Resident Evil

Tyrants don't cry

Chapter 3

By: Ninjalinda

A towering shadow was standing hidden behind some trees, watching the young girl running towards the guardhouse. Yellow, evil eyes followed her every move. But it let her go. It didn't follow her.

Let her go.

It moved the weight from one foot to the other. Every move it made sent waves of pain through its body. It was getting worse every minute.

It roared in pain.

Rebecca heard the roar and ran faster. She had heard it before. And she didn't want to meet that creature again.

She put her hand on the doorknob, but the door was locked. She sank down on the ground.

No! No. I'm finished. That thing will soon find me...

Pain! Pain! Pain!

The dark shadow moved towards the girl. It sensed her fear. It also felt its own fear. The girl had a gun. It was the same girl that shot it earlier that day.

But it also knew that she was able to help...

Rebecca jumped backwards as the Tyrant jumped down from the wall and landed right in front of her. She backed away and got quickly on her feet. She looked around for a way to escape.

A window.

If I break the glass...

CRASH!!

Rebecca jumped through the window and hit the floor hard. A zombie turned around and looked at her. Food...

Rebecca breathed out. A zombie was nothing. She gave it a bullet to chew on. It dropped dead on the floor.

-Rooooooooaaaaaaar!!!!!

The Tyrant of course. She took a quick look out the window and watched it leave. It looked like it had problems to walk. It halted on the left foot. The heart was beating fast. Too fast.

Good. Hope it has a mortal wound! It would be much easier for me if it stopped following me.

Door...

Ladder...

Which way?

Her choice felt on the door.

-Aaaaaarrghhhhh!!

This scream was human. She ran after the screaming and entered a room. A huge plant grew in the middle of the room. And it wasn't alone...

-Chris!

Chris looked down at Rebecca. The plant tightened its grip around him. It was difficult to breathe. He threw the file with the V-jolt report to Rebecca and hoped she would understand what she had to do.

Rebecca picked it up and left the room.

The Tyrant stood motionless and stared at the hunters in front of it. The hunters knew the Tyrant was dying and was just waiting for it to give up. It was just standing there, waiting. The Tyrant looked down at it. It found it hard to focus. It was too weak from the pain now.

Suddenly it remembered something... Something from long ago...

-No!! You're not going to do...

They put a cloth over his mouth to make him shut up.

He kept fighting for a while, but soon realised that it was no use. They were too many. Too strong. He gave up and let them tie him to the table.

He saw the scientist with the syringe. Suddenly it didn't matter... Nothing did.

He was about to be injected, but it no longer mattered. He just let them do it. He had already lost what he lived for...

The Tyrant roared furiously and ignored the pain as it attacked the hunters. Its body was filled with new strength. One of the hunters jumped at it. When it landed, the head was missing. The other hunters hissed and backed away. The Tyrant ran after them. It managed to cut their legs off with one single hit. The hunters kept squirming in a pool of green blood.

The Tyrant turned its back to them and slowly walked away.

It found a place with good view over the garden and lied down. It was exhausted and the pain was back greater than before.

It was soon over...

It didn't take Rebecca long to mix the V-jolt. She headed for the basement.

It must be that ladder I first saw when I came in through that window...

She went back to the room with the ladder. She kicked the remains of the dead zombie away. The head flied to the other end of the room.

She grinned. Disgusting...

After taking a look through the window, she started descending the ladder.

The basement was filled with water. It reached her to her hips. She started walking for the nearest door. The map showed it was the room located right under Plant 42, the huge plant that had taken Chris.

The water made it hard to move and every step she took was slow. She had to hurry! Chris needed help as quick as possible!

She didn't know what it was, but something made her turn around.

Sharks!

She desperately tried to run towards the door. The sharks were closing in on her. She had to fight!

The biggest shark closed its jaws around her leg.

-No!

She gave it a bullet in its head. The blood coloured the water red. She caught a glimpse of the other sharks starting to eat their comrade. They were eating one of their own!

She ran towards the door and this time she reached it.

There it was. The roots of Plant 42.

The Tyrant was moving slowly back to the guardhouse. It had to find the girl, the young medic. She was the only one who was able to help.

Pain! Find young girl!

WHAM!

The Tyrant broke the door open. It still had some strength left.

But its senses were still as good as they were before.

It smelled blood. It smelled the girl. And the man who ran into it earlier today. And a smell of something it couldn't understand. Plant?

It followed that smell.

A small hole in the floor.

Suddenly a long tentacle burst through the hole and wrapped around the Tyrant's leg and started to pull it towards the hole.

Panic!

The Tyrant cut off the tentacle and quickly moved away from the hole and into a corner. It pressed itself against the wall and stared at the tentacle as it waved around and disappeared the way it came from.

Chris felt a shiver go through the plant. As if it was in great pain.

Rebecca must have succeeded in using the V-jolt on the roots.

In the next moment he was lying on the floor. The plant had dropped him. Or maybe it was to weak to hold him anymore. He fired a couple of rounds at it and watched it die slowly. It turned into a slimy pool on the floor.

Chris searched the room for useable items and left the room.

Rebecca was on her way back to Chris when she was aware of something in the hallway. It was lying in a corner next to a hole in the floor.

It was the Tyrant!

Oh no! When is it going to stop following me?

She had to get past it to get to Chris. She took a careful step towards it. It didn't notice her. It wasn't able to notice anything but the pain.

She quickly entered the door and closed it.

-Rebecca! Thanks!

Chris came towards her smiling.

-It was nothing. she smiled back. – Here, take this. I found it in the basement.

She gave him a radio.

-Thanks. It will become handy. Let's get back to the mansion and search for a way to escape.

They went out the door Rebecca just came from.

Rebecca looked quickly at the corner.

The Tyrant was gone...

To be continued....

Well, well... Where could it be? Dead and eaten by hunters? Or is it still looking for Rebecca?

Will Rebecca ever help it getting rid of the pain?

Tune in next chapter....

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Ninjalinda