Resident Evil 4: Umbrella's Requiem

Fan-Fiction -- My Version of Resident Evil 4

Text Copyright: © 04/05/2004 DestructoYue

Updated: © 04/11/2004, © 04/13/2004, © 04/14/04, © 04/24/2004

DISCLAIMER: The original characters and original scenarios contained within this text are copyright 4/5/2004 - 4/24/2004 by me, DestructoYue. The previously created characters (Leon S. Kennedy, etc.) and previously created scenarios and objects are copyrighted and trademarked by Capcom. This story is an original fan-fiction based on what I think could/should happen in Resident Evil 4. It is in no way meant to offend the reader or Capcom.

Chapter 8: Moonlight Guide

The forest was closer, and maybe it would lead back to the cave area somehow, so he chose to go there first. With only the moonlight guiding him, he entered the other section of the forest. "I should try saving that lantern for later, in the cave... I don't know how long that fuel will hold out." The path seemed completely different from the other one. No bridges, no explosives, no bear traps. He couldn't feel any danger nearby, but he knew to be on guard in case something happened. A slight wind blew as he walked along, but he stopped after a few minutes, spotting a house completely different from all the others. "What's a house like this doing in the middle of the woods...?," he asked himself, as he stood facing a two story house with a chimney and steps leading up to the front porch. Deciding before he entered to put away his handgun, he climbed the few steps and looked around the front of the house. Nothing unusual, and from what he could tell by looking in the windows, no one had lived there for months. Kicking at the door, it flew open easily, knocking some books off a shelf. One of them fell open, revealing a golden dagger, and a short message: "To the bearer of this gold, I have a request you shall be told. Return it to the place I lay, Inside a cave at night not day. My hand awaits deep in the shadows, You'll know it's right when the creature bellows." "What the hell does this mean...? Something about a cave... Hmm, maybe it's that cave I found earlier!," Leon thought to himself. Searching the rest of the room revealed a picture of a family, and a few more books that were entirely blank. The family seemed so happy in the picture. He recognized the man, who was most likely the father: the crazed villager that first attacked him. The look in his eyes was completely normal, and his skin seemed much more normal than it had before. "So they were human at some point after all..." The children, who were in their teens, smiled happily, and their mother must have been taking the picture, as she wasn't present. Checking the back revealed a date: Summer '04. It was only a few months old based on that date, and he began to wonder what happened in that town. "Umbrella couldn't have something to do with this... could they? I mean, they were taken down a couple years ago, so there's no chance of that." A sound came from upstairs, ending his thoughts and bringing him back to reality. Carefully, he went up the stairs, and searched the rooms, finding nothing in the first two. The last room must be where the sound came from. He checked the doorknob: it turned easily and he quickly swung the door open. Drawing his handgun, he was shocked entirely by what he saw. Three people stood in there, two children and one female, most likely their mother. They lunged forward at Leon, and he didn't have time to fire. Slamming the door shut, he left the room and started towards the stairs. The door came open quickly and they ran after him, chasing him down the stairs and out of the house. When he made it to the edge of the porch, he climbed over and turned around, aiming carefully. The mother had a knife, and her sons had axes. An axe flew towards him, and he shot it out of the air, then, aiming carefully, shot two of them in the head. The third moved in close, the older of the two sons. Leon could tell by his eyes that he was somehow changed like his father, no longer human. He fired at it's chest and skull, taking it out easily. After he made sure they were dead, he went back into the house, thinking they must have been guarding something important. Returning to the room, he checked everything, finding only a journal with a few entries about vacations in it. When he set it back down, he noticed something behind the bed. Moving the bed out of the way a bit, he recognized what it was: a hidden compartment in the wall to store important belongings. Looking closely he noticed something very familiar: the Umbrella logo. "Oh shit... there has to be something important in there!" He tried the handle, and it opened easily. Inside were a few documents from a couple years earlier, when Umbrella was still in power. "Hmm, nothing important really." The last document had a name tag attached to it, with a picture of the father in the family. He was working for Umbrella before they were shut down. "This doesn't seem entirely like the work of Umbrella. The ones who kidnapped her must be reponsible for the town becoming Hell like this." Taking the documents with him, he left the room, hearing a sound from downstairs. Drawing his handgun, he went down to the first floor, to the front door. The bodies were gone, and he noticed tracks of blood; it was like they had been dragged away. He left the house completely and continued on the pathway, nothing eventful happening along the way this time. After awhile, he came to the lake again. "So, it circles back around to the lake from both sides..." In the distance, he could see the body of the monster he had killed before, still there luckily. "I guess those bastards can't carry something that big," he muttered, concerned about the missing bodies. Quickly following his way around the lake, he made it back to the other side of the forest where the cave was. Following the path for awhile, he made it back to the cave and noticed an old friend, the wolf, was there. "Hey, you going in with me?," he asked, watching as it nearly nodded and walked up to him.

"What is inside the cave?"