CHAPTER 2. LETHIATHON

Doctor Sendo walked out of his pharmacy, turning the lights off as he went, he grabbed his keys and went to leave but heard a strange noise from the back of the shop, it was like the sound of an animal gnawing at something, he turned placing the keys on the table and walked into the back he stopped in horror. One of his assistants was lying dead on the floor his pool of blood steadily growing, above him was a man about 7 feet tall at least, he was wearing Umbrella mercenary clothes ,the man turned on the sound of of dr. Sendo stepping on a patch of glass, only his bare skull could be seen under a paper thin layer of skin,Above which his brain was exposed, he had the Umbrella insignia above a name tag saying GRANT. The creature fully turned around showing its extra spider-like arms and it grinned at Dr. Sendo displaying its dog-like teeth. Dr. sendo went to run but the creature roared flicking its lizard like tongue and sending a jet of poison over the head of Dr. Sendo. It blinded him but he could hear the creature leap.

"What is the meaning of this I demand you let us on our own tanker!"The Umbrella executive screamed he was a short fat man with a temper to match. Namcom lent over the roof of his car and placed his chin on his crossed arms. He sighed in agitation, he had finally met someone made him completly Annoyed. Completly.
"We cannot let you in as it is now under the supervision of the Ministry of Defence pending investigation of contaminants.We may allow a few of your people in under supervisiuon of our forces as lond as they have proper viral protec.."He said but was interrupted by the executive.
"We do not know if there are contaminants on the ship ,but if there are we did not create them!"
"It remains to be seen whether we can trust you. "
"Wait just a minute, we.."
"In precisly five minutes you may be allowed in the first ten sections of the main entry point."
"I will gladly relish that moment"The executive said letting an demonic smile surface once Lt. Namcom had left.

Claire walked down the main high street looking in the dark shop windows as she went, she was begining to lose hope, if she was caught here when the zombies attacked she wouldn`t be able to properly defend herself as she only had enough ammo for about fifty pistol shots at most. She walked down the streets, she knew she was no less than five minutes away from the cafe or whatever it was. She walked past the pharmacy glancing in to see one of the lights on. She dismissed it as simply someone was working later she pulled on her shoulder straps and quickened her pace.From on top of the pharmacy building the creatured aptly named the "Leviathan" flicked its lizard tongue as it feasted on Doctor Sendo and his assistant, it looked down at Claire and muttered a single word "Prey".

The Leviathon scuttled across the rooftops following Claire Redfield down the streets, she was too busy checking street names to notice its presence.It prepared to pounced but felt to solid blow delivered from a baseball bat in its midsection, the baseball bat scooped it and hit it again. Enrage it swung its tongue striking the ex-footballers arm and sending him stagering back the leviathon saw two individuals he pounced on the one who had now come to help the injured one, he was dead within seconds. The leviathon glanced to the injured man and then to the street to see if Claire had left she had, he had lost her trail! He grabbed the podgy ex-footballer and flung him off the roof to the cold street below. It grined as it feasted on the other, it had limited intelligence but still had enough to think, it roared as it thought "fools".

God, David was bored he had been up for five hours doing his project and he couldn`t get to sleep the howling of the wind made his room which happened to have a chimney incredibly drafty.. Bored with the pertually looped rock music David turned it off and switched on his tv he flicked the channels until a news report caught his eye.It was about Taet! He turned up the volume on the tv.
"The reports are vague because of police and MOD censoring but from these aerial shots we can plainly see a quarantined area with a tanker belonging to the multibillion dollar company Umbrella who are blamed for the Racoon city disaster .."David stopped listening, it was obvious to David that wherever Umbrella goes so does that mysterious disease he knew there was a connection, there had to be. David grabbed his work and stuffed it in his folder and slung it in his bag he decided it was best to board up the house and then get the hell out of here.

"12 sightings in under an hour.Those are no victims of a normal viral infection. What does that virus do?"John Namcom said angrily to the Umbrella executive who was ordering his men to search the area they were allowed. He began to walk off but John followed him into the area where Jeffries had died.He grabbed the jacket of the Umbrella executive and spun him round.
"I said what is that damned virus?"He said shouting and shaking the executive.
"It is probably just something from the food some kind of sewage pollution, maybe?"
"Don`t give me that bullshit! Dirty water doesn`t make people eat each other, what is the virus and is it made by Umbrella?"The executive shook himself loose and became enraged.
"Restrain yourself Lieutenant or you may find yourself unemployed!"The executive straightened his jacket and strode off, John went to leave but saw a handwritten document peaking out from under a nearby container, he slid it out and began to read it.

GRANT`S MEMO

WE ARE ENROUTE TO ENGLAND AND I AN AFRAID OF THE MISSION AHEAD , I HAVE DISCOVERED IT IS PLANNED FOR US TO BE INFECTED WITH THE T-VIRUS. THE PLAN IS FOR US TO VEER OF COURSE TOWARDS THE ISLAND OF TAET, THE CHIEF SCIENTIST ON BOARD WILL THEN RELEASE THE SUBJECTS FROM THEIR CHAMBERS SO THAT THEY WILL GO ON A RAMPAGE, INFECTING US AND TURNING US INTO ZOMBIES, WE WILL THEN BEACHED ON THE SHORE AND DEVOUR THE INNOCENTS. I KNOW THATS WRONG I... I...I SHOULDN`T HAVE SIGNED UP FOR THIS MISSION...GOD DAMMIT... IF ANYONE SHOULD FIND THIS I TELL YOU THERE ARE FILES AND AN ESCAPE ROUTE ON ONE OF THE LOWER DECKS AT THE AFT SECTION...I WILL END MY LIFE TONIGHT BEFORE... I HOPE YOU CAN USE THIS IF YOU ARE...A SURVIVOR.
-GRANT
Shocked by what he had just discovered John placed the piece of paper carefully in his pocket and clambered down the debris to his car.

The orange flickering street lamp made Claire`s hair glisten as she walked under its glow, she walked down the sidestreet that led off from the main street of the city, she looked down at the crumpled piece of paper in her hand,
"42 Miranda Lane, Taet City Center."She said to herself, she looked back at the roadsign which plainly said Archangel Road She sighed and went to turn but at least twenty to thirty yards away she saw the road sign saying Miranda Lane. She let out a second sigh this time it was a sigh of relief. She started off to walk to the street when she heard a squelching noise from behind, several of them infact. Recognition flashed across her features she stopped in mortal terror as zombies rounded both sides of the Academic Avenue end of Archangel Road, the zombies were ten feet away from her when she regained her composure and began to run, she rounded the corner dodging some zombies which had risen from the sewers. she grabbed her pistol from her backpack and she shot one in the head but before she could reload she was surrounded by the others,she closed her eyes and from behind Automatic Rifle fire tore the zombies to shreads, she went to turn to look at the person saving her but four hands grabbed her from behind and pulled her into a resteraunt. Its address was 42 Miranda Lane.