This is mostly a fantasy/adventure story, including later some romance and action, written with some humour by a happy Finnish lady :) My first Resident Evil fanfic with Leon, Ashley and own character Kiia, with few more characters, even someone who's supposed to be dead. A story with smoothly progressing story line, I'm used to write long stories :)

Since my first language is not English, and it seems to me Ashley's eyes are some sort of green in the game, I decided to keep her eyes green in my story. Some of you may disagree with me about that but that's fine with me. I'm not a perfect person :)

(I have a few chapters for this story but I have no betas, that's why I'll try if someone likes this before looking for a beta for the next chapters to continue this story)

But still, thanks to Veronica by helping me with the first chapter of my very first Resident Evil 4 story :)

Chapter 1. Prologue

The lady's diary:

"I was scared, I was terrified

I felt panicked, being captured by those creatures.

I was hungry, I was sleepy

I was their lady, the key for them to reach their goal.

It was cold, it was Europe

I was all alone in the cell of their church.

Far from home, far from my family

I tried to focus on keeping my father's memory.

Laying there, shedding tears

I was crying all day long.

Hearing noise, a quiet voice

The bars were clattering up on the roof.

Listening to steps, holding my breath

The door was opened as the one came in.

He saw me, I saw him

Calling my name, he came and told me he was my friend."

----One year has passed since I got back home from that village in Europe. I wrote this 'poem' in my diary, during the first night at home. I wrote it to remind me of the biggest and most dangerous experience I have had in my life.

That night, after all, I was so happy when I first met Leon. He was there to rescue me, at my father's order. Finally I got a chance to escape. As always, I wasn't able to feel my happiness for long, we ran into Saddler. He told us about the parasites they had put in our bodies, that would take control over us, once they'd grown into adults. This changed his plan; I saw it from his face. Not so far from there, we met Luis. He promised to try to help us getting rid of the parasites.

We continued on our way out of the village. We met Luis again inside some kind of castle yard. He had lost our cure and left to get it back. Inside the castle we had problems, as I was caught by a trap, making me cough up blood. After some time Leon was able to free me, by shooting the chains holding me. I was scared, but kind of brave, as I found my way back to Leon. That hug I gave him might have been too much, but for me it just happened, I was so relieved. I got to know later Luis had died there and I feel sorry for him. After all, he seemed to be a good person.

Anyway, I was soon in trouble again; (guess I'm a trouble magnet), with Salazar, the young 'Napoleon', as I thought, because of his clothes. His men threw me in the castle's cell; oh I hate them. After Leon rescued me from there we met Saddler. He tried awake the parasite in Leon first but failed, and then awakened the one inside me, instead of trying him. The next memory I have after that is that Leon rescued me again, as so many times before during the day and night. We found some kind of laboratory as we searched for a way out. We cured each other with a laser that killed the parasites in our bodies. I was so relieved it was finally gone.

As we got out from the building in the middle of the rocks, Leon left me there as he went up and fought with Saddler. I noticed there was a woman he had helped right away, it made me kinda sad, but it is his life, it always has been, so I was kind of happy for him too. He beat and killed Saddler, I saw her help him, and soon he came back down to me. We ran to the Jet-Ski and left the place. I was free again, so I had to bother him a little.

As I mentioned before, it's been a year now and I'm fully back in my daily lifestyle. I go to college and meet my friends; still studying hard too. I haven't seen Leon after he brought me back here, but I've heard he went to train further as a bodyguard for the presidential family.

I think he is good enough for the job, but maybe he wants to be the best or something. No, he's not that kind of person; maybe he just feels he's not ready, but why? Anyways, that's not meant to be my problem, but I'd like to meet him again, some day.

There's no-one to talk with, about what happened in Europe, no-one who can understand how I felt back there. All my friends are very understanding, even if they can't ever imagine my experience in there. And I have to admit, I miss him a little. You can't forget anyone, who has rescued you, so easily... I guess.

My father is going to have a big party in our huge mansion tomorrow night. It's gonna be a celebration for my safe returning home one year ago, and he's told me everyone who helped our family during those days should be there. I wonder, is Leon coming too...

-Ashley-

The cool and fresh night air surrounded the man walking by the wharves near the military base, where he'd been training freely for the last ten months. The boats floated emptily next to the wharves as the workers enjoyed themselves in the bars, or spent time with their families, able to pay the rent after a hard day's work.

Happiness, you can't really tell what it is, there's as many ways to be happy as there are humans in this world. Some of them are happy lying under the golden coins, when the others are happy seeing their families alive one more day in the slums.

From the nearby brothel an unhappy customer was once again thrown away, just as the man was walking past the building. The customer seemed very drunk and fell asleep almost instantly. The man just shook his head. He'd been watching these people's living for ten months, but still, he didn't understand them. The men were working for 10 hours in a day, weekends too and they were paid for that with only few coins every day. The bars and this brothel sure knew how to get their money from the workers, it was the only way they could keep their business going on.

Sad... It was so sad to see children begging for money in the streets, even 12 year old girls were working in the brothel to earn some money for their parents. The people here couldn't read or write even their own names. Parents hadn't the money to pay for their kids' school or their clothing. Clothes were all made by their owner's hands, using everything they could use in clothes, even newspapers. He felt sad for these people, but there wasn't much things he could do for them, which saddened him.

The man walked along the narrow alley between the slum buildings, he was heading downtown. He was searching for a call box, to make a phone call to the president. He has a plane ticket from Houston to Washington D.C. but he wasn't sure if it was the right time just yet. No-one else knew, it was the president himself that offered him this training for free, on the condition he'd continue working for him after he'd finished with his training.

It took him a while to find a city where he would be able to carry out his training, including the possibility to undertake the right missions to gain more experience and practise his skills. He wanted to stay in Washington D.C. but he had to go elsewhere, that was the president's last order before he left. He didn't disagree with him, since he knew there was reason behind it.

A young girl was running along the alleys, being chased by three men. In the absence of more expensive 'fun' the men had seen a lonely, roughly 13 year old girl, walking along the slum alleys, and decided to have what they wanted. They had attacked the girl around a corner, but the girl was fast enough to escape from their first try.

But she was getting tired already from all of the running, she was scared of the men as she was old enough to understand what they wanted with her. Tears in her eyes, she run on, then tumbled over a dustbin in the alley, making some noise. She heard the men shouting somewhere near and trembled. She was so scared she couldn't move anymore.

She saw one of the men come around the corner, and saw him notice her sitting there. That man gestured to his friends that she was there, the sinister look in his eyes, as he started walking towards her scaring the girl. Soon the two other men arrived in the alley as well, seemingly pleased by the sight that greeted them.

The girl tried backing away from them but the dustbin was in her way. The men were laughing, and one of them was getting ready for their little game with the girl, when suddenly...

"You guys having fun?"

The men turned around to see who was talking, and saw a figure standing a few paces away from them and the girl. The tranquillity of the figure quietened down the crying, scared girl. It was like she sensed that the figure was here to help her, not to hurt her. The men weren't as impressed as the girl by the figure's appearing at the moment like this. Two of the men took a couple of steps towards the figure.

"Can't you see there's three of us here?" one of the men shouted, though he sounded hesitant. The figure stayed still and remained silent. It was worried about the girl.

"If you're not blind, then you must be deaf" the other one said loudly, meanwhile the third was staring the girl's already developing figure, with that sinister look still in his eyes.

"Hmph..." the figure sighed. The girl noticed there was something in the figure's right boot, but couldn't tell what it might be. The men kept talking.

"You don't seem so tough" the first man said, taking few more steps towards the figure. He was quite sure the three of them would beat it easily, it was alone against them after all.

"Neither do you" the figure said peacefully. The third one got curious too now, and leaving the girl unattended, he walked past his friends, and stopped in front of the figure, now seeing its face, though it didn't change his intentions with the girl. He was actually somewhat amused by this, by this opponent.

"Listen Prince Charming, there's no way you can beat us three at once, we're gonna kick you out of here" the man said with that deep voice of his, seemingly the leader of the small gang.

"Is that so, Mr. Knob Pants?" the stranger asked, a little amused but restraining the smile on his face.

The girl was laughing behind the men; the leader had been embarrassed in front of his gang. He gave the stranger touchy glare, as a sign that he'd had enough. The stranger was watching him, trying to find himself the perfect fighting stance mentally, and drew a knife out of his right boot. The gangster stared at the knife his opponent was now holding in his hand.

"Do you really wanna fight me?" the stranger asked. He didn't believe that the gangster might be so stupid that he had nothing to use himself.

The two others were watching events progress; things didn't seem good for them or their leader.

"I bet you know this girl is not old enough for your kind of 'fun'" the stranger said knowingly, and the leader looked behind him at the sitting girl. That guy was amusing, of course he knew that, but still the girl looked so hot to them.

"The younger, the louder, don't you know that?" the gangster said satisfied, laughing a truly irritating chuckle smugly.

The stranger sighed to himself, wondering what happened to manners these days. The girl meanwhile was remaining remarkably calm, placing her hopes with this stranger.

"You know, I guess you're right" the stranger said then. The leader raised his brows, he was surprised, what did he mean? The stranger smiled; the gangster seemed to have no idea what he was up to.

"Are you sure she's still untouched? I mean, if she's not she won't be that loud, right?" he asked grinning and glancing at the girl.

The gangster looked once again behind him to see the scared girl. While he was looking at her, she looked at the stranger, who winked at her with an amused smile on his face, so the girl understood he was playing with them, which relieved her somewhat. She still showed to the gangster her tongue and the three men laughed at her. She wanted to do her part to deceive the men.

The stranger was amused too, and smirking he tapped the leader on the shoulder smashing him in the face with his fist as the man turned back around. The man crashed to the floor and the other two rushed at the attacker who just smiled; this was too easy for him.

The left one reached him first, his fist swinging for the right side of the stranger's head, but he simply evaded it then grasped man's wrist halting the punch by his head. The man yelled as he wrenched his hand behind himself while he kicked the other coming towards him in his chest, then kicking the man he was holding on his back, he pushed him away into the middle of the dustbins next to the girl.

The leader was on his feet again, and attacked him. Evading his left hook, the stranger kicked him behind his left knee, as one of the others attacked from behind him. The man got a hold around his neck, but the stranger was able to bend down and throw him over his back right then kick him as he ended up in front of him, hitting him the chest again and sending him into the wall behind him.

The leader attacked again, but was dodged and the stranger caught a hold of his hand, using the man's movement against him, sending him running into the wall on the right. The girl was relieved to see all the thugs were staying down now. The stranger put his knife back in his boot and went over to the girl, who was smiling at him.

"Are you alright?" he asked and the girl nodded.

"Yes I am, thank you mister" she said gratefully.

"What's your name?" he asked.

"I'm Vivi, and you mister?" Vivi said smiling. She was so happy now she was safe.

"I'm Leon, why are you still out after midnight?"

"I was on my way back home to my big sister when those three started chasing me" Vivi explained. It was true, but something in her eyes got Leon's attention.

"Do you know these alleys well?" he asked and she nodded.

"Can you tell me where I can find the nearest call box?" he asked and the girl looked at him.

"Do you have friends?" she asked quietly.

"Yes, I do, and they are expecting my call, a long way away from here" he said, looking at the girl, who seemed sad now.

"Then you are lucky, all my friends are dead, after working in that brothel... But I can show you the nearest call box, it's not far from here" Vivi said.

Leon nodded, he didn't like the idea that much, thinking it would be better for the girl to just go home now. But he saw there was something behind this, those little puppy dog eyes seemed to want to repay him what he did for her, even though she didn't have to. He thought on it.

They walked together along the streets while talking. Vivi seemed really happy to have someone to talk to without feeling scared. Leon listened to her, hardly able to believe that so much has happened in the young girl's life already. He wanted to help the girl, but he knew he couldn't, at least not yet.

"Over there!" Vivi yelled pointing to the call box next to a bus stop across the street.

"Thank you. Now promise me you'll go straight to home from here, Okay?" Leon said. Vivi watched him for a while and then nodded smiling.

"Bye!" she yelled as she left, and Leon shook his head. He had a feeling something was wrong, but the girl seemed to be fine.

"I've got to do something with my imagination..." he sighed. Looking at the call box, he took a piece of paper from his jeans' pocket, and started walking towards the call box. Once there he picked up the receiver and dialled the number from the paper.

A man in a long black cape with strange signs on it caught Vivi as she ran past him. Vivi screamed in surprise as she hadn't noticed him. The man took Vivi's chin in his hand and raised the girl's face to see her eyes.

"Well done my child..." he said with his deep and scary voice, an evil smile on his face.

"I'm not your child..." Vivi said bravely.

"That's not the point of this game girl. So, you know?" the man asked.

"I-I forgot to ask..." Vivi tried to explain but he saw she was lying. He shook his head and looked at the girl with his yellow glowing eyes.

"You know, that man you talked to killed MY brother one year ago"

"You've told me that" Vivi said and then screamed again as the man took a tight hold of her hair, too. He was losing his nerve with this little actress of his.

"So that's what I'm gonna do too. I'll kill your dear sister if you refuse to work for me, understood!" he asked angrily further scaring the girl, she was nodding and afraid. She didn't wanna lose her big sister.

"Good, now go to your sister, I'll come to see you later. I know where he's going off to" the man said and let the scared girl go. He was smiling; everything was going as he'd planned. Watching the girl run off he laughed his evil laugh, then telepathically left the area.

The end of chapter 1. I hope you like this :)