3. Chapter 3

A/N: I do not own the characters from RE4 (except for Sora) all the rest of the characters belong to Capcom

**Ch.3: Battle With the Chief, the Castle Infiltration.**

When Leon, me, and Ashley ran up the hill to the gate, both me and Leon noticed that there was come sort of retinal scanner, and since it was locked the only way to get the key is to go to the lift. When I looked at the carts and the drop off I felt very ill along with Ashley but since this was our only way to go I had to buck up and deal with it. As we got on me and Leon covered Ashley on both sides since there were ganados heading up. Leon was good at long range distances so getting most of them was a simple procedure, I made sure I got the ones Leon may have missed just in case they try to hurt me, Leon, or the President's daughter. By the time we got to the other side I had to use about three first aid sprays on the three of us since we were somewhat injured from that fiasco.

Once the three of us headed down two flights of stairs, we found an abandoned warehouse, Leon told me to stay out here with Ashley, as much as I didn't want to I did what he wanted. Me and Ashley went to the side of the warehouse to "hide" but I just told Ashley to stay where she was and not to move while I made my way to a window to get in. As I made my way to a window which was on the second story, I climbed up just in time to see the Chief behind Leon.

"Leon! Behind you!" I screamed at the top of my lungs.

By the time Leon looked behind him the Chief grabbed him by the throat and held him in the air restraining his hand with his gun in it, on instinct I broke the window with my gun and jumped down to rescue Leon but my plan backfired when I tried to kick him. Chief Mendez threw Leon against a wooden support beam and grabbed me by my neck, I tried to punch him to let me go but my punches were doing no harm to him.

"I don't know why Lord Saddler wants to keep you alive, but you're too much of a nuisance to let live. I don't care if you carry the mark or related by blood to our Lord, you must perish!" the Chief announced, tightening his grip on my neck.

Leon saw my pained and almost dying look on my face so as fast as he could he knocked over a gasoline tank and shot the gas once it poured all over the floor. Once the gas combusted the Chief threw me straight at Leon before the fire reached the tank, and before the tank blew Leon made sure he had me in his grasp and shielded me from the explosion. When I took in a few deep breaths I found myself on the ground while Leon was firing his gun at the Chief in his new form which was a body of a centipede and a scorpion combined. I tried to get up but from almost being choked to death I was very lightheaded, since I couldn't fight in the condition I was in I slowly but surely climbed up a ladder and found herbs to combine for Leon. Once I finished combining the green, red, and yellow herbs, I heard a sickening snap and I looked over the railing to see the Chief still alive but just his upper half.

I faintly heard Leon telling me to stay up here and shoot the Chief when he's in range, I just nodded and threw down the combined herbs to Leon. I then sat down in a corner with my shotgun in hand and tried to aim but I couldn't see well because of the smoke in the room, I heard something grab the support beams of the warehouse and the Chief suddenly appeared infront of me. I was able to focus my eye sight for a few seconds, but in that few seconds the Chief managed to knock me to the left side of the walkway. I quickly shot my shotgun but I missed terribly, Leon shouted that I needed to quickly aim and shoot at the first chance I get. At first it was hectic but what got me fired up was when the Chief knocked my feet out from under me so without knowing my own actions I got up and jumped onto the beams then aimed my gun all around.

"Sora! Where the hell are you?" I heard Leon tell, not knowing where I am because of the smoke impairing his vision.

As foolish I was right now I didn't want to give out my location I wanted to wait for the right moment to strike I got a few chances when the Chief came in below me, luckily both me and Leon were both shooting at him. Then as the Chief moved to a different beam I did the same thing but I accidentally over stepped my landing. I almost fell but luckily I took gymnastics when I was younger, before I fell any further I turned my body around in midair and wrapped my legs around the beam to where I was now upside down. Once I heard the Chief grab a beam behind me, as I aimed my handgun I heard a piercing sound rush past my left ear. Apparently Leon shot his gun seeing the Chief going to a different location, but the bullet zooming past my ear really hurt.

"Watch where you're aiming Leon!" I yelled at him, holding my left ear while handling my gun in my right hand.

"Then get your ass off the beams and get down here!" Leon yelled back, firing his gun more and the bullets hit the Chief.

Since I was fed up with being in both mine and Leon's blind spot because of the smoke I managed to get into a sitting position on the beam, then I saw the Chief right under me. Right when I jumped down onto the beam where the Chief was hanging on to I unintentionally stomped on the things keeping him up. After I jumped down on the ground I was somehow standing on the Chief who was trying to get up, seeing Mendez trying to get up gave me and Leon the chance to attack as much as we could. By the time I got off of Mendez, he was dead and his fake eye fell out of its socket, rolling on the floor. I cringed when Leon had picked up the slimy eye ball, as Leon went to collect the items that I missed I looked at my arm to see a long gash in my arm, I dug through my bag for some gauze and antibiotics to bandage my arm with but when I finally found it I had looked at where the gash was and it was gone like it was never there!

'_Wha?! There was a huge gash in my arm a few seconds ago... wasn't there?_' I thought, still looking at my arm with a confused look.

"Sora, we gotta get out of here before this place burns to the ground!" Leon said to me, grabbing my hand and jumped out a hole in the wall leading outside.

"Leon, Sora, you okay?" Ashley asked us, as she ran out of her hiding place to see if we were okay.

"We're fine Ashley, no need to worry about us, you just need to worry about yourself until Leon and I get you home safe and sound." I told her, slightly directing my gaze to my "supposedly injured" arm which still looked unmarked.

Right as we were leaving the burning warehouse Leon wanted to know why I was being more quiet than usual because normally I would try to bring up a random subject to get everyone talking. I didn't realize that I was acting out of character so at this moment to try to cover my tracks I brought something up to get a conversation going and it somehow ended up bring up only one tiny fragment fragment of my forgotten childhood memories.

"So Sora, how come you've moved so many times before finally settling down?" Ashley asked me after I had brought up that I had moved a total of five times before sticking to one place during the sixth move.

"To tell the truth I don't quite remember, but all I remember was seeing men in dresses in each town I moved into... except the one I'm currently living in." I told Ashley, only remembering the men in purple, black, and red dresses.

"Wow, maybe the men you saw were a threat ot you so your parents suggested moving." Ashley said to me while I was fidgeting with my wristband and we were on the way back up on the lift.

"Sora, if that band is bothering you why don't you take it off?" Leon asked me, noticing my irritation towards the metal.

"Well Leon here's the thing, ever since I was little I always had some sort of band on my wrist. If I didn't have anything on I would be driven insane." I answered Leon, while twisting my metal wristband, then Leon, Ashley, and I gotten off the lift and got to the retinal scanner door.

When we stopped infront of the door Leon took out the fake eye, held it up to the retinal scanner in the door and a click was heard, signifying that the door has been unlocked. Once the door was unlocked we went through only to see many villagers up ahead but as soon as they warned the others of our arrival a car horn blew and a station wagon was headed our way. Immediately Ashley got as far back as possible whole Leon and I used our most powerful guns on the on the wagon. After about four shots from my shotgun and eight bullets from Leon's handgun the station wagon crashed to the side giving us some time to run around it. But as we passed the wrecked wagon many Ganados started coming out and chasing us, I had to keep telling Ashley to stop looking back and just keep running.

As soon as we got to a small clearing Leon told Ashley to get back as far as she could while me and Leon shot the living crap out of the Ganados and ones with plagas heads. At one point I heard one of the Ganados say "La niña es uno de nosotros, que nos ayudará a matar a los americanos!" (Translation: The girl is one of us, she will help us kill the American) I was wondering if they were talking about me or Ashley but obviously they were talking about me when they ran past me to get to Leon. So in a quick second I turned around and shot a few of the ganados that were going after Leon, several of them were looking at me with weird looks saying "that better have been an accident". A scream was heard by me and Leon, I saw that a male villager was getting ready to grab Ashley. Since I couldn't get past the villagers and neither could Leon, I wielded my handgun and swung the gun as I fired it thus curving the bullet around Leon and the group of Ganados and killed the villager that was close to grabbing Ashley.

"How does she keep going that?" I heard Leon ask himself as he shot more ganados.

Then after a while all the ganados were killed, Leon and I were relieving them of what useful items they had with them, Ashley gave Leon a green herb, a velvet blue, and ten rounds of handgun bullets that she found in the three barrels. As me, Ashley, and Leon were heading to a drawbridge more villagers were coming after us.

"On the other side of the bridge quick!" Leon commanded to me and Ashley.

"Okay," Ashley and I answered, then ran across the bridge with Leon but stopped at two cranks on each side.

"Sora, Ashley, you two take that one!"

Both Ashley and I nodded and grabbed the crank, awaiting Leon's command to start turning the crank.

"Now!" Leon yelled, giving me and Ashley the signal to start raising the bridge.

As we were raising the drawbridge I saw that the Ganados were running to get to us before the bridge was raised up but they failed because the three of us succeeded in raising the bridge. I was laughing very hard at what the ganados were yelling in Spanish that I was hanging onto Ashley to prevent myself from falling.

"Come on girls." Leon said to me and Ashley, as he started to head farther in the castle entrance.

"Sora, what's so hilarious?" Ashley asked me.

"The ganados are cussing at us in Spanish." I managed to say as I busted up laughing again.

"Why is that funny?" the President's daughter asked me, carrying me to try to catch up with Leon.

"I don't know, something about foreign cussing just cracks me up." I said, taking a deep breath and began walking on my own.

Once we got to a room with a small house Leon and I recognized the blue flamed torches outside, I ran to the small house to see the merchant and as I went in I seen a typewriter sitting on a table with plenty of paper in it. On impulse I started typing what I remembered from my childhood which was seeing numerous men but three of them I called my uncles and several of the men in dresses, I let out a quick yawn when I finished a page and flipped it over on the blank side and carefully placed it back in the typewriter. Once Leon and Ashley entered the house the merchant handed me a semi-auto rifle with about fifteen rounds of ammo for it, once I took it I took out the ptas in order to pay for it. Then right as we left Leon had asked why I purchased a rifle, I left his question unanswered because I had no clue why the merchant gave me such a powerful gun.

"Sora, you going to answer me?" Leon asked me, wanting to know why I supposedly bought a semi-auto rifle.

"To tell you the truth Leon I didn't mean to buy a rifle, when you and Ash came in the house the merchant made it seem like I had bought something... and speaking of purchases did you buy two first aid sprays and put them in my bag without telling me?" I questioned Leon.

"No, I only bought one first aid spray from the merchant and took some from the villagers we killed." Leon told me.

"I guess I must have grabbed those sprays from some villagers without remembering it." I said, trying to think back where I could've gotten the first aid sprays.

I told Leon to forget about it and keep moving forward, before he could talk to stay on the subject I ran up the stairs with Ashley behind me and went through the door at the end of the staircase. As we went through the door and went around a corner Leon pointed upward to show me two men in charcoal robes chanting "Morrir es vivir" which meant "To die is to live". Hearing that phrase jogged a small part of my memory but it wasn't clear when I heard it so as I kept thinking about it Ashley said that there was a catapult farther away from where the two men were. Leon then suggested that we'd take their robes to avoid getting shot at, I aimed my rifle and shot the men who were killed with one shot. While I was strapping the rifle to my back Leon took out a hook shot, aimed it at the stone wall, and shot it to where the grappling hook lodged itself in the wall.

Once he knew that the grappling hook was secure Leon pulled the trigger on the hook shot to pull himself up and then took the robes off the two men serving the cult.

"Ashley, Sora, there are only two robes, one of us is going to have to go without!" Leon informed us, coming down with the robes in hand.

"Leon, I'll go without one, you and Ashley need them more than I do. Besides I'll find one but for now act as if you've taken me prisoner and pray to God that they don't see through our ruse." I suggested to Leon, while I was helping Ashley get the robe on.

"Sora no, it's too much of a risk, we can't even be sure that they won't attack us even in disguise." Leon opposed to my plan, "Also, why would you think that the Los Illuminados would take you as prisoner when they're after Ashley."

"You've just gotta trust me!" I exclaimed, grabbing Leon's cloak shoulders.

Noticing what I did I lightly took my hands from Leon's shoulders and slowly began walking up the stairs with Ashley on my right, Leon was on my left and after we were off the steps no one fired their catapults, no one yelled, no nothing! Since I was the only one not in disguise I felt awkward but as we went under a bridge I saw a ganados in a red robe and I really wanted the red robe for my disguise.

"I call the red one!" I exclaimed once more, wielding my rifle and quickly shot the ganados in the red robe and the one in black off their posts.

I quickly stripped the ganados of his red robe and had put it on happy as ever. I noticed Ashley and Leon staring at me with a strange look wondering why I wasted two bullets on two men just for a red robe.

"What? I like red, it's one of my favorite colors." I said, straightening out the robe and tossed the hood over my head. "Let us go forth, we must not keep our Lord waiting." I dramatically said, causing Ashley bust up laughing while Leon didn't laugh but cracked a smile.

"You sure know how to make a life or death situation funny Sora." Ashley said to me, and managed to stop laughing.

Without saying a word the three of us moved forward, Leon saw a huge door but it wouldn't open so he said that we had to blast it down, I thought that Leon was insane but as I looked at the door I saw no other way through. Then without warning a fire ball headed towards us so both me and Leon grabbed Ashley and ducked out of the fireball's path, unfortunately that alerted everyone that we were here. So as fast as Leon, Ashley, and I were we ran across a bridge that got us close to two catapults but once we ran past a small shack the three of us heard someone yell "Masterno!" (AN: I don't know what he really said but all I heard was Masterno. So if anyone wants to correct me on that error please feel free to do so) When the three of us turned to where it was coming from we seen a monk in a metal distorted mask, black robe with some-what gold trimming and holding a scythe. Leon told me to take Ashley with me to take out the two catapults while he took care of the monk with the scythe, I nodded to agree with his plan so I aimed my handgun carefully and shot a gasoline tank causing it to explode and kill everyone up where the first catapult was.

I then looked to my right to see an alley with a treasure chest, before I knew it I ran down the alley way without falling on my robe, then right as I got to the chest I opened it and took the Gold Bangle from it. Then right as I took the bangle a loud explosion was heard, I ran out of the alley to see Ashley clinging onto Leon's arm and out of my jealously I ran across another bridge and nearly dodging a fireball from another catapult. As I ran across the bridge I saw a gaping hole in the middle of a clearing, I looked down to see a cannon down there but didn't get enough time to look because another fireball was blasted at me and sent me flying back against a lever. While I was recovering from the blast I adjusted the scope on my rifle, aimed carefully at the two men in black cloaks and killed them. One that was done Leon ran to me and had asked me if I was alright.

"Leon, I'm fine, let's just get that cannon up here and blast that door down." I said to Leon, adjusting my position on the ground.

"Alright if you say so Sora." Leon said back to me, and started operating the lift for the cannon.

While Leon was operating the lift, Ashley helped me up on my feet, then we both saw the cannon coming into full view. I was amazed to see an old fashion war cannon, while I was gazing at the cannon Leon lit the fuse to fire it and just a few seconds before it blew the three of us covered our ears. Then as soon as the cannon fired both me and Ashley were somehow interested in the crashing of the sealed door. Once the door was pulverized Leon, Ash, and I ran down to where the door originally was an ran right through only to go through another door which lead to a room. As the three of us walked through the room Ashley and Leon removed their cloaks, leaving them on the ground while I removed my robe but I placed it in my bag as carefully as possible to save room. Then after me and Leon collected everything on the first floor I saw a platinum sword mounted on the wall.

"Therein lies the sword of gold... wait a minute this is a platinum sword, I guess the mount for it is upstairs." I said to myself, removing the silver sword from the gold mount.

"Sora just leave the sword there." Leon told me, while he was going upstairs.

"Will it's going to bother me if these swords are out of place!" I retorted, carrying the sword up the stairs, then I heard someone in a distorted voice behind me say "ahí está!". "We have company Leon!" I shouted, running the rest of the way up the stairs.

"You removed the sword, did you?" Leon yelled at me, shooting the monks that were close behind me.

"Leon the two swords are probably part of a puzzle to find the door since I don't see one up here!" I yelled back, putting the sword down the first chance I got and shot the monk closest to me.

As I moved away from the stairs more and more monks came in boxing me, Leon, and Ashley in a corner, then in a panic I fired my shotgun at several monks. Then all of a sudden one of the monks grabbed me by the waist, threw me over his shoulder and began walking away.

"Put me down! Let me go now!" I screamed at the top of my lungs while hitting the back of my gun on the monk's back.

After I screamed that the monk put me down and kneeled down to me for some odd reason, I was wondering why he did that but I was thankful that I was downstairs because it would've been highly weird if Leon saw this.

"Por favor, perdóname Maestra, pero pide a su Señor Saddler presencia." the monk told me. (AN: meaning: "Please forgive me Mistress, but Lord Saddler requests your presence")

"¿Por qué?" I asked, hoping to get an acurate answer.

"Nos dijo que no le dan una razón, que acaba de decir a usted que le." the red monk replied to my question. ("He told us not to give you a reason, he just said to bring you to him.")

"Así olvidarlo, se me va!" I yelled at them, then I ran back up the stairs shooting the last monk upstairs. "Leon, there's two more downstairs, I'll stay up here and protect Ashley." I said to Leon, hoping he would go. (Translation: Well forget it, I'm got going!)

Without another word Leon left to get rid of the last two monks leaving me to protect Ashley, while Leon was downstairs I had Ash help me place the silver sword in place and take the gold sword on its mount. Than as soon as both swords were in the right places there was a rumbling sound and Ashley ran up to say that the door was revealed. As Leon and I headed back up the stairs Leon asked me something that caught me off gaurd.

"Sora, why did that monk grab you when they surrounded us?" Leon had asked me.

"I don't know maybe he mistook me for Ashley, we kind of look alike..." I started off, looked back at Ashley, then back to Leon. "Well maybe just the height."

"Or maybe they're idiots, I mean come on why else would they grab you instead of me." Ashley said to me.

"Great this is just like Raccoon City." Leon said to himself.

"What are you talking about Leon? What does Raccoon City have to do with this?" Ashley asked, not seeing that I walked right past her and sat at a table to readjust my wristband and took it off to let my wrist breath.

"In Raccoon City the Umbrella Corporation had unleashed a viral outbreak with two viruses they've created known as the T-virus and the G-virus. The T-virus brought back the dead but the side effect was that the one brought back were mindless, flesh-craving beings. The G-virus caused uncontrollable mutations, I was caught up in that incident on my first day of working with the RPD, luckily I managed to survive along with one other person named Claire Redfield. During our escape we had to fight off many of the undead without becoming infected, along with fighting off a little girl's father who worked for Umbrella and had injected himself with the G-virus to prevent the virus from getting in Umbrella's hands. But after he mutated he went after his own daughter and only saw her as a breeding tool when he completely mutated, it took everything me and Claire had to destroy William.

Even though me and Claire survived, Umbrella covered up the incident saying that the nuclear power plant went critical, taking the lives of the innocent citizens of Raccoon City, and because of that lie no one believes me or Claire about the incident." Leon said to Ashley.

"What happened to Claire? Where's she at?" Ashley asked Leon.

"Last time I heard from her she was in Africa with the Peace Corp. But she's trying to find her bother Chris by getting into Umbrella's secret facilities, so far she's got nothing pertaining to finding Chris." Leon told the President's daughter.

"Wow Claire sure had a lot on her mind."

"Yes she sure does," Leon replied, then got up from where he was sitting. "We've rested enough, let's get going." he told me and Ashley, as he was walking over to the door.

When Ashley and I caught up with Leon, the three of us heard Luis running behind us.

"Leon!" Luis called out, stopped running when we turned to face him.

"Luis."

"I've got something for you guys." Luis said to us and starts looking all over his person. "What? Oh shit! I must have dropped it when I was running away from them." Luis angrily exclaimed.

"Dropped what?" Ashley asked, wondering what Luis had that seemed important.

"A drug that'll stop your convulations." the Spaniard said to us, then Leon gave him a some-what confused look. "Look, I know you're carriers. You've been coughing up blood, right?" Luis asked Leon.

"Yeah." Leon admitted.

"You?" he questioned Ashley.

"Yes." Ashley answered.

"What about you Sora?"

"No... I haven't." I sheepishly admitted.

"Are you sure? You haven't coughed up blood like Leon or Ashley?" Luis pressed on his question, making me involuntarily nervous even though I had nothing to worry about.

"Yes I'm sure Luis!" I raised my voice at him, even though I didn't mean to.

"Alright I get it, but aside from you. Leon, Ashley the eggs inside you have hatched. We don't have much time." Luis warned Ashley and Leon.

"What are you talking about?" Leon asked, not understanding what Luis was saying.

"I have to go back and get it." Luis said, then turned around to walk back to the room we came out of.

"Let me go with you." Ashley requested, wanting to help Luis find the drug he dropped.

"No, you stay with Leon. He is much better the ladies, I am sure." Luis told Ashley.

"Why are you?" Leon began to ask.

"It makes me feel better, let's just leave it at that." Luis waved goodbye and walked out of sight.

Without another word Leon, Ashley and I went through the door infront of us since the door to your right was locked, as we went through a door to a small house swung open and a monk came out, seen us, and tried to go back in but Leon shot him dead. But right after the monk was dead two then three monks ran out and started running after us. Then as the monks were coming at us Leon and I were shooting the crap out of them, while Leon and I were still shooting the monks Ashley was cheering us on, by the time most of the monks were killed Ashley exclaimed that there were monks with crossbows on a walkway. Once we were warned about the monks Leon grabbed Ashley's hand and ran inside the house to avoid the flaming arrows, but as Leon and Ashley ran inside the house I also ran in the house but I went in through the back door. As I ran to the back door an arrow cut my left arm and hit a gasoline barrel which exploded so I had to dive in the house with a bloody arm.

Right after I dove in, Ashley ran to me and said that she'll bandage my arm but right as she looked back at my arm she saw my wound seal up and look like it was never harmed.

"Sora... I think the eggs may have hatched in you." Ashley said to me, letting go of my arm and looked at me. "Your arm doesn't have have a mark on it, but there's blood where the wound was." Ashley added.

"Damn it! This is now the second time that it happened," I told Ashley in a some-what panicky tone.

"If this is the second time that's happened then the eggs have hatched before this!" the President's daughter said to me.

"Sora, why didn't you say anything to Luis?" Leon asked me, finished shooting the monks with the crossbows.

"Because I wasn't coughing up blood, and if I had said something about my wounds healing it would've been irrelevant." I told Leon, as I was now starting to freak out about the plagas eggs hatching inside of me.

"Don't worry Sora, we will be fine, we'll get out of this mess safe and sound." Leon assured me, helping me up off the floor and headed out of the house only to meet monk with wooden shields.

Once Leon and I killed the two shielded monks and ran inside a building only to see that the building we entered was a storage building, I was really starting to become annoyed by the supposed dead end we ran into. As Leon walked up to a shelf, I saw a treasure chest then as Leon opened the chest and took out the castle door key the storage room door behind me was swung open and about eight monks stormed in. Ashley ran straight to Leon while he and I were shooting the monk, as Leon and I were shooting the monks Leon told me to back up and once I did I noticed a TNT barrel then Leon shot it to rid us the rest of the Los Illuminados monks. Once it was safe to go I ran to the door, swung it open to see if anyone was out there and as soon as I seen no one I signaled Leon to come out with Ashley. Then as they came out Leon, Ashley and I ran from where we were now to where the castle door was, right as we got to the castle door Leon used the key he recently got and opened the door to go inside.

Me and Ashley were amazed at the decoration in the gianormous room but as we walked further in the room, a childish laughter filled the room and it managed to get on mine and Leon's nerves. Once we walked to the stairs the laughter seemed at its loudest.

"I was starting to wonder when you might notice us," a child in blue and gold clothing said from a balcony, then took one look at me. "No, not her, anyone but her!" the kid said to himself then got his composure back.

"Who are you?" Leon demanded.

"Me llamo Ramon Salazar the 8th castellan of this magnificent architecture. I have been honored with the prodigious power from the great Lord Saddler. I've been expecting you my brethren."

"No thanks bro."

"My, my, we've got a feisty one. If you care for your own well being, I suggest you surrender yourself and simply... become our hostage. Or Mr. Scott, you can give us the girls, since you're not worth a penny I'm afraid. You can die." Salazar said as he left with his two tall bodyguards in red and black robes.

"I'm never turning into one of them, never!" Ashley exclaimed.

"You got that right. We'll find a cure." Leon said, starting to head up the stairs and once we all got close to the path infront of us a huge wall rose up blocking our path.

"Well isn't this just perfect. That little brat is making this more difficult than it needs to be!" I sarcastically said, going to a blue door with a gold design on it, I tried to open it but it wouldn't open because it was locked from the other side.

Since there was another door on the other side of the room we all decided to go through that door since there was no other way out, but before I went through the door with Ashley and Leon, I saw a typewriter and typed "Is Salazar a kid or a midget?" then went after the two. As soon as I caught up with Ashley and Leon, I saw that Leon was going down the hall to get something, while he was gone for a few moments Ashley told me there was someone down in the prison-like room. I then took out my rifle, aimed it where Ashley pointed to and looked through the scope to see a buff man chained to a wall, he also wore parts of armor, had a helmet on his head, and what freaked me out was that his eyes were sewn shut. I nearly dropped my rifle seeing the sight of him, Ashley had to grab my gun to prevent it from falling in the room. When Ash had a good grip on my gun I fell backwards onto the floor looking as if I saw a ghost and mouthed the words "The Blind Knight", I staggered back on my feet when Leon ran back to us with the Prison Key.

I told Leon to be careful going down there, he asked me what was wrong but I just told him to be careful when down there, since I wasn't going to tell Leon anything else he walked away from me and Ashley and used the key to unlock the door.

/ Leon's POV/

Once I unlocked the door I walked in the prison seeing two bells on each side of the room, along with a cell with a man chained to the wall and a lever next to him. I cautiously moved towards the cell with my shotgun in hand, kicked down the cell door down and before I went any further I looked out of the corner of my eye to see Sora with her rifle pointed at the man. As soon as I took a step toward the lever the man broke out of his chains with a roar and started coming after me, after I ran out of the cell I saw that the man-creature had three long blades on his hands. But when I momentarily stopped moving the creature just started walking blindly, I was confused at first but a bang was heard and the creature let out an agonizing yell as he fell on his knees I saw about two or three tentacles come out of his back. Unfortunately as soon as the creature recovered he started thrashing around slashing at thin air, I ran to the other side of the room, somehow making the creature chasing after me.

"Leon the creature attacks at sound, don't move!" I heard Sora yell at me, thus leading the creature to sink it's blades in the stone wall under the window Sora was at.

As the creature tried to remove his blade from the wall I saw a grotesque parasite on his back, aimed my shotgun and shot it, causing the same reaction from the creature Sora got when she shot him. It took a while for me to get a decent shot at him but at some point I heard Sora yell something and shot the bell closest to me. Once the bell sounded I had to move out of the creature's way as fast as I could, and before I knew it the creature sunk his blades in the bell and the wall leaving his back wide open. So at the perfect chance I got I shot his back at least two times before the man dislodged his blades from the wall, I backed up as quietly as possible so he wouldn't hear me to attack me. After about two minutes of the bladed creature thrashing around he finally started walking aimlessly around, then I looked to see Sora aiming her rifle at the creature once again and shot him in the back once more.

Right when Sora shot the creature, her bullet missed the intended target and had hit a part of the creature's armor thus ricocheting the bullet to the other side of the room and it hit the bell in the process. Luckily for me the sound of the bell lead the creature away but I then realized that once the bladed man destroyed the bell, both bells were gone. Since the bladed man had his blades lodged in the wall where the bell used to be I quickly shot at the grotesque parasite on his back two more times. The creature was now coming after me so I had to run around the room for who knows how many times until the man stopped running, but right when he stopped running was when I saw Sora shoot at the parasite causing the monster to slash numerous times at a wall. Just as I was about to blast him with my shotgun I pulled the trigger, but a click was heard, alerting the monster to where I was, I swore under my breath as I kept running from the creature.

All of a sudden I heard what sounded like something being dropped on the stone floor, I managed to see what it was and it happened to be a box of shotgun shells. I mouthed "I owe ya one" to Sora who was pointing to my right. I looked out of the corner of my eye to see the man extremely close to me so I slowly but surely walked close to where the shells were, picked them up and reloaded my gun. By the time I got done reloading my gun I saw the creature randomly thrashing about and I couldn't get a clear shot at him then all of a sudden I heard a loud rock song playing. I looked up to see Sora holding what seemed to be an MP3 player attached to portable speakers, thankfully it made the creature strike a wall. Sora and Ashley both yelled at me to kill the monster so to get them to stop yelling at me, I shot the man twice in the back thus killing it, as I made sure it was dead I picked up a bag of 15,000 ptas and walked in the cell to pull the lever to deactivate the fire breathing metal horses.

As I headed up the stairs out of the prison I heard Sora cuss, Ashley scream, and rapid gunfire, hearing that I ran the rest of the way upstairs with my handgun wielded. As soon as I exited the prison room Ashley immediately ran behind me while Sora was being choked to death, I fired my gun at the monk who was choking Sora and he released her. Before I shot another bullet at the three monks, they all fell to the floor dead with blood pouring out from the back, I was wondering what had happened and how they died without being shot. Ashley had asked Sora if she was okay because she was breathing heavily, but instead of an answer Sora just shrugged off Ashley's question, got up, and went on ahead but before going too far ahead I seen that Sora pointed her handgun at a portrait of Saddler and shot it in the forehead, causing it to fall and reveal a small hole in the wall containing around 5000 ptas. Obviously Sora was too angry to notice so I grabbed the ptas and ran after Sora who was trying to shoot at two archers hiding behind the deactivated metal horses, I managed to get one of the archers while Sora was having a hard time getting the last one.

I tried to help Sora the best I could but whenever I got a good shot the archer shot his arrow at either me or Sora, but as I had the archer in my sight Sora threw a hand grenade in the archer's direction. Once the grenade went off, I went out in the room to find the archer dead and dissolving, I signaled Sora to get Ashely and follow me to the next pathway. I heard Sora call Ashley over here telling he that it was safe so once Ashely and Sora were with me I lead them to another door but unfortunately there were six to eight Los Illuminados monks coming after us. Sora and I had Ashley stay behind us while we get rid of the monks coming after us, as we were shotting the monks neither me nor Sora saw one of the monks get close to us and hit the both of us with a mace. Then as Sora and I were recovering from the attack the monk grabbed Ashley and started carrying her away.

"Let Ashley go!" I heard Sora scream, then pulled out her handgun and shot the monk.

For the several hours I've been with Sora I have never seen her that angry before, it actually looked like she was wanting to kill every single person in the room. But as Ashely was getting back in her place I saw a door open on both sides of the huge room and many monks came out, I noticed two of them had shields while the two behind the shielded monks had maces. Before they managed to get close apparently both me and Sora threw a incendiary grenade and a normal grenade at the monks. All of a sudden an arrow was shot barely missing my head, I tried to find where the arrow came from but I couldn't exactly tell where the archer was at, I heard Ashley tell me "behind you" I quickly spun around to see a shielded monk coming for me. As quickly as I could I blasted the shield to bits then shot the monk who had the shield.

"Leon cover me!" Sora yelled, reloading her rifle, ran in the middle lane, aimed and shot an archer on the left side of the room.

While Sora was shooting the archer, I shot the rest of the monk coming our way, by the time all the monks were gone Sora and I walked further up to see two staircases. We both heard someone yell "Masterno" Sora and I looked down the staircases we were at and I found a monk who had yelled to warn any other monks in hiding, then I shot him before he could get up the stairs. I looked over to Sora who had her rifle aimed and kept mouthing the words "come on out" repeatedly, at first I was kind of wondering why she was doing that but when she pulled the trigger on her rifle I ran down to see a dissolving monk. Sora walked down the stairs to see if she got her target and noticed that I was wondering about something.

"What? Don't tell me you've never got that feeling someone's around the corner?"

"Having those kinds of feelings are signs of paranoia." I told Sora, whistling to call Ashely.

"Leon... Ashley's not a dog... she's a human being." Sora said to me, as Ashley was coming down the stairs.

I ignored what Sora said and walked through a door revealing two small yellow platforms in the far corners of the room, a box of shotgun shells and a green herb sitting on the table. I was wondering why the room was even here but just out of curiosity I stepped onto the left yellow platform and noticed that it sank into the floor, I told Sora and Ashley to get on the other platform. I noticed that Ashley was getting ready to get on the platform and seen Sora reload her shotgun and begin to leave the room.

"Sora where are you going?"

"I'm going to keep a lookout to make sure you have no problems on your way out." Sora plainly told me, as she left the room

/ Sora's POV /

As I took on step out of the room I heard what sounded like the last platform being pushed down so as fast as I could I ran upstairs to see a large rectangular statue. But once I got a better look at it I realized that the lever on the statue was connected to something, I couldn't figure out to what it was connected to because one I heard many footsteps behind me and two I couldn't move the lever an inch from place. I turned around with my gun aimed to see about ten monks coming towards me, seeing the odds against made me hesitate to either run to Leon or stay and fight. And of course I chose to fight then started blasting the non-shielded monks but while I was blasting them all of a sudden there was a sharp pain in my chest which caused me to fall on my knees. As I fell on my knees the monks just ran past me, I tried to get up and shoot the monks but the pain was beginning to overcome me.

"Why can't you guys kill eachother for once!" I yelled in anger because of the pain.

Then right on cue I saw that one of the non-shielded monks I missed had grabbed one of the shielded monks and killed him while another shielded monk bashed his shield against his comrade numerous times. But once two monks killed two of their comrades there were around four to five monks left alive, I managed to take out a hand grenade, pulled out the pin and chucked it down the stairs where they were going.

"Three...two...one..." I counted down, then heard the grenade go off.

/ Leon's POV /

After killing who knows how many monks the room lightly shook causing two monks that came through the ceiling stagger to keep their balance.

'_What the hell is Sora doing?!_' I was thinking as I kept shooting the monks infront of me.

Once I shot the two monks until they were dead I waited for a few minutes to see if there were going to be anymore monks coming down the hole in the ceiling. When I was sure that there were no more monks coming down I told Ashley to follow me out, on our way out I picked up a grenade and a box of handgun ammo from two vases outside the room. As Ashley and I ran up the stairs I saw Sora hanging on the rectangular pedestal, but as I ran to her, she turned to me telling me she was fine.

"Leon, I'm fine, I just got dizzy that's all." Sora told me, I knew she was lying to me but I knew that if I pressed on any questions she would just get agitated.

After Sora told me that she was fine I saw the lever on the front of the pedestal and started turning it, as I was turning the lever Ashley had said something about a wall coming down. Once the entire wall was down, about three or four monks with scythes started running after us, I immediately raised my shotgun and blasted two of the monks while Sora shot the last two in the head. Before we ran further up the stairs I saw a monk in red with a scythe running towards us, for me it took about five shotgun shells to take him down. Once he was out of the way the three of us ran up the stairs and Ashley exclaimed that there were cranks on each side of the room. Noticing them I helped Ashley up to the crank on the left and then helped Sora up to the right one.

"Leon watch out for Ashley." Sora told me, throwing her rifle to me along with about six boxes of rifle ammo.

"Alright Sora, watch your back." I told her, aiming my partner's rifle at Ashley to shoot any monks that may try to grab her.

As both girls turned the cranks, monks started coming in from all over the place, I had to watch Ashley and myself from being attacked by the monks, at several points Ashley almost got carried away but luckily Sora managed to rescue her in time. By the time I had shot the monks in front of me, I focused all my attention on Ashley knowing Sora can take care of herself, once I realized that platforms appeared out of the water I ran to Ashley to catch her while Sora jumped down and ran straight for the platforms. As soon as we jumped across the platforms to the door, we walked right through unprepared for what was going to happen.

A/N: Sorry for the ridiculously long chapter I have a horrible habit of writing and typing long chapters and I just finished typing this last night so I hope you like it. Read and review