Resident Evil
The Seraphs
By: Xenogears
Chapter three
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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Later that night...
"Damnit," Chris cursed. "What are we gonna do now? Our only ride out of here was just destroyed!"
"Looks like we'll be going up against Umbrella again, huh?" Ryan said smugly.
"This isn't some sort of game, Ryan," Claire said crossly. "This is life and death. You should know that by now."
"Jeez, just tryin' to lighten up the situation," he said in defense. "Sorry I said anything."
"But he does have a point," Sherry interjected. "We have nothing else to do, and we need to stop Umbrella, right? Then we have to destroy this lab, if it really does exist in the school."
Her words made sense to everyone.
"Well," Leon said. "Looks like our options are either freeze to death walking in Alaskan winter weather looking for the next town, or we investigate this matter and find another way out of here."
"You spoke my mind," Chris said. "All right, people, let's suit up!"
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By the time they reached the school doors, an hour and a mile and a half from the hotel, they were beyond freezing. When they opened the wooden doors, the warm relief of a heated room rushed over them.
The room was small for a lobby, simple and plainly furnished, with walls of what looked and smelled like Ponderosa pinewood. A few wooden benches sat to either side of the room, and a square of fluorescent light glowed from the ceiling. On one wall was a large bulletin board hung with various school flyers and forms: nothing to cause alarm. Across from them was a glass-windowed door, and beyond it they could see a little of the rest of the school.
Chris took the lead, crossing the lobby to unlatch the door.
They stood before the closed door of the front office, a hallway leading off left and right. Chris motioned them down the left hall.
They walked silently past two more closed doors without windows, to where the hall ended at a pair of double doors. Chris pushed them open, and they were in another hallway leading off to the left. Classrooms for early grades lined the hallway on their right, and a windowless door with a sign over it reading 'Courtyard' was the sole feature on the opposite wall. Very much like any school anywhere¾ except for the smears of dried brown blood splattered all over the walls and floors, and various empty brass bullet casings.
"I don't get it," Ryan said with a look of disbelief. "I...I thought that Anna said that the civilians were lined up in the hallways! What the heck happened?!"
"Calm down," Chris said. "Those Umbrella bastards must have moved them to another location."
"What for?" Ryan asked.
"Hell if I know," Chris answered.
Leon picked two of the casings. One read '9mm Auto'; the other read '5.56mm Auto.'
"Judging by this," Leon said. "It looks like they were using MP5s."
When Chris tried the courtyard door it was locked. They had to move on.
At the far end of the hall, an open staircase led down to the basement and up to the second floor. Chris led them up the stairs to the second floor. After a half an hour search of the second floor, they turned up nothing, so they went down into the basement. The only door down the bowels of the school was a rusty door that had a nameplate that read 'Boiler Room'. The sound was faint, but the Boiler could be heard chugging and hissing behind the door.
Chris opened it. The boiler was big and rusted. Almost big enough to fill up the entire room. Finding a way around it, they ended up at a wall.
"Great," Claire commented over the noise. "What do we do now?"
"Look around," Chris answered. "If I know Umbrella, there's got to be something here. Like a hidden key pad or something."
They split up and searched for something that, with luck, would lead to the labs. Chris looked around and found a pillar that looked suspicious; it looked newer than the room. 'Hmmmm...' His eyes traveled up and down the length of it. 'I wonder what this could be?'
He worked his hands around it, feeling for something out of place. He stopped when his hands brushed over a crack in the pillar. As his fingers probed more closely, he discovered that the crack was in a square shape. Smiling, he pushed it. There was a loud mechanical clang, and a part of the wall slid upward into the ceiling.
"All right Chris!" Chris heard Ryan say over the boiler.
They pressed on past the portal in the wall. The new area that they were in was small, and its walls were of the same old-looking material that walled the previous room. But when they all moved into the small space, there was another loud mechanical clang, and the doorway slid down from the ceiling once more. They felt themselves sinking weirdly through space, and realized that they were in an elevator, going down.
They had found the main entrance to the labs.
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The elevator stopped abruptly, and the door opened. The location was, no doubt, the lab they were looking for. The place looked like all the other labs they had seen: everything was made out of some type of metal that looked like steel, and bright fluorescent lights beamed from the ceiling. They were in a long hallway that had a door on the right, on the left, and one at the end of the hall. What surprised them most was the stench of death, much like the pall of decay that hovered over Raccoon and Bhrams.
"Déjà vu, huh?" Sherry remarked.
"Tell me about it..." Chris said. "Okay, Leon, Claire, take right. Ryan, Sherry, take left. I got point."
They complied and went their separate ways.
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Ryan pressed the button on the side panel of the door, and it hissed open. The room that they entered was what looked like a filing room. He checked to the left and right, then motioned Sherry through. He relaxed his guard a bit, and then started checking the shelves for any useful information they could use.
Pow! Pow! Pow!
Ryan spun around.
Pow! Pow! Pow!
BLAM!
He then realized that the shots were coming from off in the distance.
"Be okay guys..." Ryan breathed to himself. "Don't worry about that, Share, it was either Leon, Claire, or Chris shooting at something. I know they're okay."
"Do you think they're shooting at zombies?" Sherry asked with concern in her voice.
"I don't think so. We didn't see any on our way here, did we?"
"Then what are they shooting at?"
"I don't know. I just hope you're wrong."
They started looking through the shelves again.
Ryan passed up several folders such as B.O.W. listings like the one they already had from Bhrams, staff listings, financial reports, animal testing, and the like. But one report caught his eye.
He opened the folder and leafed though the twenty-five-page document. A few pages from the end, he stopped.
"Hey, Share! Come take a look at this!"
Sherry rushed over to him, and he began to read it aloud.
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Dr. Jared Vickers: Personal List
Page 23
ID Number: WKD4496
Name: Claire Redfield
Age: 19
Sex: Female
Blood Type: O
Height: 5.545 ft.
Weight: 115.5 lb.
Compatible: No
ID Number: MRD6251
Name: Chris Redfield
Age: 25
Sex: Male
Blood Type: O
Height: 5.938 ft.
Weight: 177.5 lb.
Compatible: No
ID Number: MKD2931
Name: Leon S. Kennedy
Age: 24
Sex: Male
Blood Type: AB
Height: 5.908 ft.
Weight: 166.4 lb.
Compatible: No
ID Number: WCD1126
Name: Sherry Birkin
Age: 13
Sex: Female
Blood Type: A+
Height: 5.039 ft.
Weight: 84 lb.
Compatible: No
ID Number: MHD9042
Name: Ryan J. Davidson
Age: 15
Sex: Male
Blood Type: OB-
Height: 6.092 ft.
Weight: 141.5 lb.
Compatible: Yes
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What Ryan saw next made him freeze with shock.
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ID Number: WBD0059
Name: Anna Yamaguchi
Age: 15
Sex: Female
Blood Type: O-
Height: 5.729 ft.
Weight: 110.2 lb.
Compatible: Yes (tested)
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Ryan read it again. And again. And again. He still couldn't believe it.
"What does Anna have to do with Umbrella?" he mused out loud.
"Anna?" Sherry asked. "Oh, you mean that girl you met in town yesterday?"
Ryan nodded.
"And just what the hell do they mean by 'compatible'?" he again said out loud.
"I don't know, but yours says 'Yes' in that category..."
I think that you already know whom my thanks go out to, so I'll go on to my announcement:
In chapter two, I spelled Nihon-go-o hanashimusu ka, and Eigo-go-o hanashimusu ka, with a 'mas' to replace the 'mus'. Well, actually, it's said as 'mus' not 'mas'. Sorry for any confusion I may have caused.
Draft: 2/29/01
Final: 3/10/01