"So what do we do now?" said Carlos eyeing their grim surroundings. The rain had let up, but the sky remained the same, dark and foreboding, like a dark omen. Jill looked over to Chris, waiting for his reply. Chris gritted his teeth and balled his hands into fists. "What else? We go after that scum Wesker. He's destroyed enough lives, he's no better than Umbrella. This time, he's going down," he spat, venom dripping from his every word. Little did they know, they weren't alone...
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Claire felt a satisfying 'thump' as she ran over a lone zombie dog that had attempted to jump through the windshield to get to her and Leon. "That'll teach the little bastard to mess with me..." she muttered. Smiling wickedly to herself, she sped up, as if challenging any other monsters to "mess" with her. Leon, still holding on for dear life watched her from the passenger's side. "Remind me never to cross you..." he said in a half-amused, half-serious tone. Claire didn't respond as she spotted the diner. Something was wrong...
"Leon! What's going on over there?" she said. Leon looked ahead and paled. Carlos was lying in a pool of blood and Jill was apparently trying to dodge some large ape-like creature. But where was Chris? Frantic, Claire came to a screeching halt not too far from the scene of action and burst from the large SUV, guns blazing. Leon jumped out of the car and hurried to get suitable weapons for the others.
After taking out the ape that had attacked Carlos and Jill, Claire turned to Jill as Leon tossed Jill a rifle and rushed to tend to Carlos. "Where's my brother, Jill?' said Claire, urgency clear in her voice. Jill shook her head. "The idiot's gone mad. He took off for the mansion before that thing attacked us saying when you come back to take you and get out of this town, like he thinks we can't handle something like this," scoffed Jill with obvious irritation.
Claire was beyond angry. "I can't believe he would do something like this! First he goes around acting like a wounded puppy because Rebecca leaves, and now this? If those monsters haven't killed him by the time I get to him he better pray to God I don't have these guns in my hand...BECAUSE I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!" Jill froze as Claire's words echoed through the dead silence of the City of the Damned like ripples in a still pond...
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Chris stopped in mid-stride and listened. He could have sworn he had heard Claire's voice, which was never a good thing. Resuming his stride, he hurried along, reloading the shotgun he had found on the decapitated corpse police officer lying in the street. He knew Claire would object to this, so he was counting on Jill to follow through with the plan...but there was no telling with those two when they got together. At any rate, he needed to hurry if he was going to make it to the manor before anything attacked him or another storm hit...Wesker wasn't getting away this time...
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The back door to the music studio building flew open and two figures darted out quickly and silently into the dark, dead night. Rebecca scanned the darkness before locating her small red sports car. "C'mon." She said motioning for him to follow. Quickly unlocking the doors, she jumped into the driver's seat, Billy into the passenger's and Rebecca started the car.
At that exact moment, a dark figure landed on the windshield, causing Rebecca to scream in terror and Billy to aim his gun...
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"He'll be fine, it only bit him on the shoulder." Said Leon referring to Carlos, who now sported a ripped white T-shirt as a substitute gauze bandage. "Ok, but we'll need to get that treated as soon as possible," said Jill. Looking over at Claire, who was sulking, she sighed. "I know you want to go help Chris fight Claire, but he'd kill me if I let his only little sister go get herself killed." Claire didn't respond, she only stared off angrily into space.
Sighing again, Jill shook her head. "I know he's going to kill me for this...come on. He can't do this alone...and it's not just about him and Wesker, it's us too...you guys up for it?" Carlos and Leon looked at each other, then at Claire's threatening glare. "Yea...we're up to it..." said Carlos, Leon nodding in agreement. "Good, let's go!" said Claire. "I'M driving!" said Jill looking over at the large truck. "Leon, you can ride on the tailgate with Claire…" she said as they headed off, Jill in the lead.
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Rebecca glared angrily at David as he grinned sheepishly from where he lay pressed against the windshield of her car. "David, get off my car!" she shrieked. Billy aimed his gun at David's temple. "You're that prick from before...what the Hell do you want?" snapped Billy cocking his gun. "Ahh, don't shoot! Come on Becca, Baby, you gotta help me! Those...those THINGS are after me! C'mon Sweetcakes, let me in the car with you..."
"QUIT CALLING ME THOSE NAMES!" snapped Rebecca, her patience long gone. "Just shut up and get off my windshield. Billy, you climb in the back." "WHAT?" "Please Billy?" shed pleaded as David scrambled off the hood of the car and rushed toward the passenger door. Groaning in annoyance, Billy slammed open the passenger door, purposely catching David off guard and knocking him over. "Oops...sorry...sweetcakes." he said, his voice reeking of sarcasm as he climbed in the back of the small car. Grumbling, David stood up and hurried into the car, slamming the door closed behind him. Before he could put his seatbelt on, Rebecca started the car and tore out of the parking lot.
"So where are we heading to? Hopefully another state...?" said David looking over at Rebecca as she flew down the street swerving to miss wrecked cars and such. "Winston Manor." She replied never taking her eyes off the road. "Winston Manor?!! You mean that huge creepy building in the woods?! The one that sits on the hill?! No way am I going there! I heard horror stories of some kind of weird experiments and people disappearing around that area!"
"Good...then get out of the car." Came Billy's dark reply from the backseat. David turned and glared at Billy. "Look, I'm sorry 'bout man, I didn't know who you were! You coulda been some terrorist after Rebecca or somethin'! How was I ta know you knew her? Speakin' of which, how DO you two know each other in the first place?"
They had entered the deep dark of the forest, and Rebecca could vaguely see the outline of the large gates to the manor looming ahead through the steadily thickening fog.
"It's a long story...we..." Rebecca never got to finish her sentence as her headlights washed over something small and petite...it was a small girl. Terrified, the girl covered her face with her arms and shrieked in fear. Yelling in panic, Rebecca swerved, narrowly missing the girl. The car hydroplaned off the road and careened out of control before slamming into a nearby tree, sending Rebecca's small frame flying through the windshield and onto the ground a few feet from the car. There she lay unmoving...
Gah! Sorry, I know this is a bit of a cliffhanger, but I promise Becca's ok! I wouldn't just kill her off like that…she's just too darn cute! ^_^; Besides…she's pretty important to the plot of this story…but we'll get to that later…At any rate, I'm off! I'll have chapter 9 up real soon…I promise! ^.~