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Chapter Twelve
Evelyn shot down the Majini guards and made her way onto the massive ship. She was surprised that the Majini did not rush to attack her when she walked onto the ship.
"What?" she whispered to herself, passing by a Majini with a machine gun. "Were they only attacking me before because of Chris and Sheva?"
She walked passed several more Majini before she heard the rev of a chainsaw. She jumped back as a chainsaw Majini landed in front of her, blocking her path. She quickly changed guns so that she had her magnum. The thing swung its chainsaw at her, but Evelyn jumped out of the way in the blink of an eye. She shot at it until it fell and then, as she was passing by it, it rose again. It wildly swung the chainsaw at her, missing every time, but not stopping until she shot it down. She was so devoted to watching the chainsaw majini in front of her, that she did not notice another chainsaw Majini sneaking up behind her. She heard the chainsaw at the last second and jumped out of the way. The tip of the chainsaw cut her forearm, which healed immediately after it was cut.
Evelyn quickly defeated the Majini and continued on her way, not really knowing which way she was supposed to go.
After a couple of hours of walking through the ship deck and taking out quite a few chainsaw Majini, she found an area that was littered with the dead bodies of the infected humans. Across that area, there was a door that would hopefully take her to see Wesker; she needed to find out what had happened to make them so violent towards each other.
She opened the door cautiously, making sure that no harm would come her way with her perfected senses. The dreary hallway caused Evelyn to feel as if something would jump out at her from the shadows.
The Majini guarding the doors never even glanced Evelyn's way. She felt uncomfortable because she was so used to them rushing at her to attack her. They never moved, though.
Eventually, Evelyn found a hallway with better lighting.
"There's something in this hall…" Evelyn whispered, red flags going up in her mind. At the end of the hallway, she walked through a door into a room that looked similar to the room that Excella watched Chris, Sheva, and Evelyn fight the Mkono. The room gave her goosebumps and sent chills down her spine. Evelyn heard the door slam shut and lock loudly behind her and the breathing of someone else in the room. She turned around in a circle, but saw nothing.
She was facing the window in the room when she felt cold breathing on her neck. She slowly turned around to face the thing breathing on her neck and screamed when she saw what it was. Another man infected with Uroboros.
The man only had on shorts, and his purple-tinted skin writhed when the hidden tentacles moved underneath it. His eyes were completely black - black and completely devoid of emotion - as he stared at Evelyn.
Evelyn feared that attacking him might make him angry, so she refrained from moving her arm to aim at him and shoot him. She simply watched as a tentacle shot out of the skin and slithered up the arm she was holding the gun with, tightening its hold on her until she could no longer hold the gun. There was a loud clatter when the gun hit the floor and Evelyn winced at the noise.
The appendage that was wrapped around her arm slowly moved upward towards her throat. As it was slithering its way up, Evelyn's left hand was moving down to another gun. Feeling her neck being constricted, Evelyn quickly removed the gun from its holster and kicked the man off of her. The tentacle that was around her neck wrapped itself around her neck even tighter. Evelyn aimed and shot the man's head, causing him to loosen his grip on her, and then she ducked out of the way when the man rushed at her. The man kicked her in the chest as she was ducking, knocked the breath out of her, and sent her to the floor on her back.
Evelyn took out her machete and cut off the tentacle from around her neck. While his eyes may have been devoid of emotion before, they looked absolutely livid now. He prepared to run towards Evelyn to knock her down, but she rolled out of the way and towards her fallen gun. She dove for it before the Uroboros man could attack her again. She shot him once in the shoulder and another time in the face. Neither seemed to do any damage.
Another tentacle shot out from his arm and pierced through Evelyn's right shoulder. She gasped in pain and, again, dropped her gun. Evelyn yanked the thing from her shoulder, cringing from the pain it caused. The wound healed as soon as the tentacle was removed.
"Where is its weak spot?" Evelyn asked herself. He circled around Evelyn as if she was his prey, which she guessed she was for the moment.
Evelyn thought about why it would even be in the room. 'It's probably some trap Albert set up,' she thought, watching the Uroboros man carefully. 'He knows I'm looking for him, most likely, and wanted to see how well I could fight against this. He wants to know how strong my virus is. That's so like him to do that…' She sighed, waiting for the man to make his move.
The man lunged at her from the side, but she counterattacked by shooting him in the face once he got close to her. In the blink of an eye, she had round-house kicked the man, sending him towards the wall, and then proceeded to shoot him several times in the forehead. He did not rise again, but he did shoot tentacles from his back, wrapping some of them around Evelyn's arms and neck. He pulled her towards him; however, Evelyn removed them with her machete again. She then holstered both her handgun and machete, and pulled out her MP5. She shot the entire magazine at his head and then loaded another magazine into the MP5. She continued to shoot him until the magazine ran out of rounds again.
Evelyn stood there for a few moments, trying to catch her harsh breathing from the fight, and to make sure that he would not rise again. He never did. Once Evelyn calmed down, she walked over to the door to find that it was still locked. She pulled out the bobby-pin that was holding some of her bangs back and tried to unlock the door. She soon forced the door open and walked out.
Eventually, she came upon a door with five Majini guarding it; naturally, she took out the Majini and entered. Evelyn figured that since there were so many Majini guarding it, the door would lead to Wesker. She climbed eight flights of stairs and found a short hallway with a few rooms connected to it.
She opened the doors quickly as she passed, lest a Majini try to attack her in the dark. Once she got to the end of the hallway to a metal sliding door, she felt afraid. It was as if she knew that Wesker was in that room. Evelyn stood to the side of the door as it opened. When she knew Wesker was not going to shoot her, she raised her gun and entered the room.
She saw Wesker standing over controls to the ship and looking out the window. This room overlooked the area that contained all of the dead bodies of the Majini.
"It's not ladylike to point guns at people, Evelyn," he drawled.
"It's not gentlemanly to leave people in zombie-infested cities, either," she retorted.
"Is that where all this hostility begins?" he asked.
"That's what I came to ask you. Maybe you can tell me why you left me there when you were still alive," she answered, lowering her gun but keeping it in her hands. "I admired you, Albert. And you left me there."
He walked closer to her and stated, "You're still alive, aren't you?"
"I am," she replied. "Well, I was."
"Ah, yes. The Leverne Virus, you called it?" Wesker asked. "I must say, I was impressed you created that at such a young age. Only nineteen. And you didn't even mutate."
"I took…precautions against that," she answered. "You still haven't answered my question."
"I haven't heard any questions," he retorted sarcastically.
"Why did you just leave me in Raccoon City?" she asked. "I knew you were there retrieving Will's G-Virus."
"I left you there because I no longer needed your assistance," he answered monotonously.
"You no longer needed my assistance?" she laughed. "Albert, you were like the older brother I never had. I loved you."
"You, of all people, should know that I don't need love," he stated.
"I, of all people?" she asked cynically. "I suppose I would know best. Through the years I knew you, you used people left and right. Umbrella, S.T.A.R.S., Tricell, Will, me. Is that all you can do? Use people? I used to think that Will and I were your friends."
"Perhaps you were. However, I no longer required either one of you after I became a Tyrant," he replied.
"Of course you wouldn't," she retorted. "By the time you had become a Tyrant and were back to being yourself, Raccoon City had fallen, Will had already died, and I was just trying to survive. You weren't there when he died. You didn't see what he had turned into after he injected himself with the G-Virus."
"It is true that I never saw what William turned into, unfortunately. I'm sure it was quite marvelous at that time," Albert answered.
"Marvelous? That was your best friend!" she yelled.
"Hmm…" he murmured. "Have you only come to antagonize me, Evelyn? I'm a busy man."
She smiled sadly and answered, "I loved you like a brother, Albert. I just wish you had it in you to care for me as well."
"I did love you at one point," he stated so low that Evelyn had to strain her ears just to hear it. He then smirked and stated, "Are you going to stick around and watch the show?"
"Show?" she asked, confused. Just then she heard someone moaning in pain in the area with the Majinis' bodies. "Albert, what have you done?"
Author's Note: So I got to take a little bit more liberty here since Evelyn went off on her own. Was it decent? I hope you all don't think she's like...a Mary-Sue now. That would suck. I'd probably go cry, actually. Haha. Anyway, review, please? It's nice, and I like seeing them. They make my crappy days a lot better. Thanks for reading! :D
