Resident Evil: Forever Doomed

CHAPTER THREE

Lance went through the cabinets in the eighth grade house center hoping to find a weapon. After turning up short at the lost and found he figured that there would be a knife or something in the house center because Mrs. Leroux must take weapons from students. It seemed like a logical idea.

Who am I kidding? If I haven't found anything useful so far I'm probably not going to find anything at all. Unless...... maybe they take all of the found weapons to the main office.

He started to head out of Mrs. Leroux' office and for the door. Lance went to open the door and was shocked to see the sixth grade boy roaming outside.

"Damn it!" He knew he didn't want to be bitten by the creature; Lance knew he didn't want to take any chances. He backed away slowly as the child stumbled slowly for him.

"Shit, shit, shit! How the hell am I gonna get through this!?" Lance looked around the office trying to find something to defend himself with and came up short.

"HELP!!!!" he wailed hoping that someone would hear him. The boy let out a low moan and moved in closer.

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"HELP!!!"

I see that Jeremy is doing more damage than I expected. I already locked up all of the doors by installing the automatic bar system, and the guys at Umbrella will be here to set up the bar cover, and when they're done installing the covers I can distribute my home made chocolates; damned things took me a month to make. I figured one by one the students will become undead monsters! Soon enough the testing will be done, I'll call Ken back and tell him to tell Umbrella that the testing was successful and that the T-virus works better than ever.

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"HELP!!!"

"Oh my god! Wasn't that Lance!?" Toni yelled.

"Yeah, I think it was. Come on let's go!" Lauren screamed out loud as she dashed for the door. She quickly opened it and darted out. Toni and Katie followed her.

I'm not going to let him die, if it's the last thing I do.

They ran down the halls heading for the screaming.

"Someone, quick!" the yell came again.

Toni burst out, "It sounded like it was coming from the hall with the house center." The trio ran straight down the hall to save their friend.

"This way!" Katie yelled. They turned the corner and headed down towards the house center. They approached the door and saw that the sixth grader was moving in on Lance, one foot dragging behind the other. He let out a low, gargled moan.

"Don't you three just stand there, do something!" Lance shouted as the zombie limped closer. He was about a foot away.

Don't worry Lance, I'll do something.

Lauren ran in and dove for the zombie, landing on it's back. It fell to the floor and Lauren kept it down until Lance had a chance to get up and run. Toni and Katie moved in. Katie went to see if Lance was okay, and Toni went to help Lauren. The virus carrier broke free just a little and was able to grab Lauren's arm. Toni tried to get it to stay down but just before Toni could get there it had taken a small bite of Lauren.

"AAAH!!!" Toni took one of the letter openers and pinned it's arm down to the floor. Lauren quickly jumped off and took a hold of her arm.

"Fuck!!" she blurted out in pain. Lance went over to see what happened, when he saw the bite in Lauren's arm he was virtually in shock.

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Oh no! It bit her.

Lance stood there, hard to believe what happened.

If we don't find the antidote, Lauren might die.

"Come on, get up." he commanded.

"Wha-Why, what's wrong?" By the look of it Lauren was scared shit. Lance pulled Toni aside.

"You know what might happen, right?"

"No, what?" Toni said.

"Well, I'm not sure, but I saw this movie with a bunch of zombies and one person was bit and . . . and . . ."

"And what!?" screamed Toni.

"And he mutated. I hope this isn't true, but if it's anything like the movie, Lauren might not be, well, Lauren anymore."

A shocked Toni walked away.

Shit! Why'd it have to be her!?

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Oh God! This can't be happening. I knew I should've stayed home today.

"Katie," Toni signaled her friend over. "Lance saw this movie with a bunch of zombies, and he thinks that Lauren may mutate. Don't tel--."

"Attention all teachers and students," Mrs. Fish's voice came over the loud speaker, "all must go directly to the cafetorium for a testing service. Thank You"

"Did you guys hear that? I think we should go to the cafetor--" Lauren started to say but was cut off by Lance.

"NO! We have to get to the nurse's office." They dodged their way through the all of a sudden crowd. Katie looked up and saw that they were walking right by Mr. Selover's room. He then walked out of the door.

Katie stopped to say 'hi'. "Hi!" she said in her own, perky mood.

"Hi, shouldn't you be heading for the cafetorium? Come on, just come with me." he said in return. Katie got lost in her own fantasy and walked right by her icon. She had totally forgotten about Toni, Lance, and Lauren.

Aaaaaaaah, Rick. . . . yay!

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The remaining three came to their destination, the nurse's office. Toni opened the door and allowed Lauren and Lance to enter first. There wasn't a soul inside.

"Hello?" Toni said as she let the door to close behind her.

"Looks like no one's here." Lance moved his way towards the back where all of the beds were, but he stopped in his tracks. There was blood covering just about every inch of the floor; kids, neither dead nor alive, in each of the beds, moaning. One of the beds was unoccupied, but not too far away from it was Mrs. Blackburrow, the nurse, sprawled out on the floor with one of the zombies eating at her.

Oh no! It's happening so fast. What do we do!? We have to get out of here!

"Hold on." Lance said as he hurried towards the check-up room and searched for something he could use on Lauren's arm. He took some gauze, disinfectant spray, and some oversized band aides. Then Lance ran out and signaled for Toni and Lauren to follow him. They went into the lobby section of the office.

"Here, spray this and put on a band aide while I keep an eye out for the zombies!" Lance told Lauren and Toni.

God! They're hideous than I thought! It's worse than the movies...

"DONE!" Toni shouted from out front.

"Good, I need to get the hell out of here." Lance hurried out and as he was making his way towards the two girls, he realized something.

"Hey, where the hell is Katie!? I hope she didn't get taken by one of those zombies." A look of concern spread across all of their faces.

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"Well, I think you've finally out did yourself for once." Mrs. Guarino said in a quiet tone of voice. "I'll get all of those miserable kids into the cafetorium, make them eat three or four of my nutritious chocolates each, and then I can collect my millions. Then you'd be living the high life forever!" She trailed off into a heinous type of laugh.

...and not only do I make lots and lots of money, but I get to see those dim-witted adolescents die right before my eyes, and only then will I be satisfied; and the ones who do make, like there will be any of them, will have to go up against Umbrella's supreme killing machine, the Tyrant! In fact, I think I'd like to see that happen, yes, I'll take a few students and make sure that they make it to the end.

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This is all really difficult to understand but the fact of the matter is that it is happening and we have to pull through to the end. I would've thought that Katie would've been the first one to think that. Something stupid must've happened to make her bail out on her best friends. The important thing now is to find her, but this crowd is enormous.

"Okay, I have an idea on how we could find Katie and search the school for clues at the same time." Lance said unexpectedly. Lauren and Toni both looked at him. They were stopped in the intersection between the three main eighth grade hallways and the hall towards the main office and seventh grade entry hall.

"Toni go down that hall, where all of the languages take place, Lauren, go down towards the seventh grade hall, and I'll look around upstairs to see if anything strange has happened to the sixth grade hall. Remember, don't go to the cafetorium because something seems a bit suspicious about the whole 'refreshments' thing. Don't eat anything if you're offered okay, we don't know what could be in the food, especially considering it's Linwood food. Everyone ready?" Lance asked just to make sure they all knew what to do. Lauren nodded and Toni had a look on her face that told them that she was ready. All in all they didn't know what to expect, but they had to be ready for anything.

Wait a minute, they don't have any weapons if there's anymore of those zombie things around.

"Wait!" Toni said. Lance and Lauren both turned around and looked at Toni through the crowd. "You guys have nothing to defend yourselves from the zombies,
if there's more of them, and you don't want to be bitten by one of those zomb--" Toni stopped herself, knowing that if she went on Lauren would freak out.

Great job Toni! Now she knows something is going to happen!

"What does happen when you get bitten. Ever since that damned thing practically gnawed my arm off you two have been acting different. Now I want an honest answer; what happens when a zombie bites you!?" Lauren insisted that either Toni or Lance told her and they both knew she wasn't going to leave until she found out. Toni looked at Lance with concern and, in return, Lance gave her the same looked. They had no way to avoid telling her, she had to find out sooner or later.

"Look, Lauren," Toni started to say, "when you get bit by a zombie Lance thinks you might mutate."

Lance continued on the thought, "I don't know if that's true, but if anything like this movie I saw it might just happen." he stopped knowing he couldn't go on with what he was saying. Lauren could tell by the look on his face that she only had a few hours or so.

"Okay, I understand, but why did feel that you couldn't tell me before?" A short pause set into the mood and Lauren knew what the answer was going to be.

"Look, the most important thing right now is to get to the bottom of this, find a cure, and get you healed, okay?" Lance had a bit of unease to his voice. Toni silently passed out the letter openers and they all went on their separate paths, trying to get themselves ready for what lies ahead.

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Lauren had made her way towards the seventh grade section of the school. It had already been deserted by the time she got there.

I can't believe those brainless idiots didn't tell me that I only had a few hours to live. What the hell are you talking about!? You make it seem as if it's an everyday thing, you have... A FEW HOURS TO LIVE DAMNIT!!!!!

Lauren couldn't take it anymore and fell to her knees and broke into tears. She finally grasped that she only had a substantial amount of time left until it will all be gone.

You can't do this Lauren, put that behind you and try to make it through. The stronger you become the quicker you can find the cure and get the hell out of here.

She stood up understanding the situation and continued her way through the hall. Lauren looked around and saw that she was by the nurses office once again. The zombies were crowded at the door trying to break free, blood dripping, flesh falling. Bloody handprints were made on the glass of the doors. Lauren couldn't help but to stare, the horror of the fact that they had once been normal kids leading normal lives, but it was all gone for them, they had nothing left to live for, and soon enough Lauren knew that she would live the same fate. She wanted to cry again but knew that it wouldn't help.

"Is.. Anyone... Out... There...!?" A voice called from behind. Lauren turned around and saw her old science teacher, Mrs. Ford. Her blonde hair and clothes were soaking of blood. It was obvious that it was hers. She clasped for the door to try and keep balanced.

"Oh my God, Mrs. Ford, are you okay!?" Lauren sprinted towards the teacher. "One of my students," her words were separated, clearly because of all of the pain, "attacked me as I was getting ready to go to the cafetorium, he looked bad, really bad, almost dead. He bit my shoulder, if it wasn't for the chair nearby that I threw at him he probably would've eaten me alive. I told her not to do it." The educator fell to the floor. Lauren knelt down besides her and asked,

"Who!? Who told who not to do it!?"

"Another teacher. She got a call on her cell phone from Umbrella one day, some Kenneth guy. Well, anyway, he wanted her to work on some experiment with the students, but she went crazy. She locked all of us in the school, and if we don't do something, this whole school will collapse. You haven't turned into one of them maybe you could get some of your friends and try to stop her, but be careful she's got most of the faculty in on it. I couldn't do it, I couldn't join them. Just try and stop her, please, for everyone's sake. Will you?" Lauren looked at her ex-teacher and had only one thing on her mind right now.

"Yes, but, who is the other teacher?" she paused, "It's, it's....." Mrs. Ford's head just fell to the ground and Lauren knew that she was no more.

Oh my god-- I wonder who that person is. Maybe Lance found something useful, I should go upstairs and try to find him.

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"Everyone settle down." Mrs. Leroux's voice came through the speakers in the cafetorium. "I realize that it's all a bit cramped in here considering we had to fit the whole entire school in. We've been asked by a new candy factory, Umbers, to test a new type of chocolate. In the end you can tell us how you would rate it. You can take as many as you want. Dig in!" Katie was starting to make her way towards the chocolates but Mr. Selover grabbed her arm and took her aside.

He started to whisper, "Katie, don't eat those chocolates. I don't know exactly what's going on but I've heard some rumors of an experiment. I know that you like me so much and that's why I can't let you take part in it. It just doesn't seem right. Now, promise me you won't eat one of the chocolates, okay?"

"Um, okay."

I wonder why he won't let me have a chocolate, and what experiment could he be talking about. UMBERS-- UMBERS-- Experiments? Oh my God! What if the chocolates have something in them to turn the whole school into.... zombies!?

"Stop!! Nobody eat the chocolates!!!" She yelled out, but only the few people around her heard her over the uncontrollably loud crowd.

"Shut up!" a boy about half her height said from behind her.

"Fuck off!" Some girl said from in front of her. Katie knew that there was no way of stopping these kids from eating the chocolate.

Oh my god!!! What have I done, I totally left Lauren, Toni, and Lance all for the chance to be with my love. I have to find them. I doubt they'd be here, after what happened they wouldn't be dumb enough to come here.

She made her way towards the doors and left. There wasn't one person in the hall. Without thinking she dashed towards the nurses office remembering that they were going to go there. She would only hope to find them.