Resident Evil

Chapter Eight: The Statues and the Prophecy

Barry walked slowly behind Snapdragon watching her every more, Jill sensed this was making the woman nervous and she slowed her pace to walk next to him. "Why won't you trust her? She saved your ass" she whispered sharply to him "she may look odd but she really knows what's around here." Barry didn't respond for a while and Jill was just about to repeat herself

"I don't like her Jill, she related to this mad woman and that snake thing, whatever that was, and secondly she's a monster herself, I'd hate to see under that dress."

"Yeah right" Jill mumbled, what man wouldn't want to see under it? Snapdragon was extremely attractive "look she's doing her best to help us not destroy us" Barry made a grunting sound and went silent. Jill jogged back up to Snapdragon who sighed sadly "do you think it would be best if I left you know? Your friend doesn't seem to like me and I don't blame him" Jill shook her head "Barry's just being an idiot and I certainly don't want you to leave because we wouldn't get out of here if you went." Snapdragon nodded "isn't there someone else with you?" she said after a while

"Yeah, her names Rebecca" Jill said

"Maybe we should look for her before I take you any further"

"Damn right we should" Barry butted in "and we're going to stick together and make sure you don't pull nothing" Jill cringed at the tone of his voice. "That's a good idea" Snapdragon agreed and then added, "Sticking together that is, things around here are pretty tough."

Rebecca was finding that out herself as she found herself in a room full off cages with the ugliest creatures locked in them, she was scared to touch anything in case they got out. She carefully edged across the room toward a small table with a pile of old papers on it. She picked up an old looking book and dusted off the cover "Ancient Summons and Devil Worship" she read aloud and opened it.

Whatever mortal dares open this book, beware, for inside is the curse to destroy mankind and summon Satan from the pits of hell. To please this beast you need sacrifices and offering, the blood of countless children destroyed by demons themselves and a young girl. The girl must be a virgin and then raped of her purity, she must then be cursed so if she escapes she will die.

Rebecca shivered and put the small book in her pocket, everything was making sense now, the girl in the photographs, the missing children, the monsters, it was all a ritual to summon the devil. "Why would she do that though?" Rebecca though and then realised "ultimate power, so the story goes the Devil will give immortality and tons of power to whoever summons him." Rebecca looked quickly through the rest of the papers but found nothing useful and turned to go, she froze, the door handle started to turn… "Jill! Thank God it's you" Rebecca cried, "I thought I'd been caught!" Jill smiled and hugged her friend. Barry walked in and shoved Snapdragon in front "get in there too!" He snapped and gave Rebecca a slight wave "hi again!" Rebecca smiled and looked at the woman with him "who's this?" She asked.

"Antirrhinum Majus…or Snapdragon to be short" she replied and shut up again

"You're the one who invented the antidote aren't you?" Rebecca asked and Snapdragon nodded "that was really something." Rebecca pulled it out of her pocket "It is only enough for one creature" Snapdragon explained, "they need a lot to turn back" Rebecca threw it over a monstrous dog which yelped in pain and collapsed breathing heavily. Rebecca, Jill and Barry watched closely, the dog started to convulse and skin started to spread over its body and soon it was a normal dog again. "It really works!" Jill said excited and then gasped as two more monsters surrounded the dog and ripped it apart.

"Let's get out of here" Snapdragon said sadly "this place always gives me the creeps." They left the room and Snapdragon led them to another door and stopped outside "this is what I call the courtyard, this is only one of the ways out of here" she opened to door and went in. Grey slabs covered a dimly lit room with a fountain in the middle covered in moss and several large statues lurked in corners. Jill went over to the fountain and sat down looking into the water, dark fish swam around "be careful" Snapdragon warned "mother knew I came here a lot so she filled the fountain with piranha" Jill stood up again quickly. "What's that noise?" Rebecca asked, a grating sound filled the air

"The statues…" Jill said and backed into Barry "they're moving…" The statues, six in all, started to walk forward all armed with sharp weapons. "How are we supposed to kill them?!" Rebecca panicked toying with her gun.

"Shoot the bastards into little bits!" Barry yelled and fired a few shots into the nearest ones head, it broke into three and the statues crashed into the wall and fell apart. The others opened fire and dodged the swords and spears that were swung at them and after a while and a lot of ammo the statues were in bits, Barry turned angrily at Snapdragon. "You did this of purpose! I knew we couldn't trust you! You led us here so they would kill us!"
"No, I didn't, I didn't know about these things!" Snapdragon protested

"Yeah right! I vote we leave her here…we can't trust her to find an exit she'll just do this again!" Barry turned to the others who were beginning to look doubtful. "I think Barry's right" Rebecca said shortly "I've only known her for a while and I thought she was really clever but this does look suspicious." Jill looked at the floor not knowing what to say, deep down she believed Snapdragon was telling the truth but the others wouldn't like it if she said anything "let's go then" Jill said "sorry Snapdragon"

"Why are you apologising?" Barry said, "its her who needs to" He pushed her out the way and they left her standing near the fountain. She swiftly flicked water over herself avoiding being bitten by the piranha and knelt down and picked up a piece of stone. She ran her fingers over it gently thinking about how unfair the world was and perhaps it was better if she was dead…

Did Snapdragon do it or not? That's for you to decide until I get the next chapter up.