Know Where (A Walking Dead Game Contintuation)

The Scouts

Javi woke up in David's old house in Richmond. It was a bright and sunny day, but it didn't feel like that within the community. He turned to his side and put his arm out in hopes to hold Kate before he had to get up. However, when he turned he didn't feel Kate's presence on his side, she was already awake. Javi groggily sat up from his bed, seeing that Kate was nowhere in their room. He knew she'd been tense lately, but he realized it was getting worse today. He got up from his bed and put on his jersey and pants. He grabbed his backpack and walked outside his house.

The community warmed up to Javi after the breach and assassination of Joan. It took a long time for people to believe that Javi was good, after realizing that their past leaders were dictating lies. Javi had a hard time communicating with them, but Kate handled the people well. He appreciated her for that. Fortunately, there weren't many members lost after the herd. The majority of the people who were lost were the gardeners, and people who weren't trained well with melee or any weaponry. Most of the soldiers survived.

Kate and Javi were able to strengthen the community again after holding a lot of city council meetings about how to prevent their previous mistakes from happening again. These meetings were appreciated by the people, as they never really knew or understood what the past leaders were up to before. All of the adults were split within their strengths: gardening, weaponry, lookout, and medical. To prevent anyone from being tired, they did shifts and rotated, to make sure that everyone had a chance to learn different positions.

Asides from the adults, Gabe led the kids and taught them what he knew from inspiration from Javi. He found old BB guns in the armory and trained kids by making them shoot old glass bottles or buckets. He took some kids in small groups to learn how to kill walkers under lookout supervision. He didn't know anything about gardening, but the kids taught him that in return.

The first two years at Richmond went by smoothly. The bulldozer that covered the breach was replaced with metal. The buildings that were torn down by walkers were rebuilt and new council members were elected to lead the different roles in the community. Javi, Gabe, and Kate built Richmond to be good, and other communities knew that it could be a safe haven, as Jesus helped spread the word about their community.

Nevertheless, words can be twisted and manipulated for evil. After Jesus spread the news about Richmond and their resources, he never realized it would backfire. Not too long after the attempt to recruit people, there was a raid. Javi and Kate were unprepared for a group to be so forceful against their community. A lot of members died, yet a lot of kids were taken. Javi didn't get a chance to talk to the raiders, but he remembered that they had a crate that carried their kids away. Richmond lost a hefty amount of people, and it took them back to square one. After the attack, Kate didn't sleep well, and Gabe started acting a lot like his father after the kids he trained were taken. He was more strict and hard. Kate and Javi found it hard to get him to open up. He wasn't the same.

Javi walked inside the city council building to see Kate and Gabe already working at the table.

"Goodmorning!" Javi greeted, attempting to warm up the two.

"Hey," Gabe said.

Kate looked at him with a smile and warm eyes, "Goodmorning."

"What are we up to?" Javi asked, looking at the map that marked the discovered areas near Richmond.

Kate was about to explain until Gabe interrupted, "The scouting team said there are words of two communities close by."

"Really?" Javi asked.

Kate pointed at the map, "They didn't say much, but there's two that made camp in the woods, not too far from here. They could help us Javi, we need it."