Resident Evil: Return of a Nightmare
Chapter 1
By Windra
iRowan stood with the three other survivors, Carlos, Jill, and Brad, and all of them were back to back, gazing at their surroundings. They were in a room high above the ground. There were no doors, but only windows that looked outside, to the ruins of Raccoon City. Smoke curled into the air, and smoldering fires burnt everything on the ground. Every building and car in sight burned slowly. The night sky made everything shadowed and dark.
Blood, all over the walls that stood around them. Smeared in some places, while in others it trickled down the walls and formed pools on the floor. There was a sickening stench in the air, as well. The smell of bile and something rotten; the smell of decay.
All around them, inside the doorless room, were ghastly, hungry moans. The decaying figures of the undead and T-Virus infected humans shambled towards them, their arms outstretched. They were only around five feet away.
Rowan reached for her Colt Python, only to find that it wasn't there. The Beretta and the combat knife were gone, as well. Panick stricken, she glanced at the others, only to see that their weapons were gone, too.
There was a moan in front of her, and Rowan looked up, gasping at what she saw.
Her mother was standing in front of her. Her long, brown hair was matted with blood and her green eyes were glazed over. Her tattered blue tee-shirt and denim jeans were caked with dry and new blood, and the bite marks around her neck and body were old and dry.
Rowan glanced over her shoulder quickly to see what the other three were doing, but they were nowhere to be seen. The only thing she saw behind her was a slowly advancing army of the undead, whaling in fixed, helpless hunger. Rowan gasped, turning her head to face what was once her mother, only to see that it was now directly in front of her.
The thing that was once her mother moaned, and, without a second's hesitation, it lunged at Rowan, its clammy hands gripping her shoulder. It brought its teeth to her neck, ripping at it. Rowan threw back her head and opened her mouth to scream, but no sound came out. The only thing that came was searing pain, the feeling of warm blood trickling down her neck, and, within a second later, her vision clouded over with darkness-/i
- and 13-year-old Rowan Naton bolted upright in her bed, gasping and sweating. She brought her right hand to her neck and rubbed it, even though there was no wound. Yet, it felt so real, just like all of the other nightmares that haunted her ever since the Raccoon City incident...
About four or five months ago, cannibal murders started to appear on the outskirts of Raccoon City. They increased as time went on, and the S.T.A.R.S. team were sent in to investigate a mansion in the forest in July, a month after the attacks started. During the time they investigated, the mansion exploded. Rowan didn't think it was anything major, or at least, not at the time. The S.T.A.R.S. team was suspended, and life went on.
And then, in September, the cannibal attacks started to happen. This time, Rowan got anxious. Her parents told her to be home at a certain time, and her friends' parents were doing the same thing to them. As the number of attacks increased, her parents got more strict and she grew more nervous. During September 26, Rowan went to school expecting a normal day. She had gone to lunch and sat at a table with her three best friends- Kristin Locke, Sarah Tantel, and Victoria Salmith. That was when the trouble began.
As the four ate their lunch, a badly wounded man walked into the cafeteria. Rowan didn't want to remember what he looked like, but the smell that radiated from him struck the entire lunchroom. He smelt horribly like bile and rotten eggs. The man stumbled over to Mrs. Graylee, a guidance couselor and overseer of the lunchroom. She had mistakened him for a wounded human and tried to give him a pass to the Nurse's office, but the man lunged at her, tearing into her.
Rowan had jumped onto the stage and tried to kill the thing with a music stand, but to no avail. It wasn't until she was cornered by it that she realized that the head was the weak spot and gave it a hard slam in the head with the music stand. It fell ad didn't get up, but it was far from over. An army of them were outside, banging on the doors and windows. Rowan and her friends fleed, and the doors and windows broke open. The zombies poured in, and Sarah and Victoria fell victim to them.
Rowan and Kristin fled to the janitor's room, staying there for the night and trying to gain some rest as the zombies pounded on the double doors the two girls had come through. Rowan tried to call her parents, only to hear them mutilated by the undead. The children stayed there until late September 27, when a Drain Deimos made its entrance, taking Kristin's life as it left.
Rowan stayed there and waited for it to come back, losing the will to live. That was when she remembered that her mother and Sarah's last words were for her to live, and Rowan decided that she would fulfill their wish. So, in the early hours of September 28, the girl set out to find a way to escape the doomed city.
Not wanting to be unarmed, Rowan had made it to Kendo's Gun Shop. She was amazed to see that the guy was still in the city, and when she asked why, he said that other people might need the guns, and he would help them. He told her that the R.P.D., the Raccoon City Police Department, was supposed to be gathering up the survivors to get them out of the city. Taking a Beretta, she left the shop and headed to the R.P.D.
She arrived at the the police station about ten or twenty minutes later, killing an undead dog in the process. She headed to the side area, a place concealed with bushes, hiding her and an overheating police car from any monsters. It was then that she heard two people speaking in front of the R.P.D. She looked over the bushes to see two people standing there, and, a minute later, the roar of a monster shook the ground. A hulking human-like beast wearing a black leather trench coat and black leather pants leapt in between the two, chasing a man to the wall of a building and lifting him up.
When Rowan went to interfere, the overheating police car became engulfed in flames. Unfortunately, the flames also hit a pool of oil below the car, causing an explosion and sending her flying into the monster, causing it to drop the man and go after her instead.
She ran to an alley, and, when it turned to a dead end, ran for the door of the R.P.D., which was being held open by the two people. She jumped in and helped the two people hold the door closed against the monster's pounding fists. After a while, it left the door, and Rowan asked who the two were.
They were both S.T.A.R.S. members; the man was Brad Vickers, and the woman was Jill Valentine. Rowan introduced herself, and asked what was going on in the city. What she found out shocked her to the very core.
The S.T.A.R.S. team was split into two groups; the Bravo team and the Alpha team. The Alpha team had Jill, Brad, Joseph Frost, Barry Burton, Chris Redfield, and Albert Wesker, the captain. The Bravos included Enrico Marini, Forest Speyer, Rebbecca Chambers, Kenneth Sullivan, and Richard Aiken. In July, the S.T.A.R.S. team was sent to investigate the area where the cannibal attacks seemed to originate from; a mansion in the woods called the Spencer Estate.
The Bravos were sent in first, and their helicopter went down. The Alpha came to check out what happened to them, and when they got there, the group saw that the Bravo helicopter was empty of both people and equipment. Joseph found a severed hand holding a gun in the grass, and yelled out. That was when a pack of undead dogs charged at him from in the woods, attacking him. The group of people ran to the mansion because Brad, the pilot, flew the helicopter off of the ground in fear.
The four members of the Alpha team entered the mansion and explored, only to find numerous monsters hanging around the building. There was a giant man-eating plant named Plant 42, undead dogs called Cerberus, zombies, mutated monkeys with claws called Chimeras, giant spiders called Web Spinners, mutated frogs and lizards with claws called Hunters, an undead Great White Shark called the Neptune, and flesh-eating crows. The worst was the Tyrant, something that used to be a human, but had parts of its body removed or altered. As the group trecked through the mansion, they found out that the Umbrella created T-Virus was what caused the chaos to occur in the mansion.
The T-Virus was a mutegenic toxin created by Umbrella to make bioweapons. The virus would infect anything- humans, plants, animals. It stripped all humanity from the carriers- joy love, sorrow, anger- and turned them into blood-thirsty monsters. They didn't even fall when a bullet penetrated their hearts, and they didn't feel pain. It would take a shot in the head to kill one. One bite, or even one scratch, from the monsters would infect the wounded person with the virus, and the virus would carry on.
According to Jill and Brad, Albert Wesker was secretly working for White Umbrella, a branch of Umbrella that specialized in the bioweapons. In the mansion, Wesker threatened Barry by telling him that some employees of White Umbrella were outside of his house, waiting for the order to kill his family if Barry disagreed to help him. Barry, not wanting to see his family hurt, agreed, and tried to keep Jill out of Wesker's way. However, when he overheard Wesker telling Jill that there was no one waiting to go in and kill his family, Barry smacked the traitor on the head with the butt of his gun, making him fall unconcious.
Wesker soon came to his senses and headed into the room where the Tyrant was kept. He released it, but not before preparing a self-destruct mode of the mansion. When the Tyrant was released, though, Wesker was killed by his own creation.
Chris had found Rebbecca, and those two, Jill, and Barry made their way to a helipad on the roof. Brad found the helipad and was about to land, when the Tyrant attacked. It started after the four on the ground, and in the air, Brad had managed to throw the rocket launcher down to them. Chris used it destroy the Tyrant, and the five were able to make it to safety as the mansion exploded behind them.
Chief Irons, the captain of the R.P.D., said that the S.T.A.R.S. members were drunk at the time, setting the mansion on fire, and the story was a fake to cover up the truth. Irons was probably working for Umbrella. The chief suspended the S.T.A.R.S. team, and in the meantime, the five of them had to avoide being captured by Umbrella.
Chris and Barry headed to Europe, preparing to infultrate an Umbrella facility. Rebbecca had gone with David Trapp, John Andrews, a man named Steve, and a woman named Karen. They headed to Caliban Cove, Maine, to sneak into another Umbrella facility. The facility went up in an explosion, and Karen and Steve were killed. Rebbecca, David, and John survived. Brad had skipped town in fear of what Umbrella would do if they caught him, and Jill had been preparing to go to Europe to join Chris and Barry.
Jill was still in the city when the outbreak of zombies occurred. She wound up trapped in the city. Brad came back to the city late on September 27 to try to find survivors. Both of them had headed to the R.P.D. around the same time, and met up with Rowan.
After trying to recover from shock, the three had looked through the R.P.D. to find equipment or anything else that might help them. Jill found her S.T.A.R.S. card, and the three had found a jem that belonged to a clock-like structure in front of the City Hall. They also found a key that opened the S.T.A.R.S. office, and Brad and Jill went to check it out. Not long afterwards, the S.T.A.R.S. hunter attacked again, forcing them out of the R.P.D. and to another area of the city.
In a car garage, the ground had started to shake. It ended abruptly, and the three of them continued to find themselves in a resturaunt. After checking the place out, another man named Carlos Oliveira snuck up on them. Jill, Rowan, and Brad had almost shot him because they thought he was a zombie. A little after they met him, the Tyrant Seeker made another assault. Jill threw an oil lamp that she had lit in fire at it, and it exploded in the monster's face, sending it falling. It began to stir, and not wanting to become its victims, the four of them fled.
Outside, Carlos told him that he was part of the U.B.C.S. team, and Jill freaked out. Carlos said that he wasn't involved in the science department, and he didn't even know about the T-Virus. When Jill cooled off a little, he headed off to search the city and find a way out.
The three survivors had headed to the City Hall, but their journey was stopped when an all too familiar Drain Deimos attacked them. It was the same one that killed Kristin Locke, and Rowan became angry. She had fired about five shots into the beast's head until it fell.
When they got to the City Hall, they put the gem from the R.P.D. into the clock-like structure there, and Brad found one on the ground, and put it in. The gate opened, and, when they started for the doors of the City Hall, a pair of Hunters assaulted them. They slammed into a pile of cars right next to Rowan, and the cars tumbled in front of her, cornering her and crushing the Hunters. She had to go through a manhole in the corner where she was, and slinked into the sewers.
Rowan had searched te sewers for what seemed like hours, and she stumbled upon a room with a journal in it. Rowan remembered the word of that journal almost by heart, because she had kept looking over it when they were in the city. It read:
'September 24, 1998
I've been picked as a Watchdog for collecting information about the virus that is going around Raccoon. In Operation Watchdog, certain people who work with Umbrella are picked to go into Raccoon City disguised as workers, scientists, soldiers, and other things. Our duty is to study the effects of the virus on the city and the people and report the status of the city to Umbrella using computers. There are only ten Watchdogs, three of which I know are Davis Chan, Terence Foster, and some weird and spooky Russian named Nicholai. I'm supposed to be a woman who works for the city. I have my equipment ready, and, if my calculations are correct, it shouldn't be long until the city is infected...'
'September 26, 1998
It has begun. The city started to become overrun with the virus carriers. One of the first places that got hit was Raccoon City Middle School North, and I feel sorry for all of the children who lost their lives. I got word that Umbrella sent the Tyrant seeker, a.k.a. Nemesis, as we call it, out to hunt down the remaining S.T.A.R.S. members that are still in the city. Nicholai and his men arrived, although the rest of the U.B.C.S. are unaware of Operation Watchdog, Umbrella's bioweapons experiments, or the T-virus. The U.B.C.S.'s mission is to rescue civilians. The rest of the Watchdogs are somewhere in the city, reporting to Umbrella. I'll be reporting in a few minutes, as well.'
'September 28, 1998
Nicholai's coming for me, I just know it. He knows I'm a Watchdog and wants me dead. He probably wants the data I reported, which I saved on a floppy disk. I believe he wants to kill all the Watchdogs and collect their data, making him the only surviving Watchdog and extremely wealthy. I won't be able to hide for long, so I plan on facing him bravely. If anyone finds this journal, chances are that I'm prbably dead. Now I regret joining Umbrella, and now I see all the pain they caused. It has to end. Stop Nicholai, and stop Umbrella before something worse that Raccoon City happens...
Janice Thomlinson'
When Rowan had gone to put the book in her pouch, a key fell out. She unlocked the top droor of the desk in the room she was in, and found a Colt Python, as well as clips for it and the Beretta.
She made her way out of the room, and heard the clatter of an M-16 in the distance. She ran towards the source of the sound, and was nearly shot in the head by the maniac Russian named Nicholai. When she went to see where the shots were fired, she saw the body of Janice slumped against the wall, mangled and torn by the bullets.
Rowan had to find her way out of the sewers, and when she was close to getting out, she was attacked by something incredible. A huge crocodile-like monster, standing on its hind legs, with two spikes protruding from its head. It had a mouthful of razor sharp teeth, had a pair of yellow, reptillian eyes, and a long, thrashing tail that was about five feet long. The beast chased after her, and Rowan fled before it could get her, making her way to a safe place and spending the night there.
The next morning, the girl had run to the clocktower after getting ambushed by the crocodile hybrid, and ran inside, leaving the beast to pound at the doors. When the monster left, Rowan saw two figures walk up to her, which she mistakened for monsters. It turned out to be Carlos and Brad, and they led her to a room where Jill was laying down, looking feverish.
It turned out that while she was gone, Brad and Jill had gone to the trolley and met up with Carlos and his friends, Mikhail Vector and Nicholai Givonaef. Nicholai had gone off to find some equipment. Mikhail had been shot by someone, and was lying in the seat of a trolley. The trolley was missing some equipment, so Carlos, Brad, and Jill set out to find them.
Jill had gone to one building and found Nicholai typing in a laptop. He said he was trying to get help, but he was actually typing data of what was going on in Raccoon City. While Jill looked around, a horde of zombies attacked. She fled, but didn't see Nicholai there at all. He had probably been dragged of by the virus carriers.
She got back to the trolley and, when Carlos and Brad got back, she told them that Nicholai wouldn't be joining them. The three of them got into the engine compartment of the trolley and fixed the damage done to the engine, and the trolley was up and running.
Then the S.T.A.R.S. hunter, Nemesis, attacked. It had gone into the same compartment as Mikhail. Brad and Jill went in his compartment and tried to stop it, but Mikhail told them to get out of the compartment, he pulled out a grenade, and set it off when the other two were out of his area. The Mikhail's compartment exploded, and Nemesis was no longer to be seen. Mikhail sacrified his life to save his comrades' lives.
The trolley went out of control, and Carlos pulled the emergency break to try and stop it. It crashed into the yard of the clocktower. Carlos, Jill, and Brad got out to inspect the area, and found out that the clocktower's bells had some sort of tracking device on them. It would signal a helicopter to come there and pick up any survivors. When they went to turn it on, they discovered that they needed a gear.
They went back out of the gear room and were ambushed by Nemesis again. They were able to push it off of the side of the roof, and the three of them continued into the main building to try and fine the gear. They found it shortly after, but not before trying to solve a puzzle. They got back to the gear room and inserted the gear. The bell began to ring, and a helicopter came.
However, Nemesis was back, and it wouldn't let the three escape. It fired a shot at the chopper with its rocket launcher, sending it into a thousand pieces, and then it went after them. The thing punctured Jill's shoulder with a tentacle, infecting her with the T-Virus in the process. Then Brad and Carlos got in the way, and, when it was about to shoot at them, Carlos fired a few rounds into the barrel of the rocket launcher, causing it to explode in the monster's face and making it collapse.
Carlos and Brad brought Jill to a secure area in the clocktower, trying to figure out where to find the vaccination for the T-Virus while Jill went in and out of conciousness. That was when Rowan had showed up and they heard the primordial roar of the crocodile-hybrid.
Rowan showed them Janice Thomlinson's journal, and they were utterly shocked. Trying to get over it, they suggested that the vaccine might be at the hospital, and Brad and Rowan went to investigate it while Carlos stayed behind to keep an eye on Jill.
They got the the hospital sometime later, and were attacked by a variation of a Hunter as soon as they walked in the door. They came to a room where a man was lying on the ground, moaning from pain, since he had been shot. Nicholai snuck up behind them and held them at gunpoint, trying to pry information out of them. They were telling mostly lies, trying to trick Nicholai. In the meantime, Ken Franklin, the wounded Watchdog who was slumped in the corner, thre a grenade at them. Brad and Rowan dived out of the way and, unfortunately, so did Nicholai.
Nicholai had dropped the vaccine, however, and the two grabbed it, heading for the door when Rowan tripped over a book. She opened it, and saw that it showed pictures of the monsters lurking the city, and it also gave descriptions about them. Rowan froze when she saw the report on the crocodile-hybrid. It had read:
'SE42, also known as Behemoth. It was a crocodile that was infected with an altered version of the T-Virus. The virus was altered so that it would be able to outsmart prey, but the virus has mutated it beyond our imagination. It is incredibly strong and broke out of the laboratories once, killing two people before some of the experts were sent to use tranquilizers on it. We were forced to contain it in a small steel cage in a secret room in the sewers, but we are not positive how long it will sleep, or how long the cage will hold it.'
The two made their way to the clocktower again, and, after being jumped by Behemoth, had gotten to Jill and Carlos, only to see the former U.B.C.S. member fighting Nemesis. Brad and Rowan interfered, and the beast turned towards them, preparing to attack, until Jill stumbled into view and fired a round from the grenade launcher at it. The beast collapsed, and, after a moment, so did Jill.
They carried her back into the safe room and injected her with the vaccine. The next day, Jill came back to her senses, and the rest of the group explained what happened while she was unconciouss. Carlos said he found a video tape on a man inside the clocktower. Curious, they headed to a room behind the stairs, where a VCR was kept, and popped the video in.
The video showed a woman named Alice and a man named Matt in the hallway of what Jill said was the Spencer Estate before they came. Matt had three long, ragged scratch marks on his left arm, and Alice was holding an injector to it, probably the vaccination of the virus, preparing to inject it-
-when dozens of men clad in white suits burst through the door, grabbing her as they hauled Matt away on a stretcher. One man said that he wanted Matt to be in the Nemesis project, and the screen faded out in static. The static cleared and showed a pure white room with a stretcher in front, along with two scientists clad in white sitting alongside either side of it.
One of the men said that they needed to mutate a few more cells, and the Nemesis would be ready to hunt the S.T.A.R.S. down by the time Raccoon was in the middle of infection. The beast lifted its head, which seemed more like a human's, and gave out a roar that sounded like a call for help, but, at the same time, a roar.
Later on, Carlos gave the Brad, Jill, and Rowan another shock. A man named Trent had contacted him, telling him information about the T-Virus and Raccoon City. He said that Trent said there was a helicopter at the water treatment facility in the city. It turned out Trent seemed to be working for Umbrella because he knew too much, and he was helping those who rebelled against Umbrella. Perhaps he had a grudge against Umbrella?
The group spent the next few days rumaging through the clocktower and looking for equipment. They set out very early on October 2, when a horde of zombies decided to attack the clocktower. They fled before they could get to them, and made their way to the water treatment facility. Nicholai tried to jump them when they got there, but they caught him first. He was trying to find something to say, when the earth beneath them shook and a giant, carnivorous worm emerged from the earth.
Nicholai fled, and the worm attacked. Carlos led it to some water, and, when it dived for him, he threw an electrical lanturn he got nearby in the water and dodged as the beast hit the water and was electrocuted.
They ran towards the facility, and Jill and Brad shoved the Nemesis off of the bridge when it attacked again. They got inside and to a room with radio equipment in it. Brad tried to get through to people outside of the city, but all of the lines were static, except for one. The channel he turned to was a recording that warned them that at daylight, missiles would be sent to destroy the city.
Without wanting to waste time, they group headed to where the helicopters were supposed to be kept. That was, until Nicholai snuck up on them, holding Rowan by gunpoint.
As he was about to pull the trigger, Rowan was saved by the very monster that had stalked her throughout the city. Behemoth snuck up behind them and impaled Nicholai with one of its clawed arms. Rowan crawled away as Behemoth lifted the man to the ground, threw him down roughly, and tore into him with its claws. As a finishing touch, it suffocated the man by clamping its jaws around his throat, and began to feast. Brad, Jill, and Carlos ran for the chopper room, and Rowan lagged behind a minute, exchanging a glance with the monster before she followed.
They got the the helicopters, but they weren't alone. Nemesis had followed, but it had evolved. The monster lashed out at Jill, who missed by inches, then picked up Brad when he came running from the helicopter after he started it up. Rowan fired a shot into the beast's only good eye, and, blinded, it dropped Brad and flailed wildly. Jill ran to a laser cannon that was on the other side of the room, and powered it up while Rowan, Brad, and Carlos lured it into the path of the cannon. The beast used its scent to follow them, and when it was in the path, the laser cannon fired, destroying Nemesis to a mere hump of ash.
They had fled the city within minutes, and behind them, an explosion rocked the ground as the missiles made contact with the city, sending a shokwave through the air. Since then, Rowan had never looked back, and she swore that Umbrella would pay for making her friends, her family, and thousands of others lose their lives.
Jill and Carlos had gone to Europe to join Chris and Barry. Jill said that David Trapp, Rebbecca Chambers, and John Andrews were supposed to be heading there, as well as two others who were supposed to be Claire Redfield, Chris Redfield's sister, and Leon Kennedy, a rookie R.P.D. officer, who had also escaped Raccoon City. Jill and Carlos also invited Brad to come, but he declined, saying he was afraid that he'd choke under the gun when they needed him most, and didn't want to wind up putting them in danger.
So Jill and Carlos left. Brad was skipping towns, trying to hack into Umbrella's data at the same time. Rowan had moved into her aunt's, Aunt Gartha's, house in a small town called Gillenston Town, in New York. Before Jill and Carlos left, they and Brad had explained what happened. Surprisingly enough, she believed them and said that she would do whatever she could do to help.
About a week ago, Brad had moved into town, but he would going to another one in a few weeks. His apartment was across the town, but Rowan would be able to ride her bicycle down there to drop in and see what was going on. She was also getting hacking lessons from him, and was doing whatever she could to look up information on Umbrella.
Rowan stood up from her bed, carefully moving the family gray and white kitten named Felix, who had been asleep on her bed, and placing him on the floor. The cat stretched, then leapt back onto the bed, mewing softly before it curled back into a ball. The alarm clock on the lamp table to her left read 5:00 A.M. It was November 2, about a month from when she and the others had escaped the city, and the winter chill was settling in earlier than ever. School was out for two weeks, since they were refurnishing it at the time.
Reaching over and turning the lamp next to the alarm clock on, Rowan turned to her dresser, pulling out a navy blue tee-shirt out and a pair of black jeans. She took out her other neccessities, then stared in the mirror. A face with wavy brown hair and hazel eyes stared back at her. Her hair had grown to go just below her shoulders, and her face was more of an oval shape than it was a month ago. Sighing, she walked into the bathroom silently, not wanting to wake her aunt up.
Her Uncle Tom had passed away of a disease called luekemia a year ago, and her aunt had been living alone since then. She felt sorry for her, and did her best to give her a lot of company.
She closed the bathroom door and turned the shower on, then slipped in after removing her nightgown.
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Gartha Ationiete opened her green eyes wearilly when she heard the water in the bathroom running. She sighed, brushing a locke of her firery red hair from her face. The girl was such a nervous wreck lately, and Gartha herself had been aware of what was happening around her neice.
Umbrella's experiments shocked her to the very core. She never thought that the former pharmaceutical company would be doing that. Yet, since what happened to Raccoon City and, before that, the Spencer Estate, she had accepted it. The poor 13-year-old had so much on her shoulders. Her parents were dead, and so were her friends and thousands of others. She was heart-broken, probably, and anxious about what Umbrella was going to do...
iShe's acting the way I acted when Tom died.../i
She pushed the thought away and pulled the blanket tighter around her. Sighing, she felt herself begin to doze off. Whatever would come would come, they would just have to find a way to deal with it, or fight back.
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Across the town, Brad Vickers wasn't having much of an easy sleep, either. He was staring blankly at the wall with his brown eyes, trying to sort through his own thoughts.
Umbrella's experiments. He wasn't surprised when Umbrella was able to cover up the entire story of Raccoon City, yet, how could they hide the fact of how thousands died because of their experiments? But Umbrella was able to cover up the Spencer incident, as well. They probably hired a few police chiefs and scientists to make up excuses instead of what really happened. Recently, they said a group of terrorists had planted numerous bombs around the city, and many people believed it.
He wasn't going to let Umbrella keep up their dirty work, though. He might've stayed behind and been skipping towns, but, at the same time, he was trying to hack into Umbrella's files and find out where some of their facilities were.
iUmbrella's not gonna win this time. I might've run away once, but I won't back down now./i
Burshing his hand through his army-cut-like brown hair, he turned over in his bed, closed his eyes, and tried to get some sleep.
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Rachel Kinston sat in the back of a pure black van, gazing around at the other Umbrella agents, all clad in black. She was wearing a black suit herself. There was another van behind this one, and each contained about five Umbrella agents. Their mission was to capture the two survivors of Raccoon City, Rowan Naton and Brad Vickers.
Rachel didn't want to do this. Putting up with watching Umbrella experiment with the T and G-Viruses was enough, but now she had to capture two survivors of Umbrella's mistake. Why couldn't Umbrella leave them alone?
iBut this is what I get paid for, so its worth it...isn't it? No...But.../i
Rachel shook her head, gaining some glances from the other agents. Sighing, she looked at the floor and tried going through her own thoughts.
The van would arrive in Gillenston Town in a few more hours, about five in all. Solemnly, she took out a piece of paper from her pocket and began scribbling her thoughts on it, careful not to let the other agents see it. It wasn't helping, and she ripped th epaper in half, throwing the scraps in a garbage can next to her. She leaned against the wall of the van and stared at the roof of the van, thinking.
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Sorry I took so long. This chapter's an overview of what's going on. I'll be working on the next chapter.
Chapter 1
By Windra
iRowan stood with the three other survivors, Carlos, Jill, and Brad, and all of them were back to back, gazing at their surroundings. They were in a room high above the ground. There were no doors, but only windows that looked outside, to the ruins of Raccoon City. Smoke curled into the air, and smoldering fires burnt everything on the ground. Every building and car in sight burned slowly. The night sky made everything shadowed and dark.
Blood, all over the walls that stood around them. Smeared in some places, while in others it trickled down the walls and formed pools on the floor. There was a sickening stench in the air, as well. The smell of bile and something rotten; the smell of decay.
All around them, inside the doorless room, were ghastly, hungry moans. The decaying figures of the undead and T-Virus infected humans shambled towards them, their arms outstretched. They were only around five feet away.
Rowan reached for her Colt Python, only to find that it wasn't there. The Beretta and the combat knife were gone, as well. Panick stricken, she glanced at the others, only to see that their weapons were gone, too.
There was a moan in front of her, and Rowan looked up, gasping at what she saw.
Her mother was standing in front of her. Her long, brown hair was matted with blood and her green eyes were glazed over. Her tattered blue tee-shirt and denim jeans were caked with dry and new blood, and the bite marks around her neck and body were old and dry.
Rowan glanced over her shoulder quickly to see what the other three were doing, but they were nowhere to be seen. The only thing she saw behind her was a slowly advancing army of the undead, whaling in fixed, helpless hunger. Rowan gasped, turning her head to face what was once her mother, only to see that it was now directly in front of her.
The thing that was once her mother moaned, and, without a second's hesitation, it lunged at Rowan, its clammy hands gripping her shoulder. It brought its teeth to her neck, ripping at it. Rowan threw back her head and opened her mouth to scream, but no sound came out. The only thing that came was searing pain, the feeling of warm blood trickling down her neck, and, within a second later, her vision clouded over with darkness-/i
- and 13-year-old Rowan Naton bolted upright in her bed, gasping and sweating. She brought her right hand to her neck and rubbed it, even though there was no wound. Yet, it felt so real, just like all of the other nightmares that haunted her ever since the Raccoon City incident...
About four or five months ago, cannibal murders started to appear on the outskirts of Raccoon City. They increased as time went on, and the S.T.A.R.S. team were sent in to investigate a mansion in the forest in July, a month after the attacks started. During the time they investigated, the mansion exploded. Rowan didn't think it was anything major, or at least, not at the time. The S.T.A.R.S. team was suspended, and life went on.
And then, in September, the cannibal attacks started to happen. This time, Rowan got anxious. Her parents told her to be home at a certain time, and her friends' parents were doing the same thing to them. As the number of attacks increased, her parents got more strict and she grew more nervous. During September 26, Rowan went to school expecting a normal day. She had gone to lunch and sat at a table with her three best friends- Kristin Locke, Sarah Tantel, and Victoria Salmith. That was when the trouble began.
As the four ate their lunch, a badly wounded man walked into the cafeteria. Rowan didn't want to remember what he looked like, but the smell that radiated from him struck the entire lunchroom. He smelt horribly like bile and rotten eggs. The man stumbled over to Mrs. Graylee, a guidance couselor and overseer of the lunchroom. She had mistakened him for a wounded human and tried to give him a pass to the Nurse's office, but the man lunged at her, tearing into her.
Rowan had jumped onto the stage and tried to kill the thing with a music stand, but to no avail. It wasn't until she was cornered by it that she realized that the head was the weak spot and gave it a hard slam in the head with the music stand. It fell ad didn't get up, but it was far from over. An army of them were outside, banging on the doors and windows. Rowan and her friends fleed, and the doors and windows broke open. The zombies poured in, and Sarah and Victoria fell victim to them.
Rowan and Kristin fled to the janitor's room, staying there for the night and trying to gain some rest as the zombies pounded on the double doors the two girls had come through. Rowan tried to call her parents, only to hear them mutilated by the undead. The children stayed there until late September 27, when a Drain Deimos made its entrance, taking Kristin's life as it left.
Rowan stayed there and waited for it to come back, losing the will to live. That was when she remembered that her mother and Sarah's last words were for her to live, and Rowan decided that she would fulfill their wish. So, in the early hours of September 28, the girl set out to find a way to escape the doomed city.
Not wanting to be unarmed, Rowan had made it to Kendo's Gun Shop. She was amazed to see that the guy was still in the city, and when she asked why, he said that other people might need the guns, and he would help them. He told her that the R.P.D., the Raccoon City Police Department, was supposed to be gathering up the survivors to get them out of the city. Taking a Beretta, she left the shop and headed to the R.P.D.
She arrived at the the police station about ten or twenty minutes later, killing an undead dog in the process. She headed to the side area, a place concealed with bushes, hiding her and an overheating police car from any monsters. It was then that she heard two people speaking in front of the R.P.D. She looked over the bushes to see two people standing there, and, a minute later, the roar of a monster shook the ground. A hulking human-like beast wearing a black leather trench coat and black leather pants leapt in between the two, chasing a man to the wall of a building and lifting him up.
When Rowan went to interfere, the overheating police car became engulfed in flames. Unfortunately, the flames also hit a pool of oil below the car, causing an explosion and sending her flying into the monster, causing it to drop the man and go after her instead.
She ran to an alley, and, when it turned to a dead end, ran for the door of the R.P.D., which was being held open by the two people. She jumped in and helped the two people hold the door closed against the monster's pounding fists. After a while, it left the door, and Rowan asked who the two were.
They were both S.T.A.R.S. members; the man was Brad Vickers, and the woman was Jill Valentine. Rowan introduced herself, and asked what was going on in the city. What she found out shocked her to the very core.
The S.T.A.R.S. team was split into two groups; the Bravo team and the Alpha team. The Alpha team had Jill, Brad, Joseph Frost, Barry Burton, Chris Redfield, and Albert Wesker, the captain. The Bravos included Enrico Marini, Forest Speyer, Rebbecca Chambers, Kenneth Sullivan, and Richard Aiken. In July, the S.T.A.R.S. team was sent to investigate the area where the cannibal attacks seemed to originate from; a mansion in the woods called the Spencer Estate.
The Bravos were sent in first, and their helicopter went down. The Alpha came to check out what happened to them, and when they got there, the group saw that the Bravo helicopter was empty of both people and equipment. Joseph found a severed hand holding a gun in the grass, and yelled out. That was when a pack of undead dogs charged at him from in the woods, attacking him. The group of people ran to the mansion because Brad, the pilot, flew the helicopter off of the ground in fear.
The four members of the Alpha team entered the mansion and explored, only to find numerous monsters hanging around the building. There was a giant man-eating plant named Plant 42, undead dogs called Cerberus, zombies, mutated monkeys with claws called Chimeras, giant spiders called Web Spinners, mutated frogs and lizards with claws called Hunters, an undead Great White Shark called the Neptune, and flesh-eating crows. The worst was the Tyrant, something that used to be a human, but had parts of its body removed or altered. As the group trecked through the mansion, they found out that the Umbrella created T-Virus was what caused the chaos to occur in the mansion.
The T-Virus was a mutegenic toxin created by Umbrella to make bioweapons. The virus would infect anything- humans, plants, animals. It stripped all humanity from the carriers- joy love, sorrow, anger- and turned them into blood-thirsty monsters. They didn't even fall when a bullet penetrated their hearts, and they didn't feel pain. It would take a shot in the head to kill one. One bite, or even one scratch, from the monsters would infect the wounded person with the virus, and the virus would carry on.
According to Jill and Brad, Albert Wesker was secretly working for White Umbrella, a branch of Umbrella that specialized in the bioweapons. In the mansion, Wesker threatened Barry by telling him that some employees of White Umbrella were outside of his house, waiting for the order to kill his family if Barry disagreed to help him. Barry, not wanting to see his family hurt, agreed, and tried to keep Jill out of Wesker's way. However, when he overheard Wesker telling Jill that there was no one waiting to go in and kill his family, Barry smacked the traitor on the head with the butt of his gun, making him fall unconcious.
Wesker soon came to his senses and headed into the room where the Tyrant was kept. He released it, but not before preparing a self-destruct mode of the mansion. When the Tyrant was released, though, Wesker was killed by his own creation.
Chris had found Rebbecca, and those two, Jill, and Barry made their way to a helipad on the roof. Brad found the helipad and was about to land, when the Tyrant attacked. It started after the four on the ground, and in the air, Brad had managed to throw the rocket launcher down to them. Chris used it destroy the Tyrant, and the five were able to make it to safety as the mansion exploded behind them.
Chief Irons, the captain of the R.P.D., said that the S.T.A.R.S. members were drunk at the time, setting the mansion on fire, and the story was a fake to cover up the truth. Irons was probably working for Umbrella. The chief suspended the S.T.A.R.S. team, and in the meantime, the five of them had to avoide being captured by Umbrella.
Chris and Barry headed to Europe, preparing to infultrate an Umbrella facility. Rebbecca had gone with David Trapp, John Andrews, a man named Steve, and a woman named Karen. They headed to Caliban Cove, Maine, to sneak into another Umbrella facility. The facility went up in an explosion, and Karen and Steve were killed. Rebbecca, David, and John survived. Brad had skipped town in fear of what Umbrella would do if they caught him, and Jill had been preparing to go to Europe to join Chris and Barry.
Jill was still in the city when the outbreak of zombies occurred. She wound up trapped in the city. Brad came back to the city late on September 27 to try to find survivors. Both of them had headed to the R.P.D. around the same time, and met up with Rowan.
After trying to recover from shock, the three had looked through the R.P.D. to find equipment or anything else that might help them. Jill found her S.T.A.R.S. card, and the three had found a jem that belonged to a clock-like structure in front of the City Hall. They also found a key that opened the S.T.A.R.S. office, and Brad and Jill went to check it out. Not long afterwards, the S.T.A.R.S. hunter attacked again, forcing them out of the R.P.D. and to another area of the city.
In a car garage, the ground had started to shake. It ended abruptly, and the three of them continued to find themselves in a resturaunt. After checking the place out, another man named Carlos Oliveira snuck up on them. Jill, Rowan, and Brad had almost shot him because they thought he was a zombie. A little after they met him, the Tyrant Seeker made another assault. Jill threw an oil lamp that she had lit in fire at it, and it exploded in the monster's face, sending it falling. It began to stir, and not wanting to become its victims, the four of them fled.
Outside, Carlos told him that he was part of the U.B.C.S. team, and Jill freaked out. Carlos said that he wasn't involved in the science department, and he didn't even know about the T-Virus. When Jill cooled off a little, he headed off to search the city and find a way out.
The three survivors had headed to the City Hall, but their journey was stopped when an all too familiar Drain Deimos attacked them. It was the same one that killed Kristin Locke, and Rowan became angry. She had fired about five shots into the beast's head until it fell.
When they got to the City Hall, they put the gem from the R.P.D. into the clock-like structure there, and Brad found one on the ground, and put it in. The gate opened, and, when they started for the doors of the City Hall, a pair of Hunters assaulted them. They slammed into a pile of cars right next to Rowan, and the cars tumbled in front of her, cornering her and crushing the Hunters. She had to go through a manhole in the corner where she was, and slinked into the sewers.
Rowan had searched te sewers for what seemed like hours, and she stumbled upon a room with a journal in it. Rowan remembered the word of that journal almost by heart, because she had kept looking over it when they were in the city. It read:
'September 24, 1998
I've been picked as a Watchdog for collecting information about the virus that is going around Raccoon. In Operation Watchdog, certain people who work with Umbrella are picked to go into Raccoon City disguised as workers, scientists, soldiers, and other things. Our duty is to study the effects of the virus on the city and the people and report the status of the city to Umbrella using computers. There are only ten Watchdogs, three of which I know are Davis Chan, Terence Foster, and some weird and spooky Russian named Nicholai. I'm supposed to be a woman who works for the city. I have my equipment ready, and, if my calculations are correct, it shouldn't be long until the city is infected...'
'September 26, 1998
It has begun. The city started to become overrun with the virus carriers. One of the first places that got hit was Raccoon City Middle School North, and I feel sorry for all of the children who lost their lives. I got word that Umbrella sent the Tyrant seeker, a.k.a. Nemesis, as we call it, out to hunt down the remaining S.T.A.R.S. members that are still in the city. Nicholai and his men arrived, although the rest of the U.B.C.S. are unaware of Operation Watchdog, Umbrella's bioweapons experiments, or the T-virus. The U.B.C.S.'s mission is to rescue civilians. The rest of the Watchdogs are somewhere in the city, reporting to Umbrella. I'll be reporting in a few minutes, as well.'
'September 28, 1998
Nicholai's coming for me, I just know it. He knows I'm a Watchdog and wants me dead. He probably wants the data I reported, which I saved on a floppy disk. I believe he wants to kill all the Watchdogs and collect their data, making him the only surviving Watchdog and extremely wealthy. I won't be able to hide for long, so I plan on facing him bravely. If anyone finds this journal, chances are that I'm prbably dead. Now I regret joining Umbrella, and now I see all the pain they caused. It has to end. Stop Nicholai, and stop Umbrella before something worse that Raccoon City happens...
Janice Thomlinson'
When Rowan had gone to put the book in her pouch, a key fell out. She unlocked the top droor of the desk in the room she was in, and found a Colt Python, as well as clips for it and the Beretta.
She made her way out of the room, and heard the clatter of an M-16 in the distance. She ran towards the source of the sound, and was nearly shot in the head by the maniac Russian named Nicholai. When she went to see where the shots were fired, she saw the body of Janice slumped against the wall, mangled and torn by the bullets.
Rowan had to find her way out of the sewers, and when she was close to getting out, she was attacked by something incredible. A huge crocodile-like monster, standing on its hind legs, with two spikes protruding from its head. It had a mouthful of razor sharp teeth, had a pair of yellow, reptillian eyes, and a long, thrashing tail that was about five feet long. The beast chased after her, and Rowan fled before it could get her, making her way to a safe place and spending the night there.
The next morning, the girl had run to the clocktower after getting ambushed by the crocodile hybrid, and ran inside, leaving the beast to pound at the doors. When the monster left, Rowan saw two figures walk up to her, which she mistakened for monsters. It turned out to be Carlos and Brad, and they led her to a room where Jill was laying down, looking feverish.
It turned out that while she was gone, Brad and Jill had gone to the trolley and met up with Carlos and his friends, Mikhail Vector and Nicholai Givonaef. Nicholai had gone off to find some equipment. Mikhail had been shot by someone, and was lying in the seat of a trolley. The trolley was missing some equipment, so Carlos, Brad, and Jill set out to find them.
Jill had gone to one building and found Nicholai typing in a laptop. He said he was trying to get help, but he was actually typing data of what was going on in Raccoon City. While Jill looked around, a horde of zombies attacked. She fled, but didn't see Nicholai there at all. He had probably been dragged of by the virus carriers.
She got back to the trolley and, when Carlos and Brad got back, she told them that Nicholai wouldn't be joining them. The three of them got into the engine compartment of the trolley and fixed the damage done to the engine, and the trolley was up and running.
Then the S.T.A.R.S. hunter, Nemesis, attacked. It had gone into the same compartment as Mikhail. Brad and Jill went in his compartment and tried to stop it, but Mikhail told them to get out of the compartment, he pulled out a grenade, and set it off when the other two were out of his area. The Mikhail's compartment exploded, and Nemesis was no longer to be seen. Mikhail sacrified his life to save his comrades' lives.
The trolley went out of control, and Carlos pulled the emergency break to try and stop it. It crashed into the yard of the clocktower. Carlos, Jill, and Brad got out to inspect the area, and found out that the clocktower's bells had some sort of tracking device on them. It would signal a helicopter to come there and pick up any survivors. When they went to turn it on, they discovered that they needed a gear.
They went back out of the gear room and were ambushed by Nemesis again. They were able to push it off of the side of the roof, and the three of them continued into the main building to try and fine the gear. They found it shortly after, but not before trying to solve a puzzle. They got back to the gear room and inserted the gear. The bell began to ring, and a helicopter came.
However, Nemesis was back, and it wouldn't let the three escape. It fired a shot at the chopper with its rocket launcher, sending it into a thousand pieces, and then it went after them. The thing punctured Jill's shoulder with a tentacle, infecting her with the T-Virus in the process. Then Brad and Carlos got in the way, and, when it was about to shoot at them, Carlos fired a few rounds into the barrel of the rocket launcher, causing it to explode in the monster's face and making it collapse.
Carlos and Brad brought Jill to a secure area in the clocktower, trying to figure out where to find the vaccination for the T-Virus while Jill went in and out of conciousness. That was when Rowan had showed up and they heard the primordial roar of the crocodile-hybrid.
Rowan showed them Janice Thomlinson's journal, and they were utterly shocked. Trying to get over it, they suggested that the vaccine might be at the hospital, and Brad and Rowan went to investigate it while Carlos stayed behind to keep an eye on Jill.
They got the the hospital sometime later, and were attacked by a variation of a Hunter as soon as they walked in the door. They came to a room where a man was lying on the ground, moaning from pain, since he had been shot. Nicholai snuck up behind them and held them at gunpoint, trying to pry information out of them. They were telling mostly lies, trying to trick Nicholai. In the meantime, Ken Franklin, the wounded Watchdog who was slumped in the corner, thre a grenade at them. Brad and Rowan dived out of the way and, unfortunately, so did Nicholai.
Nicholai had dropped the vaccine, however, and the two grabbed it, heading for the door when Rowan tripped over a book. She opened it, and saw that it showed pictures of the monsters lurking the city, and it also gave descriptions about them. Rowan froze when she saw the report on the crocodile-hybrid. It had read:
'SE42, also known as Behemoth. It was a crocodile that was infected with an altered version of the T-Virus. The virus was altered so that it would be able to outsmart prey, but the virus has mutated it beyond our imagination. It is incredibly strong and broke out of the laboratories once, killing two people before some of the experts were sent to use tranquilizers on it. We were forced to contain it in a small steel cage in a secret room in the sewers, but we are not positive how long it will sleep, or how long the cage will hold it.'
The two made their way to the clocktower again, and, after being jumped by Behemoth, had gotten to Jill and Carlos, only to see the former U.B.C.S. member fighting Nemesis. Brad and Rowan interfered, and the beast turned towards them, preparing to attack, until Jill stumbled into view and fired a round from the grenade launcher at it. The beast collapsed, and, after a moment, so did Jill.
They carried her back into the safe room and injected her with the vaccine. The next day, Jill came back to her senses, and the rest of the group explained what happened while she was unconciouss. Carlos said he found a video tape on a man inside the clocktower. Curious, they headed to a room behind the stairs, where a VCR was kept, and popped the video in.
The video showed a woman named Alice and a man named Matt in the hallway of what Jill said was the Spencer Estate before they came. Matt had three long, ragged scratch marks on his left arm, and Alice was holding an injector to it, probably the vaccination of the virus, preparing to inject it-
-when dozens of men clad in white suits burst through the door, grabbing her as they hauled Matt away on a stretcher. One man said that he wanted Matt to be in the Nemesis project, and the screen faded out in static. The static cleared and showed a pure white room with a stretcher in front, along with two scientists clad in white sitting alongside either side of it.
One of the men said that they needed to mutate a few more cells, and the Nemesis would be ready to hunt the S.T.A.R.S. down by the time Raccoon was in the middle of infection. The beast lifted its head, which seemed more like a human's, and gave out a roar that sounded like a call for help, but, at the same time, a roar.
Later on, Carlos gave the Brad, Jill, and Rowan another shock. A man named Trent had contacted him, telling him information about the T-Virus and Raccoon City. He said that Trent said there was a helicopter at the water treatment facility in the city. It turned out Trent seemed to be working for Umbrella because he knew too much, and he was helping those who rebelled against Umbrella. Perhaps he had a grudge against Umbrella?
The group spent the next few days rumaging through the clocktower and looking for equipment. They set out very early on October 2, when a horde of zombies decided to attack the clocktower. They fled before they could get to them, and made their way to the water treatment facility. Nicholai tried to jump them when they got there, but they caught him first. He was trying to find something to say, when the earth beneath them shook and a giant, carnivorous worm emerged from the earth.
Nicholai fled, and the worm attacked. Carlos led it to some water, and, when it dived for him, he threw an electrical lanturn he got nearby in the water and dodged as the beast hit the water and was electrocuted.
They ran towards the facility, and Jill and Brad shoved the Nemesis off of the bridge when it attacked again. They got inside and to a room with radio equipment in it. Brad tried to get through to people outside of the city, but all of the lines were static, except for one. The channel he turned to was a recording that warned them that at daylight, missiles would be sent to destroy the city.
Without wanting to waste time, they group headed to where the helicopters were supposed to be kept. That was, until Nicholai snuck up on them, holding Rowan by gunpoint.
As he was about to pull the trigger, Rowan was saved by the very monster that had stalked her throughout the city. Behemoth snuck up behind them and impaled Nicholai with one of its clawed arms. Rowan crawled away as Behemoth lifted the man to the ground, threw him down roughly, and tore into him with its claws. As a finishing touch, it suffocated the man by clamping its jaws around his throat, and began to feast. Brad, Jill, and Carlos ran for the chopper room, and Rowan lagged behind a minute, exchanging a glance with the monster before she followed.
They got the the helicopters, but they weren't alone. Nemesis had followed, but it had evolved. The monster lashed out at Jill, who missed by inches, then picked up Brad when he came running from the helicopter after he started it up. Rowan fired a shot into the beast's only good eye, and, blinded, it dropped Brad and flailed wildly. Jill ran to a laser cannon that was on the other side of the room, and powered it up while Rowan, Brad, and Carlos lured it into the path of the cannon. The beast used its scent to follow them, and when it was in the path, the laser cannon fired, destroying Nemesis to a mere hump of ash.
They had fled the city within minutes, and behind them, an explosion rocked the ground as the missiles made contact with the city, sending a shokwave through the air. Since then, Rowan had never looked back, and she swore that Umbrella would pay for making her friends, her family, and thousands of others lose their lives.
Jill and Carlos had gone to Europe to join Chris and Barry. Jill said that David Trapp, Rebbecca Chambers, and John Andrews were supposed to be heading there, as well as two others who were supposed to be Claire Redfield, Chris Redfield's sister, and Leon Kennedy, a rookie R.P.D. officer, who had also escaped Raccoon City. Jill and Carlos also invited Brad to come, but he declined, saying he was afraid that he'd choke under the gun when they needed him most, and didn't want to wind up putting them in danger.
So Jill and Carlos left. Brad was skipping towns, trying to hack into Umbrella's data at the same time. Rowan had moved into her aunt's, Aunt Gartha's, house in a small town called Gillenston Town, in New York. Before Jill and Carlos left, they and Brad had explained what happened. Surprisingly enough, she believed them and said that she would do whatever she could do to help.
About a week ago, Brad had moved into town, but he would going to another one in a few weeks. His apartment was across the town, but Rowan would be able to ride her bicycle down there to drop in and see what was going on. She was also getting hacking lessons from him, and was doing whatever she could to look up information on Umbrella.
Rowan stood up from her bed, carefully moving the family gray and white kitten named Felix, who had been asleep on her bed, and placing him on the floor. The cat stretched, then leapt back onto the bed, mewing softly before it curled back into a ball. The alarm clock on the lamp table to her left read 5:00 A.M. It was November 2, about a month from when she and the others had escaped the city, and the winter chill was settling in earlier than ever. School was out for two weeks, since they were refurnishing it at the time.
Reaching over and turning the lamp next to the alarm clock on, Rowan turned to her dresser, pulling out a navy blue tee-shirt out and a pair of black jeans. She took out her other neccessities, then stared in the mirror. A face with wavy brown hair and hazel eyes stared back at her. Her hair had grown to go just below her shoulders, and her face was more of an oval shape than it was a month ago. Sighing, she walked into the bathroom silently, not wanting to wake her aunt up.
Her Uncle Tom had passed away of a disease called luekemia a year ago, and her aunt had been living alone since then. She felt sorry for her, and did her best to give her a lot of company.
She closed the bathroom door and turned the shower on, then slipped in after removing her nightgown.
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Gartha Ationiete opened her green eyes wearilly when she heard the water in the bathroom running. She sighed, brushing a locke of her firery red hair from her face. The girl was such a nervous wreck lately, and Gartha herself had been aware of what was happening around her neice.
Umbrella's experiments shocked her to the very core. She never thought that the former pharmaceutical company would be doing that. Yet, since what happened to Raccoon City and, before that, the Spencer Estate, she had accepted it. The poor 13-year-old had so much on her shoulders. Her parents were dead, and so were her friends and thousands of others. She was heart-broken, probably, and anxious about what Umbrella was going to do...
iShe's acting the way I acted when Tom died.../i
She pushed the thought away and pulled the blanket tighter around her. Sighing, she felt herself begin to doze off. Whatever would come would come, they would just have to find a way to deal with it, or fight back.
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Across the town, Brad Vickers wasn't having much of an easy sleep, either. He was staring blankly at the wall with his brown eyes, trying to sort through his own thoughts.
Umbrella's experiments. He wasn't surprised when Umbrella was able to cover up the entire story of Raccoon City, yet, how could they hide the fact of how thousands died because of their experiments? But Umbrella was able to cover up the Spencer incident, as well. They probably hired a few police chiefs and scientists to make up excuses instead of what really happened. Recently, they said a group of terrorists had planted numerous bombs around the city, and many people believed it.
He wasn't going to let Umbrella keep up their dirty work, though. He might've stayed behind and been skipping towns, but, at the same time, he was trying to hack into Umbrella's files and find out where some of their facilities were.
iUmbrella's not gonna win this time. I might've run away once, but I won't back down now./i
Burshing his hand through his army-cut-like brown hair, he turned over in his bed, closed his eyes, and tried to get some sleep.
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Rachel Kinston sat in the back of a pure black van, gazing around at the other Umbrella agents, all clad in black. She was wearing a black suit herself. There was another van behind this one, and each contained about five Umbrella agents. Their mission was to capture the two survivors of Raccoon City, Rowan Naton and Brad Vickers.
Rachel didn't want to do this. Putting up with watching Umbrella experiment with the T and G-Viruses was enough, but now she had to capture two survivors of Umbrella's mistake. Why couldn't Umbrella leave them alone?
iBut this is what I get paid for, so its worth it...isn't it? No...But.../i
Rachel shook her head, gaining some glances from the other agents. Sighing, she looked at the floor and tried going through her own thoughts.
The van would arrive in Gillenston Town in a few more hours, about five in all. Solemnly, she took out a piece of paper from her pocket and began scribbling her thoughts on it, careful not to let the other agents see it. It wasn't helping, and she ripped th epaper in half, throwing the scraps in a garbage can next to her. She leaned against the wall of the van and stared at the roof of the van, thinking.
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Sorry I took so long. This chapter's an overview of what's going on. I'll be working on the next chapter.