Chapter 29: Lara's Hallucination

I don't own anything. Resident Evil belongs to Capcom and Tomb Raider belongs to Core Design, Crystal Dynamics, and I think Square Enix. The only thing I own is the changes made to the stories of the Tomb Raider games/comics and Resident Evil games/comics/CG movies, the Government branch S.P.E.L.L., the person that has taken over Kathrine Warren's life, and Rose Warren. This story also will be bloody, violent, and have cursing. It's rated T for Teen.

Country: Russia, State: Siberia, City: Siberian Wilderness, Place: Near Kitezh, Area: Wicked Vale, Month: November, Day: Tuesday 28th, Year: 2000, Time: 19:14 KRAT…

"-where you die!" Lara stumbled at the voice of an old woman and the dry cackle.

Lara kept walking forward as she came into a steaming cavern. The lighting tinted green instead of purple like before. Tree roots from the walls quivered and sifted as if a heavy wind was passing through, yet her hair was flat to her head. The walls shook as if threating to collapse or burst open with water.

All that made her stay in the middle of the tunnel as she walked. Turning the corner Lara stumbled back into a wall. Before her was a tunnel lined with bodies. They were staggered in different levels, bound in burial shrouds, and their skull heads all turned in unison to look at Lara with empty orbits.

"No…must be dreaming…" Lara hissed shaking her head as she started walking down between the bodies as their heads followed her. "Isn't real…can't be…" She panted in panic as her heart raced with fright.

Lara stepped out of the tunnel and into a snowy forest, over lit by green and filled with fog. She shook her head. She could hear male and female voices. She couldn't fully pinpoint who they were but wasn't trying to. She jolted as she saw something zip through the trees in a blur of black.

"Just…keep moving…" She hissed as she walked, when the path forked, she took the right-hand path.

As Lara rounded a corner of the trees, she jumped as her father's laughter drifted around her. The fog causing the laugh to echo and she could not pinpoint where it came from. She spun around looking for the source before turning back and seeing him. Her dad, hands in his pockets, strolling casually.

"Lara…" His voice echoed around before he stepped out of Lara's sight.

"Dad? No…" Lara ran around the trees to see he'd vanished. "It can't be…" She breathed as she started running down the twisting tree lined path. "No…wait…"

She slowed to a stop as she looked around and heard the laughter of her mother.

"I'm close, Lara…" Her father called out softly from somewhere ahead of her.

She kept walking before she froze up. "Wait…where am I? How…" She asked herself as the trees seemed to shift and move, as if hauntingly guiding her. "How far dose this path go?" She asked her voice echoing and distorting from the pollen's effects.

She spotted him again, at the end of the path, walking calmly.

"Come here…" Her father called as he vanished behind more trees.

Lara ran after him, turning and twisting in the trees as her world tipped side to side at a painfully slow pace. "It's not real…not him…" She whimpered desperately as her mother's laughter in the trees abruptly stopped and she could hear her yelling something but couldn't tell what she was yelling.

Another shadow vanished through the trees as she turned a corner, heart racing and her breath came in fast gasps as fear coursed through her veins. She knew something was wrong with these woods. It was leading to something bad.

Lara turned a corner and saw her father just standing there, looking down at the snow. "Dad…" She gasped, forgetting for a moment that none of what she seeing, smelling, or hearing was real. "Stop…please don't…" She begged reaching her hand out to his tall figure.

The colors of the world shifted and a creature of horns, yellow eyes, pulsing in red and black smoke, appeared and screeched at her. Lara raised her arms up in fright as she fell back, hearing two other sounds of yelling and saw a glint of something but then the creature vanished in a poof.

"God…no…" Lara shook as she struggled to make herself move from her frozen stance. "Got to get out of here…"

Lara walked around another group of trees. It was getting dark now. Maybe it wasn't daytime anymore? With the lighting, the fog, the trees seemed darker, taller.

"There is a truth behind all myth…" Her father said sadly and slowly.

Lara whimpered shakily as she kept walking and found her arms hugging her chest. "I just want to leave…" She begged. "Please…"

Lara turned the corner and froze in her tracks.

"No…" She gasped as her arms dropped to her sides. "No…" She begged as she walked forward, into the hallway outside her father's study. "This isn't…" She pleaded as she saw the double doors open.

Wind blasted her as her father walked farther into the bright moonlight on the other side. She held her arms up to block the sudden bright light, as she passed through the doors, knowing what she'd see, but had to push through. But as she got used to the light again, she frowned. She was in the woods again. Just the trees, snow, and the green tint on the fog.

Lara swallowed. Remembering the pollen, Leon, Kat, and she had breathed in. But she partly hoped it was a spell the witch had cast. An easy solution to make it stop.

"Who are you?" Lara asked as she spotted her father's figure again and ran forward down the path. "Why are you doing this?" She turned as her father vanished again. "Stop! God damn you, stop!"

She rounded the bend and saw random artifacts on tables from her father's study and bookshelves scattered about.

"For me…It is too late." Her father said sadly.

Lara rounded a bend, panicking as she saw her father's window, desk, and him. He stood holding a gun to his head. But then a shadowy figure would be there holding the gun at her father's head. It would switch between the two scenarios.

"Oh Dad…" She gasped as she walked forward. "No…don't do it…please!" She screamed reaching out to stop him as she rushed at his desk.

"Someday…you'll understand." Her father said, the final words she ever heard him say.

The curtains closed and he turned around to face her. A figure would glitch into place with her father, he looked taller than her father. Then her father's finger or was it the man's finger, pulled the trigger. Lara shielded her eyes at the unexpectedly bright flash of the gun and her father's falling body. But she heard no gunshot, she heard the pained scream of Kat's voice on the air.

"KAT!" When she blinked the dancing light from her vison, she saw a cavern with a crack in the wall and heard the laughing of the old Russian witch. "Who are you?"

"Come and see…"

Lara walked forward and pushed her way through the crack, feeling something closing it behind her, trapping her. She stumbled out and looked around the dark greenness. She turned around and gasped shaking.

"Leon?" She asked.

But something was wrong, he looked…ill?

"It's gonna be your fault…this obsession you've got." Leon hissed at her, the aggression unlike anything she'd seen from him.

"Wha-what?" She sputtered.

"Kat's gonna die. I'll die. Both will be your fault. Just like your mom. And just like your dad." He accused.

Lara shook her head turning away. "That's…that's not you…that's not your voice." She hissed.

The trees and ground trembled under her feet. They looked to the trees. Lara gasped as she stumbled back. A house walked through them. A hut on black chicken legs.

"That's…not possible…" Lara breathed as she followed the passing house with her eyes. "It's… it's just a myth…"

"It's…those are chicken legs…" Leon couldn't believe it. "No way…"

"It's not…" Kat coughed as she struggled to stand. "It can't be real…"

"She's here." An eerie female voice called. "I'm sorry, Lara. There is no return." She said darkly. "You're going to rot out there."

"-going to rot out there." The witch said with a dry laugh.

Lara ran down the path, Leon following, maybe Kat. She wasn't sure. She just had to get out of there. She turned at bend and came to some ruins and a broken wooden bridge near a rushing river. She looked to her left at the sudden orange light. She gasped at the sight of fire and the Baba Yaga's hut amongst it. Looking like it was from hell.

"Dagon Ahk May Gott Ang Korl!" Baba Yaga yelled from her hut.

The hut came closer, and fire flew at them from the hut's open doors. It hit what was left of the bridge and sent them all screaming to the icy ground below.

"Shub Noor Go Awf An KA!" Baba Yaga yelled furiously.

Fire rained down from the doors but didn't hit anyone. The ground ripped open and wolves clawed up from it. They were smoky and had the flames of hell for eyes. Lara pulled her bow and tried looseing arrows at the hell wolves. Her arrows hit and they'd vanish into smoke. She heard Kat's yell of pain and looked to see a smoke wolf ripping into her friend's arm, she could see blood soaking the coat sleeve.

"KAR ZHO SHUGG CH'TOLLA!" Baba Yaga yelled from her hut making the wolves vanish and her hut moved forward.

They looked up at the hell house on bird's legs. It moved closer from the cave. They could somewhat make out the witch standing on the porch part of the house. She looked like she was in horns, feathers, and furs.

"No…" Lara shook her head. "This…Oh god…" She looked at Leon and Kat then back at the hut. "This can't…"

"Baba…Yaga…can't…flowers…" Kat tried to say, remembering the pollen vaguely, but felt her legs shaking, her heart racing too fast.

Leon looked at Kat seeing she was going to fall over. He gave up on holding his gun and holstered it before catching her and holding her up. "Flowers?" Leon asked confused.

The hut then jumped down, landed before the three, forcing them to back up.

"KORR AH CHAK LI RAH!" Baba Yaga shouted at them as fire raged out of the door way like a fire breathing dragon.

They backed up from the house that stocked toward them, spitting fire. Baba Yaga waved at them, as if becoming them to enter her hut.

"Come." She crocked. "Your Father awaits you…"

"Not real…" All three gasped as they came to the edge of a cliff, where the river was.

"It's not…" Lara gasped as the house lifted a leg with its sharpened talons.

"I've got you Kat…" Leon breathed into Kat's ear as he felt his heel hit the edge of the cliff. "I…I'm not letting you go."

Kat looked back at Leon then the hut. "We…need to move…"

"No." Lara looked at the cliff and at Leon and Kat seeing Kat's eyes were fluttering. "No…"

Baba Yaga's maniacal laugh echoed and got them to look up at the hut. The chicken leg came rushing and crashing down at them. The moment it hit the ground, Lara jumped and fell back screaming as she fell from the cliff. Leon pulled Kat to his chest and fell back.

They fell as the orange and green light of the world was interrupted by the three hitting the water. Lara on her back, Leon, and Kat on their shoulders. The world went dark for Lara…