Resident Evil 2: Novelization By Brett Taggart
Disclaimer: Resident Evil and all related trademarks are property of Capcom. Intended for mature readers, Based on the m rated game by Capcom. UPDATE: thanks to a generous review by Shizno (Thanks xD), i've reformatted my whole story so it's not just a big chunky paragraph. I've added spacing where i thought was neccesary, but it still should make it easier to read. Enjoy.
Leon was quickly driving into the city in his new police car. It was his first day on the job as a rookie cop in the mountainous community of Raccoon City. Leon was a tall young man with short brown hair. From what Leon heard, Raccoon city was a bustling town flooded with people, but from what he saw, the town oddly seemed deserted. There were no people walking down the street, no other cars except the ones parked on the side of the road, and no sounds of life. Leon couldn't see anything except the eerie glow of the full moon looming overhead.
"Weird," he thought as he kept on driving. Leon was looking foward to working with the S.T.A.R.S. (Special Tactics and Rescue Squad) team. He was headed for the RPD building for his first assignment. In the distance, Leon saw something lying in the road at the corner of Oak Avenue and 2nd street. He kept on driving; slowing down to a stop as he pulled up in front of it. Leon cautiously got out of the car to see a mangled corpse of a young woman lying in the road. He thought about getting back in the car and driving away, but he was a cop now and she might have been hurt. Leon crouched down to observe the woman. She was face down in the road and blood stains smeared her shirt. Pieces of flesh and blood dripped everywhere. Parts of her insides were visible and it looked as if a baseball bat had bashed her head in. Leon couldn't believe what he saw and wondered how nobody had noticed it. Then it struck him, the cannibal murders. For the last month or two, murders have occurred and people believed it was cannibalism. It started out with Dog bites, but corrupted into people. Leon just remembered that all the suspects were all killed in Raccoon Forest, way out of city limits. Then how could this have happened, Leon thought.
Just then, he heard shuffling sounds from behind him in the distance. He quickly turned around, pulling his Magnum out from the gun pouch in his belt. Emerged from the shadows of the alleyway were two people staggering down the street. For a second he thought they were drunks, but he noticed that their clothes were tattered and they had blood dripping down from their mouths. On one of them, a piece of brain matter was visible and both of them had their hands extended forward as they kept trudging on toward Leon. "Freeze, I'm a cop!" Leon shouted. They kept on walking closer and closer. "I'm warning you, stop right now!" He shouted again. They disobeyed his commands again and kept on walking, moaning as they did. Leon saw more mindless people emerging from the shadows. He stepped back a few steps when he felt a tugging at his leg. He looked down to see the dead woman, not dead anymore, and trying to bite his leg. She moaned as he struggled to get his leg free. She was almost ready to bite.
"No!" He yelled as he fired his magnum. It hit her right in the upper back, but she kept on pulling. Quickly thinking, he fired aiming directly at her forehead. She collapsed on the street, not moaning anymore. Leon was sure that now she was dead. He turned back around to see the other people less than five feet away. Without hesitation, he shot one older looking man in the right arm and stomach. He kept on coming looking hungry as ever. Leon knew if he didn't hurry up, he would be lunch to a couple of mindless zombies.
That's what they are, Zombies, He thought. No, zombies aren't real Leon, get a hold of yourself. He shot more rounds at the nearest zombies. He remembered the woman, how she died when he shot her in the head. Leon now started to aim for the heads of the zombies. It was working, but there were too many of them. He quickly got back in the car and sped away. Driving recklessly, Leon sped down the streets of Raccoon City. Fiddling with his radio, he tried to contact help. All he heard was static. Leon knew he had to get out of Raccoon City, but it was his duty to look for survivors. Leon hoped that whoever got dragged into this mess that they were doing all right.