Resident Evil: Emerald City Chronicles
Book 1: Deadly Forest
Chapter 1
Note: All the characters, except Rebecca, are characters of mine. Emerald City does not truly exist, at least to my knowledge, and is purely fictional. Credit to CAPCOM for the cute Rebecca and the Cerberus dogs, they are annoying, but they rule!
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It was a stormy night when a new mission came to a group of, well, we'll just say private detectives. Anyway a lone girl walked down a long hallway, holding a large file in her hand, she was walking rather quickly, kind of fast walking actually. She was walking to the main office room, where three other people were sitting, actually sleeping but that doesn't matter. As she neared the door, her pace slowed significantly, and she paused before opening the door and stepping in.
"We got a job guys!" She said as she threw the file on the center table, smiling happily. "Boo ya!" Said Mark as he jumped to his usual seat at that table. The other two, Lance and Julia, smiled tiredly and sat down. "So what's the job sis?" Said the other girl as she sat opposite to Mark. "Why don't you open the file and read some of it to find out, cause I don't even know." She flipped a strand of hair out of her face and sat down next to her sister, leaning back and holding a piece of paper, reading what their job was.
"Wow, we're being hire by the E.C.P.D.!" Lance exclaimed as he read through the first page, only skimming the first few parts. His hair was blonde and short, while everyone elses was either black or brown. "Yeah, and if they've hired us they really need our help huh?" The other male said, he sounded scared of this job. "You sound scared." Julia seemed to ask as she walked toward him, running a finger seductively up his chin as she did so. His cheeks flared and he turned away, everyone laughed at this, especially Rebecca, the loved to see him embarassed. "Come on, don't be shy." Julia said even more seductively, turning her to face him, she was just inches from his lips, her lips slightly parted. "Go Julia!" The other two urged her, wanting to see those two finally kiss.
Mark turned completely around away from her, letting her kiss his black hair, Rebecca and Lance booed. "AWE COME ON!" They both said simultaneously. Mark continued to blush, wrapping his arms around his knees, turning into a neat little ball. The girl trying to kiss him, grinned and pushed him out of the chair, then climbed on top of hims and smiled as he layed, sprawled below her. "Ah! Julia!" Mark cried as she lowered her face toward his, her eyes closed, lips cracked a miniscule amount. Then her lips were pressed tightly against his, making sure there was no way he could escape her bright red lips. He tried to push her off, but then was soon overwhelmed by how good her lips felt against his, so he was soon found wrapping his arms around her back. "Woooohooo!" The two called at them as they finally broke the kiss.
Mark stared up at Julia, his cheeks as rosy as they could get, wanting to continue but she stood up and walked toward the table again. "So sis, where should we begin?" Inquired Becca's sister. "I think we should start on the beach, near the forest, most of these murders seem to take place there." "Okay." Julia said as Rebecca nodded and grabbed her coat, it was dark red, thick, and had fur around the hood, she slid it onto her bare arms and walked out of the office into the crisp November air, toward the slim, black Mitsubishi Eclipse parked near the building. She pulled a set of keys out of her jacket as she walked toward it, and made a mental note: "Don't let Lance EVER park the car again." She shivered as she thought this and reached for the door handle, unlocked, now she REALLY wouldn't let him park it. "Freaking idiot... If my car wouldn't gotten stolen." She muttered and put the keys into the ignition, turned them, and sighed as the engine roared to life. She rubbed her hands up and down the steering wheel, the sky blue leather felt good on her cold hands. "Ahhh...." Then she pulled up slowly infront of the building, and while she waited for her partners to come out and get in she leaned back and closed her eyes. As the minutes seemed to pass, she fell into a light slumber, where she began to dream about back on her first mission, and how everything went wrong that night.
"Billy Help!" She screamed, luckily her radio was on so he could hear everyword she said. "Oh god Billy! HELP!" She continued, trying as best as she could to keep her grip on the hole's edge, which she was losing quickly. She could hear footsteps around her, she had no idea what or whose they were, but she prayed they were Billy's. "Billy! Where are you!?" She screamed louder, her grip fading even more now. Then, with one last scream, she let go of the edge, falling, falling, but then she opened her eyes and she had stopped, she wasn't falling anymore, there was a strong hand holding her wrist, in a vice like grip. The hand pulled up, and Rebecca was slowly pulled out of the hole, and onto the well stocked chest of her ally, Billy. Tears slid down her cheeks when she landed, sobs racking her body, eyes shut, not wanting this moment to ever end.
But alas, the dream did end, for Julia opened the passenger door slowly, and then slammed it hard, causing Bec to wake up and scream, for it had frightened her. Jule laughed kind of loud, but then reached over and rubbed her sisters shoulder. "Sorry, you fell asleep and I just couldn't pass up the chance." She smiled sincerely at her sister, and watcehd as the two ment entered the car. "Oh yeah Lance, you are NEVER driving this car again." She said in an annoyed voice. "What'd I do?" He asked innocently, though he knew exactly what he did. "You didn't lock my car you prick! If it would've gotten stolen I'dve taken the money out your ass!" She grumbled angrily and started to drive east, toward Emerald City's beach, where they would start their hunt.
She tried as hard as she could to keep up with the speed limit, but occasionally found herself being at most ten miles below it. Her thoughts were everywhere else but the road as well, she was constantly swerving slightly out of her lane, Julia looked at her, slightly worried. "You okay Rebecca?" The woman took her eyes off of the road for a second, then nodded. "Y-yeah, sorry, I just can't focus right now..." She sighed and turned back to the road, turning the sky blue wheel toward the exit that would take them to the beach. As the destination was neared, Rebecca gripped the wheel tighter, she didn't know why, but she had an uneasy feeling about this night, that something really bad was going to happen, something that she probably would regret. She took one final turn, and parked the car on the beach, killing the lights and stepping out of the car abruptly.
"We'll work our way up the beach and head toward the forest, and when we hit the forest we'll look for anything suspicious." She commanded to her small team, they all nodded, grabbed flashlights, and followed her as she walked the beach slowly, and very quietly. Her gun was unholstered, it was just pure instinct, as she carefully sidestepped over debris brought in from high tide. "Ugh..." Mark muttered as he got a little bit of seaweed stuck on his shoe, kicking it off before continuing. They combed the beach thoroughly, then when they neared the forest they saw something suspicious.
Bright silver orbs peered out at them from the fringe of trees, they were literally glowing, making the team want to come there and see what was causing the bright light. "Probably just some metal on a tree..." Rebecca told them, though it sounded a lot like a question. She stared with them, wanting to shoot it and get it over with, but sh didn't move her gun an inch. "C-come on." She shuddered and forced herself to start walking again, everyone else followed, though reluctantly. They continued walking for a short while, then something caught their eyes on the beach, though they couldn't determine the color, they made a pretty good guess what it was.
"Blood..." Mark nodded and bent down, not touching it. He pulled a cell phone from his pocket and took a picture. "There's more, to the west." He said, pointing toward the forest, where a small path led into a line of bushes. "Lance, go up ahead, and come back as soon as you can." Rebecca ordered nervously. He nodded, turned, then strode into the line of bushes, not even trying to be stealthy. She rubbed her left arm and looked down, noticing a footprint, leading into the line of bushes, and it was fresh. "Oh no." She though, before hearing a gunshot, and loud barks. "Lance!" The woman called and jumped into action, running headlong into the fringe of bushes, following the sound of loudening barks. She ducked under a tree branch and stood, staring in horror at the sight infront of her.
A pack of decayed dogs were cornering Lance, blood sliding down his forearm and right shoulder. "Rebecca! Get back!" He waved his arms above his head to keep the beast's attention on him, and not the girl. They continued to bark at him, slowly closing in, their jaws opening and closing, ready to make the kill. "No!" She screamed and fired at one of the dogs, missing it by quite a bit. A few of them turned to her, their eyes silver orbs, peering at her, scaring her to death. "What have I done?" She thought to herself and aimed again, hoping this time actually to hit something. She fired five more times, only two hitting the dogs, dropping them to their knees, but then they recovered. "That was a clean hit." She muttered and fired again, until her gun clicked, no ammo left, dropping only one of the three dogs.
The bigger of the two dogs lowered it's head and crouched, legs folding under it making sickening noises. Blood dripped from it muzzle as it stared up at Rebecca, it's tongue lolled out, then it closed it's mouth. It made a low gutteral snarl then released itself at Rebecca, flying into the air like a bullet, giving Rebecca no time to react...
