123: Getting Ready To Fight

                                    

                                          

It didn't take Daryl long to figure out I was following him, even with his rage. If anything my following him only made him angrier, but what can I say? There's only room for one of us to be mentally unstable, and it's clear that's my role right now. But if he is going to be unstable, then at least one of us needs to at least act like they have their shit together. And I guess now, that'll have to be me.
We didn't talk as I was following him since we're still in Alpha's territory. The last thing we need is a bunch of whisperers to hear us and start running towards us to attack.
We ended up finding a singular whisperer and started following him, but after a while, Daryl apparently had enough of just following. He had hopped out of the trench we were both in and pulled out his knife while slowly following the whisperer. He is going to get himself killed if he's not careful.
I was about to follow him, but then I saw him jump back in the trench with me and hide when we saw Alpha come out. And behind her was the herd. She was leading them out of the cave.
Daryl and I followed them all the way to the river without being spotted. That's when we realized that Alpha is with only two other people while leading the herd. So I grabbed one of my knives out of my fanny pack and threw it into the leg of the person Alpha is with. I was kind of hoping for a win win situation. We get the herd to turn on the screaming man and then have them turn on Alpha. But only one of those things happened. 
The person that my knife hit started screaming and the herd did turn on them and start eating him alive. Alpha and the other person started running away from the herd, but Daryl and I were quick to step in.
Daryl had immediately gone for Alpha's henchman, while I went for Alpha herself. The person who was with Alpha was quickly taken down by Daryl's knife while Alpha pulled a knife out on me. I had kicked it away from her when two more whispers came out of the forest.
I ran up to one of them and roundhouse kicked them in the head to make them drop to the ground before I crawled on top of them and stabbed them in the head. Daryl took out the other one by slitting their throat. But as he turned around, Alpha had cut his face with another knife.
Daryl stumbled backwards as blood now covered his face. That's when I tackled Alpha to the ground and stabbed her in the shoulder with one of my knives. I wanted to just kill her, but we need answers first. It's why we're still out here. Do I think she'll tell us anything? No, not really. But it doesn't hurt to try. I pulled out my knife before Daryl came over to us with a huge branch to help pin Alpha down. 
"Where are they!?" He asked while she was screaming in pain. "Where are they!? Tell me!"
She continued only screaming so I spoke. "Tell us where they are, bitch!"
With her refusing to tell us where Connie and Magna are, the herd only got closer to us. We had to leave our positions of standing over Alpha to start fighting the herd. I had gotten my sword out and I was annihilating any geek to come near me while Daryl started killing geeks with his big branch.
As we were fighting, Alpha came up behind me and slashed my arm with the knife I had originally kicked away from her. I hissed from the pain before I continued taking out geeks. Daryl on the other hand turned around to defend me from Alpha since I have the better weapon to take out several geeks. But Alpha dodged his branch and instead had stabbed him in the leg.
I looked back at him and Alpha was walking way from us. I started helping Daryl up, knowing that we need to get the hell out of here. He is in absolutely no condition whatsoever to keep fighting. I probably could have taken out Alpha right then and there. But I didn't. I was too worried about Daryl. I looked back for only a second to watch Alpha pick up a gun.