A couple of minutes earlier
He ran into the door shutting it behind him, ensuring the things outside didn't jump inside. He took a second to catch his breath before looking around him "Wesker? Jill?" he asked scanning the luxurious main hall "where the hell did everyone go?" he said with a confused sigh, not knowing where the rest of his team had gone, Chris walked up the staircase, looking to the left side of the room, heading for the first door he saw.
Present
Burton, Kennedy, and Valentine walked through the doors to the dining room back into the Main Hall, ready to inform their superior about the encounter they had just had. But found the hall empty "Wesker!" Burton called out hoping to hear the Captain's reply, yet silence was his reply.
"Now the Captain's MIA?" Johnathan asked bewildered at the developing situation
"Search around, maybe he's still here" Burton sighed. The two nodded and began searching around the main hall for Wesker, unsurprisingly they did not find him and the three regrouped together
"He couldn't have gone very far." Barry said looking around "Let's split up, Jill. You check that door on the right, I'll head back through the dining room"
"I'll check the second floor" the young man added looking at the staircase,
Valentine seemed troubled, and her silence was telling them something wasn't sitting well with her "something wrong Jill?" Barry asked
"None of this makes sense Barry. First Chris goes missing, then we find some maniac eating one of our own teammates, and now Wesker is gone" the woman explained
"You're right. None of this DOES make any sense, but we're going to get to the bottom of it" the bearded man rested a hand on her shoulder "But this place is dangerous, so everyone. Keep your head on a swivel, anyone comes at you that you don't know. Shoot without hesitation..." He then instructed before turning around and walking back into the dining room.
Kennedy looked at Jill "should anything happen, let's meet back up here. I'll try calling everyone over the radio" He said patting his radio set strapped to his shoulder, Valentine nodded and then headed off into the door on the right, leaving Kennedy all alone. He pulled out his Samurai Edge, ejecting the clip and checking to see if it fully loaded, after doing so, he placed it back into the weapon and began walking up the staircase, after reaching the second landing he turned and looked towards the left side of the hall, then over to the right, deciding to head over to the door on the right above the door to the dining room.
He entered back into the dining hall from the second floor, there was a small walkway stretching all across the dining room, being opened in the middle and looking down into the room below, there was a marble bust sitting along the walkway nearby a broken part of the railing. The young man looked down into first-floor dining room looking for the man who had just entered there barely a couple of minutes ago "Barry? you in here?" He called out, being met with only silence "You have got to be fucking kidding me..." he said under his breath.
Then he noticed a shadow rising from the floor, it was vaguely humanoid and let out a low moan, the shadow then began to shambling around the walkway, Johnathan pulled out his pistol and aimed it at the shadowy mass "Raccoon Police! Put your hands up now or I will shoot!" He said in his best authoritative voice before switching on his flashlight. As soon as the light was turned on the shadow was identified as another man similar to the one that killed Kenneth, only this time he had bits of brown hair that had begun to fall off, a brown coat that was torn and stained and half of his right cheek was torn away revealing the muscles and tendons underneath.
Kennedy was surprised at the state of this shambling corpse and then remembered Barry's advice "Anyone comes at you that you don't know. Shoot without hesitation..." Johnathan switched on his laser sight and pointed it at the man's head before firing off two shots. The bullet entered into the man's skull, causing him to fall over from his own momentum. The young man approached cautiously trying to get a better look at the corpse, at the state this man was in there should have been no way for him to have been alive "This is like some horror film" he commented to himself recalling an old movie he watched back in high school where dead people would come back to life
"What did they call those things in the movie again?" he asked trying to recall the name of the monsters "Zombies?"
Kennedy turned around lost in thought, not noticing the corpse slowly rise again. Feeling a cold hand grip his upper arm he turned around to find the zombie was still alive and he had the same inhuman grip that the thing from downstairs had, only this time there was no one else to save him "Get off of me!" he yelled as he struggled to keep the monster away, then he had an idea.
Using all of his strength he turned around and pushed the zombie off of him and over the railing. Johnathan looked down to find the corpse had hit its head on the floor, cracking its skull open and breaking its neck. Having narrowly survived death Kennedy turned around and walked back through the doors to the main hall, deciding not to investigate that part of the mansion any further.
Chris had checked out the hallway he entered into from the door in the main hall noting it was shaped like a backward C and that most of the doors were locked, he entered into the main hall and looked to his left noticing another door, he turned and approached it, attempting to turn the knob only to find it wasn't locked, he walked through the doorway and found himself outside on a patio, he walked around noting that it stretched across the entire front of the mansion, he also saw a body sitting on a bench nearby, he approached slowly kneeling down to try and identify.
Chris slowly realized that this corpse was, in fact, one of the missing Bravo team members, specifically Bravo's Omni-Man and sharpshooter Forest Spyer. His skin was pale, he was missing one of his eyes, and it looked like he was stabbed by something as he had multiple cuts all over his body, he also was holding his Arwen 37 Grenade Launcher in his hands, Redfield slowly began to pry the weapon from his deceased teammates tight grip "Sorry buddy..." he said under his breath.
suddenly he felt a cold clammy hand grab his wrist. Chris looked up and found Forest starring right back at him, with one dull milky eye that seemed completely devoid of life.
Spyer's corpse had suddenly burst to life and had knocked Redfield down to the floor, the man struggled to keep the reanimated man at bay as he snapped his jaws together like a wild animal, Chris tried talking sense to Forrest, thinking maybe the madman could still be reasoned with. Realizing that there was no use in talking Redfield pulled out his combat knife and thrust it into Spyer's neck, Forrest halted for a minute from the knife but continued again, Chris was confused as the wound in Spyer's neck would have killed almost anyone, Redfield then stabbed the knife repeatedly into Forest's head. Only then afterward did Spyer's body return to being lifeless.
Taking a second to catch his breath Chris shoved the limp body of his former comrade off of him, wiping his knife off and placing it back into his sheath before looking at Forest's lifeless form "What the hell just happened?!" he asked himself "I thought he was dead..."
shaking his head he looked over and picked up the discarded Grenade Launcher "Guess you really don't need this now..." he said looking back at the man that a couple of days ago was he and Kennedy's sharpshooting rival. checking to see if the weapon was still operational and most of all, loaded. He turned around and walked back through the door he entered through.
Jill walked through the doors of the main hall into a smaller room, it was darkly lit, but she could make out dark wallpaper and picture frames on the walls and a small hallway being half barricaded with a small cabinet, there was a large marble statue in the center of the room illuminated with many lights. The room reminded the woman of the art room on the second floor in the east wing of the police station.
She walked over to the cabinet, placing her hand on it, lifting it up and realizing that she had left a hand print in the dust on the surface. She thought about it for a few seconds and slowly climbed over the obstacle being careful to not add any more weight to the cabinet than needed lest it completely collapsed beneath her. Successfully climbing over she found herself inside the hall, which was so dark she could barely see anything in front of herself, as she stumbled around until finding nothing, except for a small table with a fancy looking dagger atop it, she grabbed the weapon and did her best to inspect it before turning back around to go back the way she came, as she rounded the corner she saw something that caused her to slowly back up, but she tripped over herself and fell onto her rear, as she continued to back, now just scooting across the floor, another one of those monsters that she found in the dining hall came out around the corner.
She quickly stood back up again only to find the man reach out and grab her. Jill struggled with the thing as it did it's best to sink its jaws into her neck, unable to use her pistol, Jill pulled out the only thing she still had in her hands, the dagger. She quickly thrust the blade into the monsters neck, causing it to stagger backward and release her from its inhuman grasp, giving her enough time to run past it.
As she made her way around the corner again she heard a low raspy moan from behind her, realizing that the knife did very little to stop the crazed man, then she looked forward and saw that she still had another obstacle in her way, the small cabinet. As she climbed up on top of the furnishing, she felt a tight grasp on her ankle which caused her to fall, slamming into the top of the cabinet. As she had feared before, the sudden weight of her falling body caused the structure of the cabinet to collapse, leaving her completely on the floor, slightly dazed she looked up only to find the monster climbing up from her ankle, panicked she quickly pulled out her Beretta and fired several shots into the man's head, causing the monster to become lifeless as it fell to the ground, leaking a steady stream of blood.
Taking a second to catch her breath Jill slowly began to stand up and she dusted herself off, then she realized that in her fall her beret had fallen off, she bent down and picked it up, placing it back upon her head, before looking back at the broken cabinet, Jill shook her head and then walked out of the room through the door standing on the same side of the wall as the hallway.
