A/N: WHOO HOOO! Wowza! Christmas was so fun! I hope you all had a great Christmas this year! And… New Years is comin' up! YEA BOI! I am so happy! Okie, thank you all for reviewing! I heart you all for doing so!
THE MOMENT YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR:::
IF THERE SHOULD BE ANY CLAIRE AND LEON ROMANCE: The answer to this question…the majority won… so the answer is…. YES THERE WILL BE CLAIRE REDFIELD AND LEON ROMANCE! (don't worry, for those who didn't want it, there won't be loooooonnngggg writings about it. It won't ruin the story, I promise!)
IF WE SHOULD HEAR MORE ABOUT RICK'S ADVENTURE TOO?
The majority won again! So yes! YES THERE SHALL BE HEARD MORE ABOUT RICK'S PARTS TOO!
REVIEWERS: Rick, Adriana, and Matt: Hehe, thank you guys for giving me so much encouragement! And you're all brothers and sister? That's so cool! And don't you guys worry, I shall keep writing! Thank you for reading and reviewing! (Rick: Cool that your name is Rick and my brother's character's name is too! He he)
Okay, now try to enjoy chapter… 14!
Chapter: 14 : Just call me Claire Bear!
When the door flew right open, I jumped back a few paces, and into Leon, who had just finished off the last poor sucker. Leon looked down at me surprised, and looked up at what had caused me to bump into him.
A woman about nineteen, with brown hair pulled back into a pony tail, had a surprised look on her face, and Rick was right behind her. I saw a pretty tall, and greasy looking zombie coming right behind them toward us all. The sudden invasion of the light made my pupils go small.
"Get down!" Leon ordered, so all three of us ducked, and Leon fired a single shot which hit the zombie perfectly between the eyes. The woman, whom I knew to be Claire, stood up slowly, and looked back at the twitching corpse.
"We've got ourselves a twitcha!" I yelled and pointed at the twitching corpse. Rick rolled his eyes at me, and grabbed my hand. He shut the door quickly when he heard the sounds of crashing glass.
"Come on, head toward the police station, it'll be a lot safer." Leon said, and held his hand out for Claire to help her up.
Claire nodded slowly without saying anything, and got up.
"RUN FOREST RUN!" I yelled, as I watched the zombies behind us fade into the dark alleys. We were all running around buildings avoiding fires, and all that crap, when Leon got this bright idea to get into a crashed cop car, and pray to God that it still worked.
"Yeah, okay it works now go!" I yelled, and Leon backed out quickly making the car swerve, and screech.
"Buckle up." He stated, and sped down the wide road heck-a fast. Rick and I had ran into the back seat of the car, while Claire took the passenger's side. My eyes widened as I realized what was about to happen. Leon and Claire started to talk to each other while Rick ripped his kinda dirty white T-shirt sleeves off too dab his cuts. We were all dirty, but that was only because of how long we had been stuck in the same clothes surviving the same horrors. Then suddenly it hit me…
"When was the last time I used the bathroom?" I asked out loud a little louder then intended. The whole car was quiet. The street lights flashed to and from our windows quickly.
"Why, do you need to go?" Leon asked uncomfortably. I rolled my eyes, and looked out the dirty window. I was seated behind Claire.
"No… which is really weird… I haven't gone for three days… I think." I said, and started to think hard.
Suddenly a hand wrapped itself around my ankle, and tried to yank me under my seat. I screamed, and pulled my feet up and away from the car floor. The seats were all black and leathery, and the carpet floor revealed splotches of red… Claire and Leon stared back at me.
"ZOMBIE!" I yelled, and hugged Rick's arm tightly. He pulled out his gun, and looked underneath the seats. (Or at least tried to, the was only a foot space between him and the driver's seat. Plus he was six foot three…)
"I don't see anything…-- SHIT!" He yelled at something behind my head. I yelled out in surprise as two pairs of hands grabbed my shoulders from the trunk of the car. Weird car…
"ARGH!" I yelled, and jerked myself away, and the zombie flew forward into the middle section seat between Rick and myself.
"Claire move your hand!" Rick yelled, and I noticed I was pushing the zombie's head into the floor. I laughed nervously.
"Why?" Came Claire's curious voice.
"Not you, me!" I yelled, and threw myself against the door of the car, while Rick took aim.
Right when he was about to pull the trigger, the zombie flew up in a flash starling me and Rick, and went for Leon. Rick's bright blue eyes were wide in surprise by the zombie's sudden change of meal.
"LEON!" Claire yelled, and Rick and I both tried to pull the zombie away from him. The car started to spin out of control, and crashed into various objects, mail box, bike, an old granny…
CRASH!
The car hit a light pole and the zombie flew forward crashing through the windshield and into the light pole where its head cracked open.
"Ooooww…." I moaned, and rubbed my head. We all sat up, and looked around to see if we were safe, and all that.
"Crap! That maniac behind us is gonna hit us!" Leon yelled, and stared into the rear view mirror his face twisted in panic, and frantic anger.
"Everyone out!" Rick yelled, and we all fumbled over out seat belts. Claire and I flew out of the car, and into the air, as a giant explosion erupted from the truck hitting the police car. Orange fire blocked our entire path of getting to Leon or Rick. The only way to go was behind us.
"RICK! LEON! YOU GUYS OKAY?" I yelled above the fires. I heard some groans, and then a sigh.
"Yeah, we're okay…" Leon said, and paused. I guess he had quite a fall… Rick took over.
"Meet us at the police station, and be careful!" He yelled.
"Got it!" Claire yelled back, and we both turned around to face what ever the hell we had to face. The first thing we saw was four zombies headed our way, and a lot trash blocking a lot of ways. The tall buildings were all brick, and had papers on them… I had no clue what they said, and didn't care. The was a mail box on our right, and two light poles up ahead on the side walk. But I guess we weren't taking the side walk. There were massive puddles of fire everywhere; giving any description to the place we were at, anonyms. But the alley to the left was our only choice.
"Let's run around them, there's no use of wasting our bullets now." Claire said, and looked down at me. She smiled at me warmly. I smiled back. I just couldn't believe my favorite Resident Evil character was standing right here!
"Okay…" I said drowsily, and she took my hand.
We ran around them all, and into that dark blue looking alley. It ended with a navy blue car blocking a path, so the only path was into a shop. And judging by the look on Claire's face, I guess she was praying the door would be open.
"Made it!" She breathed as she slammed the door shut behind us.
"Don't come any closer!" A fat guy wearing a wife beater ordered. His greasy black hair and body posture clearly showed that he had, had a tough night. His left arm was chewed up pretty bad, but wrapped poorly in white cloth. But then again, why would I care? He was aiming a friggin' bow gun at us!
"Don't shoot! We're human!" Claire yelled, and raised her hands in attempt to show 'no harm'.
"Oh! Sorry about that babes…" He said, and put down the bow gun. He made his way around the long black counter.
"EWW! PERVERT! Claire, let's go! This guys' disgusting! Hit him!" I yelled, and pointed at the man who was now locking the door. Bad sign…
"Sorry, I meant no offense by that." He said, but the grin on his face told me otherwise.
"Yeah right! Claire please can we go this guys' a creep!" I said hotly, and glared at him. There was a wooden door at the far end corner of the shop, and another counter on the wall to our left, where I spotted some hand gun ammunition. The walls were covered in pictures, and newspaper cut outs. It was a kind of dark room seeing as how the single bulb shining on the ceiling was dirty and running out of juice.
"Listen, here--" He started, but Claire cut him off.
"Do you know what's happened here?" She asked irritably, her blue eyes flashed with annoyance.
"Not all babe, I--" I cut him off.
"Will you stop with the babe crap! You aren't exactly what Claire and I are looking for, so back off!" I yelled, and waited for his reply.
"The town was infested with zombies when I woke up this morning." He said pissed.
"You mean you slept through all this! Jesus! Okay, you know what? I hope you die!" I yelled, and crossed my arms across my chest. He glared at me.
"Look here sweet cheeks, I--" I cut him off again.
"SWEET CHEEKS! Didn't I just tell you we weren't interested? My God!" I yelled, and rolled my entire head to look at a specific news paper article about some dumb guy who ran down the streets naked. Wait a minute… that's… HIM? Oh crud… this looks bad.
"Doesn't mean she isn't!" He said, and wrapped his arm around Claire's waist. She socked him, and we both ran to the door in the corner.
"I hope you get eaten alive by zombies you sick freak!" Claire yelled, and glared at his disgusting face. He started to say something when a bunch of zombies crashed right through the conveniently huge window by the door we entered from. They all attacked him, and forced him on the ground for an easier kill.
"Speak of the devil…" I said, and ran to get the ammunition. When I got it, we left through the door, and shut it behind us.
Rick and Leon…
Rick and Leon stared through the burning flames before them and at the backs of the leaving girls. Rick thought that constantly being separated from Claire wasn't a stinkin' coincidence…
"So… the two girls names are Claire?" Leon asked trying to make conversation with the man he stood beside. Rick glanced down at him his dark brown spikey hair glistening in the light.
"Yeah, guess so." He said, and got lost in his own train of thoughts yet again.
"You don't talk much do you?" Leon asked him at last. Rick's train of thought was yet again interrupted. He sighed, and glanced down at Leon who was only three inches shorter than he was.
"Why does it matter?" He asked meaner then intended. He looked ahead at the main street. They were in a black alley, and trash was strewn about carelessly. The main street had more light, and hopefully gave them a clue of where to go.
"Sorry, I've had a bad week…" Rick said and ran his hand through his hair in a fashion that either told he was stressed, or nervous. Leon stopped suddenly, he looked alert. Rick looked around and tried to listen closely. He couldn't see or hear anything, so what was Leon seeing? And why couldn't he hear it? He stood once again trying desperately to listen to what ever was making Leon stare at the brick wall like that.
"Leon what the hell are you looking at?" Rick snapped annoyed. He fingered his gun and finally he spotted it. It was red and pink… and was moving. It had huge canine teeth, with a tongue which took the length and shape like a whip… It had huge claws on either arm, and smaller ones on it's toes. There were scar marks where it's eyes were supposed to be.
"Is that it's brain!" Rick asked disgusted and pointed toward the creature on the far window on the other building in front of them, on the other side of the street.
"What the hell is that?" Leon asked finally noticing he wasn't delusional. He pulled out his gun and aimed at it.
"Man I thought I was starting to see things…" Leon said chuckling, and shooting at it. Rick shot at it also.
'huh. And this is just the beginning…' Rick thought irritably. The thing, now realizing where they stood, charged, and leaped at them. Rick and Leon jumped into either side of the building avoiding the claws carefully.
"Hey! Don't waste your bullets, let's out run it!" Leon yelled over at Rick who fired one last shot into it's disturbing brain. It fell over and died. A red puddle formed around its body. Rick stepped over it, and limped over to Leon.
"Okay let's go…" Rick said out of breath. Eon looked at him confused.
"Hey, you okay?" He asked, and put his hand on Rick's shoulder. Rick looked at him.
"Yeah. Just fell down a building, almost got ran over a motorcycle, and nearly got blown up in chunks. I guess I'm just exhausted with all the luck I'm getting." Rick said and smiled at him. Leon chuckled.
"Christ. You've had one hell of a day." Leon commented. Rick nodded, and stepped out on the main street. They looked around, and spotted a huge fire to their left, and the police station to their right. They walked in a small curve around a big building toward it. They looked up at it. It's huge black gates looked very promising.
"Well, I hope the girls made it…" Leon said and walked through. Rick followed, and looked around. There was a large path that was one their left, and two zombies stood on the moist ground. They walked to the big blue doors of the giant dark blue building, and entered.
"Hmm…" Rick breathed and looked around the great halls. There was a huge dirty white statue in the middle of the halls, it was of a lady in what looked like Roman clothing. There was a huge mat on the floor with the S.T.A.R.S. logo on it. There was a door to their right, and double doors on the far left side of the wall. Then a pretty messed up looking door on the same side but on the far side of the room. They walked down the four steps and walked around the statue, up a ramp like path. There was a C shaped desk counter, and a computer. Rick looked for the type writer but there wasn't one.
'What the hell is going on?' Rick thought furiously.
Leon picked up some ammo and gave it to Rick. Rick shook his head.
"No. I'm good on ammo… you take it." Leon shook his head, and took it. They looked around.
"I don't think the girls are here yet…" Leon said. Rick sighed, and sat on the long desk.
"I don't think they are either, but let's search the place any way, and wait for them in the S.T.A.R.S. office." Rick said, and looked at him. Was he too obvious?
"Okay, you check the double doors, and I'll check the door by the main doors." Leon said, and jogged off. Rick got up and pretended to looked surprised when the door didn't budge.
"They're electronically locked…" Leon breathed. Rick nodded. And walked toward the last door.
"This one isn't…" Rick said, and opened it slightly. Leon looked at him suspicious.
"Alright let's go." Leon stated, and walked through. Rick followed. He wasn't going to enjoy this… He needed to find an herb Now. He looked down at his arm an inch away from the elbow. He sighed. Just before he'd fallen off the building, the zombie had scratched him…
"Maybe scratched don't count…" He mumbled, and looked down at his wound again, it was still bleeding… it was a miracle none of them had seen it. Yet.
"What was that?" Leon asked Rick. He'd heard Rick's mutter.
"Nothin'…just thinking…" he said, and they both heard the groan.
Claire and Claire (One hour later)
"HOLEY SHIT! We made it! YAAAY!" I cheered, and looked over at Claire who was smiling a little. We were standing just out side the police stations double doors and let me tell ya, I was HAPPY! We entered quickly, cause we didn't kill the two zombies on the patch of grass over there.
The main hall had a lady looking half drunk and wearing some stupid clothing that wasn't even a part of our MODERN clothing.
"Hey, wait a minute… my name ad your name is Claire right?" I asked and looked at Claire. She was scanning the room.
"Yeah…" She said looking at the statue. Yeah it scared me too.
"I should come up with a nick name for me… So you can be Claire and I can be something else." I said logically.
"Okay but it has to e something you'll actually respond to." Claire said and looked down at me. I looked around and thought for a minute. Hmmm… My eyes went wide, and my insides were tight with excitement.
"Just call me Claire Bear!" I yelled, and smiled widely. Claire laughed, and nodded.
"Okay… If you want… Claire Bear you are!" She laughed again. We both grinned and moved on.
A/N: Well, there you have it folks! I know Rick's chapter wasn't as funny, but he'll perk up when he's not infected and all that jazz. I gotta go! I have guests! Bye! Oh and, Please review! Happy New Years!
-Claire