The Beginning of the End

*Huff*

*Huff*

*Huff*

"Come on son we need to go, now!" A middle-aged man with light red hair and bright blue eyes said to a younger man who looked to be in his early twenties following behind him

"I'm coming, I'm coming!" The young man who looked a lot like the older man save for having bright pale grey eyes but the same light red hair said as he ran through the halls of a building behind him

*Rahhhh*

*Shuffle*

"Shit, they're grouping up, we need to get out of this building now!" The young man said as they ran from their pursuers

Behind the two men was a group of around ten or so "people" who shambling toward them while letting out a deathly moan

The 'people' who were chasing them had decayed greenish skin, dead, lifeless eyes, and tattered clothes showcasing bites and scratches all over them

"Watch your mouth, young man!"

"Seriously? We are being chased by a bunch of… shit, I don't even know! And you still care about cussing!"

"Besides, I'm twenty-four for god's sake, I'm not a child anymore!"

"Just because everything around us has gone to hell doesn't mean our vocabulary does too. Plus, you will also be Mein Kind, and don't forget that!." The old man said with a serious look on his face as they rounded a corner

"Sigh, we don't have time for this, wait, I see a door come on!"

*Creak, bang*

"Quick, lock the door and come help me move this file cabinet in front of it!"

*Click*

*Slide*

*Boom*

*Blearghhh*

"Phew, that should hold them off for a bit."

"Hopefully. Now, let's see, hmm, oh perfect, a door!"

"I think it's one of the exits come on!"

*Click Click*

"Fuck, it's locked!"

"Hey-

"We Don't have time for that! Hurry up and help me find something to break this door down!" the young man said in a raised yet hurried voice to the older man

"Tch, kids these days are so disrespectful." the old man muttered under his breath

"I heard that dad, now come on, we need to get back to the house and get Mom, Elias, and Lukas, plus those guns Old Man Stevens gave me seem pretty useful now, don't they?" the young man said with a wry look

"How was I supposed to know something like this would occur?"

*Shuffle*

*Bang Bang!*

"Scheisse, they're already at the door, we need to speed this up."

As the sounds of the 'people' outside the door were growing louder and louder, the young and old men resumed their rummaging through all of the cabinets and drawers hoping for some form of salvation

As the young man looked through another file cabinet, he found just what they were looking for, in a very odd place sure, but he wasn't going to complain

*Open*

"I think I found something that can pry the door open!"

"A crowbar? What the hell is a crowbar doing in an office?" the old man said in astonishment at the very lucky find

"Who knows, but let's not dwell on that right now, oh, and watch your language; it's unbecoming of you." 

"Yeah, yeah, whatever you say, son."

Using the tool, the young man shoved it into the side of the door and kept pushing until he could force the door off of its hinges

"Huh, that was fast."

*Raaghhh*

*Crash!*

"Holy shit they broke through, what the fuck!" the young man yelled

"Come on we need to go, now!" the old man yelled getting the young man out of his daze

As the two men left the building, they were met with the sight of fire burning in other buildings, people running from those things, and even some people who were getting eaten alive by a group of them.

"Oh my god, it's over, after thousands of years, humanity has finally met its match." the young man said in a quiet voice to himself in shock at the scene around him

"Son, we need to get home, to your mother and brothers, lord knows what it's like over there."

"R-Right, let's go." the young man said, still visibly shaken over everything that's happened so far.

The two men then quickly fled from the area and started their journey back to their home, unsure of what would meet them once they got there.

(A couple of hours later)

As the father and son duo walked down the street, an eerie silence surrounded them as they saw overturned cars, some were even on fire, and they also saw dead bodies littering the street.

"Mein Gott, so much death, and destruction, it's everywhere." The Old man said as he looked around, staying ever so vigilant as to not be ambushed by those, things.

"Man, it's only been at most a few hours, how could it be so, silent?" the younger man asked nobody in particular

Deciding to speed up their efforts to get back home as they were closing in on it, the duo turned the street onto the one where their home was, however, instead of the same emptiness that had met them throughout the neighborhood, the duo were met with a horde numbering at least fifty strong.

"Holy shit! there are so damn many of those freaks!" the young man recoiled in shock as he gazed upon the sheer destruction and death that littered the street on which his house was.

"Scheiße! we need to try and find them before it's too late!" the older man said as he was about to rush through the horde

"Are you fucking crazy! with the sheer amount of freaks that are out and about there is no way they would've survived if they hadn't left before these things grouped up!" the young man yelled at his father, causing a few of the closer monsters to turn their heads and start moving their way toward the duo with a cacophony of moans and groans.

"Great, now they're coming right toward us!"

"We need to backtrack and find somewhere safe to think and plan our next move." The young man said as he grabbed his father who was just standing there staring at the hoard.

While the duo ran from the horde, another young man who looked to be in his late teens was watching from the side of a house as the duo ran from the horde, seeing them and recognizing who they were, the teen's face lit up in joy as he ran after them making sure not to alert any of the freaks who were in the vicinity.

(A few minutes later)

*Huff*

*huff*

"I think we got a fair distance away from them, sigh, now what?" the young man asked his father who just stared off into space thinking

"I-I... I don't know."

'Fuck!' the young man thought as he witnessed his father go through a myriad of emotions all at once, seemingly letting the suppressed emotions finally catch up to him.

"T-They're, all de-dead..."

As the older man stuttered muttering to himself letting the stress of the situation get to him, he started to let out a soft sob and then a laugh, and back to a sob.

Just as the old man was about to fully break down, the duo heard a voice calling toward them.

"Hey! Over here, Erik, Dad!"

"What the hell, Lukas?" the old man mumbled as he looked around for the voice

"Over here, hurry up!" the person called out again revealing himself to be a young man around the age of 19 with the same red hair as the father-son duo, along with a pair of blue eyes similar to the older man.

"Lukas? What the fuck are you doing out here right now!?" Erik yelled as he caught sight of the teen whose name was Lukas

"Haha, big bro I knew it was you! And dad too, come one hurry and follow me!" Lukas said as he went to the two and grabbed their hands they fled into the middle of two houses as the horde turned the corner.

Running through the rows of houses as they fled to a different part of the neighborhood, Erik couldn't help but question his little brother as to where they were going.

"Hey uh, Lukas, where the hell are you taking us right now?" Erik asked as they kept running

"Do you remember that couple who always droned on and on about the end of days and whatnot?" Lukas asked as they slowed down before they reached the entrance to what looked like a cellar in a backyard.

"uhh, oh right, the Clemens! What about them, last I heard they both died in a car crash, I guess you can prep for everything but a car wreck."

"Yeah them! well, it turns out that the basement cellar which everyone always thought was weird to have since it is Texas and all that, is actually a survival bunker!" Lukas exclaimed with an odd bit of enthusiasm

"Come on, look," Lukas said as he went to open the cellar door with a key he had pulled out from one of his pockets.

"Holy shit... this place is magnificent!" Erik couldn't help but exclaim as Lukas also opened the entrance door to the basement before going to lock the cellar door behind them.

As Erik took a step further into the basement turned bunker, he couldn't help but marvel at the many different bunk beds and supplies that lined the walls.

"Man, they really did go all out on this end-of-the-world shit huh?" Erik said to Lukas as his eyes wandered around some more before landing on a woman who looked to be in her early fifties and had golden blonde hair and emerald green eyes.

"Mom?" Erik said in a low tone, but before he could move toward the woman he identified as his mother, Erik's father looked at her too before he bolted toward her and wrapped the woman in a tight embrace

"Haha, Sofia, thank the lord you are safe, Meine Liebe!"

"Frederick? thank god you and Erik made it out of that campus!" Sofia said as she broke down in tears as she hugged her husband and soon after her second eldest son, Erik

"Mom, please, you're choking me!" Erik exclaimed as his mom's death grip around his and his father's necks tightened

"Oh, Es tut mir Leid, my baby boy!" Sofia said as she only slightly loosened her grip on the two

"Come on Mom I'm twenty-four years old now, I'm far from a baby," Erik said in mock annoyance at his mother's loving words

"I don't care, you three will always be my baby boys!"

"Speaking of, where is Elias? I don't see him." Erik said as he escaped his mom's death hug and scanned the survivors huddled in the bunker numbering around 12 but he still couldn't see his older brother.

"Oh, he is over in the next room tending to those who came with injuries, poor Alex was bitten by one of those things on her forearm, and Elias is currently patching her up, good thing that girl is really athletic, or else she wouldn't have been able to get away after being bit," Sofia said with some concern for the teenage girl who lived a few doors down from Erik

"Wow, that's terrible, she was bitten huh, this whole situation is, insane, I saw some of those, freaks, just munching on bodies and whatnot, I still can barely believe what I saw," Frederick said thinking back to the earlier events of the day

"Yes, well, enough about that, I'm just thankful you two are safe, now the military can hopefully put a stop to those monsters out there and we will be able to go back to our lives," Sofia said as she motioned for the two of them to sit down on one of the bunks

"Now, can you two tell Lukas and me what happened while you were out there? He and I both ran here pretty soon after the chaos broke out in the neighborhood."

"Sigh, yeah I guess I can tell you about the shittiest day of my life," Erik said with a sigh as he started to tell his mom and younger brother about what happened before they got to the neighborhood

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Author's Note:

Hey guys, welcome to my new story, after seeing how few Walking Dead fanfics there are on this app I decided to write one of my own. Now, for a few disclaimers, the MC as you could've inferred by now isn't a transmigrated or reincarnated individual, meaning, things aren't going to go perfectly and smoothly for him.

Now that is not to say he will just be another side character in Rick's story, but, he will face plenty of challenges and adversity, this is basically what my interpretation of someone's life would be like in this world. with that being said, he will cause a butterfly effect making this an AU of sorts, while it won't be anything major like Judith being a boy, or Negan not being Negan, it will cause a few changes, that I think are for the better.

Before any of you degenerates ask, no this will not be a harem story, there will be only one FL and I already have decided who.

Last thing, i will not have a set schedule for releases as i am in college right now and so i wont always have time to write, with that being said, i will aim to release twice a week but who knows, shit happens.

Well, now that I've gotten that out of the way, feel free to comment and suggestions or anything you want, and make sure to correct me if I forget something big, like the summary, says I have watched the entirety of the show, and rewatched it up to season 7, but I am currently on my third rewatch and my memory isn't perfect!

Make sure to send all of those stones to me!