The Spencer Estate 1967...

Finally Lisa Trevor felt level flat ground under her feet. She was being led, along with her parents, to the Spencer estate located somewhere on the Arklay Mountains. They had landed in the helicopter at a remote helipad, though Lisa was sure one HAD to be closer to the mansion. Still, she was happy to at least be able to live in a mansion...someday. As of now the Trevor family had to live in some rustic cabin away from the mansion, and it didn't even have a toilet! She would have to use an outhouse, stupid daddy didn't know how to treat her properly, but mom did. Lisa couldn't see where she was because they were being led blindfolded, why? She didn't know. Finally they stopped and the man who led them told them they could remove the blindfolds, and there before her very eyes was the biggest and weirdest house she'd ever seen. A giant white cross decorated the vaulted roof above her of the main entrance, but for some reason the cross seemed as some kind of evil blasphemy instead of a religious blessing.

They were led to a path going around the side of the mansion. As they were walking around their guide, Jon Toleman, was giving them a tour of the mansion grounds. Daddy seemed to not listen, understandable since he built the giant house, though Lisa was very interested and so was mom. AS they passed a small set of double windows Lisa saw two creepy eyes and a pale face staring at her through the glass, just the glance frightened her. "Jon," Lisa asked "who is that in the window?" Toleman looked back but the eyes were gone. Jon explained that was the private office of the reclusive CEO of Umbrella inc., Oswald Spencer; however, Jon said he was away on business so she probably saw a reflection...Lisa knew otherwise.

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The world swirled around the woman in spirals of blackness and grunge. With a scream Lisa awoke from her slumber. She was surrounded in bones, bones of who she did not know or care. "Facce Wherr face!?" She screamed. Looking around she saw the face of fake mother on the grating beside her, above her fell a waterfall of sewage. Then she felt pain, massive pain, throbbing in her head, and all over her body but she still grabbed the fake face. Face is important, mom need face or she is sad thought Lisa, the face was her fake mother's that she needed to give back. As Lisa slowly awoke she discovered too men with mad faces came in with guns, they were yelling at her, "kill the bitch!"...They want mom face! Lisa thought. She was instantly terrified and stood up, looking down she noticed her hands were bound by steel into a plank of hard wood.

The first Man decided to approach her with some sort of "zapping stick" Lisa would not let the men take mom's face, and she prepared for fighting. The first man approached, a twisty-scared look on his face; he prodded Lisa. With a snap! She screamed in pain, the words came out as a gnarled incomprehensible mess, but she made up for the lack of communication by smashing the man's head with her hard-wooden cuffs. Red spray ejected out of his left ear as the impact on the right side stirred the brains, the man fell hard...and dead. The second man swore and brought up his gun, a beretta pistol. He fired over and over, and Lisa felt every impact...yet no real damage occurred: something she learned the last time she was shot. Lisa charge the man with a fierce warcry combo'd with a lethal uppercut punch. The man literally flew up and over the railing behind him into the sewer below the grating...he landed with a satisfying "sploosh."

Lisa noticed a door to her right, she entered it and exited in a giant cavern with a fast-flowing river to the left side. She treaded cautiously along the metal walkway, even though it did have a railing. Lisa felt was often unbalanced, and although it was a fact of life she knew it wasn't normal. The water was really gushing and Lisa thought she saw something in the water...she peared closer. With a loud crack and a sharp jolt she was thrown into the water, tumbling hard down the cliff before she landed in the water, which pulled her away.

As Lisa was swept away Limbundo Myhamoon, the Umbrella Treatment Plant's warden, stared down at the route Lisa fell. He cocked his 12-gauge assualt shotgun once, as a smoking red plastic shell dropped out of his gun; sizzling in a small pool of that monster's blood. As he crouched to examine the blood firsthand he felt the slight pressure of a man's hand on his shoulder; he looked back. Robert Dougal the head of the Umbrella Treatment Plant was there. "You did the right thing with that beast, Limbundo, she will rest in peace in her watery grave. Now c'mon get some burgers with the other guys, maintenance will handle the mess." As Limbundo walked away he wondered why maintenance was dressed in hazmat suits with special equipment all over one crazed beast. Limbundo wondered if she was really dead.

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Lisa was becoming accustomed to her rustic cabin she was living in, while her father finished off the mansion. Lisa loved animals, and the mansion had plenty of animals, especially dogs but they were all mean. She spent her time dressing her dolls and refurbishing her prized jewelry box, given to her by her grandmother. Her mom spent plenty of time with her as well, so she wasn't really lonely. She was excited today however because she had been invited to attend a small party at the mansion, and she was even invited to play the piano in front of a small audience. She had spent an hour getting ready and was now ready to walk the path to the gala. She hated that path though, it took her straight through a large graveyard and each week it seemed more graves were added. Why people would bury their dead deep in the Arklay mountains, she did not know.

They passed the graveyard fine and were escorted through the mansion into the dining room. It was a huge room, with a loud grandfather clock and an upper-level balcony circumventing the entire room. As she sat down and waited she saw Jon Toleman smiling at her, she smiled back. She liked him he was young and cute. She noticed two other men, who were called Scott and Alias being invited to a poker game that night by another man: the Groundskeeper James. James, who she had met some time ago in the forest, had a bad mouth; he was swearing before he met her, swearing well talking to her, and he was swearing when she left him to do his work in the forest. His hands had been bloody that day, he was attaching some kind of necklace with a coin onto this huge dog and had been bitten once. He had muttered "I damn hope this was worth it..." as Lisa had walked away.

Shortly two men and a women came in. The women announced that she would be introducing the two founders of Umbrella. The first man was old with grey hair and a crackly voice, the women said he was Dr.Marcus. The second man made Lisa give a small gasp: He was the thin skeletal man who's eyes Lisa recognized from her tour of the mansion grounds. He seemed short to Lisa, but moments later she discovered he was in a wheelchair, 1800's vintage all metal with spindly wheels giving the chair an arachnid grace. He gave a sinister smile to the guests and rolled up to the head of the table, beside Marcus and the woman. Spencer tapped his goblet with a spoon and proposed a toast.

"Gentlemen, and ladies. We are seated here together to mark the completion of my mansion. This mansion is no simple house, it is the epicenter of the Umbrella corporation. From this estate we make Umbrella the world leader in pharmaceuticals. Dr.Marcus here is our lead researcher and he will be heading to his newly built Umbrella Training center tomorrow. Now please enjoy the evening" he eyed Lisa, "...and please do not explore anywhere without asking."

With that a cheer erupted and they sat down to dinner. After dinner they headed to a small hallway then the piano bar, Lisa played her songs and was cheered on. As the adults went to their drinks at the bar Lisa needed to go to the bathroom, but the woman who accompanied Spencer was pre- occupied so Lisa decided to find it on her own. She headed through the door outside at the end of the piano bar and up the west stairs. She entered a dimly yellow-lit room with spears and mirrors precisely aligned. The closest door revealed a room with s freaky statue with the inscription "death is everything" and at the back of that room was another door leading to a huge library. Lisa climbed down a ladder and started looking through the thousands of books, she discovered many were about biology and genetics. She picked up a weird blue book called "the Legend of Wolf" and was about to open it when she heard a large thump. With a small shriek she dropped the book and looked around. A high pitched creak of something metallic came towards her and she ran the way she came...and into the wheelchair of Oswell Spencer.