Chapter 12: Together
After a few more minutes of walking, they reach a giant door. More growling could be heard behind them and they quickly rush through the door, locking it with a giant lock.
"Is this a daycare?" Claire asks.
"Please god no..." Ivan starts getting worried.
They walk to it and through the front doors.
They heard footsteps from upstairs.
"We need to clear this place for any survivors." Ivan states, passion running through him.
He heads upstairs and Claire and Leon
check around. Ivan, with his gun ready, walks through the door.
"Anyone in here? Please come out, we're not here to hurt you." A shadowy figures comes from around the corner, peaking.
Ivan makes eye contact and the figure pulls back.
"Hey, over there. Are you okay?" Ivan states with an angelic voice. The figure peaks again, making her shadow come to light with the moonlight.
"Hey, are you okay? I'm not one of them, you can trust me." A little girl comes out of hiding and makes her way to him.
A humming could be heard from the hallway.
"Hide!" The little girl whispers. Together, they hide around the corner, waiting.
"Who is that?" Ivan whispers.
"It's a bad man looking for my amulet. He wants to hurt me."
"I won't let that happen." Ivan states. Together, still hiding, they waited for the figure.
"Sheeeeeeryyyyy." The man calls out. The girl starts to shake, reaction to it. Ivan holds her hand, calming her down. He grabs his gun and gets ready. The man was right around the corner with the flashlight. Ivan jumps out and the man reacts with a punch, knocking Ivan down.
"Friends I see?" The man grabs the flashlight, hitting Ivan with it, knocking him out. The girl screams running out the room, yelling help. The world goes black for Ivan as he begins getting dragged.
"Oh do I have a surpise for you and your friends." The man states.
Ivan wakes up soon after, in a room. He tries to move and soon comes to figure out he's restrained.
"I'm gonna handle you, then get that little bitch." The man states.
"If you lay a single finger on-" Ivan gets slapped on the side of the head, blood coming from his mouth.
"Shut the fuck up." The man growls out.
Ivan looks around and realizes he's still in the Daycare, taking note of the secret door near the left of him.
"Your friends don't know your here, but when they find out, it won't be pretty." The man wraps his hands around Ivan's chin, rubbing it.
"Claire! Le-!" Ivan is hit on the side of his head again, blood spurting out, covering his mouth.
"Keep screaming and I'll take your tongue out." He threatens him with a scalpel, now ductaping him to keep shut. He squirms in his chair.
20 minutes earlier.
The girl runs down the stairs, going through the main hall. Claire was behind the desk, reading diaries from kids, horrified.
The girl screams as she thought she was a monster.
Claire jumps up and notices her.
"Hey hey hey calm down! I'm normal." Claire makes her way to her.
The girl panics and points upstairs.
"What's wrong?" Claire questions.
"The man took somebody! He dragged him away into a room! You have to help him!" The girl calls out panicking still.
"Ivan!" Claire shouts out.
"LEON!" Claire yells!
Leon comes rushing in through a door.
"What? What happened?!" Leon questions.
Leon caught eyes with the little girl, she hid behind Claire.
"Woah, hey there!" Leon calls out.
Leon disregarding the panicking Claire continues on.
"The door in the hallway is locked but I can hear music from inside there, someone's in there." Leon states.
"Leon! Ivan is missing!" Leon gasps and worry fills him.
"What?! Where is he?"
The girl points up the stairs and they rush up it, going through the room. Toys and play blocks were pushed over, showing a passage way. The girl points to the door, signaling them.
"He went through there!" Leon and Claire run past hurrying.
The look left and right in the hallway, wondering where it was. After closely examining the walls, Leon notices an indent in one. He walks to it, sliding it over.
"There's stairs here!" Leon calls out and Claire and the girl makes their way over there.
They walk down the stairs slowly, readying their guns. The music gets louder as they go down the small flight of stairs. They hit another door with the music from the other side blasting. They hear humming and what seems to be wood creaking. Claire signals Leon to kick the door and together they count down to 3. The door comes flying open and Leon and Claire rush though, noticing Ivan across the room.
Ivan jumps and notices them. He muphles words as a man comes around the corner. Noticing them, he grabs a knife and runs to Ivan, pointing it to his head.
"Who are you?" The man calls out.
Claire raises her gun.
"Let him go!" She calls out, Leon also pointing the gun.
"You're here for him? Darn, I was about to start testing on him. Get out and you can have a peace of mind knowing he'll survive a bit longer." The man said, laughter coming from him.
"Bastard! Let him go!" Claire yells out, stepping forward.
He points the knife closer to Ivan's neck.
"Back up! You wouldn't want to see a human water fountain now would you?" The man giggles.
After close examining, Leon was able to put an identity over the man.
"Chief Irons?" Leon questions, gun still being pointed.
"That's me." He responds.
"Why are you doing this?" Leon questions.
"He butted into Sherry's and I playtime. It was a game for that fucking medallion on her neck, and she was being stubborn. Now, I'm taking it out on him." He grabs Ivan's hair and slams his head to the table. He then runs his hand over Ivan's chest, grabbing his chest.
"Nice body on this one. He'll make a fun specimen. Maybe I'll even have some time for some fun." Chief Iron says seductively.
Leon gets upset and points the gun to him.
"Don't touch him!" He calls out.
A Mexican stand off occurred.
Sherry steps from around Claire and offers him the Medallion.
"Let him go!" Sherry throws the medallion at him. He jumps to it and picks it up, making his way back to Ivan.
"Why thank you! Now I can get this done and over with." He raises his knife, ready to stop Ivan. Ivan squints as he braces for it.
Glass breaks from behind the man and Chief Irons is grabbed, being turned around. A tentacle is put in his mouth, making him choke. He turns around, falling on the table and dropping to the floor, choking. Leon runs over to Ivan and frees him and quickly sprints to the other side of the room and watches as the horrors unfold. The man screams in pain, shaking on the floor. The monster outside who did this walks to the window, looking in it.
Ivan notices a ladder leading down and rips the tape off his mouth, making it red.
"This way!" Ivan calls out.
He instructs Sherry to go first while he follows her. Claire and Leon go down the ladder to and close up the entrance to it.
Leon tosses Ivan his pistol he retrieved before leaving and they all look at each other.
Ivan hugs Claire and Leon, embracing the little girl soon after.
"We're alright!"