Chapter 9
Where's Tina? She was right behind me a second ago, I know I just saw her. I glanced around all of the rushing scientists in white lab coats. I pushed my way through the crowd of white coats until I found the vent that Wesker instructed us to find. I opened up the vent, and closed it safety behind me, just in case anyone besides Tina were to find it open. I crawled through the tiny space, wondering how far behind Tina was. The vent seemed to go on forever, until it finally led to a ladder that went up. I looked at the base of the ladder and saw that there were two train tickets stuck to the first step. I took one, figuring the second one was reserved for Tina. I started climbing up it, going higher until I reached the surface. Panting, I pushed open the manhole that covered the exit. I looked up, it was the Raccoon City, right near the train station, just like Wesker said. I ran over to the train station, when a car zoomed right in front of me. I jumped back, and the car honked it's horn. Ops, guess I better use the crosswalk…
The train station looked awesome, with it's detailed walls and architecture. There were vendors everywhere, selling clothes and food. But, I don't have any money to buy anything. It's a shame really, maybe I could come back and buy something. But now's not the time. I stood near the train station entrance, waiting for Tina. Where was she? Suddenly, I felt a hand behind my back, I turned around, but it wasn't Tina.
"Matthew, so good you made it." a syrupy, low voice greeted him.
I froze in place. The tall man in police gear was Wesker. Why did he follow me? And where was Tina?
"I see only one of you showed up after all. Oh well, it'll have to do." he commented, and gently pushed Matt forward.
But another voice stopped them both. "Captain Wesker, what're you doing here?" a police officer asked.
Wesker slowly turned around. The police officer seemed puzzled, obviously oblivious to what was going on.
"Officer Ford, if you must know, I'm here with my nephew who just arrived in town." Wesker told him, placing his hand on my shoulder, the other behind his back.
"Oh, um, ok then sir…good day." Officer Ford replied, snapping back into his position.
The man seemed terrified of Wesker, but why? He's an old guy who wears sunglasses all the time, what's so scary about that? He led me away from the police officer, towards one of the smaller stations. I looked at my ticket, and realized that this wasn't the station I was suppose to go to. I looked at Wesker, but his blank stare didn't seem to waver. I looked behind me to where the police officer had been. I saw, at the entrance the police officer was talking to Tina! They were too far away for me to hear what was going on but she was there! I started waving to her, and called out,
"Hey, hey Tina! It's me, I'm right he-" but I was cut off by Wesker's firm hand covering my mouth.
I struggled to wretch free from his grip, but I was much shorter and scrawnier than he was and he knew it. He pulled me over into a corner of what I now realized was an empty station. He pulled me into the corner and pulled out a army knife. He tried to hold me down but I kept struggling out of his range.
"Stop resisting you fool! You have no idea what I'm trying to accomplish!" Wesker grunted, trying not to raise his voice.
I then heard a sharp ripping sound, and time seemed to slow down. My body dropped to the ground, over a pool of blood collecting on the floor. I suddenly felt my vision float away from my body, and I now was seeing this from a third-person perspective, as if the boy dying wasn't me. I saw Wesker get up from stabbing me, and he said,
"This will be the last time you will ever feel true pain. Your time as a human is up, time for you to become a god." and with that, Wesker slowly strolled away. I felt my vision float towards my lifeless body, and saw, that as I lied there, my stomach closed up, pushing the knife out of my chest until it lay on top of my blood soaked body.
"SH-" Matt was about to swear before Sherry quickly covered his mouth.
Sherry pressed her index finger to his lips, a very worried look on her face. She then pointed to the window near the kitchen. There were dozens of zombies, just outside the house. Only a couple of them seemed to notice that they were in the house, but it seemed like Sherry had secured the windows and door by herself. Matt slowly sat up from the chair, he must have fallen asleep. Thank god that was just a dream, he thought. He'd been having similar dreams ever since he came back from the mansion, sometimes in chronological order, sometimes not. Sherry led him over to his mother's room, where there weren't any windows. Clara was curdled up in her bed, softly crying into her pillow. Matt slowly approached her, and whispered softly,
"Mom, we're getting out of here." he told her.
Clara turned to him, her face red with tears. "You don't have to hurt them sweetie. They're people.".
Matt looked away from her. "You don't get it, Mom. They're not people, not anymore." he coldly told her.
Clara sobbed into her pillow, and collapsed into her bed. "It doesn't have to be like this, you didn't have to do that!" she cried.
Rattling noises could suddenly be heard from the living room.
"They can hear us." Sherry whispered frantically.
Matt walked over to the hallway. Crouching lower, he saw that the number of zombies pounding at the house had grown in numbers. Some of the wooden supports had fallen off, and the table pushed up against the door wasn't going to hold forever. Matt quickly scurried back to his mother's room.
"We have to get out of here." he told Sherry.
Sherry nodded, and walked over to Clara, who'd returned to sobbing into her pillow. Sherry climbed onto her bed and tried shaking her out of her sobbing.
"Matt's mom, we need to get out of here." she told her.
Clara looked up at the small, blonde girl in her school uniform. She then looked at Matt, and asked herself, what had become of the innocent boy she once knew? Or was he never there to begin with?
