1-2: The Trials
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Well, I promised to get this next part of the story out to you soon, but I had a hard enough time remembering the first name idea I had in mind.
Yes, I am trying to use "The" in front of most of them, save for the root chapters at first.
Anyway, I finally picked one that I was going to use for the first chapter (1-1), but decided to hold onto the idea for an event now that will test Ashley's limits of her sanity and see if she has what it takes to surpass her fears and emotions to survive.
I originally wanted to call this the Trials, but it just didn't seem to fit, so after countless hours I had settled on a word that helps emphasize the insanity of all this...
THE TRIBULATIONS
(There's a small nonphysical but speial prize for who can tell me where I got that from.)
In heinsight though, I decided to go back and change it and save my idea for another more intense chapter.
i hole you enjoy:
THE TEST
"Ok, are you sure about doing this?"
Leon stared into Ashley's eyes.
This was like some sick twisted hazing to him what this would be putting her through.
...still, he didn't want to admit it, but she has been right this whole time. Too much time has passed to stay together waiting in the Panic Room and hoping for some sort of rescue instead of nuclear firebombing.
He just hoped Ashley could go thought with it... and bite herself for it later...
...survival guilt...
The seconds that passed felt more like minutes
"I'm ready." Ashley broke the silence.
"O.K." Leon checked and handed back her gun.
As they turned the corner with caution and handguns raised at 90 degrees, they found the source of the noise.
The first test.
Ashley let out a gasp when she recognized that dress...
"Emily!" called out a bright younger and happier Ashley Graham. She had on her best Sunday style clothes and skipped to meet her friend, the Senator's daughter.
"Oh! Ashley!" Emily beamed at the site.
The two quickly embraced and began rushing around the White House grounds, seeing all of the colors and activities while the children searched for Easter eggs.
Ashley and her friend skipped along, hearing dad call out to her from the distance.
"Ashley! Ashley!"
..
"Ashley!"
Leon snapped her back into reality. Ashley slowly winced and the face of her childhood friend was now covered in blood with a look of primal rage.
Time seemed to slow down as the zombie lunged forward, its' staggered pace and posture suddenly composed and deadly.
Leon had only just now raised his gun to fire, but the undead was
now in arms reach of Ashley, lowering its' head ready to sink her teeth into flesh.
Leon went to pull the trigger.
BANG!
The zombie fell to its' knees, a smoking hole in between its' eyes. Another metal one across from it came on the form of a gun barrel.
Ashley's.
She began to cry as the corpse fell to the ground.
Sobbing, Ashley embraced Leon as he lowered his gun to approach her. Comforting the girl, his friend, a survivor who should never had to go through any of this before, let alone now...
...the moans...
...they weren't Ashley's!
Pulling Ashley back with a slimy grip and ridiculous stregnth, Ashley was back against the wall in a second as Emily's body sprung from the ground, diving for Leon's neck!
CRUNCH!
The rotting eyes looked down only to find the cracking bone's was not Leon's neck or arm for that matter! It was her teeth.
Purple scales prickled up from the arm Leon had just a moment before clear on the other side of his body saving Ashley. Now suddenly it was back in front of him. Then it circled around the attacked as Leon spun behind. SNAP!
Leon let out a sigh as the pulp hung limp in his arm...
RAAAHH!
Before spasming back to life once more!
"Ashley! The knife!"
Fumbling around but with a firm nod, Ashley grabbed the blade off the ground. Tears streaming down her face, it was now time for lesson two. Ashley grunted emotionally as she repetitively stabbed at the body, muscles severing and nicking Leon's arm a few times (but doing more damage to the knife and poor fallen Emily combined!)
At last, Leon felt it was safe to let go, as the twitching now seemed to produce no real movement.
There were no tears left and seemed as though nothing could be said.
Regrettably, Leon prepare to move on.
"Alright, lesson number 3: you need AHHH!"
HACK!
Leon had moved his foot just in time in response to the sudden flip from the unyielding hunk of flesh in the dress, before Ashley's knife (once Leon's) hit the back of the spine and severed its' head.
Blood gushed from the body and all signs of life had stopped.
...anything close to life anyway.
A grim tension was felt in the room. Now Ashley was simply mad and ready to escape this hellhole she once called a home away from home during her father's time in presidency.
Was he even still alive?
Was anyone she knew alive?
Clearly nothing was left of the childhood friend, no longer having any resemblance to whom she once knew.
"Okay," Leon broke her train of thought again.
"You're ready."
Together, Leon and Ashley descended one more flight of stairs, down to the second floor and the locked control room.
"At least now," Leon said slowly, looking over to Ashley with a weak smile. "You've seen as bad it should ever get."
...
Beneath them on the main floor, corpses of the dead surrounded in a purple moss from the direct attack posed in fleeing positions. The blue gas lingered around these forms as they slowly began to harden.
Still clear, the back of one man hunched over seemed to have died with his shoulder bladed extended from the back.
These markings split in a burst of red eyes.
Sorry these aren't coming out any faster. Personal stuff combined with the celebrations coming up.
The good news is that I have a lot of the remaining chapter put together. It's all just a matter of time and organization.
STAY TUNED!
P.S.: for those of you wondering where the heck is Steve or Claire or Ada, they'll be made aware of the situation whithin the next chapter.
And you will see them soon...er than you'll probably realize! ; )