**Hi all, welcome back, I now give you chapter 5, I know it was a long wait and hopefully you will all remember me and think it was worth the wait then again maybe not... I have many many many things I work on so sometimes projects get pushed aside, Anywho enough delay I give you Chapter 5.... Remember CAPCOM loves you and their copyrights ;)

Chapter 5 – Benefits of Frustration

The cool breeze felt good to Chris after the stuffiness of the house but the distant howling of mutant dogs and the cawing of killer crows was enough to make him cautious. 'This graveyard setting isn't helping much either,' he thought as he descended the stairs. There was a fenced in area to his right that was locked. 'Aren't they always, why do I bother anymore...,' he thought to himself. He headed towards the other side of the graveyard, that's where the biggest statue was. On the statue there was a carving of what look liked a cherub or cupid, but there was an indentation where the arrowhead should've been. Then he remembered the stone that he picked up earlier. By this point he wasn't even sure if he knew where he had found it anymore. The stone slid into the groove with ease filling up the void that was now a turquoise shaped arrowhead, and a door slid open. 'I sincerely hate whoever built this place,' he said as he descended the stairs into the darkness below.

At the bottom of the stairs was a chamber with four creepy looking face statues, a fireplace, and a coffin suspended from the ceiling by many thick chains. 'This is just bizarre and becoming trendy,' he thought. Then he noticed a purple book at the other end of the room. He walked over cautiously eyeing the coffin and was very careful to walk around it, not underneath it. The book, older and bound in leather, was titled The Book of Curse. Inside the book were some nice words of encouragement... The four masks. A mask that speaks no evil. A mask that smells no evil. A mask that sees no evil. A mask that speaks, smells and sees no evil. When all four fall into place evil above will awaken.

'So...why do I want to put these masks "in place" so the "evil above will awaken" this does not sound promising...' he thought while his gaze was drawn upwards to the coffin. While he closed the book he felt something out of place on the back, he flipped the book over to reveal a key strapped to the back. The key had a sword etched into it at the top. 'Same as the markings on the doors' he thought with a sigh seriously wishing he could kill the people who came up with this shit.

Chris returned to the room with the statue that had previously held the map and used the sword key on the door. The door opened into a hallway with too many windows for Chris' comfort. As he walked past the first window something lunged at it breaking a piece of glass inward that crashed and shattered on the floor making his heart jump nearly out his throat. He burst into a sprint not waiting for the rest of the window to give and didn't stop until he was upon the door at the end of the hallway.

Once through the door he found himself in another hallway. At least this one didn't have windows. He walked towards the first door in the new hallway, and was stunned to find it was locked. With this he moved onto door number two, and much to his surprise it was open. He walked in and was kind of shocked to see that he was in a bathroom. It was a small personal bathroom and the first thing he noticed was there was a tub in front of him filled with dirty water. 'I think I'm just gonna leave that the way it is' he decided as he turned and left the room closing the door behind him.

He continued down the hallway until he came to two doors and decided to take the right one. He took a few steps into the next hallway and was greeted by the all too familiar sound of moans coming from the end of the hall. He choose to quickly go through the nearest door, as he shut the door behind him he gazed down the hall and noticed a corridor on the right side and a stairwell leading upwards. This room also contained the hungry pitiful moans of zombies. 'Time to test my marksmanship' he thought as he proceeded down the hall gun ready.

As he got closer to the turn at the end of the hallway the stench of the zombie was becoming overwhelming. It was like the smell of rotting road kill left in the sun to bake for much too long. He rounded the bend and brought his gun up and as soon as he spotted the zombie he promptly shot it in the head three times. As the first zombie collapsed his friend at the top of the stairs came into Chris' view only to be shot two times. Upon the second shot the zombies head exploded like a ripe melon splattering the hall with gray brain matter and a think almost congealed like blood. After Chris brought himself to stop staring at this truly gross spectacle he decided he wanted to leave this grossness behind him. Nothing could have prepared him for what was in the room at the bottom of the stairs.

**This is short just like the beginning chappies but I have a plan instead of typing up one mega chapter for chapter 5 I'm gonna break down what I have and actually update on a decent schedule... look for Chapter 6 either tomorrow or Saturday folks hope you enjoyed sorry to leave off on such a cliff hangar but I ultimately think this will work out better. Love to all my readers, and welcome to newbie SabineBall7, you're so sweet to me, sorry for the long wait though. That carries to you all SORRY!!! Like I said Chappy 6 tomorrow or Sat. morning. Promise ;)