Chapter 4 The Gathering
Rebecca had been following the zombies for almost an hour now and several more had joined them since then. It wasn't until they arrived at the city park that she realized why the zombies where gathering there. In the center of the park a slug-like creature seemed to be controlling the zombies somehow, "my god, Tyron what have you done to yourself?" Rebecca asked as the creature turned. Its mouth opened and the rest of its head opened where its exoskeleton split, "ffffiiinnneeeddd hhheeerrr!" it roared. All of the zombies shuffled and groaned as they staggered in every direction, "oh hell. It looks like Tyron's mind hasn't degenerated enough to forget me" Rebecca said as she clambered up a nearby tree to avoid being seen by passing zombie. Rebecca watched as all the zombies emptied out of the park, as for the creature, it twitched and shook but never moved. Rebecca considered the creature for a moment, "if that thing sees me then every zombie in the city will know exactly ware I am. Still if I kill it then maybe the zombies will all die! No that's stupid but still I can't let something like that get out of the city" Rebecca said to herself as she considered her options.
The creature continued to twitch and shake as Rebecca positioned herself for the best shot, "ok, now just holed still you ugly son of a...ah" Rebecca suddenly felt something slam onto her back. She rolled over to see what had hit her, "Miss Chambers, how nice to see you again. Incidentally I hope that you weren't going to make an obscene remark about that rather hides creatures lineage, what with me being his Sir and all" Tyron said in a superior tone. Rebecca was amazed, not only to see Tyron as he was, but also to learn that the slug creature was not Tyron but rather his son.
Tyron glanced at the creature, "T.J, I have something for you" Tyron shouted to the creature and it slowly crawled towards them. Rebecca stared in disbelief, "you named that thing, T.J? You really are insane aren't you?" she said defiantly. Tyron grabbed her by the throat and held her inches from his face, "you dare to judge me? You brand me insane and yet you know nothing about me. Well if you are so eager to pass sentience apawn me you had best learn something of me, so allow me to enlighten you" Tyron said ominously. Then Tyron pulled Rebecca closer, he smiled slightly and then their lips met and after a moment Tyron cast Rebecca away and gestured to the somewhat confused creature to attack.
Rebecca lifted herself off the ground and took a moment to catch her breath. She wasn't given a chance to think about what had just happened, the creature she know knew as T.J was about to strike with one of its claws. As T.J's claw slammed into the ground, just missing Rebecca, the other three slashed at her with surprising quickness. Rebecca managed to avoid the first two but was grazed by the last one, "yyyooouuu wwwiiillllll dddiiieee" T.J roared as Rebecca pushed herself away and rolled as far as possible.
She had managed to put several feet between her and T.J and she hoped that the time it would take him to get into striking distance would give her time to catch her breath. She was still slightly dazed from the, incident and she needed time to get her head strait, but that was time she wasn't going to get. T.J's body retracted in on its self and then he lunged at her with unbelievable speed, "damn it!" was all Rebecca had time to say as T.J's body hurtled towards her. His face opened into the multi-jawed mouth it was and Rebecca just managed to avoid being swallowed hole but she wasn't quick enough to avoid being hit by T.J's slime covered body.
T.J had landed on Rebecca and had one of her arms pined under his body and he had her free arm pined with one of his lower arms, "me eat brain" T.J said. He grabbed Rebecca by the throat with his other lower arm and he held her head up slightly with his other arms, "DDDIIIEEE!" T.J roared as his mouth opened and slowly moved towards Rebecca's head. Rebecca struggled to move her arm under T.J's body, her gun was still in her hand, and just as T.J braced to bight into Rebecca's skull she fired three shots. The first logged inside T.J's body and apparently went unnoticed, the second went slightly deeper and T.J paused for a second and finally the third built went right through and out the back of T.J's neck.
T.J roared in pain as a thick dark green liquid oozed out of his neck and mouth. Rebecca struggled to avoid being covered in what she hoped was blood and not some other bodily flood but before she struggled free she was covered in it. She thought the urge to vomit as she crawled towards Tyron who was sarcastically applauding her efforts, "most impressive Miss Chambers, now you've bested both my children. However, you have failed to put them down permanently but no matter. One little word of advise before I go though, all ways kill your enemies when they no longer serve a purpose" Tyron said.
Rebecca struggled to lift her arm to take a shot at Tyron but in the end she just let the gun fall out of her hand and succumb to tiredness, nausea and hunger. She collapsed to the ground and waited for Tyron to put her out of her misery, "just get it over with" she muttered before realizing that Tyron had hovered over to T.J and was preparing to carry him away. She watched as Tyron took off into the dull gray sky and for a second she wished she could just fly away as well.
An hour or so later Rebecca had managed to regain her strength and was staggering toward a stream to wash the slim out of her hair, "sigh, what next" she said to herself. As she splashed the cold water on her face as she looked around half expecting to be attacked be zombie ducks or something like that. Instead, she noticed a zombie biting into the throat of a man, "huh, at least someone gets to eat around here" she said before realizing what she had just said. It wasn't the worst thing she had ever seen, in fact she had seen things happen to people that where fare worse and they weren't already dead, but still joking about it wasn't right. She wouldn't let herself turn out like Tyron, so use to death that it actually starts being a joke to her.
Outside the Tyron labs building Tor and T.J where recovering from their wounds, "IDEATES!" Tyron shouted and both creatures recoiled. Tyron hovered off the ground to create the illusion that he towered over them, "my finest creations, the once that I call my children. Beaten by a human with a handgun, what do you have to say for your selves?" Tyron asked in an irritated tone. Neither answered, Tyron folded his arms over his chest and scowled at them, "that's what I thought. Well this is of no consequence, I wanted to have some more fun with her anyway" Tyron said as he glided into the building.
Inside the building, Tyron past through the office section of his former company and gave a passing glance to a died hunter before proceeding to his hidden lab. After finding the lab opened he made a quick search of the area to see if who had opened it was still there. He thought about it for a moment, "I wonder, could she have..." Tyron considered the possibility that it had been Rebecca that had discovered his lab. After dismissing it as unimportant Tyron returned to the lab and stared at the three glass tanks nostalgically.
Several minuets had past, "so...what happens now?" Tor asked as she and T.J slowly approached. Tyron looked at a bare section of wall to his right, "now I add new cards to the deck, so to speak" he said as he pushed the wall open and looked over the balcony on the other side. Rebecca was still recovering from her last skirmish, she had rested enough to movie at a quick pace should she need to and was ready to see if she could find food. As she began walking away from the park she remembered how much she loved visiting the park as a child, "I wonder what would happen to a swan if it was infected..." she muttered to herself. As her imagination started mutilating images of swans in her mind she remembered how beautiful and majestic the swans at the park seemed to her. People say that ever one has one perfect memory, one moment in their life that they always remember, when it seemed that there were no problems in the world at all. For Rebecca it was when she was six years old, she was at the park one weekend and she was watching several swans on a lake.
For Rebecca this wasn't anything special, she always did that, but as she watching one of them swam no more than three feet from the bank, she was lying on. As it slowly began to pass her it suddenly flapped it's wings and took to the skies, in that instant as it pushed its self from the water's surface its wings splashed a stream of water into the air. The sun was directly behind the swan and its figure rising from the lake and the sun glistening on the water was the most beautiful thing Rebecca had ever seen. The memory of that day made Rebecca smile slightly, until the image began to twist and change, "damn you to hell, Marcus. I don't want to see the world like you do" she said to herself as she struggled to maintain the image in her mind.
Rebecca sighed loudly, the swan in her memory had always been like an angle but now the image that had taken its place was more like a demon. Rebecca groaned worriedly, that image had always been her safety net whenever life got to much for her but now thanks to Tyron it was just another monster waiting to kill her. Was that what Tyron meant by understanding him? Was he trying to drive her as mad as he was? These questions and more buzzed around in Rebecca's head, she had proven that she could survive the T-virus physically but could she survive it mentally?
Rebecca had learned from her experiences both in S.T.A.R.S and with the T- virus that nothing is certain in life but she had also learned that most questions in life are eventually answered in time.
Note: I know the last chapter wasn't up to my usual standards and this one was a little short but I promise that the next one will be much better. Also, I'm still looking for comments on weather I should do Tyron's life story or not. Well anyway, all reviews are still welcome, bye.
Rebecca had been following the zombies for almost an hour now and several more had joined them since then. It wasn't until they arrived at the city park that she realized why the zombies where gathering there. In the center of the park a slug-like creature seemed to be controlling the zombies somehow, "my god, Tyron what have you done to yourself?" Rebecca asked as the creature turned. Its mouth opened and the rest of its head opened where its exoskeleton split, "ffffiiinnneeeddd hhheeerrr!" it roared. All of the zombies shuffled and groaned as they staggered in every direction, "oh hell. It looks like Tyron's mind hasn't degenerated enough to forget me" Rebecca said as she clambered up a nearby tree to avoid being seen by passing zombie. Rebecca watched as all the zombies emptied out of the park, as for the creature, it twitched and shook but never moved. Rebecca considered the creature for a moment, "if that thing sees me then every zombie in the city will know exactly ware I am. Still if I kill it then maybe the zombies will all die! No that's stupid but still I can't let something like that get out of the city" Rebecca said to herself as she considered her options.
The creature continued to twitch and shake as Rebecca positioned herself for the best shot, "ok, now just holed still you ugly son of a...ah" Rebecca suddenly felt something slam onto her back. She rolled over to see what had hit her, "Miss Chambers, how nice to see you again. Incidentally I hope that you weren't going to make an obscene remark about that rather hides creatures lineage, what with me being his Sir and all" Tyron said in a superior tone. Rebecca was amazed, not only to see Tyron as he was, but also to learn that the slug creature was not Tyron but rather his son.
Tyron glanced at the creature, "T.J, I have something for you" Tyron shouted to the creature and it slowly crawled towards them. Rebecca stared in disbelief, "you named that thing, T.J? You really are insane aren't you?" she said defiantly. Tyron grabbed her by the throat and held her inches from his face, "you dare to judge me? You brand me insane and yet you know nothing about me. Well if you are so eager to pass sentience apawn me you had best learn something of me, so allow me to enlighten you" Tyron said ominously. Then Tyron pulled Rebecca closer, he smiled slightly and then their lips met and after a moment Tyron cast Rebecca away and gestured to the somewhat confused creature to attack.
Rebecca lifted herself off the ground and took a moment to catch her breath. She wasn't given a chance to think about what had just happened, the creature she know knew as T.J was about to strike with one of its claws. As T.J's claw slammed into the ground, just missing Rebecca, the other three slashed at her with surprising quickness. Rebecca managed to avoid the first two but was grazed by the last one, "yyyooouuu wwwiiillllll dddiiieee" T.J roared as Rebecca pushed herself away and rolled as far as possible.
She had managed to put several feet between her and T.J and she hoped that the time it would take him to get into striking distance would give her time to catch her breath. She was still slightly dazed from the, incident and she needed time to get her head strait, but that was time she wasn't going to get. T.J's body retracted in on its self and then he lunged at her with unbelievable speed, "damn it!" was all Rebecca had time to say as T.J's body hurtled towards her. His face opened into the multi-jawed mouth it was and Rebecca just managed to avoid being swallowed hole but she wasn't quick enough to avoid being hit by T.J's slime covered body.
T.J had landed on Rebecca and had one of her arms pined under his body and he had her free arm pined with one of his lower arms, "me eat brain" T.J said. He grabbed Rebecca by the throat with his other lower arm and he held her head up slightly with his other arms, "DDDIIIEEE!" T.J roared as his mouth opened and slowly moved towards Rebecca's head. Rebecca struggled to move her arm under T.J's body, her gun was still in her hand, and just as T.J braced to bight into Rebecca's skull she fired three shots. The first logged inside T.J's body and apparently went unnoticed, the second went slightly deeper and T.J paused for a second and finally the third built went right through and out the back of T.J's neck.
T.J roared in pain as a thick dark green liquid oozed out of his neck and mouth. Rebecca struggled to avoid being covered in what she hoped was blood and not some other bodily flood but before she struggled free she was covered in it. She thought the urge to vomit as she crawled towards Tyron who was sarcastically applauding her efforts, "most impressive Miss Chambers, now you've bested both my children. However, you have failed to put them down permanently but no matter. One little word of advise before I go though, all ways kill your enemies when they no longer serve a purpose" Tyron said.
Rebecca struggled to lift her arm to take a shot at Tyron but in the end she just let the gun fall out of her hand and succumb to tiredness, nausea and hunger. She collapsed to the ground and waited for Tyron to put her out of her misery, "just get it over with" she muttered before realizing that Tyron had hovered over to T.J and was preparing to carry him away. She watched as Tyron took off into the dull gray sky and for a second she wished she could just fly away as well.
An hour or so later Rebecca had managed to regain her strength and was staggering toward a stream to wash the slim out of her hair, "sigh, what next" she said to herself. As she splashed the cold water on her face as she looked around half expecting to be attacked be zombie ducks or something like that. Instead, she noticed a zombie biting into the throat of a man, "huh, at least someone gets to eat around here" she said before realizing what she had just said. It wasn't the worst thing she had ever seen, in fact she had seen things happen to people that where fare worse and they weren't already dead, but still joking about it wasn't right. She wouldn't let herself turn out like Tyron, so use to death that it actually starts being a joke to her.
Outside the Tyron labs building Tor and T.J where recovering from their wounds, "IDEATES!" Tyron shouted and both creatures recoiled. Tyron hovered off the ground to create the illusion that he towered over them, "my finest creations, the once that I call my children. Beaten by a human with a handgun, what do you have to say for your selves?" Tyron asked in an irritated tone. Neither answered, Tyron folded his arms over his chest and scowled at them, "that's what I thought. Well this is of no consequence, I wanted to have some more fun with her anyway" Tyron said as he glided into the building.
Inside the building, Tyron past through the office section of his former company and gave a passing glance to a died hunter before proceeding to his hidden lab. After finding the lab opened he made a quick search of the area to see if who had opened it was still there. He thought about it for a moment, "I wonder, could she have..." Tyron considered the possibility that it had been Rebecca that had discovered his lab. After dismissing it as unimportant Tyron returned to the lab and stared at the three glass tanks nostalgically.
Several minuets had past, "so...what happens now?" Tor asked as she and T.J slowly approached. Tyron looked at a bare section of wall to his right, "now I add new cards to the deck, so to speak" he said as he pushed the wall open and looked over the balcony on the other side. Rebecca was still recovering from her last skirmish, she had rested enough to movie at a quick pace should she need to and was ready to see if she could find food. As she began walking away from the park she remembered how much she loved visiting the park as a child, "I wonder what would happen to a swan if it was infected..." she muttered to herself. As her imagination started mutilating images of swans in her mind she remembered how beautiful and majestic the swans at the park seemed to her. People say that ever one has one perfect memory, one moment in their life that they always remember, when it seemed that there were no problems in the world at all. For Rebecca it was when she was six years old, she was at the park one weekend and she was watching several swans on a lake.
For Rebecca this wasn't anything special, she always did that, but as she watching one of them swam no more than three feet from the bank, she was lying on. As it slowly began to pass her it suddenly flapped it's wings and took to the skies, in that instant as it pushed its self from the water's surface its wings splashed a stream of water into the air. The sun was directly behind the swan and its figure rising from the lake and the sun glistening on the water was the most beautiful thing Rebecca had ever seen. The memory of that day made Rebecca smile slightly, until the image began to twist and change, "damn you to hell, Marcus. I don't want to see the world like you do" she said to herself as she struggled to maintain the image in her mind.
Rebecca sighed loudly, the swan in her memory had always been like an angle but now the image that had taken its place was more like a demon. Rebecca groaned worriedly, that image had always been her safety net whenever life got to much for her but now thanks to Tyron it was just another monster waiting to kill her. Was that what Tyron meant by understanding him? Was he trying to drive her as mad as he was? These questions and more buzzed around in Rebecca's head, she had proven that she could survive the T-virus physically but could she survive it mentally?
Rebecca had learned from her experiences both in S.T.A.R.S and with the T- virus that nothing is certain in life but she had also learned that most questions in life are eventually answered in time.
Note: I know the last chapter wasn't up to my usual standards and this one was a little short but I promise that the next one will be much better. Also, I'm still looking for comments on weather I should do Tyron's life story or not. Well anyway, all reviews are still welcome, bye.