RESIDENT EVIL OUTBREAK
Chapter 4 of my updated Resident Evil series first story, enjoy.
Disclaimer: Resident Evil belongs to Capcom.
CHAPTER 4: BLACK TIGER AND THE ROOKIE
As the Black Tiger lunged Kyle and Melissa dodged to the side and had a very narrow escape. It slowly stepped back, secreting deadly venom from it's fangs as it sized up its enemies. The venom meant one thing, it was trying for a fatal blow, reacting in blind panic to this Kyle and Melissa unloaded their guns into its tough hide. The bullets simply bounced off but as it reared up the last bullets in Melissa's current clip struck the soft underbelly of the monstrous creature. It shrieked in pain and backed off from them, they now realized that the underbelly was the monsters only weak point, but they were down to their last ammo clip, which they loaded into their guns. Black Tiger was now furious and charged them, using its bulk and its fangs to attack, forcing them to retreat, they tried and failed several times to attack its underbelly but then it went to attack with its most potent venom and so reared up, they took their chance and opened fire, the creature shrieked and backed off again, covering its weak point.
"This is ridiculous" Kyle groaned, "How the hell are we supposed to stop it, it keeps blocking us for God sake" He complained.
Before Melissa could reply they both had to dodge as it attacked again, they narrowly avoided the poisonous fangs. It slowly stepped back and reared again, once again they opened fire but this time when it recovered it shot out a web which pinned Melissa to the nearby wall. Kyle panicked and tried to run to her aid but the Black Tigers bulk served as a battering ram and shoved him aside, knocking the wind out of him. He struggled to his feet and froze, the arachnid was ready to deliver a fatal blow to Melissa, he had no choice, no matter the risk he had to do this. He tightly secured his gun with both hands and took aim and then, fired. The Black Tiger shrieked loudly as it was struck with the bullet, it staggered on its rearmost legs before falling back and landing on the ground, it made a gurgling noise and then died.
Kyle hurried over to Melissa.
"Are you okay" He asked, concerned.
"Yeah, just get me outta this thing" She replied angrily.
He nodded and, after some effort managed to free her. They then checked their guns; they only had five bullets left, each. Once they had recovered from the fight Melissa pulled out a lighter and burned away the webs blocking their path to the first floor, they continued down the stairwell and arrived at the first floor; they exited the stairwell through the doors in front of them and were now in the one of the first floor corridors. They were attacked immediately by a group of zombies, they quickly opened fire, however, they soon used up all their ammo and there were still two zombies approaching them. Just then they heard a gunshot and one zombie staggered, they knew it had to be Edward, the other S.T.A.R.S. member.
"Edward!" Melissa called out "Shot them in the head, it's the only way to kill them".
Two more gunshots rang out and both zombies dropped dead.
Edward Chester then approached them. He was young, no more than twenty with medium length black hair and black eyes, he was dressed in his S.T.A.R.S. uniform, a pair of black tactical pants, a black shirt with the S.T.A.R.S. insignia on the sleeve, black fingerless gloves and black boots. He also wore a white armband around his left sleeve, the sign that he was a rookie. He was pale and looked shocked by the situation he was in, Kyle didn't blame him, he felt exactly the same way. Finally Edward stopped, just in front of them.
"Edward, are you okay?" Melissa asked, "You've not been hurt have you?"
Edward shook his head, "I'm fine…What are those things?" He asked.
Melissa sighed and then explained, "They are people who have been infected with a Viral Weapon called the T-Virus, you've gotta avoid them" She paused for a moment before continuing her explanation, "Their only weakness is a headshot, also, if they bite you, you become one of them".
Edward groaned, "Great". He then paused and swallowed nervously before asking, "So…Mark's really dead".
"Had his head ripped off by one of those zombies" Melissa replied while nodding, she then asked, "Have you seen James".
Edward shook his head sadly, "No sorry" He paused before adding "Last time I heard from him he said something about checking some underground lab".
"A lab!" Melissa replied, surprised at what she heard, she then realized "That must be where these things are coming from".
She couldn't believe it, it all fit together now.
"The virus was made in a lab and ended up being unleashed somehow" She said before a horrific realization, "Then it must've somehow got into the school".
Edward nodded in agreement, "Yeah, apparently there's a secret entrance in the school somewhere" He paused and then sighed, "That was all James was able to say to me before his radio cut out, and I…um"
Melissa noticed his hesitated and sighed.
"Edward what's wrong?" She asked, before urging him to continue "Spit it out already".
Edward sighed and then explained, "I-I, according to what I've found out and according to what James was able to find in the labs before he got cut off". He paused and then dropped a bombshell, "I think...Umbrella's behind this".
Melissa stared in shock, "Umbrella, the Umbrella Pharmaceutical Company!" She responded.
"Yeah, it looks like the reports James found, have Umbrella's logo on them" Edward explained, "The scientists here have the logo on their lab coats too".
Melissa sighed, "This sounds like some big conspiracy to me" She then shook her head, "If it is Umbrella we have to be careful, they've got more influence around the world than anybody".
Edward nodded in agreement and then noticed Kyle.
"Who's this?" He asked, surprised.
Melissa smiled and then explained.
"Kyle Harvey, a civilian, he'd be in danger if I just left him alone so I brought him with me" She explained before continuing "Things are getting way too crazy in here, but we can't get him out because of those dogs".
Edward nodded and smiled at Kyle before shaking his hand. Melissa then spoke.
"Okay, let's look for James and this lab" She stated, the others agreed and Kyle asked "So what are we gonna do?"
Melissa thought for a moment and then made up her mind.
"We'll split up, Kyle and I will search the main hall and the lobby". She said Edward nodded "Okay, that leaves me with the other corridor".
"Let's go" She responded.
They left the corridor they were in and Edward pointed them to the ammo cache which they used to restock their ammunition, Edward then hurried to explore the corridor. Kyle and Melissa prepared to begin their exploration, unaware that they were being watched and that just with the suspicions they had about the company known as Umbrella, they had already put themselves on Umbrella's 'Black List', a list of people who knew too much and had to be eliminated.
End of chapter, so what did you think, please let me know. Hope you enjoyed this chapter, read and review please.