This story is not meant to be a walkthrough of any kind. It starts at the point when Leon and Luis first met and are about to be sliced through in the little cottage. As a fanfictioner, I reserve myself the right to twist the plot of both the game and the anime as I see fit. Whatever I didn't get from the cutscenes of the game, I put it between. Whatever is between // is supposed to be said in Japanese. I put in here a SPOILERS warning about both the game and the anime. Don't like, don't read.
I don't own Weiss nor Resident Evil 4.
Chapter 1: Encounter
Leon woke up. And to his surprise he is sitting on the filthy floor of a filthy little room, completely tied up. When he tries to stand up he realizes he is not alone. That weird guy from the closet was unconscious there and they were both tied to each other.
"Hey... Hey, wake up." he said pushing the man.
"Ay ay ay" the other said shaking his head and looking around "crawl out of one hole and into another"
"You wanna tell me what is going on here"
"Americano, si? Now what brings a bloke like you to this part of the world? Ow!" the man protested when Leon tried to move "hey! Easy... Whoever you are"
"My name is Leon. I came here looking for this girl. Have you seen her"
"What? Are you supposed to be a cop or something?... Nah, you don't look the type"
"Maybe..." said Leon trying to figure out a way to get the hell out of there.
"Okeeeeeeey, let me guess... Is she the president's daughter"
"That's too good for a guess. Wanna start explaining?" demanded Leon turned as much as he could towards the guy at his back.
"Psychic powers." said the other "Nah, just kidding with you, amigo. I overheard one of the villagers talking something about the president's daughter in the church."
"/Hey, guys, I think I spotted where the prisoners are.../" said Ken with the intercom from his hidden spot on the roof of a building.
"/We are on the way./" answered Youji, who already knew where his partner was heading before.
"/Keep your position, Siberian./" ordered Aya.
"/Sorry, but this doesn't looks any good./" Ken's voice sounded hesitating. He had spotted the cottage where 'the prisoners' were kept just because he had overheard some guards saying they have to dispose of them. He wasn't so sure such prisoners were the ones they were looking for but still he went to check on that... Only to see how a man all bloodied up dragged along a huge ax towards the cottage, mumbling something about killing and growling like a beast. "/You better hurry up. I might have to interfere on whatever's going on in there"
"Got it." again it was Youji who spoke. He got not even the classical 'hn' from Aya.
"And you might you be?" asked Leon.
"Me llamo Luis Sera, I used to be a cop in Madrid. Now I'm just a good for nothing guy who happens to be quite the ladies man"
"Why'd you quit?" asked Leon again.
"Pf, policía... You put your life on the line and nobody will appreciate you enough for it. Being a hero isn't what's cracked up to be anymore"
"I used to be a cop myself, only for a day though"
"I thought I was bad"
"Somehow I managed to get myself involved with the incident of Raccoon City on my first day on the force"
"That is the incident with the viral outbreak, right? ", Leon nodded. "...I think I might seen some samples of the virus on the lab at the department."
"Los voy... a matar." When the bloodied guy with the ax who Ken spotted from outside just came inside the room, both Leon and Luis tried to get out of his way. But the ties were too good, so they didn't got any far.
"Do something, cop!" demanded Luis.
"After you." replied Leon.
Then the man prepared his ax, but all it cut was the ties on both men wrists. Luis and Leon rolled away from him right before he prepared another deadly blow. The Spanish ran towards the exit and fled as fast as he could. But right when Leon was gonna get his head sliced, a guy broke in and slammed the ax man's head against the wall. Or that's what Leon though at first, before watching him take out some kind of blades from the guy's neck into his glove.
"So what? You think you are wolverine or something?" said Leon to the man while he stood up. He was wearing jeans, a black T-shirt, weird leather gloves, goggles on his head and a brown leather jacket - somehow he had lost his orange lucky sweater, thank goodness. Ken didn't knew what to answer, he didn't speak enough English.
Right then, another two men got into the place. The one on the left was a tall blonde man with sunglasses, wire-manipulating gloves, boots, black leather coat. The other one was a redhead a little less tall than the blonde - but tall none the less -, in a dark leather coat, boots and with something like a Japanese sword on his hand.
The three of them didn't look quite serious. What kind of guys go around dressing like that? Specially the blonde one had all the looks of a stripper more than anything else, but that redhead man... Something on his eyes screamed danger. Instinctively Leon draw his hand to his gun very slowly.
"Leave that alone." said the redhead with the hell of authority. His English had a slight weird accent, he was not native speaker but he was pretty good at it. "Identify yourself"
The other two didn't pay them anymore attention. The blonde was on the door, maybe taking guard. The shorter of the three was investigating the corpse and the rest of the room. 'So the redhead is the leader' thought Leon.
"Who are you, people?" said Leon a little distracted by the whole weird situation.
"Weiss" said the blonde without facing him, just looking outside.
"Nani mo nai, Abyssinian." said the brunette. Both the other two seemed to ignore him while he just sat on a near box, waiting for the next instructions.
"You better answer him" said the blonde again "and make it quick"
"...I'm Leon Kennedy. I came all the way from the United States to rescue the president's daughter who was kidnapped." Leon took out the photo again and showed it to them but the only one who looked at it was the blonde; actually he just gave it a side glance. "Sources told me she might be here, somewhere." "/Too young for me.../" said Youji.
"/What is it, Balinese?/" asked Ken standing up.
"/More kidnappings. Abyssinian sure is not liking this/"
Then, a bipping sound interrupted the interview. It was Leon intercom; Ingrid Hunnigan, the agent's only contact in this mission, was calling him. Leon answered before anyone could do anything, trying to buy sometime. Even if Hunnigam had news for him, he didn't mind having eavesdroppers as he though all of them were in the same mess. If not, then someone would be dead by now...
"It's Leon." said the special agent trying to look natural for the woman. "Sorry I couldn't get in touch sooner but I was a bit tied up"
"But you're okay, right"
"I'm fine. There was a male civilian held captive. According to him, Ashley's in a church somewhere"
"What happened to him?"
"He managed to escape."
"Do you have a fix on the location of that church?"
"No, but apparently, there's a secret passage in the village that leads there. I'm heading back to the village."
"Why didn't you told her about us?" asked the redhead.
"You don't look like the people around. I bet we are in the same mess here".
Aya glared at Leon. He might was about to say something but Youji cut off his inspiration
"Hey...!" Youji said nothing more than that and he just hid from the outside view. Watching that, the redhead prepared his sword and stood by the door while the brunette crawled between both of them. Leon was surprised with the speed on which they moved and the lack of words they needed to coordinate themselves. That required a lot of practice, he had to recognize it. Then it came to his mind why they've done that, realization striking him like lightning. Someone was coming. He just barely managed to get hold of his gun when an odd person appeared outside the window.
"Over here, stranger." the man on the black clothes said. Leon, was quite confused. Then both the blonde and the redhead looked at him, telling him to hurry up without speaking. "It's a strange thing after another..." he sighed and went outside with his gun at hand. He didn't see Youji walking towards the parapet outside the cabin to take a look outside, but he could barely hear the other two walking behind him.
They walked carefully to the back of the house...
"I've got a stock of good things on sale, stranger. Welcome" the man opened his coat and the amazing load of weapons visible was so amazing it earned a single Aya's eyebrow lift. More than quickly enough Leon bought a map of the place and the shotgun. If everything around was gonna take the looks of what happened on Raccoon City six years before, this time Leon was going to be prepared.
"What is going on here?" said Aya to him.
"I don't quite know. But personal experience had taught me not to take peculiar situations lightly."
"Also, I have something that might interest you too." said the merchant to the japanese men, lending something to them. It was a black leather dart case.
"/Omi's case!/" said Ken taking it from the merchant's hands.
Faster than the blink of an eye, the merchant found himself pined against the wall with Aya's sword against his yugular.
"Where did you find that?" he whispered poisonly.
"Hey, calm down..." Leon was about to interfere but he found his neck threatened by the blades of the brunette's glove.
"On the way to the village, stranger." said the merchant as if he had not a sword so dangerously close.
"Where are them? Where is our partner?" demanded Aya.
"I don't know. They took the kid along... Maybe to the church, stranger."
"Abyssinian!" The blonde appeared. Again he said nothing, but the others got the message. "/They got Bombay/" said the brunette giving the leather case to him.
"Motherfuckers..." growled the other as they all took positions to fight.
"/Where to"
"/To the church!/" said Abyssinian springing out of the gate with his sword drawn, slicing through everything that blocked their way.
Leon was surprised of their aggressiveness... Well, their leader aggressiveness. The path before them was too narrow for the other two to fight along with him. As soon as they could, they split up and start killing everything in sight which gave Leon the opportunity to spot a huge door at the back of the place. "Hey, Red!" he screamed, while heading for the door and disposing of any nearby enemies. "There's a door back there! It might be the exit"
He was not sure if he was heard, but he approached that place anyway. Soon enough there were no more enemies around.
Leon was examining the door by the time the others reached him.
"We are going to need some kind of key..." he said when he heard them approach him. "Something must fit inside this huge hole to let us open it"
"/What is it"
"/We need to stuck something in there to open the door, it seems./" explained Youji.
"/I saw a chest back there, it looked suspicious. I'll investigate./" said Ken.
"/I saw a chest over there too," said Youji pointing to a high platform "I'll go take a look./"
They left quickly leaving Aya to lean against the door with his eyes closed and his arms crossed over his chest.
"So, you too are looking for someone here? Where are you from? Japan?" Asked Leon, but he didn't got an answer. "Alright"
"If you hadda call me some way" said Aya when he noticed his partners were coming back With some plates, "make it Abyssinian"
"Abyssinian... Alright. And... Who are those two"
"/We got them./" said Ken showing his part of the key to his leader.
"/This should open the door./" said Youji placing it on the door and taking Ken's piece too. "/It's open./" "Balinese... " said Aya looking at Leon.
"Huh?" and Youji turned to him.
"And Siberian"
"Nani?
"Iko." Aya turned and entered the gate silently.
Both Youji and Ken looked at each other, then at Leon. "Congratulations, Leon." said the blonde while the three of them followed Aya. "You made him actually speak to you. Consider it a miracle"
"If you say so"
"I mean it. Now you realize the four of us are nothing but a bunch of cats..."
The group walked down the path to find themselves another door. Aya slightly opened it and peeked inside. There were more of those guys and the whole place looked like some mines. There was no point on making it quietly towards wherever the exit was. He just told the others how many enemies he could spot at both sides and then broke in; the others followed bringing chaos around. There weren't many of those villagers so they were quickly disposed of. Once inside, they headed through a door on the right wall, killing 3 more villagers inside.
At the far corner of the room, there was an opening from where they could jump out... "/If Bombay were here with us he could easily get rid of those guys./" said Ken having spotted a couple of men carrying around some dynamite ahead.
"/This guys are fucking nuts./" added Youji.
Leon saw them too, and almost without warning he got behind a rail carriage shooting the dynamite with his handgun so it would explode on those guys.
The others said nothing. Leon got rid of the dynamite men and that was good enough. Abyssinian has decided he was not gonna endanger themselves in vain much less protecting the American so it was good to know that he could take care of himself and some enemies while he was at it.
They continued down the path. The area was full of floor traps, but Aya only grabbed some rocks from the field and used them to trigger the traps on his way.
While there were no enemies around, both Youji and Ken explored the surroundings trying to find any useful item or any clue about their friends while Aya checked the place ahead. Leon suddenly found himself covering their back.
On the other side of the door, to the left was some boarded up place. Leon though it was suspicious so he got his knife out and slashed the boards. He got an elegant mask from there but noting more.
"What do you want from that thing for?" asked Youji.
"We can sell it to that guy in dark clothes if we ever see him again, and maybe buy from him some good stuff later on"
"Which dark guy?"
"I'll introduce you to him if we ever meet again." he answered mockingly.
Aya was already out of the rusty door at the end of that place. The others soon joined him. There was just one villager in there and this time Youji took care of him. There were some nasty looking waters down a ladder, but instead of going down there, they went up from another ladder into an open well and towards fresh air.
Yet there was another path which they followed towards a house.
"/So, what now?/" asked Ken.
"We will split up here." answered Aya. "/Siberian, you come with me, lets take a look around./ Balinese, you might like to go inside with Leon? Search for some clues in there"
"Roger that. Wanna come, pretty boy?" said Youji on a teasing tone while Aya and ken turned around the corner.
"If you insist"
They both entered the house.
"Quite charming." said Youji with sarcasm in a very low voice. They came across a weird looking door with a green orb in the middle.
"Now, what's this"
"Some kind of puzzle?" said Leon touching the orb, and suddenly it moved. 'So the thing can rotate inside.' he thought. "Maybe this thing inside the orb has to match these symbols on the door"
"I leave it to you, smart fellow." said Youji immediately turning around to check out the room.
Leon solved the puzzle after a few turns and the door opened. He walked into the door silently but the next room was empty. Youji followed him and they looked for some way to open the next door. There was a key in the box next to the bookshelf. Leon took it and opened the door while Youji still registered everything he could in there, but as soon as Leon stepped outside, Youji froze still.
The door closed behind Leon. But by the sounds Youji got from the other side, he realized they were not alone in the house.
Actually, Leon had run into the village chief, don Bitores Mendez. This huge man was the one who knocked him out before, capured him and locked him up along with Luis on that cabin, where he woke up to meet the Weiss guys. The agent was really frightened by this encounter, and even more when that brute quickly grabbed him by the neck and lifted him a good foot and a half from the floor trying to choke him to death.
But Bitores didn't killed him. Something on the agent had called his attention, something in those red eyes that should be sparkling blue instead.
"You carry the same blood as us, it seems." said the chief in a dangerous voice after throwing Leon to the floor. "Nevertheless, you are an outsider...". Leon tried to crawl backwards rubbing his almost broken neck and trying to breath. "Just remember, if you become 'unpleasant' to our eyes, you'll face severe consequences...". The chief headed for the same door Leon had gone out, so Youji had to think fast.
"What? Same blood?" asked Leon.
Rigth then, the bipping sound of the intercom cut off Leon's trail of thought.
"Leon. I've been able to get some new info that might help you." sain agent Hunnigan "Fill me in"
"Apparently, there's a religious cult group involved. They're called the Los Iluminados"
"Los Iluminados? That's a mouthful. Anyway, I've had an unexpected run-in with the big cheese of this village"
"But you're okay, right"
"Yeah... But he could have killed me, but he let me live... And he mentioned something about me carrying the same blood as them. Whatever that means"
"'Carrying the same blood...' Hmm... Interesting"
"Anyway, there are more important things than solving riddles right now"
"You're right. Hurry and find that church, Leon."
After a short pause the special agent stood up and re-entered the room only to get hit by Bitores. An astray shot hit a man in a portrait right between the eyes as the gun flew off from the agent's hands. Somehow, he ended with his back against the floor again, and Bitores used one foot to keep him there.
Youji had gone back to the room behind the door with the orb, but he was about to jump into action when he saw the huge monster of a person being shoot in the back from outside.
That made Bitores turn to the window, where a beautiful woman on a red dress hanged from the ceiling.
"Onna..." Youji was confused, and to watch how that mole ran to the window and jumped out of it at full speed, didn't help. Maybe nor the man nor the woman saw him, good for him.
"Are you alright?" said Youji helping Leon standing and giving him his weapon.
"Yeah, what happened"
"Some cute chick shot that thing"
"/Balinese, what's going on inside?/" Aya's voice sounded angry through the intercom.
"/We... Well, Leon had a third kind encounter with some huge guy. He seemed to me like the village chief or something. He left, we are kinda safe now/"
"/We are going in. Expect a fight/"
"/Okay, we'll wait downstairs/
"Prepare your ammo" said Youji to Leon "we might have visitors."