Author's Note: Okay. Here it is. The start of the game. Everybody calm down, Leon's coming and should be bumping into my OC (Odette) in this chapter. Fighting scenes in this chapter! Yay!

Odette: Alright! To show off my skills!

Derek: I can't believe what happens to me in this chapter!

Author: Shush! No spoilers!

Odette: Yeah, Derek! Don't give stuff away! Then nobody will read!

Derek: Fine. *goes and sulks in the corner*

Leon: *scoffs in amusement* That's my girl. 3

Author: Any who, please nobody give me shit like my best friend does about how the Whitlock siblings are based on one of my daughter's favorite movies, The Swan Princess. Now time for the disclaimer.

Disclaimer: I don't own Leon sadly. Tear. Or any of the Resident Evil Franchise. I also don't own The Swan Princess.

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And now on with the show!

Chapter 1

A plane lands in the airport in Madrid revealing a young man. This young man made his way over to the front of the airport where he was escorted by Police officers over to the Police station where he was to meet with the Police Chief and meet his fellow investigators and escorts. His name was Leon Scott Kennedy and he was 27 years old. Leon had dirty blond hair down to his face on one side, fair skin, a slender but muscular body standing at 5' 10", and had a pair of gorgeous blue eyes. He wore a blue shirt underneath a long heavy brown coat with some pockets, a pair of black quarter gloves on each of his hands, a black belt around his long blue jeans with some gun holsters, and some black boots. He also carried his badge, a hand grenade, his radio, and a black and silver semi-auto handgun that packs a punch. He along with two other officers hopping into a police car and started driving embarking on what would be a mission Leon would never forget. The year was 2004.

{Leon's P.O.V.}

Leon sat in the car watching as the city faded into the forest and paved roads faded into those of dirt. As the car ride continued, Leon thought back to the past that eventually brought him here. '1998.'Leon sighed. 'I'll never forget it. It was the year those grisly murders occurred in the Arklay Mountains. Soon after, the news was out to the whole world revealing that it was the fault of a secret viral experiment conducted by the International Pharmaceutical Enterprise, Umbrella. The virus broke out in a nearby mountain community, Raccoon City. And it hit the peaceful little town with a devastating blow, crippling its very foundation. Not taking any chances, the President of the United States ordered a contingency plan-to sterilize Raccoon City. With the whole affair gone public, the United States Government issued an indefinite suspension of business decree to Umbrella. Soon its stock prices crashed and for all intents and purposes, Umbrella was finished. 6 years have passed since that horrendous incident...'

{3rd Person's P.O.V.}

A single police car drove on a rural European dirt road through a forest in the middle of nowhere as Spanish music played on the radio. There were three men riding inside, two Spanish Police officers up front, one the driver the other the passenger, and one man sitting in the back seat with his elbow leaning against the door just under the window and his face leaning against his closed fist. This man just sat in the back seat seemingly looking out the window at the scenery while deep in thought. This man was Agent Leon Scott Kennedy. He was thinking about how he ended up where he was in the first place.

{Leon's P.O.V.}

'I received special training via a secret organization working under the direct control of the President. I was to assume the responsibility of protecting the new President's family. The Police officer driving suddenly scoffs after having been quiet for much of the drive. "Why am I the one who always gets the short end of the stick?" he asked his partner in the passenger's seat. Said partner instead of answering his partner turned his head back to address me. "Yo. Who are you really? Come on and tell us." The police officer in the passenger's seat then looked away for a moment before turning his face back to me. "You are a long way from home, Cowboy. You have my sympathies." He said to me as I turned my head from looking out the window to face him letting out an amused huff and small smirk before letting it fade once again. "Guess that's a local's way of breaking the ice. Anyway, you know what this is all about. My assignment is to look for the President's missing daughter." I told him. "What? All by yourself? Haha." he asked sarcastically. "I'm sure you boys didn't tag along so we could sing Kumbaya together at some Boy Scout bonfire. Then again maybe you did." I said. The police officer I was talking to just scoffed. "Ha! Oh, you crazy American. It's a direct order from the Chief himself. I tell you it's no picnic." "I'm counting on you guys." I said. The two police officers just shrugged as we drove on.

We drove for another 5 minutes before the driver stopped the car for a pit stop for him and his partner, leaving me to fall back into my thoughts once again. 'It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted.' I thought to myself as I leaned my elbow against the door just under the window and my face against my fist seemingly looking out the window but too deep into my thoughts to pay much attention to the surrounding trees. 'That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. I thought as the driver offered me a smoke which I denied then went to go for a pit stop. "According to our Intelligence, there's reliable information about a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people.' I thought to myself as the driver, the officer's partner, reentered the car and the officer in the passenger's seat took his turn for a pit stop. 'Who would have thought that my first job would have been a rescue mission?'

{3rd Person's P.O.V.}

As the Police officer driving the car took a rest stop, got back in the car and the police officer in the passenger's seat took his turn, a rustle in the grass made him paranoid along with a sudden drop of temperature due to him being alone out of the car in the woods. Once he finished, he quickly raised his pants and put them back on. "Ah! It's freezing! So cold all of a sudden" he said as more rustles in the grass made him even more paranoid as he looked to see if anything was there. After a minute of nothing happening, the officer just shook it off. "Ah! Must be my imagination" as he walked back to the car and got in his seat again. "Sorry it took so long" the officer said as the driver started up the car and drove down the road again.

{Leon's P.O.V.}

We finally drove over the bridge near the village where the President's daughter was supposedly sighted according to our Intelligence's report. The Spanish police officers stopped and parked the car before the one in the passenger's side turned his face to me. "Just up ahead is the village" he said. I looked out the window and saw it was foggy and sighed. This creepy forest looked like something out of a horror story. But I had no choice. "I'll go and have a look around." I said to the officers. "We'll stay and watch the car. Don't want to get any…parking tickets." The police officer in the passenger seat said jokingly to me. "Right…Parking tickets." I said unamused and with slight disbelief. "Good luck" the driver said. I opened the door and got out of the car. "Geez. Who are these guys?" I asked myself as I closed the car door behind me. The officer driving lowered his window just as I started to walk towards where they said the village was. "Did you say something?" he asked but I ignored him and kept walking.

Just before I could get too far down the path leading towards the village, I heard my radio go off signaling an incoming transmission. The screen showed a young woman with brown hair up in a ponytail, light brown skin, and brown eyes and glasses wearing what appeared to be a grey dress business suit and a white collared shirt with the collar showing. "Leon. I hope you can hear me". "I'm Ingrid Hunnigan I'll be your support on this mission" she said. "Loud and clear. Somehow, I thought you'd be a little older." I tried to joke. Hunnigan didn't react to it but to raise her glasses as they slid slightly down her nose. "So the subject's name is Ashley Graham right?" I asked. "That's right" Hunnigan responded. "She's the daughter of the President. So try to behave yourself okay?" she said. I scoffed. "Whoever this group of is, they sure picked the wrong girl to kidnap." I said. "I'll try to find more information on my end as well" she said. "Good. Talk to you later. Leon out." I said as I ended the transmission and continued walking down the path knife in hand and gun at the ready.

{Odette's P.O.V.}

To recap, my older brother, Derek and I went on vacation out of the country to Spain to go backpacking in the woods due to a castle in the area that helped my big brother pick out this spot since my brother wanted to check it out. At first I didn't really want to go since something didn't feel quite right, but after a while I got on board with the idea and even took pictures documenting the trip so far. Bad idea! I should have listened to my instincts and said no to the trip. Everything went fine for the first two days, with the two of us laughing, camping, and having a grand old time. But on the third day that quickly changed. We were exploring around more before we were going to head back to the hotel since we told the front desk to report us missing if we were not back on the third night when we heard a tree branch on the ground snap catching our attention. At first, we didn't think anything of it. The two of us just thought it was some wild animals or something. But we were wrong. Now that brings us to this moment, where a horde of what look like simple villagers out of some village that never left the 1800's are fast approaching us armed to the teeth with farm tools as weapons. All of them are yelling "Te voy a matar! At one point or another which translated means "I'm going to kill you!" With a horde of over 50 villagers or more, fast approaching and the two of us armed with only a knife and our fighting skills, we're fucked.

There are too many to take on all at once, so my brother hatched a plan. Once they break through the trees and see us we are to grab their attention and run in opposite directions, cutting down the numbers as I take off to the right and Derek runs to the left. In theory, we would eliminate our respected followers and then quickly regroup but theory rarely survived first contact with reality. Out of the two of us, surprisingly to many, I am the better fighter so I would have to eliminate my enemies quickly before rushing to my brother's aid before he does something stupid again. It was no secret that when it came to my safety, my brother has a reckless streak a mile wide that has almost and will most likely get him killed one day.

"Aqui estoy! Ven por mi!" I yelled out to the approaching horde as I took off to the right and watched as the plan started to work as a good portion followed after me. I ran for about 5 minutes before turning and facing the 20 villagers that followed after me. That means that 30 were following after my brother. 'Not good! I have to hurry and finish this fast.' I thought to myself as I held my knife. "Quieres jugar conmigo? Entonces vamos a jugar!" I yelled to the villagers as I jump into the fray. I spun on the sole of my left foot and kicked the head of the closest villager with my right with enough force to break his neck due to where I landed the kick. Using my right foot already stretched out, I kicked the back of the neck of a female villager sending her head first into a large boulder, crushing her skull and killing her instantly. Bringing my foot down just before my left one, I lunged forward and sliced deep into the neck of the closest male villager killing him. Just before his body fell, I did a front flip grabbing his ax and decapitated two villagers before I landed in a tumble using that momentum to trip kick 5 villagers down and using my knife and the ax I had in hand swiftly disposed of them.

I stood and turned to face the remaining 10 villagers with a dark smirk on my face before I dropped my ax and picked up a pitchfork and throwing it managing to pierce 3 villagers at once killing them before I picked up my ax again and did a back flip and at mid-point spun around twice and using both the knife and ax, I took two more down before they could react and managed to drop the ax and pick up a sickle from the ground before landing. I threw out my right arm holding the sickle and hooked the head of a female villager and decapitated her while simultaneously stabbing another villager through the neck as she tried to grab me. Using the momentum of my right hand, I kept my arm going managing to decapitate another villager leaving me only two left to deal with. I used my left foot and kicked the body on my knife off before spinning and facing my left side and throwing my knife right into the neck of a female villager killing her. Only one left. He tried to sneak around and jump on my back to choke me from behind, but I used the back of the sickle to slice into his neck taking care of them all. I noticed something weird as I went to retrieve my knife. The villagers I killed all left money, ammo, and grenades behind for some reason. I thought it odd but I didn't question it as I gathered everything and ran towards the left with my knife, ax, and sickle in hand. Left. The direction of my brother. 'Dammit, Derek! Don't die! I'm coming! Just hold on!' I thought to myself furiously as I rushed to my brother's aid.

{Derek's P.O.V.}

I did it! I made Odette go through with my plan. I can already see 25 villagers chasing after her. 'What the hell?! Is that one carrying a chainsaw?! No! Odette!' I thought to myself terrified. 'If that guy went after my sister, badass or not, there's no way she'd survive! I have to do something!' I thought determined. My baby sister would live if it was the last thing I do. "No! Ven aqui! Me quieres?! Pues ven por mi!" I shouted out grabbing the big villager's attention along with the four other next to him rising my total number of enemies to deal with to 30. 'Shit! Gotta go!' I thought as I took off running to the left just as planned with my knife in hand. I ran for about 10 minutes, close to a road from the break in the trees, to get that big guy as far from my sister as possible before I turned to stand my ground.

Some people are shocked to hear this, but out of the two of us, Odette is the better fighter. She is sure to be done with her fight soon, so I have to take out as many as I can including the big guy before she gets here. 'I know that she would call me an overprotective idiot, but I have to protect her. It's my duty as her big brother!' I thought to myself as I punch the closest villager in the face with my left fist sending him into a nearby boulder, breaking his neck. I then slashed through a female villager's neck and managed to catch another in that swing. That brought the total taken down to two. One jumped on my back and tried to choke me but I didn't let him latch on as I threw him on the ground in front of me and stomped on his neck hard with my left foot using my right foot to kick another male villager into a tree hard enough to kill him via a broken neck, then I stabbed a female villager that attempted to sneak up behind me in the neck. Bringing my total up to 5.

I then removed the knife and slashed through the necks of three villagers that lined up like diagonal dominos killing them, while I turned and stabbed another villager that tried to get to me through the neck killing her as I kicked back another male villager to a boulder crushing his skull killing him. The total taken down was now 10. That's when it all went bad. I thought I would make it out of this fight alive and back to my sister, but I forgot one important thing. Something my sister used to beat into me constantly 6 years ago. "Never take your eyes off your enemy. If you give them but an inch they'll take a mile and then its bye bye Derek. You don't want that now, do you?" As my baby sister's words flashed through my memories, so does the sound of a chain saw's roar reach my ears. 'Jesus Christ! How could I have possibly forgotten about him?!' I thought as my face pales in fear. 'There's still 20 villagers left! That's way too many to fight! Especially when I have to worry about that chain saw! Maybe if I had a gun or something, but not just a knife!' I thought as I tried to come up with a plan to get out of this one.

But it was not to be. A male villager jumped on to my back with enough force to knock the air out of my lungs and caused me to drop the knife. I tried to throw him off my back like the last one that had tried this, but he grabbed onto my neck from behind and wouldn't let go. It just cascaded downhill from there. The other villagers cut me on my legs and arms with their weapons leaving painful wounds as I finally managed the get the male villager to let go of my neck and off my back crushing his neck instantly. But that right there was my last mistake. I had taken my eyes off of the big guy with the chain saw. 'This is it. It's over. I'm sorry, little sister. I'm so sorry, Odette.' I thought to myself as the big guy got closer.

{Odette's P.O.V.}

I ran through the woods as fast as I could. I had to catch up to the group following my big brother. He must have run out farther then I did with his longer legs because I still hadn't caught up to Derek. I was booking it through the trees when I heard it. A loud chain saw's roar. My face turned white in horror as I ran with all my might. 'Please, let me get there in time! Please, don't let it be too late! I'm coming, Derek! Please just hold on!' I thought to myself in terror for my big brother's sake as I ran. After 10 minutes of running, I could make out the villagers surrounding my brother and I swear my heart almost stopped in fear. It was like everything happened in slow motion. The villagers grabbed onto Derek to make sure he couldn't move while the big guy arced his chain saw and cut through 3 villagers in order to cut my brother in half.

Without even thinking about it, I threw the ax aiming for the big guy holding the chain saw's hands. The ax flew through the air and managed to cut the big guys hands off forcing him to drop the chain saw but not before it had cut deep into my brother's side. Derek screamed in pain as he fell to the ground. As I saw this, I saw red. 'How dare they hurt my family! How dare they heart my big brother!' I thought to myself furiously while I fought the rest of the villagers. I grabbed my knife and sickle and after aiming for their necks spun around like a torrent of death taking down 6. Using that momentum, I took down a female villager aiming for my back beheading her with the back of the sickle and stabbed a male villager through the neck as he came at me from the side.

I kicked the body stuck on my knife hard sending the villager behind it into a boulder that broke his neck. Bringing my feet together, I did a back flip and using my sickle decapitated a female villager with my right hand while cutting the neck of a male villager with my left, killing both. I dropped the sickle picking up an ax and spun around with the blade of the ax going through the neck of the last four villagers. Then dropping both the knife and the ax, I picked up the chain saw and killed the big guy with it ending the threat. Once I made sure there weren't any hidden villagers left, I dropped the chain saw like a hot tamale and rushed to my big brother's, Derek's, side. I immediately checked his side and froze. There was no way he would survive with a wound like that. "Dammit, Derek! No! Why?! I thought I told you not to die!" I demanded as a few tears slipped down my face as I look at the mangled mess that the chain saw left of my big brother's side.

{Derek's P.O.V.}

I thought I was going to be cut in half when the villagers held me in place for the big guy's chain saw as he cut through 3 villagers and into my side when and ax flew through the air and chopped the big guy's hands off. It made him drop the chain saw as I fell to the ground holding my side as I screamed in agony. I turned my head slightly to see who threw the ax and saw my baby sister, Odette. 'Oh no. Seeing my wound and hearing my scream is sure to make her see red and attacked until they're all deader than dead!' I thought to myself. Sure enough, as I lay there in pain, I could only watch as my beautiful sister went into battle like the Valkyrie she is. Soon the battle was over as she took revenge against the big guy by killing him with his own chain saw straight through the side and neck just to be sure.

As soon as Odette confirmed the death, she ran over to me to inspect my wound and froze. Just from that alone, I knew I wasn't getting out of these woods alive. "Dammit, Derek! No! Why?! I thought I told you not to die!" she demanded as tears fell from her eyes. "No! D-don't cry. I'm sorry, little sister. I'm so sorry Odette. I knew this would happen." I said to her finally admitting the truth. "What are y-you saying?" she asked shakily. "T-that big guy was chasing after you. I-I did w-what I h-had to. T-t p-protect you. I m-made a v-vow t-that day. R-remember?" I told her truthfully as it got harder to breathe. Odette's beautiful violet eyes widened in horror as she comprehended what I had done. "Y-you dragged his a-attention away from m-me to y-you." She said her voice shaking as I nodded to her as I struggled to catch my breath. "Dammit, Derek! Why did you do that?! I could have handled it! Then you…y-you would b-b h-here!" She cried as she let out the side that she only showed me, her compassionate side. A side that may soon be locked away for good. Because of me. 'No. I never meant to make her cry.' I thought to myself. "I-it's a-alright, Odette. D-don't c-cry." I said to her as I tried to breathe. I could feel my strength fading. It was time to leave. Odette must have understood this too as she held my hand tightly. "P-please don't die. We'll get out of this together. I'll help you. If we fight, we fight together! If we die, we die together! Family forever, remember, big brother?! Those were your words! Our promise!" she said as tears fell from her eyes. "S-sorry little s-sister. L-looks like I-I'm not g-gonna be a-around to see h-how t-this w-whole t-thing t-turns o-out or b-be a-able to k-keep t-that p-promise, Odette. I l-love you b-baby sister." I said to her as I tried to raise my hand to her cheek to wipe away her tears.

{Odette's P.O.V}

Derek wiped away my tears weakly with his thumb as I listened to his heavy breathing. I knew he wasn't going to last long. I knew he wasn't going to make it, but I so wanted it to be different. He was my only family left. "Derek, no! S-stay with me please b-big b-brother! P-please don't l-leave me all a-alone! You're a-all I got l-left!" I-I wish I d-didn't h-have to l-leave y-you, b-baby s-sister…" he said weakly as he starts wheezing and coughing. "S-sorry…" my big brother said weakly once his wheezing and coughing fit stopped. "Derek?!" I called out to him frantically. "Odette…" he whispered for the last time before his eyes closed forever, dying in my arms. He had lost too much blood. "Noooo!" I yelled out in anguished grief as I held him in my arms. My big brother, Derek Marcus Whitlock, was gone. I held him for a few moments when my pragmatic mind kicked in and I gathered everything the villagers left behind being money, several flash grenades, ammo, and money and a ruby from the big guy. The bastard that killed my brother. After I gathered it all, I gathered Derek into my arms again and did what I hadn't really done in 6 years. Allow myself to finally grieve. Both for my brother and my past.

{Leon's P.O.V.}

I walked down the path until I came to a house. I walked up to it and onto the front porch. I notice that the front door is open so after taking a look in the front of the house, I pull out the picture of the President's daughter putting it where I had easy access to it and pulling out my gun walking inside. I walk in to see a single man in the house. He's just standing by the fire place seemingly stoking the fire. "Um… excuse me, sir?" I asked him. He just seemed to either ignore me or didn't hear me for a moment. So I tried again. I walked over to him pulling out the picture I had for identification of the President's daughter as I went. He finally must have heard me since he looked away from the fire and turned to me in a creepy kind of way. 'Oh well. Doesn't matter. Just have to ask him if he's seen this girl and then move on.' I thought to myself. 'Here we go.' I thought.

"I was wondering if you might recognize the girl in this photograph?" I asked him as I held out the picture for him to see. "Qué carajos estás haciendo aquí? Lárgate cabrón!" he said in Spanish but I couldn't understand a word he said. I must have pissed him off though. I scoffed. "Sorry to have bothered you." I said as I put the photo away. I looked away to put the photo in my pocket for just a few seconds and when I looked up the villager had an ax in his hand aiming for me. "Ahhh!" he cried as he tried to kill me. I rolled away landing on my haunches before standing and pointed my gun right at him. "Freeze!" I warned him. But he didn't stop coming. "I said freeze!" I called out to him again but he didn't stop. I had no choice. I fired at him and shot him down before he could take another swing at me.

I shook my head at having to do that. Not understanding why he didn't just freeze, when I heard a truck start up drawing me to the front window. I look through the blinds just in time to see a truck heading full speed towards the cop car parked by the bridge. I heard shouting and gun fire before a very loud crash of a car getting run over simultaneously heard with a girl's anguished grief filled cry "Noooo!" "Shit!" I snapped. 'That's not good. I hope that girl I heard is alright. I sure hope that wasn't Ashley.' I thought to myself as I look out the window through the blinds. Just then I heard my radio go off signaling an incoming transmission.

I answered it to find Hunnigan on the line again. "Is everything ok?" She asked me. "There was a hostile local. I had no choice but to neutralize him. There are still others surrounding the area" I answered to her. "Get out of there and head towards the village. Take whatever measure is necessary to save the subject. Also, I have reports coming in of a couple of backpackers that went missing in the area. Derek Marcus Whitlock age 27 and Odette Roslyn Whitlock age 24. The two are siblings that went on vacation. Apparently, the girl, Odette, told the front desk that they would only be gone for two days and if they weren't back by then to call it in." "Hm. Smart girl." I said applauding her quick thinking. "Yes, well that was 4 days ago. They were said to be backpacking near the village in the woods so keep an eye out for them as you save the subject." Hunnigan ordered. "Understood," I said as I hung up.

I ran outside to more hostile locals and shot them down as I made my way to where I last left the car and the two officers by the bridge. But when I got there, both the car and the bridge were gone. On impulse, I looked over the edge of the cliff I was on and found both the car and truck I hear earlier in ruins in the river among the rocks with no bridge in sight. "Oh no…" I whisper to myself as I looked at the wreckage. The bridge must have been washed away by the river. 'Well, there's no turning back now. I'll have to find another way to get Ashley and those siblings to safety once I've recovered them.' I thought to myself as I search around for anything useful and found money, a green herb, and ammo.

I thought it was weird that the locals would just leave this stuff laying around but didn't question luck when it hit as after I gathered everything useful before another wave of locals came and I ran inside and barricaded the door. Needing another way out I searched the house and found a window on the second floor. Not seeing any other option, I shrugged and jumped through the window shattering the glass. I got up quickly at took out three hostiles before circling around to the front of the house to take down two more. This time I collected money and a flash grenade. Not seeing any more hostiles and no reason to stick around, I continued down the path leading towards the village.

I made my way down the path with my gun ready for anything. I found a small building containing wooden boxes and a type righter of all things as I mess around with a few of the keys. I broke the boxes to see if they contained anything useful, gathered the things the boxes contained, and then moved on down the path again. I must have only been walking for about 5 minutes when I heard sounds coming from just up ahead on the road and slightly off the path in the forest. The first sound I heard was whimpering and I discovered the whimpering sounds came from a white wolf with its hind leg caught in a bear trap. I holstered my gun, kneeled down, and pried open the trap setting the wolf free as it pulled its leg out of the trap. I let the trap go and stood up and looked to see what the wolf would do, but instead of immediately running off he pointed his nose in the direction the other sound I heard before. He turned to me then used his nose one more time to point in the direction of the sound before he crossed the road and scampered off into the forest, limping in the other direction. 'Okay. I can take a hint.' I thought to myself as I pulled my gun out of my holster and made my way into the woods just off the road in the opposite direction the white wolf ran off to.

As I walked, the sounds got louder and I finally realized it was a girl crying. I only needed to walk another 3 minutes to know that I was right. But what I saw wasn't pretty. 'Oh no. Looks like the hostile locals got to them too.' I thought as I walked up to the girl. She had long golden blond hair tied in a side braid, a black sweater, black police style pants, and black boots. She fits the description of one of the missing backpacker siblings Hunnigan sent me, Odette Roslyn Whitlock. And from the looks of it, that man she's holding and crying over fits the description of her elder brother, Derek Marcus Whitlock. 'Poor girl.' I thought to myself sadly as I watch her cry. Her cries filled with grief breaking my heart.

I couldn't stand it. I walked over to her when I must have stepped on a branch or something because she stopped crying and froze. "Who's there? Quién está ahí? " she asked in both English and Spanish. Her voice shaking as she held onto her brother's body protectively. My heart broke more at the sight. "Hey take it easy," I said as the girl, Odette, stiffened and turned to face me. Her face had tear marks and her eyes were glossy with tears. Even so, she was beautiful. She had fair skin and gorgeous violet eyes and of all the jewelry she wore, a golden locket with the image of a swan imprinted on it stood out the most.

"My name is Agent Leon Scott Kennedy. I'm American. I'm here to look for this girl" I said as I pull out Ashley's photo. "And you two," I said and showed her proof on my GRVT Visual Radio with the information Hunnigan had sent me on the siblings. I noticed that as soon as I showed her proof, her shoulders became less tense, but she didn't allow herself to completely relax. "Hello, Leon." She said softly. I had to stop myself from reacting to how my name came from her lips. 'Now is not the time, Leon.' I scolded myself internally as I fought to keep my reaction hidden. "My name is Odette, Odette Roslyn Whitlock." She said as she introduced herself.

It was the name of an angel and she had looks to match. 'Dammit not now, Leon.' I scolded myself again as I looked at her face where she tried to give me a small smile despite the fact that she held her dead brother in her arms. That meant a lot to me. "And this i-was, Derek Marcus Whitlock, my older brother and only family." She said sadly as the little smile she graced me with faded away into grief but she didn't let the tears gathering in her eyes fall. Instead she reached around her older brother's neck and took off his necklace and put it around her neck over her heart, reached into her brother's pocket and pulled out a beautiful silver pocket watch and placed it in her own pocket that closed with a zipper so as to not lose it since it seems to mean something, and grabbed a knife holster off of her brother's ankle and strapped it on her left ankle and put the knife in it. She walked away briefly and came back wearing a black form-fitting shirt with her sweater tied around her slender waist carrying a pack with her seemingly carrying supplies and anything useful she had found around here so far. She must have changed her shirt since it was covered in her brother's blood. She then kneeled again and kissed her brother on the forehead. "Goodbye, big brother. I love you. Say hi to mom and dad for me…okay?" she said trying to keep her voice steady even though I know she wanted to cry. "I-I'll miss you, Derek." She said, her voice slightly cracking from wanting to cry but denying herself that comfort as she stood back up. I couldn't stand it, seeing her like this for some reason, so I walked over to her and pulled her into my arms.

{Odette's P.O.V.}

I gathered my brother's symbols and knife then went and collected my pack, placing the supplies in my brother's pack into mine leaving the bag behind, and changing out of my bloodstained white shirt with blue-green sleeves into a form-fitting black shirt. I tied my black sweater around my waist and made my way back to where Leon stood and my brother's body lay. I knelt down and kissed my brother on the forehead, said my goodbyes, and stood up struggling to keep myself from crying again and my voice from cracking. I tried to stay strong but it was too fresh. I couldn't help it. It was when Leon pulled me into his arms that the dam burst.

That was all it took as I buried myself in his arms and allowed myself to break down one final time. Even though we just met, I feel safe in this man's arms as I cried in grief one final time before I had to leave my big brother, Derek, behind forever. 'He exists now only in my memory.' That single line couldn't be any more true. Sure I had pictures of the two of us together, but none of them capture how he truly was with me, his baby sister. "I'm all alone now…" I whisper softly as I cried, not realizing Leon heard me as the implications finally set in. I was an orphan and the last of the Whitlock family. I was truly all alone.

{Leon's P.O.V.}

I pulled her into my arms to comfort her and instead of stiffening in my hold she buried herself into my arms and finally let herself break down. The amount of trust that this showed did things to me as I let her cry. 'Not to mention how perfectly she fits in your arms.' A hidden part of me said. 'Dammit! Again! Not now!' I scolded myself as I held her trying not to show any outward reaction towards my self-scolding when I heard her speak. Odette was whispering something. "I'm all alone now…" she whispered in a broken-hearted soft voice as she cried.

It pulled further at my heart as I held her closer trying to offer her what comfort I could. "I'm sorry, Odette. I'm sorry for your loss and that I didn't get here sooner." I said to her softly as I held her. She sniffled softly and looked up at me from my embrace of her. "Thank you, Leon. And it's ok or at least it will be eventually. It wasn't your fault this happened." Odette said to me doing her best to stop crying as she offered me a small smile. 'Jesus. What is it about this woman that makes me want to keep that smile on her face and her in my arms?' I thought to myself and smile down at her.

{Odette's P.O.V.}

Just being in Leon's arms is doing things to me. 'Dammit! What's the matter with me? You'd think a girl would learn.' I scold myself as I'm safe and secure in Leon's arms. Then he smiles at me and my breath catches. 'This man is gorgeous'! I thought to myself. 'Now is not the time.' I scold myself as a light blush colors my cheeks and I give him a small smile in return. No matter how safe and secure I feel in Leon's arms, it was about time we left. I thought to myself as I shoved the devastating feelings of my brother's death behind a barrier with this action being visible only through my eyes. Leon probably won't like this but with this crippling blow, it has to be done in order for me to function in a fight. I won't be a burden to him. Nor will I lose him like I did my brother. Even if it takes my death, he will get home safely and finish this mission. After all, I'm expendable.

{Leon's P.O.V.}

I could see that I have an effect on her just as she does me due to her blush as I smile at her. Odette is something else. I could also see the barrier Odette rose around herself surrounding the feelings of her brother's death. I didn't like that. In fact, I hated it. I hated it was necessary in the first place. "Come on, Leon." Odette said her voice now having a slighter cold edge to it. "We have to get going. As much as I might want to, we can't stay here all day." She said as she stepped out of my arms. I felt the loss immediately and wanted to pull her right back into my embrace right away where she could drop that barrier that made her sound cold like that. But she was right.

"You're right, Odette," I said to her as I slipped back into mission mode as some like to call my more serious side. "Come on. This way." I said to her as I made my way through the woods and back to the road from where I came. Odette started to follow but stopped to take one last look at her brother before she ran and caught up with me. But I still heard her whisper as clearly as if she shouted it. "Goodbye…" she whispered before leaving her brother's side for a final time following me to the road, her beautiful violet eyes turning cold, and pulling out her two knives ready for anything.

My breath caught. She went from Angel to Warrior in a second. 'This girl is perfect!' a secret part of me yelled out. 'Not. The. Time! We have a mission.' I scolded myself as I walked with my gun in my hands once again. 'Oh, we is it?' a secret part of me pointed out. I tried to ignore it. 'There will be time for that later. Right now there is a mission to complete' I thought to myself as I walked down the path towards the village with Odette by my side.

We continued down the path when Odette stopped me by grabbing my wrist. At first, I was curious as to why when I noticed that she had stopped me from walking into a trap. There were bombs wired to the trees. "Good eye, Odette," I said as I took them out with one shot from my gun. Odette just nodded at me as we continued walking. The two of us came across another small building where I took down another villager with my gun and the two of us stepped inside to see if we could find anything of use.

The first thing we see is a dead woman hanging on the wall by a pitchfork. I grimaced at the sight. "My god…" I heard Odette whisper softly from slightly behind me. "Guess there's no sex discrimination here. I'm glad I found you so quickly, Odette." I said just imagining what would have happened to her if I didn't find her so soon. She just nodded faintly beside me as I wrapped my arm around her shoulders in comfort both in part for her and in part for me.

"Now we just have to find Ashley, fast," I said to her. We broke the boxes to check them for anything useful then headed out again. We heard yelling and saw a bridge up ahead with three villagers, I was able to take out one of the villagers on the bridge. The other Odette took down herself by throwing one of her knives at his neck. It hit its target killing him, but the shot of my gun alerted the last villager and he managed to get away before Odette and I could neutralize him.

We crossed the bridge with Odette picking up her knife as we walked when we spot more of them up the hill. They yelled before they ran off. "Probably to warn the others. Great." I said out loud. Odette just seemed to glare in their direction. 'Probably still holds a grudge towards her brother's death.' I thought as we continued down the path. 'Poor girl. Don't worry Odette. I'll get you out of this.' I swore to myself.

We came across another small building containing a villager and before I could shoot him, Odette had already taken him down with a knife throw to the neck once again. We broke a few more boxes taking anything of use before we exited and walked on. It didn't take long to get to a large stone gate that we stopped in front of. The two of us noted a weird symbol on it. We found it odd, but shook it off. I opened the gate letting Odette through first before stepping through myself, letting the gate close behind me. Just as I did I received an incoming transmission from my radio and answered it.

"Leon. How you holding up?" Hunnigan asked me. "Bad question, Hunnigan. I've confirmed the body of one of the missing backpackers, the older brother, Derek Marcus Whitlock." I reported. "Sorry to hear that," she says to me. "I've found the youngest Whitlock, the girl, Odette alive. She's with me at the moment." I reported to her. "Wonderful Leon. I'm sending you something. Hope you find it useful." Hunnigan said. "I'll take a look at it. Thanks." I said as I cut the transmission and check what she sent.

I nodded before moving forward, signaling Odette to follow me. We hid behind some trees before getting to close to the village as to not be seen. I pulled out my binoculars and scan the village wanting to get a better scope of what we would be getting into before going any further in. I zoomed in for a closer look. My eyes were drawn to a large fire in the middle of the village. There impaled and burning was one of the cops that brought me here.

I lowered the binoculars and closed my eyes, shaking my head. Odette must have gotten curious since she grabbed the binoculars out of my hand before I could stop her. She must have zoomed into the fire and saw the officer too. "Dammit!" she said softly as she gritted her teeth and handed the binoculars back to me. After making sure my gun is fully loaded and Odette brings out her knives, we nodded to each other silently before slowly moving in.

We tried to sneak into the village by using a path off to the side, but that plan didn't work since we caught the villagers' attention. "Un Forastero!" one of the male villagers shouted bringing the others attention over to us. I shot at the villagers while Odette killed any villager that got closer dual wielding her knives aiming for the neck. There were too many so we ran over to the square before we ended up surrounded there too no matter how many we killed. So we ran into a house. "Damm!" I shouted as I slammed the door behind us. "Shit!" I shouted as the villagers tried to get in the house. "Son of a…" I started to say as the glass of the windows upstairs were broken.

"Who are these people?" I asked out loud, not really expecting an answer. "What are they planning?" I question again. "I don't know, Leon. But whatever it is, I'm pretty sure we won't like it." Odette says to me in a slight cold tone dripping with anger. Just then I heard a sound that made me pale. "Great. Chainsaw." I said as I saw a villager bigger than the rest with a potato sack on his head, heading towards the house.

{Odette's P.O.V.}

We entered the house and Leon slammed the door behind us. "Damm!" he shouted as he slammed the door. "Shit!" Leon shouted as the villagers tried to get in. "Son of a…" he started to say as more and more villagers gathered and the window upstairs broke. "Who are these people?" he asked out loud. 'I wish I had an answer for you Leon. I'm wondering about that myself.' I thought to myself as Leon spoke again. "What are they planning?" he asked again.

"I don't know, Leon. But whatever it is, I'm pretty sure we won't like it." I responded in a slightly cold tone as anger dripped through my voice. That's when we heard it. A sound that made my fury grow. The sound that could only belong to one thing. "Great. Chain saw." Leon said as we looked out the window at the villager larger than the rest with a potato sack on his head carrying the chain saw and headed our way towards the house. The same thing that took my brother from me.

"Quick Leon! Help me move this dresser to block this door and that bookshelf to block the window!" I said thinking quickly to try and buy us some time. 'I am not going to lose Leon too, dammit!' I thought to myself furiously as I told Leon my plan to buy us some time. "Good idea," Leon said to me as he helped me move the dresser in front of the door and the bookshelf in front of the window. That's when we heard another glass shatter from the window upstairs. "Shit!" Leon shouted as I ran up the stairs and found two villagers had got in and a third was on a ladder that had broken the glass in the first place attempting to climb in the window. I slashed at the throat of the villager closest to me, killing him, before throwing my other knife straight through the neck of the last villager in the house.

I then spun around on the sole of my left foot and kicked the ladder out of the window hard, killing two villagers that had been attempting to climb in. I had no idea that Leon was staring at me with a look of amazement on his face that faded when he turned his attention to the banging on the front door before the bookshelf had shattered to splinters. The villagers had broken through. 5 managed to get in the house that we quickly took care of with Leon shooting 3 dead and me killing the last two on the stairs. The first villager I kicked down the stairs hard with my right foot since he got too close to us, and the other I killed with a knife thrown to the neck that I quickly recovered.

{Leon's P.O.V.}

I was impressed. I knew she could throw those knife of hers with deadly accuracy, but I hadn't seen her fight until this point. I watched as she took care of the villagers that managed to come in through the window using a ladder. 'Wow.' I thought to myself. 'If I didn't like this girl before now, that right there would have cemented it. Beautiful, graceful, a fighter, and deadly. She's perfect.' I thought to myself with a look of amazement on my face.

I was brought out of my musings when the bookshelf blockading the window finally shattered along with the dresser blocking the front door opening the door to let 5 villagers through that we swiftly took care of together. I then looked through the downstairs window. There were still way too many to fight. I couldn't let Odette go out there. She only had two knives as her weapons, they'd overwhelm her. 'I have to protect her.' I thought to myself as my heart filled with determination.

"Odette, stay here. I'll stand guard up front." I said to her. "Then I'm coming with you, to help." That sentence terrified me as I tried to deny her. "No, Odette. Listen to me. Stay in the house." I said to her seriously. "Dammit, Leon. I'm not a helpless little girl. I can fight, Leon. There are too many out there for you to take on alone!" She said to me furiously. "You only have knives as weapons and with a number of opponents that large, you could get overwhelmed and killed. Stay in the house." I said in a no-nonsense tone of voice as I walked out of the house slamming the door behind me not giving her a chance to argue further. 'Oh Boy. I'm really in for it later. But I won't apologize for this. I have to protect you, Odette.' I thought to myself as I started shooting at the villagers in front of me. 'Wait for me, Odette.' As my last idle thought as I threw myself into the fight.

{Odette's P.O.V.}

'I can't believe he's doing this!' I thought to myself furiously. 'I am not some helpless little girl that cowers in the corner at the first sign of danger! I am a fighter!' I thought to myself as noticed the ladder being raised up to the window again. 'Finally! Something to take this anger out on.' I thought to myself coldly as I threw myself into the fight stabbing a villager while kicking the other one that managed to get in the house hard into the cabinet snapping his neck killing him instantly. I then kicked the body of the stabbed villager off of my knife with my left foot before using that momentum to sin on the sole of my right foot to kick the ladder down killing another villager.

After killing the two villagers that managed to get into the house through the window via ladder and the one on said ladder, something caught my attention making me turn to the side. There, mounted on the wall, was a shotgun. I chuckled darkly to myself. "Very nice," I said as I took it down. I checked to see if it was fully loaded before noticing I needed to reload it.

I searched around the room, finding a grenade behind the glass cabinet, before finding more ammo for my brand new shotgun on the table and the bed. "We have the gun and the shells. We're all set." I said to myself. 'Leon might be pissed at me for doing this, but I won't lose him! I have to save him even if it means I die.' I thought to myself as I loaded the gun. 'I'm expendable after all.' I thought to myself honestly believing that to be an undeniable truth.

"I will not lose someone else to these bastards. Not again." I said as I jumped out the window and onto the roof, took aim at the villagers, and opened fire. And it's a good thing I did. I killed 8 villagers that were way to close to Leon for my comfort when I heard the chain saw start up again. I turned and saw the big guy had aimed to take Leon's head and I saw red. 'Oh hell no, you son of a bitch! I will not lose someone to one of you bastards again!" I took aim for the big guy holding the chain saw's head and opened fire.

I shot him 6 times before the 7th shot I fired finally brought him down and away from Leon. But there were still too many of them. Then I had an idea. The grenade. "Leon move, now!" I called out to him. He managed to get away before I threw the grenade I found in the house taking out a good number of villagers, but still leaving a good number behind. "Dammit!" I called out as I started shooting villagers from the roof with my shotgun.

{Leon's P.O.V.}

As soon as I slammed the door behind me to protect Odette, I started firing at the villagers, all the while making sure they couldn't get around me and into the house. I shot at on villager after another. It seemed like there was no end to them. Finally I ran out of bullets and I had to reload. That's when they started to overwhelm me no matter how much I stabbed them with my knife or kicked them away leaving me unable to reload my gun. I heard 8 gun shots and the villagers closest to me were killed giving me a 2 minute window to reload my gun.

Then I heard the chain saw start up again way too close for comfort and I had to dodge as the big guy aimed to take my head clean off. 'That was way too close. But who's helping me?' I wondered as I shot the big guy with my gun 4 times but it didn't do a thing. My shots didn't even faze him. 'Guess a Handgun's not the answer, huh?' I asked myself rhetorically as I tried to figure out how to get myself out of the mess I had gotten myself into this time.

Just then, 6 shots from what sounded like a shotgun were fired out of nowhere and right into the big guy holding the chain saw's head. One shot after another hit its mark right dead center into the guy's head. It was the 7th shot fired from that shotgun that took him down for good though. 'Whoever's helping me, they sure are good.' I thought to myself as I shot more villagers. "Leon move, now!" I heard a girl yell at me and realized it was Odette! She had been the one helping me the whole time!

It hadn't occurred to me that she wouldn't listen to me when I told her to stay in the house. I was worried and furious that she didn't listen to stay in the house like I told her to. 'Why doesn't this girl listen?! Is she trying to get herself killed?! I'm really gonna let her have it when this is over!' I thought to myself worried and furiously as I obeyed her and moved like she asked curious as to her plan was when she brings out a grenade, pulls the pin, and throws it into the heart of the horde of villagers.

'Whoa. What a woman!' I thought to myself impressed forgetting my anger for a minute. That grenade took out a good portion of villagers, but there were still a good number left behind. "Dammit!" I heard Odette yell as she shot at the villagers from the roof as her vantage point. I joined her in shooting at them. Then all of a sudden the Church bell rang. Almost as if a switch was flipped, the villagers all just dropped their weapons.

"Ah. La campana," a male villager said. "Es hora de rezar," another said. "Tenemos que irnos," another man said. "Lord Saddler," one last man said as they walked to the church and through the door. "Where's everyone going? Bingo?" I said. Odette just chuckled at my attempt at humor as she walked over to me after jumping down from the roof. 'Guess she must have heard me.' I thought to myself amused. 'But she sure has a cute laugh.' I thought.

I shook my head slightly to clear my thoughts as Odette came up to stand next to me. I was about to turn to her and let her have it for the danger she put herself in and for not listening to me when my radio went off signaling another incoming transmission from Hunnigan. Rather then stay and listen in when I answered, Odette walked off and started going through the village. She must have gone searching door to door for anything of value or useful.

'Once the call is over and Odette is done searching around, I'll let her have it then.' I thought as I listen to Hunnigan talk to me. 'God she scared me. Why didn't she listen? I just want to protect her.' I thought to myself keeping an ear on the conversation with Hunnigan. 'I have to make her understand that.' I thought to myself as I ended the call.