from our hands!" The man shouted as Connor disappeared into the woods. The gunshots seemed to fade away as Jake slipped his pistol back into its holster. Dave came running up to Jake as he held his forearm to blockade the bleeding.
"Jake, what happened?!" Dave shouted.
"What the hell does it look like? I got shot." Jake replied.
Eventually, Dave's group came running towards Jake. Javi trailed behind.
"We can fix that. You know with medical supplies we got, that's a simple fix." Dave said.
Javi pushed his way through the crowd and threw the rifle down and turned to Dave.
"Why the hell did you give me a gun with no ammo in it? I could have died!" Javi yelled.
"Yeah," Dave laughed, "but you didn't. I like that about you, kid. You can find ways out of any situation pretty easy."
Javi looked through the desolate forest, which he found ironic since it was just a shootout not too long ago. Bodies layed around the icy ground as blood stained the snow. He also noticed the herd of Walkers that were closing in on the vicinity. Great, Javi thought, sarcastically of course. Dave turned around and noticed the walkers as well. They quickly took notice of this and gathered everything that was left. After they finished packing, Dave commanded everyone in his crew to start moving into the vehicles. As they did, Dave got in the truck that Javi was in. Javi stared as Dave started to drift off to sleep. The vehicles were all heading to somewhere, but Javi was unsure of what. If they wanted him dead, they would have killed Javi already. Still, Javi felt confused to be the mess of it all. He thought about everyone that died, including Clyde. Dave murdered his own brother and enjoyed it. It started to feel like this was just the start of a reign of terror.