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A/N: This story of Resident Evil is in first person mode, so it takes the form of either man or woman whose description can only be made by you the reader. Also this story takes place just a few hours after the Hive was reopened, you will find some parts of the story have been blended in to roughly match that of the timeline of Resident Evil: Apocalypse the movie. But all I can ask of you is to just enjoy it. Also this is a mini-series so the chapters will be short and the story itself short as well. Thank You.
Summary: See through the eyes of one of the residents what really happened when the infection of the T-Virus spread to Raccoon City during Resident Evil: Apocalypse.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse Rising
Chapter 1
Quarantined
Chaos roamed the streets of Raccoon city for as long as anyone knew. It must have been going on for quite a while before it was made public. At first it was just disappearances before rumours on the streets of vicious monsters came to light, I thought these disappearances were just the work of wild animals that had wondered down from the hills and forests that skirted the outskirts of Raccoon City.
But as the day quickly progressed for me, I found myself fighting for survival against the living and the Undead. At first I thought everything that was happening was just a publicity stunt of some sort, that was until I saw someone brutally get butchered and torn alive. I have never seen anyone die right in front of me, at least not the way I saw it happened.
I had just ran out onto the street as the spokesman on the TV said that they were evacuating the City due to some unexplained disease that turns people rabid and thirsted for blood and meat. So I decided to leg it not deciding to bring to provisions or anything to defend myself, I just threw open the front door and legged it outside onto my front lawn. It was sure a good thing that I didn't bring anything with me because; well that was where I saw them.
Once outside, I saw smoke, fire, people running in one direction, screaming terrified, police cars zoomed in the direction of where the residents were running from. There they were, I only saw a few of them, but more were probably on their way, you couldn't mistake those faces, those chewed, pale, bloodshot and bloodless eyes, the way they walked covered in patches of blood, groaning and snarling as they approached.
As I saw them limp and slowly walk up the street I was in, someone got caught by a few Zombies. He tried pushing them away from him, but they just kept coming closer, the first thing that was pushed away the next available thing from the Zombie came forward. As the man tried to run, the closet Zombie grabbed his arm pulled the man towards him and bit into his neck.
"HELP ME!" he said as the zombie bit into him, I could hear the sickening squelching crunching sound of the flesh being ripped as the Zombie tore into the mans neck. It was a strange death for me to see, but violent, the man didn't scream as the Zombie bit into his neck, his eyes were wide and I guessed he was in shock as he knew what was happening to him, in my view, it seemed to me that the man just allowed them to kill him, or at least that was what it looked like to me.
A couple more zombies grabbed him by the arms, and a sickening crunch was heard as the Zombies pulled on both of his arms. The man sort of groaned before I saw him get pulled apart. A red lining split down the middle of his face and down to his torso as other Zombies pulled him apart and began quickly piling around eating at his remains.
I gasped, but no sound left my mouth, and my eyes might as well pop out of their sockets. I could not believe I just saw a man get ripped apart by Zombies. The sheer strength of them, it was amazing but brutal that they could do this sort of thing, almost as if they weren't human anymore.
I turned and quickly began to run down the other end of the street, away from the marauding mass of Undead beings. The scene of the man that got pulled apart stayed with me as I ran. I wanted to throw up, but the vomit remained in my stomach, almost as if the vomit itself was horrified with what I saw.
Police cars and officers ran towards and past me and began shooting off a series of firing rounds that vibrated against my ear drums as they shot bullet after bullet into the Zombies. I didn't look back, seeing one person get killed was enough; I didn't want to see more. My only hope now was to get out of my street and out of the city. I just hope I don't run into any more trouble, knowing my luck I will.
~~~Resident Evil: Apocalypse Rising~~
Despite living in Raccoon City, it was easy to get turned around, even if you have lived in the city from the moment of your birth, a city the size of Raccoon City was enough to make you run back into the direction of where the Zombies would be coming from if you were not too careful.
Most of the city was in turmoil, it was difficult to tell where these Zombies were now, for all I knew they could be lurking in the next street or behind the corner or in one of the shops waiting to pounce on me.
I didn't stop walking or running, seeing that man get ripped apart stayed with me, even as I tried to focus my mind on something else, no good would come of it. That memory of that poor man, forced me to keep running and not stop at any one time, not even for a break.
At this moment I was running down a street. I saw a lot of people piling equipment into their cars and vans and quickly speeding off down the roads. It wasn't difficult to tell where they were heading, out of the city, which was where I was heading.
As I passed down the street I noticed as I passed one of the shops that the Umbrella Corporation – an international Pharmaceutical company that produces medicine and medical supplies along with a combination of genetic engineering and creating more improved weapons for soldiers fighting in other third world countries, all in all the Umbrella Corporation sort of controlled the city, as everyone depended on the corporation too much, but even I had faith in them, they could sort this out - was placing a wall around the city locking people in.
I didn't understand it either. But I had to get out of the city.
~~~Resident Evil: Apocalypse Rising~~~
Unfortunately by nightfall, however Umbrella did it; they had placed a massive wall around the city trapping every resident in Raccoon City within the city, including me.
All exit points were sealed off by Umbrella. The only way out was across the cordoned off Raven's gate bridge, where frantically crowds of people were desperately trying to get of the city through the only way out.
Umbrella guards were held with guns watching over the whole scene, trying to keep some sort of order; it didn't seem to be going well.
One by one, they were checking people for any traces of infection, and if they were infected, then they were most likely detained or shot.
As I waited, despite being pushed and prodded towards the checkpoint, a sudden outburst of up ahead caught many residents attention. Sadly for me I was too far away to see what was going on.
The sound of a gunshot caught my attention, but I could not see where it came from, but it sounded as if it came from up front.
Suddenly, I got pushed and carried along with the crowd. Something had happened and I didn't know what was going on. I finally managed to get a boost up after pushing myself onto two people's shoulders.
Just briefly I saw that the main gate to leave Raccoon City was closed. Umbrella had closed the gate for some unknown reason, but I had a hunch why.
"This is a biohazard quarantine area, due to the risk of infection you cannot be allowed to leave the city." a voice over the speaker phones said to us all. Residents were still confused and were still talking over each other demanding an explanation. "All appropriate measures are being taken. The situation is under control please return to your homes."
More people asked questions and shouted over one another. Then another gunshot rang out and the voices of many residents subsided.
"You have five seconds to turn around and return to the city!" the man said over the speakerphone.
No one moved but stayed were they were.
"Use of live ammunition has been authorized!" another man said suddenly.
It was only then that people began to panic and move away from the exit of the closed gate and back towards the city.
"Five," the man started counting down. "Four. Three. Two. One!"
The many sounds of bullets rang out from overhead. At least I didn't get shot, but maybe a few up front did. My thoughts went out to those who did get shot.
As much as everyone counted on Umbrella, I began to have second thoughts about them; maybe they were not as useful as they were meant to be. And maybe they had other intentions beside the good of those who were still alive in the city.
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A/N: Well here we are, the second mini story of my Resident Evil story, tell me what you though, and if there is anything that is wrong, just point it out to me and i will correct it.
SoulVirus.
Chapter Written out 22/08/2012
Re-modifed 11/10/2012
Updated 23:02pm