A/N- This is my first fanfic ever, so some of the characters may be OOC. Please leave constructive criticism without being rude. I'd appreciate it. Enjoy!
Rain splattered against the roads from a cold gray sky. Dull colored cars crawled along the crowded streets as hunched people walked from one side to the other in a continuous stream. Among them was a tall blond man in his late twenties.
The blond man crossed and split from the crowd. His light gray jacket was nearly black from the rain and clung to him tightly. The hood covered his head, but his overly long bangs were plastered to his face, and he shivered when a cold blast of wind tore through the city.
His watchful sky-blue eyes scanned every nook and cranny, half expecting something to jump out like a monster in a horror movie. A speck of red in an alley caught his attention. Automatically his right hand reached out to touch the holstered handgun hidden under his shirt.
Very carefully, he advanced into the alley, his hand always on the gun but never drawing it. His eyes scanned every shadow for movement until they landed on a beautiful Asian woman with short black hair and brilliant green eyes. She wore a long red dress with black flowers along the bottom. A dark red unzipped jacket covered her otherwise bare arms, and black high heels made the short woman almost as tall as the man.
"Ada?" the man asked her.
"Been awhile, handsome," she answered.
The man looked at her expectantly for a moment before he said, "Well?"
"Well what?" she replied innocently.
"Don't play games with me, Ada," he spat, "just tell me what the hell's so important that you couldn't say it over the phone."
"Patience, Leon," she spoke calmly, a devious grin on her face, "is a virtue."
"Screw patience. I'm cold and tired, and I just want to go back to bed. What do you know that's so important?"
"Many things, handsome. Far too many to count."
"Damn it, Ada. You know what I mean."
She laughed and said, "There are rumors of a new species of B.O.W being held in an underground Umbrella lab. I happen to know those rumors are true."
"What?!" exclaimed Leon, shock evident on his usually reserved face.
"An old friend of yours has all the information about it, Leon. She'll tell you everything you need to know," Ada shrugged.
"And you won't tell me because�"
"I'm busy. You'll find her at this location, though." And with that, Ada withdrew a grapple gun she'd been hiding behind her back. She fired the hook onto a nearby roof and handed him a sheet of paper with a date and address on it.
"Runnin' again, Ada?" he asked.
His only answer was a smirk on Ada's beautiful face as her grapple gun pulled her over his head and away from him.
"New B.O.W? Sounds fun," he muttered under his breath as he stared at the paper.
Despite his past experience with them, the thought of facing a new species caused him to shiver once again.
'Dear Mr. Gontier,
The following are top-secret files that you must never allow anyone to know about. Please, for your sake and for your family and friends, do not allow anyone to find out about them.'
Several drawings, diagrams, and captions were hastily scribbled onto the next four pages. On the fifth page, a ferocious wolf-like beast was pictured inside a cage. Under the picture, the letter continued.
'I needed to tell someone about this. Once they know I've shared vital information, I'll be dead. My friends and family too. Hopefully, they won't realize I've shared them with you, an unknown in their book. If they do find out and come after you, Mr. Gontier, I truly am sorry.'
The letter was an anonymous one, so the black-haired man reading it didn't know who had sent it. He did, however, notice the little octagon with alternating white and red segments under the final words.
"Strange," he muttered. Truthfully, he didn't understand any of it. His ice-blue eyes scanned the pages again. He was looking for something, but even he didn't know what.
"Hey Adam," a voice called from outside the bus, "we gonna rehearse or not?"
"I'm coming," he shouted back. He shook his head and put the letter inside a drawer at his desk.
Darkness. It was something she'd lived with her entire life. Never once had she been allowed to see the light of day.
Always they came. Often with needles and whips to test her. To torture her. She snarled and let loose a bloodcurdling roar at the memory of her pain at their hands.
"Calm yourself, Project Shiver," whispered a voice near her ear. "Vengeance will be yours eventually."
She felt a sharp prick in her neck, and once more, the darkness overtook her.
A/N- Just an introduction of the main cast. The rest will appear later as secondary sidekicks (like in the RE games =P). This is the prologue, so the 'first' chapter will be up soon. Keep an eye out for it!
