After The End - Violentine

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The cold ground crunched underneath his footsteps as he followed the snow covered path. AJ looked around as he walked into the forest, a thick layer of pristine snow covered everywhere but the beaten path they followed and looked the odd trail of a hunter and its prey.

"So how do you like your new stuff AJ?" Louis asked cheerfully as they walked.
"It so cool, Sam was teaching me how to play different instruments and I got this cool hat and this cool hat oh... and, and Violet made me these cool badges, one of them had AJ on it." AJ said excitedly.
"Hey calm down a bit, we still have to be carefully of walkers out here." Violet reminded him.

The group walked for a while longer before reaching the stream. Violet walked into the fishing hut and retrieved their spears and bucket whilst AJ and Louis looked into the rushing stream.

"It's a shame Clem can't come out with us, last time she caught twelve fish." Violet said as she approached. Louis grabbed a spear with his good hand and looked towards the water, "Man it is cold out here." Louis said dramatically as he stabbed at the water.
Violet scoffed loudly,"It isn't that cold and anyway you have that stupid coat we only have these old jackets." Violet said indicating the scruffy winter jacket both her and AJ were wearing.
"Ok then, I'll trade. Your hat for my coat." Louis said.
Violet immediately grabbed onto the edge of her grey beanie and tugged it down. "No, Clem sewed a special patch with my name on it." Violet said defensively.
"Can you guys please stop, I'm trying to focus." AJ demanded loudly causing the two to jump and turn back to the water.

Meanwhile, Clementine

"So and new news?" She asked the man standing at her desk.
"Yeah... Sophie and Kate need some more blankets, Aasim needs some people at the logging camp and... and... oh that was it, Willy said something about a strange person around the exterior walls." The man said slowly.
"Ok, go back to you room and warm up, good job and if you see Willy send him to me." Clementine responded and the man left.

Clementine sat at the desk and sighed, in truth she was bored, running a community for the last two years was hard especially in the winter whilst you co-leader/ wife has to spend most of their time fishing or helping others with their problems.

As Clementine daydreamed the door sudden burst open and Willy entered, an excited grin plastered on his face. "I got a trail, I got a trail." He repeated loudly.
Clementine looked at the teen confused, "What trail?  On who?" She asked.
"Look, over the last week there has been two sightings of a person or people on a bike in the forest and this morning I saw tyre prints out by the lake." Willy exclaimed.
Clementine stood up and opened the desk draw, grabbing the map and rolling it out on the desk.

The map had changed considerably from the original copy Marlon had given her on her first proper day at the school, in fact it was a new map that Aasim and Violet had drew up a few days ago. The original school layout was now surrounded by a sheet metal wall and a layer of new log buildings for accommodation and a farm for any crops they could grow as well as a small farm for the horses they found from the old Delta boat and some chickens they found at an abandoned farm house.

"Where." She said.
Willy scanned the map and pointed at the small hill near the lake then to a road to the south of the school near the path that lead there. There was a considerable distance between the points, nobody could have made it form one to the other without passing Texas Two.

"What!" Clementine exclaimed.
"That's what I was thinking so I asked around with the patrol guys and they said that there might have been two people near the road and just one by the hill ." Willy said proudly.
"So there's two different bikes." Clementine concluded, "Strange, tell the people on the outer gate to be careful but don't hurt anyone unless there aggressive, they could just be traders or people looking for a home."
"But what if their raiders or that cannibal guy." Willy said in a panic.
"Hey, calm down, I'm sure we could deal with one guy if to comes to it." Clementine reassured him. Willy clenched his fist and exhaled loudly out of his mouth, "Ok, Ok. It's fine.. I'm just going to go... calm down ." Willy said before quickly leaving.

Clementine sat back down and looked at the map, they had the occasional few walkers but other than that the last people they met were just wanderer who needed a home, other than that they didn't think they anyone was left on their own.

Another nock for the door caused Clementine to stand up, "I swear if someone isn't dying I'm going to flip." She sighed to herself as she opened the door.

"Yeah." She said with a tone of boredom.
"Clementine come quick someone's approaching the gates" Christa said before turning and quickly walking down the stairs.

Later, AJ

AJ swung his bucket lazily as he followed Violet back to the school.
"We should totally make snowmen after dinner." Louis said with a grin.
"I haven't done that since I was a kid, me and my grandpa would spend all day making the perfect snowman." Violet recalled fondly.
"What's a snowman? It it some kind of monster?" AJ asked inquisitively.
Louis laughed loudly, "Well basically you-

"How can we be sure?" A muffled voice said nearby.

The group quickly crouched down behind a bush and looked around for who was talking.

"Well its too late now, that woman saw us and nearly cut my arm off!" Another muffled voice said

"Ok, Ok. I get it I messed up but we need to look out for her she'll probably want revenge." The first said.

"There." Violet whispered pointing towards two masked figures in the distance. Violet squinted as she looked at them, one wore a long coat and a rifle of his shoulder and the other in some kind of animal skin. Both the people wore chemical masks and hooded clothes. They stood next to a motorcycle which looked like it had been heavily modified with different parts and a large satchel on the side.

"We should go, we don't have to confront them now, we should get back home." Louis suggested quietly.

Everyone nodded and slowly sneaked away form the bikers.

About 5 minutes later

"Hey open up its us!" Violet yelled over the metal wall. A woman quickly poked her hear over the wall and looked down, she disappeared temporarily and opened the gate. Violet, Louis and AJ made it safely back inside the gate a quickly dropped off their buckets.

"Hello? I'm looking for some fucking gas guzzling fuckheads any of you seen one?" A voice yelled from outside. Violet walked quickly over to the wall and climbed the ladder. She grabbed a bow off the other guard and held it in her hand. She quickly looked over the wall and spotted a slim figure with a motorcycle helmet strapped to their head, next to them an almost prestige looking bike.

"Who are you? what do you want?" Violet asked.

The woman looked up and pulled the helmet over her head. She had short blond hair and a surprisingly unmarked face.

"Yeah Hi, I need to talk to your leader or whatever."

Thanks for the continued support, I only realised yesterday the amount of readers I have thank you very much.
- ZQ