Storytellers

"*Monsters only live in stories...*"
—Tagline of *Storytellers*[src]

***Strain Zero Presents: "Storytellers"*** is a rewrite of *Chronicles Season 1: "The Storytellers"* as part of *Strain Zero*. It consists of four episodes.

Set alongside *Season 1: Remake* during the first year of the zombie apocalypse, *Storytellers* follows the eponymous group and the lengths they go to survive the living dead and hostile survivors. The miniseries serves as an origin story for Kyle Granger, Bart Rhodes and the Innocents leading up to the events of *Season 3: Remake*.

## Plot

*The world has suddenly turned into chaos with no explanation or reason. The dead walk the earth to devour the living, plunging the world into hopelessness and darkness. One man, Mark Watson, has been given a second chance at life in this world gone mad. With corpses returning to life and survivors stopping at nothing to maintain their own safety, protecting an orphaned boy might just offer him redemption.*

## Synopsis

### "Choices"

At midnight, Mark Watson joins a group of friends in robbing a gas station on the outskirts of St. Cloud, Missouri. During the robbery, Mark accidentally shoots and kills a bystander and is quickly abandoned by his friends. When the police arrive, Mark is arrested and watches as his victim returns to life and attacks the police officers. Trapped in the back of a police car, Mark is driven a distance away before the arresting officer, who begins bleeding violently and crashes into an oncoming truck.

Mark awakens some time later. He smashes his way out of the car and takes the keys from the groaning, pale and bloody body of the cop. He takes the officer's pistol and inspects the nearby truck; inside he finds and kills two more groaning monsters and rescues a young boy, Kyle Granger. Taking the damaged truck, the two decide to head for Kyle's aunt's house in Brookland, Missouri. Driving through the countryside, they watch entire towns burn as people die and return to life as flesh-eating monsters. During their drive they are robbed of supplies at gunpoint, later retrieving their stuff when they find the assailant dead and a reanimated woman in the passenger seat of his truck.

## Episodes

 2
 3
 4

## Characters

### Main

* Mark Watson: a young criminal who escapes justice in the chaos of the zombie apocalypse, later becoming the reluctant guardian of Kyle Granger
* Kyle Granger: a young gymnast and older brother of Hector; the story serves as an origin for Kyle before his appearance in *Season 3: Remake*
* Kieron Worth: an enlisted soldier in the U.S. army and the half-brother of Henry from *Strain Zero*
* Joanne: a juvenile delinquent who joins the Storytellers, and a future member of the Innocents
* Veronica: a resident of Brookland who joins the Storytellers
* Henry: the youngest member of the Storytellers and Veronica's brother
* Bart Rhodes: a violent survivor seeking power in the ruins of Fargo
* Jane Rhodes: Bart's stepsister and a future member of the Innocents
* Laura: a member of Bart's group

### Supporting

* Hector Granger: Kyle's younger brother
* Mikhail: a Russian survivor, member of Bart's group and a future member of the Innocents

 **Season 5: Remake** | "Blood" • "Rules" • "Dissent" • "The Game" • "The Coming Storm" • "Brotherhood" • "Call to Arms"