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Chapter 1- The Beginning

Claire awoke suddenly in her car, which lay mangled in front of the tree on the outskirts of Raccoon City. She strained to remember how she had crashed. It came to her shortly; there had been some one, a person lying down in the middle of the road. She had swerved to avoid him, and had crashed, hitting her head on the steering wheel. She glanced over to the road.

[Where'd he go, he was lying in the road I swear.]

Just then she heard a noise behind her car, a crunch of leaves beneath someone, or something's feet. Claire tensed, and slowly released her seatbelt as not to cause notice. She grabbed the car's door handle, and pulled it, only to find out that her door had became stuck during the accident. She rolled down her window and slipped through. She turned to look at her wrecked car. Then, another noise, and something grabbed her shoulder.

Claire screamed, and a man put his hand over her mouth. "It's ok I'm with the police." He then let her go and she stumbled away and turned around to face him. "Are you okay?" the man asked Claire.

"Yea, I'm fine, my name is Claire Redfield, and what are you doing out here, and who are you?"

"I'm Leon Kennedy, I was driving into town, I'm supposed to be joining the police force here, I noticed your car smashed into that tree, so I stopped to help."

Just then, both of them noticed an odd shuffling sound, accompanied by a low moaning.

"What is that?" Claire asked

The noise then softened, and seemed to slow down.

"I don't know" Leon replied.

Then Claire noticed a figure behind Leon, it appeared human, but there was some thing funny about the way it walked, its skin seemed too pale to be real, and there was an odd red liquid glistening around the edges of its mouth. And the smell…she would never forget that smell.