Jayr POV - Earth, Geia, Iate 85 - 2010

  After we've left the ter for Disease trol and Prevention and a small part of roup behind very early in the m, we jumped onto our vehicles ahe city of Atnta food by taking the Iate 85 which served as the mairand exit to the city of Atnta and because of that, most vehicles would use this stretch of road to travel to and from the city.

  The group decided to abandon some of the vehicles in our voy as this was the best way to waste less gasoline and focus on what we had in the few vehicles left.

  Because of that, the voy is now posed of Dale's RV, which is driven by Dale, and with him there are Glenn, Andrea, Amy, and Shane, Carol Peletier's Cherokee, which is driven by Rick who is together with his wife, Lori, his son Carl, Carol, and her daughter Sophia, Merle Dixon's motorcycle, now driven by his brother, Daryl, Morales' car with his family and the good old and reliable, military cargo truck that is used to carry most of the other people and our supplies.

  At the moment, driving the cargo truck is T-Dog as he cheerfully talks with Man about how good it feels to drive such a big, solid truck while Duane is on the cargo bed pying with Ana and Stepan while the other people watch over them talking about some light topics.

  Meanwhile, I'm actually using the radio to keep in tact with Dr. Jenner back at the ter for Disease trol and Prevention who is rep to me the progress oudy of both the tent and active state of the Wildfire Virus and the creation of the virophage that will cure it ond for all and from time to time I give him some directed suggestions that will push and influehe whole process in the right dire avoid some deadends or the more catastrophic results.

  At the same time, I also focus my senses a little bit oher vehicles to learn more about the moods and the mental state of the people in the group.

  The Morales family is mostly okay, the kids are more cheerful and happy to be outside as the atmosphere of the ter for Disease trol and Prevention was too oppresive and closed for them, but Miranda is slightly worried as she felt more safe ihe building and doesn't know if they made the right choice, luckily Morales is able to reassure and vice her that this is truly the best for their family.

  Oher hand, the situation in Carol Peletier's Cherokee is much more lighthearted as the drive brings baemories for Lori and Ribsp;

  I hear Lori's voice as she ents out loud, "Just thinking about our trip to the Grand yon with Carl."

  After a short pause, Rick starts to cheerfully ugh as Carl says, "I don't remember that." which makes Lori states, "No, you wouldn't. You were just a baby. Besides, we never made it past Fort Worth." followed by Rick who adds, "No, you got sick. I never knew a baby could throw up so much." before both he and Lori start to chuckle.

  Hearing that, Carl 't help but excim, "Ick." followed by Lori who agrees, "Yeah, ick." before she narrates, "The doctor in Texas said you'd live. Theurned around and drove home."

  At this point, Carl ents, "That sucks." but Lori then says, "No, it was a good trip." followed by Rick who adds, "The best."

  Then Carl ily asks, " we go see it? The Grand yon? I'd like to." followed by Sophia who also meekly asks, "I would too. we go?"

  In response, Rick quickly replies, "Sure. We'd never go without you and your mom. That's a promise."

  At the same time, hearing that, I 't help but shudder a little while thinking, 'Damn! This truly smells like a Death Fg... Maybe it is better to raise my alertness and prepare for any kind of deadly i happening...'

  While I'm thinking that, I also focus my senses on Dale's RV ahe sounds of Shaaking apart his gun and ing it with ease, shortly after that, I hear Andrea's voice as she ents, "Looks plicated."

  In response, Shane calmly expins, "The trick is getting all these pieces back together the same way." before he says, "I could yours, show you how."

  After that, I hear Shane pick up Andrea's gun, look at it, and ent, "Oh yeah. It's a sweet piece."

  Hearing that, Andrea expins in a tone full of emotions as she remembers about her father, "It was a gift from my father. He gave it to me just before Amy and I took off on our road trip. He said two girls on their own should be able to defend themselves."

  Shane chuckles a little and ents, "Smart man, your father." before he turns serious and starts to expin, "Look, it's a-- it's a limited capacity. See? Only holds seven rounds."

  But his expnatios interrupted by Dale who excims very loudly, "Oh jeez." followed by Glenn who ents, "Aw no."

  At the same time, I realize that the voy starts to slow down until it definitely stops, and looking around, I immediately notice that we have arrived at a two-ne highway that is part of Iate 85 and which is now blocked with several abandoned vehicles lying all over the pd 't help but mutter in a low tone, "Fug death fgs..."

  Then I see Daryl riding his brother's motorcycle as he passes by Dale's RV and hear Dale ask him, "See a way through?" to which he replies by signing to Dale to follow him using his head before he starts to lead the way by finding a pathway through the vehicles.

  Following after Daryl the voy slowly and nervously crawls through the wreckage while I hear Glenn, who is sitting in the RV as he suggests, "Uh, maybe we should just go back. There's an iate bypass-." but he is interrupted by Dale who ents, "We 't spare the fuel. Jeez."

  But theuation suddenly worsens when the RV's earts sputtering and smoke starts to e of the hood very likely because the radiator hose broke down once again and obviosly this forces the whole group to stop.

  Soon after, everyos out of their vehicle and walks to Dale's RV to che the situation and we all watch as a frustrated Dale pins out loud, "I said it. Didn't I say it? A thousand times. Dead ier." followed by a curious Glenn who asks, "Problem, Dale?"

  In response, Dale ents, "Just a small matter of being stu the middle of nowhere with no hope of-." but stops as he sees Daryl as he begins to salvage a nearby abandoned vehicle and says, "Okay, that was dumb."

  At the same time, as Daryl searches for something useful ihat car he ents, "If you 't find a radiator hose here... There's a whole bunch of stuff we find." while T-Dog starts to look around and says, "I siphon more fuel from these cars for a start. After all, we used quite a bit of our reserves when we powered the C.D.C.'s geors."

  Hearing that, Carol also adds, "Maybe some more water would also help as we didn't bring too much with us." followed by Rick who says, "Or more food. The more the better."

  At this point, Lori ents, "This is a graveyard. I don't know how I feel about this. After all, we'll never know when one of those walkers would jump on us."

  In response, everyourns serious as they realize the truth in her words of warning before T-Dog quickly starts to move once more this time with more haste in his steps as he says, "All right, all right, here we go. e on, y'all. Just look around, gather what you ."

  At the same time, as I look at the group beginning to salvage the abandoned vehicles in the hopes of finding a spare radiator hose to use I also remember a very simir se happening iV Show, a se that came right before the arrival of a walker horde that caused quite a bit of problems, like T-Dog wounding himself like a dumb idiot, Sophia running away in the nearby woods aing bitten and killed by a walker, and Carl getting shot in a freak hunting act.

  Remembering all that makes my mind move at a speed faster than light as I start to analyze the current situation, 'Wait a freaking moment! I don't kly how much time Rid the others spent in the C.D.pared to us but at most our presen this location should be about one maybe two days ter than the "" which should mean that the walker horde should have already passed by... but the difference is just too little to be sure of that and sidering the overall "luck" and "fate" of the main cast, I 't ighe possibility of the walker horde approag us right at this moment... even more so when Rick just raised a Death Fg just a few minutes ago!'

  Realizing that, I don't hesitate to quickly warn everyone before they walk too far away, "Guys! Don't wander around and be very careful! I have a very bad feeling!"

  Seeing all of them stop and foe, I start to give some clear instrus, "Remember Rule #8 to survive the walkers. When in doubt, always know your way out. As you search the abandoned cars make sure to find or create a pce where you quickly find cover or hide in case it is needed. Moreover, all the kids should stay on the cargo bed of the Cargo Tuck together with some of the adults who will watch over and protect them in case something happens!"

  In respoo my words, iranda, and Lori didn't hesitate to quickly take Carl, Eliza, Louis, and Sophia to the cargo bed where Duane, Ana, and Stepan were already waiting for them uhe prote of Man, Ruben, Almast, and Sofya.

  At the same time, most of the group begins to salvage what they from the abandoned cars while Glenn helps Dale fix the radiator hose and asks while showing a pair of screwdrivers in his hand, "Whie?" which makes Dale curtly reply, "The fthead. Radiator hose cmp is always a fthead."

  Dale takes the screwdriver from Glenn's hand and starts to work on the radiator hose but after a few moments, he gives the screwdriver back to Glenn and says, "Here, you do it. Learn something." before he walks up to Rick who is taking watch with a rifle behind the RV.

  Then Dale takes the binocurs from Rid climbs to his post on the roof as he starts to carefully look around for any approag walker.

  While this is happening, I walk up to the Cargo Trud grab my good old Bo Staff, ready to react at any sign of walker while thinking, 'If the walker horde really appears then should I make a move? If I do it I will without any doubt show the group some of my true capabilities. As long as their number is around 100 or so I easily take care of them while simply looking like an especially skilled human, but I'm not sure if I should do it. However, I'm pretty sure that I won't be able to ensure everyone's safety if I hide way too much of what I do, and without any doubt, I'm sure I won't be able tive myself if someone dies just because I held back.'

  At this point, I hold my Bo Staff tighter as I reach a clusion, 'In the end, if the walker horde appears, the only thing I do is aot only to protect the group but also because letting a horde advand grow in number and size is just way too dangerous for the people of this universe for me to ignore, so it is better to cull their numbers as much as possible.'

  While I'm thinking that, I notidrea and Amy calmly searg through a few cars as they chat with smiles on their faces but at the same time, I notice that Andrea is a lot more mindful of her surroundings pared to her more careless sister as she follows my advid make sure to find some safe pce to hide every two or three cars.

  At the same time, I also see that Carol and Lori also joihe others as they look through cars further up the highway.

  I see Carol finding and holding up some clothes to her chest and smiling to herself but theices Lori looking at her, who is obviously still unfortable about the idea of searg through these cars, and after an awkward cough, Carol expins, "Ed never let me wear hings like this." before she picks up a few more clothes and says, "We're gonna need clothes." which makes Lori nod and say, "You are right... but for some reason, I have a bad feeling about this. Even more so, after Jayr warned us."

  Then I focus on T-Dog and Daryl who work together to siphon fuel from the abadoned cars while Shane follows a few steps after Glenn who is now searg through the car's hoods for a radiator hose to repce the broken one on Dale's RV before he focus on a truck behind what looks like a delivery van and starts w on it while muttering, "Okay. All right."

  Meanwhile, I see that Shane is now fog on searg the delivery van and within he finds several isters of fresh which make him ask in a joyful tone, "Glenn. Were we short on water?" before he opens one of them to drink some of the water ahe rest fall on his head to refresh himself.

  Seeing that se, Glenn ughs and excims, "Save me some!" which makes Shane ent, "It's like being baptized, man."

  But then, with my very enhanced senses, I pick up the sound of many irregur, slow footsteps approag our position and with I sign I mutter, "As expected. In the end, the walker horde still made its appearance despite my presence ging a lot of things. The power of Fate ah Fgs must not be uimated..." before I shout, "Everyoake cover! Walker Horde approag!"

  The respoo my shout is instantaneous as Dale and Rick start to look around, one using his binocurs while the other using the scope of his rifle, and shortly after Dale mutters, "Damn..." followed by Rick who whispers, "Oh, Christ." before he quickly moves toward Lori and Carol and tells them, "Lori, Carol uhe cars."

  At the same time, all the others also quickly hid, some uhe cars, and others ihem, like Andrea, Amy, T-Dog, and Daryl as they followed my advid prepared a hiding pce beforehand in case things went south.

  Of course, the safest ones are the kids and the adults with them who bunkered down in the cargo bed of the Cargo Truck, out of the reach of the walkers.

  While everyone is taking cover, I calmly walk toward the approag horde with the Bo Staff in my hands.

  At first, no oook notie, but then, I hear Dale's voice as he asks in a subdued tone, "What are you doing, kid!?"

  I tio advaoward the sloroag horde as I calmly reply with a white lie, "Don't worry, I'll lead this horde away from here. Thanks for your but nothing will happen to me as long as I'm careful. I already did something like this many times before, so I'm pretty fident."

  Shortly after saying that, I focus my attention back to the walker horde which is getting closer and closer and with a quick s using my eyes, I realize that this horde is made of around 100 walkers, a ha makes me smirk while thinking, 'Good, this is a small horde, this means that even if I hold back to appear as human as possible, I'll still be able to deal with it in around 20 minutes or so...'

  Realizing that the smirk on my face grows bigger as I start to lightly tap the butt of my Bo Staff on the crete of the highway in a very specific rhythm to gee a dull sound loud enough to make the walkers foy presence.

  The effect is instantaneous as the walkers immediately foe and pick up their pace as they start to move slightly faster now that a "prey" is close by.

  Seeing that, I tio rhythmically tap the crete of the highway as I calmly start to sing, "?Hey, what's the matter with your head, yeah. Hey, what's the matter with your mind and yn and oh. Hey, nothin' the matter with your head.?"

  At the same time, I lightly kick a nearby rock that quickly flies toward the head of the closest walker, g it in at the moment of the impact, killing the walker iion with a single precise blow as I tio sing, "?Baby, find it, e on and find it. Bear with it, baby, 'cause you're fine. And you're mine, and you look so divine.?"

  This is obviosly the iig of the Redbone, e A Your Love, which experienced a resurgen popurity when it was featured in the Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Gaxy as one of the songs on a mixtape made for the protagonist Peter Quill that for some reason is now stu my head as I'm about to battle a horde of walkers.

  I advaoward the walker horde with a series of quick steps and once close enough, I start a series of quick thrust with my Bo Staff crushing the heads of five walkers as I sing along, "?e a your love. e a your love. e a your love. e a your love.?"

  Immediately after, I swing the Bo Staff side-by-side, almost like a pendulum, crushing the heads of the walkers approag from the sides and walking around the corpse of the walkers I have already killed as I tio cheerfully sing, "?Hey, what's the matter with you, feel right? Don't you feel right, baby? Hey, all right, get it from the main vine, all right. I said-a find it, find it, go on and love it if you like it, yeah.?"

  Then I notice that the walkers are starting to slowly encircle me, so, I don't hesitate and lightly pnt the far end of the Bo Staff on the crete and use it as a pole to vault on top of a nearby car's roof and then I calmly swing down the Bo Staff many times crushing the heads of the closest walkers like it is a game of whack-a-mole before I jump over nding on the roof of another nearby car as I tio sing, "?Hey, it's your business if you want some, take some. Get it together, baby.?"

  As soon as the walkers get close to the car I'm currentily standing on, I repeat the same process as before by smming the Bo Staff on their heads, crushing them like some rotten watermelons further bringing down their numbers before I once again jump on top of the roof of another nearby car so that the walker horde tio follow me, bringing it further away from the rest of the group.

  At the same time, I also make sure that the distaween one car and the other is not too much for a regur, fit human to cross as I still don't want to appear too "inhuman" to Rid the other members of the group as I don't want to fully reveal myself yet as it would only plicate things even more as I don't know how they could react to the revetions that my true capabilities and in would uncover.

  Soon, I carefully nd on the roof of the car, which still dents a little under my weight, and tio sing to attrract the walkers to me, "?e a your love. e a your love. e a your love. e a your love. e a your love, e a your love. e a your love, now. e a your love, e a your love. e a your love, now.?"

  Ohe walkers start to surround the car, I again kill as many as "humanly" possible by swinging my Bo Staff before I move on and jump on the closest car, and unfortunately, there aren't any other cars close enough that I use to safely pull the walkers away, so, as soon as I nd, I don't hesitate and run down the hood of the car and jump down before I start to slowly retreat away from the blocked se of the highway as I fad kill the walkers, obviously, I tio sing e A Your Love throughout the whole sequenovements to keep them focused on me, "?e a your love, e a your love. e a your love, now. e a your love, e a your love. e a your love, now.?"

  At the same time, I also take a quick look to firm that all the walkers are still chasing after me and, at the same time, I notice that I have already dealt with a little less than half of them while trying to pull them away from the group.

  Soon, I find myself in a clear se of the road, ohout any abadoned car around which makes it the perfect area to deal with the remaning walkers.

  Realizing that, a fident smile forms on my face as I leap a few more meters away from the blocked se before I stop and take the most basic stance waiting for the walkers to get within my striking range while tinuing to sing, "?e a your love. e a your love. e a your love. e a your love.?"

  As soon as the first walker enters my striking range, I don't waste any more time and quickly thrust my Bo Staff toward its head and soon the far end tip of the Bo Staff impacts against the forehead of the walker pierg right through it before I quickly retrive the Bo Staff and without losing momentum, I thrust the Bo Staff forward once again, this time aiming at the walker right o it who just entered my striking range ending with the exact same result. I repeat the same simple a a few more times and the corpses of the killed walkers became an obstacle for those behind them which makes them stumble ourning the fallen walkers into an even easier target as I stab their heads with the Bo Staff while cheerfully singing the st verses of the song, "?Hey, what's the matter with you, feel right? Don't you feel right, baby? Hey (hey) all right, get it from the main vine, all right.?"

  As I tio tirelessly thrust the Bo Staff in my hands at any walker that stumbles into my rahe corpses all arouart to quickly form a wall which makes all this even easier.

  Like that the number of walkers walking into their death gets lower and lower as I effitily thrust the Bo Staff at their heads taking them out with a single precise blow while singing, "?e a your love. e a your love. e a your love. e a your love. e a your love.?"

  Odyin