HOLDING ON
Ch 2: The nightmare starts
The small grey SUV slowly makes it way down the bumpy dirt road. Leon stares at the dead and rough landscape with trees that looks as if they've been dead forever, and the bland grey skies didn't make it look any better. He hears Eliana flip a page in her book, uncaring of what the place looked like. The car makes it over a rickety, old wooden bridge before it comes to a halt. "The village is just up that road, this is as far as will take you," The driver said. Eliana puts her book up and they exit the car. They walk a short distance when they make it to an old and ragged looking house. Leon knocks on the door and there's no answer, so he turned the doorknob and it was unlocked. They both enter and they see a man trying to get a fire going, his back to them. Leon pulls out a picture of Ashley and says, "Excuse me sir, have you seen this girl anywhere?" The man seemed to ignore him as he continues to work on the fire. Leon comes closer, he says, "Sir, have you seen this girl?" The man finally looks at Leon, and he picks up an axe. Leon gasped,
His eyes are…red!
He backs up and both agents pull out their handguns. Leon commanded, "Sir, put down the axe now!" The man starts to walk forward. "Put down the axe now or we'll shoot!!" The man raises his axe and Leon finally shot him in the head. Suddenly, they hear yelling from the guys in the car. They look through the window and see the car backing up frantically, as the car back up over the bridge it collapsed, sending the car with it. "Shit! Eliana, upstairs!" They run upstairs and they hear people screaming Spanish outside. Leon bars the door shut as Eliana looks out the window. "You're not going to believe this," She said. He looked out the window and sees an angry old fashioned mob with axes, pitchforks, and flaming torches.
This is really bad. How are we going to get out of this one?
Eliana had an idea, "You ready for this?" Leon nodded. She ran to the back of the room, and she ran back to the window and jumped, breaking the glass and falling outside.
Now that's what I call an exit!
Leon follows; as soon as he gets up he had to start shooting because of the angry, Spanish yelling villagers. Once they killed them, they ran to where they last saw the car. They saw the trail that lead straight over the bridge and the smoldering car in the river below. "No," Leon whispered. "We should keep going Leon, hopefully we can find someone sane around here who knows where Ashley is," Eliana said. Leon nodded in agreement and they went down the man-made path in the woods. They walk a little father past the first house and they see a white wolf caught in a bear trap. Eliana ran to it, "Aw, you poor little fella, I'll get you out." The wolf whimpered in pain as she undid the trap, but barked happily once it was free and it ran away to safety. Soon, they made it to what seemed like the heart of the town with all the houses clustered together. They stopped a good distance away and Leon pulled out his binoculars. He scanned his surroundings and was counting the number of people when he saw something disturbing, one of the escorts was hanging on a big hook on top of a huge bon fire, slowly turning into a withered looking raisin. "Damn it, who are the people?" Leon mumbled in frustration. He felt his communicator vibrate and he held it to his face. A woman's face came onto the screen, "Leon? This is Ingrid Hunningan; I'm here to help you on your mission if you need any help." Leon smirked, "Thanks, I need all the information you can get on this place and the people who live here. They're insane, they've killed the drivers and they try to kill us on the spot. I believe it will be really hard to negotiate Ashley out of this." Hunningan nodded, "Alright, if you need anything else, just call." Leon nodded, "Ok, Leon out." He hung up and put it away. "You think we can take all of them?" Eliana asked. Leon checked how many bullets he had, "What choice do we have?" Eliana's face hardened, "You're right, let's do this then." They snuck to the back and thought for a second that they could make it across without beening seen until they heard one of them cry in Spanish and pointed to them. They immediately started shooting as the villagers rushed to them, weapons in hand. They fought for what seemed like hours when Eliana hollered, "Leon! There's too many of them!" Leon knew she was right, "Quick! To that house!" She could run faster, so she made it first with Leon shortly behind. He slammed the door shut and bared it shut, and then he moved a dresser in front of it to buy them more time. Eliana looked out the small hole between the planks on the window and sees them talking to each other and the sound of a chain saw. "What the hell are they planning?!" She yelled. Then they heard the window shatter upstairs. "Shit," Leon snarled. Eliana ran upstairs to kill any unwanted intruders as Leon moved a bookcase in front of the window when villagers started to try to get in. Then Leon went upstairs to find Eliana killing the last of them. She threw a shotgun at him and a box of bullets.
Sweet…
Leon pumped it and they jumped out the window together, ready to take on the crazy mob. Leon yelled, "Eliana! Watch my back while I kill this chain saw fucker." Eliana smirked, "No problem." She shot all the others while Leon focused in on the chain saw dude. As soon as Leon finally killed him, a church bell rang across the village. The villagers stopped immediately and stared at the church that was on top of a hill a good distance away. Most of them whispered in English, "Lord Saddler." Then they all walked off into the main building in the village that led to the church. Leon ran to the middle of the village and looked around. Shrugged in confusion and asked to no one in particular, "Where's everyone going, bingo?" Eliana chuckled and said, "I highly doubt it, we should get going before they come back."
They made it to another cluster of houses and killed a lot of villagers who happened to carry dynamite, lucky them. When they were looking through houses to find some sort of evidence of Ashley, they heard a noise coming from a huge dresser that could hold a person. They quickly ran to each side of it, not taking any chances, they raised their guns and opened it and a tied up man fell onto the floor. He seemed like a Spaniard, but not a local from this village. He was wearing some grey pants and a shirt that had a flower style that was popular in Spain for men. He also had black hair that almost touched his shoulders and he had onyx eyes. Though, he was a bit lanky.
Well, any guy that has been tied up in a place like this must be on our side.
Leon rips off the duck tape off the man. He says, "Ow, little rough, don't you think?" Leon ignores him as he flips him over and starts to untie his wrists. "You two are…not like them?" He asks. Eliana shook her head and Leon said, "No, you?" The man rolls away a little and rubs his wrists, "Ok, I have one very important question…you got a smoke?" Leon replies, "Don't smoke." He looks at Eliana and she said, "Me neither." Suddenly, two villagers came out of nowhere, but they surprisingly stop when they hear loud footsteps come down the hall. Then an 8 foot tall man came into the room, and he doesn't seem happy. "Perfect, the big cheese," the man said sarcastically. "What?" Leon asked looking at him. Then he looks at the man who glowered at them with two different eyes, one blue and one red. He had on a black trench coat and a really long beard, but was bald. Leon charged, he did a 360 kick to the man's stomach, but the guy caught it with ease. Leon gasped; the man then squeezes his foot and throws him into the air. Leon does a flip and then crashes onto the Spaniard and Eliana, knocking them all unconscious…
What's up everybody! Thanks for reading and I know I changed it up a bit but I want it to be like that so it can match my story plot that is in it. And I'm probably going to keep changing it some more, so if you don't like me doing that then just don't read it, it is as simple as that. Please review and tell me what you think though if you want to keep reading.
Your friend,
Darkened petal : )