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===Harvest Moon: Resident Evil===

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Chapter Nine: A Mystery Revealed

Danny climbed in to see Patrick and Kassey, alive and well.

"Hey, Patrick! Kassey! You're both alive!" Danny said, stepping onto the floor.

They twins didn't look very happy to see him, nor Celia or Tim.

"You don't look so good..." Celia said.

Patrick sighed. "You don't understand..."

"Understand what?" Tim asked.

"We did it," Kassey said grimly.

"Did... this?" Celia asked disbelievingly.

"We didn't know it would go this far," Patrick said sadly. "But our expiriment with the fruit went too far."

"I thought Daryl was the scientist, and what fruit?" Danny asked, angrily.

"We borrowed chemicals from Daryl. We tested it out on these fruits we found, and then we had Cody test them... it was disasterous," Patrick replied.

"No kidding?" Tim said.

"Cody was soon dead, and turned into a zombie not long later. We disposed of him," Kassey continued. "We knew we had to get rid of the fruits, which we supposed to give people superhuman strength. But Van, that fat merchant, found them, and obviously decided to sell them. Then the trouble started."

"Why didn't you destroy the fruits?" Danny questioned further.

"We weren't thinking straight," Patrick muttered. "When someone dies, you normally don't think straight, do you?"

"But now... you've heard too much," Kassey said, loading a revolver. "I'm afraid you three have to die."

Celia took a step back. "But... you can't..."

"I believe we can," Kassey said. He finished loading the gun and aimed it at her. "Forgive us."

Danny raised his shotgun, and realized he had run out of shells.

Kassey was about to fire, but Danny then tackled him, and his shot hit the wall.

"Gah!" Danny was grabbed by Patrick. Kassey dropped the gun. Tim dived for it, but Kassey was able to grab it before him.

"Say goodbye!" the pyrotechnictian took aim.

Danny whacked it out his his hand. Patrick continued his attempt to restrain him.

"Stop it!" Celia shouted. "What good will this do?"

Tim looked out of the hole in the middle of the tower. "Oh, shit."

Zombies. Takakura and Cody, Cody being a crimson head.

Everyone stopped fighting and looked. "Damn!" Kassey said. "You fools! You drove them to us!"

"If you didn't try to kill us in the first place-" Tim said, but was interupted when Takakura took hold of one of the tower legs and shook. Everyone fell to the floor.

"Get that gun!" Danny shouted. "The revolver! Where is it?"

Patrick grabbed the revolver, and took aim at Takakura's head. Cody, sensing danger, grabbed another tower leg, and shook as well, but harder than Takakura.

Everyone lost their balance; Tim fell through the hole screaming.

Danny and Kassey were the first to get up to their feet. The sounds of flesh being devoured and Tim's yells were filling the air.

"They're occupied," Danny said. "Go!"

Kassey threw the rope down, took hold, and started to slide down. Takakura looked up, snarled, and was shot in the head.

Cody jumped off of Tim's body. Kassey shot his stomach, knocking him down. Once he reached the ground, he turned and ran.

"Wait! We need a weapon!" Danny shouted.

Cody, seeing the oppertune moment, pulled the rope. It broke off of the chain it was attached to in the tower, and fell, disabling their safe way out of the tower.

"Shit!" Patrick swore. "Kassey, come back!"

It was no use. His older brother was gone.

"Damn it!" Danny said. "What are we gonna do?"

Cody began shaking the tower more. It began to rumble violently.

"Whats that?" Celia asked, getting frightened.

"Hold on to something!" Danny shouted.

The tower's leg broke; and it began to colapse. The other legs snapped as it began to bend, and fell to the ground, breaking apart and spreading a storm of dust and rubble.

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Kassey ran until he reached the mountainside on the other side of town, which was the mountain that had the path leading out of Forget-me-not Valley.

"God damn," he panted. "I've created the apocalypse."

There was a loud roar coming from inside Vesta's house. Kassey turned, aiming his revolver.

"Who's there?" he shouted fearfully.

He didn't get a response... a human one, at least.

The back wall burst, and out came Vesta.

Kassey started. "Holy... shit."

Vesta charged. Kassey screamed, and shot his revolver.

It was a miss. Kassey's life was abrubtly ended soon after.