7. Chapter 7
**Disclaimer: I do not own Resident Evil, Capcom does. I only own my OC Sora.**
**Ch.7: Ashley Kidnapped by Flying Novistadors, A Fight with Salazar**
/ Leon's POV /
When the door had been unlocked, I had opened the door to see that the room we were about to go in was a huge room with what looked like a nest hanging from the ceiling. As the three of us walked further up I saw Sora looking all around her like there are enemies around us.
"Sora is something wrong?" I asked, wondering why she was acting the way she was.
"I don't know Leon? But for some reason I keep hearing a buzzing sound... like insect's wings flapping at a rapid pace." Sora explained to me, having the most irritated look on her face.
Before anyone got to say another word one of the insects swooped in and carried Ashley away.
"Ashley!"
"Leon! Sora help!" Ashley cried as she got carried away.
"Damn it more of them!"
When Ashley was out of sight about fifteen of those insects flew in since when did they get wings? Other than that Sora and I were shooting like crazy at the insects that refused to die, at one point I saw my partner grab one of the insects and tore its wings to where it crash landed on the ground. Just as Sora killed the insect she had, one of the others in flight had gotten close enough to where I could kick it and that was what I did. Then out of no where Sora yelled at a insect to kill the others, I thought Sora was crazy for thinking that the insect or Novistador is what she called them would listen to her. I was proven very wrong when the novistador did listen to Sora by spitting up gastric acid all over the others until they dissolved on the ground.
When all but one of the novistadors were killed, the one that Sora was controlling landed on the ground in front of my partner and shockingly she threw her arms around it and hugged it.
"Sora . What the hell are you doing?" I asked, mildly disturbed at the awkward scene.
"I'm hugging this cure and adorable predator." Sora happily said, still hugging the novistador. "Besides how can anyone not love this face?" she added gleefully.
'_She thinks that _thing_ is cute and adorable? She must've had a messed up childhood._' I thought, looking away from the drooling mutant insect.
As I walked around the room Sora and her 'cute' novistador picked up a few triangular jewels in greens and reds and found only one blue, when all the jewels were picked up I ran to a lever which lowered the bridge out of here. Right when the bridge was completely down Sora ran across with the human-sized bug following her like a lost puppy, even that disturbed me and puzzled me about how my partner could love that mutant creature. Right as we went through the door we found another merchant, he saw the novistador behind Sora and it looked like he was going to have a heart-attack. The first thing I did was sell all the triangular jewels Sora and I had and bought two first aid sprays, I gave the second can to Sora when I had put the first one in my bag. After I had bought the cans of spray Sora and I walked out the door only to get a call from the midget.
"I wonder if you can see me Mr. Kennedy."
"If you scratch her I'll break all the bones in your body." I threatened Salazar.
"Let's see if you can make it this far. I'll be waiting."
When the transmission ended Sora took her rifle from me, aimed it at a monk who was walking on a balcony and fired the gun, I was about to walk forward until Sora told me to wait. I was about to question her until she fired her rifle a second time, when I saw the second monk literally lose his head and I had heard Sora cheer something about getting two head shots in a row.
"If you're done celebrating we have to go save Ashley again."
"Oh what joy, such wonderful fun." Sora unenthusiastically said, petting the bug that was no more than a few inches off the ground.
"May I ask why that thing is still with you?"
"I like it . I think it's cute."
I wasn't going to bother asking my partner why she thought the novistador was cute so I walked ahead with ease, without knowing that Sora had hitched a ride on her newly found pet. Before I knew it the novistador had grabbed me and flew over to where Salazar and his two goons got away to with Ashley.
"You could've warned me before doing that!" I exclaimed to Sora, getting away from the mutant insect.
"And waste such valuable time arguing no way!" Sora told me, getting off the insect, "Besides since this cutie can fly why not take advantage."
"At least it saved us time."
When Sora and I walked in I had spoken too soon when we saw two monks and two Garradors in spiky armor, as if one wasn't enough! I looked over to Sora who was whispering something to the novistador causing it to fly to the monks and spew acid on them. Once the two monks were taken care of both of the garradors had somehow found out where we were so right when they got in arms reach of us Sora and I dove out of the way. After the monks were gone the novistador flew on the back of one of the garradors and started scratching the parasite along with spitting acid on it leaving the last one to me and Sora. While the last one was left to us three more monks with the skull masks ran out and began to come after us, Sora and I managed to take out all three monks and take whatever they had on them.
Unfortunately the garrador had found us once again, just barely avoiding getting cut by the monster's blades. For a fact I knew Sora was somehow able to heal herself from cut, scratches, and who knows what else but I on the other hand can't so I had to do everything in my power to avoid getting killed. As Sora and I took several shots at the garrador, the creature managed to leave three long cuts in my arm.
"Leon!"
From what I saw Sora literally leaped on the garrador's back and started stabbing the life out of the parasite, within minutes the garrador threw Sora off of it and died. I for one was surprised at the stunt Sora had pulled because I had never seen my partner pull something like that ever since we got to the village, but now I had to bandage my arm since it looked like my arm was drenched in my blood.
"Let me help with that Leon, it looks pretty bad." Sora said to me, taking out a small can of disinfectant and sprayed it on my wound which stung.
After treating my arm Sora had wrapped my wound and began putting her medical supplies away I noticed that there was blood smeared on Sora's cheek and left arm. I was about to ask if she was okay but Sora had told me she was fine, nothing wrong, so after we got to the door I was damn well shocked that the novistador was still alive and it gave Sora about 31,500 ptas, handgun ammo and two green herbs. Then as me, Sora and the novistador walked through the door we saw Salazar in a miniature thrown and his two goons holding blades in front and behind Ashley.
"Ashley,"
"Leon, Sora!" Ashley weakly cried not moving because of the blade against her neck.
"Mr. Kennedy. Don't you know when it's time to throw in the towel?" Salazar asked, pressing a button causing some of the candles to go out and a trapdoor opened under me and Sora.
"No Leon, Sora!"
/ Third Person's POV/
Not even a few seconds passed that Leon grabbed Sora by the waist with one and pulled out a grappling gun, fired it and the hook stuck into the wall. The novistador that followed Sora flew to kill Salazar but the red-robed Verdugo rushed and cut the insect in two then threw the two pieces into the hole.
"Aw I loved that novistador!" Sora cried quietly, holding onto Leon.
"Hang on Sora."
"Hmm? Where's the satisfying sound of one's impalement?" Salazar asked himself while holding a metal microphone to his ear.
"This is for killing my novistador!" Sora said, pointing a gun at a metal microphone and shot at it causing Salazar to rapidly jerk away.
"How dare you! No more games! Kill them!" he screamed at the red-robed Verdugo, then got up from his thrown. "Kill!" he screamed once more, pointing in a certain direction, then his bodyguard left to obey orders. "Come we must prepare for the ritual!" Salazar ordered his black-robed Verdugo who still had Ashley.
"Leon, Sora, you're alive." Ashley thanked in a audible whisper, then got pushed to leave the room.
/ Sora's POV /
When Leon and I had our feet firmly on the floor I had made a joke about Salazar being cranky and the joke actually got a laugh out of Leon! Just as we were about to search the area Salazar called Leon's radio.
"So maybe you have nine lives, but that doesn't matter now Mr. Kennedy, Sora. I've sent my right hand to dispose of you." Salazar informed us.
"Your right hand comes off .Awesome!" I exclaimed, totally psyched about the right hand coming off. "Oh and you owe me a new novistador."
"Why would I give you a novistador?"
"Because you killed the one I loved!" I cried.
"Say what you please, die you worms!" Salazar shouted, turning off the video feed.
After the transmission ended we decided to search the area, Leon managed to find magnum rounds, TMP ammo, and a yellow herb while I found a crown with two indentions in it. I put it in my bag just in case me or Leon found the pieces of the crown, as Leon was talking to the merchant many bats swarmed in the room causing me to scream in pure terror.
"Ahhh! Bats, bats get'em away!" I screamed, running to Leon for protection.
"Sora, I must ask, why are you afraid of bats?"
"A bat flew in my hair when I was little." I explained to Leon who was now giving me a weird look. "What?"
I saw that Leon just shook his head in a disbelieving manner then walked away to climb up a ladder with a newly bought rocket launcher strapped to his back. Before I climbed up after him I handed the merchant three grand for a second rocket launcher which he conveniently had, as he handed it to me I strapped it to my back and climbed up the ladder to catch up with Leon. When I caught up to him we ended up walking though a sewer and the smell was not pleasant at all! I noticed Leon didn't mind the smell so I tried to tough it out until we made it to a door that was up ahead. As we went through the door there was an arrow that pointed in the direction ahead of us so Leon and I decided to follow it, when we got to the destination there was loud bands as if something had made collisions with the metal door behind us.
"Leon, you go on ahead, I'll check out that noise." I told Leon then ran back before he could protest.
As I got back to the door I was amazed at all the bulges in it, heck I even saw one that looked like a face! But seeing the many bulges in the steel door I ran back to Leon who was in a room with a control panel and an elevator before I was able to tell Leon what I found he told me we had to find the control room and turn on the power for the elevator. As we left the room there were rumbling sounds coming from places but right when Leon and I were able to pin-point it we got hit by a razor sharp tail.
"What the living hell was that?!" I snapped, wiping blood off my cheek.
"How should I know Sora? It must be that right hand Salazar was talking about." Leon told me.
So with that Leon and I ran all the way to the control, while dodging all of Verdugo's attacks, by the time we got in the control room Leon picked up a box of shotgun shells and I managed to pull the lever to bring the power back to the elevator. But when we got to the door to get out of here the shutter was down so right when Leon pressed the button to de-activate the shutter a timer went off saying that the shutter lock will release in four minutes. Hearing that I banged my fists against the steel shutter door while hearing Leon say something about Salazar's right hand man being in the room, I turned around to see a black alien-looking creature with gleaming red eyes walking towards us, I panicked at the sight of him and used my rocket launcher knowing I'll get thrown back in the backlash. When the smoke cleared Verdugo was still standing like nothing even happened to him, both me and Leon were shocked at how durable Verdugo was so Leon quickly mentioned that there was a nitrogen tank near the control panels. With that I figured that freezing Verdugo's body would make him more vulnerable to our attacks so I decided to distract Verdugo long enough for Leon to knock over the nitrogen tank and hit him with his rocket launcher.
So to test the extent of my power of control I commanded Verdugo to stop right where he was, giving Leon plenty of time to get to the tank but right when Leon was loosening it my control was wearing thin.
"Leon, hurry up!" I yelled feeling my voice straining. "I don't know how much longer I can stop him!" I added, now getting a major migraine from trying to control Verdugo.
Right after I had yelled at Leon he managed to knock over the nitrogen tank thus freezing Verdugo and allowing me to release my control over the black alien-like creature. Once Verdugo was frozen I had held myself to prevent falling over, then I saw Leon aiming his launcher and fired it causing Verdugo to shatter into many tiny pieces. Just after Leon killed Verdugo the shutter door had opened letting me and Leon out but before I left I saw something gold with a green jewel among the icy remains of Salazar's right hand man. Seeing the ornament I picked it up, stuck it in my bag and ran after Leon who was in the room where our elevator was at, than as I got to the elevator Leon and I got in and pressed the button to go down.
/ Third Person's POV /
Somewhere in a industrial-like area Saddler was sitting in a thrown looking at a very muscular man who wore a red beret, a black combat shirt, camouflage pants, a tactical vest and combat boots.
"It seems that Salazar is having difficulty taming the American pig. Salazar had his chance. Krauser go get the girls!" Saddler commanded, "Oh, and dispose of the swine while your at it." He added.
"Consider it done." Krauser said, standing up showing his face which had a scar diagonal from his mouth then left.
'_Sora, why did you have to get involved so soon?_' Saddler thought, slouching in his thrown and took out a picture of Sora as a five year old.
/ Leon's POV /
When the elevator stopped Sora and I got out seeing a merchant down below when I looked back to see what Sora was doing she was messing with that damn crown she found. By the time I got her attention she finished putting the crown jewel piece inside the crown's side indention and had put it back in her bag.
"Could you please not mess with that crown until you find all of the pieces!" I stressed to Sora who had a sheepish grin on her face.
"Sure, besides I only have one piece to go until this crown's completion." Sora replied to me then walked passed me to get down the steps.
After we were done searching the room for useful items I had heard Sora complain something about Luis' memos going over her head while she had a headache. Then after I took the memo from Sora and walked through the door only to find ourselves in a mine, since it was so huge Sora and I had split up to cover more ground, but it seemed like it was a bad idea when I started getting bombarded by many ganados. After killing about ten ganados I pulled both levers that bring the trolley with the dynamite but as I was going to find Sora because she had not come back I heard a chainsaw rev and a gigantic chainsaw man jumped down with a double bladed chainsaw and Sora riding on its shoulder!
"Hey Leon! I see you met my new friend!" she happily said waving at me and still on the giant double chainsaw wielding man's shoulder.
'_Friend!? She thinks that thing is her _friend_! The conclusion's final, Sora had a messed up childhood._' I thought before fainting.
/ Sora's POV /
"Leon! Are you okay?" I exclaimed worryingly, jumping off the super Dr. Salvador's shoulder to see if Leon was alright.
Right when I got to Leon I lightly slapped him to wake him up but no luck so I slapped Leon a little harder and with that he finally woke back up rubbing the left side of his face.
"Sora, why does my face hurt?" Leon questioned me with an interrogation look on his face.
"It hurts because I had to slap you since you wouldn't wake up." I said, looking away from Leon because I accidentally left a hand print on his face.
"Well thanks for waking me up but I thought that I saw you riding on a giant chainsaw man's .." Leon paused looking at super Dr. Salvador, "Holy shit!" he screamed, leaping to his feet and started backing away.
"It's okay Leon he's on our side," I said to calm him down then walked over to him and whispered, "Just think if he dies you can use his chainsaw."
I saw a smile crawl on Leon's face when I whispered that to him, then after our conversation was over Leon retrieved the TNT from the trolley, stuck it in the giant boulder that blocked our path and lit the fuse.
"Fire in the hole!" I yelled out three seconds before it went off and two ganados came out after the boulder was demolished.
Before me or Leon did anything to the two ganados, super Dr. Salvador revved the chainsaw more and hacked the two men to pieces. Seeing that 'lovely' sight Leon and I walked through a set of double doors to find ourselves in a boiling hot room, I could tell Leon wanted to get out of the room as soon as possible but when we got near the door out of here two El Gigantes came through the door.
"Awe, how sweet a Mr. and Mrs. Gigante." I expressed as a joke.
"Now's not the time to be a comedian Sora!" Leon stressed to me, "Look out!" he quickly yelled causing me to look up to see one of the gigantes about to step on me.
Thinking that I was going to die I was paralyzed with fear but all of a sudden I felt myself being pushed to the ground and a sickening sound was heard. I opened my eyes to find Leon on my left and my super Dr. Salvador's crushed body along with its smashed chainsaw.
"Aw man, I barely had him for five minutes." I whined, quickly getting up with Leon and ran to a ladder to avoid getting grabbed, stepped on, or smacked by the gigantes.
Just as we got to the top of the ladder Leon exclaimed something about a lever on the other side of the room so right when we were reloading our weapons one of the giants started shaking the platform we were on leaving us little time to escape. Then as quickly as we could Leon told me to hang onto one side of the railing while he took the other side and we slid all the way down to the other side of the room.
"Sora we've got to get those giants in the middle so we can get rid of these bastards." Leon told me knowing I was good with distractions.
"One distraction coming right up!" I cheerfully exclaimed, running toward the gigantes and ran all around them as well as cutting them with my knife.
To me I thought I was doing a good job luring the gigantes to the middle of the room where I found a trapdoor possibly containing lava. Right when both giants were on the trapdoor with me I yelled for Leon to activate the trap, before the doors fully opened I quickly jumped backwards and landed off the door when it opened. Once both gigantes were in the lava pit I backed away so that I wouldn't get pulled in the lava. By the time the pit closed the door out of here opened allowing me and Leon to make a mad dash out of here before anything else showed up. When we got out of the lava pit room we ended up in a dark cavern and to my great fortune there were novistadors everywhere!
"I thought we were rid of these things!" Leon groaned now getting irritated by the novistadors' presence.
"Yay more of the cuties, now I can replace the once I lost!" I squealed in happiness, unknowingly making about five to seven novistadors come to me.
"Sora, I think those bugs like you."
"Of course they like me, they know I like them so they won't hurt me." I replied to Leon and started hugging each of the seven novistadors I had. "Now that I have seven of these cute, cuddly, and adorable creatures, they can fill the void that I had when I lost my first novistadors." I added not knowing that Leon was backing away, far away from me.
"Leon, watch out! Any further and you'll fall off the edge!" I exclaimed seeing Leon close to the edge.
After I warned Leon he walked away from the edge and I got on one of my novistadors then took flight, leaving Leon on the ground to collect whatever he could find. As I went into two caves and pressed the buttons inside two rays of light shone on the mirror and the mirror focused the light to where it melted our way out.
/ Leon's POV /
Knowing that it was Sora's doing that the door melted I waited at the door for her while trying not to get killed by other novistadors, whole I was shooting at the flying bugs Sora came in on the one she was on and somehow controlled the five that were attacking me.
"Sora how the hell are you controlling these bugs!" I questioned my partner.
"I'm guessing that it's the Las Plagas inside me doing this. When I was with Luis he theorized that I have a power that's connected to my emotions but the flaw with that is that I was able to control those monks without any emotions at all." Sora had explained.
"Wait when did you control monks?"
"Umm, I controlled one when I got carried away after removing the swords from their mounts and the second one was when I was with Ashley."
Hearing Sora saw that gotten me suspicious about how she could do that but instead of pressing on questions I stayed quiet deciding that when Sora figures out what she's fully capable of doing she'll tell me. Then as we went through the door Sora still had her twelve novistadors following her like puppies even I thought that was disturbing as hell! Before I went any further Sora yelled something then pulled me back in time to see a boulder land in front of me. I thanked Sora for the save and went on forward avoiding all the boulders in the tunnel until we got to a wide room with a casket at the end of the room. Thinking that we hit a dead end Sora ran to the casket and took an insignia from the casket and said that the crown was completed and there was a switch on the tomb. Curious as I was I ran to see what Sora had found but right as I got near her she hit the switch causing the platform we were standing on to raise up.
By the time we got to the outside we were greeted by many angry ganados with dynamite, pitchforks, and possibly plagas heads, seeing them I got out my shotgun while Sora pulled out her riot gun and we started shooting them to smithereens. Once we shot all the ganado and ones with plagas heads Sora and I high tailed it to the door near the bonfire but it was locked.
"Great now we have to find the sacrificial lion in order to get out of here." Sora complained walking around a corner, "Leon, I found a hidden path!"
When I caught up with Sora she had just finished turning a crank and a small hole opened up, I jumped in first, caught Sora when she came down and her twelve novistadors had followed by crawling on the ceiling.
"Sora how much longer are you going to keep those creatures?" I asked realizing that one of Sora's many bugs was dripping drool on my shoulder.
"I'll keep them for as long as I want; besides they are very useful when going against those ganados." Sora haughtily said to me then told the bug that was drooling on me to stop which it surprisingly did.
As soon as we got to the end of the tunnel there were dozens of ganados in the room, I asked Sora if she could use her rifle to take them out but instead she told about five of her mutant insects to eliminate every single ganado out there. Right on command the five bugs flew out and started killing the men out there and to be honest I was actually relieved that Sora had the bugs with her so we wouldn't have to waste precious ammo. When the five bugs returned they bore gifts that they took from the dead ganado, it was mostly money that the bugs had but the key was mostly what I was interested in, so I took the key and walked out in the open. I knew Sora had hitched a ride on her novistadors again to get to the door before me so to keep up the pace I jumped over broken stone walls and avoided the bear traps on the floor. When I got to the door I inserted the key in the slot and opened the door to find another room but there was a mine cart in there, I looked at Sora who was smiling very happily that we didn't have to walk for now.
Once we were inside the carts Sora bolted to the front cart while I stayed in the back seeing eleven of Sora's bugs cling onto the sides of the cart and the twelfth one pushed the lever to move the cart. At first I thought the carts were going to move fast but to my fortune it was moving at a moderate pace causing Sora to groan about the pace. But when we went further in we were bombarded by male and female ganado, thank god luck was on our side because right as Sora yelped in surprise a few novistadors picked up the ganado near me and Sora and threw them out. Then as I saw a hill come into view I quickly got up to the front with Sora and by the time I got to the front cart we started to go downhill really fast. Both Sora and I saw that the tracks came to an end at a cavern so Sora called her novistadors and right as the first cart started to fall with us in it two of Sora's bugs grabbed us and flew us to the ledge on the other side.
"That was awesome!" Sora cheered and I was starting to think that there was nothing that could bum Sora out.
"Yeah you somehow thing that almost falling to our death was a thrill ride of the year." I said to her causing my partner to be deadly silent as if thinking what she had said wasn't the best choice of words.
After I said that to Sora we walked through the door out of here we had ended up in a room with an ornament on a table in the middle of the room, knowing what it was I took it from the table which caused a door to slide open. After we got out and got to the door where the sacrificial lion needed to be I placed it in there and the door slid open to reveal an elevator, a very small elevator. It was a tight squeeze to fit in the elevator but once Sora and I got situated I pressed the button to go up and was slightly pleased that the mutant bugs were staying behind. When we got out of the cramped elevator Sora let out a loud whistle and not even a few seconds passed that all twelve of her bugs came through the elevator.
"You just had to call them didn't you?"
"Yeah I had to." Sora said to me then walked ahead of me with her twelve insects crawling on the walls.
/ Third Person's POV /
When Leon and Sora got to the end of the hallway there was a giant statue of Salazar, seeing the giant statue made Leon think the midget was not right in the head and Sora ran to where she was in front of it.
"Aww, it's so cute how the midget tried to make himself look taller!" Sora exclaimed while taking out her cell phone and took a picture of the statue. "Now I have proof of the statue."
Just as Leon came down the stairs to join Sora the sound of rusty gears grinding was heard and the legs of the statue started moving so before it moved any further Leon and Sora started running and the novistadors flew behind them. Right when Sora and Leon got to the middle of the path the statue started to run after the two Americans. As Leon and Sora were running the marble pillars started to fall but when the two dodged the pillar about eight of Sora's novistadors got crushed.
"No! Not my novistadors!" Sora screamed in distraught and anger.
Once Sora screamed that the statue of Salazar toppled over to the side and two monks fell of the statue dead that gave the two Americans just enough time to get to the door, break the lock off and sprint down last path to another tower. When Leon, Sora and the three remaining novistadors started going down that last pathway but right as they did the statue ran right through the wall and chased after Sora and Leon. Then as the statue took a few steps forward the bridge started to collapse from the statue's weight so both Leon and Sora leaped when the path completely collapsed and caught the edge. Leon was the first to get on what was left of the bridge and Sora gotten help from one of her three surviving novistadors.
/ Sora's POV /
When I got onto the remaining part of the bridge I looked at my novistadors and said.
"And then there were three." I sighed disappointed that I lost eight bugs at once.
"Hey, cheer up at least you have three bugs left."
"Yeah, one for you, one for me, and one for Ash." I replied getting up off the ground then quickly checked my bag. "Oh thank god I still have this crown."
"Forget about the stupid crown! Come on!" Leon stressed to me then walked through the door.
As Leon and I entered the tower with my three novistadors we all heard clapping and there was the midget and his last bodyguard on the other side of the room.
"So nice of you to join us Mr. Scott Kennedy, Ms .. Avalon." Salazar greeted us; I could tell he for some reason cringed in disdain when he said my last name.
"Great, you again!" Leon unenthusiastically said to the midget.
"Where's Ashley, Salazar?" I demanded, wanting to know where Ashley was being kept.
"She's safe, the sacred rite that is about to begin at this tower will bestow the girl with magnificent power. She will join us, become one of us." He boasted.
"This is no ritual, this is terrorism." Leon spoke out.
"Isn't that a popular word these days? Not to worry we've prepared a special ritual just for you Mr. Kennedy." Salazar informed him and was just about to give a command until I got out my knife.
"Don't you dare even think about it!" I growled, throwing my knife at Salazar's hand and also seen dead monk's bodies' fall from above. "Wow it's raining dead monks." I joked.
After I stabbed the midgets hand his bodyguard grabbing the handle to throw it back only to miss the intended target, remembering about the crown at a random time I got it out of my bag and held it out in plain sight.
"My crown!" Salazar screamed running toward me only to be stopped by my foot.
"Ohh, so this is your crown, I was wondering where I saw this insignia before."
"Give it back to me, it's mine!" the midget demanded, still blocked by my foot.
"If you want it back so badly then jump for it!" I exclaimed, putting my foot down and held the crown over Salazar who was now jumping for it. "Come on Salazar you can jump higher than that, come one jump for it!" I excitingly said lifting and lowering the crown while Salazar continued to jump for it.
/ Third Person's POV /
On an island Saddler was in a security room looking at the surveillance feed in the castle then started laughing when he saw Sora playing "Keep Away" with his subordinate's crown. Not knowing that Ada was also watching the TV screen from an air vent and had her contact Wesker online on her radio.
"Oh Sora, you never cease to entertain the audience."
"It seems that Leon's partner is somehow connected to Saddler, Ada find more about Ms. Avalon." Wesker ordered Ada through the radio.
"I'm on it." Ada replied disconnecting the transmission.
/ Leon's POV /
Sora's game of keep away went on for ten minutes straight now and it was starting to get boring, I could also see that it was boring for Sora too.
"Okay this had gone far enough!" Sora shouted then threw the crown in the air, got out her shotgun and blasted the crown in pieces.
"No!" Salazar screamed in agony and disbelief while trying to put his crown back together but failing miserably.
/ Wesker's POV /
To keep an eye on Leon and his partner I hacked into the security system to monitor their actions and right when I got the video feed operational I got it working just in time to see Sora toss Salazar's crown in the air and shoot it. I found my self chuckling at the reaction the girl got out of Saddler's man when the accessory was in pieces and Salazar was trying to put it back together.
/ Leon's POV /
I was laughing at Salazar's misfortune that was brought onto him by Sora but when Salazar collected the pieces of his crown he ran to the elevator behind him. Sora and I were about to chase after him but a trapdoor opened under Sora causing her to fall in but before she got too far down she told the novistadors to listen to me until we get back together.
"Umm novistadors got up and kill the monks." I somewhat commanded, seeing the three bugs fly up and start murdering the monks above. '_I think I could get used to this. Thank you Sora._' I thought actually glad Sora made the novistadors listen to me.
My way up was less eventful since Sora's loyal novistadors were now listening to me but luckily for me the bugs had brought back ammo, money, and health items to me. I was thankful for the ammo since I was almost out but it was mostly the shotgun ammo I was almost out of. When I got to the list I told the novistadors to wait for me at the top, so when they were out of sight I pressed the button to activate the lift and it started to move but it stopped occasionally when red robed monks landed on it.
/ Ashley's POV /
"Help! Someone get me out of here!" I yelled as I kept banging on the door then I heard yelling from above. '_What is that?_' I wondered looking up at a hole in the ceiling to see Sora.
Before I knew it Sora landed on my back! I wanted to kill her for that but since I couldn't move I just laid on my stomach.
"Thanks for breaking my fall Ash." Sora thanked then got up off my back.
"Yeah and thank you for not breaking my spine!" I angrily said to the brunette and got up off the ground.
"How long you've been trapped in here?"
"Dunno, I don't have a watch."
"Ah."
Right as Sora replied to me about four of those guys busted into the room two grabbed me while the other two grabbed Sora, from what I saw Sora was putting up one hell of a fight. Though the fight didn't last long because the guy who kidnapped me came into the room looking pissed off.
"How long could it possibly take to move two girls for a stink'n ritual?" the man questioned mine and Sora captors... well what was left of Sora's beaten up captors. "It seems we have a stubborn one," he chuckled then walked over to Sora, grabbed her by the front of her shirt and slammed her against the wall.
"Oww, something tells me that you don't know how to treat a lady by the way you just grabbed me and slammed me against the wall like a rag doll."
Right when Sora said that the man was about to punch Sora in the face but both my captors and Sora's were shouting something in Spanish which I didn't understand.
"No, no, no debe perjudicar a la Maestra! Saddler Señor no quiere que su daño!" Sora's captors yelled. (translation: No, no, you must not harm the Mistress! Lord Saddler doesn't want her harmed!)
"So... you're this Mistress those ganado have been talking about," the man amusingly said to Sora. "No matter, the brat needs these two for the ritual, get them there." he added, shoving Sora back to her captors.
By the time Sora got shoved back to her captors the man lead the way out of the room with mine and Sora's captors following. By the time we got to where the ritual was to be taken place at we gotten there just after Salazar finished preparating it and wearing a crown.
"Okay what's with the crown?" I asked noticing Sora about to bust up laughing.
"It's my family heirloom which Sora here shot to pieces!"
"Ah, such good time, how I miss them so." Sora dreamily said.
"Uhh... are you alright?" I fearfully asked Sora.
"No, I'm bound by two ganados while being relatively tired from everything thats happened along with sleep depravity."
"Okay..."
"By the way Salazar how'd you get your crown back together it was in tiny pieces when I shot it." Sora had asked.
I noticed that the midget was quiet after Sora had asked her question but shortly after he became silent he then announced that my ritual was now beginning and Sora's would happen soon after... wait why on earth would Sora need one!
/ Leon's POV /
By the time I got to the top I killed at least ten monks especially the ones with the head-eaters, thankfully Sora's three novistadors were waiting for me and no more monks were around. After I collected whatever was on the floor I was on I took another elevator up and it was smooth sailing... at least I thought it was until I saw a merchant near a huge door.
"What are you buyin' stranger?"
"Just a can of first aid spray and that'll be all." I told him as I handed the merchant 10,000 ptas in exchange for the can.
When I received my first aid spray I knew something bad was going to happen when I walk through the huge set of double doors but unfortunately I couldn't buy a rocket launcher to be prepared since I was low on money. So I opened the huge doors and walked forward to see Salazar and his remaining guard still alive.
"Ah, you just missed then. The rituals are over. The girls left with my men to an island." Salazar had informed me.
"What?!" now pissed off that not only Ashley was involved in a ritual but Sora had underwent the ritual and now was heading to an island as we speak.
"I think it's time I payed my due respects towards your impressive and stubborn will, Mr. Kennedy, welcome." the midget said to me as he was walking up to the altar and started to merge with a giant mutated flower along with his guard.
By the time the merging was complete a long snake-like creature with a giant sized version of Verdugo's face emerged from the flower, two long tentacles came out of the wall and behind the snake-like thing was a cocoon with a mutated Salazar inside. Unfortunately when I took a step back a gate slammed down behind me, blocking the door along with the novistadors. At that point I had no choice but to fight, the first thing I did was shoot at the snake like creature to see if it'll harm Salazar but instead of a cry in pain I heard a warped out chuckle and Salazar saying that it tickled! I was now getting pissed off because when Salazar did come out of his cocoon I got him with everything I had which was basically a handgun and shotgun and it looked like it only stung him. After the cocoon closed back up I had dodged the tentacles from crushing me while shooting the snake-like tentacle but when I shot its eye Salazar came out of his cocoon looking angry as hell.
During that time period I used my handgun to shoot Salazar and after reloading my gun for the third time the next few shots managed to kill the runt along with the snake-like creature. By the time Salazar's mutated corpse dissolved I jumped down to the ground below and ran to the ladder out of here and when I got up I found around 15,000 ptas where Salazar's corpse was. But when I collected the ptas I heard wings flapping I looked behind me just in time to see the three novistadors flying over me, I really wished that they were left behind but we all can't have everything. So after exiting the room I climbed down a rope, took an elevator and found myself in a clearing and seen Ada in a motorboat.
"Need a ride hansom?" Ada asked already knowing my answer.
"Yeah," I replied then muttered to the novistadors to follow the boat and then I got in the boat.
/ Ada's POV /
The ride to the island was silent which was how it needed to be but every time I looked in the rear view mirror to see three of Saddler's mutant bugs following us.
"Leon, what's with those bugs following us?" I asked wanting to know why the bugs were following us and not attacking.
"My partner somehow was able to control the novistadors and told them to listen to me before we got separated." Leon informed me.
'_Interesting, better keep that in mind._" I made a mental note to myself.
Just as we got close to the island I noticed Leon was about to say something to me so I quickly turned the wheel to where the side of the boat was facing the rocky wall of the island. I got up, shot my grappling gun and I had made sure that my foot was still on the brakes before I was about to take off.
"I got some business to take care of. See ya later." I bid farewell to Leon, pulling the trigger on my grappling gun which pulled me to where ever the hook was.
When I was pulled out of the boat I had rigged the boat to immediately press on the gas which possibly gave Leon whiplash, as much as I seen he had jumped to the driver side of the boat to gain control. And when the boat smacked into the side of the rocky wall I seen that he had said something but I ignored it and scaled the rest of the way to the island research facility.
Sorry it took me forever to post this chapter, I was busy with school, beating the rest of the Resident Evil series and reading a vampire series that I recently became interested in. But I will post ch. 8 as soon as I finish writing it up, hope you like this chapter. RxR.
