It has been a week since the events that unfolded at the St. John Dairy and the group continues to stay at the motel for safe haven.
They have even upgraded the barricade with a few boards with the help from Rarity, Twilight and Applejack.
When the group first got back from the dairy, Twilight didn't cope well for the first few days. She still gets nightmares of the brothers tying her down and cutting off her horn. Occasionally, she wakes up drenched in sweat from the fear she endures during her nightmares. Sometimes, one of her friends would comfort her; most of the time, it would be Rarity.
Rainbow's relationship with her friend, Applejack isn't doing much better. Applejack only grows more and more distant as the days go by. Rainbow Dash would often try speaking with her but she would either ignore her or just say "Sorry, a'hm busy."
Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy are doing quite well for the most part. Pinkie is still spreading her laughter around the motel, even has spotted useful things around the Motel that others haven't seen.
Fluttershy is spreading her kindness throughout the Motel, managing to keep everyone's optimism the same. A few days after getting back from the Dairy, David thought back to his student, Travis. The thought of his being killed made him realize that he failed him and he became guilt-ridden, even made him loathe himself. When Fluttershy noticed the lack of appearance of him, she became worried for him.
After she looked through multiple rooms, she found him just laying on the bed just blankly staring at the roof of the room. Fluttershy spoke with him for a few minutes, making sure he was okay.
Rarity keeps everyone's motivation high, she's become great friends with Ben since most of the time she's been volunteering to keep watch with him.
One time, the entire motel group awoke to frustrated yelling and faint thuds coming from outside the barricade. They came to a quick realization that they were being attacked by bandits and the group eliminated the ones that were right up against the barricade.
Two days later, the bandits suddenly stopped the morning attacks for reasons that have yet been discovered.
Lee and Twilight continue to run through Macon in search for more supplies. Before Lee goes around the corner, he cautiously scans the area for any threats. Fortunately for them both, the entire town is deserted. They both come around corner of the wall and out in the open.
"There's no one here, perfect!" Twilight excitedly says.
"This might actually go smoothly," Lee says with a smile.
The two of them continues forward.
As they pass the debris by a store, Twilight looks up at Lee who's beside her. "Hey, Lee what do you think about Kenny? I mean do you think we should leave or stay? Kenny has been trying to convince everyone to leave."
"Yeah, I know. We could split up."
Twilight frowns at the idea, she doesn't want any of them to split up. She's gotten to known most of the survivors there and most of them have their uses for different things. "I don't think that's a good idea, Lee. Everyone at the motel has their specialty in different things, Kenny is good at fixing the-umm vehicles, Carley is good at shooting and Doug is great at making things. We should stick together and soon enough we'll be stronger than any threat that's out there."
"I think we're already are, considering we have you and your friends." Lee finishes with a smile.
The two of them continue towards a pharmacy that has the tail of a helicopter sticking out of the roof.
Twilight stares at the entry which is covered in debris before turning back to Lee. "Is... this where we're going?"
"Yeah." Lee says as he walks over to a cargo truck that's blocking the entire road. He turns to Twilight. "Do you think you can teleport us up there?" He promptly points at the top of the truck.
"It's gonna feel a little weird... I could just levitate you up there," Twilight says with uncertainty.
"It'll be faster."
Twilight sighs. "Alright... hang on."
"For-" Both of them disappear with a spark before Lee could finish his sentence.
Not a second later, they reappear on top of the truck with Lee slightly stumbling. He becomes lightheaded and kneels down to settle himself better.
"I did say, it was gonna be weird." Twilight says, coming up beside him.
Suddenly, a loud scratching scream makes them both jump and they both look out to the street they were just on.
"NO! GO AWAY!"
Suddenly, a woman comes running out of one of the stores with walkers following close behind.
"I-is that a woman?" Twilight anxiously says.
"I-i think so." Lee raises the rifle he brang with him, to get a better look of the woman.
As he finds the screaming woman on the sight of his gun, she trips over an arm that grabbed her.
"We have to help her!" Twilight yells, getting ready to use her magic.
The woman gets her ankle bitten by a walker, that's stuck under a rusty car.
"Fuck. We gotta shoot her, put her out of this misery." Lee says while he quickly lowers his gun to look at Twilight.
"WHAT! WHY? We can still save her!" Twilight declines the idea. She isn't going to leave somepony to die out here when she has the chance to save her.
"Twilight, she's been bitten. We can't bring her to the motel, she's dangerous." Lee tries to convince her.
"W-well, w-we-c-can't," Twilight isn't able to say anything due to her stuttering.
"Twilight, we can't just let her suffer anymore."
Twilight sighs defeatedly before she lets her head hang slightly.
Lee raises his gun at the woman and with moderate hesitation; he pulls the trigger.
*BANG*
The loud bang makes Twilight jump and the woman falls to the ground, lifeless.
Twilight jumps down from the truck before Lee does and they swiftly make their way towards the back of the pharmacy with a herd of walkers following behind.
Twilight opens the door with her magic and she runs inside. Lee closes the door behind them.
"Lee, what are we looking for!" Twilight yells.
"Here!" Lee rushes across the office and pass the door leading that leads behind the counter with Twilight following behind. Lee shuts the door behind them. "It's stable, but it's not gonna last long. Take whatever you can from the shelves."
Twilight uses her magic to stabilize a shelf that was leaning up against another.
One after another, Twilight takes everything that looks valuable and shoves them in her leather pouch that she brought along.
Suddenly, Twilight and Lee hear creaking from the door they came in from. They quickly see the walkers leaning up against the door from the glass panel in the door.
"Fuck, alright come on, over the counter!" Lee says as Twilight jumps over the counter.
Immediately after Lee gets over the counter, the door gives in which falls onto him. As he struggles to lift the door off of him, Twilight levitates the door off him and she pushes back into the doorway along with all the other walkers.
Lee quickly gets up and he goes to a fridge right by the door and he pushes it over, blocking the door before it falls in again.
"Lee, come on, let's go!" Twilight yells at him.
Lee runs over to her but a walker blocks his path to her. From the walker's outfit, Lee presumes he was a pilot before he died. He uses the stock of his hunting rifle to wack the walker, it stumbles backwards but regains it's balance and it starts walking towards him again.
Lee whacks the walker again, the walker stumbles but as it regains it's balance; it manages to grab hold of Lee.
Fortunately, Lee was quick enough to block the grapple with his rifle. With one forceful push, causes the walker to let go and it impales itself on a metallic pole that was stuck in a pile of rubble.
Lee looks at the walker in sympathy as it tries to grab him but to no avail.
Lee goes over to Twilight and they both escape through the gap in the wall and out to the streets of Macon.
END OF CHAPTER...