Temerity ➳ Daryl Dixon

Chapter Nine

Raven's Pov

I brushed my hand across the water with a small sigh. Sophia was sitting in a tree keeping a watch. We were at a nice creek.

She lowly whistled and I looked up, there was nothing in sight but I could hear them. There were about.. five of them.

I whistled back, causing her to run and join me. She stood beside me, knife in hand. The first one walked out. I looked at Soph with caution but sighed in relief when I saw my necklace resting on her red flannel.

She smiled up at me with a 'Ready' look and I nodded, kicking the water and attracting it. I pulled out my knife but watched her.

She swung at it but only cut a little slit in it's neck. I shook my head. "Remember what I told you, knee."  She nodded and kicked the back of its knee, then crashed the knife into the back of its head.

When she got the knife out, I walked over to her, the other four coming out. "You ready Soph?" She nodded with a confident smile.

We walked over to them, they noticed me and started limping towards us. When we got to them, I heard a loud click noise.

My head shot to Soph and she looked at me with those scared eyes, and I realised why. I looked down and there was an arrow in my thigh.

It wasn't from Daryl's bow.. So.. My eyes shot behind the walkers and I saw an automated trap. The walkers were closing in.

"Soph get to the tree!"  "B-But-" I fell to the ground,  "Tree! now!" She tensed up and ran back. I swung towards the first of them, cutting it's pant leg.

It dove towards me, I stabbed it's head as soon as it was in reach. One of them grabbed the foot of my injured leg and I cried out, kicking it with my good leg.

I stabbed one of them in the head because it fell beside me. The other two were blurry images and I looked up at Soph, she was scared.

I punched one of them before blacking out.

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Daryl's Pov

I talked to myself, imagining Raven was standing walking beside me. The horse I was on got scared of a snake and flung me off.

I cursed all of the way down but blacked out.. Sorta.. I saw Merle, he was talking to me like normal, makin' fun of me..

He started shaking my leg and I realized it wasn't Merle, but a walker. The walker was gnawing on my shoe, I kicked it away but winced in pain from the arrow in my side.

My vision returned completly as another walker came into view, but it soon fell when a girl stabbed it in the head and killed the other the same way.

I blinked in surprise at who I was looking at.

"Sophia?"