6. Chapter 6
**Disclaimer: I do not own Resident Evil 4 Capcom does, all I own is my OC Sora.**
**Ch.6: Stuck with Ashley, A Fight with Suits of Armor**
/ Sora's POV /
As Ashley helped me up she noticed that I was limping because I had got shot in my left leg, so out nowhere Ashley grabbed my left arm, hoisted it over her shoulder and helped me walk through the door when the President's daughter unlocked it. When we were on the other side of the door it was soo dark that Ashley and I had to get out flashlight, once the lights were shining Ms. Graham had continued to help me down the corridors. After passing the first two corridors I saw suits of armor armed with long ranged axes. Once we got to a clearing I had sat down on a crate and pulled up my left pant leg to see the bullet wound, as I was still inspecting my bullet wound Ashley dug through my bag for bandages.
"Ashley, I'm fine, it's just a flesh wound." I told her, getting ready to put my pant leg down but Ashley had stopped me.
"Yeah right, I know a bullet wound when I see one, and that's definitely a bullet wound." the President's daughter said, getting out the bandages along with alcohol wipes.
Since I wasn't going to win the argument with Ashley I just let her do whatever she wanted. Then while Ashley tore open the alcohol wipes I clenched my fist when the alcohol had made contact with my wound, I looked on the other side of my leg to see no exit wound so I knew that the bullet was probably still inside my leg! But as I went to stop Ashley from wrapping my leg she held up her hand and a rifle bullet covered in blood was in the palm of her hand, I was bound to ask how she got the bullet but I didn't say a thing as the daughter of the President had wrapped my leg.
"So Sora... when do my lessons begin?" she asked me, obviously remembered that I told her that I would teach her how to use a gun.
"Right now, you're lucky I remember. Get out your handgun." I told her, seeing Ashley take out the handgun from her skirt pocket.
Once she got her handgun out I took it, put in three bullets and handed it back to her telling her about the mechanics of a gun, how to reload it, and how to hold and aim it properly. Then once Ashley said that she got that memorized I looked over to my right to find a spinel sitting in the box next to me. After I got the spinel I tied gauze around it, tore off a piece of medical tape and stuck it on the wall for Ms. Graham to shoot at for target practice. As soon as I secured the spinel I told Ashley to aim and shoot the spinel, purposely forgetting to tell her about the laser pointer equipped with the gun. When Ashley shot twice she barely missed the spinel and on the third try she had hit it point blank, shattering it to pieces.
"Kudos to you Ashley, now you can fight those monks," I told her, "Also a little secret, there's a laser pointer on the gun you can use to aim better." I added, turning on the laser pointer.
"Thanks for mentioning that earlier Sora." Ashley sarcastically said to me, turning off the laser pointer and took a box of handgun ammo from my bag.
When Ashley's crash course was over we walked through another door only to end up in an extravagant room with a typewriter near the entrance to another room with a monk inside. Ash and I slowly went inside the next room and moved to our left and hid behind a desk.
"What's the plan Sora?"
"I say one of us creates a distraction while the other turns that crank to open the door." I planned out, wondering who will be the distraction.
"Who'll be the distraction?" Ashley asked, holding her handgun like it was a life support.
"I'll be the distraction, you've already been through enough trauma. So when you see the monk follow me turn that crank as fast as you can... ohh and also cover your ears this _will_ get loud."
"Okay," Ashley said, covering her ears.
When the decision was made I slowly came out, moved out from behind the desk, took in a deep breath and screamed at the top of my lungs to get his attention. The monk obviously heard my scream because I saw that he covered his ears in pain, then as soon as I backed up a bit he cussed at me in spanish and ran after me. Before I ran too far I seen Ashley crawl out of hiding and run to the crank, so to prevent the monk from noticing Ashley I kept yelling at the monk who still kept following me. As I heard Ashley turning the crank I kept the monk busy by chasing me around in a circle until I came up with an idea based on Luis' theory with me and the wolves.
"Hey, why don't you listen to me for a change?" I started off, hoping the monk would listen to me which he did.
"¿Qué puedo hacer por usted Maestra?" the monk asked, bowing down to me. (Translation: "What can I do for you, Mistress?")
I waited for a moment to choose my words carefully then I told him to follow me, when I had heard Ashley stop cranking she called me saying that the gate was raised but there was another monk in the room. As I met back up with Ashley in the first room she was almost about to scream until I covered her mouth and told her that for some reason he's listening to me so I uncovered her mouth when I got a note that she wasn't going to scream.
"Okay Sora, I guess I'll be the distraction now since you were it the first time." Ashley said to me and almost got up until I grabbed her by the shoulder.
"Woah there daredevil, I got another idea involving the monk I got here." I quickly told her, "Hey monk."
"¿Sí Maestra?"
"Could you go and distract that other monk please?" I asked politely.
"Como lo desea, Maestra." the monk said, running out of the room and started to strangle the other monk. (Translation: "As you wish Mistress.")
Right as the monk under my control ran and strangled the other monk, Ashley and I ran into the second room got on each side of the barred door and began turning the cranks as fast as possible. Once we got all the gates raised Ashley and I bolted out of the room without looking back and turned right to get away from the monks just in case they decide to come after us again. Once we opened the door in the right corridor we ended up in a dark room with cobwebs, I shuttered because I kind of despised spiders no matter what kind they were. Ashley and I then saw bars on every way to the other door so while I pondered on what to do Ashley crawled under a table and I saw that she pressed a button and what that did was raise the bars near her.
"Sora, get over here I got a gate up!" Ashley shouted to me, getting my attention.
"Kay," I replied, jumping over the table and walked through the first entrance with Ashley and pressed the second button which closed the gate behind up but opened the gate leading back to the door we came in from. "Okay there has to be a hidden button around here somewhere." I said aloud looking around the room.
Without another word I pushed the side of the bookshelf with minimal strength and seen a red button in a hole.
"Hello beautiful." I said, pressing the button and saw the final gate open, leading to the next door.
When the final gate was opened me and Ashley ran to the door as quick as possible and gone through the door with no time to spare. As we went thought the door we ended up in yet another dark corridor, luckily Ashley and I had our flashlights shining so we could keep going forward. The further we went Ashley mentioned that there were more suits of armor with axes raised like they were going to attack. We stopped running when we got in a room with five suits of armor in the room, I knew Ashley had a bad feeling about them because both her and I were looking at them the same way. I walked over to one of the suits of armor and tapped it with my gun while Ashley was messing with a puzzle in the middle of the room.
"We got a problem Sora, we're missing a puzzle piece."
"Great now we have to go back and look for it." I irritantly said, walking out of the room.
"Wait up Sora!" Ashley exclaimed, running to catch up with me.
Once me and Ashley got back in the room I had Ashley look near the door while I searched near the fireplace. All of a sudden I heard Ashley shrill about finding something pretty which caused me to hit the back of my head on the top of the fireplace adding to a headache I now have. After I hit my head I got my head out of the fireplace and rubbing my temples to try to calm down, once I did Ashley asked if I found the piece yet.
"No but I managed to find a new cause for a headache." I angrily said, and was tempting to strangle the annoying blonde but resisted that urge.
"That's very interesting but we need to find that stone piece." Ashley said to me with some attitude in her voice.
'_This is just like being with Luis! But at least Luis was less arrogant than that idiot daughter of the President._' I thought, looking at the front of the fireplace and noticed a stone piece being off shade of the other stones so I tried to pull it out and it popped right out. "Ashley I found it!" I shrieked, making Ashley hit her head on a shelf in a closet she opened.
When Ashley recovered she glared at me with the most pathetic glare she had, I sneered because I got back at her and she knew it too. So after I got back at Ashley we ran back to the room with the suits of armor and placed the puzzle piece in it which opened a door. As the door opened Ashley looked at me, I looked back at her, I saw in her eyes that she wanted me to go in first.
"Fine I'll go first, stay here until I call you." I told her, putting some hostility in my voice to let Ms. Graham know who's in charge for now.
"Okay,"
Right when I got my point across to Ashley I walked in the room to see that it was a dusty storeroom with cobwebs all over the place, I then noticed a statue with a colorful emblem in it. Before I removed it from the statue I called Ashley in the room because I had a feeling that something was going to happen when I removed it. Then as I removed the emblem the door slammed shut behind us, causing Ashley to freak out and me to somewhat panic.
"Sora put it back! We gotta get out of here!" the blonde screamed at me.
"Ashley would you please refrain from screaming my hearing is very sensitive." I complained to the girl, covering my right ear. "Besides even if I wanted to put it back I can't, look." I quickly told her, placing her in front of a blue treasure chest.
When I placed Ashley in front of the chest she opened it to see a stone ornament in teh shape of a snake, right when Ashley removed the ornament the door opened and the sound of clanking metal was heard.
"What is that Sora?" Ashley asked me, scooting closer to me.
"It sounds like armor but that couldn't be..." I paused, seeing five suits of armor walk through the door with swords and axes. "Holy shit! That's not possible, that can't be even remotely possible!" I screamed, backing up a bit.
"Sora, now would be a great time to run!" Ashley yelled at me, pulling my arm.
As Ashley kept pulling my arm I managed to get a grip on what was happening so right when all five suits of armor were in teh room Ash and I ran right out of the room. But when we were in the dark corridors a suit of armor with an axe swung down and in a quick second Ashley fell backwards while I did a back hand spring, not knowing that the axe cut off my wristband. When Ashley and I got back on our feet we ran forward to face yet another suit of armor and did the same thing but I noticed that I lost the only thing hiding the insignia on my wrist.
"Where the hell is my wristband?" I asked, looking around the surrounding area. "That fucking suit of armor cut it off!" I swore, not liking my predicament.
"So what, it's just a wristband it can be..." Ashley paused, looking at the red insignia on my wrist. "What's that Sora?" she questioned me, grabbing my wrist to reveal the Los Illuminados insignia.
"It's nothing, those monks probably tattooed this on my wrist when I was unconscious." I told the blonde who had just started looking on visible parts of her body from an insignia.
While Ashley was still looking I grabbed her arm and pulled her back to the room with the fireplace and almost got near the door until Ashley and I stopped dead in our tracks to see a black suit of armor ready to strike.
"Ashley was that here before?
"No, no it wasn't Sora."
As Ashley and I realized that the suit of armor had been there when we weren't around so I told Ashley to step back and I slowly walked to the door only to get attacked by the suit but I jumped backwards. Right when the suit collapsed it was safe to go out of the room, Ashley and I bolted out of there since the sound of clanking armor was getting louder. So not to waste anymore time we ran to the next door we didn't go through and barricaded ourselves in.
"Hopefully this can keep those suits out... for now." I said, pushing a bookshelf in front of the door.
"Sora he have to get out of here before those suits get here! Could you hand me that round medallion you got from that statue?"
"Sure," I said, getting the round emblem from my pocket, "Here, catch!" I told Ashley, tossing her the medallion.
After I tossed the medallion to Ashley I decided to search the room for something that may be useful but all I found was a velvet blue, a spinel, a box of handgun ammo, and a note from the Salazar family butler." By the time I seen Ashley finish turning the dais the wall behind it slid open to reveal a ladder, I sighed in relief because I thought there would be either more monks or suits of armor. Then as Ashley climbed up the ladder I heard the sound of crunching wood so I climbed up after Ashley as fast as I could to tell her we had to get moving and fast! Not even a second went by that Ash and I ran throughout the hallways until we found a door which I unlocked. When we realized where we were Ashley and I seen Leon and called out to him.
"Ashley! Sora!" Leon exclaimed and was relieved to see us in one piece.
We both ran to Leon but what made me mad was that Ashley hugged him, she practically threw herself in his arms.
'_Get your hands off my man!_' I mentally screamed at the blonde, who now had let go of Leon.
"I'm sorry if I was..." Ashley started off, but got her sentence cut off.
"Don't worry about it. Come one, let's move on." Leon said to me and Ashley.
/ Leon's POV /
When I told the girls that we should move on I heard my radio go off and I answered it to find out that it was Salazar who ruined the reunion.
"Aww, what a touching moment we have here." the midget said, ruining the moment.
"All spoiled thanks to your interruption." I said to the midget, "Why don't you do us all a favor and leave before the audience gets pissed off."
"You nothing but an extra in my script so don't get too carried away." Salazar told me. "Your biggest scene is over." he added.
"I don't ever remember being a part of your crappy script." I arrogantly told the midget, wondering why the hell we were talking in movie terms.
"Well then, why don't you show me what a first class script is like; through your own actions."
After I had put away my radio I walked to the door out of here in Sora's and Ashley's company, when we passed through the door the room we were in had a small platform that went across a pit of lave. The next thing I saw was a typewriter, a small cabinet, and two large vases. I also noticed another room so I went down there to see what was down there and what I saw was a cart you'd see at theme parks on tracks. Than as I went back to Ashley and Sora, I got in the room just in time to see Ashley shoot the large vase on my right!
"What the hell are you doing?!" I raised my voice, quickly backing up.
"Target practice," Sora had answered for Ashley, "trust me she needs it."
"Why in the world did you give her a gun in the first place?" I questioned my partner, walking in the room and got close enough to put Ashley's gun on safety.
"Come on Leon, she needs it. Ashley can use her gun if she gets carried away when we're surrounded. Remember how she almost got whisked away when we get surrounded by those monks."
"I remember Sora but..."
"Okay, okay, you win there's no way in beating you, I'll take the gun back out of Ashley's possession." Sora quickly admitted in defeat and took the handgun away from Ashley.
After I seen Sora take the gun away from Ashley I walked to the small platform connected to two gear-like wheels so thinking that the room across the lava pit had the last stone ornament I told Sora and Ashley to wait where they were and got on the platform to get across. Then once I was across the lava pit I walked through the door to see that the room I was in was a room filled with lava and had metal dragons hanging from the ceiling. But when I began to walk down a flight of stairs I heard a monk yell "ahí está!" and the sound of a convator belt moving. I turned to see the metal dragons moving towards mw so with the little time I had I ran down the stairs, got on the round spinning cage and jumped across to the other side only to have two monks coming after me. When I shot the two monk I reloaded my handgun, turned around to see one of the metal dragons slowly making its way towards me so I got out Sora's rifle which I still had surprisingly and shot the monk that was driving the metal dragon out of his post.
From what I saw, once I shot the driver out somehow the metal dragon fell in the lava a couple of seconds but now I had to deal with the second dragon. So right as I turned around to try to get the second dragon I saw that it was right behind me, realizing that it was able to breath fire I jumped out of the way and tried to shoot but right when I moved it had moved. Luckily for me I had ran passed it back on the spinning cage and jumped back across just in time to get my shot at the driver.
/ Sora's POV /
While Ashley and I were waiting for Leon to get back I gave Ms. Graham her gun back and suggested we play cards during our wait. The game were playing was a game I learned in high school called Egyptian Ratscrew and it was damn right funny watching Ashley get mad! As we were playing Ashley had suggested that whenever one of us loses we had to do an embarrassing dance, unfortunately I had royally lost because the cards were seriously against me.
"I win! Now do your dance Sora!" Ashley cheerfully exclaimed.
"Fine," I told her in defeat, "I'm doing "Thriller"." I said, getting out my mp3 player with the speakers and turned it on then got Thriller playing an started dancing while Ashley was laughing every single second of the dance.
/ Leon's POV /
After I shot the last driver I looked through the rifle scope to see that there were two treasure chests on the formerly empty stands. To see what was inside them I walked to the first one, opened it to find 5,000 ptas in it. Then as I got back to the other side and opened the chest I found a Los Illuminados pendant so after seeing that I put it in my bag and as I walked further another metal dragon came down. As the last dragon came down I heard monks falling to the ground and right when I turned around one of the monks was right in my face, grabbed my neck and pushed me against the stone railing trying to push me in the lava.
"Estás muerto forastero, la Maestra no puede ahorrar ahora!" the monk said to me. (Translation: "You're dead outsider, the Mistress can't save you now!")
Not understanding what he had just said I managed to grab my knife and slashed the monk's neck. As his body became limp I kicked him off of me to catch my breath but I had little time to do so because more monks were coming after me. When about two monks ran out from the middle lane I saw that the metal dragon breathed fire on his comrades without knowing it. After the two monks were charred to death I made my move to run where the monks were coming from to get rid of them, so once minutes went by and all the monks were dead, since no more were coming I got out Sora's rifle, walked to the right wall and tried to shoot the driver out.
By the time I got the driver I had got burns on my arms from dodging fire at last minute and once the driver landed in the lave the metal dragon fell in with the driver a few seconds later. Just after the dragon fell a case of stairs rose up from the lava and once the staircase appeared I ran to the blue treasure chest at the top, opened it, and found the last stone ornament, the lion. So getting the last ornament I put it in my bag I then used some mixed herbs to tend to my wounds and as I was finished I ran back to the door to get back to the girls. When I got on the platform to get back to Sora and Ashley I heard the song for the chicken dance playing and I saw Ashley dancing to it while Sora was rolling on the ground laughing but then stopped when she saw me.
"Yo Ash cut the dance Leon's back!" Sora shouted to Ashley who stopped dancing, and Sora turned off her mp3.
"Sora..." I started off, watching Sora put away her mp3 player and speakers. "Why do you have an mp3 player with you?"
"Dunno," Sora shrugged her shoulders, "I brought it just incase I got bored."
"Also if I may ask... what's with the chicken dance?"
"Ashley and I were playing a card game during the wait and who ever lost had to do an embarrassing dance." Sora informed me.
"You brought..."
"Yeah, yeah, I brought a deck of cards with me. I only use them when I'm bored but all I do is shuffle them." Sora quickly said, also putting away her cards.
When Sora said that the three of us walked down to the room with the cart Ashley got in and sat down on the left side, Sora got in but she sat down on the far right side and I got in on the same side Sora was in and the cart started moving. By the time it stopped we had entered another room, as I got out first I looked inside a large vase to find a box of handgun bullets and as I put the ammo in my bag I heard a vase being broken. I turned to see that it was Sora who broke the case and picked up a velvet blue, then after Sora was done putting away the velvet blue in her bag I unlocked the door out of here to see that we were back in the room where the wall was.
"Now that we have all the pieces we can get this wall out of the way." I spoke, getting out the goat, snake, and lion ornaments and placed them in the wall.
Once the three ornaments were in place to form the manticore the wall sank down in the floor allowing us to go further in the castle which was the only way to go. Then as we were going up a small flight of stairs I heard two low growls and one loud one, apparently the loud one was my stomach growling which caused both of the girls to chuckle along with the fact that they were hungry too, I remembered that the three of us hadn't eaten a thing since we gotten in the village and the castle.
"Well since we're all hungry how about we stop for a small lunch break." Sora cheerfully said, getting out two bento boxes along with three small bottles of water.
"Wow, you're a life-saver Sora... wait why did you make two?" Ashley asked, getting ready to take one of the boxes until Sora quickly snatched it and handed it to me.
"Because I didn't have time to get home and make a third, does that answer your question?" Sora replied to Ashley while cutting a line in the middle of her box and handed it half-way to the blonde.
Yes ma'am" Ashley said to Sora and started eating her half of the box lunch.
As we were done eating what Sora had made I had noticed the Los Illuminados insignia showing on my partner's wrist which was usually covered. I was about to ask about the mark but before I could ask Ashley had informed Sora that she was done eating causing her to put away what was left of the box back in her bag.
"You done with yours Leon?" Sora had asked me.
"Yeah, here," I replied to her, handing her back an empty box. "That lunch was good Sora, I had no idea you were a good cook." I complemented Sora, "Now let's get going."
/ Sora's POV /
As I was putting the boxes back in my bag I couldn't help but continue to repeat Leon's complement to me over and over in my thoughts, but once I finished putting the boxes away I followed Leon through the next door with Ash close behind me and when we got to the next room there were three routes to choose from. Leon told me to see what was behind the door next to the hallway so when Leon went to check the middle path I took Ashley with me to investigate the blue door next to the hallway. I cautiously opened the door to find a merchant in the room, seeing him got my hopes up for him to have another wristband to hide my mark.
"Hey merchy I got something to ask you."
"Let me guess... you need another band my brother gave you right?" the merchant supposedly guessed.
"Exactly!" I exclaimed, "So... do you have one?" I asked.
"Sorry don't have one."
"What!?" I screamed, "You're saying that I'm royally screwed here!"
"That's right Mistress, my sincerest apologies."
"Don't call me Mistress, I've already have those damned monks calling me that left and right so I don't need you calling me that either!" I ordered, hearing Leon enter the room.
I quickly tried to calm down by thinking of serene places which calmed me down immediately right when Leon entered the room. He had informed me and Ashley that there's a door in the middle hallway but it needed two grails to open it. I sighed in annoyance because I was starting to get sick of all the puzzles and gathering items for locked doors! But either way we had to go and find those stupid grails, so after Leon bought what he wanted from the merchant we exited the room and entered the room with the gold door. When we entered the room the decor of it had shields and swords mounted on the walls and there was another gold door at the farr end of the room... obviously locked.
I noticed that Ashley had stepped on a panel which sunk into the floor, seeing that Leon and I moved on of the stone statues in the middle of the room onto a panel then once the statue was in place Leon and I took our places on the last two panels. Once Leon and I were on the panels the three of us saw the gold door slide up revealing another room with a large tapestry of the cult's insignia. Then right as Leon Ashley and I walked into the room we saw none other than that annoying midget Salazar.
"I think you've lived long enough. Lets see if you can survive this time." Salazar said, waving his arm in the air, causing the ceiling to lower with spike on it.
"NO!" Ashley screamed, seeing the spike covered ceiling.
"Get back here you pathetic coward!" I yelled, trying to run after Salazar but a door slammed shut in front of me.
"How the hell do we going to stop the ceiling from impaling us?!" Leon demanded, looking around all over the room.
"There's a quill and ink well here! Maybe we have to copy the Los Illuminados insignia!" Ashley exclaimed, "Sora can you help me out?"
Knowing what Ashley was getting at I quickly ran to her, she dipped the quill in the ink and then started to carefully trace my insignia. Once she was done I carefully placed my wrist on the scanner and hoped it would work. After the scan was complete the ceiling had stopped where it was and the door that Salazar escaped through had opened again, when I was able to remove my wrist from the scanner I had tried to get the ink off my wrist.
"Sora..." Leon spoke.
"Yeah, what is it Leon?" I asked.
"Why is the Los Illuminados' insignia on your wrist?" he questioned me with the most serious look on his face.
"Well... I'm just guessing but I think that when we were separated the monks probably tattooed it on me when I was unconscious." I lied through my teeth, hoping Leon would buy my lie.
When I told my lie to Leon, he inspected my expression which was mixed stress and fatigue and then he walked passed me into the hallway where the midget had escaped to. As soo as Leon walked through the next door a barred gate fell in front of me and Ashley then a huge mechanical drill was heading our way, I heard Ashley scream which caused me to cover my ears in pain and I knelt down because Leon aimed my rifle and shot two rounds. When the two rounds were fired the gate raised up allowing me and Ashe to rejoin Leon and get away from the door since the drill was still coming. While were in the room Ashley helped me out with raiding out the room and Leon found a chest, opened it the pulled out a gold grail with a red picture on it. After looting out the whole room what we found was five rounds of rifle ammo, ten handgun bullets, a spinel, one velvet blue, and a golden chessboard.
/ Leon's POV /
Since the path we took to get in the room was blocked by the drill the only way to go was through the bronze door with a weak lock on it. It took me no time at all to break the lock off with my knife, as soon as the lock was broken off I opened it to see that we ended up back in the room we started out in. Fortunately there were no more devious traps in the room so I walked out of the room with Ashley and Sora following me, then as we walked down the second hallway I found a note about the sample being retrieved. Then as I put the note in my attaché case Sora was mixing the yellow herb on the table with the red and green herbs she had. Once I saw that Sora was down she and Ashley walked through the door and went inside, seeing the red carpet and lion statue gave me a bad feeling about what was around the corner.
Just as a precaution I told Ashley to wait at the door while Sora and I walked around the corner to find two rows of armor with weapons.
"Ohh shit not more suits of armor!" I heard Sora groan.
"Did something happen while you were with Ashley?" I asked my partner.
"Umm, well, you'd probably think I was crazy if I told you." she warned me.
"No wait let me guess the armor came to life?" I joked around with Sora, then got a serious glare from my partner.
"Don't joke like that Leon, you didn't see the things I saw with Ashley."
Hearing Sora saw that to me I walked forward only to hear a creaking sound, I looked up in time to see the second suit of armor on my left about to bring its axe down on me. Right at that moment I did a back hand spring while Sora had apparently did a back flip, when the both of us were on our feet the armor had fallen apart and dissolved.
"Sora were you ever a cheerleader when you were in high school?" I had asked Sora, distinctly remembering when I was in high school I saw cheerleaders do a routine with back flips in it.
"No, but I was a gymnast when I was younger. Besides at the high school I went to I wouldn't even make it on the team because the cheerleaders and I didn't along too well." Sora plainly told me, walking ahead of me.
Just as Sora was near the end of the hall the suit of armor on the right began to swing its axe down, before it came down all the way I grabbed Sora by her waist and pulled her back. When the suit dissolved I had quickly let go of Sora and walked in the room at the end of the hall. I entered the room which had armor mounted on the walls, and what looked like three pathways, but the real eye-catcher was the golden grail inside a caged pedestal in the middle of the room.
"May the wrath of evil befall the one who disturbs this hold grail." Sora read aloud, "Wow that sounds real scary," Sora added in a non-believing tone.
"Don't get cocky Sora, something may happen once this grail's removed from the pedestal."
As I picked up the grail from the pedestal the three walls begun to move and once the circle was complete there were three gray suits of armor with swords and an axe. I heard Sora say something about it being typical that the suits of armor would appear, but it wasn't too long before Sora and I had to run because the armor was coming after us. Just as I ran to my left I saw Sora run to her right, one of the suits with a sword started to go after her while I had two suits with a sword and axe on my tail. When Sora and I crossed paths I saw her pull out her Punisher, quickly turn around to shoot the suit that was after her, once the gun was fired I seen the helmet come off to reveal a plagas head with the bladed tentacle. Seeing the plagas head I tried to get the other two but since they were deadly close to me I had to run past them and shoot when they've stopped moving. By the time they've stopped Sora got another one while I had gotten the last one, as all three plagas heads were exposed I took out a flash grenade and pulled out the pin.
"Cover your eyes!" I warned Sora, throwing my flash grenade to the ground.
When the grenade let out a blinding light the suits of armor with the plagas heads dissolved, right as I uncovered my eyes I saw Sora picking up a box of handgun ammo, shotgun ammo, and a green herb. By the time Sora collected all the items the walls spun once more to reveal three more suits of armor but this time the color was black, as the suits started heading towards me and Sora we began to run in the opposite directions again! As Sora and I crossed paths the black suits stopped in their tracks not knowing where to go so we took out chanced to shoot the helmets off. Sora and I managed to shoot two of the three's helmets off causing the head-eating parasites to come out in the open.
"Wow that's new!" Sora surprisingly said, "When did the Los Illuminados come up with these critters?"
"A while ago but don't get too close, those parasite have evolved to eat heads." I told my intrigued partner.
While I was trying to get a shot at the final suit along with avoiding getting attacked by the other suits I ran right by Sora who was digging through her bag looking for something. When I was on the other side of the room I saw one of the suits of armor with the parasite getting dangerously close to my partner.
"Sora behind you!" I yelled, getting the armor's attention along with Sora's
Right as I got Sora's attention she dive rolled away from the suit closest to her and made her way towards me, when she got to me she quickly shot the last suit's helmet off to expose the plagas head.
"Leon do you have any flash grenades?" Sora asked me, hoping that I would.
"Sorry Sora but I used my last one on the first wave of armor." I told Sora, seeing how frustrated she got then moved away from me.
"Leon you may want to cover your ears." Sora warned me.
Heeding Sora's warning I covered my ears and watched what my partner was going to do, I saw Sora take a deep breath and I actually heard Sora scream in anger and it was really high pitched. When Sora was finished letting out her anger all three suits of armor had collapsed with all that was left of them was a sack of money in the middle of yellow goo.
"I'm sorry if you heard that Leon, but I had to find a way to let out my anger and frustration without wasting precious ammo." Sora explained to me in the calmest manner.
"What the hell happened in here? Sora did you scream again?" Ashley annoyingly asked, walking into the room since the door raised up from the suit's demise.
"Yeah, sorry about that Ash." Sora sincerely apologized, leaving the room with Ashley while I collected the 19,500 ptas.
As we exited the king's chamber and headed to the door I immediately pulled Sora and Ashley back because there were eight to ten monks guarding the door. I had gave Sora back her rifle because I knew she could get some of the monks before they could get to the middle of the room. So without saying one word Sora just barely got out in the open, aimed the rifle and fired about four to five times smiling. Then after Sora fired about seven shots she gave the sign that the coast was clear, so as we walked thought the enormous room I seen Ashley pick up ptas and handgun bullets. I was about to ask Ashley why she was collecting money and ammo until Sora dug into my bag and pulled out the grails to take them to where they're supposed to be, and once in the appropriate placed the door was now unlocked and we were able to pass through.
**Finally! I just got finished with this at 5:56 a.m. and I had surgery yesterday so I couldn't do much besides sleep and eat and before the surgery I was busy with school and writing this story up so I hope you like it RxR.**
