Ross: Such a nice and long comment. :P
Sporty-Girl: Thanks a lot. It's not that easy for me to write it.
Gabrielle Pan: I'm working on the future chapters, don't worry.

Chapter 2: Shocking Truth

Danielle's heart skipped a beat. "S.T.A.R.S.? But… what are you doing here?"

"Trying to find any survivors, and maybe even a way out of the city. You're the only person alive I've seen since all this started happening." Jill shook her head sadly. "And to be honest, at first glance, I thought you were one of them. You've been beat up pretty badly"

Confused, she looked down at her body. There were numerous cuts on her body, and her shirt had been torn up badly. "I didn't notice it when I woke up… Don't remember how I got them either. Probably from that wreck…"

Hearing this, Jill raised an eyebrow and led the teen over to a nearby storage crate. "What do you mean? What wreck?"

"I can't really remember. My mom, dad, and I were driving out of the city. We ran off the road, and I blacked out. When I finally woke up, I saw no sign of my parents. I found my way back to the city, and then those zombies attacked. That's when you saved me. I don't really remember anything that happened before the wreck."

The S.T.A.R.S. member reached into a pack on her belt and pulled out some bandages, frowning slightly. "I see… That's pretty strange…" Jill lifted up the back of her shirt, eyes widening slightly. "I think someone shot you in the back. There's a bullet entry wound that is just near your spine. You got lucky it didn't hit it." Danielle winced slightly, turning her head to look at Jill. "The bullet didn't go too far in. I can remove it with my hands right now, but it will hurt a lot."

"Why can't you just leave it and bandage it up?" the teenager asked, a hint of pain in her voice.

"Trust me. You want to have it removed. Let's just say it's possible you could get very sick if you left it in there."

Danielle gulped. "Okay then…" She braced herself for the worst, but she still wasn't prepared for the immense pain she felt as Jill removed the bullet. Silently, she willed the pain to go away while Jill began to wrap a bandage around her.

When she was finished, the woman stood up, examining the bullet she extracted. "9mm… Same bullets we use in the Berettas. It must've been a police officer or something, but I don't know why someone would shoot you…" Jill shook her head in confusion and tossed the bullet aside. She walked over to the door the two of them had come through, listening to the muffled moans of the zombies outside.

"Jill, what happened here? What happened to all the people living in the city?"

She sighed, as if not too keen on answering the question. "It was the one thing we tried to warn them about, and they wouldn't listen to us… If they only hadn't been so stupid…"

"You mean Umbrella, don't you? Everything I remember may be fuzzy, but I can still remember what the newspapers said about your accusations against Umbrella after the Spencer Estate mission."

Jill looked surprised as she spun around to face Danielle again. "You remember all that? I'm impressed… And yeah, I did mean Umbrella. The company that's the cause of the deaths of thousands of people who lived here…" She rubbed her eyes. "When we had been sent to the Spencer Estate, we discovered that Umbrella was researching a virus that turned people into flesh-eating zombies. I know it sounds far-fetched, but that's the truth. Now, the virus has somehow spread through the city. Anyone bit by a zombie, the virus carriers, will turn into a zombie themselves."

"So, that was why you asked me if I had been bit… But, isn't there a cure? I mean, if this thing is a virus, shouldn't there be a cure for it?"

"It's possible, but I don't think Umbrella would waste a chance to study the effects of the virus. And the only way to take out a zombie is the bullet to the brain." Jill glanced back at the door. "We need to find a way out of the city… I've been looking for people, but I don't think anyone is left. How old are you, anyway?"

"Thirteen," Danielle replied, voice barely above a whisper. By the look on her face, it was obvious that she was more dazed than scared.

Jill looked around the room they were in, and spotted a door across from them. "Well, we might as well get going. The sooner we get out of here, the better." Danielle stood up, nodding a bit. As the two of them walked towards the door, an unsettling thought crossed the teenager's mind. My parents worked for Umbrella… Did they have something to do with this?

His parents made visits to Raccoon, and they usually let him come. They worked at an Umbrella facility, but he didn't like the fact that they knew the horrible things going on in there, yet didn't care.

"So...how's school Ross?"

He looked at his dad and said, "Gee, maybe if you weren't mutating people, you'd know..."

His father sighed and said, "Look...Its the only way we can get money...I'm so-" a dog jumped into the middle of the road and his father swerved to miss it and he ran into a tree, flinging his son out of the windshield.

"Agh....what happened...?" He saw his parents and a great sadness overwhelmed him "Mom....Dad..." He saw the dog jump at him and he ran towards the city "Crap! Looks like Fido got out of his cage!" He ran and he looked back and saw the dog was gone "Phew..." He heard a moan behind him. "Oh...god...please...don't tell me...that..." He turned around and saw a zombie and he hit it in the face and knocked it down. "Just my luck...."

He ran into the city farther. "I need to find a safe place..." He ran and saw cops fighting a massive hoard of zombies. "Oh...god...they are going to be slaughtered..." His eyes widen and he felt two hands grip his shoulders and he pulled away from the grip and he ran seeing mercenaries fighting the zombies. Come on...there has to be somewhere that isn't infested with zombies... He ran into an alley and zombies cornered him.

"Oh crap.." he backed up and saw a door and he made a dash for it and he opened it and ran into the diner and saw a waitress dead on the ground. "Umbrella… I won't forget this day… the day you killed my parents..." He ran out the door and saw the police department. The police station! There are bound to be some cops there... He heard an explosion and saw a helicopter go over to the police station shortly after. "I can't stay here any longer…" He pulled out a knife and ran for the police station.

Author's Note: The second part was written by the NSider forums user DODONGOSLAYER. I had nothing to do with it.