Chapters Lee's ears rang. His eyes barely opened, yet it was near impossible to make out anything because of how blurry and dark everything was. He could, however, hear the sound of several voices.
"Ah think you hit it too hard, Rainbow." One voice said.
"Well sorry for making sure he didn't get into Ponyville and start hurting everypony!" Another voice responded in annoyance.
"I am pretty sure that he's not only supposed to have one arm..." Another voice said. "Seeing that stump wrapped in bandages and all."
"What should we do with him?" A timid voice asked.
"We could probably put him in the barn and wait until he wakes up. We can start asking him questions then." The southern voice replied. "Rainbow, you take the cleaver, and ah'll hogtie it."
"It can talk?" A fancier sounding voice asked.
"Accordin' to Fluttershy, it apparently can. Right, Flutters?"
"Um... Yes."
Lee lost the noise from the world around him. His ears started ringing as he lost focus of the world around him.
Lee awakened yet again, however, more refreshed this time. The smell of hay filled his nose as his eyes fluttered open. He felt himself lying on a pile of hay. It brought back memories of the Greene Family Farm on the first night of the apocalypse. He sighed, remembering how much hope they had that the military would deal with everything happening. He was no longer outside, but now in the interior of a barn. He was hogtied and lying on the ground.
"Ugh... What happened?" Lee muttered.
"Ah see yer awake." A southern voice said from in front of him.
Lee's eyes shot open and looked forwards. He saw an orange pony with a stetson hat on, and a blonde mane and tail. The both had pigtails.
"Now ah got a few questions for ya." The mare walked up to Lee, who was now breathing more frantically. "First question: Why did ya threaten Fluttershy?"
"Who?" Lee asked.
"Fluttershy, the pegasus pony you threatened with that cleaver." The mare replied, with a blank and serious expression on her face.
"I... Thought she was a bandit." Lee replied.
"A bandit? Her?" The equine seemed a bit surprised. "If you knew her, you would never think that."
"Well, where I was from, there are tons of bandits, and they aren't the only things I had to deal with before I got here..."
"Well ah don't want to hear any of it." The mare said. "Second question: What happened to your arm? Ah'm pretty darn sure that it isn't supposed to look like that."
Lee looked down at his severed appendage.
"I got it cut off. I got bitten by a walker not to long ago. Probably a day or two."
"A walker? What in tarnation is that?"
"You never heard of a walker?" Lee asked, raising an eyebrow. "They were all over the place back where I was. They cause the whole country to fall."
"How did they do that?"
"They basically are dead people that come back to life and wander around, eating anyone they find that isn't one of them. If you get bitten or are killed without your brain being damaged, then you're going to turn into one of them. It only took one or two days for the entire nation to fall." Lee explained. "Once they see you, they won't stop until they find you or get killed."
"That sounds ridiculous."
"Then come up with another reason why I would have cut my arm off." Lee told the cowpony. She couldn't come up with anything. After a few seconds, the mare fully realized that he wasn't kidding.
"How... Long have you been going through that?" Applejack asked, looking a bit more empathetic towards Lee now.
"Three months or so. We've been mostly hiding out at a motel."
The mare seemed shocked. She couldn't believe how long he'd been going through that situation.
"But the walkers aren't the worst." Lee kept explaining what had happened over the course of three months. "A group I was in was found by these two men who wanted gas for food. We had no food and we were starving. We gave them gas and they took us to a dairy."
"That doesn't sound bad."
"It didn't. But then I discovered that they were taking the injured and feeding their flesh to us. I found one of our group members upstairs an hour or so after getting an arrow into his shoulder by a bandit. He was in the bathroom upstairs, legless. I got downstairs just in time to tell Clem and the others not to eat any of the food."
The mare seemed shocked and slightly sick at what Lee said. She covered her mouth with a hoof in pure amazement at what happened to him.
"That wasn't even the worst thing that happened to me. I'd probably spend an hour in here or so telling you every single horrible thing that happened to me and my group."
"Ah don't wanna hear any more. I think you made yer point." The mare said. "No wonder you threatened Fluttershy like that after going through something that terrible."
The mare came up and started untying Lee up. First his arms, then his legs were finally free. He stretched his arms and legs out.
"Thanks." Lee said to the cowpony.
"Don't mention it. Just don't do anything like that again, alright?" The mare said. "Ah'm Applejack."
"You can call me Lee. Lee Everett, to be exact."
"Well it's nice to meet ya Lee." Applejack smiled, extending a hoof to the man. She only got a confused expression from him. Applejack lowered her eyebrows, then Lee realized that she wanted to shake his hand.
"Oh, right." Lee muttered. He grasped onto the mare's hoof. The mare suddenly shook his arm ridiculously hard and fast. Lee was surprised that he didn't lose his other arm after she stopped.
"Ah'm going to go get the others. It'll be just a moment." Applejack said, going through a doorway.
"Well that went better than I expected." Lee happily said to himself, brushing some hay off of his shirt.
"HI!" A mare that jumped up out of nowhere into Lee's vision loudly said, causing Lee to scream and fall backwards and hit his head against a fence post. "Oh! That looked like that hurt!"
Lee grunted as he rubbed his numb skull. "Where the hell did you come from?" Lee asked, looking up at the pony.
"I came through the door over there, silly! Duh!" The pony replied.
Lee opened his mouth to say something, but just gave up and sighed.
"So, Lee Everett?" A voice asked. Lee saw a purple unicorn, and the pegasus from earlier.
"Yeah. That's my name." Lee replied. "What's yours?"
"Twilight Sparkle. Protege of Princess Celestia." The unicorn introduced herself.
"Before this conversation goes on," Applejack interrupted, pointing a hoof at Lee. "Lee, ah think you should apologize to somepony you threatened earlier today."
Lee turned towards the butter yellow pegasus. She grew nervous upon being seen by Lee, and visibly hid part of her face behind her long, pink mane. Lee felt really sorry for threatening her. He knelt down to eye level with the equine.
"Sorry about earlier." Lee softly apologized. "I just thought you were a bandit."
"Why... Why would you think that?" The timid pegasus asked.
"Where I came from, it was hard to trust anyone you met. You didn't know whether or not they would kill you for supplies or just for fun." Lee quickly explained. He stood back up.
"That must have been something terrible to have gone through..." Twilight told Lee.
"It was. It was only three months or so after everything went bad before I got bitten."
"Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?" Twilight asked.
"Sure. I can answer a few questions." Lee replied. After all, it wouldn't take long.
BANG
Lee shot awake from the couch Applejack let him sleep on after Twilight finished asking all of those questions. He really never wanted to be near that unicorn after all of those hours spent with her.
BANG
"What the hell..?" Lee muttered as he yawned and got up. "Hold on, I'm coming!"
BANG
He carefully sauntered through the dark void that was the living room he was in, all the way to the door. He clutched the door handle and opened the door.
Standing there was Twilight. However, she was now severely decomposed, and making a deep, disturbing moan that made Lee immediately freeze, as if he was turned to stone. The unicorn shuffled towards Lee, and his instinct took over.
"FUUUCK!" Lee yelled, slamming the door into the undead unicorn's face before she got a chance to bite a chunk of flesh from him.
BANG BANG BANG BANG
He frantically turned a lamp on and quickly moved a coffee table up against the door as bangs continued He ran upstairs, being careful not to trip on the steps as he hurried. He burst open the first door he got near, and looked inside.
Applebloom, whom Lee was introduced to by Applejack not to long after answering all of Twilight's questions, was now being messily devoured by her own sister, now too one of the undead. Blood pooled around the dead foal as chunks of meat were ripped out by the cowpony's teeth. Then, Applejack snapped her neck towards Lee, who was staring in shock at what he was seeing. The undead cowpony slowly got up and started moaning and walking in a stiff and rigid shuffle towards him. He quickly backed out into the hallway and slammed the door once he was out. Suddenly, he heard moans resonate from down the hall. He saw Big Mac and Granny Smith coming down the hallway.
But what made him fall to his knees in horror was seeing Clementine in front of the two, standing there and staring at Lee with her cold, lifeless eyes. She didn't move at all.
"I'm so sorry, Clem." Lee whispered to the undead Clementine as he shut his eyes.
He then felt the broken teeth of the two farm ponies bite down into his flesh, making him scream in pain.
Lee gasped as he woke back up.
Another nightmare. Lee shook his numb head and got up from the couch. Nobody was up yet. The lamp was off, the coffee table was still in it's place as it was when he went to sleep, and there were no walkers. He yawned and sauntered over to the door
He opened the door quietly, and lightly shut it. He looked around the landscape, filled with rows upon rows of apple trees. He smiled at the sound of the bird's chirping. The dark blue sky and the cool, fresh morning air made him wish that all of his fellow survivors were with him here. Lee walked around the barn for a few minutes, watching the sun rise over the tall, tree covered hills in the distance. He thought the place he ended up at was more beautiful than anything he ever had seen.
"Hey Lee, ah see ya got up early." Applejack said from behind him. Lee turned around to the cowpony.
"Yeah." Lee replied. "It's so beautiful out here. Do you and your family run this place all by yourselves?"
"Me and Big Mac, the red one in case ya forgot, mostly deals with bucking trees around here. Applebloom occasionally helps out when she wants. Granny Smith deals with bills, taxes, and occasionally running our stand when I'm not."
"That's interesting." Lee replied.
"Sure is." Applejack sighed. "Ponyville actually started out at this very orchard."
"Say, you mind if I take a walk around the place for a bit?" Lee asked.
"Ah don't see why not. Sure."
Lee nodded as he turned and started walking down a dirt path. The sun was just barely over the hills now, and was already starting to light the landscape. Lee looked around as he saw bright red apples dangling on the trees next to the path. If he were trying to fend for his life like he was only a day or two ago, he would have taken several of these apples, and possibly stay here and make a hideout.
Then, Lee noticed a tree house. A large and ambitious one to be exact. It would have made Clementine jealous. A wooden board led up to the main wooden building. It was painted, and looked like it was being used about every week. Lee guess that Applejack's younger sister played on this when she wasn't doing anything important.
The treehouse seemed in a strange place to Lee. He had always thought of tree houses being near the homes of their owners and not as far as he was now. It gave off a serene, peaceful feel to it like the rest of this place had.
Then his attention turned towards the mountains. He could see an elegant, White Castle built off the side of one of the mountain's sides in the very far distance. He gazed at it, wondering how it was possible for something like that to have been built. He just shrugged after trying to come up with an answer, then decided to head back to the barn.
"I should get something to eat." Lee told himself. "I haven't even had breakfast yet."
He started walking back up to the barn, using the direction he came from. He eventually reached the large red barn. He went up to the door leading to the kitchen and slowly opened it up. He found Granny Smith already making some food.
"There you are," Granny Smith said without looking at Lee.
"Hey." Lee replied casually.
"You've been outside this morning?"
"Yeah."
"What did ya do?" Granny Smith asked in a suspicious tone.
"I just took a walk. Saw a tree house. Other than that, nothing else special."
"Alright then..."
Lee went into the living room. He saw Applebloom trot up to him.
"Hey Lee!" She exclaimed. "Can you tell me about what it was like back where you were?"
"Uh, I don't think it's appropriate for someone your age..." Lee nervously replied, rubbing the back of his head.
"Puh-leeaassee?" Applebloom begged. Her own face was practically pleading for Lee to tell her everything that happened to him over those dreadful three months.
"Maybe if you're older."
"Why?"
"Because your family won't be really happy of me if I tell you." Lee quickly explained.
"Fine." The foal grunted and walked towards the kitchen. The sound of the door opening and being shut told Lee that she headed outside.
Lee couldn't help but smile at the young mare's curiosity.
"Wait, do you have a cutie mark?" Applebloom came back quickly into the house.
"A what?"
"A cutie mark. Do you have one?"
"I don't know what that is..."
"It's a mark that appears on your flank when you find your special talent! Everypony knows that!"
"I... Never had that happen before. People don't get cutie marks."
Lee had to fight to avoid smirking at the funny sounding name.
"Oh, well do you at least know your special talent?"
"I used to teach at a university before everything went down."
The foal just nodded and walked back outside. Lee didn't want to tell Applebloom at how good he was at killing the walking dead. She would either be scared, or just think he's insane. He decided to head outside after a minute of standing around. He figured that there'd be something to do outside.
He went over to the kitchen, where Granny Smith was still cooking. He walked to the door and opened it up. The whole orchard appeared in his vision yet again.
"Woof!"
Lee turned his head towards the sound of the noise. A dog, which Lee guessed was a border collie, ran up to him and started sniffing him. Soon, it sat down and looked up at him.
"I guess you want me to pet you, huh?" Lee smiled as he knelt down to eye level with the dog.
"Woof!" The dog replied.
Lee chuckled and started rubbing the dog on the head.
Then he remembered the last time he saw a dog. He stopped all of his movement as he remembered that day in Savannah. When they got to that house, and Lee had to dig up the corpse of a rotting pet. He could remember the smell. He also remembered how he slightly upset Clementine after telling her to go over to Christa so she wouldn't have to see. That felt like a stab to Lee's own heart. But burying the dead child with the dog, who had died of starvation before they got to the house, made Lee almost shed a tear.
The work dog looked at Lee with a worried expression as Lee remembered all of those things. It whimpered silently as it nuzzled up against him.
"It's nothing." Lee sighed as he looked back up at the pet, as if answering a question the animal had asked. "Just a bad memory is all. Having to dig up a dead animal just to get inside a house... That wasn't the only thing that had happened to me."
"Lee, Ah see you met our work dog, Winona!" Lee heard Applejack trot up to him. He looked up to the orange mare and stood up. "Ah can tell you two got along as fast as a twister tearing across the plains! She must really like ya!"
"Yeah. She's sweet." Lee looked down at Winona. "Say, don't you have school here too? Like your sister?"
"Yup. She doesn't have any school today though. She usually goes play with her friends, trying to find her cutie marks." Applejack happily said before looking around, making sure nobody was watching and motioning Lee closer. "Too be honest though," The cowpony whispered into Lee's ear. "Ah think what they do ain't helping them much." The cowpony backed away and then smiled yet again. "Say, maybe you can help me out carrying some buckets up to the wagons."
"Sure, I don't have much else to do. Why not?" Lee happily replied.
"Alright!" The mare happily exclaimed. "Just follow me, ah'll show ya what to do when we get over to where we'll be working."
Lee nodded as he started following the mare. It had been awhile since he had done some work, and he felt he owned the cowpony some food.
"Granny Smith should be done with breakfast in about half an hour too, so ah'll just show you what to do, then we'll go eat."
"I'm guessing it's something apple related." Lee chuckled.
"Yup. Pretty much." Applejack replied.
Lee, Applejack, and Big Macintosh stared at the large circular buckets on the ground underneath the apple trees. Lee just raised an eyebrow, then turned his head towards Applejack.
"I thought the buckets would have handles." He told the cowpony.
"Ah... Guess Ah didn't put yer missing arm into consideration..." Applejack nervously replied, rubbing the back of her neck.
"Eeyup." Big Mac simply responded.
"Is there something else I can do?" Lee asked.
"Ah'm not exactly sure..." Applejack said. "Maybe you can just go to town, see if everypony will get used to ya."
Lee didn't know what else to do. He just sighed and nodded. He hadn't seen the town for about a day or so, so he figured he could just go and head there to see if the residents will get used to him.
"I guess I'll just head there." Lee told her. "See you later."
"Bye Lee. If anypony gives ya any problems, just go to the library, Rarity's boutique, or Sugarcube Corner. My friends there know ya and they'll help ya out if yer in a bit of trouble." Applejack smiled before bucking a tree.
Lee nodded before heading off to town. The walk took a long time. However, he was used to walking. He would have to walk from the Travelier Motel to downtown Macon and back. That took him a good amount of time. However, he was happy to know this wasn't going to be a supply run. The path was lined with foliage that reached out towards the dirt road. It reminded Lee of the St. John Dairy. The peacefulness of that place would never leave his thoughts.
Neither would the family.
Lee cringed upon remembering the family living there.
"I was lucky Clementine didn't eat any of her food." Lee told himself. "I don't know how she would react to that."
Soon enough, he reached the outskirts of town. A large, circular tall building with a red roof stood across the narrow river. Ponies across the bridge were already looking at him.
"OH MY GOSH!" Lee heard a squeal as he went across the bridge. "Bonbon! Look! I told you they exist!"
A light green unicorn ran up to Lee with a smile etched across it's face. However, as she got closer, she took focus on Lee's missing arm and slowed down, her face growing to one of worry.
"Is your arm supposed to be like that?" The unicorn asked.
"I had to get it cut off after getting bitten by a walker."
"A what?"
"A walker. The whole country fell because of them. They basically are walking corpses. Getting bitten or getting killed without your brain damaged will make you turn into them. They only shamble around, eating the living."
The unicorn didn't know how to respond. Her mouth was dangling open, trying to find something to say.
"What was it like before they came?"
"Peaceful." Lee replied. "Kind of like what it is here, except more technological. We have cars, planes, televisions, computers, nuclear power, and a ton of other stuff."
"Wow..." The unicorn replied, amazed. "Do you have a name?"
"Yeah. My name's Lee. What's yours?"
"Lyra Heartstrings! Nice to meet you!" She happily replied, grabbing Lee's hand and shaking it. However, she then pulled it in and examined it.
"Uh..."
"Oh! Sorry! It's just that the human autonomy is so interesting!"
"Yeah..." Lee chuckled nervously. "Say... I got to go..."
"Now?" She asked, saddened.
"Yeah. Sorry."
"Alright."
Lee walked off as the unicorn trotted back over to where she came from. Once he turned around the corner, he started jogging, not wanting to see the unicorn again. After a few seconds, he slowed down.
"That was creepy." Lee thought aloud.
He continued walking down the street, ignoring the looks of confusion he was getting. He felt happy to see how peaceful the town was. It reminded him of what it was like before the outbreak. Three months ago.
Three months.
When he was being sent to prison.
For murdering a state senator that slept with his wife.
Three months.
"Gah!" Lee shook his head to get he thought out. He realized he had yet to tell anyone what he had done. He would soon end up in the same situation like what happened shortly before the bandits forced them to get out of the Travelier Motel. But he wasn't sure if he could tell them about it or not. He didn't want too, yet problems would soon arise if he didn't. He would soon have to tell someone.
"Hey, you!" A mare called out from behind him, making him jump.
"What?" He spun around. A light blue unicorn reminding Lee of toothpaste for an odd reason stood there.
"I think I saw Fluttershy pulling a creature like you into the library. He had a brighter skin tone, orange hair, and was tall. His stomach was wrapped up with bandages too. I think you should go see him."
Lee was silent. However, he then realized who she was talking about.
"Ben..." He muttered. "Where's the library?"
"The big tree over there." The mare pointed.
Lee didn't take the time to thank her as he sprinted the large tree. He burst through the door , and saw Fluttershy, Twilight, and someone he never thought he'd see again.
Ben, lying on the floor unconcious.
"Lee?" Twilight asked.
"Ben!" He yelled, running up to the unconscious student. "Is he alright?"
"Yes... I found him outside my cottage..." Fluttershy replied. "He had a huge hole in his stomach, but I wrapped it up..."
"We got to get him to the hospital..."
"Don't worry." Twilight told him. "He's fine. I used a new spell I learned to heal him. He should be fine once he's awake. It'll be an hour or two before the spell fully heals him."
"Are you sure?"
"I'm sure."
Lee sighed. Ben laid on the floor, breathing lightly with his chest slowly rising up and down.
"You know him?" Fluttershy lightly asked.
"Yeah. He was with our group." Lee replied.
"How did he... Um... Die?"
"Kenny put him out of his misery so he wouldn't have to be eaten alive."
Fluttershy and Twilight looked at each other. They both were shocked.
"Say... Um... Say I were to have killed someone... Would you hate me for that?"
"If there was a justified reason." Twilight replied. "Knowing how it was for you before you got here."
"No, I mean before the walkers. When law and order was still exsistent."
Twilight seemed a bit surprised.
"Why are you asking me that?"
Lee sighed. He just wanted to get it over with.
"I killed a state senator that slept with my wife just before everything went down. The car I was being taken to prison to in ran into what I guess was a walker and crashed."
Fluttershy and Twilight both stared at Lee in shock. Their mouths hung wide open.
"Oh my..." Fluttershy whispered, slowly backing away.
"Look, I already had to deal with something like this with my group. I just wanted to tell you all beforehand so nothing bad happens." Lee explained. "You still trust me, right?"
Silence filled the room. For the longest time, the only noise was that of the outside world, muffled from the walls and windows shielding those sounds off from them. After a suspenseful minute, Twilight opened her mouth.
"I... I guess..." Twilight responded, albeit nervously.
Fluttershy just nodded.
"Thanks." Lee responded. He looked down at Ben, then back up to the two mares. "I think we should get him a proper place to rest."
"I got an extra bed upstairs he can use." Twilight told him.
"Alright. I'll carry him up." lee replied before using his single arm to lift the unconscious survivor over his shoulder and started carrying him up the stairs.
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.
This story is CANCELLED . Yes, you read that right, cancelled.
Why, you might ask?
Because I am remaking this story to be better!
This story didn't have what was important: A conflict. That and because the writing is messed up.
I won't delete this story, but it will be labeled as "Cancelled." Don't fret, soon a new and improved story will show up. The story in question is going to be called "Lee Everett's Second Chance " or something along the lines of that.
Soon, the story shall be up. For the time being, read some of my other stories if you'd like.