Chapter 25: Off to Church
Then his radio went off and he answers the call. "Leon, I've been able to get some new info that might help you," Hunnigan informs him. "Fill me in," he tells her. "Apparently, there's this religious cult group involved. They're called the Los Illuminados," she informs him. "Los Illuminados? That's a mouthful." he scoffs "Anyway, I had an unexpected run-in with the big Cheese of this village." he informs her, "But you're okay, right?" she asks him. "Yeah, but he could have killed me but he let me live. And he mentioned something about me carrying the same blood as them, whatever that means," he informs her.
This confused Hunnigan, "Carry the same blood, hm… interesting…" she mutters to herself. "Anyway, there are more important things than solving riddles right now." he tells her, "You're right. Hurry and find that church Leon." she tells him and the call ended.
Leon places his radio away, but then heard heels clicking down the hall as they faded, but he turns back to the room and looks to see where Big Cheese went off to, but he was too late as Big Cheese smacks his arm against Leon, making him fire at the painting of the purple hooded man. He collapsed onto the ground, his gun rolls away from him and he clutched his aching chest. Then went to get back up, but Big Cheese places his foot on Leon's chest, smacking him against the ground and applied more pressure, making Leon groan in pain.
But suddenly a laser was pointed at Big Cheese's back and two shots hit him, he stops pulling his foot away from Leon and looks out the window. A Woman in a long red dress with a split on the side smirks at him as another shot hits Big Cheese in the shoulder, this one came from the distance behind the woman. The woman places her gun away as Big Cheese ran at her, she zip-lines up and got out of the way as Big Cheese crashes through the window. The woman in the short red dress with two long ribbons from the back smirks as she stood up and took off.
Leon pulls himself up, grabbing his gun and looks out the window. Panting as he saw one of the two people that he believed to be dead. But he couldn't let this stop him, he turns back to the door, kicks it open, ran down the hall, killed the ganados that he found in the bathroom and ran outside, three of the ganados stood in his way, the chainsaw one was fired at from the Mysterious sniper as Leon finished of the other two. Then he walks down the path seeing dead ganados on the ground as they were shot at by that sniper.
So he continued on, stepping over the bodies and ran down the path, seeing more of the dead ganados, so he steps over them and continued on and walks back in the village, seeing all of the ganados dead. "Huh, my stalker sure does like to keep me alive." Leon mutters to himself. Hr walks over to the tower where the ganados from earlier had disappeared to, he went to open the door, but it was locks, he looks at the symbol on the door and pulls out the key that he found. He uses it and the door unlocks, so he walks inside as the woman saw this and went to find her own way to follow him.
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He walks through the room and into the back room, finding a hidden door in the ground, he opens it to a tunnel, he jumps down and follows said tunnel. It lead him into a small cavern then down the tunnel and found the Merchant in the next cavern and was already waiting for him. (OK, Seriously. How does he do that?!) Leon looks at him "Got something that might interest ya." the Merchant said to him.
Leon walks up to him, buying a few upgrades for his guns, buying a machine gun and walks off, "Come back anytime." the Merchant tells him as Leon walks down the tunnel and found a ladder. Climbing out of the caverns.
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Leon steps out of the small room and ran down the path, bit stop as she saw headstone all around the church that sat idly on top of the hill, he walks up the path, getting the attention of the ganados that were on the path, he fired at them, taking them out, missed getting dynamite thrown at him and it kills the ganados that were chasing him.
He even took care of the ones in the back as well. Then works on the little puzzle, getting the gem inside, then fired at the five blue medallions around the church and walks to the front door. But his radio went off and he answers it, "Leon, have you reach the Church yet?" Hunnigan asks him. "Ah… well, yeah… sort of." he answers her. "Leon, did I mention not to take the scenic route?" she questions him, he said nothing. "At any rate, Ashley's probably inside that structure. Rescue her, hurry!" she tells him and hung up. Leon places his radio away. He walks up the steps and went to open the door, but it didn't budge. He went to try again, but same result. He sighs and contacts Hunnigan again.
She answers the call, "Hunnigan, it's Leon. The door's lock. I can't get in." Leon informs her. "Didn't they teach you how to pick locks in the academy?" she questions him. He scoffs at her, "Yeah, there's some sort of indentation like something might fit inside." he informs her. "Well, there's no use standing around. Leon, you have to find somewhat or somehow to get inside," she tells him and hung up. He walks away from the Church and took the scenic route and walks along the rafts, but ganados stood in his way, but he fires at them, taking them down, then shots echoed in the valley as the ganados up ahead drop dead, Leon smirks and ran along the rafts, jumping over the gasps. Then ran into one of the sheds and found a note and reads:
"Regarding the two fugitives, the apprehension of Luis is our top priority; the American agent is a distant second. Luis stole from us something far more important than the girl. And to make it worse some damn woman in red stole something important from us as well.
Unless we get it back, the girl will become useless to us. We must get it back to execute our plan to the end. If it gets into the wrong hands, the world would become a totally different place than what Lord Saddler has envisioned.
At all cost, we mustn't let that happen. That bitch in red will pay.
Nevertheless, we're not letting go of the girl. To ensure that the agent does not get to her, I have locked the church where the girl is being held.
Anyone who needs access to the Church must first get approval by Lord Saddler. There's a key beyond the lake but it should be safe now that Del Lago had been awaken by the Lord. No one will get across the like alive.
Plus our same blood courses through the agent's veins. It'll be a matter of time before he joins us. Once he does, there will be nobody else left that will come looking for the girl.
Still, the bitch in red needs to be taken care of, I have a feeling that she's here for the girl as well."
Leon stops reading as he was trying to progress what he just read, -The woman in red? Could he mean… Ada? Or, if possible… her.- he wonders to himself. But he pushes the thought into the back of his head and walks out of the shack and walks down the raft. Coming onto stable grounds and walks through the door.
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He came to the other side and heard animalistic growling, so he carefully walks forward, into the arena, checks for supplies, getting ammo and some gold.
Leon kept his wits about him and quickly ran to the other side and then down the stairs and through the door.
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He arrives in the mines, walks down the hall, filing some ammo and walks up to a counter and on the other side of the counter was the merchant. (How in the hell? You know what, I'm not even going to argue, it'll hurt my brain.) Leon walks up to the merchant and bought some ammo for his gun and upgraded his weapons. He sold his gun and bought the Punisher, adding it to his weaponry.
Then he moves away from the Merchant, "Hahaha. Thank you." the Merchant said to him, then walks back through the hall, climbs up the ladder and walks up the steps and through the door.
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He walks up the steps through the next door that leads him to a path, he followed it and a shot rang out, he looks up and saw a bolder, he got the message and took off running. The two remaining ganados pushed the bolder over and it rolls after Leon, two shots ran out and the two ganados drop dead.
Leon ran as fast as his legs could manage, then dives to the side as the bolder smacks against the stone wall and crumbles into tiny peace. He exhales and walks to the docks, the ganados was about to notice him, but he drops dead, this gets Leon's surprise as he quietly walks up to the body, turns it over and saw a hole in the ganados head. Then Leon looks around, -A silencer, huh? They must really not want to let the enemy know I made it this far.- Leon states and continued down the docks. The ganados drop in the water as they were shot at, but the trip wires was a different story, it gets the attention of the rest of the ganados, but the sniper took care of them.
Then the shots came from behind him and he saw ganados running at him, but the drop one by one, Leon even joined in as well. They all drop and Leon continued forward with the Sniper clearing his way, taking out any ganados that tried to come close to Leon.
He makes it across the way, taking care of the two ganados that were on solid ground, then he continues down to the gate and walks through it.
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He walks along the path going up the hill and he reaches the lake, but quickly hides behind the rocks as he saw a speed boat with two of the ganados speed out to the lake, he took out his binoculars and watches as they then pick up the dead body of one of the officer that drove Leon here.
They drop the body into the water, "Shit!" Leon whispers as the sniper watches from the cliffside. The ganados quickly drove away as the body just floats there. Then the water started to shake as Del Lago jumps out of the water, devours the police man and dive back in, both Leon and the sniper jump a little seeing that Del Lago wasn't just going to let anyone cross that lake unscathed. So the sniper watches as Leon boats one of the speed boats and road it out onto the lake. They watch with worry as he speeds out, keeping his eyes open.
The sniper then gasp as they saw Del Lago right under him, they wanted to shout at to him, to warn him, but it was already too late, Del Lago took Leon by surprise as he howls, jumping up in front of him. Knocking Leon's boat back a little, causing the hook to fall into the water, Leon collects himself as he tries to figure what the hell just happened, but unfortunately, the hook latched onto Del Lago and pulled Leon along.
Leon pulls out spikes and threw them at Del Lago, nailing it through the skin, it hisses and tries to crash Leon into the floating stumps in the water. But Leon curves the boat and dodges the stumps and continued to throw at Del Lago. It dives into the water and tries to devour Leon, but he curves the boat and dodges Del Lago. He kept at the throwing in throwing, even when Del Lago charges at him, he throws right into the mouth. It hisses in pain, then shot up and flops into the water, shaking Leon's boat. He staggers a little and watches at it sinks into the water. But then he looks at the rope, seeing that it was following at Del Lago, he followed the rope and saw that it was wrap around his leg and with a sharp tug, Leon fall on his ass, trying to keep himself from being drag into the water, then he pulls out his knife and started to swing at the rope.
But then a knife flew out of nowhere, cutting the rope, freeing Leon and he lays back in the boat, panting then sat up, looking at the knife that saved his life, he places his away and took a hold of the knife, he looks at the shape of it and saw that it was an assassin throwing knife. He pocket it, then started up the motor and speeded off towards the next dock. The sniper quickly followed, getting to ground level, hurried to the docks and stayed hidden as Leon stumbles a little and coughs into his hand. He pulls back and looks at his gloved palm, it was covered in blood. His vision was hazy and he groan and flinch in pain, holding his stomach, he struggles, trying to walk to the house. Leon pushes the door open, he threw his head back, crying out in pain and collapsed onto the ground and was out.
Then the woman in red stood in the doorway, quickly walks over to Leon, kneels down and turns him over on his back, she then started to shake him "Leon. Leon, wake up." she begs but he didn't wake. So he looks at his palm and gasp as she saw blood on it. -Shit! The egg! It's hatched!- she shouts at herself, then stood up, gripping Leon under his arms, then drags him over to the bed and flops him down in it, turns him over on his back and sat by his side, gripping his hand and gently brush his dirty blond hair out of his face and smiles at him.
"Don't worry, Leon. I find I way to save you. I promise." the woman in red swore to him and she stayed by his side.