My Final Hours Ch.3 Sniper
The Downtown area of Raccoon was as sick and disturbing as the Uptown portion. I walked into a parking lot, it was surrounded by a perimeter of burning vehicles. I gagged as the stench of death wafted over me again. Six zombies moaned and started lumbering towards me. I smiled as I decided how I would kill them. I rushed the first, crushed his skull with a quick punch, blood and gore splashed over my face. I didn't bother to wipe it away as I pistol whipped the next monster, knocking its head off. The third zombie had arms before I rushed him. The limbs came away with sickening ease. I used the arms to pound his face into mush before swinging an arm like a bat, killing the fourth zombie. I quickly cocked my pistol and fired a bullet into the head of the fifth monster. The sixth went down from multiple gunshot wounds. I stood in the middle of a circle of death. I screamed at the dark sky. My voice served to up my adrenaline. The next path took me into a shopping district. Two dogs, with their muscles showing, barreled around a corner and attacked. I patiently waited before falling slowly, catching the first dog's head in my arms. One quick twist broke the thing's neck. The second dog had missed me and come back around for another pass. I turned away and waited a second before going into a Bicycle kick. My foot crushed the animal's face. With the threat neutralized, I moved on.
I calmly strolled into an open courtyard. It was empty except for a few dead bodys. One was an Umbrella mercenary. I looted his body and found a rifle magazine. There was a gate across from the shopping district. I eyed the device beside it. There were a bunch of gems in different slots. Before moving on, I had a wonderful idea. I'd fuck with the next people who wanted to get into City Hall. Taking the Green gem, I ran three steps and threw it as hard as I could over the roof of the shopping district. I heard it hit some metal before falling into some water. I think it fell into a sewer system. I started toward the gate when I heard a gunshot. Instantly pain slashed through my right shoulder. I screamed and clutched the wound. Another shot rang out, missing my face by a hair. I ducked behind a wrecked car. The shooter fired again, a waste of ammo. The bullet deflected harmlessly from my cover. I looked to my right, seeing a dead body. It gave me an idea. Unfortunately I had to find out where the shooter was first. I leaned slightly, letting a small portion of my upper shoulder stick out. The sniper fired again. White hot pain sliced through my body.
" MOTHER FUCKER!" I shouted as I pulled back again. I then carefully manuevered the corpse into position. I let the left foot show a tiny bit. The shooter was in the Raccoon press building. I carefully climbed over the car, staying in the shadows of a wrecked ambulance. The shooter fired again, hitting the body's toe. I quickly moved around the ambulance and over a garbage bin. After clambering over a few more random objects, I dove through a broken window into the bottom level of the building. I quietly climbed a flight of stairs. I turned right and entered a small room. The sniper was still looking out over the street. " I can see you...I can see everything...I can see every speck of your blood"
" SEE THIS!" I cried as I rushed the man. He tried to turn but was too late. I grabbed his head and twisted. The bones in his neck broke. The body went limp, and I let it fall to the ground. For the next few moments I stood there and stared at his crumpled body. He tried to kill me, I hated that fact. I suddenly realized my mind was thinking more primally. I quickly pulled the snipers mask from his head. I slipped it on, covering my features. Before leaving I grabbed the sniper's rifle and strapped it to my back. It could come in handy. I was walking by the corpse I had propped up when I heard a radio crackle to life. Through static and bursts of gunfire I could hear voices, screaming, giving orders, one voice came through clearly.
" FUCK! is anyone out there!?!?, this is officer O'brian, we're gonna be overrun if not reinforced, calling all RPD units. The zombies are massing and attacking us at the trolley yard. NEED BACKUP NOW! KEEP SHOOTING!...need...forcement...help"
I turned and climbed the city hall gate. I landed hard on the other side. I knew immediately that I had sprained my ankle. Quickly, I tied a crude bandage. The sounds of gunfire were getting louder as i neared the trolley. Only one zombie stood in my way. I gunned it down before moving outside. After running through a small alley, I went through a gate. Bushes and benches lined the sidewalk. The gunfire was getting less frequent, as if the cops were running out of ammo. I scanned the buildings and found a ladder. On the roof of a grey building, I could see the trolley to the North. I got into a prone position and looked through the scope of my sniper rifle. A small band of five men were behind a barricade, firing at something out of sight.
" What the fuck is that thing?! " cried one cop.
" Doesn't matter what it is, take it down! " responded another.
The men continued shooting, from my perch I spotted their target. A tall striding creature. Nearly eight feet tall. It wore a big black trench coat. I flipped the safety of the rifle and fired. The bullet tore through the creature's shoulder. It seemed unaffected, to my dismay. I cycled the rifle's bolt and fired again, aiming for the thing's right knee. Blood exploded from the wound, but it kept walking towards the cops. I was so focused on the creature's leg that I didn't see it bring a rocket launcher from behind its back. Bullets tore into his biceps and face. He shrugged off the rounds and loaded the weapon. The policemen had no chance. In the blink of an eye their barricade blew away, sending the men flying back. One man was killed instantly, another two screamed in agony as shrapnel cut into them. The leader stood up and reloaded his submachine gun. The creature was only a few feet away. The man bravely stood his ground, pumping an entire magazine into the monster's chest. It picked him up and started choking him.
" No! " I cried and starting firing again. One, two, three, four, five shots in rapid succession. A tentacle slid from the creature's wrist. I looked on horrified as the appendage burst through the cop's head. Silence came over the trolley yard. I grunted in frustration and fired again, hitting the thing in the forehead. It lurched back from the impact, before readying its launcher again. I fired twice more, opening wounds in its neck before turning to run. I suddenly felt myself being picked up. I was hurled across a gap onto the next building. I hit something hard. I could barely see, but managed to eat a pill before blacking out.