Dead or Alive:
Heart of the Faithless

Chapter 1

Helena's room, Zack Island
A week after DOA4, 10:49 PM

Helena lay sprawled out on her bed, tangled in the bed covers. Vacant eyes stared up at the ceiling, watching the fan in the room spin slowly, as it circulated the air. A cold breeze from the air-conditioner filled the room. She blinked as she rolled over onto her right side, tangling herself up in the covers even more, grasping it tightly.

I've lost everything… Mama… Papa… DOATEC… Everything.

She curled up into a foetal position on the bed, as she closed her eyes. Black rings under her eyes indicated she's had a lack of sleep. For the past week she hadn't been able to sleep, ever since the destruction of the DOATEC Tri-Towers, what she had personally destroyed. She hadn't been expecting to live past that day.

Damned ninjas… Damned Zack.

Since Zack had saved her, he'd been kind enough to offer her somewhere to stay, until the mess cleared over, and that was on the newly purchased Zack Island, not the one which had sank roughly two months ago, but a new one of the same name. Zack had a fortune under his name, and she was thankful for what Zack was doing for her. She didn't know whether she had enough courage or strength to go home just yet.

She hadn't realised the shadows creeping along the ground towards her.

Helena opened her eyes, and let out an irritated sigh. Despite being in the enclosed room, she could still hear Zack's lovemaking with the whore, Nikki. She didn't hold any emotional feelings for Zack, it was just hearing the two go at it like wildcats was going to drive her more insane than she already was.

The shadows crawling on the ground grew closer.

Why? Why am I even here? I shouldn't be here… I shouldn't even be alive…

She gripped the covers tightly, as she rolled onto her other side, and closed her eyes again, trying to sleep. That was the one thing she needed right now, and the sound of two people having sex didn't help.

The shadows slithering along the ground got closer, sliding under the bed Helena was on.

Helena continued to toss and turn in her bed, and hadn't noticed the shadows crawling over the bed, until it crawled over her. She opened her mouth to scream, but no sound came out. It was if something had clamped itself over her mouth. Her eyes widened, and she sat straight up on the bed. A warmth covered most of her body, it wasn't the covers, either. She went to scream again, as she pulled herself away from it, and succeeded. She made it off the bed, with the covers draped over her body, covering herself. "HELP!" She screamed out loud, to what good it did her. The sound of Zack and Nikki fucking drowned out her pleas.

The shadow took shape on the bed, and Helena watched, in both fear and awe. It slowly took on a humanoid shape, and vaguely resembled a female form. She readied herself, crouching down low in a fighting stance.

That didn't help, as the shadow lunged at her, a grin on it's face.