Prologue

In no way do I own the characters of Capcom's legacy, Resident Evil. They are used for non-profit purposes, only for entertainment.

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There was once a city by the name of Bhrams, in the state of Oregon. It was a normal, everyday type of city. Not too large, not too small. But all of this changed when the international drug corporation Umbrella came to town. They secretly set up their own lab in the Cascade Mountains, hoping that no one would find them.

They were wrong.

Two of Umbrella's most wanted, Chris and Claire Redfield, managed to hire a hacker, and get into Umbrella's systems, finding out the location of the labs.

Around the same time, one of the eight survivors from Raccoon City, Leon S. Kennedy, was approached with a proposal: join us or Sherry dies. (Sherry was also one of the survivors from Raccoon.) Leon was forced to accept the offer, and was shipped off to Bhrams to recover information about a new experimental virus. There he met his Umbrella contact, Vincent Johnson, and once again met up with Claire Redfield (who had helped him escape Raccoon).

By this time, a citizen of the city, Ryan Davidson, was also being hunted by Umbrella. He managed to find the whereabouts of the Redfields, and joined them in their mission to destroy Umbrella.

Over the course of a few days, Claire and Leon ended up in a relationship, which made it harder for Leon to complete his mission. When the time finally came for Leon to reveal his true reasons for being there, he ended up betraying Umbrella so his friends could escape. Just before they were about to leave, they were attacked by the ultimate form of the new virus, named Silver Blood. Leon came just in time to save them, but he refused to leave the city. Claire was dragged off by her brother, and they left the labs. In a moment of realization, Leon decided that it was time to escape before he was caught up in the self-destruction sequence. Using a cargo helicopter, he escaped the labs, and picked up his friends just as the city went up in a giant fireball.

That was in March, 2000.

Now it is November 29, 2000, and they have a new Umbrella threat to deal with...

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Claire was awakened by the sounds of Chris and Ryan arguing.

"Would you keep your eyes on the road?!" Chris bellowed.

"Hey!" Ryan retorted. "Look, I only have a driver's permit, I've never driven for this long before, I've never driven a mini-van, and I've never driven anything in the snow before. Considering all this, I think that I'm doing pretty damn good!"

"But would it kill you to actually look at the road?!"

"We're in Alaskan winter weather!" Ryan shot back. "We're lucky that we can even see through this snow storm!"

Tuning her mind out from the conversation, Claire decided to think to herself.

'After all that has happened, I'm surprised that we're still alive...' Claire thought. 'We wouldn't have survived this long without each other. There's Chris, my brother, the heavy weapons expert with a slightly short temper¾something that all Redfields seam to inherit¾and quick to jump to conclusions. But he will protect others with his life if he has to. Sherry¾now thirteen¾quiet, and calm, she would be perfect for something like taking down zombies, except that Raccoon left her with a little mental trauma (like all of us seemed to get, but Sherry exhibited it the most) and she's too young. Nonetheless, she's like a little sister to me, as she's also grown onto Ryan in that same way. 'Ryan, the typical fifteen-year-old boy.' He has seemingly unbounded energy, and the rough-and-heavy attitude to back it up. He's a good marksman, and tall for his age. However, after traveling with us for awhile, he began to have nightmares. 'Something that all of us went though after our first encounter with Umbrella.' The difference is that Ryan seems to have very vivid and very real nightmares, why, Claire didn't know. 'I swear that if it weren't for someone closer to his age like Sherry, he would lose it.'

Claire looked over at Leon who was sleeping next to her, as she admired how handsome he looked as he was sleeping. She brushed a strand of his reddish brown hair from his eyes and smiled.

'Then there's Leon,' She thought. 'Without his help, I wouldn't be here, a few times to be exact. Of course, I did the same, but not as much as he did. Ever since we departed on not so great terms after Raccoon, I felt some sort of attraction to him. Though I couldn't explain it then, I can now. Quite simply, any moron could see that we've fallen for each other. Even after he was forced to betray us in Bhrams, I still haven't lost any feelings or trust in him. In fact, it seems that no one has. Though it seemed that we fell in love quickly, to us it took forever. We're the most important thing in our lives now. We actually thought that we would've liked to start a relationship when this is all over, but with how strong our feelings are, that would be impossible, so we just gave in to one of life's greatest pleasures, and pains, and let it go from there. So far so good I can say...'

The van then took another sharp turn, and Chris and Ryan started to argue again.

"There you go again!" Chris yelled.

"What?! Maybe if you weren't distracting me, we would've stayed on the road!"

By now, everyone was given a rude awakening, and Claire was quite fed up with it.

"Okay, Chris," Claire said, trying to restrain her voice from shouting. "You stop talking to him."

"Thank you, Cl¾" Ryan started to say.

"And you, Ryan, keep your eyes on the freakin' road!"

Chris chuckled.

"Chris!" Claire said through clenched teeth.

"All right! Jeez..."

"Man...being bossed around by your younger sister? You're a pitiful excuse for¾"

Ryan didn't get to finish, because Claire kicked his seat, which satisfied Chris, and shut Ryan up.

"Ugghh...What time is it?" Leon asked, half-awake.

"Good morning. It's four-thirty AM."

"Okay...Good morning..." Leon said as he went back to sleep with everyone else.

"For anyone still awake, we should be at Carlton by seven. Have a nice ride...God knows I won't..." Ryan announced.

'Oh well...Might as well try to go back to sleep...' Claire thought as she closed her eyes, and rested her head on Leon's shoulder.

Author's Note: IIIIIIMMMMMMMMM BAAAAAAAAAACCCCKKKKK!!!!

Thanks to my proofreader, F. Buckley, my copyeditor, Mayumi_H, and my beta readers Catalina, Red Kat 9, and Jack the Ripper (formerly known as The Black Dragon.

Ja ne!

Draft: 12/29/00

Final: 1/6/01