Legend of The Guardians: The Ghost + The Darkness//FINAL

Chapter Thirteen

Dawn of Destruction

Chloe POV
When Finley was walking me through a few stuff, he was so helpful and sweet, we were put on watch tonight, so we kinda started to get to know each other,”And where are you originally from?”
“I’m from Pendleton, Oregon and I kinda moved around from time to time until I was a Sophomore, what about you?”
“I was actually from Florida, believe it or not”
“Oh yeah like those Florida man memes” He made a cringe face,”Don’t start on that” I smiled,”But I heard Florida was a great place”
“Yeah, hot as hell, but other than that, there were occasionally girls walking around in bikinis” I sighed,”Yeah no doubt about that”
“But I pretty much spent my time at the Basketball Court with the guys, I never really got into girls who walked in bikinis all the time” I looked over at him,”Yeah?” He walked in front of me and walked backwards,”Yeah I prefer girls who are you know, tough and not really easy”
“Yeah I-I get that”
“You do?”
“Yeah, I used to have ex girlfriends and they were kinda easy, it annoyed me really”
“So you’re Bi?” I nodded,”I guess so” He looked down and at me,”That’s pretty awesome”

Dylan POV
Blaire and I were lying next to each other, I saw Andrea going into her office, I slowly got up, looked over at Blaire with her back turned, Sean was awake and scared me,”She does that you know?”
“What?”
“Andrea, she’s always in her office, day and night, making sure everything is up to her expectations and for us to move out” I looked over, she was sitting there,”Do you think someone else should help her?”
“Her and Dallas used to do this together”
“What happened to Dallas?” I asked Sean and he made that face,”He died when we were in Sacramento, which is why we came back here” Blaire groaned and got up,”What are you guys talking about?”
“Andrea” She looked over,”She...seems to be having a hard time focusing” She got up, put her shoes on and walked over,”What’s Blaire doing now?” I looked back at Sean,”What Blaire does best”

Blaire POV
I knocked on the door when I came in,”Knock knock” She snorted and woke up,”Oh hey Blaire, what you doing up so late?” I pointed back there,”Boys were talking”
“Oh”
“Yeah I’m a light sleeper” She chuckled in amusement,”Whatcha working on?” She handed me the clipboard,”Firearms, Ballistics, Food, Clothing and Blankets, etc, they all seem to be intact” She nodded,”So does this mean that we’re ready to go?” She nodded,”When do we ship out?” She shrugged, there was a silent moment between us,”You’re afraid….aren’t you?” She sighed and locked her hands together,”I lost my husband in Sacramento, I think to myself many many times,’we’re ready, we have the group we need, we have what it takes to make it to The Organization’ But I can’t lose anymore kids to this, I can’t afford to lose another person for this Mission” I sat down,”I understand Andrea, I lost people to this. This group, there used to be more and we lost more to our Mission in the place we were in for 5 years, but you know what I thought each time I lost one person or more?” She nodded,”I kept moving for them, I don’t want their deaths to be meaningless, they died for something important, these people here, they stayed here for hope and that is what we should give them”
“We can’t save everyone Blaire” I nodded,”That’s the risk I’m willing to take” She chuckled,”It’s amazing how this Apocalypse can change a person’s perspective on survival, that they are willing to kill for safety” I agreed with her and we heard a noise in her office, I grabbed my knife instantly,”This place is gonna fall apart” She said so calmly,”You seem so calm about it though” She nodded,”It’s barricaded, but who knows for how long?”
“Should we start packing things up now?”
“We will at dawn, we still have a few good hours, the men here reported to me about it, but I told them not to fret since it was barricaded and those walkers will tire themselves, it’s been going on for months, they do this day and night” She said as she got up to put her stuff in boxes and bags,”Have you ever seen Memoirs of a Geisha?”
“Yes” I answered her question,”The scene where Hatsumomo destroys the Okiya and she didn’t care” I got up and she put her hand up,”Relax, I’m not gonna destroy this place, what I’m trying to say is that she lost everything, she made wrong choices and in the end, she didn’t care and Chiyo was saying that she was looking into her future” I nodded and she walked over to me,”Every time I look at you, hearing these stories from Michelle, I realized that you remind me of myself when I was your age” I looked at her confused,”What do you mean?”
“I used to try to look out for everybody, I try to keep them safe as much as I can" I looked down,"But if there's one thing to know...its this: It all comes down to what's right or what's easy"
"I know"
"But do you fully understand what I'm trying to say here?" When she asked me that, I didn't know what to say, maybe I didn't fully understood it then, I only want to do what's right for all of us, but what if what I was doing was only right for myself? "Someday you will Primus, it's almost dawn, we gotta get moving" I yawned after she left the room, I got up and there was a tear at the wall, snarling and growling coming from the other side. The thing was, I didn't even panic, I didn't scream or anything, Andrea looked back at me and came back,"It took them 6 months to get through that wall"
"Is that so?"
"Dawn of Destruction, we wake everyone up, no one goes back to sleep until we get to San Francisco" She whistled at the watchers, they came down,"Its time to move out"
"Do we even have everything we need?" Skylar asked Andrea, she sighed,"Don't ask questions, just do it, all of you, load stuff into the truck" I went to Dylan and Sean,"Wake up guys, we gotta get moving"
"Blaire, what is it?" Dylan groaned and I did also,"We need to move out" He turned over then got up,"Alright, alright" I woke up the others, I went to Andrea's office and knocked things over after we emptied the supplies,"Blaire, what the hell are you doing?"
"This place is going to collapse" I said to Pete, he helped out, lugged more heavier stuff in front of the office,"Is that the only spot that they're gonna be getting in?"
"For now, let's go" We went down the stairs and saw the others piling stuff into the military truck, Gwen handed us firearms to defend for us to get out of here, the walkers were about to come in from everywhere,"Where's my daughter?" Pete looked around,"Skylar!" She walked out of the weapon room with gun and started shooting the walkers down from the office and stairs,"Get in the other truck!" Andrea said to the group, unfortunately Sean, Adam, Arnold and 3 others stayed behind, including Skylar and Tawnin,"Dad go!"
"Skylar get in now!" A few tears went down her cheeks,"Just go Dad!" She continued shooting at the walkers, the place was starting to swarm with walkers as soon as we got into the truck,"Skylar!!" Andrea and Finley resisted him from going out there, Dylan was driving, Patrick was on the passenger side, the others were either on here with us or driving the supply truck,"Sarah, Trey and Emery are on here"
"Wheres Mommy?" I panicked for a second, but I found out that Michelle was driving the supply truck. As soon as we drove off, the ones that stayed to slow down the walkers got eaten, Pete didn't see his own daughter die, but he knew.

Dylan POV
When I was driving, I looked in the back,"Everybody okay?" Pete didn't answer, Andrea was still trying to comfort him, we were all silent,"I need someone on lookout back there" I said to the group, Patrick had his gun, I heard moving,"I'll do it" Clara grabbed the gun, I kept my eyes on the road,"Cant believe Sky would do something like that"
"Yeah well, we can't change that" I said to him and he sighed, tapping his fingers,"We've lost too much for this one mission Dylan"
"You think I don't know that? You think Blaire doesn't know that? You think we all don't know that?" I knew I was about to lose control, I took a deep breath,"We all know what we're getting ourselves into, we are all willing to take the risk"

Michelle POV
I was continuing to drive and we got to the train tracks, the truck started to slow down,"No, no, no, no shit!" Taryn looked around in a panic mode,"What? What's wrong?" I pulled over, they slowed down too, Dylan pulled to my window,"Everything okay?"
"Get Levitt" She came out of the truck and went to my driver window,"Everything good Holland?"
"I need more gas" She turned around and asked for Gasoline,"Clara! Any more gasoline in the back?"
"That's one thing we weren't able to get Levitt, I'm sorry" She slightly slammed the door and said to Taryn and I,"Well it got us this far,we need to look for Plan B" We got out of the truck, everyone else did, so far it was Gwen, Patrick, Blaire, Dylan, Pete, 3 children, Cayden, Finley, Chloe, Clara, Arwen, we lost more people than I thought,"Alright, we need to look for Plan B now, something that'll get us to 415 quicker and keep us all together" Andrea said to all of us and Cayden asked,"What's 415?" I answered his question,"San Francisco" He nodded and looked down,"Now haul ass"

Arwen POV
I looked around and looked both ways of the train tracks,"Arwen, you aren't gonna find anything" Clara said to me and I rolled my eyes, I pulled out binoculars and I looked down the right side and I found something, I followed the track,"Arwen! Where are you going?" Patrick came running over,"Here, what do you see?" I handed him the binoculars and he said a cart,"So let's check it out" I was about to walk over and he grabbed my arm,"You know I swore Sam to protect you"
"This could be Plan B, Pat" He looked further into the track and sighed quick, loaded his gun and handed me a pistol,"You know what to do" I nodded and we walked down at least half a mile, it wasnt a cart, it was a train,"We need to get Blaire, Dylan and Andrea over here" I said to Patrick,"This isn't headed in the direction that we're headed in" I looked over at him,"We can at least look for a map" I jumped on there,"Arwen" I was in the front of the train, looking at the levers, switches,whatnot,"Arwen don't touch anything"
"I'm not going to, jeez" I looked around for a map, manual, anything, I looked up and saw a clipboard,"Pat, can you get that?" He was tall enough to get it and he opened it,"Holy shit,its a manual to get this train going, also a map He pulled it out and we looked at it,"We need to get this to one of them"

Blaire POV
I was looking down the road, the humid was starting to get to me, I stopped and took a few deep breaths,"Hon you okay?" Dylan came over and I nodded,"Yeah, I'm alright, just got a little light headed for a second there"
"You sure?"
"Dylan really, I'm okay, we just need to keep going, see if there's a gas station or remaining gallons of gas" We walked by each other side by side,"Do you trust Clara?" He asked me and I instantly shook my head,"No, but she's an ally and hasn't harmed any of us" He took a deep breath and said,"Not yet anyway" We heard our names being called,"We need to go back" He said to me and we walked back,"This is strangely not infested with walkers" I said to him as we were looking around,"Yeah do you think we're winning this?"
"Hopefully" When we made it back, Arwen and Patrick had a clipboard, Andrea and the others came over gathering around,"What is this?" Clara snatched it out of Arwen's hands,"Yeah what is this?"
"We found it on the train back there, it-it has a manual….and the train route map, this leads to 415" Clara looked at it confused and Andrea grabbed it to look at it, she handed it to Dylan and I,"Does the train still work?"
"We didn't figure that part out, we thought we should run it by you because this could be Plan B" Patrick informed us and Cayden Saif to the group,"He's right, I mean we haven't getting any luck looking for remaining gas for the truck" Then Andrea started talking,"If we get this train going, we can load it up and head down there and not just San Francisco, but possibly further"