Resident Evil. The relief of Nightmares
Chapter one
There was never time for us to rest. To cast aside the nightmare that threatened us all was a luxury none of us were to be granted. I looked out of my neighbour's window and saw her husband coming towards the door myself and Lionel had barricaded five minutes previous. We were never going to let him in to the house. The body I saw was no longer the friend I once used to go to school with. What I saw was a walking corpse. The soul had since departed from us and in its place was a creature of wretch. The stench it gave off was terrible. A deep cut was visible in his left elbow and a bite mark in his right shoulder. The shirt he wore, while originally white was now a deep shade of red. A part of it was ripped, the knife his wife pierced within him still visible from where my friend stood. Above the left knee was a bite mark so deep that the entire left leg was useless. I forced a small smile as the creature relentlessly dragged its leg behind itself. I was surprised that he was still standing. The wounds were enough to kill any man. How was it possible him to be alive? But then again. My friend isn't alive. Not any more. A silent tear shed from my left eye as he hobbled towards the house. I saw the look in the monster's eyes. They were so white. So blank. I couldn't bear to look at him any longer. I closed the curtains to hide the image from my thoughts, though my mind would not allow me the pleasure of forgetting what I had just witnessed.
In the kitchen was my friend Lionel, checking through the cupboards looking for anything we could use to help us. He looked as though he was about to faint and was sweating heavily, although I immediately knew why. He was the one that barricaded the doors and the windows of the house we were in. I helped him but I never would have realized how tiring it was going to be. After I had given up from tiredness he continued to barricade the house on his own, thinking it was going to keep us safe from the monsters outside. He was driving his body too hard. I asked him to take a rest but he didn't respond to me. Just carried on searching through the cupboards like I wasn't there. Like I was a specter watching our scenario play out before us.
I turned around and saw my neighbour's brother crying over what had passed only half an hour ago. Colin did not yet know what was awaiting him on the other side of the door. I couldn't bear to tell him that his brother was dead and approaching towards us. He clenched his hand where his boyfriend had bit him. Colin couldn't bear to kill his lover however and this hesitation nearly resulted in him being killed by the same love that had only recently tried to eat him. We had no choice but to extinguish Colin's lost love. Lionel was the one that killed the monster. At least I think Lionel killed him, he thrust a crowbar in the corpse's eye socket and pulled it back out with a part of the eye slowly sliding down it. The movement of the corpse changed. It just wouldn't stop twitching. We didn't stare at it long enough to see it get back up again. I thought I was going to be sick if I glanced at it any longer. Colin was enough trouble on his own. We had to forcibly drag him away to safety. Although. I wouldn't have exactly called the scenario we were in 'safe'. No place in this city is safe anymore. Only safer.