Resident Evil
Children of the Seraphs
By: Xenogears
Prologue
In no way do I own the characters of Capcom's legacy, Resident Evil. They are used for non-profit purposes, only for entertainment. The characters Ryan Joseph Davidson, Anna Yamaguchi, and Mark belong exclusively to me and may not be used by anyone without my permission. The stories Resident Evil: Silver Blood, Resident Evil: The Seraphs and Resident Evil: Children of the Seraphs are also copyright of me, and my not be used in any way without my exclusive written permission.
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There was once a city
They were wrong.
Two of Umbrella's most wanted, Chris and Claire Redfield, hired a hacker and managed to get into Umbrella's systems, finding out the location of the labs.
Around the same time, one of the eight survivors from Raccoon City, Leon S. Kennedy, was approached with a proposal: join us or Sherry dies. (Sherry was also one of the survivors from Raccoon.) Leon was forced to accept the offer, and was shipped off to Bhrams to recover information about a new experimental virus. There he met his Umbrella contact, Vincent Johnson, and once again met up with Claire Redfield (who had helped him escape Raccoon).
By this time, a citizen of the city, Ryan Davidson, was also being hunted by Umbrella. He managed to find the whereabouts of the Redfields, and joined them in their mission to destroy Umbrella.
Over the course of a few days, Claire and Leon ended up in a relationship, which made it harder for Leon to complete his mission. When the time finally came for Leon to reveal his true reasons for being there, he ended up betraying Umbrella so his friends could escape. Just before they were about to leave, they were attacked by the ultimate form of the new virus, named Silver Blood. Leon came just in time to save them, but he refused to leave the city. Claire was dragged off by her brother, and they left the labs. In a moment of realization, Leon decided that it was time to escape before he was caught up in the self-destruction sequence. Using a cargo helicopter, he escaped the labs, and picked up his friends just as the city went up in a giant fireball.
Eight months later, the crew arrived in the Alaskan town of Carlton in an attempt to hide from Umbrella. The feeling that they had finally found a place that Umbrella hadn't touched evaporated when their vehicle was destroyed by an unknown source.
It was the next day that Ryan Davidson met one of the only inhabitants of the city, Anna Yamaguchi. Ryan connected with her quite well, and grew to trust her after just a few days.
That started to change when, in a trip to the Umbrella labs that Anna had told them about, Ryan found a list documenting viable test subjects for a certain new virus. The subjects were from the Umbrella black list and various other sources. What surprised them all was that Anna was on the list. Even more suspicious, the list had said that she had been 'tested.' On what, no one knew. The following day, Ryan went off to Anna's house to check up on her. After she told him that her friend Mark had gone missing in the labs, he agreed to go with her to look for him.
Ryan's suspicions were proven when Anna betrayed him and brought him to Dr. Vickers, a mad ex-Umbrella scientist bent on purifying the human race with a new series of viruses he had developed. These viruses would turn the subject into a being known as a Seraph. The Seraph was a supposed B.O.W. that had the appearance and thinking abilities of a human, and the powers of a supernatural being, but could still be kept under control if the mind were bent well enough. Apparently, Mark and Anna had had the procedure done on them, and shared Dr. Vickers's opinion of purifying the human race. The virus would only work on those with an O- or OB- blood type and anyone else who came into contact with it would die a painful death.
Ryan was infused with the AE²-virus, a virus that made him a Seraph with power over electricity.
Even after having the procedure done to him, he hoped he could escape. When he tried, he was stopped by Anna. As it turned out, she had a change of heart. She concurred with him to escape from Dr. Vickers.
Around this time, Umbrella had dropped several T-103s over Carlton, forcing the original team to fend off one, and Anna and Ryan to deal with another. Ryan got firsthand experience with his Seraph abilities, and managed to kill the T-103. Leon, Claire, Chris, and Sherry, who were very worried about him at this point, went to look for him, and found him just as he was about to leave Anna's house. They all walked back to the hotel where they were staying, and launched a final assault on the Carlton labs.
Though they weren't able to reach Dr. Vickers, they did manage to find Mark who still blindly followed Dr. Vickers. There was a fist fight between Ryan and Mark. The battle teetered back and forth, and finally Ryan was sent to the floor. Mark was about to finish him off when Anna sent a stream of acid at Mark, saving Ryan's life and allowing him another chance at Mark. With a flurry of electrically charged punches, Ryan defeated Mark.
It was at the last moment that Mark realized the foolishness of his actions, and asked Ryan to finish him off with his gun. Though Ryan hesitated, he eventually sent a bullet to Mark's brain, ending his pain.
They all soon escaped in a helicopter and left Carlton behind.
Now it's one year and one month later, and the crew lives in the northern Chicago suburb of Skokie. Little do they know, they still have an old enemy to deal with who hasn't forgotten them at all, and who is bent on revenge...
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Sherry waited impatiently in her seat for the final bell. She couldn't stand one more minute of Social Studies, and wished that she didn't have to take the class as a mandatory. Much like Ryan felt about Chemistry.
Finally, there was a low buzz, signaling the end of the day. She accepted the homework assignment from the teacher and then left the classroom. Her locker was conveniently right outside her Social Studies class, so she could gather her things quickly and get out the door. Anna and Ryan, however, had to cross from one side of the large Niles West High School--which was built to accommodate about 3,500 students and was in the process of getting additions to increase its capacity--to the other, just to get to their locker at the end of the day. Sherry was quite glad that she didn't have to walk as far as the new math and science wing and back every single day.
She went to wait at the Oakton break lobby where students could relax in between periods if they had short classes. She usually met Anna and Ryan here every day after the last period, and got a ride home with either Ryan or Anna, who had both gotten cars for their 16th birthday.
Sherry had her growth spurt later than usual in her teen years, but when she did, Claire described it as, "You could watch her grow in front of you."
She was now just 15 in her freshman year, and standing at about five foot six, she still had a few years left to grow. She had long discarded her schoolgirl outfit, and had gotten in touch with modern times, now wearing the usual for High School students: Black short-sleeved female shirt and baggy jeans. She was also done with letting her hair grow long, and had once again cut it short. Her voice had grown more womanly, which was a relief to her as she didn't like sounding like a child.
After waiting for a few minutes, she saw Ryan and Anna walking down to the lobby, looking at each other but not speaking. They had explained this as a "mental link," a form of telepathic communication only between them. She still couldn't believe that she was friends with two people who were basically Umbrella B.O.W.'s. And it still struck her how they had been able to hide that secret from everyone but those at home. She had seen them use their powers before in practical jokes, like Ryan using his electrical powers to turn off projectors and lights while in class, Anna using her water powers to make water faucets miraculously turn on and off, or causing chemicals in Chemistry to do certain things like spilling out of the glass or evaporating. Once she even caused a small explosion, but she was careful that no one was hurt, and the property damage was limited to a couple of glass flasks.
Ryan and Anna both were in their junior year, and they already looked like they were ready to face college.
Ryan had grown to six-foot one, the tallest person in their household. Despite his stature, he was still a very easygoing person to the others. He still wore his gray zippered, hooded sweatshirt, even in the house, and had stopped wearing his bandanna (in school anyway), much to his displeasure, revealing his scar, as it was against school policies. His voice had deepened a little, making him seem more mature. His ponytail had stopped growing at his waist and no one in school had made fun of him because of it.
Anna had grown to five feet eight, not much taller than Sherry. She now wore small wire-framed farsighted glasses, her same gold chain around her neck, and had not done much of anything to her original attire. Her favorite colors seemed to change with every passing season and since this was winter, she chose white for her long-sleeved female shirt which showed off her midsection, and a dark blue for her tight blue jeans. Her long jet-black hair was cut just a little, stopping at her thighs, and she had the streak of hair closest to the right front of her face highlighted in red. She was also captain of the school swimming team (in no small part due to her Seraph abilities), and a seasoned practitioner of Yoga.
"Konnichi wa, Sherry-chan," Anna greeted.
Anna had taken it on herself to teach both Ryan and Sherry Japanese, along with their school classes, and so far it had been going very well.
Sherry paused, trying to remember the words.
"Uh...Hai," Sherry responded carefully, recalling the words. "Konnichi wa, Anna-san,"
"Pretty good," Anna complimented. "You still could work on the accent, but other than that, you're doing well."
"Thanks."
"So," Ryan asked. "How did your day go?"
"Ugh...besides a pop quiz in just about everything? Good."
"Ouch. School sucks, huh?"
"Yeah, especially if your teacher in your worst subject seems to just loathe you."
"It'll pass. Just wait until you start going to parties. That's when you'll start having a good time."
They had walked out to the student parking lot, bundling up for the January weather, which has a tendency to be nasty in the Chicago area. This day it wasn't too bad, but you still had to keep yourself warm.
Sherry loved snow. And the whole town was covered with it. She liked the beauty of it, and just because it was plain fun made her want it to snow forever. All the adults had a second opinion on that. Even Anna and Ryan simply said, "Just wait until you start driving."
Ryan pulled his old bandanna from his pocket, tied it around his head, jammed the keys into the ignition, and started the car without letting the engine warm up. Sending the four-door blue Toyota Tercel into a hard reverse, he sped out of the parking lot like a mad man, students weaving out of the way. Within seconds Ryan hit the open road.
"Jesus, Ryan! You're going to get us killed!" Anna protested from the passenger's seat. "Next time, I drive!"
"Fine, but that ain't today!" Ryan responded buoyantly. "For now, I'm the wheel man!"
Ryan swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle. He switched lanes, and went in the opposite direction. He passed over a bridge that went over the I-94, and kept going. He only waited for the last second before a collision to take the correct lane again.
"Yeeeeeehhhhhhaaaaaa------!" Ryan cheered.
"Ryan no baka! You could have killed us back there!" Anna shouted.
"Live a little, neh?"
"I don't know what you call living, but I don't want to be a part of it!"
Ryan thought of a remark to throw back at her, but the sounds of police sirens stopped him. Sherry and Anna gave him a look that said, "I told you so," and Ryan slumped his shoulders in defeat. He slowed down and pulled over to the curb and waited for the officer to give him his ticket. He prayed it wasn't officer Paul Yarris: He had gotten to know him quite well due to little "mishaps" like this.
When Ryan opened his window and saw officer Yarris with a big smile on his face, all he could manage was, "Kuso..."
This time, I would want to save my thanks for the last chapter, so don't be surprised to see this space empty.
Konnichi wa/Good day.
[Insert name and title], no baka! ([insert name and title] NO-ba-ka)/ [Insert name and title], you idiot!
Kuso(KU-soe)/Damn it
Draft: 5/15/01
Final: 9/17/01 (2:15PM)
Ja ne!
