Pilot 3/10

Dani opened the front doors of the apartment building. Cody followed her and looked around. "So where are you from?" Dani asked. "Well…" he breathed in and stared at the skyscrapers which were likely office buildings. "This is where I'm from. This city is where I was born." Cody glanced at Dani. "What about you?" They started to walk down the road.

"I was born in Florida, I was in Florida when it happened as well…" Dani rubbed her arm nervously. The forest was close-by. "I see the forest." Dani pointed to the tall trees which hovered over the neighbourhood. Cody found this place to be similar.

"This was where my cousins lived." Cody remembered. His memory was vague since he was 11 when the world came to an end. "Do you know if they are alive?" she asked, pulling out her bow as she noticed a crawler, the crawler had a ripped stripped t shirt. Dani almost threw up in her mouth. Her eyes scanned around the crawler's body. It only had a torso, no lower half. "I wonder what happened to them." he went over to the crawler, he kneeled down and looked at Dani.

"And I have no clue if they are alive. The last time I heard of them was on a voicemail at the start." he spoke amid the crawler's hungry growls. It grabbed Cody's leg slowly and tried to bite him. The crawler was weak.

An arrow soon entered the crawler's dome, it fell face first which caused the arrow to slither in deeper. Cody pulled out the arrow and handed it to Dani. "Here." Dani nodded in appreciation. She returned the arrow back in the quiver.

"Let's go through here." Dani gestured her hand over to the trail. "Roger that." Cody snickered at the Star Wars reference he just made while Dani didn't appreciate the Star Wars reference; she just scoffed at it.

Dani walked on the trail and looked at Cody. "I forgot to ask but what is your story? How did you survive? Who were you with? All that juicy info." Cody looked away and just adjusted his mask. "Well…" Cody didn't finish since Dani started to panic. "I'm sorry if I was being intrusive and demanding!" She looked away with embarrassment.

Cody chuckled and looked back at her. "It's alright. You were curious. I will tell you my story since you told me yours." he walked along the trail. The trail had roots sprouting, which makes it a deadly trap when it comes to spraining an ankle.

"2014 is when the virus started. My city got it first. At the beginning they were considered cases. A few days later it spiked to thousands worldwide and then it became millions and that's when the military started to evacuate civilians, they sent planes to bomb the city. My family and I were the lucky ones, we got sent to a refugee centre. It only lasted a few months till it got overrun. They accidentally let an infected person inside. Then my family and I found a camp. It lasted a long time. But it also got taken over by walkers; most of us died there. Including my parents. I had a dog before this but we had to let him run free at the very start because walkers started to flood the streets before the military came. It was only my sister and I. Suddenly she got ill, I went to go get medicine for her but… the building she was in caught fire somehow and exploded. I don't think she made it to be honest.." Cody tried his best to explain.

"Holy shit. How are you holding up?" Dani patted his shoulder. "I'm doing fine despite that situation only happening days prior to meeting you two." Cody sighed and took off his mask, smiling.

Cody looked around the forest, it looked peaceful rather than the ruined city full of hungry eating corpses.

"I see a bunny." Dani aimed her bow but the bunny noticed and ran off. "Oh no you don't." Dani chased after, Cody sighed and followed.

Annabelle woke up from her nap and looked around, she didn't see Cody or Dani. "Dani? Cody?" She walked around the lobby. "Are you guys playing a game or something?" She went over to the front door and looked around. Her backpack was still here.

Annabelle opened the door and her eyes widened, a horde of walkers were in the streets not too far from her… and they noticed her. "Fuck!" She instinctively pulled out her small pistol and fired a few shots, which she luckily didn't miss. But now the whole city knew where she was, and no one was there to help her.

Annabelle shut the door and started to shove the couches towards the door, her heart pounding. She wondered if the walkers could hear her heartbeat as well. Adrenaline coursed through her. She needed to barricade the front doors or the chance of her becoming a full meal is likely.

She backed up, and the walkers started to pound on the door. The glass was cracking.

Dani ran faster and aimed her bow, shooting the bunny which killed it instantly. He went over to the bunny and picked it up. "Time for some stew." She grinned. Cody went over and patted Dani's head. "Good job.. Friend!" This made Dani smile, she made a new friend. They heard a branch snapping and Cody turned around.

He spotted a woman with pink hair and pink eyes, he stood there in shock. "Rose?" Cody went over. "Is that you Cody?" she asked and limped over, she was injured. "Do you know her?" Dani looked at the two. "Yeah. She went to my school!" he smiled and noticed her injury, his smile faded.

"Who did this?" Cody growled, Dani hasn't seen Cody angry and this scared her. Rose fell right in Cody's arms and winced, she was close to passing out due to blood loss. "H-he's alive." she croaked.

Cody looked at her. "Who is alive..?" His heart started to pound. "Hayden.. He is alive… he did this!" Rose looked up at him. Cody's eyes widened. Gunshots were heard, it came from the apartment building.

Dani's eyes widened. "NO!" she started to run, Cody lifted Rose up from her feet and began to follow her.