Resident Evil - Blood Opera
a fanfic by Jian DeLeon
Chapter 2 - The Dance Begins
Tsai looked around at all the black orchids on the ground around him, he estimated about
250 in all. He couldn't see anyone through the dense tropical jungle of the island, he assumed
they were hidden in the foilage, and about 50 of the hidden assassins had sniper rifles. He
sensed upcoming gunfire and pulled out his MAC-10s from underneath his trenchcoat. He dove down
to the left and started rolling in mid-air, guns blazing, the muzzle flashes of other people's
guns revealed their location to him, and he dispatched them in a flurry of silenced bullets, he
kept on rolling and took down about 50 people with both guns, he ran up behind a tree for cover
and ducked as he reloaded his silenced uzis.
"BLAM!" Tsai rolled to the right as a sniper's bullet barely missed his shoulder, he
bent down on the ground and let loose another barrage of bullets as more assassins came and
rushed him. He was about 25 feet from the research facility now, he hoped he would find cover
there. He dispatched more assassins with his uzis, suddenly he was surrounded by about 40
assassins, 20 to his front, another 20 to his back.
"Newbies..." he thought, he knew exactly what to do, he ran towards a tree and ran up it,
dodging bullets as he jumped off the tree and somersaulted in the air, guns blazing, he watched
as his bullets took down more assassins and how people on opposite sides were killing each other,
there were about 10 left when Tsai got back down to the ground, he was low on ammo yet dispatched
8 of them, he had his uzis pointed at the remaining 2 assassins, who dropped their shotguns and
surrendered, but before they could raise their hands their bodies were riddled with the last
bullets from Tsai's uzis.
"Feh... kill, or be killed." said Tsai. He tossed his empty uzis to the ground and
picked up the two SPAS-12 shotguns dropped by the assassins, he slung one on his shoulder and
carried the other as he ran into the research facility. It smelled dank and damp in there, and
the lights were very dim, this place was dead, it looked like it hadn't been used in months, dust
was gathered everywhere, yet Tsai was determined to find Maximilian, not so much anymore as to
kill him, but now to get some answers, who he really was, and how to get off this damn island.
Suddenly Tsai felt a vibration in his pocket, and he picked up his ringing cell phone.
"Zheng, this isn't the best time to be talking you double-crossing bastard." Tsai ducked
into a dark corner of the building and kept his voice as low as possible.
"Whoa! Tsai it's not my fault!"
"What the hell are you talking about? You're the one that sent me into this trap! You
set me up!"
"I didn't mean to! I didn't kn-"
"Cut the crap, tell me why you called."
"I want to redeem myself to you."
"Oh? and how would that be?" the door swung open and Zheng stepped in.
"Boo."
"Shit Zheng! Are you trying to get me killed?"
"Shh... they don't know you've gotten in here yet, I've got a radio with their frequency,
I've been tracking they're progress."
"Well, how the hell did you find me?"
"With this..." Zheng held up a small screen, it was his cell phone, and a black dot had
been blinking on what looked like a building.
"You have a tracker on my phone?"
"Hey, I gotta keep tabs on you somehow right?"
"Well how do I know that THEY don't have one too?"
"THEY don't know it exists. I'm the one that gave you the phone, everything's registered
to me."
"Fine... well what do you suggest we do?"
"Follow me!" Zheng led Tsai to what looked like a bottling room, tanks of some gas lined
the place. Suddenly the lights came on, and Zheng and Tsai looked in surprise.
"Fuckin' ay." muttered Tsai. "Thanks Zheng." Assassins lined the walls of the bottling
room, Tsai assumed it was the remainder of the mini army assembled to kill him. One of the
assassins spoke loudly,
"Zheng Liu, for your insubordinance to the Black Orchid Society, you are hereby stripped
of your position and fired. Tsai Jian, consider this your retirement!" Both Zheng and Tsai
pretty much knew that means they were gonna kill them, Tsai thought fast and fired his shotgun,
setting off a chain reaction as the tanks exploded.
"Zheng, let's get out of here!" Zheng followed Tsai as a green gas began to fill the
room, they instinctively held their breath, as they had no idea what this gas was.
"Everyone hold your breath! This gas is the T-gaarrak!" The main assassin started
choking, then began to violently cough, soon blood was spurting out his mouth as he began to
shake violently on the floor. Tsai and Zheng headed to the exit, only to be beaten there by
more assassins.
"Fir-gak!" each of the assassins outside dropped their guns, some out of pain, some
because their hands began to rot off. Tsai looked in horror as his nightmare began to come true.
"Zheng! Let's go!" The two shot the mutating assassins out of their way, and proceeded outside,
Tsai looked back in horror, the mutated zombies began eating their still-human counterparts, the
echoes of bloodcurdling screams, hungry moans, and the sound of fresh flesh being bit into
sounded throughout the bottling plant. Tsai and Zheng retreated to the forest to recover from
what just happened.
"What the hell was that in there?!"
"Not sure exactly, but I'm sure Maximilian Barton has a good idea."
"We don't even know if he's on this island, or if he's become one of THEM!"
"What do you mean?!"
"Maximilian Barton disappeared on this island 6 months ago, no one knows what happened to
him, he was a scientist for some company called Umbrella. He was hired by the Black Orchid
Society to try to create super-assassin clones that would die after completing their task.
"And how would he do that exactly?"
"He bragged of some virus that could turn people into zombies, he had been trying to work
with it and modify it so that it was triggered after the kill was made, however he never got it
to work right, and all we got was a virus that instantly mutates people into zombies much faster
than the the original."
"How the hell do you know all this?"
"When the assassins stripped me of my position, well, they meant as intelligence from the
Black Orchids."
"I see... so all these years you've been lying to me, you told me I could retire in
peace! You made me think that YOU did it. You gave me hope that I could start over!"
"Don't you think that's what I wanted too? I wanted to stop killing people too Tsai!
It just gets to a point where you don't think you're doing the world good anymore! You can only
kill so many people before the job gets boring! I tried, I worked my ass off trying to find a
loophole to get out of this bullshit business scot-free. I couldn't tell you about my real
position because then they'd kill me. Tsai, everything I taught you, everything I said to you,
you really are the only friend I've got in this world, you're my little brother!"
"Some brother you are..." Tsai reached into his trenchcoat and pulled out a rectangular
object, he threw it on the ground and smashed it with his foot. Then he walked off into the
forest, shotgun in hand.
"Tsai! Tsai!" yet it was as if Zheng was dead to him. Zheng looked at the crushed
picture frame, a familiar picture, it was of them, Tsai and Zheng, standing by a harbor at night,
the same harbor where they would usually meet and discuss their "business." The same harbor
where Tsai first met Zheng and became a Black Orchid, the harbor that became a symbol, of when
Tsai became a man, and when two brothers finally found each other...
END CHAPTER 2...
a fanfic by Jian DeLeon
Chapter 2 - The Dance Begins
Tsai looked around at all the black orchids on the ground around him, he estimated about
250 in all. He couldn't see anyone through the dense tropical jungle of the island, he assumed
they were hidden in the foilage, and about 50 of the hidden assassins had sniper rifles. He
sensed upcoming gunfire and pulled out his MAC-10s from underneath his trenchcoat. He dove down
to the left and started rolling in mid-air, guns blazing, the muzzle flashes of other people's
guns revealed their location to him, and he dispatched them in a flurry of silenced bullets, he
kept on rolling and took down about 50 people with both guns, he ran up behind a tree for cover
and ducked as he reloaded his silenced uzis.
"BLAM!" Tsai rolled to the right as a sniper's bullet barely missed his shoulder, he
bent down on the ground and let loose another barrage of bullets as more assassins came and
rushed him. He was about 25 feet from the research facility now, he hoped he would find cover
there. He dispatched more assassins with his uzis, suddenly he was surrounded by about 40
assassins, 20 to his front, another 20 to his back.
"Newbies..." he thought, he knew exactly what to do, he ran towards a tree and ran up it,
dodging bullets as he jumped off the tree and somersaulted in the air, guns blazing, he watched
as his bullets took down more assassins and how people on opposite sides were killing each other,
there were about 10 left when Tsai got back down to the ground, he was low on ammo yet dispatched
8 of them, he had his uzis pointed at the remaining 2 assassins, who dropped their shotguns and
surrendered, but before they could raise their hands their bodies were riddled with the last
bullets from Tsai's uzis.
"Feh... kill, or be killed." said Tsai. He tossed his empty uzis to the ground and
picked up the two SPAS-12 shotguns dropped by the assassins, he slung one on his shoulder and
carried the other as he ran into the research facility. It smelled dank and damp in there, and
the lights were very dim, this place was dead, it looked like it hadn't been used in months, dust
was gathered everywhere, yet Tsai was determined to find Maximilian, not so much anymore as to
kill him, but now to get some answers, who he really was, and how to get off this damn island.
Suddenly Tsai felt a vibration in his pocket, and he picked up his ringing cell phone.
"Zheng, this isn't the best time to be talking you double-crossing bastard." Tsai ducked
into a dark corner of the building and kept his voice as low as possible.
"Whoa! Tsai it's not my fault!"
"What the hell are you talking about? You're the one that sent me into this trap! You
set me up!"
"I didn't mean to! I didn't kn-"
"Cut the crap, tell me why you called."
"I want to redeem myself to you."
"Oh? and how would that be?" the door swung open and Zheng stepped in.
"Boo."
"Shit Zheng! Are you trying to get me killed?"
"Shh... they don't know you've gotten in here yet, I've got a radio with their frequency,
I've been tracking they're progress."
"Well, how the hell did you find me?"
"With this..." Zheng held up a small screen, it was his cell phone, and a black dot had
been blinking on what looked like a building.
"You have a tracker on my phone?"
"Hey, I gotta keep tabs on you somehow right?"
"Well how do I know that THEY don't have one too?"
"THEY don't know it exists. I'm the one that gave you the phone, everything's registered
to me."
"Fine... well what do you suggest we do?"
"Follow me!" Zheng led Tsai to what looked like a bottling room, tanks of some gas lined
the place. Suddenly the lights came on, and Zheng and Tsai looked in surprise.
"Fuckin' ay." muttered Tsai. "Thanks Zheng." Assassins lined the walls of the bottling
room, Tsai assumed it was the remainder of the mini army assembled to kill him. One of the
assassins spoke loudly,
"Zheng Liu, for your insubordinance to the Black Orchid Society, you are hereby stripped
of your position and fired. Tsai Jian, consider this your retirement!" Both Zheng and Tsai
pretty much knew that means they were gonna kill them, Tsai thought fast and fired his shotgun,
setting off a chain reaction as the tanks exploded.
"Zheng, let's get out of here!" Zheng followed Tsai as a green gas began to fill the
room, they instinctively held their breath, as they had no idea what this gas was.
"Everyone hold your breath! This gas is the T-gaarrak!" The main assassin started
choking, then began to violently cough, soon blood was spurting out his mouth as he began to
shake violently on the floor. Tsai and Zheng headed to the exit, only to be beaten there by
more assassins.
"Fir-gak!" each of the assassins outside dropped their guns, some out of pain, some
because their hands began to rot off. Tsai looked in horror as his nightmare began to come true.
"Zheng! Let's go!" The two shot the mutating assassins out of their way, and proceeded outside,
Tsai looked back in horror, the mutated zombies began eating their still-human counterparts, the
echoes of bloodcurdling screams, hungry moans, and the sound of fresh flesh being bit into
sounded throughout the bottling plant. Tsai and Zheng retreated to the forest to recover from
what just happened.
"What the hell was that in there?!"
"Not sure exactly, but I'm sure Maximilian Barton has a good idea."
"We don't even know if he's on this island, or if he's become one of THEM!"
"What do you mean?!"
"Maximilian Barton disappeared on this island 6 months ago, no one knows what happened to
him, he was a scientist for some company called Umbrella. He was hired by the Black Orchid
Society to try to create super-assassin clones that would die after completing their task.
"And how would he do that exactly?"
"He bragged of some virus that could turn people into zombies, he had been trying to work
with it and modify it so that it was triggered after the kill was made, however he never got it
to work right, and all we got was a virus that instantly mutates people into zombies much faster
than the the original."
"How the hell do you know all this?"
"When the assassins stripped me of my position, well, they meant as intelligence from the
Black Orchids."
"I see... so all these years you've been lying to me, you told me I could retire in
peace! You made me think that YOU did it. You gave me hope that I could start over!"
"Don't you think that's what I wanted too? I wanted to stop killing people too Tsai!
It just gets to a point where you don't think you're doing the world good anymore! You can only
kill so many people before the job gets boring! I tried, I worked my ass off trying to find a
loophole to get out of this bullshit business scot-free. I couldn't tell you about my real
position because then they'd kill me. Tsai, everything I taught you, everything I said to you,
you really are the only friend I've got in this world, you're my little brother!"
"Some brother you are..." Tsai reached into his trenchcoat and pulled out a rectangular
object, he threw it on the ground and smashed it with his foot. Then he walked off into the
forest, shotgun in hand.
"Tsai! Tsai!" yet it was as if Zheng was dead to him. Zheng looked at the crushed
picture frame, a familiar picture, it was of them, Tsai and Zheng, standing by a harbor at night,
the same harbor where they would usually meet and discuss their "business." The same harbor
where Tsai first met Zheng and became a Black Orchid, the harbor that became a symbol, of when
Tsai became a man, and when two brothers finally found each other...
END CHAPTER 2...