-Chapter 20-









He was the one to wake up first, finding himself on the shower floor, the water still raining on his body. He rolled over onto his back, staring at the ceiling through his crimson perspective. He felt the thick protective skin on his groin reconfigure itself, feeling a slight pinch as the skin fragments refabricated themselves to encase his organ.

What am I becoming...? He said silently to himself, Why is this happening to me? What am I really? Who am I?

He closed his eyes, feeling internal fire spark up again.

Not now..... I don't want to be this horrible thing I am becoming. I am only causing nothing but pain, not beneficial things..... I have become a monster..... Doomed to live my artificial life in the shadows, killing the innocent....

He glanced at the girl and caressed her body softly and affectionately. He reached up to the shower control and attempted to shut off the water. After a few attempts that only left him to be more enraged at his new body, he finally managed to shut the water off. He stood up, and left the locker room; stalking through the campus towards the office.

He stared at the hard concrete stucco wall for a second, and thrust his clawed left hand into the wall, then his right, scaled the wall without too much effort; walked across the roof and dropped himself off of the roof when he reached the end, landing by the flag pole and left the campus while being lead towards a point he did not even think about. He looked around while he walked at a steady and reasonable speed, glancing at the destruction that had happened only in mere hours or maybe even days.

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Back in the Tnadiug building, Razor met up with the blond young man he met in the lobby. "So is your name anyway?" he asks.

The blond young man introduced himself, "I am Grant Reklaw. A rookie of the Alucemet Police Department's S.T.A.R.S. team." he tapped the rocket launcher that he was leaning on, sighing deeply, "I was sent into this complex along with my team mates who had disappeared sometime after we infiltrated the facility below the grounds we are currently standing on. I'm sure you have already seen that man in the trench coat somewhere around here..."

"Yeah, I have."

"He's been stalking me for a while around this building, I know it."

"Then why didn't you destroy him with that rocket launcher."

"I don't know..."

Dumbass, Razor thought to himself.

"Anyway, I don't see your friend with you."

"She uh... ran off."

"She better have something to defend herself with."

"She does. Anyway, my name is Razor Osaka; I was a student at AHS before the zombies appeared."

"Good to meet you, Razor. Well, I'll be going off..." he turned around and walked away.

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"Hmm...." Kat mumbled something under her breath; then accessed the next file, Specimen's Log, after reading the Experiment Log which just had the progress of the Chimera Project. The Specimen's Log was Mike's journal that was secretly being transmitted over Umbrella's databases from his home's computer, tracking his progress in a way that he did not know.

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May 4, 2005-

I... feel like I am different somehow. My body feels weak, my mind aches with a feeling of lost times, I can't explain it, it's like.... I missed years of my life but I could've sworn I was asleep for only a day. But, why am I feeling different...? I feel that something is not quite right.

On top of that, my hair color changed from a raven black to a silver color. The irises of my eyes are a deep crimson with a reptilian pupil in each. My height has been increased as well; I used to be 5'5", but now I'm 5' 8". I'm terrified of this, what did happen while I was asleep?

May 10, 2005-

Today's school day was odd, I felt as though everything was different. I couldn't find anybody familiar to me; it was like.... a rotten prank was being pulled on me. Everyone there just gave me these odd looks when they saw me walk up to them. I guess my silver hair and crimson eyes isn't an acceptable thing here in Alucemet...

May 12, 2005-

I met a girl today; she's very nice and mature. She does not seem at all effected by my appearance, she seems to understand me.

May 20, 2005-

I've been plagued by nightmares for a few days now, the same one over and over again... like a broken record that repeats itself on the worst sounding spot. In the nightmare, I am in a laboratory like place, surrounded by various machinery and thousands of people in white coats are just gazing at me, seemingly for hours on end. I see my parents there too... they have solemn expressions on their faces, almost full of sadness.

I look around to see the position where I am, but I find that I am in a giant cultivation tank, submerged in a pale green liquid. I look down to find that I am only clothed in a black, tight fitting, outfit that is covering my whole body. Pipes and tubes are driven into my arms, pumping purple and crimson colored liquids into me. I reach out to my parents but they are quickly ushered out of the room. I don't see them in the room anymore; the chemicals are still being pumped into me, then an overwhelming feeling of tiredness.

May 30, 2005-

I feel like I've been hit by a car. My head hurts like Hell, and my skin is all cold and clammy. I don't feel very well at all. I can't believe what I did; I killed all of my pets in a cold rage that just sparked up for no reason.

It's hard to write now....

I lose concentration after awhile....

I'm surprised I can even write this far...

I see things...

i'm scared...

HeLp Me SoMeOnE....
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"Hey wait!" Kat said aloud, "This last one was written five days after he died.... He...."

"Kat!" she heard Vash's voice behind her as she shut off the computer.

"Vash?"

"Where's Razor?"

"I don't know, let's split up and find him."

"Yeah." he ran back out of the room.

"Now," she said to herself, "Where is the Virus....?" She turned her attention back to the computer, exiting the windows and entering a lab search screen, she types in 'Eric Nebel's projects'

Surprisingly, she got a dead on match, bringing up a screen with the list of Nebel's labs deep below the building; showing the pin point location of the Chimera Project. She memorized it, copied all the files on a floppy disk, and ran out of the room towards the elevator leading to the Underground Laboratory.