Lee Everett's New Life

  His entire being felt numb and weak. He was laying on the ground, blades of green grass cushioning his body. Lee opened up his eyes slowly, raising his hand to block out the sunlight from his vision.

  "What the hell?" He muttered. "I don't remember being here..."

  Lee slowly raised up, looking around. He was no longer in the store he remembered him and Clementine were both in awhile ago. He noticed that his left arm was cut off and wrapped in bandages as it was when he was last with Clementine and the others.

  "Damn." Was all Lee could say about it.

  He noticed how peaceful the world around him was. Birds chirped among the trees, the tall grass blew with the wind like the waves of the ocean. Mountains dotted the horizon, towering thousands of feet overhead. White, puffy clouds dotted the sky, drifting across it. In the distance, he saw a town. Not a normal town he'd see in Georgia, but a town that was filled with homes that seemed to be from the medieval era. Hay roofs, timbered walls, planters on the windows. There was even an elegantly large castle on the side of one of the mountains in the distance.

  Lee raised himself up from the ground, being careful not to make too much noise. He didn't want any unnecessary attention. That'd mean walkers, or bandits. Both were bad news no matter what the situation was. As he got up, he noticed a blood stained cleaver lying on the ground, glowing in the sunlight.

  "I'd better take this. I don't know what I may be getting into." Lee told himself as he knelt down and grabbed the utensil with his right hand. He looked around, wondering where he could go to. His group was gone, and Clementine was nowhere to be seen. He last told her to get out of Savannah, or at least that is what he remembered. Lee looked at the distant town, wondering what he should do.

  "I could probably head there for supplies. It doesn't look as big as Savannah and I don't see any hordes of walkers from here." He thought out loud. "Or I could just stay outside the town."

  As Lee pondered on what he should do, his stomach suddenly growled.

  "Guess that means I'm heading there." Lee sighed. He started walking towards the distant, peaceful village. Lee noticed the lack of walkers. He had yet to see any. Either most were killed by someone, or there were just no walkers here at all.

  "I better keep a look out for Clem, too. She might be around here." Lee silently told himself. "She has to be around here somewhere."

  He started trekking to the distant town. The peaceful world around Lee made him smile, however, that smile went away as fast as it came when he wondered where he was. He could probably find a town library or something of the sorts that would have some information. He eventually found a dirt road leading to it.

  Suddenly, he heard a woman humming. The sound of hooves resounded from the road. Lee's instinct took over, and he dove behind a nearby bush, grunting as he impacted the ground. He peeked through the leaves and saw a butter yellow equine trotting down the path, a pair of bags hanging on it's sides. He also took note of how she was the source of the humming. She wasn't armed, and she had a pair of wings.

  "What the hell..?" Lee quietly muttered as he looked at the winged equine. "A pegasus? What the hell is going on?"

  Suddenly, he lost grip of his cleaver, and it fell to the ground, making a loud metallic thud.

  "Shit!" He silently yelped.

  Silence filled the air, and the sound of hooves clopping against the dirt stopped. Lee held his breath as he tightly shut his eyes.

  "Hello?" The pegasus asked nervously. "Anypony there?"

  Lee didn't respond. He was surprised to find out that the pegasus was talking.

  He released a breath when the pegasus continued trotting down the road, albeit more cautiously and quickly. Lee quickly grabbed his cleaver and once the pegasus was out of sight, he got up from behind the bush.

  "That was close." Lee told himself. "I need to be more careful."

  He continued up to the path, and started trekking down the dirt road yet again.

  Then, a rabbit hopped out from the bushes. It looked around, it's white coat lit up by the sun. Lee stopped moving, and stared at the small animal. The animal took notice of him, and stared back at him. Lee's stomach growled yet again. He looked down at his stomach, then back up to the rabbit. He was now starting to wonder whether to take the energy and time to chase it, or just leave it be until he gets a weapon that can shoot. In his condition, with his amputated arm, he'd probably have to corner it somewhere. Another problem is that he had yet to find a place to make a fire pit. The rabbit would go bad by the time he finds a place to make a fire pit and start a fire if he actually manages to kill it.

  He decided to just leave it be. The town doesn't look far from now.

  "Angel?" Lee heard the pegasus ask from a distance behind him. Lee froze in fear. "Are you out here?"

  Lee ran up behind a tree on the side of the road. He crouched behind it, hyperventilating as he heard the sound of hooves beating down the dirt road. He peeked out from behind the tree, and examined what was happening.

  "There you are!" The pegasus said, trotting up to the small rabbit, lifting it up and cradling it in her arms. "I was wondering where you were!"

  The rabbit started frantically pointing at the tree Lee was behind.

  "What? Is something wrong?" The pegaus asked as the rabbit repeatedly pointed in Lee's direction. Lee stop peeking out from behind the trunk and stayed as still and as quiet as possible. "It's just a tree... I don't see anything wrong with it."

  Lee held his breath and hoped the pegasus would just leave him be.

  "Wait, there is something behind it?"

  That made Lee's heart skip a beat.

  "I'll go look at it, it's probably just a young animal."

  Lee took out his cleaver and held onto it as if he was holding onto the edge of the Grand Canyon. He clenched his teeth as he silently got up, prepared to run for his life. If that pegasus talked, then it most likely was intelligent enough to know that you shouldn't trust strangers. Especially during a situation like the one he had been going through for about three months.

  "Hello?" The pegasus asked, now walking around the tree's base. "I'm not going to hurt you..."

  Lee noticed how it got suddenly silent. He looked down to his left and saw the pegasus, who he was taller than, staring up in shock at him.

  "Don't you come any closer! I got a knife! I'm not afraid to kill you if I have to!" Lee yelled, sticking out the blood-covered kitchen utensil. The pegasus just stood there, frozen in fear. Lee kept quickly backing away. Once he was far enough, he spun around and ran for his life. He didn't look back. He kept running through the woodland area. He planned to circle the town, and get to the other side of it and enter from there. His chest started hurting and his legs ached. He slowed down to a walk, and stopped to catch his breath. He looked back at the direction he came from. He was a good distance away from where he was about a minute or two ago. He was now almost a fourth of the way to the other side of town.

  "I think that got her off my trail..." Lee tiredly said to himself. "God damn, that was too close..."

  He looked up at the town yet again. He could just simply walk to it now. However, he immediately stopped that thought when he looked more closely at the distant town. More of those small, colorful equines were walking around, and not only winged ones, either. He could make out ones with horns, and ones that had neither wings nor horn. Not only that, but he also noticed they were actually intelligent. They weren't wandering aimlessly around, moaning as they did. They were talking to one another.

  "What the hell?" Lee muttered as he squinted. "Where did I end up at?"

  Somehow he ended up somewhere filled with talking ponies. No walkers were yet to have been spotted. Animals weren't being eaten alive. Ruins and abandoned buildings weren't a common sight. Lee didn't know what to think of it.

  Then he thought about that pegasus he threatened earlier.

  "Oh shit." He muttered. That young equine had most likely headed to town and told everyone there about him. He sat down on a rounded out rock nearby, and put his cleaver down in the green grass next to him. He slouched and stared at the ground.

  "This can't be Savannah." Lee thought to himself. "This can't even be Georgia."

  Lee then finally remembered what he last told Clementine to do. His eyes widened as he realized what it meant. Lee clearly remembered himself telling Clementine to shoot him to prevent him from turning into a walker. He remembered seeing the gun pointed at his head, and the muzzle flashing brightly before blacking out. Even if she didn't shoot him, he would've died anyway, and most likely was now stuck to the wall by a handcuff, moaning and writhing.

  "No..." Lee muttered. "I can't be dead... I can't..."

  A tear rolled down his face. He covered up his face with his single hand.

  "Clementine... Please be okay." Was all he could say.

  Suddenly, he heard someone yell something from above.

  "Hey! I found him!" The voice yelled. Lee looked up towards the sky. He saw a cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane fly at an incredible speed toward him.

  "Oh fu-" Was all Lee could say before being knocked unconscious by the equine.