2. Chapter 2
Disclaimer: I do not own Resident Evil 4 or any of its characters, I just own my OC Sora
**Ch.2: Meeting the Chief, A Challenge with Del Lago, El Gigante, and the Cabin.**
After we escaped that mess Leon and I saw a house infront of us, Leon led the way in while I followed closely behind him. As we walked in we stopped infront of a locked door with a specialized lock, since I was somewhat good with locks I decided to take a crack at it, to me the blue glass lock was simple when I saw a design in it. All I did to unlock it was turn it upward and right which changed the design into the cult's insignia. The door automatically opened revealing another room, the first thing me and Leon noticed was a portrait of a man, to me he looked awfully familiar but I directed my attention to Leon opening a small box containing a key. Once we got the key Leon exited the room, but as I was about to follow the door slammed shut on me and I heard what sounded like Leon being choked to death.
"Let Leon go!" I screamed through the door, trying to get it open but no luck.
As Leon was being strangled by the Chief, Leon's eyes became red and bloodshot, as the Chief saw that he dropped Leon to the ground.
"It seems you carry the same blood as us. Nevertheless, you're an outsider. Just remember, if you become unpleasant to our eyes you will be dealt with." the Chief said to Leon, opening the door I was behind. "And you... if you become a nuisance, I will personally deal with you myself no matter if you're blood to our Lord." he told me, then pushed me out of the way and shut the door behind me.
When the Chief left, I ran to Leon to see if he was okay, as he got up off the ground he got a call from Hunnigan telling Leon something about the Los Illuminados and he told Hunnigan that the Chief mentioned something about carrying the came blood as them. Hunnigan thought that it sounded interesting but then told us to find the church and find Ashley, when we went downstairs I saw the painting of the church and memorized it just in case. At one point I accidentally hit my handgun against the table, unfortunately setting it off but right as the band sounded Leon and I heard villagers go "Ahí está!" and a chain saw was revved up. In a heartbeat me and Leon headed to a wall away from the door, readied our weapons then the door swung open letting in a man with a chainsaw and two other men with axes. As quickly as I could I wielded my shotgun and fired at the two men while Leon aimed for the chainsaw man and shot at him multiple times.
When Leon and I ran out of ammo in our guns we finally killed the three men, I gathered two packs of handgun ammo and a ruby from the men.
"Sora..."
"Yeah Leon?" I replied to him.
"Next time, turn the safety on, on your guns, okay." Leon told me.
"Alright." was all I said, as I turned the safety on both of my guns.
As we exited the house and ran downhill seeing more villagers it took only a matter of minutes to get them out of our way and moved onward. Once all the villagers were out of our way Leon and I ran to a barred door, right when Leon lifted the the wooden bar we were able to pass through the door. When we passed through we ended up back in the village, but when we headed to the church with the Los Illuminados insignia on it, I noticed there were villagers on the roof throwing axes and corn sheaves at us, I shot both of them down so they wouldn't distract us. Right as we got to the door of the church Leon pulled out the insignia key from my bag since I was the one holding it the whole time and unlocked the door allowing us to go inside.
As we passed through another door for some reason Leon shot down a kerosene lantern, causing fire to go around the door we were supposed to go down. Once the fire died down a spinel was in front of the door leading to an underground tunnel, right as I picked up the spinel, Leon opened the door and jumped down. I followed him soon after and ran with him down further in the tunnel, once we got to a huge open area I heard a loud bang echo and fire emerged.
"Leon! Warn me next time you're going to do that!" I yelled at him.
Then all of a sudden I heard another bang from a handgun and something landed on my head causing me to freak out big time.
"Ahh! Enemies on the ceiling, duck for cover!" I screamed, then opened my eye to see Leon smirking at me and shaking his head from side to side.
Seeing Leon's face, I reached my hand to the top of my head, pulling a blue Elegant Headdress off and the next thing I knew my face became hot with embarrassment. Leon just laughed at the stupid thing I did and took the headdress from me and placed it in his bag for safe keeping, then right as Leon out the item in the bag he quickly shot down two spinels and picked them up. Then once the spinels were in my bag we headed forward through the tunnel, before we got out of the tunnel we met another merchant.
"Got some rare things on sale stranger." the merchant said to us.
Leon took out the ruby, flash grenade, TMP ammo, and a Elegant Mask, then when we got a little over 35,000 ptas Leon then bought the medium sized attache case and a first aid spray. Once those two things were purchased me and Leon headed out of the tunnel, as soon as we opened the door there was another tunnel, luckily it was fairly short and we ran into a ladder rather quickly and climbed up it. We ended up being in a woodland area then as we were going up the path I saw a cemetery and of course there was a woman coming at us with a kitchen knife. I yawned and unknowingly shot her head off, then as we went further uphill there was three more villagers, one had a sickle and the other two had TNT. Without thinking I fired my gun but instead of a head or chest shot I ended up shooting the male in the crotch twice. I noticed Leon had a pained look on his face when I shot the villager in the crotch, then right as the second one came in I accidentally shot him in the crotch again. (AN: Almost every time I play RE4 I end up accidentally shooting the Ganados in the crotch by accident and I don't mean to do it I just shoot out of panic, anticipation, and the occasional trigger happiness)
"Sora, what's with you and the below the belt shooting?" Leon asked me, trying to hide his pained look and was successful at it
I just shrugged my shoulders because I didn't know how to answer Leon's question so I ran to the church entrance shot the villager infront of it and tried to open it but there was an indentation in the door as if something had to go inside of it to be unlocked. Leon then said there was another path to take then as we went around there were two more villagers, Leon shot both the villagers before they could even begin to walk towards us. After the two villagers were killed we walked up to a pedestal, there were eight insignias in a circle and the dial made three to four clockwise intervals. I let Leon handle this one because the green jewel in the middle was distracting me, after several turns I noticed that Leon had two of the three insignias lit up and became a little frustrated so I told Leon that I could take care of the rest. I seen that Leon made this relatively easy for me, so with a three interval turn the last mark was lite up and the Green Catseye came out. Leon picked it up to examine it but before Leon could take a second glance at it I snatched it right out of his hand to look at its beauty. After Leon took back the gem we headed to a bridge where we encountered more villagers and successfully neutralized them.
Once we crossed the bridge we entered through a door we then ended up in an open area with three small wooden houses, before heading any further Leon was checking out the houses while I was looking around the area only to find on spinel while Leon found a ton of items including ammo for our guns. Right when Leon and I finished gathering everything from the houses we took another door infront of us, when we walked forward I got a sense of déjà vu all of a sudden. I wasn't planning on telling Leon about it so we walked onward but it wasn't a little ways down until a giant boulder started rolling after us. In that moment Leon grabbed my hand and bolted down the hill trying not to get crushed, then before we hit a dead end to the slope Leon pulled me to the right and saw the boulder crash into the stone wall. Once we survived the boulder experience for the second time now Leon and I walked on a dock and were immediately seen by the villagers.
Me and Leon had to shoot the man coming since there was an explosive behind him, then right after the man was dead another male villager came at us but ran right into the explosive booby trap. I laughed at the man's idiotic move to try to kill us, Leon didn't crack a smile when the villager did that, we heard water churning and the both of us seen that there were people in the water. Leon then told me that we had to get in the water, but before I could object to his idea Leon grabbed my arm and jumped down off the dock into the water, I was wanting to strangle Leon for getting me sopping wet but I didn't because there were more important things that needed to be taken care of. After a while Leon and I got rid of most the the villagers and we got away from the docks and headed up to a cliff that had a full view of the lake. While I was catching up with Leon, I saw a boat in the middle of the lake then I saw something get dumped in the water along with hearing Leon cuss.
As I looked back to the lake, I saw a giant fish like creature go underneath the body the two men dumped, I jumped as it came up to eat the body in the water.
"Let's go Sora,"
"What?! You're wanting to go after that giant fish, right after it ate one of the officers that brought us here. Did you even see the size of that thing?!" I exclaimed, not believing that my crush wants to go after the giant fish
"Yes, now come on Sora." was all Leon said to me as he walked down the cliff.
'_I hope you know what you're doing Leon_' I thought as I followed closely behind Leon to a small dock with a boat.
"Sora, how good are you at aiming and throwing spears?" Leon asked me.
"Well I have bad aim when throwing things and the chances of me hitting a target directly is a 50/50 percent chance." I explained, feeling ashamed of my poor throwing accuracy.
"Alright then you can steer the boat and I'll keep a lookout."
"Okay," was all I said, as I watched Leon get in the boat and helped me in.
Right as we got in the boat, I started the motor up and we had set out into the lake, I feared that the fish was going to appear out of nowhere and eat both me and Leon whole. I made sure that the boat wasn't going to hit any waterlogged trees, then at one point I looked over the edge of the boat only to see a dark shadow swim below us.
"Leon! We got company!" I told him before Del Lago came up and knocked itself into out boat then caused the anchor to attach itself to the giant fish's tail and started pulling us.
"Sora make sure you steer the boat away from anything that may knock us out of the boat." Leon warned me as he was hanging on to the boat.
I tried my best to avoid Del Lago, the trees and the stone walls but my problem was that I would avoid them all at the last minute, then only half of what I feared came true. Del Lago crashed into our boat causing both me and Leon to fly out of the boat on opposite sides, since I couldn't swim well I was stuck doing the dog-paddle, as I tried to "swim" I heard Leon dive in and ended up pulling me to the boat with little time to spare. By the time Leon and I got back in the boat Del Lago dove underwater allowing Leon to ready the harpoons, when I heard splashing to my left I quickly told Leon to aim to his left. He did as I instructed, when Leon saw Del Lago in sight he threw about three harpoons maybe four in the creature's mouth, but it didn't kill it. Then Del Lago dove underwater once again thus dragging us behind it, I tried to steer my best away from the trees but at some point I accidentally drove right passed the mutant fish's mouth.
"Watch where you're going Sora!" Leon yelled at me.
"I can't help it that there's a giant man-eating mutant fish trying to eat us every way it can!" I screamed back, seeing Leon get the harpoons ready to throw.
This time I heard splashing on my right and quickly told Leon to aim to the right side, he aimed the harpoon at Del Lago and started throwing them into its mouth. Right when Leon threw the fourth spear it hit the fish on its back and blood had drenched the both of us, I had to take a few deep breaths before I could somewhat calm down. Before I could the boat jerked forward, after almost getting whiplash I grabbed the steering stick and moved it to avoid Del Lago and trees. Accidentally I steered in the wrong direction hitting a tree in the process and Leon got thrown out.
"Swim Leon! Swim for you life!" I yelled, holding the side of the boat and extended out my arm to help Leon get in the boat when he was in arm's reach.
Be the time Leon got close to the boat, I grabbed Leon's hand and pulled him in the boat before Del Lago could eat him alive. Then as soon as Leon got in the boat he grabbed more harpoons, Del Lago started heading towards us. As Leon was throwing the spears I saw that once he had thrown the third spear Del Lago let out a dying cry and start to sink, but we had another problem on out hands the rope that Del Lago was attached to was wrapped around Leon's leg I heard Leon yell in pain then on instinct I took out my knife and started cutting the rope as fast as I could. Finally I managed to cut Leon free from the rope and I unknowingly held onto Leon as he drove the boat to the nearest dock he could find.
When we got on shore Leon started coughing badly, I held him up the best I could, when he coughed again there was blood on his gloved hand. By the time we got inside a cabin Leon fell to the floor pulling me down with him, he kept coughing and became unconscious.
"Leon, Leon wake up! Leon, Leon!" I screamed, trying to wake Leon with tears rolling down my face and my mind jumping to all sorts of conclusions.
/Leon's Dream Sequence/
I didn't know how long I had been out but when I bolted awake I looked around to find out that I was alone in the room, I then felt a stabbing pain in my chest and strange images of parasites inside my body. By the time the pain ceased I saw that my veins were turning black and showing on my arms, I thought I was turning into a zombie as I screamed in disbelief and fear.
/Out of Dream Sequence. Sora's POV/
After a few hours Leon finally awoken I was relieved to see Leon awake and I helped him up back on his feet, he then got a call from Hunnigan. Once they were done talking me and Leon walked out of the cabin we were in and walked passed another door that lead somewhere else. As we were going down the path Leon and I saw two villagers head towards us but the villager in closest to us had his head blown off even though me or Leon haven't shot him and a freakish tentacle head took its place.
"Ew, that's disgusting... ohh well sucks to be them." I said, then bringing out my shotgun and shot at the plagas head.
Once the villager with the plagas head was killed, Leon took care of the second villager behind the first one, then once both villagers were out of our way we ran forward, we had to jump across wooden platforms to get to the other side then we came to a rope, Leon told me to go down the rope first and that I did then waited for him to come down. Right when me and Leon got to a wooden structure we saw three wooden crates, I switched out my guns and shot down one crate, Leon got the second, as for the third one I thought that if I had hit the third crate I'd be a miracle. The miracle ended up happening when I managed to shoot down the last crate, Leon told me to stay put, as Leon jumped across the crates to get to the other side I head a gunshot and a scream. I saw Leon go up a ladder and pull a lever which changed the water flow, but as I headed toward Leon I heard a group of villagers come after us. Leon told me to get over to him so as quickly as I could I jumped across the last two crates and waited for the villagers to get on the crates. When Leon and I saw a lot of villagers on a crate we shot them with our handguns which made a few of them drown in the water.
As soon as all the villagers drown in the water's undercurrent Leon and I jumped back across the two crates to get to the exit but as we were heading to the exit I heard Leon fire his gun and something cold fell in the back of my shirt and made me jump to the entrance to the cave, Leon laughed at my reaction and when I had found that it was an Amber Ring I placed it on my finger. Then we ran into the tunnel with ease, when we went to a dead end Leon saw a round insignia and removed it from the wall which then opened. As we went through the rest of the tunnel and went through a door, from the moment we crossed the door bats were swarming us.
"Ahhhh! Get away get away, get away!" I screamed, taking out my knife and killing the bats.
"Sora calm down they're gone!" Leon shouted, made sure that he was far enough away from me.
I opened my eyes to see that all the bats were dead, I felt highly embarrassed at what I done infront of Leon.
"I'm sorry you had to see that." I apologized to Leon, then sliced two barrels open and found 1000 ptas and handgun ammo.
Once I sliced the barrels me and Leon got in the boat which lead back to a merchant, before Leon could get out of the boat I jumped out and ran to the merchant. I sold the amber ring, the twelve spinels, two incendiary grenades, and one hand grenade, then once I realized that I now had over 35,000 ptas so I immediately bought a rocket launcher and a first aid spray. Leon then came up to me and had asked for my rocket launcher.
"No way, buy your own." I told Leon, holding my launcher possessively.
"Come back anytime you two." the merchant said to us.
I then equipped my rocket launcher and made my way out the door, I became frustrated because we ended up back in the same area with the three shacks. When me and eon got to the middle of the field, we heard the gates close on both sides, then many ganados were pulling something out in the open. Right when the ganados pulled out a giant creature, I thought that it seemed familiar but I snapped out of my thoughts when the giant known as El Gigante practically killed every single ganados. At first I shot at El Gigante along with Leon then we both heard a howl coming from the dog Leon saved, and as the white dog distracted El Gigante, Leon reminded me about my rocket launcher. While El Gigante was distracted I aimed my launcher and fired it, then once the smoke cleared El Gigante was dead and I quickly tried to get the money it had but Leon tripped me and got the money.
Then after me and Leon collected all the items we left the field an went through the door leading up to the church. When we finally got inside the church thanks to the round insignia then looked at the altar along with the cult group's insignia, I started to look around and found a ladder. I told Leon that I found a ladder, quickly going up it, but I ran to a dead end as I walked towards the opening in the railing. Leon told me that we have to swing on the chandelier, hearing that made me smile, then as we got to where we could get on the chandelier, we jumped on it. Once we were on the chandelier, I helped Leon swing the chandelier, on the third swing Leon jumped while I stayed on for a bit longer, he told me to get off the chandelier.
"I'll get off in a few minutes Leon, it's not everyday that someone gets to swing on a chandelier!" I shouted to Leon while I kept swinging on the chandelier.
"Now Sora!" Leon yelled back to me.
"Fine," I said, successfully jumping to the other side with Leon.
Once I was with Leon I noticed a control console to three lights, I turned on the console and then all of a sudden three lights which were green, red, and blue came on. As I took another glance at the console and to Leon I did worked the console in what seemed like seconds, when I came to all the lights joined together and illuminated the insignia in the middle. Right when the insignia was illuminated the gates started to raise up and a door was revealed after the gates were lifted. We then walked to the door and cautiously went inside, then in that moment we went inside a girl ran past us.
"Ashley!" Leon exclaimed.
"Don't come." Ashley shouted, obviously scared out of her mind and threw a wooden plank at us.
"Hey, take it easy!" I shouted, just barely avoiding the plank.
"No! Get away!" the President's daughter pleaded, getting against two barrels.
"Calm down. Every thing's going to be fine. My name's Leon and this is Sora, we're under the President's order to rescue you." Leon said to the frightened girl.
"What? My father?" Ashley hopefully asked.
"No the gingerbread man, he called us because he was lonely... of course your father who else would send us to this part of Europe for a rescue mission!" I raised my voice in frustration.
"Sora, be nice to Ashley." Leon told me, "That's right. We have to get you out of here. Come with us." Leon told Ashley, helping her off the floor.
After we convinced Ms. Graham to come with us, I jumped down the ladder while Leon was carrying Ashley down the ladder, I looked at Leon disbelievingly. Just as we were heading out the door I head footsteps.
"I'll take the girl." A priest in purple robes said, coming out in the open.
"Who are you?" Leon demanded.
"If you must know, my name is Osmund Saddler, the master of this religious...community." Saddler introduced himself.
"What do you want?"
"To demonstrate to the whole world, our astounding power of course. No longer will the United States thing they can police the world forever." Saddler and I said, "So we kidnapped the President's daughter to give her our power then... send her back." Saddler added. (AN: Sora was whispering the first part of what Saddler was saying under her breath. The second part Sora just kept quiet)
"No... Leon, I think they shot something in my neck." Ashley worryingly said to Leon.
"What did you do to her?!" I stepped forward and demanded.
"We just planted her a little gift. Oh, there's going to be one hell of a party when she returns home to loving father. Hahahaha. But before that, I thought I might bargain with the President for some... donations. Believe it or not, it takes quite a lot of money to keep this church up and running." Saddler told us.
"Faith in money will lead you nowhere Saddler." Leon told Saddler, moving Ashley behind him and me.
"Oh I believe I forgot to tell you that we gave you the same gift." Saddler mentioned to Leon.
"When I was unconscious." Leon said to himself.
"Oh, I truly hope you like our small but special contributions. When the eggs hatch, you'll become my puppets. Involuntarily, you'll do as I say. I'll have total control over you minds. Don't you think this is a revolutionary way to propagate one's faith?" Saddler asked in a calm manner.
"Sounds more like an alien invasion if you asked me!" Leon angrily said.
I turned quickly to the sounds of footsteps, when I turned I saw two robed men with flaming crossbows, Leon and I then grabbed Ashley's hands, ran past the flaming arrows miraculously and jumped out the window.
"You okay?" Leon asked Ashley.
"What's going to happen to us Leon?" Ashley asked.
"Don't worry, we got into this mess, we can get out of it." Leon assured Ashley.
As we got far away from the church, we managed to get back to the village but since it was raining I could hardly see things clearly. Luckily for me and Leon we heard some ganados shout "There they are!" and came right for us, since we now had Ashley with us our major priority was to protect her at all costs. Fortunately for me and Leon was that there weren't many villagers but the down side to it was that some of them had plagas heads. Once most of the ganados were dead we moved on to the second part of the village both me and Leon knew there would be more ganados so Leon told Ashley to hide in a dumpster.
"No way, you're not making me hide in a dumpster!" Ashley complained, refusing to go in.
"Listen you, if you don't want to get captured again then I suggest you get your butt in that trash can right now and wait for Leon's signal!" I yelled at her while I was shoving the President's daughter in the empty dumpster and closing the lid.
"Sora... please be nice to Ashley, remember that if she complains to her father, the President, you could get fired from your job and also her father signs both of our paychecks so please try to be nice to her." Leon told me, and was getting irritated with me.
Then right when we hid Ashley many ganados started coming after us, so getting my trigger-happy side going I ran toward a few villagers and shot them with my handgun a few times. While I was trigger happy I slid on the wet ground, I managed to do what most gunsman couldn't accomplish and that was curving a bullet. With my luck that would never happen again but somehow I managed to do it again without being a klutz, and Leon was quite surprised that I managed to do that. After we managed to find out way out we got to where we needed to be but Leon told me to stay where I was so he could get Ashley. I knew that Leon didn't have any feelings for Ashley but I couldn't help but feel angry and jealous and then at one point when I angrily muttered the word "drop dead" I head a pop following a thud.
I looked over the edge walkway to find a ganados dead on the ground with blood pouring out like crazy from his back, I wondered what had happened but I ignored it when Leon came back with Ashley. Seeing them I jumped down to the ground, then started shooting at bear traps to disarm them, as soon as I finished I looked just in time to see Leon catching Ashley. I could've swore I had tear running down my face so to prevent Leon from seeing them I wiped them away with some rain water. When Leon and Ashley caught up with me at the gate Leon faced the door and knelt down and told me to get on his back while Ashley got on mine to get over the gate to unlock it. Once it was unlocked we headed through, but as we were on a bridge Hunnigan called to inform me and Leon that our evac chopper was shot down and they're sending another one. Then all of a sudden it seemed like hundreds of ganados were coming from both sides of us.
"What are we going to do Leon?" Ashley and I asked in unison, which was somewhat creepy.
"I hate to say this but it looks like we're sandwiched, quick in that cabin!" Leon ordered, running to the cabin.
When the three of us ran inside, Leon was trying to find something to block the door with, I heard footsteps in the background and a male's voice called Leon's name.
"Small world eh, I see that the President has equipped his daughter with... ballistics." Luis said, after throwing a door jam to Leon. "And I see that you've recruited a brunette with ballistics." he added.
"Thank you for that comment sir, and to properly thank you I will show you what my family does when receiving a comment like that." I politely said, walking up to Luis and held out my hand to him.
"A handshake?" Luis questioned, as he took my hand in his. "Well I wouldn't want to disrespect your family's accustoms, please continue."
"After a friendly handshake, a hug is required." I then added on, letting go of Luis' hand and gave him a hug. "And lastly..."
"Ohh, I hope there's a kiss involved." Luis said, obviously interested.
"No..." I had said before grabbing the back of Luis' shirt, "Lastly is a knee to the groin!" I raised my voice and kneed Luis where it hurts and quickly slapped him hard across the face.
After I kneed and slapped Luis, I heard him cuss in Spanish while rolling on the ground in pain and had said something about seeing that sooner. Luis finally got up and reclaimed what was left of his pride and dignity.
"Thanks for defending us Sora." Ashley said to me, "That was rude! And I don't believe there's any relevance with our figures and standings. Who're you?" Ashley demanded.
"Ho, ho, excuse me your highnesses. Perhaps the young ladies might want to introduce themselves first before asking someone his name." Luis said to me and Ashley.
"Her name's Ashley Graham, the President's daughter." Ms. Graham arrogantly introduced herself.
"Me llamo Sora Avalon, aid to Leon Kennedy to rescue Ms. Graham." I told Luis my name.
"The name's Luis Sera, so... are they...?"
"No, they're cool." Leon told Luis.
"Ehh, never mind, there's supposed to be some obvious symptom before you turn into one of them anyway." Luis said to me, Leon, and Ashley.
"Gasp, look!" Ashley panicked, pointing to the villagers approaching.
"Ashley, upstairs!" Leon commanded.
"Okay... it's game time." Luis said, spun his Red 9 in his hand and gotten it ready.
I giggled at what Luis said, then got my game face on when the ganados were banging on the windows, I looked at the stairs leading upstairs and ran up them to get ready to kill our enemies. As I finished reloading my only two weapons there was a loud crash following with rapid gunfire. Remembering my training at the police academy, I stayed near the stairs waiting for the villagers to get up the stairs, I backed up when I saw Leon and Luis run up the stairs being followed by ganados with plagas heads and normal ganados. Leon told me to had him a few incendiary grenades that we picked up and as I did it, I pulled out the pin to one of them and threw it at the group of ganados where were now burning to death. Before more came up quickly grabbed the ammo and herbs that the villagers left behind, I handed Luis and Leon more handgun ammo and then ran to one of the three windows to knock down the ladder the ganados had placed there.
While the three of us were still shooting at the villagers a plagas headed villager was about to strike at me so in both fear and instinct I raised my arms infront of me, instead of hearing flesh being sliced, I head a metalic screech. I seen that my metal wristband protected me from being severely injured, at the chance Luis got he shot at the plagas head and killed it. Once Luis killed that ganados, we al heard a villager call the others back and were leaving us be.
"They're backing off!" Leon exclaimed, looking out the window to see the villagers leaving.
"So, what do we do now?" Luis asked.
"Well the bridge we crossed to get here is out, so I guess we have no choice but to keep moving." I answered Luis.
"I forgot something you go on ahead." Luis said, leaving us in the cabin.
"Luis Sera, we should stay together, we'll have a better chance at surviving if we remain together." I yelled, trying to get him back but Leon prevented me from doing so.
As soon as we got Ashley out of hiding, we then started heading out of the cabin while I was collecting items that I hadn't grabbed, right as we got outside it stopped raining but it was still thundering. Leon saw a merchant behind the cabin, he then bought a first aid spray and a rocket launcher since he had enough money to purchase one, I scoffed at the last purchase Leon made because it was funny that he took my advice. While Leon and Ashley weren't looking I snuck into a small shack near the merchant and found a memo from Luis with pictures attached. Apparently there were two routes to take; the left side had numerous ganados and from the picture there were chainsaw sisters, as for the right however, there was another El Gigante. Since El Gigante seemed like an easier route to take I ran out to tell Leon but he had already turned the lever to the right thus opening the right doorway.
Before we went through the door, I hinted to Leon that he'll need the rocket launcher soon, he wondered why I hinted to him, but fortunately he took my hinting into consideration and we walked through the door. It wasn't a few steps later until El Gigante ll came in, Ashley was panicking and cowering behind me while Leon was prepped the launcher and fired it at the ugly giant. He was killed immediately after the blast, when it's body was dissolving I collected the fifteen grand Gigante had left behind, after the giant was killed we went forward while collecting various items. Once we got to the last door out, I pulled out the Old Key from my bag and handed it to Leon, Ashley and I headed to a small storage house, once inside Leon found a note about the village's last defense.
"What the hell?! Who are they talking about... the girl with the mark?" Leon asked himself, which caused me to involuntarily pull down my right sleeve even though I had the metal wristband on my wrist.
Both Leon and Ashley didn't notice my reaction so I put my sleeve back to normal, then as soon as Leon was done reading the note he put it in the pocket of out attache case and headed out the door with me and Ashley. Lucky for me Leon didn't question me or Ashley about the note's contents but I knew it was bound to come sooner or later... I had hoped later because it would give me more time to get an explanation going. Before we went uphill to the gate Leon told Ashley and I to wait while he went to make yet another purchase. When he came back I saw that he purchased a new gun and a first aid spray, I didn't mind it at all because I was trying to think up an excuse for the Los Illuminados insignia on my wrist.
